Game News Obsidian teasing game reveal at The Game Awards

[Ulfhednar]

Woohoo!

 

[Belegarsson]

Since it's unlikely for Microsoft to allow them to make isometric RPGs in the future, I hope this Cainyarsky project is isometric so it would be a perfect send off to their independent legacy.

 

[Shilandra]

People shouldn't be to worried about the shapes comments I think. They aren't that incompatible with traditional number interfaces and can work well with them. Radar charts aren't that bad for one example.

 

[Wunderbar]

Spoiler

 

[Dawkinsfan69]

I hope it's a mobile exclusive

 

[jdinatale]

Everything we know.

• Fallout co-creators Tim Cain and Leonard Boyarsky are leads in development.
  
  
• Obsidian were hiring for people experienced in shooters and Unreal Engine 4. The game sounds like a AAA FPS RPG to be made on consoles and PC to me.
  
  
• Published by Take Two, so quite possibly Obsidian's last multiplatform game. They have been bought by Microsoft for those who didn't know.
  
  
• They trademarked 'The Outer Worlds' and Sci-Fi was used to describe it.
  
  
• It is not Fallout or Arcanum related, but it "would appeal to those types of gamers."
  
  
• on Obsidian's website, there are two ads for fake companies that looks like they relate to the game. They give off a retro sci-fi feel to me, personally.
  

 

[Tuco Benedicto Pacifico]

Not to be that guy, but those two images already have more flavour than the entire setting of the PoE franchise.

Setting the bar low.

I don't want to hate on PoE. I even liked the second more than I expected (and definitely more than the first), but the setting wasn't exactly their strong point.
If anything I always found vaguely perplexing that the whole "With crowdfunding we are now independent from publishers and can have complete creative freedom" turned into "Here's this messy, unimaginative and pretentious D&D derivative".

 

[Agame]

Arcanum: A Trip to the Moon.

Arcanum: Of Spaceworks and Succession Spirita

Why are you so cruel guys, why even joke about this...

 

[Forest Dweller]

Spoiler

What game is that?

 

[Wunderbar]

Spoiler

What game is that?

the evil within 2

 

[Bastardchops]

New RtWP isometric Bioshock incoming.

 

[MicoSelva]

Seriously, no direspect to Copper Dreams, Realms Beyond, Colony Ship, etc., but this is probably the only upcoming game that I am actually excited about.

 

[Feyd Rautha]

Shameful update: Apparently the publisher was not news, I just forgot about this piece of news from a year ago. Hell, we've even had a gander at the game's possible title!

you're getting old

 

[Diggfinger]

YES!!!
I believe in the Lord Our Savior and his son Jesus Christ...
this is a miracle...

Look at those fucking adds, 100% Boyarsky style!

'Outer World' add

Spoiler

Older Boyarsky work

Spoiler

Plus, announcement is day after my birthday perfect timing

 

[Jigawatt]

People shouldn't be to worried about the shapes comments I think. They aren't that incompatible with traditional number interfaces and can work well with them. Radar charts aren't that bad for one example.

Radar charts are a horrific way to show any data because the most visually dominant part - the area of the polygon - conveys no meaning at all and usually just serves to mislead

edit: oh yeah, something something Obsidian game something very low expectations etc.

 

[Molina]

Looks like some Space 1889 thing incoming.

The arabesques from Autie Cleo's are typical of Mucha. So I hope for a early 1900's/ fin de siècle vibes. But for the moment, the design is not from Europe but more from U.S.

(Yeah, the guy design some soap box).

 

[Forest Dweller]

Did I just see bush in an 80s music video?

 

[Wesp5]

I hope this Cainyarsky project is isometric so it would be a perfect send off to their independent legacy.

I hope it's first person view using the Unreal engine, because they showed with Bloodlines that they really can pull this off...

 

[aratuk]

"Well, this isn't quite a big enough deal to be released on our main label alongside the likes of Bioshock and XCOM, so we're putting you with our Kerbal Space Program team."

—Oh, okay, cool. What all have they done?—

"I just said. Kerbal Space Program."

—Awesome. Well, it looks like I'm running late for a meeting in Redmond. Let's pick this up later. Could I have a tissue? Thanks.—

 

[Feyd Rautha]

How can Bethesdas Starfield ever compete with this?

 

[turkishronin]

People shouldn't be to worried about the shapes comments I think. They aren't that incompatible with traditional number interfaces and can work well with them. Radar charts aren't that bad for one example.

Football Manager in space?

 

[taxalot]

Don't let me down, Tim! I still have a Troika poster in my room!

You do not get laid often, do you ?

 

[Excommunicator]

People shouldn't be to worried about the shapes comments I think. They aren't that incompatible with traditional number interfaces and can work well with them. Radar charts aren't that bad for one example.

I've never seen a game fine tuned enough for it to mean anything. If they aren't substantially different in-game then it's a gimmick

 

[Jedi Master Radek]

This really looks like late XIX century ads.

 

[Trans-Financial-Man]

Don't let me down, Tim! I still have a Troika poster in my room!

You do not get laid often, do you ?

Truth be told the Arcanum poster in my living room led to me meeting my wife. We both loved RPGs and Arcanum in particular. It does happen.