Gas Powered Games' New RTS: Kings and Castles
From the maker of Total Annihilation and Supreme Commander comes Kings and Castles.
Are you a fan of RTS games? Then you'll know a lot about the classic Total Annihilation and Supreme Commander. One of the minds behind those two RTS games, Chris Taylor, is leaving the futuristic theme behind and is going old-school fantasy.
Gas Powered Games announced yesterday that work has started on Kings and Castles, an epic real-time strategy game for the PC and next-generation consoles. The game will let players take on the role of one of three powerful kings who are vying for control of an all-new, original fantasy world.
"We’re doing something different this time around," said Chris Taylor, Creative Director of Gas Powered Games. "We want to take our fans on a great adventure with us. They’ll get to go behind-the-scenes and watch the game come to life from start to finish."
Using the game’s website and social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter (follow DeathBot9, Chris Taylor’s personal account), GPG will give its fans a (mostly) unfiltered look inside the development process of Kings and Castles. "Synergy will be leveraged, and paradigms will be established," said Taylor. "More importantly, buzzwords will be utilized."
GPG will be posting regular updates about Kings and Castles on its website. The first video blog went live today. It contains graphic scenes of wood chopping, chickens, and the obligatory horse biting.
"We also promise to gouge evil from its shell at least once, or maybe twice,” said Taylor. “But not three times. That would be weird."
The piracy rate for PC is astronomical compared to consoles, and if they have to cut cost somewhere, the PC version will most likeley go first.
I am very excited about this announcement, but I am just reminding everyone that until people who pirate wise up, games like these may stop being announced for PC altogether. If anyone has any doubt to these claims I encourage you to look here: http://www.tweakguides.com/Piracy_1.html
I really don't mind sharing my pc games, as long as it's a pc game and not a console port. We have at least 101 keys, remember that and don't map 10 functions under 1 key.
And piracy, blegh, like that ever put a dent into sales. Make good games and pirates will buy them. Make bad games and consumers will pirate them.
yep that was the name of the game and it blew chunks. I never played TA but I did have Kingdoms, hoping it was a more expanded version of Warcraft 2 but it was very disappointing. The story behind it was good but the game play was slow and crappy.
Anyways, here's hoping for a TA:K 2. But one for the masses and in the vein of SC. More importantly, here's hoping this is one which gets everything right without having to release updates/expansion to make the game fun.