No news of a 4th ed D&D game, YET? :/

[Ranger REG]

There are plenty of 4E games out there, they're called MMO's

I prefer MUD, when it was free to play.

 

[LightPhoenix]

Only old-school gamers like me prefer the style that Fallout 3 and KOTOR offer.

Fallout3 has been a huge hit

I wouldn't consider Fallout 3 a turn-based RPG. The first two, yes. The VATS system, while cool and useful, is IMO solely thrown in to appease fans of the previous games. It isn't even necessary to use it to get through the game.

 

[LightPhoenix]

There are plenty of 4E games out there, they're called MMO's

I know this is meant as a joke, but in my mind an MMO is pretty much the exact opposite of what a 4E game should be. Not the MM part of it, though that isn't optimal. Rather, an MMO is by necessity real-time; it can't not be, since players are all independent. A 4E game would be, by necessity, turn based, since the game is built around turns.

 

[Jasperak]

I don't think that I would like 4e made as a CRPG. Not only would it probably need to be turn based, it would also need to be played on a grid to properly adjudicate all the different movement effects. Not only that but would it use 1,1,1,1 diagonal movement or movement more properly modeled after the real world?

 

[Orius]

I thought we had one already, they're called the Core Books.

*ducks*





Just kidding on this guys. I couldn't resist though.

 

[Silverblade The Ench]

Played several MMOs, 4thed is not liek them, sorry

The VATS system lets you watch the carnage in slow motion, WOOT!

WHy worry about diagonals, it's asmall issue, so, it' sno boggie really
Though one thing in 4th ed bugs me: no lines and cones, which is silly, IMHO.

 

[DonTadow]

Played several MMOs, 4thed is not liek them, sorry

The VATS system lets you watch the carnage in slow motion, WOOT!

WHy worry about diagonals, it's asmall issue, so, it' sno boggie really
Though one thing in 4th ed bugs me: no lines and cones, which is silly, IMHO.

Hasbro probably wants to get th elicense back. 4e was bult the way it was to be crossplatformed with digitial entertainment, so rest assured there will be a 4e game, but Hasbro (very reminencent of Marvel) wants to make sure they get as big a cut as possible. With 4es heavy emphasis on combat, it will be the easiest game to bring to the video game/computer game crowd, i nthat it is designed much like one for the tabletop.

 

[Ranger REG]

Hasbro probably wants to get th elicense back. 4e was bult the way it was to be crossplatformed with digitial entertainment, so rest assured there will be a 4e game, but Hasbro (very reminencent of Marvel) wants to make sure they get as big a cut as possible. With 4es heavy emphasis on combat, it will be the easiest game to bring to the video game/computer game crowd, i nthat it is designed much like one for the tabletop.

Meh.

If Hasbro gets the license back, then what? Find another software publisher? Open up a new electronic division, when they sold off Atari & Hasbro Interactive years ago?

If they follow Marvel business model -- which includes their film studios low-balling A-list actors like Samuel L Jackson from reprising his Nick Fury role, or starting up an RPG venture that failed -- Hasbro is going to lose and lose hard in this economic crisis.

 

[Jasperak]

With 4es heavy emphasis on combat, it will be the easiest game to bring to the video game/computer game crowd, i nthat it is designed much like one for the tabletop.

You know those are fighting words here.

Seriously though, I would probably be more likely to embrace 4e as a computer game than table-top game.

[DUCK]

[/DUCK]

Did I fail my Will Save or did something attack my Will Defense

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Hasbro probably wants to get th elicense back. 4e was bult the way it was to be crossplatformed with digitial entertainment, so rest assured there will be a 4e game, but Hasbro (very reminencent of Marvel) wants to make sure they get as big a cut as possible. With 4es heavy emphasis on combat, it will be the easiest game to bring to the video game/computer game crowd, i nthat it is designed much like one for the tabletop.

The License has already been given out (I think that was around, probably before, the 4E release) and will be available to those for a while. I don't remember at the moment who it has. I suppose a Forum or Internet search might reveal this: Atari bets on Dungeons and Dragons license for 10 more years » VTOR - Virtual TO Reality

Looks like Atari has it till 2017. What ever cuts WotC or Hasbro want, they have already been decided.