Revisiting Dark Deity 1 year later: Has it improved? (no)
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
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"Dark Deity is my main inspiration as a game developer, certainly the best game of all times" - Hideo Kojima #darkdeitysweep
OK here is my Dark Deity conspiracy theory. The words "Dark Deity" are synonyms for "Black God." In Slavic paganism there is a god named Tchernobog; a word that literally translates to Black God. Tchernobog is the main villain of the 1997 Build Engine FPS game "Blood" developed by Monolith Productions (they also made No One Lives Forever, F.E.A.R. and Xenoblade). The main character of Blood, Caleb, kills Tchernobog and in doing so inherits his powers. Caleb is voiced by Stephan Weyte, who would go on to play Greil, the father of the main character Ike, in the 2005 video game Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance for the Nintendo GameCube.
So The Dark Deity was Ike's dad the whole time.
Tchernobog... Tirnanog...?
Dude this is just obvious, there's no need to even point it out.
monolith productions didnt make xenoblade, that was monolith soft
@@LoudWaffle Fire Emblem fans are often very stupid and miss obvious stuff.
different monoliths
one made fps's, the other made xenoblade
Called it. The fix it in post mentality has led to people thinking *everything* will be fixed once the updates are done when in reality most of the time the devs stop updating halfway through. The only time I played a game where all my major complaints were fixed was in Kirby Star Allies, a game I thought started out fine and ended up great.
No mans sky is another example of that
@@just_a_tarnished4269 But then again for this to happen, the devs need to be actually competent and caring
@@awesomehazimex7410 fair enough can't expect people to be passionate and trying to be proud of their work
I don't think people realize how quality FE games really are. I know it's super unfair to compare indie devs to a massive company but still.
Yeah we don't know how good we have it until we lose it. Who knew terrain made things so much more interesting, and the comfort of moving across a small map.
Echoes maps were bad but not this bad lmao
It's the difference of "wants to be fire emblem" and ">is< fire emblem"
Vestaria saga has a very small team and good map design. It comes to a balance between dev team size and experience I think.
@@teecee1827 i mean Kaga has like 20+ yrs experience AND he started FE as a franchise (plus he had TearRing and Berwick Saga's before)
@@ohandthefracking Why do you think I said experience?
I think it's kind of funny in a terrible way how after it released and people were like "Wait, this is terrible", a bunch of people went onto the internet calling them assholes for refunding it after they turned out to hate it. I get that you're an indie dev, and it's very impressive that you made this, but... You still made a bad game, people don't owe you money for it if they don't want to.
Yeah, I saw that, "don't ask for a refund lol" is pretty telling that people don't advocate for consumer protection, to me it's pretty scummy to ask people to just accept the L when they don't have to.
@@PyrelordPazuzu esp when a certain FE ytber said "support the community ffs"...i laughed for years
@@ohandthefracking yeah, which makes it even more ironic as "he" still has not "supported the community"
@@ohandthefracking I remember watching some reviews about Dark Deity that were pretty lukewarm but I don't really remember someone telling me to buy it just to support 'the community,' who was that if you don't mind?
@@Kryptnyt it was.....
Mekkah
Dark Deity is what would have happen to fire emblem if Kaga never existed
That's just a flat out lie right there.
The abosolute state of Dark diety
*sad supporting the community noises*
uh wow it's like they spent most of the kickstarter budget on the character and loading screen art
and the ost sounds like it was made for a generic mobile game
Don't forget the ad campaign...
I was so content starved that I was gonna buy this game but didn't when I read that the devs didn't have permadeath at all.
I had this on my wishlist for like a year before wondering "huh why are there bad reviews" and "wait fe fans hate this?"
Bullet dodged lol
Ya know, I'd convinced myself at first that I enjoyed the game. Hell, I sunk fifteen hours into it
But then I realized something: I wasn't having ANY fun playing it
It felt like an absolute chore to finish
11:10 Start (we get sound).
24:30 Game start (it's all in Japanese)
Forget Dark Deity. Just you wait until Symphony of War drops. I'm in the beta and it's GODLIKE. Best strategy game release in ten years!
thanks for the recommendation, I think I'll try the demo out on stream tomorrow
@@Excelblem It releases in a month or so. I got the beta key for Mangs, hope you get to play it too!
