Dungeon Siege Delay

Microsoft just sent over a press release announcing that Dungeon Siege, their and Gas Powered Games' highly anticipated RPG, is being delayed until an unspecified time next year. The release is short, so here's the whole deal:
MICROSOFT ANNOUNCES SHIP DELAY FOR DUNGEON SIEGE

August 16, 2001 – Redmond, WA -- Microsoft and Gas Powered Games have made the careful decision not to release Dungeon Siege in the fall of 2001. Both companies remain extremely excited about the game and are committed to completing the title and bringing the highly anticipated game to store shelves in 2002.

“Our decision to delay the release of Dungeon Siege is one of the toughest we’ve had to make, but we firmly believe that this is the right choice given that one of the most critical steps in creating an RPG is the tuning and balancing stage,” said Chris Taylor, Lead Designer, Gas Powered Games. “We’ve made a promise to build a game that delivers an over-the-top experience, and we’ll do whatever it takes to deliver on that promise.”

This new development schedule will deliver the high-quality RPG game that fans demand and expect from Microsoft and Gas Powered Games. Additional updates will be posted on Dungeon Siege’s official website at http://www.microsoft.com/games/dungeonsiege/.
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I'm looking forward to DS more than NWN at the moment. I'll be getting both, mark my words, but I honestly believe that they are two quite different games. I see DS as being hack done 3d (anyone who doesn't know hack should stop calling themselves a fantasy computer RPGer and walk away now), whereas NWN is pen-and-paper D&D done on a computer.
NWN has already been slipped to Q1 2001, and now so has DS. We'll be seeing NWN either slip more or ship with a patch practically required - this is a *complex* game and very ambitious.
I'd like to see a bit more variety in my RPGs beyond the D&D model, too. NWN will be the last word in orcs-and-goblins stat-driven level-based tactical non-arcadey D&D-style RPGs, but lets not kid ourselves that that is all there is to RPGs. Fallout still ranks as one of my favourite RPGs and it is not D&D or a D&D world even tho it does fit the levels/tactics/non-arcade model. I play Baldurs Gate and Diablo II - they are both cookie-cutter fantasy but one is an action hacker and one isn't.
NWN is a brave step forward with allowing players to DM games over the net. If NWN is profitable we will see more of this kind of thing in future. If it isn't (even if it is fantastic) then we won't.

Saying NWN is the last word in RPGs and everyone else may as well give up would be like saying half-life is the last word in FPS games, so may as well not make games like Deus Ex, Thief2 or Unreal Tournament.

Dungeon Siege and NWN will be two very different games, and in all probability both succeed for very different reasons.

Oh, and Throne of Darkness looks ever so cool.
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