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

[Perkel]

so it's dead 2 years no footage trailer or anything.

 

[Cyberarmy]

 

[NaturallyCarnivorousSheep]

Microsoft employees failing out of the windows every time Feargus comes in, his ginormous body generating gravitational force and turbulences. Several years or his snack budget being about 3/4th of Microsoft's budgets made him what he became.

 

[Zombra]

is this game fucking dead?

I wanted to say that maybe they're just low-keying it and focusing on development, but then I remember that Obsidian had dev diaries for Grounded every 20 minutes. So I don't know what to think.

 

[Roguey]

is this game fucking dead?

I wanted to say that maybe they're just low-keying it and focusing on development, but then I remember that Obsidian had dev diaries for Grounded every 20 minutes. So I don't know what to think.

It's been through dev hell and it's Too Big to Fail. They'll keep chipping away at it until they get something they can ship; it's hypothetically possible Bioware/CD Projekt Magic will turn into Obsidian Magic.

 

[baud]

Microsoft employees failing out of the windows every time Feargus comes in, his ginormous body generating gravitational force and turbulences. Several years or his snack budget being about 3/4th of Microsoft's budgets made him what he became.

or Feargus's gotten so fat that that's he's creating a gravitational pull strong enough that time is slowed in his vicinity.

 

[CthuluIsSpy]

Microsoft employees failing out of the windows every time Feargus comes in, his ginormous body generating gravitational force and turbulences. Several years or his snack budget being about 3/4th of Microsoft's budgets made him what he became.

or Feargus's gotten so fat that that's he's creating a gravitational pull strong enough that time is slowed in his vicinity.

I've heard he keeps thinking that the game discs are pies, so he keeps eating them.
I heard it from a guy who knows a guy at Obsidian in a dream.

 

[Tenebris]

At least they can't fuck it up any worse than Deadfire right?

 

[Riddler]

At least they can't fuck it up any worse than Deadfire right?

You didn't play Outer worlds I presume?

 

[Tenebris]

At least they can't fuck it up any worse than Deadfire right?

You didn't play Outer worlds I presume?

I have I'm trying my best to forget.

 

[Roguey]

Last week someone on the mostly-dead Obsidian forums noticed Jez the shill had some more Avowed news https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/128398-avowed-development-issues/?do=findComment&comment=2344950

Jez Corden (notable Xbox podcaster) stated in his podcast (link below) that initially Obsidian felt like they needed to reach Bethesda level of features for Avowed (by adding additional stuff like 4-player coop) because they wanted to impress Microsoft. However, they later realized that they're a much smaller studio compared to Bethesda's massive workforce and had to curtail their ambitious plans.


Jez later clarified that Obsidian actually changed the direction of the game's development by focusing only on features that they're familiar with (such as deeper RPG mechanics and branching storylines). They're basically aiming to make Avowed a drastically enhanced version of the Outer Worlds. If you ask me, this seems like a positive direction for the game's development. Fingers crossed...

Multiplayer out (why was it even in?), open world out. Pie-in-the-sky features wish list, curbed. Gotta ship something.

 

[Ryzer]

enhanced version of the Outer Worlds.

Wow, they are already aiming this low.

 

[thesecret1]

A drastically enhanced version of shit, huh? Can't wait.

 

[Jedi Master Radek]

Bethesda level of features

 

[Fedora Master]

A drastically enhanced version of shit, huh? Can't wait.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kin_no_unko

 

[thesecret1]

A drastically enhanced version of shit, huh? Can't wait.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kin_no_unko

In that case, the shit is made of pure gold. In case of this game, I fear the shit will be simply made of shit.

 

[RepHope]

At this point MS would be impressed just to have a game to ship given how fucking slow they are at getting games out

 

[AwesomeButton]

Microsoft need to come to terms with the fact that Obsidian are a company that only operates at a pre-pandemic, pre-recession pace. Come to work at noon, have a latte in a meeting, check your twitter, get an afternoon coffee, chat with colleagues and go home to rest for the next day.

 

[SharkClub]

open world out.

Isn't this the only reason anyone gave a shit about Avowed existing to begin with? Because there are so, so few open world first person games in the Bethesda style of gameplay? You get rid of the open world element with Avowed and the game becomes completely (as opposed to just mostly) irrelevant.

 

[Roguey]

open world out.

Isn't this the only reason anyone gave a shit about Avowed existing to begin with? Because there are so, so few open world first person games in the Bethesda style of gameplay? You get rid of the open world element with Avowed and the game becomes completely irrelevant.

Nah. How many games are like this? We're not exactly drowning in first-person Greedfalls (or other games like Greedfall for that matter, which helped that title become Spiders's biggest success).

 

[rusty_shackleford]

microsoft needs to come to terms with the fact that gamedevs have to be beaten and emotionally manipulated to get work done or else they will do nothing

 

[Delterius]

Bethesda level of features

people always say skyrim is wide as an ocean, deep as a puddle

turns out diggin' an ocean-wide puddle is still a lot of work

 

[Mr. Magniloquent]

I bet M$ shelved Avowed to reallocate that team to Grounded 2.

It seems all it took was different management for Obsidian to finally find its voice.

 

[Roguey]

Bethesda level of features

people always say skyrim is wide as an ocean, deep as a puddle

turns out diggin' an ocean-wide puddle is still a lot of work

Bethesda has benefited a great deal from making Morrowind back in the early 2000s and just building on top of that for the past two decades. Not so easy to make Skyrim from scratch. As much as people hate Bethbryo, they can't get rid of it.

 

[good fucking shit happen]

Microsoft bosses are fucking retarded. They own Bethesda, they own Obsidian, put two and two together fuckwits. CDPR bois are dead in the water after they ran out of RealityPump devs to exploit so Ubisoft is the only competition in town right now. Just have Obsidian pump out stand-alone expansion packs of NetImmerse games. The fuck are they doing reinventing the wheel over there?