D&D Dark Alliance - co-op action brawler where you play Drizzt's party

[udm]

Finally! The long-awaited sequel to Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance!

 

[Ivan]

Yes, it's Dark Alliance, with cringe non-gameplay trailer:



https://darkalliance.com/

Join up to 4 friends, online or on the couch, and battle iconic monsters from Dungeons & Dragons in a new co-op action RPG.

trailer of the decade

 

[Bara]

I had to watch the Solasta trailer again after that. Just to wash out my despair.

Apparently they already did a interview with USA Today:

'Dark Alliance' video game features iconic Dungeons and Dragons characters, location; set for release in 2020

Dungeons and Dragons has never been more popular.

That’s what publisher Wizards of the Coast says following the game’s best year ever in terms of sales. A resurgence is underway for the enduring tabletop role-playing game during its 45th anniversary, sparked by a user-friendly fifth edition.

Next up? A video game featuring one of the series’ most popular characters. “Dark Alliance” is set to launch in fall 2020 on PC and consoles. The game is described as “exciting, action-driven, hack-and-slash adventure filled with iconic monsters, legendary characters, and epic loot.” It’ll be a third-person action role-playing game with local and online four-player cooperative play.

“Dark Alliance” will feature Drizzt Do’Urden, one of the most popular characters from the lore of D&D, also featured in the works of author R.A. Salvatore. The game is being billed as a “spiritual successor” to the “Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance” games of the early 2000s.

“Drizzt and his companions are some of Dungeons & Dragons’ most recognizable heroes,” Nathan Stewart, head of franchise for Dungeons & Dragons, said in a statement to USA TODAY. “This all-new Dark Alliance will give players a visceral experience that drops them into the action of a Drizzt storyline like never before.”

Jeff Hattem, head of studio at Tuque Games, said he wants “Dark Alliance” to live in the space that comes after a Dungeon Master – the one who guides players through a game of D&D – tells players to “roll initiative,” or begin in-game combat.

“Then you’re throwing down with monsters and you’re bashing them up with your friends and it’s a good time,” Hattem said in an interview with USA TODAY.

Players will explore Icewind Dale, and Hattem said it's preferable to tackle the game with three companions. The theme of companionship is something Hattem said goes hand-in-hand with Dungeons & Dragons, both in this game and in the tabletop experience.

“Back in the day, the older “Dark Alliance” games, they were, for many people, the first introduction they ever got to Dungeons & Dragons,” Hattem said. “People got introduced into the world of D&D through those video games, and then got excited about the world and expanded out from there."

“We think our game has the possibility to also introduce a lot of people to the world of Dungeons & Dragons.”

The game is being developed by Tuque Games in Montreal. Development has come a long way since it started in early 2017 with a 12-person team, Hattem said, noting he first inquired about making the game in 2013. Now, there’s a team of 60 “D&D nerds” working on the game.

“It’s taken on a life of its own, for sure,” Hattem said. “Part of our development process is to empower people on the team. So, as the team has grown, every person on the team gets to put a little bit of themselves into the game.”

And, of course, there’s pressure that comes with adapting such a beloved property, he said.

“Lots of pressure. It’s more popular today than it has ever been," he said. "History and players from all over the world. All kinds of players playing the game having a blast. It’s a big game.

"There’s a lot you can do in D&D. There’s lots of rules, lots of lore. It’s huge. What we want to do with the game is pick and choose our battles. We don’t want to port D&D. That’s not our goal.”

 

[LESS T_T]

Apparently these are screenshots:

 

[Mebrilia the Viera Queen]

What a steamy trash

 

[Modron]

trailer of the decade

Yeah definitely This is The New Shit tier trailer of this generation.

 

[lobsterfrogman]

Looks very Dragon Age'y.

 

[LESS T_T]

We would be lucky if this is a Dragon Age-like, to me all that info points this to be a Vermintide-like.

 

[Dr Skeleton]

Finally! The long-awaited sequel to Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance!

They missed the opportunity to name it Icewind Dale: Dark Alliance. It could be turned into a series that revives old RPGs as action games with titles such as Planescape: Torment: Dark Alliance, Fallout: Brootherhood of Steel: Dark Alliance, and finally Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance: Dark Alliance.

Seriously though, why didn't they name it Icewind Dale: Dark Alliance? Is IWD such an obscure game that they won't even use the name for a game that takes characters from books that used the IWD name before the original IWD games? I’m glad they didn’t, because the game looks like crap, but isn’t the whole idea to use names people recognize to trick them into buying?

 

[lobsterfrogman]

We would be lucky if this is a Dragon Age-like, to me all that info points this to be a Vermintide-like.

Yeah, I know that it is supposed to be an action game, I was talking about art direction.

 

[Thonius]

Well it looked like pumped up in engine trailer. Also kinda liked the idea... music though?
Also - Dzirt - cringe.
It maybe fun kill em all L4D type of game. I wonder what separates it from Vermintide? What's the hook?

 

[Jimmious]

What a terrible trailer.

 

[Mebrilia the Viera Queen]

I have to admit is so bad it's good.

 

[Junmarko]

Yes, it's Dark Alliance, with cringe non-gameplay trailer:



https://darkalliance.com/

Animations in this trailer remind me of:

 

[Mebrilia the Viera Queen]

I can't... Is hard to stare at the whole trailer and avoid to laugh.

 

[Delterius]

I am extremely disappointed that the game won't be played at SnorriCam mode.

 

[AdamReith]

That was hilarious. Nothing spices up dull as dishwater fantasy combat like SnorriCam garbage.

 

[someone else]

Drizzt is too slow.

 

[Turuko]

this would have been all the rage in 2007, especially with the In Flames song

 

[InD_ImaginE]

Funny thing i know some people who hoped this would be closer to DND than BG 3

Oh no no no, don't get your hopes up yet man.

For all we know BG 3 might be the same genre as this.

 

[Jack_Deth]

This is the WotC I warned about in the BG3 thread.

 

[Jack_Deth]

Drizzt is too slow.

Everyone else is too fast.

 

[Darkzone]

This trailer made me mentally puke. Even in such a fucking trailer they are pushing their shitty leftward agenda and are denigrating Drizzt.
Drizzt is not strong STR 10 - 13 ( dependent on the DnD version) but has a DEX 19 - 20 and yet Catti-brie has to help him up. If we would go by this value then he would roll away from the fall like a judoka or would Kip up into a fighting stance in an Parkour style and manner.

 

[kain30]

oh god, is going to be trash. I think is a vermintide clone

 

[santino27]

That camera work is hilarious. Who thought this was a good idea?