Avadon 3: The Warborn Ativador
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- Aug 25, 2019
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About This Game Avadon 3: The Warborn is a huge, old-school, indie fantasy role-playing adventure, the conclusion of the epic Avadon trilogy. You are a Hand of Avadon, warrior and spy, judge and executioner, with nearly unlimited power to fight the enemies of your homeland. Your word is Law. However, your lands have been invaded. Barbarians and monsters are rampaging through your home, and you are the only one who has a way to stop them.Avadon 3: The Warborn is an epic, retro adventure in an enormous and unique world. Choose from five different character classes, each with dozens of unique spells and abilities. Explore cunning dungeons, hunt for hundreds of magical artifacts, and pass judgment on your enemies (or just people you don’t like). Avadon 3 features many different endings. Will you save your people or betray them? Follow orders or claw for more power? We leave those decisions for you.Key Features:Epic fantasy role-playing adventure in an enormous and unique world.Many different endings. Will you be loyal to your leaders or switch sides and bring them down? The choice is yours!Five different character classes, with dozens of unique spells and abilities.Experience an exciting story, with fascinating characters, tough decisions, and many twists and turns.Dozens of side quests, 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. Experience with earlier games is entirely unnecessary to enjoy Avadon 3. 6d5b4406ea Title: Avadon 3: The WarbornGenre: Adventure, Indie, RPG, StrategyDeveloper:Spiderweb SoftwarePublisher:Spiderweb SoftwareRelease Date: 14 Sep, 2016 Avadon 3: The Warborn Ativador Avadon 3: The Warborn is an old-school turn-based rpg with exploration and combat as it’s primary focus, well balanced by character interactions, vivid and constant world-building through descriptions and textlogs, and the occasional equipment upgrading. The option in classes and a wide array of abilities helps keep the encounters engaging and allows light tactical planning on medium-to-large scale battles (especially on higher difficulty levels). Following the well-established molds of the Geneforge and Avadon sagas, Avadon offers a huge world and interesting characters to populate it. This game’s particularity comes in the form of a more focused storytelling that takes precedence over the free-form exploration. The story itself revolves around the player as a lowly Pact soldier that gets elevated to the status of Hand of Avadon, being given the power and the responsibility to end the war with the Farlands. How this is brought about is up to you: crush your enemies mercilessly, or subdue them by aiding in your common struggles. The sum of your positioning towards your superiors and companions determines later-game outcomes.Between all the aspects that come out upon hours of gameplay, some excel. Things A3 got right :The “low budget GoT” feel of the story, having a gray-scaled political struggle at the center of your narrative, is well-paced and gripping;The retooled Vitality system and Talent upgrade paths shake up the fighting and leveling in relation to the previous iterations;The returning companions and npc’s from A1&2, as well as the cleverly written (if a bit on the short side) party interaction. Things A3 didn’t get right:The world could be more flushed out. The lack of bartering, interaction with less important npcs and a comprehensive font of knowledge (outside the painfully short codex descriptions) about the culture and political behavior of each country and people leaves too much to the imagination;Few minor dialogue inconsistencies (companions referring to early quests half-way through the game);The extended encounters (enemies with too much health and not enough damage output can easily become a slog rather than a challenge);The lack of a soundtrack, slightly offset by the mild ambient sounds.Avadon 3 is a great game. Small things, like choosing which companions will be by your side, learning their backstories, ideals and motivations and coming to expect their input in a given situation is one of the highlights of the experience. Likewise, defeating hordes and bosses and tracking down your antagonist step by step gives a real sense of progression to your campaign of liberation. The fact that story events are the direct outcome of the previous games’ plots should be enough incentive to get through the previous games first, even though it’s not strictly necessary. All around, the positives of the game far outweigh the weak spot that are almost inherent to this type of indie, like graphics and sound (On regards to which, by the way, you can always improve your experience by having your favorite dungeon synth/dark ambient playlist at hand, it makes the wandering around far more enjoyable). TL;DR Spoderweb quality right there. If you prize story over graphics, but think choose-your-own-adventure books don't have enough gameplay, this game is for you.. The Avadon series ends with a big wet fart. The ending isn't set during the big war in which the Farlands attack the Pact (which the Pact wins handily offscreen) but during the aftermath, with you hunting down the last gasps of the rebellion. Everyone and everything feels tired and obligatory, with a lot of text being literally "well, I guess you'll have to go slaughter some more wretched resistance fighters. Sigh." Jeff Vogel may want to take a break from writing games. With that in mind, "you'll never learn what the major characters were all about, never uncover the big mysteries of the settings, and your decisions don't REALLY matter" just feels spiteful. And this might be subjective, but the combat feels a lot more of a sloggy chore this time around.More detailed impressions:http://xander77.livejournal.com/39115.html. Like all of the Avadon series this game is about the story and story it has. It's telling the story of a land and it's people and you can be an influence in it too. What you do really affects and makes a difference.Are you a fan of stories that are a bit more about the "Gray area" of morality? Then Avadon is a story you might want to engage in!This is the third in the series and I do HIGHLY reccomend you've played through 1 and 2 (Or at least most of them) else a lot of what is done in this will feel a little odd. While the game can stand alone without knowing the history I've found having played the previous two it definitely helps. Very good combat strategy required and the slight changes they've made to how mana and health are both regenerated and treated in combat are improvements over the previous. Definitely this has been one of my favorites in the series so far! I do love the character of Red Beard and it's hard to say is he the good guy or the bad guy? You can be the judge of it... who REALLY is the bad guy in all this? That's up to you to decide because in the end it's just what you believe.... Good and familiar Spiderweb game. Character creation and levelling is sadly very simplified compared to their earlier games, but it's still a good experience if you like turn based story driven RPGs.. I think that 100+ hours recorded on the game speak for themselves. It is true that Avadon 3, like all Spiderweb Software games, is not immediately replayable, so if you're looking for a mechanics driven game that you can play over and over, this game is not for you. But if you're looking for a captivating story full of difficult decisions, give this series a chance. Also, if you end up not liking the game halfway through, the developer offers a one year money back guarentee, no questions asked. So what do you have to lose?. More of the same for Avadon 3, which is a good thing. Excellent story, good turn-based combat. An insta-buy for me.
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