New D&D game release date announced!

[Truga]

This the first 4e game out?
I guess the quality of this will be a good judge for:
If 4e actually makes a decent video game to begin with
And
If Neverwinter (assuming it's still coming out) has any hope at all.

Pretty much this. I'm hoping 4e will be good in a vidya game environment (since this is pretty much what it's designed for), because if it isn't it has nothing left to it :P

[Symar-FangofLloth]

Look at the choice of character classes

Human Fighter
Elf Rogue
Dwarf Cleric
Halfling Mage

Spot the odd one out.

"Mage?" That's not even a 4e class. They still have Wizard, Sorcerer, and Warlock.
And a Halfling, really? The other races make sense from either a stereotype or a min-max perspective, unless by Mage they mean Sorcerer or Warlock.

And why does everyone seem to think this is an MMO? It looks more like a singleplayer game with a co-op option.

[ImWithTheBand]

"Mage?" That's not even a 4e class. They still have Wizard, Sorcerer, and Warlock.
And a Halfling, really? The other races make sense from either a stereotype or a min-max perspective, unless by Mage they mean Sorcerer or Warlock.

And why does everyone seem to think this is an MMO? It looks more like a singleplayer game with a co-op option.

•Humans favor any class
•Dwarves favor Cleric, Paladin and Fighter
•Elves favor Ranger, Rogue and Cleric
Halflings do seem to be the odd one out, since in 4e they favor Rogue, Ranger and Warlock

From what I have read, its 2 player local co-op, or 4 player online co-op.

[DemonMage]

It's Halfling Wizard, not Mage.

Love how they made the wizard and the cleric the absolute terrible races though. Gogo only having 2 viable characters for most people.