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[Iakus]

May also be a little soon for this, but Bard's Tale IV is on Kickstarter right now:

 

[Rawgrim]

The Bard's Tale 4 kickstarter will reach its gal in no-time. With all the old-schoolers that grew up with the first games, it won't be a problem.

 

 

There is one for Ultima Underworld 3 too, by the way.

[Rawgrim]

 

Never really played this series, but it is an upcoming RPG so I will just add it here to the list.

[Seraphim24]

Numenera I think is #1.

[A Crusty Knight Of Colour]

Currently in Early Access, Underrail is a Fallout-inspired turn based isometric RPG set in a subterranean Sci Fi world.

Fallout meets Metro.



Expeditions: Conquistador developers Logic Artists are working on a new game. Similar in premise to their open world Strategy RPG, this one is called Expeditions: Viking.



Again, currently in Early Access but The Memory of Eldurim is an open world Action RPG currently in development. Taking the Gothic series as an inspiration, the developers hope to create a game with a massive, beautiful world ripe for exploration.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHVRTz7e92M

A Kickstarter success, Earthlock: Festival of Magic is described as a "non-linear turn based RPG". It looks distinctly like a JRPG, despite their developers being based in Norway. The game will be a multiplatform release, for the PC, PS4, Xbone and Wii U.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUduW_Z6PQM

I'm really looking forward to Kingdom Come: Deliverance more than most though (game mentioned in OP). Ever since Vavra made that long rant absolutely shitting on Skyrim and Bethesda's design principles, I've been curious to see how he will go about things in a vaguely similar kind of game.

[Voxr]

Currently in Early Access, Underrail is a Fallout-inspired turn based isometric RPG set in a subterranean Sci Fi world.

Fallout meets Metro.



I'm really looking forward to Kingdom Come: Deliverance more than most though (game mentioned in OP). Ever since Vavra made that long rant absolutely shitting on Skyrim and Bethesda's design principles, I've been curious to see how he will go about things in a vaguely similar kind of game.

My interest is piqued. Is this a video or an article? 

[A Crusty Knight Of Colour]

My interest is piqued. Is this a video or an article?

 
Keep in mind the original article was written in Czech, so there might be grammar and spelling issues in this.
 

I finished playing Oblivion , Fallout 3 and New Vegas . I love western RPG. So I am the epitome of Skyrim's target audience. But while the whole world cheers the new addition in the series of Elder Scrolls , I'm roaring with rage. Why? Mainly because I absolutely don't understand how can someone get away with releasing a buggy and unfinished game five times in a row.

I don't understand how can 100% gaming journalists write that this horribly outdated and not very nice looking game is beautiful and at the same time criticize other nice looking games for every missed detail and accuse them of obsolescence. How can a couple million people rejoice that they received the same thing as last time, including all the silly mistakes, with a substantial addition of new ones?

I admit that I do play Skyrim. Why, if it's so terrible? Because as a fan of open world RPGs I have no other alternative. It's as if you were on a deserted island for years with a beautiful blonde. Really beautiful. Her only "minor" flaws were that she has yellow teeth, her breath stinks, is totally dumb and has gonorrhea. I understand that after several weeks of abstinence most men yield to temptation, but then it just wouldn't be true if they start to describe her new partner as the smartest and healthiest girl in the world. It is just not the truth, even after years spent on the deserted island when you can't no longer imagine how a smart, beautiful and healthy woman looks like. Skyrim is that blondie. It is not the best, but it is only one. This is his competitive advantage on a desert island of western RPGs. If you want to play open world RPG, you may as well start begging Bethesda to let you.

Open World RPGs are like a drug. There is so much in those games that one can get completely lost in them and even if you do not like many aspects of it, you will always find something at least tolerable. The joy of discovering and trying things is simply irreplaceable and it is not present in other games to such extent. But that still does not mean that Skyrim is a busty Swede, Nobel Prize winner and world champion in the Kamasutra. Skyrim has yellow teeth, its breath stings, is completely dumb and has gonorrhea. And I am tired of trying to imagine pleasing curves of blonde Helga instead.

