But I haven’t seen a system like Grim Dawn’s that dovetails so neatly with the rest of your character build, where your gear is almost like a whole other skill tree.įurthermore, it’s under your control. I’ve seen plenty of games where you level up and develop weapons. I’ve seen plenty of games where gear is a significant part of a character build. But Grim Dawn isn’t done with your character build. Now build your choice of peanut butter, chocolate, or peanut butter and chocolate.Īnd that’s where it would end with the average game. Now spend your points as you like among two skill trees. When you get to level ten, after having played your class for a while, you add a second class from any of the five remaining choices. Grim Dawn does the same thing, presenting you with your choice of six classes when you start a character, each with its own skill tree. But the first place I saw this additive approach to classes was Titan Quest. In Victor Vran, your character build is basically which two weapons you carry. That’s how it worked in an MMO called Rift. They do this with effective and unique design ideas for skills, loot, and geography.Ī character’s class in Grim Dawn is never just one class. They get the hack-and-slash right and they furthermore get right the game around the hack-and-slash.
Having accomplished both tasks previously with Titan Quest, the folks at Crate Entertainment (nee Iron Lore) manage a repeat performance with Grim Dawn. You do this with all the stuff between the hack-and-slash. Your task is to make them crave your hack-and-slash more than anyone else’s. The difficult task before you is making people want to play your game instead of those other games. Depending on how closely you hew to the formula, there are so many choices. Any number of games not nearly as good as those. That moment-to-moment hack-and-slash is all well and good, but the people playing your game can get that from plenty of other places.
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But if you get that stuff right, if you tune and tweak and cajole and code and flex videocards and wring every ounce of sweat from your animators and carefully calculate the line between too much and too little - if you do all that - then you’re half way there.
Just throw in the towel and make some free-to-play thing for the Apple Store about waiting for crops to grow. If you can’t get this stuff right, there’s no reason to continue development. No one does it better than Blizzard, which is hardly surprising given how much practice they’ve had. The camera can’t be zoomed out so far that you can’t appreciate your character and her gear, but neither can it be zoomed in so far that you can’t see monsters coming. It has to be gratifyingly chaotic, splashy but not too confusing. When making an action RPG, the most important task - important above all else! - is to get the moment-to-moment hack-and-slash right.
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