Bound by Flame: action / rpg due out 5/9/14

dmoney1980

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Edit on 5/9/14
I had this per-ordered so I made the investment. About 3 hours in - voice acting is terrible, story is OK, combat is a lot of fun. Overall it's better than 4/10 which is what gamespot gave this game, I'd say closer to a 6.5 / 10. The combat and the crafting help. Visuals are pretty good in my opinion and the game has a decent amount of pc specific visual adjustments. The lighting in the game is good but some of the foliage looks weak. A good game to get just not at full price. $15-$20 is what I would have paid for. Below are some in-game screenshots I took via Steam

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Attack of the giant lens flare!

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Anyone else here looking forward to this game? It's stayed under the radar I think since I don't see gaming sites bombarded with ads for this game - which could be a good thing!

What I like so far:
Visuals / gameplay - http://www.boundbyflame.com/en/game.html#game_gameplay
Combat looks great - https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-9YkG5HeCCg
Interesting crafting system - http://spiders-devblog.tumblr.com/


What I'm worried about:
The developer is mostly unknown. Their only other rpg was "Of Orcs and Men". Also, I hope that this won't be just a sloppy console port for the PC. The visuals look great from the videos so far, but I hope that the PC version offers advanced graphical functionality.

Anyone else looking forward to next month's release?
 
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you2

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They also did mars war log. I've been following it. progressively each game seems to be improving so i have some hope on this one.
 

Sho'Nuff

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Of orcs and men was terrible IMO, so I am not holding out to much hope for this one. The combat trailer is a bit iffy too. Looks like they need to work on the collision detection. A lot of the fights look like an old martial arts movie. You know, when someone would punch the air a foot in front of their opponents face and a half second later the opponent would fly backwards?

This whole genre has lots of potential. I wish someone would do a mashup of Dark Souls and Blade of Darkness. Or at least a Dark Souls with much improved/deeper combat.
 

Lil Frier

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Hmmh, I guess I am no longer disappointed that this wasn't on The Bone. I figured it'd be pretty crappy or a solid entry, though I guess if it was a decent game, it wouldn't have been hidden on the previous gen, eh?