I wrote a total sugar fueled comment on their comments page and used the word excited about five times rofl. ....xDFelixG said:
Obsidian Unveils Project Eternity
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Only if they get bought out by EA.FelixG said:Its PC only, nothing to do with consoles.KingsGambit said:
I already threw 35 dollars at them.
Though... isometric fantasy RPG that harks back to Planescape and Baulders Gate in a fresh new world? Anyone want to take bets that they will go the Bioware route and make an absolutely awesome game and then murder the series with the second game?
I have had way way more game breaking bugs with skyrim and trying to work around them than i ever had with new vegas, only real bad one i got with nv that cost me about 5 6 hours of backtracking, was that one bunker if you went to the bottom and triggered the robot room, the game would flag you as having attacked victor in new vegas, so when you finally wandered back into NV, victor would attack you on sight and alert every robot in the casino to kill you. if you killed him then yo u could not enter the casino at all, and if you didnt kill him you could not enter because, you could to talk to him to open the casino at all.Moonlight Butterfly said:
Only way to fix it was to not hit that room before you opened the casino.
Well.. If anyone can do it, it would be Obsidian. I honestly can't think of another dev team who could pull that off.
Double Fine doesn't count? I haven't noticed anything(beyond a couple of vocal dissenters) but good will towards developers going the Kickstarter route to fund what traditional publishers won't.Saviordd1 said:
Alright, I'll admit I'm desperate. I'm aching for an old school RPG so much that I'm willing to completely disregard my rule about pre-ordering games, especially those made by Obsidian; company I don't really have good experience with. So I'll pledge.
This, coupled with the recent "revival" of Black Isle Studios really gives me hope for the future. At least until, you know, that end of the world crap.
This, coupled with the recent "revival" of Black Isle Studios really gives me hope for the future. At least until, you know, that end of the world crap.
I never had any major bug problems with New Vegas either, although I know some did. If anything, I had way more problems with Fallout 3.Saviordd1 said:
I can't remember any buggy parts from Kotor II either, although admittedly, it was unfinished, but that's more LucasArt's fault than Obsidian's. The parts that worked were great.
In my humble opinion, they are both great games with some crippling flaws (especially in the case of Kotor II).
(I have never played Alpha Protocol or Dungeon Siege 3 so I can't comment)
Did you play all, or any, of these games? If you played all of them, it seems strange that you would suddenly turn your back on Obsidian after slavishly buying pretty much every game they've ever made. If you didn't, why do you react so strongly to them?
Isometric tactical combat - the magic words! I loved the Icewind Dale games, I loved Temple of Elemental Evil, I don't think that CRPG combat has ever been so deep and interesting. They took what BioWare did and made it amazing. I'm in!
As I understand, it's set in a world created from scratch. Not too thrilled about that, that's a really tall order nowadays if you want to create a game with a great story and personality. I also hope it's polished, for the first time. Backed it of course, but it's gonna be tough.
There are people on this earth for whom 10000 dollars would be equal to what 10 dollars is to you and me. Some of those people are into video games.Chairman Miaow said:
This is a good thing. More money to game industry.
Heck, remember a while back when that one guy made a video asking someone to give him 1 million dollars, and he got it?
Although this game looks and sounds awesome, I'm surprised they didn't come up with the more obvious and potentially risky idea, but also the potentially more awesome idea:
At the bottom of the Kickstarter page, there's a bunch of images of box art from all the games these guys have worked on. Now think about this next line for a second:
What if, for a game idea, they just made a crossover of ALL of those games?
Think about it.
At the very least, there shold be references to those games as easter eggs in Eternity, or at least have the protagonists from the games as secret NPC's
At the bottom of the Kickstarter page, there's a bunch of images of box art from all the games these guys have worked on. Now think about this next line for a second:
What if, for a game idea, they just made a crossover of ALL of those games?
Think about it.
At the very least, there shold be references to those games as easter eggs in Eternity, or at least have the protagonists from the games as secret NPC's
It's also probably worth looking at the comments that Brian Fargo made during his Wasteland 2 Kickstarter. Particularly how publishers balloon production expenses on a fairly regular basis.Fappy said:
The example I remember him giving was talking about how a publisher had handled voice work for a game, where the game devs were actually flat out prevented from interacting with the talent, and the final material was almost unusable as a result.
A non-Fargo example that comes to mind was with Spec Ops where the budget was forced to include multiplayer deathmatch by the publisher. Resources that, quite frankly, the developer didn't want to spend, were spent on a feature that (according to them) actually undercut the game itself.
EDIT: We're also at 877k already... o.o