Game News Obsidian Reveals 'Project Eternity' - Kickstarter Live

[Zed]

ONE MIRRION DORRA!

 

[mindx2]

They reached ONE MILLIIIIIIIOOOOOOOOOOON DOLLARS already

 

[Smarts]

They might be going pretty heavy on the ethical philosophy in this one, even more so than usual.

"One good life. One extraordinary life. What levy must be paid for such a thing?

If the gods won't answer, it's for us to decide.

That's some existentialist shit right there in the 'box quote'. Might need to break out my copy of Ethics for Dummies again.

Pretty sure that's Kickstarter-RPG-as-mythos

Likely, but I think I just spotted one of the devs mentioning Kierkegaard as an inspiration somewhere in this thread or the other one.

 

[mindx2]

I have to admit that I'm Impressed!! So little actual info and they reach 1 million in less than 24 hours?!

 

[Black]

 

[Beautiful Clown Painting]

I gave them money but at the same time I'm like: in B4 retardo: in six months "Finally we do it 3D! Hooray! And you can take cover but it's still a turn-based old-school experience, promise! Just like GTA 4 for we have to upgrade this shit and IGN and Gamespot! Hooray!".

 

[Freelance Henchman]

1 MIRRION DORRA FOR NON-POPAMOLE VIDYAGAEM? SHAME-LESS DISPRAY, OBSIDIRAN!!

 

[mindx2]

Couldn't find that picture fast enough to post

 

[Infinitron]

Beautiful Clown Painting
Oh, ye of little faith. By the way, did you watch Brian Fargo's UNITY 2012 speech? That will allow you to understand the reference to GTA within context.

 

[Bruma Hobo]

I have to admit that I'm Impressed!! So little actual info and they reach 1 million in less than 24 hours?!

This is the only info most people needed:

 

[skuphundaku]

$1,009,937 in 24h - I think that's a little more than DFA's record.

 

[Beautiful Clown Painting]

Fargo has produced a great number of incredible games and I'll give him that: he is a great game producer, one of the best. But I never trust a single word that he's uttering, having been burned on his Bard's Tale reboot. It's the same for the old jewish film producers from Hollywood: Mayer was spouting bullshit all day long while producing sometimes great and astounding movies. I believe in Fargo but I don't trust him.

Great producers are by nature deceptive, it's part of their trade. Artists are dumb for they can only tell the truth. They need a great producer to lie. Urquhart and Fargo are very good at this game.

 

[Beautiful Clown Painting]

That's why it's so difficult for Vince or Cleve to finish their games even if they're obviously talented: they need a Great Weasel to attend conventions and say nonsense while feeding the hype.

 

[villain of the story]

The really good and potentially long-term part of this project is: more memorable characters and moments, the kinds of which have been very sparse in recent years and if their development tools and pipeline is robust enough, another surge of games made using the same engine or platform similar to how BG spawned a series of games using Infinity Engine.

Nonetheless, it's enraging that what lies in their hearts is the absolute banality of RTwP (though I like combat in IWD series and BG2 to a degree, TBH).

All things said and done, let's take another look at my thread of predictions. So many people actually expected TB. Massive LULZ. Even The Brazilian Slaughter.

 

[Jarpie]

Obsidian ‏@Obsidian
Stretch goals and an update coming soon! Stay tuned. #projecteternity

I think they should reveal stretch goals just one by one as they get completed instead of revealing all of them at once.

 

[octavius]

Nina - Order of the Goat 1 minute ago
For me, a good romance is one of the central pillars of what makes a good RPG. If they took romance out I'd probably downgrade my pledge. Without amazing and loveable characters I just don't think it would pack the same emotional punch.

?????

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/obsidian/project-eternity/comments

I think Nina needs to get a boyfriend, girlfriend, "life companion", or new batteries for her dildo.

 

[maverick]

If they want some easy money, just put "romances" as a 3 million stretch goal. The biodrones will flock like there's no tomorrow

 

[VonVentrue]

Congratulations on hitting the $1 million mark, Obsidian. Still, you're a bunch of cowards in my book.

I did support your project, albeit reluctantly - I'd lie if I said I wasn't bitter over your design-related decisions when it comes to the combat system.

 

[Havoc]

I will say this: I want that cloth map, but going from 65$ (80$ for me) to 140$ (160$) is too much. If they had an 80$ tier (it can have that 20$ shipping) that's a 65$ tier + the cloth map, I would definetly upgrade and I think many people would also.

Somebody who has connection, pass it to MCA or others. This would be like when BG sold (at least in Poland) with a map and a fat manual.

 

[l3loodAngel]

If they want some easy money, just put "romances" as a 3 million stretch goal. The biodrones will flock like there's no tomorrow

Let's have it at 15 million and as a DLC, so that it would be worth it.

 

[Volrath]

So any plans for a Codex fund?

 

[undecaf]

I would've liked to go for the $250 tier but I chickened out. I'm a fucking pee pants wuss, but I do get the box anyway to either relish or shit in.

 

[Turisas]

Million dollars, baby! Party hard!

 

[Kahlis]

I will say this: I want that cloth map, but going from 65$ (80$ for me) to 140$ (160$) is too much. If they had an 80$ tier (it can have that 20$ shipping) that's a 65$ tier + the cloth map, I would definetly upgrade and I think many people would also.

It also seems excessive to have to put down $250 for a print copy of the "Collector's Book", which contains the manual, artwork, player's handbook, monster manual, etc. Every boxed copy of the game should at least have the manual's contents in print form. Getting a boxed copy with nothing in it but the game DVD is underwhelming.

 

[Infinitron]

Million dollars, baby! Party hard!

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