@@Moshugaani We are looking more towards current higher end rigs. We still have a lot of developing and optimizing to do, so there might be potential to lower those requirements some, but we can't say for certain at this time.
@@OnceLostGames The system requirements that are posted in the game's Steam page were surprisingly low actually! To be honest I'm confused by them. :D I don't see how a GTX 1060 or lower could run UE5 efficiently.
This game honestly sounds too good to be true. I think the scope of their idea seems too grand for the 2-10 employees their LinkedIn page claims. I genuinely wish them the best, but I do not expect anything to come of this. If this game releases in many years and turns out to be all they claimed, I'll come back and delete this comment.
with dozens of industry volunteers right now doing it because they love it and think it can succeed. The kickstarter helps start paying those volunteer designers so they can invest more of their time in building the game, but they are still there working every day regardless. I'm supporting them because that's a lot of affection for what they do and honestly if it's half as good at the end it's still twice as good as the hand holding/money before content of another es6.
Maybe it is but I think they said they will be hiring more people then the 5-10 employees that's been working on it for 5 years. Mostly through volunteers. But that all changes now that they got the funding.
Maybe I'll put it this way warhorse with there first game started with 10-11 people. There trailer for KCD2 might make you think the first game would be bad some say it is or was. But at the end they added 150 people to finish the game same going to happen to wayward realms. If there lucky there get want warhorse has now working on KCD2 250 people.
What you say at the end is so true, and it's WILD that it's true! We're desperate for something new, and that "new" thing winds up being...old school RPGs in a style we haven't seen since the mid-90s returning on modern tech. The types of "new" that happen all the time these days have such a sameyness that bringing back something classic like this genuinely feels more fresh and new than anything (especially anything in the open world RPG genre) has felt in a LONG time.
There will be nothing better than what we had in the 1990s that was the golden age of everything. What everyone have been creating hasn't been holding up because they were all about special effects and cinematics than real gameplay and trying to adapt games to the style of online games, but it didn't work because it lacks luster because they're meant to be highly repetitive which made them only good for playing once. The next step is holodecks which is already kind of possible because they can create specially designed rooms that project around an entire room and surround you with almost completely realistic graphics. Disney and a few other companies are already trying to create immersive experiences inside a movie although hugely expensive right now and limited because it's probably only capable of fitting one scene at a time in a single room. There's been advances in optical and holographic technology so i think star trek got it right that television will cease to be a form of entertainment by 2040, well if i get to experience some form of a holodeck that will be incredible because it has so many uses. I don't know about games but we could actually still roleplay a game but i'm not sure it would be amazing playing it scene by scene rather than a continuous experience like when we play a game on a computer but i think playing on a computer would still be a lot cheaper. With quantum computers on the horizon i'm not sure how much things will change but it will start to get completely realistic like it already is but it will be so real that maybe it would start to be better to play it in a holodeck rather than on a computer.
It's important for everyone to keep their expectations grounded and realistic. Know what you're going into and what you should realistically expect, or you're going to be disappointed either way. This is going to be a procedurally-generated and -driven world, not a massive world where every little detail is going to be handcrafted content. If you go into this game expecting a massive version of handcrafted Morrowind, Oblivion, or Skyrim, you're not going to find it and you're only setting yourself up for disappointment. But if you go into it expecting a refined version Daggerfall, then you're on the right track. Personally, I will check this game out and keep an open mind, knowing all the while that I am partial to handcrafted content. Still, personal preferences aside, I will not be asking the game to give me something it's not designed to offer.
@@2138Dude starfield had handcrafted content that was also garbage. idk why ur trying to compare the two when Daggerfall had better utilization of proc gen than starfield
@@2138Dude No, not quite. Very different ideologies and implementations of procedural generation. Far better comparison is "another Daggerfall"... but with newer technology and learning from Daggerfall's mistakes and shortcomings. Starfield was just a "paint by numbers," $h!+ quality modern Bethesda game, but with procedural generation ineptly used to "make big 'cause big better."
Everyone, hear me! If you're looking for a massive large-scale (grand RPG) role playing game, please consider pledging your support to the Wayward Realms! OnceLostGames is working very hard to be able to make this game a reality.. We can't just wait for Bethesda to idle around and do nothing for another 5 years; ES VI, as mentioned in the description, may never come at all. But, collectively, we can drive WR forward with our financial support and voices to other gamers who would love a game like this. We can all make this a reality!
Can't fathom how someone who thinks ES VI is uncertain would choose to put their eggs in a game that needs kickstarter to produce a demo to even have a chance of grabbing the eye of publisher willing to give proper funding. Also don't expect wayward to release before ES VI unless you want to set yourself up to disappointment.
@@user-ci5zp6yf5l until Bethesda shows even a glimpse of ES VI and considering how “great” the last few games from them have been, I’d rather depend on Ted Peterson and Julian LeFay (the original co-fathers of Elder Scrolls, with their original vision in mind for this game) any day of the week. Color me naive, but I can appreciate the transparency and vision they’ve given us so far. I can’t say the same for Bethesda.
Mega clickbait thumbnail. Horrible overused title baiting on eso fans for the millionth time. WR is surely interesting, but its years and years and yeeeaaars away with an already super rocky start. There has been too much office drama gone public, they show off waaay to unbaked footage and make ridiculous statements they'll never be able to deliver on. Like having "thousands of realistically scaled cities, towns and labyrinthian dungeons to explore" using proc-gen when they're a micro dev team attempting/claiming things not even the biggest companies can come close to achieving. And the insane statement "to make sure the sprawling cities of the Archipelago feel occupied and alive, The Wayward Realms uses a Mass-AI system to display thousands of NPCs on screen at any given moment." These are moronic claims to make and its obvious that this is just a fantasy at this point. What is this "mass-ai system"? Its just bs writing... Whoever wrote their kickstarter page has to be off their nut. Still, the project is interesting, but i've never been more skeptical from reading a kickstarter. Maybe they'll be able to create a great game with all the people blindly throwing money at them, but there is no way they'll deliver on all the bogus they've wrote on that page.
