Trent Oster Interview on BG, NWN, KotOR, Dragon Age & Beamdog
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Trent Oster talked to USgamer on a bunch of topics, from the early days of BioWare to Beamdog.
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https://www.usgamer.net/articles/reflections-on-the-early-days-of-bioware-co-founder-trent-oster
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https://www.usgamer.net/articles/reflections-on-the-early-days-of-bioware-co-founder-trent-oster
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"We've got that whole team working on the console stuff. When the consoles are done, they are going to build something. What it is, I'm not sure yet. But we've been elbows deep in some of the best western RPGS for the last eight or nine years. That's just been training. It's been building up our skills. Now that we've been that far into the DNA of RPGs, I think we're going to do something RPG," he admits.
so beamdog might actually make their own game? that would be interesting, im curious to see what it is going to be like
Yup, and especially since even in its current iteration D&D rules and mechanics and systems are not the best and leave a lot to be desired. One can do better.
While not WotC related, we saw pretty much the exact same circumstances happening. Twice even: Daedalic Entertainment of Deponia fame received The Dark Eye license from Ulisses Spiele and then proceeded in making both Chains of Satinav and Memoria. But instead of using the appropriate TDE PnP ruleset the folks over at Daedalic made (very successful) Point-and-Click adventure games out of them.
Then again... in contrast to the way more combat-focused D&D, TDE excels in its story telling. Many hardcore fans of tabletop TDE even found Drakensang to be too combat heavy. Which is probably one of the reasons of why Chains of Satinav and Memoria were so well received in the first place.
Oh I'm sure it is absolutely doable, from both legal and practical standpoints. It's a question of whether WotC would be open to it, which I strongly feel is a 'no' given that it is precisely their settings that they seem to hold on to the most tightly and possessively.