Eternity Avowed - Obsidian's first person action-RPG in the Pillars of Eternity setting - coming November 12th(?)

[Alienman]

If we were going to do romance, we were going to really, really, really do it right — or not at all.​

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I wish that went for the whole RPG thing too.

 

[BlackheartXIII]

When I asked how much audio the studio had recorded for Avowed and the Camp, Patel laughed and told me, "You mean how much audio are we still recording to fill out all that banter in those Camp conversations?"

I'm sick of autoplayed generic time-filling bantz poorly written by millennials because zoomers can't have one single idle second.

Everyone talks like a yuppie from fucking [urban center near developers] all the time. I'm tired of it.

As I mentioned before, player agency will be utilize, regulated and appropriated to affirm the writers characters and narrative, you will play an immersive fanfic masquerade as an rpg:

Nu-Obsidian writers loathe player agency (although it's highly regulated) so they would invest instead in companions/NPC reactivity that would force their infantile doll play on the player, this is a very MFA behavior.

 

[Gargaune]

you will play an immersive fanfic masquerade as an rpg

No, I won't.

 

[Tyranicon]

immersive fanfic

Modern rpgdevs: our worlds are so immersive that you'll feel like you've been transported back to the middle ages.

Also modern rpgdevs:

 

[NaturallyCarnivorousSheep]

This is NOT going to be a game with a number of towns

You say this as it's a bad thing.

 

[Herumor]

immersive fanfic

Modern rpgdevs: our worlds are so immersive that you'll feel like you've been transported back to the middle ages.

Also modern rpgdevs:

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I still wonder who was in charge of Karlach, because from the moment you see her / get her in your party, everyone just starts dickriding her for no reason whatsoever.

 

[NaturallyCarnivorousSheep]

No idea her head holds to her shoulders too loosely to not fall off every time I saw her

 

[AwesomeButton]

If we were going to do romance, we were going to really, really, really do it right — or not at all.​

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I wish that went for the whole RPG thing too.

My words exactly

 

[S.torch]

Is not that these people are anti-player agency, is that they're just anti-player. They're against anything they perceive to be a player's power-fantasy. Be it romance or having a meaningful role in the game's narrative. The player character just exists to get lectured and educated, while being a vehicle for their amazing and godlike OCs throwing their sarcastic metacommentary.

One of the greatest joys of creating something is for other people to enjoy it together with you. But for these types it's the contrary: the greatest joy is listening to themselves talk.

 

[luj1]

They're against anything they perceive to be a player's power-fantasy. Be it romance or having a meaningful role in the game's narrative.

Romance is not first order gameplay

 

[the mole]

They're against anything they perceive to be a player's power-fantasy. Be it romance or having a meaningful role in the game's narrative.

Romance is not first order gameplay

mansplaining

 

[Old Hans]

immersive fanfic

Modern rpgdevs: our worlds are so immersive that you'll feel like you've been transported back to the middle ages.

Also modern rpgdevs:

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on the flip side they really went all out with her beheading scene