With the recent announcement of a port of this game to the PC, it became a subject of our coverage, so here's a forum for it.

As far as I know, this is a hack'n'slash game, right?

From the previews, it looks interesting.

Anybody have any info on the following?:

It seems that when you finish a level, you get to decide how you are going to upgrade your 3 characters, correct?

Also, I'm unclear how we would control all three characters at the same time, since the control mechanics seem to be different from BG, IWD, etc. Any info on that?

Isn't this the game where RA Salvatore has a say in the development or at least a minor influence?

Hmmm, the story has promise, although I'm not sure I understand the character-switching bit. Plus, it sounds like you don't have much in the way of character generation options.

Salvatore is involved.

One thing - it's being developed by the same company that developed PoR. :eek:

Yea, Salvatore supposedly wrote the story, and some celebrities like Patrick Stewart are doing the voice acting. More info at http://www.atari.com/us/games/demonstone/playstation2

And no, since this will be a port of a console game, don't expect much in terms of character generation. Console games are by default much simpler than anything on the PC. Still, could be fun... unless Stormfront makes a mess with this one too.

Hmm, Salvatore is involved, it is Hack'n Slash, and it's being developed by Stormfront?


I guess it's back to Baldur's Gate for me.

I feel kinda dumb asking this, but I keep forgetting what "PoR" stands for - somebody enlighten me here please...
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Pools of Radiance - a much maligned game.

Sounds like good mindless fun. The Lord of the Rings Games were pretty awesome.

Salvatore's writing will help the game. I'll more than likely rent it someday.

as i understand it from the PS2 version's reviews, while you're using one character, the other 2 will act of their own accord to "complement" your actions. sounds terrific, but i doubt this.

some celebrities like Patrick Stewart are doing the voice acting.This alone will make it the greatest game ever. :lol:

as i understand it from the PS2 version's reviews, while you're using one character, the other 2 will act of their own accord to "complement" your actions. sounds terrific, but i doubt this. There is no reason why this wouldn't work or wouldn't be implemented, there are already many games that successfully implemented that.

Games with character levelling that differ from the standard IE or Aurora approach are always a nice change. Loved KotOR so much... not sure if it would be remotely as good with all the stuff you have in a classic cRPG. Note that it still was, technically, a cRPG game with all the different career options. It only had a different approach.

@Caleb: The Chosen : yeah. me 2.

I think it will be a very good game, you get to control Drizzt, and travel to interesting places like Chult and Mithral Hall.

Salvatore also said that some of the characters from the game may appear in his later books.

Salvatore also said that some of the characters from the game may appear in his later books. Then Entreri and Jarlaxle better be in the game :cool:

@meatdog

what i meant was how could an AI possibly know what you have planned? i'm sure it could provide support (ex, if you attack head-on it will follow or cast spells) but i doubt that it could execute real strategies. For instance, if you played the warrior and planned to attack head-on while your mage provided magical support, intending for your thief to get past the enemy line unnoticed, how could the AI possibly anticipate this? Granted in the PS2 there wont be much choice, controlling 3 characters at the same time on this console would be tedious, but perhaps for the PC version, it should remain the standard "you control everyone" kind of thing?

re: stormfront/PoR

the way i remember it is that stormfront was the THIRD developer assigned to PoR, brought in to sorta fix the mess the first 2 made and had no time to actually implement anything. i think they were more or less just cleaning up the worst of the bugs pre-release.

sad. sad. sad.

however, Demon Stone, in my book, is definitely a "wait and see" game. maybe even a "wait for budget version" game.

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hey all. new around here but found this place bc i wanted a fun place to talk about D&D-ish games. anyway, glad to be here.

demon stone looks pretty fun, and it def helps that Salvatore is involved. the trailer i saw is pretty cool and I hope to see more. anyone have links to other stuff?

Although the graphics look cool, I'm not really impressed with the lack of character generation. I mean, that's the whole point of DnD and Roleplaying games: the flexibility to make any character you want. I'll be passing on this one, I think.

wow...outright rejection....well....I suppose it is for some, and not for others...c'est la vie. I am surprised that you wouldnt even rent it, but oh well. i'll have mine in less than a week and I'll give you guys the run down asap.

The battle system sounds like a suped-up version of Secret of Mana. Sounds interesting but the AI could really make or break it--I'd rather it be more along the lines of SoM's AI rather than, say, Kingdom Hearts where the default modes made your NPCs quaff happy to the point where you were constantly sinking money into potions.

I'm not ready to reject this game out of hand, as I've always been much more of a console gamer (the only PC games I play are the FR games, the Sims, and the odd Civilization/Starcrack type game). I'm not really sure why they're porting this to the PC other than trying to cash in on the D&D/FR name, though. This game sounds like a straight up action-RPG in the vein of SoM, Kingdom Hearts, the Dark Alliance games, etc. While I love those kinds of games, and I was quite addicted to Dark Alliance 1's two-player mode (my bf and I played through it several times), they just don't work on the PC. My fear is that TPTB will try to make this game be all things to all people, and end up satisfying no one.

I'll be waiting for it to go Greatest Hits and then pick it up for the PS2, most likely.