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Man, scoff all you want, but Dragon Age 3 as written by Obsidian would be amazing. It could be KOTOR2-esque follow-up that just shits all over the original while somehow simultaneously outshining it in terms of combat, character interaction and world-building. Make it happen Bioware!
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Rascyc posted:My money is on Arcanum. Although I have no idea if it's possible with the licenses, but it would still be nice. I was hoping someone would remember Arcanum as it's often overlooked. Hell even in this thread people discussed Wheel of Time before it.  Edit: VVV I was going to bring up the correlation via Timothy Cain, but Merry Magpie may have done so inadvertently. Given the state of its IP you kind of have to be grasping at straws -- please forgive me. Mayor McCheese fucked around with this message at Sep 12, 2012 around 08:24 |
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Mayor McCheese posted:I was hoping someone would remember Arcanum as it's often overlooked. Hell even in this thread people discussed Wheel of Time before it.
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Mayor McCheese posted:I was hoping someone would remember Arcanum as it's often overlooked. Hell even in this thread people discussed Wheel of Time before it. I assumed Sawyer was the project lead or at least heavily involved. If we were talking about Tim Cain's project at Obsidian, spiritual successors to the Troika games would have been suggested.
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| # ? Sep 12, 2012 07:53 |
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Scorchy posted:I'm personally still waiting for the Aliens RPG. That broke my heart. The cancellation of the Alien game was a big fakeout. Their next game will start out with a couple hours of gritty combat and morally grey political maneuvering in a low fantasy medieval mudscape. Then bam, out of nowhere -- xenomorphs.
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| # ? Sep 12, 2012 07:57 |
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:The cancellation of the Alien game was a big fakeout. Their next game will start out with a couple hours of gritty combat and morally grey political maneuvering in a low fantasy medieval mudscape.
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| # ? Sep 12, 2012 08:28 |
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Maybe it's the Planescape spiritual sequel Chris Avellone was talking about for the last few weeks.
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| # ? Sep 12, 2012 08:32 |
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Merry Magpie posted:I assumed Sawyer was the project lead or at least heavily involved. If we were talking about Tim Cain's project at Obsidian, spiritual successors to the Troika games would have been suggested. This is true. Although I can understand why Rascyc brought it up if we are to believe what Megazver said: Megazver posted:"One little piece of information that was slipped to me -- call it "insider information" if you like, or call it something to take with a grain of salt -- is that whatever this game is, it's likely to be a PC-exclusive title, and something of a "crowd pleaser" for fans of hardcore RPG gaming." This is going to bug me now.
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| # ? Sep 12, 2012 08:38 |
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please be Neverwinter Nights 3!
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| # ? Sep 12, 2012 09:24 |
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Thing about folks theorizing that it's NWN3 (or any D&D title, honestly) is that when 4e came out, didn't WotC specifically state that there would be no new games made based on a pre-4e engine? And then with the impending D&DNext, WotC sounds like it's basically washing its hands of 4e like it's some kind of child they adopted, murdered, and are keeping its brain preserved in a jar in their basement, so it probably isn't a 4e-based engine or setting either. It's too early for a Next-based engine, so... Pathfinder? Haha.
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| # ? Sep 12, 2012 09:31 |
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Merry Magpie posted:I assumed Sawyer was the project lead or at least heavily involved. If we were talking about Tim Cain's project at Obsidian, spiritual successors to the Troika games would have been suggested.
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| # ? Sep 12, 2012 09:32 |
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Hasbro regained control of D&D computer game rights around a year ago, so it's possible they want to do more with the license than Atari did.
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| # ? Sep 12, 2012 09:37 |
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Grey Area posted:Sawyer was lead on the big project that was canceled this spring, right? If Obsidian is ready to start marketing whatever this thing is they have probably been working on it for quite a while. They may have re-assigned Sawyer to this project, but probably not as lead. It is not the same project? I seem to remember at the time of cancellation it was also referred to as Project X so maybe they managed to secure funding for it. The only description I heard of it at the time was Lord of the Rings but if Sauron had won.
