RPGDot's CRPGs of 2005 part uno
RPGDot's CRPGs of 2005 part uno
Game News - posted by Saint_Proverbius on Mon 3 January 2005, 16:19:46
Tags: Dungeon Siege 2RPGDot has posted their 2005 CRPG releases article. It includes such titles as Knights of the Old Republic 2, Dungeon Siege 2, The Fall, and so on. Here's a bit about Dungeon Siege 2:
After the enormous RTS hit Total Annihilation, Chris Tayor (no, the other one) founded Gas Powered Games and turned his attention to developing the action-RPG Dungeon Siege for Microsoft. The result was a 3D party-based game with a graphical engine that was a tour-de-force for the time but the gameplay was highly linear and streamlined, almost playing automatically. Dungeon Siege 2 sets out to improve on the original with more focus on story and characters, larger towns that act as hubs to provide a little more freedom, an improved skill system and a new scripting engine to give the designers more flexibility creating scripted events.
Improved skills system should go a long way towards making the sequel better. With a character system, at least there will be something to do periodically.
Thanks, Dhruin!
After the enormous RTS hit Total Annihilation, Chris Tayor (no, the other one) founded Gas Powered Games and turned his attention to developing the action-RPG Dungeon Siege for Microsoft. The result was a 3D party-based game with a graphical engine that was a tour-de-force for the time but the gameplay was highly linear and streamlined, almost playing automatically. Dungeon Siege 2 sets out to improve on the original with more focus on story and characters, larger towns that act as hubs to provide a little more freedom, an improved skill system and a new scripting engine to give the designers more flexibility creating scripted events.
Improved skills system should go a long way towards making the sequel better. With a character system, at least there will be something to do periodically.
Thanks, Dhruin!
