Salem, eh?

[Vesimir]

I'm bought. Sounds awesome.

Also, we should have a invite only Paradox Forums server. Elitism for the win.

[Galaahd]

Sound really interesting.

Generally I don't care about MMO games but this one looks original and promising.

[Galaahd]

I just hope that with the developpment they replace the cartoony caracters with evil or desperate looking ones.

+1

Come on, you can't have a lovecraftian atmosphere with those characters

[Alfred Packer]

+1

Come on, you can't have a lovecraftian atmosphere with those characters

Some might disagree with you

[Zzzzz...]

It's the best feature.

If there is a good moderation on the community then yeah. I will try this anyway.

[Torgrim]

The game sounds awesome indeed but i also fail to see why so cute childish" graphics when they are talking abour Lovercraft and horror I fail to see the connetion.

[Pholanx]

Dear Paradox,
I hope you have all read the crucible....

[Brother Bean]

The game sounds awesome indeed but i also fail to see why so cute childish" graphics when they are talking abour Lovercraft and horror I fail to see the connetion.

90% of the time you'll be fishing, farming, building and doing all kinds of very peaceful and very down-to-earth kind of things that in my not so humble opinion aren't believable when painted in grim-dark colors. Cute graphics also make for an awesome contrast to what I expect to be an at times grim-dark gameplay. It's very intentional.

[Romtos]

90% of the time you'll be fishing, farming, building and doing all kinds of very peaceful and very down-to-earth kind of things that in my not so humble opinion aren't believable when painted in grim-dark colors. Cute graphics also make for an awesome contrast to what I expect to be an at times grim-dark gameplay. It's very intentional.

One article (this one) talked about how you can do all kind of mundane jobs like cheese making, bread baking, etc to keep the community running. In addition, there is secret stuff like learning and casting spells and doing so in secret. This sounds to me somewhat like the gameplay of Space Station 13 (where you run a station with a group of people with everyone a very specialized job, and some are secretly traitors, with each round the station restarting with new traitors. I know Salem isn't about this cat and mouse game though), and it's interesting how fun it is to actually feel good at what you do and be special for doing it, despite it being mundane and riskless. Will Salem have a lot of emphasis on different jobs everyone can do as well as 'darker secrets' your character can develop?

[Brother Bean]

I just wanted to post the interview. The game sounds very nice, though I'm not a great fan of PvP... might have to start doing that!

And man -- BrotherBean! He's the designer/lead/producer/don't know which, but if he has a large say on this game it will be totally awesome. He just has so much sly, dry, and witty humour, it's insane.

BrotherBean, I want to have your children! Hm, I think I might need to start a group, the BrotherBean fanclub/groupies or something

Baaw, now you made me go all blushy-like.

[spacekraken]

I have been dreaming of a game like this for years. I've played a couple of free MMOs like Urban Dead and a modified GTA:SA and haven't found the concept of MMOs in their current state very inviting. The immortality, for one, always kind of bugged me. Even in college when I played D&D, nobody ever wanted to play a game where any of us might actually be in any danger of dying. Takes quite a bit of excitement out of it.

The GTA:SA mod I played was really irksome because people were constantly bugging the mods to deal with the griefers. We were all in gangs and we had guns! What was the point of joining a gang if there was no need for the protection of a group? It was ridiculous.

So, I am really, really looking for to playing this game.

[Variton]

Why not apply the concept of family to the game? Your children would have some of your skills learnt and in death you could optionally continue playing your dynasty? So some of your earthly possessions would be inherited and some of the skills gained also. So death would be something in between permanent death and current "no death at all" trend.

[Vesimir]

Why not apply the concept of family to the game? Your children would have some of your skills learnt and in death you could optionally continue playing your dynasty? So some of your earthly possessions would be inherited and some of the skills gained also. So death would be something in between permanent death and current "no death at all" trend.

As long as it's a purely singleplayer experience. If players could intermarry, things would go very bad. Inheriting accounts and all that.

[BulMaster]

90% of the time you'll be fishing, farming, building and doing all kinds of very peaceful and very down-to-earth kind of things that in my not so humble opinion aren't believable when painted in grim-dark colors. Cute graphics also make for an awesome contrast to what I expect to be an at times grim-dark gameplay. It's very intentional.

You forgot milking the cows and collecting honey from bees. Still I hope the servers for Salem will be better and more stable than the ones for H&H

Keep us posted BB

[The Farseer]

Bullmaster, do you remember the horror of the early days? When inventories and the world were saved apart and so you could either lose hours of work or duplicate expensive items?