Good points, but I think the Wayward Realms devs responding directly to the claims made in that article could ease some of the skepticism about the project. To me it looks like Wayward Realms (it it releases) will be made by a small team (not indie) and feature Xbox 360-level (good but not great) graphics, deep mechanics and systems, and a Daggerfall-sized map. Basically the spiritual successor to Daggerfall. Julian’s ideas for the game sound freaking amazing and make Daggerfall itself look simple, but those are just ideas at the moment. I hope Wayward Realms succeeds but that article I linked makes me highly skeptical. But I’d love a true successor to Daggerfall that builds off of it, not this tiny, condensed pseudo-RPG chosen one action game that Elder Scrolls has become.jayhova wrote: ↑Thu Jul 07, 2022 3:45 amTo be clear the person who left the team was not a developer and was not familiar with how development works. Wayward realms is NOT vaporware. It is currently in development. Development for a new project from a non-studio group is at best problematic. Take DFU for example. DFU is not vaporware and never has been. However, it took a very long time (a decade) to go from a one-man pet project to a team-built, playable, complete game. Because of the open nature of the project, you got to see all that. Vaporware refers to items that will never be completed. Several projects thought to be vaporware turned out not to be. Xanadu Is a famous example of delivered vaporware. Before slinging around terms like vaporware one should remember how long Daggerfall's original sequel took to make and how long the highly successful Bethesda studios is taking to make the sequel to Skyrim.jayhova wrote: ↑Mon Jul 04, 2022 5:12 pmWayward Realms. There’s an article from someone formerly on the team that details what a mess it is: https://medium.com/@indigogaming/how-i- ... 8b327e50f3
The interviews that Julian gives sound amazing and the logical progression of Daggerfall but that article shows how the game wasn’t even in development. Seeing how they STILL only show concept art it’s pretty much just vaporware. Wayward Realms doesn’t come off as a scam in any way (no kickstarter or other crap) but I don’t have high hopes for it. I want it to succeed but I wouldn’t be surprised if it never even comes out
Arena and Daggerfall are so different from Morrowind and afterwards that I almost consider Arena and Daggerfall to be a separate series just in the same world. You know how there’s been the Dungeons and Dragons Gold Box video games and then later Baldur’s Gate? You know how both series take place in the same fantasy world-Forgotten Realms-but otherwise are different series with different devs and different design, etc? That pretty much applies to the first 2 Elder Scrolls games and the ones after. I mean, the Bethesda that made Morrowind was largely only the Bethesda of Arena and Daggerfall in name.