Posted on: February 3, 2019

nikolausklinger

Spiele: 58 Rezensionen: 4

the hard life of adventure

dont forget your blankets, coats, swords, ropes, winterboots, water and food when you start travelling ;) this game can be very unforgiving when wandering around the landscape without beeing prepared for any kind of weather and terrain (and of course orks), so save often. your warriors could catch a bad cold, get sick or just die of hunger while trying to get over the next snowy mountaintop. while at the same time it feel very "real" and motivating to explore the map... there is a lot to see! the most hidden corners of the map, are often the most interessting... a lot of (sometimes random) text encounters are on the road and many times you have to use your skills or choose one of your characters to do a certain job ,according who has the skills that fit like swimming, climbing, hiding) micro management of your group is absolutely necessary to survive. cities and dungeons are built in 3d while travelling is on an overland map. those 3d cities are sometimes really huge and makes your feel greatful that they implemented a good auto-map into the game. nonetheless, cities are huge and one could get lost easily. at least as a kid i found its sometimes really difficult to figure out what to do next and where i should go. combat can be very lenghty since its turn based and slow, but in overall its a nice nostalgic game, which i enjoyed very much (a real GOG). good memories, i am sure i will install it again and travel around see what i can find on the way

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Posted on: November 5, 2017

grundke_s

Spiele: 3 Rezensionen: 3

For fans

I was thrilled when these games came out. Being a fan of the pen-and-paper-world the games are based on, I looked forward to their release for month and must've repeatedly played and finished all of the three games in the series. For me, these games are great. But I always considered myself one of the few people who enjoyed playing them and not really expected a lot of others enjoying them as well. That's why I never quite understood why they dared to release these games for any other market than the german one. Back then, this software was aimed at a thriving community of the corresponding pen-and-paper-system. Nobody minded that they implemented heaps of useless stats and talents and spells. On the contrary: People probably wouldn't have received the games well otherwise. They would have been considered a watered-down version of the original gaming-system, which was all about a shitload of stats that rarely mattered once you started playing. As a consequence, for people unfamiliar with the roleplaying-world of the Dark Eye, the computer-games must've been terrible to play. I am surprised that the series did rather well internationally nonetheless. Keep in mind that the system had never been translated into another language on a large scale and that it relied heavily on language, despite all it's maths and tables and stats. That was years before Fantasy Productions took over and started messing with the gameworld in a way that scared off a lot of the german fans. Storywise, these games had quite a bit to offer, as well: They give an adequate impression of the northern part of the gaming-world and I would have loved to see other parts of Aventuria come to life on the computer as well. They eventually did, but only much later: The Drakensang series, is, as far as I am concerned, an even better adaption. It's less hardcore but still very true to the orginal gaming world - and therefore highly recommended.

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Posted on: August 4, 2017

Tyrsword

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Spiele: 648 Rezensionen: 1

Dated graphics, but marvelous adventure

Realms of Arkania is one of the outstanding party adventures that came out in the nineties. The game has a pretty cool storyline, that enfolds through the whole series. Since it's a game out of a pen&paper background there is a large world, that was developed throughout the years with the help of the community. The graphics of the first two parts of the series have been quite dated already on release. The system is not very accesible to beginners, but if you can put up with these two shortcomings you get one of the most detailed rpgs ever. You can play it very much your way. There are even people who played the whole games through with just one partymember. But how you want to develop your crew is totally up to you. If you'd like to you could even make a living out of trading, or as a band of musicians or whatever. One thing I really would like to recommend though is one communitypatch since there still is a bug with the resilience to magica in the first part. A couple of human enemies are ridiculously resilient, almost immune to crowd controlling magic. This makes it a very bad choice to take a druid, elve or magician with your party, that specialices on this kind of magic. However, there is a communitypatch which can be found on the web. Thanks to gog for providing us with this gem. Thanks to the community for polishing it. p.s. Please excuse my English, I'm not a native speaker.

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Posted on: December 11, 2020

Lninefingers

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Spiele: 202 Rezensionen: 2

Ultimately too tedious to be much "fun"

Crpgs are my favorite game category of all time. Baldurs gate, Fallout, even tactical-types like Jagged Alliance top my all-time list. As a slightly older gamer, Realms seemed like a natural fit, and I had read a fair amount beforehand about how hard and detailed it was, even among the genre. You can spend a solid hour creating and crafting your party, but I didnt mind. You can spend another hour researching how and what skills will be needed or useful. I didnt mind. You can spend even more time researching spells and their effects.. I think you see what I mean by now. All of these things are welcome in a hard-core old rpg, if done well, but they just arent. After hours of slogging through the actual game-play, the low-budget and admitted inexperience of the developers becomes glaringly apparent. The ideas and mechanics werent implemented in such a way to compliment each other, or even work at all in some cases. You will spend much more time fighting your inventory managment than you will actual enemies. Starting in the first dungeon, after finding a couple treasure chests and winning a few battles, you will have to treck back to town to sell what youve found, partially because you wont have room for it, but more so because you will be so weighted down, fighting becomes impossible. Quickly you have enough money to get the best starter armor and equipment, but the designers cleary didnt have this mind, because a full armor-set means even your strongest warrior will be weighed down to the point where they will not be able carry anything else in their inventory and still be effective. The designers werent expecting you to get full armor until youve leveled up a couple times and increased your strength. This hardly helps in any case, early on your spellcasters will fail nearly every spell barring a few. Battles with 10 enemies, all of them as strong as your best warrior are common early game. Again- ideas good, execution not so much. Your mileage may vary.

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Posted on: August 21, 2013

Takuan017

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Spiele: 9 Rezensionen: 1

Great!

Both titles worked so far on my Win8 and even cluebooks included? Like most RPG's in the early days that game isnt ment to be played through in one attempt. Its not balanced to death and here you CAN make wrong decisions. At my first attempt my party starved in the wilderness and a cold killed them all? Took me a while to find the right items and skills to avoid this. If you dont like that kind of stuff, better dont touch it. Me likes alot! A rewarding story and true challenge.

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