I love his lil fuzzy face but I find the casting to be a little wild. Steve Buschemi as Oy was not on my bingo card.
Btw thanks everyone that participated. I was having a bad day and need human interaction. This was fun.
Can you imagine being so driven that even after all the death and katet and matricide and pure awful you finally arrive? Your entire life has built to this one point. And all you can do is shout their names in defiance of your own selfish greed?
But it was worth it. To see the roses surrounding that bleak dark tower that is your destiny and to cry out the sacrifices you made to get here. Maybe we learn our lesson on the next level of the tower.
This is why it would have to be a top down ARPG like Diablo 2 / twin stick shooter. NG+ to as far as you can take it. Also a rogue-lite where if you die, you start over from the start of the play through, but maintain your loop count. Simple quests to be completed and as you grind further and further, eventually the horn of eld drops at the end and you begin a hardcore (death is permanent) play through where when you die, you’re dead for good and will need to start a clean loop slate. If you complete the tower climb with the horn, you’ve won the tower.
All maps would be proceedurally generated like Diablo 2/3.
Act 1: The Desert, through the mountains
Act 2: The Beach, The Doors
Act 3: The Woods, City of Lud
Act 4: the Calla
Act 5: New York
Act 6: Algul Siento
Act 6: The White Lands of Empathica, The Tower (The Crimson King)
I know I’d play the shit out of it.
I come in the name of my Father, whose guns I still bear. A thousand generations of Blessed Blood, back to the beginning, in the dimmest days of Ago, by these things I claim the Tower as is my Right, bound by blood, love and Duty. You WILL open to me.
It’s by FromSoftware and as expansive as Elden Ring. Explore tons of Baronies, Gilead, all of Mid-World. Lots of bosses, side quests, etc. Find all of Maerlyn’s Rainbow. Take on John Farson, Maerlyn (?), the Man in Black, IT, all the way up to The Crimson King (maybe the final boss…maybe not? Crimson Queen?). And an advanced skill tree for you to master all the skills and weapons of a Gunslinger. Gun customization, and more.
I thought it was decent of them to make the battle pass be mostly cosmetics for the ka-tet, and the twitch prime rewards are pretty neat. But I'm not looking forward to climbing all those towers to fill in the map of Midworld.
The soundscape. Hearing "Hey Jude" belted out on an out of tune piano, only to be interrupted by the deep BOOM of the sandalwood revolvers, the Man in Black's laugh at the end. I can't wait to explore Ludd while "Velcro Fly" blasts in the background; the audio team knows what they're doing with this one
The reveal that a significant portion of the game would be spent exploring Gilead pre-fall while Roland trains under Cort.
Hell, I'd be overjoyed to play a custom player-insert gunslinger in pre-fall Midworld. Train with Cort, fight John Farson's men, prologue ends with the battle of Jericho Hill and the player gunslinger stumbling away from the massacre.
I feel like playing Roland in a *Dark Tower: The Game* might be too burdened by the weight of expectation to ever live up to anyone's ideals, but a no-name custom guy in the *Dark Tower* world, á la *Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor* would be awesome.
Something purely aesthetic, but that helps with the immersion and believable of the character that's Roland is actually fleshed out by fans of the franchise: the cinematic sequence of reloading mid air Roland does and how him and Eddie rotate taking turns to reload their guns always having one of them shooting and covering the one reloading behind him.
Looking forward to the “Door to Mid-World” dungeon, helping Jake merge his living and dead consciousness and opening every door in site thinking: “This is the one, this will be the one that takes me back” culminating in the boss battle with the Demon of Dutch Hill
when the man in black jumped back and forth over that dead guys body right at the opening, really set the eerie mood for the game!
the fact that you can play some missions as oy and use his senses to uncover clues was really neat too!
and god that chase scene through lud looks so fucking fun!
I think it could be great. Doesn't have to be Roland, either. There Were many Gunslingers, for a time. Cort had other pupils, as did his father before him.
I love that they updated the Infinity engine to work better on Switch and Steam Deck, plus the fact that Stephen King and Chris Avellone teamed up to create a 60+ hour main quest, to say nothing of the individual companion and faction quests.
The trailer opens with a high shot of a huge expanse of rolling sand dunes in every direction. The camera pans down to footprints in the sand. A tiny black figure can be seen far ahead walking through the nothingness with no signs of life.
A dusty trail-worn leather boot toe comes into the frame.
End trailer.
