King's Bounty 2 - Open World War Party Tactical RPG

[@warlockwod]

The original king's bounty is a DOS game, older than heroes of might and magic. I'ts the other way around, it was HOMM that was inspired by King's Bounty.

[@bara8928]

Played it back then on the C64.

[@morpheas768]

He meant the first King's Bounty for PC which was released back in 2008. But your point still stands, and Splattercat probably doesnt know it.

[@fugitiveunknown7806]

Yep, loved that game till my save broke. I think getting 10k peasants didnt help.

[@GameDevAnd3D]

yep... what a nice game!!!!!!!!!

[@brendanfutureman7150]

@@morpheas768 *1990 kzbin.info/www/bejne/eoKThmyQjaycn8k

[@blade8741]

ah yes, fantasy creatures, the SPEARMAN! truly the most fantastical creature from the mythos.

[@ChristopherBrown-bj4zl]

Beat me to this lol.

[@Chokkan]

Yes, a noble race of sentient spears. Few have seen them and even fewer have lived to tell the tale.

[@rhawkas2637]

I was thinking the same thing when he said that. XD

[@IndustrialBonecraft]

Personally I think spearman are always just too farfetched. Sure, it's fantasy, but you can't just demolish suspension of disbelief like that.

[@zentonil]

Putting rocks on sticks? Sounds like witchcraft to me.

[@dflatt1783]

"I've never heard of a prisoner being release." That is certainly a kingdom not to be f-ing around in.

[@Gigusx]

And the former guard saying that the prisoners are basically rotting alive in there. Not that kind of kingdom indeed..

[@igorthelight]

@@Gigusx But they are really nasty criminals! Not some political dissidents! I swear! ;-)

[@MusMasi]

sounds like oblivion and skyrim, the start

[@igorthelight]

@@MusMasi And Morrowind and probably prevision two TES games. Yes - Bethesda has very "creative" writers ;-)

[@alan5506]

"I am a champion of all things, both digital and gaming" 13:40 thonk

[@legueu]

Hero: I'm good at human dialogue... beep..beep

[@poilboiler]

If it's the same devs as the first game english isn't their native language, but it's not like anything is stopping them from hiring someone to proof read it.

[@Mullins11B18]

I think its more the actress than the writing

[@lamezorlord]

@@poilboiler The awful writing on display here would be 10x better if it was just text boxes. However they not only voiced it, but got terrible voice actors for the job. Granted, I'm not sure the greatest actors could make it passable, but still...

[@poilboiler]

@@lamezorlord Hey, Patrick Stewart managed to make the Oblivion writing sound cool. :D

[@lamezorlord]

@@poilboiler By spending no more than 5 minutes in it :D. Sean Bean did not fare so well.

[@karsonkammerzell6955]

This dialogue is hilarious, lol. It's like there's missing context in every conversation, lol.

[@RLHvanDijk]

Could have easily been solved by making your character unable to move while they are talking. Also i think it would be better to have subs in the middle of the screen or atleast in your screen instead of above the character that's talking.

[@kylelantan9220]

I loved King's Bounty, talking to the dragon that asks you why you think they kidnap princesses was hilarious.

[@vitsavicky]

The best solution to the walking speed problem I have seen to date is where when you are close to the NPC you match their walking speed but as soon as you leave the are (dash or just stop walking for a bit) you move at your normal speed. I feel like every game should just implement this.

[@Logiwonk]

"Quick! Run!" "What up dude?" *Five minutes of exposition* "Quick Run!"

[@DoomedPaladin]

Honestly, I'm getting a vibe that I can only describe as "cheesy" from this game. The mincing run/walk animation, the wooden voicework, those four birds flying off the bridge near the start. If they leaned into comedy I think this could be a passable game that has enough personality to make up for its shortcomings.

[@Bill_Garthright]

I assume that it wasn't supposed to be serious. But it's not actually funny, either. So it's really hard to tell what they're going for. If the combat were really good, then maybe the cheesy stuff would be inconsequential. But the story makes no sense - especially with the perky, overly cheerful protagonist (who's supposedly been a prisoner for six months in what must be a real vacation spa of prisons). I don't know. Maybe I just don't get it.

[@LinkLegend0]

for an indie game this is very impressive

[@belldrop7365]

@@LinkLegend0 This is not an excuse anymore. There are lots of good indie games.

[@LinkLegend0]

@@belldrop7365 by that logic Cyberpunk is a phenomenal game because there exists many bad triple A games.

