There have been plenty of developers rushing to get games and updates out before the end of 2022, but it seems one title that won't beat this deadline is Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning.
In an update on social media, the team behind the title has revealed the paid Fatesworn expansion won't be released on the Switch this year. In order to meet the "high expectations" of players, it's had to make the tough decision to delay this particular version.
@ReckoningGame: "People of the Faelands, We regret to inform you that we won’t be able to release the long-awaited expansion Fatesworn for Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning on Nintendo Switch in 2022. Everyone on the team has been giving their best for the last couple of months and, until the very last moment, hoped to keep the promises we made. Unfortunately, the game is not yet ready to meet our – and your – high expectations, which led us to the decision to postpone it. However, we are in the final stages of development and will share more information with all of you as soon as possible."
As noted, an update about the Nintendo Switch version of this expansion will be released as soon as possible. Here's a bit about this next expansion, along with a look:
"Telogrus, God of Chaos, has emerged to claim his mortal kingdom and only you can challenge this risen god, Fateless One. Fatesworn offers a brand new storyline, a new environment, various new quests and missions, new Chaos Realm dungeons all over Amalur, a new gameplay mechanic, new weapons and armor, new enemies, and much more. It will raise the level cap to 50, and even features a new soundtrack by famous composer Grant Kirkhope. Fatesworn requires the base game Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning."
How do you feel about this? Have you tried out this game on the Switch yet? Comment below.
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I forgot I have this game - I had to click the article to make sure lol.
Fun game tho. Might go back to it when expansion released.
KOA has one of the best combat systems for an action-RPG. Super cool to see this release. I wonder how Curt Schilling feels about this
Ah, so happy to see my RI state tax dollars are making money for somebody, at least. 😅
As a gamer and a Boston Red Sox fan, it was certainly interesting when my home state offered a sweet loan of $75 million to lure former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling’s startup video game company, 38 Studios, to move to Providence. But things went south quick when Curt couldn’t quite get their debut game (Kingdoms of Amalur) across home plate and he asked the state for more time to repay the loan. Alas, the state said no, Curt quite vengefully declared bankruptcy, and KoA was sold off with other assets. The whole debacle left Rhode Island taxpayers on the hook for more than a few million $$.
So of course I bought this little slice of local notoriety when it released on Switch a year or 2 ago. I played a couple hours of it and it was genuinely fun and engaging! It felt similar to Dragon’s Dogma to me. It just wasn’t its turn in the backlog yet, though. It’ll be nice to have this extra content there when I go back to it someday.
@Teksetter Interesting but if info there.
Eh as long as it comes out I can wait.
I played the original PC version of the game back when it came out, and I really liked it, but it was pretty buggy. And since 38 Studios famously went bankrupt, it was never patched. But now they've re-released the game and are even creating new content for it, so does that mean that bugs have finally been ironed out? I might be interested in buying it again for the Switch if that's the case.
@theModestMouse
Yes, it was RI’s bid to innovate the state economy a bit, and people wanted it to work - there is a big presence of young artistic talent in Providence, after all, because of RISD and Brown, so the scheme made some sense.
If only Schilling kept expenses in check a little better, (I wonder what he paid R.A. Salvatore and Todd MacFarlane to headline this game?) or was less acerbic dealing with the RI statehouse (in retrospect a notoriously outspoken conservative opening shop in a deep blue state was perhaps ill-advised), maybe 38 Studios wouldn’t have gone bankrupt.
@Polvasti There is a pretty ugly bug early in the game which locks you out of progressing with one of the guilds. Still has not been patched as far as I know.
@Avaloner Man, that sucks. The game is 10 years old, and no one has still bothered to fix stuff like that? I think I'll skip it on the Switch then.
I love this game so yeah I'm in.
I shall now go back and play more of this underrated masterpiece!
@Polvasti I played through the game earlier this year without encountering a single bug or glitch. But that was the switch version mind you.
@Polvasti, @Avaloner - I've finished the game on Switch and the worst bug was a certain important quest line where the game would crash as soon as I started dialogue with someone I had to interact with.
However, after playing on for about 10 hours I tried again and it worked fine this time.
Some places on Google suggest the crash is linked to armour or a weapon - not sure about that but at least ultimately it wasn't a game breaking bug.
I really love this game, so I'm pretty excited for this dlc to eventually come out.
It's really upsetting they put off the dlc so long and didn't do a great job of keeping the player base updated, I ended up rebuying it on Steam a while ago. At least they are giving us something to look forward to, the Kotor 2 dlc didn't release on schedule and Aspyr still hasnt given us any info.
@Ryu_Niiyama Seriously. I was convinced by the radio silence that it had low-key been cancelled. Glad to see this isn't the case.
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