К огромному разочарованию фанатов на грядущей E3 Bioware не покажет свой главный PC-проект Dragon Age. Подобный поворот событий был ожидаем, но надежда на лучший исход оставалась. Напомню, что игра была анонсирована два года назад.

Posted: Friday, 02 June 2006 09:48PM
wouldn't rely on anything that was said previously, whether it applies to the toolset or multiplayer aspects or whatever, as being gospel. It is still quite early in DA's development, and while we may be well out of the concepting stage, big things are still bound to change as the game evolves. Naturally you can only go on what's been said, but I wouldn't rely on any information that isn't spelled out as current and public on the DA site as being guaranteed. Anything else you hear here is indicative only of our intentions -- nothing else.

Posted: Friday, 02 June 2006 10:03PM
It's not my intention to alarm anyone or suggest that there are huge changes we're keeping under wraps. It's just that the nature of game development is that things change -- plans change, even plans that we who are making the game were certain wouldn't. As you come out of the concepting stage and start hitting the big, defining questions that means more and more stuff gets put aside as things the game now isn't. And until we're prepared to start talking about what exactly the game is (which we very obviously are not) we don't want to start confusing people or giving them only half the information. You can see for yourself on these forums how excited folks can sometimes get if I off-handedly talk too much about things that aren't in the game which might have been in D&D or other games we've done -- I know that the game has all these other things, but since I can't discuss them yet all it appears like to those folks is that the game is now less than they thought rather than more. So they get upset, especially since these ideas of theirs are all bound up in expectations (realistic or not) of what they hope the game might end up being. Which maybe leads to some question as to why we announced the game so early if we're not willing to talk about every decision we've made or disclose everything the game is about -- but I think we're still pretty positive about the input and feedback we get here, so long as most of you understand that everything that gets discussed here could change at any moment -- but that's always been true, from the BG2 and NWN forum days on up.

Posted: Tuesday, 18 July 2006 09:50PM
If your interest in DA lies only in what the toolset can provide (and I'm not saying it is, I'm just saying if it is) then you're bound to be disappointed. Remember that unlike NWN (which you did not care for anyhow) our goal here is not to provide the end user with a toolset. If one comes with the game, and there are various forms that such a toolset could take (as opposed to the type of toolset that was NWN), that is strictly ancillary.

... есть вероятность, что ждать релиза осталось не так долго. А уж вал информации и приступ PR-активности неизбежно последуют в последние полгода до выхода проекта. Повод к такому оптимизму дало опубликованное на ресурсе Firing Squad сообщение о том, что на последней конференции Electronic Arts, посвящённой финансовым результатам последнего квартала, стало известно, что релиз Dragon Age намечен на 2009 фискальный год, который у EA (как и у большинства издателей) длится с 1 апреля 2008 по 31 марта 2009.

Скорее всего игра все же выйдет к апрелю 2009г. Однако, как отметил Matt Atwood, в своем интерьвью Eurogamer если команда решит отложить выход, то он будет отложен.

Ну, посмотрим. Теоретически двиг и система ДА будет основой будущего. Если они будут делать, то задел на ближайшие 5-10 лет с учетом аддонов и сиквелов. Соответсвенно ждемс...

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Да что за мода пошла!?

Похоже на тулсет Ведьмака.

Я бы сказал, что очень похож на тулсет НВН2 и совсем не похож на тулсет ведьмака

Прискорбная новость, конечно. Хотя это значит что шарды NWN2 будут единственной альтернативой шардам NWN1 :-D Ура, товарищи!.. Дружно начинаем строить миры в НВН2, ибо конкурентов не предвидится... Эх...