But we didn't have the resources to have exploration the way that you would in Dragon Age or something.

We realized, when we started making the game, that we wanted a big, epic-sized world. The travel scenes that were in the announcement trailer are actual gameplay.Īrnie Jorgensen: I put up the wallpaper and called it in-game art, and everyone says, 'Oh, this is awesome, I can't wait to see in-game shots.' And I say, 'That was an in-game shot!'Īlex Thomas: The idea behind it is you're an entire civilization of Vikings escaping from this rolling darkness that's swallowing up the world behind it. RPS: So how is single-player structured? Is there an overworld? How does it progress?Īlex Thomas: One thing that we found people did not connect with, even though we tried to explain it as much as we could. So I asked Stoic about every last bit of it: how it'll progress, what sort of Big Evil Force we're dealing with, where choices will come up and how much they'll affect the storyline, why all the voice actors are from Iceland, how they mo-capped those gorgeous animations (hint: lots of falling on their faces), and tons more. So then, what could possibly be left? What frigid depths of Stoic's mighty ice fortress have we yet to plumb? Well, mainly the actual Saga - the sprawling, multi-chapter single-player behemoth born of Kickstarter's unholy flames earlier this year. First, we brought you multiplayer impressions straight from the front grid lines, and then you learned everything there is to know about balance, microtransactions, and - in the process - yourself.

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