"Souls-Lite RPG" Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn Shows Combat Ahead of Next Week's Gameplay Reveal

Today A44 Games released a new trailer of its upcoming "Souls-Lite RPG" Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn focusing on combat.

[blackblades]

Looks good IMO, lite as in its not fully a souls but has the elements of a souls while being a action rpg.

[mariopasta]

Sweet Baby Inc were heavily involved in this and contributed to the story. Make of that what you will. Look it up

[melons]

Why don't you look it up? They were involved early on but their involvement has been scrubbed.

[mariopasta]

No. They "said" it was scrubbed. I don't believe them. The story would have already been finalized a long long time ago in development. This game has been finished well before this Sweet Baby stuff ever came about. They are trying to save face because they have a game coming out this year. Well too bad. People need to know, and then they can make their own personal judgement on this game. The more informed a buyer, the better it is. I'm sure glad to know this information. I mean, they helped in the development of this game. Why would you want this a secret?

[AdonisIsBeast]

Main protagonist is all you need to see

[mariopasta]

@ Adonis, what she looks like doesn't matter at all. But I bet the dialogue and certain story elements will matter. Sweet Baby Inc's involvement has me extremely cautious though

[MestreRothN4G]

Yeah, watch out for the boogie man
Boo

[Psychonaut85]

Oh my god who fu$&ing cares. I find “forced” inclusivity as eye roll inducing as the next person, but you guys nonstop whining about it has become 3x more annoying at this point.

[mariopasta]

Weird. I don't seem to recall whining about "forced inclusivitiy" as you put it. In fact, I don't recall whining at all. Seems you need to calm down and stop making shit up.

[Aaroncls7]

oh my, such strong feelings.
Are you ok?

[Psychonaut85]

The whole conversation around SB Inc is about them being 3rd party consultants to make sure games are diverse and inclusive. If you look at the games they’ve been involved in, some are trash, some are amazing. What’s getting old is every comment section is full of people warning people about it. Obviously it’s a big deal to some people, that’s your prerogative. I can’t stand “woke” stuff being forced into media myself, but honestly everyone constantly complaining about it has become even more annoying. To me at least. It’s not just two sided. Just cuz I don’t care about SB Inc. doesn’t mean I’m advocating for the “woke agenda”. Just wanna play games man. If it’s good it’s good. If it sucks I won’t play it.

[ravens52]

@mariopasta. It is very well the way she looks to a lot of people here. The people who scream woke because it's a black main character. No one has played the game or even heard any dialogue. What can u judge it on besides the character right now?

[ravens52]

Look at my comment and AdonisIsBeast comment. Need I say more. Some people would call it racist but 🤷🏽.

[Psychonaut85]

Yeah. Aside from the fact SBI was involved, it seems the only real change was changing the protagonist to being black. And that decision wasn’t SBI it was the COO. Who is kind of a trash fire in their own right to be fair. But everyone who’s like “they ruined the game”, I’m not seeing actual evidence of that at the moment. Maybe they did, time will tell. But if you think changing a protagonist from white to black is some huge problem, I’m gunna say the problem is you. I don’t care if I play as a fucking potato, it’s either well written and fun to play or it’s not. Saw a bunch of people smugly saying back in the day they’d not ever play Horizon because Aloy is a girl. What are they so smug about, you’re missing out on a great game. Now that being said, directors etc. who smugly act like they should get an award for being inclusive should fuck off. We can include people without virtue signaling. Just do it and shut up about it, let your work do the talking.

[ravens52]

Looks interesting. Id like to see more.

[nzjono]

It was infected by Sweet Bay Inc, just walk away from this one

[Umb]

Guess it's a hard pass for me.
Games should be the vision of the dev and not DEI forced to tick boxes!!
To me it seems subtle racism.
Let the disagrees begin.

[nzjono]

Sweet Baby Inc Detected!

[EternalTitan]

Its a Forspoken spiritual successor with Gollum-like genre influences!
Very innovative!

[Psychonaut85]

This looks very cool.

[EternalTitan]

Oh yes a perfect mixture of Forspoken-like and Gollum-like.
Instant GOTY.

[mastershredder]

Flintlock was terraformed just to make a jaded statement. If you wanna make an "inclusive statement", start from the ground up. Don't wash something over. The alpha looked nothing like the commercial release. The only statement they are making is self-insertion.

Psychologists should take this opportunity to cash-in on this epidemic of condescending narcissists that have over inflated self-opinion. You do get that this is self-insertion, main-character syndrome gone-next level and straight into your games (and out of spite)...right? That's gross. If they re-did this game with a crew that actually practiced the "inclusivity" they preached (literally), I'd support it. What you got is biased posers attempting to use a lame real-life persona and match it up with their edgy online one. This game is a reflection of that. VAPID. These consultant and FX contractors flaunting their industry involvement is actually pretty cringy, as no one in their right mind behaves like this (until now). They act like they are pioneering shi7 that has been done for a good 50 years now, but they themselves are mostly writing about it or work a grind while hiding in a corner where they don't socialize and get filled with insecurity and hate (great contribution). These are not industry veterans but what veterans would consider newbies or project fodder, that landed/were handed a position power and rather than heed caution for all, they want to weaponize their power for their own needs. Noice.

A good chunk of how this has been happening, has to do with who's partying with who, but that's another story that leads to other stories.

Don't support ANY hate groups, what they touch, or are involved with. That is how you send a message to the studio and any of their affiliates/consultants/contrac tors/hate groups/embellishing posers.

[Aaroncls7]

Not bad, some of the moves seem real nice, just hope there is variety.
The main character looks like she could eat a bit more more meat, know what I mean?

[notatallsurprisinggg]

Looks solid, and any game that riles up this many fragile gamers is alright in my books :)

[jznrpg]

Looks good from previews but most previews look pretty good. Have to see more

[neomahi]

Another Souls type game. Great......

[ViperPrime]

Fuck Censorship. Stop Woke Washing!