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Eternity Avowed - Obsidian's first person action-RPG in the Pillars of Eternity setting - coming February 18th
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Mightmagic
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Does this imply that Obsidian will never make old-school RPGs again and only focus on ARPGs?Yeah, I can't imagine an isometric RPG selling well. Deadfire is better than POE1 (IMO), and the reason POE1 sold well is because there was a lot of hype about infinity engine games returning, and the kickstarter itself being on the news everywhere. There were even celebrities playing it on Twitch. And suddenly everyone had their fill once POE came out (also IMO). Codex says POE was nowhere close to infinity engine games quality (writing, combat), sure, maybe true enough. If Avowed sells < 300k copies though this comment will age like milk and I'll have to eat a shoe.Just take a look, we are arguing whether Obsidian's PR is dancing at the edge of the razorblade of deceptive marketing for multiple projects in a row, or beyond the edge.
Genuine conversation I had with a "certain significant other" person:
- What trailer is this?
- That's Avowed, Obsidian's own Skyrim, set in their own IP.
- Oh.., it's in the PIllars universe... But why is it first person?
- Well, they've decided to target a more mainstream audience.
- But Pillars was isometric, then Deadfire was isometric, and now this is first person... why?
- Deadfire didn't sell that well.
- But the reason for Deadfire not selling well was Pillars, not the fact it was isometric!
- Yeah, but Obsidian have instead taken it as a sign that they have to make the next game first person and this will fix sales numbers.
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No noeed to lie to yourself, isometric rpg never sells well. it has become a niche genre for almost 20 years now.
Immortal
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What Briar essentially said:
"The game will be improved before it's released"
What 'y00t00be personalities' write:
HUGE LEAK !! OBSIDIAN SPEAKS OUT ON NAZI FORUM!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AVOWED SAVED?!~~
Kem0sabe
Arcane
Imagine being forced to admit that your game is so far from release that it's not even in an alpha state, that the graphics are provisional... Because no one actually got excited about what they saw.
This right after your big "gameplay" reveal showcase and when MS is struggling to release games and shake off the reputation of mismanagement, delays and mediocrity.
People over at Xbox are likely not happy.
CyberWhale
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But yeah, he's not going to post again anytime soon.
I know who Briar Diem is (figured it out on my own, he didn't tell me). I'd say he's too senior an employee to be fired over this (assuming they know who he is).
Yosharian
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Just wait till the blue hairs find out about this, they are going to screech and wail until Obsidian is forced to let him go
But yeah, he's not going to post again anytime soon.
I know who Briar Diem is (figured it out on my own, he didn't tell me). I'd say he's too senior an employee to be fired over this (assuming they know who he is).
Immortal
Arcane
Don't leave us in suspense.. do ~they~ know or not? You are our delegation to ~them~ after all - Oh.. wait... you meant Obsidian managers.. Heh.. awkward.
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Marketing department might not want anyone talking about the game in any capacity that isn't done through pre-approved channels.
With gamepass, the sales of their smaller games don't really matter. Up to the managers whether or not they want to do one.
Not until Larian makes a Ultima Online clone. I've been expecting one since Divinity Original Sin. Popping in because I heard about that dev post through a Windows Central article and while nothing's gonna salvage the strange art direction making it look like they're using marketplace assets, a marketing company fucking with the color correction doesn't help anyone judge the actual look of the game.
I loved Grounded and Pentiment and The Outer Worlds was decent enough for a low budget Private Division published game so I'll give nuObsidian the benefit of the doubt.
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Well actually...
Give CyberWhale his developer tag. Though Feargus should be using his old account, but whatever.
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I think you meant to say https://rpgcodex.net/forums/members/feargus-jewhart.25769/
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Lord_Potato
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Now that's saaad:
Child of Malkav
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Lol that joker wouldn't touch this place from a satellite in orbit.
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I'm honestly surprised people here have an issue with the setting out of all things. It's just an amalgamation of Josh's knowledge of pre-medieval and medieval-ish cultures slapped into a game, and I think does a good job of making it have an overarching God pantheon while having the nations feel believeable. Fantasy settings have never been too ambitious past dragons and ghouls, and fampyr are a good example of even Josh's autism being constrained.
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Swen lurks as my sig attests, he just doesn't post.
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The real Swen Vincke does have an account here as well.
Child of Malkav
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You're kidding me.
Child of Malkav
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So wait, when I was shitting on the guy...I was talking with the guy? The panel from hell chief clown that was fucking up non stop and threw shoes at NPCs to win battles?
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