[@belldrop7365]

@@LinkLegend0 I can only pity you. Not because you live in a binary world, but because you don't even put cyberpunk in bad games, despite only having binary choices, lol. Get out more and play better games.

[@ZaphodJan]

Can't say that I'm not disappointed

[@SlumpGod1997]

It looks kind of like someone took the dragon age engine and made a new game. That dog in the back of the wardens office really sold it too..

[@Naraku-no-Hana-WE]

Rebelling peasants be like "Could you please join us, or die? There are no other choices."

[@The_SinReaper]

Fml, the voice acting. If you're going to have so much of it, make it amazing.

[@stephenday2342]

"Oh Bodger. You know me. After a few drinks, I'm the wild one."

[@SherrifOfNottingham]

On that first bit, it's a relatively simple bit of code to fix both problems, but first the issues. If the character walks the same speed as the NPC and they fall behind, catching up either requires running or the NPC having a stop and wait node. Both of the direct solutions to this are not ideal for MANY immersed players. If the character walks slightly faster than the NPC they will, like in this situation, run into the back of the NPC and be forced to zig zag around to slow down their walk. The solution? A simple speed scale based on proximity to the NPC, if you're shoulder to shoulder with the NPC, you match speed, if you're further away then YOU move faster, if it's tracked (IE linear "cut" scene) then you can further this scaling to slow you down further if you get ahead or even properly program the NPC to also modulate his speed.

[@Curseius]

Steam reviews: overwhelmingly NEgative UH OH developer went wrong somewhere

[@Moritz19081980]

People say it's just not King's Bounty anymore. Plays like a different game they say. What a pity, but I believe them. Loved the series so far.

[@Curseius]

@@Moritz19081980 yeah but thing is, i think what the developer was going for was getting away from the Might and magic aesthetic of the original game which to me makes sense but in the end from what i see they decided to go from not being might and magic and accidentally make their game Bannerlord Light

[@randallorndorff]

@@Curseius Yeah. It also seems like they made dubious choices. I'm open to change, but it isn't just diehard HOMM fans complaining about this one.

[@ianskinner1619]

jesus her walk cycle is brutal, they must have capped a 60 year old granny to get that run.

[@scatj20]

King's Bounty: The Legend... greatest soundtrack in all of video game history

[@makhoe1]

I felt Splaty's walking speed complaint on the inside.

[@Sile]

I was looking forward to this but now, I'm not so sure. edit: Actually, I am sure. This is garbage.

[@wahebskull]

thx for that edit mate i was thinking the same but i was going to buy it since i loved the other versions but making it rpg meh

[@shadeling6717]

I was a huge fan of kings bounty and the earlier homm. I'm not sure I like the changes in this game.

[@V0r4xiz]

Same. KB lives off of its cute and quirky fantasy appeal. Dragons and damsels. This game tries to be all serious and political. If I wanted to play Baldur's Gate or The Witcher, I would.

[@maximilliantimofte4797]

ye maybe it s not enough fantasy but for their first 3d tactical first action rpg it came out pretty sweet,could have gone wrong 100 different times and buggy

[@Teeb2023]

Agreed. It's lost its character with this new perspective.

[@infernus6278]

They should have sticked to 2d or isometric

[@alekpo2000]

it kinda looks like low res skyrim lol

[@netgodzilla1]

Better they do it like GTA or even Pathfinder Kingmaker style is ok too

[@matheff71]

Leather armor looted. Splat: Wow, do I have like CHAINMAIL? Nah, it's just CLOTH ARMOR. Classic Splat.

[@fairtoki1685]

This looks worse than KB1, it’s like wasting time walking around empty world find hidden loots instead of fighting and progress.

[@jowobo89]

Yeah, this really looks like a desaturated mess compared to the old games. They were so beautifully rich and vibrant... not to mention, still on Steam and playable! I'm currently dipping back into King's Bounty: Darkside, not even the best of the games, but I'll play it over this.

[@juanbelmonte8920]

@@jowobo89 And, moreover, the old Kings bounty games had editor. It is on KB Crossworlds.

