Insta-wishlisted! This! :D

Good to see another classic here. I've heard about this but never played it. The reviews are mixed but I guess I'll pick it anyway. I hope gog will include manuals :-D

I purchased this around 2004 on CD-ROM from Circuit City for $5 and finished it after several weeks. The play style was similar to Diablo (real-time action from an isometric perspective) with a story in which I remember feeling a bit of despair because everyone in the castle around me was slowly starving to death, and what dwindling food supplies remained were under heavy guard for strict rationing.

I played a melee fighter, and somehow stumbled across a build which made me invulnerable by mid-game, so the final combat sequence should have been much more difficult than it turned out to be. This is the only game out of the thousands that I've played where something like that happened.

Awesome! I still have my CD copy.

Hopefully the GOG version has the issue with the unicorn fixed. I kept getting stuck there because it just instantly dies.
Anyone else have that problem?

Ya know what I love more than JRPGs?

Classic CRPGS!

I will be definitely snagging this for my collection!

No idea what this is.

Judging by the pictures and the name, first I thought this is the Avadon RPG series from Spiderweb, remasters or something... but apparently not.

Looks good ^_^

I played this game on its original release. It was published digitally and released episodically at a time when very few high-end cRPGs were. It was fantastic at the time. The game play was similar to Diablo, but the setting and story were great. Also the art was very good, I thought the whole thing was very immersive.

The game sold poorly, partly due to the distribution and marketing (it was ahead of its time and suffered for it). Also the quality of the episodes decreased as you got further into the series, as poor sales increased the pressure to get the next episode out quickly.

*ears perk* Oooh, sweeet.
I waited on this forever. Thanks so much for bringing this back to the people, GOG.
Another physical box I can retire.

I'm the kind of RPG gamer who just gets irritated of loads of books in a RPG which are useless to finishing the game, and are there "just because". Like in Baldur's Gate games, Icewind Dale 1-2, apparently the TES games etc. I'm just not that interested in wasting my time to read some made up "book" which tells a short story of some imaginary person who said something to someone else... blah. Hardly ever interesting enough.

The thing is, I can never be sure if some book in some cupboard really is important, giving some important hint to solve some problem in the gameworld, or even be a quest item that I am supposed to keep and use at some point. I hate when RPGs have useless fluff stuff that is not clearly just junk you don't need.

ANYWAY, if this is supposed to be some kind of good Diablo-clone (for its gameplay), maybe I will like it after all. Books or not.

Those are high points for me, the little stories added in. Why I got so interested in this game when I first saw it mentioned in a retro article somewhere (to the point of creating the wishlist entry here). It's the Diablo-like part that bothers me, but with a good story it may be manageable. Actual Diablo-likes, with just that pointless gameplay and hardly any story or lore to speak of, strike me as having next to nothing to offer.

I have this one on CD still. Even managed to get it running on Win10 recently, although it involved applying some fan-made patches to get the game in a playable state.

I assume GOG's copy will either include those patches or fix the problem some other way. It'd be nice to have a pre-patched installer so I don't have to jump through all those hoops again on a future PC.

This was my teenage years. It was my first real introduction to CRPGs (and one of the first RPGs I've ever played period). Played through it in high school, replayed it again at random points throughout adulthood. Always enjoyed, bugs and balance issues aside.

You have no FREAKING IDEA HOW EXCITED I AM OMIGOSH I'M ALMOST IN TEARS

It might be a false positive but Malwarebytes is blocking all of your links
Nice to see old games taken care of to run better on modern machines and not just slammed in the shops.
Do you HAVE to make your own character? Is the story THAT fun? I'm not a big fan of the fake looking walls and props. Another time I was fooled by the art cover.
How long to beat gives a 22h to 28h gameplay, I'm not sure if it's just for one episode or all of them.