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

[cthulhus_pinky]

I really miss the Turn Based cRPGs. I loved them and played them for ages at a time. In fact, BG2 was one of the reasons for my low gpa in university.

As far as a game coming out for 4e, I heard somewhere that Atari is working on it. I think this was mentioned by one of the designers at DDXP.

 

[cferejohn]

Just as a point of order, none of the Baldur's Gate/Icewind Dale/Planescape games were turn based. Yeah, you could pause and give orders, but that's not quite the same. I'd love to see something using the Fallout style: live action until you enter combat, at which point it becomes turn based.

 

[The Lost Muse]

Just as a point of order, none of the Baldur's Gate/Icewind Dale/Planescape games were turn based. Yeah, you could pause and give orders, but that's not quite the same. I'd love to see something using the Fallout style: live action until you enter combat, at which point it becomes turn based.

You could actually get BGII to play turn-based using the auto-pause features. Of course, this applied only to combat, but it was close enough imho. (I preferred the autopause kicking in when: a) enemies died, b) spells were cast, c)Enemies were sighted)

 

[AZRogue]

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.

I agree, and that's too bad. Baldur's Gate, Planescape, and Icewind Dale were some of my favorite games of all time. Instant classics, IMO. Though I never tried TOEE. Maybe I should order that from Amazon and check it out. This thread makes me want to play some of my older games!

 

[Ingolf]

When 3rd ed game out, Pools of Radiance2 was eager to tell us it was "the first computer game ot use 2rd ed rules!"games.

And it was a TERRIBLE game in nearly every way a computer game can BE terrible.

I'll wait a year or two for the NWN of 4e, whatever it turns out to be, rather than install a god-awful piece of garbage like Pool of Radiance 2 again.

 

[Andor]

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

Actually they are still being produced by the bucket load. For consoles. But not for PCs.

I chalk this up to the same streak of natural human perversity that gives Alaska the highest per capita ice cream consumption, and Arizona the highest per capita boat ownership.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

I'll wait a year or two for the NWN of 4e, whatever it turns out to be, rather than install a god-awful piece of garbage like Pool of Radiance 2 again.

You want to wait for a mediocre toolset with a pre-built campaign arguably even more terrible (albeit orders of magnitude less buggy!) than the one in PoR2?

Eugh. NWN's campaign was so bad it actually bled over into making me dislike 3E.

Personally I hope 4E gets some properly designed single-player or co-op games, not half-arsed tools. The sad fact is, 3.XE didn't get any games that genuinely compared with the ones 1E and 2E got, in terms of game quality vs the average quality of games on the market.

If we're very lucky, one of the "secret projects" at one of the better game developers will turn out to be a 4E game.

 

[nothing to see here]

Rights

Who holds the rights to a D&D video game? It might not even be WOTC/Hasbro.

 

[Fallen Seraph]

I believe Infogrames does.

 

[Raduin711]

I think they are focusing their efforts into DDI. Hopefully it comes out better than pools of radiance, and the character creation software originally packaged with 3rd edition.