I think if people go into this expecting Elder Scrolls like we know it they are going to be disappointed. It’s building off the ideas of Arena and Daggerfall not Morrowind through Skyrim. Which means giant procedurally created open world generated locations and dungeons, and the like. They are touting a 5400 sq mile world they aren’t going to be handcrafting all of that like a more traditional sandbox open world. Not saying the game will be bad but not necessarily going to scratch the same itch people are hoping for from Elder Scrolls 6.
@@dissident1337 That’s fine. As said I am not saying it’s bad, I just think touting it akin to what people want from Elder Scrolls 6 is just setting up a lot of people up for disappointment if they go in expecting a modern day Elder Scrolls title as opposed to a spiritual successor to Daggerfall.
The thing is, it is headed by people who created Elder Scrolls, thats where my trust lies. Bethesda has become incompetent, if this succeedes we get a good RPG, if not do we lose anything?
I'm not one to love Bethesda, even tho I love the games. But where exactly have they become incompetent? I feel like people just love to hate on something based on the fact everyone else does it.
I think where Larian made the highest bet that turned out the best one in terms of ROI was to move to fully voice acted, that was what made the difference with DOS2 and that catapulted them to BG3
TLDR, it’s making the same lofty no substance promises every kickstarter ever makes. Don’t be blinded by hype, wait for there to be something tangible before getting invested.
I miss the 90s games where decisions you made early on in the game had dire consequences later on. Sometimes you would even fail at the end or be under prepared.
I've been loosely following the development of this game since around 2020 and it's amazing what has been done. if it was literally anyone else that said they were making the biggest rpg of all time I would not trust them, but since this is Ted Peterson and Julian Lefay saying it I can't help but trust it
Cool concept. I'm pretty wary of Kickstarter games seeing as there has been very little in the way of success from games funded that way, and it looks to me that this game is several years away from being complete.
You are right to be wary. Keep in mind though that we have gotten good from them. BG3 was a kickstarter game and look how that turned out. Best thing to do is keep an eye on it and if you want to support it then try to learn more about it.
everything you're seeing right now is stuff they've done already on their own. i think the kickstarter is to allow them to work on the game full time for a year to create a product they can pitch to an actual publishing company. im pretty sure they'll keep making the game on their own no matter what, but the funding is simply to expedite the process.
I will keep my eye open for future updates on this game's progress, yet I shall never again "pre-order" another game. I'll wait a few weeks afyer release, then assess whether the game is worthy of my investment.
Personally, I highly doubt that this will be "the Elder Scrolls 6 we're waiting for", as the title says. Daggerfall 2, would be more accurate I think, and I think that's their intention more or less. What we've been shown so far feels unnecessarily game-y and old-school in the wrong way and places. But I'm hopeful Once Lost Games crushes my doubts in the end, once it releases! Their work is genuine, for sure.
I think I'll pass. I don't want a game with endless content. I want well crafted world that doesnt rely on random generation to puke out mediocre levels, story and loot.
500,000 sq km is literally bigger than California IRL... I am excited to explore it. I know that doesn't make for a good game by itself, but the amount of factions and lore being poured into this game makes it seem like there will be no shortage of developer driven content - a really important ingredient to its success.
@@Isaak-eo6tr Why would it be loaded? It's based on a seed, which means it can generate the same terrain every time just like minecraft. Changes to the world, as well as handcrafted content, would be additional data, either game data or save data.
It's so cool that Heberling is making videogame music again. Dude's been dropping fire tracks all these years, but they've been wasted on Vegas slot machines.
This shit looks exactly like oblivion which is my favorite elder scrolls game I loved the atmosphere of being this nice fantasy world straight out of a storybook but at the same time its kinda messed up and dark, but things also can get really silly at times. In terms of tone and atmosphere noting in the series tops oblivion.
Every new RPG made in the past 20 years claims to be a "true RPG". An RPG where every possible decision is available to the player and is significant to the entire game world and the player can truly play out any role they want to play does not exist and will never exist. Every game has constraining elements. The only true RPG is real life and that's not a game. This game will probably be pretty good but will never live up to the claims made in this video.
Play daggerfall and you'll understand why it's going to be great, it's pretty much daggefall but they're able to do a lot more things with it and now it looks really real.
If games like Starfield have taught us anything, a bigger map does not make a better game. This game will need some truly groundbreaking procedural generation or I fear we are in for another "Wide as an Ocean, Shallow as a Pond" offering.
As long as the comparison to TES ends at legacy developers, I’m on board. We don’t need another half-ass built game released like Bethesda, where they expect the community to fix their immense volume of issues and bugs.
0:35 Considering that, and lets be real here, popularity for Elder Scrolls skyrocket with the release of Morrowind, it really might be not as big of a deal . no disrespect meant, just saying. xD
@@ClOwNyGrIn oh sure sure thaaat was the reason, not the Jump in graphic, open world, Gameplay, really anything. but the small population back then that played RPG on a console...
@@mermidion7552 yes. the crpg genre was largely dying in the early 2000's. if they had made morrowind on pc only, bethesda probably would've went under.
Love the idea but like any developing game I can see alot of complexity in there that won’t make it in or be very shallow and repetitive. Interested to see where it goes either way.
This appears to be lovingly crafted by people who care about making something special. Those people also happen to have impressive resumes doing exactly that. That at the very least warrants a degree of optimistic hope.
I think people are over hyping this. It’s a brand new studio- with some good talent sure, but the project is incredibly ambitious. This is something Triple A’s would probably struggle with, let alone an indie studio. I don’t want to be a downer but we’ve seen this story a few too many times for me to get excited.
They ARE actually some great RPGs these past years. But you're right : I think I will explore those Wayward Realms and no more Tamriel. I await for Avowed too
Looks pretty cool! Maybe I’ll play this while I’m waiting for starfields dlc and elder scrolls 6. Wow that’s insane that past Bethesda people are working on it! That’s a huge selling point.
