Grounded - shrunken kids first-person co-op survival game from Obsidian

[Duraframe300]

I guess Brennecke was a REALLY big fan of Honey I shrunk the kids

Wonder if he was the fan of the Minefortdayz genre or if that was Microsoft.

Survival came first, Honey I shrunk the kids later from what they said.

 

[Mess]

It's kinda disturbing that somehow, this is a "passion project", even for a small 12 people team.

 

[Dwarvophile]

Obsidian Entertainment : "Please, just call me Entertainment".

 

[Junmarko]

Survival came first, Honey I shrunk the kids later from what they said.

Weird after Microsoft paid 2 Billion to buy Minecraft, the most stable I.P of this kind, they take this route. Another PVE/crafting hybrid, thing, that don't ever bomb.

 

[garren]

This game looks woke as fuck.

 

[BlackGoat]

I clearly missed something. Obsidian announced a return to their roots?

Yes!

Spoiler

 

[vortex]

I’m happy I made those fortnite av’s a week or two ago

I'm happy for you too Woe.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

Seriously can we nuke this thread, I don't even want to be reminded that this thing exists.

 

[Duraframe300]

 

[rusty_shackleford]

I guess Brennecke was a REALLY big fan of Honey I shrunk the kids

Wonder if he was the fan of the Minefortdayz genre or if that was Microsoft.

How sad, they had access to the actual minecraft IP and still chose to make this

 

[jf8350143]

Who paid for this? Who is the publisher? It's not microsoft because they just bought them some month ago, and I doubt they will stupid enough to make Obsidian make a game like this.

 

[StrongBelwas]

Seriously can we nuke this thread, I don't even want to be reminded that this thing exists.

Endure. In enduring, grow strong.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

TBH I have some trouble believing this began development before the Microsoft acquisition. All they have to show is a trailer of some basic phone-game mechanics after over a year of development?

 

[Junmarko]

How sad, they had access to the actual minecraft IP and still chose to make this

Minecraft still #13 under "Top 20 best-selling games in the U.S. 2019" 10 years post-release. Yet, MS thinks they can topple Notch this time

 

[Duraframe300]

Who paid for this? Who is the publisher? It's not microsoft because they just bought them some month ago, and I doubt they will stupid enough to make Obsidian make a game like this.

It's Microsoft. The game was probably still at the state where it would have been pitched around to publishers.

 

[Duraframe300]

TBH I have some trouble believing this began development before the Microsoft acquisition. All they have to show is a trailer of some basic phone-game mechanics after over a year of development?

They have gameplay running, multiple journalists already went to Obsidian to play it. And you can play it at X019 (under NDA). Also its releasing into Early Access in a couple of months.

 

[Nano]

It's not microsoft because they just bought them some month ago

12 months, actually. The one-year anniversary of the acquisition announcement was 5 days ago. Only felt like a few months for me too.

 

[jf8350143]

Who paid for this? Who is the publisher? It's not microsoft because they just bought them some month ago, and I doubt they will stupid enough to make Obsidian make a game like this.

It's Microsoft. The game was probably still at the state where it would have been pitched around to publishers.

But the development starts before Microsoft bought them, unless it was suppose to be a Obsidian self-fund game, which I highly doubt it is, otherwise some people have to pay for it.

 

[Duraframe300]

Who paid for this? Who is the publisher? It's not microsoft because they just bought them some month ago, and I doubt they will stupid enough to make Obsidian make a game like this.

It's Microsoft. The game was probably still at the state where it would have been pitched around to publishers.

But the development starts before Microsoft bought them, unless it was suppose to be a Obsidian self-fund game, which I highly doubt it is, otherwise some people have to pay for it.

Every game has at least some work done before being able to be pitched to publishers. That's what I meant. Soon after they began concepting this, they were bought by Microsoft which let the game continue.

 

[Wunderbar]

Could've been a good setting for a proper RPG, or even actiony RPG-lite. Even if development started before acquisition, Obsidian could've changed the formula while keeping the premise.

Oh well.

 

[Dishonoredbr]

Who paid for this? Who is the publisher? It's not microsoft because they just bought them some month ago, and I doubt they will stupid enough to make Obsidian make a game like this.

Microsoft is the Publisher. They got Obisidian a year ago btw. The 12-13 people are working way before Micro.

This is a small project , most of main Obsidian team is working on the next rpg while the rest are probably work on The Outer Worlds.

I really don't get why this is so bad already. It's little project that probably don't have much budget.

 

[vortex]

Release is next year. Obsidian moves onto Pillars 3. This is what I want to believe.

 

[Dishonoredbr]

Release is next year. Obsidian moves onto Pillars 3. This is what I want to believe.

Your pretty delusional if you think PoE3 is coming any time soon after Deadfire bombed so hard. Also Josh said that they probably gonna reworking the franchise..

 

[Rev]

My God... I wasn't really expecting Sawyer's Dream Project (but it would've been a nice surprise), the historical turn-based rpg inspired by Darklands here, but this is really something else. I don't even know how to express my disappointment.
I don't even know if it's Obsidian's fault or Microsoft's, but who the fuck thought this was going to be a good idea? Obsidian has always made rpgs and everytime they strayed from that they screwed up big time, or even just the more "action" parts of their actual rpgs have always been bad or, at best, just mediocre.

And btw, wtf is going on with MS? I mean, you buy Ninja Theory, a studio that was successful for making Hellblade, a single-player and very narrative-focused experience that also explored unusual themes (protagonist's psychosis) -> first game after acquisition: a generic multiplayer shooter no one asked for.
Then Obsidian, known for rpgs with choices, multiple endings, sometimes multiple approaches and interesting and deep systems (not always, mind you, but NV, MotB and others had them) -> first game announced after MS buyout: a generic survival game no one wanted.
Maybe it's not Microsoft that pushed for those games, but still, if they want to gain back some trust this is not the right way. Which is kind of a shame because some of their other moves were going in the correct direction: Halo on PC, announcement of AoE4 (a relatively niche game by today standards and a PC exclusive ffs), bringing their games on Steam, the GamePass which I don't like too much because I prefer actually having games and replaying them any time I want but still offers a lot of stuff for a very competitive price. But then they always find some way to fuck up.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Why is this in the RPG section?
Warframe is much more of an RPG and it's in general gaming.