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Indra was here (20747) on 5/4/2009 4:52 PM · edited · Permalink · Report
Best RPG I've played since....er....Realms of Arkania....wooohooo!
Edit: I seriously recommend classic RPG lovers to get this game period. My version as of yet has no previous mentions of bugs or glitches.
The Fabulous King (1332) on 5/4/2009 5:46 PM · edited · Permalink · Report
The unanimous judgement is that Dark Eye sucks beyond imagination. Perhaps it's a sign.
I also like how you recommend this to classic rpg lover's just because it has no glitches or bugs.
I hope you won't be a dissapointment. We'll wait and see. The Indra curse works in mysterious ways.
St. Martyne (3648) on 5/4/2009 8:16 PM · Permalink · Report
[Q --start Rabbi Guru wrote--]The unanimous judgement is that Dark Eye sucks beyond imagination. [/Q --end Rabbi Guru wrote--]
Far be it from me to get involved into your complex realationship with Indra, but I do have to take an issue with this statement.
Dark Eye definitely doesn't suck.
And there are bugs in it too.
PolloDiablo (16847) on 5/5/2009 9:02 AM · edited · Permalink · Report
Yes. If you liked Baldur's Gate (NOT Dark Alliance but the REAL BG!), try this. I'm enjoying it a lot and haven't even left Ferdok yet.
=edit= what unanimous judgement? mobyrank
The Fabulous King (1332) on 5/5/2009 9:48 AM · edited · Permalink · Report
mobyrank
They are all german reviews. With some dutch ones. Germany is a very inbred place gamewise, german games for german people. German reviews have praised other german games too, that in fact were awful and tasteless for us non-german people. cough german adventure games cough
And the whole mobyrank thing is illusory at best too. For example, adventure reviewer sites review only adventure games. But since suffering from an inferiority complex, they all give each new adventure game (or used to anyway) maximum stars and points, and thus you often see in mediocre adventure game mobyranks a thousand "100!!!" reviews and a one gamespot "20" review.
But you're mixing yourself into something that is really not about games.
Sciere (932878) on 5/5/2009 2:49 PM · edited · Permalink · Report
If you follow Adventure Gamers, you'll see that next to being an authority, it is also one of the harshest critics of the genre.
Indra was here (20747) on 5/5/2009 4:36 PM · Permalink · Report
[Q --start PolloDiablo wrote--]I'm enjoying it a lot and haven't even left Ferdok yet. [/Q --end PolloDiablo wrote--] Complicated...complicated.
Character development is the most complex I've ever encountered in any RPG. Any RPG that even remotely reaches the ability to develop more than 10 skills + stats is worthy of mention. This game has more than 30 developable skills. All skills are obtainable regardless of class. Utopia as far as character development is concerned.
Balancing seems to be a problem. My characters have only reached level 4-5 (reached Ferdok and own house)...and you constantly need experience to increase each and every stat. Monsters do not spawn, and experience is limited somehow, hence the slow advancement.
How the hell do find ducats in this game? So poor.
Iggi (37562) on 5/20/2009 7:31 PM · edited · Permalink · Report
That's (at least in my opinion, though I'm far from an experienced TBE player :-) ) the great advantage of the TDE series: You don't start with a character too stupid to even hit a spider and end with a character that makes one swing with a sword, the whole screen explodes and all enemies within several miles are dead (like with the AD&D system - let alone that you can survive several attacks by a dragon(!) or so almost unharmed).
Instead you start with a character that may be a bit inexperienced, but at least knows how to hold a sword or cast some basic spells. Over time you will learn more and more things, but you have to choose which abilities to improve way more than in other games. In the end your character will be far from perfect, but at least it will be a specialist in a few things. Maybe I shoud note now that I haven't played Drankensang yet, but I always had the impression that the TDE universe had way more focus on actual role-playing than on character improvement. That's way more realistic, and that's why I like it, and I definitely don't think that that's a balancing problem! :-) (And I hope what I've said is also valid for Drakensang.)
And yes, I'm German ;-)
Indra was here (20747) on 5/24/2009 6:33 PM · Permalink · Report
Finished the game. Final result: Subject for trashing. Realms of Arkania is still way better.
Game Guesser (28) on 5/28/2009 10:41 PM · Permalink · Report
if I put my hand over certain logos and squint, this thread could reasonably pass for something on RPG Codex.
Indra was here (20747) on 5/29/2009 6:30 PM · Permalink · Report
[Q --start Dais wrote--]if I put my hand over certain logos and squint, this thread could reasonably pass for something on RPG Codex. [/Q --end Dais wrote--] You mean the site that talks about "adventure games?" Heh.