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

[Kem0sabe]

Brutal he says.

 

[Roguey]

Maybe he was thinking of Tales of the Sword Coast.

 

[Xeon]

If all characters act simultaneously, then it's phase-based.

Oh, Okay thanks.

I don't think I played any game with a slow motion turn based. The closest game I can think of is Final Fantasy's Active Time Battle with combat speed slowest and disabling the agility stats effect maybe?

 

[Kem0sabe]

Maybe he was thinking of Tales of the Sword Coast.

We need a Chris Avellone bares all interview on the codex, so he can come clean on all these misunderstandings...

Spoiler

 

[Infinitron]

If all characters act simultaneously, then it's phase-based.

Oh, Okay thanks.

I don't think I played any game with a slow motion turn based. The closest game I can think of is Final Fantasy's Active Time Battle with combat speed slowest and disabling the agility stats effect maybe?

I think you might have your definitions muddled. Turn-based combat doesn't need slow motion. Slow motion controls only make sense in the context of simultaneous combat where you need to slow things down because there's too much action going on at once.

The ATB system is really a kind of real-time combat system, although because your characters don't move around in Final Fantasy games it doesn't require much in the way of reflexes.

 

[Sensuki]

needs more biceps

 

[Cosmo]

needs more beer

 

[MicoSelva]

Maybe he was thinking of Tales of the Sword Coast.

I think he meant Baldur's Gate as a series, actually.
Hahahaowwow still applies, though.

 

[Ramireza]

A quite long P:E "Preview" at Gamestar (With a lot popamole bashing) :

http://www.gamestar.de/spiele/project-eternity/artikel/project_eternity,48834,3024992.html

One of them had a visit at the Obsidian Office, interviewing the team.

(Sorry, German language alert!)

 

[Infinitron]

A quite long P:E "Preview" at Gamestar :

http://www.gamestar.de/spiele/project-eternity/artikel/project_eternity,48834,3024992.html

Of of them had a visit at Obsidian, interviewing the team.

(Sorry, German language alert!)

Anything interesting in here, Kodex Krauts?

 

[Ramireza]

A quite long P:E "Preview" at Gamestar :

http://www.gamestar.de/spiele/project-eternity/artikel/project_eternity,48834,3024992.html

Of of them had a visit at Obsidian, interviewing the team.

(Sorry, German language alert!)

Anything interesting in here, Kodex Krauts?

For me it was worth the read, but i am just a codex n00b with only 27 posts

 

[Cosmo]

Nothing new really, but a Tim Cain interview is always a nice touch...

Edit :
In fact i detected possibly new elements in Cain's fnal answer, but my vocabulary fails me. Concerns quests and side mission structure apparently. Anybody care to help ?

 

[Infinitron]

Anything interesting in here, Kodex Krauts?

For me it was worth the read, but i am just a codex n00b with only 27 posts

I'm sorry. What I meant by that was, "Please post the most interesting things from that preview in this thread, translated to English."

 

[Duraframe300]

Anything interesting in here, Kodex Krauts?

For me it was worth the read, but i am just a codex n00b with only 27 posts

I'm sorry. What I meant by that was, "Please post the most interesting things from that preview in this thread, translated to English."

On it

 

[Ramireza]

Anything interesting in here, Kodex Krauts?

For me it was worth the read, but i am just a codex n00b with only 27 posts

I'm sorry. What I meant by that was, "Please post the most interesting things from that preview in this thread, translated to English."

My english is to bad for a propper translation, and i was only joking of course

 

[Duraframe300]

Well first off, they mention that Obsidian doesn't rule out other gernes for the setting as well in the long term. As Sawyer puts it, they want to create a world where several types of games can work in.

Which isn't that surprising considering we know about P&P and Comics or whatever. But still, game gernes seems new. PE: Dark Alliance incoming?

