Preview Let's not forget about Drakensang, mkay?

[Brother None]

Gamer's Hell has them too, as well as a re-run of two trailers
http://www.gamershell.com/news/45249.html

 

[Saxon1974]

Is it true it's not going to be released in English? If it's only in Germain it wouldn't go very well for me.

I think that's what making me not get interested is that I haven't heard of an attempt to have an English version, either that or my laziness in reading stuff missed it.

 

[onemananadhisdroid]

Looks alright. Admittedly the reason I'm keeping an eye on this every now and then is pure nostalgia. First, the ROA trilogy from Attic, and second, for a while back at school I was a bit into P&P ROA too. Even wrote a cheap-ass campaign which I hosted.

 

[thesheeep]

Is it true it's not going to be released in English? If it's only in Germain it wouldn't go very well for me.

I seriously doubt that. Would be kinda stupid considering that RoA is quite known amongst RPG players in other countries, too.

 

[EvilManagedCare]

Is it true it's not going to be released in English? If it's only in Germain it wouldn't go very well for me.

I think that's what making me not get interested is that I haven't heard of an attempt to have an English version, either that or my laziness in reading stuff missed it.

I thought the issue was they just hadn't found a publisher for North America yet. But newsbits posted on other sites say Anaconda has a good history of localization so those of us in English-speaking countries will likely not be disappointed. This is of course in terms of having an English version of the game. Hopefully it won't suck.

 

[JarlFrank]

Is it true it's not going to be released in English? If it's only in Germain it wouldn't go very well for me.

I seriously doubt that. Would be kinda stupid considering that RoA is quite known amongst RPG players in other countries, too.

Heck, nobody ever releases a game nowadays and does not translate it to English. You know how much money they'd lose from not being able to sell the game to the majority of the world's population because it's only available in German?

The only people who don't translate their games to English nowadays are Russians.

 

[Saxon1974]

Is it true it's not going to be released in English? If it's only in Germain it wouldn't go very well for me.

I seriously doubt that. Would be kinda stupid considering that RoA is quite known amongst RPG players in other countries, too.

Heck, nobody ever releases a game nowadays and does not translate it to English. You know how much money they'd lose from not being able to sell the game to the majority of the world's population because it's only available in German?

The only people who don't translate their games to English nowadays are Russians.

Yea I agree, but I thought I read an article a while back saying they seemed to be ignoring an attempt at having an English version of the game but maybe it was related to not having found a north american publisher yet. I hope there is a decent English version as I am interested.

 

[Brother None]

Yea I agree, but I thought I read an article a while back saying they seemed to be ignoring an attempt at having an English version of the game but maybe it was related to not having found a north american publisher yet. I hope there is a decent English version as I am interested.

I've been complaining loudly here and there of their lack of interest in English-language PR, maybe that threw you off?

Yes, they're having an English release. No publisher yet.

I seriously doubt that. Would be kinda stupid considering that RoA is quite known amongst RPG players in other countries, too.

That's pretty irrelevant considering it won't be released as Realms of Arkania. Realms of Arkania was the name of the conversion of Das Schwarze Auge 2 and 3 into English. The pen and paper publisher who did those books went out of business, now someone else picked it up and published it as The Dark Eye (looks like the official URL was hijacked)

Since they assume no one here knows about the Dark Eye, the working title for the English release is Drakensang: The Dark Eye.

 

[thesheeep]

I always thought that RoA was the official title of DSA in English.
Mainly because the literal translation of "Das Schwarze Auge" would sound so.. stupid... but they really called it "The Dark Eye"?... oh gee!...

Since they assume no one here knows about the Dark Eye, the working title for the English release is Drakensang: The Dark Eye.

Why didn't they just call it Realms Of Arkania: Drakensang ?

 

[Brother None]

I always thought that RoA was the official title of DSA in English.
Mainly because the literal translation of "Das Schwarze Auge" would sound so.. stupid... but they really called it "The Dark Eye"?... oh gee!...
(...)
Why didn't they just call it Realms Of Arkania: Drakensang ?

Aventuria, the continent on which the game is set, was first introduced to the English-language market through a series of computer games and a few novels, later under the name Realms of Arkania. The trademark Realms of Arkania was owned by the now defunct Sir-tech Software, Inc., which led to the name change to The Dark Eye as Fantasy Productions was unable to obtain the trademark.

Partially a good thing, Realms of Arkania: Drakensang would have made it sound like it's related to the Northland Trilogy somehow. And really, it's not.

 

[thesheeep]

What a dilemma....
Well, can't change it.

People will have to live with whatever name the game has

 

[NoisyKillerHPB]

The only people who don't translate their games to English nowadays are Russians.

And they do a terrible job of it when they decide to!

 

[Claw]

I'm rather happy it's not called RoA. It's a very different game and I'm not sold on it yet.

 

[Saxon1974]

Yea I agree, but I thought I read an article a while back saying they seemed to be ignoring an attempt at having an English version of the game but maybe it was related to not having found a north american publisher yet. I hope there is a decent English version as I am interested.

I've been complaining loudly here and there of their lack of interest in English-language PR, maybe that threw you off?

Yes, they're having an English release. No publisher yet.

I seriously doubt that. Would be kinda stupid considering that RoA is quite known amongst RPG players in other countries, too.

That's pretty irrelevant considering it won't be released as Realms of Arkania. Realms of Arkania was the name of the conversion of Das Schwarze Auge 2 and 3 into English. The pen and paper publisher who did those books went out of business, now someone else picked it up and published it as The Dark Eye (looks like the official URL was hijacked)

Since they assume no one here knows about the Dark Eye, the working title for the English release is Drakensang: The Dark Eye.

Good to hear they are going to make an English version. I will keep an eye on this game.