Game News Temple of the Abyssal Winds Released

I'm not somebody who'd usually say "Damn this shit's ugly"

But damn, this shit's ugly!

 

This is a joke, right?

 

Looks like an alpha from an ToEE clone. Although Ipad, too.
EDIT: And episodic, but first chapter is free.

Someone wanna give it a try?

 

I feel sorry for Obsidian though. So close to release and a polished PoE-killer like this arrives out of the blue.

 

Wow, 7.7 mb installation file, total size is 14 mb. People with dial-up will definitely love this.

 

I know, right. They should not have delayed the game till the end of march.

 

Looking forward to Codex impressions based on the first free episode. I am sure we are not spoiled enough by the supposed incline to frown upon a party-based RPG that also has something equivalent to a demo (which is a rarity in this day and age).

 

Well, I gave the free chapter some 30 minutes and it's not that bad actually.

Pros:
- Detailed character system. Obviously very influenced by DnD but not quite to a rip-off level.
- RTwP isn't that obnoxious. To me combat even felt more like a continious phase-based that pure RTwP. Though when the party size grows and there'll be more enemies, it might get more clustefuck-ish.
- A decent number of sidequests and alternative solutions.
- Looks rather stable so far.

Cons:
- Very easy. Even by my standards, and I'm the furthest thing from a combatfag.
- Writing is worse than in Lords of Xulima. Though at least not as bad as in S&S: Underworld.
- Interface is clunky and the font is too small.
- Ugly as sin (or more exactly as Prelude to Darkness), but you already know that.

 

Is it me, or it looks like one of (older) Spiderweb games, except in 3d?

 

It's you, this just looks ugly.

 

In before C&D letter from SaadaSoft.

 

It kinda reminds me of Prelude to Darkness, graphically.

 

Even Darklands looks better than this.

 

This is like a videogame .

 

Is this the same guy as did the old temple of the winds shareware win32 episodic thing way back in the 90's?

 

It really does seem better than PoE. Music is pretty fetch as well.

 

No, not same guy . He's not jeff vogel son either , although he could be according the aesthetic of the game .

 

the fact that the tops of walls are all thick solid black lines bothers me greatly for some reason

 

I think it looks neat to be honest. Giving me a Darklands vibes.

 

The character creation looks like it has possibilities. I wanted to create a bard by pumping personality and giving him singing and a personality-based magic school, but the only such magic school without further casting prerequisites is for dealing with undead, so I just made a basic fighter and acclimated myself by murdering everybody I could. You respawn infinitely, and aggression is reset after you die, so there's no punishment for doing so. No reward either, mind you.

That is unless you kill the guy you're supposed to join up with, in which case he drops a little loot and you're punished by being unable to proceed any further in the game. There's only one save, which seems to have autosaved progressively, so I'll have to start again some other time.

The interface feels a bit clunky, but I haven't figured out all the hotkeys yet. Turnbased would likely have worked better.

 

Charming graphics.

 

The game itself looks okayish. Like the Spiderweb games.

But the UI looks as if it was still in alpha.

 

my eyes