Pillars and Deadfire had Muskets and Pistols, so its normal lore stuff.
My man, rifles and guns were in this universe since the first Pillars of Eternity game. Even the boxart of Pillars 1 had a character with rifle
Maybe. Personally, I expected more from Obsidian. They made New Vegas in what, 2 years and a Happy Meal budget?
Man I hope she let's you bite down on something. Hope you're ok.
It's not so much the assets that I fell in love with on NV. It's the systems that completely took me over. The rep system, scope, writing, overhauled guns and plethora of ammo types, hardcore mode. The factions was also the main highlight. I do think they lost their magic once Chris Avellone and Josh Sawyer left.
Josh Sawyer just made Pentiment. He is still there.
No shade to Pentiment but I wish he was the one directing Avowed. I don't know about other Obsidian fans but personally his name alone would get me more interested in Avowed which is a bigger game than Pentiment. Just like Kojima's name for some people.
Let him make whatever he wants.
I played all those except Tyranny.
I'm not throwing shade at the game or bashing it Ozriel. I'm just giving my own two cents on that specific quote. I'm not a mindless warrior dunking on something without having seen enough of it yet. It looks quite good judging from the previews, but there's still room for improvement. The exploration is vast and varied, the graphics are really good and so on and so forth. There still are some questionable design decisions here and there, but the game has its own charm and merits.
Well, that's not quite true, during Vegas they had 150-200 people, now (Obsidian Entertainment has approximately 305 employees as of November 2024.), that is, they have actually doubled. And 300 people is no longer a small studio, it is exactly the same number of people as BioWare (320, How much after DAV only God knows =)). Unfortunately, we do not know Vegas' budget, but according to rumors, it is something around 7-8 million, they did not like to publish game budgets at that time and most of these figures have gone down in history. Therefore, you should no longer classify Obsidian as a small studio, this has not been the case for a long time, and they also have money =)
It was the game that pushed Xbox into acquiring Obsidian in 2018(you can look that up if you want). At this point the game was in pre production even before ToW was even released and went into full production following the launch of ToW's last piece of dlc, Peril on Gorgon. It's been in dev for a sizeable amount of time (definitely more than 3 years) and with a sizeable dev team to boot.
Oh, my bad then. I stand corrected.
Also, I, for one, love having games in my backlog to plough through in my spare time, helps to take some of the edge off after a long day's work. What, did you really think me being sceptical of the game stopped me from pre ordering it? I've been wanting a fantasy fps rpg from obsidian since playing the first PoE and I've been waiting for avowed since the first cinematic reveal trailer back in 2020 and it's almost here. Wouldn't want to miss that now would I? Disappointment or Excitement? Time will tell if the wait was worthwhile at the end.
Also, and this is a statement I direct at all devs. If you're that hellbent on hyping up players on your games, don't send those "influencer" morons to play your games, they cherry pick the good stuff and leave the big critiques out and it makes their previews subjective, as they don't tell the full story in fear of getting blacklisted and never again invited to events like these.
People were also let down by the writing and how woke the game was, not sure if more time in the oven is gonna fix these type of problems if the writers are the same.
I played all those except Tyranny.
I heard he was kicked out of Tyranny in place of others devs. They didn't realise they took me away as well.
The reason why guns changed the face of warfare is the fact that any illiterate farmer could be trained in using one.
Never got around it PoE. Keep forgetting this is an extension of that universe. Considering the well regarded pedigree, hopefully Obsidian just sucks at cutting trailers for Avowed.My man, rifles and guns were in this universe since the first Pillars of Eternity game. Even the boxart of Pillars 1 had a character with rifle
Redfall had positive previews.
