Friday, December 11, 2009
Realms of Arkania On Sale This Weekend
GOG.COM has the Realms of Arkania games on sale this weekend for 25% off. Like $9 for all three games. The offer expires Monday, so now's your chance.
GOG.COM Realms of Arkania Games Sale
So many games, so little time... But the awesome thing about GOG.COM - besides being an excellent spot for PC retrogaming - is that when you complete an order, it doesn't just say something stuffy about your transaction (*cough*Like I Do*cough*) - they say, "Kewl, your order is complete."
I've got an older laptop I'm taking with me to Cedar City for Christmas. Maybe I'll get some Arkania action in. Though I've once again got an indie game backlog, and I'll be working on Frayed Knights, so we'll see...
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I played all three Realms of Arkania games when they were first released (though, as usual, not to completion). They were really my kind of game as far as the gameplay went - party-based and turn-based - and I did enjoy them.
But as I recall, I was disappointed, too. There were a lot of neat skills, but not much use to them. I don't know. It's been awhile, and I don't remember too clearly. But I'd just hoped for more.
But there was a period in the 1990's where I was generally disappointed in RPGs. I'd loved the turn-based Ultima games and the early Gold Box games, Wasteland and the Magic Candle games, but my high expectations were not met by later games. I still wanted turn-based, party-based games, but I just expected so much more than I was getting (not in graphics - that was the least of my concerns).
Of course, those kinds of games became few and far between, so I welcomed anything I could get, but... my expectations were just too high, I guess. I wanted exploration and discovery, I wanted a lot of neat - and useful - skills, I wanted... too much.
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But as I recall, I was disappointed, too. There were a lot of neat skills, but not much use to them. I don't know. It's been awhile, and I don't remember too clearly. But I'd just hoped for more.
But there was a period in the 1990's where I was generally disappointed in RPGs. I'd loved the turn-based Ultima games and the early Gold Box games, Wasteland and the Magic Candle games, but my high expectations were not met by later games. I still wanted turn-based, party-based games, but I just expected so much more than I was getting (not in graphics - that was the least of my concerns).
Of course, those kinds of games became few and far between, so I welcomed anything I could get, but... my expectations were just too high, I guess. I wanted exploration and discovery, I wanted a lot of neat - and useful - skills, I wanted... too much.
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