The Dark Eye Blackguards - turn-based tactical RPG set in The Dark Eye world

[Commissar Draco]

Now made decent story end evil choices Which won't be chaotic stupid and we're set Baby.

 

[Cyberarmy]

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What can the nature of a Codex?
It seems we have an answer :D

 

[Gelbvieh]

This pic is raising so many questions for me:

Spoiler

Bestiality or Necro? Is it both if it's the latter?
Will they be exploring these questions?

Do I still fap?

I'm terribly excited by the potential for evildoing. Something along the lines of Prince of Thorns (if anyone has read that) would be a joy! It's pretty rare for an RPG to reward evil gameplay, and although you are still saving the stupid world, maybe at least this will let you do it... badly? For lots of cash & hookers.

 

[Kem0sabe]

Now made decent story end evil choices Which won't be chaotic stupid and we're set Baby.

I'm pretty confident they can write a compelling story. Curious about how they will manage with the rest of the game considering their collective inexperience with the genre.

Will be updating the first post as more info is released.

 

[JarlFrank]

I'm pretty confident they can write a compelling story. Curious about how they will manage with the rest of the game considering their collective inexperience with the genre.

Probably getting some inspiration from pen and paper sessions. A developer who first makes an adventure game set in the DSA world, and then an RPG, is sure to play the DSA pen and paper RPG.

 

[norolim]

WTF is this all about? There has to be some evil plot behind it. TB RPG after TB RPG...by the time this week ends, will have 50 new TB RPGs announced.

 

[Cyberarmy]

WTF is this all about? There has to be some evil plot behind it. TB RPG after TB RPG...by the time this week ends, will have 50 new TB RPGs announced.

Search for Blackguards

 

[Jaesun]

Now we just need a Pathfinder TB RPG.

I know! I keep wondering why the fuck no one is doing this yet!

 

[norolim]

Search for Blackguards

You mean those kind fellas. Yeah, that would explain a lot

 

[Lady_Error]

Okay, I finally understood what The Dark Eye refers to. Why don't they call it Realms of Arkania? Isn't that how people recognize what world we are talking about?

 

[mondblut]

Blackguards features hordes of lethal creatures and other enemies waiting to be taken care of on more than 170 unique battlemaps.

Pft, no proper RPG ever bothers to recognize how many "battlemaps" it has and whether they are "unique" at all. Railroaded SJRPG detected, not interested

 

[Jaesun]

Amusingly the trademark to Realms of Arkania™ are up for grabs, they are in DEAD status. I have no idea who owns the IP though.

 

[Mother Russia]

Incredible! :D

This is insane. How the fuck am I supposed to find the money, and more importantly the freaking TIME to play all this?

Anyhow, being set in Aventuria this is a must play for me. Hopefully it will have Realms of Arkania influences (disease for instance, real adventuring, etc) The bummer is that you gen one pc, the rest are companions you pick up. Apart from that it seems great.

I also wish it was a seamless world without loading, like Ultima 7 or Dungeon Siege.

 

[Xavier0889]

Realms of Arkania used the 3rd edition rules of Das Schwarze Auge, while the most recent version is 4.1 IIRC. Probably they don't use the RoA name because of that as well?

 

[Kem0sabe]

Pft, no proper RPG ever bothers to recognize how many "battlemaps" it has and whether they are "unique" at all. Railroaded SJRPG detected, not interested

Clearly not , you need at least 10.000 scrolling game screens for that.

 

[Kem0sabe]

Amusingly the trademark to Realms of Arkania™ are up for grabs, they are in DEAD status. I have no idea who owns the IP though.

Crafty Studios is still working on that Blade of Destiny remake/remastering/whatever thing, dunno how that fits in with the trademark being up for grabs.

 

[General Maxson]

Pft, no proper RPG ever bothers to recognize how many "battlemaps" it has and whether they are "unique" at all. Railroaded SJRPG detected, not interested

Clearly not , you need at least 10.000 scrolling game screens for that.

Is this from Baldur's Gate 2?

 

[titus]

Pft, no proper RPG ever bothers to recognize how many "battlemaps" it has and whether they are "unique" at all. Railroaded SJRPG detected, not interested

Clearly not , you need at least 10.000 scrolling game screens for that.

Is this from Baldur's Gate 2?

Looks like 1 to me.

 

[Jaesun]

Yeah that's Baldur's Gate. Not Baldur's Gate II.

 

[Xavier0889]

It is BG1.

 

[Kem0sabe]

Is this from Baldur's Gate 2?

Inside cover from BG 1.

 

[Mother Russia]

Pft, no proper RPG ever bothers to recognize how many "battlemaps" it has and whether they are "unique" at all. Railroaded SJRPG detected, not interested

Clearly not , you need at least 10.000 scrolling game screens for that.

mondblut does not consider any of the IE games as 'proper' rpgs. Due to the RTwP nature. Also because if you play a paladin you get screwed if you do evil

 

[catfood]

Guys I think it's from BG 1, not 2.

 

[mondblut]

Clearly not , you need at least 10.000 scrolling game screens for that.

There is a subtle difference between "battlemaps" and "game screens". The use of the former with both the number and uniqueness stressed clearly spells a bunch of set-piece scenarios strung together. AKA SJRPG.

An RPG proper either creates battlemaps on the fly (randomly or deriving them from non-battle layout), or reuses each one a thousand times and does not care nearly enough to mention about them being unique. Stressing "we have 170 unique battlemaps" (of all numeric things they could have stressed, we're speaking RPG here) equals "we have exactly 170 battles", until proven otherwise.

 

[Kem0sabe]

There is a subtle difference between "battlemaps" and "game screens". The use of the former with both the number and uniqueness stressed clearly spells a bunch of set-piece scenarios strung together. AKA SJRPG.

An RPG proper either creates battlemaps on the fly (randomly or deriving them from non-battle layout), or reuses each one a thousand times and does not care nearly enough to mention about them being unique. Stressing "we have 170 unique battlemaps" (of all numeric things they could have stressed, we're speaking RPG here) equals "we have exactly 170 battles", until proven otherwise.

Was just making a good natured pun.

Anyways, you make a good point, i do expect this to be more akin to a SRPG than an open world RPG, but these 170 unique maps could pertain to 170 unique environments to do battle in, with the number of actual possible encounters being much greater.

That could signify a battle screen (HMM, Conquistador, etc) instead battling it out in the actual zone map.

I hope this is the aproach they use instead of having 170 battle maps = 170 battles. At this point we can only speculate.