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[Wheel of Time] Milk in a Mother's Cup!
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http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/news/53041/Obsidian-Entertainment-Developing-New-Wheel-Of-Time-Titles
From the Article:
Larry Mondragon of Red Eagle Games had a few words to say about the announcement:
This could be amazing, I have a lot of respect for Obsidian Entertainment. Also, it could be the opposite of amazing.
I wonder how much mana it takes one to smooth one's skirt?
More info here:
http://www.geekology.co.za/blog/2010/01/first-wheel-of-time-movie-possibly-released-in-2011/
From the Article:
The company that owns the video game and movie rights to Robert Jordan’s epic fantasy series Wheel of Time, Red Eagle Games, has just announced a partnership with Obsidian Entertainment with the intent of producing a series of RPGs for the PC, Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 platforms based on the Wheel of Time series. Obsidian Entertainment is best known for developing Neverwinter Nights 2, Star Wars: KOTOR2 and the upcoming post-nuclear RPG, Fallout: New Vegas.
Larry Mondragon of Red Eagle Games had a few words to say about the announcement:
You will all be happy to hear that we are not planning to make a traditional “movie” game that merely recasts the picture we are currently making with Universal. Instead, we want to concentrate our development efforts on telling the other facets of The Wheel of Time story. And as you know, we have a lot to choose from– literally thousands of years of history and scores of major characters, nations, geographies and critical moments in the history of the world since the beginning of the Third Age.
Thus, we have been vetting many creative ideas for game formats, including games derived from the Age of Legends, The Breaking of the World, the War of the Shadow, and even a game concept that focuses on the battle among the Forsaken to become the one and only Nae’blis. We are also looking at skill-based games that are based on the testing of the Aes Sedai for the shawl and the wielding of the many intricate sword forms that are second nature to an experienced Warder. All of this is to simply say that we are critically thinking about game design for an entire family of WOT games that are consistent and supportive of the story portrayed in the movies, but that do far more that merely retell the plotlines, characters and scenes from the films. Trust me when I say that we intend to build games that will excite the imagination of every WOT fan. We just ask that the Wheel of Time community wait to see the fruits of our labor before passing judgement on whether we have been successful in our efforts.
I would also like to make one additional clarification. We are not licensing our WOT development rights and stepping back from the process of building these video games. Quite to the contrary, Red Eagle Games will have an internal development team of its own. However, rather than staffing up a 200 person studio from scratch, we decided some time ago that for our first games it would be far more prudent to hire a small in-house team (e.g. positions such as Art Director, Game Designer, Story Writer, Software Architect, Quality Assurance Director, etc.) and rely on a third party developer to provide the majority of developers and their associated overhead and infrastructure. In this way, we will be providing technical and creative direction to our external developer.
Obsidian Entertainment is a highly-respected game developer with a well-deserved industry reputation for building quality action/role-playing games. By eliminating the need to recruit and manage a large internal workforce within Red Eagle Games, we expect that this new relationship with Obsidian will enable the Company to achieve substantially lower development costs, a shorter production cycle, and improve the quality of our initial video game releases.
Thus, we have been vetting many creative ideas for game formats, including games derived from the Age of Legends, The Breaking of the World, the War of the Shadow, and even a game concept that focuses on the battle among the Forsaken to become the one and only Nae’blis. We are also looking at skill-based games that are based on the testing of the Aes Sedai for the shawl and the wielding of the many intricate sword forms that are second nature to an experienced Warder. All of this is to simply say that we are critically thinking about game design for an entire family of WOT games that are consistent and supportive of the story portrayed in the movies, but that do far more that merely retell the plotlines, characters and scenes from the films. Trust me when I say that we intend to build games that will excite the imagination of every WOT fan. We just ask that the Wheel of Time community wait to see the fruits of our labor before passing judgement on whether we have been successful in our efforts.
I would also like to make one additional clarification. We are not licensing our WOT development rights and stepping back from the process of building these video games. Quite to the contrary, Red Eagle Games will have an internal development team of its own. However, rather than staffing up a 200 person studio from scratch, we decided some time ago that for our first games it would be far more prudent to hire a small in-house team (e.g. positions such as Art Director, Game Designer, Story Writer, Software Architect, Quality Assurance Director, etc.) and rely on a third party developer to provide the majority of developers and their associated overhead and infrastructure. In this way, we will be providing technical and creative direction to our external developer.
