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  • BeowulfBeowulf Member Posts: 236
    I want Baldurs Gate Online but with Diablo 3 type kid grind and play. In fact just use the same game pretty much and make the random adveture quests be bounties to find rings daggers books and lost boots. They would have to sled with blizzard so I kinda doubt it will evet happen. The neverwinter online game is too much like a poor world of warctaft clone.

    Planescap torment has a very clear end. I do not care for the strange planescape setting either with all the goody demons that like Hale Dias thay CN bard.

  • ShapiroKeatsDarkMageShapiroKeatsDarkMage Member Posts: 2,428
    Beowulf said:

    I want Baldurs Gate Online but with Diablo 3 type kid grind and play. In fact just use the same game pretty much and make the random adveture quests be bounties to find rings daggers books and lost boots. They would have to sled with blizzard so I kinda doubt it will evet happen. The neverwinter online game is too much like a poor world of warctaft clone.

    Planescap torment has a very clear end. I do not care for the strange planescape setting either with all the goody demons that like Hale Dias thay CN bard.

    ''Get a lo ad of this guy''.

  • MateoFrozenMateoFrozen Member Posts: 82
    My personal list to EE is like this:
    Arcanum Sierra\Activision rights
    Icewind Dale II- in this case the new patch or update would be good too.
    PST
    NVN
  • rapsam2003rapsam2003 Member Posts: 1,636
    edited September 2016

    Arcanum Sierra\Activision rights

    Very, very unlikely...
    Beowulf said:

    Planescap torment has a very clear end. I do not care for the strange planescape setting either with all the goody demons that like Hale Dias thay CN bard.

    Did we play the same game? Because, lorewise, there are ZERO good demons (or devils, for that matter) in any edition of D&D. There are good tieflings, but having lower planar blood doesn't make one a demon/devil.
  • FardragonFardragon Member Posts: 4,511
    Fall-from-Grace
  • rapsam2003rapsam2003 Member Posts: 1,636
    edited September 2016
    Fardragon said:

    Fall-from-Grace

    Is lawful neutral, not good. The whole point of that NPC is to present a character of contradictions, not to present a "good" character. She is not good by alignment, and her behavior is "grey" at best. So...again, did we play the same game, @Beowulf?!

    http://torment.wikia.com/wiki/Fall-from-Grace
  • ShapiroKeatsDarkMageShapiroKeatsDarkMage Member Posts: 2,428
    Grace acts a bit to compassionate to be neutral.
  • ThacoBellThacoBell Member Posts: 12,235
    Yeah, all neutral characters are a-holes! wait...
  • rapsam2003rapsam2003 Member Posts: 1,636

    Grace acts a bit to compassionate to be neutral.

    Doesn't matter. That's what she is.
  • FardragonFardragon Member Posts: 4,511

    Fardragon said:

    Fall-from-Grace

    Is lawful neutral, not good. The whole point of that NPC is to present a character of contradictions, not to present a "good" character. She is not good by alignment, and her behavior is "grey" at best. So...again, did we play the same game, @Beowulf?!

    http://torment.wikia.com/wiki/Fall-from-Grace
    The point is, she is a thoroughbread demon who is not chaotic evil. Which aught to be impossible, since the point of demons is that they are a personification of evil and chaos.
  • rapsam2003rapsam2003 Member Posts: 1,636
    edited September 2016
    Fardragon said:

    The point is, she is a thoroughbread demon who is not chaotic evil. Which aught to be impossible, since the point of demons is that they are a personification of evil and chaos.

    The real point is, the game wanted to show that Planar Beings can fight against their nature, which is true. Also, you're forgetting: Fall-from-Grace wasn't 100% a demon. By fighting her nature, she changed significantly.

