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.

 

[Hurin70]

The original teaser trailer looked horrible, imho, but the gameplay here looks somewhat better. I am more hopeful that this might be a fun button masher.

 

[Blue]

I saw Steam listed as well as consoles, so it will likely also be available for PC.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

Now it doesn't look so bad. My suggestion is to add a dungeon builder with the option of interactions with nPCs.

 

[Morrus]

Now it doesn't look so bad. My suggestion is to add a dungeon builder with the option of interactions with nPCs.

Do you think they're looking on message boards for suggestions at this stage?

 

[Sacrosanct]

So....like a Brutal Legend meets D&D?

 

[Ruin Explorer]

I'm not really sure about the tone here. We've got Drizzt, Bruenor and so on (I presume) and yet this we have people giving the finger as they sink into lava, giants (?!) with jamming on guitars, heavy-metal style and so on. I mean it's kind of fun but kind of weird.

I have to say that it looks fun but looks very much more AA rather than AAA which was the original ambition. Still, maybe they're delaying going for an AAA-style game until they have more people at the studio.

 

[Nathaniel Lee]

Uh... how much of that trailer are we supposed to accept as part of the final game? LOL

 

[Nathaniel Lee]

I'm not really sure about the tone here. We've got Drizzt, Bruenor and so on (I presume) and yet this we have people giving the finger as they sink into lava, giants (?!) with jamming on guitars, heavy-metal style and so on. I mean it's kind of fun but kind of weird.

My thoughts exactly. I'm hoping that all of that tone was just their idea of "creative" marketing.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

My thoughts exactly. I'm hoping that all of that tone was just their idea of "creative" marketing.

It wouldn't be entirely out-of-keeping with the original Dark Alliance games, which were a little bit silly and involved characters naughty word-talking each other and stuff IIRC, maybe even some meta-commentary/4th-wall breaks. But it's weird to pair that with relatively serious characters from the novels like Drizzt and his buds, instead of some made-up characters.

 

[payn]

Most gamers wont care if the game has Driizzt or any other novel character in Dark Alliance with this tone. Just sayin.

 

[Urriak Uruk]

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 $*%?.

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

I'm not really sure about the tone here. We've got Drizzt, Bruenor and so on (I presume) and yet this we have people giving the finger as they sink into lava, giants (?!) with jamming on guitars, heavy-metal style and so on. I mean it's kind of fun but kind of weird.

I have to say that it looks fun but looks very much more AA rather than AAA which was the original ambition. Still, maybe they're delaying going for an AAA-style game until they have more people at the studio.

The original two Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance games were not AAA either, but they was a lot of fun to play back in the day on my PS2. If this one is similar, then if should be just as fun on my PS4.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

While it still could be fun as heck, I can't help but feel that it looks more like a previous gen than a next gen game.

But speaking of previous gen systems, one detail I was glad to note (with the PS5 still in short supply), anyone that purchases Dark Alliance on PS4 will get a free download code for it on the PS5.

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

@Morrus This article on IGN includes a making-of video and a longer game-play video:

Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance Release Date Announced - IGN

Alongside revealing the release date for Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance, IGN can exclusively share a dev diary that details much more about the game, including how the team began working on the project before Wizards of the Coast agreed to let them officially make it because they knew they...

www.ign.com

 

[Aaron L]

Ohhhh... K?

 

[bedir than]

"There's no wrong way to play D&D" said the people who absolutely insist there's a wrong way to make a D&D video game.

 

[Aldarc]

Is "try too hard" metal a thing? After watching this trailer, I feel like it should be a thing.

 

[toucanbuzz]

Reminds me of my last game session.

 

[Parmandur]

This looks like the sort of goofy action I like to play at the end of a long day.