Obsidian General Discussion Thread

[S.torch]

fandom

Obsidian has no fandom.

juvenile

Obsidian is not juvenile. It's a corporation full of millennials over 30 who think they're connecting with a young audience when in reality the only thing they connect with is their closed, stale group of upper-class urbanites who have never interacted with anyone outside of it.

 

[Cael]

Obsidian is not juvenile. It's a corporation full of millennials....

That spells J-U-V-E-N-I-L-E to me. They have the combined mental age of a spoilt malignant 3 year old.

 

[Roguey]

https://www.obsidian.net/careers/op...npYD989jmX-unity-gameplay-programmer-contract

Obsidian is looking for an experienced Unity Programmer to join our team of talented RPG developers.

Josh Sawyer presents Pillars of Eternity 3?

 

[Wunderbar]

Pentiment 2 - Pentimenter.

 

[vortex]

Pentiment 2 - Pentimenter.

Please no. Rather dark medieval fantasy in spirit of Darklands but improved and Pillars 3.

 

[Infinitron]

I find it hard to believe Josh isn't going to finally be forced to contribute to a new AAA project, but maybe somebody else at Obsidian is making that Pillars of Eternity tactical RPG he used to mention.

 

[Ryzer]

Will it be good this time or that's just wishful thinking?

 

[Sannom]

So why are people talking about this totally irrelevant guy who never amounted to anything and isn't going to put out anything interesting or relevant anytime soon?

New Vegas put him on the map and he's maintained a web presence for a long time on Ask Jeeves then Formspring then Tumblr and also Twitter. Also he's got weird hobbies that helps to remember him like the van thing and obviously the bicycles. He's also got Sesame and that helps with a certain subset of people.

Irrelevant, but who the fuck would go through surgery specifically to look like one of Avatar's Navis ?

https://www.obsidian.net/careers/op...npYD989jmX-unity-gameplay-programmer-contract

Josh Sawyer presents Pillars of Eternity 3?

The "(Contract)" thing makes me think this might be for a short-term thing, so I'm thinking some sort of optimization for a new version of PoE or a remake of the first game using the sequel's systems.

 

[whydoibother]

I find it hard to believe Josh isn't going to finally be forced to contribute to a new AAA project, but maybe somebody else at Obsidian is making that Pillars of Eternity tactical RPG he used to mention.

 

[Russia is over. The end.]

What surprises me is "fix and debug concurrency issues" job responsibility. Usually this would be in the context of a network game. But it would also mean more network-related requirements in the job.
Concurrency in a multi-threading environment is possible, but I doubt they know or used multi-threading on top of Unity in their POE games. And generally speaking their kind of games don't even need multi-threading.
In an RPG with a good architecture, there shouldn't be concurrency issues.
Something is off.

 

[agris]

In an RPG with a good architecture, there shouldn't be concurrency issues

I think we have our answer.

Not shitpost answer: is Avowed confirmed Unity? Even if it is, I think unity has been multicore since 2018-19 or so. UE4 definitely is.

Given Avowed is a multiplatform release and the recent string of poor performing xbawks releases, daddy M$ probably wants to ensure good performance on this hyped up shitpile-to-be.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

Only PoE and Penistent are on Unity.

 

[Sordid MCA/Prosper Hybryd]

Only PoE and Penistent are on Unity.

Tyranny

 

[Infinitron]

KOTOR2 Switch port from Aspyr:

https://www.eurogamer.net/knights-o...aspyr-did-nothing-wrong-by-cancelling-the-dlc

Knights of the Old Republic 2 Restored Content modder says "Aspyr did nothing wrong" by cancelling the DLC​

"Quote me on that."

One of the original programmers who was part of the volunteer effort to bring the Restored Content mod to Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2 – The Sith Lords says Aspyr Media "did nothing wrong" when it cancelled the DLC for Switch.

Aspyr Media revealed on Friday that Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2 – The Sith Lords' highly-anticipated DLC, Restored Content, would now not be coming to Nintendo Switch after all. The team did not explain why the DLC would "not be moving forward", and would not offer refunds either, instead choosing to offer a complimentary key for one of seven other Star Wars games.

