Incline Black Isle Studios Rebirth (Obsidian)

[PorkyThePaladin]

Might as well quit computer games altogether and start jerking off in the evenings.

Since when are those two mutually exclusive?

 

[Jarakka]

It's more about the volume, you know?

 

[1eyedking]

For nothing is worse than nothing.

I'd rather have nothing than bad taste.

Zero plus zero is at least still zero. Zero plus negative and you're in the red, you have to put in even more effort to get somewhere positive.

Which is the main reason why you should marry a virgin

 

[naossano]

Things work well for them for the moment, but if they move from small to medium develloper, they still have the risk to fail 2-3 games in a row and go back to square one.

 

[toro]

For nothing is worse than nothing.

I'd rather have nothing than bad taste.

Zero plus zero is at least still zero. Zero plus negative and you're in the red, you have to put in even more effort to get somewhere positive.

Which is the main reason why you should marry a virgin

Who the fuck are you?

Edit: Argentina!? Ohh, I see ...

 

[A user named cat]

For nothing is worse than nothing.

I'd rather have nothing than bad taste.

Zero plus zero is at least still zero. Zero plus negative and you're in the red, you have to put in even more effort to get somewhere positive.

Which is the main reason why you should marry a virgin

Who the fuck are you?

Edit: Argentina!? Ohh, I see ...

He's a South American version of Skyway. How he's evaded a dumbfuck or shitposter tag this long is beyond me.

 

[Szioul]

Hopefully they'll start working on the Pathfinder RPG with PoE's engine and ToEE's combat system some time soon.

 

[xrm1]

Hopefully they'll start working on the Pathfinder RPG with PoE's engine and ToEE's combat system some time soon.

Obsidian loves their RTwP clusterfuck combat systems.

 

[Ivan]

Fallout 2 please

 

[pippin]

Might as well quit computer games altogether and start jerking off in the evenings.

Since when are those two mutually exclusive?

Which is why today we play Bejeweled to get us some waifus in Huniepop. Clearly this is the future of rpgs.

 

[Andnjord]

I don't envision Obsidian working on a $30mil Skyrim-clone anytime soon.

But of course they should be careful about it because that would be somewhat risky. A good approach might be having your stable safe games (say sequels to PoE for example), and then having other riskier projects somewhat supported by the former.

A top down isometric cRPG is now the safe bet? What a time to be alive.

 

[CyberWhale]

Considering that I liked New Vegas quite a bit, I would love it if they tried a FPS RPG at some point with their own engine (i.e. their own modification of a third party engine such as Unreal/CryEngine) instead of Bethesda's shit.

Fixed.

Unity is a hundred times worse than GameBryo.

 

[Crooked Bee]

I personally think its only a matter of time with POE's success. If enough money is actually around to safely make one Feargus loses more and more ground to oppose MCA/Sawyer/Tim.

I mean each one of them wants to make a turn-based game. Its not like the desire isn't around.

On the other hand, isn't the fact that PoE is apparently selling better than W2 and DOS going to make Feargus even more convinced that real-time is the way to go for all future projects as well, having wider appeal and all?

 

[CyberWhale]

 

[Brutan]

So what I am thinking is that in the immediate future, Obsidian could be sitting on a rather decently sized pile of money, perhaps more than they have ever had, even during the Black Isle days, considering that Fallout 1 and 2 and PS:T never sold that well.

I'd be happy if they can avoid bankruptcy, make a couple of expansions for PoE (with KS support) and make PoE an establish brand. I want Obsidian to play it safe, grow steady and not take any risks. Sure PoE is a success but it's nothing earth shaking and they need to be careful, I don't want to read in a couple of years how company went belly up and that the IP is sold to EA.

 

[Duraframe300]

So what I am thinking is that in the immediate future, Obsidian could be sitting on a rather decently sized pile of money, perhaps more than they have ever had, even during the Black Isle days, considering that Fallout 1 and 2 and PS:T never sold that well.

I'd be happy if they can avoid bankruptcy, make a couple of expansions for PoE (with KS support) and make PoE an establish brand. I want Obsidian to play it safe, grow steady and not take any risks. Sure PoE is a success but it's nothing earth shaking and they need to be careful, I don't want to read in a couple of years how company went belly up and that the IP is sold to EA.

They already have avoided bankruptcy. They're as healthy as they ever been atm.

 

[Jools]

Obsidian needs to only work on 2 RPG projects:

A Vampire the Masquerade™ game (as soon as all the White Wolf mess is cleared up).

 

[LESS T_T]

Let Sawyer make a Darklands-like historical RPG!

 

[tyrannosaurus rex]

Black Isle Studios Rebirth

Spoiler

The revenge of Herve Caen

 

[Mustawd]

I personally think its only a matter of time with POE's success. If enough money is actually around to safely make one Feargus loses more and more ground to oppose MCA/Sawyer/Tim.

I mean each one of them wants to make a turn-based game. Its not like the desire isn't around.

On the other hand, isn't the fact that PoE is apparently selling better than W2 and DOS going to make Feargus even more convinced that real-time is the way to go for all future projects as well, having wider appeal and all?

PoE is selling well due to IE nostalgia. Not because it's RTwP. Simply put, the mechanics are not the main driving force of its popularity. You could have made the same argument for turn-based after the XCOM remake came out.

Plus, InXile can already leverage what they've learned with W2's turn based system to refine any future games.

Or at least I hope that's what happens

 

[naossano]

Is it too far stretched to consider that they sold more than W2/DOS because it is made by Obsidian ?

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

All I can say is I hope this lasts and we have a Renesaince of crpgs after all these years.

I must savour them. Because who knows, maybe in 5 years CRPGs as we know have been rendered obsolete by hologrammic virtual life dating and awesomesauce simulators. You absolutely never know.

So bring on the money and bring on the success that follow, for at least it will fuel the hate of Codexia and sustain it for yet another decade.

For nothing is worse than nothing.

RPG Codex, fight the future~

 

[imweasel]

Black Isle Studios Rebirth (Obsidian)

Sure, once Obsidian finally develops a game that is as good as Icewind Dale and another game that is as good as Fallout.

Spoiler

In before butthurt.

 

[Deleted member 7219]

Is it too far stretched to consider that they sold more than W2/DOS because it is made by Obsidian ?

Obsidian definitely has bigger name recognition than inXile and Larian. I'd be surprised if any non-RPGer has even heard of those two.

 

[Viata]

Black Isle Studios Rebirth (Obsidian)

game that is as good as Fallout.

Only if they use a sci-fi setting.