May Daggerdale represents the peak of failure for Action RPGs

[Bloodlover]

I think Dragon Age 2 managed to pull it off before this one (if you are only counting newer games and not the ones that started the decline of the RPG genre). However I do think it is the peak of failure for the D&D franchise...

 

[Kaanyr Vhok]

To be honest you don't have a right to be pissed, Atari doesn't owe you anything. And I'll defend a game with a metacritic score in the 40's. They have no problem giving it a such low rating because it's a small studio in Toronto and this is their first game. They're not IO Interactive. And I don't believe it deserves an amazing score, but its average and for 1200 points, I'm satisfied.

Of course I have a right to be pissed at Atari and so does anyone else for wasting the D&D license and the Forgotten Realms license. Its one thing to fuck up its another to bathe in your own feces. You do realize, that is what Atari is doing? Daggerdale was a market crafted low budget small but sure fire profit. Nothing wrong with low budgets, nothing wrong with giving people what they want being a multiplayer D&D beatemup and certainly nothing wrong with profits, but YOU CANT STOP THERE!! Excuse the caps. I dont care how small the studio is large publishers dont get metric 40s by accident. They did not give a hot damn about the quality of the product. Thats not unusual in business but for gods sake dont defend it.

EDIT: Meant to add the way you're coming across makes it seem that just because there's Lord of the Rings, then we should hate all over Conan The Barbarian.

Why because I dont think BGDA is a real Baldur's Gate game? You cant brand a gourmet Tri-tip then pass a Salisbury under the same brand.

They are proper DnD games. If you wanted to run a DnD campaign where you do not RP anything and just run though dungeons, collecting loot, and killing monsters, it doesnt make it not DnD.

Neverwinter Nights, an amazing DnD game for PC, had online servers. Some were great open world RP ones, and some servers were just like Daggerdale.

I specifically said the last D&D RPG. Daggerdale and BGDA have less roleplaying than most sports games. In NWN when you played on a server that was all fighting it was choice. That is what defines an RPG. Its either choice or JRPG fantasy. If Daggerdale is a true RPG then so is Kung Fu Panda.