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

[Reinhardt]

edgy anti hero that murders the bad guys out of rage cause he identifies as a strong black woman from previous life

Like in PoE?

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Additionally, merit was never how people advanced at Obsidian to start with, why start now?

Too bad they missed the point that obsidian was founded entirely due to merit...

 

[Roguey]

Additionally, merit was never how people advanced at Obsidian to start with, why start now?

Too bad they missed the point that obsidian was founded entirely due to merit...

I don't understand what you mean. Black Isle imploded due to Interplay's mismanagement so three pals pooled their money together to start their own studio and then two additional Chrises chipped in as minor partners.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Additionally, merit was never how people advanced at Obsidian to start with, why start now?

Too bad they missed the point that obsidian was founded entirely due to merit...

I don't understand what you mean. Black Isle imploded due to Interplay's mismanagement so three pals pooled their money together to start their own studio and then two additional Chrises chipped in as minor partners.

Black Isle folded because of Interplay, not because of Black Isle.
Urquhart left Black Isle and took talent with him to found a new studio that didn't suffer due to the ineptness of a parent company.

 

[Roguey]

Black Isle folded because of Interplay, not because of Black Isle.
Urquhart left Black Isle and took talent with him to found a new studio that didn't suffer due to the ineptness of a parent company.

Just their own ineptness.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Black Isle folded because of Interplay, not because of Black Isle.
Urquhart left Black Isle and took talent with him to found a new studio that didn't suffer due to the ineptness of a parent company.

Just their own ineptness.

Of their first 4 released games(including DLC,) 3 are now considered all-time classics.
According to Ziets, Dungeon Siege 3 had a lot of publisher meddling which is how it resulted in what it is. But hey, nice boobs.
Stick of Truth may not be liked here, but it was extremely well received(remains the highest rated Obsidian game on Steam at this time with a 97%(!) review score, beating FNV's 96%) and probably the best-selling game Obsidian made(in terms of near-release full-price sales) until Grounded's unexpected success.

 

[Roguey]

Of their first 4 released games(including DLC,) 3 are now considered all-time classics.

And as Avellone put it during his May of Rage, they succeeded in spite of the owners, not because of them.

According to Ziets, Dungeon Siege 3 had a lot of publisher meddling which is how it resulted in what it is. But hey, nice boobs.

The meddling with regard to narrative came from Feargus himself who became even worse when it came to their DSIV pitch according to Avellone.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Of their first 4 released games(including DLC,) 3 are now considered all-time classics.

And as Avellone put it during his May of Rage, they succeeded in spite of the owners, not because of them.

According to Ziets, Dungeon Siege 3 had a lot of publisher meddling which is how it resulted in what it is. But hey, nice boobs.

The meddling with regard to narrative came from Feargus himself who became even worse when it came to their DSIV pitch according to Avellone.

Feargus' strength was never his ability to actually make a game. He should have stayed out of the design process and stuck to what he does best, eating food and mediating disputes between socially inept nerds who can actually make games. Well, I guess he stuck to one of those.

 

[Ryzer]

Hey guys I heard Black Isles staff reunited in a new company known as Obsidian, how are RPGs going?
How is the new Planescape Torment?

...
2022:

 

[vortex]

Is an oath worth the weight of a crown ?
Once you were a hero,a watcher, then you turned into a king or queen but with that came pride, disparity and sin. Now your kingdom is in ruins, war, enemies surrounding you even from within your walls. A new hero must rise and reforge the kingdom.
What do you think?

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

Seriously, out of all dangerhairs they could pick from, they gave lead to the worst one.

PST: What can change the nature of the man.
F1: War never changes
FNV: The game was rigged from the start
Avowed: lol I'm like so awkward you know hehehe

 

[AwesomeButton]

I watched about 3 hrs of RK47's LP of the Outer Worlds, and I dread to see what they will shit out with Avowed, seriously.

 

[Ryzer]

Don't worry, Obshitian never fails to deliver.

 

[RepHope]

How does the good ol’ boy structure of the founders coexist with the SJW retards of nuObsidian I wonder? Why would they hire these dangerhairs over their fellow white men, and even promote them? Feargus doesn’t strike me as that progressive. Patel and Dollahyde fucking blow, is there truly no one else at Obsidian capable of stepping up now?

Patel was hired because Fenstermaker got along with her and Avellone made the claim that at this point the owners would only ever hire a person if Eric liked them after what happened with Gonzalez. Beyond that point, it's just a case of getting more applications from these kinds of people. It's a zeitgeist; a lot more women are applying and getting jobs in the game industry, almost all the guys are cringelibs/lefties. Being cringelibs themselves, the current middle-managers are just going with the flow. Additionally, merit was never how people advanced at Obsidian to start with, why start now?

Refresh my memory: what happened with Gonzalez?

 

[Roguey]

Refresh my memory: what happened with Gonzalez?

I don’t blame Eric for not being able to change any of these things – I do think he provided guidance to a lot of new Eternity writers, and we did work to accommodate him after New Vegas.

But before you think I’m being overly magnanimous, Eric absolutely drove away a lot of talented writers (esp. John Gonzalez – Shadow over Mordor, Horizon Zero Dawn), although John likely wouldn’t ever admit to the fact that Eric hated him; also, we were forced to isolate Eric from John’s Lead Writer responsibilities (which was a failure on our part, but I wasn’t in charge of New Vegas, which had a lot of inner development conflicts across the board).

