Dungeons & Dragons: Still Online, Also Free
Have we ever posted about Dungeons & Dragons Online before? It's not an MMO that ever seems to make the headlines and, let's be honest, most of us either thought it was already closed or was living on borrowed time. In a fairly audacious move, it's instead gone free to play - rebranded as DDO [...]
Author: Alec Meer Category: RockPaperShotgun dungeons & dragons online free Turbine Publish Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:57:18 +0000
Have we ever posted about Dungeons & Dragons Online before? It's not an MMO that ever seems to make the headlines and, let's be honest, most of us either thought it was already closed or was living on borrowed time. In a fairly audacious move, it's instead gone free to play - rebranded as DDO Unlimited, and pitching itself as "the world's first free-to-play MMO to offer the quality graphics and robust features previously only available in premium subscription based games." Hmm. Is that strictly true? Grrrrubish as they were, didn't the likes of RF Online and Archlord have that? Of course, it's precisely because DDO is not rubbish that makes this surprise move so tantalising...
Hmmm. Elitist and inaccessible are two words I hear used often in reference to D&DO. I also hear it's nigh on impossible to do anything solo, as in the pen-and-paper game. Literally Dungeons and Dragons online, then. Might well work for a bunch of guys who get together every sunday to play, not so much for 5punkers.
Baliame wrote:So they make MMOGs out of tabletops? Paranoia s'il vous plait.
Speaking of which, SLA has been bought out by a games company (I forget which), so the chances of a SLA RPG have gone from 0 to 0.01 (and probably 0.02 for a shite FPS).
Yep. Angus Abrams at Cubicle 7 announced the other week that someone had bought them out. They might actually do something now. Between Dave Allsop (writer and creator of SLA) and C7 they make us lot look positively motivated.
Well according to their official site they joined the "Rebellion Group" which really just looks like a collective to me. No other news about a buyout.
However, this looks good.
C7 buyout notice wrote:[...] and their support will allow Cubicle 7 to focus on a major licensed mainstream release later this year as well as a busy monthly release schedule.
That's the badger. Unless that's just a forumite getting confused between Rebellion Group and Rebellion of AvP fame. I do believe one or the other (the other I think) has the license to 2000AD, so there could be something Judge Dredd on the horizon. Icidentally, the original Judge Dredd RPG was quite amusing, along the lines of Paranoia.
Dog Pants wrote:Hmmm. Elitist and inaccessible are two words I hear used often in reference to D&DO. I also hear it's nigh on impossible to do anything solo, as in the pen-and-paper game. Literally Dungeons and Dragons online, then. Might well work for a bunch of guys who get together every sunday to play, not so much for 5punkers.
Yes. I played the beta and it's very much built around the D&D idea of getting a group together to accomplish anything.
The first tutorial dungeon had locked doors only thieves could open, yet a lone thief got wiped out by the first monster.
I always thought the Neverwinter Nights Dungeon Master mode was the ultimate translation of the pen-paper game to online computer play, but it actually replaces what fans would point to as the best bits of the game.
Dog Pants wrote:so there could be something Judge Dredd on the horizon. Icidentally, the original Judge Dredd RPG was quite amusing, along the lines of Paranoia
The judge dredd shooter was fucking terrible. That dredd vs death one. Hopefully any new dredd stuff will be nothing like that.
Ahh, Dredd vs Death. I remember playing a really early demo for that, and it was rather brilliant, proper Dredd game and quite gritty, then it went back into the Rebellion bunker with a publisher ordering a remake what eventually ended up as Dredd vs Death, the cartoony crap game that spoilt Dredd.
Dungeons & Dragons: Still Online, Also Free
