Some footage from a reportedly cancelled Dungeons and Dragons RPG from Counter-Strike: International Offensive co-developers Hidden Path Leisure has surfaced on-line, alongside idea artwork.
All of it paints a obscure image of a work-in-progress sport – which was being assembled underneath the watchful eye of a Wizards of the Coast that is at the moment going through a post-Larian Baldur’s Gate conundrum – that regarded a bit like a bunch of the large fantasy RPGs we have gotten in recent times.
In case you want a fast refresher, this unannounnced Hidden Path D&D sport was reported as having been cancelled alongside a bunch of different stuff at WoTC again in 2023, just for the studio to then refute that reporting. Then, final 12 months, Hidden Path artistic director Michael Austin posted on LinkedIn that that they had made the decision to “pause improvement on that challenge and scale back the corporate dimension till we’ve got a chance to return to it”. 44 devs misplaced their jobs.
Now, this footage (through MP1st) has come out, and appears to have been put collectively by a music supervisor on the sport, which was codenamed Challenge Dante. It reveals off a celebration of three adventurers, made up of the participant and two companions, placing a bunch of bandits to the sword in third particular person fight that appears fairly Dragon Age: The Veilguardy to me.
They then do some puzzles to get the magical water flowing at a temple, discover a bit, and in direction of the tip issues get fairly cutsceney with a bunch of parents chilling in a tavern, earlier than ending with the participant sneakily watching a bunch of NPCs sing whereas crouching in some grass. I hope they at the very least tossed the crooning crew a coin as a tip after taking that final bit in.
General, not a lot stands out to me as past what you may count on from an enormous fantasy RPG like this, although the idea artwork does have a really good image of a flying cat, or a Tressym to provide the furry boi its correct title.
Properly, I say that, however whereas the temple puzzling’s happening one of many companions – named Kavar – does say the road “The factor is beginning to do a factor with the stuff”. It is not likely noteworthy, possibly a tiny bit eye-roll inducing, however I bought a kick out of it.
If this D&D RPG had made it to launch somewhat than that paused/cancelled limbo, I might see myself quoting it to mates in a trend I am certain they would not discover irritating by any means.
