On that regard I'd guess that Fargo is a better business man compared to Feargus, probably have more contact with MS people and managed to pitch more resources for their projects while Feargus seems like the guy that accept whatever shit they throw and end up getting fucked because he couldn't calculate the resource and manpower needed to finish such project.
The trailer has an absence of virtually everything because they don't have a game yet, dude. People comparing the first gameplay-esque (probably not) teaser footage for this game - which, from the gossip, has likely been completely scrapped and restarted several times at this point - to the deep gameplay dives on offer from contemporaries are deranged. We don't know a thing about this one yet.
Instantly revived and immediately thrusted into a fight with pirates boarding your ship during an intense storm, an action-packed start to an swashbuckling pirate fantasy adventure. Compare to Pillars where your training wheel companions get eviscerated by the Biawic and you're left to wander the woods having schizophrenic episodes until you meet a man who you find out murdered his best friend because he was beating his wife (or something like that I don't really remember).
the sidekicks being zany and the setting being a sunny tropical archipelage overstated obsidian's overcorrection of the setting's mood. its obvious they wanted to make the game more lighthearted because players whined that poe1 was too dour. i believe they went too far at points. and yet deadfire has misery and death of ordinary people stalking every corner. locations like the gullet and the woedica temple show what's what.
It's true, but I think if we look at the first few hours of Deadfire, as a whole, we get a more complete picture of the moods of each game.
I was interested in Tyranny when a friend described the game to me and it reminded me immediately of the Black Company. You serving an evil overlord hellbent on world conquest, powerful magical beings enslaved in the service to this overlord, a brutal resistance by the locals, you could join a faction of professional soldiers and eventually rebel against your master, etc, etc. Unfortunately as you said the game suffers from uneven writing and out of place characters. Very soon the gritty setting I expected became a huge disappointment.
Eh, I disagree. All the companions were rotten, selfish people. They're just friendly to you, the person who has power over them.
That actually made me more interested in that game. Just to see where do they go with it.
If it was actually a Skyrim clone, I'd be excited. This game won't even come close to Skyrim. Bethesda games are great because they have serviceable writing (with the exception of FO4 imo), interesting worlds with good environmental storytelling, a bunch of fun base systems, and extensive modability that allows you to shape the game to your own unique experience. Skyrim with a bunch of survival-oriented mods is better than a lot of dedicated survival games, while also offering some RPG elements not found in those games.
I know we have our share of favela monkeys, poletard kneelers and brownadians on this forum but there is no way you could be serious about Cuckwork Revolting being anything like Arcanum, and not seeing it for the Bioshock Infinite ripoff it is. Bioshock Infinite came out in 2013 and still looks better than this cheap knockoff. It's not even a believable trollpost since nobody could think these two games look the same.
and you think they don't have any RPG elements to show for yet? And you're sure it will get better?
Ken Levine put his artists through hell to get ~perfect~ art and they all hated and resented him for it. Nothing's going to look better than it at what it's trying to do.
Does not have to be. They could be adventures of those characters before happenings in Deadfire
To be fair, its in Obsidian's niche to do that: New Vegas and Neverwinter Nights 2 are mercenary sequels.
If you're going to coast by on the bare minimum effort it's real stupid to copy a game with an iconic look to it, isn't it? It still looks like the cheap Chinese developed phone game version of Bioshock Infinite to me and you can go meh yourself.
Feargus and Carrie went on a press tour to say it isn't Skyrim. It's Greedfall: Obsidian Edition.
Different times, different Obsidian. Don't count on more than Fantasy Outer Words.
Why is it so hard to understand that corporations are made up of people that come and go and that the branding means little? In other industries there is some effort taken to retain the good reputation of a brand or the high status of a renowned atelier and perhaps this is why people assume the same to be true for game developers. Everyone knows monsieur Avellone is gone and he hasn't taught his craft to a successor at the place, but so many others left and they didn't pass it on either. It has very little to do with that upstart developer that made Alpha Protocol.
