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Robin Hood - Sherwood Builders

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Robin Hood - Sherwood Builders

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Robin Hood - Sherwood Builders is an action-adventure RPG with base-building elements, where you take on the role of a classic hero who stands up to the tyranny and injustice that haunts Sherwood. Fight, craft, steal, and of course help the local people grow and prosper.
Released today.
Anyone played it?
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is this guy missing his head in their promo screenshot?
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Merely a flesh wound.
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I actually like Robin Hood as a character a lot.

Here's the trailer for this game:

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rusty_shackleford wrote: February 29th, 2024, 22:09
is this guy missing his head in their promo screenshot?
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The player character hiding in the speed lines is so fucking funny
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The visual aesthetic is already kind of generic and migraine inducing but I really, really fucking hate that UI.
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As a ranger connoisseur, there are only three good Robin Hood games:



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Available here: https://archive.org/details/msdos_Conqu ... _Hood_1991

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Play here: https://www.retrogames.cc/nes-games/rob ... s-usa.html
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Acrux wrote: February 29th, 2024, 23:55
As a ranger connoisseur, there are only three good Robin Hood games:



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Available here: https://archive.org/details/msdos_Conqu ... _Hood_1991

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Play here: https://www.retrogames.cc/nes-games/rob ... s-usa.html
I like the robin hood where he's a fox.
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This Robin continues the trend of Robins that don't have a British accent.

Robin Hood: Men in Tights will forever remain the only one? :P
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Seems very shallow and empty according to the reviews I skimmed.
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I actually bought it, only an hour in but its rough. Movement/camera is a disaster, it's clearly someones first project. I guess I push on a bit more, cheap enough to not go for the refund and at least it feels like a honest game.
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The_Mask wrote: March 1st, 2024, 03:28
This Robin continues the trend of Robins that don't have a British accent.
Technically he would speak something between Old English and Middle English.
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Irenaeus wrote: March 2nd, 2024, 12:19
The_Mask wrote: March 1st, 2024, 03:28
This Robin continues the trend of Robins that don't have a British accent.
Technically he would speak something between Old English and Middle English.
If he were of the nobility of that era, he would have spoken French.
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Robin Hood is supposed to be a moral figure so he cannot be british.
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Rand wrote: March 2nd, 2024, 19:52
Irenaeus wrote: March 2nd, 2024, 12:19
The_Mask wrote: March 1st, 2024, 03:28
This Robin continues the trend of Robins that don't have a British accent.
Technically he would speak something between Old English and Middle English.
If he were of the nobility of that era, he would have spoken French.
Nobody noble has ever spoken french.
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rusty_shackleford wrote: March 2nd, 2024, 20:01
Rand wrote: March 2nd, 2024, 19:52
Irenaeus wrote: March 2nd, 2024, 12:19


Technically he would speak something between Old English and Middle English.
If he were of the nobility of that era, he would have spoken French.
Nobody noble has ever spoken french.
Now this is epic. Take my upvote gentle sir!
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Vergil wrote: March 2nd, 2024, 20:03
rusty_shackleford wrote: March 2nd, 2024, 20:01
Rand wrote: March 2nd, 2024, 19:52

If he were of the nobility of that era, he would have spoken French.
Nobody noble has ever spoken french.
Now this is epic. Take my upvote gentle sir!
I sense some frankish butthurt
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Vergil plays the most English game possible, Fable, and has a character with a really strongly flamboyant English accent as his pfp... sounds like a love-hate relationship with English.
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Actually finished it.

The best thing I can say about it, its that they at least tried. There is zero wokeness in there, and you can tell they had some good ideas. But the execution is pretty bad. It's not only janky af, also both parts of the game are massively underdeveloped.

One part of the game was supposed to be a traditional open-world RPG. But it's very raw, the world feels extremely dead, nothing is evolving, and nothing is moving. Even NPCs in towns are not even...walking around. The writing of course is a disaster. I actually skipped most of the dialogue during the last 1/3rd of the game. Exploration, combat, character progression, quest design. enemies variation, AI all crap.

But the really disappointing part was the "builder" part. You start with a base/"Robins Village" already. All you can do is add certain crafting stations, that's it. And also those are just dead huts. Nobody is ever working there. You can increase the number of your villagers, but they are only a stat. You never actually see them in your camp. It's not even close to any city/base builder kind of game.

I don't play many survival games, but I would think it's trying to be just like that. You are harvesting/mining shit, building a new crafting station, and harvesting higher-level crap. This whole part is built like a pyramid. So in the beginning you only need to harvest 1 kind of wood, 1 type of stone, etc. but later its getting more and more and you are basically just fast-traveling to different woods/mines to get your level weapon. Maybe that's how survival games work, it was just getting way too boring during the 2nd half of the game.
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rusty_shackleford wrote: March 1st, 2024, 03:06
I like the robin hood where he's a fox.
I like the version of that which is performed by hampsters.