Hello everyone. We are glad to see you haven’t forgotten about Inquisitor yet, not even after all those years.
I’ve come to answer some of your questions:
Excidium: We have been working on the English version for about two years, but not continuously. There are other projects we have to work on as well – nevertheless, Inquisitor is standing quite high on the priorities ladder right now.
Azalin: I’m sure 2012 is the year of the English Inquisitor.
Licaon_Kter: Unfortunately, there is no time to make videos from the English version now. That trailer you are talking about is rather old and created in the times when the English version was just a crazy wish of a few dreamers.
General Maxson: The English translation looks promising, our proofreaders (mostly natives) are making very few changes in it.
mikaelis: There were several Czech/Slovakian reviews with mixed results:
Bonusweb.cz – 79 %; saying that Inquisitor is an honest RPG that instead of cutting edge graphics and spectacular effects prefers great and mysterious storyline, brilliantly written dialogues and suspenseful gameplay. “It’s not a game for everyone, but the fans of Baldur’s Gate will love it.” (Also, an average ranking based of 361 readers’ votes is 78 %.)
CzechGamer.com – 76 %; saying that it’s not a top-notch title, but it’s well worth your time for its fascinating storyline and the good old gameplay.
Hrej.cz – 60 %; saying that they realize that hardcore RPG gamers will definitely grumble at them for such a low ranking and with the final verdict: “If there is a game about which you could say that it’s from the old school, it’s Inquisitor–with all the good and bad that fits that description.”
Sector.sk – 50 %; saying that it’s not a bad game, rather a neat reminiscence for those gamers that were playing all previous games of this kind and that it has something to offer to younger gamers as well, even though it will be more difficult for them to go through the whole game.
Games.cz – 50 %; saying that for hardcore gamers it’s a repulsive title with absolutely horrible graphics, but at the same time saying that for the fans of smart oldschool RPGs it’s a surprisingly rich investigation in the dark Middle Ages with spells on top of it. As some readers weren’t sure what the author meant with that verdict and a flame broke out in the forum, the discussion was deleted completely and there is only one post there now saying that the graphics isn’t anything special, but that the storyline, atmosphere, fun and originality makes this game that user’s top game of the last five years, claiming it was more enjoyable for him than Oblivion – about as enjoyable as Baldur’s Gate or Knights of the Old Republic.
There were also two reviews in paper magazines – Score gave the game 80 % saying it’s the most honest, made with love and egregiously extensive clone of Baldur’s Gate and a compact hardcore RPG in which potions and spells are never enough. While Level gave it 50 % (and their review was about half the length of the opening text for the first Act of Inquisitor…).
Marquess Cornwallis: An important thing – all screenshots from the English version were captured before the proofreading began, which means that the final version will look a bit different. But as I’ve mentioned before, our proofreaders generally like the quality of the English translation.
Yaar Podshipnik: Unfortunately, there will be no demo for Inquisitor, just as there was none for the Czech version. There is no one around here who could prepare it anymore.
Texas Red: We were always saying that Inquisitor is not a Diablo clone, but you can repeat that forever and there will still be lots of people going around and saying “eh, that’s just another Diablo clone” (without playing the game, naturally). While there is a lot of combat in Inquisitor, the emphasis is definitely put on dialogues, investigation of various heretical crimes, gathering the evidence (deducing it from what NPCs tell you, from what items you find, and through the torturing as well – but there are strict rules for that, you cannot drag just anyone to the jail and put him or her on the rack – you will be able to learn more about all of this in Codex Inqusitorium which will be published prior to the game’s release), proving the guilt of the accused and – if you find the accused guilty – putting the stake on fire. As far as the dialogues are concerned, there is quite a lot of them (more than 17 MB in more than 700 plain text files). You can read more about magic directly on
www.inquisitor-rpg.com (About/Magic) – you can find a general text about magic there, as well as about all 70 spells divided into 7 fields of magic.