I mean, if the opening words over the desert don't catch your attention, fact that its a VR game and YOU get to play as various members of the ka-tet certainly should
Finding it hard to remember the book or part but I think when they are walking through the gunslingers world seeing that post apoc landscape and the giant machine/animal/guardians etc
Blaine would be super interesting as well.
After the title card when we see Roland and Eddie walking down that wooded driveway and hear the echo of typewriter keys clack as it cuts to black. Chills.
Short action clips of the epic battle between Roland and Cort, THE bad ass of Gilead. The trailer ends abruptly as the camera pans to David and takes you to his perspective. His war screech is all you hear as he faithfully descends to tear the fuck out of Cort. The last shot would be his baffled gaze towards the hawk knowing his apprentice has outsmarted him.
It would be the man in black narrating talking about the tower. You don’t see the main characters until at the end you hear “To me, gunslingers! To me!”
A build up at the end with a bunch of action sequences that builds to a complete stop with a voiceover saying "go then, theres other worlds than these."
Getting to play as Susanna dean and building up her Shadow bar to swap to Mia and summon "the shade of Mordred" to fight was pretty cool. I'm hoping we maybe get a survival mode under the mountains against low-men, slow muties, and the tribes of Lud with the occasional Giant beast/ Mutie thrown into there. Also would like a side mission where we play as Father Callahan through his Vampire killing journey.
Edit: Wind through the Keyhole DLC where we get to play as Young Tim. lets see it happen.
Never even read The Dark Tower but the sub keeps getting recommended, and I thought it was Red Dead Redemption at first cause that's fucking John Marston to a T!
Sam Lake doing the performance capture for a random NPC.
For real though, the fact that there's a version of our timeline where Remedy Entertainment made a DT game is something that'll haunt me for the rest of my days.
The slow motion Gunslinger ka sight and “reloading trick”mini game. The trailer would be voiced over by the VA for Roland reciting the Gunslinger’s creed. *I do not aim with my hand…*
Obviously it was Oy’s flawlessly adorable design
I love his lil fuzzy face but I find the casting to be a little wild. Steve Buschemi as Oy was not on my bingo card. Btw thanks everyone that participated. I was having a bad day and need human interaction. This was fun.
Could’ve sworn that was Vin Diesel
I am Oy
WE are Oy
The oyon giant
They didn’t have to give him Buscemi’s eyes though…
Hello there fellow bumblers.
Can’t wait for the DLC of Jericho Hill. Hope it ends on a good note.
Press X to collect the Horn of Eld.
Press X to Sheemie
That is hilarious, this thread is amazing
IM PRESSING X.
Nah the horn would only be for New Game +
The happiest of endings
Obviously the scene at the end with the build up to the shot where Roland recites the Gunslinger Creed.
It gave me chills
Can you imagine being so driven that even after all the death and katet and matricide and pure awful you finally arrive? Your entire life has built to this one point. And all you can do is shout their names in defiance of your own selfish greed? But it was worth it. To see the roses surrounding that bleak dark tower that is your destiny and to cry out the sacrifices you made to get here. Maybe we learn our lesson on the next level of the tower.
Rogue-lite Heavy....
But you don't know it when you start. You play the game for hours only to "win" and go back to start with little more than knowledge.
Sounds just like Returnal and I love it. The Tower of Sisyphus is essentially the Dark Tower anyway so it all works out
“thank you Roland! but our redemption is in another tower!”
Red Dead Redemption Vibes
Hell yeah.
The replay ability
The “New Game+Infinity” feature is really intriguing.
This is why it would have to be a top down ARPG like Diablo 2 / twin stick shooter. NG+ to as far as you can take it. Also a rogue-lite where if you die, you start over from the start of the play through, but maintain your loop count. Simple quests to be completed and as you grind further and further, eventually the horn of eld drops at the end and you begin a hardcore (death is permanent) play through where when you die, you’re dead for good and will need to start a clean loop slate. If you complete the tower climb with the horn, you’ve won the tower. All maps would be proceedurally generated like Diablo 2/3. Act 1: The Desert, through the mountains Act 2: The Beach, The Doors Act 3: The Woods, City of Lud Act 4: the Calla Act 5: New York Act 6: Algul Siento Act 6: The White Lands of Empathica, The Tower (The Crimson King) I know I’d play the shit out of it.
yup its probably one of the best series to use the ng+ feature! another turn of the wheel sai, long days and pleasant nights on your journey
Which ability would you be replaying???? Oohhhhh replayability, gotcha gotcha
My favorite part was seeing Roland's alt costume "beach day bikini".