Even more after John left, we actually changed our hiring procedure to cater to Eric on Eternity, since we knew if he didn’t approve of a writer, you might as well set a torch any writer that worked with him.

Overall, I thought John was a great writer.

When I talked to Eric about the perspectives on John (since no one else had), his solution was, “let’s just divide New Vegas tasks so John and I never have to interact with each other,” which was like, that moment where all the sound evaporates from the room and all you see is the other person’s lips moving, but you can’t bring yourself to acknowledge what they’re saying. I mean, the person you're denouncing - he’s your Lead. He’s a good writer. So are you. Try to meet in the middle. But – no, that was not to be.

Despite the situation, John turned in his notice (which also broke me a little more) and went on to bigger and better things – Mordor, Horizon: Zero Dawn. Kudos to him, but a huge loss for Obsidian in writing talent (much like George Ziets and Travis Stout). All could have been prevented, imo.

 

[Mauman]

Hey guys I heard Black Isles staff reunited in a new company known as Obsidian, how are RPGs going?
How is the new Planescape Torment?

...
2022:

This hurts a lot more than I thought it would.

 

[Fedora Master]

I watched about 3 hrs of RK47's LP of the Outer Worlds, and I dread to see what they will shit out with Avowed, seriously.

Whatever it will be, you can be sure there will be a lot of very angry posters with very loose buttons to defend the honoure of the devs.

 

[CthuluIsSpy]

I bet all of my money that this will be set ages before POE so they don't have to add flintlock guns.

guns in pillars are matchlock, not flintlock

Kind of, its weird.
The long arms are matchlocks (they are called arquebus), but there were no such thing as matchlock pistols. That's more of a wheel lock/flintlock thing.
Which really doesn't make sense if you're familiar with the history of arms development but that's how it is.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

I bet all of my money that this will be set ages before POE so they don't have to add flintlock guns.

guns in pillars are matchlock, not flintlock

Kind of, its weird.
The long arms are matchlocks (they are called arquebus), but there were no such thing as matchlock pistols. That's more of a wheel lock/flintlock thing.
Which really doesn't make sense if you're familiar with the history of arms development but that's how it is.

Word of God is they're wheellock.
https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/60265-please-no-guns/page/2/#comment-1192544

 

[CthuluIsSpy]

I bet all of my money that this will be set ages before POE so they don't have to add flintlock guns.

guns in pillars are matchlock, not flintlock

Kind of, its weird.
The long arms are matchlocks (they are called arquebus), but there were no such thing as matchlock pistols. That's more of a wheel lock/flintlock thing.
Which really doesn't make sense if you're familiar with the history of arms development but that's how it is.

Word of God is they're wheellock.
https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/60265-please-no-guns/page/2/#comment-1192544

Huh, strange, the sprite looked more like a flintlock to me, but if they're wheellock they're wheellock I guess.
Also, why the aversion towards firearms in fantasy? I don't get that.

 

[AwesomeButton]

I watched about 3 hrs of RK47's LP of the Outer Worlds, and I dread to see what they will shit out with Avowed, seriously.

Whatever it will be, you can be sure there will be a lot of very angry posters with very loose buttons to defend the honoure of the devs.

Really? At this point I don't imagine there is much of a fan club left.

 

[Nano]

According to Ziets, Dungeon Siege 3 had a lot of publisher meddling which is how it resulted in what it is. But hey, nice boobs.

Ziets actually said the meddling came from those above his paygrade.

 

[Nano]

Hey guys I heard Black Isles staff reunited in a new company known as Obsidian, how are RPGs going?
How is the new Planescape Torment?

...
2022:

This hurts a lot more than I thought it would.

Mask of the Betrayer is better than Torment. You're 15 years late.

 

[FreeKaner]

Huh, strange, the sprite looked more like a flintlock to me, but if they're wheellock they're wheellock I guess.
Also, why the aversion towards firearms in fantasy? I don't get that.

Because of perception of history of most people. The way people generally see it as is you have medieval era, then guns get invented and it's redcoats and then steamboats and Victorian era. So basically that means you have medieval fantasy, steampunk, dieselpunk and cyberpunk. Might as well call medieval fantasy swordpunk at this point, not that it would be inaccurate either considering that what passes as "medieval" is basically an even combination of anything from 12th century to basically 17th century minus the guns. You have people wearing armor from 16th century that was specifically designed with guns in mind or weapons like rapiers that only existed concurrently with guns while guns are conspicuously absent. Not to mention all the architecture & towns etc. are less medieval and more post-renaissance.

 

[CthuluIsSpy]

Yeah I noticed that. Like, Pathfinder has bombs, rapiers and plate armor, even though those all coexisted with firearms. Plate armor even reached its peak when arquebus were introduced.
It's as if people have this weird idea that magic retards technological progress, even though castles, swords and armour are all products of technology. I'd argue the contrary; magic would accelerate technological progress as one would be able to use magic as a "shortcut" to advances such as electrical power, heavier than air flight, automatons in the forms of golems, as well as being a tool in studying various natural processes.

It's why I like Shadowrun; I found that setting does a good job at exploring such a concept and doesn't fall into the magic/tech dichotomy that people seems to suffer from.