Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance

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Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance is an upcoming third-person action role-playing game developed and published by Tuque Games. It is the third main game in the Dark Alliance series, itself based on the Dungeons & Dragons tabletop role-playing system, and is a spiritual successor to Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance and Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II. The game is slated for release on PC and consoles in 2021.

It is set in the tundra region of Icewind Dale, and will feature characters from R. A. Salvatore's novel series The Legend of Drizzt, including the four playable characters: Drizzt Do'Urden, Catti-Brie, Bruenor Battlehammer, and Wulfgar

The game will include both single-player and multiplayer modes. In the single-player mode, the player can choose any of the four characters to control, and swap between them. The multiplayer mode will allow for online co-op for up to four players.

This will be a $40 title, so keep your expectations in line. Coming to everything except the Switch.

Dungeons & Dragons Dark Alliance is Coming to Xbox Game Pass on Day One

Jeff Hattem, Head of Studio & Creative Director, Tuque Games wrote:

I am thrilled to announce that Dark Alliance will be available on Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Windows 10 PC, and phones and tablets via Xbox Cloud Gaming (Beta) with Xbox Game Pass on Day One, June 22! The game will also support PC and console cross play at launch!

The first of six dev streams has been posted.

Would really have liked that video more if it wasn’t 100% from Drizzt’s player view. I want to see more regarding the other character abilities.

Also, them not being up on the lore of the characters does concern me. Hopefully the writers of whatever story is being told are, it’s just disappointing that the dev diaries start off with “I know a little about him from his wiki.”

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Wonder if Artemis Enteri shows up any? Been a while since I read any Drizzt novels. I like those characters but for me I think “Avatar trilogy” would make for an interesting game. Cyric, Midnight, Adon, and Kelemvor. From mortals to actual gods.

Apparently this takes place after the 4th novel in the Drizzt series. So Jarlaxle, etc, are unlikely going to show up. They did tease a new character down the road, so we’ll see.

I skipped around a bit in that dev diary, but I'm totally on board. Looks like a great vehicle for co-op hacking and slashing.

Do you need to know the Drizzt storyline to really enjoy this? I know who the character is... sort of... I’m not a fan.

Never read any of those, and only know Bruenor because he's the same character at the start of the 5e Player's Handbook, and only know the other two because I dinked around with Idle Champions of the Realm a bit. I really don't think this game exactly screams deep story, but if it's some solid co-op HULK SMASH action, I'm sold. Co-op ARPGs/brawlers are damn fun.

I've been underwhelmed by the story beats and the cutscenes, albeit from brief showcases. As much as I loathe the practice, this is one I'd be inclined to skip, skip, skip, those moments to maintain the gameplay momentum. Even first go around. It looks fun to interact with. Whilst mind numbing to follow along. It reminds me of Divinity Original Sin, or Diablo 3, in that regard. And I'm someone who can rerun most anything. *shrug*

That's a few games I'm interested in which are landing around the same time. Typical! Choices to be made. Can't get 'em all.

MilkmanDanimal wrote:

I really don't think this game exactly screams deep story, but if it's some solid co-op HULK SMASH action, I'm sold. Co-op ARPGs/brawlers are damn fun.

This, exactly. I don't expect it to be a literary masterpiece, but I do hope that it feels like a very combat-heavy D&D campaign.

I wish they had shown more of the base camp in that video, and character progression (equipment and skill upgrades) unless I missed those while skipping around.

I’m gonna download day 1 on game pass but I’m going in with low expectations. I want a new fantasy brawler.

trueheart78 wrote:

Apparently this takes place after the 4th novel in the Drizzt series. So Jarlaxle, etc, are unlikely going to show up. They did tease a new character down the road, so we’ll see.

Hmm hope it isn’t Cadderly from the cleric quintet.

Brizahd wrote:
trueheart78 wrote:

Apparently this takes place after the 4th novel in the Drizzt series. So Jarlaxle, etc, are unlikely going to show up. They did tease a new character down the road, so we’ll see.

