Company News Larian Studios Status Update

[VentilatorOfDoom]

Tags: Divinity 2; Larian Studios

<p>Swen Vincke of Larian Studios made <a href="http://www.larian.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&amp;Main=25349&amp;Number=422490#Post422490" target="_blank">a forum post</a> concerning their impending releases and future plans.</p>
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<p>On Flames of Vengeance &amp; the Dragon Knight Saga:</p>
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<p><span id="body0">The Dragon Knight Saga (PC, German) - Gold and being manufactured as we speak. I think there's a chance you can start seeing it appear in shops in the week of October 25th already.<br /><br />The Dragon Knight Saga (PC - English, French, German, Italian, Spanish) - Ready, we're doing some last things on the installer, and it should head off to the manufacturing plant today (so basically, you can consider it gold).<br /><br />The Dragon Knight Saga (Xbox 360 - English, French, Italian, Spanish version) - We've just received word that it's passed certification so printing should commence soon enough, in time for a November 5th release<br /><br />The Dragon Knight Saga (Xbox 360 - German+French) - In the last stages of certification <br /><br />Flames Of Vengeance (English, French, Italian, Spanish) - English/French are ready except for the installers, Italian/Spanish are in final QA. <br /><br />We still have some work on the polish and russian versions. </span></p>
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<p>On their plans to introduce their own digital download service/webshop:</p>
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<p><span id="body0">Monkey Tales will be available for download through The Larian Vault, our own online shop, which will launch simultanously. <br /><br />And the cool thing is that Monkey Tales won't be the only thing that'll be available there - The Dragon Knight Saga, Flames Of Vengeance and the previous Divinities will also be available for download there. So if you feel like supporting us directly and you're in to digital distribution, come have a look in a week or two and check it out for yourself. It's part of our making ourselves even more independent strategy, and if the Larian Vault turns out to be successful, we'll probably do more through that in the future. As an experiment, we've made the Monkey Tales games exclusive to the Larian Vault whereas all the Divinities will remain available through all kinds of other digital and retail channels. </span></p>
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<p>Plus they're working on their next RPG already:</p>
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<p><span id="body0">Now in case you're wondering, despite the crazy list of releases we have this month, the stuff that keeps me the most busy for the moment is our next RPG (on which work has started) and a speech I have to give in a month or so. More about the speech in a second as I could use some input, but first a little bit about the next RPG coming from Larian. No third parties are involved yet so I can pretty much say whatever I want about it, but the concepts are still converging, so I won't give too many details yet. What I can say is that it's quite different from our previous work, should still feel very familiar to Divinity fans and contains an idea I'm pretty fond of, so I hope it'll work out well (read, I don't think it's been done by anybody else yet).</span></p>
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<p>Spotted at: <a href="http://www.rpgwatch.com/#15988">RPGWatch</a></p>

 

[relootz]

Please support Belgian (Flemish) game designers.

 

[Sceptic]

Thanks VoD, very informative newspost.

Any news of a DKS demo btw?

 

[commie]

Anyone that can make Gamebryo look and play decently deserves respect.

 

[Abelon Blanchetourbe]

Please support Belgian (Flemish) game designers.

Why the emphasis ?

 

[commie]

Please support Belgian (Flemish) game designers.

Why the emphasis ?

To show that Belgium is an artificial construct of two major peoples' who don't really see themselves as 'Belgian'. Just like I doubt a Scot considers himself British.

 

[Stalin]

Please support Belgian (Flemish) game designers.

Why the emphasis ?

To show that Belgium is an artificial construct of two major peoples' who don't really see themselves as 'Belgian'. Just like I doubt a Scot considers himself British.

the 2 major people being: 1 paedophiles and 2.child molesters

 

[Luzur]

ah, yeah, the Divinity dev house.

 

[Archibald]

Now in case you're wondering, despite the crazy list of releases we have this month, the stuff that keeps me the most busy for the moment is our next RPG (on which work has started) and a speech I have to give in a month or so. More about the speech in a second as I could use some input, but first a little bit about the next RPG coming from Larian. No third parties are involved yet so I can pretty much say whatever I want about it, but the concepts are still converging, so I won't give too many details yet. What I can say is that it's quite different from our previous work, should still feel very familiar to Divinity fans and contains an idea I'm pretty fond of, so I hope it'll work out well (read, I don't think it's been done by anybody else yet).

Considering that all their rpgs were action/h&s type games what does he mean by that? Will they save our souls with some old school turn based combat or will they go full retarded into FPS/MOVIE land?

 

[drunkpriest]

Fingers crossed for WW1 era turn-based crpg.

 

[hoverdog]

are there some rumors about that, or is this just wishful thinking? either way, it's a very... peculiar idea.

 

[Abelon Blanchetourbe]

Please support Belgian (Flemish) game designers.

Why the emphasis ?

To show that Belgium is an artificial construct of two major peoples' who don't really see themselves as 'Belgian'. Just like I doubt a Scot considers himself British.

Bullshit, that's what extremist groups want us to believe. Cultural differences between walloons and flemish are minimal, we all support the same (shitty) soccer team and eat the same junk, Kim Clijsters rocks as much as Justine Henin etc...anyway go go Larian.

 

[Sceptic]

Just like I doubt a Scot considers himself British.

Most of them do actually.

But don't you dare confuse British with English... then again even the English get annoyed at this lack of distinction.