About This Game Eschalon: Book I is an old-school role-playing game that will take you across massive outdoor environments and deep into dozens of sprawling dungeons as you seek to uncover the mystery of who you are. It features a tile-built, turn-based game world where the result of absolutely every action is rolled, calculated or statistically determined. Hundreds of items and dozens of creatures await your discovery in this classically inspired RPG. A tile-built, turn-based game world where the result of absolutely every action is rolled, calculated or statistically determined. Strategy is paramount to success; careful skill management, equipment selection and magic usage will win your fights, not rapid button clicking. We are very pleased to say this is not another "action RPG". Hundreds of items and dozens of creatures await your discovery. A combination of randomly generated treasure and carefully hidden goodies means that no two games will play the exact same way. Unlimited character development style: Choose from 24 unique skills to make the character you want and 8 base attributes that affect your character's every action throughout the game. The game world does not scale or adjust itself to match anyone's play style, so the ease or difficulty of the game is directly related to how successful you are at developing your character. Combat plays out at your pace. Eschalon: Book I features a turn-based system that allows you to roll through combat as fast or slow you want...make it fast and furious, or analyze every option for maximum advantage. A non-linear storyline means that the game world is open to explore as you desire. Follow the storyline or don't...it's up to you. Just be careful where you go and who you choose to trust- the world of Eschalon can be a deadly place for an inexperienced adventurer. An epic adventure that you must face alone...a single-player RPG carefully designed to feel like the great old school RPGs of the past such as Ultima®, Might & Magic®, and Wizardry® 7aa9394dea Title: Eschalon: Book IGenre: Indie, RPGDeveloper:Basilisk GamesPublisher:Basilisk GamesRelease Date: 17 Nov, 2007 Eschalon: Book I Full Crack [Keygen] eschalon book 4. eschalon book 1 ranger build. eschalon book 3 walkthrough. eschalon book 2 hammer lorne. eschalon book 1 lockpicking. eschalon book 2 to hunt an assassin. eschalon book 2. eschalon book 3 ending. eschalon book 1. eschalon book 1 potion recipes. eschalon book iii walkthrough. eschalon book 1 4 сундука. eschalon book 2 download free. eschalon book 1 video game. eschalon book 2 foraging. eschalon book 1 spells. eschalon book 3 free download. eschalon book 1 pick locks. eschalon book 2 free download. eschalon book 1 cheat engine. eschalon book 2 kill prospector. eschalon book 1 skills. eschalon book 1 editor. eschalon book 1 ossuary. eschalon book 1 cheats. eschalon book i review. eschalon book 2 spells. eschalon book 2 guide. eschalon book 2 editor. eschalon book 1 guide. eschalon book i map. eschalon book 1 skill trainers. eschalon book 1 armor. eschalon book 1 resolution. eschalon book 2 download full version. eschalon book 3. eschalon book i. eschalon book 1 character editor. eschalon book 3 disease. eschalon book ii walkthrough. eschalon book 2 alchemy recipes. eschalon book 1 cartography. eschalon book i try gog galaxy more. eschalon book i wiki. eschalon book 1 mac. eschalon book 3 divination. eschalon book 2 enter port. eschalon book 2 registration key. eschalon book 2 eastwillow. eschalon book 1 mysterious cave. eschalon book 1 android. eschalon book 3 spells. eschalon book 1 how to pick locks. eschalon book 1 remove disease. eschalon book 3 alchemy. eschalon book 1 fast travel. eschalon book similar games. eschalon book 1 higher resolution. eschalon book 1 cheat. eschalon book 2 locations. eschalon book 2 4 сундука. eschalon book 1 mage build. eschalon book disease. eschalon book 1 gog. eschalon book 1 party. eschalon book 3 review. eschalon book 2 map. eschalon book 1 map. eschalon book i download. eschalon book 3 skills. eschalon book 1 hive queen stinger. eschalon book 1 acorn. eschalon book android. eschalon book 1 kill lilith. eschalon book 1 endings. eschalon book 1 weapon fragments. eschalon book iii. eschalon book 1 goblin citadel. eschalon book 2 builds. eschalon book 1 easter egg. eschalon book 2 best character. eschalon book 1 download. eschalon book 1 poltergeist. eschalon book 1 character builds. eschalon book 1 dungeon fever. eschalon book 1 odd key. eschalon book 2 character creation guide. eschalon book 1 lore. eschalon book 1 best class. eschalon book 2 treasure map. eschalon book 2 review An awesome little pc rpg game. It is obviously designed and made by people/person who is a player of pc rpg games; not just by a producer or designer trying to make a pc rpg. Everything is there that a