Realms of Arkania: Blade of Destiny - fresh remake of a legendary game?

Haven't played it, but I'm sure my post should help to find someone that does/did though.

I haven´t tried it myself, but I heard some VERY VERY bad things about this.. should be almost unplayable right now, better wait and see if it gets patched properly.

Always worth a look

Game has improved drastically since launch but it's still very much needing work. Basically dropping a 300mb patch every other day recently so in time it should play how it was meant to be. Should be at least a 50% sale by then so I would wait for that. :)
They are definitely still working on it as there are still plans to release the other 2 parts of the trilogy in time.

edit: It's actually in a reasonably playable state now, just still rough around the edges. They've just updated to a newer unity engine too so that's brought further performance increases and new bugs to iron out. ;)

If you go through the forum patch notes, one patch they released actually broke savegames. Review from one of my Steam friends:

Run. Run far away. Now.

I hesitate to even write this because it's categorized as a recommendation and this is the farthest thing from that.

In all my years of gaming and all the games I've played I can say that this is the absolute worst launch of a game I've ever experienced. An abysmal festering trainwreck that grants more entertainment value from reading angry posts in the forum than it does from the actual game.

It looks like crap, plays like ass and has more bugs than a Louisiana swamp. To call it a beta would be dishonest, that it's being sold as a finished product is really fraud. I'd say pre-alpha is the most accurate way to describe the state of this game.

If all of that doesn't scare you off then please at very least go browse the community forums first before you go to buy this game and see what the general consensus is about the state of the game by owners. I won't even say players because hardly anyone can even play it for any significant length of time.

They are issuing patches literally on a daily basis currently but it still has a long way to go and I don't have the most faith in these developers to ultimately end up with a good product at some point down the road.

This game is a textbook example of why none of us should be pre-ordering or buying released games without first checking to see what the general community consensus is. It's extremely obvious that no one at Valve even booted up the game to play for 10 seconds and the developers admit it was released unfinished. Yet here it still sits in the store being sold as a finished product.

The old Roman concept of Caveat Emptor holds very true here.

"Includes 1 Steam Achievements" Testing Achievement: 0% of players.

From what i understood the devs were forced to launch early. If you're a fan of the old one just wait and see if it improves.

Skip it. I'm itching to play a good solid new RPG but there is none. Raven's Cry looks mediocre to say the least, Chaos Chronicles is in development hell and Realms of Arkania is an unfinished mess. The only RPG that seems interesting which will be released in the near future is Hellraid and that's just basicly Dead Island in a medieval setting. (lol techland)

Might and Magic X may be fun but it's just early access with only Act I.

Haven't played yet. Seems interesting.

Why the heck isn't this Early Access?