Eternity Avowed - Obsidian's first person action-RPG in the Pillars of Eternity setting - coming Fall 2024

[Duraframe300]

So Parker is directing this? God I hope Jones is on the project too. Can’t explain why but reading about Avellone talking about how Parker and Jones fucking hated each other and were constantly insulting each other made me so happy.

That this is Parker’s baby, Parker whom Avellone names as being the guy sent to clean up utter dumpsterfires into barely passable games, tells me a lot about how Obsidian views the Pillars IP. No wonder Sawyer is so depressed.

Watch it be Obsidian's best game in a while.

 

[Doktor Best]

2 minutes trailer that doesn't show anything relevant

Me: well no way anybody can make something out of this, better go to sleep

Codex: did you say 14 PAGES?!

Codex is like that guy who pretends he doesn't care about his ex anymore but checks her social media profiles so much at work he already got yelled at by the boss in front of everyone.

 

[Azdul]

Oh there will be mod support, they're already seeing dollars in their eyes, thinking they must replicate Skyrim to the letter. Problem is, this game will suck and have no mods, cause bad games don't get mods.

Many good games also get no mods. It's the issue of how fast modders can start modding. In the case of Skyrim, people were already familiar with the engine from Oblivion and Morrowind, and first mods appeared hours after release. If Obsidian will add mod support 1 year after launch - noone will care.

Also - Skyrim didn't have Denuvo, Uplay, UWP, Epic Game Store exclusivity, day one DLC - all that bullshit that make testing the mod and then finding the people willing to download it unnecessarly hard.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

this won't get mods because modding UE4 games without developer provided tools is too difficult
modding unity games is trivial in comparison

 

[undecaf]

Ultimately it comes down to gameplay. Writing can be serviceable at best, setting can be somewhat generic, but if it is fun to play, if it has reactivity and comprehensive enough systems to make the minute to minute trudging interesting, it is good enough a game.

It’s probably ”fabulously optimistic” to expect that even to a minuscule extent, but I would hope that Obsidian finally took the bull by the horns and started getting creative with their gameplay.

How would real(tm) RPG’s do things systemically in first person.
How to ”gamify” dialog, so it isn’t all the time just the usual choosing of lines with an occasional skillgate.
How to make out-of-combat gameplay interesting, so the game doesn’t devolve solely into an empty walkin sim between combat and dialog sequences, and sink into the grey mass of all the other games exactly alike.

You know, innovate (by todays standards).

#whoamitryingtofool

 

[turkishronin]

Fuck mods
Games should be played as God intended

 

[Joseph Stalin]

2 minutes trailer that doesn't show anything relevant

Me: well no way anybody can make something out of this, better go to sleep

Codex: did you say 14 PAGES?!

Codex is like that guy who pretends he doesn't care about his ex anymore but checks her social media profiles so much at work he already got yelled at by the boss in front of everyone.

Codex criticises cause Codex cares.

 

[thesheeep]

Games should be played as God intended

Exactly.
With mods.
The inclined way of the monocled PC master race.

 

[Wunderbar]

Games should be played as God intended

Exactly.
With mods.
The inclined way of the monocled PC master race.

games should work fine out of box, mods are for the second playthrough.

 

[thesheeep]

Games should be played as God intended

Exactly.
With mods.
The inclined way of the monocled PC master race.

games should work fine out of box, mods are for the second playthrough.

Totally, but the emphasis here is on should.
Very often, they don't.

Or the experience is so sub-par without mods that you don't even want to finish the first playthrough completely vanilla.

 

[Hobo Elf]

So Parker is directing this? God I hope Jones is on the project too. Can’t explain why but reading about Avellone talking about how Parker and Jones fucking hated each other and were constantly insulting each other made me so happy.

That this is Parker’s baby, Parker whom Avellone names as being the guy sent to clean up utter dumpsterfires into barely passable games, tells me a lot about how Obsidian views the Pillars IP. No wonder Sawyer is so depressed.

Watch it be Obsidian's best game in a while.

It'll probably be the best performing Pillars game at least, although being on the Xbox game pass makes measuring this metric a bit more difficult.

 

[Zboj Lamignat]

Very interesting...

(sound of a tumbleweed rolling)

AVOWED - Fampyrs gone Postenago

Lol'ed at this, though.

 

[Kem0sabe]

Saying it now, this will be a smallish spin off. Probably dungeon focused, action oriented, much like Dark Alliance was for Baldur's Gate. Everyone expecting Skyrim will be sorely dissapointed.

 

[Wunderbar]

Saying it now, this will be a smallish spin off. Probably dungeon focused, action oriented, much like Dark Alliance was for Baldur's Gate. Everyone expecting Skyrim will be sorely dissapointed.

matt booty said it's a high budget game, so it's definitely not a smallish spin off.

But I agree, Obsidian can't pull off something like Skyrim. It'll be TOW but with swords and magic.

 

[cvv]

For anyone hyped for this, your epic heroic high-fantasy RPG will be written and designed by these people:

 

[Wunderbar]

For anyone hyped for this, your epic heroic fantasy RPG will be written and designed by these people:

I bet that dinosaur in the middle does 99% of the work.

 

[agentorange]

man could they possibly make this look any more banal? what is wrong with these people

 

[Shaewaroz]

Obsidian is not what it used to be. This will be shit.

 

[KVVRR]

ANOTHER medieval fantasy RPG? Does anybody even care about Pillars as a setting?

 

[cvv]

Obsidian is not what it used to be.

Butthurt by rising female representation in the industry.

Shaewaroz confirmed for bigoted sexist shitlord.

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

Trouble with Obsidian is they went from close-knit band of BIS-brothers, to an 200+ strong wannabe-Bethesda. Blaming this on some green haired chicks is just petty manlet hatred.

And they also fired MCA.

The best thing I can hope for them is making an Alpha Protocol Remake/Remaster.

 

[Flou]

Ultimately it comes down to gameplay. Writing can be serviceable at best, setting can be somewhat generic, but if it is fun to play, if it has reactivity and comprehensive enough systems to make the minute to minute trudging interesting, it is good enough a game.

It’s probably ”fabulously optimistic” to expect that even to a minuscule extent, but I would hope that Obsidian finally took the bull by the horns and started getting creative with their gameplay.

How would real(tm) RPG’s do things systemically in first person.
How to ”gamify” dialog, so it isn’t all the time just the usual choosing of lines with an occasional skillgate.
How to make out-of-combat gameplay interesting, so the game doesn’t devolve solely into an empty walkin sim between combat and dialog sequences, and sink into the grey mass of all the other games exactly alike.

You know, innovate (by todays standards).

#whoamitryingtofool

At least they hired a bunch of new Gameplay programmers for this project as well as beefed up their animation department. I think those two were really lacking in TOW.

They already "gamified" dialog in Alpha Protocol. It's a shame they haven't gone back to that since then.

 

[Verylittlefishes]

guys when I asked yesterday for "game like Deadfire but good" I DIDN'T MEAN IT

 

[Verylittlefishes]

For anyone hyped for this, your epic heroic high-fantasy RPG will be written and designed by these people:

Okay.
And this is the team that developed Planescape: Torment and Fallout 2.

2020, what a time to be alive

 

[Max Heap]

For anyone hyped for this, your epic heroic high-fantasy RPG will be written and designed by these people:

The common femoid prefers juvenile illusions of security and control over the cold and harsh realities of freedom and responsibility. This has been observed in its voting behaviour uncountable times.

Therefore, my dear colleagues, I hypothesize, that the femoids abilities to design RPGs - a setup heavily emphasising the agency of its actors - are therefore at a clear, inherent and potentially biological disadvantage.