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The second Echo Night was given to another studio to do. They did self-publishing, and so had a side gig as a small-time publisher. People don't realize it, but most games From Software published weren't made by the in-house team. The first has all of the hallmarks of an in-house From Software games. I've never played it.Īlso, the first Echo Night is very good, and since you're playing so many games you might like its sequels. I've also seen videos on the Thief game and it seems very innovative, and similar to King's Field in ways. I think it's more elegant than most games. I think an important aspect of King's Field is it's very streamlined and doesn't use any overt quest systems. A lot of first-person adventure games have very complex inventory and quest systems. The original System Shock is kind of like King's Field. I didn't enjoy Arx Fatalis, and didn't play very long.

I'm actually not super crazy about the monster fighting element in King's Field, and would kind of prefer it to focus on exploration and atmosphere and story. Something like Mirror's Edge seems the closest to King's Field to me because it's kind of hard-core first-person, but it's nowhere near as much as I'd like it to be. My own working definition is first-person, not a shooter, and minimalist design. I know I wouldn't define the Dark Souls games as similar, and if you do then that would rope in a lot of games to any definition.

I'm interested in how people define 'similar' to King's Field, and if there is really nothing else like it. That's what I strive for in realizing a KF game, and what makes good games stand apart. King's Field is starkly beautiful ( ) and oozes idiosyncrasies that are consonant. While it looks impressive, Unreal games tend to not feel cohesive, and I wouldn't get my hopes up because everything about it looks very generic and the interface is very busy, and the title is about as generic as it comes, so maybe the best possible outcome for it is that sometimes generic can be great if it feels essential, but there is a ceiling on what generic can be, and to discriminating, inveterate customers, generic may not be enough to seal the deal. But I guess something can scratch an itch if there's nothing else like it. Hi-fi visuals can be a stumbling block to this if anything, but maybe it makes the product more market friendly to a naive game buying public. I don't want to diminish the project (I sent them a Tweet to help resurrect King's Field if Monomyth is really released this year, after its release) but I think it comes down to if art has a soul or not. Rat Tower states they're making all of their models, but I suspect not from scratch. The basics of making 3D models hasn't really changed, although maybe there are radically different techniques that just do like free-form sculpture and painting and then post-process the results into a runtime friendly data set.

Games on steam like kings field ancient city