Siege of dragonspear

[Cyseal]

It says that release date is soon, probably 2016 release.

What do you think about it ? I'm quite satisfied that this RPG genre is revied with POE and now continued with Siege of dragonspear.

 

 

 

 

[Elerond]

Overhaul Games/Beamdog has yet to show that they can write quality RPGs. So I am quite skeptic. 

[Tigranes]

Yep. Everything they've done so far is poor quality cashgrab that didn't really need to exist, so it remains unknown whether they can create a new quality game.

 

That said, it's on an Infinity Engine base, so unless they screw up spectacularly it should be fun enough.

[Fenixp]

I do believe it's a terrible idea to create the game with a direct connection to the story of the originals. It'll just make people draw even more direct comparison between style, tone and writing quality to the original games and that's pretty much a death sentence for the Beamdog's game. But oh well, we'll see.

Edited December 13, 2015 by Fenixp

[Cyseal]

I'm too subjective for it because it's been 15 since BG2 and it seems as yesterday.  I think story will be brand new with maybe some cameos from original game. They have written Neera and Raasad well so I like the writing style. I think that original Minsc's and Irenicus's voice actors are also in the project.

[HoonDing]

Shining Lady is Queen Elizabeth I?

 

[Cyseal]

 

Look in the eyes. She's not human but some accended humanoid.

 

Edited December 13, 2015 by Cyseal

[Deadly_Nightshade]

I'll be getting it but then I know one of the digital and concept artists there and want to support her so I'll be doing it for that reason as much as anything else.

[Cyseal]

http://www.dragonmag.com/5.0/#!/article/106532/100901941?loadFresh=true

[Zoraptor]

Shining Lady is Queen Elizabeth I?

 

 

Melissan.

[Nonek]

I was under the impression that the young lady was of similar divine heritage to Charname, but the by-blow of another deity, and that she was in Mr Avellone's words "doing a better job of it than the protagonist."

 

Edit: I may be mistaken however, as I was not paying too much attention when I heard or read that from wherever.

Edited December 14, 2015 by Nonek

[rjshae]

Basing a game on Dragonspear Castle is not promising in my book. The Hordes of  Dragonspear module was one of the gawd awful releases that TSR ever put out.

[Gromnir]

Basing a game on Dragonspear Castle is not promising in my book. The Hordes of  Dragonspear module was one of the gawd awful releases that TSR ever put out.

to be fair, beamdog is using the setting rather than the module, yes?  is a bit like hating movies set in chicago 'cause you saw red heat and were justifiably disappointed. 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsWRhNZNFzw

 

unlike tim cain, beam dog is NOT trying to recreate old d&d pnp modules... thank goodness.  am still not certain why folks at troika failed to talk cain away from that blunder... as well as his flamboyant pirate.

 

*shrug*

 

HA! Good Fun! 

[ManifestedISO]

Huh, I missed out on the Dragonspear module. At the time we were busy with Waterdeep, Dragonlance, even Kara-tur. And secretly MERP, sometimes GURPS. Also jumping the Ford Fairmont wagon over snow-covered parking blocks after seeing Die Hard in the theater.   

[Hurlshort]

Wow, I grew up in the 80's and I have zero recollection of that movie.  

[ShadySands]

What?! Red Heat was great... when I was 6

[Humanoid]

I picked up a multipack Red Heat/Raw Deal/Total Recall on Blu-ray for $10 or so. Not sure why because it was a few years ago and I haven't watched the discs yet.

 

Aside (since it came up in the FO4 thread), it seems there are way more movies I recognise set in Chicago than in Boston. Still couldn't name a single landmark there though, I'd have them at similar status in a "name a random US city" contest.

Edited December 15, 2015 by Humanoid

[Gfted1]

SOLD!

 

Ive been looking for an excuse to pick up BG:EE and BG2:EE anyway, just to have them.

[Cyseal]

February 5 - Livestream

http://blog.beamdog.com/2016/01/dragonspear-live-stream.html

Edited January 30, 2016 by Cyseal

[Darkpriest]

February 5 - Livestream

http://blog.beamdog.com/2016/01/dragonspear-live-stream.html

 

well bad for them. Feb 5 is the date of Xcom 2 release.

[Amentep]

 

 

February 5 - Livestream

http://blog.beamdog.com/2016/01/dragonspear-live-stream.html

well bad for them. Feb 5 is the date of Xcom 2 release.

They're not releasing it Feb 5, just showing it off via live stream.

[Darkpriest]

 

 

 

February 5 - Livestream

http://blog.beamdog.com/2016/01/dragonspear-live-stream.html

well bad for them. Feb 5 is the date of Xcom 2 release.

They're not releasing it Feb 5, just showing it off via live stream.

Who would watch some stream instead of playing the game of the year on the release? I mean...

[Amentep]

Now I'm confused, as far as I can tell they're streaming the dev's playing it prior to its release.  Nothing in the link indicated the game was coming out Feb 5.

[Cyseal]

Who would watch some stream instead of playing the game of the year on the release? I mean...

 

 

I agree. Firaxis should postpone the release of XCOM2 becasue of SoD livestream. It's showing new Bladur's gate content and story after 15 years.

Edited February 1, 2016 by Cyseal

[Nepenthe]

Yep. Everything they've done so far is poor quality cashgrab that didn't really need to exist, so it remains unknown whether they can create a new quality game.*

 

That said, it's on an Infinity Engine base, so unless they screw up spectacularly it should be fun enough.

Let me asterisk that for you:

 

*If windows pc is the only relevant platform to you and you enjoy installing mods just to get a game work (which two groups probably have 100 % overlap)