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If somehow it’s Notch, I’m gonna laugh.
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A big player, deep pockets, recent willingness to take on other people's designs, but the company is often synonymous with its head? Can't be anyone other than Jamey Stonemaier of Stegmaier Games.
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Apr 16, 2024 22:38
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I don't have any skin in this game, but lol at making a financial/fulfillment announcement to your backers into some kind of dumb ARG
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Apr 16, 2024 23:10
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Jedit posted:I can see it being Awaken Realms also, though. Sandy mentioned "new realms to conquer" and that's exactly the type of veiled reference he likes to slip in. I concur. Cthulhu Wars is the type of game AR would enjoy getting their grubby little piss-stained AI-mangled hands on.
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Apr 16, 2024 23:33
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Didn't they do this previously where the angel investor disappeared? Or is this a continuation of that prior incident? Even if this is the first time, it seems like one of those things that you shouldn't announce without something more substantial to say or show.
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Magnetic North posted:I concur. Cthulhu Wars is the type of game AR would enjoy getting their grubby little piss-stained AI-mangled hands on. Well, we wrung a little more info out of Link. 1) It is not Awaken Realms, it's a new company. 2) It is not a rich celebrity gamer like Henry Cavill or Vin Diesel. 3) The benefactor has appeared on MythBusters, but may not be credited. 3a) It's probably not Barack Obama.
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CMON finally launched their God of War game, and the campaign just feels very sloppy https://gamefound.com/en/projects/cmon/god-of-war There’s no gameplay videos, or even really a walkthrough of gameplay. They have this highlight section that I guess aims to explain the game, but it’s literally, “set up the game. Play cards to perform actions. Roll the reward dice.” From the pictures of the boards & cards, I’m sure you can intuit how it’ll work, but this is just a weird oversight. It also took me a long time to realize, this is only a two player game. It’s listed as 1-4 players, but I was just confused about how that would work with only two featured heroes. There’s no explanation that 4 player mode requires the expansion, unless you go into the big pledge, and examine the details of the expansion pack. Which also introduces a new mechanic with forging items that has zero explanation! And then, at the top where it shows off the two pledge options (with & without the expansion and stretch goals), it says that the pledge with expansion won’t raise the shipping. But the shipping chart is split into two price points for each pledge. And also, good God, some of those prices. I wasn’t really interested in picking this up, but they’ve been hyping this one for months. I don’t know how they’d make such a lackluster campaign after all this time. But it funded on the first day anyway, so I guess none of that matters…
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Apr 18, 2024 06:11
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Your last sentence is the answer to your confusion.
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Apr 18, 2024 06:16
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Desfore posted:There’s no gameplay videos, or even really a walkthrough of gameplay. It doesn't sound like they're very good about communicating with content creators - Mike from One Stop Coop Shop said he reached out (since it is, after all, a coop game) and they did respond (which apparently they often don't) to say there wasn't a prototype but they had a TTS demo...and then never actually provided him with access to it. Maybe before the campaign ends. Who knows. Me, I'll probably pass, never been that impressed with CMON. But playthroughs have an outside chance of getting my attention.
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malkav11 posted:
The easy trick for telling if a CMON game is bad is to look at how many minis are needed to play the game. The less there are, the better the game.
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They did provide a copy of the rulebook, so it isn't the worst crowdfunding that I have seen. But I agree, the actual GF page does a terrible job of explaining what the hell you are actually doing.Jedit posted:The easy trick for telling if a CMON game is bad is to look at how many minis are needed to play the game. The less there are, the better the game. I did hear that Dune: War for Arrakis actually turned out surprisingly well, despite all the minis. I haven't had a chance to play it myself. I have one friend who actually backed it, but when we were setting up the game to play, he realized his copy was missing an entire tray of necessary components. We ended up just playing SW Rebellion instead. I think it has been two to three months since and he is still waiting to receive the replacement parts from CMON. They do email him updates on the status every week, letting him know they still aren't ready...
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