Game News Ubisoft E3 2015 Conference: Non-Obsidian South Park RPG sequel announced

[Infinitron]

Inb4 Obsidian's secret project IS the Fallout 4 spinoff

 

[naossano]

I thought i was Fargo that leaked the info about the metacritic, not MCA.

 

[Roguey]

On one hand "it was barely even an RPG comment" implies that they were let down by how shallow the gameplay was (like summons being barely useful), which makes me hopeful that they will make it more playable this time.

In a recent post-mortem Matt MacLean said he personally would have preferred it tuned higher, but was overruled. Ubisoft/SPDS wanted an easy, simple-to-play game.

I thought i was Fargo that leaked the info about the metacritic, not MCA.

Avellone once got too chatty on twitter and had to delete a matter-of-fact tweet.

 

[tuluse]

On one hand "it was barely even an RPG comment" implies that they were let down by how shallow the gameplay was (like summons being barely useful), which makes me hopeful that they will make it more playable this time.

In a recent post-mortem Matt MacLean said he personally would have preferred it tuned higher, but was overruled. Ubisoft/SPDS wanted an easy, simple-to-play game.

I thought he said the harder difficulty didn't work with being a humorous game, and that he thought normal was where it should be and he personally failed on making hard actually hard (no one stopped him from tuning it up more).

 

[Roguey]

I thought he said the harder difficulty didn't work with being a humorous game, and that he thought normal was where it should be and he personally failed on making hard actually hard (no one stopped him from tuning it up more).

Oh I just went by a half-remembered summary, I didn't actually watch it. ^_^

I imagine the team's ability also stopped him. Most of 'em moved to Pillars of Eternity.