Game News Eschalon: Book III Announced

How's Book, uh, 1? Is it or

 

the series has potential. And i tried playing book one...but my guy moved slower than a quadriplegic and i just couldn't take it anymore.

I have shit to do damn you! I can't spend all day waiting for my character to move from one end of the screen to another!

AAARRGHH!!!!!!!

 

Go play Call of Duty?

 

I think they're pretty solid RPGs. Obviously it depends what kind of RPG you like, if you like turn-based solo exploration RPGs, dungeons with reasonable amount of combat, traps and puzzles and realism like food/drink then recommend it.

 

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I like the art direction of the game. Should I give Book 1 and 2 a try? I don't know anything about the games, and I'd like to hear the Kool Kodexian Konsensus about it before I try it.

 

im gonna buy it anyways.

 

Eschalon 2 is much better than the first one. Maybe go back to Eschalon 1 if you liked the second game, just to satisfy your curiosity. It has good music and a nice sense of exploration, but gameplay is much slower and less complex than in the second one.

 

I've played 2, I enjoyed it. The combat is pretty simple and the quests can be kind of boring but overall it's a pretty nice indie game. You have to manage things like durability, food, water etc, but being a mage kinda breaks it so I guess they should balance that out =/

I really like the art style though, it looks great, very polished and professional.

 

Never finished any Eschalon, although I bought and liked both of them, starting with various characters. They require quite a lot of free time, but are quite nice. They aren't one of the best cRPGs out there, but Eschalons are definitely charming and atmospheric games. Would recommend them over Dragon Age 2

 

It's definitely worth picking up during Steam sales, since they started selling it there for dirt cheap.

 

I played as a fighter first and found it pretty challenging. I then made a mage and found the game to be a cakewalk for the most part

 

Book 1 was average, sometimes with good moments.
Does Book 3 will have party as promised or it's single character only again?

 

I had the most fun playing thief and ranged combat. Mage is overpowered and warrior is simply boring.

 

If you can get past the slow moving speed, then it is .

I remember that Book 2 was great at first, but longer you played the worse it got. There was nothing keeping the world alive after finishing area's quests and killing monsters. No NPCs wandering around, no new quests after reaching certain level, no difficult dungeons you needed to come back later, no monster respawning etc.

 

Worth another playthrough as a thief? I remember having almost no money at all, spending it away on repairs for my weapons and armour as a warrior. I was thinking of playing a sort of paladin class, with melee supplemented by divine magic.

 

So yeah I tried the demo for a few minutes...story seems pretty generic, it looks nice, seems like there's a wide range of skills, even though they are, uh, generic. So first impressions are pretty fairly mediocre. I mean, it's no Codex favorite like Mass Effect 3, but it certainly doesn't seem that bad.

 

If you wanna replay the game then go for a thief, but if you plan to replay the game just to check out thief... I don't really think it's worth it.

 

The first two are pleasant, old school and quite atmospheric games. Simple but in a good way.

 

Most underrated series on the Codex.

 

I played through both Book 1 and Book 2 with a thief character, and actually finished 2 with no kills at all. I found the thief/pacifist way extremely enjoyable, although it is admittedly very meta-gamey (especially when it comes to figuring out how to complete side quests which you shouldn't be able to complete without killing anyone in the first place), so your mileage may vary. One nice feature about Eschalon is that once you know what and where to do, it is possible to make insane speed-runs, since there are very few plot items necessary to actually complete the game and you can skip over major parts of the main quest (or basically whatever you did not enjoy so much during your original run). Thief is the ideal character class for this, because very high lockpicking skill allows you to open even plot-critical locks.

 

So basically you are saying that you played a thief so that you could run from start to finish in a very little time and be done with it? Why play at all?

 

I was talking about subsequent playthroughs (which was also the context of Fader's question).

 

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