D&D Online delayed News
PC MMO News by Corey Brotherson
Atari's Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game, Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach, has slipped from its planned November release date, to early 2006.
While the PC title will miss its mooted 2005 launch, public alpha testing has still gone ahead. Players wishing to participate can register on the official site. Gamers with message board accounts will gain priority selection for the testing.
Developed by Turbine, Stormreach is the first MMORPG to use the Dungeons & Dragons license from TSR and Hasbro subsidiary Wizards of the Coast, using 3.5 Edition rules and an experience/treasure system that rewards quests accomplished, rather than enemies killed. The company has also worked on the Asheron's Call series and will see its The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar title also released next year.
The delay of Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach, comes in the same week Atari announced a loss of $32.8 million in the quarter ended June 30th.
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Midnight Raven
11/08/05 @ 12:45
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Canīt be bothered. A Planescape setting might be interesting, but thatīs probably way to off the wall for most people.
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kangarootoo
11/08/05 @ 12:56
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Are EG recruiting their staff from the forum pages now or something?
Personally I don't care about D&D, and Katamari in Europe is good news, but writing the first thing that comes into your head is what we, the untrained in jounalism masses, are supposed to do right? |
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PES_Fanboy
11/08/05 @ 13:28
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Plus the very real danger, that some DnD fanboy will murder you with their +10 broad sword in your bed...
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" Not at all unlikely:
A 1000 years of power, indeed." "attempted to literally go medieval on cops." Does anybody knows what that means?? its really violent to your arse hole... let me just say... pop goes the weasel. And how is anybody going to blame on GTA? this one is tricky... Katamari in Europe?! YAY really don't care about MMORPGs, so I don't give a f**k about this one. |
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" Well, whatever, some of us like more generic fantasy settings (rather than that alien Morrowind/Saga of Ryzom shit)."
Each to their own. Let's just say after reading a lot of traditional fantasy books and playing AD&D my first time playing a Japanese RPG was a total revelation:-) I mean, big metal airships! You can't beat big metal airships! Fantasy does not necessarily = Medieval+Magic+Monsters.
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so is anyone in the alpha?
I imagine a delay is probably beneficial to them, gives people more time to get bored of WoW, because with the scale of WoW I'm not sure the market can take a new fantasy based MMORPG. D&D will need to be better than WoW, or drastically different. (which is what conan is trying to be i think, different.) |
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Midnight Raven
12/08/05 @ 08:43
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I agree, D&D would have to be pretty different if Turbine want to compete with WoW. Iīm just wondering how thatīs supposed to work. After all, they have to work in the oldest/most traditional framework of all RPGs. Seems like a very tough job to me.
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kangarootoo
13/08/05 @ 09:13
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Fallout. One of the finest RPGs I can remember (time limit not withstanding). Not a wizards hat in sight.
Planescape Torment, another great RPG, spells aplenty. I don't even really know what point I am making here, if indeed there is one at all :) Another well produced Fallout game would float my whole armada. I'm almost inclined to install FO2 again, though I don't want to find it is cack and it was all just nostalgic mist. |
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