Any Triple A Turn Based RPG's Coming Out?

Robert_Sharp · October 12, 2007, 1:33pm

When will Dragon Age come out? Will it be turn-based or pausable real-time or what? I’m guessing it’s a late 2008 game at the earliest, in either case.

roguefrog · October 12, 2007, 1:44pm

You haven’t heard?

Dragon Age is a linear story driven first person/third person action adventure title chalk full of mini-games, scripted events, and puzzles. It’s epic, robust, and gritty. Kill the foozle, save the world, get the loot. All that legendary fun stuff.

/kid

unbongwah · October 12, 2007, 2:12pm

There was a pretty good Dragon Age preview last year in GfW. Here’s a bit on the pausable real-time combat:

GfW:

A player character in ratty armor with a shield and sword comes across three ugly orcish things in the street. At first, the camera is behind the player’s shoulder–“Explore Mode,” Greig calls it–but as the enemies take notice and move in to attack, the camera swings up to a nearly top-down, parkade-inspired perspective. Greig explains that you can issue commands to your party (four characters all told, at least for now) in real time, pause the action, and queue up spells and special attacks–comforting words for anyone who’s ventured through Baldur’s Gate. As the quartet trades blows, swords clash against swords, and weapons don’t just whoosh through the enemy’s polygons–they react. When the deadlock breaks, the hero raises his shield to block the foe to the side, and then swivels to the third to knock him to the ground with a shield bash.

Donald_L · November 5, 2007, 3:32pm

Received an email today from Basilisk Games:

The official release date for Eschalon: Book I is November 19, 2007. Both the demo and the full game will be made available on that day!

Tyjenks · November 5, 2007, 4:06pm

I saw they re-worked the site to make way for the demo and purchase of the game. I was hoping for a bit sooner, but 11/19 is good.

DeepT · November 6, 2007, 5:54am

Can’t you just put NWN and NWN2 into turn mode? I know there was an option in NWN to pause the game after each round. Doesn’t NWN2 have one?

malkav11 · November 6, 2007, 11:22am

Probably. It’s really, really not the same thing, though.

Saxman_72 · November 15, 2007, 8:26am

After further perusal of Eschalon: Book 1, I must admit that it is really piquing my interest. I’m getting a little giddy at the prospect of playing a good, old school style rpg again. The teaser trailer actually looks quite slick!

crosses fingers