Square Enix, Obsidian Bringing Dungeon Siege 3 To Consoles

Today, Square Enix announced that it would be publishing the latest installment in the Dungeon Siege franchise. This deal is probably the result of Square's partnership with series' developer Gas Powered Games, which saw the release of Supreme Commander 2 last March. However, while Gas Powered Games founder and original Dungeon Siege designer Chris Taylor will be overseeing this latest installment in the franchise, his company will not be handling the development of the the game. Instead, Square Enix has given developer duties to Obsidian Entertainment, the company behind Alpha Protocol and the currently-in-development Fallout: New Vegas. 
  

sweet!

I Lol'ed at the "Don't tell Uwe Boll" part. Btw first?

Holy shit yes! i'll take some more dungeon siege any day of the week! :D

WOW!  Looks amazing!

those look cool.

AWESOME! E3 2010 will be awesome. I can't wait to hear more about so many games and now including Dungeon Siege 3!

Yes Matt the movie is canon you play the Great Grandson of Farmer.

Am I the only one that gets Dungeon Siege confused with Dungeon Keeper? Also, are those screenshots or concept art?

" Am I the only one that gets Dungeon Siege confused with Dungeon Keeper? Also, are those screenshots or concept art? "

That artwork looks beautiful!

umm, not so sweet. With Obsidian at the helm, this game will be SOOO buggy. The story should be great though. When I just want great story, I watch a good film though. Pass.

I loved the first dungeon siege. I have the second one installed, right now, actually, I think. I never played it, though.
 
I think those "screenshots" are concept art, right? Otherwise Obsidian is doing some truly filthy shit with their game engine.
 
Regardless! I can't wait. Between this and the next Red Faction being announced today, next year is looking pretty effing rad.

So is this why Alpha Protocol was so janky - Obsidian is stretched out too thin

Stop giving Obsidian games to ruin!

I like me some dungeon siege but obsidian? thats kinda weirding me out

Get ready for some horrible bugs and performance issues, console folks.

I have to admit, I am not a fan of Obsidian. They seem to make games that are, although interesting, ultimately fairly abrasive and unenjoyable. So my interest in this is fairly low. However I'll give its trailers a fair look.

It's a shame the actual game won't wind up looking as good as those concept art images. And I'm very wary of Obsidian's track record.

Another PC franchise ruined by the console tards.

 Dungeon Siege has saw console releases before, for the psp. Dungeon Siege: Throne of Agony =)

Yeah the "screenshots" are art work. 
NWN2 was fantastic (23 patches later) and knowing their track record I know Obisidian will do a great job with DS3.  
But I'm curious what engine are they using though...

Sigh...
 
I really wish you so-called journalists would learn to get even your most basic facts straight.
 
Concept art != Screenshots

I love Obsidian and will definitely be interested in the PC version of DS3.  So far I'm really enjoying Alpha Protocol and will probably replay it after I finish my first run.

" Another PC franchise ruined by the console tards. "

I enjoyed the first two games, I am curious to how this will turn out.

I'll pass, I wasn't to thrilled by the last one.

Oh, Obsidian. So it's going to have a great story (I am deliberately ignoring the ending of NWN2, and let's never speak about it again) and cool mechanics, but it's going to be clunky as fuck and riddled with bugs. Hey, just like Troika!

HELL YEAH! BRING IT ON!  WANT WANT WANT!  HATE playing Diablo/Torchlight/Etc games by clicking a damn mouse every quarter second to tell the little bastard where to go.  Even holding the button down to move gets old.  MUCH PREFER using a gamepad for that style of game.  Works great in Sacred II.
 
Or hell, just let people play that stuff on PC with a gamepad.  Just hate all the damn clicking when using a mouse.  Or make them control like MMOs - highlight a target, and be locked to that one til you change targets.  THAT fixes all the damn clicking annoyance as well, without a gamepad.
 
Errrr yeah that's quite the tangent I had there, heh.... ANY WAY - Very cool, thanks Bomb!

The title to this article is pretty badly worded.  It implies Dungeon Siege 3 is either already on PC, or not coming to PC - neither is accurate.

Another game I have to put on my "must buy charter". O.o

YES!!! HELL YESSS!! I LOVED the first DS and its expansion, dint really get a chance to play the sequel that much, but hopefully DS3 does not disappoint. 

The first thing Obsidian should do is get some tech talent. They are by far the worst developer when it comes to tech. They make Bethesda look like technological masterminds. If they fuck this one up, then I will be so fucking pissed. I've given up on Fallout New Vegas already, it will most likely be shit technicaly but ok/good story wise.

Obsidian? I guess this game'll have good writing and dialogue, but terrible gameplay, graphics, and polish.

That's some beautiful art.
 
I have to agree with everyone else, though: Obsidian? Get your shit together.

hmm I wonder how they are going to do this, 1 and 2 were very mouse and keyboard heavy. 

Haven't really played the Dungeon Siege games, but I'm glad that it's coming to consoles and I hope that Obsidian doesn't fuck it up

I hope this will be POLISHED.... don't want another KOTOR II or Alpha protocl.
 
and I hope to god new vegas is somewhat polished (it got to have jank to make fallout 3 proud) and not half assed

" I hope this will be POLISHED.... don't want another KOTOR II or Alpha protocl.  and I hope to god new vegas is somewhat polished (it got to have jank to make fallout 3 proud) and not half assed "  

I enjoyed DS1 and the expansion quite a bit, it was a unique game.
But DS2 decided it wanted to be more like Diablo albeit with better and richer story quests and crappier mechanics/loot balance.
I think it's not hard to predict that DS3 will go the way of the second one and will be something closely resembling Diablo3.

I loved DS1 I played that game for ages and I was actually playing it again a couple months ago, but I wasn't impressed by DS2.  So I guess we will have to wait and see the direction this game goes.

Tom Mc Shea is totally right about Obsidian. They really are a sloppy seconds developer.

Looks good.  It'll probably continue to look good when I don't buy it.  I found DS to be pretty dull by Diablo-clone standards.

DS was my first and only dungeon crawler. I'm fairly excited for this, though it's interesting that Gas Powered won't be actually developing this. Apparently they're making Kings and Castles or something, which sounds dumb.

Has Obsidian ever made a notable game not a sequel of another company's franchise?

Obsidian seems to be the man if you have a RPG sequel but you don't want to make it and need to hand it off to somebody else.

I looooooooooooove Dungeon Siege, but PLEASE, for the love of Christ do not fuck this up. It's pretty much a sure thing the story will be awesome, but if they fuck up the combat of Dungeon Siege I will be pissed.

Never played a Dungeon Siege game so hopefully this one is good can those screen shots look really cool.

It's an Obsidian game.
 
I'm expecting a pretty great story surrounding a broken game.
 
And that's fine I suppose, but you'd think after so many games, they would have gotten the game development part down already.

Hmm, pics look good.  I hope they take the game in a new direction.  First two were marginal at best when they came out, and piss poor when looking back on them.  Sadly I still always hope games like this will be good.