What do you think of when people talk about the "best" fantasy games? I'm sure you're probably going to immediately think of names like EverQuest, World of WarCraft, Lord of the Rings:
Online or any of the other highly successful, commercial fantasy series. For those who have a
particularly good taste in games, you'll hear the Elder Scrolls series come up - and rusty old video game dogs like myself will tell you about the original Arena. But these titles are less successful based on their quality as they are on the simple amount of corporate money that could be thrown out to make WarCraft a household name.
Any WarCraft fan is bound to quip, "But WarCraft has sold over 9 million copies!" or whatever inflated number is brought up next. I concede to that point, as previously stated, Blizzard are masters of marketing and have intelligently made sure that one thinks of online fantasy gaming as synonymous with the WarCraft title, regardless of how poorly constructed its plots are, how inadequately designed its models are, and how overly fluffed with "easter eggs" (which were supposed to be special, not plague every turn of the camera) it is.
But do you want to know what the best fantasy game ever made was? It's part of a two part series that to this day commands a respectable following. Unlike most games that were flash cult hits that failed to amount to much, it maintains
dozens of fan oriented websites devoted to keeping its story up to date and current for anyone that may come across this masterpiece of a game in the bargain bin. It was released on two platforms: the original game, Drakan: Order of the Flame was released on PC, followed up by the sleeper-cult hit, Drakan: The Ancients' Gates.
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