Eternity Avowed - Obsidian's first person action-RPG in the Pillars of Eternity setting - coming Fall 2024

[Rhobar121]

Grounded and Penistent were both succesful and noticeably both were made without old guard involvement.

Those games were led by Sawyer and Brennecke, the director/lead designer and the lead programmer of Pillars of Eternity.

None of them are RPGs and don't have extensive mechanics, so Sawyer had nothing to screw up.
Moral: Obsidian can't make a good selling RPG.

 

[Viata]

They are slowly giving up on RPG. Avowed is every day missing something from every other RPG.

 

[Butter]

They are slowly giving up on RPG. Avowed is every day missing something from every other RPG.

They might have to cut the loadout system to get this ready for a Fall release.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

Grounded and Penistent were both succesful and noticeably both were made without old guard involvement.

Those games were led by Sawyer and Brennecke, the director/lead designer and the lead programmer of Pillars of Eternity.

Well yeah but they're still employes, owners/founders stayed the fuck out it seems.

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

Grounded works as a way to get people interested in XBOX game pass. I formatted my computer and it was a big presence in the ad for that service.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

Inxile seems to have more positive community perception about their next project than Obsidian.

That's only because they've been wise enough to lay low after the Numenera debacle I think.

InXile went from disaster with Numenera in 2017 to great success with Wasteland 3, even managing to recapture the hearts & minds of RPG Codex, which named it GotY 2020. Obsidian, by contrast, has been only a disappointment since Fallout: New Vegas, with the sole exception of non-RPG Grounded.

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

Inxile seems to have more positive community perception about their next project than Obsidian.

That's only because they've been wise enough to lay low after the Numenera debacle I think.

InXile went from disaster with Numenera in 2017 to great success with Wasteland 3, even managing to recapture the hearts & minds of RPG Codex, which named it GotY 2020. Obsidian, by contrast, has been only a disappointment since Fallout: New Vegas, with the sole exception of non-RPG Grounded.

he can't keep geTTING AWAY WITH IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[AwesomeButton]

Obsidian, by contrast, has been only a disappointment since Fallout: New Vegas

Their games have a kernel of good concept, coated in the shit of their writing, and cost-cutting. If you squint, it can pass for a good game.

 

[luj1]

If you squint really, really hard, you can have a homeless prostitute pee on your face, whilst retaining your vision.

 

[Peachcurl]

Homeles? Ugh.

 

[Nikanuur]

effecting

Affecting. Effecting means something else. I'm not trying to be a dick, it just sets my ass on fire every time because it's getting so widespread.

So, it's effecting the affecting then. Copy that. Anyway, what are the attribute scores going to be?

 

[agris]

I missed that they already started the "temper your expectations" talk.

• "Only 100 devs, we're super small indies really"
• "This isn't AAA, more like AA, fr"
• "It's a medium-sized project of only a few hundred mil, no biggie"

Extrapolating from these, we can probably expect more along these lines

• "Plz don't compare us to BG3, nobody can be as naturally talented as belgians"
• "Also BG3 is made by the devil"
• "Good combat is technologically impossible"
• "We spent the balancing budget on VO"
• "Toxic gamers want us to crunch"
• "The Living Lands is only a 4km square, lore is tying our hands"
• "It's more of a linear action adventure visual novel"
• "Yes you can have sexual relations with the bear, no romances tho"

It's over.

That's the most annoying thing about Obsidian. From a company that players (normies and grogs alike) had hopes for when it came to what games they release, we are down to keeping fingers crossed that the next game will have at least some redeeming qualities.

All on account of bad management and negative selection, which chased away or neutered anyone with talent who has ever worked at the company.

don't keep fingers crossed, it's been over for midsidian since FNV.

move on, your energies are best spent elsewhere. these threads only provide life-nourishing schadenfreude now

 

[frajaq]

they're compromised

 

[Desiderius]

Showing off the quality of the bowel movements produced by their food is a bold move.

 

[Child of Malkav]

Showing off possible recipes in the game? Just a demo, to get a taste for it.

 

[AfterVirtue]

they're compromised

"Food Stylist"????

Obsidian, by contrast, has been only a disappointment since Fallout: New Vegas

Their games have a kernel of good concept, coated in the shit of their writing, and cost-cutting. If you squint, it can pass for a good game.

Be kind, what those "good concept" would be? Narratively is a nihilst mishmash of other concepts around "American gods in Eotha, but one of the "gods" is the lovechild of Tyler Durden and Lathander" - or else the daughter of American Pastoral, both "stages" at the same time; oh and souls. Or you meant gameplay?

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

"Food Stylist"????

 

[lukaszek]

Food Stylist

there was a point in time when all the youtube chefs were inviting food stylsts to teach them(and audience) how to make visually better looking food.
90% of the time it was about dropping edible flowers or some other crap. Notably I see no flowers above, that stylist in question might be fake

 

[Fedora Master]

The great culinary variety of China. Egg rolls and spring rolls.

Probably all vegetarian too because of course

 

[Tyranicon]

What does any of this have to do with gaming?

Also egg rolls are disgusting fake food.

 

[Viata]

How is egg roll fake food? Unless I'm mistaking something.

 

[Lacrymas]

Because it's Asian and Asians aren't people I suppose.

 

[Tyranicon]

How is egg roll fake food? Unless I'm mistaking something.

1. There's no egg in it.
2. It's something invented by american chinese specifically to feed dumbasses leftover cabbage.

 

[processdaemon]

How is egg roll fake food? Unless I'm mistaking something.

I believe that egg rolls exist but the real ones look like this.

 

[AfterVirtue]

Look, i like to cook. i find it like alchemy. If you do it good, it looks good. If it need "styling" or whatever it is called, it was not good enough. Or it is a "food marketing", like games, superficial appearence before substance.