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Dungeons & Dragons Online Preview at MMORPG.COM

Discussion in 'Game/SP News & Comments' started by Taluntain, Nov 15, 2005.

  1. Taluntain

    Taluntain Resident Alpha and Omega Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    MMORPG.COM has provided a nicely readable preview of D&DO: Stormreach, which neatly sums up some specific features of this upcoming MMORPG. Here's a clip:

    Instanced quests also infuriated me. Why play an MMORPG if you can’t at least see hundreds of other people playing at the same time? That is the reason that I pay my monthly fees.

    Turbine took two things that I really don’t like, and put them squarely at the center of my favorite franchise. Was it a recipe for disaster? No. As it turns out, the combination of those two factors - which are seen as fairly unpopular choices by some members of the community - contribute greatly to a good game that captures the essence of pen and paper.

    The Eberron campaign setting is a blessing for the people at Turbine for a number of reasons. First, the film-noirish, almost episodic nature of the campaign setting allows them to set their game in one central city (Stormreach) and not make players feel limited in the grand scope of things. This is something that would have been more difficult to achieve in the far more popular Forgotten Realms or Dragonlance settings with which players are intimately familiar. In both of those settings, the intrigue and adventure span the world. Limiting players to a city would have been a crippling decision. In Eberron though, it seems to fit. Eberron also allows the developers (and consequently the players) to carve out a unique niche in the world rather than have to exist in a pre-defined space.

    Check out the rest at MMORPG.COM.
     
    Taluntain, Nov 15, 2005
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