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Warhorse says that the new Middle-earth RPG 'will be a living world' with a 'strong narrative focus' and says new Kingdom Come game could arrive 'next fiscal year'

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Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨simple@piefed.social⁩ to ⁨games@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.techradar.com/gaming/warhorse-promises-that-middle-earth-rpg-is-a-passion-project-that-will-be-a-living-world-with-a-strong-narrative-focus

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  • Tattorack@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I mean, if any studio can make a living RPG world it would be Warhorse. All I can say is “don’t fuck it up!”

    Originally Bethesda Game Studio was the one, but their last decent game was Skyrim. They seem to know that themselves too, as they keep finding reasons to re-release Skyrim.

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    • brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah.

      Can you imagine a “Starfield: Special Edition” re-release in a few years? Who TF would play that? I’d say that’s satire, but their leadership’s ego is so titanic it might not be.

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      • FenrirIII@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Starfield was ambitious and failed. I give them credit for trying. But, that said, I’m not buying the game.

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      • brem@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Sounds like Polymarket is back on the menu, boys

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    • brem@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Todd: We are excited to announce ‘Skyrim: Buy This Instead of Kingdom Come Edition’

      Everyone but Todd: This is horse armor

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  • brem@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Warhorse: buys, restores & preserves castle because it was featured in a game

    Bethesda: asks customers to pre-order the 7th remake of Skyrim

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    • DarkMetatron@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Buying a castle is “cheap”, but maintaining and preserving can eat up money very fast. So let’s hope that they didn’t bite more then they can chew!

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      • brem@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I wasn’t sure if I remembered correctly, so I looked it up. They were donating $1 USD from each purchase of the game, towards the castle. It appears to have ended April, 26, 2026. Nevertheless, a noble deed.

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  • YeOldGrim@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Even considering they stopped development of KCD II shortly after it got released, that’s quite a short development cycle. What I am wondering is how much of that is those cunts in deep silver pushing and not Warhorse.

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    • brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I dunno. I saw a dev video where the project leads, Henry’s VA, and other team members all seemed excited about the development expansion.

      …Maybe they’ve just done the hard part already?

      KCDI had teething issues, but they knocked KCDII out of the park. CryEngine is utterly amazing for that niche. Maybe they’ve really got all the tooling and workflow perfected for their “Very medieval RPG” template, and hence can make another banger without so much R&D and fuss.

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      • Keeponstalin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It can definitely use an improvement, that improvement being a fishing mini-game

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  • Slab_Bulkhead@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Image

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  • brem@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Henry: takes off armor & clothes to swim in lake

    Todd Howard: covers Henry’s mouth as he uses a rebreather to drown him

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    • reksas@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      but where does henry put the armor & clothes, hmm? Where does henry put them??

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      • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        In your ass? 🤷🏻

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  • sophie_talks@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Warhorse buying and restoring the actual castle from KCD is the most on-brand thing a studio has ever done. That’s a team that genuinely gives a shit about what they’re making. The Middle-earth RPG being described as a “living world” is doing a lot of heavy lifting though … every studio says that. But if anyone can actually deliver it after KCD2, it’s probably them. And yeah, Bethesda announcing Skyrim again in 3, 2, 1…

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  • brem@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    *begins grinding random herbs into paste, rolls fake dice to win the last bits of a hooker’s money. Buys more herbs. Repeat.

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  • sbbq@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Isn’t next fiscal year in July?

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    • malle_yeno@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Companies can define what their fiscal year is to be whatever basically (unless the country they’re based in is super particular about accounting practices), just as long as it’s four quarters. I’ve worked in places where the calendar year lines up with their fiscal, a March fiscal year, and an October fiscal year.

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    • Drbreen@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Next fiscal year after the next fiscal year coming.

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    • dellish@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yes. What they’re basically saying is it is due for release between now and the end of June 2027.

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    • False@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Companies often arbitrarily pick. In the US retailers often start the year in like April so they can get all their holiday season earnings in the same fiscal year

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    • brem@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      So it’s like a Chinese new year thing? By that I mean not January.

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      • emmanuel_car@k.fe.derate.me ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Countries have different fiscal years! In New Zealand for example, the new fiscal year begins in April, and in Australia it begins in July.

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  • Mikelius@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Isn’t this the company that replaced staff with AI, or am I misremembering that? I love me some LOTR, but not sure I can support such actions. If I’m wrong, someone chime in so I can change my mind lol

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  • DarkMetatron@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The next Kingdom come? I had not have time yet to play the first two…

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