Obsidian General Discussion Thread

[Sannom]

He should really lose weight.

Gabe Newell needs to lose weight. Feargus is fine.

 

[rohand]

http://www.pcgamer.com/obsidian-teases-something-called-project-louisiana/

http://www.obsidian.net/la/

Sawyer's historical RPG?

 

[santino27]

http://www.pcgamer.com/obsidian-teases-something-called-project-louisiana/

http://www.obsidian.net/la/

Sawyer's historical RPG?

Pillars of Eternity 2 - Countdown to official announcement

 

[LESS T_T]

Leonard Boyarsky will talk at some tech conference in Lisbon.



We may get to see video of his talk: https://www.youtube.com/user/sinfoist/videos

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

Anything please, just not Popamole of Eternity II.

 

[Sigourn]

 

[Ninjerk]

Check out Jorge Husbando:

 

[Quillon]

http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/86...d-boyarsky-using-the-unreal-engine/?p=1874604

Senior Programmer
Obsidian Entertainment
2011 – Present (6 years)
Armored Warfare (PC)
Pillars of Eternity (PC)
Unannounced 3rd Action RPG (next-gen console)

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayfong?authType=name&authToken=xKbB

 

[Major_Blackhart]

I'm raging a bit, or does Boyarsky have a sick sense of humor and love triggering people?

 

[Fry]

Codexers aren't people.

 

[Hobo Elf]

You people are acting like Obsidian was ever going to work on a good TB RPG and not some popamole bullshit for mainstream RPG fans. Just look at their release history ffs.

 

[Prime Junta]

You people are acting like Obsidian was ever going to work on a good TB RPG and not some popamole bullshit for mainstream RPG fans. Just look at their release history ffs.

JES's FYSMD historical dream RPG that Fearg supposedly greenlighted is TB. If that's not a recipe for intense Codexian rage I don't know what is.

 

[Hobo Elf]

You people are acting like Obsidian was ever going to work on a good TB RPG and not some popamole bullshit for mainstream RPG fans. Just look at their release history ffs.

JES's FYSMD historical dream RPG that Fearg supposedly greenlighted is TB. If that's not a recipe for intense Codexian rage I don't know what is.

When did this greenlight happen?

 

[Prime Junta]

When did this greenlight happen?

I don't remember exactly. Sometime between... uh, August and November last year. And before you ask, no, I don't have a reference for it. May have been one of JES's talks, Twitter, or something or other. Infinitron Roguey?

 

[Infinitron]

What do you mean by "greenlight"? The project obviously haven't been officially signed yet, so anything could happen. But the fact that Josh is talking about it and saying "I plan to do this" means it has a good chance of happening. He's a very cautious person.

 

[Prime Junta]

What do you mean by "greenlight"?

Supposedly greenlighted. I meant more or less that, Feargus giving an unofficial nod to JES to go ahead with it at some point in the not-too-distant future.

 

[Infinitron]

After the release + DLC/support period of PoE2 seems distant enough.

 

[Sizzle]

At this stage, it's probably more of a gentlemen's agreement between JS and Feargus - if PoE2 does well enough, he'll let Sawyer make his historical TB game.

 

[Hobo Elf]

I do recall him talking about it in the JES interview, but there he said that if people want him to do this game then they need to pester Feargus about it to show him that people are interested in that type of game. It's still pretty far from being confirmed.

 

[Prime Junta]

I do recall him talking about it in the JES interview, but there he said that if people want him to do this game then they need to pester Feargus about it to show him that people are interested in that type of game. It's still pretty far from being confirmed.

The interview was done in August; he started talking about it much more definitively later on.

 

[Infinitron]

I think you might have your timeline confused, PJ.

You can follow what he's said about the historical RPG since then in this thread: http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/inde...e-a-historical-rpg.108667/page-2#post-4839107

Not a lot.

 

[Prime Junta]

OK, I stand corrected.

 

[axedice]

I'm raging a bit, or does Boyarsky have a sick sense of humor and love triggering people?

I'd say he's more of a snake oil salesman.

The hardest thing to accomplish when creating an RPG is to make an in-depth RPG that sells. Now I know all you purists out there think that what's important is the quality of the game and not how much it sells, but try finding a new contract when your last game sells less than 400,000 units. The ultimate challenge for an RPG developer is to find some kind of hook that will convince the marketing dept at your prospective publisher that this really isn't a "hardcore RPG" they're going to have to sell, it's an action RPG! (My skin is already crawling.) So not only do you, as an RPG designer, have to create a compelling RPG (which is, in my opinion, one of the most difficult genres to do right) you also have to find a way to sell it as something else - or, at the very least, an RPG hybrid of some sort. But never state it's a hardcore RPG to the marketing people - it tends to give them seizures.

They might take the Witcher route with shitty action combat and good writing / world building. Also remember Tim Cain stating that he'd like to build a game equaling Underrail in depth. The creators of Arcanum at the least deserve some confidence.

 

[Infinitron]

I'll say it again: It shouldn't be a surprise that the guy who just spent a decade working on an isometric game wants to try something else. Yes, I know, it's not that kind of isometric but for an artist like Boyarsky, that may not matter as much.

 

[pippin]

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