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Pillars of Eternity by Obsidian Entertainment (Kickstarter) [Up: Teaser]
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I do have to say that I think this has been one of the best-organised Kickstarters. Regular bits of information, without inundating people with stuff to take in. Interesting updates. Good announcements. Nicely-planned stretch goals.
What? Aerie is one of the best support character in the early game, and Valygar is pretty badass.
Nalia is pretty useless, but I usually have her around for at least her quest since usually I haven't recruited the better guys yet.
If anyone, Jaheira is the useless one in that party.
Count of Monte Sawed-Off
un33dab@dpu$$y
This is the only time I use her. Then it's back to the Copper Coronet for her to rot in the slums with Anomen.
CRAWLING IN MY WIIINGSSSSSS.
Most boring character together with Cern.
She's a good replacement for Imoen until you get to spellhold.
I agree that the lack of Minsc and Boo is a sad sight, though.
She's the game's waifu, gotta have one dude.
He has some badass lines and is a pretty cool ranger. Cern is boring though, boring as fuck.
Yeah, she also kinda looks like her.
Where's Haer'Dalis or Edwin? How can you go through a game without Edwin, man.
Anomen is one of the best characters in the game, no joke.
SerArthurDayne
Member
Someone on /v/ fixed it with a better party.
Because, seriously, who used Valygirl and Aerie?
Hope you are okay with Keldorn tearing your party up like an asshole.
Count of Monte Sawed-Off
un33dab@dpu$$y
Yeah, those bears can fuck shit up.
It's probably most OP spell in vanilla. Add improved haste and everyone in room will die in seconds.
Oh i forgot Viconia had that evil demon summon. That was fucked up.
SquiddyCracker
Banned
Higher quality version
That is beautiful!
Even more so if it animates
Lore stuff is awesome!
Pirate nation consisting of humans and dwarves
A God that made her followers build and detonate a nuke!
water_wendi
Water is not wet!
i really wish i had the Photoshop skills to do a PS:T version of that BG2 remix of this.Higher quality version
You know.. like darken it and turn the water like purple or some shit.
im so hyped for this game.
Ingueferroque
Banned
Looks amazing.
water_wendi
Water is not wet!
Also its over 2.7m! i cant believe it.
edit: And holy shit Zeits is in at 2.8?!
edit: And holy shit Zeits is in at 2.8?!
This is the best-planned, best-run Kickstarter I've seen so far. They clearly came in with a content release plan and a media strategy. They're pumping out new media and announcements practically every single day.
And the add-ons are so tempting. An expansion for $20? I'd be stupid NOT to buy it!
And the add-ons are so tempting. An expansion for $20? I'd be stupid NOT to buy it!
SerArthurDayne
Member
2.75 with Paypal.
water_wendi
Water is not wet!
i was thinking this too. It might have started off kind of rocky in terms of promotion but everything after the first 24 hours has been absolutely masterful. Even the saving huge rewards for the final stretch is a genius move.
Oh yea i forgot about Paypal.
Count of Monte Sawed-Off
un33dab@dpu$$y
Upped mine to $90 to get in on the beta.
We still haven't hit the final push though. It's by no means a sure thing, but it's more likely than it seems right now.
I'm thinking it will happen. If they can get > 3 million coming out of the weekend, the two day push to 3.5 and the huge city that brings with it, is going to be epic. All the nostalgia and love for the old infinity engine games focused into one laser-like funding funsplosion.
Vulcano's assistant
Banned
isn't this more like a physics simulation?
water_wendi
Water is not wet!
i hope it does. Imagine two Sigils in one game.
Probably not. The expansion is shipping ~6 months after the main game. And with just 20$, you are not covering shipping fees. Also, there should have been something between 3.0 and 3.5. Maybe a full orchestra score at 3.2mil
CrunchyFrog
Member
Upped my pledge $20 for the xpac. someone wake me up when this thing is out
SquiddyCracker
Banned
Upped my pledge $20 for the xpac. someone wake me up when this thing is out
Same here.
Come on, hit that 3.5 million stretch goal!
We can do it!
superdeluxe
Member
Sure it can
foobarry81
Member
Nvm.. misread.
SquiddyCracker
Banned
2,721,362 with 778,638 to go if we're going to hit the final stretch goal.
With pretty much 4 days left, we'd need an average of 200k a day to reach it O_O
Why not? It's certainly less flexible than a full 3D engine, but they would problably have something less dynamic and for which they can afford a lot of details without spending ages on animations and shaders.
foobarry81
Member
Double Fine had a lot more backers already at this point. So it seems like many of current backers of PE have already upped their pledge. Chances that they'll raise it once more are rather slim, I guess. But who knows...
Plus PayPal even after the Kickstarter campaign ends. That second city will be ours!
They also got 12000 new backers the last four days.
Seriously. I wanna see the receipts!
Double fine had more backers because their base game tier was 15 bucks. Eternity is now 25 bucks, almost double that, so it would be crazy to match DFA backer for backer. The average pledge per backer on project eternity is $47, which is still a dollar lower than wasteland 2.
Also, the average pledge per backer didn't even go up today by a dollar (it did a day ago when they announced the expansion as an add-on, though). What happened is that twice as many new people backed today than any other of the big days so far this week. Check it out:
http://www.kicktraq.com/projects/obsidian/project-eternity/#chart-daily
1341 backers in one day. And the spike only started halfway through the day. Barring totally grinding to a halt over the weekend, I think we'll make it
foobarry81
Member
Plus PayPal even after the Kickstarter campaign ends. That second city will be ours!
They also got 12000 new backers the last four days.
But PE are more than 12,000 backers behind atm. Anyway, let's just hope they get there.
foobarry81
Member
Lol, nice assumption, but what if more people prefer a new point-and-click adventure over an isometric RPG? That could explain the difference just as much.
Not sure what to say... it's generally an acceptable assumption that when something desirable gets cheaper, more people will buy it. Measuring exactly how desirable something is, is a little bit more tricky
foobarry81
Member
Not sure what to say... it's generally an acceptable assumption that when something desirable gets cheaper, more people will buy it. Measuring exactly how desirable something is, is a little bit more tricky
So more people buy cheaper Nokia smartphones because they are more desirable than iPhones? Is that what you're saying?
It's really about how people value games. I think generally speaking gamers would value RPGs higher because they offer more play time and higher replayability. Which could explain the higher average pledge for PE. The sheer number of backers I think just represents how large the market is for the type of game: point-and-click adventure vs isometric RPG.
Nope, I am saying that lowering and raising prices, and the effect that has on purchases, is a central concept of economics. If a game company lowers the price of a game by 50%, more people will buy it in the week after the price drop than the week before the price drop.
In the same way, if project eternity were to lower their base "you bought the game" tier to cost 15 dollars, more people would back the project (at the low end). For the exact same reason, if double fine had started out with their "you bought the game" tier at 25 dollars, fewer people would have backed the project.
Do you really disagree with this? Seems pretty logical to me, and I'm far from an economist