Fantasy-based games with gunpowder weapons never appealed to me since they seemed incongruous. Right then and there I said “Hmmph” and quit the game. I blinked, no that guard wasn’t slinging stones at the zombies, and he certainly wasn’t holding crossbow in his hands it was indeed a rifle. What if I wanted to be a magic-caster? Or perhaps a scurrilous rogue? As I pondered these questions I neared a bridge which led to the burial area in question, and that’s when I spied a guard shooting at throngs of incoming undead. Courtesy – Crate EntertainmentĪs previously mentioned, I was wondering how I was to take on a proper character class, and something beyond just a rusty knife and simple plank shield. The game certainly looked the part, and featured graphics on par with any of the modern RPG games out these days, but that’s not the most important aspect of a game of course. I looked around a bit and spoke to a few of the locals and eventually gained my first quest, which was something about investigating the source of a recent series of undead attacks originating from a nearby burial area. I was given a rather generic looking character and unceremoniously plopped down into a little grungy town called Devil’s Crossing. After receiving the game, downloading it, installing it, and firing it up, I felt sort of let down that I wasn’t presented with some sort of snazzy intro. Having said that, my first brush with Crate Entertainment’s recently Kickstarted dynamo, Grim Dawn, wasn’t a good one. Kickstarted games have allowed original ideas and incredibly immersive worlds to be shared by everyone, instead of being relegated to the sidelines while the monolithic (and in many cases full of hubris) gaming publishers seize all of the glory and lime light. Where previously, indie titles were relegated to the periphery, stuck in the shadows of the big, corporate, triple-A gaming companies, these days all of the highly creative folk out there can make it happen and get their projects funded outside of the big dogs. Let me begin this review by saying: “Thank goodness for Kickstarter!” Crowdfunding platforms have completely re-shaped the gaming industry in a very favorable way.
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