Obsidian General Discussion Thread

[Orma]

 

[Roguey]

Who's the latinolet?

 

[Flou]

Long Nguyen (former Troika employee) is the new Animation Director at Obsidian. Don't think they've had such position previously, then again they are definately beefing up their animation crew.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/long-nguyen-b66823/

 

[Roguey]

Time to dust that mocap room, Obsidian's back in the triple-A game.

 

[fantadomat]

Why are doing a PR as if going in to politics?

 

[DalekFlay]

Microsoft not staffing them up and putting them to work on an exclusive "AAA RPG" would be insane, considering that's surely what they bought them for.

 

[santino27]

Ex Dev on wildstar here. Watched the video and although it was quiet informative, I just wanted to chime in on some of the key factors on why this game was a huge flop. I worked on the game for 5+ years and let me tell you.. This games was destined to fail wayyy before there was any issues with servers or not enough updates. Development on this project was a nightmare. The real Development time frame was closer to 10/11 years. Coming onto the project at the 5 year mark I soon realized that the leads and big boys had no fucking clue what a good game was and they could not commit to any idea. Too many cooks in the kitchen that can't cook anything other than Mayo and Beef Jerky sandwiches... Look for the double meaning in that. It's there. One of the most prevalent issues with the game that I noticed was bad direction from top down. People like Tim Cain specifically made way more problems than they were worth. Honestly the guy was a total dick. Awful to work with and almost nothing he "did" ended up in the game. His lack of leardership I would say was one of the reasons why the first 4-5 years of the game were almost completely thrown out. Literally...

Found a random youtube comment about Tim Cain

Spoiler

Previously mentioned in the outer worlds thread by Fairfax: https://rpgcodex.net/forums/index.p...-leonard-boyarsky.119594/page-30#post-5913145

 

[Sailor Woedica]

Josh retweeted this:

 

[SpaceWizardz]

Long Nguyen (former Troika employee) is the new Animation Director at Obsidian. Don't think they've had such position previously, then again they are definately beefing up their animation crew.

If you take the g out of Nguyen it spells nuyen so i'm 1000% certain that this is a confirmation that they're making a Shadowrun game and nobody can convince me otherwise.

 

[Prime Junta]

If you take the g out of Nguyen it spells nuyen so i'm pretty confident that this means they're making a Shadowrun game and nobody can convince me otherwise.

Maybe it's the Apocalypse Now game, but from the POV of Viet Cong.

 

[Nano]

Long Nguyen (former Troika employee) is the new Animation Director at Obsidian

I'm don't think bringing in a person from the Bloodlines animation team is much of a big deal. The guy who was the lead on Bloodlines's animation has been at Obsidian since the 2000s, didn't do them much good.

 

[Flou]

Ali Mohsini a recent a hire. Working as Sound Designer at Obsidian

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ali-mohsini-048883161/

Has worked on some bigger profile games in the past.

Couple of hires from Carbine Studios:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/phillip-chiu-7b7b3035/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-chung-0b070228/

Seems like Obsidian is leeching most of the talent from that studio

 

[Sailor Woedica]

I totally meant to post this forever ago but forgot! Phil Spencer was interviewed by Xbox and talked about the new studios and that they’ll have new things to show at E3! For Obsidian this means new stuff from Outer Worlds soo i guess we won’t be seeing anything new from them until then, but I guess inXile (the other rpg company Microsoft bought) will have something to show too! New rpgs are always exciting so that’s cute!

He also talked about how it will take years to integrate the new studios fully into Microsoft and have them all delivering all together (I guess for gamepass)!

 

[Roguey]

It did take a few years for Bioware to go full EA after all.

 

[Sacred82]

Choo & Chung

 

[Infinitron]

 

[Nano]

Storm of Zehir had the dialogue system that Icewind Dale should've had.

 

[Prime Junta]

SoZ was crippled by the engine. Those goddamn loading screens and the rubbery combat.

 

[Stinger]

SoZ was SoZZy! r00fles!

 

[Prime Junta]

Whatever happened to our Pretty Princess anyway?

 

[santino27]

SoZ was crippled by the engine. Those goddamn loading screens and the rubbery combat.

And 1-room "dungeons" the size of a postage stamp, making the loading times that much more obnoxious when you saw the lack of payoff. I'd love to see someone take another stab at SoZ with a better engine.

 

[Prime Junta]

I'd love to see someone take another stab at SoZ with a better engine.

Deadfire is pretty much that.

 

[frajaq]

Ehhh not really since you don't create your entire party from scratch, also party members cant interject directly on skill checks

 

[santino27]

I'd love to see someone take another stab at SoZ with a better engine.

Deadfire is pretty much that.

Without any of the (admittedly somewhat superficial) caravan stuff and with shit companions, an inferior ruleset, and worse writing, sure.

 

[Prime Junta]

Without any of the caravan stuff and with shit companions and worse writing, sure.

You played SoZ for the companions and writing? Interesting.