No 4th ed D&D computer game...why? :(

[Wolfspider]

Interesting that the only people who have brought up the "rabid" anti-4e complaint that "D&D is WoW!" in this thread are the pro-D&D people.

Hmmm. I wonder....

More seriously, though, you guys sure are touchy.

 

[hargert]

The glory days of isometric, turn-based RPGs is dead, is another pretty valid reason.

I would not be too sure of that fact, I remember a time when all computer RPG were "dead" and then a little game called Baldur's Gate came out and sold a ton and started the genre back up.

I am with the above poster release a good turn based D&D game and I will buy it in a heart beat and so would others. the key of course is it bust be good and fun to play just releasing crap with D&D on the box will not sell.

 

[Wolfspider]

an action game that can easily be played on a 360 or a ps3.

This would be very cool indeed.

 

[mrtomsmith]

Um, you guys do know how long it takes to make a computer game, right? At least 15 months, more if you want quality. For something truly good, much longer. And from what we've seen, the ruleset for 4th only settled down a few months ago, at best. So even if someone was working on a game in parallel with the ruleset (which I really wouldn't recommend), they'll still have at least a year before they can reach a shelf. I'd say maybe Xmas 2009, most likely longer than that.

But once they do come, they should be good.

 

[withak]

Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor was one of the buggiest games ever released. It made the initial release of Daggerfall seem highly playable. It might have become a good game once fully patched up, but I uninstalled it as soon as the patch came out fixing the uninstall bug that wiped hard drives. I'm sure 4E will get a videogame soon enough.

This.

That game was the biggest pile of junk I've ever played on a PC. IIRC, the developers solved the problem that enemies were too easy to defeat by essentially loading the dice -- forcing the randomizer to roll low for the PCs and high for the monsters.

 

[phil500]

i think DDI will fill your playing fix more than any game could.

edit: actually I would love a turn-based 4e control-a-whole-party game.

 

[Family]

Go for the eyes Francis, GO FOR THE EYES!!!!

 

[Silverblade The Ench]

I liked Pools of Radiance2, when patched! Not superb, but not bad, and a great way to learn 3rd ed as a player...hey after playing 1st and 2nd, just getting into the swing was hard as it was a HUGE change.
Note, as said, I'm a DM, almost never get chance to play, thus, seeing it more form PLAYER'S perspective, for me, is one reason I love cRPGs. You get mentally locked into all the rules n' stuff so much more as a DM, lol.

FYI, makign a computer game takes a lot of time and resources, and are usually in the works long before the "edition" comes out, for example, Pools of Radiance2 was delayed and should have been out closer to 3rd ed's release iirc?

3rded was released in October 2000 in the UK , iirc?
Pools of Radiance2 was released september 2001.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pool_of_Radiance:_Ruins_of_Myth_Drannor
Thus the game was surely in development BEFORE 3rd ed came out.

Fallen Seraph,
I don't believe that Turn based is more fun, lot of folk like RTS games...folk still liek strategy.

edit
Misnc rules!!! "SPACE HAMSTERS FOR EVERYONE!!"

 

[Fallen Seraph]

Oh I too love the turn-based, but the days where you had games like Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale, Planescape, TOEE, Arcanum, Fallout, etc, etc. all coming out in not that far off order from eachother are essentially dead.

Large gaming studios just aren't concentrating on it, the only big company we can look to is essentially just Bioware.

 

[Festivus]

*cue "but World of Warcraft IS the D&D 4th Edition herald game"*

Seriously, maybe they don't have a computer game so that people actually play the PnP game instead of the Comp one?

AR

I feel this is the reason, it would only serve to compete against DDI.