Company News Dungeon Siege 3 Announced

[Awor Szurkrarz]

Comedy gold .

 

[Micmu]

HOLY SMOKE!!
That's a good twist, right there.
Awww... Obsidian....

 

[ghostdog]

Well, maybe they can at least make something like IWD2.

 

[Joe Krow]

Can LARPing redeem the franchise? Stay tuned.

 

[Ruprekt]

They're already touting the c&c http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/news/55195/Obsidian-Developing-Dungeon-Siege-III-For-Square-Enix

Find intense a scenario worthy of the greatest productions Square Enix and Obsidian Entertainment

Find intense a scenario



- and fuck you all I'm reserving this for my signature

 

[sportforredneck]

I am incredibly disappoint. Maybe they'll improve the series greatly with story. I'm really trying to hope for the best for Obsidian. Alpha Protocol was good, but they keep going back to doing sequels for other games.

 

[MetalCraze]

Obsidian will manage to make Dungeon Siege 3 to suck even harder.
At least invisibility spell will make sense here!

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. Death to Obsidian.

 

[Donkey Balls]

Alpha Protocol was good

HAHA OH WOW

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

OH MY FUCKING GOD IT'S EVEN BETTER WHEN I LOOK AT THE ARTICLE AND SEE IT'S MULTIPLATFORM AAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA

 

[MetalCraze]

A thought just came to me: Obsidian will be on one level with Uwe Boll.

That's it, that's their breakthrough. They've finally established themselves in the industry. Good work, Obsidian. Good you didn't follow in Troika's footsteps.

Invent new game out of nothing with new setting instead of copying?
Make every character in the game killable and the world will react?
A huge open world instead of linear corridors where you can go only in one way?
Non-linear quests with multiple outcomes affecting other quests?
And no cringeworthy emo romances?

You are just living in the past, wanting your games to be like something 12 years old!

 

[Crooked Bee]

Oh my. Poor Obsidian.

First Bioware, then Bethesda, now Square Enix...

 

[SuicideBunny]

what the fuck?

 

[Arem]

 

[LazyD]

Never played DS2, but the first one was so linear, that you were literally walking in a straight line, killing monsters and passing through towns. There was no challenge whatsoever, so I eventually got bored and uninstalled it.

 

[circ]

SURE IS A LOT OF DS HATE IN THIS HEAR PLACE Y'ALL.

I liked DS 1 and 2. Because they had landscapes and details unlike anything anyone else made. And it was all seamless. That engine was fucking amazing. Too bad the VO was total shit in DS 2, and so on. A fuck of a lot better looking gear than anything BW or Oblivian have ever made too.

I heard Chris Taylor was looking to totally retardify DS 3, but maybe this will be the RPG of the century after a year of bugfixing?

 

[Shannow]

A thought just came to me: Obsidian will be on one level with Uwe Boll.

That's it, that's their breakthrough. They've finally established themselves in the industry. Good work, Obsidian. Good you didn't follow in Troika's footsteps.

Invent new game out of nothing with new setting instead of copying?
Make every character in the game killable and the world will react?
A huge open world instead of linear corridors where you can go only in one way?
Non-linear quests with multiple outcomes affecting other quests?
And no cringeworthy emo romances?

You are just living in the past, wanting your games to be like something 12 years old!

All fine and good, but what does that have to do with Uwe Boll? After all, he's not a retard. And if he's not a retard, neither are you.

 

[Fat Dragon]

Square Enix has revealed that it’s to partner with Obsidian Entertainment to bring Dungeon Seige 3 to the PS3, Xbox 360 and PC.

 

[Ryuken]

They're tapping into a gaping market hole: there hasn't been a decent multiplayer console hack & slash game in the vein of Diablo since Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance. Since Diablo III has every console fanboy in the world asking for it to come to consoles other publishers must have taken notice of this. Since GPG isn't afraid of selling off their IP anymore (they sold SupCom to Square-Enix as well) this definitely makes sense. GPG can't possibly make it themselves either because they radically downsized themselves in 2008 (from 125 to 45 people or so), they're mainly a one-two project team now. Obsidian? They take on everything apparently.

If Blizzard doesn't bring Diablo III to consoles then Square, Obsidian (and Chris Taylor, he's working as an advisor for DSIII) can reap some rewards here. Certain Obsidian folks already did Icewind Dale I and II, those games were relatively close to traditional hack & slash if you think about it.

Of course, I guess going multiplatform means modding probably won't be in anymore (pretty much the sole thing that made the original DS memorable).

 

[Gay-Lussac]

A thought just came to me: Obsidian will be on one level with Uwe Boll.

That's it, that's their breakthrough. They've finally established themselves in the industry. Good work, Obsidian. Good you didn't follow in Troika's footsteps.

Bankruptcy?

 

[Volourn]

"•Players can go on an adventure without leaving their couch, with friends or online multiplayer experience completely. "

What a fuckin' awesome, and unique game feature!

 

[TalesfromtheCrypt]

Square Enix has revealed that it’s to partner with Obsidian Entertainment to bring Dungeon Seige 3 to the PS3, Xbox 360 and PC.

Oh fuck!

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

Square Enix has revealed that it’s to partner with Obsidian Entertainment to bring Dungeon Seige 3 to the PS3, Xbox 360 and PC.

Oh fuck!

Well, it does illustrate a point.

 

[thesheeep]

Well, I always like to play some new H&S games, so... why not.
I hope they can make something good of it.

 

[elkston]

Never thought I'd see the words "Obsidian" and "Dungeon Siege" in the same sentence.

Never would have imagined this pair up, but I DO think the original Dungeon Siege was fun for what it was. The graphics were stunning for its time, and there was some very memorable incidental music by Jeremy Soule.