Dir Sir,
My concern is directed solely towards the combat. I understand that if you want to make a super duper popular game in today’s world you need to not have TB combat. Saying the game is based on and has roots in TB combat doesn’t make it TB. I like actual, strategic, combat. I do not want a click fest. I do not want to pause. I do not want my guys and the bad guys to move all at once. I do not want to fight 7 billion weak enemies over and over and over.
I want memorable hard battles filled with planning and strategy. Like in my favorite games of all time for the PC, the RoA series. Those games were the pinnacle of rpgs for me. You are taking my favorite element of the game and bastardizing it. If you truly want to make authentic DSA game, put authentic DSA combat into it. You making the next DSA game a click-fest is a slap in my face. It’s an insult to all the fans of the first series. If you are going after the RT crowd, count me out.
I have no problem with anything but the combat. I would much rather have the option to create my whole party in the beginning, but that is a minor gripe compared to being told that the activity I will engage in 50% of the time will suck big fucking balls. I fucking despise RT combat in all its incarnations.
I have to put up with a bunch of freshman bitches sucking on the dick of fucking pansyass games with combat geared towards retards all fucking day. Every D&D game has RT now, every new IP game has RT, and everything has RT. If you really want to take us back to the roots of rpg gaming, include the combat every rpg has. Not some flashy clicky bullshit.
At least be man enough to leave the hype out. Stop trying to impress upon me that the combat will be strategic and tactical. Compared to what? Real TB combat? No. IE combat? Sure, but who gives a fuck? Tell us the whole truth and I would have received it with 100% gratitude and support. Say, “The combat we are aiming for, while falling far short of TB or even phased combat, is looking to vastly improve upon the RT model set forth by BG. It is far inferior to the combat an actual implementation of DSA combat would have provided, but we have families to feed and would like this game to be bought by a lot more people that would not have bought it if we included the actual combat of DSA. We apologize to the fans of the original series for this. But we understand that the fans of the original series of the DSA crpgs are older, wiser, have jobs, and understand how shit works, and that they will see why we made this decision. Adults are rational, and by treating you like adults we hope you will be rational enough to sadly accept our decision and still support our endeavor.â€
If this, or any likeness to this, was said instead of the hype-filled drivel spouted out every chance you get when speaking of your combat I would have gladly supported your game. But now, in lieu of your company implementing the exact DSA combat from the source books exactly as it should be, I will not support your hypocrisy.
