TheRallykiller

In the gamebanshee walkthrough/preview they even joke about Reinhart looking like Kenny Rogers. This makes me wonder if he'll get decent enough equipment to at least look cool in-game even if the primary character model looks like a Dr. Wily/Colonel Sanders love child. I mean if the devs are mocking the character appearance why not make him look a bit more legionairresque regardless of his tinkerer/mage status? He does seem like the only one of the four beyond their 20's and not dressed to invoke fear or awe. He's got a vibrating ab-sculpt belt from the infomercials and a light-up glove, which could look cool if he was not a 70 year old conquistador without his breast plate and helmet. If the devs will mock him, purchasers will as well. Just a thought.

No we weren't aware as regardless of Square Enix's purchase of the franchise and choice for Obisidian to develop to help them edge-in on Western gamers no one since this preview has officially stated or otherwise that this would be a multi-class version of Nier. If gender never mattered then Blizzard would not be implementing gender choice in their Diablo 3. As much as anyone would like you to believe that all gamers are laissez faire about playing a game people do want an accurate PC/avatar/toon (God, I hate the word "toon"). Poll people other than the vocal minority and you'll get a slew of responses that more than justify why most RPGs are turning to custom or at at least moderate character cutomization. If the Japanese models were working Inafune would not have left Capcom, FFXIII would not have face planted into a reception of mediocre reviews, and Square Enix would not have chosen to pair DS and Obisidian. You can't tell me a franchise heavy on lore but light on story - when coupled with a company that has made a career out of formulating stories around custom characters to great effect - can't let you choose between the guardian archetype "Lucas" or "Lisa" and able to at least customize some of their features and possibly skin tone? No, I'm calling you out on that. The equation just doesn't yield the currently presented answer.

Retailers base if off of the game's publishers and/or developers depending on who handles purchasing and distribution. Game Stop, Best Buy, etc., all are bound to dates provided to them.

http://gamebanshee.com/games/dungeon-siege-iii.html?Itemid= Here's a fair smattering of information and links to sites with articles, interviews, previews, etc.

In the February issue of Game Informer they provide a small preview of the game and describe their play experiences with the "guardian" class I believe. The way they write the preview gives the notion that each class is embodied in a pre-defined character in-game (i.e. we are playing through someone's story as opposed to making our own). Although this is just a preview and only 3/4 of a page long, I have the eerie impression that there might not be the popular and expected character creation and customization the franchise and Obsidian are both well known for. Now, this is assumption based on a small preview but a few months out from release there was no mention of character creation options, gender choices, hair/color/race options, etc. With this being a cornerstone to many other Obsidian titles and a cornerstone of the Dungeon Siege franchise I'm concerned that all this hype for an acclaimed developer with a franchise chaulk full of untapped potential is sort of misleading. I'm not trying to say there is deception afoot, I'm just hoping for great clarification on the title and its features (as I know we all are).

I believe they've addressed both platforms in their development. If anything consoles have suffered anyways from PC-sided development and the forums have suffered from fanboyism in that regard. Gamebanshee.com should have a link to an interview with the dev team and chris taylor discussing controls and menus for both so that neither one is short changed.