Drakan: The Ancients' Gates

Drakan: The Ancients' Gates (2002)

by Surreal Software, Sony Interactive Entertainment
Genres:Role-playing (RPG)
Themes:Action
Story:After the dragon rider Rynn returns to her home village, she finds it destroyed, and all its inhabitants massacred. Her dragon, Arokh, tells her that he hears a voice that calls them to the city of Surdana. There, they find out that race of three-faced monsters, called Desert Lords, have been terrorizing the human population recently. In order to fight them, the humans need powerful allies. But the gateway to the world of dragons has been sealed, and only a dragon of the Elder Breed can open it. Rynn and Arokh must now venture to the dragon world, restore the bond between humans and dragons, and defeat the Desert Lords. Drakan: The Ancients' Gates is an action game with RPG elements. The player will take control of both Rynn and Arokh during the course of the game. Arokh's gameplay involves flying to distant lands and dealing with some of the more powerful foes. Rynn's gameplay has more RPG elements, as she can specialize in the arts of melee fighting, archery, or magic, acquiring experience from defeated enemies.Show more
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user avatar@Sayad7user avatar@Sayad7
January 29, 2025
My favourite childhood RPG, played it too many times to count. I hope it one day gets into the preservation program so it can keep on living and I can keep on playing it forever. It truly is an underrated gem that needs to be experienced by more people.
user avatar@Raeldoruser avatar@Raeldor
January 30, 2025
Sequel exclusive to the playstation2, I really feel the mechanics are way better suited for pc, because the long range combat auto target always messes up. but manual target could work very well on pc
user avatar@JGS1194user avatar@JGS1194
January 31, 2025
This was my first RPG. The game that kicked off my fascination with adult fantasy. I was a kid so maybe it shouldn't have but I didn't understand it at the time. It was an adventure fantasy RPG that had me constantly going back and exploring the world. I also pretended that I lived in one of the houses in the first town. Good times.
Great game with a great story set in a dark fantasy world with beautiful scenery. It's a classic and full of adventure, and there's nothing cooler than riding on the back of a magificent, powerful dragon! Venture through swamps, caves, islands, tundra, and deserts and defeat a variety of monsters on a quest to stop a race of demonic desert lords from conquering the world of Drakan. I played Drakan: Order of the Flame in my childhood, and I'm happy I picked up this sequel; it both satisfied my nostalgia and gave me a new experience. Love both games.
Drakan: The Ancients' Gates was not the sequel, that Drakan: Order of the Flame would have deserved. But it was nevertheless a very good action-adevnture that kept much of the spirit of of the first Drakan. Drakan: The Ancients' Gates was unfortunately very ill-fated: It was released exclusively for PS2, a fact that irritated and alienated the fan base of the first Drakan on PC. Drakan: The Ancients' Gates never received the attention and love that it deserved. It would do the game justice to be finally playable on PC as well and to find a place on GOG.com
I still have this on PS2 and the reason I won't give that device up. Played it thru at least twice. And if IIRC one of the deadliest weapons in the game was a chicken!
This was the firs RPG I remember playing, the world felt huge, flying around on the dragon never got old. My dad and I must have put dozens of hours into this game and to this day it has a special place in my nostalgia bubble.
user avatar@foggeyuser avatar@foggey
February 22, 2025
I mean out of every game that's out there this one just never got life and it is super enjoyable and it shouldn't be permanently trapped on PS2 and PC which you can barely play
user avatar@mejfam123user avatar@mejfam123
February 11, 2025
At my age my gaming years are counted so I really hope it makes it to GoG soon. After learning that a german base fan group was asking for the sequel to Drakan: Order of the Flame, it's been decades of longing for this. Up to day I've been unable to experience Drakan: The Ancient Gates because it was PS/2 only. And it came to the point that I almost purchase a FAT PS/3 console (it runs ps/2 titles) in 2024 just to play it not knowing if I was even going to be able to find the PS/2 disk. Can't wait to have it available in GoG.
user avatar@Ragvoduser avatar@Ragvod
March 06, 2025
Played countless hours with my dad passing the controller every time one died or completed a quest. Drakan was such a big part of what I now consider to be the happiest times of my life. Please bring it back, make it playable on pc.
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