EA owns the series now; Looks like Overlord III isn't completely impossible now.

[VolteVaris]

While Overlord 2 still looks good visually today; Raising Hell is a little long in the tooth in some areas; so it would benefit more from the visual polishing and bugfixes.

Evil has Finally Found a Way.
It took them a long time though. They're very sorry about that, Master.

[dlo.dirtyjobs]

I am just imaging the micro transactions or battlepass system they would put in it... ughhh. If they made it only visual stuff for transactions and don't charge full price, kind of like warhammer darktide, then yeah I would be cool with it.

[VolteVaris]

Originally posted by dlo.dirtyjobs:

I am just imaging the micro transactions or battlepass system they would put in it... ughhh. If they made it only visual stuff for transactions and don't charge full price, kind of like warhammer darktide, then yeah I would be cool with it.

"let's make it like the thing that flopped terribly and devs didn't give a ♥♥♥♥"

[Magikabula]

LOL, how appropriate that Evil has found its way... through EA.
Honestly, I'm not getting my hopes up too much. At least the Dungeons series seems to be going strong.

[Scrotar the Nutnificent]

Originally posted by dlo.dirtyjobs:

I am just imaging the micro transactions or battlepass system they would put in it... ughhh. If they made it only visual stuff for transactions and don't charge full price, kind of like warhammer darktide, then yeah I would be cool with it.

While it's a vain hope I know, they appear to have at least somewhat learned their lesson. Dragon Age 4 went from being an online game to singleplayer. Not sure if it's going to matter in the long run though.

[AlduinTWE]

Wait, did EA buy out Triumph/Codemasters? When did that happen?

[VolteVaris]

Originally posted by AlduinTWE:

Wait, did EA buy out Triumph/Codemasters? When did that happen?

a while ago, good thing too, ♥♥♥♥♥♥' racing fetish when they had several good IPs they decided to ♥♥♥♥ on.

[AlduinTWE]

Originally posted by VolteVaris:

Originally posted by AlduinTWE:

Wait, did EA buy out Triumph/Codemasters? When did that happen?

a while ago, good thing too, ♥♥♥♥♥♥' racing fetish when they had several good IPs they decided to ♥♥♥♥ on.

Well, I hope its a good thing. EA does have a bit of a nasty reputation, and they may not even do anything with the franchise either. Fellowship of Evil didn't do very good, and though I love Overlord, these games were never massively successful.

[Swifty404]

I only want a remakse from oberlord 1/ Raising Hell and Overlord 2

[Mamborambo]

if ea owns it now, overlord 3 will be mockery of earlier games at best. Wouldnt surprise me if ea tried to implement nft in someway.

[VolteVaris]

listen man i think you're stretching things.

@swifty404 I feel Overlord 1/RH are the ones that mainly need the visual touch up. Overlord 2 seems fine visually even today I suppose.

[VolteVaris]

people forget that sometimes EA does do good and make the right call;
for instance Darkspore; it was legitimately not on EA's end and it would of been far more expensive to completely remake the game engine and game itself due to a simple login error.

[Candesco]

Originally posted by VolteVaris:

people forget that sometimes EA does do good and make the right call;
for instance Darkspore; it was legitimately not on EA's end and it would of been far more expensive to completely remake the game engine and game itself due to a simple login error.

Not as publisher. Electronic Arts has done more wrong then right. Take The Sims and Sim City for example, both from Maxis and from the hand of Will Wright. While the first Sim City games were good, the 2013 version was just horrible and full with DRM as well, plus that limited activation garbage. Same thing happened with Spore.
The Sims started nice, 2 was an improvement and is by far still the best of the serie, also has the record of most sold game. 3 is decent, though the free roam neighbourhood is nice and was something different. The way of EP's and SP's was lesser and absolute stinker was that katy perry's sweat treat EP. But 4 is just a disgrace. And now they just come with a sims 5, probably with more online garbage in it. EA also has the reputation of buying studios and then closing them. Maxis, Westwood, Bullfrog, BioWare, they are all gone or rebranded.
EA is just a horrible company. They also don't like mods.

[VolteVaris]

nice copypasta

[Sourcerer]

I think it just depends whether EA develops it in-house, or out-source to a 2nd party developer and how much they're hoping to get. I don't think there's much to expand in the concept, a multiplayer overlord failed hard and I would hope EA or their 2nd party devs would note that. I'm trying to think of an open world within the overlord series but there can only be 1 overlord, so it just wouldn't make sense (not that such a thing matters to EA).

A singleplayer game can only be milked so hard and usually is only in vanity. If they required money to get game breaking weapons, I don't think people would buy, at least not the majority. EA has dipped their toes in the mobile gaming arena so it's not too far off to think they may try to charge for extra this or an additional that.

They could release "content updates" and charge for each one, allowing the game to be developed (released) faster and be milked longer.

Or, whomever is given the responsibility of developing it, will understand the playerbase and try to make a true to faith of the series.

They have the money and the companies to make it work and pretty, but will greed consume them once again?

[VolteVaris]

It wasn't an actual overlord game in spirit, so you can't say a 'multiplayer overlord' failed hard.

A lot of things don't make sense or might have to be retconned, Hell, they might have to do a fresh reboot or something entirely.

I do think it can be pulled off though.

After all, things were just getting good at Overlord 2. The series is literally dead; We didnt' get one of the DLCs on PC for overlord 2, nor the Wii prequel game which was apparently pretty decent but we won't know because it was Wii only. (The Elemental tech demo for the unreal engine had a good feel, oddly enough)

Codemasters shafted Triumph in the end, perhaps.
But a bigger budget is here now, people are open to a new title, and as you said, 'open world' might work out as there already is similar feeling just separated by loading screens.

I love replaying Overlord every so often so it's not like there won't be people delighted at new content. "Evil Pikmin" works pretty well.