Obsidian General Discussion Thread

[Hobknobling]

Lucky for Feargus, Parker et al, Microsoft doesn't understand games. So they can continue with grotesque inefficiencies, it won't matter in that ocean of MS money. Only $ growth matters, not skill.

Unfortunately for Obsidian, they cannot survive if they build a company like this since even their Reddit fanbase will eventually wise up.

Obsidian's founders minus Avellone have been horrible leaders for decades and their reward was a Microsoft payout. They won.

Oh, they definitely got their bag. Obsidian's only future is working on design-by-committee trash at the Microsoft Game Pass gulag. Avowed already looks like a promising start.

 

[RepHope]

Judging by the studio closures today, I doubt Obsidian will survive Avowed flopping

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

About time uncle Phil cracked the whip.

 

[Roguey]

Judging by the studio closures today, I doubt Obsidian will survive Avowed flopping

Sure they will. But the Avowed team wouldn't.

Getting rid of Arkane Austin was an acceptable loss because they still have Lyon. Obsidian has The Outer Worlds 2, and the success of Grounded and Pentiment shows that they're worthwhile to keep around as a maker of smaller games.

 

[SpaceWizardz]

TOW2 will be shitcanned, everyone will be sent to the Fallout mines except for the Grounded 2 team.

 

[ferratilis]

I have a feeling that even if Obsidian is shut down, Josh and Feargus will survive and move to another MS studio. Those two guys somehow always fail upwards.

 

[Butter]

Avowed DLC will be scrapped when the game flops. I think TOW2 will still release, and then also have its DLC scrapped.

 

[AwesomeButton]

There is no one to produce anything interesting with the Pillars IP. Pity, I still think it's a good setting, that ended up in the hands of incompetents and cookie cutter narrative designers.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

It's a generic fantasy except vampire is spelt differently.

 

[AwesomeButton]

No, it's colonial age. The adventures should practically write themselves, yet Obsidian still manage to be mostly boring.

 

[Hellion]

They are apparently hiring people for a "cross-platform RPG in Unreal Engine". So it's a new project and not work on Avowed or TOW2 as they're Xbox-PC exclusives. Unless they count Xbox Game Pass and PC as different platforms, that is.

https://gamerant.com/fallout-new-vegas-developer-obsidian-new-rpg-ps5-xbox/

 

[Butter]

They are apparently hiring people for a "cross-platform RPG in Unreal Engine". So it's a new project and not work on Avowed or TOW2 as they're Xbox-PC exclusives. Unless they count Xbox Game Pass and PC as different platforms, that is.

https://gamerant.com/fallout-new-vegas-developer-obsidian-new-rpg-ps5-xbox/

I would assume it's TOW2. Does PC/Xbox not count as cross-platform? Surely Microsoft isn't paying them to make games for Sony or Nintendo?

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

 

[duskvile]

Obsidian should make immersive sim, an ascendant of Thief.

 

[Alienman]

Now we wait to see if that award will save Obsidian from getting axed.

 

[Bulo]

It's been fifteen years

 

[Roguey]

Obsidian should make immersive sim, an ascendant of Thief.

Never part of their design philosophy, they're all about scripted reactivity.

 

[Modron]

Obsidian should make immersive sim, an ascendant of Thief.

They already made their version of Deep Cover what more could you want?