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.

 

[jedijon]

ugh

 

[payn]

Oh well, out of the numerous games they are developing not all of them will be to folks liking. /shrug

 

[Urriak Uruk]

Here's another gameplay trailer, showing off the Beholder "Hagedorn."

 

[Dausuul]

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

My only concern is that they won't try hard enough.

I have no interest in Drizzt, barely any in the Forgotten Realms, and I had pretty much written off "Dark Alliance" after that first godawful trailer. But an insane over-the-top mashup of D&D with Brutal Legend? Now you have my interest.

 

[Bacon Bits]

Frankly, it reminds me of D&D Shadow Over Mystara more than anything.

And that's perfectly fine. That game was awesome!

If this can channel that Borderlands style of a group multiplayer game, that would be excellent. D&D and Borderlands are all about getting together with your buddies and having some fun beating up monsters and taking their loot.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Here's another gameplay trailer, showing off the Beholder "Hagedorn."

Feels like "gameplay" and "beholder" need quotation marks around them way more than Hagedorn, from that trailer. We got like a few seconds of the boss doing something, jumpcut, few seconds of the boss doing something, jumpcut, etc. - That's not "gameplay" footage. Also total identifiable beholder abilities used? Zero.

 

[Redwizard007]

Feels like "gameplay" and "beholder" need quotation marks around them way more than Hagedorn, from that trailer. We got like a few seconds of the boss doing something, jumpcut, few seconds of the boss doing something, jumpcut, etc. - That's not "gameplay" footage. Also total identifiable beholder abilities used? Zero.

I would have loved to see some recognizable eye rays, but we definitely saw the main eye cone and plenty of magic effects.

This won't be a strategy or tactics game or worry much about resources, but it looks like a decent incarnation of the old Gauntlet game I loved pumping quarters into as a kid. Grab a beer and a headset and reconnect with old friends from college while beating on beholders.

 

[payn]

That beholder is all jaw. Where does the stuff it eats go?

 

[Urriak Uruk]

The game actually looks very good at this stage. Not incredible, but better than I expected.

 

[EthanSental]

Some of the new trailers loom much better than the initial on with Drizzt running but looking deformed, I might check this out when it comes out.