Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - Feature Trailer

domein said:

Your character fuses with his animal companion and they do movement and attacks as a single entity. Applying bonuses from related feats and gear. There is a class focused on mounted combat - Cavalier, a cross between fighter and palladin. Mounted charge on a horse with a lance does devastating damage.

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Ripper said:

I realise this is dangerous talk, but what I've seen of this isn't doing much for me. The whole world-is-on-fire-and-there's-demons-everywhere setting doesn't really appeal.

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Pladio said:

There is a but of a plot twist too which I assume is explained in later chapters.

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Couchpotato said:

Oh let me guess your the prophetized chosen one or vessel who will doom or save the world once again? This is pretty standard for RPGs like this game so yeah.

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Ripper said:

I realise this is dangerous talk, but what I've seen of this isn't doing much for me. The whole world-is-on-fire-and-there's-demons-everywhere setting doesn't really appeal.

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Feist said:

I feel rather comfortable with the whole "Demon Invasion" plot myself.

Not because I think it's novel or particularly interesting but because I have a suspicion that if writers tries for something more original & different, the chanse that the story will be a total mess, increases a great deal.

Pillar of Eternity, was such an example for me. Initially, I was all fired up about the "different approach" of investigating an "epidemic of stillborn children" but the longer I played the game, the more I felt the plot was convulted and so I lost interest in it and it became "sidequests all the way".

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It's about the same as Kingmaker [Paizo's Adventure Path], we consider ourselves as DM for this adventure, and we are taking the story and retailoring it for the computer game audience.

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We worked with Paizo, we have a lot of calls and discuss anything we'd like to change, or new material we'd like to introduce into the game. They're really great partners to work with, because every time we discuss something, we come to a solution that we like and that Paizo likes as well. We also have a lot of freedom.

The Mythic path is very different from the tabletop material. They have the same idea of progression beyond the limit of normal character progression, but our version of the paths are tied to the powerful beings and different alignments and builds off of this.
The same goes for the story, of course we discussed all the changes to the story, and how we want it to progress. We got complete freedom when we envisioned those.

After the discussion we came to the version that we liked and it got into production. So in terms of freedom I've talked with different IP holders during my career, and Paizo is really the easiest to work with, we have common ground and common understanding of how Pathfinder works, what makes it a great IP and what shortcomings are. We play a lot of Pathfinder at Owlcat, we played the tabletop campaign of Kingmaker and Wrath of the Righteous. Every member of the team had to play, and we really love those tabletop moments, so it's easy for us to understand each other.

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Redglyph said:

I agree, PoE is bit heavy on the plot. But I have to admit there was a real effort on the setting, now they can use it as a franchise on several games. I don't know what to think of it yet.

For Pathfinder: Kingmaker, Owlcat's creative director (Mishulin) said:


For Wrath of the Righteous, they also modified the Adventure Path but consulted Paizo to have an external opinion (and authorization I suppose):

So those are based on existing material that they knew and even played with, but they adapted it to a computer game format, and didn't do it alone. It's quite reassuring

(that's from the Q&A in May)

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Ripper said:

I realise this is dangerous talk, but what I've seen of this isn't doing much for me. The whole world-is-on-fire-and-there's-demons-everywhere setting doesn't really appeal.

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Zloth said:

I am the chosen one, destined to rid the world of the demonic scourge! I am the castle janitor, hoping to keep the kobolds from taking over our castle until the master gets back and blasts them all with a single spell! Whichever. Just don't do another insanely prolonged ending and it will be fine.

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Zloth said:

You know you're in trouble when somebody sets up a store just outside your "dungeon."

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