Eschalon: Book I

The game itself may be promising, has the usual ingredients of this type of thing - roll character, awaken with no memory of who you are but find a mysterious note signed by a single letter (except the person tells you their name in the letter, so signing off with an initial comes across as abit og a git.) Nice music with birds happily chirping away. Isometric map where you can't really tell if items are placed out of sight against the left or lower walls without moving your pointer over everything. Plenty of text hinting at promise of adventures to come...... All this in a tiny, teensy little screen window with no easily discernable way to change this to a higher screen resolution. And so your quest begins... search the forums with most promising leads leading to the third game in the series. A few hopeful side quest leads, drifting off into someone going on about Linux. Rumours an scraps of info of an ancient arcane spell and knowledge of changing various settings if you speak to someone called Nvidia settings. It is possible from this to deduce the reason your character has a loss of memory and who they are is most likely the time they spent banging their head against a wall trying to up the screen resolution and following duff links on doing so. All in all, better ways to spend your time.

go away

The game mechanics and story (what I saw of them) are fairly solid, but I've not seen a game this inexcusably buggy since Daggerfall. This is even worse, though, because while Daggerfall fell afoul of pressing too hard on the bleeding edge of the technology of the time, this is failing at something that was being done pretty consistently reliably 20 years ago, and with the limited resources of 20-years-older hardware. Full application crashes happened several times, and the game falling non-responsive, forcing me to kill the process from the system monitor, was a constant occurance, having done so literally dozens of times in a game that, according to the savefile timestamps, I had only been at for 3.3 hours when I gave up on it.

Although i really tried, i didnt get any entertainment out of this title: Graphics are dated, progress is slow, battles are shallow, controls are clunky... All in all, there just isnt anything special about this title, nothing that would have kept me playing...

A poor game. The game mechanics are extremely sloppy. You spend more time resting and reloading and reloading and reloading because your character rarely hits anything. This isn't my 10th RPG but my 12th, so I know how to build efficient characters. With 7 points on Sword, 23 on STR, END, SPD & DEX, should be close to a tank, but couldn't fight a barrel let alone other opponents. Resting is excruitatingly frustrating. You're bleeding out, you rest for two minutes and then get ambushed, making the resting system close to redundant. Once or twice isn't so bad but it happens *every* *single* *time*. and it's so slow as well There's barely any gold in the game yet the merchants charge top fare for low quality items. What topped off this negative experince is the corrupted save. After 24hours of gameplay, the save corrupted. This game has potential but it is such a frustrating grind, I unistalled with heavy disappointment. The only upside is: it's free and that's a good thing because no-one should waste money on this trash. The laughable thing is: the developer accused Diablo of being the slip in RPGs. Strange how such an inexperienced developer that releases a rough idea as a finished product slates one of the best RPGs to date. Stay away from these cowboys.