Interview Aranna askings at Warcry

[Saint_Proverbius]

Tags: Dungeon Siege: Legends of Aranna; Mad Doc Software

<a href="http://www.warcry.com">Warcry</a> has an <a href="http://www.warcry.com/scripts/columns/view_sectionalt.phtml?site=15&id=102&colid=1516">interview</A> with some guy named <b>Ron</b> of <A href="http://www.maddocsoftware.com/">Mad Doc</a> about the recently released <a href="http://www.dungeonsiege.com">Legends of Aranna</a>. Here's a bit on innovations:
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<blockquote><b>Warcry: Like the pack animal in the original DS, the series is well known for its innovations. Do you have some examples of what Aranna does to push that envelope?
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Ron:</b> There are hundreds of new items in the game, as well as a new pack animal called the Tragg that has a little less inventory space, but will fight for you to the death. One of my favorite new items is the Treasure Sets that as a group increase in power each time you find and equip one. We added a whole lot of new equipment for the ranged and mage classes (e.g. magical wards for the mages) with intelligence and dexterity requirements that differentiate the classes more.</blockquote>
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Giving credit to <A href="http://www.dungeonsiege.com">Dungeon Siege</A> for coming up with the pack animal idea really annoys me, considering <a href="http://www.elderscrolls.com">Daggerfall</A> had it back in the mid90s.
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[chrisbeddoes]

Come on Saint this game really has a lot of innovations .

Like being the first screensaver that retails at 49.95 $
And being the first rpg that a real life monkey can be sucessfuly trained to play.


These are major innovations of the genre.

 

[Sol Invictus]

I second that. It fills the very niche in the market that After Dark left a void in when they stopped existing.

 

[Otaku_Hanzo]

Come on Saint this game really has a lot of innovations .

Like being the first screensaver that retails at 49.95 $
And being the first rpg that a real life monkey can be sucessfuly trained to play.


These are major innovations of the genre.

And let's not forget my cat! She loves the game!

 

[ecliptic]

But After Dark was more interactive... that quiz game was great.

Also: Dungeon Siege lets the pack animal follow behind you! On screen! Whoo!