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A legend reborn as Realms of Arkania: Blade of Destiny returns!
Developed by Austrian developer Crafty Studios, Realms of Arkania – Blade of Destiny is a faithful remake of the 1992 original, adored by a generation of Role Players and one of the most successful RPG’s of the 1990’s.
Get ready to return to Thorwal, one of the oldest cities of Aventuria. Make sure your wits are sharpened before walking down the small alleys of Thorwal and Prem, and prepare to stop the Orcisch threat while creating a mighty alliance between nations. Featuring a complete visual reimagining along with a comprehensive overhaul of every aspect of the gameplay, Realms of Arkania – Blade of Destiny is set to captivate a 21st century audience of new and old fans alike.
Old school RPG at its best – for the Fans of REAL RPG games.
Trailer
Cannot seem to find the official trailer from the developer anywhere, so gamespot will have to do
Features:
Revised Edition
Wow another great RPG is now on Steam for Linux and it looks pretty damn good too, looking over the reviews some people have spent a lot of time playing this game and sent in a good review for it.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
A legend reborn as Realms of Arkania: Blade of Destiny returns!
Developed by Austrian developer Crafty Studios, Realms of Arkania – Blade of Destiny is a faithful remake of the 1992 original, adored by a generation of Role Players and one of the most successful RPG’s of the 1990’s.
Get ready to return to Thorwal, one of the oldest cities of Aventuria. Make sure your wits are sharpened before walking down the small alleys of Thorwal and Prem, and prepare to stop the Orcisch threat while creating a mighty alliance between nations. Featuring a complete visual reimagining along with a comprehensive overhaul of every aspect of the gameplay, Realms of Arkania – Blade of Destiny is set to captivate a 21st century audience of new and old fans alike.
Old school RPG at its best – for the Fans of REAL RPG games.
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Features:
- Remake of the first part of Realms of Arkania
- Roleplaygame with turn based tactical fights
- Cities and dungeons in current real-time-3D
- Dozens of talents, fighting skills and magical skills
- Authentic realization of the TDE basic rules
- Depending on your gaming style – 20 to 80 hours game time
Revised Edition
- User-Contributed Content
- Modding ability
- Additional encounters, making Aventuria even more alive
- Enhanced Battles
- Completely redone graphics
- Completely revised and improved User Interface
- Extended music selection
- Enhanced sound
- Steam Achievements, Stats and Cloud
- Linux build
Wow another great RPG is now on Steam for Linux and it looks pretty damn good too, looking over the reviews some people have spent a lot of time playing this game and sent in a good review for it.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Pretty disappointed, this game is bugged to high heaven. This game is no where near ready. I hope an update make it playable.
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Blade of Destiny is a faithful remake of the 1992 original
It's even so much a "faithful" remake that the company that publishes the pen & paper roleplaying game officially distanced itself from the remake of the computer games (*).
(*) The rights for the computer game lie with a different company, for historical reasons. The current rights holder for the pen & paper system is also not the same company that held them when the original Realms of Arkania games were released.
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This game is no where near ready. I hope an update make it playable.It was released back in July. It's been 5 months and dozens of updates, and people still hope that it's gonna be playable some day...
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I don't mind if it takes a while but there are some real interesting bugs right off the back, defaulting to German may stump a few people... I really want to play it but hopefully it bakes a bit while I got other games to play.This game is no where near ready. I hope an update make it playable.It was released back in July. It's been 5 months and dozens of updates, and people still hope that it's gonna be playable some day...
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I watched a couple videos on YouTube and it looks terrible, especially once it gets into combat. And some terrible bugs (that may be fixed now).
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"REAL RPG"
You mean the character-driven kind that doesn't involve a computer?
You mean the character-driven kind that doesn't involve a computer?
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I watched a couple videos on YouTube and it looks terrible, especially once it gets into combat. And some terrible bugs (that may be fixed now).Graphics and animations have been improved as well since release, so you should check if what you see is from the latest patch (1.32). Improving goes on, so the bugs hopefully will get less and less.
The game has very good moddability so you can add your own quests, events, items and so on or try some mods that someone else created.
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Has performance issues, otherwise looks fun. It's on my list of many games I have yet to play =)
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I am on the fence with this game.
OK on the one hand all the reviews are terrible, yet most of them date from July or August or September, when the game was released in a broken state. Rumours have it that it was a conflict between the developing studio and the publisher. Publishers always win. Since then the developers have released several patches. The latest patch in December is apparently almost like a patch 2.0, bringing a lot of improvements.
I am going get this game, if only to support what could be a solid Rpg on linux, and I feel that the support is going to be ongoing for a while... There is a hardcore group of players supporting it, so there must be something about this game that keeps them loyal.
OK on the one hand all the reviews are terrible, yet most of them date from July or August or September, when the game was released in a broken state. Rumours have it that it was a conflict between the developing studio and the publisher. Publishers always win. Since then the developers have released several patches. The latest patch in December is apparently almost like a patch 2.0, bringing a lot of improvements.
I am going get this game, if only to support what could be a solid Rpg on linux, and I feel that the support is going to be ongoing for a while... There is a hardcore group of players supporting it, so there must be something about this game that keeps them loyal.
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That double-pricing will never end I suppose. I wonder whose brilliant idea was first to introduce dolar/euro equality in number while selling the games. Steam does the same, though it doesn't affect me, it is annoying for other people who live (possibly in Europe).
6.79$ in that case. Still it might be worth for it, considering the developers mentioned that they will provide the Gold DLC for free to those who have stayed with them all along and that those who bought during that time(from the August to today) will not be at a disadvantage upon the release. And they should be quite close to release considering they did not postpone the date any further.
Regardless, I believe the game evolved quite much.
6.79$ in that case. Still it might be worth for it, considering the developers mentioned that they will provide the Gold DLC for free to those who have stayed with them all along and that those who bought during that time(from the August to today) will not be at a disadvantage upon the release. And they should be quite close to release considering they did not postpone the date any further.
Regardless, I believe the game evolved quite much.
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