New D&D Video Game Announced

Li Shenron · Tuesday at 7:29 PM

Reynard said:
Out in (probably) 20230 or so.

In Forgotten Realms years, that's probably just one or two editions or revisions away.

Parmandur · Tuesday at 11:33 PM

Paul Farquhar said:
Eye of the Beholder was not an action game, and it was party based.

Really, there is no point in trying to make this game a sequel to some ancient game. If they want Xanathar the can include Xanathar, without calling the game Eye of the Beholder 4 (or whatever number we happen to be up to now).

I wouldn't expect the numbering but that title is Gold

Jolly Ruby · Wednesday at 4:18 AM

Ruin Explorer said:
This whole discussion illustrates a trait I really don't like about WotC as a publisher, which is that they announce games extremely early in the development cycle, and try to get people hyped about them.

My theory is that closing this deal with a big game director and show it to the investors was what secured a huge annual bonus for someone on Hasbro. Now getting this game finished (or even started) isn't a priority until someone need to meet their KPIs or something.

Scribe · Wednesday at 6:09 AM

Jolly Ruby said:
My theory is that closing this deal with a big game director and show it to the investors was what secured a huge annual bonus for someone on Hasbro. Now getting this game finished (or even started) isn't a priority until someone need to meet their KPIs or something.

It wounds me spiritually how accurate this could be.

It also reminds me Ineed to get my own quarterly make-work project done.

LuisCarlos17f · Wednesday at 6:53 AM

Let's remember Ravenloft is perfect if they wanted an action horror game style Resident Evil.

* How would be a LEGO: Dragonlance or LEGO: Spelljammer videogame?

* I imagine a Dark Sun videogame like a survival style "Conan Exiles with psionic powers".

* I wonder why we can't see any Fornite x D&D collab. I guess Hasbro and Epic Games aren't too happy with the previous agreements.

Paul Farquhar · Wednesday at 7:47 AM

LuisCarlos17f said:
Let's remember Ravenloft is perfect if they wanted an action horror game style Resident Evil.

Or, you could take one of the many horror games that already exist and slap a D&D label on it. Ravenloft is very hard to make distinctively D&D. There are a couple from the 90s though.

LuisCarlos17f said:
* How would be a LEGO: Dragonlance or LEGO: Spelljammer videogame?

Anything Lego would require tricky negotiations, and the current political situation makes a Danish company agreeing to work with an American one less likely.

LuisCarlos17f said:
* I imagine a Dark Sun videogame like a survival style "Conan Exiles with psionic powers".

Already exists. There are two in fact.

LuisCarlos17f said:
* I wonder why we can't see any Fornite x D&D collab. I guess Hasbro and Epic Games aren't too happy with the previous agreements.

You are probably right about that. Hasbro doesn't have a good track record of cooperating with other companies.

A reskin of Jedi: Survivor could work fine with a generic D&D story and iconic D&D monsters. And has a chance of being finished in 2025 rather than 20300. The only issue is what to do about classes. For this type of real time action game, wizard has too many choices, whist fighter has too few. So having a main protagonist with a fixed class is probably the way to go. Warlock would probably be a good jedi equivalent in terms of range of actions in real time combat.

Nikosandros · Wednesday at 10:44 AM

Parmandur said:
I wouldn't expect the numbering but that title is Gold

One could say that there is a certain beauty in it...

Ruin Explorer · Wednesday at 11:11 AM

Paul Farquhar said:
A reskin of Jedi: Survivor could work fine with a generic D&D story and iconic D&D monsters. And has a chance of being finished in 2025 rather than 20300.

I assume 2025 and reskin are metaphorical here, because realistically 2028 is the dead minimum and 2029 more likely, because this isn't an existing studio with existing code and existing, practiced talent, it's a brand new studio that only opened in late 2023, and it's unlikely they've even fully hired-up, even if they're going into production. This kind of game is faster to make than an AAA CRPG for sure but we're still talking 3-4 years of production. Survivor, for example, despite being a sequel and able to reuse and build directly on a lot of Fallen Order, took 3.5 years of production.

Paul Farquhar · Wednesday at 11:15 AM

Ruin Explorer said:
I assume 2025 and reskin are metaphorical here

Yeah, closer too, rather than actually achievable. It would take that long to write the narrative, never mind make the game!

seebs · Wednesday at 11:29 AM

Reynard said:
That is possible, but the director pedigree suggests defined protagonist. It's probably yet another attempt to get video gamers to care about Drizzt.

I'm not caring about Drizzt. ... Unless Snoop Dogg is on the creative team. Honestly that'd probably at least get me curious.

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