Current Events > Just finished an all-hobo run in For the King

(+) Yeah! (+)

For the King is a three player co-op RPG, where you pick a starting class and have to work your way up in levels and gear over a mid-length campaign to defeat a final boss. The three players can be controlled by a single user, or one user can use multiple characters while someone else uses one character, or you can have three people controlling their own characters. The game has classes like woodcutter, blacksmith, herbalist, treasure hunter etc. - each with their own gimmick and stat speciality.

The hobo class is basically a joke class. They specialise in no stats, with all of them having 75 of each stat. That means their hits, with any weapon, only have a 75% chance of having a successful roll and hitting the enemy.

You can enhance their skills with gear later on to improve that percentage, but there's no gimmick or draw to using the hobo class. With the herbalist, you can heal an entire party with a single healing item. With treasure hunter, you can find treasure maps out in the wild. When you play as a hobo, you start with a pointy stick that can break if you miss all your rolls - which, due to the 75% chance of landing a hit, is possible.

This is how they started the campaign:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/5/8/AAbh80AACun6.jpg

And this is how they ended up:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/5/9/AAbh80AACun7.jpg

I used to play this a fuckton with my old best friend. We'd always have a herbalist on our team, and he'd get annoyed if I tried to add a hobo onto our team because they're a liability. Our teams were really samey, and he would also shoot down the possibility of adding gambling halls to the game, because he knew I'd use them - this is a game I like to take risks in because it's awesome when it works and it's funny when it fails.

Suffice to say, we had different ways of having fun with this game - I'd argue we had different ways of having fun with video games entirely. But this was still a game we bonded over. There were multiple nights where we stayed up until the sun rose playing For the King. This shit rules.

But in honor of me not being friends with him any more, and being free to play the game however I like - all-hobo team. And honestly I wasn't expecting it to be a success at all. But I just beat the Sea King in one of the game's later campaigns, and I did it my way - even if it meant using up my pool of 5 extra lives due to stupid deaths.

Kukagahic Mamusu, T'vontalus Vihan and Barnabus Dakhar were an unlikely team of bums - figuratively and literally - who were able to beat the odds and save the world. It was a good campaign.