OBSIDIAN IS DEADTODD WON
and nothing of value was lost
>>742421189[Heartwarming News]
Damn, Avowed must've done even worse than everyone imagined.
obsidiantrannies our response???
>>742421189I feel like Grounded was popular enough to give them so breathing room.
Literally WHO
They havent made a good game since New Vegas.
Just remake Fallout 3 and New Vegas with new content. Easy fucking money.
>>742421189Nobody cares about Obsidian. Except for the RPGCodex faggots on >>>/vrpg/.
>>742421189>TODD WONTodd's next on the chopping block
>>742421289oh, and TOW2 as well. Totally forgot about that one.
Sawyer hasn't even made a game in years except some little indie tier game I have no idea what he actually does there.
This is bigger than all these game devs its not about them. xbox is the one that's going out of business.
>>742421189Looks like the superior rpg white boys at Inxile are safe. Clockwork revolution being an exclusive for next year is saving their ass.
>>742421189
>>742421252Grounded 2 could be lost, which would be insane.
>>742421189FUCKING KEKThey deserve itTheir whole marketing thing was 'bro we are AMAZING developers. Did you know the beldaring gate???? YES WE MADE THIS!!!!! PUBLISHERS ARE THE PROBLEM MAKING US TAKE THINGS OUT AND FORCE UNFINISHED GAMING!!!!!'Plus the whole 'Bethesda fucked us over, refused to let us edit the contract to get our bonuses after we failed to meet requirements' to 'but now that fallout new vegas remake is rumoured? We love Bethesda! Best guys ever!'
>>742421189how the fuck are they killing everyone after they make one game that underpreforms slightly, but 343 is allowed to survive multiple years while raping halo's corpse?
Does this look like the face of mercy, saars?
>>742421449He's busy libtarding out on Bluesky.
>>742421370This
>>742421449This is what Sawyer reposted on blue sky the other day. I think he can still produce kino someone just needs to tard wrangle his libtard ass
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>>742421189>OBSIDIAN IS DEAD>TODD WONAre you implying that Bethesda is alive?
>>742421289>>742421428im suprised they even stayed afloat after that south park game, let alone getting the funding for outer worlds and fucking grounded
>>742421189damnif only obsidian made more turbodyke brown dyed hair butch boss bitches in upper leadership and authority positions
>>742421425>June 17Sure.
no shit, their games probably cost xbox over 100 million and nobody buys them
>>742421549ho ho hoMore news to follow! I'm sure it'll leak soon.
>>742421189obsidian lost to nortubel
>>742421189Inevitable after the flops that were Avowed and Outer Worlds 2.
>>742421189Grounded is kino
>>742421189They died a long time ago it was mostly just some retards propping up its corpse to pretend it wasnt>this is true for a lot of these studios that were big names once
>>742421189I wonder what the negotiations are like?>Microsoft: You release a working game in the next year or we shutter you.>Devs: NO! ANYTHING BUT THAT!
>>742421189Why is it always rumors and never anything concrete? The press has been threatening for over a month that Xbox will close studios.
>>742421189Oh no we won't get avowed 2 where there are 0 NPCs and you just suck the dick of a Jew for 30 minutes
>>742421592tbf you have to post that once every week on Bluesky or they terminate your account and start a cancellation campaign on your career.
holy heckaroo not the devs that made fallout new vegas, maybe they should've told consumers a few million more times that they were the devs that made fallout new vegas
>>742421549As I understand it, 343i / HALO STUDIOS isn't a real development studio. It's a tiny department within MS's campus itself, and all they do is coordinate a bunch of subcontractors. They're cheap to keep around, even if all they produce is garbage.Obsidian has nearly 300 staff, in CA.
>>742421527>Grounded 2 could be lost, which would be insane.I literally have never seen no one say shit about that game, I still don't even know how it got a second release, at least the pirates game was popular on release and maintained a playerbase, this one came and went twice without any fanfare.Although knowing senua got not only a second game, but a third one fully developed after the second one failed to even reach 10k concurrent players is something to really be studied.
>>742421816and thousands of people have lost their jobs in the last three weeks. And that NDA is real shit, you will shut your whore mouth about the layoffs, so help me god, I will smack the soul out of you.
>>742421873All xbox has to do is give the halo ip to id or machine games and the halo revival will be a slam dunk
>>742421289>release the game for "free" on GoyPass on Xbox and PC>wait a year or so for hype to drop to release it on PS5Microjeets are the dumbest motherfuckers on the planet, this is what happens when you make so much money from Office and Azure so you can go full retard and fuck your shit up without fear of going bankrupt
>>742421885Grounded is acktchually good but everything else obsidian has released in the last decade has been saar level diahrea
Microjeet is losing all those ips they were hoarding to secure themselves as the only OS for gaming lolNow they've released their own lincux distro
Here we are, born to be kingsWe're the princes of the universeHere we belong, fighting to surviveIn a world with the darkest powers, hey!
>>742421189They never produced a good game.
ok like, is there any based studios left that never and ever associate with these stupid politic movements. I dont wanna sound obsessed but my gut feeling is that every known studios that were once pioneered gaming, are now infected with these politics like trannies, blacks or whatever shit to fulfill the quotas.
>>742421982NWN2 was good
>>742421997dude all of those studios are staffed by completely different people now. go look at the credits
>>742421885It's been Early Access for around a year and on Game Pass. It's done well on both. It'll sell a ton on final release - if it get's released at all now.
>>742421997You have been mindbroken by the media ran by a handful of billionaire cannibal pedophiles that got spooked by occupy wallstreet and want you distracted by shit that never mattered to stop you seeing how much you have in common with other people.
Shave literally never made a good gameno, new vegas is not goodnor are kotor 2 or nwn2 (even just motb)tyranny and pentiment are also both bad
>>742421189THIS IS A MESSAGE TO ALL AAA GAME DEVS: LEAVE THESE BIG CORPOS AND START YOU OWN SMALL INDIE TEAMS LIKE EXPEDITION 33 DEVS YOU STUPID FUCKING PRICKS, GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF YOUR FUCKING ASSES AND START MAKING THE GAMES YOU WANT TO MAKE AGAIN.
>>742421549>one game that underpreforms slightly,One? More like two multi-million dollar projects that didn't sell a shit. And whose only "success" was a game made by 10 people, a personal project of someone Feargus didn't want in the studio
make sure they put from the developers of fallout new vegas on their suicide notes
>>742421997> trannies here, trannies there, trannies everywherebro, you're minds been broken.
>>742422123the south park game was goodMostly because all they had to do was design a basic black bitch gameplay attempt in an already made engine, with ready made: story, sound, characters, video, dialogue, etcJust had to do a shitty 2d gameplay
>>742421997Oh yeah, that's old news. All the hottest talent in the industry right now is from no-names-indie and AA studios. The other half are refugees from other entertainment industries.
Your exciting new fantasy CRPG franchise, whatever happened there.
>>742421189So how many American AAA rpg studios will there be left after the upcoming xbox bloodbath? Just bethesda and Inxile? Am I missing any other studio?
>>742422254sounds like someone needs to scout the best talent who are currently jobless AND START YOUR OWN FUCKING DEV TEAM TO MAKE GAMES WITHOUT SOME CORPORATE KEKOLD YAPPING IN YOUR EAR ABOUT TRANNIES AND DEI.
>>742422123Fuck you.Grounded was cool and Grounded 2 is now at risk of never being finished.
>>742421189They've only ever made two good games, both times piggybacking off somebody else's work.
>>742422119>>742422184ok look now again, i dont wanna sound stupid and whatever shits you call it, but why all of these studios are on a brink of closure? I play games without giving a damn what studio made the game. Were their games flopped because of?
>>742421997The game industry has always been woke
uh oh maybe they should've filled their games with more tumblr troon politics and quirky capitalism jokes, that would've saved them
>>742422332Nah, That takes too much effort
>>742421332isnt the sequel still in EA?
>NV trannies in shamblesKek F3 GAWDS stay winning
you'd think with all the mess going on in games development more people aren't doing what kojima did and just start DOING HIS OWN FUCKING THING WITHOUT BS. why isn't this more common??? can someone explain to me what the deal with this is? you'd think with the success of some of these teams with smaller overheads and more focused devs that they'd transition into smaller teams but they just leave the industry after being laid off?
>>742422423I'm really tired of you people
>>742422386M$ gave studios tons of money. Studio under no pressure to release games quickly or to be original. Games when released don't sell because they're shit. M$ closes studios.It's not rocket science.
>>742422332They always get gobbled up in the end. Studios like Bioware and Obsidian used to be free but all it takes is a big offer and they'll sell their soul every time.
>>742422254New studiosI have a wishlist with games from tons of cool teams but... I'm starting to notice a trend. Too much social media attention draws exactly the kind of attention you would expect from people like >>742422423 so you gotta keep your head low.
>>742422386Because all of these studios like most modern companies have a crust of HR culture ossifying the entire environment and also encourages a nepotistic nature that ensures only the most insufferable and talentless people get hired. Just remember that Bethesda video where they show their workers and it's all fat women and trannies. Dysgenic biomass yeast.
>>742422108>It's done well on bothDebatable, but they should've focused on all their games doing well, not only a single, niche one maybe covering costs.
>>742422524Yup. That probably means they'll get some investors to buy the studio since Ground 1 was extremely popular.
>>742422472i want to wring these fucks pencil necks, their entire problem was working for these soulless corporate hellscapes it sucks the life out of you, get some of the boys and girls from the office that actually got shit done, and put some ideas together they really just going to cry on bluesky or twitter and watch netflix while waiting for their doordash? sad
>>742421252I really wanted them to finish Grounded 2Otherwise I don't care that much
>>742421189Obsidian is interesting to see if Microsoft keeps them around but who seriously would even want Ninja theory? Making a third Senua game no one wants is retarded
anyone with a brain or talent left obsidian over a decade ago
Sadly, this >>742421370
She literally doesn't know what she's doing.
>>742422731Pentiment was ight
>>742422386>Massively overspend during covid lockdowns>Lockdown spending ends and that wasnt sustainable>Every knows this has accelerated the unsustainability but the first person to admit it will be taken to the cleaners by shareholders for "sabotaging share values">Things get more expensive, customers have less money to go around, data centers make this even worseThats it. Idiots screaming "its woke" are the same dumbasses sitting in a crowd of russian spambots thinking they are not the only human involved. It was shitty business practices and overreach. Same as any market crash.
>>742421189I want a Pillars of Eternity 3
>>742421997All of the foundational studios were woke from the start.
