![]() So, the focus moved to how to make death still matter to the player. "Initially, there was talk about having death be more permanent than it was in NWN2, but there were concerns about what would have to change in gameplay and in the engine and whether that was worth it. "One of the key things that the design team at Obsidian working on Mask of the Betrayer wanted to focus on was how death worked," Feargus explains. It also shares with Planescape an interest in the basic elements of role-playing design - that is, character survival and what that really means when you can just reload. Another difference is the focus on combat with Mask being more about fun combats and Torment more about your relationship with your companions." Torment was about discovering who you were, while Mask of the Betrayer is more about saving yourself. "This may sound strange, but the other character based RPG that I can think of is Planescape: Torment," Feargus notes, "Both of them are character focused, but in different ways. We fail, rapidly, when we ask him what other game does the 15-20 hour included campaign feels most like, in terms of experience. So when offered the chance to exchange e-mails with Obsidian's very own Elite-class level CEO Feargus Urquhart, we clearly grasped it and tried to resist the urge to just descending to a conversation about how much we liked Planescape Torment when he was back at Black Isle. However while promising a hugely increased level-cap, new races and classes as well as a full stand-alone campaign, Obsidian are keeping many details close to their chests. Mask of the Betrayer should be complete in time for Autumn. We're not fussy.įollowing on from the success of last year's Neverwinter Nights 2, Obsidian have been working on their high-tech equivalent of drawing dungeons on graph paper and poreing over obscure passages in the Monster Manual. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.To all good things, a sequel. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection. ![]()
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