38 Studios, EA in Big Huge RPG deal

Please can we have ELDER SCROLLS 5 or somthin that is OBLIVION. New Vegas round the corner but i need my SCROLLS fix of genius.

7 months and no updates. Dead horse it seems.

big huge making an rpg? interesting

If I had to pick a strong team to put together a great gaming experience it would include the people assembled for Project Mercury. Good to see Bethesda and Bioware folk working with Rolston... they've certainly got the chops to deliver. Let's hope it's an inspired and fruitful collaboration...

@sleemgblade DAO was crappy for you because you more then likely played it on console instead of a real PC, sorry some games are not meant for console and likewise some are not meant for PC's

Mass effect 2 was great no complaints, umm Dragon Age/origins and awakenings aah well, I'll skip the first quarter 2011 releas b/ the dragon age serious to me, was very very disapointing, junk compared to what they said it was going to be. It wasn't terrible but I returned this game and won't buy it or any more of it's dlc until it hits the $9.99 bin cause thats all it is worth. Dragon age outshined Divinity 2 in the ratings and that is so arse backwards, divinity 2 is so much better than dragon age and yet the ratings favor dragon age. I think time will tell on this issue, as for me, I'm playing divinity and wouldn't play dragon age again unless it was priced right ($9.99).

Hmm, well it sounds interesting, but as of now it's just a bit of vaporware I'll forget about until it's at least half a year from coming out. Until then, idfc. PS: Jarlaxle could kick Drizzt's ass.

Finally some news from 38 Studios.

i almost j i z z e d myself when i heard this

Well it;s up to Buckets and more Buckets!!!

Really great news, I looked at the 38 Studios Site and there it says there are 2 games beeing developed, an MMORPG coded COPERNICUS and the single player stated here , both by the same team. Anyway, Salvatore + Mcfarlane + Bioware + Bathesda + EA = something to wet our pants, hopefully in a good way :).

Todd McFarlane + EA + BioWare + Bethesda = Buckets, and buckets and even more buckets.

This Jimmy is got all the connections to get this off the ground and with his team line up i think will be in store for a wonderful new and exciting RPG game. Lets hope Jimmy is as good at making games as he was at playing Major League Baseball. Im routing for you Jimmy dont strike out.

Shout out to Jimmy for getting his game published by EA, should be a good RPG man.

THIS DUDE WROTE AWESOME BOOKS. Yes caps was necessary. Despite EA's involvement, I'm excited for this. Hopefully their funding, but not horrendous practices will get mixed into this.

OH GOD DRIZZT ONLINE!

Instead of saying.. "OMG, this, this, and this were my favorite games by so and soooooo, I'll just say we need more thought provoking, original, and expandable RPG's out there. Bathesda, Bioware and the like make the best RPG's, so let them create something new then. Just don't rush it into production and give us garbage as a result.

Curt Schilling the baseball player? So random. I'm guessing 38 was his number. Sounds pretty sweet though. Some people involved with one of my favorite RPGs Oblivion collaborating with Bioware(Mass Effect 1 and 2 were both incredible) and working with MacFarlane (among other talent) on a huge RPG. Boners abound! Sounds too good to be true, or good. What's next? Are they going to announce a co-op mode for the entire campaign? This has no reason to be bad, we will see though, just as long as it is not a space saga about a heroic retired baseball player saving the earth.

Wow! A whole page filled with no real info on anything realy interesting. Other then a bunch of peopel working together for whatever reason. I wonder if thay got fired? This seams to be the right mounth to fire thos devs you cant stand anymore or just want to get rid of. I will keep not realy caring about this untill i get som real valid info on whatever this is thay are workin on. Untill then i cant realy be bothered with this crap. And thats what i think.

38 studios is a name .... sigh ...

38 studios is a name .... sigh ...

To all of you crazed Drizzt fans indicating hopes that he'd appear in the game....the article already said it is not drawing on anything previously done by Salvadore, so it ain't happening. And if that isn't convincing enough for you, remember that Drizzt is a Forgotten Realms character and therefore he is owned by Hasbro. Salvadore had (I'm not sure if he still does) the rights to make literary works based on that setting but never had the rights to do so with games. Current legal rights to make games with Dungeons and Dragons brand (which includes the Forgotten Realms) does not currently lie with either the developer nor the publisher, so it would be completely impossible for them to feature Drizzt in any game without a gaurantee of a law suit (which Hasbro would win). In other words, it isn't happening.

If this game's any good, it'll be an artistic vindication for EA.

Wow great to hear. Schilling helped bring us Red Sox fans a title and now he will deliver a great RPG im sure. Awesome talent they got to help make it.

OMG! YESSSS!!! RA SALVATORE!! BIOWARE!!! AND! BETHESDA!!!! ...i just "shat" a brick

Awesome

Everything about this article gives me goosebumps

This makes me want to cry out for joy, i havent been excited for a game in a long time, and with R.A. Salvatore writing if this game has Drizzts in it im going to bust out in tears. That sounds really really nerdy but man oh man, a game with Drizzt is going to be awesome or at least it better be.

Thanking my lucky stars for the words "single-player".

This would be interesting to see how Curt Schilling new company does with games soon to be released.

Art direction by McFarlane, script by Salvatore, lead by Ken Rolston, and by the sounds of it, funded by EA... Ladies and gentlemen, this could be incredible.

Definately something to keep an eye on, though when I read R.A. Salvatore, part of me was hoping for a next-gen stylish action-rpg hybrid with Drizzt...oh that would make me a happy gamer, but at least this sounds good too.

Todd McFarlane is amazing you know he designed this Disturbed indestructible album art. If he's directing the art I have faith

Sounds good, I like 38 Studios. But this reminds me, when the hell is Bethesda going to make the next Elder Scrolls? Seriously, they haven't even announced it yet. Better come out in the next year, I'm dying for one.

oh. i thought it had something to do with rise of nations and big huge games studio

"The guys at BioWare were actually involved in the early discussions with the folks at Big Huge," BioWare, Bethesda, the pure potential here is mind blowing.

"Todd McFarlane art directing" Well, Hell Yeah!.

38 Studios has done its homework and assembled an outstanding staff. This will be one game I will keep an eye out for and wish all of those involved good luck.

sounds like this is going to be good

If they take Oblivion and blow some soul in it, it'd be awesome.

On paper this looks and sounds wonderful, I just hope with all that tallent, egos do not get in the way of creating great products.

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I like the thought of Rich Gallup designing an RPG.

I love both developers but i just hope it's not another Dragon Age. Don't get me wrong it was okay, but just not my favorite.

I love Bioware RPGs and EA rpgs but not to be mean but I never really got into Oblivion or Fallout. I would prefer a game like Dragon Age or FF.

Hopefully it's not gonna be as boring as Dragon Age .

This is great news!

Finally some companies are going to combine talent to make the best RPG ever. Elder Scrolls x2?

I like Salvatore, I like Elder Scrolls and I like Todd McFarlane. This has to be good.