What happened to you Obsidian?

[DEMOLITOR]

Even the animations suck.

[gimlikos84]

I never like Obsidian games.They always have a good righting , but forget about good gameplay , and good graphics, which should be most important.

[🫐ĿᐄṾᐄṆↁ3☈🫐]

Originally posted by Purpleetea:

Obsidian doesnt exist anymore. Their last Lightning in the bottle was Fallout New Vegas. All talent left that studio it seems after that game was released.

C'mon, PoE was their swansong. What really killed the studio was when the false allegations that were thrown at Chris Avellone during the 'me too' Hollywood grift occured, that have since been PROVEN false and Chris was awarded a hefty settlement for defamation. That's actually when Obsidian turned into a trash, rainbow-mafia, DEI, ESG propaganda pushing, activist studio staffed by blue-haired commies.

[𝕭𝖔𝖆𝖌𝖗𝖎𝖚𝖘]

Originally posted by Ocean:

Nothing happened, Obsidian was always like this. I wanna see dialogue and factions, that's where their strengths are.

This. Nobody cares about animations and graphics. We want dialogues and deep RPG roleplay from Obsidian.

[Corona Scurrae]

Originally posted by 🍇ĿᐄṾᐄṆↁ3☈🍇:

poe is too complex for most. like everything in this day and age, if it doesn't capture their attention in the first 5 minutes, most people will drop it.

btw chris avellone will probably not see much of that settlement. most of it is going to be divided by his lawyers - that is if those two con-artists have anything to offer - and what he is left with, is unadulterated headache and burnout for dealing with this.

was that also the reason why dying light 2 turned out to be such and underwhelming game? he was there to design the story and then this happened.

[🫐ĿᐄṾᐄṆↁ3☈🫐]

Originally posted by GodGamerPelopidas:

Originally posted by 🍇ĿᐄṾᐄṆↁ3☈🍇:

poe is too complex for most. like everything in this day and age, if it doesn't capture their attention in the first 5 minutes, most people will drop it.

btw chris avellone will probably not see much of that settlement. most of it is going to be divided by his lawyers - that is if those two con-artists have anything to offer - and what he is left with, is unadulterated headache and burnout for dealing with this.

was that also the reason why dying light 2 turned out to be such and underwhelming game? he was there to design the story and then this happened.

Headaches are he has now, that is true.
DL2 suffered from the same issue, yes.
I do hope he can start a nice comeback arc of some type. Dude is mad talented.

[Corona Scurrae]

Originally posted by 🍇ĿᐄṾᐄṆↁ3☈🍇:

Headaches are he has now, that is true.
DL2 suffered from the same issue, yes.
I do hope he can start a nice comeback arc of some type. Dude is mad talented.

you and me both.

[Gooeykat]

Originally posted by 𝕭𝖔𝖆𝖌𝖗𝖎𝖚𝖘:

Originally posted by Ocean:

Nothing happened, Obsidian was always like this. I wanna see dialogue and factions, that's where their strengths are.

This. Nobody cares about animations and graphics. We want dialogues and deep RPG roleplay from Obsidian.

This is complete nonsense. New Vegas had it all, open world, factions, great story, great dialogue, choice, consequences, the combat was so-so but it was modifiable. It had a great atmosphere, it was epic. Watching this trailer, listening to what Obsidian is telling us, this is not an epic, it's a nice little side quest RPG.

There is no reason to lash out those of us that are upset that Obsidian decided to aim low after getting our hopes up for something much greater.

[Ebon Wolf]

It will be half finished like the rest of their games.

[VIC1OUSTHREAT]

It can't be worse than Outer Wolrds, man Obsidian really dropped the ball on this one.

[GrimDogGaming]

Obsidian isn't anything but Bethesda-Lite, as in lite on ideas, lite on talent. Can't believe people look forward to their tripe.

[Dellamorte]

Originally posted by Zorvan:

Obsidian isn't anything but Bethesda-Lite, as in lite on ideas, lite on talent. Can't believe people look forward to their tripe.

Would be true if Bethesda had any ideas or talent;
also, they make different type of games, Bethesda makes modding sandboxes, Obsidian makes RPGs...

But yes, as an "obsidian fanboy" I'm more excited about inXile's "Clockwork Revolution" than I am about Avowed, everything seems off about it somehow...

[Zen3001]

Originally posted by AdahnGorion:

Nope. I wont because they had a rather huge expulsion and change in staff after POE2.
What you get is what you got from Outer Worlds.
It is not uncommon for studios to have change in staff ofc, but a few of the more prominent actually have left.

Name me one relevant person that did, AFAIK Josh, Leonard, Tim. Feargus are all there. The only notable person that left is Chris. Here's what chris says about how the people that worked on new vegas: "As of 4/9/22, about 20-ish, I believe, out of an original team of ~70. The remainder either quit, were laid off, or were fired.

Before that’s a cause for alarm, however, many of these remaining 20 were key people in New Vegas’ development, and Obsidian also has Leonard Boyarsky and Tim Cain on board, even though both are on Outer Worlds (2), and Leonard and Tim are the original creators of Fallout." (Source: https://medium.com/@chrisavellone/fallout-apocrypha-77c75954641a)
Urquhart a would like to argue your point himself in the following article (https://www.pcgamer.com/what-makes-an-obsidian-game-playing-tonnes-of-old-obsidian-and-bioware-games/), apparently people that were working on the original fallout games are now working on avowed. Now sure, there are some people leaving, obsidian isn't the exact same company that was working on new vegas but there's still important folks in there and the situation is far from a bioware like problem.

[mookymook]

agree
could have been dasting
appears to be colorful trash

Originally posted by 🍇ĿᐄṾᐄṆↁ3☈🍇:

Originally posted by Purpleetea:

Obsidian doesnt exist anymore. Their last Lightning in the bottle was Fallout New Vegas. All talent left that studio it seems after that game was released.

C'mon, PoE was their swansong. What really killed the studio was when the false allegations that were thrown at Chris Avellone during the 'me too' Hollywood grift occured, that have since been PROVEN false and Chris was awarded a hefty settlement for defamation. That's actually when Obsidian turned into a trash, rainbow-mafia, DEI, ESG propaganda pushing, activist studio staffed by blue-haired commies.

yup yupper and yuppest
RIP

[Rob⛧Pentakill]

Originally posted by DEMOLITOR:

Even the animations suck.

People need to remember Obsidian was developing this game on their own with a small budget before Microsoft bought the studio. Games don't have to be perfect, they just have to be fun I rather get a traditional video game with some dated animations than a $70 live service game with free to play models and predatory monetization. Cough Diablo IV cough.

[Denny]

Propably OG devs cashed out left for better. Happens all the time