Obsidian Scrapped a Sci-Fi Skyrim
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I heavily disagree. The developers are the ones making the game. The publishers have a deadline sure, but ultimately it falls on the developers. With Bethesda there's little excuse for it because their publisher is Bethesda. And I doub't Bethesda rushed Obsidian when they were making Fallout:New Vegas. New Vegas was possibly the worst game of its generation for glitches and crashes in a AAA title.crackfool said:
Both companies have a history of releasing glitchy games and with the exception of Kotor 2 the publishers have had little to do with that.
I'm just gonna say, if they pursued this idea further, I'd probably buy the hell out of it. Sounds like an interesting idea to be executed by competent (if rarely properly funded) developers.
This makes me sad that it's going to be a very long time to this game's creation, let alone release, even if it ever happens. Makes me almost as sad as Disney going exclusive with EA for their starwars junk, horrifically limiting what star wars games will be made while EA still lives and breathes. Honestly, why would you ever sign an exclusivity thing for such a potentially grand IP? You could do f*** ANYTHING with star wars if you wanted, and there's TONS of people who would want to and are good enough to deliver. Why limit yourself to EA?
Gah, disney executives just baffle me sometimes.
This makes me sad that it's going to be a very long time to this game's creation, let alone release, even if it ever happens. Makes me almost as sad as Disney going exclusive with EA for their starwars junk, horrifically limiting what star wars games will be made while EA still lives and breathes. Honestly, why would you ever sign an exclusivity thing for such a potentially grand IP? You could do f*** ANYTHING with star wars if you wanted, and there's TONS of people who would want to and are good enough to deliver. Why limit yourself to EA?
Gah, disney executives just baffle me sometimes.
This seems cool, aww that they gave up on it 
Sci fi skyrim is a bit misleading though, in my mind skyrim brings up images of vast open space with a lot of snow and mountains, and this would have been set on a space station which is much more claustrophobic.
Sci fi skyrim is a bit misleading though, in my mind skyrim brings up images of vast open space with a lot of snow and mountains, and this would have been set on a space station which is much more claustrophobic.
Sci-fi Skyrim?
Want want want want want want want.
Honestly, I love Obsidian. They have a lot of potential, even though their games are horribly buggy, and if they ever had all the time they needed in order to perfect their games, they'd easily be GOTY potential.
Want want want want want want want.
Honestly, I love Obsidian. They have a lot of potential, even though their games are horribly buggy, and if they ever had all the time they needed in order to perfect their games, they'd easily be GOTY potential.
I'm still confused as to how Obsidian went from "That company that consistently makes really shitty sequels to other people's franchises" to gaming's great white light, as of late.
What have they done to redeem themselves from the triple-fistfuck of KOTOR II, Fallout: New Vegas and Dungeon Siege III? Did I miss this awesome game of awesome awesomeness? Did their Kickstarter magically tug at all the right heartstrings? What am I missing here?
What have they done to redeem themselves from the triple-fistfuck of KOTOR II, Fallout: New Vegas and Dungeon Siege III? Did I miss this awesome game of awesome awesomeness? Did their Kickstarter magically tug at all the right heartstrings? What am I missing here?
I loved KOTOR 2 because it spat in the face of Star Wars' of everything silly about the franchise, especially it's never ending religious war.Scrythe said:
New Vegas was disappointing only in the fact that it wasn't Van Buren resurrected. That's not their fault, Bethesda spoiled things by moving things to Washington DC instead of picking up where the franchise left off. Obsidian made the most of what they could trying to bring the franchise back on track after Beth derailed and belittled it in FO3.
I'm used to Obsidian's quirks. I put up with them in their antecedent, Troika, and many other companies who put story and plot first. I don't find the bugs and instability of their games a problem because those problems are eventually fixed (unlike some companies, like Bethesda, they actually work to polish the game off, not leave them to the mod community to correct) and only enhance the game.
You cannot make a game with a crappy story better by patching it. Look at FO3.