>>742422254BIOWARE
>>742421189Shame I really liked Avowed
>>742422686So what does Obsidian have that makes it attractive? It's bigger and more expensive to maintain. They're in a similar position.
>>742421189>Undead LabsThat's what you get for hiring Zoe Quinn. Sorry, I don't make the rules. Glad you let yourselves get fleeced though!
>>742421428Still can't believe they were retarded enough to make a sequel and double down on all the shit stuff from the first one.>>742422386Because they completely changed their staff and went from being an industry for gaming enthusiasts to just another industry. Also DEI. The same thing can be seen in television and film.
No, genuinely how are they at risk of being shut down?Literally one of like three studios M$ bought that actually puts out games regularly, and while you turbofag doomers don't like them I think it's a pretty solid output all things considered. They do a lot of fun AA stuff, really one of the few Western studios left in that space anymoreI'm starting to think even Bethesda is going to be at risk of getting liquidated and only their IPs are kept
>>742422853It had potential but it was only 6/10 on release. It felt a little rushed and needed more time to cook.
>>742422119Funny how you clowns gladly licked billionaire balls while they sponsored pride parades and gave you retards with useless gender studies jobs at game studios to push divisive, low quality pozz, yet it is the other side the one that was brainwashed. Admit you were a fucking retard your entire life, that they used you, and that you trained your replacement like a good behaved cuck, and get behind our tenants of no niggers and no woke garbage in media, if you actually want something useful to come out of this.But you won't because you are to goddamn stupid to get a proper job on your own merits, and will soon go back to sucking dick for ((them)) the second you see an opportunity to get a cushy shill job from them
>release dogshit wokeslop for decades>Nobody buys it>Gee golly willikers why won't anyone give us money to make more dog shit wokeslop
>>742422904They're shuttering every studio that doesn't make Call of Duty, basically. Microsoft's gaming division has been that poorly managed.
>>742422834Meh, They're half American
>>742422423Yeah, sure. Merit wasn't a thing back then, just pure wokeism.
>>742421189fuck you todd howardhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FODWkUYMuQc
>>742421189I'm glad this is happening. All of my favorite games have already been made meanwhile timmy zoomzoom is doomed to an eternal hellscape of roblox and fortnite
>>742422904Avowed and Outer Worlds 2 didn't sell well, they were not the successes Microshite were after - not sure how that works since they were on Game Pass too.
>>742422996To our shame
>>742421592If you don't virtue signal on bluesky at least once a week your phone blows up like an Israeli pager
in retrospect, trying to force your oc donut steel d&d setting was probably a bad idea if you needed to sell millions to keep the lights on
>>742422996Canada is just a region of The USA at this point and anyone claiming otherwise is deluded.
>>742423070I thought avowed was going to be the skyrim killer, guess their unreal slop didn't measure up
>>742421189ALL THEY HAD TO DO WAS MAKE PILLARS OF ETERNITY: PLAYER GETS BITCHES EDITIONIMAGINE GOING BANKRUPT WHEN PEOPLE ARE EAGER FOR CRPGS WITH ADVENTURE AND ROMANCE"OH NO I'M THIRSTY BUT THE WATER HAS STRAIGHT PEOPLE IN IT"
>>742423072I'm just going to chalk them up as Canadian because the Austin studio sounds like the bitch boy/support studio for the main guys in Canada. So it's still just Bethesda and Inxile as the last remaining Americarog studios... grim.
>>742423059nope this is actually great for the younger generation, you're going to get a deluge of new games from small teams and the indie scene is not going anywhere anytime soon, the consumer still buys games and most of the people who have always been consumers of games stay consumers of games its just where those purchases are going, and AAA games have a bad reputation now and the public doesn't want it, outside of examples like gta and cod the "sure thing" because they know most games from these huge studios don't pass the sniff test, they know the devs aren't passionate at big studios, and don't put out the quality work smaller teams put out and the consumer left to greener pastures, its never been better to be a gamer than now.
>>742423146No it's not, we don't claim you moosefuckers, get fucked you snow monkey. Go drown in some syrup eh
>>742422904>>742422904>No, genuinely how are they at risk of being shut down?Because theyre not making any money
>>742423146Except games cost $30 more here now, we might as well be Australia
total Chris Avellone victory?he has to be giddy right now
>>742421549micropoo is losing money on AI, need to cut costs everywhere now
>>742423146Na dude Canadians are PROFOUNDLY "patriotic" which means they seethe about Donald Trump to anyone that will listen. I go to Cancun a lot. I know.
>>742421189is Microsoft shutting down all their studios? what are they doing?
>>742421189reminder that according to sawyer, todd was supportive of obsidian
>>742422904Because it's an extremely expensive studio to maintain. They have over 200 employees who must earn no less than $100,000 net per year because they live in the most expensive state on the planet, which also has the highest taxes in the entire country. We're talking about $35 million a year, more or less.
>>742423397getting rid of everything that does not do good numbers.So basically Bethesda and Activision Blizzard are safe.
The jew schreier just said obsidian is safe. Which makes sense because if the jeeta wants more Fallout and TES then they are going to need Obsidian and Inxile for the man power
>>742423397How else are they going to pay for all their AI Datacenters and RAM chips. They are spending >$60b on AI, * a year*
>>742422572Im guessing this was obvious to me when publisher had high expectations and resulted loss so they close it down. But if the studio being independent, they would need money to develop games. Honestly i wouldnt know which choice to live with. So i can understand your point.>>742422591this is also obvious callout since i know sweetbaby was very known of its introduction to gaming industry, and everything else followed up to what we have today.>>742422810It could be anything honestly, but if i played every games from these studios and noticed a different shift of studio's vision, that could be it too. But again i will not argue with your point.>>742422880>DEIyeah but again i dont wanna get too involved with just one known cause. Plus idk if i ever played their game without notice if it was made by these studios. But DEI is unescapeable cause.
Obsidian hasnt made a good game in 15 years
>>742421982played FNV after bg3 recently and gamerplay is usual bethesta garbage but its insane how much better the dialogue and story was
>>742421189Either their games truly did sell ridiculously low or Xbox is going full nuclear because Obsidian is literally the only studio Microsoft bought that has actually consistently put out games.Good games? No, but releasing games is better than none at all or better than only reason one over the course of 6 years
>>742423252Yeah can't wait to play some zoomer's llm generated unreal slop
>/v/ obsessed with Obsidian failing to the point where they have to find a random clickbait articleHow did Obsidian mindbreak people so hard? Anyways, MS confirmed to be leaving Obsidian completely untouched. FNV2 coming soon, you're welcome.
I have zero sympathy for them.
>>742423641Even in this scenario, people from obsidian will be fired.obsidian is big shit
Are you guys really this mad over a black woman in a video game
>>742423641so the other studios still gonna get culled no?
>>742423501First she has to have a sitdown with Todd and explain that Fallout having a 20 year gap between entries is bad for business.
>obsidian goes independent again>get the pillars of eternity license>make pillars of eternity 3Only way to save them.
>people are extremely thirsty for more Baldur Gate 3s and Divinity Original Sin 2s>but that would mean making games where the player isn't cucked>Obsidian would rather go bankrupt than do that
>>742421483Why are the two cleaning chinks in the photo?
>>742423640i meant more along the lines of naturally these huge corps are being broken apart and the talent isn't going to just evaporate into the atmosphere, we're going to get what games have needed for a long time a shake up that causes new studios to pop up, the games industry got made by some degens with too much time and living out of a garage and thats where the best games and music has always been made, not in some air conditioned studio give me a fucking break.
>>742423697>moving goalposts againWill be here to laugh at you when Obsidian has zero layoffs. Keep making up fantasies in your head to cope though.
>>742423658What's with leftist hardons for the suave quaft haired Spaniard/Mystery meat med? It's like the only "masculine" man character they're allowed to show. Once you see it you can't unsee it
>>742423769Save how. There has never been any enthusiasm for the PoE setting
>>742423825you wont find me here, I only came here to laugh at obsidian.Not a single good game in 16 years
>>742423641Like I said both Obsidian and Inxile are safe and will be put in the fallout/TES gulag. I would love an inxile game that's basically just wasteland 4 but called fallout.
>>742423864Laugh at Obsidian for... being confirmed to be safe from MS's culling? Okay.
>>742422904They spent 100 million dollars on TOW2 and it earned back 5 million. That's probably why. Microsoft closed down studios that were profitable but not profitable enough, why would they keep a studio that is a massive money drain?
>>742423658>Joan Jett and the Highguards
>>742421630Is that not illegal?
>>742421189Who cares, this isn't the same Obsidian that made New Vegas. Current Obsidian deserves to go under.
>>742423920>They spent 100 million dollars on TOW2 and it earned back 5 millionSource?
>>742423902>being confirmedlmao, we'll see bitch nigga
A company/studio name means nothing. You have to look into who runs it and who are employed; who worked on or works on the thing you might be interested in.If the names are full of oogabooga shitskin, ditch it. If the names are white sounding, pick a couple of names and look them up - especially those in charge, those in writing and direction - to see if they are on par with oogabooga shitskin brainrot.It's a tedious thing, but it's the only way
Avellone won
>>742424007Keep coping and posting fake articles from X until your fantasy comes true kek.
Nothing of value is lost, EVERY SINGLE ONE of these studios is a walking corpse with none of its previous talent left They all the same cringe writing They all have the same gay aesthetic They all have the same boring slop gameplayAt this point Microsoft better off making games with AI
gaming would lose nothing at all if they shut down
>>742423974Sawyer is still around and the fag tim cain is back at obsidian. They can probably churn out a mediocre game
>>742423641/v/sisters... why are we unable to defeat Obsidian still...?
>Obsidian, Ninja Theory, Undead Labs, DoubleFine, and Compulsion games are all negotiation to avoid closure. Arkanes Blade game may be cancelled and they may also be getting shut down according to reports. Layoffs expected to hit almost all of Xbox's other studios, particularly Zenimax studios: id Software and Machinegames
>>742424072Which youtube video told you that
>>742421959I am 100% sure that MS bought Obsidian to be a Gamepass fodder factory. Everything they make has that superficial, thoughtless feel to it, from design to mechanics to worlds. Obsidian delivered, honestly, and if MS can't figure out how to make that work, that's not Obsidian's fault. I kind of saw this coming when MS bought Bethesda. They're too similar, Beth is the bigger name, has the better IPs. Obsidian should feel dumb for working so hard when they could have done nothing and still got paid like those other studios. Not like their effort is going to save them.
>>742424190Source: Twitter account with 10 followers.
