Company News Dungeon Siege 3 Announced

[Gylfi.Fenriz.Conquests]

What's with all this dumping franchises to Obsidians?

What next, quake? oogh, that'd be awesome. And since Beths have ID...

 

[Serious_Business]

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

I liked DS 1 and 2

Too bad the VO was total shit

 

[Donkey Balls]

A Quake RPG could be actually p. good. With all those Lovecraftian monsters and shit.

 

[Dny]

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

New Vegas didn't ring a bell ? LMAO.
I'd expect the next Obsidian game to be a sequel or taking inspiration from Gears of War. With C&C of course.

Take Obsidian for what they are, second rate game developers who couldn't code their way out of an original, successful, innovative game of their own. They need to make sequels (NWN2, KOTOR2, FO3:NV and now DS3) or take heavy inspiration from their competitor (AP <> ME). They will always follow the trends instead of setting them. Twenty years from now when the company will go bankrupt no one will remember their name or their pathetic games but people will still remember Bioware and play Baldur's Gate just like some are still playing the Ultima series. Obsidian will fall into oblivion.

 

[1eyedking]

They wouldn't miss for anything the opportunity to make a game with a "3" on its name (and that's the reason why Space Siege failed, mark my words - you haven't forgotten about Space Siege, have you?).

I hope it stays true to the spirit of the originals, may they carry on the glorious struggle and all that.

 

[Donkey Balls]

Take Obsidian for what they are, second rate game developers who couldn't code their way out of an original, successful, innovative game of their own. They need to make sequels (NWN2, KOTOR2, FO3:NV and now DS3) or take heavy inspiration from their competitor (AP <> ME). They will always follow the trends instead of setting them. Twenty years from now when the company will go bankrupt no one will remember their name or their pathetic games but people will still remember Bioware and play Baldur's Gate just like some are still playing the Ultima series. Obsidian will fall into oblivion.

Damn straight, bro. My thoughts exactly.

 

[Jason]

Fucking ridiculous.

On the brighter side (there must be one, right?), Dungeon Siege is such a generic framework that there's theoretically plenty of room for creativity. Make sure it's a fantasy ARPG with decent graphics, loot, and "Dungeon Siege" in the title and the rest can be Obsidian from the ground up.

Hey, at least I'm trying.

 

[Ogg]

When did Squarenix start to work with western developers? I didn't get the memo. I know they bought Eidos, but that was already quite surprising. Does that mean they're now definitely invading our market?

 

[1eyedking]

Nothing good can come out of this.

Nothing.

 

[HanoverF]

Nothing good can come out of this.

Nothing.

Maybe a new emoticon

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

Fucking ridiculous.

On the brighter side (there must be one, right?), Dungeon Siege is such a generic framework that there's theoretically plenty of room for creativity. Make sure it's a fantasy ARPG with decent graphics, loot, and "Dungeon Siege" in the title and the rest can be Obsidian from the ground up.

Hey, at least I'm trying.

So it's not cool when Bethesda does it but it's ok if Obsidian does it?

 

[SuicideBunny]

When did Squarenix start to work with western developers?

when they saw that fallout 3 sold more in its first week than their last couple of games combined.

So it's not cool when Bethesda does it but it's ok if Obsidian does it?

when obsidian does what? there is no dungeon siege setting they could rape.

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

How dare you insult the rich lore of my video game! I'll have you know it was so well received a movie was made of it! That's more than can be said about Bioware RPGs!

 

[markec]

DS1 was one of the worst games I ever played, its was basically moving trough long corridor and killing poorly designed enemies. The second was actually quite decent for h&s with loads of secrets, actual story, skill system and far more interesting world design. Unfortunately when you reach the desert area the game goes back to its roots and falls apart.

This news is really surprising and disappointing, but I hope that they will use some b team to work on it while other do something actually worthwhile.

 

[Ausir]

Did I mention the Dungeon Siege Wiki already?

 

[Gragt]

You're such a shameless pimp, Ausir.

 

[MetalCraze]

What's with all this dumping franchises to Obsidians?

Do you know any other studio that will agree to churn out half-baked games every 12 months based on franchises nobody cares about anymore for food?

They will always follow the trends instead of setting them.

Add to that their fanboys seriously believing that they are supporting a tr00 underground developer who sticks it to The Man and you have an Apple of videogames.
Also AP was even less creative than ME. Despite all the stereotypical sci fi of ME it had a more or less new setting.

 

[Donkey Balls]

Did I mention the Dungeon Siege Wiki already?

Do you ever get outside, Ausir?

 

[SuicideBunny]

How dare you insult the rich lore of my video game! I'll have you know it was so well received a movie was made of it! That's more than can be said about Bioware RPGs!

i still have a hard time deciding what was less enjoyable... dungeon siege 1 or boll's movie..

 

[MetalCraze]

How dare you insult the rich lore of my video game! I'll have you know it was so well received a movie was made of it! That's more than can be said about Bioware RPGs!

http://movies.ign.com/articles/109/1092495p1.html

 

[MRSA]

Since Dungeon Siege 1 was a great success...
And Dungeon Siege 2 even more so...

Now they decide that a second sequel is a good idea...

WTF is this, I don't even

These guys are morans! Wasting money and time on one of the shitiest
franchises ever? And when everybody not remove their new shity game from inventory, are they gonna blame bucaneers for their low sales?

MRSA is disappoint

 

[CrimHead]

what the fuck

 

[Turjan]

How dare you insult the rich lore of my video game! I'll have you know it was so well received a movie was made of it! That's more than can be said about Bioware RPGs!

i still have a hard time deciding what was less enjoyable... dungeon siege 1 or boll's movie..

The game had at least good music and served as a basis for an awesome Ultima V remake.

 

[Heartless Squall]

Excellent franchise, excellent news.

They're very underrated around here, as it seems... Fortunately Obsidian will make DS3 and then the Codex will love it.

 

[Lockkaliber]

This is probably the first we'll see of the Onyx engine as well. If this is Ziets' project, and they make something completely different from the first two games it could be somewhat interesting.