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Black Geyser: Couriers of Darkness Free Download GAMESPACK.NET Black Geyser: Couriers of Darkness. Explore a land plagued by war, pestilence and mysterious abductions, and uncover the hidden legacy of your birth. Recruit powerful allies to your cause; achieve your goals through sorcery, stealth, a silver tongue or brute force; and discover the truth of the Black Geyser. Developed by a small indie team and inspired by cRPG classics like Baldur’s Gate and Icewind Dale, Black Geyser features challenging real time tactical combat with pause, deep lore and memorable companions, all set in a sprawling, unique fantasy world.Black Geyser is set in Yerengal, a world where dark gods have brought nothing but venality and greed. For centuries, the Devil-god Rothgor has spread fear and terror, waging war upon the mortal races. Eventually banished, the nation of Isilmerald has enjoyed a time of peace and prosperity. Yet discontent has begun to fester once more, and a bloody civil war is brewing between the capital Isilbright and the wealthy mining town of Deron-Guld. TOP/BEST ADULT VIDEO GAMES IN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (USA)

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For Black Geyser, there are clear issues from the get-go. Character models are bland, 3-D render with barely any detail to them. Character creation is littered with spreadsheets and restrictions, small detailed explanations of the world and cultures, and offers little in the way of tooltips or guidance for the player. It is not as robust as say, Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous, but obsessing over percentiles and seeing little progress in their progression may turn off some players. Many maps sort of bleed into each other as being generic wilderness/forest adventuring, which for a more grounded world like this works, but the lack of variety does begin to wear down the experience. The maps are well made from an artistic standpoint but don’t break the mold in any way. The relative blandness of the visuals is compounded by more economic choices for the script and design of the game. The main narrative starts decently, with the player going through the process of becoming a noble for a kingdom at war, but then spirals into a sluggish pace of being the toady for the king and interacting with various factions because you were asked to. It tries to be deeper and more complex politically but fails miserably at it. It is also not helped by the sporadic, and honestly, sub-par voice acting that accentuates some of the silliness you do see.

A challenging and rewarding experience for fans of RPGs and strategy games.

In other ways, the design is more of an economical choice to emulate a 90’s CRPG. Companions, for example, are not the super deep characters that have been expected for the past two decades. Instead, they are just two-dimensional personalities with a singular quest, and no rhyme or reason to be a part of the main adventure. In some cases, they just offer to join you when you first talk to them, which is a direct callback to Baldur’s Gate and the more blank companions who were just balls of stats with the semblance of a personality to accentuate your party. In between big-budget isometric RPGs like Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous and Divinity: Original Sin 2, we often forget that the CRPG revival started by Pillars of Eternity has a ton of games that never get talked about. A lot of them are independent stabs into the genre, highly influenced by years of adoration for the design and feel of a CRPG but without the bigger budgets to smooth out the more weathered aspects of the genre. Black Geyser: Couriers of Darkness, by independent developer GrapeOcean, is such an example of this. By all accounts, it is a solid game, but it is a game born in another age, one that ultimately comes with the baggage of its forefathers left at the feet of modern players. ASTERIX & OBELIX XXXL : THE RAM FROM HIBERNIA 

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This is not to say it’s bad in any way. In fact, for the most part, Black Geyser is a solid first step for the small development team behind it. Even still, the problems that are present hold it back from being truly great or memorable, leaving Black Geyser to be a good – if forgettable – experience. Black Geyser is more anachronistic than most modern isometric RPGs, though that is clearly by design. Most of the modern upgrades found in Pathfinder or Divinity: Original Sin are not in Black Geyser: characters have individual inventory management, they level up based on XP gained while in the party, and you even have basic map navigation based solely on location when you enter or exit a space. Other development choices exude this feel as well; maps are in a fixed location and can’t rotate, and you’ll need to toggle different skills or abilities to interact with the environment, such as breaking or opening locks or clicking on a button to see what is grabbable in-game.

