Game News Divinity: Original Sin has sold 160,000 copies, already approaching profitability

[Arkeus]

I don't, which is my point.

I don't know, i am kinda intrigued by those fabulous five.

 

[:Flash:]

I'll say its neither The Dark Eye nor Ultima.

In Germany there is something called "The Dark Eye Curse", meaning that every computer game company working on the license inevitably goes bankrupt. Larian is the only studio to survive working on a Dark Eye game (but only barely so). Daedalic has been bought out, so I don't know if that counts. Attic, Ikarion, Radon Labs and Silver Style did not survive working on the TDE license.

Ultima - I don't think so. Swen has no intention of ever dealing with big publishers again, Divinity is Fantasy as well, and I think he is fanboy enough to realize that it just wouldn't be right without Lord British.

I think he's aiming for something that can be obtained relatively cheaply. I'd go after something like the Space 1889 license. Great setting, different enough from Divinity, and not expensive.

 

[Mightmagic]

Lands of lore, might&magic or wizardry license?

 

[Excidium]

Transformers

 

[felipepepe]

Can't believe no one guessed Dragonlance yet. I mean, come on. Obvious choice. Walgrave clearly gave Swen an ultimatum after D:OS release: get Dragonlance or I'm going back to metal, bitches.

This makes a lot of sense. But Hasbor's a bitch, not sure how they will react to this... especially since D&D 5 is releasing now. But damn, it would be cool...

Come at me bro!

 

[LESS T_T]

World of Darkness?

"We asked them a couple of months ago, so we'll ask them again now. Maybe they'll be interested. It's in the RPG space, that's for sure.

It was approximately a couple of months ago when CCP announced the cancellation of the WoD MMO...

 

[Zeriel]

Can't believe no one guessed Dragonlance yet. I mean, come on. Obvious choice. Walgrave clearly gave Swen an ultimatum after D:OS release: get Dragonlance or I'm going back to metal, bitches.

This makes a lot of sense. But Hasbor's a bitch, not sure how they will react to this... especially since D&D 5 is releasing now. But damn, it would be cool...

Come at me bro!

I'm not actually serious. I can't imagine even an eccentric european like Swen trying to make a Dragonlance game. It's so incredibly 80's-tastic.

 

[LeStryfe79]

I'm hoping for a crazy PnP setting like Rifts or Traveller.

Spoiler

 

[:Flash:]

Vampire: The Masquerade would also make sense.

 

[Marquess Cornwallis]

I can't really think of a license worth acquiring for the sake of its setting per se (the basic idea such as Arcanum's "Jules Verne meets Tolkien" is usually pretty simple and easily duplicated while the specifics are neither important nor amazing enough to warrant paying for the whole package); for those that supposedly have money generating potential due to existing fanbase the advantage would be offset by the respective increase in price and the risk involved in potential failure of the project. A rules system that is tried, tested and really well suited to a computer RPG (as opposed to tailored to the pen & paper experience) would of course be interesting, but are there any obvious candidates?

 

[Dorateen]

Can't believe no one guessed Dragonlance yet. I mean, come on. Obvious choice. Walgrave clearly gave Swen an ultimatum after D:OS release: get Dragonlance or I'm going back to metal, bitches.

This makes a lot of sense. But Hasbor's a bitch, not sure how they will react to this... especially since D&D 5 is releasing now. But damn, it would be cool...

Come at me bro!

I'm not actually serious. I can't imagine even an eccentric european like Swen trying to make a Dragonlance game. It's so incredibly 80's-tastic.

But... the last Dragonlance cRPG titles came out in the 90's!

I'll wait for a Dragonlance mod in D:OS, then.

 

[Darkzone]

To list more nonsense: Warhammer 40k RPG or Aliens RPG.

 

[Excidium]

Why are we listing random IPs again

 

[himmy]

I can't really think of a license worth acquiring for the sake of its setting per se (the basic idea such as Arcanum's "Jules Verne meets Tolkien" is usually pretty simple and easily duplicated while the specifics are neither important nor amazing enough to warrant paying for the whole package); for those that supposedly have money generating potential due to existing fanbase the advantage would be offset by the respective increase in price and the risk involved in potential failure of the project. A rules system that is tried, tested and really well suited to a computer RPG (as opposed to tailored to the pen & paper experience) would of course be interesting, but are there any obvious candidates?

Kickstarter would do much better if it's a setting popular with a demographic that can chip in a buck, even more so if it's a setting that is perceived as being missed or neglected in a long while. (see Wasteland, Torment, Shadowrun etc)

 

[tuluse]

Why are we listing random IPs again

I'm not sure, but most of these seem a terrible match for Larian who do goofy, but rather generic.

A Larian Arcanum is like the worst thing I could think of before just handing the IP to Microsoft to make a shovelware shooter.

 

[Deleted member 7219]

Has to be a biggie. They won't go for a name that is meaningless outside Europe.

 

[Lerk]

Dragonlance...loved it as a teen, DM`d a long running campaign with AD&D 2E, so I could go for that.

I did make the mistake of starting to re-read the original trilogy recently. My God, I wish I hadn't, fucking laughably bad writing. Even Raistlin, who my younger, naive self thought was total badass.

Don't ruin the nostalgia for yourself like I did bros

 

[Zeriel]

Dragonlance...loved it as a teen, DM`d a long running campaign with AD&D 2E, so I could go for that.

I did make the mistake of starting to re-read the original trilogy. My God, I wish I hadn't, fucking laughably bad writing. Even Raistlin, who my younger, naive self thought was total badass.

Don't ruin the nostalgia for yourself like I did bros

Going back and reading Dragonlance after the excellent Death Gate Cycle is an especially brutal experience.

 

[Zorba the Hutt]

Ah, so we're listing random neglected IPs Larian could rescue...

Magnum PI RPG


I want to be a Higgins

 

[Lerk]

Dragonlance...loved it as a teen, DM`d a long running campaign with AD&D 2E, so I could go for that.

I did make the mistake of starting to re-read the original trilogy. My God, I wish I hadn't, fucking laughably bad writing. Even Raistlin, who my younger, naive self thought was total badass.

Don't ruin the nostalgia for yourself like I did bros

Going back and reading Dragonlance after the excellent Death Gate Cycle is an especially brutal experience.

Hmm been meaning to check that out, now I will

 

[himmy]

Ah, so we're listing random neglected IPs Larian could rescue...

Magnum PI RPG


I want to be a Higgins

inb4 Wishbone RPG

 

[:Flash:]

Why are we listing random IPs again

Because everyone wants the chance to self-quote and say "See, I told you so" once Swen goes public.

 

[MasPingon]

Multidirectional got this game as a gift. I'm from 3rd word country ass well and I demand to be threated equally.

 

[ZoddGuts]

So about 76 hrs after released it's been dethroned for the number 1 seller spot at Steam. The start of the decline.

 

[nikolokolus]

Dragonlance...loved it as a teen, DM`d a long running campaign with AD&D 2E, so I could go for that.

I did make the mistake of starting to re-read the original trilogy recently. My God, I wish I hadn't, fucking laughably bad writing. Even Raistlin, who my younger, naive self thought was total badass.

Don't ruin the nostalgia for yourself like I did bros

Once I stumbled onto Moorcock, Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Jack Vance and Gene Wolf it's absolutely impossible to finish any of those terribad D&D licensed novels.

Funny to think there was a time when I considered R.A. Salvatore a competent writer.