Strange, only covers about one third of my screen (2560×1440), it would be half at the most, if the navigation bar wasn't auto hidden.
So don't know why you get it full screen, unless your resolution is 720p or lower.

This sort of video, isn't for those who've bought it, or have already decided to, it's for those who haven't, and may know nothing about it.

It was enough for me, to know I'm not interested in it.
Added to reading about the time limits, supposedly to "encourage" replaying.
Enjoying playing, at your own pace, with different choices available, is what encouyrages replaying.
Not forcing it by limiting the time, that only encourages stopping playing forever, or not even starting.

Yes, agreed, timers kill the fun in gaming. . Also the idea of being evil is not fleshed enough to my liking,in the skill tree.
The skills I have seen so far seem to general to be interesting. Many are carbon copied from the feats featured in Neverwinter Nights.

The premise originally had me on the bus, but learning that it is timed has killed my interest. At the very least, I won't be looking for a full-price buy. :\

Yikes! This would be a very bad thing for me, because I love to really delve into a game when I first find something I love, and spend countless hours talking to people and going everywhere.

This is why pre-ordering is a stupid practice, and I'm glad I never do it. You need to know what you are buying.

And unfortunately these days (years) the most efficient (=working) strategy is to wait till a game is reviewed, patched to its fullest, has all DLC released and went GOTY or Enhanced. Then it is the time to buy if it's good. Becuase it is the only way to have the best possible experience in one playthrough.

We have such long backlogs of unplayed games and so little actual play time that it is not a problem at all to wait. Let's face it, most of us will never finish (play) even 50% (10%?) of all games bought ;-)

Timers are no different from limited saves or the like make a mistake and you're booted back x amount of game time. If its a game spanning timer then yes its different but here its a mission timer so not so horrible depending on the exact time it covers. I know I've lost multiple hours to forgetting to save and missing something or other, or a crash.

Its one of the issues I have in games that you can just wander about for years before turning up to save the person that was to be executed "tomorrow". Like leaving Imoen to whatever horrors long after you've collected the money required or in Pillars where you get called back to Gilded Vale when the bad guy has reached his objective and is presumably setting the final gears in motion. Its not that I like timers at all but if the writers are going to use such things they should be real things in the game world not just narrative tools. Gamers are too obsessive about perfect playthroughs as much as I dislike devs going on about multiple playthroughs I do think if you want the perfect run it should be relegated to a subsequent run through.

I am opened to time limit for the main quest. It does give a little bit urgency to the game and can spice things up. For example, I never minded the time limit in Fallout.

But the devil lies in the details and it really depends how it is implemented. If it is the way in Fallout that's fine. There was still enough time in the game to explore almost everything, especially during the second playthrough. But if the time limit is much tighter so that there is no way to explore everything within a single playthrough unless you go for super efficient character and use all the possible quirks of the game then that is unacceptable for me.

Bottom line, I withhold my judgement for now and see how things work out once the game is released.

Well said, I could not agree more.

if your resolution was low, it was especially annoying because you had to scroll down/past it to see the rest of the page [i'm in 800x600.]

Forcing the players to do a second or third playthrough just to see most of the game is a special kind of inbuilt grinding. It can get very boring. I like my RPGs without a timer and rather enjoy everything at my own pace. So for me this game is most probably nothing, unless they make the timer optional.

The key for me is how tight is the time limit. I agree with you that if I can't see a major part of the game during the first playthrough than that's a no-no. On the other hand, if I miss just some bits here and there during the first playthrough, then that's fine with me.

But people have different tastes and there's nothing wrong with that.

Honestly, I was looking at this game and getting excited about the setting and theme, as well as the magic system, but for me as well, the mere existence of a timer kills the entire game. I hate missing things that are hidden away, and I go out and search for them.

Without a timer, I may miss things, but at least I don't feel like I was forced to miss them. Rather, I look at them and say, "Wow, that's really cool, and so well-hidden, I'm gonna go find that in a new playthrough now." With a timer, I feel compelled to commit to min/maxing before even starting the game by planning out an optimal route and sticking to it. There's no chance with that of getting absorbed in the world and no longer caring about min/maxing and completionism, because I was not able to play the way I want in the order I want to get there. I was focused on optimal play so much that such things as enjoyment of the scenery, and even of the story itself, get thrown out the window. The game becomes a stress management sim, and I have quite enough of that in real life, thanks.

I play games specifically to escape that stress, and frequently that kind of thing takes the form of making the world march to my beat. It can also involve having my character become a living god, or simply manipulating outcomes to get whatever I want, the scheming of the villains be damned. I want to feel some sort of power, however subtle, and the presence of an even remotely restrictive timer kills that utterly.

I may be willing to put up with timers on individual quests in Daggerfall, but mainly because they are separate, long timers on a quest-by-quest basis and I'm not exactly attached to any specific randomly-generated-ad-infinitum quest in that game. If something is handcrafted, however, I want to see it and experience it directly. With a timer for an entire section of a game, that is only possible by allowing my gaming to be utterly consumed by the very thing I play games to avoid, which is obviously unacceptable.

60 dollars and up for a 20 hour game that looks like it was made in 1995 (only saying that its old tech, an old engine and a short game)....for 60 dollars...and you morons will pay for it while not having even remotely the IQ needed to see what your actions do.


Absolutely a money grab for idiots to be proud that they supported.

If you don't think the game is worth it, don't play it. Problem solved. There's really no need for you to be a dick about it.