Hmm hope it isn’t Cadderly from the cleric quintet.

Probably gonna be Regis.

If it's after Crystal Shard but before Streams of Silver that's years before Cadderly developers as a character.

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In the canon Forgotten Realms timeline, Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance is set after The Crystal Shard (1988),[12] the first book in Salvatore's The Icewind Dale Trilogy, and the fourth book in the Legend of Drizzt series. The game takes place in the Icewind Dale region of Faerûn.[13][14] On the connection, Salvatore said, "First of all, if you've read the books and you play the game, you'll probably get a more satisfying experience out of the game. [...] [The] game will bring more to the story than you've gotten from the books now. [...] If you're doing a video game, you're going to have to take some literary license and maybe not stick completely with it. [...] Little things like that don't bother me at all when you're talking about a video game—because your job, when you're making the video game, first and foremost, is to make sure that players are having fun, and they're writing their own story".

Both Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance and Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden (2021) are set in the Icewind Dale region, however, in the canon timeline the video game occurs before the tabletop adventure module.[13] Dungeons & Dragons principal writer Chris Perkins said, "we sat down with narrative designers for Dark Alliance, and we basically opened up a toy box, pulled out all the toys, and figured out how we were going to play with same toys. And so, there are places and foes and places that appear in Rime of the Frostmaiden that if you play Dark Alliance, see echoes of/similarities to. Each story is separate — the story of Rime of the Frost Maiden is completely separate from Dark Alliance, just using same locations. You get a sense of real history to this place [...]. Together, when you take the two things combined, you get bigger painting of Icewind Dale"

Totally forgot about Regis doh!

This really got me in the mood to play this game...but I still have to wait....

Written by RA Salvatore and read by Benedict Cumberbatch

Drizzt needs food badly. I get Gauntlet vibes from this game. I had hoped for more, but I'll still play it Im sure.

SpyNavy wrote:

Drizzt needs food badly. I get Gauntlet vibes from this game. I had hoped for more, but I'll still play it Im sure.

Good Gauntlet vibes, or bad Gauntlet vibes?

I'm pretty nostalgic both for Dark Alliance and Gauntlet...

Roo wrote:
SpyNavy wrote:

Drizzt needs food badly. I get Gauntlet vibes from this game. I had hoped for more, but I'll still play it Im sure.

Good Gauntlet vibes, or bad Gauntlet vibes?

I'm pretty nostalgic both for Dark Alliance and Gauntlet...

Split screen couch co-op coming in the first title update, so hopefully good?

Also, the fact that this will be on Game Pass is going to make it much easier to find a party before adventuring forth.

Roo wrote:
SpyNavy wrote:

Drizzt needs food badly. I get Gauntlet vibes from this game. I had hoped for more, but I'll still play it Im sure.

Good Gauntlet vibes, or bad Gauntlet vibes?

I'm pretty nostalgic both for Dark Alliance and Gauntlet...

Loved Gauntlet, but I had hoped this would be different? It might be a fine game, but it isn't really what I was expecting. That doesn't make it bad, just not necessarily what I was looking for. I am hoping it's not another mediocre co-op game with a D&D skin.

Gamepass? Couch co-op? Maybe this will be the game that both of my kids will play with me. The minecraft Diablo clone didn’t click with them.

RawkGWJ wrote:

Gamepass? Couch co-op? Maybe this will be the game that both of my kids will play with me. The minecraft Diablo clone didn’t click with them.

Oh man, that's too bad. My wife and my son are still playing Dungeons. And my daughter, a little.

RawkGWJ wrote:

Gamepass? Couch co-op? Maybe this will be the game that both of my kids will play with me. The minecraft Diablo clone didn’t click with them.

I'm thinking this game will be way too mature for my kids or I'd try the same. Hoping to try it co-op with my older brother who is a bit of a Drizzt superfan. We used to play co-op games together a lot as kids but havent much in 20+ years.

I'm both very interested in this game and very concerned it won't be good, so Gamepass is perfect.

“Jermaine Clement makes everything better”

That’s a pretty dope trailer.

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