http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1473965863/sui-generis

ABOUT THE GAME

Sui Generis is set in a dark, hostile mediaeval world pervaded by intrigue and treachery. A completely original work evolved over many years, the Sui Generis universe is the product of many rare moments of inspiration. It encompasses a vast and rich history spanning aeons and galaxies, not as vague mythology but actual chains of events leading to the current situation. In Sui Generis you will get a sense that everything is connected and exists for a reason. You won't just be fed the history in a cutscene or book and you may never know the full story. We believe that piecing together elusive clues will be of huge entertainment value.

Sui Generis is not about running around killing hordes of enemies in order to collect experience points and numerous items. It is about exploring a world and being involved in major events there. What exactly you do and how you do it is entirely up to you. The world is carefully designed to be believable and have a life of its own. It is not there to wait for you to go on quests, trigger events or make decisions. Events will take their course and may take a turn for the worse if you don't get involved.

Much of the time combat situations will be occasional yet meaningful. Few opponents can be dismissed as trivial. Though there are powerful items, even an old rusty sword can be effective in the right hands. There are no levels, but there is a more natural progression system based on skills and thaumaturgic powers. There are no classes, but rather countless possible builds with diverse and interesting qualities.

As you advance in Sui Generis you won't see creatures or characters in the world becoming more powerful with you. Rather, you will be able to face opponents and explore locations that previously entailed certain death. Death will not be hard to come by and carries consequences, and there is no saving and loading. The game will put you in situations where trying to get out alive may be your only concern. We believe this is important to keep the game exciting. What's a game if you can't lose?

The denizens of the Sui Generis world will never be suicidal walking scratch cards. Every character and creature shares a core AI system that gives them meaningful and diverse behaviours. They never have fixed roles and every action is circumstantial. Your disposition, possible disguises and other factors are crucial in how they behave. Characters carry only what they are wearing and anything else they might possess will be stored somewhere and physically present in the game at any time. Valuable items will tend to be well hidden or well guarded.

These are just some of the things we feel strongly about. Hopefully it is enough to give you an idea of what kind of game and world we want to make.

looks interesting that is for sure 

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no interest at all? Pity it looks like this won't make it because there is no big name attached

Yeah, this looks very interesting, read about it few days ago, combat looks nice, though maybe little bit odd at this stage. Hopefully they can reach their goal, the game looks bit like old-school WRPG, and that's great thing in my book.

the animations look really odd and they really should've shown a different approach to fighting that giant with the mace - running into him and swinging your sword left and right obviously doesn't work, so how about evading and stabbing at the joints of his armor ? now that would've been revolutionary combat

I am assuming that the combat should be tightened up, it is pre-alpha at the moment.

This looks fantastic. I love everything about it, especially the mentality and huge integrity of the developers.

They are truly sophisticated and hardcore and they're very aware of the wrongs in modern gaming and totally against catering to the mainstream.

Huge open world with choices that truly matter, original story, intelligent gameplay mechanics, realistic graphics and physics.

It's going to be a groundbreaking game.

New update about the combat system. The animations are still a work in progress btw.

http://youtu.be/WqaRqih7Cuw?hd=1

Amazing.

So this is what it looked like when drunk people fought in medieval times.

Can this game really be made for $150k? Even iOS budgets are in the millions range.

The combat animations make me laugh. Might be a good game to piss away an hour or two here and there.