Publishers are not willing to fund adventure games. It's all well and good to wish Double Fine would make a point-and-click title in the spirit of old-school adventure games, but you can wish in one hand and crap in the other and see which one gets filled first. They've been given a place to put their money where their mouths are. Perhaps even more impressively, gamers have been given the ability to demonstrate that there are, in fact, audiences for the kinds of games larger publishers are unlikely to back. Kickstarter, an internet crowd funding platform that began in 2008, is suddenly funding the sorts of video game projects that, just a few months ago, were little more than internet forum fancy.ĭevelopers able to identify holes in the video game market have been able to harness the power of crowd funding to finance the process of taking these projects from paper to product. Talk is cheap, but the dramatic rise of Kickstarter has moved the goalposts. This system avoids the tedium of inventory management, while also giving the completionist something useful to hunt for.If you've spent any time on the internet whatsoever you would have noticed by now large tracts of it are monopolised by people either complaining about things they largely have no control over, despondently reflecting upon how much things have changed, or earnestly pondering how things could improve. Each character has 3 equipment slots with 8 upgrades each, with 192 to find in total. No more buying that awesome helmet back in town only to stumble over a better one as treasure in a dungeon. Instead of purchasing replacements, the player purchases upgrades.
PERSISTENT EQUIPMENT - Each piece of equipment found, purchased or stolen is a permanent, unique upgrade for each character. Combine each character's unique powers and disadvantages, analyze the abilities of your foes, set your formation and charge into battle. The player's party will be both beset and aided by schemers, liars and betrayers, all while the clock ticks down to a reprise of the greatest war in human history.ĬUSTOM BATTLE SYSTEM - Rise of the Third Power offers eight playable characters in a battle system built from scratch, each with their own strengths and weaknesses, all of whom are meant to participate in battle simultaneously without the need for tedious party management. POLITICAL INTRIGUE - As the world of Rin recovers from the Great War, the balance of power remains badly skewed, with vacuums of power still waiting to be filled. A blend of humor, drama and tragedy await players as they navigate the treacherous world of Rin. STORY DRIVEN - Join a party of eight, each with their own unique ambitions, perspectives and personalities as they embark upon a suicide mission to topple the Arkadyan emperor, Dimitri Noraskov. The story takes place in the land of Rin during the height of the Age of Sail, following the events that would lead to the greatest war in human history.
Rise of the Third Power is a love letter to the glory days of the console style RPG, loosely based on the political climate of Europe in the late 1930's, with modern conveniences such as auto-save and a combination of the best elements of Japanese and Western style gameplay.