>be obsidian >made some of the best RPGs of all time,.not even including when they were black isle>keep all of your talent through out the years>hasn't made a good game since Stick of TruthWhat went wrong?
wrgp "fans" try not to call devs "washed" challenge: IMPOSSSIBLEso fucking boring discussing games these days
Pillars of Eternity, Pillars of Eternity 2, Pentiment and even Avowed, to a lesser extent, are all good games. And they're all better than the open world slop known as Fallout: New Vegas. The best Obsidian games ever are Alpha Protocol and Stick of Truth.
Avowed was fun and I'm tired of pretending otherwise. Y'all need Jesus.
>>720803146It's good but too pozzed. Womeme writers have markedly and obviously made Obsidian's output worse. And they blatantly really want to write all sorts of romanceslop even though it's supposedly company policy to not allow it.
Pentiment was good and I look forward to whatever it is Josh is working on right now with a returning Gonzalez
they are actually doing better than ever. they are probably the best run studio in the industry.
>>720803548Their output is worse albeitAlso, Avowed actually kind of was a disaster and had to be salvagedYou're right in general
>>720803548lol
>>720803568>Their output is worse albeitno, you're just not a kid anymore.
>>720803703I like some of their current games but you're out of your mind if you think they compare to Alpha Protocol, Stick of Truth and even KOTOR 2
If you even just pretend to dislike Grounded, Pentiment and Avowed then you are just a faker and probably got daddy issues for assmadgald.
>>720803872I don't like Grounded because I don't like survival games, so I didn't even play it and have no interest in itI half like Avowed but the writing and models are unbelievably bad
>Feargus kept shutting down Sawyer's ideas but gives trannies and obnoxious women total reign over the stuido's outputDismaying
>>720803915qrd?
>>720803872Avowed is shit. Like 5-6 out of 10 at most. Painfully dull game in a genuinely boring universe.
>>720803747alpha protocol and kotor 2 were broken pieces of shit up on release and unfinished.
>>720803959People filtered by Eora are silly to me.
>>720803892>models are unbelievably badlol
>>720803943he's just making shit up.
>>720804009Nobody is "filtered" by it. It's like a chinese expy toy from the 90s, ultra colorful, ugly, made from cheap plastic and barely resembling the thing it's supposed to imitate.
>>720803943Back in PoE1 times Durance was supposed to have way more content, 90% of it was cut. Now you have to suffer through gay asexual dates instead.
>>720803014They are a studio worth anything only because of Chris Avellone and Josh Sawyer. They drove Avellone out of the studio and Sawyer was mind broken by the failure of Pillars 2 and is in semi retirement mode. Like you think the studio was that great because of pic related?
>>720804129>Sawyer was mind broken by the failure of Pillars 2 and is in semi retirement mode>made an incredibly boring, unfocused game where you reach level cap halfway throughDeadfire is Sawyer at his finest. A control freak who stops you from having fun.
>Avellone has been a scammer for two decades straight>Cain and Boyarsky half lost their touch and half can't do shit because the zoomer women they're in charge of are soulless redditor browsing fanfic writers>Ziets has spent the past 6 years promising that he will develop a game soon>Fenstermaker is stuck on vaporware hell with a developer that laid off 90% of its employees>They don't even have Justin Bell anymore. Avowed was his swansong with Obsidian>John Gonzalez is back but he's spent the past decade working on the Horizon games so who the fuck knows if he has it in him anymore>Sawyer has reclused himself in an artsy indie game bubble after Deadfire's failureI promise to be interested in whatever Obsidian announces next. I don't promise I'll actually play it. I am not touching Outer Reddit 2.
>>720804079>hmmm let's make italians...but black!genius worldbuilding
I'm locked in.
>>720804079>>720804343Stay filtered. It's your life.
>>720804372Where? I'll come let you out so you don't have to play that garbage
>>720804372I really do wish this comes out good. Not even cause I want to play it, but just for my nigga Boyarsky's sake.
>>720804427https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtHvZbKYv8kYou couldn't take this away from me.
>>720804663Inxile without a doubt has the better pair of troika devs at their studio.
>>720804942Nice kike obfuscation there with the "Troika", but Fallout > VTM:B, so no.
>>720803014overrated as fuck developer that fluked new vegas that’s it
>>720804730What's their name, again?
>>720805097Jason Anderson also worked on fallout 1and chad moore worked on fallout 2.
>>720805278And Boyarsky worked on Arcanum and Bloodlines as well as Fallout. Fallout 1 > Fallout 2. Cain made Temple of Elemental Evil.
>>720804942People like to shit on Fargo cause he's a shithead, but he's also obviously a far more competent studio head than his counterpart at Obsidian. Inxile has always been more ambitious and interesting in their games than Obsidian, and less likely to chase trends.
>>720805563bruhno
>>720805670Wasteland 3 is probably the best playing modern crpg. Excellent soundtrack as well.
>>720805740Counterpoint,Wasteland 2 > DiploSniper: The Game
>>720805563Yeah, I like what Brian is doing. Once he bought by Xbox, he just hired boomer RPG devs from his interplay days to make an ambitious rpg. He did an interview recently and said, "We aren't here to preach, judge, or educate. We are here to entertain people." He sounds based enough for me. https://youtu.be/tjeRn2eA3y4?si=oTyfqmjfoUN4X-Ke
Please don't hype up Clockwork Revolution. That's another Outer Worlds waiting to happen. They're already talking about robot slavery on their twitter.
>>720805740>Excellent soundtrack as well.Aside from owlcat games it's the only crpg that understood how important it is to have a great OST.
>>720806302All classic CRPGs touch slavery in one way or another. In BG2 you literally annihilate a slaver underground. It's not what makes OW so shit.
I bought outer worlds at a hude discount. Did I make a mistake?
>>720806818It's an alright game, it's just kinda disappointing because it was supposed to be the bethesda killer, games really fun when you do an evil playthrough
>>720805563wasteland 3 salvaged inxile for me. W2 is really much weaker when I went back to replay it
>>720806818Yes.
>>720806979W2 has a surprisingly comfy atmosphere for a game about mutants and robots.
>>720806979Such a shame WL3 was basically overlooked by most.
>>720806818yes, I pirated it and it was so mediocre I felt cheated of my time
>>720804129>Like you think the studio was that great because of pic related?Honestly, I'd say Urquhart deserves major credit for actually keeping Obsidian afloat for so long. When you think about it KotOR2, NWN2 and Alpha Protocol all could've killed the company very easily. Shit, they literally had bankruptcy marked on the calendar in case PoE1 kickstarter didn't pan out.
>>720803014>dat feel when most overlooked the fact Obsidian made a Pathfinder game
>>720803568avowed most certainly was not a disaster you utter retard
>>720805670>mfw constantly stealing budget from one project to fund the other
>>720803014there's a clear delineation between obsidian going to shit and avellone leaving
>>720803078Avowed is a good game using a shit engine, same thing for NV (interesting mechanics and plot limited by the carcass of Fallout 3)... I agree with all the rest.
>>720803014>Avowed>Bloodlines 2I don't really understand this retarded trend of RPG centric properties trying to move the role playing from the games.
I am still seething all these years later after taking two weeks off work for the release of POE2 and being hit with a game that is a downgrade from 1 in every way. I will never forgive them.
>>720803014grounded was apparently a big success, but most people did not care at all
>>720803014>>keep all of your talent through out the yearsExcept they didn't, judging by their games after pillars.
