Of Orcs and Men

Fable: with Orc and Troll Reskins.

I like to pet the orcs. I will pet them and hug them and squeeze them and call him George...

And better for what it looks

I don't get the Fable vibe, but I'm loving the Sympathetic P.O.V..

Looks like World of Warcraft: Singleplayer Edition.

Well I would conceded that Sympathetic Orcs are a Warcraft thing. I don't think this setting quite matches right.

The cartoony/stylized characters remind me of World Of Warcraft. That orc and goblin would look right at home in Durotar. But that's just my impression from the video.

Not saying that's a bad thing, though.

Sort of, though the orc is way too massive to be one from Azeroth.

X4 Warcraft I-III?

edited 6th Dec '11 4:28:03 PM by VutherA

That would be a strategy game.

Cyanide's game page.

Hey, hey!...the idea of turning World of Warcraft into a single-player is only slightly less ludicrous than comparing a strategy game to a third-person one.

Btw, this IS a fantasy retelling of Of Mice And Men, right? I hope they didn't just pick the title because it sounds cool. The orc and goblin are totally George and Lennie.

I don't care if it's the worst game ever, I'll buy it if it is.

They're at least Expies, with the orc as the strong one and the goblin as the intelligent/stealthier one.

That isn't an orc. It's a giant, or possibly an ogre. Orcs don't get that big.

I haven't read that and I doubt I will, so I looked at the page. I'm hoping it won't since that would imply there will be a depressing Hope Spot of an ending, where the game's background seem to imply things are terribly grim for the Orcs and Goblins already.

Game's page indicates it's an Orc. This design of the Orc is a bit less typical in size, it seems.

edited 6th Dec '11 4:59:42 PM by VutherA

It's a great book and definitely worth a read. Although, if the game did follow the story very closely there wouldn't be much room for combat.

I doubt it's following the book closely at all.

The title probably is just meant to evoke the same relationship between the orc and the goblin.

I probably should. I'm just saying from my minor knowledge on it from the trope page, I'm under the impression that following the book with some degree of closeness would = for its players at the game's end. And not because the game's over.

And being makes me... well, .

edited 6th Dec '11 5:12:36 PM by VutherA

It's one hell of a downer ending, yes. It made my English teacher cry when we read it in class some years ago.

I found the work too misogynistic. It is basically a story about how women are petty and willing to manipulate mentally inept men in order to get revenge on their husbands.

I'm getting more of a Warhammer vibe from the character design then a Warcraft one, if anything.

Same here, and I'm not at all familiar with the Warhammer franchise. (The closest I've gotten is Space Marines, but that's 40K anyways)