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Sacred II was pretty popular from what I remember, but then again it had Anubis from the future riding a unicycle and firing lasers... One thing that I forgot is that how ever this turns out, having a testbed for Onyx is always a good thing. (If it does indeed use Onyx)

While it may not be your favorite type of RPG, an hack&slash game still is an RPG. So it's not like they make a game from an entire different genre all of a sudden here... Don't presume to know what I like and what I don't. I love good hack and slash games like Diablo, but I feel that Obsidian's talent is going to waste making a co-op action-oriented RPG based on a forgotten IP with quite a bit baggage. Sure it might turn out great or at least bring them some money, but at the moment I'm skeptical. Also, maybe tackling another genre or making some budget download only games is what they need to get some of that old Black Isle creativity out?

Can't wait for someone to sign Obsidian up for a third person shooter or maybe a racing game. Or maybe branch out into iPhone development? I hear there is good money there...

SE would probably disagree with me on anything and after SupCom 2 GPG's opinion is invalid. Obsidian is doing it because they get paid for it.

The first one sold over a million units IIRC. That's pretty crazy, but times have changed. Not really seeing the value of the franchise.

Deus Ex's art direction wasn't exactly one of it's strong suits, possibly because of the Unreal Engine, but still. It looks like a cyberpunk game with crazy baroque influences, so at least it has a distinct style.

arcanum didn't sell well enough to warrant such attentions... am not certain regarding anachronox. And Dungeon Siege did?

It would certainly be more interesting imho, though I hope they just go the Deus Ex route, and don't place meters or things like that. It would only be interesting if the two approaches were actually different in gameplay, like having to use stealth/silenced weapons if you choose to be a squishy human and marching in with your tentacle hand if you're a huge cyborg. Too bad it will probably be like Bioshock where there's pretty much no gameplay difference with either of the choices, everything must be all nice and 100% balanced.

IIRC DS1 was the first game where you could actually choose what your character looks like in a meaningful way, at least for me. Too bad they didn't get a cool license like Arcanum or Anachronox.

But what if the gourmet chef took the idea of a "hot pocket" and made something new from scratch that used the basic ideas of a hot pocket? At the end of the day, they'll still be microwaving it. Better get used to it, the Obsidian Entertainment Boards is serious business

I felt it didn't express my confusion adequately. Now if Obsidian was an alcoholic drink, what would it be? Diablo 3 won't be on consoles. Diablo 3 will be on Macs and will play on any PC from the last 7 years, so the platform shouldn't really be a problem. DSIII has the console market to tap even if Diablo III dominates the PC/Mac market. The markets have quite a bit of overlap, especially in the RPG section. I guess it could be another Sacred II for console-only section.

Wait, what?

Diablo 3 won't be on consoles. Diablo 3 will be on Macs and will play on any PC from the last 7 years, so the platform shouldn't really be a problem. @Worst: I remain skeptical.

Baldur's Gate 2 had multiplayer too. Not as the main focus, though.

I doubt Obsidian (and Square Enix for that matter) would be so stupid as to make it another Diablo clone. It will most probably have the quest structure of an rpg, otherwise Diablo III success would dwarf it (well.. there's always a market for Diablo clones anyway, so who knows, maybe this will come first). Did you read the press release? 4-player co-op doesn't exactly sound like an environment for great dialogue/storytelling to me. And if you thought all the AP to ME comparisons were bad

Let's not forget that DS3 will be a direct competitor to Diablo III...

So I guess instead of good/evil or douchebag/nice guy we'll get human/machine this time?

Sure, but why? The Dungeon Siege IP has no positive connotations what so ever, the best you have a is Diablo clone and the worst is a buggy spin-off in space and a horrible movie. And the name just screams out generic fantasy game, I mean who the hell sieges a dungeon anyway?

Really? That's like scraping the bottom of a already scraped barrel. What happened to original fantasy RPGs?

I'm sure he'll whine about it all the way to the end. Even in the trailer the "I never wanted any of this" line is repeated like three times.

Yes! I can see Steve Jobs leading a rebellion of hipsters, destroying Xboxes, PCs and Zunes everywhere they go.

So you can "forget" about it and start the argument over in 3 months? Or pretend that the west doesn't do exactly what you're accusing JRPGs of? Nope. I don't recall having that discussion before, care to provide a link to refresh my memory? Yup, loved it back in the day. Don't know how well it has aged, though.

Care to prove me wrong?

Because of the original haters gonna hate gif:

...because that's what I said. Same overused save-the-world plots, nonexistent or pants-on-head crazy characterization, the same turn-based combat system 90% of the time, hours upon hours of grinding. The genre is stagnant.