It's RTwP free roaming over-the-should versus turn-based, isometric, hexbased, hub-based. How are they even remotely similar?
Ruleset, setting, story telling, characters, quest design - the overall
feel of the games are very much a like. If you're familiar with both games, even the combat, though using different combat engines, has a very similar overall effect in presentation. This is largely on account of both games drawing from the same ruleset, but sameness in ruleset rarely gets you sameness in gameplay (look at any D&D games with different engines). If you just want to kill stuff and level up while ignoring everything else, I can see your confusion.
Also, at least this one tries a spin with the whole criminal thing.
So one story element makes a vastly different experience? Hm. Anyway, pretty sure you were a river pirate or something in the second Drakensang.
...which are two games completely unlike each other. Plenty of Codexers like one and dislike the other.
I'm starting to think you either completely missed my point or are just being argumentative. I chose those two games for a specific reason and you reinforced my point. They are both 3(.5?) D&D games and, yes, are completely unlike each other is many, many ways. Drakensang and Blackguards, on the other hand, have many, many similarities which contribute to an overall, excessively similar
feel, which was what I was saying in that initial post. TDE is presented as a fairly consistent product between these two games; if you've played one and enjoyed it, you can get a similar feel from the other. Unlike the D&D games where, like you said, the games are completely unlike each other.
