Eternity Pillars of Eternity II Beta Thread [GAME RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

[Fry]

Hopefully that's not THE announcement.

 

[Infinitron]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_Role

lol it's just promotional geek crap. Oh well.

 

[tripedal]

The way they hyped this up seems somewhat disproportionate to the magnitude of the announcement.

 

[santino27]

So for those of us who were pretending we had something better to do...? What was it? Is Critical Role doing a POE campaign now or something?

 

[Infinitron]

So for those of us who were pretending we had something better to do...? What was it? Is Critical Role doing a POE campaign now or something?

No, they just announced that they're all doing voice acting for the game. Hardly a revelation since Matt Mercer (Eder and Aloth voice actor) was obviously in already.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

 

[Pizzashoes]

These people look like stereotypical west coast geeks. How can such degenerate-looking fellows disparage gamers' tastes?

 

[Fry]

Hopefully that's not THE announcement.

Welp. That was a fun waste of my time.

 

[frajaq]

did I just get trolled by Obsidian

 

[Sannom]

I think I've been vaccinated against those "announcements" ever since the Witcher console port thing. We never can have nice things!

 

[CptMace]

well the only two explanations i see is
1) they are that bad a marketing
2) because of the delay, they got themselves in this situation where they had to promote the game at pax, vs evil and obsidian probably thought it was the occasion to hype the game, they decided to make an annoucement about something exciting about deafire, and ended up announcing this

either way

i think sawyer just implicitly said he wanted to see more games by avellone
this was one weird stream

 

[Ent]

I could've started making that cheesecake instead of wasting my time on this. Oh well never again.

 

[Starwars]

I expected a "hey, we'll have full voiceacting" announcement and got something even worse, wohoo!

 

[yes plz]

is Critical Role super popular elsewhere or something? i can't see why most would care about this.

 

[Fry]

Granted, I hang around the codex so what the fuck would I know, but I'm not sure Obs really understands their core audience.

 

[santino27]

is Critical Role super popular elsewhere or something? i can't see why most would care about this.

They do seem to have a pretty big following online, but yeah... not the most interesting of announcements. Maybe there's some good crossover between Critical Role and Pax attendees.

 

[Quillon]

One day they'll have an actual great thing to announce and no one will be interested

 

[Ent]

I'm pretty sure a fair amount of their audience is that hipster HEY NERD STUFF IS COOL crowd but this announcement seems pretty underwhelming even by that standard.

 

[Infinitron]

Here's the announcement from Mikey Dowling's end:



"We will have more announcements in the coming week...we have a lot of cool announcements based on this"

 

[CptMace]

sweating bullets out of sheer embarassment

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

Granted, I hang around the codex so what the fuck would I know, but I'm not sure Obs really understands their core audience.

The part where they hired team of cosplayers for promotion didn't give it away?

"RPGs are for nerds and nerds are people who like, are into elves and shit" - Obsidian Director of Marketing, probably.

 

[Grunker]

Here's the announcement from Mikey Dowling's end:



"We will have more announcements in the coming week...we have a lot of cool announcements based on this"

holy shit I had to turn that off in digust

 

[aweigh]

 

[Infinitron]

And here's the panel:

 

[FreeKaner]

What a dumpsterfire this is.