Company News Tim Cain joins MCA over at Obsidian Entertainment

[OracleX]

This would made up for a nice April fools joke..
We'll see were this goes. I won't get my hopes up..

 

[J_C]

Now they have three gays, Josh, Chris and Tim

Just wait until David Gaider hears about that, he'll pack his shit and join Obsidian too

Chris is not gay dammit! He has a girlfriend!

As for the Cain-Obsidian team up:

 

[MetalCraze]

Now they have three gays, Josh, Chris and Tim

And only one is not a shitty designer like Avellone and Sawyer

Maybe Cain will teach those retards how to write for people that grew up beyond 12 years and design games without stupid dialogues and cutscenes.

 

[Silellak]

Everything is beautiful and nothing hurts.

 

[Erzherzog]

And for once in years, my brethren, we can hope and dream, if only for a day.

 

[Shannow]

So what do you guys expect to change at Obsidian? What quality will their next games have that they previously lacked?

 

[Crooked Bee]

Cool! I wonder if there's any worthwhile project currently in the works there, though.

Word is, they're shooting for Arcanum 2 in a ToEE-like engine.

Oh you.

 

[Morkar Left]

A Wasteland sequel!
... in the updated AP engine. It will have a lot of bugs and the mainstream will complain that it is a cheap F3 ripoff that's not even moddable...

 

[Esquilax]

So what do you guys expect to change at Obsidian? What quality will their next games have that they previously lacked?

Not sure what exactly will change... except my jeans, because I just creamed myself.

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

Re: Tim Cain joins Obsidian Entertainment

Word is, they're shooting for Arcanum 2 in a ToEE-like engine.

I knew this was fake, but I let myself believe it for a fleeting moment. It was beautiful... and then it was over

Too good for this world.

EDIT: Hell, just a remake of Arcanum with better combat and graphics with nothing else changed would be awesome.

 

[Crooked Bee]

A Wasteland sequel!

You mean a spiritual successor to Fountain of Dreams?

 

[curry]

I'm not sure if I'm happy that almost all the good RPG people are in the same studio.

 

[Serious_Business]

Shit shit shit. You're all dellusional

Can you feel the power of my free thinking. I AM AN INDIVIDIUAAAAAAAAALLLL

 

[Morkar Left]

A Wasteland sequel!

You mean a spiritual successor to Fountain of Dreams?

I heard it's a lie and that game never exisited and even if it would exist it would have nothing in common with wasteland. But it's not and therefore it's not.

 

[Jaesun]

I wonder if Tim still has that Post Apocalyptic game prototype troika worked on, but no publisher was interested in it....

 

[Phelot]

OMG DREAM TEAM 2011

 

[undecaf]

I wonder if Tim still has that Post Apocalyptic game prototype troika worked on, but no publisher was interested in it....

Could be different now that post apocalypse is "in" -- with the new Fallouts, Rage, Borderlands and other shit.

 

[Aldebaran]

Re: Tim Cain joins Obsidian Entertainment

Too good for this world.

EDIT: Hell, just a remake of Arcanum with better combat and graphics with nothing else changed would be awesome.

They could change the music up a bit, too. I wanted to break that god damn violin by the end of the game.

Also, the levelling system could use a little work. Personally, I dislike it when a game lets you invest a ton of points into attributes after character generation. Rebalance attributes (I am looking at you, Dexterity) while they are at it.

But what do I care, it's never going to happen.

 

[villain of the story]

So what do you guys expect to change at Obsidian? What quality will their next games have that they previously lacked?

All of their games suffered from poor (or rather POPAMOLE) design of game systems. Tim Cain has specifically played that role in the past AFAIK. So maybe we'll get a Troika grade game this time.

 

[villain of the story]

I wonder if Tim still has that Post Apocalyptic game prototype troika worked on, but no publisher was interested in it....

I don't. Post-apoc is the new shit these days.

 

[Satori (original)]

A shame Boyarsky is locked up at Blizzard and Anderson at Valve.

 

[Jaesun]

OMG DREAM TEAM 2011

This TOTALLY needs a racofer photoshop treatment.

 

[Gragt]

These are interesting times.

 

[quasimodo]

I'm sure they will make a perfectly fine FPP/OTS RT console game which will be ported to the PC at some point.

 

[villain of the story]

Ok so to be realistic, Arcanum 2 was originally planned to be FP. Best game OE has made in a while is FNV. The they game thought would be the best is AP.

Arcanum is DOOMED.