>>742423259Nobody cares what you think
>>742424226My lying eyes, ears, and brain told me that dumbass yid
>>742423641There's still hope for Pillars of Eternity 3 right... haha...
>>742421289>>742421428A single Synthetic God video reviewing either of those games has a number of views far higher than both those games combined have had in sales. Obsidian is a dead studio and has been dying since they stopped working on FNV.
Obsidian should be pushing to get the BG4 license, WotC is still looking for somebody to make it.
>>742422810Yes yes every nerd culture IP crashing in film and video games is just the heckin COVID still! It's nothing to do with woke writing turning audiences off. So true sister.
>>742424297You'll get Avowed 2, best they can do.
>>742423641obsidian is going to be fucked no matter what because they put out mediocre and dogshit games that barely sell enough to cover their costsonce a bit more people get tired of playing the same game from them over and over again they're getting shut down
>>742421189obsidian made outer worlds 1/4 of the game is you being the wing man to a dyke to ask another chick outim not shitting you fuck obsidian im glad they are getting nuked
>>7424243352 more weeks /v/ro, then Obsidian will be sure to fall!
>>742422571Their bot must be broken, they haven't yet replied with "le right-wing does the same" yet
>>7424243812 more weeks no, but in another 5 years yeah
>>742424021honestly, the way i embrace good gaming experience is when i played it blindly, skipped the studio introductions, play the game for like an hour. Good or bad, look up the studio after. Even i check who made it, i still wont bother remembering it to death because i expect nothing what comes after. I remember the way i used to enjoy playing ps1 ps2 games in my teenage days was not bother who made it at all.
IT ALL RETURNS TO NOTHING
the lies finally caught up.
At this point everything and nothing has been reportedly confirmed by insiders. Microsoft doesnt even know what the fuck it is doing, but twitter grifters somehow know.
>>742422372I dont know. They butchered my character and im still pissed. I bet i would love the game as was with the first one but i just cant forgive them
Is this the part where 1 woke stuido eeks by in a bloodbath massacre and the Israelis start dancing claiming victory?
>>742424315No let baldurs gate die with some dignity, no one wants more of that grossed bd3 trash
>>742424561yeah no one wants more of the best selling CRPG of all time lil bro
>>742424325Fuck that fuckass game. Being colorful is dogshit nowadays.
>>742422423Clearly it wasn't, otherwise you wouldn't have Tim Cain lament how they weren't progressive enough back in the dayAlso not all progressivism equals woke, and you know it well
>>742424607Good thing you ghetto gamers don't actually buy games since you're poor
>check twitter to see if it's true>apparently it was some rando that said Obsidian and Undead Labs were getting shut down with no sourceWhy do right wingers fall for fake news so easily?
>>742424447NYOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
>>742424720That nigga wario said it so I assumed there might be some truth to it
REPLY TO THIS POST AND REAPER-CHAN WILL KILL ALL THE STUDIOS YOU "LOVE"
>>742424720It is about xbox, no one cares if it is fake or real as long as it fits their narrative of 2 more weeks.
>>742422119>shit that never matteredDragon Age Origins and Mass Effect 2 were some of my favorite games growing up, now Bioware is dead because they were infected by these parasites and made trash like Veilguard. I used to love WoW and now it's a awful thanks to the same people. Same happened with countless studios, they're making gaming worse as a whole of course it matters to me.
>>742421189>negotiations to prevent closure Pretty sure the only way to read this is Microsoft already made a decision and the obisidian team is pleading not to be shitcanned.
The amount of damage control ITT makes me think its at least partially true. Bungie levels of cope in here
>>742421449This guy is such an insufferable hipster fag Pentament was a shitty visual novel and Pillars was always a boring as fuck setting I don't understand why people still worship him.
>>742422386Multiple factors, but the biggest ones are that they massively hired in 2020 and cannot afford to fire anyone because it would be too big of a morale hit, so they keep a team of 90% useless retards on payroll. They are slaves to either investors or their own mental illness and only produce extremely woke slop, and gamers don't want that, the "modern audience" does not exist and tranny jannies have already deleted my posts for stating this.So you have 1000+ devs studios trying to be the next Fortnite while burning massive amounts of money daily and with a game that's filled to the brim with woke shit. Looking at both games' credits, Skyrim credited 810 people, Starfield credited 4038. And those studios got lots of grant money back in 2020 thanks to (((Larry Fink))), but the money is in big part dried up now, and because of shit management and way too big dev teams, projects started 6 years ago are going to continue releasing until at least 2030.
Hold on, these guys are actually good. Grounded 2 is GOTY. They can't fucking close them down. That's not fair! The game's still in early access and it's still the best thing XBOX has ever put out!>>742424720See, that makes sense. They only shut down bad studios.
Wow. So Obsidian going on about living off of "mild success" and making games accordingly wasn't a good idea after all. Maybe that was fine under Phil, but for Asha that gets you cut.
>>742422119Right, all of the intersectionalism and identity politics and feminism that was forced down our throats is just fake and culture isn't circling the drain because of it. Captured progressive faggot.
why is this happening... yes we've released 10 bad games but next one will compensate
maybe shouldnt have made nigger and faggot games
>>742424975"Mild success" means "thank Satan we broke even" for woke tranny studios
>>742424975They need to go back to basics and make something established such as Fallout instead of these new IPs that aren't working out.
>>742422386Phil acquired studios and threw money at them because he thought that was the best way to get gamepass slop. My guess is he was getting high counters for gamepass day one from third parties, so he thought the best option was to get a bunch of in house studios. The problem is he threw money at them and they did nothing for years. So now he spent hundreds of millions of dollars when $5-$10 mil could get you things like Guardians of the Galaxy from square.
>>742424975In reality and not in made up X posts it seems to be working out.
Obsidian will probably live on making Fallout spinoff games if they play their cards right but they haven't put out a good game in a fucking long time so they probably should just be axed.
>>742421189i dont care how woke obsidian is if you close it microsoft theyll just make a new studio and make actually good games lolgrounded is too woke tho
Deadfire was kino
>>742423962No, that's just Affirmative Action. It's the opposite of racism. However if you said the same thing to white people, that would be very racist and fascist.
>>742422119>you have a lot in common with niggers, homos and foids!!!lol
>>742422332They wont get hired, serious game studios aren't interested in goyslopdevs
>>742421385remake fallout 3 in fallout 4 engine with no woke add more subway dungeons add shit from nv then remaster nv and fill in the empty world its not hardporting fallout nv content to 4s engine is easier than fixing nvthey could hire the devs of the fan remasters as contractors to avoid burnout
>>742424975But it's KEY to them being around for the next 100 years!!!
Recent interview with Sawyer made him seem pissed off, especially recounting the cancellation of Van Buren. He's probably going through deja vu.
>>742422853>dogshit world>crafting>bland charactersfuck off
>29,99€ for the entire game>Giant free expansion packs every third monthHmm, yes, I can see why they're going bankrupt.
>>742425227I reached act 3 of the first game and put it down. did the sequel turn out good? heard it moved towards a pirate aesthetic but that's not really my thing
If you were xbox would you put both obsidian and inxile on spin off fallout games or have one of them on a fallout spinoff and one of them on a tes spinoff
>>742422123kotor 2 and tyranny couldve been masterpieces if they weren't rushed out the door
>>742425373He hasn't done anything to help Obsidian it's kinda like if Todd just stood in the background watching while Bethesda made 3 games.
>>742425582probably cant get a budget to actually make an interesting game
>>742425404Its more interesting and better in terms of combat, environment, writing and quests. the only negative was the ship combat and they made that optional thankfully.
>>742423771yeah pretty much, sawyer refuses to add romance despite the demand, they would rather watch owlcat dab on them than listen to demand
>>742424876I think i heard of this cause, but im guessing the "next Fortnite" situation is every studios want to create an online extraction shooter game with big pile load of microtransactions to satify publisher's needs for money.>>742425138yeah this is the same as what other anon said before, publisher had high expectations to fulfill the sales goal.
>>742425582Yeah, Sawyer said something a long the lines of fallout nv AAA crunch buck broke him and now he just wants to do small projects.
>>742421189This wouldn't have happened if they added good romances to their games. Good riddance.
obsidian is such a bizarre dev studio, it feels like they could make good games but they simply choose not to
>>742425373He's angry that people don't give a shit about PoE and that he'll probably need to get off his ass and make a real game already. Fucker hasn't done shit in 4 years, why are they even paying him?
>>742425475Put both of them on one big Fallout game.
>>742423397They spent 70 billion dollars of Microsoft money to buy Activision, and shareholders wanna see some returns on that investment. Even in the best case scenario of billions per year in pure profit it'll take some 20 years before they're in the black. And right now Xbox is losing a few billion a year.Candy Crush, Call of Duty, Diablo, WoW, Forza Horizon, Age of Empires, Flight Simulator, Minecraft. Those are their only actually profitable franchises, they're safe.Halo, Gears, Fallout, Elder Scrolls. Those IPs are large enough that Microsoft won't sell them but whether they'll keep being developed internally or contracted to third parties is the question.Everything else is on the chopping block either being shut down, sold off, downsized or otherwise seeing drastic reductions in terms of day-to-day running costs.Best case scenario for studios is a management buyout with a guaranteed project based on a Microsoft IP, like Toys for Bob got with Spyro. But none of these studios have made a hit in nearly a decade so having the money internally is unlikely so they'll be more likely to shut down if external funding and projects are not found.
>>742425730Its Feargus Urquhart holding them back. He ruined Sawyers career and Avallones as well.
>>742425068>>742425214BG3 was woke too, the problem with Obsidian wasn't that they went woke, its just they didn't make games anyone wanted to play on top of being woke.>>742422119Is essentially right, woke politics being injected into your games was entirely about creating division between normies. It was ragebait and you fell for it, they identified areas they could exploit, injected billions of dollars into media and purposefully injected woke shit that was going to piss you off to keep you from getting mad, and it worked. Its was entirely about controlling the narrative. You can't chant we are the 99% when you're busy arguing about if traps are gay or not. The Epstein class don't actually give a shit about the culture war, they manufactured it, and they just use it as a means to keep the 99%ers fighting eachother over shit like identity politics while they control everything that matters. They're taking away all your rights, you will own nothing and you will be happy, just like they want it. Now they're spending another 100m to make your favorite male characters gay or turning your favorite franchise woke, go get mad at that instead, don't actually focus on anything that matters.
Obsidian are americans and so naturally they cant produce anything good
>>742423962It's explicitly illegal, yes.
