D&D General Gameplay Trailer for D&D Dark Alliance Video Game

I'd forgotten all about this, but it was one of the 7 digital Dungeons & Dragons games mentioned in February of 2020. It's a console game which launches in June, and you can now watch a gameplay trailer of it.



The game features a Drizz't and his friends, and you get to fight frost giants, beholders, and white dragons in Icewind Dale. You can pre-order it now.

 

[Parmandur]

I hate to say it, but this looks like trash.

This looks like a legit successor to the previous Dark Alliance games, which I loved.

Compatible truths fit together nicely.

Sometimes a trashy game can be pretty fun.

 

[Ath-kethin]

I played the original Dark Alliance over and over with a friend years and years ago; it was a great time. I miss that game.

Unfortunately, I do not own a PS4 or 5, so I less this one comes out for the Switch as well I fear I'll never play it. Which is too bad, but so it goes.

 

[imagineGod]

A little less action, a little more conversation in that game would satisfy me.

 

[grimslade]

A little less action, a little more conversation in that game would satisfy me.

That is not what they were going for. This is not Neverwinter Nights or even Icewind Dale, it is a Dark Alliance game. It is a co-op action looter with Forgotten Realms and WotC IP, not an RPG. I expect we will see a lot more of this type of licensing D&D as IP to wider experiences, rather than ports of TT to Console. This is a way for WotC to continue to grow the brand and keep the D&D train running. Who's ready for Rime of the Frost Maiden Among Us? BG3 is the closest we have to TT D&D in a computer game. Hopefully, Bioware getting to do single-player immersive RPGs after the success of Fallen Order will usher in a wider interest in RPGs in general and a true interactive RPG D&D game.

This looks fun. It isn't the most groundbreaking game but it lets you play famous murder hobos in FR. I may pick it up.

 

[Blue]

Just read that while it was designed for online multiplayer, the originally announced local co-op mode won't be around at launch.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I expect we will see a lot more of this type of licensing D&D as IP to wider experiences, rather than ports of TT to Console.

I am ready for the D&D mobile tower defense game and pastoral farming simulator.

 

[Parmandur]

I am ready for the D&D mobile tower defense game and pastoral farming simulator.

I thought they already had a tower defense game?

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Compared to that first trailer, this is a huge step up. Probably won't become anything close to my favorite game of the year, but it does look like it could be fun, at least for a little bit.

Also, I'm pro-ogres on guitars. Lean into that weird $*%?.

Yep. Not every D&D video game should be for the folks who take D&D very seriously. A lot of people love D&D because of how silly and “dumb” it can be.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Just read that while it was designed for online multiplayer, the originally announced local co-op mode won't be around at launch.

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Oops. There goes my interest.

 

[payn]

Oops. There goes my interest.

Because you cant play with someone sitting right next to you?