Obsidian's doing a Kickstarter, what are your thoughts?
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I'm interested. Very. Interested. Waiting to see if they'll release a Linux version. [footnote]Not that I won't support them if they don't and I'm not demanding it, but I've had such a pain with trying to run windows games lately.[/footnote]
Definitely interested in the companions they mentioned since the companions in FO:NV were some of (if not) the best parts of that game.
Definitely interested in the companions they mentioned since the companions in FO:NV were some of (if not) the best parts of that game.
They raise funds for the project. The same way you'll fund a startup business. Kickstarter projects have various rewards for depending on how much you pledge. Higher pledges give you all the lower stuff plus something bigger, so for example, if you pledge 25 bucks, you will get a digital copy of the game when it comes out, if you pay $65, you will also get a boxed copy, if you pay $100, they'll throw in a T-shirt, a thank you card from the team and thanks in the credits. And so on and so forth. Different projects usually offer different rewards. In effect, you can can consider it a pre-order - a pre-started game pre-order.Odbarc said:
I am well aware of how software development works and what potential hiccups will there be. I am not sure what made you mention it in the first place, though.ravenshrike said:When making a game for a publisher, and frequency can depend on the publisher in question, the publisher will demand "milestones" for showing progress. These milestones may or may not make sense from the developers perspective to be at in that part of the development stage, but that is what the publishers will demand. So making sure the milestone is met causes work to stop on other parts of the project, and then there is time setting up whatever presentation it is. Then, at these milestones, the publisher will generally demand changes. These changes may be minor or they may be major, it depends on the publisher. A rather CLEAR example of this would be the change from Overstrike to Fuse which is almost certainly at the insistence of EA. So at that point they have to go back and make changes, which eats up more time, especially if the changes require any major tinkering with the game engine. So, depending on just what the publisher wants, the time eaten up can indeed be months.DoPo said:Umm...what?ravenshrike said:Except publisher interference can EASILY add several months to a project. Or eat up several months of time if there is a hard deadline already in place.DoPo said:Yes, and April 2014 is one year and 7 months in the future. Way closer to 1 and a half than 2. Well, it will get delayed, though - I won't even pretend I was the first to call it.The_Lost_King said:no it will be @ years[sub]intentional that time[/sub]. Under the promotions it said that it was estimated to arrive a April 14 2014.DoPo said:It's not that much. More like ! and a half years.The_Lost_King said:Well, before the postponing, that is.
Oh, and the project has $469,968 at the time of writing. Not bad, I'd say. And by the time I finished this message, it received another 2k (I also updated the sum before I hit "Post").
Yeah, I was pretty stoked when the Kickstarter Page came up this morning. Even though I'm not a huge fan of traditional fantasy settings or of the Infinity Engine's pause and play system (what with having Tim Cain on board I was sort of hoping they'd take the Temple of Elemental Evil approach to combat but oh well), I do love story driven games with branching dialogue trees and memorable companions, so I backed the project without hesitation. After all, no one makes story-driven RPGs better than Obsidian.
I think this is AWESOME news, and with any luck this will free Obsidian from the publisher pressure that has probably contributed to if not outright created their bug/unfinished game problem!
I hope contributors go on their forums and make it VERY CLEAR that REASONABLE DELAYS in the release date will be acceptable but THERE ARE LIMITS. Obsidian does some AMAZING stuff but it also tends to come along with some AMAZING screwups.
In any case, I expect this to be fully-funded before tomorrow. No kidding.
I hope contributors go on their forums and make it VERY CLEAR that REASONABLE DELAYS in the release date will be acceptable but THERE ARE LIMITS. Obsidian does some AMAZING stuff but it also tends to come along with some AMAZING screwups.
In any case, I expect this to be fully-funded before tomorrow. No kidding.
Temple of Elemental Evil had the *most accurate* 3.5 combat by far. Too bad the rest of the game was so utterly whack.eimatshya said:
They're creating their own system though, aren't they?
Project director has Planescape Torment tattoos on his arms, these... these are the kind of nerds I want making my games!
The whole Kickstarter description is like a wet dream in writing, I almost want to go for the 10k pledge just to hug these guys and thank them profusely.
I do still hate them for not defining what the actual game will be, but I want it to happen none the less.
The whole Kickstarter description is like a wet dream in writing, I almost want to go for the 10k pledge just to hug these guys and thank them profusely.
I do still hate them for not defining what the actual game will be, but I want it to happen none the less.
Bonus post because I'm really happy. I'm hoping that it's going to use the infinity engine and will be a six party non TBC game. (an option to turn TBC on and off would be nice though)
Taken from the Obs forums originall posted by C2B
Taken from the Obs forums originall posted by C2B
Not trolling or anything but to be honest, I can't really say that I'm all that excited. Obsidian games have the potential to be good but none of them have in my mind been great. Kotor 2 was an unfinished mess, Neverwinter Nights 2 wasn't as good as the first one and Alpha Protocol had promise but got terrible reviews. I'm not surprised that they started a kickstarter with their track record. Maybe I'm just a pessimist but I was burned by their previous work.
Obsidian will probably be making their game on the Dungeon Siege 3 engine, the same engine they're letting Brian Fargo use to create Wasteland 2. Did anyone complain about the bugginess of DS3? No, I don't think so
If anyone had said that before Kicksterter became a thing, I would have laughed and then get depressed. Now... OMG THIS MIGHT ACTUALLY HAPPEN!Anthraxus said:
I am not sure on this Obsidian is a developer studio as they say in the video these guys made fallout new Vegas,planet side and star wars the knights republic 2 that is 3 games that were very successful lately.
They must have the money to fund this themselves but as i always said its down to the backers if people want to give a successful developer studio money it is not my place to stop them.
They must have the money to fund this themselves but as i always said its down to the backers if people want to give a successful developer studio money it is not my place to stop them.
Sounds very interesting, will definitely back them once they choose a non-DRM digital distributor.
Backed Wasteland 2 and Expeditions: Conquistadors as well. All I need now is a party-based, isometric RPG set in a Sci-Fi setting, then my collection will be complete.
Backed Wasteland 2 and Expeditions: Conquistadors as well. All I need now is a party-based, isometric RPG set in a Sci-Fi setting, then my collection will be complete.
I think it happened. I like some of there games, but not all of them? I just don't care about them that much, not bad not good.