The publisher sold off Baldur's Gate developer BioWare, and had to cancel new PC entries in the Baldur's Gate and Fallout series. In fact, at this time publisher Interplay was getting into serious financial difficulty.
ALSO READ - Sony Buying Square Enix Would Make PlayStation 'The Japanese Console' Againĭark Alliance sold over a million copies across the PS2, Xbox, and GameCube, which was enough to warrant a sequel. They don't know what an RPG is, but they do like platforming stuff like Crash Bandicoot or Mario, so let's have some of that.' It's as if the business-minded box tickers, thinking ' Console gamers are simple people. The shoehorning of a jump button and various platforming elements is, in hindsight, kind of quaint, showing the game to very much be a product of a time when such things were deemed important boxes to tick in consoles games. The combat felt great too, with satisfying squelchiness as battle axes cleaved rats and goblins in two, fire spells caused enemies to go up in convincing blazes, and spell effects glimmered. It had incredible water deformation, silky-smooth frame rates, and plenty of lovely little touches like individually rendered coins dropped by enemies, which meant that the amount you picked up in a pile reflected the number you received in your inventory. It was actually a pretty great game for the time, built by a 13-person team in a mere six months on a powerful in-house engine made at Snowblind Studios called the Snowblind Engine. 
Why don't we talk to them about doing a PS2 and Xbox version?" Here's a team with really great tech that's really into this space. He told me in an interview last year, "My feeling was, 'hey, here's our biggest IP and we don't have a console offering for it. The thinking, according to Interplay Senior Producer Eric DeMilt, was simple. It was a Diablo-style ARPG, with a focus on hacking, slashing, masses of loot, and a heavily streamlined levelling and progression system.
Dark Alliance went along with the prevalent stereotype at the time that console gamers had the attention span of Slaughterfish (which is marginally longer than that of a goldfish, I've been told) and wouldn't be able to handle a complex RPG in the vein of the first two Baldur's Gate games.
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