As fans responded to the news, modder zbyl2 – who helped bring the Restored Content mod to PC in the first place – popped up in a comment on the KOTOR subreddit, saying: "Aspyr did nothing wrong. Quote me on that. Shame it ended the way it did".

"I have nothing but good things to say about Aspyr and our cooperation over the past eight years," they added.

The modder also made it clear that the cancellation had nothing to do with the "higher ups not wanting to give credit to the modding team".

"I made the mod. The above is 100 per cent false and I'm sad you got so many upvotes, because that rumour is now going to spread," they said.

"Aspyr was great to work with and they offered to credit the whole team long before I even asked about it."

That hasn't quite settled the disquiet of some players who believe that they should be offered "at least a partial refund" "considering [Aspyr] sold the game based on what turned out to be a false promise".

This time last year it was reported that the Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic remake was "in serious trouble" and "delayed indefinitely" after Aspyr fired the game's art director and design director and told staff the hotly-anticipated remake was "on pause".

The dramatic decision came after Aspyr, which had been working on the game for three years at the time, demoed a vertical slice to Lucasfilm and publisher Sony which surmised the demo "wasn't where they wanted it to be".

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

>no gog even when all of those games are available there too

 

[agris]

I good reminder for the financially illiterate on why they should use a credit card: they can force a refund through the card’s bank by issuing a charge back.

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

Tbh, the DLC that arrived to Steam ages ago never made it to gog's version of the game. They've been "working on it" for years now.

 

[Infinitron]

Oh my, Obsidian has created one of these as well:

In June of 2003, five game developers came together to build something new. Hear the story of how Obsidian Entertainment began from four of its founders and get an insightful look into the development process of the studio's first games in part one of this multi-part series.

Roguey Somehow I don't think Chris Avellone is going to participate in this documentary.

 

[Roguey]

Obsidian's first pitch was Dark Alliance reskinned into a Star Wars game. Glad that was rejected in favor of kotor 2.

Chris Parker hated the idea of Alpha Protocol (and yet somehow became project director).

They're making the claim that Aliens was cancelled because Sega couldn't comprehend the idea of waiting until near the end of the project to spend time making polished graphics. Who knows how accurate that is.

 

[0sacred]

fun fact: that Pentiment shirt Feargus is wearing is the smallest size available

 

[Briar Diem]

Actually Aliens graphics were easily ahead of their time. BRDF maps were used for skin and Aliens themselves (not different than what Unreal is using now) and Onyx had really powerful shaders that were ahead of what many games where shipping at the time on those consoles. Aliens had many other things going for it in terms of animation and gameplay as well. The downfall was the Onyx engine was not ready to make a game with the scope that Aliens tried to be. It proved impossible to build an engine and be able to ship a game of that scope. If Obsidian licensed Unreal at the time the game would've likely shipped. It took MS cancelling Stormlands for Obsidian to learn their lesson. The story and characters in that world were dope as hell, it's too bad they'll never see the light of day now.

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

Obsidian's first pitch was Dark Alliance reskinned into a Star Wars game. Glad that was rejected in favor of kotor 2.

Chris Parker hated the idea of Alpha Protocol (and yet somehow became project director).

They're making the claim that Aliens was cancelled because Sega couldn't comprehend the idea of waiting until near the end of the project to spend time making polished graphics. Who knows how accurate that is.

It might be accurate if Sega wanted a more agile development cycle, with iterations as opposed to the linear working schedule Obsidian seems to have. Man, just from those statements, it seems like Obsidian's managers are fucking shit at their jobs

 

[Infinitron]

Briar Diem Can you tell us what game you're working on?

 

[Briar Diem]

Avowed. I think I will comment on the other thread but it's a wild shitstorm.

 

[santino27]

Alpha Protocol was so good, I didn't need reminding we're not on Alpha Protocol 5 right now

I would burn the whole city down to get Alpha Protocol 2, but with no Avellone, it wouldn't matter.