Obsidian General Discussion Thread

[MajorMace]

I was talking about the characters, not players.

Then hell no, it wouldn't be better if designers stopped pretending they aren't.
What's cool about characters is that they're just characters. You don't have to watch them take a shit or swap body fluids.

 

[Butter]

I don't want realistic companions. I want badass motherfuckers to drink from my enemy's skull with me. I don't want to be their fucking therapist. If your companion quest isn't slaughtering savages or plundering for treasure, keep it to yourself.

 

[Zarniwoop]

I just finished replaying Dead Money on my current New Vegas playthrough, and it really feels like the last time I'll go through the game and see brand new things, few as they are. And in Dead Money I just got the ending where all three companions are alive at the end for the first time. It really felt like I had finally closed the book on that one, and god damn but seeing those ending slides, hearing the unique narration. . what a wave of melancholy. . . and then contentedness afterwards. I like the other DLCs but I doubt they will end on such a high, bittersweet note like this one did. Definitely the best piece of dlc ever made, in my opinion.

Couldn't not make a note of it somewhere, and here's a good a place as any.

I keep saying this.

Dead Money is the best DLC ever made, not just for this for this specific game.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

I don't want realistic companions. I want badass motherfuckers to drink from my enemy's skull with me. I don't want to be their fucking therapist. If your companion quest isn't slaughtering savages or plundering for treasure, keep it to yourself.

High T.

 

[JarlFrank]

People can satisfy these urges without the game having to cater to them.

I was talking about the characters, not players.

Still applies. People can restrain themselves, so to portray everyone as a horny fag driven by instinct alone is just as immersion breaking.

Not if you're a Californian, then it's pretty much an accurate representaiton of the average citizen.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

People can satisfy these urges without the game having to cater to them.

I was talking about the characters, not players.

Still applies. People can restrain themselves, so to portray everyone as a horny fag driven by instinct alone is just as immersion breaking.

Not if you're a Californian, then it's pretty much an accurate representaiton of the average citizen.

 

[Infinitron]

Designing puzzles for your non-violent game?

 

[Roguey]

At least that means it's not a total walking-and-talking sim.

Also, it's extremely appropriate for Sawyer Elysium to have rapey elements, glad he's sticking to that.

 

[vortex]

Cultural appropriation and social commentary rpg game with here'n'there puzzles to do ?

 

[Wunderbar]

At least that means he's doing something and not just drinking.

 

[Prime Junta]

His commentary on Deadfire breaks my heart. The man means so well, yet has lost the plot so completely.

I think he'd be much happier working in conventional business-to-business software. The requirements are better known, you can find something that has genuine social value, and the money is much more predictable. Maybe I'll hit him up the next time we have a technical product owner opening...

 

[Butter]

Was it ever disclosed how Sawyer was chosen to direct Pillars? Was it as simple as "he directed New Vegas, and that was our biggest hit"? There were surely people more passionate and interested in making an IE homage.

 

[Prime Junta]

Was it ever disclosed how Sawyer was chosen to direct Pillars? Was it as simple as "he directed New Vegas, and that was our biggest hit"? There were surely people more passionate and interested in making an IE homage.

Pillars 1 was Sawyer's pitch to Fearg. Obsidian was in deep trouble, risking bankruptcy, and this was their moon shot. Josh thought the market was ready for an IE spiritual successor and he got the go-ahead to do the Kickstarter campaign with a few others. Both the campaign and subsequent sales way exceeded their expectations, so naturally they would put him in charge of the slam-dunk sequel.

 

[fantadomat]

People can satisfy these urges without the game having to cater to them.

I was talking about the characters, not players.

Still applies. People can restrain themselves, so to portray everyone as a horny fag driven by instinct alone is just as immersion breaking.

Not if you're a Californian, then it's pretty much an accurate representaiton of the average citizen.

 

[Flou]

There's some rumbling about a survival crpg by Obsidian being annouced at XO19 next week.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpFT1Fp7BrY at the 7:30 mark

 

[Nano]

There's some rumbling about a survival crpg by Obsidian being annouced at XO19 next week.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpFT1Fp7BrY at the 7:30 mark

Please don't let it be a battle royale game.

 

[toro]

There's some rumbling about a survival crpg by Obsidian being annouced at XO19 next week.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpFT1Fp7BrY at the 7:30 mark

In before expectations subverted.

 

[Butter]

It's an AA studio simulator.

 

[vortex]

There's some rumbling about a survival crpg by Obsidian being annouced at XO19 next week.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpFT1Fp7BrY at the 7:30 mark

I do hope he heard it wrong and it's action survival RPG game with combat.

 

[Flou]

Please don't let it be a battle royale game.

Why would it be a battle royale game? Survival = battle royale? Wouldn't they call it battle royale rpg then rather than obscure survival?

 

[santino27]

His commentary on Deadfire breaks my heart. The man means so well, yet has lost the plot so completely.

I think he'd be much happier working in conventional business-to-business software. The requirements are better known, you can find something that has genuine social value, and the money is much more predictable. Maybe I'll hit him up the next time we have a technical product owner opening...

B2B software dev is, more often than not, pretty soul crushing too, but yes, the money is better and there are a lot more opportunities, for sure.

 

[LESS T_T]

 

[Prime Junta]

( redacted ) huh? They invited Prosper or what?

 

[Abu Antar]

The Outer Worlds 76.

 

[Kyl Von Kull]

His commentary on Deadfire breaks my heart. The man means so well, yet has lost the plot so completely.

I think he'd be much happier working in conventional business-to-business software. The requirements are better known, you can find something that has genuine social value, and the money is much more predictable. Maybe I'll hit him up the next time we have a technical product owner opening...

B2B software dev is, more often than not, pretty soul crushing too, but yes, the money is better and there are a lot more opportunities, for sure.

Do they need game designers in the enterprise software space?