Dungeons & Dragons: Forgotten Realms

I stepped through the door to enter into yet another uneventful evening at work, the local Wilmington GameStop, to be greeted by the February issue of Game Informer. What I saw therein was amazing.

Atari has contracted Stormfront Studios, the crafters of LotR: TTT who were unexpectedly, and unreasonably "put out" by EA, to create a game in the lauded (or hated) D&D liscense called Dungeons & Dragons: Forgotten Realms.

The developers have actually gotten together with R.A. Salvator, the authority on Faerun and all things Forgotten Realms, as well as the creater of the world's most famous Drow, Dritzt Do'Urden, in order to make this game as acurate as possible.

Wizards of the Coast has been working closely with the project, providing much needed information concerning character types and game do's and don'ts.

The way this game looks is amazing. The still frames are wonderful, but the TRAILER looks that much better.

I liked D&D Heros for the XBOX, but this PS2 exclusive outing is shaping up to be the best D&D video game ever.

Oh, and here's a GameSpy write up on it.

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Originally Posted by Captain Vegetable

I liked D&D Heros for the XBOX, but this PS2 exclusive outing is shaping up to be the best D&D video game ever.

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Uhh... you're kidding right? You have to be, because I know you've heard of Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale. Some shitty Two Towers clone can't match up to those.

I realize, CV, that, you know, you like every game, but cmon.

Oh, and by the way, Stormfront also made winners like Bloodwake and Pool of Radiance.

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Originally Posted by diffusionx

Uhh... you're kidding right? You have to be, because I know you've heard of Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale. Some shitty Two Towers clone can't match up to those.

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So, I'm being over entusiastic. Big deal. Planescape: Torment is, hands down, the best D&D game ever, and as far as I'm concerned, it will continue to be for the rest of time.

Maybe I should have qualified my statement by saying the best console D&D game. God knows all of the PC games, straight back to the Golden Label, are some of the best games ever, let alone best D&D games.

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I realize, CV, that, you know, you like every game, but cmon.

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HAH! Ain't that the truth.

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Oh, and by the way, Stormfront also made winners like Bloodwake and Pool of Radiance.

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And a few Maddens and Tiger Woods.

But they also made LotR: TTT and Neverwinter Nights.

Yea... the shitty ones.

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Originally Posted by diffusionx

Yea... the shitty ones.

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Dude, don't think I was citing the Maddens and Tiger Woods to their credit. Those games suck. I was agreeing with you that they suck, and that they are a blemish on the face of gaming's landscape.

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Originally Posted by Captain Vegetable

I liked D&D Heros for the XBOX, but this PS2 exclusive outing is shaping up to be the best D&D video game ever.

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:yuck: No four player then I assume.

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Originally Posted by MonsterMash

:yuck: No four player then I assume.

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from the article there are only 3 players in the game, an elvin theif, a human wizard, and a human paladin. it looks nice, but eonly having selectable humans and elves takes it down a notch in my book, gimmie a dwarf or gnome, or a friggin kobold, not the most worn cliche race in fantasy history,and the race i am in real life, boring. the screens do look nice, but no box version=no me

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Originally Posted by frostwolf ex

from the article there are only 3 players in the game, an elvin theif, a human wizard, and a human paladin. it looks nice, but eonly having selectable humans and elves takes it down a notch in my book, gimmie a dwarf or gnome, or a friggin kobold, not the most worn cliche race in fantasy history,and the race i am in real life, boring. the screens do look nice, but no box version=no me

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It is a single play adventure. There are three characters, but you do not select one before starting, as you have control over all of them at all times. GI commented on how smart the AI actually is, too.

And I hear you about the Gnomes and Dwarves. Best D&D races ever.

Maybe there will be an XBOX version, but as it stands, the PS2 has first dibs.

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Originally Posted by Captain Vegetable

Planescape: Torment is, hands down, the best D&D game ever, and as far as I'm concerned, it will continue to be for the rest of time.

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Get off the pipe; Gold Box

I have no idea what the Hell you just said.