Nekro by darkForge - Kill the Innocent & Having Fun Doing it - PAX Prime 2013
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·2014-05-07
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lineus Tech tips coverage of PS 2013 is brought to you by Western Digital Intel
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and steel series hey guys I'm back at the Indie Mega Booth with Scott for the
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game called necro now can you tell me more about what this game is really
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about sure so necro is a game about playing an undead Necromancer right so
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you basically summon a bunch of
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monsters and then go raid innocent villages
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and utterly destroy them so basically it's the best premise for a game ever
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right right I noticed uh I watched the trailer on the Indie Mega Booth trailer
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that's kind of an interesting thing to say but that's exactly what I did right yeah yeah um and what it reminded me a
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lot of was when I was a kid and played Warcraft 3 I know that's kind of weird
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but when I was a kid and played Warcraft 3 when you turn as arthus one of the
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first missions you have is you get this huge Army and then you just wreck a town
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and that's really what this reminded me of is did you get where did you get Iration from you just nailed it
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basically for Warcraft 3 like I mean the whole Undead faction I love the undead
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faction like the little meat wagon like we have something in our game called the
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meat bag which is basically like this bag on your back full of Limbs and you
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throw them at people like it just came straight from the meat wagon which is
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like a big corpse train it's amazing um but our main Inspirations were basically
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really like late 90s games um Dungeon
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Keeper is my biggest one ever I love like just monsters and you know each
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monster in our game has has its own personality its own AI patterns like it
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it really acts different than every other monster so that adds to a lot of
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the strategy of our game but it also makes Every Creature feel like it has
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you know its own identity and that's I think huge in a game like this where
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it's all based on monsters so I mean Dungeon Keeper was a massive influence
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for me just because of that alone and then um I don't know if you heard of
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this one but Myth the Fallen Lords by bungei before you know the other Bungie
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game yes oh my God but that was one of
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my favorite games of all time and in that game anytime something was
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destroyed it like just turned into all these little jibs and the battlefield
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was like stained with blood and the blood never went away the whole entire
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time and all the jibs like you end up with a battle where you just had this
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massive mound of disgusting meat everywhere and I know that sounds
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absolutely terrible but like it was so cheesy and fun I just I loved it so I
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mean those are my main influences Warcraft 3 you know Dungeon Keeper myth
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uh a lot of games from the late ' 90s I just absolutely loved that's awesome
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late '90s games nothing wrong WR with that now one more thing to ask is you
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are the the the bad character in this game but as a bad character you can
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still be a protagonist what is the antagonist in this game there is an evil
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King so basically when I say evil it's relative because everything in our game
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is evil right everything is dark the world is completely corrupt but you used
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to work for this evil King right and essentially uh he was very arrogant and
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wanted to live forever so you were this you know badass Alchemist you make him a
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vial that will make him live forever but in order to do so it has a curse that
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you have to first die so he he hated
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that sentenced you to death and basically he throws uh the vial on your
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dead corpse and brings you back to life so now this super corrupted King is out
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there and you're trapped in this world of not living and not dead so the only
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way to bring yourself to the Land of the Dead is to exact revenge on this Super
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Evil King so you go do horrible stuff to a guy that's done horrible stuff to you
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so it's just like this super epic battle of Revenge on both parts right that's
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cool now one more question what is your personal favorite part about this game I
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absolutely love just the creature interactions it is a action game it's a
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strategy game it's a tactical game like everything about it is its own identity
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and like I've just I've not played a game like it and I'm not just saying
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that cuz I'm developing it you know like it it really has it its own feel and its
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own I know style to it that not a lot of our games do and I I love that about it
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so I think I think it's B basically that it it covers so much ground the minions
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interact with you in a different way than in any other game and uh you're
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just able to do things in this game that you can't do in other games I love that
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that's great to hear we've noticed a trend and I know I've said this in other videos but we have definitely noticed a
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trend in the Indie Mega booth that these guys are doing stuff that's new they're
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doing stuff that's Innovative like you said he hasn't played a game like this before it's probably true he probably
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hasn't played a game like this before because all these guys are driving Innovation and trying new things thank
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you for showing us your game game if you like necro necro sorry if you liked
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