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"I rate this the BEST RPG I have ever played."
The title says it all. It is a classic.. up there with Adventure and Pong for its genre. An amazingly crafted synthesis of novel, action and adventure. Groundbreaking use of Chapters. Combat system is an improvement over what I regard as the prior pinnacle of Turn based combat, that being the gold box series. Brilliant use of puzzles to unlock needed items was a masterpiece of design. So much has never been improved on since then, and I have bought and played every RPG out there. As someone says elsewhere.

"Waldenprof"
This is a classic game that should be re-done to take advantage of modern technology. It has a great story line, excellent gameplay considering its age, and was a pre-cursor to other legendary RPGs like Diablo and Everquest. It should be in everyone's collection as it still, many years later, is very playable and enjoyable.

"The Leader of the Pack"
Betrayal at Krondor at its release date was the best game ever. At the time its graphics were amazing, its board was huge, the strategy engageing, and its character devolopment and story line enchanting. Almost a decade later the graphics seem palty and the board is just big. Today this game in my opinion still has the best charcter development and story line of any game ever made. The game is an RPG where your small party roams around a large world. Your party eats rations equips armor/swords/ect that can be purchased, taken from dead enemy, or found in clever riddle boxes that are opened when the answer to a riddle is entered. Characters can get sick, tired, and hungry as night goes to dawn to day to dusk and back again. My favorite feature of the game, which has unfortuneantly not been addopted by newer games is how abilities are increased. A party member increases one of his numerous skills by praticing it and focusing on it. You tell you party members to work on a skill by selecting it in the skill characher page. So if you have a battle and a character uses his bow alot he will increase his skill with the bow, if the bow skill is highlighted then it will increase more. There are no levels or expierence points. Atribute devolopment is high on realism and enjoyable gameplay. Combat is turn based and resembles a game of chess. Your strategy makes all the difference in combat. Keeping enemy away from your vunerable spellcaster and killing the most dangerous enemy first are key (eaisrer said than done). As a bonus prevent defeated enemy from retreating (sometimes impossible). The math behind the fighting is simply brilliant and i wish it were implemented in newer games. There is no mana. When you are injured or cast a spell you lose stamina points until they are all gone. When your stamina points are gone you lose health points. Your ability to do anything is proprtional to your health points. If your base health is 32/32 and you have only 16/32 you will run 1/2 as far and hit 1/2 as hard and miss 2x as much. This is great for realism because you don't have a nearly dead guy running fast and fighting to his full ability.
I also like how some weapon chioces are not clearly better than others. The best weapon for a battle depends on the type of enemy, the other members of the party, and the strategy you employ. I also like the expansive use of non-combat items; rope, various keys, herbs, ale, madolin, and many more items add a richness and reality to krondor often absent other games.

I wish siera would simply remake this game almost as is, yet add several features. I also reveal the games shortfalls in this segment.

1) Take the graphics to 2005 standards
2) Make the world even bigger
3) Add more weather
4) Make time based on a clock not on the number of steps you take.
6) Increase the number of equipable items types and diversity.
7) Eliminate the large grid in the combat mode. Make the grid so small that it seems like a continueum. This would allow for a spear weapon to outreach a club type weapon, thus adding greater depth to combat.
8) There should be some large battles that the party sould partake in. This would meld naturly with the storyline and add a few cool events to the game.
9) Everybody loves friendly AI combatants hireable or otherwise.
10) A party of three is fine, but it should swell to four or five for at least part of the game.
11) Add increased difficulty mods and increase replayablity.
11) Last and most importantly; enemy units should actualy travel and pursue the party rather than patrol narrow choke points on the map. Thus they could overtake the party while sleeping or demand great haste. Greater mobility of the AI would allow for missions to be more time critical and add to the suspense of tracking down an enemy.

PS: The existing sequels to this game are not good. If you played Betrayal at Antara and like it you will love Krondor. If you have played Krondor don't waste your time with Antara, play Krondor again.

"Amazing (just like the book)"
I read the book Magician and loved every page of it. I was just browsing for a new rpg, but couldnt find an interesting one. That was before I found this amazing game. Take on the roll of Pug, an interesting young boy who has a talent for magic but doesnt know how to use it until he is made a slave on the alien planet Kelewan. He is then sought out for his magic abilities and made into a Great One (the tsurani's magicians.) It is all very interesting and fun to play so dont waste money or time on food and clothes just wrap yourself in a blanket and play this game!