Eternity Avowed - Obsidian's first person action-RPG in the Pillars of Eternity setting - coming February 18th

[Roguey]

I don't think this is true. There are multiple ways to make a first person RPG, and they deliberately choose to go with how the post-bethesda fallouts played, not just New Vegas. I mentioned the VATS earlier but it really is just Fallout 4's VATS system that they threw into the game because "it's supposed to be there" with just a handwave as to why you can do it.

If you're making a real time adaptation of a turn based game, a slow-mo/active pause mode seems sensible. Other action rpgs also have a similar feature (Mass Effect trilogy, Witcher 2 and 3, Divinity 2, Spiders's games)

They very obviously planned to introduce a faction disguise system early on before cutting the feature to its barest bones, ending up having to lampshade the whole thing.

This dates back to the original Fallout with the cathedral robes.

Even fluff, like Doc Mitchell's unique dialogue for the highest or lowest SPECIAL stats is replicated by Phineas on the character creator screen.

Fallout had attribute checks in dialogue.

 

[skaraher]

I don't think this is true. There are multiple ways to make a first person RPG, and they deliberately choose to go with how the post-bethesda fallouts played, not just New Vegas. I mentioned the VATS earlier but it really is just Fallout 4's VATS system that they threw into the game because "it's supposed to be there" with just a handwave as to why you can do it.

If you're making a real time adaptation of a turn based game, a slow-mo/active pause mode seems sensible. Other action rpgs also have a similar feature (Mass Effect trilogy, Witcher 2 and 3, Divinity 2, Spiders's games)

They very obviously planned to introduce a faction disguise system early on before cutting the feature to its barest bones, ending up having to lampshade the whole thing.

This dates back to the original Fallout with the cathedral robes.

Even fluff, like Doc Mitchell's unique dialogue for the highest or lowest SPECIAL stats is replicated by Phineas on the character creator screen.

Fallout had attribute checks in dialogue.

Fallout 2 enclave armor also worked as a faction disguise.

 

[AwesomeButton]

Yet making a game on the level of Starfield is far beyond the ability of Obsidian. Are Obsidian basically screwed?

Yes, that's why Patel is blabbering about "bespoke" (twitterati's favorite word for some reason) "hand-crafted adventures". Damage control before the first gameplay is even released.

 

[frajaq]

Avowed bros did the hype die...?

 

[Roguey]

Avowed bros did the hype die...?

There's no news whatsoever so not talking about it at all is the proper course of action.

 

[Zeriel]

Avowed bros did the hype die...?

It ever had hype in the first place?

 

[Perkel]

I mean from what they presented it looked more like Outer Worlds but with swords than legit RPG to follow.
also they have Outer Worlds 2 to make.

I just really hope that MS acquisition gave them enough funding to finally make something according to their design fully and still something ambitious.

 

[cvv]

Now every Obsidian game seems to have the dangerhair color palette.

 

[ADL]

I'm still coping that Outer Worlds was a result of it being a smaller Private Division label game. Doesn't excuse the writing but it might excuse the scale. Avowed and The Outer Worlds 2 may still be large, ambitious productions.

 

[Fedora Master]

Avowed bros did the hype die...?

It ever had hype in the first place?

Fabricated by (((certain people))) maybe

 

[StrongBelwas]

I'm still coping that Outer Worlds was a result of it being a smaller Private Division label game. Doesn't excuse the writing but it might excuse the scale. Avowed and The Outer Worlds 2 may still be large, ambitious productions.

Outer Worlds 2, probably. Avowed has already been cut down from what they were planning to begin with. Will probably still end up being larger than Outer Worlds uno but that is a relatively low bar for RPGs.

 

[Butter]

If you can stomach the weapons grade cringe, you'll be reminded that they were priming their audience for "We're AA guys! This is going to be another unambitious product." from the outset of TOW2.

 

[Child of Malkav]

Well, I mean, the tow 2 trailer was pretty funny.

 

[Dr1f7]

Obsidian is a epic video game developer known for their really really good story telling and writing skills. Obsidian have made reknowned games like such as Planetescape: Tournament, Neverwinter Knights: Shadow of Kel'Thuzad, Dragon Age 2, South Park: Swearing is funny, and Skyrim 2 (currently in development).

