Game News Sword Coast Legends, a new Dungeons & Dragons RPG, announced by n-Space and Digital Extremes

[Crescent Hawk]

Looks okay. These games are pooping out all of a sudden, its rtwp but I dont care. Looks less gay than Dragon Age.

 

[Morality Games]

There is not enough footage to know if this sucks, show me the character creation screen.

I have to wonder if they've even made one or whether its all prototype. Is this some sort of attempt to pre-empt Obsidian/Paizo from tapping into that sweet sweet Original Sin co-op RPG adventure money?

 

[vorvek]

Why would they dumb down a game that's already kind of meh? Last few times I played some pnp dnd5e sessions it was sort of fun, but you pretty much pick a path inside a class and that's about it. I recall there being feats, but for some reason it was better not to take them and do something else instead (I don't remember what, there weren't that many level ups). Overall, it's probably a bit less MMOish than 4e, but I'm sure the character system translates well enough to a videogame.

 

[Achiman]

My impressions from the info so far:
* the art style and villages reminds me more of diablo 3 at night, not a bad thing, just similar
* $249 for collectors edition... That is trying too fucking hard.
* I can see the DA:O influence in the encounters shown, but I liked that game, so again it's a net positive.
* The spell effects look a bit too cartoony. Rather have some gore and grit to make the effects look more punchy, NOT the "I've just been slaughtering pigs all afternoon" bloodiness of Dragon age however.

Overall if it does release this year and for only $40 bucks, if Underail, PoE and Serpent in the Staglands all come out this year, well there isn't even going to be time to play this if it is bad!
Win-win situation imo.

 

[Rivmusique]

The NWN of our time. Let me know when Dance with Rogues is out.

 

[DemonKing]

I'm in - given we managed to skip a whole edition of D&D without one single-player CRPG released to support it it's about time IMO. I have the 5th ed. core books and I have to say they look like an improvement over the 4th ed. version. Also it's being released solely on the PC Master Race so that's worth supporting. RTwP or Turn based doesn't really matter to me either.

 

[serch]

This will be some bimonetized shit. First you pay the upfront price and then you have to add some bucks for each monster, magic item, class, race,... you want to add to your game. Epic shitstorm incoming. Also RTwP, fuck no

 

[MuscleSpark]

I'm in - given we managed to skip a whole edition of D&D without one single-player CRPG released to support it it's about time IMO.

Daggerdale supposedly had some 4E stuff. Probably not enough to count though.

 

[lurker3000]

Wow when I looked at the pics it really brought back NWN2 (prettier of course).

Dungeon Master Mode: Create your own epic adventure to share with your friends,

Wonder what that means exactly.

 

[leferd]

So this is essentially a multiplayer DA:O and NWN stepchild made by Bio castoffs without postgraduate degrees.

 

[Achiman]

So this is essentially a multiplayer DA:O and NWN stepchild made by Bio castoffs without postgraduate degrees.

Are they castoffs or refugees from the decline at Bioware? Sad to be all the employees that didn't get to decide they were going to pursue their beer making dreams after EA bought them out.

 

[Korron]

DA:O wasn't the clusterfuck some of you make it out to be. Not a fan of the art style. Color me intrigued and hopeful.

 

[Shannow]

So this is essentially a multiplayer DA:O and NWN stepchild made by Bio castoffs without postgraduate degrees.

Are they castoffs or refugees from the decline at Bioware? Sad to be all the employees that didn't get to decide they were going to pursue their beer making dreams after EA bought them out.

They were attached to Daaoh. Thus, being after NWN (OC) and in Daaoh that's deep in the decline. Question answered.

 

[Shannow]

I wonder if Feargus Urquhart's recent rant about D&D had anything at all to do with this...

Hmm, hard to call it a rant, when he's not actually criticizing any specifics. I take two things away from that "rant".
1. He doesn't like the way D&D is developing.
2. He doesn't like (the way) Hasbro (is handling the franchise).

Can you give any reasons why you see any connection to this anouncement? I mean "OE is not doing and (in the near future) will not be doing a D&D game.". And "n-Space is doing a D&D game.". Where is the connection?

Infinitron you haven't answered. Have I finally made your ignore-list? Explain yourself.

 

[One-and-a-half-Ivan]

DAO was the shittiest RPG I played till the end, so the huge letters "From the director of DAO" made me giggle.
So I don't see any hope in this gaem.

 

[Sensuki]

Yeah I finished DA:O, only to never play it again.

If one thing can be said about BioWare it's that their games have always been finishable.

 

[J_C]

Cautiously fapping. I liked Dragon Age Origins, it was the last decent cRPG from Bioware, so if they manage to make something similar, I will be satisfied. Also, I can't wait to return to the Forgotten Realms in a game, I got fond of the universe during my IE times.

 

[Hamster]

Set in the Dungeons & Dragons Forgotten Realms universe based on the fifth Edition ruleset

 

[Morality Games]

Hey, I forgot, Minsc is in the 5th edition time period for some reason.

 

[Durante]

There is not enough footage to know if this sucks, show me the character creation screen.

That's what I thought all throughout the video. Show me character creation (or just the character sheet even) and I'll tell you if this sucks.

 

[Rivmusique]

Hey, I forgot, Minsc is in the 5th edition time period for some reason.

Keeping the worthwhile characters around, I see. Good job WotC .

 

[Azeot]

Am I the only one that thinks this game looks awfully similar to NWN2 as interface and aesthetics, even animations? Which is not, by the way, a good thing.

 

[Durante]

Actually, the NWN2 interface was great, but this doesn't look at all like it. What made the NWN2 interface great was how modular, customizable and feature-rich it was.

It would give gamers used to modern-day consolitis a headache:

It had 9 quickbars of 12 slots each, but also other ways to quickly access any skills, such as the quick cast interface (brought up with a simple keystroke). It had 3 separate modes for different situations. It had keyboard shortcuts for everything.

Oh, and as you can see at the top, it allowed you to queue actions, tracked all queued actions for each character, and you could cancel and replace any of them at any time before they went active. The latter is like the single most convenient feature in any RTwP game, and still people often don't implement it (I think the only DA game which had it was DA:O).

I do agree that NWN2's aesthetic were crap, but this actually looks quite a bit better in that regard.

 

[Kem0sabe]

NWN2 spell effects were all kinds of seizure inducing horrible.

 

[Shannow]

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It had 3 separate modes for different situations.

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Most of which NWN1 already had. Many of which where clunky or outright bugged.
And if you're referring to the 3 camera modes: 3x shit = shit

Otherwise I agree

But I don't think LotSC looks much like NWN2. At least not more so than any other fantasy, 3d, RPG game.
IMO, I looks more sombre, more detailed and less bloated UI-wise.