D&D 4E Will 4E be the PS3 of D&D?

[Mystery Man]

I love watching a good gamer console fight.

 

[Mystery Man]

Well, as long as 4e isn't the Windows Me of D&D...

You might say 3 was, and 3.5 was XP. If 4E is anything like Vista, we're in deep doodoo.

 

[borc killer]

Hi-

A thought accured to me when I was shopping around for games for my PS2, they are still making them and PS3 seems to be sliding further and further down the road of obscurity. And Sony is the big kauna of Vidio games ya know.

So, will this happen to 4E? IE it gets published but it turns out to be like PS3 a minor blip or the gamer list?

Scott

Nice job! Getting two groups of rabid fan boys riled up in one post! You need to get WoW in there somehow hehehe.

Will it be the PS3 of the Video Gaming world? No, I think it will be closer to D&D3.5 of the Pen & Paper world. The people that want the latest and greatest will buy it and the people that don’t wont. *shrug*

 

[Kae'Yoss]

You might say 3 was, and 3.5 was XP. If 4E is anything like Vista, we're in deep doodoo.

You can say that again. None of my pencils will work in 4e, and I'll only be able to talk slowly!

 

[Mystery Man]

You can say that again. None of my pencils will work in 4e, and I'll only be able to talk slowly!

You'll need to upgrade your pencil drivers, unfortunately they don't support pencil 1.0 and the manufacturer won't be releasing new firmware. You're going to have to buy a whole new pencil.

 

[variant]

I will be worried if they announce $100 price tag on the Player's Handbook.

 

[Slife]

My conclusion from this discussion:
4e is going to be very videogamey!

 

[Kae'Yoss]

My conclusion from this discussion:
4e is going to be very videogamey!

Does that mean that the DM will finally have to accept it when I say "I save the game and then attack him!" And I will be able to load the old savegame when Joe "Legendary Archmage" obliterates me?

 

[Anti-Sean]

My conclusion from this discussion:
4e is going to be very videogamey!

And heavily influenced by anime, too!

 

[Cthulhudrew]

Because it sounds like a silly question. This isnot a computer game (xbox and ps3 are gaming machines). This is a database and mapping application. It uses the highend capabiblities of windows vista.

It isn't a computer game, no, but from what I've seen thus far of the functionality of the Virtual Tabletop, it certainly seems like something that could as easily be ported to a console as on a PC.

XBox and the PS3 are not just "gaming machines". They are designed to be multimedia platforms- that's why they handle so many things like playing DVDs, CDs, have keyboards and hard drives, etc. (FWIW, I hardly use my PS2 for gaming- I mostly use it to play music and dvds.)

So color me as one not thinking it's a silly question.