>>742423641These jeets posting fake twitter news really need to be dealt with
Apparently these guys are sitting on the Battletoads IP? That's pretty big. Give it to Retro.
Obsidian should be Bethesda's backup company, that just makes new expansions for old Bethesda titles. Even now an expansion for Skyrim would print.
>>742424975>Maybe that was fine under Phil>receive directive from your owners>act accordingly>you are happy, they are happy>owners change priorities and jump on the AI train>somehow you are at fault for doing what they had asked of you (video games as a video game developer)How is the developers' fault?>inb4 "just make your own banking system"
>>742424325Remember when they said to buy Avowed if you wanted Pillars 3 and instead they did what everyone knew they would do and shit out another Avowed. Classic.
>>742425647>every studios want to create Even if the studio doesn't want to, the investors want to, and you can see this with Redfall for example which was the opposite of what the dev team wanted to do, and of course it failed miserably. And the studios have to chase a huge audience, because they need a stupidly high ROI because of their maintenance cost with so many employees they cannot fire.They need massive ROI, they will never get them, so they gaslight their investors/parent company until the day they are all fired at once. We went from reasonably-sized studios based on merit to immense-sized ones based on neo-marxism, where you are barred from entering if you're a straight Aryan man. The boat is sinking, but if you point out the hole in the boat, you get thrown off into the sea by the deranged crew accusing you of being responsible for it by noticing, so everyone shuts up until the moment everyone is drowning at once.
>>742425758Brian fargo having to work with his former interplay employees Leonard and the fag tim cain... I don't think that'll go well lol
>>742424510Ally looks alright thoughever.
>>742425830Honestly, Obsidian would be saved overnight if they got rid of Feargus. He's the retard demanding that they make 4 games at the same time. Now I'm not saying that Avowed or Outer Worlds 2 would have turned out good if they hadn't been co-developed, but they would have probably been better. He basically tanked the company's reputation to shit out slop as fast as possible to sell to Phil who wanted as many games as possible for Games Pass.
>>742424325If they were capable of learning from their mistakes made in Avowed and TOW 1/2 then it wouldn't be such a terrible thing.
>>742421189Obsidian was never alive, once they ran out of developers to parasitically leech from they were just a husk of a husk.
>>742425885Sitting on?Battletoads had a new game back in 2020, right at the top of the peak of video game consumption during the flu.And despite the timing that game failed hard. Battletoads just isn't an IP with any selling power.
>>742426295If one misstep can kill a franchise, there wouldn't be any franchises still around. Metroid has had, like, five.
>>742425971yeah, in fact honestly the only studio i remembered having this kind of episode you mentioned is moon studio, the studio that made ori 1 and 2, metroidvania games, suddenly shifted their vision to make this mid top down soulslike POE-like game for absolutely no reason iirc. Like they couldve made another metroidvania game with different story, characters whatnot, but nope, absolutely alienated their core audience that loved their games in the first place. Nvm i just noticed the studio acquired by microsoft, sigh welp.
>>742426236He's also the fag pushing for idiotic shit in PoE2.The quirky chungus pirates and ship combat it's all on him, btw.
>>742421189Obsidian died years ago, it's now just a skin walker company full of new people who had nothing to do with their old games.
>>742425867>It's actually the fault of the people calling out how retarded and harmful gender theory, feminism, and critical race theory are instead of the useful idiot cattle that zealously defend it and infiltrate positions of power to strip away free speech from voices that dare criticize their religious dogmaThe woke mind virus and the elite establishment are one and the same, dumbass.
>>742426518Both of the co-creators of fallout are at obsidian and josh sawyer. They just can't produce kino anymore.
>>742421189Todd will be on the chopping block next. In the past 11 years the studio has only produced two games, FO76 and Starfield, both notoriously utter failures. The only thing holding them together is the hope of TES6, which is at the very least still years away. And let's be real, when it releases, it will be hot garbage and will not have the same cultural draw that Skyrim did.
>>742426521You're the exact kind of useful idiot they expect you to be.
>>742423853Nonsensical given how we got PoE in the first palce.
>>742426659TES6 is still going to sell a shit ton of units even if it's mediocre. Probably the most anticipated game after gta 6
>>742421189deserved for making woke slop
>>742425936This but unironically. Obsidian's main issue is that they're too self-absorbed to give players what they want and refuse to chase trends, but are not competent enough to set them even though they think they are. Bethesda is the opposite, they can't say no and want to give players everything they want, but this can often lead to a lack of depth and nuance in their games, also a lack of focus. They cancel each other out, producing something that eliminates the flaws in each. Josh Sawyer and Emil are two sides of the same coin, they're both too far up their own ass to view the flaws in their writing, the only way to fix them is to force them to work together.
>>742421618It's interesting how this guy was able to come up with the political dynamics of NV while still being the platonic form of libtard. 2010 was a different time, I guess he didn't go off the deep end quite yet. For instance, while the lack of Legion content is regrettable and it's easy to write them off as cartoonishly evil, the game actually does make a reasonable argument for why the Legion's heavy-handed totalitarian rule is necessary in a chaotic lawless world like post-apocalyptic burgerland.
>>742426765Nah, the witcher 4 is way more anticipated, even if the original trailer rubbed some people the wrong way.
DIE DIE DIE
>>742426929The last game he wrote was Deadfire and the writing there was good overall. I think he's able to separate his personal politics from the worlds he writes for the most part. He also wrote Joshua Graham single handedly, despite not being religious at all.
>>742421252fpbpIt'sShitAgain shouldn't have survived this long
>>742426765Maybe. IF it even ever comes out. And I'm also just not so sure about that. It's been so long since skyrim released that an entire generation of people have grown up since its release. And also keep in mind that Skyrim released at the exact perfect time, when Game of Thrones was at its peak and there were a ton of parallels, narratively and aesthetically, between the two. I just don't think they'll be able to catch lightning in a bottle like that again, especially after all the failures they've put out in the meantime, and again, that it's been so long since we've had a new TES that its fading from memory for the masses.
>>742421571She looks like she pegs you if you develop a flop
>>742426765It has been 15 years since the release of Skyrim and by the time TES6 comes out, it'll be closer to 20.At this point Skyrim 2 has more meme value than any real hype behind it, just like Half-Life 3. The target audience for the next Elder Scrolls wasn't even fucking born when Skyrim came first came out.
tbqh Obsidian is a lost cause. I haven't liked any of their games post-FONV. If they were permitted by Todd to make another FO game that'd be one thing, but that ship has sailed and it's never happening. All I can hope for is a remake of NV. Preferably a proper remake and not just a lazy UE5 reskin on top of the shitty old engine like with the Oblivion remaster, but I doubt that'll ever happen.
>>742422212More like Snooze for Eternity
>>742427181I think the modding scene is going to give tes6 a long life. Just imagine all the gooner modders that are still pumping out content for skyrim will do to tes6 when they get their hands on the new creation engine
>>742427381Exactly right. Skyrim was huge, and it had a huge window of opportunity to capitalize on with a sequel, but Bethesda squandered it. They took the quick and short-sighted path of just doing ports and rereleases of skyrim a million times for some quick cash, but it's at the expense of the long-term staying power of TES. By the time TES6 comes out, it will have been so long that the normalfags will have long forgotten about it, the newgens won't ever have played a previous TES game because they weren't even BORN yet, and the proper TES fans will have expectations so high after waiting decades for the game that nothing that releases will ever be able to meet their expectations. And that's without factoring in how every bethesda game has gotten shittier than the last in the meantime.
The bitter pill that you have to swallow is the fact that Obsidian that made FNV is long gone. Even in a scenario where you gathered all the people responsible for making it great today and told them to make FNV again it would turn out to be a completely different, probably dogshit game because any devs that aren't dead, have become compromised
>>742421189Good.> Ninja TheoryEven better. They haven't made a single good game except the passable Enslaved.> Double FineA bit sad, but I'm sure nobody that made games like brutal legend and older remained there anyway.
>>742427660But what if we got all the fonv devs back together and told them they have 18 months to produce a new font or else?
>>742427739It would be shit
>>742423146If you live in Torcongo or Calgary sure
>>742427471gooner modding is notorious but it will always be a vocal minority of bethesda players. Hell, modding in general isn't as omnipresent as most people think. There are tons and tons of normalfag casuals who play these games who don't want to fuck around with that autistic bullshit and just want to play the game, who will install extremely basic mods only, if at all. And a lot of that gets into how shitty the bethesda modding community is, particularly on places like nexus, where they make things an absolute pain in the dick to install and configure. It's a complete joke that you have to manually go to individual pages and install dependencies and compatibility patches manually instead of the entire thing being automated. When I install a program on my computer, I run a quick function to install the package and then it automatically pulls and installs any dependencies. Imagine if, in order to update or install any programs on my computer, I needed to manually locate and install dependencies, and then make sure to do them all in the exact right order or the entire thing fucks up. That's what the modding community wants for skyrim and other bethesda games. It's insanity.
>>742421425>Todd's nextTodd doesn't work at Zenimax you sperg, he's a Game Director at Bethesda Games Studios.The only studiod that seems to be safe from Microsoft retardation is Bethesda Games Studios. Microsoft has been trying gut Zenimax since the acquisition.
>>742427394To be honest, at this point I don't think that Bethesda has any say as to who will make a new Fallout game. You're insane if you think the Jeet in charge is going to wait for Beth to release ES6 before beginning to work on a new Fallout, and with all the cut I highly doubt Beth will get the clearance to go on a huge hiring spree to get enough people to develop FO5 and ES6 at the same time. They are going to outsource it if a new game is happening and if it isn't then it will just be FO3 and FNV remakes made by jeets.
>>742422853Yeah, setting is mid, but it's not any worse than random dnd slop kitchen sink settings anyway, and combat looks fun.That said, who cares about company itself, Microshaft could find other people to make a sequel anyway. People change in those places all the time.
>>742427471There is only a modding scene if the game is good enough. It's why saarfield has a dead modding scene, and with how retarded Bethesda tends to be in releasing its modding tools way too late for the public, they'll likely do the same mistake again for TES6. And by the time it actually comes out, there will be people born AFTER Skyrim who will be legal adults when TES6 comes out.
>>742427913Surely Todd is okay with letting his homies/coworkers tim cain and brian fargo work on a fallout or tes game
>>742421189Why didnt they just make outer worlds / avvowed good?Idgaf about the politics or any of that, the games themselves were just boring to play.
>>742421189>Be M$>Buy a whole bunch of ludo studios>Give them shitloads of money and time>They all release like one mediocre game after 5/6 years>Whelp, guess that's it these guys can't make games just let them rot until we can shutter themHOW does this happen?