If only Bethesda tried. If only its game improved. If only the errors were being fixed. If only they stopped just recycling a seven year old engine. If only it's designers put some thought into making it. Then I would be excited about Skyrim. But it isn't anything like that. Skyrim has a million bugs and flaws.

Once upon a time I thought it was because the game is too large and difficult to debug, but I do not think so any more. Bethesda continues to repeat the same mistakes for twenty years. It can not fix even utterly banal issues that can be fixed by changing a single number or by a trivial code modification. You need to remember Bethesda is no garage company. The Elder Scrolls made huge amount money and it can afford much more than the vast majority of other developers. But the Bethesda has a different motto - There's no competition, so we won't try.

That is why the horse still looks terrible. Most of NPCs are dubbed by four very similar voices. Animations of anything are still absolutely awful. Engine is still about ten years behind the rest of the world. The game still has a million bugs, including it's tendency to freeze on consoles. The balancing is just tragically broken. And worst of all, 3D artists at Bethesda are still able have to map a wood texture on one side of a pole and concrete texture on the other.

And unlike the rest of the gaming world, I am tired of it. I do not feel well in the world of Skyrim . I constantly feel that it was created by idiots and ignorants, and that it is all a strange nightmare. And on top of that I can not shake the feeling that others got some drugs with the game and I do not.

An average fanboy now starts screaming that all this does not matter! Skyrim is awesome best ultra mega most beautiful game in the world ever! And you can do A-N-Y-T-H-I-N-G-!

Yes, in Skyrim you can do anything, but as user MagusGrandios wrote in his review on Metacritic, "You can fight! But it is the worst combat system ever. You can steal! But it's just picking up things from the ground. You can break into a house! But it's just an awful mini-game. You can ride a horse! But it is exactly the same as when you walk, you just have a horse mesh glued to your ass. You can talk to thousands of NPC! But all they ever tell you is one of four things, and anything you tell them changes absolutely nothing. And so on ... "

The fact that this game has an average rating of 95% and nobody has an issue with anything I mention below is for me simply an incomprehensible irrational frenzy. I can understand someone giving the game a high rating with some criticism here and there, but I cannot understand and I cannot swallow the totally uncritical glorification of clearly broken and ugly things.

There is a massive list of 100+ flaws he points out in Skyrim, but the list is essentially of the same level of the rant here.

It's got me interested because he was so nitpicky on small things when the flaws of Skyrim and Bethesda games in general happen on a much higher level. Most of the list focuses on graphics, UI and minor gameplay quibbles and while his issues aren't necessarily wrong, it's bloody hilarious how ranty it is. He also has a decent section on bugs, but again. So ranty.

So when faced with making his own action RPG sandbox, how would he handle it? What would he do different? That's what I'm looking forward to seeing. It helps that Deliverance actually looks good and worth playing on it's own, but it was his opinions on Skyrim, looking like a rant you'd see on the DA:I forums, that drew me into this project in the first place.

[Voxr]

 
Keep in mind the original article was written in Czech, so there might be grammar and spelling issues in this.
 

There is a massive list of 100+ flaws he points out in Skyrim, but the list is essentially of the same level of the rant here.

It's got me interested because he was so nitpicky on small things when the flaws of Skyrim and Bethesda games in general happen on a much higher level. Most of the list focuses on graphics, UI and minor gameplay quibbles and while his issues aren't necessarily wrong, it's bloody hilarious how ranty it is. He also has a decent section on bugs, but again. So ranty.

So when faced with making his own action RPG sandbox, how would he handle it? What would he do different? That's what I'm looking forward to seeing. It helps that Deliverance actually looks good and worth playing on it's own, but it was his opinions on Skyrim, looking like a rant you'd see on the DA:I forums, that drew me into this project in the first place.

That and what he is ranting about isn't anything we haven't heard before. Not that it isn't justified for criticism but like you said the biggest flaws are the higher level. But that's sort of what you expect from a Bethesda title. That's partly why Bethesda is so open to modders. "Let the community fix and improve it themselves. Yay!!" Suddenly the community forgets the little things. Or at the very least is willing to look the other way.