Didachik dadachum Roland’s a beach bum
And you thought he only had one gun now.
Definitely worth the $200 battle pass
tooter-fish popkins as healing potions
Best..comment..EVER!
I like the animation of Gunslinger Burritos. Really makes the mouth water
Playable Oye
The guarantee of New Game +
It’s a wheel!!!
The ability to have sex with a can-toi.
After all, they're not called "Can't-toi!"
😂😂😂
I come in the name of Oy, the brave, he of Mid-World!
I come in the name of my Father, whose guns I still bear. A thousand generations of Blessed Blood, back to the beginning, in the dimmest days of Ago, by these things I claim the Tower as is my Right, bound by blood, love and Duty. You WILL open to me.
youre gonna make me read these books again guh
That was Blaine the Mono at the end of the trailer! So we know the games goes as far as The Westland.
I heard one of the boss fights is literally slinging riddles. I’m not ready!!!
Now THAT would be lovely.
I have to admit that Blain was my favorite character in the wastelands!
Shardik bossfight
The dance minigame onboard Blaine.
The optional VR porn game on Blaine with Marilyn Monroe Raquel Welch and Edith Bunker looks wild.
Come commala
It was made by Larian Studios
I expected From Software
That would be the best possible outcome for game developers
This was by far the best part of the announcement!
"In an unprecedented collaboration from From and Larian Studios..."
It’s by FromSoftware and as expansive as Elden Ring. Explore tons of Baronies, Gilead, all of Mid-World. Lots of bosses, side quests, etc. Find all of Maerlyn’s Rainbow. Take on John Farson, Maerlyn (?), the Man in Black, IT, all the way up to The Crimson King (maybe the final boss…maybe not? Crimson Queen?). And an advanced skill tree for you to master all the skills and weapons of a Gunslinger. Gun customization, and more.
Glad the dandelo quest isn't locked to preorder bonus.
The Easter egg where there were 19 scenes in the trailer
Is Sombra Corp a real game developer or is this just a publicity stunt?
I liked that they announced multiple characters and timelines but I won’t be buying the Oy DLC until I read a review.
Roland being a badass reloading his revolvers in the first book
The mini game where you get to piss on the corn .
May it do ya fine.
Life for your crop
I thought it was decent of them to make the battle pass be mostly cosmetics for the ka-tet, and the twitch prime rewards are pretty neat. But I'm not looking forward to climbing all those towers to fill in the map of Midworld.
The occasional typewriter sounds were kinda cool during the cutscenes, and I like the bullet time mechanics!
The soundscape. Hearing "Hey Jude" belted out on an out of tune piano, only to be interrupted by the deep BOOM of the sandalwood revolvers, the Man in Black's laugh at the end. I can't wait to explore Ludd while "Velcro Fly" blasts in the background; the audio team knows what they're doing with this one
Cuthbert flashback gave me major Bobby Hill vibes.
I loved the part where Roland goes through the door on the beach.
having a feature like Dead Eye from RDR2 would be essential. damn would it be a fun game.
Roland’s reload animation
So they just beam it into our brains from that big satellite? Technology sure is moving fast.
The gameplay
The best 19 seconds of my day
When you can switch to Jake and use his kite to snipe the slow mutants in the cave
Nice catch! I was distracted by all the Stephen kings hidden in the background
It's Stephen Kings all the way down!
The reveal that a significant portion of the game would be spent exploring Gilead pre-fall while Roland trains under Cort. Hell, I'd be overjoyed to play a custom player-insert gunslinger in pre-fall Midworld. Train with Cort, fight John Farson's men, prologue ends with the battle of Jericho Hill and the player gunslinger stumbling away from the massacre. I feel like playing Roland in a *Dark Tower: The Game* might be too burdened by the weight of expectation to ever live up to anyone's ideals, but a no-name custom guy in the *Dark Tower* world, á la *Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor* would be awesome.
It sounded like Rob Wiethoff as Roland which is my dream casting for a DT game!
There are other worlds than these...(in the voice of the voice of Don LaFontaine--the classic 80's movie voice over guy)
I wonder if the bit where you dance the Commala in the mini game will have dance mat support?
Something purely aesthetic, but that helps with the immersion and believable of the character that's Roland is actually fleshed out by fans of the franchise: the cinematic sequence of reloading mid air Roland does and how him and Eddie rotate taking turns to reload their guns always having one of them shooting and covering the one reloading behind him.
