The Wayward Realms | KICKSTARTER 

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Since I know some people won't read the full kickstarter (and will just buy into the hype of videos like this) it's worth pointing out this won't fund the entire game. This kickstarter is just for them to develop the game for a single year, after which they want to take what they have to try and get a publisher to help them finish it. This also means that the scope of the kickstarter is A LOT smaller than the full vision. At the base funding level that means 5 factions, 2 races and 1 world event. Also instead of 500k square km, we're talking 140 square km. Doesn't mean it'll be bad, but I just don't want people going into this expecting to get a game / the game they're promising, when the kickstarter clearly outlines that finishing the game is not the goal of the kickstarter.

Daggerfall has been getting a lot of attention from the younger generation lately. I think there's a hunger for the more in-depth RPG mechanics of older games. And of course having it in modern graphics and a handful of "quality of life" adjustments does a lot for approachability.

I misheard "hundreds OR thousands of NPCs" as "hundreds OF thousands" and was kind of terrified.

"How would it be if I completely ignored the main quest" Bro I literally played Oblivion for 150+ hours before I even talked to Martin for the first main quest mission you get as soon as you leave the sewers. Even then after 150 hours it was completely by accident I was just doin other stuff and stumbled into him I wasn't actually looking for him at all.

Supported at baron level. Whether it achieves it's lofty goals or not, it sends a message about the kind of games we want, and that's even more important.

Everyone here in the comments who thinks this "looks" bad, janky or perhaps not up to snuff keep in mind this is PRE alpha footage. Basically this is a base foundation and will be improved upon drastically over the next year or two. If you can please support these amazing developers on kickstarter. Even a $7 (basic pledge) is appreciated and helps.

They said on their channel in their latest video that they are planning a 3rd person mode, but not for early access.

This sounds all too ambitious for my liking - however, I'm a lot more cautious with games now a days. I hope the devs can deliver on most and make a great game to challenge these triple A's RPG's!

"This decade" is the right term I believe.

I never touch any kickstarters... until now. This is my first one, and I'm very glad to make an account for the first time to back this project. Excited to see it develop in the future.

the dark atmosphere gives me a little bit of Enderal vibes, and I like it.

Remember this footage is pre pre-alpha to get a taste of their vision

Looking at the scope of what they are trying, I'm not convinced that they won't have to scale back their plans when the reality of development cycles sets in, but if all it ends up being is a Daggerfall with contemporary graphics, some dynamically generated content and some QoL stuff I'll consider my pledge a good investment.

Thank you for the video. The game looks like a classic old school RPG in the best of ways.

Very thrilled about the project, made me back my first Kickstarter campaign. With machine learning having progressed so much since the 90s, I have more confidence in what they're aiming for. Also thank you, Gopher, for shedding some light on Wayward Realms!

The headbob make me seasick, I hope they make it optional.

Don't forget guys, putting a game on your Steam wishlist helps, and even more so if you put it at the top of your wishlist. Free and easy way to help promote a game on Steam.

Prepared to take a punt for 40 bucks but "5400 times bigger than Skyrim" & "tens of thousands of procedural generated NPCs" are not selling points for me.

I backed up KCD after watching your video about it and the only regret I have is not having pledged more. I love what I see with this game too and have pledged at Knight level. Even if it doesn't work this is a genre that's worth being encouraged.

This looks janky as fuck and I absolutely love it!

I am going to back this. Wouldn't have known about it without your video probably.

4 years to get to this point? KS to get to a playable demo, to get further investment... I'll be very happy to support this game when it arrives. We'll see who releases first: Elder Scrolls VI, Ashes of Creation, or This... Or Star Citizen! 😂 (I'm kidding!)

We are halfway to the minimum goal. Go there and support it, even if it's for the free tier. The last game I supported early was BG3. This one will also be a banger, though I expect it to take awhile.

I'm going to back it. My first Kickstarter backing. My only concern is if I'll still be around to enjoy it once it's ready. Better chance than TES6 and FO5 I suppose. lol

Yeah the combat definitely looks satisfying, this looks very promising.

i dont care about ANYONE's past glory. i get it. amy hennig did uncharted. she also did forspoken. Chris Roberts did wing commander and now he is in charge of the ponzi schemed circus that is star citizen. Rocksteady did the arkham triliogy, and they also did suicide squad.

What they're promising all sounds great, exactly the kind of game we need more of. Definitely think there's a danger of being overly ambitious however. No Man's Sky has done procedural generation better than any other game imo, yet even their talented team hasn't implemented half of the dynamic features promised here. And that's after many years of post release development

I backed this project, very hyped to see the future of The Wayward Realms 💜

I'd love to support this game. It sounds to me like my dream game.... but I'm also a firm believe or the old style of game development. Buy it when its released and before. I do wish the developers best of luck and if the game is good on release, I'll gladly give them my money.

Wow this game looks like it has great potential!

I supported this kickstarter first thing this morning. Watched a lot of videos about it in recent weeks, the potential is very high.