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It looks amazing, it looks like what Oblivion would of been if it kept getting more updates. Yes, this is exactly what I want, and Bethesda has been so stingy with the Elder Scrolls series over the years, just re-releasing Skyrim over and over instead of making any new games or content. And no... the Creation Club doesn't count...
Real talk, if this played copy paste exactly like daggerfall unity, just with new content to explore and that's it, that would be more than enough for me.
It's not that I want this game (I do), it's that I want MORE games like this, created by a passionate dev team with a deep and abiding love for cRPGs. AAAs have this, too, but it's getting rarer for any of it to make into the product. I really think we are moving to a new climate where the dinosaurs of the industry just cant survive without every release being a hit. In the vacuum, I personally want smaller mammalian studios to rise and try different games, give us options.
Keep in mind these guys wanted Morrowind to be procedurally generated and Todd had to fight to make Morrowind the incredible game that it is. I hope this will be a hand crafted world, even mostly so. EDIT: That probably came off as negative. I am just being cautiously optimistic. I am very excited about this.
@@jasonwelsh417 hopefully they won’t use a ton of procedural gen since they don’t need to worry about a million planets lmao. That game could have been amazing if they’d focused on 3 or 4 huge planets instead of millions of bare ones
@@ClOwNyGrIn I've been keeping up with Bethesda's trends since Morrowind and Starfield's disaster doesn't really worry me all that much. As a completely new IP, it was an opportunity for them to test different waters. It largely didn't work, even if it sold pretty well. If you know variables you'll understand that they won't be taking such risks with Elder Scrolls. They have clear proof on where Skyrim succeeded at, why it has succeeded for so long and the numbers to boot. They'll be building on all that, don't think they'd be so stupid so as to not match Skyrim's standards (many of which today ain't that special) - minimum. ES is their most important IP, from a business perspective alone they can't allow it to, NOT succeed.
It's pretty much daggerfall 2.0 but influenced by skyrim just hugely improved with all the latest tech and graphics and back in the 1990s this game was the biggest game that existed because they pushed the boundaries of the technology of the day and made it as big as they could. Now they're doing the same again and it's going to take up all your 16gb memory at max graphics lol so you're going to need good fans for that, on my laptop i'll probably have to turn the graphics down so it doesn't overheat. I couldn't think of a better way to test what current technology can accomplish by doing a kind of daggerfall 2.0 and hopefully it inspires new generations to try and create better games.
Loved the video! I was especially impressed with your voice in the intro. You should narrate audiobooks! The way the audio just cut off at the end felt a little awkward though, maybe consider letting the background music run for a second or two after you finish speaking and apply a fading effect those last couple of seconds of audio.
Call me cynical, but i've been gaming since the 80's and i know gaming industry well by now. This video sounds like an ad. Wake me up when the reviews are online. Now excuse me, i'm going back to playing my heavily modded Skyrim (which is an OK game at best, especially for people that have ever experienced titles like Dragon Age, Mass Effect or the Witcher trilogy).
Video title : "Wayward Realms Might be The Elder Scrolls 6 We're Waiting For" Reality : "Wayward Realms is an (extremely-early / barebones) Kickstarter campaign developed by a team comprised mostly of volunteers" ... gee, I wonder how this is going to end.
I'm highly interested in this game, but feel it's highly unlikely we see it before ES 6. I know it's just a thumbnail but saying "it's here" is kind of silly. This game is years away with the scope they're aiming for.
"The new Elder Scrolls is already here" in the thumbnail is pretty egregious clickbait. The game only just got kickstarted and we have no confirmed release date.
This is just what I don’t want to see more of: melee and forced groups. I would really like to see a “Sniper Elite” or “Assassin’s Creed” lone archer (crossbow) doing his missions. There is a reason why Skyrim and Fallout are so popular: first person real time. Skyrim has lots of melee but many players choose a lone stealth archer. Let the player choose whether solo or groups just like gender. Why is stealth to kill everyone in sight? There should be pride in doing missions without the bad guys even know you came through. Otherwise the game looks great just hope they choose a different approach. Regards
I know all this by being in the discord and talking to the community, you are invited. Regarding the ad comment, you are pretty stupid if you think someone would pay a channel with 500 subs to promote their product.
to my understanding wayward realms development has not even really actually started. they have something of a tech demo for a KS at best. star citizen vibes.
I hope this has a healer. ESO was by far the most fun i had being a healer. I need to find anotger gane that allows me a fun experience with that skill set.
Stealth Games on Steam: Actual story of SOE female assassin, Violette Summer, during WW 2. I would think Rebellion could make a great updated version of this. How did Ubi-soft miss these? Velvet Assassin (2008) ua-cam.com/video/Z1NCc4vMTd8/v-deo.html and Stolen (2005) Female thief: ua-cam.com/video/viLYc9xdNTc/v-deo.html Regards
tbh the game that's being described in my guess would need like 1000+ employees. Bethesda makes disappointing games because the scope they promise and people expect cannot be achieved by a team of 400 people like Todd says Bethesda employs, or else they would do it. Nice concept but unless production lasts 15+ years or one of the devs hits the mega millions jackpot and hires more devs I cannot see them make the game being described right now
Yes, gameplay is important but what most crucial - in my opinion at least - is the atmosphere that is connected to The Elder Scrolls franchise. Will new TES be not as good as expected? Yes. Will modders have to fix bugs? Yes. Will the new TES, even thought having many defects, be the greatest game of a year, decade etc.? Yes it will! We, the TES lovers, are some kind of masochists who will care for their beloved game.
I seriously want this to succeed, and I want it to be as good as possible, but it isnt the first time a project was backed because someone was known in the genre, only to have nearly a billion dollars taken and no finished product more than 10 years later. I'll buy it IF it comes out, but I am not backing anything again.
