Speculation: Obsidian skyrim clone in development

[Safav Hamon]

- Obsidian has expressed interest in making a Skyrim clone in the past

- Microsoft gives all their new acquisitions an unlimited budget to make whatever kind of game they want

- Josh Sawyer has been playing Skyrim all week. Research probably.

- Its been confirmed that another secret project is in development alongside Outer Worlds, and presumably its related to Pillars of Eternity based on tweets from several employees working on Deadfire.

- It would be the perfect business move. Hit Bethesda on two fronts and steal their fanbase.

Anyone want to poke holes in my theory, or add fuel to the rumors?

 

[Saerain]

If they used the PoE setting, I could be pretty damned happy with that.

Though, I wouldn't want it to mean the Infinity Engine-style works would stop.

Conflicted.

 

[Somberlain]

Isn't it years too late for a Skyhreem clone? Even Dark Souls clones are a sunken ship by now.

 

[Wunderbar]

I hope it'll be moddable.

 

[Jenkem]

Yikes!

 

[TemplarGR]

A Skyrim clone in the Pillars universe? YEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSS

Incline!

 

[Neanderthal]

Oh joy more aimless wandering, shit combat, trash collecting and larping. Thats the ticket.

 

[TheImplodingVoice]

Obsidian will have to steal Todd Howard from Bethesda to make a Skyrim clone a true masterpiece. And by the looks of Fallout 76 and the state the game is in. Todd Howard might just be on the market very soon.

 

[Wunderbar]

Obsidian will have to steal Todd Howard from Bethesda to make a Skyrim clone a true masterpiece. And by the looks of Fallout 76 and the state the game is in. Todd Howard might just be on the market very soon.

Eotas is dead: the Final Pillar.

 

[laclongquan]

Oh joy more aimless wandering, shit combat, trash collecting and larping. Thats the ticket.

Are you looking down at Arcanum, punk? Are you?

 

[Funposter]

instead of a skyrim clone by a shitty studio, how about a new-vegas style TES spinoff by a good studio?

 

[Wunderbar]

instead of a skyrim clone by a shitty studio, how about a new-vegas style TES spinoff by a good studio?

Todd won't allow such thing.

 

[Funposter]

instead of a skyrim clone by a shitty studio, how about a new-vegas style TES spinoff by a good studio?

Todd won't allow such thing.

put me in coach, i'm ready

 

[Sailor Woedica]

- Obsidian has expressed interest in making a Skyrim clone in the past

- Microsoft gives all their new acquisitions an unlimited budget to make whatever kind of game they want

- Josh Sawyer has been playing Skyrim all week. Research probably.

- Its been confirmed that another secret project is in development alongside Outer Worlds, and presumably its related to Pillars of Eternity based on tweets from several employees working on Deadfire.

- It would be the perfect business move. Hit Bethesda on two fronts and steal their fanbase.

Anyone want to poke holes in my theory, or add fuel to the rumors?

Don’t forget Cris leaking that they were actually trying to make it!!!!

 

[undecaf]

I think there's some unused potential in the ES formula for more systemic gameplay and world/narrative reactivity and branching. So I wouldn't outright oppose an Obsidian take on it.

I'd just hope it'd not be overused and generic ripoff of ordinary Tolkienic fantasy.


I'm not explicitly waiting or hoping for it, though. If it happens, it happens.

 

[Wunderbar]

I'd play Arcanum-like TES clone.
Steam-powered power armor, guns and magic, dwarves in tophats, man-eating wolves.

 

[Funposter]

I'd play Arcanum-like TES clone.
Steam-powered power armor, guns and magic, dwarves in tophats, man-eating wolves.

you're just describing a trainwiz mod

 

[Tito Anic]

Would you like to see Obsidian attempt an Elder Scrolls clone

 

[Reinhardt]

Even PoE clone in Skyrim universe is better.

 

[Jarmaro]

Chances that it will be worse than Skyrim are small. Obsidian isn't big enough to do shit games and sell them, only big studios like Bethseda have this power.

 

[Reinhardt]

But they are balanced enough to make balanced games.

 

[lophiaspis]

Chris "Dunning-Kruger" Parker is leading this, so it will almost certainly stand out for being the first Skyrim clone that is worse than the original.

Of course, that won't stop Codex obsessing about it for years.

 

[bataille]

They should clone MCA a couple of times, pump them full of speed and make them work on script iterations 16 hours a day until it's Gravity's Rainbow.

Oh, you mean clone like whe............. NEVERMIND THEN!

 

[Neanderthal]

Oh joy more aimless wandering, shit combat, trash collecting and larping. Thats the ticket.

Are you looking down at Arcanum, punk? Are you?

No.

 

[ArchAngel]

I am up for it only if it is TURN BASED.