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Avernum: The Complete Saga, a collection of seven epic-scaled old-school role playing games featuring an original setting and story-driven gameplay, is available on GOG.com, for only $7.99. That's 33% off for a whole week!

For a computer game, it's quite impossible to recreate what pen & paper role playing games offer--endless adventures in a land of possibilities limited only by one's imagination. That's why most computer RPGs don't even try to reach that goal. The Avernum series is different that way. It tries. And--I'll be damned--it does not fall all that short. Its inconceivable complexity and supreme storytelling is on pair, or even surpasses most of the all-time favorite cRPG classics. Over the course of seven games the saga succeeded in developing one of the most original fantastic realm and fill it with innumerable characters that live their lives, pursue their goals, and leave a mark on the ever-evolving environment. If you thought you knew the computer role playing genre by heart, but somehow you managed to miss this monumental game, you're up for a big and pleasant surprise.

Avernum: The Complete Saga tells an epic story of an underground prison colony. A place of exile for empire's banished citizens, outcasts, criminals, and bastards, that becomes a thriving kingdom of its own over the course of hundreds of years of existence. Each chapter presents a turning point in Avernum's history placing the player's party of adventurers at the center of events, making them overthrow tyrants, defend the land from vile demons, discover ominous schemes, meet strange creatures, and accumulate the power needed to change the fate itself. The series consists of two lengthy trilogies, hundreds of hours worth of gameplay each, and an additional title, The Blades of Avernum, that gives you six shorter additional scenarios and a tool to design your own adventures, prolonging your experience indefinitely. With traditional, old-school isometric presentation, tactical turn-based combat, huge gameworld, and many hundreds of quests to complete while following the captivating story, Avernum: The Complete Saga gives any hardcore RPG gamer the best value for their money!

Prepare to be drawn into one of the most immersive cRPG experiences of our times. Venture boldly into the epic, but eerie underground realm of Avernum: The Complete Saga, for only $7.99 until Tuesday, January 22, at 10:59AM GMT.
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Mrstarker: Aww... I hoped to see the Exile series here too.

Am I the only one who preferred the "2D" games?
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keeveek: You mean top down perspective? Because nothing is 3D in Avernum 1-6 :P
Yes. Hence the quotation marks.
Post edited January 17, 2013 by Mrstarker
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Mrstarker: Yes. Hence the quotation marks.
Well, I think GOG could add them as a bonus to Avernum saga.
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Mrstarker: Yes. Hence the quotation marks.
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keeveek: Well, I think GOG could add them as a bonus to Avernum saga.
That would be awesome, but I'd buy them even separately. Especially if they threw in the original Nethergate and Blades.

Maybe it's just the nostalgia speaking, but I felt there was a certain charm to the Exile 2 and 3 graphics that's just not there in the remake.
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Mrstarker: Maybe it's just the nostalgia speaking, but I felt there was a certain charm to the Exile 2 and 3 graphics that's just not there in the remake.
Not to mention the sound files. I particularly enjoyed the monster in Exile 2 whose roar was literally a guy saying "Raar!"
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Mrstarker: Aww... I hoped to see the Exile series here too.

Am I the only one who preferred the "2D" games?
Spiderweb Software offers the Exile games as free downloads.
Have 4+5+6 as others do from another bundle. Is 1+2+3 worth getting for those bundle and is there story linkage between the first few games leading to the latter ones?
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nijuu: Have 4+5+6 as others do from another bundle. Is 1+2+3 worth getting for those bundle and is there story linkage between the first few games leading to the latter ones?
1+2+3 is another trilogy. It has a separate storyline, but, you may want to play them to know better about the game's world.

4+5+6 take place AFTER events from original trilogy happened.
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Mrstarker: Aww... I hoped to see the Exile series here too.

Am I the only one who preferred the "2D" games?
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Veneteaou: Spiderweb Software offers the Exile games as free downloads.
Hmm... I thought these games were shareware? Where does it offer them?
Post edited January 20, 2013 by Mrstarker
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Veneteaou: Spiderweb Software offers the Exile games as free downloads.
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Mrstarker: Hmm... I thought these games were shareware? Where does it offer them?
He is referring to Blades of Exile, which was released as open source - none of the other Exile titles are. You can grab OpenExile which has been updated to work with modern systems.
How difficult is this series? Does this series have difficulty mode like remake has?
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MGShogun: How difficult is this series? Does this series have difficulty mode like remake has?
You have your standard Easy, Medium, Hard, and Torment modes as you would in Geneforge, if you have played that series and not Avernum.
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MGShogun: How difficult is this series? Does this series have difficulty mode like remake has?
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JudasIscariot: You have your standard Easy, Medium, Hard, and Torment modes as you would in Geneforge, if you have played that series and not Avernum.
Thank you and again thank you! :DDD
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JudasIscariot: You have your standard Easy, Medium, Hard, and Torment modes as you would in Geneforge, if you have played that series and not Avernum.
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MGShogun: Thank you and again thank you! :DDD
You're welcome :D
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Veneteaou: Spiderweb Software offers the Exile games as free downloads.
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Mrstarker: Hmm... I thought these games were shareware? Where does it offer them?
It appears that I was incorrect: Spiderweb still sells those games, even though they don't work on modern OSes. Go figure.
Post edited January 20, 2013 by Veneteaou
If I remember correctly, Blades of Exile was freeware, the game is still being sold on CD, but the open source version contains the full game content.