Dragon's Lair III Announcement and Demo

An article on Blue's News brings the happy news that a third game in the Dragon's Lair franchise is in the works. There are screens, a press release, and a demo of the game to be had. From the press release: "Dirk the Daring, the brave yet bumbling knight, is ready to venture back into the Lair in this adventure! The Evil Wizard Mordroc has again kidnapped the fair Princess Daphne and Dirk is her only hope. Save the princess, defeat Mordroc, and watch out for the treachery that lies at every step!" Good to know the genre hasn't changed since the last game.

Re:No!

[packratshow]

Ugh.

I was gullible enough to believe it was going to be animated.

(cries)

Don Bluth???

[OneFix]

There seems to be no mention of Don Bluth's [imdb.com] involvement in the game. It seems to be a DVD Video disk with no platform specific code written for it. So, the big question is how good will the story and animation be without Don Bluth???

Fool me once...

[phraktyl]

The Evil Wizard Mordroc has again kidnapped the fair Princess Daphne and Dirk is her only hope.

You'd think that you would be just a little leery of letting your princess walk around alone after the first time she gets kidnapped. But letting her go out after getting taken twice? It's like an open invitation!

Re:Fool me once...

[Anonymous Coward]

They must be following the Security Protocol for the Mushroom Kingdom...

Re:Fool me once...

[Flunitrazepam]

they forgot to elevate the threat level to #FF0000

lame demo

[joe094287523459087]

i'll save you the effort of downloading the demo

it unzips to c:\dl3 and when you run it you get a little window about 400x600 that can be doubled or expanded to fullscreen

dirk is in a room with colored platforms that go up and down. it's mostly smoothly animated. you just hit L/R/U/D to move to the platform that blinks yellow. i made it across the chasm (about 15 moves) first try. it was very easy due to the blinking yellow. at the end the damsel's voice says "dragon wings! these will help you fly!" and it shows dirk "flying" (sort of waving his arms around, looked dumb) and going through a door.

not a very good bit of gaming, even for a huge fan of DL (which i am, i own the DL classic cdroms). if this is one of the better scenes in the game, don't expect much.

could be worse - at least it looked like animated video. the 3d RPG from a couple years ago was horrible.

here's the scoop

[Anonymous Coward]

Here's what it is: video captures of somebody playing the Dragon's Lair 3D game from 2002 (which was a Tomb Raider style game) which are then used in the same manner as the animations in the original Dragon's Lair game - namely, you make a decision, and based on that decision, a movie plays which either shows you dying or moving toward another decision point.

You can get the PC version of "Dragon's Lair 3D" for about 7 bucks used on Amazon. The game got poor reviews and I think this must be part of an effort to recoup some $$$. (Personally, I loved "Dragon's Lair 3D", but I was among the few.)

"Dragon's Lair 3" is basically "Dragon's Lair 3D" without the latter's main selling point - being able to fully control the character and move around in three dimensions.

Re:here's the scoop

[cluke]

LOL! If there ever was a archetypal case of 'money for old rope' then this surely would be it. Pathetic.

How to win the game.

[baywulf]

I heard you can win the game by simply doing the following: UP UP DOWN DOWN LEFT LEFT RIGHT RIGHT A B START

At least get the code right if you make a joke

[Neuticle]

Sheesh for the love of All that is holy, Don't mod up the WRONG CODE!!!!!11oneone!11 It's:

UP UP DOWN DOWN LEFT RIGHT LEFT RIGHT B A (SELECT for 2p) START

/nitpick
//lovingly caresses his NES

Wasn't there already a DL3?

[mbourgon]

I seem to remember that there was one (The Curse of Mordread?), and it was completed alongside DL2. However, the market had changed before it came out, where the Dragon's Lair games had basically become "has-beens", so they couldn't do anything with it. The site that carries the old DL emulator might have more info.

Re:Wasn't there already a DL3?

[SScorpio]

I just did a quick search on The Curse of Mordread and it pulled up a few sites about the PC/DOS game. While it was title Dragon's Lair 3 it wasn't. The company Readysoft release the original Dragon's Lair 2 Arcade game into two different games. This DL3, is actually just scenes that weren't in Readysoft's version of DL2. As for the new DL3. It's do with the DL3D engine, not the classic animated style. I for one will definately not be picking it up.

YEESSS!!!!!

[Pugio]

FINALLY! This game has seen the light! Now people might finally get where my screename comes from: Pugio il Audacio. (can you get it?_ No more hiding in the dark, at last I shall see the light!

At last..

[rev0102]

The beauty of the out-dated pre-rendered CG animation used in Dragon's Lair 3D with the incredible gameplay of the original Dragon's Lair games. Milk it guys, milk it. :P

Re:Dragon's Lair 3D lacked something...

[Alkaiser]

No. It needs a DDR pad.

Anyone notice...

[smartalecvt]

...some stark similarities between this DL3 and the original game?

Like how it's sorta the same game with slightly different perspective? [haikumonkey.net]