Dungeons and Dragons Online Beta Impressions

The NDA for the Dungeons and Dragons Online Beta is now a thing of the past. F13's piece prior to the lifting of the NDA is a good place to get started. They also have a lively discussion going, discussing all aspects of the upcoming game, which launches February 28th. From the f13 piece: "The most important thing to understand about DDO is Turbine is trying a different take on the genre. People looking strictly for a WoW clone in a D&D flavored wrapper won't find it. For some that may be a good thing, for others not so much. Oh to be sure, it has a lot of the same trappings as your previous favorite graphical-Diku-mud; after all, most fantasy computer role playing games owe a little or very large portion of their structure to the granddaddy of all pen and paper rpgs, Dungeon & Dragons. So it comes as no surprise to find this game with familiar fantasy races, defined character classes, and easily recognizable fantasy monsters, magic items and spells. But, as I have grown fond of saying these last several years, the devil's in the implementation. To that end, DDO is almost as easily defined by what it is NOT as by what it IS."

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Re:I enjoyed DDO!

[brkello]

So let me get this straight. The guy makes a post about NWN (which is off topic). All he says is that "I won't buy this because it doesn't have a linux client" and it gets modded up? What's wrong with you mods? Just because it has a pro-linux statement in it doesn't make it useful or relevant. It's a fairly stupid post too. It's like saying: I refuse to buy any game that is mac only. This is mostly due to the fact that I don't have a mac.