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DarthAragorn posted...

I really want Shroud of the Avatar to be good but from what I've read, it isn't.

Might still pick up on a sale sometime and see.

I also really wanted to like it.
They do free weeks (well, all of may was like a free Month) where you can play it ... for free, as you'd imagine, but with a fair amount of restrictions.

I loved the older graphics, the skill system, and NPC interaction (you can click on keywords from their dialogue, or type it in, and if they ask you questions you can type whatever you want).

I ... didn't play enough really to get a well-rounded impression, but I was kind of turned off by the older questing mechanics where you're just told a location where something should be but it's up to you to figure out where that location is and track down the item. For instance, I was told that this painting was stolen by bandits in a named marsh. So I had to find the marsh, and then I killed about thirty bandits but it never dropped -_-. It was just a bit ambiguous, which was both a nice change of pace from modern games that would show you exactly where to go, how far away it is, and which monster you have to kill specifically to get the item, but it was also a little confusing/ambiguous.

ANYWAY... I think it's got a lot of potential. Also the map didn't work for me after a certain point, it just kept saying the asset couldn't be loaded. But it's still in development and the update newsletters are friggin' awesome and very frequent so I have faith they'll fix that.

TL;dr - Just wait for another free <period of time> event for SOTA to try it out.