ChrisTalbot.com

Well, GameSpy has the first real preview of the upcoming MMORPG Dungeons & Dragons Online. This is one game I've been waiting since E3 2003 to find out more about. While the screens look good and the author of the preview seems to be pretty impressed with what he saw, I have one real beef that will probably keep me playing EverQuest even once D&D Online is released. The bloody game is set in the new campaign setting of Eberron, not in any of the more well-known settings. I would've loved to have this be a Greyhawk MMORPG. Wouldn't that kick ass?. I could've lived with the Forgotten Realms. It would be fun to visit the Dales or any other part of the Realms. Heck, I would've even tolerated DragonLance, a setting that I have no love for (but it's still a traditional D&D world). Eberron, though... Come on! Why?!?!? It's brand new and doesn't even have a following yet. And it very well might not get a big following. It's not like there haven't been D&D campaign settings that utterly flopped.

Oh well. I'll try to keep an open mind, but what I was really hoping for in D&D Online was a world that I was already familiar with and knew the history of. I'm not picking up the Eberron campaign setting, so I might as well play EverQuest or jump into any number of other new or upcoming medieval fantasy worlds -- maybe World of WarCraft.