A variety of enemy types and factions

Developer GrapeOcean wanted this to be a love letter to the isometric CRPGs of old, and in look and feel, that is certainly accomplished. The problems arise when you compare it to the CRPGS of now, and the very fabric of Black Geyser begins to rip apart at the seams. Everything, from the clunkiness of the UI to the toggling of menus for mechanics, is directly pulled from games like Baldur’s Gate in 1998. A great game, mind you, but innovations have been made since then that make BioWare’s classic CRPG look quaint in comparison.Is it possible to make a throwback to a game made in the 90s? We see it constantly with games inspired by the fast-paced FPS shooters and 2d and 3d platformers, but those are genres that translate a lot better thanks in part to the familiarity of the mechanics. An RPG, especially an isometric CRPG, is a harder sell without modern production values, as it was already a niche audience, to begin with. Heck, this is something Beamdog had to reconcile with Siege of Dragonspear, and that was an expansion pack and not a full game. ASTLIBRA Revision

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Older PC CRPGs have a special place in my heart. I’ve stated many times that Baldur’s Gate 2 is one of the most formative games I played as a teenager. I fell in love with the world, the systems, and the genre because of this game. It’s been fantastic watching a resurgence of the genre as of late, and the latest tiled from GrapeOcean Technologies continues that legacy. Black Geyser: Couriers of Darkness releases today after launching in early access, and it hearkens back to the classic CRPGs of old. Almost doggedly so. Black Geyser transports players to the world of Yerengal, where you take the role of a servant of a great lord. The lord’s estate is attacked early on by the rogue group Daron-Guld, leaving you the sole survivor. Your journey starts as you try to uncover your origins, explore and help heal a world ravaged by war and greed. Presented as an old-school, isometric RPG, Black Geyser is full of characters for you to meet, locations to explore, quests to gather, and puzzles to solve. It’s a world that truly transported me back to my house on the Air Force base here in Vegas as a kid, playing Baldur’s Gate under the glow of my giant CRT monitor. The UI is eerily reminiscent of the original Baldur’s Gate, though it’s not identical.

A variety of different locations to explore and interact with

Black Geyser is a CRPG that wants you to think back to those experiences and therefore lacks some of the more modern flourishes brought to the genre in recent years with the likes of Pillars of Eternity, Tyranny, or even Baldur’s Gate 3. Some of this is welcome: combat is challenging and feels complex, and I adore the almost 2.5D presentation by GrapeOcean on display. However, some of the modern additions that the genre has embraced are sorely missing here. For example, the inability to rotate the camera to get a new angle on the map itself can be frustrating. One moment early on had me angry and showed just much I’ve come to rely on these flourishes. Playing a Swindler, A mysterious old Crone walked me through how to sneak, using her black cat as my guard. Being told to hide by a cupboard and sneak across the room, I couldn’t figure out exactly where she wanted me to hide. The tutorial was made all the more confusing since the spot ended up being somewhere I couldn’t see due to how the game’s artists drew the building on the map itself. I couldn’t see the corner I was being tasked with going to hide. Instead, I had to grope around until I could finally get into sneak mode. Astronite Switch NSP

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The quality of the game overall is much better than I was expecting, with lovely surroundings and nice sharp definition (though I have heard it might fall just short of 4k perfection). I found the graphics and design generally to be of a very acceptable (dare I say high) standard that should suit any fan of AA games. While it is not completely feature complete, it certainly is complete in the sense that you can have a full game with it and not be aware that some things are still being sorted out for a future time. The three most notable of these things being sorted out later are: Companion quests and interactions, player strongholds and a rejigged multiclassing system. It’s the vicious circle here though, because waiting for such things before buying the game would result in the developers not getting enough positivity (and money) to be able to improve the game to that point. I mean, sure, it’s preferable to play Baldur’s Gate 1 with the Durlag’s Tower expansion, but, at the time, people needed to buy and play the rather experimental vanilla Baldur’s Gate 1 in order to get there. As I will discuss later, the game has plenty enough replayability to enjoy it now and then enjoy it again down the road a bit anyway, so holding off on playing it for these reasons could be very counter-productive.

There is lots and lots of choices during character creation with ample opportunity for you to find the character you always play or experiment with something completely new to this game or to try and second guess what might be the ideal character for a game about global greed levels. There’s also lots of nice options to further specialise your character with various skills, like whether you want the talky option for your skill or the safe cracker option, etc. Where it falls a bit short is with the main attributes and the weapon specialisations. Well, I say fall short, but rather it’s just a bit underwhelming. It’s definitely more Advanced Dungeons and Dragons than 3rd Edition, put it that way. Your main attributes are capped at 14 during character creation, which is an odd and unusual number for the genre, and there’s no pop-ups to describe in detail what raising a stat by one point does. Weapon Specialisations just give you more to-hit points but don’t give any bonus to damage, as far as I could tell. And the extent of the improved to-hit is left somewhat mysterious.

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