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Author Topic: Age of Decadence Demo finally released! Indie TB RPG goodness!  (Read 5099 times)

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Yes, it has come. After many years of waiting, we finally have a real demo.

For those of you who doesn't know, Age of Decadence is an RPG developed by the indie company "Iron Tower Studio" (who's staff is also heavily involved with DoubleBear Productions and their Dead State zombie RPG), who seeks to bring some of that old school, turn-based, choice and consequence feel back into modern RPG:s. Age of Decadence takes place in a low-fantasy post-apocalyptic Iron Age setting inspired by the fall of the Roman Empire, where the world has dried up, the empire has shattered, and the people are scrambling to survive in what ruins remain of their former glory.

Noticable features is very challenging turn based combat, well as a focus on non-combat ways to solve quests and progress the game. In AoD, all skills matter, and all choices have consequences. Consider that a challenge.

Read more about the game on the wiki page, or for more extensive insight the forum itself.

As I finish this, it seems people have already used up all the bandwidth for the site it was originally published on. I'll keep an eye out for new links that'll probably show up soon (as well as torrents), but I'll probably be a bit distracted considering I was one of those lucky enough to snag the file before it went down There are now links to the demo in the post below.

If you visit the site, however, remember that the "Combat Demo" is just an outdated combat simulator they released to let the public try out their combat mechanics and different builds, and not the full demo.
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Finding the Demo:
The release gold-rush thread, where new download sites will probably be posted.

Official Download

Other download links.



Screenshots (Might be a bit large):


Spoiler: The Character Sheet (click to show/hide)
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Re: Age of Decadence Demo finally released! Indie TB RPG goodness!
« Reply #2 on: March 22, 2012, 01:03:38 pm »

Turn based RPG? that alone makes it worth a shot.
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Re: Age of Decadence Demo finally released! Indie TB RPG goodness!
« Reply #3 on: March 22, 2012, 01:08:56 pm »

Holy shit, a thing that can run on my toaster.
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Re: Age of Decadence Demo finally released! Indie TB RPG goodness!
« Reply #4 on: March 22, 2012, 01:09:18 pm »

I hate it when people use the same abbreviation for different games. AoD will always be Arsenal of Democracy for me :P.

This looks a whole lot more awesome than AoD though. I'll definitely give it a try.
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Re: Age of Decadence Demo finally released! Indie TB RPG goodness!
« Reply #5 on: March 22, 2012, 01:09:32 pm »

I don't need more stuff on here, theres barely enough space to keep defrag from complaining already. But it looks awesome.
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Re: Age of Decadence Demo finally released! Indie TB RPG goodness!
« Reply #6 on: March 22, 2012, 01:12:02 pm »

When I saw how long it was between this and the combat demo I didn't really have high hopes for a timely release, but looking at the download links, this is actually an open beta? Maybe we'll see the full game before the end of the year.
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Re: Age of Decadence Demo finally released! Indie TB RPG goodness!
« Reply #7 on: March 22, 2012, 01:14:11 pm »

Hehe, it's been in production for a whole, whole lot of years.

Most of the info and screenshots on their main site seems rather outdated too, though. I'm going to try to remember to post my own screenshots in here as I go.

Spoiler: Starting up! (click to show/hide)

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Re: Age of Decadence Demo finally released! Indie TB RPG goodness!
« Reply #8 on: March 22, 2012, 01:34:45 pm »

Bored. Heard its cool, DL:ing now. Judgement later. Thank you.
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« Reply #9 on: March 22, 2012, 02:11:19 pm »

The Praetor class is basically the kind of character I always try to play, and this is one of the few games with the appropriate class so that's a plus.
The thing I really do not like about the game is that you have to read a whole lot of useless text like what kind of hair that bald guy used to have or how his lips are actually quite creepy.



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« Reply #10 on: March 22, 2012, 02:41:59 pm »

Wait hah, I DL:ed the outdated combat demo. That explains the shoddy feeling it had. Gotta try the real thing.
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Re: Age of Decadence Demo finally released! Indie TB RPG goodness!
« Reply #11 on: March 22, 2012, 02:51:15 pm »

Specs too high. Poor computer says "Ahahaha no I'mma' chug wit' dis. Also CPU going to go 100%, hope you can stand heat." Looked interesting up until it hit the actual game world and became nonfunctional, though :P

Gonna' seed it for a while, at least.
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« Reply #12 on: March 22, 2012, 03:26:10 pm »

Il DL when I get a gaming pc. And install 50+ games
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« Reply #13 on: March 22, 2012, 04:35:59 pm »

Ok, we waited age for ages.
Who tried it, how deep is existing content?
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« Reply #14 on: March 22, 2012, 07:41:40 pm »

Specs too high. Poor computer says "Ahahaha no I'mma' chug wit' dis. Also CPU going to go 100%, hope you can stand heat." Looked interesting up until it hit the actual game world and became nonfunctional, though :P

Gonna' seed it for a while, at least.

How old is your rig? Mine's 6 years old and is miles above the specs given on the FAQ. I'm DLing now and trying it out, to see if I have the same problems. It seems really interesting.
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