Game News Obsidian Reveals 'Project Eternity' - Kickstarter Live

[SCO]

WHERE IS THE TURN BASED!!! THIS IS A OUTRAGE

 

[evdk]

The important question is whether you will be able to enslave nations with necromancy. Or at least terrorize a hamlet with a skeleton hand puppet.

 

[Castanova]

Haha, that Kickstarter video... it has a real "help feed the children of Africa" kind of vibe to it. Especially that thin dude who says they "can't do it without [our] help."

Still, I put down the $20. I hope they produce something good but I'm not expecting much. Also, April 2014 seems too ambitious.

 

[Szioul]

What's all this talk about dwarves and elves? Do we even know if this will have "fantasy races"? It could be a humans-only fantasy world.

Just make it a dockside brothel and be done with it.

 

[oldmanpaco]

20% funded in about two hours.

 

[TalesfromtheCrypt]

Going for a classic fantasy setting seems a bit boring, however we don't know anything about it yet. If they manage to create something that would be comparable to what they did in Mask of the Betrayer in terms of atmosphere and writing it will be awesome. If they manage to throw in some half-way decent combat (even if it's RtwP) it will be even better.

GO Obsidian!

 

[Mortmal]

of course, i could spam this, i could also spam , but that would be immature !

Needless to say i sent money before even watching the video, i am not sure the 10k$ are trolls, i have a friend who sent 5K$ on shadowrun already without an atterthought just because she likes the book, and another who was really tempted to design her own npc for the game.
The fund is raising, really really quickly, like 1K per minute ! I am spreading the word of this game to my vast(by codexer standard) network of friends.

 

[ghostdog]

Infinity Engine has been mentioned many times already by Obsidian, and the best thing about IE was that it was 2D (or 2,5D isometric whatever) and it allowed beautiful 2D backgrounds. Josh Sawyer even mentioned "fixed perspective" in the video.

So my question is, will it be 2.5D, or 3D? Has anyone at Obsidian spoken clearly about it ?

 

[Mastermind]

Bleh.

Not terribly excited for this. It'll be interesting to check out as more screenshots and stuff show up, but the character design looks pretty lackluster, like something out of a standard MMO. We'll see.

The average MMO has pretty good character design IMO (visuals wise that is). I'd love to see them in single player games more often.

 

[TripJack]

gave $20 for great justice

 

[Wise Emperor]

 

[deuxhero]

Real time with pause

Done with that!

Pure turn based or real time I wouldn't have a problem with, but as it is, I know nothing about the world beyond a map (will be be populated by only original groups? Humans only? Toliken plagerism?) and the only thing I DO know is it will include a combat system that HAS killed games for me and I hate with every fiber of my being.

 

[FeelTheRads]

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I haven't even said anything bad about this, except that I don't trust Obsidian.

But hey, retarded fanbois will be retarded fanbois. Can't say anything at all without causing extreme butthurt.

 

[kaizoku]

RTwP was the first step down the slipperly slope of decline that lead to the current state of RPGs being FPP or OTS RT games.

I might buy and enjoy the game if the writings good (and it probably will be), but I will not pay anyone to create the clusterfuck of RTwP combat.

yeah, because we all know that the old school dungeon crawlers that implemented the mambo dance were so prestigious

 

[Cabazone]

I was hoping for the ultimate storyfag RPG, with a great setting, heavy focus on narrative/social interaction and very little combat. Instead, We have another dragon age with probably better writing. It can be good, even great, but it's hardly exciting. They have chosen the safest way, and i don't want to support this. I will probably buy it when it come out, though.

 

[The Great Deceiver]

Going for a classic fantasy setting seems a bit boring, however we don't know anything about it yet. If they manage to create something that would be comparable to what they did in Mask of the Betrayer in terms of atmosphere and writing it will be awesome. If they manage to throw in some half-way decent combat (even if it's RtwP) it will be even better.

GO Obsidian!

Well, there's even a slight possibility they might hire George Ziets himself :

The ultimate size of the development team is going to be dependent on how the Kickstarter campaign goes – the more money we get in, the more people we are going to bring over onto the team.

Yeah, wishful thinking, but who knows? Make it happen, Obsidian.

 

[oldmanpaco]

Well this thread deteriorated into a pissing match pretty quick.

 

[Mastermind]

The biowareification of Project Eternity begins:

http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/59933-please-include-women-with-shirts-on/

I'd also really like it if a few of them could be something other than white (and some of the guys, too). Maybe a couple could even be queer!

 

[Allanon]

Pledged. As far as I'm concerned, any game involving Chris Avellone, Tim Cain, and Josh Sawyer worth the 20$ and even if it won't rise up to the expectations, in the sea of shit we're swimming now, it will still stand out.

 

[Infinitron]

I guess the crybabies who whined about Wasteland 2 not having deep companions to fuck talk to will be satisfied by this game.

I expect a fat donation from that German dude who defaced the Wasteland 2 Wikipedia article.

 

[Tolknaz]

I'd be highly surprized, if down the line 2013-2014 were not viewed as a great rennaissance in RPG history. So many great teams, so little resources (time, gamers, money). But a full on rebirth of the genre in such a short time.Anyway, pledged.

 

[Darth Roxor]

Also, this is gonna be the ultimate test for Obsidian. If this time, with 'full creative freedom' and without 'publisher influence' they don't deliver what they promise to deliver, well...

 

[TwinkieGorilla]

well you'd know about wallowing in your own shit, wouldn't you, turdslurper

I expect a fat donation from that German dude who defaced the Wasteland 2 Wikipedia article.

Wasn't his big gripe the "party-based" part though?

 

[oldmanpaco]

Three $10K backers now.

 

[FeelTheRads]

Three $10K backers now.

Gay orgy with Avellone at the helm is a done deal now.