[@Mrdardas99]

I loved the modern King's Bounty games. They had beautiful art style, GREAT writing that you could ignore and breeze through if you wanted (though it did have a lot of clichés and tropes, they made fun of them sometimes), fast paced travel on the map where everything is clear and visible, classic Heroes combat, and awesome iconic music. If only they had worked on the Balance a bit, it would've been perfect. This - I don't know what this is, someone played a bit too much Oblivion or Skyrim. Slow paced, REALLY BAD UI, combat map is at weird angle and the creatures are so small you can't see the animations or the actual combat stats, the writing is atrocious, the art style is boring. Sad. So sad.

[@baburik]

eyep, doesn't look like they were even aiming at reaching the same level of quality as KB'08 or even any level of quality tbh. they've probably just hired some students to slapdash this in unity to retain the rights or smth.

[@Fallenangel_85]

Yes, sometimes I think less innovation would be better for some games. Like the HOMM series too. I'd pay good cash for H3 in modern graphics. The new Kings bounty reminds me more of a mobile game...

[@Jrock420blam]

They tried to turn it into Bannerlord and failed at it instead of staying true to their roots.

[@TheSlickJaylin]

I still think to this day, Assassin Creed Revalations where you could have Ezio follow the walk speed of the npc had have a psuedo ingame cinematic was ahead of its time and miss it to this day.

[@RodonEnNaur]

"Wait, there is something to read on the wall" ... right after missing several wall-installed-readable-things before ^^

[@PhilipPetrunak]

Solid voice acting on the main character [/sarcasm] Also, the humans were clearly in the right here. Like, the abuses of the warden are pretty explicitly explained. If the Dwarves support him, they gotta go to.

[@seandan7873]

Snow White and the Seven Dwarves looking pretty slick now

[@Craziecory]

Check out that high audio quality...

[@immutablecantrip]

This paladin seems like a young Karen

[@chezratte1357]

my first thought was french waitress, but that works too.

[@jeromeriedl]

Holy shit the writing in this game is amazing!

[@AdamBladeTaylor]

The original King's Bounty is what led to them making the Heroes of Might & Magic games.

[@private2132]

This shift to 3rd person behind the back, "open world" is such an odd choice. I think I could handle the "realistic" artwork, versus the cartoonish. but the camera choice.. so odd.

[@mudcrab3420]

18:38 - "we skip and jump, we like to press wild flowers..."

[@Rezuvious]

I remember when this first showed up on Steam and the minimum recommended specs wanted 12gb of ram

[@festro1000]

loved might and magic particularly "for blood and honor" one of the first games that dipped my toes into the protagonist making moral choices.

[@padalan2504]

This looks so much like a mobile game.

[@mrroboshadow]

first impression just from 5 minutes voice acting is average i guess, certainly not horrible, at least the actors are conveying emotions the models though are uncanny in how blank their expressions are at all time like the warden character, the actor is delivering his lines with an arrogant annoyance id say (like he has better things to do than to even think about the player), yet his model as a stony expressionless mug all through out, never changing

[@Talon771]

The animation is weird. The characters stare at you while they talk. "provide you with a horse, and - let me read it aloud," he says while staring at you, "allocate my own garrison!" "Now what else was there." Says the warden as he stares at you. "Oh yes, a horse." A little variation where the characters are looking would feel so much better. Also, the voice acting is... off. 11:01 the guy's voice changes. This game's voice over is poorly implemented. The characters feel like they are reading into a mic, not talking to each other.

[@Talon771]

Also, it seems that the unit models, in dialogue, move the same. In the last interaction Splat had, with the mage guy, whenever and however the mage moved, your character mirrors him. I hate that. I have taken this game OFF my wishlist.

[@Talon771]

This is a poorly made game. Clearly, they focused on the combat animation and environment, and half-assed the story.

[@michaelhill6453]

Kings Bounty pre-dates Might and Magic. Take a peek in the dark annuls of CRPG history. I probably first played it before you were born. :-) Good vid.

[@ItsEphora]

The sass and passive aggressiveness of this game

[@glep3570]

Most magical voice acting ever! snicker snicker.

[@TheTruthowl]

This looks really fun. I hope you stream it. Thanks a lot.

[@DrKuryakin]

what is she looking at in those cutscenes? Definitly not eyecontact

[@NivMizzet13]

They definitely need to fix the eye focus on some of those guards. At 2:10, that guard in the background on the right is super-cross eyed XD!

[@gloryshadow8710]

But that's Edwin the Crossed-eyed! Dont be cruel, he had an accident years ago when he was kicked in the face by a hedgehog 😔

[@TK2692]

This is like Two Worlds level voice acting.

