Obsidian's Project Eternity

I think Pandering to the Bioware crowd would be more Adding Romances for every companion or something.

 

They're gonna cruise through those Stretch goals. Wasteland 2 hit nearly $3M and there's no reason why Obsidian wouldn't get close to that if not surpass it.

Just do a smaller pledge until you decide how much you do want to give and then update your pledge later.

 

I cringe a little when people address the developers directly, saying they pulled their funds due to mention of one or two small features they don't like. They sound so goddamn pathetic. Just voice your opinion; if you don't like where it's going, GTFO without the drama.

 

But if you don't throw a huff, then you can't feel important for doing it!

 

After a good start/good first video they screw up with the stretch goals.
This is not that there are so bad but worded in a way that leave a bad taste IMO.
"What I have discovered is that there are some four-letter words with extra letters like player's house which get very emotional responses. Player's house means casual to some people and PE is NOT a casual game"
Also I have read somewhere they though PE had a 50/50 probabilty to be funded.
After W2 success it was obvious that for 1.1 milllion the game would have been funded. So they are simply total idiots or awfull liars or i'm simply wrong and they never said that.
Plenty of time left anyway and I think they will easily reach 3 millions.

 

Not really. Obsidian loves(likes to include) player bases/houses/strongholds/castles.

Anyway player housing has been part of RPGs since the start(page 20 of Dungeons & Dragons Vol III The Underworld & Wilderness Adventures). So I have no idea where all these LARPing comments are coming from(or even what they mean by LARPing).

 

The LARPing insult is kind of a 4chan thing. A lot of the posters there on the video games board hate Bethesda games and their fans because most people seem to play them just for the sake of dressing up their character or decorating their house.

 

Fixed it for you.

 

Eh, works either way. They both pretty much share the same opinions.

 

I don't agree with this, there is nothing distinctively Bioware about player housing at all. Bioware games have them, but so do tons of other games including other Western RPGs, Japanese RPGs, action games and several Obsidian games including New Vegas, Alpha Protocol and KOTOR 2. Even Arcanum which is about has hardcore as you can get for a video game, has a house can you buy, even if it's not very functional.

It's a feature some people might not care about, but so is Linux or Mac support and people aren't throwing tantrums about that.

 

http://www.formspring.me/JESawyer/q/371743314262641756

"But Momma said...."



Seriously I believe some people should really chillax.

However Obsidian should improve their communication if they want to keep the momentum.

 

What i can't really understand is why is player housing higher on the "stimulus" scale than extra companions, extra main quest and porting to mac or linux.

That's what i find odd, if it were up to me i'd put the house at the first stimulus point . (1.1+ mil)

 

Houses if done well can be a good thing. For example in Drakensang its part of the story, more or less. You take over the house from a friend you wanted to visit but who got murdered and you investigate now the situation trying to find the murder. For a rather unknown game Drakensang is pretty neat.

its more about the use of 3D. I think if done correctly it will not "age" that fast but feel "classy".

Take Half Life 1, Quacke, Doom, Duke Nukem 3D or a couple of Star Wars games as example like Jedi Knight 2 which is a game I like even today despite that its in 3D. Its about the quality of the things around it, like the animations and the use of textures how well the maps are designed etc.

3D can look awesome. But it requires a really skilled team. I mean its like painting or drawing. You can teach it to everyone. But not everyone will master it. Its the same with 3D really.

that is something I can completely agree with.

 

Well, if it only says that for 200k more, you "get your own house in the game that you can customize, store equipment in, and where your companions hang out, or, as the elves say, "chillax"," what are you supposed to assume? Enlighten me, Einstein, because I'm new to Kickstarter.

 

Can assume creating a region, faction and Linux port costs more than a player house?

 

It could be that it is further down because it's a lower priority than those other things. It also serves as an intermediate step for the 2.2 million goal, which sounds like a pretty big upgrade, but requires them to hit double their original goal, if they just left out the house goal at 2 million and jumped to the big 2.2 million goal, would anyone be upset that there was a gap? If not, then the house is just kind of a bonus.

 

They know they're going to go past that. I'd wager they keep the more juicy bonuses for further down the road. If they can hit 1 million in 1 day, I doubt they'll have any kind of trouble breaching the 2.2 mark unless things go really south.

 

I pledged 80 bucks, I want a box and the CE is just too expensive.