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[Mother Russia]

They should pursue LucasArts and Ubisoft, for a REAL Star Wars RPG (aka Turn Based, not Real Time akshun RPG like they wanted earlier) and Might and Magic 10.

A real SW rpg, turnbased and party based would be awesome. You could have Sith, Jedi, BountyHunter, Smuggler, Trooper, Droid, etc etc classes.

Might and Magic from Obsidian would be very interesting and potentially awesome: possibly the first M&M with dialogue/conversation with npcs.

 

[Beautiful Clown Painting]

They should pursue LucasArts and Ubisoft, for a REAL Star Wars RPG (aka Turn Based, not Real Time akshun RPG like they wanted earlier) and Might and Magic 10.

A real SW rpg, turnbased and party based would be awesome. You could have Sith, Jedi, BountyHunter, Smuggler, Trooper, Droid, etc etc classes.

Might and Magic from Obsidian would be very interesting and potentially awesome: possibly the first M&M with dialogue/conversation with npcs.

I'm not sure of it Andhaira, because what is addictive in the Might & Magic serie is the sheer genius of Caneghem's game design. I'm pretty sure that a great and deep story would detract from the beauty and simplicity of the Xeen formula. For me Caneghem's genius is pretty close to Miyamoto's one. You don't ask Mario to play in Hamlet and you don't ask MCA to design a deep story for a Sonic RPG. It wouldn't work.

Well, it did work one time, in "Majora's Mask" but it was a stroke of luck, it can't be designed at the start.

 

[RK47]

Ugh...Obsidian's take on M&M .. .*barf*

See: Dungeon Siege 3

 

[J_C]

c) You can't be sexist against men or racist against whites because -isms require institutionalized prejudice.

Yeah...you might wanna read up on that. Like, buddhism, taoism, which don't fit your explanation of -isms.

 

[Sordid MCA/Prosper Hybryd]

They should pursue LucasArts and Ubisoft, for a REAL Star Wars RPG (aka Turn Based, not Real Time akshun RPG like they wanted earlier) and Might and Magic 10.

A real SW rpg, turnbased and party based would be awesome. You could have Sith, Jedi, BountyHunter, Smuggler, Trooper, Droid, etc etc classes.

Fuck childish starwars with stupid space magic. Feargus should suck some bethesdian dicks to obtain Star Trek license. A real turn based ST cRPG with Avellone's writing would be awesome indeed.

 

[Jasede]

You know, that's a really cool thought. I bet he'd write great Romulans and Cardassians. Think Garak.

 

[Jaesun]

Bethesda would never ever ever ever fund a turn based game.

 

[Broseph]

Bethesda would never ever ever ever fund a turn based game.

Of course not. Turn based combat = cancer. Where's the REALISM, man?! Do you take turns in real life?

 

[tuluse]

Bethesda would never ever ever ever fund a turn based game.

Does Bethesda have rights to Star Trek?

Anyways, it doesn't matter because here is the master list of every turn based game Obsidian has ever made:

 

[Severian Silk]

Bethesda would never ever ever ever fund a turn based game.

Thank you, Taylor Swift.

 

[Roguey]

Does Bethesda have rights to Star Trek?

Not anymore. Feel that burn, Star Trek fans:
http://kotaku.com/5442140/bethesda-once-pitched-singleplayer-star-trek-rpg

Before making Fallout 3, Todd Howard and Bethesda Softworks pitched a sprawling single-player RPG set in the Star Trek universe - of the Shatner Capt. Kirk era, Howard told Kotaku Talk Radio.
Appearing on our call-in show earlier today, Howard said at one point Bethesda did have the rights to Star Trek games, acquiring them after Activision's license expired and some of its projects transferred to the Maryland-based studio. (One it published was Star Trek Legacy on the Xbox 360 and PC, developed by Mad Doc Software.)
"Nothing was developed internally," Howard told KTR. "There was a pitch to do a big Star Trek RPG. [But] we were doing other things, we made Fallout. We can't do everything."
Asked by Kotaku columnist Tim Rogers in what era this RPG would have been set, Rogers replied "We were pondering Classic." And Shatner "did voice acting in one of the games we had," so if the project went forward, his ... distinctive cadence and ... inflection .... likely would ... have been used.

Guess you'll have to settle for the upcoming Star Trek game from Digital Extremes and Namco Bandai; a third person cover shooter .

 

[Infinitron]

 

[racofer]

Of course not. Turn based combat = cancer. Where's the REALISM, man?! Do you take turns in real life?

Indeed.

 

[Jaesun]

They still have that flying bug? heh

 

[Hormalakh]

Darn Obsidian, all their games are buggy.... oh wait Skyrim was Bethesda.

 

[tuluse]

Does Bethesda have rights to Star Trek?