Trust me this will never become the next elder scrolls, graphics are cute but thats it. Combat, Animations, Mechanics, Characters and even magic look terrible. Graphics alone dosent make a game, you can see on the trailer alone that the game looks very flawed and full of bugs like an early early early early access. If to make a trailer for your game, try not to show bugs in it or bad animation or bad combat, this is probably an indie company and for that they r doing a good job, they have a solid foundation for a nice basic rpg game. But that is it, it may become a very good game yes but (Not the next elder scrolls) if they didnt even raise to the heels of OBLIVION for example. Dont belive me? so go see the gameplay trailer and analyze it, Nice video
Okay so we gotta talk about this. Watched through the whole video and while I can respect one's excitement and passion for just about anything as much as the next person, you gotta be realistic about who's name, work etc. you are comparing stuff to when getting people hyped about it and if you are letting bias cloud your perspective. People's wallets are potentially gonna be swayed by your word and there's always a risk of falling short on promises and what-ifs. For starters, how about not comparing this to an ESVI (that we haven't seen) just because the studio comprises of people that once worked on past ES titles? How about calibrating what we've actually been shown and focusing on THAT, instead of embellishing stuff that "could be"? Do you really know what most people want out of an Elder Scrolls 6, hence your video's title? Do they know what kind of project they'll be really backing after listening to your commentary? I say all this taking into consideration the big bunch of Kickstarters through the years, which either failed to deliver on many of their promises OR turned into scams/were viewed as scams because people expected too much out of them (they overpromised). To be clear, I am not calling out the team or said project to be a scam, just want to point out that what we've seen so far I would characterize as mundane, at best. No offense, just being completely and objectively honest here. I loved all ES games, but let's be reserved with our expectations and not have this be another "Outer Worlds" scenario where hype and comparisons build unnecessary expectations. You say at the very beginning that you were not sponsored, but the way you go on about stuff that we haven't seen yet sure sounds like someone being paid to hype stuff up. Yes, I believe that you weren't sponsored, but please be careful when you are dragging people's wallets into something. Having said all that, I am wishing the team all the best and really wanna see how the ultimate product turns out!
Skyrim's personality was largely from the custom placed content. This is far too big to be custom built. It's just procedural generation. It might be interesting, but this is not a successor to Skyrim.
In at the Baron level! If any game should break $1,000,000 in funding, it's this game! Surprised not more companies are working with a VGM - which I am guessing is similar to the narrator of Rimworld.
Watch how Baldur's Gate 3 became one of the greatest games of all time ua-cam.com/video/DD-0IlWSFfY/v-deo.htmlsi=OWdhT_NMpzmo0ySt
Thank you for your video and the help to spread awareness about our game!
Thank You for the game
I'm very excited to see what comes of the game! But I'm also worried about the system requirements since you chose to use the UE5 engine. 😅
@@Moshugaani We are looking more towards current higher end rigs. We still have a lot of developing and optimizing to do, so there might be potential to lower those requirements some, but we can't say for certain at this time.
It will be better then elderscrills
@@OnceLostGames The system requirements that are posted in the game's Steam page were surprisingly low actually! To be honest I'm confused by them. :D I don't see how a GTX 1060 or lower could run UE5 efficiently.
This game honestly sounds too good to be true. I think the scope of their idea seems too grand for the 2-10 employees their LinkedIn page claims. I genuinely wish them the best, but I do not expect anything to come of this. If this game releases in many years and turns out to be all they claimed, I'll come back and delete this comment.
with dozens of industry volunteers right now doing it because they love it and think it can succeed. The kickstarter helps start paying those volunteer designers so they can invest more of their time in building the game, but they are still there working every day regardless. I'm supporting them because that's a lot of affection for what they do and honestly if it's half as good at the end it's still twice as good as the hand holding/money before content of another es6.
Let's wait and see. We lose nothing
They have well over 2-10 employees. Based on a recent Q&A they have around 40.
Maybe it is but I think they said they will be hiring more people then the 5-10 employees that's been working on it for 5 years. Mostly through volunteers. But that all changes now that they got the funding.
Maybe I'll put it this way warhorse with there first game started with 10-11 people. There trailer for KCD2 might make you think the first game would be bad some say it is or was. But at the end they added 150 people to finish the game same going to happen to wayward realms. If there lucky there get want warhorse has now working on KCD2 250 people.
What you say at the end is so true, and it's WILD that it's true! We're desperate for something new, and that "new" thing winds up being...old school RPGs in a style we haven't seen since the mid-90s returning on modern tech. The types of "new" that happen all the time these days have such a sameyness that bringing back something classic like this genuinely feels more fresh and new than anything (especially anything in the open world RPG genre) has felt in a LONG time.
yes mate
I want to go back to the old days of Everquest - hope this might give the same feeling
Fun fact: this has been happening to the tabletop RPG scene too. The OSR is a TTRPG scene which tries to bring back to life old school D&D.
@@Timikator Been deep in the OSR since before the pandemic, it's good stuff!
There will be nothing better than what we had in the 1990s that was the golden age of everything. What everyone have been creating hasn't been holding up because they were all about special effects and cinematics than real gameplay and trying to adapt games to the style of online games, but it didn't work because it lacks luster because they're meant to be highly repetitive which made them only good for playing once.
The next step is holodecks which is already kind of possible because they can create specially designed rooms that project around an entire room and surround you with almost completely realistic graphics. Disney and a few other companies are already trying to create immersive experiences inside a movie although hugely expensive right now and limited because it's probably only capable of fitting one scene at a time in a single room.
There's been advances in optical and holographic technology so i think star trek got it right that television will cease to be a form of entertainment by 2040, well if i get to experience some form of a holodeck that will be incredible because it has so many uses. I don't know about games but we could actually still roleplay a game but i'm not sure it would be amazing playing it scene by scene rather than a continuous experience like when we play a game on a computer but i think playing on a computer would still be a lot cheaper.
With quantum computers on the horizon i'm not sure how much things will change but it will start to get completely realistic like it already is but it will be so real that maybe it would start to be better to play it in a holodeck rather than on a computer.