    And you forget that it's actually incredibly rare, but possible, in AD&D Planescape for demons to "ascend" past their evil nature. Planescape is NEVER black and white; that's half the damn point of the setting. Fall-from-Grace is known as a "Fourth Rule".
  • FardragonFardragon Member Posts: 4,511
    If a demon ceases to be chaotic evil, then it is no longer a demon.
  • rapsam2003rapsam2003 Member Posts: 1,636
    Fardragon said:

    If a demon ceases to be chaotic evil, then it is no longer a demon.

    That's basically the point, yes.
  • rapsam2003rapsam2003 Member Posts: 1,636
    edited September 2016

    Fardragon said:

    If a demon ceases to be chaotic evil, then it is no longer a demon.

    Funny how fallen angels in the setting that work for Hell or the Abyss aren't really considered angels by any of the angels anymore...it's almost like...both corruption and redemption...change the nature of the planar creature no matter what alignment they started out as or changed to...
    One of the more well known devils on the Sword Coast (well known by warlocks, anyway) and a former Archdevil is Malkizid, a fallen angel. And, for those who think devils weren't once angels, look at "Fiendish Codex II", p. 4. The original devils were ALL angels, once.

    Oh, and "current" demons and devils (except the remaining Obyriths, the Erinyes, and the original devils) were once mortal souls. See "Fiendish Codex I" for demons.
    Post edited by rapsam2003 on
  • megamike15megamike15 Member Posts: 2,666
    well arcanum just came out on steam...and planescape involes the blood war.....
  • brusbrus Member Posts: 944
    edited October 2016
    This could be either
    1. related to additional content for Planescape Torment EE
    2. related to game in new engine which could be set in Planescape universe
    3. maybe both :wink:
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  • deltagodeltago Member Posts: 7,811
    So with the new job posting (https://www.beamdog.com/jobs/7):

    1. we know that the game will be D&D related.
    2. Alpha testing will probably go until January (3 month contract), so Summer 2017 release maybe?
    3. Will run (and be released) on both Android and Apple Tablets

    not much, but eh.
  • ShapiroKeatsDarkMageShapiroKeatsDarkMage Member Posts: 2,428

    Blood for the blood war!
  • brusbrus Member Posts: 944
    edited November 2016
    deltago said:

    So with the new job posting (https://www.beamdog.com/jobs/7):

    1. we know that the game will be D&D related.
    2. Alpha testing will probably go until January (3 month contract), so Summer 2017 release maybe?
    3. Will run (and be released) on both Android and Apple Tablets

    not much, but eh.

    If Alpha testing will go until January, doesn't this mean some Enhanced edition is in the works?
    Because, to make a game in new engine would take more time and it will be on consoles and here it is stated it's on Android and Apple Tablets too.
    Tides of Numenera is geting 2017 release also. So, it would be cool these two would be connected.

  • rapsam2003rapsam2003 Member Posts: 1,636
    brus said:

    If Alpha testing will go until January, doesn't this mean some Enhanced edition is in the works?

    Not if they're using modern gaming methodologies and an engine that already exists. Plus, they probably have been actually coding the new game for 2 years, I'd hazard to guess.

  • ShapiroKeatsDarkMageShapiroKeatsDarkMage Member Posts: 2,428
    New GOOD D&D games needs to happen.
  • DoubledimasDoubledimas Member, Mobile Tester Posts: 1,286
    edited November 2016
    Trent's answer to the question if any more IE-games will get the EE treatment

    Does this mean that there is another EE coming out? Otherwise he could've said 'no'.
    Combine that tweet with this:

    IWDEE is pretty stable now. It doesn't have 2.X engine improvements, yes, but the 2.X engine improvements can still be... improved. The job that is being done on the new project will be helpful when improving the 2.X versions, in the end resulting in better IWDEE.

    So the new project will help improving the v2+ games, so that new project must be something having to to with the Infinity Engine as well.
    Post edited by Doubledimas on
  • DoubledimasDoubledimas Member, Mobile Tester Posts: 1,286
    Right, completely forgot :D
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