>>742421642>and fucking groundedI forgot about grounded. That game sold well i thought but i think the second one is still in early access.How does that work out if the company goes under? Does it just never get finished?
>>742428046He will clear it, but only under the condition that the entire game be written by the Fallout TV show's writers to ensure that new Fallout fans feels right at home.
Oblivion in 2006Fallout 3 in 2008Skyrim in 20112-3 years between each game. What the absolute shit happened to Bethesda? Why does it now take them an entire decade to release something like slopfield, which is the very concept of AI generated slop translated into the form of a video game.
>>742428074>Why didnt they just make outer worlds / avvowed good?Feargus Urquhart, he fucked up everything to do with both games.
>>742428079Phil
>>742421425Todd is quite literally the only person who can sell anything to people from Microsoft, his job is safer than the president of xbox's job and the only way he is leaving is when he retires.
>>742428140>What the absolute shit happened to Bethesda?ESO making billions and F76 making gold in microtranactions.
>>742422423Please delete this.
>>742428079Ever work a white collar office job? You sit around doing absolutely fuck-all except respond to bullshit emails and have bullshit meetings where all they talk about is planning the next bullshit meeting. You give companies a bunch of cash up-front, all they'll do is fuck around and have meetings about planning future meetings for years.
>>742428140It's insane how much dev times have bloated
>>742424413Do you really need more "bots" added to the mix, Alenka?
>>742422119truth nuke
>>742428271Does Fallout 76 actually make money? Always seemed to me like they only kept updating it because it was the only game Phil Spencer actually played.
>>742423641This isn't /v/, there's a troll farm working the site right now. The board loves New Vegas and Kotor II. Or at least back when there were people browsing it for fun and not 5 rubles per hour.
>>742428140They realized that they have cattle fanbase that will keep throwing them money while they churn out newer and newer versions of skyrim and modders will fix any bugs that they haven't fixed even after years of re-releasing it
Todd is forever safe as long as the pajeeta is in charge, He already used his maxed out charisma on her to secure his future.
>>742428490No it makes money and has a healthier playerbase than 99% of GAAS shit out there surprisingly.
>>742421370Stick of Truth was good
>>742421289Somehow even more boring and interesting then starfield
>>742423641I don't FNV2. FNV has so many major choices that they will not respect your choices in a potential sequel, so what's the point.Fallout is essentially a done franchise for me, at least on West Coast, unless maybe they place new games earlier in the timeline. But Bethesda can't make good Fallout games anyway.
>>742425867>The Epstein class>>742422119>you shouldn't care about the culture war, you should let me enact all my deranged social policies unchallengedWhen did this board become a reddit colony
>>742422332I'll design the logo.You get the capital together, alright?
Why doesn't Todd allow someone competent to release elder scrolls or fallout games? If they want to fuck around for years and years doing fuck-all, why can't they let someone else take a whack at them, like they did with Obsidian making New Vegas?Is it because Todd is still eternally butthurt that Obsidian made a better game in 18 months than Todd could ever make even after 10 years of development?Why can't Queen Jeeta at MS step in and force Bethesda to let someone else make a new ES/FO game?
The only studios that are safe from the pajeeta butchering them in the name of making the line go up are Playground games (because they're one of the only ones that have been successful) and Bethesda Games Studios (because Todd has the mandate of Heaven)
>>742423369It's funny how the only part of Canadian culture that's distinct from America is being obsessed over not being American
>>742428572She must be smoll as Todd is about 3-4 inches taller. He's a high luck/cha build.
>>742422136>>742422904>>742422967>>742428408The redditfrog bots are out today I see
>>742421252They made some really good games 10-20 years ago.
>>742428793She's said that she's gonna fasttracks Elder Scrolls and Fallout games immediately. She's currently evaluating what she has to work with, cutting everyone not deemed good enough, and whoever is left will be handed those IPs.
>>742421252Basically.Since Starfield I have 0 faith in the company. >But the Oblivion remasterOh cool, they took a mod that was already in production and paid people to do that, for a game that already existed.The glory days are gone. Todd told too many lies. They hired too many retards and kicked out too many talented people.
>>742428717When the human jannies were replaced with fed jannies when Gamergate happened. Ever since then, those coordinated leftist raids are encouraged by the mods, and their flooding is unpunished on purpose.
>>742422212I played all the classic crpgs, even the shitty ones, but this one almost put me off the genre. Worst writing and characters ever in a generic setting. The devs seemed to feel like they were revolutionizing the genre too so it quickly became infuriating
>>742421189ahahhaha, fuck yes. FUCK THEM for outer worlds
>>742428920>Since StarfieldAnon, it was a mistake to have faith in them after Skyrim. Bethesda's only good game was Morrowind.
>>742421639More like undead at this point
>>742428649Not necessarily. They could always place the next game far enough away in space and/or time that the exact events of NV aren't relevant. And also, if you really think about it, the events of NV on a grand timeline probably don't do much. NCR is a bloated corrupt shithole that will probably collapse on its own whether or not they acquire the dam. Caesar is an old man and the Legion will probably fall apart ala the mongol empire when he dies with no true successor (lanius is just a big grug, he's no caesar). Independent is a joke LARP, and House winning won't do much in the grand scheme because he has no desire to expand influence beyond NV anyway. Or they could just pick a canon ending, idk.
I wouldn't ask my worst enemy to play a bethesda product at this point, just wait until kirkbride is getting accused of some horse shit I'm sure he's next
>>742423641This deceitful Jew knows nothing
>>742428649>>742429130Todd already said that the show is the canon ending to Fallout New Vegas.
>>742421571You can tell that she laughs like Kamala when she puts a bullet in a skull of every dev that gets fired
>>742428882>They No, "they" as in the people who made these games left the studio years ago. Why goycattle is so fixated on company logos is beyond me.
in a just world, it'd be all the trannies, women, and browns getting laid off until the studio is back to just being smart white and asian men againbut i know that's not what's going to happenthey'll double down on their retardation, oust the few people left that are still competent, and be left with no one of valuethis shit can't keep up. how long until the entire country collapses on itself with this shit happening everywhere
Let inxile take a crack at the fallout ip, Literally just let them make a crpg that's basically wasteland 4 but call it fallout.
>>742429171So yeah, not my ending from the games, so I don't care about any sequels then.
>>742429171Todd also said that FO76 has 16 times the details
>>742421428>No one cares about the first game>Make a sequel no one asked for>Story isn't even related to the first game that ends on a semi-cliffhangerHow could this possibly fail?
>>742429247When you don't worship God you worship whatever logo or flag lets you sleep at night
>>742429130>NCR is a bloated corrupt shithole that will probably collapse on its own whetherThis mental illness needs to stop. >Dude, no regime has EVER survived having a few corrupt oligarchsAnd it's almost always the same retards who pretend the Empire in Skyrim is totally fine after 200 years of complete failures.If you support anyone else than the NCR in FNV and the Stormcloaks in Skyrim, you are a certified giga-fucking-retard and should never be allowed to speak again.
>>742422967>reddit frog
>>742428140They helped a bit with NV, made FO4, helped with 76, made Starfield and covid bullshit delayed everything by ~2 years.
>>742421189Will he survive?
>>742427875I imagine Todd is on a tighter leash after Starfield bombed.Wouldn't be shocked to see TES6 has some forced CoPilot AI generated NPCs and quests to create some bastardized version of the Radiant AI / quest systems.
>>742421189PILLARS OF ETERNITY 3 FUUUUCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKLet them fucking make it before they get closed, no come on what the fuck no. Josh Sawyer you fucking asshole no
>>742429362Legion and Stormcloaks. Both NCR and Mede Empire are shit.
>>742428848Yeah bro reddit HATES woke shit ESPECIALLY Obsidian
>>742429461Starfield didn't even bomb though, it was successful despite being a piece of shit
>>742429362>vgh yes we should weaken the empire even more so that the thalmor can more easily conquer all of humanity>vghhhhhhhh please ignore ulfric is a thalmor asset>vghhhhh please ignore how the thalmar actively try to keep the civil war going as long as possible so humanity is hurting themselves instead of uniting against a common foe>vghhh yes I love elf cock yes please fuck me harder thalmor-kun
>>742428793TES6 is currently in development and will probably launch alongside 10th gen consoles to generate early sales.
>>742429481>>742421618Anon, Josh is too far gone
>>742429481Anon, the story was updated to say that the leaker was a retard and it isn't true
>>742421189That's a shame. I'm actually playing Pentiment right now and it's been fun.Outer Worlds and its sequel definitely didn't help them, but Grounded was legit good.
>>742429461This is basically why I know TES6 will be shit. Bethesda never learns their lesson. From Oblivion onward, there's always been this creeping focus on trying to figure out how to completely automate game creation. First it was making radiant AI so they don't need to bother with proper dialogue trees and interactions. Then it was radiant questlines instead of proper quests. Then it was settlement building instead of actual towns and cities. Then it was entire radiant worlds in starfield. And every time, people criticize this shit more and more, and they keep pushing forward with it. They won't stop until they have an infinite game that's comprised entirely of auto-generated slop
>>742429542Did you notice kids? The imperial poster did not mention that it's been 25 years of complete submission and 200 years of decay and losing 5 entire provinces and a 6th one on the way, that's because all imperial posters are liars who only support this side because they hate the Nords for representing a White uprising, if the game happened in Hammerfell, they would support the rebellion 100%. This is a terminal case of TDS transferred onto a fictional character, now watch as this tranny poster goes on schizo rants about Drumpf for 15 posts in a row and how he wants to exterminate all White people.
>>742422963Oh the mind virus got you bad huh
>>742429658>>742429703OH FUCK YESSIm Sorry Josh Sawyer you are a beautiful drop of rain, shiny and clean. Tranny rights are human rights, now please fucking MAKE POE3 YOU BEAUTIFUL PIECE OF MAKE POE3 AND ACTUALLY FINISH THE STORY. Then close the studio or something, i dont care after that
>>742429270or just let them make wasteland 4
>>742429542Empire lost any justification about "letting the empire weaken" when they gave up Hammerfell. And the fact that Hammerfell was able to solo the jewdmeri dominion further discredits the empire. If the empire wants to keep skyrim, they should acquiesce to the stormcloaks' demands.
>>742429932Pajeeta would never allow it to be called wasteland 4. The game being called fallout will guarantee it will sell millions
>>742429989>bland, brown color palette>each hit does such insignificant damageI'm bored just watching the webm. I can't imagine how dull it is to actually play.
