Yeah. Book of Demons sounded interesting but the demo made it clear it wasn’t for me. It’s definitely worth trying before buying.
Damn, the trailer on that page is terrible quality. They must’ve taken it from some 2004 YouTube video.Also, I’m surprised that their mystery bundle is the top seller right now.
You guys are banished from the Bargain Thread, get out. You are now dead to me…DEAD TO ME I SAY!!!
;-)
Seriously though, I get that it may not be for everyone. I love ARPGs, and I found Book of Demons to be a fantastic break form the bog-standard ARPG design of explore, kill, loot, repeat. In fact, I’d hesitate to even classify it as an ARPG, as the design is so unique. Yes, it’s on rails, and yes, it doesn’t have the normal animation you’d expect because the entire concept is that your playing a paper character in a paper world (and the animations are geared around that). But I think the design decisions including customizing your character through the cards and the subsequently customizing the cards as well, the ability to customize your session by choosing how deep you want to venture (and thus how much time you want to play) and the overall art style, music and humor gave the game a lot of appeal and charm. It was on my list of Top 10 Games of the Year last year.
I would LOVE to see enhanced versions like “Warlords Battlecry III HD” and “Warlords III : Dark Lords Rising HD”. The entire Warlords series was fantastic.
The only slightly negative thing to say I have about the Warlords Battlecry series is that it ruined Warcraft 3 for me. WBC2 came out so soon before Warcraft 3 and was so much better a game. I did buy and play through Warcraft 3 when it came out, but throughout I was lamenting that it couldn’t be more like Warlords Battlecry 2.
That Warlords III: Darklords Rising just disappeared off the face of the earth is disgraceful. It’s one of the best strategy games of its era and probably among the best ever.
UbiSoft must own it now. It really needs to be on GOG.com.
Darklords Rising is just one more of the games from the greatest year of PC gaming ever, 1998.
Warlords III: Darklords Rising is, in my opinion, the best game in the Warlords series.
Those who want to see it available at GOG.com should vote for it on the GOG Community Wishlist.
Only if you don’t count any of the WBC games.
Because those are are unbalanced awesomeness.
I’d agree with that, and I’m 100% all for developers trying something new. In this case, it didn’t really work for me, but clearly a lot of other folks enjoy it. That said, it’s exactly because it’s something genuinely different that it’s worth trying the demo. :)
@legowarrior I never cared much for the Warlords: Battlecry games. They are real-time strategy games while the Warlords games are turn-based.
Man… more games need a drunken Dwarf rush.
HIC! HIC! HIC! HIC!
As I recall, Infinite Interactive lost the source code many years ago and that’s why it disappeared. You won’t ever see it anywhere again because of that.
Steve Fawkner said a few years ago he’d like to make Warlords 5 one day if they could figure a way to finance it. But then they got into making the Gems of War MMO and I think all that’s gone out the window. Too bad.
Gah, that is super sad. Darklords Rising is a God damned masterpiece. Guess I’ll be clutching my disk until I pass on.
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Why do you need the source code to republish it? Presumably all you need is a copy of the original CD or installer.
Yeah, I don’t understand that at all. Much of what’s on GOG is running through DOSBox is it not? Sure, maybe that hurts the ability to do some kind of HD remake, but it would be nice for people to be able to play it. (I own the disc)
It’s on Windows, and super glitchy on modern versions from what I recall. Might work better through a wrapper like Wine.
GOG published glitchy (or even nearly nonworking) stuff now and then, but it is never much welcomed.
I don’t know. The version I have is on multiple floppies. If there’s a CD version maybe they could do something with that but getting it to work right on modern Windows systems might be tricky. Warlords: Battlecry by the same developer is on GOG so if there was a way to do it I’m sure they would have.
Can’t do achievements without the source code.
Who cares? The original Warlords III: Darklords Rising didn’t have achievements (at least my copy didn’t).
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I have Warlords 3 Darklords Rising on CD with its manual somewhere at home. Just tossing that out there for future reference.