It's important for everyone to keep their expectations grounded and realistic. Know what you're going into and what you should realistically expect, or you're going to be disappointed either way. This is going to be a procedurally-generated and -driven world, not a massive world where every little detail is going to be handcrafted content. If you go into this game expecting a massive version of handcrafted Morrowind, Oblivion, or Skyrim, you're not going to find it and you're only setting yourself up for disappointment. But if you go into it expecting a refined version Daggerfall, then you're on the right track.
Personally, I will check this game out and keep an open mind, knowing all the while that I am partial to handcrafted content. Still, personal preferences aside, I will not be asking the game to give me something it's not designed to offer.
For us fans, nothing to lose , everything to gain
So basically another starfield
@@2138Dude starfield had handcrafted content that was also garbage. idk why ur trying to compare the two when Daggerfall had better utilization of proc gen than starfield
@@2138Dude No, not quite. Very different ideologies and implementations of procedural generation. Far better comparison is "another Daggerfall"... but with newer technology and learning from Daggerfall's mistakes and shortcomings.
Starfield was just a "paint by numbers," $h!+ quality modern Bethesda game, but with procedural generation ineptly used to "make big 'cause big better."
Like any KS, read before pledging anything. Also, show some love to Chris , he's an excellent narrator. Subscribe to the channel if you enjoy.
Thanks for covering this game. Subbed!
@@caregiver1426 thank you mate.
tainted grail: fall of avalon...?
@@Criscrosaplesos I have not played it yet. Looks like a good game.
My literal dream game
same
I said the same about starfield.
@@2138Dude no this ain’t no starfield, we have competent story writers and game developers here. I trust the process
same.
Everyone, hear me! If you're looking for a massive large-scale (grand RPG) role playing game, please consider pledging your support to the Wayward Realms! OnceLostGames is working very hard to be able to make this game a reality..
We can't just wait for Bethesda to idle around and do nothing for another 5 years; ES VI, as mentioned in the description, may never come at all.
But, collectively, we can drive WR forward with our financial support and voices to other gamers who would love a game like this. We can all make this a reality!
Yeah but it's several years away still so we might get this just before we get ES 6.
ES 6 Will suck anyways, Bethesda is on a mid games rampage and the next elder scrolls will be no different
I watched their kickstarter and in all honesty the content shown wasn't all that impressive. They didn't have much to show.
Can't fathom how someone who thinks ES VI is uncertain would choose to put their eggs in a game that needs kickstarter to produce a demo to even have a chance of grabbing the eye of publisher willing to give proper funding. Also don't expect wayward to release before ES VI unless you want to set yourself up to disappointment.
@@user-ci5zp6yf5l until Bethesda shows even a glimpse of ES VI and considering how “great” the last few games from them have been, I’d rather depend on Ted Peterson and Julian LeFay (the original co-fathers of Elder Scrolls, with their original vision in mind for this game) any day of the week.
Color me naive, but I can appreciate the transparency and vision they’ve given us so far. I can’t say the same for Bethesda.
Mega clickbait thumbnail. Horrible overused title baiting on eso fans for the millionth time.
WR is surely interesting, but its years and years and yeeeaaars away with an already super rocky start. There has been too much office drama gone public, they show off waaay to unbaked footage and make ridiculous statements they'll never be able to deliver on. Like having "thousands of realistically scaled cities, towns and labyrinthian dungeons to explore" using proc-gen when they're a micro dev team attempting/claiming things not even the biggest companies can come close to achieving. And the insane statement "to make sure the sprawling cities of the Archipelago feel occupied and alive, The Wayward Realms uses a Mass-AI system to display thousands of NPCs on screen at any given moment." These are moronic claims to make and its obvious that this is just a fantasy at this point. What is this "mass-ai system"? Its just bs writing...
Whoever wrote their kickstarter page has to be off their nut. Still, the project is interesting, but i've never been more skeptical from reading a kickstarter. Maybe they'll be able to create a great game with all the people blindly throwing money at them, but there is no way they'll deliver on all the bogus they've wrote on that page.
I think if people go into this expecting Elder Scrolls like we know it they are going to be disappointed. It’s building off the ideas of Arena and Daggerfall not Morrowind through Skyrim. Which means giant procedurally created open world generated locations and dungeons, and the like. They are touting a 5400 sq mile world they aren’t going to be handcrafting all of that like a more traditional sandbox open world. Not saying the game will be bad but not necessarily going to scratch the same itch people are hoping for from Elder Scrolls 6.
THIS. This is very important information.
I dunno man I love Daggerfall, if we get that with better procedural algorithms and QOL improvements I'm good.
@@dissident1337 That’s fine. As said I am not saying it’s bad, I just think touting it akin to what people want from Elder Scrolls 6 is just setting up a lot of people up for disappointment if they go in expecting a modern day Elder Scrolls title as opposed to a spiritual successor to Daggerfall.
The thing is, it is headed by people who created Elder Scrolls, thats where my trust lies. Bethesda has become incompetent, if this succeedes we get a good RPG, if not do we lose anything?
I'm not one to love Bethesda, even tho I love the games. But where exactly have they become incompetent? I feel like people just love to hate on something based on the fact everyone else does it.
I think where Larian made the highest bet that turned out the best one in terms of ROI was to move to fully voice acted, that was what made the difference with DOS2 and that catapulted them to BG3
Cool looking game. Hopefully gets a good publicity run for the Kickstarter.
26days to go.
Agreed
TLDR, it’s making the same lofty no substance promises every kickstarter ever makes.
Don’t be blinded by hype, wait for there to be something tangible before getting invested.
I am not , but it is headed by people who created Elder Scrolls, that's where my trust lies
I miss the 90s games where decisions you made early on in the game had dire consequences later on. Sometimes you would even fail at the end or be under prepared.
