That too will work for me.
If it's any consolation, there's going to be a lot of non-combat stuff in Eternity. BG and IWD were largely combat-focussed.
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Pillars of Eternity by Obsidian Entertainment (Kickstarter) [Up: Teaser]
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That too will work for me.
If it's any consolation, there's going to be a lot of non-combat stuff in Eternity. BG and IWD were largely combat-focussed.
Mister_Bubbles
Member
They've got something planned that's 'fun' to do with the screenshot that they've already released. Doesn't sound particularly promising, but we'll see.
I get the impression they're looking forward to this being over and to be able to settle down a bit into actually making the game without all the Kickstarter pressure. They've got so much more money than they set out for, at this stage they seem to be happy just to sit back and coast it home.
Edit: And as SquiddyBiscuit says, I can see them perhaps wanting to focus on the workload they set out to do, rather than having to suddenly account for almost doubling the game size with a second large city.
Imp the Dimp
Member
I hope they allow us to pledge via paypal to fund the second city in case they don't make the 3.5mil in time. A classical CRPG with two large cities would blow my mind.
Yeah, already confirmed.
"@Chris Buck We will continue to take donations for a while after the Kickstarter campaign. We are working on our own storefront that will take donations and also let everyone buy the latest in Obsidian wear."(Oct5)
Rawket Lawnchair
Member
Nice to see they hit the 3 million mark. Hopefully we'll get another dungeon level at 62.500 backers, but I don't think they'll hit the 3.5 million mark - too much, too late.
Oh well, we'll still have the expansion.
Oh well, we'll still have the expansion.
I think you should just go for it. Ask him on Twitter as well.
Rawket Lawnchair
Member
Whose idea was it to bury Dhalsim in the Endless Paths?
Same. Obsidian weakness has always been in the combat. Which is something I hope they improve with this game... Wish more Western devs would take something like FF12 International ver combat (in that version you can speed up the combat) which I feel would be perfect for a western WRPG game.
Yeah, do it. That way I can ask him to put the Bozar in this game.
cast mass haste on your party/equip everyone with boots of speed, duh
whalleywhat
Member
Thank goodness for Kickstarter.
Yeah I know. But I'm talking about the fast forward feature that version has. Great to deal with grunts quickly. Similar to Persona 3/4 fast forward feature.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr5hMVYi7Z4&feature=relmfu
EndcatOmega
Unconfirmed Member
A better plan would be no grunts (at least, on their own)- I'd much prefer a smaller but trickier number of combat encounters than 'here's some more palette swapped wolves to slaughter'.
agreed (the NWN and DA games are terrible in that regard). This fast-forward mode would be totally out of place in these games
$400k in over 48 hours is very feasible.
Just use my idea and put the Bozar in. They're so asleep they won't wake up for the rest of the game! It's win-win.
We can subtract $10k from the final amount :/
http://gamebanshee.chipin.com/project-eternity
http://gamebanshee.chipin.com/project-eternity
I think that might be a paypal pledge? Not sure. :|
It's a shame that some communities can't raise the full amount. GAF was lucky.
They're a smaller community and went for $10.000. A bit ambitious if you ask me. Their intention was not bad.
I think it would be hard even for us to raise 10k for a game pledge though. It's really a rather high amount to ask for any community. 5k was definitely a more realistic number.
wait, 10k, that doesn't make any sense
"You and a buddy get to party with the game developers at Obsidian"
but there are 79 contributers
RPG codex seems like they're gonna pull it off, or get pretty close anyway.
We're also close to passing yesterday's total, so today's already a good day
SquiddyCracker
Banned
Exactly
Though you could get around that by randomly selecting two contributors to get that honour.
They would have gotten something else, it was already worked out with Obsidian.
SquiddyCracker
Banned
$81,000 paypal+$3,044,023=$3,125,023
53 hours to go, $374,977 left to hit the final stretchgoal.
That means we'll need an average hourly funding of $7,075, or an average daily funding of $169,800. The numbers have actually gone down since I last made this calculation, so things are looking good
53 hours to go, $374,977 left to hit the final stretchgoal.
That means we'll need an average hourly funding of $7,075, or an average daily funding of $169,800. The numbers have actually gone down since I last made this calculation, so things are looking good
I would not be sad at all if they had to cut out the stronghold to add the city.
They probably can't though since it was a goal promise. Here's hoping for both, and a massive resulting game.
Seriously this game is gonna be packed with content and large in scope if they can get everything in. Prepare for them to push the release date back quite a bit as well.
They probably can't though since it was a goal promise. Here's hoping for both, and a massive resulting game.
Seriously this game is gonna be packed with content and large in scope if they can get everything in. Prepare for them to push the release date back quite a bit as well.
They can take as long as they need. If I won the lottery, I would have totally funded a giant content filled game with more old school look as to be able to fit all that content in realistically. I don't know why more developers don't do it, I guess because older looking titles don't please publishers...
Reminds me of the BioWare doctors' comment about how surprised they were in retrospect about the amount of content they produced in BGII.
Jibbajabbawockky
Member
I wonder how long it will take to do this game compared to your typical modern "AAA" type game with voice acting everything and cinematics and all that.
Having limited voice acting and simpler graphics has to cut down on the time it takes to create and iterate on the content, I'd imagine. I don't really care if it gets delayed at all but I wonder how much easier it is to make content for a game like this compared to your typical modern day RPG. As I recall, the gap between BG1 and BG2 was only about 2 years and they were doing a lot with the engine then. Whereas now, I'd guess Obsidian has a decent handle on the tech side of things with Project Eternity so it mostly comes down to just making the content.
No.
I fully expect this if the second city is in. And I totally wouldn't mind.
Well, BG2 took 1 year and something, didn't it?
I would. A second city would be content extension, giving a new area of large size with more quests, more NPCs, etc. A stronghold is a new gameplay layer, with construction options, recruiting, simulation strategy elements, etc. Given a choice between a new gameplay layer to give me something different but meaningful to do in a game, and content extension where I just get a lot more of normal stuff, I think I'll pick the gameplay layer every single time. Unless I don't like that gameplay element of course.
Seriously? If BG 2 only took a year to dev, id be amazed.