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Obsidian General Discussion Thread

RepHope

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Obsidian working on a project to be announced this E3/VGA
1) lead narrative designer (march 2020 - present) - an upcoming, hush-hush project
2) cinematics director (may 2020 - present) - unannounced project, cinematic design + direction + presentation + performance direction
3) senior software engineer (november 2019 - present) - working on an unannounced project at Obsidian to help develop a prototype game proposal. Molding an existing code base to fit new requirements as well as writing new code to fit the needs of the project. The team is incredibly small and agile with frequent shifting of goals and priorities. I'm the primary engineering resource for the project's needs. These needs include console platform support, build systems, engine feature support, and new feature development.


Most likely it's cancelled Stormlands since they were making it with Microsoft
https://www.denofgeek.com/games/obsidian-reveals-cancelled-xbox-exclusive-called-stormlands/
I doubt they’re working on two fantasy games since they’re making Avowed.
 

LizardWizard

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good, Tyranny

Nah

Combat is so fucking bad. And the well-written parts are few and far between between the shit like 'Kills-in-Shadow'. The reactivity is also a joke, as the base gameplay is so bad you're better off just using a previous save before committing to a specific path.

Seriously, stop trying to be edgy newfags
 

Butter

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I probably like Tyranny more than most on the Codex, and it's really not any better than OK. Definitely not as good as Pillars or Alpha Protocol. In an alternate universe where they had the time and money to make a complete game with more than 2 enemy types, maybe it would be great.
 
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Codex Year of the Donut
only thing I really liked about tyranny was the magic system but it was still a bit half-baked and unfinished, would have preferred if they expanded upon it in deadfire though
 

Vormulak

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good, Tyranny

Nah

Combat is so fucking bad. And the well-written parts are few and far between between the shit like 'Kills-in-Shadow'. The reactivity is also a joke, as the base gameplay is so bad you're better off just using a previous save before committing to a specific path.

Seriously, stop trying to be edgy newfags
The writing for the dialogue is indeed meh and the combat may be mediocre but the reactivity is very well done and very thorough.
 

Heinrich

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Dude is 45 and was healthy before. You can be a high functioning alcoholic almost until your natural death if you start that late as long as you don't completely overdo it.
 

Spacer's Nugget

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Strap Yourselves In
Unannounced Obsidian Action-RPG
Released: N/A

Developer: Obsidian Entertainment

Platform: PC/Consoles

Engine: UE3

Genre: Action-RPG

Role: Narrative Lead

Can’t say much about this one because it was canceled before it was announced, but my role on it included:

  • Designing and prototyping a real-time reactive dialogue system that allowed for players to “walk and talk” with their companions, including “timed” replies for if you didn’t chat back at them

  • Adapting a well-known IP for a Pixar-inspired storyline

  • Writing and developing the main cast and narrative elements

  • Cutscene development

  • Level and creature support
If there’s one canceled project that I wish I could actually finish, it would have been this one.

Sauce: https://bmitsoda.com/portfolio/project-six-mwkbs
 

Belegarsson

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Steve gets a Kidney but I don't even get a tag.


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vortex

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Somebody said they're not working on Pillars 3 yet. Pillars 3 will come after Avowed is done, if at all.

I'd rather they start something new than TOW2 or have some radical and extreme changes around it in all possible sections.
 
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Quillon

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amazing if the oldfags actually sidelined by carrie patel, serves them right for making a shit game but still lmao
 

Roguey

Codex Staff
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If Klobrille had insider knowledge he'd know that Parker was kicked off Avowed and replaced with Patel. Who knows who's leading TOW 2? :M
 

Flou

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If Klobrille had insider knowledge he'd know that Parker was kicked off Avowed and replaced with Patel. Who knows who's leading TOW 2? :M

Klobrille doesn't have sources inside Obsidian, he has source(s) at Microsoft. Or at least had.
Some other guy had a better source at both Obsidian and InXile. Though he has been quiet for a while now.
 

Ging_Sama

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I just want to know how many people are on Avowed.

badler Phil last time said, the majority of the studio was on Avowed, can you confirm has it's peak it will have +100 internal dev on this ? Or it will be more TOW size ?
 

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