I miss them too
I've been loosely following the development of this game since around 2020 and it's amazing what has been done.
if it was literally anyone else that said they were making the biggest rpg of all time I would not trust them, but since this is Ted Peterson and Julian Lefay saying it I can't help but trust it
Same reason for me
Cool concept. I'm pretty wary of Kickstarter games seeing as there has been very little in the way of success from games funded that way, and it looks to me that this game is several years away from being complete.
You are right to be wary. Keep in mind though that we have gotten good from them. BG3 was a kickstarter game and look how that turned out. Best thing to do is keep an eye on it and if you want to support it then try to learn more about it.
Agree with both of you
everything you're seeing right now is stuff they've done already on their own. i think the kickstarter is to allow them to work on the game full time for a year to create a product they can pitch to an actual publishing company. im pretty sure they'll keep making the game on their own no matter what, but the funding is simply to expedite the process.
@@spectralassassin6030 BG3 wasn't but there are a lot of Kickstarter successes. Including Larian's previous games, Divinity OS 1 and 2
Good job on the video, can't wait for this game.
Hey Thank you. Yes , Me too. Can't wait to play an actual RPG after years.
honestly hoping they can pull this off.
same
I will keep my eye open for future updates on this game's progress, yet I shall never again "pre-order" another game. I'll wait a few weeks afyer release, then assess whether the game is worthy of my investment.
Personally, I highly doubt that this will be "the Elder Scrolls 6 we're waiting for", as the title says. Daggerfall 2, would be more accurate I think, and I think that's their intention more or less.
What we've been shown so far feels unnecessarily game-y and old-school in the wrong way and places.
But I'm hopeful Once Lost Games crushes my doubts in the end, once it releases! Their work is genuine, for sure.
I think I'll pass. I don't want a game with endless content. I want well crafted world that doesnt rely on random generation to puke out mediocre levels, story and loot.
Yeah , this a niche title. Not everyone's cup of tea. Plenty of other good games around that might interest you.
500,000 sq km is literally bigger than California IRL... I am excited to explore it. I know that doesn't make for a good game by itself, but the amount of factions and lore being poured into this game makes it seem like there will be no shortage of developer driven content - a really important ingredient to its success.
This game WILL not run on UE5 if it’s actually that large. The engine can’t handle that much stuff loaded in along with other scripts running.
@@Isaak-eo6tr Why would it be loaded? It's based on a seed, which means it can generate the same terrain every time just like minecraft. Changes to the world, as well as handcrafted content, would be additional data, either game data or save data.
It's so cool that Heberling is making videogame music again. Dude's been dropping fire tracks all these years, but they've been wasted on Vegas slot machines.
This shit looks exactly like oblivion which is my favorite elder scrolls game I loved the atmosphere of being this nice fantasy world straight out of a storybook but at the same time its kinda messed up and dark, but things also can get really silly at times. In terms of tone and atmosphere noting in the series tops oblivion.
Every new RPG made in the past 20 years claims to be a "true RPG". An RPG where every possible decision is available to the player and is significant to the entire game world and the player can truly play out any role they want to play does not exist and will never exist. Every game has constraining elements. The only true RPG is real life and that's not a game. This game will probably be pretty good but will never live up to the claims made in this video.
Play daggerfall and you'll understand why it's going to be great, it's pretty much daggefall but they're able to do a lot more things with it and now it looks really real.
If games like Starfield have taught us anything, a bigger map does not make a better game. This game will need some truly groundbreaking procedural generation or I fear we are in for another "Wide as an Ocean, Shallow as a Pond" offering.
As long as the comparison to TES ends at legacy developers, I’m on board. We don’t need another half-ass built game released like Bethesda, where they expect the community to fix their immense volume of issues and bugs.
Of those hundreds of islands…one better be named Toulet.
Toulet ?
0:35 Considering that, and lets be real here, popularity for Elder Scrolls skyrocket with the release of Morrowind, it really might be not as big of a deal . no disrespect meant, just saying. xD
A big reason for that was due to Morrowind releasing on Xbox. The first two games were PC only, which wasn’t nearly as big as it is now.
@@ClOwNyGrIn oh sure sure thaaat was the reason, not the Jump in graphic, open world, Gameplay, really anything. but the small population back then that played RPG on a console...
@@mermidion7552 yes, that is correct.
@@mermidion7552 yes. the crpg genre was largely dying in the early 2000's. if they had made morrowind on pc only, bethesda probably would've went under.
Love the idea but like any developing game I can see alot of complexity in there that won’t make it in or be very shallow and repetitive. Interested to see where it goes either way.
Patience is the key
This appears to be lovingly crafted by people who care about making something special. Those people also happen to have impressive resumes doing exactly that. That at the very least warrants a degree of optimistic hope.
Insta-backed this like 3 days ago… I always back things that push boundaries.
Yeah , me too!
I think people are over hyping this.
It’s a brand new studio- with some good talent sure, but the project is incredibly ambitious. This is something Triple A’s would probably struggle with, let alone an indie studio.
I don’t want to be a downer but we’ve seen this story a few too many times for me to get excited.
I'm kinda scared a bit about all the randomly generated stuff but it still looks amazing
They ARE actually some great RPGs these past years. But you're right : I think I will explore those Wayward Realms and no more Tamriel. I await for Avowed too
Looks pretty cool! Maybe I’ll play this while I’m waiting for starfields dlc and elder scrolls 6.
Wow that’s insane that past Bethesda people are working on it! That’s a huge selling point.
Subbed from the discord! Let's get the word out!
hello, thank you mate. I hope we will provide you genuine entertainment for years to come. And yes, , One of us is from India, I will do my best to spread the word here.
1. It's not already here
2. Bring back Michael Kirkbride and I'll listen up
I cant wait to play this game!
Me too
It looks amazing, it looks like what Oblivion would of been if it kept getting more updates. Yes, this is exactly what I want, and Bethesda has been so stingy with the Elder Scrolls series over the years, just re-releasing Skyrim over and over instead of making any new games or content. And no... the Creation Club doesn't count...
New elder scrolls we been waiting for?
