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

boss. I should reread the KS updates. fetch me the vodka and orange juice

 

Im rather happy about the choices for political entities of the game. Seems pleasingly diverse, yet not overpopulated. New republics are themselves consisting of smaller specific locations, some slightly separated form others, or fractured. Towns, places, caves, dungeons, forests, glens and all that.
Love the complexity of relations of all those nations and parts of old ones, with remnants of other things in the wild.

if they manage to realize those ideas into gameplay itself as much as its described in updates, its might be pretty awesome stuff.

 

Sawyer is a gay liberal

of course it's gonna go that route

 

Had a feeling it would be a filler update.

What do people know about this Brandon Adler ?

from what I can find

Obsidian
QA 2006-2008
QA Lead 2008-2009
Assistant Producer 2009-2012
Junior Designer 2012 (South Park)
Left Company (probably laid off)

Designer/Producer at MEDL Mobile

Hired again in June

No statement of an update break this time, so we will probably get a meaty update next week.

 

Josh Sawyer, brief bit about enchanting metals.

http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/64005-update-57-hello-again-for-the-first-time/#entry1344336

from SA

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3506352&userid=17931

 

Vine? Is this a real thing? I must be getting old because it sounds like a parody of a hot new app.

Short looping videos? They're called gifs, Ed.

 

Screenshot of the updated Prototype village from one of the vine movies.
3 new buildings to the top there.

 

But they have sound, so they're incalculably more annoying.

 

https://vine.co/v/hzA9pUt97de

Video showing some staff members of P:E

Steve Weatherly and Tim Cain in a room together. Jorge Salgado. Polina Hristova. Kazunori Aruga, Sean Dunny and a shot of Hector Espinoza's head.

 

Let the inevitable Bioware-styled PC-moralizing commence.

 

the first thing I dislike about PE since they decided to use mostly-conventional fantasy races with dumbfuck conlang names: man, animats look lame even in concept art. you could even work in a reference to old IE/Forgotten Realms/D&D shit by having empty suits of armor, and the Legacy of Kain fans would nod approval.

ugh am I turning into a codexian I don't care if a few of your monsters look dumb PE my problems with your conlang dwarves go deeper--

question: is it better to rename or to redefine a fantasy race? personally, I prefer redefinition. it requires a lot less paging space in my mind to remember "In Dark Sun, dwarves have no beards" than it does to remember "In Dark Sun, find'hargg are short, stout humanoids without beards." I'm all about a minimization of imaginary words. all hack fantasy settings use them and are worse for them. it's one of the few places Dragon Age fiction definitely goes right, in avoiding rebranding recognizable fantasy concepts.

 

Just like that other game Sawyer was head designer on, Fallout: New Vegas. Totally Biowarized man.

 

The one lesson Sawyer could take from Bioware is "your party NPCs need to be very present." The one thing he won't lead his game into is clear moral choices. You know that TVTropes entry on the Golden Ending? No Obsidian game should have an entry, unless it's subverted.

 

NNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

Can i still withdraw my pledge

edit: oh wait, i thought you wrote confederate america, had flashbacks to all the shitty civil war themed books i've read.

 

see this is the fantasy bullshit

 

I admit that I do not like the name "Animat" but I will wait and see the in-game model and fight the creature before I decide whether it is shit or good.

I do however trust in George Ziets to bring the incline, and his conceptual and area design should be good.

 

Nice dude, posted on the forums from time to time IIRC. I think he had to go into design to keep his job (as they were full on producers), but even that didn't work out, when the layoffs came.

 

I do like Animats. Malekith puts it in the Obsidian forums well

If you had access to souls as an actual thing, and you experimented with them, trying to bind or capture it in objects would be a logical step somewhere down the line. If you could produce a supply of soldiers with it even better.

That said, this would have to be done in secret and be a major moral issue in the world.

 

Animats remind me of:



Damn, that game was classy from beginning to the end.

 

Is that the Codex Brennecke is browsing?

https://vine.co/v/hzmabYV2mlP

I hope the locations in the game will be as good as the source material they got:

https://vine.co/v/hznBYZi37dV

 

MALAAAK, TO MEEE! fuckin Blood Omen was so fuckin fine

 

I'm kind of expecting the New Vegas thing where Sawyer has all this shit in his head about the factions which he will disgorge on Something Awful and Formspring when almost none of it is evident in the game. A solid 90% of the stuff about the Legion on the Fallout wiki is based on forum posts.