@excelblem I talked to Phil, the dev. He wants to get you the beta code. Got a way he can contact you?
@@Klokinator we got in touch 👍
@@Excelblem Glad to hear that! I'm hoping to stream with Mangs on Tuesday. I'll watch your stream tomorrow or whenever it drops!
You should try out Valkyria Chronicles.
Why should he
Hoo boy
@@kingmetalnoslime4931 it’s an interesting tactical RPG.
Also, there’s permadeath. And you know what Excel does when there’s permadeath.
Yay, Warcrimes now with Wartanks and permadeath!
@@kingmetalnoslime4931 Seconded; Covenant of the Plume is incredibly interesting with its handling of permadeath and route splits and the way it all interconnects with the story and the development of its main character. It encourages sacrifice
Whats the worst thing about Dark Deity? Never heard anything bad before but I havent played it myself though the map animations bug is pretty dang noticeable
Map design is boring/uncreative. There's no real incentive to strategy, since Lincoln gets a built in Nosferatu, so it's actually optimal to have him solo the game.
@@nightcloud2014 excuse me, a main character gets W H A T
@@huntersmith1413 It's as broken as it sounds. It's I think he heals back 25% of all damage he deals, but dark deity has this weird weapon types in which EVERYONE gets a "killer weapon". Look at the last boss fight, he has above 50% crit chance at all times and he just heals infinitely.
It's not just Lincoln. A few characters, including the mage, get access to a class with built in nosferatu (functions the same for all classes that get it, was originally 33% of damage dealt is healed, but they nerfed it to 20% now). The early mage can become a fire mage which has it. I tanked most of the game with that mage because of it, although you can't as easily anymore.
The worst thing about Dark Deity is that it does a lot of things that I want to see (like built-in customizable run options, great!) and has some really nice animations, but the rest of the game fails to cohere it into something that isn't boring.
I think the horrible thing is that even as shitty as a lot of the maps look visually it would be fine if they were actually well-designed from a tactics perspective. I know you can't just throw money at every problem in order to fix it but it seems like they spent the whole development budget on character art and voice actors when they should've maybe hired some playtesters that had extensive prior experience with FE. Vestaria Saga looks like garbage but that's easy to stomach when the game is actually fun to play
Whoa I'm glad this popped up in my feed. I remember following this games development very closely! I was susrprised that they were spending so many resources on Voice Actors, I believe every character is voiced by someone different. They should have taken ALLLL of that money and put it toward gameplay development, because I played the game for about 15 minutes before abandoning it for good. Truly terrible game that hurt even more because I had anticipated it.
I hear they're making a sequel. What a joke
Also wow the morbius references in chat were cringe then and are EXTREMELY cringe now in restrospect
I don't have much hope for Dark Deity 2, because Dark Deity's problems stem from a game design philosophy that you see in pretty much every sRPG that's not Fire Emblem or Fire Emblem-derived like Vestaria Saga.
Dark Deity's underlying problem is that stat inflation makes every strategy that's not 'throw a monster unit at a problem and snowball' a non-starter. Sure, the game could have more interesting map objectives and more terrain and less dead space, but it's ultimately pointless. Look at Final Fantasy Tactics: that game has a lot going on in its game engine, but it's ultimately pointless because you can make characters so individually powerful that they can ignore everything. The only two maps people remember from that game are Riovannes' Castle and Dorter Slums. Riovannes because the game throws two major curveballs in the gameplay (and then goes back to number penis comparisons afterwards) and Dorter because that's the last time crap like weather and terrain height mattered.
Ay
This game is NOT KINO
It lacks good transitions and map battle animations :(
Someone probably already said it but Bramimond is another FE character with a prolific hood
I wouldn't pay triple a price for the game but it's been enjoyable for me. Sure if you go into it looking for everything wrong that you can find, you've already set it up for failure.
Totally worth buying on sale if you're into strategy rpgs and have already played the big titles. I hope the devs can take all the criticism and turn it into a badass sequel
thnx 4 da strem