Rest in piss
>>742429987Indeed, and picrel before any imperial cope
>>742429270too busy with Clockwork Revolution for the next year
>>742422332The devs themselves are woke. It's not coming from the top.
the lack of a new elder scrolls wouldn't be so bad if modders were actually competent at making new world/quest mods. But every quest mod I've ever tried for a bethesda game has been complete trash. Even by the standards of how bland skyrim's vanilla quests are. And then there's atrocities like Fallout Frontier. Modders put in 11/10 effort when it comes to making skyrim sex mods with fully modeled labia/vagina/cervix and animations for dicks going erect, but can't bother making quest mods that aren't just "here's this note please check out this generic dungeon" that's no better than the radiant quest slop
>>742421549microsoft never knew how to cultivate talent, steve jobs called it 30+ years ago when he said they have no taste
>>742421189After Outer Worlds 1/2, I am glad it is over.
>>742430287I forgot about that gamedoes it look good?
>>742429362It doesn't matter how strong NCR actually is when Mojave NCR is filled to the brim with fucking jobbers and Oliver the hack at the top who just throws bodies at everything and hopes it will work out. They are spread thin and need help everywhere and without Courier they would 100% lose
>>742430419NTA but I have some hopes for it. The style of it is engaging anyway, even if the gameplay itself might be 7/10.
>>742430415how bad was 2? I slogged through the first game, and regretted it after the first few hours. I saw some stuff about 2 being a bit better but I didn't trust the game to actually be above like a 6/10
>Pillars>Tyranny>Outer worlds>AvowedYeah they should be put out of their misery, clearly most of their talent is long gone
>>742427875>The only studiod that seems to be safe from Microsoft retardation is Bethesda Games StudiosI was gonna say they better be since they deliver nothing but piles of gold.>>742429461Then this post made me remember Starfield exists.>>742429760>trying to figure out how to completely automate game creationThis isn't new, this is Daggerfall. > They won't stop until they have an infinite game that's comprised entirely of auto-generated slopIf the autogeneration works and the game is fun people won't complain. The problem is that it hasn't worked, and the task to generate dynamic content is very hard. What they want it to be is essentially Diablo like endless dungeoning.
>>742430596I couldn't tell you. I refunded 1 after telling the engineer lady>no, you can't join me on my shipgoing onto the ship for the first time, which she'd never been on, and finding a room for her kitted out with all her things.2 I've only heard meh things about, a bit better than one but still not worth what they wanted for it, at all.
>>742422119You mean those billionaire cannibal pedophiles that pushed this entire woke nonsense onto us?
Hope it was worth it to own the chuds and Elon
>>742430419The trailer from 2025 was way better than the recent trailer. I heard an interview from the studio head saying there's over 750k words of dialogue and the city will change based on the decisions u make in the past. The city will look different, different ppl, different quests. So I still think it could be a good rpg
>>742421370WHY DOES IT LOOK LIKE VEGAS?
>>742429760I'm sure it'll be always online too so you can keep a constant connection to the Xbox Cloud Servers to pump those AI engagement numbers up
>>742430772Everyone relatively normal is a "chud" to the fringe left.
>>742423920Probably made up.But TOW2 supposedly didn't even break a million copies. At least...not in the first 3 months.https://80.lv/articles/the-outer-worlds-2-reportedly-sold-fewer-than-1-million-copies
>>742430473Yes, the democratic NCR that can't afford to send too many forces to the region to this unpopular conflict because it would hurt their next election's chances has issues in this foreign territory they're guests in. That's a far cry from>they're doomed to completely fall right this instant because my feefees told me so!The war is unpopular, the NCR is trying to be liked and is doing things by the book to a saintly degree (not exterminating the Khans who fully deserve it, and obeying rules of war against the Legion and even Centurions, who are literal mass-murdering terrorists) and trying to be liked by the locals. The Legion is only winning because it has no standards. If the NCR was a dictatorship led by an insane tyrant who decided to send 5000 tanks to the area by tax-raping the population, conscripting everyone and killing anyone who speaks up, they'd exterminate the Legion instantly.The NCR doesn't do that because they're a mostly functioning democracy. The NCR has to convince people, build infrastructure, protect the population as best they can while not losing sight of the enemy, amidst many other tasks. All the Legion has to do is fuck shit up via terrorism including child suicide-bombers and booby-trapping bodies. It's far easier to bomb a building than build it.And in any case, the ONLY argument Legionfags ever have is the supposed security, but the NCR already solves this false dichotomy of security vs freedom, because the NCR has tons of freedom and is fully secure withing their actual territory. A place where you need a literal embassy is not your territory. And without the NCR, the Legion would have already conquered the Mojave before the game begins.
>>742430848idk, I just remember the avowed faggot that hates white people bragging about owning Elon or some shit.imagine making a game and thats your goal
>>742422731>>742421370But what about the South Park RPG game? or Outer Worlds 1?
>undead labsI swear to god if sharma closes that studio before the release of state of decay 3 I’ll find her street in shit in it
>>742422136> SMALL INDIE TEAMS LIKE EXPEDITION 33Studio did expedition 33 isn't indie it's aaa.
>>742430596Shills will sperg at me for saying it, but watch Synthetic Man's review on it. There are quite a few games like this one where virtually nobody plays them because they are worthless, and outside of the typical shill reviewers reading a sales pitch forwarded to them by the studio, SM's channel is one of the very few that remains. And despite what the seething shills will say, he always talks about gameplay first and foremost, before getting into the political aspect, at no point is he "grifting" (another term they use in a retarded way) and only complaining about the woke shit.
>>742421959Yes. This is why Avowed failed. Avowed failed because they didn't simultaneously launch it on PS5. That was the problem. That is why everyone didn't like Avowed. This is definitely the issue. You would surely be playing Avowed otherwise. Everyone would definitely be playing Avowed. It would definitely be game of the year if it had released on Playstation without delay. You have some really great deductive skills, anon.
>>742423641By YHWH, could he be any more jew-looking? It's not even funny anymore, dude's horrendous
>>742422119You are right, but shouldn't be you saying this on resetera?
>>742430419>>742430473Found the interview. Start at 1:26:15 That info alone sounds like clockwork has the potential to be a good/great rpg https://youtu.be/tjeRn2eA3y4?is=idO0-dLYzaQ_kIeZ
>>742429760Nigger radiant AI was the most ambitious thing they've ever tried, it wasn't to make it "automated". What a retarded take.
>>742431319I saw an anon the other day.Horrible creature.
>>742428140>games used to come out every 2-3 years and if not kino were at least memorable or memeable>games now take 6-7 years to come out now and are generally shit with few exceptions>Bethesda doesn't even remember how to make videogames and has to outsource everythingI thought things sucked in the mid 10s but I never in my wildest dreams imagined it could get THIS bad
>>742421571HOW CAN SHE AXE?
>>742430981Stick of Truth was good, but The Outer Worlds? to say the least, it did not reach the targeted expectations.
>>742421370>Trans Vegas>GoodPick one
>>742421289I honestly don't think it's that, Xbox just want to unload as much expense as possible. They are shutting studios with nearly finished games that people actually want (State of Decay) that would be able to make SOMETHING back. This is far more of a strategy realignment than killing bad studios. Not defending them but they at least have consistently released stuff unlike a lot of Microsoft's portfolio.
>>742431429We used to get amazing games if you just let a studio work for 2 years, the issue was when some jew like Bobby Kotick forced studios to release a game yearly it was shit because very incomplete. And now we get 7 years of dev to get something as shit as the yearly rushed games, but with a heavy coat of neo-marxism on top.
>>742421189They're probably pitching ideas for a new Fallout game. Microsoft said that they want to focus on bigger titles and with Bethesda currently fucking up Elder scrolls I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft gives them the green light. They have John Gonzalez back (lead writer for New Vegas) so who knows, maybe they can actually pull something off.
>>742429362Legion is objectively correct because they are the only ones who are not doing the completely retarded shit of sending women to combat.
>>742421370Tyranny was breddy gud
>>742421252the more time passes, the more I think that New Vegas was a happy accident
>>742426929He’s a serious history buff which is a big part of it. He also has a few views that aren’t orthodox left, like gun rights. But if you look at NV, Pillars 1 and Pillars 2 you can see a through-line of grey area morality shaped by culture, history and politics. Rather than romantic morality play fantasy.
>>742431627Honestly, the fact that fag Schrier "confirmed" that Obsidian are safe from Microsoft right now leads me to believe that they will actually be handed Fallout again. Would not make sense for MS to keep them intact when they're apparently firing people from studios like Id, who are more successful, unless they have a plan for them.
>>742430932Political brainrot is too deep inside these people's head to be cured off it. They're misery love company types.
>>742422810Okay, answer me this:Who was Forspoken made for?
>>742429362The NCR is facing looming food and water shortages due to severe land mismanagement, which is part of why the Dam is an existential fight for them, although they arguably benefit as long as the Legion isn't in charge since House sells them water at what look like pretty reasonable rates. It isn't JUST that they're run by a bunch of retarded oligarchs, it's that those particular oligarchs have really and truly screwed the pooch for everyone else, sorta like modern Russia's hilariously pervasive environmental issues.
>>742431319A-life is literally based off Radiant AI unless these Ukranian devs had the same genius idea in 2006.
>>742428920That bethesda retard not Obisidian
>>742421820i can never understand how the fuck do they ever think this is a good idea, i've never seen a single instance of this not backfiring
>>742431993the modern audience
>>742431915Now we know why tim cain and the lead fallout new vegas writer are back at obsidian now
>>742431770It was just a perfect storm. Josh Sawyer and Chris Avellone complemented each well and probably tard wrangled each other. Bethesda had already made the engine and most of the assets, so the devs could mostly focus on quest design, story and enhancing established gameplay mechanics while bringing back old ones from the OG fallouts. The limited 18 month dev cycle led to them cutting out all the fat and filler and they were basically in crunch mode the whole time, meaning that devs who couldn't pull their weight weren't coddled.
>>742431915Exactly. If there's a studio deserving of being on the chopping block it's 100 percent Obsidian seeing as they just keep releasing flops after flops. They're a money pit with their only redeeming quality being the guys who made New Vegas so Microsoft is definitely gonna want to capitalize on that or they'd be stupid not to.
