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

[Roguey]

For someone who is against stereotyping of women, you sure do like to lump whole communities into one bin.

Most of 4chan is no worse than the codex really.

"This isn't 4chan" is a racist insult because pedophiles and racists post there. Lesi said so.

Also misogynists. Loads and loads of misogynists.

 

[tuluse]

I don't think Roguey would consider that much of a defense.

It's not much a defense, but here's the thing: Roguey is part of the codex. Therefore, her own websites are codex related. Which is a site as bad as 4chan. Therefore, her on opinions are as worthless as gatheryourparty.

 

[Roguey]

I was a contrarian from day one. Also I would never let anyone know I post here, much like how Lesi currently denies any previous association with this place.

 

[IronicNeurotic]

I think Bobby Null is just using the term "DPS" out of habit.

Pretty much. It's a meaningless term anyway and can be measured in any real-time related system. Nothing to get angry over.

 

[Infinitron]

http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/61...s-rewards-and-more/page__st__200#entry1233395

Ha, I wrote that kind of late last night. I use the term DPS as synonymous with high overall damage (in this case increased because it is an AOE) when talking to other designers, even though said damage is not being calculated on a Damage Per Second basis. Just force of habit. So a high damage, area of effect, in a small radius, is what I meant.

 

[villain of the story]

Apparently this is an old, failed pitched for a game called "Hidden", by MCA:

Myths and Folk Tales exist, see, they fill the seams in our world.

You know them already, but you forget fast. The faint trilling of a flute beneath a sewer grate, a click-spinning bike wheel with a length of blonde hair twined in its spokes, the click-click of glass-spiked heels on a sidewalk echoing, echoing, then... wait, it's gone. The faint smell of brimstone from the local pub with the ash-blackened windows and the men who walk out more hunched than they went in, a nest of filthy blankets arranged in a square pen that seems too small for a human to sleep on.

The world we walk in is one we see through untraumatized eyes... the one you see without accident, the see something else... more than you bargained for.

Once seen, these things can never be unseen. You become a part of the hidden world, its rules, its inhabitants - and their bargains.

It'll creep up on you. You might smell spoiled beef from an empty alley, a fingernail scratching a tune on a record in a sealed attic… or catch a sewer manhole sliding noiselessly closed. A grinning smile within the door of a doghouse. A sudden feeling of déjà vu and a faint, distant jazz saxophone when you enter a hotel lobby. Smoke and ash lingering in the air where no fire has burned, and the faint smell of the charnel house may come from a children's playground. Your grandmother in a brief moment of lucidity, recite a poem from the 16th century and tells you the third line will determine your fate, and all the while, the candles in her windows flicker even when there's no breeze to brush by them. Every alley merits a second glance, then a third... but when you turn away, your surroundings have changed. There is splashing in empty fountains, a giggle behind an abandoned storefront, the ting of a glass shard falling... you may even hear the dust motes whispering amongst themselves. Then - it gets worse.

When something cuts you deep, physically or emotionally, sometimes you catch a glimpse of the world as it unfolds… walls peel away, tiles fall from floors into the Abyss, and reality becomes a hallucination you happen to have shared with everyone you knew. Distance has no meanings, streets stretch on forever, and things at your peripheral vision suddenly become very, very real. Nothing can be measured, and you see a glimpse of the infinite.

Demons lurk in bars, waiting and getting drunk on human misery, as they sip emptiness from glasses of pessimism... and wait for humanity to come in to pick and choose which of those empty vessels they wish to sample and fill with their energy. Mothers forget their children, their houses filled with empty cribs whose contents have been misplaced. Some say there's a dark overlord behind it all, pulling the strings - Lucifer himself, the puppeteer, the one-we-all-answer-to, the fallen angel... but thing is, no one's seen him for some time. It's like he's vanished, gone, into the air... like a folk tale.

Where has he gone, you say? Well, that's the part of the story where you walk in - or wake up, might be better. You and this fellow Lucifer, turns out you have a history. A brief one, a cloudy one, but very, very troubling.

But that's how all tales begin... the tales worth telling, that is.

Is the Codex aware of this?

Where did you dig this out?

 

[Jaesun]

Creator Obsidian Entertainment 1 minute ago
@gandalf.nho We have talked a lot about a horror RPG. We were within inches of doing a RPG with White Wolf and then CCP came in and purchased them.



villain of the story http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/60...in-the-kickstarter-comments-page/page__st__40

 

[Infinitron]

villain of the story Something Awful PE Thread.

 

[Roguey]

villain of the story Something Awful PE Thread.

The pitch was first posted in the Kickstarter comments thread.

 

[Lockkaliber]

so Roguey didn't nail anything at all

edit: also what the fuck is this cataclysmic event tied to Lesifoere that everyone keeps referencing? Is she not posting here anymore (a shame, she was one of my favourite posters)? Can someone be so kind as to point me in the right direction of what is sure to be some sort of retarded /gd/ drama thread (in a pm, keep that shit out of here)

 

[wormix]

Wait a minute, what the fuck is a "centered AOE DPS" anyway? What does that even mean?

By centered he probably means point-blank.

From the Paladin paragraph

[...] they can blast groups of foes in their immediate vicinity.

 

[Lockkaliber]

They will be Song of Roland-ish large scale killing machines then, as Sawyer mentioned.

