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Pillars of Eternity by Obsidian Entertainment (Kickstarter) [Up: Teaser]
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Honestly, I'd go so far as to say that you shouldn't back a Kickstarter unless you trust the instincts of the people behind it; you don't get to shape the project unless you're invited to. Part of the point of it is giving creative people free reign to, well, be creative. Kicking up a fuss if they actually are seems counter-intuitive.
Yeah, it's generally safe to assume that there is a contingent for every cause, everywhere. Let's just hope nobody listens.
I'm pretty certain there are many who see kickstarter as "design by committee" because they're donating.
More Fun To Compute
Member
To be fair they probably expect that in a fantasy game instead of having a weapon that takes thirty seconds to reload and terrible range developers normally put in something better than a modern rifle.
EndcatOmega
Unconfirmed Member
If that's the case I'll be with them complaining, but I don't think Obsidian of all people will fall into the 'GUNZ R KEWL' trap.
PastorOfMuppets
Banned
I'm kinda of sick of traditional swords and sorcery type fantasy worlds so if there's an element of technological progress in there, I'll be happy. If you want magic elves and bearded dwarves with axes there are about 81 billion games set in that type of generic world already.
EndcatOmega
Unconfirmed Member
foobarry81
Member
Getting pretty close to the 2nd stretch goal now.
7.5k left to go!
7.5k left to go!
Shake Appeal
Member
You know, I've still never played Arcanum...
I played it once without reading the manual and kept collapsing from exhaustion, got mad, and stopped playing.
Hopefully I can give it a real shot after I finish Planescape: Torment.
Just today me an my roomate replayed it a little. It's a great game, although it has many faults. I recommend it.
Its a major jrpg cliche. Btw I like JRPGs and regularly defend them (the good ones at least) from the more narrow minded WRPG fans.
Also did I say only JRPGs have ever done it?
EndcatOmega
Unconfirmed Member
Didn't say you did! I just saw your name and couldn't resist.
Unfortunately I am not aware of a fix for how the game handles mousing on modern computers. I find it unplayable, and yes I have googled the problem extensively. It is a real chore to click a button with your mouse.
Pretty much tried the same setup about a year ago. GOG version, widescreen patch, etc. We must have different tolerances for imprecise mousing.
arglebargle
Member
i played torment for the first time about 2 years ago and it immediately became one of my all time favorites. enjoy it. since this kickstarter was announced, i have been thinking a lot about the game. it really is impressive in a lot of ways (that i dont necessarily want to spoil) but i sometimes wonder if its a case of lightning in a bottle. i guess i could play mask of the betrayer (which others here seem to love) to see if it has the same effect on me.
I install it right off of my old disk and I cannot remember having any problems.
Same. Which is why I'm looking forward to the Shadow Run games. It's DnD set in cyberpunk setting, which hasn't been really done by many dev/people for whatever reason. Hope Obsidian gives a new twist to the DnD setting rather going the generic way.
I don't think tolerance is an issue. I really don't recall any problems whatsoever. There was this LTTP thread I posted in. No one else had problems with mouse either.
maquiladora
Member
Just about to exceed the $1.6m stretch goal.
Delusibeta
Banned
Literally $988 to go.
[Edit] $493 remain!
[Edit Edit] And across the line! Mac version is go!
superdeluxe
Member
Very nice with hitting 1.6 hopefully we get another info dump
I despise guns in fantasy games. This isn't a dealbreaker though; just the first bit of disappointing news I've heard about the project.
water_wendi
Water is not wet!
im thinking about taking out a loan to do the $1000 one lol
I thought I was the only one. I hate that shit.
The IAMA also confirms that it won't be Onyx, and that they apparently already have the engine part figured out, but he can't say anymore right now:
Yeah, looks like to me that they will show some work on that engine in later part of kickstarter.
They won't use Unity for sure.
Also 40k backers !
Feels : Fuck Yeah
superdeluxe
Member
Need to add additional extras to help bump up the 20/25$. Pledges
Isn't this pace typical of Kickstarters? Usually the last few days do similar numbers to the first few.
jim-jam bongs
Member
guns in fantasy games are awesome. also, the comment about them being for a "very specific purpose" is intriguing, maybe they have some kind of running mini-game.
water_wendi
Water is not wet!
Every day new info is released i expect the next tier to get hit. Rinse and repeat.
I'm not a fan of guns in RPGs either, but I'm not worried. The way he worded it makes it sound pretty interesting, actually. Wouldn't surprise me if there's only an inventor playing around with them or a place or two in the world where guns exist; I guess they'll also be useless from the distance.
It wouldn't hurt if they present the new info a little better, too. Not only walls of text but also somekind of pictures in between -- people on the internet don't like to read monotonous walls of text for some reason. ;(
It wouldn't hurt if they present the new info a little better, too. Not only walls of text but also somekind of pictures in between -- people on the internet don't like to read monotonous walls of text for some reason. ;(
Compared to other Kickstarters, it's actually pretty healthy. We've been at 150k a day for two days now, it's going to go slightly lower and then there's going to be a push towards the end. If they can manage to keep updates as frequent as they've been until now, I think they can maintain good momentum.
Then they're at the wrong kickstarter
