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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• Tattorack@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Sounds like Polymarket is back on the menu, boys

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  • brem@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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• sophie_talks@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      In your ass? 🤷🏻

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• YeOldGrim@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    …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 ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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• Slab_Bulkhead@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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• Mikelius@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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• brem@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Isn’t next fiscal year in July?

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  • malle_yeno@pawb.social ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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  • dellish@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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  • Drbreen@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Next fiscal year after the next fiscal year coming.

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  • False@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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