Game News Tim Cain and Leonard Boyarsky's new game at Obsidian is being published by Take-Two Interactive

[Space Satan]

I'd rather see them make some game in Forgotten Realms or Arcanum or Bloodlines setting.

 

[Trashos]

He's a literal hack. I have no idea how he got to be in charge over there or why some Codexers STILL worship him.

Come on, now, man, you are being unfair. I do not like some of his design sensitivities and decisions either, but he is out there in the open leading projects, battling against codexers, clueless casuals, and failing companies, and he perseveres. He 's definitely got my respect, although he is not one of my favorite designers. He has done a lot of real work that we all know about. I don't know how anyone could call him a hack.

 

[Tigranes]

Are you trying to tell Blaine that he may be going a little bit overboard with something?

Good luck.

 

[Latro]

"Imagine a basketball player and a shoe salesman getting together to go on the road with [a] vaudeville show, and you should have a good idea of the 'what' factor involved."

this is the lamest thing i've read in years

 

[Wizfall]

If it's isometric TB fix camera....

 

[Latro]

Development team photo. Over 60 people at Obsidian working on this project.

can someone convince the chinese men on the left to get feargus to green-light an obsidian ROTK project. maybe water margin rpg!

 

[Quillon]

Development team photo. Over 60 people at Obsidian working on this project.

can someone convince the chinese men on the left to get feargus to green-light an obsidian ROTK project. maybe water margin rpg!

The one on the far left looks to be Tim Cain made-in-china.

 

[Fenix]

Development team photo. Over 60 people at Obsidian working on this project.

They have cute girls after all!
Seeing that they have minimal amount of fat&ugly bitches, and in general 90% of man on this project, it's going to be something good.

 

[Fenix]

Yeah, anyway I guess some people have forgotten they were mad about geometric shapes, but we do have two long years ahead of us.

I was just going to mention, how that logo is formed by two triangles...

 

[FeelTheRads]

Yeah, anyway I guess some people have forgotten they were mad about geometric shapes, but we do have two long years ahead of us.

Nobody forgot, you dumbfuck ass-licker of hacks.

He's a literal hack. I have no idea how he got to be in charge over there or why some Codexers STILL worship him. Perhaps he walked in on one of the senior developers at the time molesting a child while collecting the office trash? Who knows?

I don't hate you JE, but you just seem like a tricky dicky.

I would have to be the smoothest operator in the world to dupe multiple teams/companies into making me a lead designer in spite of apparent incompetence.

Irrelevant. What employers consider competence has little bearing on how good the games are. Else we'd be swimming in good games. People getting hired must mean they're good at what they do after all, right?

Also, what a megalomaniacal quote from someone with his history of failures. But those were never his fault, of course. He was lead designer, he must have been good!

 

[Fenix]

While I have fears

I have no fears, and no hopes in this. River brings good and bad in its waters, we will see what's what in due time.

 

[Fairfax]

Feargus may be the CEO, but I doubt he owns a controlling interest. For such a high level position he probably had to get some
of the other partners on board.

Maybe in some cases he had to talk to all the partners, but at BIS and in PoE's case it was just between him and Feargus.

PoE just wasn’t that bad, especially after all the patching. It had a definite whiff of mediocrity, but I don’t know how much of that was Sawyer and how much was trying to fulfill the all the nostalgia induced Kickstarter promises. Maybe I give him too much credit though. I’d certainly rather punch myself in the face than play IWD2.

I wasn't even arguing about the game's quality. My point is that PoE was by far the most influenced by Saywer, so most of his detractors and fans would use it to criticize or praise his work.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

Yeah well, if there's one publisher that isn't absolute utter trash, it's T-T. So that's nice.

 

[ArchAngel]

He's a literal hack. I have no idea how he got to be in charge over there or why some Codexers STILL worship him. Perhaps he walked in on one of the senior developers at the time molesting a child while collecting the office trash? Who knows?

I don't hate you JE, but you just seem like a tricky dicky.

I would have to be the smoothest operator in the world to dupe multiple teams/companies into making me a lead designer in spite of apparent incompetence.

The only explanation left is that he is "the smoothest operator in the world".

 

[Russia is over. The end.]

Development team photo. Over 60 people at Obsidian working on this project.

Almost no females. Good. Maybe it won't be shit after all.

 

[Jrpgfan]

Every single game Tim's been involved with was good, so no worries here.

Even the gay MMO?

cRPGs are his cup of tea. Based on the description this one is gonna be a classic cRPG, so I'm fairly optimistic.

 

[Infinitron]

This game is going to be a console/multiplatform action-RPG with some mechanics apparently influenced by Tim's experience with MMO design. I'd guess that it will be less "classic" than Fallout: New Vegas.

 

[Bohrain]

Yeah, with Tyranny we got an excellent idea of what Obsidian is capable of without Sawyer messing things up.

I remain cautiously optimistic if the interns who worked on Tyranny don't have any significant role on this.
Can't say the same about Deadfire.

 

[Roguey]

Well, he's not wrong. He didn't dupe multiple teams/companies, only Feargus.

You're overlooking Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows at Midway.

Also, what a megalomaniacal quote from someone with his history of failures. But those were never his fault, of course. He was lead designer, he must have been good!

New Vegas and Pillars of Eternity were both great from a critical and financial perspective.

 

[Fenix]

Wake me up when some sagnificant info will appear.

 

[Kem0sabe]

Confirmed, Obsidian is making the next elder scrolls game... which will be an isometric turn based rpg exclusive to the nintendo switch.

 

[Black Angel]

Take-Two? Does this means the game will have lootboxes?

Or better yet, loottriangles, lootspheres, lootcylinders etc etc

 

[Infinitron]

Take-Two? Does this means the game will have lootboxes?

Or better yet, loottriangles, lootspheres, lootcylinders etc etc

 

[undecaf]

Hope Tim's bold enough to create good and versatile character systems with an impact even if the game wasn't turnbased.

 

[DeepOcean]

This game is going to be a console/multiplatform action-RPG with some mechanics apparently influenced by Tim's experience with MMO design. I'd guess that it will be less "classic" than Fallout: New Vegas.

Borderlands: Obsidian Edition?