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You shouldn't be sad either. This isn't 2010, go play a hundred other turn-based tactical RPGs. Take popamole for what it is instead of expecting greatness from it ("b-b-but muh Avellone writing!").
 

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You shouldn't be sad either. This isn't 2010, go play a hundred other turn-based tactical RPGs. Take popamole for what it is instead of expecting greatness from it ("b-b-but muh Avellone writing!").
Obsidian has always been popamole - high-quality popamole but still. Nobody expects some pixel-art autism from them, we only want them to remember the good old days of Sith Lords and New Vegas.

Sadly those games were written by nerds for nerds.

Today Obsidian games are written by SoCal dangerhairs for their journalist soulmates.
 

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I don't recall the word "geckling" used in any Fallout game.
You could call young geckos gecklings. You can also find geckos in caves (toxic caves north of Klamath in Fallout 2). Which is similar to trolls and [cave] denizens. So it could be a joke about internet trolls, basement dwellers and lizard people. They are all considered toxic, too. While this is very meta, I find it more plausible than a reference to some obscure game I never heard about.
 

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Whoa lads, I gotta tell you, 20 year anniversary looks to be a huge success. Top 3 memes competition on the Obsidian forums has one entry.
 

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I believe you are misremembering. I searched site:fallout.fandom.com which has all the dialogue files uploaded and there's not a single hit for "gecklings" or "geckling."
It's not me who is misremembering. It's you who is not understanding. So I am going to spell it out for you even more, since you're accusing me of having a bad memory: Fallout 2 has "Little gecko" and Fallout: New Vegas has "Young gecko". Little and young? Gecklings. It's not that complicated.

I may be wrong (as this is pure speculation on my part), but I don't see any better ideas explaining "trolls, denizens and gecklings" phrase.
 

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I believe you are misremembering. I searched site:fallout.fandom.com which has all the dialogue files uploaded and there's not a single hit for "gecklings" or "geckling."
It's not me who is misremembering. It's you who is not understanding. So I am going to spell it out for you even more, since you're accusing me of having a bad memory: Fallout 2 has "Little gecko" and Fallout: New Vegas has "Young gecko". Little and young? Gecklings. It's not that complicated.

I may be wrong (as this is pure speculation on my part), but I don't see any better ideas explaining "trolls, denizens and gecklings" phrase.
Occam's Razor suggests it's a Romancing SaGa reference rather than someone at Obsidian coming up with their own pet name for geckos.
 

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Turns out we're both wrong and I should have searched site:forums.obsidian.net first https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/42886-shameless-firefly-fan/?do=findComment&comment=652844
Geckling is a term that goes back way back in the day ... I originally used it on the old IPLY boards pre-BIS fora to indicate that 'geeks' were cool ... not sure if it worked :) As a result of that conversation which I suspect is over 6 years old (? - perhaps some of the old school crowd might remember that conversation on the old tree style BB @ IPLY). Since then, I have used it unsparingly to liberate all Gecklings from the taint of geekiness ;) Or so I stand staunchly in the eye-rolling of my partner!

Just some old Interplay board meme.
 

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Sounds like bad grammar to me. Because the way I see it, this ought to had been "geeklings", not "gecklings" if "geeks" was the base word for the term. Unless I am missing something here.
Looks like it's formed more after goslings than ducklings.
 

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Discussing Obsidian is such a depressing affair these days.
Always has been. :M

Obsidian was only ever capable of taking game engines and content created by other developers, and using these assets to generate a competent sequel to popular games. Ultimately, it only served to waste the talents of Chris Avellone and many others, and now Obsidian doesn't even have any of that talent left.
 

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Part Three:


After two big cancellations and unsure where to immediately turn to, Obsidian Entertainment attempts to take on crowdfunding with Project Eternity, the game that would become Pillars of Eternity. With finding it's funding from over 70,000 amazing fans, learn the stories of how this came to be as well as what it took to finish South Park: The Stick of Truth and tales about Pathfinder Adventures and Armored Warfare!
Roguey
 

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"Mobile games were a mistake, we'll never do that again" - Feargus Urquhart

On Pathfinder Adventures they let the juniors run wild without oversight, and Feargus considers that a mistake because they engineered themselves into a corner where they couldn't further monetize it beyond release. :M

Carrie Patel prefers turn based to rtwp. Also despite being from Texas, she sounds like she has an north-central american accent?

"I knew that we had made a good game" - Josh Sawyer on Pillars
 

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I remember how proud they were of the engine when they released Pillars. I think they lated denounced it as hard to use?
At any rate, I don't think the players accepted it as a particularly meaningful investment. People who like Pillars don't do so because of the stunning visuals.
 

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Enjoy the Revolution! Another revolution around the sun that is.
Ahahahahaha ahaha
Holy shit the copium.
What's the cope? 89 on metacritic, 8.3 user score, 87% positive user score on Steam.
The copium lies in the sales. Pathfinder games (Kingmaker and Righteous) have less favorite score but much MUCH better sales.
Kingmaker sales seem to be in the same ballpark with PoE.

But there's probably a p. wide rift between Deadfire and WotR.

Btw I didn't love PoE but at least I finished it. Not Kingmaker. Couldn't stand that shit.

Not planning to ever touch both Deadfire and WotR.
 

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The copium lies in the sales. Pathfinder games (Kingmaker and Righteous) have less positive score but much MUCH better sales.
I'll die on the hill that it came down to marketing. PoE2 was marketed like a pirate game, I even skipped it at launch because of that, the Pathfinder games are clearly marketed as medieval fantasy.

The core audience of these games are clearly more interested in 'swords & sorcery' than fucking pirates.
 

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I'll die on the hill that PoE OC was just that meh that not as many people were willing to give the second one a shot especially when it turned out not to be as good as the White Marsh expansions.
 

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