player of rpg games would want. You can save in the middle of battles, its turned based, has crafting system, teleportation system, non-linear, mysterious little main quest, spell and skill system is neat, npc dialoge is simple, easy to play so less time being stuck, sub-quests are nice. My only complaint is that I want more - bigger game, and more complexity. So thank God they made Eschalon 2. :-). Eschalon is being marketed as an old-school role-playing game inspired by the classics. This is an adequate description of the game, but unfortunately the game does not succeed in adequately copying all the good qualities of the classics that it is inspired by. The game does have it's strengths for sure. Character creation is very detailed and let's you create the character you want to play by choosing such things as race, class, skills, the region where the character grew up and the character's religion (or lack thereof) and all of these choices make a difference. Another strength is in how the turn-based system works. When you move or perform any action time flows. When you don't time stands still. This means that the game can have as high or low a pace as you want it to have at any given moment and that it moves seamlessly from a high to a low pace and vice versa. There is no waiting, e.g. for enemies to complete their turn, and you can also take as much time as you need to think before acting.The game has a reasonable amount of optional side-quests, different items to find and different regions to explore. The graphics are nothing special, but entirely adequate. The music is quite good. So far, it all sounds pretty good.Where does the game fail, then? Unfortunately it fails at the most important thing for this kind of game. Combat! What is wrong with it? It doesn't require any skill. You control a single character with a rather limited repertoire of combat actions, mainly slashing/bashing, shooting, or burning the enemies, The same is true for the enemies. This would be okay in a Diablo-like action RPG where the fun and the challenge comes from the high pace. But for a turn-based RPG this is not adequate, combats should require some strategic thinking and since here they don't fighting enemies becomes a dull routine matter. Since much of the game, like with most RPG's, consists of fighting this is clearly no good.All in all, Eschalon is an old-school turn-based RPG with a couple of good qualities which is unfortunately dragged down by dull combat. I wouldn't really want to call it a bad game, but there are plenty of better games in the genre (although Eschalon beats many of these games in some respects, only not where it really matters) that I would recommend over this one.. (Before I get going, I'll say that Book 2 is much improved and although I'm only a few hours in, I can probably recommend Book 2. Writing is more polished, graphics feel fresher, and controls feel more responsive. Book 1 isn't necessary to play or understand the story of Book 2.)Slow paced and feels more like a shallow copy of old school CRPGs (hey, that *looks old-fashioned*, or, nobody does *that* in RPGs anymore, let's put that into Eschalon) rather than capturing the deep magic that made old school CRPGs worth reviving (as in "why did they do that, and does it still make sense? If so, let's put it in and modernize it just a bit"). Don't get me wrong, I like turn-based (Western) CRPGs, love Spiderweb Games (Exile through Avadon even), and I even fire up one of the top roguelikes now and then (Nethack, ADOM, dwarf fortress, Cataclysm DDA, etc.), and Eschalon Book 1 falls flat by comparison. I've played Ultima 4-8, Wasteland, Fallout 1-2, Baldur's Gate, Arcanum, and I've probably played other awesome turn-based overhead CRPGs that I can't remember. I'm sure I've played some clunkers too, but I felt I had to put up this negative review if only b\/c I cannot figure out why so many people seem to like this game enough to recommend others play it--the hype for this game, from "pro" reviews and players, makes me wonder how many of those even played a quarter of the games I listed up top.Eschalon Book 1 is a passable timesink, but do yourself a favor and fire up an actual classic or one of the better old-school-style titles this side of 1999. Even if it's cheap, there's still your time to consider--a playthrough takes about 20-40 hours depending on how OCD you get on doing quests and leveling up, and much of that will be spent slowly walking your single toon around obstacles since there's no click-move.As for the plot, it's pretty straightforward w\/o any real interesting twists, the writing is passable, but there's no real drama, tension, or even humor. There's *some* sure, but most of it is rather flat and just something to check the box.Now, nobody ever came out and said this was a "love letter" to old-school