RPGWatch Indie RPG of the Year

Iane · Post by **Iane** » December 18th, 2007, 6:03 pm

dalamber wrote:A lot of Spiderweb fans such as myself are a bit bored with Vogel releasing same games year after year, and Depths of Peril is just crap to my mind, so there's little to no competition to this excellent game!

Hmmm I didn't find Depths of Peril crap at all - I played the demo and purchased the game as well - it is in my mind a very good game to play

Atomic · Post by **Atomic** » December 18th, 2007, 6:03 pm

The choices are a little weak in my opinion but i voted for Eschalon nonetheless.

saintlexical · Post by **saintlexical** » December 18th, 2007, 6:16 pm

There's really no competition. None of the other games on the list have Linux clients.

Opunaesala · Post by **Opunaesala** » December 18th, 2007, 6:25 pm

Consider it voted for!

Rune_74 · Post by **Rune_74** » December 18th, 2007, 6:32 pm

Atomic wrote:The choices are a little weak in my opinion but i voted for Eschalon nonetheless.

Out of curiosity who would you want on that list?

Atomic · Post by **Atomic** » December 18th, 2007, 6:48 pm

Well weak is probably not the best word here. I dont follow the indie scene that much so i have no idea how many rpg were made this year but having only 4 choices in this poll doesnt seem to be a lot. That's why i said it was 'weak'.

Rune_74 · Post by **Rune_74** » December 18th, 2007, 6:50 pm

I think thats all there really was.

PaSquall · Post by **PaSquall** » December 18th, 2007, 7:16 pm

Done ! EB1 has more than 80% votes now.

Laudimir · Post by **Laudimir** » December 18th, 2007, 11:46 pm

I voted for Eschalon, as well

If Avernum 5 had been a choice...it would have been hard!.

Dhruin · Post by **Dhruin** » December 19th, 2007, 1:01 am

Atomic wrote:Well weak is probably not the best word here. I dont follow the indie scene that much so i have no idea how many rpg were made this year but having only 4 choices in this poll doesnt seem to be a lot. That's why i said it was 'weak'.

This is a great year. A fantastic year. Prior to this, the only entrants you'd see (for many years) would be Spiderweb's two games each year. There's a strong indie scene in terms of roguelikes, mods, JRPGs using RPG Maker (we don't follow JRPGs) and ambitious plans but in terms of finished western-style CRPGs worth playing -- almost none, Spiderweb aside.

We held Avernum 5 over for the Windows version. I know a lot of you use other systems but I didn't see much point in a poll choice most of our readers just couldn't choose.

Oh, and Depths of Peril is awesome. Really, I know it isn't a classic CRPG but it is a fantastic game.

Well done to Basilisk and Eschalon, though.

leonhartt · Post by **leonhartt** » December 19th, 2007, 3:01 am

Voted for eschalon book 1.