 

[Infinitron]

edit: also what the fuck is this cataclysmic event tied to Lesifoere that everyone keeps referencing? Is she not posting here anymore (a shame, she was one of my favourite posters)? Can someone be so kind as to point me in the right direction of what is sure to be some sort of retarded /gd/ drama thread (in a pm, keep that shit out of here)

There is not much to say - she posted on the Codex for years before leaving to become a notorious Radical Internet Feminist(tm). Roguey is some kind of racially insecure Eurasian who has become obsessed with following her footsteps, culminating in this thread.

 

[Jaesun]

Have they started the reddit AMA thing yet?

 

[Infinitron]

UPDATE - Expansion add-on, I called it!: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/obsidian/project-eternity/posts/326152

Update #19 - $2.6M Achieved! Adventurer’s Hall in! Full List of Rewards at Every Tier, Art for T-Shirts and Mouse Pad

Update #19 · Oct. 10, 2012

Another stretch goal down! We are happy to announce that we’ve made our $2.6M stretch goal counting both Kickstarter and PayPal backers!

We have a lot of great stuff planned over the next six days. Josh is doing a lore update tomorrow along with some other BIG announcements, we are organizing an AMA over on reddit so everyone can ask Tim, Josh, Feargus and myself (Adam) a ton of questions, and we are getting our crazy ideas put together for the live stream of the last hours of the campaign next Tuesday.

Along with this update, we wanted to get some housekeeping out of the way. First off, we get asked a lot about what is in each of our reward tiers. You can find the full list farther down in this update. We are going to keep this list constantly updated, so if you ever need to refer to it, just come back to this update.

We are also working on our main Kickstarter page to keep things organized and have a new stretch goal image that combines all the stretch goals that have been added.

The Barbarian and Cipher classes are up next at $2.7M, and the talented George Zietswill be joining the team if we hit $2.8m! With each stretch goal hit not only are we adding a new feature, we are also making the entire game larger. The additional money raised lets us add designers, artists, animators, and programmers to help build this incredible new world we are creating. This means adding more reactive quests, choice and consequence opportunities, a varied bestiary, memorable characters, adventure areas, and combat abilities.

New Add-On

Due to popular demand and for a limited time, we are offering the ability to add our first expansion pack, due out approximately six months after Project Eternity ships. Any money contributed to add-on the expansion now will be used to make the main game larger. The expansion budget is not being created by money from this Kickstarter.

• Digital Download of Expansion Pack + $20 (included in tiers $165 and above)

We will be sweetening the $165 reward tier with something extra in the upcoming days as well.

Add-Ons

If you are at the $20 Pledge level or higher, you can add the following items to your reward tier. Check out Update #4 on more information on how to Add-On rewards.

Digital Add-Ons (Any Tier $20 and Above)

• Digital Download of Expansion Pack + $20 (included in tiers $165 and above)
• Digital Strategy Guide + $7 (included in tiers $80 and above)
• Early Access Beta Key +$25 (included in tiers $110 and above)
• Extra Digital Download of the Game +$25 (requires a minimum $20/$25 tier contribution)
• Extra Three Digital Downloads of the Game +$60 (requires a minimum $20/$25 tier contribution)

Physical Add-Ons (Physical Tiers Only, $65, $100, $140, $250 and above)

• Project Eternity Mouse Pad +$15 (included in physical tiers $140 and above)
• Black Project Eternity T-Shirt +$25 (included in physical tiers $100 and above)
• Black Obsidian T-Shirt +$25

For t-shirt add-ons, we will ask for your size at the end of the Kickstarter campaign in a survey sent to you in e-mail.

Discuss Update #19 in the Project Eternity Forums.

 

[maverick]

Is there a way to see the amount donated to the project via PayPal? This update sure took me by surprise. Did not think they would reach 2.6 million today o.o.

 

[Infinitron]

Is there a way to see the amount donated to the project via PayPal? This update sure took me by surprise. Did not think they would reach 2.6 million today o.o.

PayPal = 2.6 - Kickstarter

 

[maverick]

Is there a way to see the amount donated to the project via PayPal? This update sure took me by surprise. Did not think they would reach 2.6 million today o.o.

PayPal = 2.6 - Kickstarter

Yeah I know, but I was thinking of something a little more realtime

 

[Jaesun]

FUCKING MATH! HOW DOES IT WORK?

It seems to be staying around 40K ish. Of which I am quite surprised (I was actually expecting more). It doesn't seem to be growing fastly.

 

[Nebuchadnezzar]

Well I guess that means I have to add the expansion to my pledge. Too hard to resist. I have to wonder though, since they are marketing this expansion as 20$, what will be the finished main games price?

 

[IronicNeurotic]

FUCKING MATH! HOW DOES IT WORK?

It seems to be staying around 40K ish. Of which I am quite surprised (I was actually expecting more). It doesn't seem to be growing fastly.

You may have the time here wrong. I'm pretty sure it has been only two days since it was in the 20'000.

 

[Gurkog]

The game will probably cost $30 on release, maybe more.

 

[Infinitron]

The game will probably cost $30 on release, maybe more.

I can see them going for the oldschool price of a high budget PC game - 40-50 bucks.

 

[Nigro]

The game will probably cost $30 on release, maybe more.

I can see them going for the oldschool price of a high budget PC game - 40-50 bucks.

so many shit games get sold by 60 bucks, I hope they try for at least this range

 

[Gurkog]

I forgot that they are setting up a physical distribution deal. I could see the price being $45 or more.