Anyone have any thoughts on this RPG. Gamersgate has it on sale and I have been playing with the Demo for a bit. Just looking for other feedback.

Oh wow...you're the only other person on the internet that has even HEARD of this game lol...

I played for quite a while...7-8 hours. I really liked the story and the soundtrack, but I feel I was missing something story-wise (the book sounds pretty amazing, from what I've heard). It has some jarring bugs that occur once in a while, but nothing game-breaking.

Critics didn't seem to like it, but my overall opinion was positive.

I'd been waiting for this one for a while. GamersGate used to sell two versions, a cheap $15 one and at $39.99. The cheap one was regionally restricted. And the publisher of the other one was unwilling to drop the price.

It seems the expensive version was finally removed from the store and cheap one discounted further. It was, until Monday, still regionally restricted here though. Thankfully, GamersGate removed the restrictions and I was able to get it with bluecoins...

Haven't had a chance to try it yet as I still have a mountain of work to finish. The only review for it on GamersGate seems fairly positive though and at the price, it's worth the risk (especially if you're paying with bluecoins) =)

What's funny is, before I left for school 4 hours ago, I was contemplating buying this game, and was even intending to post a similar thread to this asking for others' opinions, but decided I would do it after school lol. It does look like my cup of tea.

@babby: does this game have a good serving of choices and consequences? Are dialogues interesting?

Actually, if you can grab it at a discount price, the game worths the time invested. There are a few ways to skin a cat (to do a quest), and there are some consequences to your choices. But not too many. One interesting thing it's the fact that if you have the proper armor/uniform/costume, you can obtain quests that you wouldn't get otherwise. You will juggle with those costumes in many ways and you will get a perspective from every faction in the game. Don't expect good graphics. The graphics are functional and provide the environment, but it's nothing to write home about.

Overall, it's a good game, which had an incredible potential to become a great one. But you can't expect that a russian company would have the same amount of money or experience as an western company. And with those russians, you never know: they can come up with an incredible concept and deliver it in a flawed manner ( Precursors, comes to my mind ) or they'll make a rather well polished game like King's Bounty.

So if it's around 10$ or lower, grab Hard to be a God. The story unfolds once you advance deeper and deeper in the game. At the beginning you are in a fantasy world, fighting with medieval weaponry. Towards the second half, the science fiction part starts to unveil and you ill get a different feel (the older guys might remember Wizardry and Might and Magic which always had a science fiction component).

What about English localization? Are the dialogues and texts awful, passable or good?

i'm also on the fence for this one, it doesn't sound or look particularly bad, but there's something about it that bugs me.

I got it, it's very much like a budget-ware version of Two Worlds.

I have always been on the fence for this one, on one side I like the premise and some idea, one the other side nearly all the reviews I read about it have been uniformly bad.

If the GG version was DRM-free I would probably have gone for it as it isnt I will wait.

EDIT: That remind me that I bought the book two months ago and still haven't read it.

Is this that game where you spend the majority playing a medieval/Renaissance archetype, and then at the very end you discover *BIG SPOILER* you're from Earth or something, and get to play the rest of the game in a space suit and with a laser gun? *END SPOILER* Man, I haven't thought about that game in ages. I REALLY got tired quickly of all the costume changes required to complete certain missions. I mean, you had to have EVERY piece of a certain outfit on to make it work as a disguise.