[@daneb88]

I felt your heart break grabbing that crossbow 😂

[@ZippytheHappyChimp]

Your walk speed at the start is faster so that you have the leeway to read the plaque you ignored, to check on the other cells, poke your nose into things and still keep up.

[@27182818284590452354]

They had a working formula, everyone said them not to mess with it. A shame.

[@omgilovesteak6484]

i just recently started playing this game finally. It isnt bad as far as im concerned.

[@motokuchoma]

I like that this game is tropey, lighthearted and high fantasy. I'm so tired of this grimdark "god is dead, undeads flood the world and everything is a miserable struggle to survive" turn most fantasy games like to go these days.

[@rpscorp9457]

Thats the sorriest paladin ive ever seen.

[@ColinTimmins]

I know exactly what you are talking about, thinking about what it be like to play a bad character but always end up fighting for what’s right and just.

[@MrKuharak]

As i saw the title i gave it an instant like! :)

[@Trip1eGo1d]

He said "paladin", but I looked up and all I saw was a bard... ijs

[@OmegaViper]

You are very enjoyable to watch and make me feel better in the day when I hear your opening. Just thought you should know. :>

[@ThePiousMan]

I remember destroying days worth of hours finishing the previous games and the standalone ones as well. Haven't finished the vikings one. From what I see in this one, I will be enjoying the hell out of it once I get my hands on it. Tho, yes. Some minor quality of life features would be nice to go back to and get remade by the developers.

[@Tam_Hawkins]

Hey Splat, you have a stat that looks like a crown that seems to govern how many units in a stack you can have. When you leveled up your crown stat increased above 520 and one spearman needs 130 crown so your spearmans unit count increased from 3 to 4.

[@SkindrixX]

looks more like a Hobaladin a Hobo crossed with paladin

[@dracoinsanity]

The game does look like it has a good bit of promise, but yeah the overall voice acting and the main character's blank expression during conversation is a bit of an immersion breaking issue for me. If there's one thing I can't stand in an RPG it's playing a character that feels like they have zero emotional response to what's going on. haha

[@igorthelight]

A random question: would a wolf eat a gold coin for some reason? :-)

[@MusMasi]

scruffy the paladin

[@Blueynoes]

Bad voiceacting is so puzzling. You spent money on a feature that will instantly stand out to literally everyone and makes your game worse, for no reason. If you can't afford talent, just go with text bubbles, its totally fine for lower budget titles. Few things turn me off of a game faster than having shitty voice acting in cutscenes. How does it pass quality control? They can't have said "this is good", so did they go "this is terrible, perfect!", or who signs off on something that bad.

[@MyAteSpiders]

Plus text is heaps easy to hit "SkIP SKIP SKIP SKIP! lol

[@TheNzFox]

its not just bad acting, they have actively sabotaged it by screwing around with the sound post recording. For example at 11:00 it suddenly sounds like he is talking through a wall and 11:30 sounds like someone 3 houses over choking down an entire fish, I wasn't looking at the screen at that time and thought it was some kind of water monster attacking and would of never guessed that sound was what the text box showed

[@king_zapp]

Fantasy things like.... Spearmen????

[@SebastianSkadisson]

I love this game, can't stop playing.

[@robjones8733]

Spouse is playing now. She likes it.

[@BlookbugIV]

A soccer mom in leggings will save Nostria

[@whatislife3645]

The menus and the items, and the fighting kinda looks like those scuffed clickbait mobile games but the overall game is not that bad, I guess

[@SilverMe2004]

3:00 I think the point of your walk speed being faster was so you can go and read all the posters and still catch back up. But other wise I agree that during such events your speed should be changed to match theirs

[@CronyxRavage]

It's interesting that Paladin is your favorite class while Necromancer is my favorite, and the profession of my main RP Character, Cronyx Ravage. I wonder if that makes us mortal enemies? lol

[@Owen-np3wf]

Flavius the Wisecracker. Omg what a name!!! Yall know he did some smartass shit to get a name like that

[@senditall152]

The 3rd person movement doesn't look that bad but the fights seem to slow and lacking a little. I still want to play this game btw.

[@andrenargli9548]

I was half way expecting a greenskin color rant when u started the "armor is better with dragons" hahahahah

[@SiodogRehane]

9:08 splatty out of context

[@fletchdub]

The game looks fun/interesting...but not for 50 bucks. Guess this will be a future summer sale purchase.

