Pentiment - Josh Sawyer's historical mystery narrative-driven game set in 16th century Bavaria

[Immortal]

Pfbfbfb at moving the faces around - the shitty edits you made make it even funnier

 

[Tyranicon]

These are some quality shit memes.

 

[Fedora Master]

I've seen this game before but better + funnier:

 

[Duraframe300]

 

[Roguey]

https://twitter.com/_taylorswope/status/1536078041021001729

whenever the Pentiment team gives updates in our company-wide meetings the chat looks like this

Obsidian Entertainment is full of obnoxious women.

 

[BlackheartXIII]

https://twitter.com/jesawyer/status/1536346111505338375?cxt=HHwWjsCgxcCpmdIqAAAA

Pentiment plays much more like Night in the Woods, Oxenfree, or Mutazione with light RPG elements and a branching narrative. I have huge respect for what Disco Elysium accomplished, but I don't want people to think that Pentiment will play all that similarly.

 

[Fedora Master]

No shit he made a hipster game.

 

[Infinitron]

 

[Diggfinger]

Josh did a short(ish) interview for Gamespot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sFsO6MrtAs

 

[Sentinel]

Josh did a short(ish) interview for Gamespot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sFsO6MrtAs

God damn this faggot is annoying always talking about New Vegas and bringing the conversation back to it.

 

[HoboForEternity]

Tbh an open style investigation murder mystery is always cool in my book if executed well. Maybe move this thread to adventure section, but still actually looking forward to this

 

[Duraframe300]

Josh did a short(ish) interview for Gamespot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sFsO6MrtAs

Look 5 posts above you.

 

[mediocrepoet]

Hipster game with Monty Python art.
nu-Codexers die of exhaustion from incessant masturbation.

 

[Delterius]

all rpgs should have a murder mystery in them

 

[Viata]

https://twitter.com/jesawyer/status/1536346111505338375?cxt=HHwWjsCgxcCpmdIqAAAA

Decided to look up what games are those he mentioned. All of them seem shit.

 

[BlackheartXIII]

Pentiment's estimated gameplay length is 15-20 hours

 

[perfectslumbers]

At least we can all be happy for Josh that Obsidian gave him the opportunity to make his dream game

 

[Immortal]

At least we can all be happy for Josh that Obsidian gave him the opportunity to make his dream game

This is exactly the type of game I picture Sawyer dreaming of.

 

[Van-d-all]

Having been supposedly stylized after medieval manuscripts, while some promo materials look decent, the main gameplay screens look like a shitty browser adventure game in flash. Now, the last thing which remains somewhat curious, is how heavily Disco influenced will the dialogues be.

 

[Roguey]

Having been supposedly stylized after medieval manuscripts, while some promo materials look decent, the main gameplay screens look like a shitty browser adventure game in flash. Now, the last thing which remains somewhat curious, is how heavily Disco influenced will the dialogues be.

See https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads...ry-europe-coming-november.140824/post-7978883 this is Sawyer in the Woods, not Sawyer Elysium after all.

 

[CyberWhale]

Having been supposedly stylized after medieval manuscripts, while some promo materials look decent, the main gameplay screens look like a shitty browser adventure game in flash. Now, the last thing which remains somewhat curious, is how heavily Disco influenced will the dialogues be.

There was a game that looked similar, but much better. Can't remember the title, but it had a Banner Saga style TB combat and was released relatively recently.

EDIT: Inkulinati fits the bill, but it ain't it. I was thinking about Pendragon, but it obviously doesn't look as good in reality as well as in my memory. Rising Lords is another one, but looks like Battle Brothers with higher production values. Marginalia Hero is probably the most authentic looking of the bunch, despite being a cheap mobile game. Maybe even because of it, since it has such a limited scope.

 

[DJOGamer PT]

Good for Sawyer
If there's one thing the industry lacks is AA passion projects - even ones I don't particularly like
As imo you can't really have innovation with just massive AAA productions and indie niche projects - it's the middle term of the two that generally drives things foward

Shouldn't you move this to Adventure Gaming then?

 

[Infinitron]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1205520/Pentiment/

From Obsidian, this game is a historical mystery role-playing game

Looks like Josh is counter-signaling his employer's marketing again!

 

[mediocrepoet]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1205520/Pentiment/


Looks like Josh is counter-signaling his employer's marketing again!

Yeah, but his description sounds more accurate to what's being presented and I respect him more for being straight forward about it. He probably knows that if he describes it as an RPG, it'll piss off a certain audience segment (e.g. many people here).

 

[Roguey]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOYnwhKwlw8&lc=UgzEN6mWQ3l2ItRD6JZ4AaABAg check the highlighted comment. Looks like Sawyer's friendship with sex workers is paying off since that one's promoting his game.