D&D General Hidden Path Making 3rd Person Open World AAA D&D Video Game

Hidden Path Entertainment is recruiting for an "AAA, third-person, open-world fantasy RPG that will be taking place inside the Dungeons & Dragons franchise." The game will use Unreal Engine 4. The company has made games like Raccoon Lagoon, Witchblood, Defense Grid, and has also been involved with Age of Empires and Counter Strike.

An open-world game is one like the Grand Theft Auto series, where the player is free to roam across the world. Other examples include Fallout, Assassin's Creed, and more.

 

[Zardnaar]

It would be more concerning if it wasn't using the Unreal Engine.

This imagine if it used Fallouts.

 

[Parmandur]

Wouldn't Breath of the Wild be a better open world point of comparison than Grand Theft Auto? Although I could certainly see a rogue-focused urban D&D open world game.

Nah, GTA is mored murder hobo-y, it's probably the better comparison.

Probably Red Dead Redemption 2 would be a good point of comparison.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Probably Red Dead Redemption 2 would be a good point of comparison.

Just swapping in fantasy elements for firearms, trains and cowboy hats and you'd be a long way toward it being a D&D game.

 

[Dire Bare]

Looking at Hidden Path's releases, I am doubtful that this is actually going to be AAA. Open-world is a more concrete term, but there are a ton of open-world games that are terrible. Heck, isn't Neverwinter Online practically open-world?

Neverwinter is not an open-world game. You can't just set off across the country side to explore, you are very constrained to specific locations on the map, and once at a location, you are very funneled.

 

[Jacqual]

Just swapping in fantasy elements for firearms, trains and cowboy hats and you'd be a long way toward it being a D&D game.

The forgotten Realms had Flintlocks in 1st edition the book Forgotten Realms Adventures, which was a compatible with 2nd edition blurb on the cover.

 

[Parmandur]

Just swapping in fantasy elements for firearms, trains and cowboy hats and you'd be a long way toward it being a D&D game.

Make it Eberron, and we can keep all of those elements.

 

[Urriak Uruk]

Neverwinter is not an open-world game. You can't just set off across the country side to explore, you are very constrained to specific locations on the map, and once at a location, you are very funneled.

I've never actually played it myself, but I assumed it, like many MMOs, was open-world.

Anyway, to illustrate my point, consider Valheim (which is having a bit of a viral moment right now) which is an open-world game, but also not really a AAA game either. I could see a D&D game released that is similar in quality to this, but I'm extremely doubtful we would be getting anything much better.

 

[loverdrive]

This imagine if it used Fallouts.

Well, then we'd have cool support for modding.

 

[Zardnaar]

Well, then we'd have cool support for modding.

While cool a stable game is nice. Lost entire saves to FO4 crashing.

 

[Parmandur]

I've never actually played it myself, but I assumed it, like many MMOs, was open-world.

Anyway, to illustrate my point, consider Valheim (which is having a bit of a viral moment right now) which is an open-world game, but also not really a AAA game either. I could see a D&D game released that is similar in quality to this, but I'm extremely doubtful we would be getting anything much better.

I would expect something with a much larger budget than Valheim (which is an Indie game), but not as high quality (though here's hoping!).