Techland Reveals Unannounced AAA Fantasy RPG with First Image

Techland has finally revealed a preview of its unannounced AAA fantasy open world action-RPG.

[RaidenBlack]

Keep using the C-Engine.
Just update it with more higher-quality assets and effects.

[senorfartcushion]

What is it with companies making fantasy RPGs? There’s 3 or 4 new ones announced every day at this point. It’s the same stuff over and over again.

[isarai]

Not really, only ones i know of are Avowed and Elder Scrolls VI

[jBlakeeper]

You’re forgetting Forspoken.

[isarai]

@jBlakeeper

Well seeing as how we really haven't seen just how the gameplay loop and character building works, i'd say that's too early to call atm

[phoenixwing]

I buy pretty much every fantasy rpg if it's passable score wise like 6 or 7 on up. Blame me lol I don't care because I like them and I'm not alone

[FalcorMononoke]

You ever play Kingdoms of Amalur or Dragon's Dogma? Both bangers.

[phoenixwing]

Own both bought them twice on PlayStation and pc

[esherwood]

I’ve heard that about dragons dogma but it just felt to clunky. Couldn’t get into it but people love it

[coolfool]

Is Forspoken classed as a fantasy RPG?

[smashman98]

barely

[war boy]

100% agree with you

[smashman98]

The year is 2006. There are space marines everywhere. I mind my own business and play my fantasy rpgs.

[senorfartcushion]

I definitely think it’s an issue of what era we are in. The post-9/11 era of gaming was grey and brown war shooters, but I grew up with those games and really don’t like the fact that, instead of making less of them, linear became a failure of games design, instead of a kind of games design.

Sifu has actually scratched a bit of that itch for me, and hopefully Max Payne’s remakes come through swiftly.

Fantasy games I can live without. I’ve put 9 hours in Assassin’s Creed Valhalla (a kind of fantasy game) and I’m only at the beginning. It’s tedious to do anything and the dialogue is forever cringey 😅😅

“Come brother, let’s storm the field of battle and get our swords wet once more!”

I really hope they literally mean their swords and not “their swords.” Lol

[coolbeans]

It's just the nature of genre cycles. A couple of strong ignitors like The Elder Scrolls and Witcher series can inspire dozens of other studios to try their hand at it too.

[Crows90]

As opposed to what now?

[GreenLit]

When was the last really good one? Most company make half baked RPGs that almost fill a void.

[Daeloki]

Fantasy RPG is a pretty wide scope with a fair amount of variation, so even if there were as many announcements as you're claiming, I don't see why it would be a bad thing.

[Broncob]

They can make what ever they want lol. Plus it's not the same thing, theme yes but they all vary immensely in terms of art direction, gameplay, story etc etc. If you don't like don't buy it eh

[esherwood]

I’m loving it and I’m assuming it’s because people are buying them

[GamesAsAService]

Ok this is really interesting.

It looks like there might be 3 studios working on AAA fantasy open world action RPG's.

Bethesda (ESVI)
Obsidian (Avowed)
and now Techland.

As a fan of the genre generally, this is really cool.

[Yui_Suzumiya]

Wondering if it's Hellraid

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/...

[Palitera]

Hellraid became a meh "expansion".
https://store.steampowered....

In open world their mechanics might be really interesting. Really loved Dead Island.

[Omnisonne]

Hopefully a proper version of Hellraid, or something close to it.

[RaidenBlack]

Playground Games (Fable), Game Science (Wukong, souls-esque though but still counts), BioWare (DA4, last concept vid looked a bit action oriented, might be wrong), CDPR (new Witcher), Capcom (Dragon's Dogma 2, much rumored), SE (FFXVI, seems abit Witcher-esque) ....

[GamesAsAService]

I probably should have mentioned classical fantasy, first person, action RPG. I was too vague.

But yes you are right, lots of RPG's to look forward to.

[porkChop]

I think it's great to have more games of similar style to The Elder Scrolls. Competition leads to better games, and it'll ease the wait for new TES games.

[RaidenBlack]

Yup.
There's another upcoming one called Blacktail.

[porkChop]

Hmm don't remember that one. Slavic myths, eh? Sounds interesting.

[Yui_Suzumiya]

Maybe it's what they originally had planned for Hellraid before it became what it did in Dying Light.

[Duke19]

Looking at Techland's previous work, I hope its a mix of Dying Light and Pure Farming Simulator 2018!

[isarai]

I hope it's a real RPG and not an action RPG

[MadLad]

Real RPGs are few and far between nowadays, unfortunately.

We have Baldur's Gate 3, and I'm hoping Avowed is the much mechanically deeper Elder Scrolls- esque game I'm envisioning.

[ManMarmalade]

If you're really interested in older-style RPG's, a lot of indie devs make amazing ones. I'm currently waiting for Sea of Stars to be released this year. Looks very much like Chrono Trigger. And if you prefer a more DnD approach, Disco Elysium is a masterpiece.

[Michiel1989]

i think you mean Suikoden, its a spiritual successor to that.

[gangsta_red]

Would love to see more Divinity: Original Sin type games for consoles

[Melankolis]

Western RPG has been mostly Action RPG then and now

[masterfox]

just dont overuse the parkour thing.

[XboxSwitchPS5Gamer]

Here you go!! Another broken game coming soon from Bugland!!!

[isarai]

Actually their games ship pretty well polished and complete out the box, not sure where you're getting that.

[XboxSwitchPS5Gamer]

Look at Dead Island games and Dying Light 2 came out with fill full of bugs and broken issues. Bugland already did has bad reputation in my opinion. :)

[plmkoh]

They have great ideas and mechanics but they need to work on enemy combat variety instead of cheap blocking. The most frustrating types of enemies to kill are shield carrying ones that can magically block all attacks just because they've raised a shield.

[GoodGuy09]

Please make looting not a chore and have those animations for doing it like in dying light lol.

[MADGameR]

If it looks AAA and its third person with a nice turn based, I'm getting it.

[Shiore2u]

Can't say I expect much after Dying Light 2, which was quite underwhelming compared to the first.