Avadon : The Black Fortress - New SpiderWeb CRPG

Neil79 · 2 Mar 2011 at 18:32

Spiderweb Software brings you Avadon: The Black Fortress, the first chapter in a new, epic fantasy saga. You will serve the keep of Avadon, working as a spy and warrior to fight the enemies of your homeland. As a servant of the Black Fortress, your word is law. Experience an exciting fantasy role-playing adventure and battle a conspiracy to destroy your people.
Avadon: The Black Fortress Features:

Epic fantasy role-playing adventure in an enormous and unique world.

Four different character classes, with dozens of unique spells and abilities.

Uncover the fascinating history of Avadon and the land of Lynaeus.

Many different endings. Your choices will change the world.

Dozens of side quests, hidden dungeons, and secrets to discover.

Hundreds of magical items to find. Use powerful crystals to make your artifacts even more powerful.

Huge adventure with lots of replay value.

http://spiderwebsoftware.com/avadon/index.html

Using their brand new engine
http://spiderwebsoftware.com/avadon/shots.html

SPRINT 2011

Evilsod · 2 Mar 2011 at 18:33

I think you mean Spring

*has a look at the site*

Neil79 · 2 Mar 2011 at 18:36

Oh... Yeh..

Brain Fail

It's Spring Everybody!

choconutjoe · 2 Mar 2011 at 19:03

Can't wait to give it a try. Visually it looks like a step up from his previous games. I hear this one even has walking animations!

jakejacob0 · 2 Mar 2011 at 19:04

looks good

Neil79 · 2 Mar 2011 at 19:23

I agree with much of what you say. My only concern is that Jeff may have gone a bit too far in his simplification of the game system, making it way too easy for hard-core RPG players like myself. I'll reserve my judgment for after I've completed the game, though.

Seconded on the visual style. The graphics are obviously not tremendously advanced, but I find Avadon to be pretty in a way that Jeff's previous games haven't been. Especially the character portraits and a lot of the environment/terrain graphics.

Avadon itself is huge, as are the other areas. It took me awhile to get my bearings, and there was perhaps too much info to take in early on as opposed to fighting. In particular after spending a lot of time wandering around Avadon you leave and the next town is also a town. It might have been nice to put a mostly-fighting area in between.

But overall it seems pretty great, and of course I have already gladly paid the $25. Great work Jeff if you see this.

The large areas were, for me, the biggest aesthetic change. It makes a huge difference to have regions that really feel regional, not just local, and towns that feel sufficiently townish while still having some wilderness on the same screen.

On a positive note: I LOVE being able to resolve a quest by refusing to kill someone! I previous games, just through talking I get assigned quests to kill this or that person; often when I meet the person I decide I don't really want to murder them, but there was no way to get rid of the quest. At least once so far I've a quest where I was able to resolve it by going back and saying I chose not to kill the target. I appreciate the option.

Positive from the mac players

Neil79 · 15 Mar 2011 at 22:03

http://www.geardiary.com/2011/03/14/mac-game-review-avadon-the-black-fortress/

What I Like: Great looking new engine; excellent characters; solid new game world; excellent skill trees; tremendous value
What Needs Improvement: Shorter than other games; story not at same level as prior franchises

Neil79 · 29 Apr 2011 at 10:21

http://www.bluesnews.com/a/2312/avadon-the-black-fortress-windows-launch-date

Spiderweb Software announces plans to release the Windows edition of Avadon: The Black Fortress on May 2nd, offering Windows gamers access to this "epic 40 hour RPG" that's already available for OS X. Here's word:
As a Hand of Avadon, ruthless and efficient enforcers of peace, your missions will take you to the 5 lands of The Pact and beyond. Battle those who seek to disrupt peace in the land while dealing with spies and assassins who wish to use the power of Avadon for their own gain. As your comrades are picked off one by one it will be up to one stalwart Hand to steady the scales of justice.

Avadon: The Black Fortress features a full 40 hour RPG experience with four unique classes and dozens of skills and spells to develop. Learn the unique history of the five lands of The Pact and make important decisions on your journey that will reveal one of many endings. Discover new quests, secrets dungeons, magical items, and epic battles, everything you would expect from a Spiderweb Software RPG!

.:Blindfaith:. · 30 Apr 2011 at 19:54

-----ignore-------

wrong thread

bhavv · 10 Aug 2011 at 09:03

I tried the demo for this and I found it to be far too text heavy ad not very fun.

For some reason I havnt been able to enjoy the Avadon / Avernum games as much as I still Enjoy playing the Exile ones.