Obsidian General Discussion Thread

[Junmarko]

I bet he's sticking up for MCA when he says Arcanum had bad UI.

I'm sure the Radial Menu was loved by one handed amputees everywhere.

 

[Infinitron]

No XP for combat confirmed, sorry grogs

 

[Rahdulan]

Unsurprisingly, ToEE got shafted during the last moments of development.

 

[Quillon]

What was he on about triangles and sliders instead of numbers?

 

[Excidium II]

No XP for combat confirmed, sorry grogs

It's kinda funny how the justification for no combat xp is so combat can be avoided but noone avoids combat in CRPGs because more often than not it's missing content.

 

[commie]

No XP for combat confirmed, sorry grogs

It's kinda funny how the justification for no combat xp is so combat can be avoided but noone avoids combat in CRPGs because more often than not it's missing content.

Being multi platform, I wonder if that's wise decision given that consoletards tend to be even less forgiving with no rewards for bashing things over the head.

 

[an Administrator]

Is it single player

 

[undecaf]

No XP for combat confirmed, sorry grogs

I'd have no problem with that, but the game'd also need to provide enough fulfilling non-combat gameplay, and character systems to support that. In PoE - for example - you built and played a party of combatants, the most of what you did was fighting and killing stuff. In that light it was a kind of weird solution to not reward the games most prominent activity and nearly the sole purpose for the character systems.

 

[Roguey]

In that light it was a kind of weird solution to not reward the games most prominent activity and nearly the sole purpose for the character systems.

There's an idea I don't subscribe to -- that players need to be given tiny rewards for everything they do. If your gameplay is actually fun, you shouldn't need to bribe them! When gameplay simply becomes drudgery motivated by a desire to gain a bonus that makes the gameplay easier, I feel that we have failed as designers.
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If it is not rewarding enough to play on its own, stop playing our terrible game.

 

[Infinitron]

My summary of Tim's talk: http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/inde...-a-better-rpg-seven-mistakes-to-avoid.114809/

 

[undecaf]

In that light it was a kind of weird solution to not reward the games most prominent activity and nearly the sole purpose for the character systems.

There's an idea I don't subscribe to -- that players need to be given tiny rewards for everything they do. If your gameplay is actually fun, you shouldn't need to bribe them! When gameplay simply becomes drudgery motivated by a desire to gain a bonus that makes the gameplay easier, I feel that we have failed as designers.
...
If it is not rewarding enough to play on its own, stop playing our terrible game.

He's not wrong, bad gameplay does not turn good if you start handing out rewards, but in my experience it is not really the case "rewarding" or "awarding" in a the flattest sense of the words, but more about the feel and sense of progressing the character. How ever abstract or minuscule, it does have a different feel to it when you know your character learned something, as opposed to it being simply flat gameplay.

 

[Infinitron]

Boyarsky's SINFO talk is finally on YouTube:

 

[TT1]

New Fig documents :

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1658966/000121390017004224/0001213900-17-004224-index.htm

 

[J_C]

Boyarsky's SINFO talk is finally on YouTube:

Leonard seems like a buffed dude under that shirt. Like MCA was back in the days.

 

[PlanHex]

Around 59:30, Leonard sorta confirms their new game is not with Paradox.

 

[Sigourn]

Buffed Leonard vs buffed Pagliarulo:

Who would win?

 

[pippin]

Pagliarulo used to be a fat fuck though. Boyarsky is ripped from all his training punching centaurs in the face while scavenging on the wasteland.

 

[Tom Selleck]

They gotta email MCA some workout plans.

 

[Tiny Tim]

It's probably a joke but Joshua Sawyer just posted this on fb. At least they're still trying.

 

[Infinitron]

He's just making fun of the game's bugs or something.

 

[Chris Avelltwo]

Buffed Leonard vs buffed Pagliarulo:

Who would win?

This guy would.

 

[LESS T_T]

Tim Cain's 2012 Fallout 1 postmortem is now available on GDC Youtube channel:



You can see all the slides unlike the GameSpot version.

 

[Zed]

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[pippin]

Do they need someone with a phd on geometrics?

 

[Excidium II]

they need moar brown ppl and assorted deviants to look diverse in staff pix.