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Has anybody heard of this, much less tried it out? I understand the game's just recently available in Europe, and may be coming to the US (or may not). It apparently is a 3D party-based RPG with pause/realtime battles, rather like the BG series, and boasted at one point of having very fully created party members you could grab who might argue with one another, etc. Sounded interesting.

I remember coming across a game called, 'No Time for Dragons,' that was reported here at GB some time ago (which Brother None pointed out that the correct translation of the title is 'Not the Time for Dragons'). I'm not sure if this is the same game, albeit having undergone a name change.

Any demo for this game or there are no plans for one?

DesR85 wrote:I remember coming across a game called, 'No Time for Dragons,' that was reported here at GB some time ago (which Brother None pointed out that the correct translation of the title is 'Not the Time for Dragons'). I'm not sure if this is the same game, albeit having undergone a name change.

It is. Beyond that, and what I wrote above, I've no idea what the thing is like.

There are a few gameplay videos on Youtube. I looked at 3 of them.

From what they show, it looks like it is very combat oriented. The dialogues I have seen in them are pretty dull and are often one-liners. There was a huge exclamation mark on top of the NPC who gave the first quest, so it looks like there is some hand-holding. (I might add that the videos I looked at where from the beginning and, as we all know, many games have a pretty easy and boring beginning. The exclamation mark may have been just some sort of tutorial sign, maybe you don't see any afterwards.)

That said, it also looks like it has more features than your standard Diablo clone and these additions (party-based, more conversations, quest log, more skills, etc.) seem to make the game interesting or at least decent. I'll sure keep an eye on it.

Someone compared it to Fallout 2 in the Youtube comments, but it didn't look much like it from what I saw on the videos.

The official site is down right now so I have no idea if you already know everything I just told you.

Gilliatt, thanks for that bit of fill-in. The only site I could find was this one, by the publisher, rather than the developer. They don't exactly exude an air of great competence when it comes to PR. And their forum is completely barren of material on the game itself--just a few posters wondering what it's like.

EDIT: Just took a look at a gameplay video, and you're right: there's nothing of Fallout 2 about the thing. No turn-based combat, no lengthy flavor dialog, no go-anywhere-do-anything feel to the game. While the video could be atypical, that's probably not the case. It's much closer, at least in appearance, to the Dungeon Siege series. Fallout 2? Makes you wonder if they'd done more than simply hear about the game third hand.

So, roleplaying lite, then, in a hack 'n slash. Looks pretty, though. Might check it out when it gets down to bargain basement prices in a year or so.

There is a small thread about the game at the RPG Watch forums. It seems it has a lot more in common with Baldur's Gate than with Dungeon Siege.

It also seems that the Fallout comparison was not completely wrong, because it has a skill and perk system. (I know it's not enough to compare the two games, but maybe the person on YouTube though it was. )

I am not familiar with RPG Watch (I learned about it not long ago), so I don't know how much we can trust the comments, but from what I have seen, it looks like a pretty good place.

Chances that I'll buy the game are very good, from what I have read, it looks much more than decent.

Gilliatt wrote:There is a small thread about the game at the RPG Watch forums. It seems it has a lot more in common with Baldur's Gate than with Dungeon Siege. ]

If it does, it must be after the opening section. But that's of course possible. Opening areas are notoriously linear and stripped down, to introduce new gameplay elements.

As RPG Watch, the people who post there are not the fanboys whose knowledge of games go back all of 1-2 years, but I did read a BG thread there a while back that raved about the game's "innovative features" without seemingly being aware that many of the specific ones came straight from the Ishar series. This of course proves nothing, but still...

Good news for those, like me, who prefer retail copies of their games. A retail version will be released soon. It's in the UK, but nowadays, it's not very hard to buy games from there even if that's not where you live. (Maybe it's because we're an old colony, but here in Canada, I often get the games I order from the UK in less than one week.)

I am pretty sure I will get a copy once it hits the $20 mark.

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That will be fun in this kind of gathering....