Obsidian's Pillars of Eternity [BETA RELEASED, GO TO THE NEW THREAD]

[Infinitron]

Roguey is the Codex's own Michael Pachter.

 

[Kosmonaut]

I'm sick and tired of this Obsidian bullshit: RTwP, kool-downs, retarted (as Volly loves to spell it) updates, stalemate and boring setting, etc. That's why I'm keeping my pledge at only $65.

 

[toro]

Folks are upgrading their pledges now in large numbers. I see three $20 tiers up for grabs.

EDIT: Gone now. But keep your eyes peeled if you're cheap.

Maybe they un-pledged. That would be shocking, isn't it?

 

[Malpercio]

The character design is rather awful.

Did someone mention that to Obsidian?

 

[tuluse]

Well this is looking like it will be the most profitable day since the first week of the kickstarter. So it's possible, but not very likely.

 

[Jaesun]

The character design is rather awful.

Did someone mention that to Obsidian?

Do you understand what concept art is?

 

[~RAGING BONER~]

Optimism, I will let it blind me just this once.

 

[Malpercio]

I understand they are ugly.

 

[Jaesun]

Yeah the concept art for the girl with the gun was meh.

 

[Volourn]

"Were you more excited about the two stretch goals before it; crafting and enchanting, two new character classes. Cause if you were than that should defiantly tell you that the 2.6 million stretch goal was poorly thought out."

STFU dude. Don't post on my behalf FFS.

 

[Infinitron]

"1 people Brofist this."

wtf??

 

[Volourn]

"Another point I want to make is this: If you are allowing Quicksave and the like so that your player doesn't have to play through your level multiple times, well then, maybe that's saying something about your level. It should be fun to go through your level. If your game is solidly designed and fun to play about in, players will not mind repeating a level. Look at Pac-Man, it's nothing but doing the same level over and over again, but people do it. Why? Because it's fun. So no using save/load as a way of minimizing the damage your crappy game can do."

RETART DETECTED: He just comapred RPGs to Pacman. FFS. And, fuck off.

 

[Murk]

How does one not Volourn when there is only Volourn?

Can one even?

 

[Jaesun]

Well... you do play the Role of PacMan.

 

[Gurkog]

I wonder if the popularity of Pac-Man says something about gaming... People like to play a fat ass stuffing his face with junk all day.

 

[Digital Monocle]

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What the? Talk about Extreme Lurker

 

[J_C]

I'm sick and tired of this Obsidian bullshit: RTwP, kool-downs, retarted (as Volly loves to spell it) updates, stalemate and boring setting, etc. That's why I'm keeping my pledge at only $65.

Well you still pledged quite a lot despite you hating the game. You are a rich mofo, aren't you?

 

[Kosmonaut]

It was a joke dumbass (hating the game, not the pledge). Now go on and continue kissing Obsidian ass.

 

[J_C]

It was a joke dumbass (hating the game, not the pledge). Now go on and continue kissing Obsidian ass.

Ok. You should do the same, it feels so good.

 

[Azrael the cat]

I wonder if the popularity of Pac-Man says something about gaming... People like to play a fat ass stuffing his face with junk all day.

As a guy who remembers Pacman at arcades, it was a fine predictor of the rave scene generation - as though we'd all been taught in our formative years to run about in the dark, listening to repetitive synthetic music, constantly eating pills.

 

[Infinitron]

What the? Talk about Extreme Alt

 

[Infinitron]

WE HAVE LIFTOFF

 

[Infinitron]

Are there any aspects of the user interface of PE that will be *fundamentally* different/improved compared to the Infinity Engine games? Or will it use pretty much the same UI concept?

This is something Tim and I have been talking about lately since the UIs in the IE games and Temple of Elemental Evil were fairly different. ToEE's interface was very flexible and scaled to virtually any resolution, both of which are great attributes. The IE games' UIs did a good job of setting a mood/tone because they felt like they were "constructed" of material instead of being utilitarian UIs.

Things I want to make sure our UI accomplishes:

* Is flexible across all of our classes/party compositions and handles new additions easily.
* Retains a high level of consistency from character to character.
* Is fast to use/reinforces muscle memory (this can be tricky when flexibility is also a goal).
* Visually complements the aesthetics of the setting.
* Scales well across all of our supported resolutions.

 

[Volourn]

If theya re gonna steal stuff from TOEE's UI; I have one anger issue they better fix: make sure that any radial menu they use doesn't go right off the fukkin' monitor. FFS This is why NWN radial menu will allways trump TOEE's radial menu even though TOEE's UI was pretty solid but that fukkin' pissed me fukkin' off.

 

[FeelTheRads]

Can't remember exactly, but did TOEE's interface actually scale? I remember it got smaller the higher the resolution.

And fuck radial menus. They are retarded.