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Obsidian's Pillars of Eternity [BETA RELEASED, GO TO THE NEW THREAD]
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Spectacle you magnificent bastard
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Nigro
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It was just a bait, me and some other guy got warnings, and now my posts need approval.
btw anyone know this mod tale?
he is a girl, right?
Only those of legendary forum status should be eligible, IMHO. Such things as filthy lucre should not have any bearing on the choosing process (unless you decide to bribe DU, I guess).
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We first need to discuss if we're going to go with the popamole idea of hurr durr codex posters as the party or if we are actually going to come up with something good, as with W2.
When the fundraiser is set up, we can discuss it there. There are a lot of options we could choose.
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Let's get the fundraiser started first. Then we can discuss it in a different thread, in the Site Feedback forum. This thread should remain for general Eternity news.
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Use this thread to pester DU about the fundraiser: http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/project-eternity.76071/
Grimlorn
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I don't mind some gay characters but if those assholes had their way. Half the characters would be LGBT, your party would all be BI so everyone could romance each other, and you'd have to sit through cutscenes of gay guys crying about their dead bf. It would be terrible.It may be fantasy but if this word has some internal coherency there is no way they would tolerate openly gay/TG/furrfag characters. Manly Showing Honor in Prisons/Long boats etc and healthy dose of Greek style Pedophilia and Redneck Incest? Yes Maybe, but not this XX century shit only possible cause people are not required by nature and society to work with their hands and have children as pension insurance. Oh why Obsidian is not making Kickstarter for Acanum 2 or TOEE 2 instead of this DA Deluxe elven faggotry?
Obsidian shouldn't even need to be petitioned. They've done it before, they'll do it again. Just these people from Bioware have an inflated sense of worth and entitlement. They think every little opinion they have is as valid as the next guy's.
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If most of those people had their way we'd have Mass Effect minus the story and combat.
Grimlorn
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Yeah I was warned by Tale after the second romance thread was closed yesterday.
Fixed and
ed. MA at first was 
It's curious how they carefuly shove guns into setting. At first it was just like "In some cultures single-shot flintlock pistols exist for specific purposes of warfare". Now these are almost inside the battle-system, with mages starting to arm themselves because guns can pierce their defenses. Elegant, but bold - probably some people would feel betrayed after, instead of Baldur's Gate 3, Obsidian would deliver them Arcanum 2 
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Same dumb thing.
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Will a Fixed viewpoint be damaging to the immersion?
http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/60...aging-to-the-immersion-also-amount-of-combat/
I am excited hearing about obsidian making a new game but please dont be fixated on a fixed viewpoint like isometric, theres been a general advancement , a evolution if you will in gaming to more of ,a modern approach with 1st person views or at least having a camera were you can pan to truly admire the clothing and accesories and tattoos of your character (the character that YOU spend time making) if you do implement a camera which you can rotate please make it better than fallout new vegas which though was a good idea but looked..awkward. ,. and viewpoint is paramount to immersive experience, i want to feel like im actually IN the world , so viewpoint and then atmosphere, then story , then continuity etc
But a 1st person viewpoint like new vegas would be brilliant in a fantasy setting, let me set the scene:
My character has a tomahawk in one hand and a bola in the other (for example sake i understand there will be firearms in the game, probably rifle or primitive machine gun maybe an explosive or magic imbued firearm)I kick down the front door of a house spliters fly everywhere - details like this will help with immersion - the music then starts to pipe up in volume - maybe a orchestral style music piece to really fit the scene as my character goes into battle.
The tomahawk is thrown blindly (the shards are still splintering the air obscuring the view) and misses, the bola is thrown at an orcs legs and he falls over .
my character then pulls out a bow and notches an arrow
because its first person you can actually SEE the fear in the orcs eyes as hes about to be shot by my arrow and realises that ill then move on and kill his family (orcs=evil creatures) and get my reward from the quest giver.
now that deals with the superior viewpoint and thats just one example, imagine all the combat in the game it should be like Neverwinter nights 2 were you kill countless creatures and you can really get an impression for the overwhelming strength and power of your characters as they just cut everything to pieces in each and every battle almost without effort- but this time up close and personal.
Now i hope that looting is more of a streamlined process perhaps like dungeon siege (if i recall correctly that is) were you can automatically collect up all the gold pieces and then you can choose to pick up the nicer stuff like swords which SHOULD display DPS since the MMO style item properties IS a evolution in gameplay. (as picked up on by Obsidians prior Fallout New Vegas) and more immersive than having a description for the item then a +1 +2 etc which actually fell out of favour anyway.
So HUGE kudos to Obsidian, good luck with the game - i am indeed a backer but dont be afraid to change gameplay or camera angels which may hamper the immersive aspect of the game.
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http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/60...aging-to-the-immersion-also-amount-of-combat/
I am excited hearing about obsidian making a new game but please dont be fixated on a fixed viewpoint like isometric, theres been a general advancement , a evolution if you will in gaming to more of ,a modern approach with 1st person views or at least having a camera were you can pan to truly admire the clothing and accesories and tattoos of your character (the character that YOU spend time making) if you do implement a camera which you can rotate please make it better than fallout new vegas which though was a good idea but looked..awkward. ,. and viewpoint is paramount to immersive experience, i want to feel like im actually IN the world , so viewpoint and then atmosphere, then story , then continuity etc
But a 1st person viewpoint like new vegas would be brilliant in a fantasy setting, let me set the scene:
My character has a tomahawk in one hand and a bola in the other (for example sake i understand there will be firearms in the game, probably rifle or primitive machine gun maybe an explosive or magic imbued firearm)I kick down the front door of a house spliters fly everywhere - details like this will help with immersion - the music then starts to pipe up in volume - maybe a orchestral style music piece to really fit the scene as my character goes into battle.
The tomahawk is thrown blindly (the shards are still splintering the air obscuring the view) and misses, the bola is thrown at an orcs legs and he falls over .
my character then pulls out a bow and notches an arrow
because its first person you can actually SEE the fear in the orcs eyes as hes about to be shot by my arrow and realises that ill then move on and kill his family (orcs=evil creatures) and get my reward from the quest giver.
now that deals with the superior viewpoint and thats just one example, imagine all the combat in the game it should be like Neverwinter nights 2 were you kill countless creatures and you can really get an impression for the overwhelming strength and power of your characters as they just cut everything to pieces in each and every battle almost without effort- but this time up close and personal.
Now i hope that looting is more of a streamlined process perhaps like dungeon siege (if i recall correctly that is) were you can automatically collect up all the gold pieces and then you can choose to pick up the nicer stuff like swords which SHOULD display DPS since the MMO style item properties IS a evolution in gameplay. (as picked up on by Obsidians prior Fallout New Vegas) and more immersive than having a description for the item then a +1 +2 etc which actually fell out of favour anyway.
So HUGE kudos to Obsidian, good luck with the game - i am indeed a backer but dont be afraid to change gameplay or camera angels which may hamper the immersive aspect of the game.
:declining:
oldmanpaco
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When are they going to talk about game mechanics? I want them to explain the magic system dammit.
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Fucking retard.
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