Development Info Obsidian's Third Game

[Sol Invictus]

Tags: Obsidian Entertainment

Besides the upcoming Neverwinter Nights 2 and the already released Star Wars: KOTOR - Revenge of the Sith, Obsidian's <b>John Morgan</b> states on the <a href=http://forums.obsidianent.com/index.php?showtopic=28856&st=75>Obsidian Forum</a> that they are currently in pre-production of their third game. Most interesting is his comment about it not being a Bioware hand-me-down.
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<blockquote>Obsidian Entertainment is indeed working on a third project. All I can really say is that it's in a state of pre-production at the moment and it is not a Bioware license.</blockquote>
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He has also clarified that it is NOT a sequel, either.
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<blockquote>It's not a sequel </blockquote>
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Thanks to <b>NeverwinterKnight</b> for pointing this out.
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[Fresh]

On to the (off-)topic of upcoming games.. here´s a little list of Akellas upcoming releases:
http://www.akella.com/en/our_releases.html

I so want to play Metalheart.

 

[DarkUnderlord]

Vampire: The Masquerade - Obsidian Edition.

 

[Andyman Messiah]

Vampire: The Masquerade - Obsidian Edition.

I'd actually support that. But it's a remake and I guess that's pretty much a sequel.

Good for Obsidian I guess. Breaking out from the tyranny of BioWare and making something for themselves.

 

[Sol Invictus]

I do not ever want to see another Vampire game.

 

[Diogo Ribeiro]

You'll likely see one when you least expect it, but it'll probably take some time.

In any case I wish the best of luck to their project. I just hope it won't fall on the easy deathrap of being another medieval fantasy, D&D-esque game.

 

[Andyman Messiah]

I do not ever want to see another Vampire game.

Really? And why is that?

Any setting is good. It's how it turns out that's important. Surely there's not been too many bad vamp games to make you lose your faith?

 

[Sol Invictus]

Because the Vampire setting is fucking gay. Give me sci-fi, or steampunk, robots, or hell, even dwarves and swords. Anything but that pretentious vampire "we're a secret society living among humans" crap. When I think of Vampires I think of Goths and when I think of goths I think, "man, that's fucking gay."

 

[Andyman Messiah]

So how about a vampire game without the goth stuff? Would that make it less "gay"? Ah well...

 

[Diogo Ribeiro]

I have to say I agree with Rex on that - gimme more steampunk and sci-fi games.

FEARGUS GET THE RIGHTS FOR SHADOWRUN OR A GAME LICENSE FOR GIBSON'S NEUROMANCER.

'k, I'm done.

 

[Sol Invictus]

You know, if anyone could pull off a China Mieville game, it's probably Obsidian. Wow wouldn't that be sweet.

 

[DarkSign]

Vamps are cool any way they slice you. Dont hate.

 

[DemonKing]

So basically we can now rule out the following, which were prime contenders:

1. BG3
2. IWD3
3. KOTOR3
4. FO3 (outsourced from Bethesda)

What this doesn't rule out is another D&D game, or maybe something like a "Knights of the New Republic" CRPG.

I have a feeling that Bio will be heavily involved in BG3 anyway - perhaps it'll utilise the DA engine.

 

[Surlent]

I got enough vamps in BL though it was good game. Grim futuristic settings are now the way to go, post modern cyberpunk ala Deus Ex or far future in sense of warhammer 40k for example, hell even that good ol post apoc goes.

But yay for Feargus. Hope it's pure original IP instead of license game. The guy manages to stand on his own feet, impressive Feargus. Shame to tell ya, but these kinda news break his streed cred as Bio's lap dog.

 

[Noviere]

Because the Vampire setting is fucking gay. Give me sci-fi, or steampunk, robots, or hell, even dwarves and swords. Anything but that pretentious vampire "we're a secret society living among humans" crap. When I think of Vampires I think of Goths and when I think of goths I think, "man, that's fucking gay."

When I hear someone say "that's gay," I think "man, that person cant be older than 15."

 

[Balor]

Derelict? Well, even if it's outdated, remeber fantasy. Now THAT's outdated! Put people love it.
Same here, I guess.

 

[Diogo Ribeiro]

Cyberpunk is a derelict from the 80s. It sucks big time.

No. You lose.

R00fles!

Next.

Anybody who likes cyberpunk is an unrepentant onanist self-abuser.

And I also do impersonations on Saturday evenings!

 

[Fresh]

Cyberpunk is a derelict from the 80s. It sucks big time. Anybody who likes cyberpunk is an unrepentant onanist self-abuser.

Is there a 2005 TROLL Award-event coming up soon?

 

[Sarkile]

I don't see what's wrong with the Vampire setting. I liked it in Bloodlines.

 

[Sol Invictus]

Cyberpunk is a derelict from the 80s.

I guess that's why The Baroque Cycle and Otherland are among the best selling fantasy/sci-fi novels available right now.

It sucks big time. Anybody who likes cyberpunk is an unrepentant onanist self-abuser.

You couldn't be a more obvious troll even if you tried.

 

[Kthan75]

I liked Vampire's setting. More than that, I have a friend who used to dislike rpgs, said they were boring and that you talk too much (of, course, he finished Diablo 2 twice ... ). When he saw me play Vampire, he wanted to give it a try and he really liked it (probably one good reason for this was that it was entirely voice-acted and he didn't have to read anything... but anyway). After that I got him to play KOTOR 1 & 2 and he liked those too. Now I'm trying to convince him to try BG2 by telling him that it's more action-oriented than Fallout2, which he finished, but didn't enjoy that much (too much reading, I guess...)

 

[Avin]

we need a decent DEADLANDS game.

come on feargus, you can do it... pretty please?

there was on deadlands in development some time ago... i don't know what happened to it.

btw, vampire setting is not gay, althought i'd reather play steampunk and cyberpunk.

for the old WOD the only game i really care about is mage... but this is an impossible conversion from p&p to pc.

 

[Avin]

hey, a blad runner crpg would make me love obsidian forever.

 

[Naked_Lunch]

A Darklands-esque RPG would be totally balls.

 

[Sarkile]

Out of the old world of darkness games I think Wraith would also make for a good crpg.