The Dark Eye - Chains of Satinav teaser trailer and website
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"The Dark Eye"(TDE) (German: "Das Schwarze Auge" [DSA]) is Europe's most successful Pen-&-Paper role playing game: for more than 27 years millions of players and their heroes have helped to create the largest fantasy universe world-wide. It is now a game thanks to Daedalic and Deep Silver, that released today the first teaser trailer, available on the Official Website under the "News" tab. In the site you will find screenshots and lots more. Thirteen years ago... in the town of Andergast a dark prophet was burned at the stake at the place of execution. Nobody knew his true name. He had come from the woods and spoke his dark prophecies only to disappear again. The people revered him as the "the Seer". It was said that he might have been a druid, a sorcerer, a being from the fairy folk or even an all-knowing demigod. Time and time again the Seer predicted disaster would come to Andergast and, indeed, disaster did come. Nobody knew the real reason why the King of Andergast had the Seer executed. Some say the Seer himself had cursed the whole kingdom of Andergast. A poor raven-haired child was watching the execution. As the procession with the disgraced convict passed by, the boy met the eyes of the Seer and with his last words the doomed prophet predicted a dark future for the boy. The stake was lit for the flames to consume the body of the Seer.
The black haired child Geron grew up to be a gifted trapper. But since that fateful day of the execution he couldn't escape the words of the Seer as the people of Andergast where eying him with suspicion ever since. Feeding their suspicions everything in Geron's presence seemed to break or disappear mysteriously. Thus Geron was called a bringer of bad luck and a witches' brat.
As our story begins, young Geron works as a trapper and has a lot of trouble on his hands. Flocks of crows act strangely. Aggressive and fearless they even attack humans. Some people even believe that the crows bring nightmares to the citizens of Andergast. When some of the once celebrated heroes, who had executed the Seer, are found dead and with eyes picked out rumors spread throughout the city. Many believe that the ghost of the Seer has finally returned to take revenge. And of course many believe Geron to be the reason for these dark signs. After all he was said to bring bad luck and disaster to Andergast
As the king searches for a trapper for an important quest, Geron takes his chance to clear his name once and for all. And so Geron gets entangled into a story that will prove to be of greater importance than he could ever have expected. The game is planned for a March 2012 release, but more details will be unveiled soon.
Carla “Come what come may, Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.”
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Re: The Dark Eye - Chains of Satinav teaser trailer and website
[Re: Carla]
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02/08/12 02:15 PM
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Becky, there have been some RPG's in this world (both pen and paper as Carla wrote and also a few computergames) but this is pure adventure. A few scenes from the game were shown at the Gamescom in Cologne last August. I am looking forward to it a lot.
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Re: The Dark Eye - Chains of Satinav teaser trailer and website
[Re: Carla]
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wow! will be keeping an eye on this one.
Adventure Games Forever
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Re: The Dark Eye - Chains of Satinav teaser trailer and website
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02/09/12 01:10 AM
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"Pure Adventure" and with graphics like that ?? Definitely one I will be after !! Thank you, Carla
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Re: The Dark Eye - Chains of Satinav teaser trailer and website
[Re: Carla]
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02/09/12 04:39 PM
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Drakensang was released in 2008, I think and in 2010, another game followed, called Drakensang: River Of time. Both these games were roleplaying games as was some older games during the 1980's and 1990's called TDE (The Dark Eye).
However, Drakensang's developer Radon Labs was -ehm. bankrupt in 2011, I think. And then they were bougt up by a company making mainly online (browser) rpgs.
However, it pleases me to see that there will be an adventure game in this setting. It is well deserved.
For some reasons, adventure gaming is still big in Germany.
Adventure gaming is fun
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Re: The Dark Eye - Chains of Satinav teaser trailer and website
[Re: Karsten]
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02/09/12 11:42 PM
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Hi Karsten I have both the Drakensang RPGs and both are great games with wonderful graphics. [ Such sad news about Radon, BTW ] The graphics for Chains of Satinav also look terrific !! And I'm hoping the game itself is wonderful, too !! AND .... Whilst I'm here. Just let me shout out very loudly .... Please keep up with the Adventure gaming, Germany, because all the rest of us benefit too !!!! Cheers. Mad
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