Kingdom Come - Interview @ Polygon

Colin Campbell of Polygon interviewed Warhorse studios this week to talk with Daniel Vávra about his latest RPG game Kingdom Come: Deliverance.

Why is Medieval Fantasy so Dominant?

Games, movies and TV shows are full of worlds that take a medieval backdrop and overlay fantasy elements, like mystical creatures and magical powers. Vávra believes that realism also has its place.

"Advances in special effects mean that fantastical elements ans superheroes are popular, because they look so great. The same thing in video games, in terms of fantasy. Designers wanted to do dragons from the early days and so they did them. Everyone has gotten used to it and they don’t want to remove those parts."

He said that the game is packed full of quests. "I was a little bit afraid at first. I worried that we would not have enough ideas for side quests. Can we really do 50 quests based in medieval villages without monsters? It turns out, we can. We have more ideas for quests than we can use and I think they are interesting, more so than in other RPGs.