6:20 disagree, voice acting is a massive bottleneck on scale for CRPGs, would you choose voice acting or 100 more quests? I know which one I would.

I've been following the development of this game for quite a while now. Everything *sounds* awesome, I hope it pans out.

They answered a RU-vid comment asking about 3rd person They said they plan to add 3rd person eventually but that it is not likely to come during the early access That makes me so happy, honestly my biggest deal-breaker with Avowed was that, there's no 3rd person

As far as I know there are plans for 3rd person!

I'm super hyped for The Wayward Realms. It's super ambitious but if they pull it off, it'll be a legend in Indie development

Also, if I remember correctly, the devs in the Discord have said that 3rd person support is planned, but likely not until full release.

I wish Bethesda was willing to make a third party TES spinoff, and that spinoff was this. This would be even better in Tamriel. They could set it as a prequel.

Third person is planned, just not for the early access build.

I really hated the dialogue system from Morrowind, felt more like reading a wiki page than an actual conversation. It's a bit of a let down they're going that way. But still the game could be great in other areas.

They are describing a very interesting game in their pitch. It's also a game I've heard described many times on Kickstarter. Never seen it realized. I'll keep them in my radar, but I'm not buying the pelt until they show they can catch the bear. Right now I'm not all that confident a bear that big even exists.

The pledge is already at 320,000 which is pretty amazing

I hope they can get to the 1 million bucks mark...so that it will have 9 factions.

It’s sounds like the STALKER sandbox experience but built out in a fantasy setting, and that’s going to be amazing

I really hope they prioritize mods for this title. If they can deliver on their promise and give us tools to build on that foundation this could be something really special.

Just backed this kickstarter, had this already wishlisted on Steam. But thanks to you my eyes were opened to their kickstarter. Much love

2:40, didn't they show off third-person footage in the first gameplay trailer? I distinctly remember that. Specifically they were showing it off with an Orc character

Thanks for supporting the project Gopher!

Y’all at least go check it out, we haven’t had a game like this in 30 years (since before I was even born lmao) it could be the greatest fantasy RPG of all time, and we need a good elder scrolls alternative since Bethesda only wants to give us a (dumbed down) release every 20 years now

cant wait for this game. I think i will make this my first time ever kick starter.

Head bobbing is evil

Daggerfall Lets Play?

This game sounds like it will be awesome if they pull it off, but they apparently have 40 staff and are only asking for $600K. That's not even enough to fund 3 months of development at an average of $100K per developer. Doesn't really make sense to me. I'm going to wait until it releases.

Jeez I really hope they add a 3rd person cam... I really can't stand FPS, it's so immersion breaking for me, I can't suspend my disbelief... except maybe ine KCD and Metro series... Thanks Gopher for your input.

I have pledged, i hope this game makes it.

My only issue with this game is it's all female pantheon. Even in our supposed "Patriarchy", we have both men and women gods, representing what they excell at... Men would be strong and resilient and rule destructive elements, while women would be gentile and fair and govern emotions and healing., (you know, masculine and feminine represented beautifully, completing each other, instead of stealing qualities and competing with each other...) Here, we have a skinny orc lady representing the god of strength and warrios? Why? Don't get me wrong, i absolutely love women in general and have no problem with them ruling and being gods....when it makes sense....but here it just doesn't.... Orcs are supposed to be overly masculine, not betas ruled by women......

I am super skeptical. Oldheads coming back and trying these wildly ambitious games does not tend to go well - look at Underworld Ascendant. Basically, if you're going to back this - don't expect to get a game, understand it as burning that money forever. If it does happen, excellent! What a lovely surprise that'll be.

I love Starfield but honestly, another game with procedural generation is not something I want right now. Especially not in the style of Daggerfall. The modern QoL and such's also kind of scary, it reads to me like 'console-like control and gameplay mechanic' Will keep an eye on them but honestly, the last thing I want right now is another-Soul like or God of War like game in procgen open world format. I prefer something like Beyond Skyrim Cyrodiil but in their own fantasy setting.

Once Lost Games needs to partner with streamers who are into this genre to get the word out about this game so it canbe 100% independently funded !!!! So we gamers can show AAAstudios that if you make the games we want it'll be worth their while . So long as this game stays away from woke funding , it should do well in terms of sales. And yes I am backing this game at the 40$ USD level .

WHen the game comes out, I bet everyone will have already seen some gameplay from early access twitch streamers and that will boost the sales a lot. It might also boost the sales is they sell the game at 15% off for the day of release only. If it is good, I WILL buy it. But I dont trust kickstarter stuff. I never lost stuff because I never use it, but I have heard of some real bad video game rugpulls. I really hope this isnt one of them, but there is always a chance. Good luck to the devs, this is gonna be some real hard work (as you already know), and please remember to stay hydrated and fed! How can you program if you are malnourished or dehydrated!

Your video back in the day on Kingdom Come Deliverance was actually what got me into backing it. This one looks interesting too.

