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New Obsidian/TakeTwo Sci-Fi RPG will be announced during TGA's
- Thread starter Hektor
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Developers Microsoft has acquired have been told to fulfill previous commitments. If the game gets announced for the PS4, it'll come to the PS4 even if it's another 2 years in development. These studio purchases are long term commitments designed to pay off 5-10 years from now. Getting consumers on multiple platforms interested in the IP would never hurt Microsoft. They're thinking much bigger picture than winning list wars the next two years.
Yeah but I'd say with regard to an immersive RPG, story and world building are more important than gameplay
this is one of the - surprisingly large number of - things i really liked about dragon age 2...
If this is really meant to be a "fallout challenger" holy shit they couldn't have picked a better time to announce it.
I've always wanted the Mass Effect IP to be licensed out to other studios to expand the IP into new genres. Like if DICE made a huge multiplayer game set during the First Contact War. Or if Naughty Dog made an action game where you play as a Spectre trying to take down a crime syndicate. I think the lore is deep enough it can exist in many forms.
As much as im enjoying pillars of eternity, it will be great to see obsidian get back into a true triple a RPG, or something outside of isometric games
This is published by Private Division, not really Take Two. Yeah, they're the owners but Take Two don't publish anything. It's why 2K, Rockstar and now Private Division exists.
Yeah, this would be dope. Or anything remotely similar. A space / sci-fi game that doesn't involve saving the universe and a bunch of planet-hopping.
But sadly, as Disco mentioned, that sort of thing probably isn't seen as "epic" enough.
I don't think it would be a problem. Prey, System Shock? Aren't they examples of it? But of course, those are not Mass Effect style RPGs. That would imply movement across space.
Agreed. Between the isometric RPGs and South Park, it's been a while since I've been interested in an Obsidian game. Hope this is more my cup of tea.
Most likely, if the IP succeeds they will make a deal, otherwise they will let it die. They definitely won't have Obsidian making multiplat games, or games they can't put day one on pass.
Oh man, this will be the best announcement of the TGAs, I can feel it. Will be really exciting to see what the game actually is.
It would be but this take two initiative is supposed to have a limit of around 20-30 million dollars per game so it's more AA focused. It would allow them to go for more risky ideas theoretically.
One can hope. Obsidian have shown they're not shy of stepping out of traditional RPG settings. Hopefully whatever this is will follow in the same vein as Alpha Protocol and Tyranny.
A mix of New Vegas and Mass Effect 1 is pretty much my dream game, so if that's what this is then I'm pretty damn excited.
I assume this the "The Outer Worlds" trademark Obsidian filed for - which will now belong to Microsoft. I wonder how that will affect this game. Will it be on Game Pass day one? Maybe MS will distribute a physical copy for Xbox? We'll see.
I assume this the "The Outer Worlds" trademark Obsidian filed for - which will now belong to Microsoft. I wonder how that will affect this game. Will it be on Game Pass day one? Maybe MS will distribute a physical copy for Xbox? We'll see.
Right, it's important to scale things down a bit, especially when working with sequels in mind. So this is good to hear.
Looks Like InXile has a remaster coming of an old classic! Not sure if new news tho.
what a time to be alive
Both of those can be just as easily achieved in first person though.
If anything I'd argue from an immersion perspective first person is significantly better.
Looks Like InXile has a remaster coming of an old classic! Not sure if new news tho.
Yeah, they announced it a couple months back.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/wasteland-30th-anniversary-remaster-coming-early-2019.48319/
If Take Two is part of this, I wonder how MS will play into the final development of the game. The fact that Obsidian is part of MS does that mean the game will benefit from it being developed by Obsidian which is now part of MS? Would any MS resources be put to use during the development of this game even though MS is not going to publish it? Would love to see how things like this internally work out, even though we may never be told.
Well, its in MS and Xbox interest they cultivate and nurture a talented and happy Dev team, even if the game isn't thiers, the studio creating that "value" is. Meaning that success and value can be recreated over and over if the magic remains which benefits MS long-term. This is good for MS.
I disagree very storngly. I find first person to be very distracting and immersion breaking.
I really really hope that whatever they have in that trailer/teaser... it shows some gameplay. Even if it's just seconds, flashes. I wanna see what we're looking at here. Sci fi RPG instantly gets my attention.
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Amazing they went from a no talent dried up studio just as Microsoft brought them, but now that their next game is multiplat its back to a hype bandwagon thread again.
Will check again on Obsidians next game to see where we're at.
Will check again on Obsidians next game to see where we're at.
I'm very hyped for this announcement.
Although I gotta say Obsidian has a bad track record with bugs in third person RPGs. I sort of prefer their crpgs in general.
Although I gotta say Obsidian has a bad track record with bugs in third person RPGs. I sort of prefer their crpgs in general.
If some of this is true. Its like my dream come true.
See you in the TGA's cowboy
Wait what? expect none of those projects were clean development environments and they didn't own the IP. Especially after KOTOR 2 and that negatively influenced game. Despite the cult following.
I agree with you 100%. It would be in MS's best interest to help Obsidian make this game as good as it can even if it uses talent and resources from MS and it is a multi-platform game. If the game is good and is a critical and sales success it would just be all that much better for Obsidian and MS.
While I think this is a bullshit argument, can't really say i have a problem with third person.
I'm just skeptic Obsidian can deliver it with good production value, on the other hand.
I highly doubt Tim and Leo wants more cooks in the kitchen. The last thing the project needs it's a four-way tug of war with money involved.
I am not suggesting that MS come in and change things or anything like that. With Obsidian now under MS, MS can provide support and resources to the team making this game. That is all I was getting at. Not that I want MS to come in and create a tug of war on how the game should proceed. One of the benefits that many of these studios talk about is having access to the support systems MS provides. Obsidian being able to tap into these resources would only be a good thing for this game.
Wait...i mean they made
KOTOR 2
Alpha Protocol
Fallout New Vegas
So you saying that Tyranny, Pillars, Dungeons, Neverwinter Nights 2, Fallout New Vegas (Despite Bethesda engine and time allotted) and South Park didn't have good or great production value? kind of a confused notion of worry or skepticism. Given the stuff they release.
I mean, obsidian do have a well-deserved reputation for jank—and I say that with all possible affection.
KotOR II is straight up my favourite game, ever, but I still have to acknowledge that it's an absolute creaking mess. like, it's so broken that it's genuinely impressive the whole thing works at all.