This is more than we been waiting for hehe
Yeah haha
Real talk, if this played copy paste exactly like daggerfall unity, just with new content to explore and that's it, that would be more than enough for me.
If , If it comes out as promised I think it'll be better than that.
It's not that I want this game (I do), it's that I want MORE games like this, created by a passionate dev team with a deep and abiding love for cRPGs.
AAAs have this, too, but it's getting rarer for any of it to make into the product. I really think we are moving to a new climate where the dinosaurs of the industry just cant survive without every release being a hit. In the vacuum, I personally want smaller mammalian studios to rise and try different games, give us options.
I have given up on AAA to make RPG
Backed wayward realms in their kickstarter! So excited for the potential
I am also interested to see where this goes
Keep in mind these guys wanted Morrowind to be procedurally generated and Todd had to fight to make Morrowind the incredible game that it is. I hope this will be a hand crafted world, even mostly so.
EDIT: That probably came off as negative. I am just being cautiously optimistic. I am very excited about this.
He sure changed his tune with Starfield 😂
@@ClOwNyGrIn Ha yeah sadly so. I fear for The Elder Scrolls 6 but hopefully they learned their lesson.
@@jasonwelsh417 hopefully they won’t use a ton of procedural gen since they don’t need to worry about a million planets lmao. That game could have been amazing if they’d focused on 3 or 4 huge planets instead of millions of bare ones
@@ClOwNyGrIn I've been keeping up with Bethesda's trends since Morrowind and Starfield's disaster doesn't really worry me all that much. As a completely new IP, it was an opportunity for them to test different waters. It largely didn't work, even if it sold pretty well. If you know variables you'll understand that they won't be taking such risks with Elder Scrolls.
They have clear proof on where Skyrim succeeded at, why it has succeeded for so long and the numbers to boot. They'll be building on all that, don't think they'd be so stupid so as to not match Skyrim's standards (many of which today ain't that special) - minimum. ES is their most important IP, from a business perspective alone they can't allow it to, NOT succeed.
I'm super excited to see what they do with this over the coming years.
It's pretty much daggerfall 2.0 but influenced by skyrim just hugely improved with all the latest tech and graphics and back in the 1990s this game was the biggest game that existed because they pushed the boundaries of the technology of the day and made it as big as they could. Now they're doing the same again and it's going to take up all your 16gb memory at max graphics lol so you're going to need good fans for that, on my laptop i'll probably have to turn the graphics down so it doesn't overheat. I couldn't think of a better way to test what current technology can accomplish by doing a kind of daggerfall 2.0 and hopefully it inspires new generations to try and create better games.
Loved the video! I was especially impressed with your voice in the intro.
You should narrate audiobooks!
The way the audio just cut off at the end felt a little awkward though, maybe consider letting the background music run for a second or two after you finish speaking and apply a fading effect those last couple of seconds of audio.
@@Wileyy123 thank you for the compliment and advice. I'll look into it.
Call me cynical, but i've been gaming since the 80's and i know gaming industry well by now. This video sounds like an ad. Wake me up when the reviews are online. Now excuse me, i'm going back to playing my heavily modded Skyrim (which is an OK game at best, especially for people that have ever experienced titles like Dragon Age, Mass Effect or the Witcher trilogy).
The first mass effect and first dragon age is so damn good.
Video title : "Wayward Realms Might be The Elder Scrolls 6 We're Waiting For"
Reality : "Wayward Realms is an (extremely-early / barebones) Kickstarter campaign developed by a team comprised mostly of volunteers"
... gee, I wonder how this is going to end.
THIS LOOKS BEAUTIFUL
I'm highly interested in this game, but feel it's highly unlikely we see it before ES 6. I know it's just a thumbnail but saying "it's here" is kind of silly. This game is years away with the scope they're aiming for.
I hope they use AI for voice interaction
"The new Elder Scrolls is already here" in the thumbnail is pretty egregious clickbait. The game only just got kickstarted and we have no confirmed release date.
Very much intrigued with this game
Guys, a swear this isn't sponsored
I've already pledged my $40, I hope more people jump in.
I hope so too
Fingers crossed that this turns out good!
good RPGs are always needed, let's hope this one delivers
looks like a sponsored video even though you said it's not sponsored.
All I know, is that to be a true successor to Elder Scrolls it's going to have to be extremely mod-friendly.
This is just what I don’t want to see more of: melee and forced groups. I would really like to see a “Sniper Elite” or “Assassin’s Creed” lone archer (crossbow) doing his missions.
There is a reason why Skyrim and Fallout are so popular: first person real time. Skyrim has lots of melee but many players choose a lone stealth archer. Let the player choose whether solo or groups just like gender.
Why is stealth to kill everyone in sight? There should be pride in doing missions without the bad guys even know you came through.
Otherwise the game looks great just hope they choose a different approach.
Regards
This is a darn fine feel-good video.
Game looks promising! We gotta show love to passionate indies. Great video
Most definitely!
Don’t get too excited
It is still several years away from being finished.
@@thomasrosendahl2783 lol, understatement
I will get excited. A game made by people who care about games and innovation is all I need to get excited
shut up
the concept of a vgm is very interesting. so its basically randomly generated quests instead of dungeons? idk how that will work but i hope it does
Basically a 3d DnD
Are we expecting Wayward Realms before TES6? It's in Beta, I was expecting it in like 2030 lol
Not an ad? How you know all this? You played the whole game?
Sounded like the most generic paid for ad ever to me
I know all this by being in the discord and talking to the community, you are invited. Regarding the ad comment, you are pretty stupid if you think someone would pay a channel with 500 subs to promote their product.
to my understanding wayward realms development has not even really actually started. they have something of a tech demo for a KS at best. star citizen vibes.
I hope this has a healer. ESO was by far the most fun i had being a healer. I need to find anotger gane that allows me a fun experience with that skill set.
