Game News Obsidian Reveals 'Project Eternity' - Kickstarter Live

[Fat Dragon]

Damn, already over $100k pledged. This is moving fast, great to see!

 

[Digital Monocle]

Completely majestic, PC RPG gamers have been waiting years for true RPGs to come out. Now we got at least two with WL2 and now Project Eternity.
I am pledging $65, with the stretch goals could be making me put in more later.

 

[skuphundaku]

We should maybe do a drive for this project on the codex? Maybe MCA would do trolls again for us? I already backed this but would also back a codex one.

The DU entity has already been summoned to further this prestigious goal of the hivemind.

 

[maverick]

Will there be a Linux port?

 

[Regvard]

Not TB? No party creation?

I feel betrayed.

 

[Turisas]

Still gonna hold out, whether I'll get the signed or regular CE will depend on what they decide to reveal before the kickstarter closes.

 

[Deleted member 7219]

The party-based, Infinity Engine-influenced things threw me a bit. The only Infinity game I ever liked was Planescape Torment, and I think that was because it made every effort to NOT be like the other IE games. And my favourite games are always the ones where it is about you and your own choices. Still, I have a lot of faith in Obsidian, they deliver time and time again (even Alpha Protocol, which had great moments of roleplaying despite being mediocre overall). I've pledged $35 so I can get all the nice extras.

 

[sea]

RTwP was the first step down the slipperly slope of decline that lead to the current state of RPGs being FPP or OTS RT games.

I might buy and enjoy the game if the writings good (and it probably will be), but I will not pay anyone to create the clusterfuck of RTwP combat.

I dunno. RTwP has never really managed to be done well because there are so few games that have actually been built with it in mind from the ground up. Baldur's Gate and all other Infinity Engine games were always a mishmash of D&D rules held together by a lot of compromises and changes. I think you could have much more success with RTwP by actually designing interactions, skills, timing, etc. with the temporal element in mind, rather than abstracting "turns" as X seconds or simultaneous rounds or whatever.

 

[Darklife]

Jesus Christ. I think I spent more on Kickstarter this year, than I did on games in the last 2 years.

 

[Turisas]

^ Sell party members to slavery for profit, buy kewl lewtz for your own character and play through the game solo.

 

[FeelTheRads]

Two 10k trolls so far, I see.

 

[Icewater]

Stretch goal: game ships bug-free.

Amount: $∞

 

[mondblut]

A BG copycat with shit combat and lots of pretentious storyfaggotry. WHO would have thought?

Yawn.

 

[Tigranes]

Yep. To me both TB and RTwP can make for some great RPG combat, just has to be done right. And since we have W2 and other TB games in the pipeline it's a good decision.

The big thing I'm looking for is how specifically they're going to modify the IE formula, e.g. in Sawyer's rule system or world design. We want it to be similar, not the same.

 

[catfood]

I will only pledge my hard earned potato money if they offer a DRM-free version. I am not infecting my computer with AIDS*


*an anagram for STEAM.

 

[Tigranes]

Mac/Linux seems to be a stretch goal.

 

[thesheeep]

Not even one day in and already ~ 150k.


.... the fuck? o_O

 

[Turisas]

And it'll be PC only, because Avellone is "tired of designing content and interactions that caters to consoles and console controllers."

Truly, He is great.

 

[made]

Two 10k trolls so far, I see.

I pledged blindly before noticing that it's steam only.

 

[Jasede]

Double Fine was 1 million after 24 hours, though.
And relax, it'll probably be DRM free if people keep whining. Hasn't every Kickstarter so far caved in on this?

 

[abnaxus]

And meanwhilst, Larian is already developing Divinity: Original Sin, a turn-based isometric RPG with a much smaller team and without Kickstarter, and nary a fuck being given.

 

[Darklife]

What engine will this based on anyway?

 

[Sleepwalker]

Holy shit. I page away for 10 minutes and the fund total goes up by $50,000? Fuck yes.

 

[The Great Deceiver]

Actually, no. Do you realize that thousands of Biodrones are looking at this game right now as the true successor to Dragon Age: Origins that Bioware never gave them? There's a fresh new crowd to cater to here.

Fuck those losers.

 

[Turisas]

Double Fine was 1 million after 24 hours, though.

Sure, but it had the benefit of the additional hype, being the first one and all. Or has some other KS since been even faster?