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The book "Magician" by Raymond E. Feist, which this game came from, is a great read and interesting in as much as the book came after and grew out of a long-running RPG campaign, if I remember correctly.
Wish the game was remade, it has many interesting concepts, especially for its time, but the visual presentation and some gameplay elements hadn't aged well. It was an example of an early open world game. The most interesting part of the game is the first chapter. The game very directly makes you go south towards Krondor, and the path north contains some large enemy packs. But if you manage to defeat the two large en…
Betrayal at Krondor uses written descriptions of events and environments a lot. It felt natural, at least to me, perhaps partially because the graphics didn't really allow for showing a lot of detail visually. Extensive voice acting wasn't really a thing in the floppy era either.
Nowadays, with the incredibly detailed graphics and professionally voice-acted spoken dialogue of AAA games, it might seem a lot more weird if what the characters saw were described in writing.
Wish the game was remade, it has many interesting concepts, especially for its time, but the visual presentation and some gameplay elements hadn't aged well. It was an example of an early open world game. The most interesting part of the game is the first chapter. The game very directly makes you go south towards Krondor, and the path north contains some large enemy packs. But if you manage to defeat the two large en…
I forked an open source reversed engineered implementation of that game some time ago, you can see it in here: https://github.com/canassa/betrayal-at-krondor
My hope was to get it working and eventualy update some of its graphics but I never had the time to properly work on it.
The book "Magician" by Raymond E. Feist, which this game came from, is a great read and interesting in as much as the book came after and grew out of a long-running RPG campaign, if I remember correctly.
There's also "Krondor, The Betrayal" where he turned the game back into a book! Unfortunately not as good as his earlier works.
Wish the game was remade, it has many interesting concepts, especially for its time, but the visual presentation and some gameplay elements hadn't aged well. It was an example of an early open world game. The most interesting part of the game is the first chapter. The game very directly makes you go south towards Krondor, and the path north contains some large enemy packs. But if you manage to defeat the two large en…
While the game itself is not getting remade, there is an “inspired by” game in the works: https://www.callofsaregnar.com/
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While the game itself is not getting remade, there is an “inspired by” game in the works: https://www.callofsaregnar.com/
Damn! They managed to update the graphics while keeping the "feel" of the original game, that's quite an impresive feat.
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It is, would be interesting as a movie or game.
That's a good shout actually. It would make a terrific film in the right hands.
The book "Magician" by Raymond E. Feist, which this game came from, is a great read and interesting in as much as the book came after and grew out of a long-running RPG campaign, if I remember correctly.
It is not from the "Magician", it is set between 4th and 5th books in the main series and later was made into a novel.
This website is serious nostalgia for me.
The Mordhel wordlocks from this game are a mechanic I desperately wish other games would pick up (who doesn't like riddles?).
Wish the game was remade, it has many interesting concepts, especially for its time, but the visual presentation and some gameplay elements hadn't aged well. It was an example of an early open world game. The most interesting part of the game is the first chapter. The game very directly makes you go south towards Krondor, and the path north contains some large enemy packs. But if you manage to defeat the two large en…