Interview The Black Hound interview at GameBanshee

[Nightjed]

because its being marketed as "the story that used to be BG3" ?
and because bg was like a hundred times more fun than nwn ?
and maybe because the main non-bug related complain i read about nwn2 was "i cant do some things i could do in bg"?

 

[Lumpy]

TBH being marketed? If anything, its being marketed as "the game that used to be BG3 due to some licesing trouble only".
And BG was fun? WTF?

 

[Nightjed]

yeah, bg was fun, had some boring moments because of the half empty locations but it did manage to grab you for a few hours, bg2 was better at that but ad&d combat gets exponentially less fun as you raise levels (imho that is)

 

[suibhne]

the man loves to make games. as for WotC, how would they justify any complaint - this is not a commercial product, just someone making a mod for NWN2

My point is just that, even tho the design is probably mostly finished, this sounds like it'll still take a lot of Josh's time, which means that Obsidian must be unofficially blessing this, which means WotC might get a little snarky about it. I have less than zero faith in their judgment.

 

[Grog]

May Farrow

Didn't she make movies and adopt kids with Woodie Allen? At least until Woodie started sleeping with the kids...

Mia Farrow, you dick. She also hooked up with Roman Polanski, but I have no data if they did the sexy thing.

Wow, here's a cookie for getting her name right. And then you have to give it right back for being such a dumb-ass not to notice the sarcasm.

I find the similarity in the name pretty amusing. I wonder if Josh has noticed.

And some punk at RPGWatch stole my joke!

 

[Andyman Messiah]

May Farrow

Didn't she make movies and adopt kids with Woodie Allen? At least until Woodie started sleeping with the kids...

Mia Farrow, you dick. She also hooked up with Roman Polanski, but I have no data if they did the sexy thing.

Wow, here's a cookie for getting her name right. And then you have to give it right back for being such a dumb-ass not to notice the sarcasm.
/
I find the similarity in the name pretty amusing. I wonder if Josh has noticed

What's the rule about sarcasm at the internet now again?

Hell, what's the similarity between May and Mia now again? The letters M and A? Holy crap. I'm gonna use that line everytime I meet someone named anything that includes letters found in my name. So, you're name is Herve, huh? Well, babe, lemme tell you a strange coincidence here... We definitely need to hook up and have kids!

Notice the sarcasm there? No? Well, there wasn't any.

 

[aries202]

This mod, the black hound, looks very interesting.

Especially, I like the darker tone and the ideas he has for the characters which make the module not compatible with the T-rating.

I do think that this project is Sawyer's own project...

 

[themadhatter114]

Since when is Obsidian developing three games? I see just one new game that they are working on. They announced Project Georgia, published by Sega, which turned out to be Aliens. And at one point they had up forums for a Project New Jersey and without explanation took them down and it's been months with, as far as I know, still no explanation of whether they'd cancelled it or would be announcing it (which would've made sense IF they would've announced it long before now). Have I missed some news?

 

[Vault Dweller]

Right now they are hiring for the Alien game and an unannounced console action RPG.

 

[Veracity]

Wasn't the BG2 expansion a mangled and truncated version of what would've been BG3 had they managed a full-price trilogy? Perhaps I just assumed that because it brought the whole 'My dad could have your dad.'/'Yeah? Well, my dad's the god of murder. Also, bwahaha.'/'Oh, ok. Could you help find my cat?' thread to a close. Either way, this is, as Sawyer exhaustively said in the interview, pretty much sod all to do with BG, not that that's necessarily a bad thing.

I fucking hate it when these developers use the FR setting just to get more money

Financial motivation or no, DnD is pretty off-putting, ever more so with its seemingly unshakable dominance over all things CRPG. Combine the crappy rules with a painful Tolkien-by-numbers setting and you've got a thoroughly unappetizing proposition. I'd still be willing to buy NWN2 for this if it turns out well. Not if it gets episodificated, though, considering the last time I paid any attention to one of these pet-project-on-company-time affairs was the eternally-postponed Witch's Wake 'campaign'. Since Sawyer is, as far as I understand, working on this during office hours, doesn't that also give the licence holders all the justification they'd need to interfere, should they wish to?

 

[suibhne]

I finally got a chance to read the rest of the review last night, and it's good stuff. I'm not exactly excited about TBH, but only because it'll probably take over a year to finish and might not happen anyway. Those concerns aside, it's easily as appealing as any other upcoming RPG (aside from AoD).

 

[Jora]

Those concerns aside, it's easily as appealing as any other upcoming RPG (aside from AoD).

And aside from AoD, TBH might have more actual role-playing than any other upcoming game. The Broken Hourglass seems to emulate BG2 very closely in that area, and games like Darghul, Ashes: Two Worlds Collide, and Eschalon are old-school games that have interesting and interactive gameworlds but not as much dialogue or multiple ways to handle quests. I'm betting The Witcher will be quite action-oriented too, maybe something akin to Geneforge. Hard to say anything about Dagon Age as I haven't read Gaider's comments in a while.