Poll - Best Obsidian game so far

[SniperHF]

You should have wiped out the vote totals because my vote was sitting there on NWN2 OC for 12 hours or so. That's just not right.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

How the fuck is that Fallout FPS spinoff leading this?

Because it's a good game

Spoiler

Also the closest you grieving widows will ever get to Van Buren

ever

ever

 

[Bubbles]

Well, it has good writing and reactivity. The combat and the UI are still absolute rock bottom as far as Obsidian RPGs are concerned (although NWN2 comes close in terms of awful UI).

 

[aweigh]

FNV

I'm so happy right now

 

[oneliner]

Voted for MOTB because of evil path and OOM. New Vegas come super close ( It will be the best game ever in history for me if it was isometric and turn based tho )

 

[mediocrepoet]

I like the bulk of Obsidian's catalog, so it was a hard decision for me. I'd probably rank the games like this:

Good Games - memorable and fun
1. Pillars of Eternity
2. Mask of the Betrayer
3. New Vegas
4. Alpha Protocol

Meh Games - fun, but forgettable
5. Storm of Zehir (This would've been amazing with a larger scope and more resources put into dungeon building.)
6. NWN 2
7. KOTOR 2
8. South Park

Bad Games - why were they made?
9. Dungeon Siege 3 sucks so terribly!
10. Armoured Warfare (is this even out? It'll likely be their only release that I won't actually play.)

 

[Drowed]

If New Vegas was done in a isometric perspective (even if in RTWP instead of TB) this wouldn't even be a contest.

This shows that, structurally, F:NV is a superior game in world building and quests. It's not as wordy (obviously) as POE, but *still*. With all its problems an limitations (fucked engine, "FPS", its needs to be fully voiced), it still manages to be so well received here on Codex. This shows how Obsidian outdone themselves in this case.

 

[nomask7]

I might vote for MotB, but they made skipping content and hurrying forward ridiculously difficult due to the mind controlling boss, whose psychic attacks you'll be vulnerable to if you skip too much content. The game was great fun when played like that if you got lucky with that one boss, but any completionist playthrough is just boring to me. Game becomes too much like a typical do-this, do-this, go-there dull CRPG with no tension, challenge, or much of a mystery.

Probably never had a better experience with a game than my first playthrough (other than Gothic 2 NotR), but it was pretty atypical among those who played the game. Not that I'm qualified to vote anyway, since I've only played three of the games on the list, and only two of them completely.

 

[A horse of course]

New Vegas has better combat than PoE until the hp bloat DLC enemies.

 

[ikarinokami]

fallout new vegas over mask of the betrayer, utter fail, is this even the codex?

 

[Clockwork Knight]

I think you meant "epic fail", my esteemed fellow memer XD

 

[thesoup]

 

[Sensuki]

lol @ trappist glass

 

[pippin]

New Vegas is Obsidian's best game for sure. If you don't agree you're a profligate.
Seriously now: it's a game that I can play 4 times and still find new stuff and interesting choices. I love it.

 

[sser]

New Vegas. Categorically superior across the board. Reactivity, story, characters, writing, role-playing, replayability, combat, etc. Voted top ten RPG of all-time for a reason.

 

[tuluse]

New Vegas, no contest.

 

[RK47]

FNV.
Even without the DLC.

 

[A horse of course]

FNV.
Even without the DLC.

The DLC makes it worse in a few areas.

 

[naossano]

Released FoNV might be shit compared with hypthetical FoNV with 12-18 more months of devellopement.

 

[WhiteGuts]

With the appropriate developpment time, New Vegas might have been the best RPG ever.


YEAH I SAID IT

 

[MrMarbles]

DS3 gets a lot of flak and I agree it sucks as a single player crpg. As a co-op rpg on other platforms it's pretty solid and I highly recommend it, especially after a few beers. But that's probably not poll-relevant.

 

[ZagorTeNej]

New Vegas. Categorically superior across the board. Reactivity, story, characters, writing, role-playing, replayability, combat, etc. Voted top ten RPG of all-time for a reason.

What is New Vegas combat superior to exactly? Descent to Undermountain? Catacombs 3D?

 

[Ellef]

Once the cult of the new wears off, there's no way PoE gets near F:NV or MotB.

 

[ArchAngel]

If MotB gets its own entry, then so should Storm of Zehir.

I enjoyed SoZ more than MotB. Out of all NWN2 games, SoZ was most like Bg1.

 

[naossano]

They still have the opportunity to make Motb/soz addons for POE.