Dungeon Siege III

Chris Taylor Video Interview, Part Three

In the third and final installment of his video interview, Matt Barton chats with Gas Powered Games’ Chris Taylor on the reception of Space Siege and Dungeon Siege III, why Chris is to blame for Space Siege’s “lack of magic”,…

Chris Avellone Interview, Part Three

Completing what he started with the first and second installments, Will Ooi chats a third time with Obsidian’s co-founder Chris Avellone, and this time most of their talk (available both on his blog and on Gamasutra) revolves around the Fallout…

Dungeon Siege III Community Q&A, Part Three

The folks at Obsidian published the third part of their community Q&A with Dungeon Siege III’s lead designer Nathaniel Chapman on their official blog, and it seems this is the last installment that will deal with Obsidian’s hack’n’slash as the…

Dungeon Siege III Community Q&A, Part Two

It appears the folks at Obsidian have planned for more than two installments for the community Q&A that has recently been conducted with Dungeon Siege III lead designer Nathaniel Chapman, with the latest tackling the possibility for the game to…

Dungeon Siege III Community Q&A, Part One

The Obsidian Entertainment Blog is offering the first part of a community Q&A that was conducted recently on their forums, with Dungeon Siege III lead designer Nathaniel Chapman answering the questions that, quite predictably, focus mostly on Obsidian’s much-debated dungeon…

Obsidian’s Five Hard Lessons of RPG Design

Obsidian’s J.E. Sawyer – project director on Fallout: New Vegas among other things – recently discussed the “challenges at the RPG industry has faced in adapting from its pen and paper roots” during a talk at GDC Europe, on which…

Unconfirmed: DSIII Update Coming, Will Allow Respec

According to Siliconera, Obsidian Entertainment would be working on an update “designed for high level characters” which includes respeccing and other tweaks for the much-debated and criticized dungeon crawler. We’re going to have to update that article because a source…

Matt Barton’s Top Ten Worst CRPGs

After telling us his 10 favorite CRPGs, Matt Barton proceeds to give the top 10 treatment to what he considers to be the worst computer role-playing games, including older titles like the infamous Descent to Undermountain, and the very recent…