YOU HAVE DIED

Finally an old school RPG where you can actually die. Miss the Days of MM1, Wiz I where the potential of death was around every corner. ;-)

What? No screams of terror from the protagonist?

Do you have the chance to NOT die?

If you smash the controller hard enough, you can get maybe 7% through the level with 1% health left.

I'm currently playing Eschalon book 1. Trust me, those rpg haven't disappeared.

What are you thoughts on this? I have been thinking about picking it up especially since seeing Book Two released recently.

Go for it. The game deserves its reputation. I have played the game for 13 hours so far and I'm enjoying every single minute of it. The game is quite challenging though and I'm having some tough times (playing an archer doesn't help I think heh) but I'm not going to complain. This is the kind of game comparable to the pen-and-paper rpg.

Thanks.

NO! =P
Play as a Paladin. (Is that an option?)

Come on Rohan, you have played EQ1 too, you know that rangers die all the time.

Everquest is not the game in question. =PP

:) But, dying is not that big of a deal even in this game, as soon as you realize that you die a lot you then rethink everything you do.... Block more, and be in general not quite so hack and slash....... I loved Demon Souls :) the first night I had it...... askldahj bloody hell i was pissed off a lot but i finally figured out :) just slow down
Gonna start working on Book 1 again when i head back to work :)

I have read many reviews and comments about this game and they all say that the game is very difficult and you keep dying.
I don't know why but I decided to be arrogant about this, so I claim this, when I get the game (2-3 months from now perhaps), I will (as long as I remember) post everywhere how good I am at it and how all the complaints are because of people expecting the game to be too easy.
:)

What's really sad is that From Software ported their other game (Ninja Blade) to the PC but not this one. :(
You don't die permanently in Demon's Souls but you do need to perform certain tasks to regain a physical body, so dying is vastly more significant than in a game that only has you be temporarily "incapacitated" during combat unless the whole party falls (Dragon Age's red skull portraits being an especially bizarre example of this implementation) or respawns you at a nearby node with the only consequence being an EXP penalty (although some games don't even have that).