Obsidian's Project Eternity

[C2B]

There have been quite a few updates since the last post.

 

[UniversalWolf]

From the kickstarter page:

Combat uses a tactical real-time with pause system - positioning your party and coordinating attacks and abilities is one of the keys to success.

Yuck. I'll need to be convinced this can ever be good.

 

[FearMonkey]

Great interview with Josh Sawyer on Matt Chat:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoRDtNag8rE&feature=em-uploademail-new

 

[Lexx]

Nice, I like the Matt Chat episodes.

 

[Makagulfazel]

Yeah, thanks for the link.

 

[PlanHex]

Oh cool, it's finally up!
I've been waiting for that Matt Chat ever since someone on the Codex let it slip that they were doing it.
Matt's chats are generally great. He's a true bro.

 

[FearMonkey]

Update #18: George Ziets is the $2.8M Stretch Goal!!!

 

[Surf Solar]

Update #20 http://www.kickstarter.com/projects.../326585?ref=email&show_token=5702ffb6ca4040fa

First screenshot:


I am cumming buckets!

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[aenemic]

that is stunningly beautiful

oh man, I want this game NAOW!

 

[valcik]

Thanks to all pagan gods for those pre-rendered backgrounds!

 

[SnapSlav]

And here's how a TRUE gamer would respond to that scene (not those coddled-to-the-point-of-brain-death testers for Dishonored), assuming he were playing the game:

I see what looks like a single-screen area. I can enter from South, and there's a clear (and pretty) path to the East. There's a broken bridge leading North. I want to go North now. I'm gonna FIND a way to go North, damnit!!! I'm gonna try clicking on scenery, fiddling with whatever I'm carrying, if the engine allows it try jumping in and swimming across, and if all that fails then EVERY time I get something new, my first thoughts will return to, "How can this help me cross that one broken bridge?"

And of course, that's really, really awesome! =D

 

[AskWazzup]

Omfg that screenshot is breathtaking, i truly hope the end version will not stray very far from that, because that is just what i like.

 

[FearMonkey]

I see what looks like a single-screen area. I can enter from South, and there's a clear (and pretty) path to the East. There's a broken bridge leading North. I want to go North now. I'm gonna FIND a way to go North, damnit!!!

OMG! What if you first enter that screen from the north? :O

 

[mobucks]

That screenshot is the most beautiful thing I have ever fucking seen with mine eyes.

Also:

[Edit: not sure if this was posted about yet, havn't read entire thread]

Obsidian commit to mod support and the Nexus for Project Eternity

Read about it here: http://newvegas.nexusmods.com/news/938/

 

[PlanHex]

I see what looks like a single-screen area. I can enter from South, and there's a clear (and pretty) path to the East. There's a broken bridge leading North. I want to go North now. I'm gonna FIND a way to go North, damnit!!!

OMG! What if you first enter that screen from the north? :O

What indeed?
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This was apparently made by a BG modder, who simply used the image as a background and put some characters in there
Found it here: http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/obsidians-project-eternity-thread.75947/page-243
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[FearMonkey]

How did those characters get there if they entered from the North? The bridge is broken.

 

[SnapSlav]

What if you first enter that screen from the north? :O

How did those characters get there ...?

One of the creeds of the true gamer: There is no such thing as a dead end! ^_~

 

[mobucks]

Are you guys being sarcastic or retarded?
PE is not Oblivion or Skyrim. You can't go anywhere you please in a pre-rendered 2d environment.

 

[TorontoReign]

Are you guys being sarcastic or retarded?
PE is not Oblivion or Skyrim. You can't go anywhere you please in a pre-rendered 2d environment.

Why not both? It's obvious Project Eternity won't be as good as Skyrim since you can't walk everywhere.

 

[SnapSlav]

Are you guys being sarcastic or retarded?

Not very considerate if you think those are the ONLY options. I was being absolutely serious. Somewhat whimsical, but serious.

I don't know how Eternity's engine will function, but I already described a very rushed assessment of how I felt that screen would be "explored" several posts up. It looked like a fixed-perspective single-screen (meaning not scrolling camera) map. I've played games like these, and I described how I approached those games: There's GOT to be a way across. It's not the retarded logic of thinking it's a fully-rendered 3D landscape that can be crossed by rubbing up against every surface while mashing the jump button. It's also not sarcastically joking about a feature that OBVIOUSLY cannot be done, because CLEARLY no other game has done it, therefor Eternity wouldn't, either. It's sincerity, because that's how it is. Any real gamer who's played so many titles that they know only "I must uncover every secret" and wish to explore any game to its fullest would respond to the "challenge" of a broken bridge with the firm resolution of finding a way across it.

You were the only person who seemed to leap to the conclusion that Oblivion/Skyrim was the context of "gaming", no one else. At least, I know I certainly wasn't.
Someone who cavalierly refers to themself as a "true gamer" would NEVER use lackluster games as their measuring stick.