Dark Days Are Coming - New Funcom Project

[DarkSign]

I never said I wanted one. I explained why the picture is evidence of how they're doing it wrong - which is what was attributed to Hoax (although for those that need help, I did it specificially, he extrapolated to MMOs in general). You guys fail at subtlety.

[Hoax]

This game lost me with the picture of the hawt chick with a katana. Cthulhu my arse.  The only way this fits the mythos is if he girl has utterly failed her SAN check and now believes herself to be invincible and her player has already resigned himself to the fact that Cthulhu will eat her in the next turn.

It is shaping up, however,  to have heavy doses of adventure gaming/puzzles which i like, but as far as being Lovecraftian it's missing the mark already.

...  If only I had noticed that was subtlety...   

[DarkSign]

Perhaps your posts would be better?

[Hoax]

Here's a tip, I'm not sure where your used to unleashing your mad communication skillz, but I'm more then capable of going back and rereading your last 4 posts.  Nobody misunderstood what you were saying but you.  When you tried to pretend you weren't an ass.  But you are.  Thanks for playing though.  Perhaps you should go pass the bar in state #18 or something instead of posting on an internet forum, the latter seems to be too complicated for you to handle.

remember everyone, we're all just secretly ganging up on DarkSign because his towering intellect is so threatening *giggle*

[BigBlack]

Ahem, barista, sir, over here!

Could you please fetch both of these gentlemen a steaming glass of Shut the Fuck Up?  It's on me.

[DarkSign]

sips from cup....mmmmmm. that's good.

[UnSub]

Some sort of 'event' is supposed to happen today, about 4 and half hours from now...No idea what.  Follow it here.

Nah, this is about the 3rd or 4th time the early fanbase has come to the conclusion that at x day and x time Funcom is SURE to have some sort of super special event, they just HAVE to. This is also the 3rd or 4th time that they got kicked in the balls.

The thing that disturbs me the most so far is that this early fanbase well, they just freak me the fuck out. Maybe it's their knack for over analyzing things to the point of bold faced retardery, or the fact that they have this huge list of assumptions based on zero evidence.

Okay, yeah that's like the internet in a nutshell I know, but these cats take it to extremes. Really disturbing extremes.

It's a game that has attracted the conspiracy theory nuts. My favourite was some guy who ranted on for pages and pages about a centuries old conspiracy that created a One World King. And that he had the gift of prophecy. I lost sanity points in reading it, I swear.

As for what the game is actually going to be about: let's let Funcom actually release some real info on it, rather than go, "They aren't hugging Lovecraft the way I think it should be hugged." There might be some Lovecraftian elements, but there is a lot of paganism and other X-Files-esque material they appear to be tapping into. It's currently something that seems a bit different, so we'll see where Funcom takes this.

[Falwell]

Funcom released their yearly Christmas card, and it's TSW themed..



They're already picking it apart like vultures on the forums. I posted it simply because it's got that classy touch.


Btw, Merry Christmas you jokers.

[eldaec]

I presume that is meant to be interpreted as a blindingly original class list?

L-R

Assassin
Mage
Pet guy
Cleric
DPS Melee
Avoidance Tank?
Resistance Tank?

I can see the design document already.

[Surlyboi]

I could be wrong, but I think that's "Pet Girl"

[schild]

That 'pet girl' looks like a ripoff of the chubber from Marvel's Runaways. She might as well have a raptor with a nose ring.

[SnakeCharmer]

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiise?

Or den and make a new one?

Anyway, new video posted.  Bit of viral marketing after more than a year of silence from Funcom on the game; no gameplay however.

Kinda spooky!

[Signe]

Well, that was kind of creepy.  And it made my black pussy scratch and bite at the screen!

[schild]

A grim, odd arcane sky
Any god, I mark sacred.

A masked cry adoring
A dreamy sick dragon.

Dark demons cry "Gaia,
Dark days are coming".

Who writes this crap?

Edit: Also, they might as well have just had Ringu tape. The vibe they aimed for but failed so hard. NINE THOUSAND (over!).

[K9]

Who writes this crap?

A thousand monkeys at a thousand typewriters?

[schild]

Who writes this crap?

A thousand monkeys at a thousand typewriters?

I don't think so. The thousand monkeys theory says what came out would've been Shakespeare. What they posted? One monkey, on an etch a sketch.

[Signe]

I couldn't hear any words except "Rachel".  It WAS Rachel, right?  It makes me want to play a horror survival game or something.  Of course, I never finish those because I get too crreeped out.  I keep trying, though.

[HaemishM]

What the fuck was that video? What was the point? Schild is right, they should have just played the Ringu video tape, FFS. Fail.

[UnSub]

It looks like the ARG* aspect of TSW are kicking in again (somewhat): forum thread run by the same character who posted the video.

*Alternate Reality Game. Roleplaying through multimedia over a larger scale. The main rule: this is not a game.

[schild]

Heh, I think everyone here knows what an ARG is and wishes that Majestic had succeeded. If they don't they're communists.

[Surlyboi]

ZOMG! the video amused Schild's weaboo sensibilities! Fail! 

All kidding aside, that WAS pretty lame. White noise and semi-scary voices? Come on.

And yeah, though I knew it was doomed to fail from go, Majestic could have been made of win if you were game for it.

[Lantyssa]

Heh, I think everyone here knows what an ARG is and wishes that Majestic had succeeded. If they don't they're communists.

Is a socialist close enough?

[Bokonon]

Who writes this crap?

A thousand monkeys at a thousand typewriters?

I don't think so. The thousand monkeys theory says what came out would've been Shakespeare. What they posted? One monkey, on an etch a sketch.

Actually, an infinite number of monkeys at typewriters gives you Shakespeare. So about a thousand for this sounds about right.

[SnakeCharmer]

Video was a fan thing (i.e. not Funcom).

Move along, nothing to see here.

[schild]

HAH, IT WAS ONE MONKEY AT A TYPEWRITER.

[Lantyssa]

The infinite monkeys give you Shakespear.  They also give you an infinite amount of other works of varying qualities.  Most of which are complete dreck.

[Mrbloodworth]

So, class based, or skill? Taking bets.

[SnakeCharmer]

Class.

Skills are hard.

[Drugstore Space Cowboy]

- They are taking every current time myths and applying them to this game and it's set in our world in our time with those myths applied. They are still a bit secretive about this. It's Ragner Tornquist's lovechild they say.

Brainchild*

[UnSub]

Video was a fan thing (i.e. not Funcom).

Move along, nothing to see here.

What's incredibly sad is that it was the most exciting thing to happen to TSW for a long, long time.

[SnakeCharmer]

Given the problems that AoC has had, I don't think we'll see any news for TSW for a long time, and I have doubts if the game will ever see the light of day.

And that's too bad really.  I am/was really looking forward to something different.

[NiX]

Yeah, the big indicator was that no one from Funcom shut down this guys gig. I think they've just left the volunteers to deal with those forums.

[UnSub]

There was one forum mod on TSW, but they seem to have gone pretty quiet since AoC launched.

[Ragnoros]

What's incredibly sad is that it was the most exciting thing to happen to TSW for a long, long time.

Well, assuming they are still working on the thing.

Keeping people hyped for something for 2-3 years is HARD. I don't know why companys announce games--especially MMOS--so far in advance.

But yeah it's been close to a year sence they announced this. You would think they would throw some concept art or a screen shot up every couple months atleast. Hell E3 was last week, one could reasonably SOMETHING would be shown there.

[NiX]

Only more reason to speculate that TSW is going the way of Midgard.