Posted February 02, 2016
I was discussing with a friend last night a number of games to "spice up" our multi-player shenanigans, as our loose-knit long time gaming circle seemed to gravitate toward a number of specific game titles over the years and in most cases latch on to a single game or two and never let go. I myself like playing some good ole standbys too, but over time playing the same games with the same people endlessly can start to get less exciting and sometimes down right boring.
So, I went through my game lists mentioning various old and new games that I think would be fun to incorporate into our occasional multi-player sessions either one-on-one, one-with-one, or group play. One of the games I suggested was "Battle Realms", because I stumbled upon that game by accident years ago having it bundled along with a different game that I actually was buying (Planet of the Apes). It sat there for a year or more before I even installed Battle Realms to try it out, but when I did I was pleasantly surprised to find a quite fun RTS game that had a fun multi-player mode and for a while we all ended up playing it and enjoying it, then it just kind of vanished from our list...
So my buddy tells me that they're working on a new sequel for the game finally - "Battle Realms 2: Lair of the Lotus" and funding it on Kickstarter. I searched Kickstarter and all I could find was "Battle Realms Legends", a card based RPG game that had a failed kickstarter a while back. No mention of Battle Realms 2 anywhere. Googling around I found a scant number of articles about this "upcoming sequel" but none of it sounded like a line of code has been written yet. Here's an article discussing it that mentions they'd be doing a kickstarter:
http://blog.piratelufi.com/2013/10/battle-realms-2-lair-of-the-lotus-coming-soon/
There doesn't appear to be any newer information out there, and the company's own website throws up a 404 error on the home page with an ugly web error below it that seems to indicate that either their website has been hacked or experiencing some technical problems and they haven't noticed yet nor fixed it. Either way it seems like they may be out to lunch.
At any rate it seems like "Battle Realms 2, coming soon..." is a bit of a far stretch considering that was announced over 2 years ago and there is scant information about it out there at all that I've been able to dig up. For all intents and purposes it seems like they spoke too soon and the whole idea of a sequel is just some major wishful thinking.
Has anyone else heard anything about this game or any fund raising for it, or have any useful links that don't end up on a website generating a 404 error? Both Kickstarter and Indiegogo pull up dry at least.
It'd be nice to see Battle Realms spark a modern sequel as it was a pretty good game when it came out even though it wasn't that well known at the time. It is often compared to Warcraft 3 often with people calling it a Warcraft 3 ripoff even though it came out a good year or more before Warcraft 3 was ever released.
If it's still in the works, it'd be nice to track their progress though, and hopefully it comes to GOG. Looks like the original game is currently trying to go through Steam Greenlight too which seems odd.
So, I went through my game lists mentioning various old and new games that I think would be fun to incorporate into our occasional multi-player sessions either one-on-one, one-with-one, or group play. One of the games I suggested was "Battle Realms", because I stumbled upon that game by accident years ago having it bundled along with a different game that I actually was buying (Planet of the Apes). It sat there for a year or more before I even installed Battle Realms to try it out, but when I did I was pleasantly surprised to find a quite fun RTS game that had a fun multi-player mode and for a while we all ended up playing it and enjoying it, then it just kind of vanished from our list...
So my buddy tells me that they're working on a new sequel for the game finally - "Battle Realms 2: Lair of the Lotus" and funding it on Kickstarter. I searched Kickstarter and all I could find was "Battle Realms Legends", a card based RPG game that had a failed kickstarter a while back. No mention of Battle Realms 2 anywhere. Googling around I found a scant number of articles about this "upcoming sequel" but none of it sounded like a line of code has been written yet. Here's an article discussing it that mentions they'd be doing a kickstarter:
http://blog.piratelufi.com/2013/10/battle-realms-2-lair-of-the-lotus-coming-soon/
There doesn't appear to be any newer information out there, and the company's own website throws up a 404 error on the home page with an ugly web error below it that seems to indicate that either their website has been hacked or experiencing some technical problems and they haven't noticed yet nor fixed it. Either way it seems like they may be out to lunch.
At any rate it seems like "Battle Realms 2, coming soon..." is a bit of a far stretch considering that was announced over 2 years ago and there is scant information about it out there at all that I've been able to dig up. For all intents and purposes it seems like they spoke too soon and the whole idea of a sequel is just some major wishful thinking.
Has anyone else heard anything about this game or any fund raising for it, or have any useful links that don't end up on a website generating a 404 error? Both Kickstarter and Indiegogo pull up dry at least.
It'd be nice to see Battle Realms spark a modern sequel as it was a pretty good game when it came out even though it wasn't that well known at the time. It is often compared to Warcraft 3 often with people calling it a Warcraft 3 ripoff even though it came out a good year or more before Warcraft 3 was ever released.
If it's still in the works, it'd be nice to track their progress though, and hopefully it comes to GOG. Looks like the original game is currently trying to go through Steam Greenlight too which seems odd.