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>>742432091remember saints row? that one was something
>>742430287>Clockwork RevolutionMan I hope it'll be good.The trailer looks really fucking cringe desu. Millennial/marvel quirkiness. "Weird" characters being "unhinged". Seems like they did exactly what everyone thought you had to do to make money 5 years ago. But now everyone's pretty tired of it I think.IT'S NOT EVEN THAT BAD IN THE TRAILER. I'm just overly sensitive to it. I'm so, so tired of it.Wasteland 3 was good despite SOME of what I'm thinking of being there to some extent. I think WL3 still tried to be a mostly grounded, immersive post-apocalyptic thing (despite some "super science"). It was grimy, people were desperate, there were concerns of food and security. Selfishness mostly came out of necessity. Some of the "freaks" and parodies were annoying (not good for immersion) but also amusing. I really liked WL3 overall.What's worrying is that as studios grow, the whole thing becomes a sort of soulless template. I think it's what happened with Outer Worlds. Not even a bad game, but disappointing. Very bland/simplistic/safe atmosphere/world building/world views/social messages. The more they tried to be "quirky" the more it put the emphasis on how little substance there was. They couldn't ever do "show don't tell". Always BLAH BLAH BLAH here's what's happening here and why it's bad. They can't let you get lost and figure things out. Even if you're dumb and it takes you hours to realize "Err merr gerd, what is going on here is LE BAD", that's a good thing. That should be your aim actually. Let players figure things out. ffs. The more "lines of dialog" there is in a game the more I worry. Especially when it's dialog aimed at the player. They don't put enough value to background dialogs I think.Anyway thanks for reading my blog.
>>742432176I thought that Cain was done? Only person left is Avellone but i think he disregarded the offer.
>>742428132see kerbal space program 2
>>742432338Tim said that he moved back to California to work at obsidian again a while back, also Leonard is still at obsidian as well.
>>742421189AIIIIIEEE HOW AM I GOING TO TROON OUT NOW?
>>742431915>>742432227they are (ironically) stuck in the past and/or they make games for an extremely small niche that may not even exist anymore
>>742421959Nobody plays the SNOY, it wouldn't have made a difference.
>>742432079>The NCR is facing looming food and water shortages due to severe land mismanagementAnd this is not projected to be a problem until a good number of years, and the NCR does have strong scientists, and no matter what is by far the faction most suited to fix the issue, as the Legion is fully illiterate retards and House doesn't even spend 0.001% of his fortune to prevent the starvation of the children he himself kicked out of their home their family lived in for more than a century so he certainly won't help anyone survive, plus he isn't as smart as he thinks he is.And as we've already seen in game, not only are there groups like the Followers, but the NCR itself has many kind people who organize food distribution out of the goodness of their heart. If the worst happened, then those relief efforts would happen mostly everywhere, the government would be deposed/voted out quickly and the new guys would fix the issue.There is no reason to be pessimistic about the NCR's chances, or at least there is far more reason to be optimistic about their chances than that of every other faction.
>>742422119>No, actually you've been psyoped into thinking that your hobby has been invaded by demented parasitic trannies who destroy everything you love for the past 20 years
>>742432315Let's hope inxile's studio head stays true to his beliefs and doesn't dumb down clockwork. I highly recommend watching his interviews btw https://youtu.be/tjeRn2eA3y4?is=idO0-dLYzaQ_kIeZ
>>742421189One can only hope Bethesda is next.
>>742432591
>>742432420If Obsidian is kept on a short leash with its original good devs, i can possibly see them being given the greenlight to make a new Fallout while BGS works on TES6.
>>742421370Pentiment was nice
>>742432454Which is why Microsoft is probably gonna have them make a new Fallout game. Microsoft said that they want to focus on the established franchises they have and that they can't wait a decade for the next Fallout game from Bethesda. I'm at least 90 percent sure that Obsidian is currently working on a new Fallout game especially now seeing as they're one of the few studies that are "safe" from Microsoft's current genocide of useless studies.
>>742432176The lead writer of Fallout New Vegas is back at Obsidian too as of 2025. It's the guy that wrote most of the game's main story, including the NCR vs Legion war, Mr House and Yes Man, most of the main quests and big side quests and also worked a lot on the DLCs including single handedly writing The Survivalist logs from Honest Hearts and a lot of Dead Money, among other things.
>promised their version of Fallout>it ended being mid and boring>promised their version of Elder Scrolls>it ended being mid and boringHonestly only Grounded is okay, the rest of the "AAA" titles are just horrible.
>>742432315While I hope that game turns out good, I'm starting to hate this aesthetic of 19th century steampunk quirky bullshit.
>>742432683Seriously who make these ugly memes? A bunch of faggots if nothing else.
>>742429704Pentiment is Obsidian's weirdest game because like one anon said it was basically Sawyer's pet project.
>>742422119you're right but people would rather die than admit they've spent 10+ years being mad about culture war shit for no reason
>>742429313why christcucks are so fixated on a dead jew is beyond me
>>742432683>t. demented tranny
>>742432848There hasn't been a real steampunk rpg since arcanum so I think Inxile was pretty smart in picking that setting for their game. The real question is if they can stick the landing.
>>742432191The reality is that crunch is necessary to make the best games. If your team is willing to crunch then they're actually putting effort and care into the game. There's a sense of ownership and responsibility because you're ruining your own life for the sake of the work. That elevates it in the developer's mind, to a status of transcendent art, something they can look at and say "I bled for this".When there's no pressure and deadlines can be extended, workers just punch the clock and conserve as much effort as possible - that is to say, by doing as little work as they can get away with. For many jobs that's actually a good and sustainable thing. You don't want someone to come fix your roof or repair your pipes, and find out it's hour 17 of his shift. But it's not the way for artistic products, like a video game or a film. These were never meant to be made by unthinking laborers or pencil-pushing drones. They are supposed to be made by artists, and art is born from suffering.That's what it boils down to. We can't make games like we used to because devs aren't made to suffer anymore. Make them labor under 9/9/6 in small teams, eating and sleeping in the office, and we will have another golden age of vidya. The vast majority unwilling to do this will rightfully quit, and so the industry will naturally downsize itself to a reasonable level.
>>742432914This is true! This is why Dragon Age: veilgaurd is le heckin wholesomerino!!! Stupid chuds need to stop noticing things
Jason won, /v/ lost.
>>742432917Religion is generally a way to cope with reality for anyone who follow one. Each new version is more insane than the previous one. The most recent is Islam from ~600AD iirc.
>bought by a soulless corporation>your entire studio and indentity becomes corporatized and soullessthey should've just stayed indieyou'd think the developers of fucking Fallout would've known what was going to happen
>>742433158Obsidian and Inxile will be in the fallout and elder scrolls mines for the foreseeable future.
>>742431770Almost nobody who made new vegas which was in 2010-14 is even there anymore anon, quit dreaming, even if they do a remake or sequel it will be of avowed quality.
>>742421189>died before getting us new vegas 2 or at least new vegas remakemy disappointment is substantial. also fuck you todd.
>>742421189Finally going after Double Fine?
>>742421189>>742421252>>742421278>>742421320These freaks deserve closure.
>>742421189Godd sends his regards.
>>742430063All wrong
>>742433353Let's hope he's part of the layoffs
>>742433321They're not dead actually. In fact, they're probably gonna be left pretty untouched according to Jason Schrier.
>>742433321>Obsidian>Making New Vegas 2Even if Todd gave them the green light, they would fuck it up. Pick up any of their modern games and you'll see that this studio isn't capable of good writing anymore. It's all basedllenial faggot convention nerd quality crap
>>742433443i've always thought that the number crunching parts are least interesting part of an RPG
>>742422119So your hatred of straight white men was just a psyop too, right?
The last successful game they made was Fallout: New Vegas. They might not get shut down but a lot of their staff will be laid off.
>>742433671Grounded did well for them. It's even getting a Netflix show
>>742433560They literally just hired the narrative director of new vegas, no way it would be as bad as the absolute slop they made recently.
>>742421189>people still have this retarded idea that bethesda and obsidian were ever rivalslmaoThey are in completely different leagues
>>742433560As long as they scrap all of Todd's procedurally generated garbage out of the next fallout, I could care less if they make me play as a gay tranny fucking nigger trying to find his dilator as part of the main questline. It would all just be modded out anyways.
>>742433443>>742429989Combat is better than TES and will probably be better than TESVI, but the effect and popups are atrocious. Looks like a mid-quality MMO.Also the game is still ass as an open world RPG because simulation of any kind is practically non-existent. Makes the open world aspect almost pointless imo
>>742421425Todd isn’t going anywhere lmao. The only game that can possibly save Xbox is TES 6. If they play their cards right it will be the biggest game release after GTA6
What's if obsidian's fallout is being made on unreal engine instead of creation engine 3...
>>742433756>I want Obsidian to make New Vegas 2>But I'll mod it to shit anyway when Obsidian inevitably fucks it upWhat's the point then, you dumb nigger? Good thing you're not in charge of any vidya
>>742421189Maybe they should add more niggers, trannies and dykes in their gamesSurely will help this time
>>742433560John Gonzalez and Josh Sawyer are still there.
>>742433878I don't want Obsidian to make the next FO game, but I would take them over Bethesda any time.
>>742421289hated the colors and artstyle so much.
>>742433353and gamingcirclejerk will tell you that modern games are not in fact used to push political agendas to make other side mad.
>>742432454I think it's more that they just don't have the writing chops anymore. I think the writing in Outer Worlds is too tongue-in-cheek for its own good; I just couldn't be bothered to give a shit because it seemed like everyone was retarded and disconnected, so if no one else cares then why the fuck should I, right? It's not interesting to insert yourself into a conflict between a bunch of flailing retards. >>742432581You can't community initiative your way out of a broken aquifer or reservoir system (although you can certainly hang the brahmin barons which helps in the longterm) because once those resources are gone they take a long time to come back, and the NCR has lived a very thirsty life for most of its living memory. The whole problem is that they can't just get more of it - they have to severely curtail their usage and SOON or otherwise keep finding new wells. Without one or the other they're facing legit societal collapse. It won't reset the west coast back to zero but it would be a harrowing struggle for the NCR to survive as a political entity. >House doesn't even spend 0.001% of his fortune to prevent the starvation of the children he himself kicked out of their home their family lived in for more than a century so he certainly won't help anyone surviveHouse has an economic interest in helping prop up the NCR because he runs a tourist economy, which he can't do without wealthy neighbors. If he let's the NCR go belly up then he's going to be completely fucked and he knows it. Will he fleece the NCR at every opportunity? Yes, but he won't let them die if he can help it, and we already know he's willing to sell them water because the contract he posts at the end of the game even gives us cap values per so many gallons of fresh water from the reservoir. Losing to House also has the benefit of putting some much needed egg on Oliver's face and hopefully getting the government to do some self reflection.