Anything is possible if you stick it out and hold firm. This sounds wonderful, and I look forward to enjoying it 😊
Yes
Stealth Games on Steam:
Actual story of SOE female assassin, Violette Summer, during WW 2. I would think Rebellion could make a great updated version of this. How did Ubi-soft miss these?
Velvet Assassin (2008)
ua-cam.com/video/Z1NCc4vMTd8/v-deo.html
and Stolen (2005)
Female thief:
ua-cam.com/video/viLYc9xdNTc/v-deo.html
Regards
IIRC, the creative director also worked on morrowind
Yeah.
tbh the game that's being described in my guess would need like 1000+ employees. Bethesda makes disappointing games because the scope they promise and people expect cannot be achieved by a team of 400 people like Todd says Bethesda employs, or else they would do it. Nice concept but unless production lasts 15+ years or one of the devs hits the mega millions jackpot and hires more devs I cannot see them make the game being described right now
I have a really good feeling about this game. Perhaps it will be the game to play before ES6 or even after if it is really good.
Yes, gameplay is important but what most crucial - in my opinion at least - is the atmosphere that is connected to The Elder Scrolls franchise. Will new TES be not as good as expected? Yes. Will modders have to fix bugs? Yes. Will the new TES, even thought having many defects, be the greatest game of a year, decade etc.? Yes it will! We, the TES lovers, are some kind of masochists who will care for their beloved game.
In all lilelyhood TES VI will release first but I agree, this will likely be superior
TES VI not coming in our lifetime my friend 😞
I seriously want this to succeed, and I want it to be as good as possible, but it isnt the first time a project was backed because someone was known in the genre, only to have nearly a billion dollars taken and no finished product more than 10 years later. I'll buy it IF it comes out, but I am not backing anything again.
let's wait and see, don't pledge anything just because you saw a hype video on youtube. Read first ,then decide.
This would be a dream, hope they can do it
Trust me this will never become the next elder scrolls, graphics are cute but thats it. Combat, Animations, Mechanics, Characters and even magic look terrible. Graphics alone dosent make a game, you can see on the trailer alone that the game looks very flawed and full of bugs like an early early early early access. If to make a trailer for your game, try not to show bugs in it or bad animation or bad combat, this is probably an indie company and for that they r doing a good job, they have a solid foundation for a nice basic rpg game. But that is it, it may become a very good game yes but (Not the next elder scrolls) if they didnt even raise to the heels of OBLIVION for example. Dont belive me? so go see the gameplay trailer and analyze it, Nice video
I don't know Rick, this reminds me of EverQuest Next
If this comes out before Elder Scrolls 6, Bethesda should just dissolve and join One Lost Games.
The more I read and hear about WR, the more I trust they can make it.
Let's hope they do make it.
Nothing can beat my Wabbajack modded TES 5 right now. Even when TES 6 comes out, I'm not buying it until legit mods becomes available.
😂
I've put silly money into this Kickstarter. Going to be eating tins of beans for a while
Okay so we gotta talk about this.
Watched through the whole video and while I can respect one's excitement and passion for just about anything as much as the next person, you gotta be realistic about who's name, work etc. you are comparing stuff to when getting people hyped about it and if you are letting bias cloud your perspective. People's wallets are potentially gonna be swayed by your word and there's always a risk of falling short on promises and what-ifs.
For starters, how about not comparing this to an ESVI (that we haven't seen) just because the studio comprises of people that once worked on past ES titles? How about calibrating what we've actually been shown and focusing on THAT, instead of embellishing stuff that "could be"? Do you really know what most people want out of an Elder Scrolls 6, hence your video's title? Do they know what kind of project they'll be really backing after listening to your commentary?
I say all this taking into consideration the big bunch of Kickstarters through the years, which either failed to deliver on many of their promises OR turned into scams/were viewed as scams because people expected too much out of them (they overpromised). To be clear, I am not calling out the team or said project to be a scam, just want to point out that what we've seen so far I would characterize as mundane, at best. No offense, just being completely and objectively honest here. I loved all ES games, but let's be reserved with our expectations and not have this be another "Outer Worlds" scenario where hype and comparisons build unnecessary expectations.
You say at the very beginning that you were not sponsored, but the way you go on about stuff that we haven't seen yet sure sounds like someone being paid to hype stuff up. Yes, I believe that you weren't sponsored, but please be careful when you are dragging people's wallets into something. Having said all that, I am wishing the team all the best and really wanna see how the ultimate product turns out!
Aww, cute. People still believe in overly ambitious kickstarter projects. That's adorable.
After Starfail, I’d call a kick in the nuts the new elder scrolls. But I’m quietly waiting to see how this goes…
starfail lol
This game looks like a blast, but I don't have much hope for it coming out within the next couple of years either. XD
Let's hope it delivers
Skyrim's personality was largely from the custom placed content. This is far too big to be custom built. It's just procedural generation. It might be interesting, but this is not a successor to Skyrim.
Interesting points
Cant the make a nother single player Elder Scrolls continue with skyrim but make it join able if you want.
Now that will be cool
So many grand claims make this a meaningless video.
Already here? dude the early access if still a theoretical 18 months away
Looks great! Is it in FP camera only though?
I think third person camera is one of the kickstarter goals
@@theelderscrolls6vi Good to know, thanks!
1st person is the main focus, but they will be working on 3rd person as well.
In at the Baron level! If any game should break $1,000,000 in funding, it's this game! Surprised not more companies are working with a VGM - which I am guessing is similar to the narrator of Rimworld.
Agree with you
Sound like a bit of a big idea. Until i see it i wont belive it ✨
All that sounds wonderful but if it doesn’t have a third person view then that will hurt it.
1:42 Ancient Treasures from Dekogon Studios?
Looks great but for something like this to be cutting edge I want to see gen AI.
Still going to need some more hefty funding to actually finish.
Looks very much like Tamriel. If they keep the combat setup from ESO (minus the light attack thing) I'm in.
Haven't played ESO but anything resembling Tamriel is a good sign
This seems way too ambitious. The narrative expansiveness will a lot of development time if it's to be done with such a small team