Obsidian's Pillars of Eternity [BETA RELEASED, GO TO THE NEW THREAD]

I take it back, there are worse places than RPS on the internet. Thankfully Chris knows the talk.

http://indierpgs.com/2012/10/interview-with-chris-avellone/

 

With a cock in your mouth, maybe.

 

Let's say that for this PE KS campaign, we have a scale like this:
- 1~15$ - The poor man option.
- 15~50$ - A normal person.
- 50~150$ - Enthusiast supporter.
- 150$+ - Irrational fanboy.

I'm trying to figure out what would be the most appropriate pledge for what Obsidian presented until now. Because I simply don't find any reason to give more than 50$ even as an Obsidian supporter.

Probably I'm butthurt, but I cannot get over the fact that a company like Obsidian cannot afford 2 weeks of work in order to prototype a few screenshots for the game. I mean after the flood of filler updates and the "exciting" artworks, everything is still smelling like a hack job assembled over a weekend. Words and more words, but so few pictures.

 

If you don't feel like giving more than 50, give them 50.

As for working 2 weeks to give a screenshot, well that would have been a shitty screenshot, which would have scared the potential backers away. It is not as easy as you describe it.

 

sounds like loot drop's diarrhea an old-skool rpg by brendon brathwaite and tom hall...

 

What screenshots? There is no game to make screenshots with. The best they can do is concept art and they have done some. Not even close to as good as what Wasteland 2 had, but whatever. It's concept art. It doesn't mean shit. As far as the pledging amounts, have you considered the idea that you might just be cheap? If you really want to save money just torrent the thing when it's released. Contributing is not about buying something it's about doing your part for the cause or whatever. That only works of course if you actually believe in the cause. It also helps when the developer is specific enough about their vision that you have some idea of what that cause actually is.

 

Moreso, give it through the Codex fundraiser. $50 will get you a digital copy + an in-game mention. Plus you'll support the Codex!

 

How does it support the Codex?

 

PE seems to stand for penis enlargement, that's the real internal name of the project.

 

In spirit.

The spirit of community.

 

Yeah help us show them who's boss!

 

Seriously though, you support the Codex by memorializing it 4evar in an Obsidian game. OBSIDIAN game. OBSIDIAN GAME.

 

I see no reason for them to make a fake screenshot (which could easily blow up in their faces for a large number of reasons), or to even want one.

As I've said before, their whole pitch has been kind of bland. Their tone especially contrasts with Fargo and Schafer who came across giddy as school girls.

Also, and this is somewhat unfair, there seems to be a lack of artistic vision from Obsidian. Fargo appeared as though he had a clear vision for what he wanted to make even when he wasn't giving out details. Assuming you don't think he's lying or incompetent you had a feeling for what Wasteland 2 would be. He couldn't say party-based turn-based RPG with choices and consequences enough. So we know those are the things he wants to focus on.

What is P:E focusing on? The RTwP combat? The mature themes? Choices and/or consequences? Dialog and story? Is the story going to be more about the main character or a bigger story that he gets swept up in?

I know people like to say Fargo didn't tell us anything about Wasteland 2, but I think he did a better job painting the broadstrokes.

The only things that really has me excited for P:E is Avellone writing things for a brand new world instead of working within a framework of other people's creation, and Tim Cain and Avellone collaborating.

 

I already pledged on KS/Codex and I don't want to change anything there. But seriously, nobody is troubled by the lack of one single screenshot?

 

*Picard Facepalm*

 

http://ingenre.com/2012/10/an-interview-with-chris-avellone/

 

Nothing scary about it, just very bland - you've read one interview with Avellone, you know what he's going to answer.