Tawney Bomb
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Tossed in $20. Now we wait.
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Pillars of Eternity by Obsidian Entertainment (Kickstarter) [Up: Teaser]
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Basileus777
Member
I'm in for $35. I considering going higher, but the other rewards don't interest me and I'm not exactly flushed with cash.
Just having J.E. Sawyer and Tim Cain on board to lead the charge on combat mechanics is exciting enough. Then with Chris Avellone writing characters and dialogue, you've got yourself a dream team.
Feels like this is a good time to post Tim Cain's excellent Fallout post-mortem again:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa5IzHhAdi4
Lighter and cliched forms of high fantasy fare is what they wouldn't want to make. Torment and MotB could be described as "pure fantasy," in that they don't particularly fall into any hybrids or subgenres like Arcanum does with its heavy steampunk influence.
Jibbajabbawockky
Member
But its pure fantasy not inhibited by any licensing or publisher's demands. I'm more than ok with that and I'm sure Obsidian will make it more than just a generic fantasy setting.
water_wendi
Water is not wet!
This could be the game. The one to really set their destiny as an independent developer. Their tech, their world, their rpg system, their characters. Like you said they have the dream team.
SerArthurDayne
Member
I know! Somebody with that tier should recreate Noober from BG1 and instantly become the most hated donor of the lot.
Kuro Madoushi
Unconfirmed Member
Sigh...it's not the QA or the people doing the QA...
Why do people keep putting blame on the testers? They often find these bugs, but it's up to the devs to fix it. Or, they fix the bug and it causes another bug, and since people are human, there will always be bugs. They do have a deadline to release the game that they need to meet.
edit: anyways, this is the first and maybe only game I will kickstart. I love these guys and fuck the haters who shat on Alpha Protocol!
They like to turn tropes on their feet, like they did with Torment, so I feel like pure fantasy is just a starting point for them. But yeah, I'm not all that excited about that as I would about anything just all new.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
Silly billie, ur not a cake!
Okay, so the cake will be a rectangular cake, with the logo on the left with NeoGAF on to the right. The text underneath will say "We believe in Eternity." The piping on the edge will alternate orange and white.
Anything else? Besides the coffee from NichM and the pictures?
Also, I wonder if George Ziets is on this project or not.
Put a 'Marry me, Avellone! - Llyranor ~~' note.
Sir Garbageman
Member
Holy crap and kudos to all the awesomely generous people throwing big bucks at this game.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
Voice in certain areas, but overwhelmingly text.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
After actually reading the campaign, this may be getting lots of bucks from me if I get that job I just did for.
Schobeleth
Member
Ugh. I want to throw money at them right now but I have some bills to pay. Maybe next week's paycheck? I don't mind paying an extra 5$ to secure my digital copy 
This sounds amazing though!
This sounds amazing though!You won't be charged until the end of the kickstarter.Ugh. I want to throw money at them right now but I have some bills to pay. Maybe next week's paycheck? I don't mind paying an extra 5$ to secure my digital copy
With the widescreen mod and a few convenience tweaks, the Infinity Engine games (Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, Torment) have aged incredibly well. It helps to read a primer on AD&D's 2nd Edition though, since some stuff is handled very differently than typical RPGs.
Willy Wanka
my god this avatar owns
I'm in for $80. Got to have that sweet boxed version.
Time to dust off my reading glasses I guess. Hopefully they can at least put an option in to make the text bigger for my old man eyes.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
I know. Reading, in an RPG? What?!?
fizzelopeguss
Banned
it's sawyer, the kickstarter will be cancelled at the last minute.
Fuck, i hadnt heard of the planetary rts. 2+ million goddamn. And i missed it by 8 hours.
Jibbajabbawockky
Member
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
Wait, Derrick01 is over 14? Is this something I didn't know about before, but everyone else did?
No.
whalleywhat
Member
I kind of hope the game doesn't end up full of in-jokes.
Yeah it's been a while. I usually turn subtitles on in games but I don't have to worry too much about taking time to read them since the voice work kind of fills it in for me. I only turn them on in case I don't understand someone that well.
HP_Wuvcraft said:
I'm 25...
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
The high price of Kickstarter.
bladeshimmer
Neo Member
That very well could be the fastest I've ever spent $20.
Something tells me this one won't be relegated to the backlog.
Something tells me this one won't be relegated to the backlog.
whalleywhat
Member
"I have a fine selection of blades. Even bey blades. I was sold out, but now they're back."
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
I got a fucking Jack o'Lantern breastplate in a game (whose kickstarter has been over for two years). It's called the Lovecraftian Breastplate.
For the lols.
Gee, you are ancient.
I was kidding lol. I do have special reading glasses to help my shitty eyes though.
I'd rather them do a kickstarter to hire better programmers and/or testers but oh well I'm in. They do have great writing team so I feel the cash is worth it; I just hate that their games are almost completely amazing except that they are such buggy pieces of shit for the most part.
Snapshot King
Member
So they should put up some stretch goals or something because there's no way they're not going to hit that number by tomorrow.
airmangataosenai
Member
My first Kickstarter. What can I say? They had me as isometric viewpoint. <3