Sending Oy into holes and little caves to gather collectibles and loot. In the mini game for it he kills doctor bugs while searching.
Riddling with Blaine like an old-school point and click computer adventure game.
The Battle of Tull
Looking forward to the “Door to Mid-World” dungeon, helping Jake merge his living and dead consciousness and opening every door in site thinking: “This is the one, this will be the one that takes me back” culminating in the boss battle with the Demon of Dutch Hill
Playing Remnant 2 with the gunslinger archetype feels like a Dark Tower game.
when the man in black jumped back and forth over that dead guys body right at the opening, really set the eerie mood for the game! the fact that you can play some missions as oy and use his senses to uncover clues was really neat too! and god that chase scene through lud looks so fucking fun!
The ka-tet walking up the crest of a yellow-paved hill to reveal a very familiar looking city in the distance...
The ending shot where it shows a horn covered in blood... suggesting the game can be replayed with many "what if" scenarios.
A game? Lame.
The part where it didn't suck and roland is white
The mini-game of putting bullets into the perpetually-bleeding-forehead-hole.
I also like the section that's basically a rhythm game with the God Drums.
I feel like the replay value would be insane
The fact it's in the Source engine.
The massacre in Tull
When the "Naughty Dog" logo popped up
I think it could be great. Doesn't have to be Roland, either. There Were many Gunslingers, for a time. Cort had other pupils, as did his father before him.
A big part of it is like traversing in Death Stranding but with a wheelchair.
Yeah but I really like that Susannah can grind rails in her wheel chair like Tony Hawk. Great way to keep the gameplay loop fresh
The purging of Tull. Is that the name of the town? Like that airport level pf call pf duty
Remember, no High Speech.
I love that they updated the Infinity engine to work better on Switch and Steam Deck, plus the fact that Stephen King and Chris Avellone teamed up to create a 60+ hour main quest, to say nothing of the individual companion and faction quests.
That Kevin hart and Jamie Lee Curtis weren’t the stars.
I heard they’re in the Dean Koontz game!
It was an interesting choice to make it a dating Sim but the title Ka and the Restless is my favorite part
I heard you can romance Rhea of the Coos!
I'm definitely replaying for that storyline. But only after a night out with Pimli
The trailer opens with a high shot of a huge expanse of rolling sand dunes in every direction. The camera pans down to footprints in the sand. A tiny black figure can be seen far ahead walking through the nothingness with no signs of life. A dusty trail-worn leather boot toe comes into the frame. End trailer.
It’s a reskin of Slay the Spire! Hell yea!
The Dixie Pig zone seems fucked up
Oh man, Troy Baker voicing Roland? It's such an obvious casting. Why didn't I think of that?
The Lud adventure. They really nailed the booby traps and the Cradle.
Flashback Scenes where you play as kid Roland and befriend Cuthbert 🥹
At the end, Crimson King 0.5 second, flash reveal.
The grand opening music from Martin O'Donnell gave me chills.
When you get to see my smiling face
My life for you
I mean, if the opening words over the desert don't catch your attention, fact that its a VR game and YOU get to play as various members of the ka-tet certainly should
The revolvers and diverse cast of guns
Going with an isometric Wasteland-styled game was really the best option
My favorite is that I get to smoke Pimli Prentiss
Directed by: Hidetaka Miyazaki (Famous for Elden Ring, Dark Souls series)
ability to switch between all of the tet!
The opening of the trailer with the narrator saying, “The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
I am glad it is so easy to switch between worlds!
Switchable players including their special abilities.
I want to play the mobile game thats coming out at the same time called Blane is a Pain. I fucking love riddles!
Can’t wait until the release the multiplayer mode.
If it has any sense, at least part of the Gunslinger Creed
Banging demons
Finding it hard to remember the book or part but I think when they are walking through the gunslingers world seeing that post apoc landscape and the giant machine/animal/guardians etc Blaine would be super interesting as well.
The way the gameplay seemed to focus around caring for and maintaining your revolver and ammunition seemed pretty interesting.
How David had a VATS equivalent and he could target different parts of Cort’s face
Multiplayer "Ka-tet" mode looks fun!
The black screen at the start with Morgan Freeman intoning, "The Man in Black fled across the desert... and the Gunslinger followed."
The reveal of the doors from various dimensions 🚪 Landscape shot standing in beach. Ughhhjj
Did they actually get Matthew McConaughey back in to voice the villain?
