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Square And Obsidian Team Up For Dungeon Siege III
What would happen if we took the world's most prolific Japanese RPG publisher and partnered them with one of the best-known Western RPG developers? It may sound like a pipe dream, but with today's surprise announcement of a Dungeon Siege III published by Square Enix and developed by Obsidian, we may finally find out.
The team-up comes as a shock both because it's been almost five years since the last non-handheld Dungeon Siege game and because the previous PC-only Dungeon Siege games were published by Microsoft and developed by Gas Powered Games. That original developer will be providing input on the new entry, with Gas Powered Games founder Chris Taylor serving as an advisor on the project. He explained:
"It's a great pleasure to collaborate with Obsidian. They are a very talented developer who really knows what it takes to build a deep and engaging RPG experience, and I can't think of a better group to continue the Dungeon Siege series."
As if the developer/publisher shake-up wasn't a big enough change for the series, Dungeon Siege III will also be the first to appear on home consoles as well as PC. Not everything is changing, though; as with the previous games, there will be a focus on co-op play and character customization through increasingly powerful and crazy loot drops.
Personally, with all of these changes, I'm much more curious about a continuation of the Dungeon Siege franchise than I expected. Here's hoping the combination of Square and Obsidian works.
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