Obsidian Entertainment

[Menckenstein]

Prediction:

that Wheel of Time game they're making gets canned and they end up making a sequel.

Nobody knows what was going on with that WoT game. WORD ON DA STREET is that Obsidian were briefly consulted about it but nothing came out of the whole process. *shrug*

Oh well, we'll always have that awkward FPS from Legend.

I had a blast with the multiplayer on that.

 

[abnaxus]

 

[FatCat]

Part 7:Without good ideas you won't get good gameplay.

 

[MasterSmithFandango]

Obshitian sucks. They haven't made a single complete good game. They've made games that, on balance, fall a bit toward the good side (MOTB and NV), but the gameplay in both of those are shit shit shit.

 

[aron searle]

Explain this to me.

New vegas used and built upon beths engine and game mechanics.

KOTOR2, used and worked upon biowares engine and game mechanics

MOTB, they worked with bioware (wiki says they had support).

AP, their own engine, their own game mechanics?

DS3, as above?

hmmm. Is their a correlation their to be made with quality?

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

Ahem.

I LIKED ALPHA PROTOCOL THIS MUCH!

 

[CrunchyHemorrhoids]

AP, their own engine

No.

 

[J_C]

AP, their own engine

No.

Yep, AP is Unreal engine. Only DS3 used their own engine.

And like my brother in arms, Vaarna_Aarne said: I LIKED ALPHA PROTOCOL THIS MUCH!

 

[Jaesun]

Here is the handy Shit-O-Meter™

Complete Shit                                  Shit                                        Kinda Shitty
|---|-----------------------------------------------|----------------------------------|-------------------------
    Bethesda Softworks                              BioWare                            Obsidian

Glad I could help.

 

[Futile Rhetoric]

You have to be a total asshole to hate on AP.

 

[Excidium]

Here is the handy Shit-O-Meter™

Complete Shit                                  Shit                                        Kinda Shitty
|---|-----------------------------------------------|----------------------------------|-------------------------
    Bethesda Softworks                              BioWare                            Obsidian

Glad I could help.

P. accurate.

 

[GreyViper]

Alpha Protocol: Total shit, had some good ideas that weren't properly implemented. Ignites Fourth Codexian Civil War.

Now this is interesting and what was the end result of that "uprising"? To be honest my only complaint abou the game was that it was short and that hacking mini game. Still better then last splinter cell game.
Anyway pray do tell me what developer is on the other end of rainbow Shit-O-Meter?

 

[Futile Rhetoric]

Anyway pray do tell me what developer is on the other end of rainbow Shit-O-Meter?

There is no other end to the Shit-O-Meter, it's a rainbow of brown.

 

[Jaesun]

Anyway pray do tell me what developer is on the other end of rainbow Shit-O-Meter?

There is no other end to the Shit-O-Meter, it's a rainbow of brown.

Yep, pretty much.

 

[Roguey]

Castin' a line, reelin' it in...

I'd hardly call either of those great, mediocre at best. They're not particularly fun to play which is the most important aspect of any given game regardless of genre.

They were both fun for me.Ofcourse they are not as fun as FO, but still fun nonetheless. And they are both in my top 10 rpgs.

I guess you really care about writing enough that it makes you overlook bland/bad everything else. Nothing wrong with that.

Yet they are our last hope for good mainstream RPGs (they and Piranha Bytes). Or are you putting your faith into Bioware and Bethesda?

I think Eidos Montreal is going to be the dark horse in this race. Check out the night and day response here to DS3 and the Human Revolution leak. Obsidian has heart but no brain, and experience but no skill. I'll keep supporting the idiot savant if only because they're fun to kick around.

If you want to be some mainstream cunt hole who can't see the good in some of these games then you should join Kotaku or something because YOUR opinion gel more with that site.

I enjoyed the role playing and pacing of MotB and I'll be able to have definitive thoughts on TSL soonish but that doesn't mean they're not mediocre. Unfortunate side effect of being built on bad combat engines with combat being a core part of the experience. And if you removed the fighting in both you'd just end up doing a lot of walking to and from exposition dumps which would be boring and they'd might as well make a visual novel.

Obshitian sucks. They haven't made a single complete good game. They've made games that, on balance, fall a bit toward the good side (MOTB and NV), but the gameplay in both of those are shit shit shit.

DS3 has decent gameplay for a brawler (but only the brawling, the RPG elements are lousy). I'm in the middle of a second run now. It's still fun, but I'll have to give it a nice long break after this so I don't burn out.

 

[godsend1989]

Ahem.

I LIKED ALPHA PROTOCOL THIS MUCH!

 

[anus_pounder]

Ahem.

I LIKED ALPHA PROTOCOL THIS MUCH!

 

[Sceptic]

Complete Shit                                  Shit                                        Kinda Shitty
|---|-----------------------------------------------|----------------------------------|-------------------------
    Bethesda Softworks                              BioWare                            Obsidian

Glad I could help.

As much as it saddens me, this is pretty accurate. I like Obsidian's games, I really do, but that's always despite all their flaws and all the shitty decisions that always seem to go into their making. But none of this matters because

I LIKED ALPHA PROTOCOL THIS MUCH!

 

[sgc_meltdown]

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[Excidium]

God...

 

[Andyman Messiah]

edit: ^^

I guess I'm always going to be a brown noser. I can't help it. It's not like it's my fault that I liked every one of their games. Alpha Protocol is my favorite. What a great game.

 

[sgc_meltdown]

So where does CDP and Larian stand on that list

 

[CrimsonAngel]

edit: ^^

I guess I'm always going to be a brown noser. I can't help it. It's not like it's my fault that I liked every one of their games. Alpha Protocol is my favorite. What a great game.

Alpha Protocol is the only game that ever manged to make me fell like i was verbally jousting with some one.

 

[RK47]

I hear you bro! Alpha Protocol 2 please!

 

[Jaesun]

So where does CDP and Larian stand on that list

CDP is around where Obsidian is (they have no excuses, as they are self published). Larian and PB is however far off to the right of the chart, so they didn't show up.