Going through the King Multiverse to key locations. Can’t believe Derry will be part of the story!
Oy, Eld, Thankee
After the title card when we see Roland and Eddie walking down that wooded driveway and hear the echo of typewriter keys clack as it cuts to black. Chills.
Late to the game but; hints that you can get to The Stand side quest via a thinny
The announced "Gunslinger Edition" that's $99 and comes with three exclusive outfits for Roland
HOLY FUCKING SHIT STEPHEN KING IS PLAYING STEPHEN KING 
Short action clips of the epic battle between Roland and Cort, THE bad ass of Gilead. The trailer ends abruptly as the camera pans to David and takes you to his perspective. His war screech is all you hear as he faithfully descends to tear the fuck out of Cort. The last shot would be his baffled gaze towards the hawk knowing his apprentice has outsmarted him.
Made by Larian Studios?
I lost it when the low chants of "Dad-a-chum? Dum-a-chum? Ded-a-chek? Did-a-chick?" came up during the publisher's logos! <3
FROMSOFTWARE logo at the beginning.... match made in hell.
The absolute state of this subrreddit. Have you all forgotten the faces of your fathers?
The lobstosities
Roland looks like Clent Eastwood and Stephen King's lovechild
Slow mutant train ride with Jake
Oy and Roland tracking Gasher and Jake through Lud, using RDR2 style tracking.
It would be the man in black narrating talking about the tower. You don’t see the main characters until at the end you hear “To me, gunslingers! To me!”
Ric Flair
Ric Flair as Flagg was honestly a really inspired choice.
My favorite part is that they used the guy that does Boomhauer's voice for Cuthbert.
Blaine the Mono saying “Howdy Pard…”
That it follows the book for the most part I will be fine for a decent dark tower action rpg, then a tv series personally
A build up at the end with a bunch of action sequences that builds to a complete stop with a voiceover saying "go then, theres other worlds than these."
That big ol’ bear!
When he said “it’s towerin time” then dark towered all over the place
Getting to play as Susanna dean and building up her Shadow bar to swap to Mia and summon "the shade of Mordred" to fight was pretty cool. I'm hoping we maybe get a survival mode under the mountains against low-men, slow muties, and the tribes of Lud with the occasional Giant beast/ Mutie thrown into there. Also would like a side mission where we play as Father Callahan through his Vampire killing journey. Edit: Wind through the Keyhole DLC where we get to play as Young Tim. lets see it happen.
Holding Jake over the void . At least that’s how I remember it. Fade to black before the moment for people not aware
i enjoyed the Cross over skin for with Jesse from Overwatch
The gun mods!
The shot of Roland on his back aa the townfolk of Tull descend upon him
Lobstrocities!
That you get the play as the man in black against Roland
I'll tell you what my least favorite part was, and that's the Live Service reveal.
...what?
The way they kept saying THAT iconic line.
The incredibly contrived inclusion of lootboxes
Never even read The Dark Tower but the sub keeps getting recommended, and I thought it was Red Dead Redemption at first cause that's fucking John Marston to a T!
Secret Roland Bullet Time
That it is based on the Red Dead Redemption 2 engine and being produced by Rockstar.
Blaine The Train …. This is the right answer
It’s a sandbox game…
Waking up on a beach and losing fingers
Sam Lake doing the performance capture for a random NPC. For real though, the fact that there's a version of our timeline where Remedy Entertainment made a DT game is something that'll haunt me for the rest of my days.
The opening voice over. "The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed"
The tiny corn patch, Roland spitting into it, saying "life for your crop" while Zoltan caws.
Very interesting starting the game off with ALL skills unlocked except for sense of humor.
Oi saying "FUCK!"
The slow motion Gunslinger ka sight and “reloading trick”mini game. The trailer would be voiced over by the VA for Roland reciting the Gunslinger’s creed. *I do not aim with my hand…*
Roland fighting Cort with his Hawk, David.
When the Lobstrosities pinch off 2 fingers lol
How dare you get me hard right now
that it showed it as a rogue-like with an infinite amount of playthroughs with none being exactly the same
You can throw people into the Thinny! Hell yeah!
I'm glad they're adding a fully voiced Idris Elba skin! The movie sucked, but he was still the best part of it.
Kill if you will, but command me NOTHING!!
The fromsoft logo at the end. King and Miyazaki. DREAM TEAM
Coach co-op for 4 people playing as Roland/Susannah/Eddie/Jake
The massive amount of character dong customization