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Blood Bowl 2008!!!
February 21st, 2008, 15:32
I ran across this little tidbit while trying to find mods for the original Blood Bowl made for the PC. It seems that Cyanide is making Blood Bowl. On wikipedia it says it's due out in 2008 but can't confirm that at Cyanide or the Blood Bowl webpage.
Looks pretty good to me. Let's see if Cyanide can do a better job of bringing a great board game to the PC. At the very least it can't be worse than SSI's 1995 release of Blood Bowl. The people who did that one must of never played Blood Bowl or had no idea of what a boardgame was. Now maybe I don't have to scour the internet to see if anyone made a mod for it that would make it a halfway decent game.
Almost forgot to mention the best part of this. It will be TURNBASED. "Holy bat droppings, Batman!!!" Well technically they say on the webpage that there will be two modes that it can be played it, realtime and turnbased. Sounds promising if they can pull it off without breaking the game.
Linkies
http://www.cyanide-studio.com/?rub=node&nid=696
http://www.bloodbowl-game.com/#
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Bowl
Looks pretty good to me. Let's see if Cyanide can do a better job of bringing a great board game to the PC. At the very least it can't be worse than SSI's 1995 release of Blood Bowl. The people who did that one must of never played Blood Bowl or had no idea of what a boardgame was. Now maybe I don't have to scour the internet to see if anyone made a mod for it that would make it a halfway decent game.
Almost forgot to mention the best part of this. It will be TURNBASED. "Holy bat droppings, Batman!!!" Well technically they say on the webpage that there will be two modes that it can be played it, realtime and turnbased. Sounds promising if they can pull it off without breaking the game.
Linkies
http://www.cyanide-studio.com/?rub=node&nid=696
http://www.bloodbowl-game.com/#
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Bowl
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Despite all my rage.
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Despite all my rage.
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Little BRO Rat
February 21st, 2008, 21:50
Interesting. They surely have some experience with it, since they did "Chaos League" and "Sudden Death" before.
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Original Sin 1 & 2 Donor
February 24th, 2008, 01:26
I am so looking forward to this game. A turn-based PC Bloodbowl game is almost too much to hope for, so it'll probably be a disaster. Chaos League wasn't very good at all, but I still can't wait for BB.
Somewhere in my parent's basement is packed away all my Bloodbowl teams and game sets, and I miss playing the game a great deal. So I really hope this upcoming version is good, I really really do.
The fact that it's got a turn-based mode is what I find the most compelling in regards to the game being a good adaptation.
Somewhere in my parent's basement is packed away all my Bloodbowl teams and game sets, and I miss playing the game a great deal. So I really hope this upcoming version is good, I really really do.
The fact that it's got a turn-based mode is what I find the most compelling in regards to the game being a good adaptation.
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Keeper Of Traken
RPGCodex' Little BRO
February 29th, 2008, 03:27
Cant wait to see how this turns out. The Blood Bowl minitures game was one of my favorite of all times. I still have a bunch of player cards and books around ehre somewhere. The first try on the PC didnt turn out oo good. Chaos League was a little rough to. I hope this one comes out well.
Sentinel
February 29th, 2008, 16:53
While I'm at it, I never really understood the rules of "Chaos League". And i don't remember the handbook explaining them enough to make me understand them. (Although I could be wrong in that point.)
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"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." (E.F.Schumacher, Economist, Source)
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." (E.F.Schumacher, Economist, Source)
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March 1st, 2008, 19:54
Originally Posted by Alrik FassbauerI only played the demos and yeah, they're hard to follow for two reasons. One is that the commentators giving you tutorial info are often drowned out by crowd and team noises, and the instructions are jumbled in with colour commentary. Secondly it's clear that English is not the native language here, so what can be heard isn't always clearly explained.
While I'm at it, I never really understood the rules of "Chaos League". And i don't remember the handbook explaining them enough to make me understand them. (Although I could be wrong in that point.)
