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Wonder if Microsoft want to buy a bridge?
Wonder if Microsoft want to buy a bridge?
No, this guy. He did the PoE2 AMAs on Reddit IIRC.Also, when PoE2 didn't hit the hoped-for numbers, Obs. did terminate their head of marketing as a result (this isn't drama, it was a pre-existing goal set into the hiring contract, as I understand it).
Was that the dude who hosted some of those PoE 1 panels?
Unless they didn't buy Dark Rock Industries.Wonder if Microsoft want to buy a bridge?
They did... a bridge to Eora, and all its lucre. Oh, Phil.
* Chris Parker has been - ughhhh, Nick you had a chance - identified as the next, best EP for this shitshow. Be stronger, Nick. Fight for your love of games. Fight for Obsidian.
I hope they did; I don't much care about how the buyout affects theoretical Obsidian projects which could get canceled tomorrow if Feargus has a sore stomach from too much cheesecake and gets in a shouting match with the publisher; my only stake is that they could potentially pump some money into PoE2 and fund some more patches and improvementsUnless they didn't buy Dark Rock Industries.
Story time. Before I became one of the owners at Obsidian, I tried my luck at acting career. I actually have an uncredited cameo in Lord of The Rings: Return of The King. I play the battering ram with which orcs are banging on the gates of Gondor.
So stay assured, Feargus can't break me.
Why would MS fund patches for a game they didn't make, with pre existing contracts preventing them from profiting from this injection of funds? Plus they'd have to drastically overhaul the game in order get some more sales due to PoE2 being a pile of dogshit worthy of sitting next to Dungeon Siege 3.I hope they did; I don't much care about how the buyout affects theoretical Obsidian projects which could get canceled tomorrow if Feargus has a sore stomach from too much cheesecake and gets in a shouting match with the publisher; my only stake is that they could potentially pump some money into PoE2 and fund some more patches and improvementsUnless they didn't buy Dark Rock Industries.
The world is not fit for such a beast.Imagine Chris Parker's Skyrim, fused with Far Cry and Assassin's Creed (pushed by MS), one game to rule them all. Produced by Fargo. Directed by Parker and Ferg. Balancing by Sawyer. QA by BT4 testers.
Need I go more?
I've already pre-ordered it.Imagine Chris Parker's Skyrim, fused with Far Cry and Assassin's Creed (pushed by MS), one game to rule them all. Produced by Fargo. Directed by Parker and Ferg. Balancing by Sawyer. QA by BT4 testers.
Need I go more?
So it's slightly worse than that. Forget BG.
The indications from Obs. is that Chris Parker is calling the shots for the next "AAA" project (his shallow take: "hey, I get to make Skyrim!"), so I'm already done even if ol' "hope my employees guess frame of mind today" Chris Parker's management style wastes countless dollars and time. (To his defense, he learned this shit-stained argument from Fergie McFerg who would change his mind on a daily basis and not tell anyone - but what I can't condone from Parker is how pig-eager he embraced it, and also, how he was the best person to... "realize" it. Cue sad trombones - all of them, everywhere.)
But in terms of money vs. time: MS has the former (dollars) to spare... the best part, is the secondary part, time, which is a FAR more rare resource for MS.
Eventually, regardless of terrible producer/exec producer* demands, you need to deliver on something players want/may want... and I'd never want to play a Chris Parker-inspired game, esp. if it was one Fergus agreed to... without profanity.
Both of those sound better than Brian Fargo Presents Wastelands 2So Obsidian and inXile will now be stuck making the same games over and over. Wonder when the Forza rpg by Obsidian will come out or inXile's Torment : Gears Of Banjokahalo will release?
Brian Fargo is a faggotBoth of those sound better than Brian Fargo Presents Wastelands 2So Obsidian and inXile will now be stuck making the same games over and over. Wonder when the Forza rpg by Obsidian will come out or inXile's Torment : Gears Of Banjokahalo will release?
Though, ironically, the Forza people are already making an RPG, so Obsidian's safe on that front.