Not anymore. Feel that burn, Star Trek fans:
http://kotaku.com/5442140/bethesda-once-pitched-singleplayer-star-trek-rpg

Before making Fallout 3, Todd Howard and Bethesda Softworks pitched a sprawling single-player RPG set in the Star Trek universe - of the Shatner Capt. Kirk era, Howard told Kotaku Talk Radio.
Appearing on our call-in show earlier today, Howard said at one point Bethesda did have the rights to Star Trek games, acquiring them after Activision's license expired and some of its projects transferred to the Maryland-based studio. (One it published was Star Trek Legacy on the Xbox 360 and PC, developed by Mad Doc Software.)
"Nothing was developed internally," Howard told KTR. "There was a pitch to do a big Star Trek RPG. [But] we were doing other things, we made Fallout. We can't do everything."
Asked by Kotaku columnist Tim Rogers in what era this RPG would have been set, Rogers replied "We were pondering Classic." And Shatner "did voice acting in one of the games we had," so if the project went forward, his ... distinctive cadence and ... inflection .... likely would ... have been used.

Guess you'll have to settle for the upcoming Star Trek game from Digital Extremes and Namco Bandai; a third person cover shooter .

So our choices were Bethesda raping Star Trek or raping Fallout. At the time Fallout had been less raped, so she could have remained pure.

 

[IronicNeurotic]

Does Bethesda have rights to Star Trek?

Not anymore. Feel that burn, Star Trek fans:
http://kotaku.com/5442140/bethesda-once-pitched-singleplayer-star-trek-rpg

Before making Fallout 3, Todd Howard and Bethesda Softworks pitched a sprawling single-player RPG set in the Star Trek universe - of the Shatner Capt. Kirk era, Howard told Kotaku Talk Radio.
Appearing on our call-in show earlier today, Howard said at one point Bethesda did have the rights to Star Trek games, acquiring them after Activision's license expired and some of its projects transferred to the Maryland-based studio. (One it published was Star Trek Legacy on the Xbox 360 and PC, developed by Mad Doc Software.)
"Nothing was developed internally," Howard told KTR. "There was a pitch to do a big Star Trek RPG. [But] we were doing other things, we made Fallout. We can't do everything."
Asked by Kotaku columnist Tim Rogers in what era this RPG would have been set, Rogers replied "We were pondering Classic." And Shatner "did voice acting in one of the games we had," so if the project went forward, his ... distinctive cadence and ... inflection .... likely would ... have been used.

Guess you'll have to settle for the upcoming Star Trek game from Digital Extremes and Namco Bandai; a third person cover shooter .

So our choices were Bethesda raping Star Trek or raping Fallout. At the time Fallout had been less raped, so she could have remained pure.

You sure about that?

 

[Brother None]

At the time Van Buren was already canned in favor of BoS 2. You could say Fallout was fucked either way.

On the other hand, Troika was looking for the license too and had a publisher's backing. But when that publisher heard Interplay's asking price they were all "nuh-huh". And then Bethesda swooped in.

 

[Roguey]

You sure about that?

OTOH this was after Berman ran Star Trek into the ground with Voyager, Enterprise, and Nemesis.

 

[Jaesun]

OTOH this was after Berman ran Star Trek into the ground with Voyager, Enterprise, and Nemesis.

How exactly did he "run the Star Trek series into the ground"?

 

[tuluse]

OTOH this was after Berman ran Star Trek into the ground with Voyager, Enterprise, and Nemesis.

How exactly did he "run the Star Trek series into the ground"?

By making shittier and shittier entries that totally ruined the established setting?

 

[Roguey]

Consider that even the actors of Voyager and Enterprise openly hated their own show. Jolene Blalock, who must have had one hell of a contract, was particularly outspoken about how she hated everything about Enterprise as it was airing except for the Manny Coto/Reeves-Stevens damage-control final season (aside from the god awful Berman and Braga-penned series finale which she slammed ASAP).

 

[Mother Russia]

I will get lynched for this I know, but honestly speaking Obsidian could use the management skills of Bioware aka the good doktors. With Obsidian handling the writing, the doktors doing the managing, we could get some good games.

Still won't be turnbased though.

 

[Karmapowered]

God knows how much I tend to criticize Obsidian for their lack of professionalism in some parts of their game developing process, but Feargus should at least be acknowledged for the feat of having kept the Obsidian boat afloat during all these years.

As a perfect outsider to the company, this is a redeeming quality of his management in my eyes. I will probably change my mind once he decides to sell out to EA (or whoever) once the opportunity arises, like the Doctors did

And Obsidian with Bioware/Doctor management would probably lead to the same kind of games that Bioware produces today, so no, I wouldn't consider it as a better alternative.

I will get lynched for this I know, but honestly speaking Obsidian could use the management skills of Bioware aka the good doktors. With Obsidian handling the writing, the doktors doing the managing, we could get some good games.

Still won't be turnbased though.

 

[Lancehead]

The Doctors always talked about exploring various business models. If they were in-charge of Obsidian, they'd have them make mobile and social games, and even in genres outside RPGs.