Tropico Dev Announces New Action RPG - Victor Vran

[Steven Bogos]

Tropico Dev Announces New Action RPG - Victor Vran

Victor Vran is a Diablo-esque action RPG coming this summer to PC.

Haemimont Games, the folks behind the island nation simulator Tropico [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/tag/view/tropico%205?os=tropico+5] has just announced its latest title - a Diablo-esque action RPG called Victor Vran. If this sounds like it's coming completely out of left field, you'd be right, as Haemimont prior credits include nothing but city simulators and strategy games. However, it does promise that Victor Vran will provide "fresh perspective" on the genre through the use of equipment and special moves that have a more drastic change on combat and gameplay than the largely invisible tweaking of numbers.

You can check out the teaser trailer above, and there's also an Steam Store [http://www.victorvran.com/] listing for more info. The game will be released in "Summer, 2015", but it will go into Early Access on Steam as early as May.

From the looks of things, and from what Haeimont is telling us, Victor Vran will focus a lot more on movement than traditional action RPGs. The trailer shows characters dodging, jumping, and moving quickly to avoid enemy attacks. The game seems to be set in that samey medieval series of demon-infested dungeons and castles that all of these kinds of games are set in (except for Titan Quest, I suppose). Here are some screenshots, mostly of spiders and skeletons:

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The game seems to be a PC exclusive at this point, and will feature full multiplayer online co-op. We'll have more info on it as soon as it becomes available.

Source: Haemimont Games [http://www.victorvran.com/]

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[Parshooter]

New IP... From the dev of city builder that refuses to innovate. Good luck I guess. Please don't use the same cast as Tropico.

 

[Alfador_VII]

Well it's nothing like Tropico, so they're "innovatively" borrowing ideas from Diablo and the like.

Can't really tell more at this stage, other then mobility mentioned in the article

 

[Vendor-Lazarus]

This could actually be something to look forward to..

I did get a bit hyped by the trailer but it is reasonably tempered by the principles that determines my game purchases.
Imagine a rather long list of caveats here..

That said, with DIII being what it is, I really hope this pans out.
Van Helsing had it's share of problems that ensured it didn't quite reach it's potential, though it was a good game.
I'll be comparing all future hack'n'slash games to DII & DSII after all.

Anyone else remember Harbinger?
A really nice, though short, Sci-fi hack'n'slash.

 

[Shocksplicer]

The game seems to be set in that samey medieval series of demon-infested dungeons and castles that all of these kinds of games are set in (except for Titan Fall, I suppose).

I'm guessing you meant Titan Quest there...

OT: I really don't have much to say about this. It looks basically identical to every other game in its genre at this point, hopefully they'll do SOMETHING new.

 

[XenoScifi]

I think I will pass. I am actually looking for a Diablo like game but in a more modern day or scifi setting. Kind of like Hellgate London as far as setting and ideas, just not a complete ball drop from the developers. And before you all hiss and try to burn me at the cross, HGL had a lot of great ideas to make a good dungeon crawler in a modern day setting...they just messed up.

 

[DanielBrown]

I think I will pass. I am actually looking for a Diablo like game but in a more modern day or scifi setting. Kind of like Hellgate London as far as setting and ideas, just not a complete ball drop from the developers. And before you all hiss and try to burn me at the cross, HGL had a lot of great ideas to make a good dungeon crawler in a modern day setting...they just messed up.

Tried Grim Dawn? Same guys who did Titan Quest, but it's much darker and set in a steampunk(?), apolyptic world. Can't say I've noticed that much though. Might as well be a medieval setting with some guns.
If not that then Marvel Heroes 2015 is free and supposedly quite good. Tried it a bit today, but the number of heroes(34!) was too overwhelming. Couldn't decide who to go with... Seemed fine while it lasted. At least while waiting for better games to play.

OT: Will keep my eyes out, but I'm not much for movement focused battle systems. Cant be arsed with constant dodging och blocking.

 

[Norix596]

Any one else look at the thumbnail image and think they were looking at the TF2 Sniper?

 

[NuclearKangaroo]

im not impressed

the only ARPG is truthly looking foward to is lost ark

 

[Steven Bogos]

im not impressed

the only ARPG is truthly looking foward to is lost ark

That Korean ARPG riddled with microtransactions? No thanks. I like to buy my games once and be done with it.

 

[Drake Barrow]

I think I will pass. I am actually looking for a Diablo like game but in a more modern day or scifi setting. Kind of like Hellgate London as far as setting and ideas, just not a complete ball drop from the developers. And before you all hiss and try to burn me at the cross, HGL had a lot of great ideas to make a good dungeon crawler in a modern day setting...they just messed up.

I know those feels. I jumped on the Hellgate bandwagon before, and I still try to play it once in a while. The setting is great, the design aesthetic is fascinating, the ideas are wonderful, but I can't really bring myself to stick with it as a game. Now, to express the unpopular minority opinion, but I'd like to see a Dying Light or Dishonored style first person free-roaming game in that universe. It would certainly give uses for the Templar's Grapple Gun other than yanking stubborn enemies into melee range...

OT: I saw this, and the first thought I had was "Nice hat!". This looks entertaining, in a mindless way, but doesn't have anything super special or distinctive to make it stand out. I'd pick it up on the cheap, but certainly wouldn't pay full price for it.

 

[ZippyDSMlee]

I thought Kalypso(DUNGEONS) made Tropico 0_o

 

[Jupiter065]

It looks like a controller focused ARPG, like Marvel Ultimate Alliance. That sounds great to me, I can never get into Diablo-style clickity combat.

 

[nomotog_v1legacy]

It looks like a controller focused ARPG, like Marvel Ultimate Alliance. That sounds great to me, I can never get into Diablo-style clickity combat.

The clicky combat bugs me so much. It was in torch light that I really ended up lothing it. That game could have had such good flowing combat if they didn't want to do everything with the mouse :S

I am kind of interested in this Victor Vran because of the line "through the use of equipment and special moves that have a more drastic change on combat and gameplay than the largely invisible tweaking of numbers." To me, that sounds like a kind of borderlands style of equipment where different weapons will feel different rather then just having different numbers. A kind of borderlands for melee only likely not as cool as that sounds.

 

[Groenteman]

I hope this doesn't just become yet another DLC peddling platform.

I don't expect it, but hey maybe that was all on Kalypso and the devs have an actual interest in delivering a good product.