>Obsidian has 4 mystery games in development, including Tim Cain's "you'll never guess what it is" game>Obsidian is owned by Microsoft/Xbox now>Microsoft/Xbox is firing everybody and shutting all their game studios downIt's the end of an era. What happens next? Do people like Sawyer and Urquhart just move into Larian or inXile?
>>4001655Obsidian and Inxile both flop.The interesting thing is xbox owns the rights to ARCANUM, if I understand the rights of succession and ownership correctly.(another interesting thing is Inxile is already making a steampunk setting game destined to flop LOL)
Conservation of Poz dictates that once all those studios shut down the studios still alive will become even gayer, new games even worse than they already are now. This process will continue until a single Turbo Poz developer is given complete control over the gaming market by the world governments or coming AI hell dystopia.
>>4001655What era? Obsidian stopped making RPGs many years ago.
>>4001655>eraWhat era? They haven't made a good game in 16 years.
>>4001795Came here to say this
>>4001655Obsidian has never made a good game. Not one. NWN2 being their absolute worst
>>4001945Anon you don't have to be a contrarian for no reason.
>>4001655They’re just going to make low budget Disco Elysium likes - that game made every white commie cum in her/they’s pants. Plus they’re way cheaper, and they don’t have deal with mechanics / math, which is hard.
>>4001655Considering Microsoft is killing Ninja Theory mere DAYS after they announced a new Hellblade game, I'd say Obsidian's fate is very murky.
>>4001692>>4001795you can very easily date obsidian's downfall. yeah, they made buggy and unfinished messes, but they clearly had visions behind them. after poe1 they started making mundane slop that just appears to various types of rpg audiences.
>>4001945nwn2 might have been janky as fuck technically with a mid at best campaign but poe's campaign put me to sleep and somehow had even worse game systems than bastardized rtwp 3.5
>>4002011Unlike Ninja Theory, Obsidian actually had a couple of hits with Grounded 1 and 2. There might be layoffs, but they won't get completely shuttered.
>>4002013You do understand that I'm responding to the OP, right?
>>4001682tim gayin already made a video while arcanum is stuck.
>>4001945South Park is their best game
>>4001958I'm not, I'm just stating fact>>4002430And none of the south park games are good, and are carried entirely by the franchise value
>>4001942No you didn't.
>>4004141>No you didn't.I would've posted "Alpha Protocol was peak Obsidian" or words to that effect, rather than a numerical reference to the year, but the concept is the same.
>>4002460Stick of Truth is a competent Paper Mario clone.
>>4001655Obsidian and inXile don't require hundreds of millions of dollars to make a game, lil' zoom-zoom.
>>4004166>Obsidian and inXile don't require hundreds of millions of dollars to make a game, lil' zoom-zoom.Except for Outer Worlds 2Or AvowedOr Clockwork Revolution
