And a Developer would go this far - I am once again amazed. Check the KoA: Reckoning Section under Friday

I dislike the Fable art style and the developer comments really make it sound like a simple and accessible casual RPG. Still, it looks decent. If it has a good PC version I will likely buy it at some point.

Holy crap, watch this video: http://www.gametrailers.com/video/a-heros-kingdoms-of/721380

I got the same chills like I was playing Gothic again and discovering the awesome faction system that alters the story and gameplay.

This game could be awesome!

Damn, that looks like it could have some very good potential. I like what I saw there.

If the game lives up to half the potential it would be my game of the year 2012 if Guild Wars 2 wasn't coming out.

pre-ordered

Going to be pre-ordering here soon....tbh i cant wait for it. Was my second most wanted game next to Skyrim, and got Skyrim the minute it released. I just hope its better then the shit fest that was DA2.

Oh yeah.

I've been watching this game since the middle of the year, very excited for it. I'm sick to death of the pseudo realism of Oblivion and Skyrim... because that's all Bethesda can do, especially with Oblivion and lessly with Skyrim although it's still guilty, empty concequenceless worlds filled to the brim with fed ex quests and identical dungeons.... coupled with the art they are very shallow gaming experiences.. pretty but ultimately passionless. (Yes this time round Skyrim is a little less dead with more scripting going on, but for the size of the world, it's all few and far between and Oblivion was just this big dead world.)

With R:KoA at least the game looks colourful with an idiosyncratic design and a flowing combat system... I'm under no illusions that it will be just as concequenceless and fetch-ish, but at least we have something to look at, might get a laugh here and there and the action promises to flow far better.

BUT, most importantly, I'm sick to death of the whole fantasy trope (elves, orcs, blechhh!). It's all so 'standard', uninspiring and boring.. and it's REALLY saying something when you have to admit that the games industry has reduced the entire history of fantasy literature to boring sameyness. They are screwing the whole Post-Tolkien fantasy culture in to the ground with their stunning lack of originality and invention. It's a shame too.. the two biggest names in fantasy rpg.. Bioware are only capable of producing mediocre, flatness containing nothing in common with their heyday designing.. but at least they 'try' with their design (that's not a pass, just one less mark against them, their writing these day is utterly appauling), but Bethesda are guilty of way too many crimes against the fantasy RPG than can be fully mentioned here, but along with the above you can add shitty writing and a 'realism' to design that precludes the ability for any really intersting art to be produced, again no imagination just the same churned out dullness. I'll never buy Bethesda again.. BORINGGGGGGG!! and Bio have been off my list since the two abortions of DA2 and ME2, think of this.. When Bioware weren't very mainstream popular they had a reputation second to none for quality an attention to detail AND to their community, but their games are niche not having widespread appeal...BUT now they do have widespread appeal and their longtime, more discerning fans are pretty much disgusted with the crap they eject now.

I want something different and although in the same vein as the rest R:KoA seems just different enough to peak my interests... At least I'll see colours as opposed to Grey-browniness. At this point in the evolution of gaming that alone is worth my money.

Well seeing as it's the most popular example of the genre there's EVER FREAKIN' BEEN (regardless of how shitty the actual experience is) what do you suggest we use as comparisons? FPS.. driving games?

Let's see . Skyrim is a crap compared to these :
http://www.gog.com/en/catalogue#rpg/
It's my opinion of course .

WTF???!!??

You are comparing old design philosophy with the shit they churn out today? Are you touched in the head?... with that one statement your opinion just became irrelevent.

Skyrim is an RPG? Could have fooled me.

So I have about 3 hours to decide whether to use one of the (not even fucking kidding) 7 9USD off coupons I have on Amazon.com for preordering this (bringing the price down to 41 USD for me) and I'm sorely tempted, I never pre-order PC games, this one looks like I'll be stuck with Origin for DLC at least, but it looks really fun and really, really beautiful.

Sigh, choices, choices.

(No, the coupons aren't stackable, I can only use one, even though I have 7).

I still have no idea what this is, or what's supposed to be so special about it. Might be that I have been reading about it in all the wrong places, but I still don't know why one should buy it. It looks like a super generic RPG. On Gamersgate, the game's description seems to be typical PR feed with how epic/grand/brutal/revolutionary everything is. Why is the RPG community so hyped up about this game?