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| # ? Sep 12, 2012 09:46 |
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Whatever it is, I think there's a pretty good chance that this is going to be a Kickstarter thing given that it's entirely Obsidian themselves promoting it and not a publisher. Plus, ropekid tweeted something today about Feargus filming something - a pitch video? Which is A-OK by me because Kickstarter likely means an Obsidian passion project and not someone else's IP yet again. And I think they have the potential to raise even way more than Wasteland 2. So y'all better be budgeting your week to Kickstart something on Friday, just in case. 
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Hank Morgan posted:It is not the same project? I seem to remember at the time of cancellation it was also referred to as Project X so maybe they managed to secure funding for it. The only description I heard of it at the time was Lord of the Rings but if Sauron had won. I'm pretty sure that "Lors of the rings where Sauron won" project was called Defiance.
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Scorchy posted:<!-- Two centuries ago, your divine champion told the people of Dyrwood to grovel at his feet. If you've come on pilgrimage to the blasted crater that was our reply, Godhammer Citadel is *that* way. --> Barring setting-specific races, locations and/or characters, a lot of fantasy settings generally feel the same to me at a glance, allowing me to look at this without bias. And this is awesome. BiggerJ fucked around with this message at Sep 12, 2012 around 10:42 |
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:The cancellation of the Alien game was a big fakeout. Their next game will start out with a couple hours of gritty combat and morally grey political maneuvering in a low fantasy medieval mudscape. ropekid, whatever you guys are actually about to reveal, cancel it and replace it with this. Thanks~
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| # ? Sep 12, 2012 10:57 |
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I hope it's a Family Guy RPG.
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| # ? Sep 12, 2012 11:01 |
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I just hope whatever it is that they're given enough time to complete it and are not hosed by publishers after it's done. I guess I also hope it isn't a Dragon Age game because the setting is so god drat bland.
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| # ? Sep 12, 2012 11:03 |
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:The cancellation of the Alien game was a big fakeout. Their next game will start out with a couple hours of gritty combat and morally grey political maneuvering in a low fantasy medieval mudscape.
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| # ? Sep 12, 2012 11:09 |
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That symbol is the Aes Sedai ring. My money is on a wheel of time game. Weird though since in 2010 they announced that they would co-develop a game based on wheel of time series with "Red Eagle Games". Guess they think everyone forgot about it.
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| # ? Sep 12, 2012 11:17 |
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Zaajko posted:That symbol is the Aes Sedai ring. My money is on a wheel of time game. Man, I hope not. The lore doesn't seem to fit, thankfully.
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| # ? Sep 12, 2012 11:44 |
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The White Dragon posted:WotC sounds like it's basically washing its hands of 4e like it's some kind of child they adopted, murdered, and are keeping its brain preserved in a jar in their basement, so it probably isn't a 4e-based engine or setting either. I still kind of live in hope for this, as I love 4e and I've always thought it would be the easiest conversion around to put it into a square-grid turn-based strategy game.
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| # ? Sep 12, 2012 11:51 |
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:The cancellation of the Alien game was a big fakeout. Their next game will start out with a couple hours of gritty combat and morally grey political maneuvering in a low fantasy medieval mudscape. "His fealty is of no value, now that the Marchers have sworn allegiance to my banne-uaaaAAARHG", as a chestburster erupts in an explosion of blood.
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| # ? Sep 12, 2012 12:00 |
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I would unironically play the poo poo out of a fantasy game with an alien invasion.