 

I'm still looking forward to it. KC looks like a Mount and Blade title but on an even bigger scale and with better visuals IMO. I think the biggest take away from his rant is if you want to make a point: Use a sex analogy.

[A Crusty Knight Of Colour]

KC looks like a Mount and Blade title but on an even bigger scale and with better visuals IMO. I think the biggest take away from his rant is if you want to make a point: Use a sex analogy.

Thanks for reminding me.



Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord is also an upcoming RPG.

[Voxr]

Thanks for reminding me.



Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord is also an upcoming RPG.

 

I should really get Warband in the meantime though...

[Rawgrim]

 

Here is a sweet looking upcoming one. Hero-U. Made by Lori and Cory Cole, who some of you might remember from the good old Sierra days. They were the people behind the Quest for Glory series. If anything this game will be made with a lot of heart and soul.

 

One of the classes you can play as is Chef. Never seen that in an rpg before.

[Rawgrim]

 

This one has some promise as well. A classic grid-based dungeon crawler in the spirit of Eye of the Beholder and Legend of Grimrock.

[A Crusty Knight Of Colour]

Speaking of Kingdom Come: Deliverance, there was an update video not long ago:

[Kaiser Arian XVII]

 

Never really played this series, but it is an upcoming RPG so I will just add it here to the list.

 

It will be so badass!

[Kaiser Arian XVII]

 

 

This one has finally gotten a pretty good trailer as well. I am sure a lot of Bioware fans are looking forward to this one.

 

I think the Kickstarter RPG market will be overfilled soon.

 

^ That

Wastelands 2

Divinity: Original Sin

Banner Saga

Pillars of Eternity

Next D&D ver5.0 game

Shadowrun

 

Would RPG people have time to play their next sequels at all?

[Iakus]

That reminds me...

 

Banner Saga 2 is due out this year

 

[Rawgrim]

Banner Saga is actually a bit messed up. Whoever came up with the character names should be fired. Females have male names in the game, and vice versa. I couldn't keep playing it because of that. Annoying.

[Dovahzeymahlkey]

is there a good turn-based rpg coming out soon?

[Rawgrim]

is there a good turn-based rpg coming out soon?

 

The Shadowrun games have turn based combat.

[Iakus]

Banner Saga is actually a bit messed up. Whoever came up with the character names should be fired. Females have male names in the game, and vice versa. I couldn't keep playing it because of that. Annoying.

The only woman with a male name I recall is Oddleif.  And it's specifically referenced as a result of her father wanting a son.

[Rawgrim]

I think I spotted some female names among the men too.

[Voxr]

Some Kingdom Come alpha gameplay.

 

My body is ready!!!

[Akrabra]

Not sure how to put in videos, but there's Shadowrun: Hong Kong

 

https://www.youtube....h?v=IrzyUuRHkGo

 

Also not due out for another year or so, but been following this one closely too:

 

https://www.youtube....h?v=F90Zu3LfrUU

I had never heard about Shadowrun before i browsed this thread. Found Shadowrun Returns and Shadowrun Dragonfall on sale on GoG, playing them now. They are amazing. Thanks!

[BellPeppers&Beef023]

Shadowrun HK is a guaranteed release in 2015.

 

Fallout 4, Torment, and Deus Ex are all strong possibilities for this year as well.

 

Dark Souls 3 is probably looking at a 2016 release. Maybe Mass Effect 4?

 

And with Witcher 3 being released less than a month ago, things are looking damn good.

[Rawgrim]

Shadowrun HK is a guaranteed release in 2015.

 

Fallout 4, Torment, and Deus Ex are all strong possibilities for this year as well.

 

Dark Souls 3 is probably looking at a 2016 release. Maybe Mass Effect 4?

 

And with Witcher 3 being released less than a month ago, things are looking damn good.

 

Yes. And Pillars of Eternity got released 2 months before The Witcher 3. Pretty much a fantastic rpg year so far.