Comment on Whiskerwood Announce Trailer

• bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Here is what I’m referring to. You can see the mouse just has a basic list of needs and maybe some kind of job specialization.

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  Pawns in Rimworld have a deep backstory, full sets of skills, family, dynamic relationships with every other pawn in the world, a full inventory including every bit of clothing, and with the DLC, they gain the potential to earn royal rank, biomods, cybernetics, and spellcasting.

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  • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I’ve only played the base game of RimWorld, and that looks very RimWorld to me.

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    • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Agree to disagree. But then, I have >1300 hours in Rimworld. It’s possible I have a much stronger feel of it and that’s colouring my perspective of this new game.

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      • EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        I’ve got 2,000h in Rimworld and it’s sufficiently like Rimworld for that tagline.

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• bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  There are some frames where they’ve selected the mice and they don’t appear to have much in the way of RPG mechanics. Certainly nothing of the same scale as Rimworld.

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  • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I’d say both that you’re making a lot of assumptions off of not a lot of information, and that it can be inspired by RimWorld without being exactly like RimWorld, perhaps even with different strengths, but it certainly looks like they were inspired by RimWorld.

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    • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      It’s hard to say at this point, but there’s a lot in the trailer that makes me think “Timberborn” and only a couple of frames and pixels that make me think “Rimworld”. And given that their marketing tagline is “inspired by Rimworld” you’d think they would show off any Rimworldiness a bit more in the trailer.

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