The head writer of Obsidian is a mysterious figure known only as MCA. Not much is known about MCA, but rumors hold that this person identifies as 'incel', which could explain their penchant for jamming stupid obtuse adolescent-esque 'subversive' bullshit into their narratives, which other self-identifying 'incels' seem to love. MCA seems to also have Gerontophilia (an abnormal attraction to grannies), evidenced by the annoying bitch "Kraya" from Obsidian's "Start Wars: Kings of the Old Liberal 2", who lectures the player for flirting with Handmaiden and Lady Darth Vader, the game's two babes, and generally acts as a self-insert to project MCA's mental illness.

to be continued

 

[Yosharian]

Obsidian is a epic video game developer known for their really really good story telling and writing skills. Obsidian have made reknowned games like such as Planetescape: Tournament, Neverwinter Knights: Shadow of Kel'Thuzad, Dragon Age 2, South Park: Swearing is funny, and Skyrim 2 (currently in development).

The head writer of Obsidian is a mysterious figure known only as MCA. Not much is known about MCA, but rumors hold that this person identifies as 'incel', which could explain their penchant for jamming stupid obtuse adolescent-esque 'subversive' bullshit into their narratives, which other self-identifying 'incels' seem to love. MCA seems to also have Gerontophilia (an abnormal attraction to grannies), evidenced by the annoying bitch "Kraya" from Obsidian's "Start Wars: Kings of the Old Liberal 2", who lectures the player for flirting with Handmaiden and Lady Darth Vader, the game's two babes, and generally acts as a self-insert to project MCA's mental illness.

to be continued

I got more enjoyment from this than from the writing in TOW

 

[Shaki]

Obsidian is a epic video game developer known for their really really good story telling and writing skills. Obsidian have made reknowned games like such as Planetescape: Tournament, Neverwinter Knights: Shadow of Kel'Thuzad, Dragon Age 2, South Park: Swearing is funny, and Skyrim 2 (currently in development).

The head writer of Obsidian is a mysterious figure known only as MCA. Not much is known about MCA, but rumors hold that this person identifies as 'incel', which could explain their penchant for jamming stupid obtuse adolescent-esque 'subversive' bullshit into their narratives, which other self-identifying 'incels' seem to love. MCA seems to also have Gerontophilia (an abnormal attraction to grannies), evidenced by the annoying bitch "Kraya" from Obsidian's "Start Wars: Kings of the Old Liberal 2", who lectures the player for flirting with Handmaiden and Lady Darth Vader, the game's two babes, and generally acts as a self-insert to project MCA's mental illness.

to be continued

This sounds like something written by LLM trained exclusively on Codex forum data

 

[Roguey]

If you can stomach the weapons grade cringe, you'll be reminded that they were priming their audience for "We're AA guys! This is going to be another unambitious product." from the outset of TOW2.

That's a "We have nothing to show but they told us to make a cinematic trailer" trailer outright stating it as such.

 

[Butter]

If you can stomach the weapons grade cringe, you'll be reminded that they were priming their audience for "We're AA guys! This is going to be another unambitious product." from the outset of TOW2.

That's a "We have nothing to show but they told us to make a cinematic trailer" trailer outright stating it as such.

And the subtext is "We're total outsiders. Just like the players, we're aware of how formulaic all these big budget game trailers are."

 

[Bulo]

It's like Skyrim with guns

 

[Bulo]

^ This actually makes me want to play it btw

 

[cvv]

Well, I mean, the tow 2 trailer was pretty funny.

If nothing else it's novel and competently made.

But you also see the priorities - they don't have the characters or gameplay or anything else but they already know there'll be lots and lots of magenta and cyan everywhere. As if to say "our game has no hair, can't dye it, but we have another way to wave our tribal colors".

 

[fantadomat]

It is interesting how micropenis bought all those game dev studios and haven't produced anything even of low value in the last few years. Seems that they are going the bathesda rout of producing mediocre garbage for hundreds of millions of production value.

 

[Lacrymas]

It's more like they've become so big they can't govern themselves efficiently anymore, so everything takes at least twice as long and is 3 times more expensive.

 

[Morality Games]

Josh Sawyer is the only guy at Obsidian who has ever been efficient, but they can't (or won't) use him for every project.

 

[StrongBelwas]

It's more like they've become so big they can't govern themselves efficiently anymore, so everything takes at least twice as long and is 3 times more expensive.

Probably true, but it's not like smaller developers move much faster nowadays. The whole business just got slow.