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| # ? Sep 12, 2012 12:07 |
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I realize this is unlikely, because Bethesda would probably announce this, but thoes text excerpts have crazy Morrowind-era Michael Kirkbride written all over them. As in, Obsidian is doing an Elder Scrolls game just like they did a Fallout game. Edit: Ugh, Wheel of Time. Sexpansion fucked around with this message at Sep 12, 2012 around 12:24 |
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Zaajko posted:That symbol is the Aes Sedai ring. Ring from the Obsidian website:  Ring from the books:  Yup, it's a Wheel of Time game. Kinda sucks, I was hoping for Arcanum 2. edit: Actually, I was hoping for anything except Wheel of Time. drat. Attention Horse fucked around with this message at Sep 12, 2012 around 12:26 |
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Attention Horse posted:Ring from the Obsidian website: I'm not saying it's not, but you know that the snake eating its own tail is a symbol found throughout human culture and wasn't invented by Robert Jordan right?
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| # ? Sep 12, 2012 12:27 |
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What is the "Black Hound" people keep referring to? This is the first I've heard of it.
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| # ? Sep 12, 2012 12:31 |
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Lotish posted:What is the "Black Hound" people keep referring to? This is the first I've heard of it. Basically another Baldur's Gate game.
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| # ? Sep 12, 2012 12:33 |
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TomWaitsForNoMan posted:I'm not saying it's not, but you know that the snake eating its own tail is a symbol found throughout human culture and wasn't invented by Robert Jordan right? I know, but remember that Obsidian was making a Wheel of Time game in 2010. So: They were making Wheel of Time RPG in 2010 + there is a symbol on their website that also exists in Wheel of Time books = probably Wheel of Time RPG I really hope I'm wrong.
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Lotish posted:What is the "Black Hound" people keep referring to? This is the first I've heard of it. It was the third Baldur's Gate game that as I recall moved away from the whole Bhaalspawn thing and focused on a mercenary band led by the Black Hound as the antagonists. EDIT: Not quite. quote:May Farrow and her gang of raiders have spent weeks tracking down the black hound, the essence of May's guilt for unleashing a great evil. The player character is resting by the firelight in an old barn to hide from the storm outside when a black hound arrives and after being shot twice by an arrow, it cries one last time before it dies on the player lap. That's what's on wikipedia, anyway, so take it with a grain of salt. Dan Didio fucked around with this message at Sep 12, 2012 around 12:45 |
| # ? Sep 12, 2012 12:38 |
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If it's a Wheel of Time game, I hope it's set at some point after the Last Battle (the end of the books). The blurbs on the website make it fairly incompatible with the second or third age of Wheel of Time (which have no religion), but it would be possible to set it in, say, the fourth age since we don't know much about it except that it exists. That would let them abandon a lot of things like the entire obnoxious Aes Sedai organization, though it would also raise the question of why you'd want to set it in the WoT universe at all if you're going to change things a lot.
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| # ? Sep 12, 2012 12:41 |
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AbDomen posted:why you'd want to set it in the WoT universe at all if you're going to change things a lot. From what I've seen of the Wheel of Time universe, that's the only way I'd want to experience it.
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| # ? Sep 12, 2012 12:42 |
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Attention Horse posted:I know, but remember that Obsidian was making a Wheel of Time game in 2010. So: None of the lore or place names in the teasers match Wheel of Time stuff though, so far it's just the symbol
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| # ? Sep 12, 2012 12:48 |
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Attention Horse posted:Ring from the Obsidian website: Well, if you google "Ouroboros Ring", they all look like that too and they're not WoT-related. And, again, the text blurbs don't fit. That's what I keep telling myself.
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| # ? Sep 12, 2012 12:54 |
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It's obviously a Neverending Story RPG
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| # ? Sep 12, 2012 12:57 |
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Attention Horse posted:Ring from the Obsidian website: It's not necessarily the ring from the books, like has been mentioned, it could just be a regular ol' Ouroboros. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouroboros
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| # ? Sep 12, 2012 13:04 |
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I've been corrected, thanks TomWaitsForNoMan
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Barudak posted:What you don't want to play Ayn Rand: Fantasy Adventures where we learn that helping people is wrong and villany is only villany if other people do it? That's the Sword of Truth by Terry Goodkind
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