Obsidian Entertainment is a highly-respected game developer with a well-deserved industry reputation for building quality action/role-playing games. By eliminating the need to recruit and manage a large internal workforce within Red Eagle Games, we expect that this new relationship with Obsidian will enable the Company to achieve substantially lower development costs, a shorter production cycle, and improve the quality of our initial video game releases.
This could be amazing, I have a lot of respect for Obsidian Entertainment. Also, it could be the opposite of amazing.
I wonder how much mana it takes one to smooth one's skirt?
More info here:
http://www.geekology.co.za/blog/2010/01/first-wheel-of-time-movie-possibly-released-in-2011/
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Obsidian doing a Wheel of Time RPG? What?
A thing I love and a thing I hate. I don't know what to make of this.
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Yeah, I'm with you there. Well, I mean, I don't hate WoT, it just dragged on waaaaaaaay too long. But, I mean... I think of the magic and I'm like "Okay, it has the potential to be fun."
EDIT: Hahahahahaha @ Silph. Well played.
is that a reliable enough site to confirm it?
I need to be alone
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2. Smooth Skirt
3. All of the above
Forces Vile-Tasting tea down your throat while tugging on my braid
It'll be alright.
Think of it this way. Even if you hate the, well, boringness of the series, most people adore the actual heart of the story.
This will be a new medium in which they can tell the story and cut out all of the inane bullshit.
Robert Jordan's work could finally arise, reborn from the ashes of thousands of unnecessary book pages, leaner and more amazing than ever before.
I mean, it is Obsidian, they should be given at least a little credit, right?
I was one of those strange folks that really enjoyed the WoT FPS that was made years ago.
For some reason I couldn't get into it.
*tugs braid, flips braid over shoulder*
Some of the things you could do in multi-player were just awesome. Oh, is that a reflect? Well, guess I'm going to throw a swap at you and jump off this ledge here.
A movie?
WHAT
THE
FUCK
Yup. Was announced a while ago.
Universal. Money. Coming soon to a theater near you!
Blood and bloody ashes.
This post is fantastic.
Please don't stone me for this.
Really, I know. Its just...
...
....
No thank you.
I'm on the 5th book right now... This is my 6th time reading the series through.
I wouldn't mind some game-style grinding instead
Glad I'm not the only one.
I guess it's not that bad. The game I love Obsidian the most for was done in a shitty setting too.
Yeah that's right. Star Wars.
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Wow. Hadn't even pondered the possibilities of the wiimote...
I can imagine channeling weaves being fun with motion control.
It's an RPG, not an action game. We have no reason to expect visceral twitch based swordplay.
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If I had my way it would be like Demon's Souls meets White Knight Chronicles.
By that I mean, you use specific buttons for blocking, striking, parrying, riposting, etc. but you also create and execute combinations with fancy names ala the books.
SparserLogic executes Heron Wading in the Rushes
Xaviar counters with Tiger Stalking through the Brush
<combat breaks down here>
P.S. - ::glowers and nearest Aes Sadai::
My god I forgot how unbelievably pretentious sounding those silly moves were.
I hope they throw out everything relating to sword fighting established in the books, on second thought.
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It'd be pretty rad if they took the unwieldy naming conventions and made them second nature during gameplay.
^This.
And there is so much potential for awesome with these games based on what the press release says. An RPG developed by Obsidian set in the Age of Legends leading right up to the War of the Shadow? Hells yes.
I'm certainly going to attempt to not get too excited over this, as there is definitely an equal, if not greater, potential for disastrous outcomes with this. I rather hope Larry Mondragon was just using PR speak and that all the actual development/design/story come out of Obsidian rather than being directed by Red Eagle Games people.
I thought that was on purpose.
Or you're going to be some some random powerless sap.
All the badassery you read Rand and Nynaeve doing? Forget it, you wont be doing anything close to that.
If you read the spoilered paragraph in the OP, you'd see that they're exploring this history as the setting (i.e Age of Legends etc.) where the stuff Rand and the crew do are far more common.