 

[Duraframe300]

 

[Hormalakh]

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www.gamestar.de/spiele/project-eternity/artikel/project_eternity,48834,3024992.html&prev=/search?q=http://www.gamestar.de/spiele/project-eternity/artikel/project_eternity,48834,3024992,4.html&client=firefox-a&hs=o9t&rls=org.mozilla:en-USfficial&biw=1024&bih=509

my ghetto translate tool.

one interesting tidbit was the wurmling (baby dragon monster) that they are/were working on. one of the pictures sort of shows the model for it. it looked kind of clunky... but it's WIP

 

[Duraframe300]

They are working on possible new formations. An example is given, but they didn't really go into detail, just mentioned that the distance between fighters and mages was bigger than usual.

 

[Duraframe300]

Also Tim Cain is now full time on it. Seems like he wrapped up his South Park work.

 

[Duraframe300]

Josh Sawyer and Tim Cain both complain about D&D as a crpg and josh said, that their own system allows them to use a bigger number range than D&D (Obviously)

 

[Duraframe300]

Standard difficulty is based on Icewind Dale 1. Which is news to me, I thought it was IWD 2, but then again maybe I'm misremembering.

 

[Duraframe300]

 

[Duraframe300]

Well, and I have to go do sometthing else. There's more. But, I don't have time atm.

 

[Kane]

Anything interesting in here, Kodex Krauts?

For me it was worth the read, but i am just a codex n00b with only 27 posts

I'm sorry. What I meant by that was, "Please post the most interesting things from that preview in this thread, translated to English."

- sawyer wants to create sequels that are not neccessarily RPGs but use the same setting, he wants "to create a world where many games can happen"
- 6 races 11 classes
- 8 henchmen
- 6char party
- end level will be 8 or 9, max is lvl 12 (will be raised in sequels)
- you'll be able to import your party from P:E into the sequel (IF there is a sequel...)
- brennecke is building some kind of CoH2 like "TrueSight" system into P:E
- o:e tries to make 3d unity look like 2d IE
- formations
- RTwP
- build in "turn the whole game into a quick time event" mode
- 3d shenigans (lightening, shadows etc 2013 standard)
- publishers are shit! -- brennecke 2013
- currently working on content
- obsidian doing 2 own homebrewed classes (cipher, chanter), rest is standard d&d fare
- chanter = bard that can combo songs
- cypher = dots
- cyphers always need another guy to anchor their stuff - sawyer
- cyphers also need special ressource: "focus"
- game shouldn't be too hard, we're aiming at IW1 for normal, BG2/IW2 for hard - sawyer
- highest difficulty is called "path of the dammned"
- there will be an "expert mode", disabling some elements of the UI
- and then there's "trial of iron", an iron man mode
- lips are shut regarding story
- O:E takes place in the "southern coastal region" Drywood
- character will get entangled in some supernatural event and that will cause big trouble - sawyer 2013
- reincarnation is "standard stuff" in this world
- obsidian really likes dialogue trees (see, IE)
- choices & consequences
- actions during dialogues depending on your attributes are in (re: torment)
- NO VOICE ACTING!!!!!!!
- character dependent side quests are in, scope unclear
- emotional engagement is in (if it makes sense)
- EMOTIONAL ENGAGEMENT SHOULDNT BE AWKWARD LIKE IN OTHER GAEMS - SAWYER 2013
- being good or evil is your decision...
- ... but sawyer doesnt like good and evil
- early 2014 release realistic - brennecke 2013
- and if not kickstarters wont be troubled, unlike those evil publishers - brennecke 2013
- longterm plans? one big world spanning several games, classic d&d style, trilogy somewhat planned, sawyer wants you to feel that there's more than just P:E
- all games RPGs? sawyer wants to establish a 20-40 midprice RPG market
- kickstarter, second edition? hopefully not - sawyer 2013
- tim cain really loves working for ks backers cause he doesnt have to write reports to publishers
- we're making a modern game - tim cain 2013