CRPGs, but much of the marketing kept hyping up it's old-school-ness. To that I respond: 1) actual old CRPGs did it better, 2) some of those old CRPGs are still playable now, 3) newer CRPGs in old-school-style have also done it better.If you read this and still played the game, no problem, even if you found you liked it enough to at least *want* to play it *a second time* (how many Yes-recommenders honestly think they'd *want* to play a second time? That's not even *actually* playing it twice, but just *thinking* about it?). I'm not saying I know all for everybody. If you played it and didn't like it, then at least know you've not gone crazy considering how many reviews recommend it. If you have yet to play it, seriously, track down and play the other names I've dropped first, then maybe you can at least be so busy putting in the hours into those that you won't even have to think about Eschalon.. Played outside steam so low time, but extremely reccomended.I just let it run for 15 minutes so I could come write this review when I normally dont post reviews. Play it.. Slow as slow can be, However its a damn good title especially considering the price point. Story wont blow anyone away but enjoyed all the same. Lovely old school RPG in the vein of the middle Ultimas.. ok graphics for retrolike game+deep mechanics-poor gameplay system for 2007 released game, pathfinding, quest bug-too slow maybeanyway, the game is free now, try it.... Old shcool RPG, if you are tired of action RPG this is what you exactly need.. This is one of those games that was designed to look like retro RPG's. That should explain the cheesy graphics. As far as the puzzles go, they are mediocre at best. The game itself has an ok storyline and is somewhat muddled in its explanation of how things evolved to this. Not bad for a retro looker though. Some things that will pisss alot of people off are:1. The rate of character level up does not seem to make a difference in terms of your damage factor. There are a lot of stats you can enhance and it does not seem to make a major difference even when you have leveled several times.2. The abilities that you can enhance your character with suffer from the same mentioned previously.3. Monsters are ALWAYS vastly over whelming for you to fight and will make you more aware of the previously mentioned complaints regarding character devlopment.4. THE DEVS DO NOT ALLOW CHEATING. THERE ARE NO CHEATS AVAILABLE AT ALL. NONE. You can't even edit a file to cheat. There are a few links to trainers that do not work. So if you have a desire to cheat, like some people do, you are out crap out of luck. This is guaranteed to pisss off many people and the DEV'S have stated they DO NOT CARE, so be forewarned. This, of course, applies to all three of the Eschalon games (1,2, and 3). I am one of those people who like to cheat occasionally and I don't need the whiney anti cheat community to tell me what I need, nor do I appreciate DEV'S who don't care about it either. Tired of this cry baby anti cheat coommunity. If you don't like to cheat, then don't cheat. Plain English, but don't make it impossible for people to do it in game or you are going to lose quite a few sales. This alone has caused me to refuse any purchases form these DEV'S until they change.In summary, this was not a bad game at all. It was nothing revolutionary either, but still not bad. I did manage to beat it without cheats, but it pisssed me off that the DEV's pulled this crap. If you don't like being forced to play without cheats, don't buy the follow up games, because you can not cheat in them either.GAME TIPS: Make monsters chase you to any border and then stand and fight. I usually run around the map and get 4-5 to follow me.If they beat you up badly simply walk through the border to enter a screen refresh and then camp until you are healed. Monsters will never follow you, but instead wait for you over the border. Walk back over the border and they will still be there with the same damage you gave them before. When camping, count to 4 seconds by watching the time of day clock and then stop the campng. Then redo it again by hitting the camp button. This will prevent the game from spawning monsters on you while you camp. If you over extend your welcome while camping, the game spawns powerful monsters to wear you down again so count 4 seconds on the time of day clock and then stop. Re camp until health is filled and then save the game. When you restart you will have all your health again. SAVE SAVE SAVE. That should help alot, of course the easiest way to help you is reccommend you ignore this game and buy something way better, and believe me there are WAY better games. It wouldn't surprise me if the game DEV's release a patch that disallows these exploits too, lol.
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