Development Info Prelude to Darkness source is released

[vazha]

obscure Russian vaporware RPG called Sigil is the spiritual successor to PtD

link/source to that one?

 

[Tavernking]

obscure Russian vaporware RPG called Sigil is the spiritual successor to PtD

link/source to that one?

https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads/sigil-dark-turn-based-tactical-rpg.129373/

... you're the last post in this thread lol

 

[vazha]

obscure Russian vaporware RPG called Sigil is the spiritual successor to PtD

link/source to that one?

https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads/sigil-dark-turn-based-tactical-rpg.129373/

... you're the last post in this thread lol

thats what getting old is like, old chap.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

obscure Russian vaporware RPG called Sigil is the spiritual successor to PtD

link/source to that one?

https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads/sigil-dark-turn-based-tactical-rpg.129373/

... you're the last post in this thread lol

thats what getting old is like, old chap.

No this is what getting senile is probably like.

 

[Ladonna]

this is about the goodest rpg that i ever played. Anybody intrigued by this news can take my recommendation to download and play it

Comparing it to other great RPG's, what makes this one so good? I remember some on the Codex saying this at the time, but since most people couldn't get past the initial battle before constantly crashing to desktop, hardly anyone knew firsthand.

 

[volklore]

this is about the goodest rpg that i ever played. Anybody intrigued by this news can take my recommendation to download and play it

Comparing it to other great RPG's, what makes this one so good? I remember some on the Codex saying this at the time, but since most people couldn't get past the initial battle before constantly crashing to desktop, hardly anyone knew firsthand.

Very open ended, real nice AP turnbased combat (Pretty much party based AoD. I think I read AoD was stongly inspired by PtD), multiple solution to quests based on stats and skills, and a nice classless hybrid progression system (learn by use + quest skill point rewards to spread at will). I played through a lot of it, didn't finish it due to crash problems getting worse as I progressed (seemed like some kind of save corruption).

 

[vazha]

+ Excellent, fleshed out world / setting and atmosphere. What little music it had was also sublime.

 

[Fenix]

FIX IT!

 

[Konjad]

this is about the goodest rpg that i ever played. Anybody intrigued by this news can take my recommendation to download and play it

Comparing it to other great RPG's, what makes this one so good? I remember some on the Codex saying this at the time, but since most people couldn't get past the initial battle before constantly crashing to desktop, hardly anyone knew firsthand.

It's probably the closest game to Arcanum you will ever get, but with a ToEE-like combat.

So it is one of the greatest cRPGs ever made.

 

[Ladonna]

this is about the goodest rpg that i ever played. Anybody intrigued by this news can take my recommendation to download and play it

Comparing it to other great RPG's, what makes this one so good? I remember some on the Codex saying this at the time, but since most people couldn't get past the initial battle before constantly crashing to desktop, hardly anyone knew firsthand.

It's probably the closest game to Arcanum you will ever get, but with a ToEE-like combat.

So it is one of the greatest cRPGs ever made.

Well, sounds pretty good. I hope it will arrive in a playable state one day.

 

[Tavernking]

So it is one of the greatest cRPGs ever made.

Yet I've been on the codex for 5 years and never heard of it until a few days ago...

 

[Tavernking]

But for real, an Arcanum ToEE hybrid sounds interesting, I hope someone makes this game playable.

 

[Ninjerk]

So it is one of the greatest cRPGs ever made.

Yet I've been on the codex for 5 years and never heard of it until a few days ago...

Might need to invest some points in your Lore: Codex on next level up.

 

[Fenix]

But for real, an Arcanum ToEE hybrid sounds interesting, I hope someone makes this game playable.

Codex is chaтgiтg, such a life.

 

[Fowyr]

Comparing it to other great RPG's, what makes this one so good?

Great story, a lot of heavy moral C&Cs that make things very difficult down the road (it's really facilis descensus Averno, your party are undercover agents), good and interesting TB combat, a lot of quests with several outcomes, interesting character system and so on.

I remember some on the Codex saying this at the time, but since most people couldn't get past the initial battle before constantly crashing to desktop, hardly anyone knew firsthand.

A lot of people finished it. Damn, I even finally registered on the Codex back in 2009 only to answer in some PtD thread. Also made a patch back in the times that fixed some annoying script bugs.
https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads/small-fixes-for-1-8.79946/

 

[Ladonna]

A lot of people finished it.

Was there a perfect hardware setup? Operating system? Graphics card?

It just seems strange that so many report the same crash bugs (seriously, I tried playing it God knows how many times, and it crashed 10 minutes in during the first big battle, every single time) regardless of patches, etc, while others seem to have breezed through it, no probs.

 

[vazha]

Nobody including myself breezed through it, we all went through the bug suffering and I ve finished it three times.

 

[Modron]

Was there a perfect hardware setup? Operating system? Graphics card?

Windows XP and probably anything before the 9000 series nvidia as they started dropping legacy drivers with later cards (granted this mostly amounts to you having to download some .dlls right?) then whatever version of the game wasn't temperamental with your system. Latest wasn't always the greatest back then granted I didn't really try anything after the mid 1.4s on since either 1.41 or 1.43 played nice on my system.

 

[Fowyr]

A lot of people finished it.

Was there a perfect hardware setup? Operating system? Graphics card?

It just seems strange that so many report the same crash bugs (seriously, I tried playing it God knows how many times, and it crashed 10 minutes in during the first big battle, every single time) regardless of patches, etc, while others seem to have breezed through it, no probs.

Windows 98 machine. GeForce 2 or Voodoo 3. That was my config. Crashes were manageable.
There is DX wrapper fix for PtD that Deadman wrote about somewhere in this thread:
https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads/prelude-to-darkness-is-a-pretty-damn-awesome-rpg.132443/page-4

 

[Saint_Proverbius]

A lot of people finished it.

It's been years, but I've finished it three or four times. I finished it one more time than the main storyline branches which I think is three, two long ones and one that cuts the story short.

 

[Monolith]

Amazing news, signle-handedly rescued a shitty weekend.

Now all we need to do is get Drog to somehow work on it.

 

[Taxnomore]

I ignore codex for a few months and there's already a new 20 year old all time classic.

 

[Modron]

You ignored the codex for a lot longer if you're unfamiliar with Prelude.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

I ignore codex for a few months and there's already a new 20 year old all time classic.

Prelude to Darkness appeared twice in the RPG Codex top picks of 2002, as the #2 choice of Mistress and the #3 choice of Saint_Proverbius, though it was not mentioned once in 2010's #5 RPGs of the Decade despite including suggestions from myriad Codexers.