>>742433784>Le simulationGenuinely kill yourself Bethesda faggot
>>742433895The socio-political landscape we are surrounded by nowadays was nearly non-existent at the time of New Vegas. So they might still be there, but they're completely different people now, surrounded by a significantly worse team.
>>742434054>but they're completely different people now,Present evidence
>>742434108https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time
>>742434054Sawyer tried to hire Avellone recently, the landscape isn't that different.
>>742421370True but they did at least ship shit.I figured they'd be fine on that alone since their adopted siblings takes 10 years to cancel their shit.
>>742429989>>742433443you are literally replying to a bot
>>742433353>Make games out of spite instead of love>Scratch head when it fails
>>742421320It seems making a not-shit game is really an impossible challenge for them.
>>742421370Both Pillars games were good as was Tyranny
>>742431765it was just as fucking unfinished and underbaked in late game as the rest of their dogshit repertoire, fnv excluded.if you look at their portfolio fnv is the anomaly, overall all they ever made was trash or mediocrity like pillars and tyranny.
>>742434030>Attack enemies at spawn location #2>If you walk far enough away, they run back to spawn location>One time manage to get an enemy into a city>It starts attacking through NPCs, chasing me around the city>No reactions>Enemy literally slashing through NPCs>Not even a basic flinchThe rest of the game is just as shallow. Just admit you enjoy slop.If I want to play a game JUST for good combat, then I'd pick up a hundred other games before fucking AVOWED of all things.
>>742421856So it's still his fault because nobody needs a bsky account.
>>742429842nta but>i-it didn't happen!!! we didn't simp for all the corpos who were pushing out faggot shit! corpos and the government weren't aligned with us and weren't pushing our idpol civilizational suicidelying cunt, kill yourself.
>>742434251Every good PC game has a shitty underbaked ending. Every single one. It's so ubiquitous it's actually a hallmark of a good game.I agree Pillars of Eternity sucked though.
>>742421189>undead labsYou leave state of decay 3 alone!
>>742434054>surrounded by a significantly worse teamgrunts are fucking irrelevant, you either do the job you were told to do or fuck off, it's as simple as that.
>>742434363Undead Labs will probably be bought out, they are basically finished, people are playing their game.
>>742422762xboxers are about to get raped
>>742429261Well these people have been infecting places for a decade, so it's very interesting that industry just won't take the hint. I just can't imagine making a game for an audience that doesn't even play it because they largely don't exist. I guess it's just going to have to take large portions of the industry to collapse and studios closing, as well as time, for them to get the message.
>>742422423what the fuck is wrong with them? why do they look genuinely happy and full of life?
>>742433929>gamingcirclejerk
>>742421189THOUSANDS OF STEAKS ARE AT JOBS
>>742434456Their president is not a felon pedophile running thr country head first into wars that will never end in our lifetime
>>742434521you WILL die killing random innocent iranian civilians, goy
>>742434320max payne 2. morrowind. fnv. planescape. dishonored, although thats stretching it.
>>742434261>No le hecking simulation>I tried breaking the game and it didn't answer to my capricious nonsensical attempts to defy its systems and structuresI already told you, genuinely, kill yourself. If "people" like you killed yourselves gaming would be much better.
>Released October >Already -50% off
>>742421370Pillars of Eternity was good, mostly thanks to Sawyer and Avellone (I'm guessing, since those are the people I know of)
>>742431770Yeah NV was lightning in a bottle, somewhat same for Kotor 2
>>742421189Why did they buy so many studios in the first place if they can't actually mantain them?
>>742422212I really liked it
>>742434585>dienot sure where you got that part from, US casualties from the conflict are a handful, compared to the thousands of dead mullahs and their raghead leaders
>>742422302He won
>>742434758To kill them.
>>742434741kotor 2 was good, but the final quarter of the game being unfinished prevented it from achieving greatness.
>>742434002House can't create water out of thin air, any technology he has that would help is what the NCR would want, and instead of getting extorted by the vicious cunt forever, they'd rather kill him to get his tech, especially considering not a single person in the entire world likes the psychopathic shut-in so no one would protect him. Again, only the NCR provides the safety, education, resources and incentive to fix the issue globally anyway, so there is no other path than to trust in them. Your post is well-written, but in the end the conclusion doesn't change, the only sensible choice is to trust the NCR and its army of scientists and people concerned with the issue to fix it. And considering even the pathetic Hildern is aware of the issue, it will be brought up and fixed. He or some other asshole might steal the credit, but it will be fixed.
>>742421189Good. Bethesda should also die next but that probably won't happen anytime soon unfortunately
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>>742434830It's great but the final quarter of the game being unfinished prevented it from being the greatest Star Wars RPG of all time
>>742434758it's the easiest way to get rid of potential competition and to expand your own company
>>742434996no nigga. kreya got fucking demolished in the ending, no payoff to the character whatsoever, and honestly even with the restored content ending it was mediocre at best. and visas was a missed opportunity, there was no reason to sacrifice her except for roleplay.
Who else remembers that Obsidian dev that said he wanted black developers to replace crusty white men like him? Because lmao
>>742430337always makes me laugh hen losers on x, just type "If you gave the girls a nice face and huge tits the game would have sold billions!" and yet none of the m ever go on to make their own game. and before you say "capitol" you literally have right wing roach kings who are millionaires. they could squad up and do something.
>>742433067True, and it's also important to realize that crunch is simply inevitable. If a game is made in 18 months, that's 18 months of crunch. If a game is made over 7 years, the overwhelming majority of that time is just the studio fucking around doing absolutely NOTHING productive, and then they crunch for the final 18 months anyway. Just look at how long cybershit took to develop, and it still released as a broken unfinished GTA clone rather than the proper cyberpunk RPG it should've been. And now there's been so much push-back against crunch that all the big studios are now giving their devs unlimited time to develop games, and it's resulted in the modern trend of games literally just never being released because the devs are free to just fuck around and masturbate all day every day for an entire DECADE
>>742421252so it seems.
>>742433560> It's all basedllenial faggot convention nerd quality crapAren't they gen X?
>>742434758It's what Microsoft does. Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. They subsume existing companies and practices into themselves, make themselves an indispensable part of the thing, then finally they kill the original thing, leaving their former market dependent on Microsoft.The point of buying these studios was to destroy them, reducing competition and monopolizing more of the market under Microsoft. That is their eternal strategy. They can afford to do this forever because their previous monopolistic acts have intertwined them so deeply with the US government that they are simply too big and too rich to fail.They just didn't realize that Xbox is actually a nobody in the vidya world now and this strategy doesn't work when you have actual competitors. It'd work if they were able to buy Sony or Nintendo maybe. Actiblizz and Zenimax were the next best thing. Notice they haven't been closed yet, because Microsoft has yet to fully digest them. The more relatively bite-sized studios are going first. But make no mistake, 10 or 20 years from now Zenimax and Blizzard will be dead and MS will have killed them.
JUST GIVE ME THE GODDAMN NEW VEGAS REMASTERITS THAT FUCKING SIMPLE TODD, JUST TAKE NEW VEGAS PUT IT IN THE UPDATED ENGINE AND MAKE IT LOOK NOT SHIT
>>742435181It's mediocre cause it's rushed and unfinished, the restored content mod doesn't help much.
>>742435343>so much push-back against crunchBecause studios have been filled with naturally-whining categories that have been taught their whole lives to whine more to win. So telling any brown, gay or foid in the studio (95% of the studio anyway) to work is "oppression" and they do nothing. And even if you want to do something, everything has to be validated by committees and you need the approval of X cunt at another location. You used to be able to just yell "Hey, should we do Y or Z for this part of the game?" and get an answer instantly. Now, it's 2 weeks of e-mails and relays.
>>742434701still too expensivemaybe when it's $10 I'll impulse buy it
>>742435343>If a game is made over 7 years, the overwhelming majority of that time is just the studio fucking around doing absolutely NOTHING productive, and then they crunch for the final 18 months anyway.Yeah kek, that's what I mean. Making a modern video game is an arduous and complicated task, but like all such tasks it can be broken down into smaller tasks which themselves can be broken into smaller tasks. So at the end of the day there should be a finite and relatively uniform amount of time needed to actually complete it. If doing task X takes Y amount of work, why is a team in China or Japan usually able to do it faster than a team in America or Europe? Because they do more work per unit of time. That's all it is. I think at a certain point having more time becomes counterintuitive, like there's diminishing returns on it. For every unit of time humans get to complete a task, we dedicate a fraction of it to making our work easier. But there's a tipping point somewhere, where the fraction of "make it easier" time eclipses the "complete the work" time, so any extra time beyond that is effectively wasted. But we always want more and more time and resent having less so it creates this vicious cycle>miss deadlines>demand looser deadlines>looser deadlines make less productive work>less productive work leads to missed deadlines>demand looser deadlines>...
>>742435582It'll just be slop like the Oblivion remaster
>>742427736>A bit sad, but I'm sure nobody that made games like brutal legend and older remained there anyway.after keeper the desrve to be shut downa 3 hour long walking sim that only has any real gameplay in second halfim really confused why the entire game wasnt like the later part, and why the fuck it both so short and padded
>>742425346lmao lol haha kek rofl they did this
>>7424280790 oversightyou really cant give those fucking retards any freedom, unless you give hard deadlines and milestones to hit they wont do shit for 10 yearssuicide squad is best example, the jewish ceo did fuck all for 8 years, then quit a month before release, publisher realizes there is no game and has to delay a year to scrape together something
>>742436381>I think at a certain point having more time becomes counterintuitiveEvery single school student cramming their study sessions the day before the exam knows this (exams are fake and gay, but that's another topic).
>>742436752hush, the anon is clearly too young to have internalised monkey's paw, let his suffering be undiminished once the nv and 3 remakes hit.
can we all agree that the real problem is studios getting bought outif they were working for themselves they would put out better content
>>742437079we live in an age where governments actively sponsor vidya, this shit is here to stay forever.
>>742424447Peak of "You will own nothing and be happy" era
>>742437079>people working to enrich others do not work as efficiently as those working to enrich themselvesHey woah, cool it with the antisemitic remarks. Companies have to be owned by financiers instead of the workers because that's gommunism ok?
>>742437079nintendo hire this man
>>742437487If developers worked for themselves dev times would get 10x longer to avoid “crunch”. Games would be shorter and look uglier too. The only people actually holding the devs to ship the game at a reasonable time are publishers. What we have now is just adult daycares for millennials
>>742435582>Please Todd. We know you raped NV into the ground with the TV show but please come back and piss on it's grave tooNiggers like you should be lynched
