Using Drizzt to promote the new Never Winter Nights game!

[SaisMatters]

Just saw this on WotC's website.
Using the Drizzt books to promote a video game. Is this really needed???
http://www.wizards.com/Company/Press.aspx?x=wz/press/46

[Rav'n]

Why shouldn't they? Especially if it's a game centered around Forgotten Realms. Imagine the Chicago Bulls back in their "hey fay"... not advertising MJ, or the Colts not using Peyton Manning. Drizzt is the poster boy of WotC, for them to not use him is just plain silly.

I get that some people don't like Drizzt... or the 1000's of clones in MMO's... But let's face it, he sells books... and he WILL sell the game.

[Memnir]

Who wouldn't?
Like it or not, Drizz is an iconic character in D&D lore and a symbol of the Forgotten Realms. Any company with a FR license would be foolish not to do the same.

Will it make a game by Cryptic any less crappy... no. But it will at least bring in the initial wave of curious buyers and D&D fans before word of mouth and reviews chase off the rest of the gaming public. And making a quick buck off lousy games has been something of a hallmark of Atari's in recent years.

[Failedlegend]

The real question is why are alot of series insisting on going MMO...Neverwinter Night, Knights of the Old Republic, Final Fantasy, etc.

[grodon9999]

Neverwinter is NOT an MMO.

[SaisMatters]

Why shouldn't they? Especially if it's a game centered around Forgotten Realms. Imagine the Chicago Bulls back in their "hey fay"... not advertising MJ, or the Colts not using Peyton Manning. Drizzt is the poster boy of WotC, for them to not use him is just plain silly.

I get that some people don't like Drizzt... or the 1000's of clones in MMO's... But let's face it, he sells books... and he WILL sell the game.

The problems I have with this are
A) I've been looking forward to this book for this book and read alot of previews on it over the last year. None of them mentioned a visit to Never Winter Nights. Than a few weeks ago it was announced that R.A. Salvatore would be apart of the new Neverwinter Nights Game, and than Bam, the new book has Drizzt visiting Neverwinter. This says to me that some chapters were hastily written and thrown into the book for the sole purpose of advertising the game. Which to me, cheapens the book.
B) It just spells "doom" to me that the game needs to use a character like Drizzt to promote it instead of being able to stand on its own.
just my opinion

[Lorien_the_First_One]

The problems I have with this are
A) I've been looking forward to this book for this book and read alot of previews on it over the last year. None of them mentioned a visit to Never Winter Nights. Than a few weeks ago it was announced that R.A. Salvatore would be apart of the new Neverwinter Nights Game, and than Bam, the new book has Drizzt visiting Neverwinter. This says to me that some chapters were hastily written and thrown into the book for the sole purpose of advertising the game. Which to me, cheapens the book.
B) It just spells "doom" to me that the game needs to use a character like Drizzt to promote it instead of being able to stand on its own.
just my opinion

Next thing you know you will be complaining that LOTRO makes reference to characters from the books even though those books don't mention all the adventures from the LOTRO storyline.

[Failedlegend]

Neverwinter is NOT an MMO.

the old ones no they are not (although they do have multiplayer)...he one getting released yeah it is

[Phidius]

Next thing you know you will be complaining that LOTRO makes reference to characters from the books even though those books don't mention all the adventures from the LOTRO storyline.

If I understand the OP correctly, a better comparison would be complaining that someone re-wrote Tolkein's books to reference something in the LOTRO.

[Visty]

the old ones no they are not (although they do have multiplayer)...he one getting released yeah it is

its not an MMO, its an MO

[Symar-FangofLloth]

The real question is why are alot of series insisting on going MMO...Neverwinter Night, Knights of the Old Republic, Final Fantasy, etc.

Final Fantasy has had an MMO since 2002. Them making another is not as big of a surprise as any other series.

the old ones no they are not (although they do have multiplayer)...he one getting released yeah it is

Debatable. Atari/Cryptic themselves aren't calling it an MMO, and if it's anything like STO, it'll be a single player online game with co-op options

[SaisMatters]

If I understand the OP correctly, a better comparison would be complaining that someone re-wrote Tolkein's books to reference something in the LOTRO.

bingo.

[Phidius]

bingo.

No thanks, I can't seem to find my marker