Ultimately Daggerfall failed for me due to all the procedurally generated dungeons. After a while they became pointless, despite the great atmosphere of the game. Procedural generation can work, if they build on top of it, but if it's *just* procedural generation it will suffer from the same problems Daggerfall did. The hand-crafted areas of Morrowind were far better.

this *sounds* like my dream game. so ill expose my scabs and have faith once more. my first elder scrolls game was morrowind, but i went back and played the previous ones and when i played daggerfall i felt as if the game wasnt so aged and was able to use some of the brilliant recent tech we now have, it would be as close to a "perfect game" as i could imagine. im actually excited by there not being a "main" quest since, depending on your character, the *most* important quest to YOU would vary. i wish Once Lost Games the very best and i look forward to seeing how it turns out.

wolfheart has an interview with these guys - very interesting

I backed this. They just got their Kickstarter goal and still two weeks to go. Let's hope they succeed! Looking forward to this.

this was what TES was originally aiming for, hopefully the tech has caught up to make this game what TES was supposed to be

I kind of hope Gopher does not play the early access version. Ive seen to many streamers do this and never really go back when it actually launches only to miss so much that was added or fixed later. Just my 2 coppers

Now taking bets on whether we see Wayward Realms or TES6 materialize first!

Hope they add a pledge level that just gives you the game when it's done. I don't want early access. I don't want to be a tester.

Yea I dont know. This all appears a bit sketchy and too much of a "reaching for the stars".

This sounds like it could be an awesome game. I'm hoping it reaches its funding goal 😅

I can count the number of kickstarters I've backed so far comfortably on one hand, but this one I backed in a heartbeat. Even if they don't reach all of their lofty goals, they get my money for just trying.

No voice lines = more dynamic dialogue and opportunities for dialogue.

It sounds too good to be true. I might sign up for the kickstarter, i hope they can fully realize it

Ah man, ive been burned on so many kickstarters. But id like to see this concept succeed.

I've had this game on my radar for some time now, but Kickstarters are always double-edged dagger.

This deserves a segment in "Put this on your radar" in Skillup's weekly gaming news. I grew up on Daggerfall and despite it's jank, I absolutely loved it. Thanks for making us aware of this, Gopher!

I am adding this comment to help YT algorithm push this video to at least one or two people.

This looks pretty good! I've put in my pledge; looking forward to what they put out there

I am gonna give them 40$ to also be part of the early access hehehe.

Sounds very interesting, though I've become wary of unfinished games. I can't afford backing it anyways, but I've subscribed to their channel and will keep an eye on their progress. I like the ideas, but I've heard similar stuff too often in the past. That being said, they gave us actual gameplay, and it looks promising!

This looks great, backed at the Wanderer level.

Okay, you got my attention on this project. I will monitor it for a while and see how the development comes along.

third person is gonna happen, according to what ive seen

sounds very ambitious sounds very cool and i hope it works out but uhh... i have heard this kind of story before... so, so many times

But would they allow mods?

I believe they said they were using the money from players to build a version that they can then present to investors so they can make the full game

I do not think this game will get developed

I've been following these guys since the project was first announced. I'm hoping to be able to afford to support the Adventurer tier. These madlads already have dynamic tides in the game based on the moon phases.

This game sounds too ambitious.

Backed it!! :) hype is real!

This looks like a scam honestly

This looks right up my alley. Thanks for bringing it to my attention! I'm in !! Also, the consequences bit... Halsin flashback from Gophers BG3 playthrough hahahaha....

Getting Daggerfall vibes from the trailer and the game description. I wondered if Bethesda would ever make Dagerfall remake, or make Dagerfall II, but this might just be it ^_^

11:50 guys, the really messed up thing is, all these things they are describing, are NOT difficult or spectacular to have in a game. it's where EVERY AAA game could be today if the budgets weren't so high, the stakes weren't so high, and teams weren't therefore so risk averse. this is ALL realistic and doable, which makes me excited to finally see a real modern AAA game like this (though I hear awesome things about Baldur's Gate 3 as well.)

I am going to pledge to it soon.

Im always weary of these incredibly ambitious kickstarters. The ones that sound like they're aiming for something even a high budget triple A studio would struggle to pull off. I like the sound of it, but they tend to crash and burn more often than not. Even the success stories like Kingdom Come: Deliverance tend to have major downsides (like the entirety of that games goddamned combat system).

4:22 at this point it feels like too many things for it to work....normally people aim for "realistic goals" and sorry its sounds too much, but I'll be glad to be wrong(more then glad)

Regarding dialogue, I think a good compromise between fully voice acted and not is to simply have a library of generic garbled voice lines. You click a dialogue option, and the NPC spouts off some garbled sound, a grunt or a laugh or a groan or something to that effect, and then you get the full dialogue line you have to read, personally. It opens the doors for a large swath of unique dialogue, without having the cost of voice acting skyrocket. For this type of game, I'd be the best choice here.