Obsidian General Discussion Thread

[Fargus]

There is such a game already
https://store.steampowered.com/app/348270/Social_Justice_Warriors/

It should be set in a perfect fictional world where sjws and jews don't exist.

 

[Lahey]

http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/rpg-maker-contest-xi-and-crooked-bee-win.92107/

 

[fantadomat]

There is such a game already
https://store.steampowered.com/app/348270/Social_Justice_Warriors/

It should be set in a perfect fictional world where sjws and jews don't exist.

A world without mental illness you say...hmm it sound interesting.

 

[aweigh]

if there is no mental illness would that mean that everybody is mentally ill :deepthoughts:

 

[Prime Junta]

man fantadomat is protesting so much lately i'm starting to suspect he's really a millennial transsexual named cohen who writes for bioware, admins for resetera, and moonlights for kotaku

 

[aweigh]

I was googling resetera posts that would be particularly funny for posting but they're all so horrible and lame and misguided and authoritarian that I couldn't stomach reading them.

 

[fantadomat]

Prime Junta I was just wondering where did disappeared to. I was just fighting for your rites mate,i am a bit tired and covered in blood. Those liberals always try to escape,had to chase them.

 

[Prime Junta]

No big mystery about it, I've just been vacationing... took a road trip around Europe. Probably not going to be posting much here in the coming week or two either; busy with meatspace stuff. I'm expecting to resume normal services towards the end of the month. I'm itching to get my teeth into Deadfire at least...

 

[fantadomat]

No big mystery about it, I've just been vacationing... took a road trip around Europe. Probably not going to be posting much here in the coming week or two either; busy with meatspace stuff. I'm expecting to resume normal services towards the end of the month. I'm itching to get my teeth into Deadfire at least...

Have fun mate and watch out for the diversity. I would recommend you to stay away from the capital cities like Paris,Berlin or London. Only things to see there are museums if you are in that kind of things. Smaller cities and villages are far more interesting,there is quite a few castles around to. The three most beatiful countries are Italia Austria and Czechia. Viena is great this time of year .

 

[Major_Blackhart]

I genuinely doubt that at this point Josh is going to leave Obsidian. He seems to have carved himself out a little enclave there, plus as for now Feargus seems to believe him the next MCA. Or at least did. Part of that seems to be his ability to handle/manipulate the fatty ginger in his favor.
How long that will last for who knows.

Partly because Feargus is just bad at reading his audience, and really good at ignoring/taking for granted the company's core audience.
The fat ginger just doesn't seem to get what makes a great game, and keeps trying to turn his company into something it isn't and can't be.
And the reason it can't be what he wants it to be? A good part of it has to do with him.

 

[Quillon]

Feargus seems to believe him the next MCA. Or at least did. Part of that seems to be his ability to handle/manipulate the fatty ginger in his favor.
How long that will last for who knows.

Ferg knows what Josh is, jack of all trades designer. Josh somehow convinced them to get the Narrative Lead but I don't think Ferg's dumb enough to think Josh mainly a writer, which is what MCA is.

 

[Nano]

Josh's had the Narrative Lead position before, and on a major project (Aliens RPG). It was mostly because Avellone left the Aliens team to become the Alpha Protocol lead designer, but still.

 

[Freddie]

Regarding fantasy as dominant setting, I came to think if there are tried and known examples which are copyright safe. Is there are possibility that there are that sort of difficulties in creating space opera sort of setting and adventure?

Near future / cyberpunk appears to be quite clear waters, at least if I think of how many games (in general) are published using those ideas.

 

[fantadomat]

Josh's had the Narrative Lead position before, and on a major project (Aliens RPG). It was mostly because Avellone left the Aliens team to become the Alpha Protocol lead designer, but still.

And we all know where the game ended.

 

[Latelistener]

Maybe Bethesda will buy Obsidian and make Sawyer the studio head.

Feargus will be the Project Director on Fallout: New Orleans, Parker will be the Creative Lead, Fenstermaker will be the Lead Writer, Darren Monahan will be the Lead Designer and Chris Jones will be the Lead Programmer. A dream team no one could stand against.

Then they bring MCA just to throw away all of his work at the end.

 

[Heretic]

Both PoE Definitive Edition and Tyranny given away to Twitch Prime members in July

https://blog.twitch.tv/get-ready-for-the-biggest-game-giveaway-in-twitch-prime-history-52e55aba19eb

I wonder how much Obsidian receives from this.

 

[Ninjerk]

Both PoE Definitive Edition and Tyranny given away to Twitch Prime members in July

https://blog.twitch.tv/get-ready-for-the-biggest-game-giveaway-in-twitch-prime-history-52e55aba19eb

I wonder how much Obsidian receives from this.

They're probably paying for it somehow.

 

[TT1]

No big mystery about it, I've just been vacationing... took a road trip around Europe. Probably not going to be posting much here in the coming week or two either; busy with meatspace stuff. I'm expecting to resume normal services towards the end of the month. I'm itching to get my teeth into Deadfire at least...

Come to visit me at Kraków

 

[Harg Harfardarssen]

Worth remembering that science-fiction is a much newer genre than fantasy.

Wut. No it isn’t (unless you’re reeeeeaaaallly stretching the definition of the genre to include shit like fairy tales and mythologies).

Wut. Yes it is (unless you're reeeeeaaaallly narrowing the definition of the genre to exclude shit that's not Tolkien derivative).

Excluding all of "mythology" seems a bit broad, given that much of it comes to us in the form of epic poetry (Gilgamesh, Illiad/Odyssey, Beowolf, Poetic Edda) or prose works (Mabinogion, Prose Edda, Journey to the West) that can be distinguished from modern fantasy only by the meta-characteristics that their authors (may have) believed them to be true stories of the past, not by the stories themselves. Since fantasy tends to be intentionally incorporating elements of mythology and fairy tales, it seems a bit odd to draw a bright line between the two. (Incidentally Tolkien himself drew no such line and referred to his own genre as being that of the fairy story).

But even granting that blanket exclusion of mythology and fairy tales, (would chansons de geste be fairy stories? would Morte d'Arthur, a 15th century retelling, still be excluded?), it seems a bit unlikely that all authors using fantastical elements before the 19th century were incredulous rubes who believed them to be the literal truth (I doubt Shakespeare was sincerely trying to describe wizardry in the Tempest).

 

[Infinitron]

It appears Anthony hasn't logged in to the Codex since Avellone's May of Rage. Sad!

 

[Nano]

Weren't Anthony and MCA besties before that whole thing happened? I wonder if that's still true.

 

[Latelistener]

Until they'll reveal Indiana, there's not much to talk about. They're probably busy "sexing it up" anyway.

 

[Quillon]

Weren't Anthony and MCA besties before that whole thing happened? I wonder if that's still true.

MCA seems to be willing to burn every bridge there is to see the Upper Management go down in flames. We'll see the next wave of MCA rage next time Obs gets some spotlight/Indiana reveal

 

[HoboForEternity]

All those drama actually made me grasp why women care so much about celebrity gossips.

 

[Micormic]

Feargus seems to believe him the next MCA. Or at least did. Part of that seems to be his ability to handle/manipulate the fatty ginger in his favor.
How long that will last for who knows.

Ferg knows what Josh is, jack of all trades designer. Josh somehow convinced them to get the Narrative Lead but I don't think Ferg's dumb enough to think Josh mainly a writer, which is what MCA is.

Of course he's dumb enough, Ferg has managed that shit company right into the ground.