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

[oldmanpaco]

They going to have another update today or wait for the weekend?

 

[Jaesun]

Is the Unholy Trinity™ (IGN Gamespot Gamespy) actually doing coverage of Project Eternity?

 

[Raygun_elf]

Anyone else who doesn't want the megadungeon? I just know it's gonna be full of either trash mobs or hp bloated "challenge".

Actually the dungeon is ONLY for those who want to enjoy Hack and slash. As far as I understand it will be optional and I like that. I hope it will not disturb the balance in the game (it might).

Hack and slash is a style of combat when you have to hit an action key every time you want your character to make an attack, not really applicable to games with auto-attack.

 

[Captain Shrek]

Anyone else who doesn't want the megadungeon? I just know it's gonna be full of either trash mobs or hp bloated "challenge".

Actually the dungeon is ONLY for those who want to enjoy Hack and slash. As far as I understand it will be optional and I like that. I hope it will not disturb the balance in the game (it might).

Hack and slash is a style of combat when you have to hit an action key every time you want your character to make an attack, not really applicable to games with auto-attack.

Why thank you miss. I would have never guessed.

 

[Jarpie]

Is the Unholy Trinity™ (IGN Gamespot Gamespy) actually doing coverage of Project Eternity?

Gamespot is at least, here clicky.

 

[Raygun_elf]

Anyone else who doesn't want the megadungeon? I just know it's gonna be full of either trash mobs or hp bloated "challenge".

Actually the dungeon is ONLY for those who want to enjoy Hack and slash. As far as I understand it will be optional and I like that. I hope it will not disturb the balance in the game (it might).

Hack and slash is a style of combat when you have to hit an action key every time you want your character to make an attack, not really applicable to games with auto-attack.

Why thank you miss. I would have never guessed.

That's cool

 

[Captain Shrek]

Anyone else who doesn't want the megadungeon? I just know it's gonna be full of either trash mobs or hp bloated "challenge".

Actually the dungeon is ONLY for those who want to enjoy Hack and slash. As far as I understand it will be optional and I like that. I hope it will not disturb the balance in the game (it might).

Hack and slash is a style of combat when you have to hit an action key every time you want your character to make an attack, not really applicable to games with auto-attack.

Why thank you miss. I would have never guessed.

That's cool

 

[Jarpie]

Looked at the article closer and holy shit that editor looks like a kid, is he fifteen or what? No wonder gaming journalism is in the toilet nowdays.

 

[hoverdog]

Kickstarter has really picked up, 2 point 8 millians should be broken in the next hour or so.

 

[Jarpie]

Kickstarter has really picked up, 2 point 8 millians should be broken in the next hour or so.

Someone pledged 5k last hour, it's been going 5 - 6,5k rest of the day.

 

[Mastermind]

Anyone else who doesn't want the megadungeon? I just know it's gonna be full of either trash mobs or hp bloated "challenge".

I know right, just like the temple of Zehir in SoZ...

OH WAIT

I haven't gotten around to SoZ seeing how I'm still playing the NWN 2 OC, Icewind Dale and the odd Torchlight 2 round at the same time, but level and encounter design hasn't exactly been Obsidian's strong point in any of their games that I've played.

 

[Jasede]

NWN 2 (original campaign, only at Old Owl Well so far) has really terrible encounter design I'm afraid. It plays like an MMORPG: trash fight x1000, boss. And it's not really the fun, resource-draining kind of trash fights either, it's just repetitive speed-bumps that were copy-pasted. I just went through some docks, a warehouse and a noble's house and basically each of those featured one single encounter that was copy-pasted a few dozen times.

Noble's house: oh wow, another group of 7 stealthy thugs. And another. And another.
Warehouse + docks: oh wow, another group of a few melee, a few caster and a few archer thugs. And another. And another...

Now I'm supposed to kill some orcs. Without even seeing a single orc yet I can already tell it'll be the same damn encounter pasted a hundred times in some very rectangular cave.

 

[aVENGER]

Anyone else who doesn't want the megadungeon? I just know it's gonna be full of either trash mobs or hp bloated "challenge".

Icewind Dale 2 had a number of party vs. party encounters which were pretty decent. Off the top of my head, the fight for the Holy Avenger sword and Saablic Tan's group at the Fields of Slaughter were particularly well designed.

IIRC, Sawyer recently said that he wants to have something similar in Project Eternity.

 

[Linden]

Now I'm supposed to kill some orcs. Without even seeing a single orc yet I can already tell it'll be the same damn encounter pasted a hundred times in some very rectangular cave.

Oh man... you don't even know.

 

[Dexter]

Is the Unholy Trinity™ (IGN Gamespot Gamespy) actually doing coverage of Project Eternity?

Gamespot is at least, here clicky.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/09/14/obsidians-fantasy-rpg-reveals-founders-true-desires

Surprisingly unretarded comments for IGN...

 

[LeStryfe79]

2.8

 

[Infinitron]

2.8 million on the Kickstarter.

If it hits 3 million with 24 hours or more to spare, there's a good chance of coming close to the 3.5 million mark at the end. Maybe even reaching it with Paypal.

 

[hoverdog]

Kickstarter has really picked up, 2 point 8 millians should be broken in the next hour or so.

I was close. one hour twenty five, not that much of a difference.

 

[ghostdog]

http://www.1up.com/features/interview-chris-avellone-project-eternity

According to this interview, this is "Project Eternity concept art":

and this is a screenshot from "Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition":

:facepalm:

the second screen is from Dark Alliance II, the first one looks familiar, but I can't place it...

 

[hoverdog]

^ neverwinter nights 2.

 

[aVENGER]

the second screen is from Dark Alliance II, the first one looks familiar, but I can't place it...

NWN2 OC concept art - Ammon Jerro.

 

[Digital Monocle]

the second screen is from Dark Alliance II, the first one looks familiar, but I can't place it...

Gaming Journalism.... It would have been funny if they put in a New Vegas screenshot in the interview saying it's a PE shot.

 

[Jasede]

Aaah you beat me to it; I was gonna say Ammon Jerro but when I tried to confirm it in Google images I couldn't find it there so I wanted to look for it a bit longer.

 

[ghostdog]

Ah, yes. Thanks. I think I've intentionally forgotten everything concerning NWN2OC.

 

[Infinitron]

Ah, yes. Thanks. I think I've intentionally forgotten everything concerning NWN2OC.

Ammon Jerro was also in MotB.