Eternity Pillars of Eternity II Beta Thread [GAME RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

[FreeKaner]

Josh deserves this.

 

[Kem0sabe]

Game PR is even worse than movie pre release press tour, at least in the latter the actors get to fuck the journalists and the local whores.

 

[FreeKaner]

This is the audience they are aiming for.

 

[Nael]

That blue haired faggot is Eothas?

 

[Jezal_k23]

The blue haired guy voices Eothas apparently. Looked like he didn't know the character's name when asked about it though. Josh had to rescue him from that one.

 

[FreeKaner]

The blue haired guy voices Eothas apparently. Looked like he didn't know the character's name when asked about it though. Josh had to rescue him from that one.

This is a whole other level of disgrace. Is Obsidian trying to break new ground here today?

 

[Nael]

When I become dictator - any adult that wears a onesie will be genocided. What in the Hell is this shit?

I'm out gentlemen. That is all I can take. 5 mins worth.

 

[FreeKaner]

Who set this up, what were they aiming for here? Who did the marketing research and concluded this stream is the one they should be part of?

 

[Roguey]

I can believe it. Pillars is like 30GB. The actual preload of Deadfire will probably be 25-30ish GB if I were to guess.

Things to consider here is that Deadfire has full voice acting and higher-quality graphics all around.

 

[Quillon]

Sword romance confirmed

 

[Major_Blackhart]

What else does Deadfire have going for it?

 

[Quillon]

What else does Deadfire have going for it?

There is something that codexers especially won't be able to resist...








...ROMANCE A SHARK BOY!

 

[Jezal_k23]

AND the sword.

 

[Jezal_k23]

Now Justin is helping them with some stickers or something. Wasn't paying attention.

 

[CptMace]

Sword romance confirmed

Well this last month saw Obsidian go from ok studio to literally hitler bethesda. With the notable difference that I haven't heard of Bethesda treating their top guys in a despicable way.
I feel numb. I liked this studio. I only played kotor II, new vegas and poe but I liked them all. I embraced this comfy, naive narrative that it was a struggling studio getting back on tracks and shit. I even defended them more than once from evul meanies here.
In the end, it's yet another actor from the industry that disappears entirely from our radars, forever concealed by a massive eclipse of shit and baseness. The vivid pool of trustable developpers runs even drier, perspectives on the genre get grimmer and hope - hope slowly fades away, leaving our empty husks in its wake.
Feel free to strike me while I'm down. I won't retaliate. Ever again.

On another note, the possibility that Black Geyser raises more than Copper Dreams confirms we're in the darkest timeline.

 

[Jenkem]

I tuned in for 15 seconds and saw the girls talking about something unrelated to POE and Josh stare off into the distance...

 

[Quillon]

Sword romance confirmed

Well this last month saw Obsidian go from ok studio to literally hitler bethesda. With the notable difference that I haven't heard of Bethesda treating their top guys in a despicable way.
I feel numb. I liked this studio. I only played kotor II, new vegas and poe but I liked them all. I embraced this comfy, naive narrative that it was a struggling studio getting back on tracks and shit. I even defended them more than once from evul meanies here.
In the end, it's yet another actor from the industry that disappears entirely from our radars, forever concealed by a massive eclipse of shit and baseness. The vivid pool of trustable developpers runs even drier, perspectives on the genre get grimmer and hope - hope slowly fades away, leaving our empty husks in its wake.
Feel free to strike me while I'm down. I won't retaliate. Ever again.

On another note, the possibility that Black Geyser raises more than Copper Dreams confirms we're in the darkest timeline.

Sword romance made you spill your guts? :D

 

[Jezal_k23]

Well this last month saw Obsidian go from ok studio to literally hitler bethesda.

If you are reacting to the romances, then I think you meant to compare them to Bioware.

As for the business practices, perhaps you're talking about comparing Obsidian to Bethesda the publisher, which is different from Bethesda the game development studio.

Bethesda the publisher to Obsidian is not a good comparison to make, though.

 

[CptMace]

I shall now retire in my beloved Pyrénées and watch the world collapse from up there.

 

[2house2fly]

Sword romance confirmed

Well this last month saw Obsidian go from ok studio to literally hitler bethesda. With the notable difference that I haven't heard of Bethesda treating their top guys in a despicable way.
I feel numb. I liked this studio. I only played kotor II, new vegas and poe but I liked them all. I embraced this comfy, naive narrative that it was a struggling studio getting back on tracks and shit. I even defended them more than once from evul meanies here.
In the end, it's yet another actor from the industry that disappears entirely from our radars, forever concealed by a massive eclipse of shit and baseness. The vivid pool of trustable developpers runs even drier, perspectives on the genre get grimmer and hope - hope slowly fades away, leaving our empty husks in its wake.
Feel free to strike me while I'm down. I won't retaliate. Ever again.

On another note, the possibility that Black Geyser raises more than Copper Dreams confirms we're in the darkest timeline.

It's worth bearing in mind that another former employee, who has no real reason to get into this at all, seems to take issue with at least some of the things MCA is saying. Also Josh Sawyer gave a talk recently about how working conditions in the industry need to improve, and while I don't know how he feels about the way Avellone was treated, I have a hard time believing that he would be okay with employees being treated that way in general. It could well be that things are better there now than they were a few years ago. That said, it's never a bad time to learn the lesson that getting emotionally invested in a commercial company is not a great idea

 

[Sentinel]

It's worth bearing in mind that another former employee, who has no real reason to get into this at all, seems to take issue with at least some of the things MCA is saying

Fenstermaker is a contractor and he didn't rule out working at Obsidian again in the future IIRC. He has plenty reasons to defend them.

 

[Jezal_k23]

We get attached to our own idea of what a company is, which is its public image. But we're not there. Reality is always different.

Look at Valve. It was sacred once. You couldn't badmouth them without a mob pursuing you for it. Valve just allowed its own public perception to erode over time because they don't need it anymore, now with Steam.

Other companies have to maintain it, and that's what we attach ourselves to. They could be scumbags, who the fuck knows, unless some scandal is leaked?

So I think if anyone is really broken down about Obsidian being this way, I think it's their own fault for getting attached to a fucking COMPANY.

You can like individual people in it, and some of these people are unlikely to be to blame for management issues but they're also playing the PR game for the company (like Swen for Larian, Josh for Obsidian, Ben Brode for Blizzard, formerly Gabe for Valve, etc... which is fine, because it is their job).

I guess I'm just saying we shouldn't really have attachments to any company. At most, to developers within them and even then be cautious.

 

[2house2fly]

It's worth bearing in mind that another former employee, who has no real reason to get into this at all, seems to take issue with at least some of the things MCA is saying

Fenstermaker is a contractor and he didn't rule out working at Obsidian again in the future IIRC. He has plenty reasons to defend them.

Why would he want to work there?

 

[Sentinel]

It's worth bearing in mind that another former employee, who has no real reason to get into this at all, seems to take issue with at least some of the things MCA is saying

Fenstermaker is a contractor and he didn't rule out working at Obsidian again in the future IIRC. He has plenty reasons to defend them.

Why would he want to work there?

idk
why would anyone want to work
maybe it's close to home & family
maybe he knows and likes the people there
maybe the pay isn't bad
maybe the owners like him
maybe the restaurant close by has some delicious desserts

 

[CptMace]

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