First time player + Some questions
Posted: Sun Dec 15, 2019 6:18 pm
Hey guys!
First of all, I am very surprised that there are still some active users in a forum that is devoted for a twenty year old game.
Let me introduce myself: I am 25 years old and live in Germany. When I was very young (like 6 years old), my dad used to play this game and showed me Rynn's amazing skills. Unfortunately, I could never properly play this game on my very old machine that I had during these old times. It was very laggy and I experienced a lot of crashes. Sad times.
But now, after reaching a decent age (and becoming a father some months ago), I decided to give it a try again and thanks to the community patch I was able to run it properly. I immediately fell in love with this game and I was surprised how much content and special enemies it offered.
However, there were some situations in the game that felt exceptionally weird, but I managed to play through it just half an hour ago.
The difficulty I have chosen in the beginning was hard (3/4), some scenes in the game were indeed pretty difficult but I was disappointed that the endboss fight was so easy. Somewhere in this forum I have read that the developers had to rush in order to finish the game within the deadline, which I think is pretty sad. This game had very much potential. But we all know that many games suffer from rushed development.
I have some questions to you all:
1.) Did you play the Drakan TAG (PS2-only)? How was it? Some let's Play looked pretty interesting, and I can only agree that it's sad it didn't make it to PC.
2.) What happened to the Unity remake of Drakan? I can't find any working downloads. Was Sony complaining?
3.) What did you like the most about the game?
4.) I am actually a Developer (mostly Mobile Apps and High-Performance Development). I am sick and tired of working for other people so I finally want to dive into game development. I programmed some games in my youth but those were nothing serious. What I dream of is to program a RPG mobile game (perhaps also Nintendo Switch). And you know what? I think it would be great to have a game that is very similar to Drakan (at least plot-wise). This would be perfectly legal as it only copies the idea; not actual names, models, skins, sounds or other contents. What do you think? Would a world like Drakan make it in an Indie-Game? Of course this mainly depends on the game design.
Thanks in advance for each and every response I get. Also thanks to Arokhs Twin for making this possible.
By the way, have you seen these interesting interviews?
http://www.thecomputershow.com/computer ... rview1.htm
http://www.thecomputershow.com/computer ... rview2.htm
First of all, I am very surprised that there are still some active users in a forum that is devoted for a twenty year old game.
Let me introduce myself: I am 25 years old and live in Germany. When I was very young (like 6 years old), my dad used to play this game and showed me Rynn's amazing skills. Unfortunately, I could never properly play this game on my very old machine that I had during these old times. It was very laggy and I experienced a lot of crashes. Sad times.
But now, after reaching a decent age (and becoming a father some months ago), I decided to give it a try again and thanks to the community patch I was able to run it properly. I immediately fell in love with this game and I was surprised how much content and special enemies it offered.
However, there were some situations in the game that felt exceptionally weird, but I managed to play through it just half an hour ago.
The difficulty I have chosen in the beginning was hard (3/4), some scenes in the game were indeed pretty difficult but I was disappointed that the endboss fight was so easy. Somewhere in this forum I have read that the developers had to rush in order to finish the game within the deadline, which I think is pretty sad. This game had very much potential. But we all know that many games suffer from rushed development.
I have some questions to you all:
1.) Did you play the Drakan TAG (PS2-only)? How was it? Some let's Play looked pretty interesting, and I can only agree that it's sad it didn't make it to PC.
2.) What happened to the Unity remake of Drakan? I can't find any working downloads. Was Sony complaining?
3.) What did you like the most about the game?
4.) I am actually a Developer (mostly Mobile Apps and High-Performance Development). I am sick and tired of working for other people so I finally want to dive into game development. I programmed some games in my youth but those were nothing serious. What I dream of is to program a RPG mobile game (perhaps also Nintendo Switch). And you know what? I think it would be great to have a game that is very similar to Drakan (at least plot-wise). This would be perfectly legal as it only copies the idea; not actual names, models, skins, sounds or other contents. What do you think? Would a world like Drakan make it in an Indie-Game? Of course this mainly depends on the game design.
Thanks in advance for each and every response I get. Also thanks to Arokhs Twin for making this possible.
By the way, have you seen these interesting interviews?
http://www.thecomputershow.com/computer ... rview1.htm
http://www.thecomputershow.com/computer ... rview2.htm