First Look at 'Ravensword: The Fallen King' – an Upcoming 3D action-RPG
posted by Eli Hodapp on August 11th, 2009 3:47 PM EDT in Adventure, Games, Role-Playing, Upcoming Games, iPhone 3G S, iPhone games, iPod touch gamesJosh Presseisen from Crescent Moon Games emailed us a heads up this morning of their 3D action RPG set for release sometime in September. Ravensword: The Fallen King has been designed with the iPhone 3GS in mind because of the high polygon count, but will be tuned to also run on previous-generation devices at lower frame rates and without as much graphical eye candy. Reluctant to give too much away, Presseisen compared the game to both Oblivion and Zelda: Twilight Princess for the Wii.
Ravensword is said to have an open environment with a main quest line that will take anywhere from 3 to 6 hours to complete, along with a hefty amount of side quests to also keep you occupied. What I'll be interested in seeing is how extensive the side quests in Ravensword are, because I had much more fun just fooling around in the open game world of Oblivion than playing the comparatively short main quest line.
Take a look at these screen shots and concept art, also the developers are collecting ideas for the game in their thread on our forums. If you'd like to see something added or have other suggestions, don't hesitate to post them.
Holy Hell that looks awesome!!
This needs to be MMO to maximize productivity loss.
If you had fun fooling around in Oblivion, you would LOVE TES3: Morrowind, Hodapp.
Basically TES4: Oblivion is a stripped down version of Morrowind with prettier graphics.
combat in morrowind sucks though =/
Not as bad as combat in Oblivion though. Having enemies level with you takes away the entire point of the game. Instead of natural progression of enemies like Morrowind and Daggerfall had, they just cheaped it out and made enemy strength correlate directly to your skill. I'd rather get my *** kicked for the first couple of days as I level up that just have my hand held throughout the game.
Holy iphone , those screenshots just made me faint.
The iphone keeps surprising more with every day passing
This looks beautiful and I'll buy it day one
But hey, developers! The JUMP and ATTACK buttons really don't need to be so huge. Make them smaller!
Also making them transparent wouldn't hurt.
One word: AMAZING!
Funny how some big companies like EA, BioWare etc. are making iPhone crap 2D games, small game studios like the Crescent Moon Games are making AAA 3D high quality games! Shame on you monsters of game industry. Long live to the small enthusiast!
Looks legit – though comparing yourself to Oblivion and Twilight Princess is going to skyrocket your user expectations…
This really looks amazing. I currently have a 3G but this may persuade me to upgrade. Can't wait.
The screenshots feature both asparagus and warthogs. Did someone finally make a game for ME?
Our research indicated that the warthog and asparagus market segment is woefully under-served, and we decided to rectify that.
bullshitzu
That looks like it would have been a fun project to work on!
josh rosen is a poser we all know it and so does he…Teehee
Looks good! I still want something similar to Baldur's Gate, but this will satisfy in the meantime.
Me too. Although, if they were going to port the original Baldur's Gate game, it would probably be around a 1.5 gig game. That game was originally released on 6 cds, wasn't it? I wouldn't mind though. I've got an 8 gig iPhone and an 8 gig iPod touch.
BG1 = ~1.6
BG Tales of the Sword Coast = ~500
BG Shadows of Amn = ~2.5
BG Throne of Bhaal = ~800
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~5.4 gigs.
I'd gladly sacrifice my touch for having these amazing games.
yagami light is bright and full of fright he is quiet he mopeds around oh yeah game not worth $7 should be $1
The game "Dungeon Hunters" is in fact, a lot like baulder's gate a great game to play you should find it.
Wow. Looks pretty neat.
If it reviews as well as it looks, I'm sold.
I'm still waiting for a port of Asheron's Call for the iPhone. Come on Turbine, DO IT!
wow, where does this come from.
ssssschhhhhwwwIIINNNNG!
that's all I have to say….
*gasp* was oblivion just mentioned on the iphone coming releases!?? *another gasp* this looks so awesome id pay to beta!
Wow! I must say that looks hot! I was afraid it was a "3GS only title." But i'm fine with a bit worse graphics on my 1G touch. As long as it's like oblivian, I'm happy.
this adds to my list of LiveFire, Dexter, Sandstorm, Gangstar, NFS: Shift, and there's probably more.
It's like how you compare the early games on many handhelds to the later games. Say the psp's Metal Gear Acid to Metal Gear Portable ops. As companies get used to programming for the format the better the games will become.
I stay away from RPG's because they burn my time on the console.
Now, how could I resist it at this quality in my pocket??
what the? whoot!
this game just has to get a HUGE (I MEAN HUUUUUUUGEEEEEEEEEEE) map, many weapons, skills and Oblivion perspective.
Oh and uber equipment wouldn't be bad..
good thing i just ordered my 3GS! weeeeee!
Looks awsome.
Please please have a lot of weapons and stuff to find and by.
Thats what keeps me going….
Major CON: only 3-6 hour main quest line?!?!
That's WAY too short! For something this involved (and potentially expensive), the main quest line should be a minimum of 10-20 hours (preferably 15-25 or 20-30) and side quests should add another 30-60 hours at least.
3-6 plus say, oh, 10 hours or so of side quests is disappointingly brief.
This game isn't going to cost $60.00 though….
If you've ever played ES:IV, you'd know that the main story line takes about … Two hours to complete from start to finish. What makes that game epic though is the fact that side missions and exploring can tack on an additional 100 hours. I hope this is what they're referring to. Comparing this to ES:IV is going to piss a lot of people off if it isn't great though. Never set your expectations that high…
Only reason we compared it to those two games is because it has similar ideas
of gameplay and similar style – we are not saying that it is as good as those games which had HUGE budgets! Our game is like a mini version of those two games. Yes the side quests and mini games in our game will probably take up most of the gameplay and the actual story being less lengthy.
An RPG of this quality might encouraged the big players to bring versions of their rpgs to iPhone. Remember there has been an Elder Scrolls mobile game before.
looks outrageous! never saw such graphics as sick as this for ANY iPhone game! WANT IT NOW
this looks great but balders gate wood be perfect for iphone
A Definite Buy for me to warm up my 3GS and iPod T,3RD Looks Gourgous guys but one reccomendation add at least purchasable game hours or Story Maps and Content at lease on iPhone 3GS and iPod Touch 3rr gen because I'm sure this will be an awsome game but it should last Longer. I mean Story is the most interesting part of the game. And any release date yet ?
I found a hack for it but can anyone tell me an item list of tr thugs on the game, I'm leek 5 and I have 99k tell me the list of the strongest item, plz
Why do u want to hack it isnt that hard like zenonia..
It looks awesome but I wish they had an option to change the main character to a female. We girls like to play RPGs too.
If they did, I'd buy it in a jiffy.
Keep your eye out for the sequel
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lol good game but they do not show its week spots at all its like it is a tough fight against an n64 for it … but u can jump and there is a slightly reactive environment so its better than zelda its pretty big also 60mb+biggest single app i have
All the reviews of this game are pretty good, am downloading now