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[Kosta]

Feel free to comment and discuss this game here. Also, if you have any useful tips or tricks don't hesitate to share them with the others! Thanks!

Review and download (if available)

[LuckyLlama]

Wow, now this is really a good game. I can remember playing this long ago and having no idea what it was called. An excellent game... I think it was this game that got me interested in rpg's... Thanks Blue Byte!

[Lizard]

First RPG that i have trully finished!!!!And it is still best RPG ever made(for me)!!!
Abandonia is the Greatest

Ok, the beginning is just waaay to boring and too long. All I been doing for like an hour it seems is reading. IS the whole game like this? I'd read a book instead. If there is a lot of combat please let me know, I'll force myself through the beginning.

[melthas]

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Ok, the beginning is just waaay to boring and too long. All I been doing for like an hour it seems is reading. IS the whole game like this? I'd read a book instead. If there is a lot of combat please let me know, I'll force myself through the beginning.
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Force yourself and you won't regret it. Game has an excellent story so I would advise you to keep on reading. And yes, there are lots of combat in the further parts of the game.

[Treewyrm]

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Ok, the beginning is just waaay to boring and too long. All I been doing for like an hour it seems is reading. IS the whole game like this? I'd read a book instead. If there is a lot of combat please let me know, I'll force myself through the beginning.
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Yes, in the beginning you will have lots of text to read, like Melthas said you'd better read it. No need to rush into the action without knowing alien world, infact you'll be rewarded for your patience and curiosity. Although much of the text and dialogs have no actual impact on the gameplay I simply advise you to read just for the sake of getting deeper into the world of Albion. And you are very right on it being more like a book, I mentioned above and many others have already said this before: if it wasn't the game it should have been a book. Because it feels like a really good sci-fi book, the one you would love to keep in your memories. It is that sort of games which you will call "great games" no matter how old they are. It is because they require imagination from player. Detailed artwork provides "visual tune" (couldn't get a better one for the lack of words in my vocuabulary) but it doesn't replace your imagination, it makes it work even more. Sometimes you'll be stuck but take your time and refer to walkthough only when you are really really stuck. It leaves a lot to think after you complete it and it's worth the trouble. :-) Questions will swarm through your head but once again it leaves for your imagination to continue the story. I have just completed it and I was simply amazed by this game, I knew it was really good one but I couldn't imagine how really good it is. But I have to say: it's not sort of game that is for everyone, I might add that this game is for people with good imagination and those of artistic nature. But then again there is good story and lots of little details you'd love to learn, such is the attractive world of Albion.

[Mad-E-Fact]

Oh yeah! The only reason I haven't played this when it was released was because at that time Thalion was bought by Blue Byte, and they didn't deem it rentable to make an Amiga port. :not_ok: This is truly a fantastic game, you will be hard pressed to find a comparable RPG, and sadly they don't make games like this anymore...

Anyway, if you have problems running it, you probably have to mount the CDROM in DosBox. Not sure if Abandonia has the CD version, but the one I have is on CD so it might be the same case here.

[dishwasherlove]

This game is just really great. Excellent visuals..

[MrBackAlleySka]

Well, this is how I got it to work perfectly. (smoothly, with sound, music, everything) First, download the game from this site (duh). Next install VDM Sound. Now, for some people it'll say it cant install launchpad.dll, don't worry about it. You don't flippin' need it. After that's installed, go to the VDM Sound folder (eg. Program Files/VDMsound) and run dosdrv.exe It should say somethoung about a sucessful installation. After that, go into Albion's folder and right-click Albion.bat and select "Run with VDM Sound" and wham-o, you got yourself a smoothly running, sound-filled game. Anywho, thats how ~I~ made it work, and I run Windows 2000 Pro. You may need to go into setup.exe (or is it setup.bat?) and right click that and select "Run with VDM Sound, and select a Roland for music, and Soundblaster for sound, I dunno if you HAVE to do this though, butmost likely. I dont even have a Roland, or Sound Blaster (I have a Mad Dog II) but thats what VDM Sound is configured to run with by default.

Anywho, I may be mistaken as to WHY you have to do one of those above things, but thats exactly what I did (nothing more, nothing less) and it works like a DREAM. Didn't even have to touch it with DOSbox. I COULD get it to work with sound and stuff in DOSBox, but pumped it to 10000 with ctrl-F12.

[rabadi]

Originally posted by Mad-E-Fact@Feb 19 2005, 05:15 PM
Well, I have the CD, and there are only 2 videos on it, one is the intro and one are the credits that you can view from the main menu. I'm sure I could upload the intro on some free hosting site if people want to see it, so drop a line if you are interested.

I will download this game as soon as I'm done playing Callahan's Crosstime Saloon (still struggling with it). And yes, I would appreciate it much if you can upload the videos somewhere. Thanks in advance! k: