I've played Return to Krondor...

[covr]

...and it's fucking terrible. Two days of downloading (hello Poland!) are wasted.
First, game is slow. Main character is moving very slowly, and it's annoying. There is no "run" option, no "speed up" or something like that. Also, main menu is animated, and those animations are non-skippable.
Second, the is no subtitles. All the dialogues are spoken, and slow as hell.
I' am very butthurt about this game, but I've played it only 10 minutes, so I could be wrong.

 

[SCO]

I've not played RtK but it seems to me your mistake is not playing Betrayal at Krondor instead.

 

[covr]

Betrayal at Krondor is one of my favourite cRPG's. But RtK is one big WTF. I don't even uninstalled this crap, because I don't want to touch it.

 

[bat_boro]

Forget about Krondor, but I see you're from Lublin or whatever. Could you please tell me what's the name of the football team in your town. Would it be per chance "Olimpia"?

 

[covr]

I am afraid it's "Motor Lublin".

 

[Mister Arkham]

I remember really enjoying Return when I was younger. I had not yet played Betrayal though, so who can say what I would think of it now. Discouraging to hear things like this.

 

[Elwro]

"Olimpia" was once in the 1st division, but it was "Olimpia Poznań", I think. Not sure whether Lublin's Olimpia had a similar success.

Legia's logo was actually stolen from Lublinianka, though.

 

[commie]

Chemik Police...only Polish team worth supporting.

 

[Elwro]

TA DRUŻYNAAA JEST WSPANIAŁA
IZOLATOOOR BOGUCHWAAAŁA!!!1!

 

[covr]

I was born in Rzeszów, with is about 8 kilometers from Boguchwała, so don't laugh at my local team Also, everybody knows that Kamax Kańczuga "rule!".

 

[Serus]

Stop hijacking the thread you stupid Pollacks... oops, never mind.


On the topic: I agree, RtK was a huge disapointment, i have a box copy - one of the worst purchases i ever made.
You may want to try Betrayal in Antara - i never finished it but at least the engine is a slighlty upgraded BaK so it will be more playable to you.

 

[Ruprekt]

I remember this ran horribly on my 486.

-nm I had a 166 mhz amd or something then. Still ran terribly like all sierra windows games. Antara did too.

 

[Erebus]

I didn't exactly hate the game (as opposed to the novel adaptation), but I didn't really like either, and I gave up on it fairly easily the first time I felt stuck.

I don't remember the details very well, but I know I was disappointed by how little it reminded me of BaK.

 

[Helton]

I used to love the demo when I was little. I finally played the game and it was def a disappointment, yes. Good ending sequence though. Almost made it all worth it from what I recall.

 

[Carlos' Bitch1]

I have played worse games.

 

[Suchy]

...and it's fucking terrible. Two days of downloading (hello Poland!) are wasted.
First, game is slow. Main character is moving very slowly, and it's annoying. There is no "run" option, no "speed up" or something like that. Also, main menu is animated, and those animations are non-skippable.
Second, the is no subtitles. All the dialogues are spoken, and slow as hell.
I' am very butthurt about this game, but I've played it only 10 minutes, so I could be wrong.

You can run moran, ctrl + click.
Game delivers in terms of story and has good TB combat. It has nothing on Betrayal at Krondor, but it's definitely worth a playthrough.

 

[Sergiu64]

You could powergame it a little by grinding random house encounters till you get magic weapons and enchanted armors plus bunch of levels.

 

[Cenobyte]

You could powergame it a little by grinding random house encounters till you get magic weapons and enchanted armors plus bunch of levels.

Yeah, and those houses have indefinite respawn rates, so basically you can abuse this to level your starting characters (the sorceress and Jimmy) to the max in the first chapter

That said, it was a nice game with a well-written story, intelligent use of the pre-defined characters and a somewhat innovative turn-based combat system (I've never seen its battle effects system in any other game so far).
Some more questionable design elements were the fixed camera, which sometimes made the exploration and combat too tedious, and the issue that you couldn't cast a spell if your hands weren't empty. At first, I'd equipped the sorceress with her staff and was wondering all the time why the hell the "cast spell" option was always grey. Then, by pure chance, I removed the staff and forget to equip another weapon, and suddenly I could throw fireballs around. Hehe, this was really a combined <intelligence>, <luck> and <perception> check inside the game

 

[gothemasticator]

This thread would be better if the title were I've returned to Return of Krondor...

 

[Andhaira]

RtK is one of my favorite crpg's of all time. Play it all the way tot he end.

Its got the best haunted village section out of any game.

 

[Mister Arkham]

The chatter in this thread has me kind of interested in playing the game again.I don't often have the chance to revisit pre-Fallout titles. Maybe it's time I did my first Let's Play...

 

[Suchy]

The chatter in this thread has me kind of interested in playing the game again.I don't often have the chance to revisit pre-Fallout titles. Maybe it's time I did my first Let's Play...

I wanted to do a LP of this, but decided it would be too much hassle. No subtitles, so you can't make dialogue screenshots and retyping everything would be too much pain in the ass.

 

[someone else]

The sewer part was quite fun back in the day.

 

[Suchy]

The game got better once you left Krondor imo.

 

[Andhaira]

The best part was the vampire infested village.

Ah, the memories. I actually played and beat this game TWICE.