Atari got the Icewind Dale license

[CoM_Solaufein]

What they need to do is make a Icewind Dale game exactly like they did it with the Infinity Engine but this time use the newest Unreal Engine. :D

I would prefer it to use the Infinity Engine but that'll never happen. Source would be good.

[Deadly_Nightshade]

And Source would be easy to mod...

[~Di]

That's actually pretty darn good news! Thanks for sharing it.

[Amentep]

I'd like a well made Icewind Dale third sequel type game

[Humodour]

I never did play ICW since I dont like hack n slash very much. And combat on the IE is about as exciting as watching paint dry, anyways. This IP is better left on the shelf, IMO.

 

Yes, I too go around proclaiming things that I've never tried shouldn't get sequels.

[Dark_Raven]

No more IWD and BGs. The time has come and gone. Let it lay dead.

 

Plus it would use that suck ass 4th edition rules, far worse than 3.x!

[Pop]

Is there any indication at all of an intent to develop the property? Any indication that this isn't a routine move, ala Rockstar trademarking GTA: Tokyo?

[Monte Carlo]

In essence, what is required is a snowy, cartoony-guys-with-axes IWD "Team Fortress" mod for awesome multiplayer akshun.

 

Bagsy the Scottish dwarf.

 

MC

[Tigranes]

Yeah, the best was when I was in the US showing my friend IWD2... then when I clicked on a default dwarf to move somewhere he went "DOO IIIT! DOOO IIT NOOOOW!"

 

Instafad :w:

[Humodour]

I never understood why Dwarves were Scottish. Is there some kind of resemblance or something?

 

Dwarves look more like a Scottish Terrier to me. Which, interestingly, are also Scottish when anthropomorphised.

 

Is that it? Are Dwarves Scottish because they look like terriers?

[Slowtrain]

I never understood why Dwarves were Scottish. Is there some kind of resemblance or something?

 

Dwarves look more like a Scottish Terrier to me. Which, interestingly, are also Scottish when anthropomorphised.

 

Is that it? Are Dwarves Scottish because they look like terriers?

 

 

My guess is that it is because game developers draw most if not all of their inspiration from previous games. So once one game developer made a Scottish accented dwarf it is inevitable that all game developers everywhere would follow suit. Why the first one did it, I don't know. Maybe he was Scottish?

[Monte Carlo]

My personal view is that there is a stereotype that the Scots are rock hard, occasionally small and wiry in stature and refreshingly plain-speaking. This has morphed into the classic Tolkein-esque take on the fantastical race of dwarves. Nordic / Scandic myth is also linked to the East coast of Scotland (as well as the Northeast of England). Dwarves feature in that folklore too.

 

I also suspect that, as an infantry officer in the First World War, Tolkein observed Scottish infantry regiments on the Western Front. Speaking as an Englishman, Scottish soldiers have a hard-won reputation as being extremely tough and aggressive in combat. I wonder if this influenced his take on Gimli (etc).

 

Maybe a Tolkein mentat can enlighten us.

 

Cheers

 

MC

[Slowtrain]

My personal view is that there is a stereotype that the Scots are rock hard, occasionally small and wiry in stature and refreshingly plain-speaking. This has morphed into the classic Tolkein-esque take on the fantastical race of dwarves. Nordic / Scandic myth is also linked to the East coast of Scotland (as well as the Northeast of England). Dwarves feature in that folklore too.

 

I also suspect that, as an infantry officer in the First World War, Tolkein observed Scottish infantry regiments on the Western Front. Speaking as an Englishman, Scottish soldiers have a hard-won reputation as being extremely tough and aggressive in combat. I wonder if this influenced his take on Gimli (etc).

 

Maybe a Tolkein mentat can enlighten us.

 

Cheers

 

MC

 

I don't know, MC. I read Tolkien a lot and nothing ever made me picture any of his dwarf characters as being particularly Scottish or having a Scottish accent. I'm not saying Tolkien's observations might not have influenced his thinking but I don't recall it coming through in his books. At least not explicitly enough that I picked up on it.

[Tigranes]

Yep, Tolkien's original dwarves, from i.e. Children of Hurin, are actually quite different from what we visually associate with him now through fantasy games or Jackson's movies. I dont' think they were ever intended to be "gruff" as much as stubborn and clipped; intelligent and cultured as much as powerful and smithy-inclined. I see them as a very cultured race, but their idea of cultured doesn't stray into dandyism, but rather controlled gravitas; very grounded fellows. In that sense Gimli of the movies woudl be something of a weird aberration.

 

Of course, having said that, Tolkien did make the Hobbit's dwarves very lackadaisical, perhaps because of the tone of the story itself.

[Amentep]

I like scottish accented dwarves...

[Humodour]

I like scottish accented dwarves...

 

Well, so do I. But it seems a completely arbitrary assignment.

[Dark_Raven]

It is as it should be. Dwarves naturally speak with a Scottish accent.

[steelfiredragon]

and in the words of the immortal television reporter'" interesting if true."

[Amentep]

I like scottish accented dwarves...

 

Well, so do I. But it seems a completely arbitrary assignment.

 

Maybe but its totally cool.

[Sand]

It is as it should be. Dwarves naturally speak with a Scottish accent.

 

If its not Scottish, it's CRAP!

[steelfiredragon]

It is as it should be. Dwarves naturally speak with a Scottish accent.

 

If its not Scottish, it's CRAP!

i second the motion........