Obsidian General Discussion Thread

Exactly.

 

The question now is: what is a really bad Harry Potter book?

 

BTW, no offence to you Alex, I liked both BoW and FS - not in terms of characters, they were just as shit as throughout the rest of the game - but in terms of atmosphere, plot and pacing.

 

I would totally support Josh Sawyer telling Microsoft he will make Skyrim, getting 200 million and then producing a Darklands/KCD clone, utterly regardless of whether the game is any good

 

If it meets the sales expectations MS would have for a Skyrim clone marketed by them, I doubt they would object.

 

Sure, but the chances of that are nil.

 

Well, you can achieve a lot by having Microsoft market a first-person perspective (low-)fantasy RPG, but yeah, the times of Skyrim sales are gone. But I'm sure they don't have expectations for "literally Skyrim's sales numbers" at MS.

Maybe The Outer Worlds is thought of as a project which is to break the new ground, establish expertise at Obsidian in the technology. It's not a coincidence that Tim is a lead. As he has joked in the past, he is the "engine guy". I'm sure that by all means they will try to put out at least another RPG with unreal tech. And this RPG being fantasy fits the scheme that all big publishers are going for - have a Sci-Fi setting, and a fantasy setting, and churn out new games in either setting at regular intervals. EA do it, Ubisoft do it... even Paradox Interactive do it.

 

The Crimes of Grindelwald, except for

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the flashback to Hogwarts

 

I have to say this trolling with harry potter is very successful, it is making me irrationally angry.

 

Never read a single book, and never watched a single movie.

 

I haven't either, but just mention of it as if it would be a good thing to do or include is extremely effective trolling method.

 

really? wow. such prestigiousness.

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That comic is unrelated as fuck.

 

Second half is related

 

How so? It's a crime to not have watched every single piece of popular media garbage now?

 

I was just sharing it as a curious fact, as it seems everyone has watched some movie or read some book.

 

Well, you guys must be older than I thought, otherwise being at least a teenager in 2000s and not having watched any HP movie that released throughout the decade must be a rare phenomenon.

 

I think I missed the hype by a few years. When I heard of Harry Potter it just looked too childish to me. I also reflexively stray away from anything that's the current hype when it comes to reading and movies. For games, well, we are on the codex.

 

So you're a hipster?

 

Ok you two need to legit read Harry Potter because they are some of the best fantasy books ever written (and yes I'm including it over Philip Pullman's Dark Materials series and La Belle Sauvage even tho I love those books too sis)! The wizard duels, the school dramas that rival Anne of Green Gables, the Quidditch matches, good vs. evil, sneaking out to Hogsmeade, the mystery at the heart of each book! Sigh, Hogwarts is iconic! (btw when you're done reading them and watching the films you can totally take the House test on Pottermore and see which one you get, I'm in Slytherin!)

 

I don’t think Josh actually cares about winning awards himself, but I think he’s probably generally irked that games like Heavy Rain (that is games that deemphasize or lack completely the strengths of the medium) are lauded as the apotheosis of what games can be.

 

I read a few Harry Potters to find out what the fuss was all about.

I never did.

 

Don't worry Prime Junta, "Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home." :sparkling heart emoji:

 

At this point I don't know if Sailor Woedica is trolling or not. Part of me really wishes he is.

 

I completely agree that it's retarded some people think video games being more like cinema is better and elevates the medium somehow. However the way he presented this and his argumentation for it is butthurt, and the QTE for sucking dick doesn't prove anything by itself.