Kingmaker - Tavern Party Trailer

A new trailer for Pathfinder: Kingmaker.

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On the closing day of PAX West, Owlcat Games and Deep Silver would like to say thank you to all the fans and take this opportunity to share the latest trailer “Tavern Party” for Pathfinder: Kingmaker the critically acclaimed and highly anticipated cRPG!

Join our intrepid adventurers as they kick-back a little and discuss their next exciting risk filled quest!

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I've met that troll who likes reading books… and sadly had to kill him like in the video…

Haven't yet met that particular Linnorm but the fire one crisped my entire party to death within… 2 minutes?

Aaahhh… looking forward for more Kingmaker adventures!

Really good trailer actually Hope they have great success with this game.

Also does anyone know when will they start sending out keys to backers?

I'm checking Owlcat forums daily but no news yet Guessing probably like 1-2 days before the release day.

Originally Posted by purpleblob
I've met that troll who likes reading books… and sadly had to kill him like in the video…

Haven't yet met that particular Linnorm but the fire one crisped my entire party to death within… 2 minutes?

Aaahhh… looking forward for more Kingmaker adventures!

Did you meet anyone of Minsc level "fun" ?

No, I didn't actually find any of companions particularly interesting… their jokes are somehow… off.

Originally Posted by borovnica
Really good trailer actually Hope they have great success with this game.

Also does anyone know when will they start sending out keys to backers?

Strangely the trailer made me a bit more pessimistic about the supposedly expected brilliance of Pathfinder.. but lets see.

Originally Posted by purpleblob
No, I didn't actually find any of companions particularly interesting… their jokes are somehow… off.

Ah that is sad
I loved many NPCs in BG games. Their quirkiness was funny.

Originally Posted by vidder
Strangely the trailer made me a bit more pessimistic about the supposedly expected brilliance of Pathfinder.. but lets see.

Agreed. The dialogue in the trailer reminds me of a rather trite Young Adult fantasy novel. But, the snippets of combat in the trailer looked OK.

Let's just hope the in-game dialogue is better than this

Companions aren't the most important part about RPGs, which is why I'm concerned that Owlcats is focusing so much on them in their advertising.

Originally Posted by Hak'n'Slash
Agreed. The dialogue in the trailer reminds me of a rather trite Young Adult fantasy novel. But, the snippets of combat in the trailer looked OK.

Let's just hope the in-game dialogue is better than this

They are just channeling their inner Baldur's Gate, time where we were all young/younger.
If you are not enjoying it, I am afraid you are either too young or too old by now for this.

Originally Posted by Silver Coin
Companions aren't the most important part about RPGs, which is why I'm concerned that Owlcats is focusing so much on them in their advertising.

Well, companions are an easy feature to advertise with. I wouldn't conclude that they play en equally major role in the actual game.

Originally Posted by Archangel
They are just channeling their inner Baldur's Gate, time where we were all young/younger.
If you are not enjoying it, I am afraid you are either too young or too old by now for this.

What, I'm not young? <Cue "I'm not white?" scene from Hear no Evil, See no Evil>
Since when is 68 old?

Just kidding, of course. You hit uncomfortably close to the mark.

I'm still crossing my fingers that I'm going to like this, but, yikes! That style and tone is working pretty hard to chase me off. I sit through a fair number of children's cartoons, and this reminds me of the ones that annoy me.

I actually really like how it looks. I’ll be playing day 1 probably.

Would have went for beta access but it’s just to much to justify for me at this point.

The graphical engine looks good, and I was happy to see dynamic shadows. Too bad it's not a turn-based system.

I'm sold. Looking forward to playing this!

Originally Posted by purpleblob
I've met that troll who likes reading books… and sadly had to kill him like in the video…
[..]

You couldn't afford the Trolls university education? SHAME!! SHAME!!

Originally Posted by Hak'n'Slash
Agreed. The dialogue in the trailer reminds me of a rather trite Young Adult fantasy novel. But, the snippets of combat in the trailer looked OK.

Let's just hope the in-game dialogue is better than this

Sad to say but in game dialogues aren't much better…. Well at least for some characters (especially, Amiri and Regongar - I don't like them much). But from what I've seen it's only limited to party companions. I quite liked all other NPC dialogues.

I'm usually a huge fan of RPGs with fun and interesting companions, therefore, was some what disappointed with dialogue quality in Kingmaker but the game makes up for it with other things - tough but fun combat, engaging story, character building, lore/world building and also looking forward to Kingdom system

Originally Posted by mercy
You couldn't afford the Trolls university education? SHAME!! SHAME!!

But… But… He is giant, scary looking troll and what if he has awesome fat loots?

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