[@DeadlyDanDaMan]

Yeah, this game is a case of "If ain't broke, don't fix it." Classic King's Bounty is WAAAAY better than this.

[@GeneralNukes]

Lmao, go back in time and play your old games , this game ain’t half bad and is better

[@davethomasatemyhamster]

This is a flustercuck! Embarrassing that the developers behind such a classic game came up with this 😢😢

[@easterbunny3850]

Apparently they all ventriloquists

[@LeDuddu]

Absolutely everyone who has played King's Bounty from The Legend to Dark Side (and, maybe, the old ones): „This is how a game dies.” It has nothing, NOTHING that even reminds me of the old games. It's just a generic RPG/TBS, and not a good one at that. Did they perform lobotomies on themselves when they made this sequel?

[@TheGreaterGrog]

Steam reviews are pretty bad so far. The KB remake was good, as was Armored Princess. North was less so, and Dark Side's reviews were bad enough that I never bothered.

[@빵빵빵-m1o]

I still don't understand the game designer's goal and why he wanted to make the sequel of king's bounty coz it's totally different from the previous one.(Either dos version or legend) I wish King's bounty legend is ported to switch...

[@belazarius727]

Taking advantage of a licence and milking the playerbase is a modern trend... Just have a look at the price, this playthrough, the comments/reviews/posts and you easily come to this conclusion.

[@baburik]

@@belazarius727 what playerbase? nobody (sadly) remembers KB '08... they've probably just wanted to retain the rights or extend the license or smth so they've put the absolute minimum effort into it.

[@belazarius727]

@@baburik yeah absolutely. What I wanted to say is their targets are homm or other "tactical" strategy fans.

[@ruvadar]

"Also the "Savior" needs a horse"

[@zwilnik]

So you'd totally simp for a dwarf paladin RPG? I can dig, I can dig.

[@KanisAraknit]

KIng is dead, it was the prince who freed you :P

[@J.B.1982]

I loved the one for Sega Genesis back in the day. This looks cool. I would of taken an updated version of the first one tho

[@wordragon]

I wish the eyes were better. They are trying to push cinematics and narrative, which I like but they feel flat.

[@VaibhavShewale]

seems intersting!

[@NewYears1978]

That walking thing is present in almost all games...the only one I can remember that locked the chase speed is AC Valhalla...I have always hated that and it's such an easy fix.

[@TurielD]

The voice acting isn't too bad, the dialogue is terrible though.

[@SwedishEmpire1700]

Kings Bounty and Heroes are both made by the same company, New World Computing, so KB is pretty much Heroes of Might and Magic 0

[@LaserStorm117]

I would rather no voice acting over bad voice acting. The writing is pretty cringe, too. Man, having heard about the prospects of the game, I was quite excited. Seeing it in motion has successfully removed my disillusion. Much sad I think the only things I would say I liked about this were: -Character changed appearance when equipping items. -The overworld, 3rd person traversal was interestingly mixed with the SRPG grid combat. -I suppose the graphics were ok, too. Haha I do the exact same thing: always play the good guy. I'm like, this time, imma be evil! End up helping everyone for free and saving villages. There was one time I stuck to my guns and played the evil class and that was one of my playthroughs of Fable 2. It was quite rewarding. Who knew that being an absolute scumbag made for quick, easy progression in life?

[@varvariiin]

literally says leather armor Splat " Is that like chainmail, no that's just cloth" Neither splatty its leather

[@Overlord0011]

Anyone else get the impression the warden wasn't your biggest fan?

[@CS-ui4qj]

if you want perfect doggy pillow, and don't care about looking all tough and masculine with a pitbull, then i highly recommend a dachsador. Weenie dog shape body with the perfect fluffiness of a labrador coat. Best pillow ever and super calm low energy dog that loves to cuddle!

[@BIGESTblade]

Damn right, this isn't King's Bounty. This a cash grab mock-up of King's Bounty.

[@freerichie25]

Lol, they don't screw around with that "you are the savior of the world" thing.

[@Jrock420blam]

"Mom I want to buy Bannerlord" -Me "We have Bannerlord at home" -Mom

[@1463sirmatt]

Looks more like, Soccer Mom: The Adventure Begins…

[@miczal14]

I won't lie, the writing and voice acting makes me cringe out of my skin. It feels so forced and cheesy, I just can't

[@Whiskable]

Please stream! I'd like to see more of it xD

[@javik1929]

Heroes of M&M died a slow and painful death, im glad theres something new in that direction