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You know the very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. They don't alter their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views, which can be uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering.
You know the very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. They don't alter their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views, which can be uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering.
Keeper Of Traken
January 28th, 2009, 20:15
New video & Screenshots:
http://www.gamestar.de/news/pc/rolle…lood_bowl.html
Video: http://www.gamestar.de/index.cfm?pid=386&pk=11726
http://www.gamestar.de/news/pc/rolle…lood_bowl.html
Video: http://www.gamestar.de/index.cfm?pid=386&pk=11726
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"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." (E.F.Schumacher, Economist, Source)
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." (E.F.Schumacher, Economist, Source)
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Original Sin 1 & 2 Donor
March 2nd, 2009, 14:41
I posted this topic and had forgotten all about it until now with all this talk about DOW 2.
I just wanted to say thanks Alrik those screenshots and trailors (would of never found those on a german site
)looks awesome and they have SKAVEN 
Gotta say those little brown freaks look pretty good. I'm a little surprised they even have the Slaan in there. That will be interesting to see what kind of players they have. I stopped playing Blood Bowl before the Slaan were created. Even then I only played a few times, but each time it was a blast.
The gameplay looks good from what little I saw. Can't wait. GO UNDERWORLD CREEPERS GO!!!!
EDIT: Anyone know where to get Chaos League? I've looked everywhere and it's nowhere. I never even heard of it before you guys mentioned it.
I just wanted to say thanks Alrik those screenshots and trailors (would of never found those on a german site
)looks awesome and they have SKAVEN Gotta say those little brown freaks look pretty good. I'm a little surprised they even have the Slaan in there. That will be interesting to see what kind of players they have. I stopped playing Blood Bowl before the Slaan were created. Even then I only played a few times, but each time it was a blast. The gameplay looks good from what little I saw. Can't wait. GO UNDERWORLD CREEPERS GO!!!!
EDIT: Anyone know where to get Chaos League? I've looked everywhere and it's nowhere. I never even heard of it before you guys mentioned it.
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Despite all my rage.
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Despite all my rage.
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Last edited by skavenhorde; March 2nd, 2009 at 15:34.
Little BRO Rat
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April 8th, 2009, 17:04
… Just noticed that the video says :
- turn-based
- real-time
- multi-player
are available.
The possibility to play it as a turn-based game is definitively a huge Plus in my eyes.
- turn-based
- real-time
- multi-player
are available.
The possibility to play it as a turn-based game is definitively a huge Plus in my eyes.
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"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." (E.F.Schumacher, Economist, Source)
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." (E.F.Schumacher, Economist, Source)
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Original Sin 1 & 2 Donor
April 8th, 2009, 19:40
Just noticed a second game currently in development by them:
http://www.dungeon-party.com/
Looks like fun !
http://www.dungeon-party.com/
Looks like fun !
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"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." (E.F.Schumacher, Economist, Source)
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." (E.F.Schumacher, Economist, Source)
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Original Sin 1 & 2 Donor
April 8th, 2009, 20:05
Turnbased Blood Bowl and now this game. Kinda shuts up those nay sayers about how PC games are dying. I'll check it out more in the morning. Thanks a lot Alrik. It looks interesting.
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Despite all my rage.
I'm still just a rat in a cage.
Despite all my rage.
I'm still just a rat in a cage.
Little BRO Rat
April 8th, 2009, 21:29
Originally Posted by Alrik FassbauerAnd I say "don't bother".
Chaos League ? I'd say monitor ebay.
Other than that, I have no idea.
As for the turn base, hope it's like the board game and not like in Chaos League where the turn base was when you directed what all your players were to do in the next turn and then everyone did everything at the same time. Which just isn't Blood Bowl.
And I look forward to bashing Skavens!
Because in the one tournament I've played I didn't manage to beat Skaven once (which was totally because I was a rookie coach and the guy playing Skavens wasn't), even though I almost did in all games but one…Übereil
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