The suits at Hasbro are currently sitting around a table and one of them says "I heard from my nephew that the last 10 years of Dungeons & Dragons games have all been kind of embarrassing failures. Gentlemen, how do we get taken seriously?" and everybody goes silent as a 120 year old man smoking a cigar (which is odd because they banned smoking on company property years ago) stands up and says "I HEAR THE KIDS ARE WILD ABOUT THIS ZORK GAME"

No, they'll be using Linux. Go listen to Google's presentation about it. They very clearly explained what they are doing. No Windows, and no Wine as far as I can tell, since games need to target video Vulkan swapchains, not screen ones, and as well get input from remote client. And unless Google plan to provide some major patch for Wine to do it, Wine doesn't support such scenario yet.

I read Larian tripled their team to tackle this.

So I guess they DID gather their party before venturing forth :D

I m waiting and I'll wait for another lifetime

I will wait and see. There are two positives: (1) Beamdog is not involved; (2) the action will take place in Baldur's Gate (love that city!).

But I hope it will be as oldschool as possible. I am not the biggest fan of the "modern" RPG... Sometimes simplicity in terms of choices, story etc. is a plus.

I'm glad Beamdog isn't developing the game and I do hope it will be good. Seeing lots of people in this thread hyping themselves up for this title but I'm just going to wait and remain cautious.

Pre-ordering is still a bad idea BTW

Sometimes I wonder what RPGs, nerd culture, and technology in general would be like if D&D and its follow-ons had ditched the evil-character stuff entirely and thus steered clear of the social stigma that killed off tabletop gaming in the 90s.

For the same reason Neverwinter got a game by AOL in 1991 and a game by Atari in 2002 both called Neverwinter Nights.

* [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neverwinter_Nights_(1991_video_game]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neverwinter_Nights_(1991_video_game[/url])
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neverwinter_Nights

What if it's first person lol

C'mon gog, you are better then this... :"/

Shall I edit it to dirty dish water? haha. I like how I was down voted for the post (despite being positive), some things never change haha.

I think alignment is a crucial (fourth-wall- / suspension-of-disbelief / and immersion-breaking) weakness in RPGs.

Perhaps a much better approach would be to model psychological components, like selfishness-altruism, introspection-extroversion, et hoc genus omne, rather than a simplistic generalization? What is the distinction between chaotic good and lawful evil, for example, in a specific interaction (which is where the rubber hits the road) — what is Dirty Harry's alignment? (He is very lawful, and upholds goodness, but definitely not lawful good.) Sure, a general "evil" label is generally applicable to certain character traits, but it is also a blunt tool that has often led to infantilized dialog choices, rather than an opportunity to role play a character.

I do like the sound of the project (naturally: I expect this was the elevator pitch: "the sequel to a classic, evergreen popular game made by a competent and popular developer" sells itself :) and I have added this to my wishlist.

edit: added epexegetic Dirty Harry; also it's a sequel, not an instant classic, although that would be implied in the elevator pitch. :)

Instant wishlist !!!
Sarevok, Jon, Viconia....Let them comes on the screen!!!!!
Thanks Larian, thanks GOG !!!

Pure nostalgia with the first 2... Hope you guys live up to it. I also loved the script control for the AI. IF I want to collect a rusty dagger then I will do it or one of my teammates that I assign to do so will, not random and when we are tryign to sneak.