Avowed - Obsidian's new game, like Pillars of Eternity meets Elder Scrolls

[Caddo Cobgang]

Go try out Monomyth its far more deep than this trash and being made by one man quite well for what it is.

I probably will, I was just making a point that even if a game sold nothing due to wokeness it wouldn't cause a company to change their mind,they already are swimming in cash anyway, tolerating nothing that's disagreeable from a right-wing perspective at all means not playing video games at all

The Wayward Realms

im cautiously optimistic, but theres just so many kickstarter games that get cancelled its hard to be excited for it

 

[BlankSpaceBaby]

Spell&Shield, the Pillars of Eternity fanboy has finally woke from his dream.

He's doing it very grudgingly - he can't help taking potshots at "those OTHER gifters" for forcing him to do this. Deep inside, he doesn't want to end up like those zealous supporters of Cyberpunk 2077 that ended up with huge eggs on their faces when the game came out an unfinished bug-ridden mess that looked like nothing in the teasers and trailers.

Anyway, the best thing out of the PoE setting is my boy Skaen. Summoning the Effigy is an awesomely brutal and gory goop of a ritual with a 1% chance of success - Skaen doesn't give a fuck and he should be the boss of Woedica, not the other way around. Not touching this game until I see trailers and playthroughs - the very possibilty of him Veilguarded into a god of present day Antifa pussies scares me.

 

[Bebepine]

Indie is just as bad. How many games look somewhat interesting only to see the main character is a lesbian minority with red hair and freckles?

You’ve nailed it on the head, If we can’t even rely on games that are independent of corporate corruption to be of a good quality then it says more about the types of people getting into game development. It’s easy to sit back and point to mainstream agenda as the main source of this. Although the amount of trannies/ degens that corrupt an initial game concept has happened to many times to count and isn’t nearly as discussed. Most of what you’re describing is shoehorned into decent games because it’s the bare minimum they can get away with without tanking their player base or steam rankings for example. Personally I only have 100% faith in older games that are hard copies.

Why does every fucking game need to be involved in some god damn culture war bullshit? It's just exhausting at this point.

everything needs political and social justice nonsense rammed into it because free thinking is dead and sheeple need to be spoon fed bad moralisms in video games. Screw playing games for fun. Fun is only for baby eaters like AOC, Elon Musk and the Clintons.

Don’t worry though, we can always count on the next re-release of Skyrim (no TES 6 though).

 

[Sargon's wife's son]

the problem is there's no consequences for it and most people are too fucking afraid to let there be any. Like John Carmack was fucking pissed that some lefty lost their job for mocking the trump assassination meanwhile he sat on his autistic hands and let every right wing person in silicon valley get fired or any person preaching a possibly non-lefty opinion like James Damore. There's no consequences for tanking a company with your shitty views, in fact there are more consequences if you stay silent as GG has shown us.

I generally think from experience to whoever's the biggest cry bully like I was kicked out of several organizations because apparently you can do stuff right in front of the people in charge of organizations but if you don't complain about it formally it doesn't count.
I think the reason leftists get away with it is just left us a bigger cry bullies.
I think the idea of professionalism needs to come back into a lot of these creative fields if you go on Twitter and start mouthing off about random nonsense as a representative of the company regardless of what you're doing you should be fired.

 

[CyrusHowler]

You just dislike the writing in the second game right?

Yes, it’s the most non Star Wars shit I’ve encountered until you get to Disney’s stuff. Plus it’s broken and unfinished.

I guess you’re right insofar as Bethesda DEI shit feels more like a blatantly soulless cash grab for Blackrock money, whereas Obsoydian DEI shit feels like it was made by true believers

Yep. Stick it in there cuz it’s on the checklist vs REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.

but I subscribe to a philosophy that any DEI shit is bad and companies that promote it should not get your hard earned money unless it is absolutely necessary

I completely agree.

DEI slop as of late, but it’s actually more important that Bethesda have that lesson hammered home since they have IPs like Fallout and TES that will probably sell like crack anyways. Obsoydian just has boring IPs no one cares about like this game.

Hopefully Starfield was a learning lesson for them. Maybe not but maybe.
Obshitian just proved who I always knew they were.

Doesn't Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 count as one?

Sorta. It has zero fantasy elements which is a turn off for a lot of people. I know I stopped playing the first game because I got bored with it.

Deep inside, he doesn't want to end up like those zealous supporters of Cyberpunk 2077 that ended up with huge eggs on their faces when the game came out an unfinished bug-ridden mess that looked like nothing in the teasers and trailers.

Yeah but all that got pretty much turned around so now it’s not even worth mentioning. They had egg on their face for a short time and then got delivered surf and turf with Edgerunners and the complete overhaul of 2077.

You’ve nailed it on the head

I typically do if I’m being honest.

I only have 100% faith in older games that are hard copies.

But those games are already out and we know what they’re like. No faith to be had there.

 

[TrainWreckWatcher]

My post got nuked with the rollback, but I'll say that Tainted Grail and Monomyth are the ones I have the most faith in.
The Wayward Realm games I don't trust. The devs in that game come off as out of touch and out of practice.
They've also had issues in the past and I don't fully remember it but there was political spergery by one of them.

 

[Prophetic Spirit]

sorry im not a puritanical retard

Well, i'm not a v-tuber fag who lowered its standards to the ground, unlike you.

 

[Max Weber]

The Wayward Realm games I don't trust. The devs in that game come off as out of touch and out of practice.
They've also had issues in the past and I don't fully remember it but there was political spergery by one of them.

And I'm gonna take this opportunity to repost an article (Medium, archive) by a former member of the team, as well as a podcast (only the first ~1.5 hours are relevant) with him, showing that development to be a complete clusterfuck.

 

[TrainWreckWatcher]

And I'm gonna take this opportunity to repost an article (Medium, archive) by a former member of the team, as well as a podcast (only the first ~1.5 hours are relevant) with him, showing that development to be a complete clusterfuck.

You found it! I was looking for this. I think the one I read was from the perspective of D who had left so it may not be this one, but this article was a bitch to find googling around. So much I couldn't get it so thank you for doing so.

I forget who exactly reached him, but “D” showed strong interest in working on the new game with us, so we happily brought him on. He was a junior programmer, but incredibly resourceful. Using online resources, he started building a 1:1 recreation of an entire country (tens of thousands of square miles), which we would use as a base for building our alternate-history fantasy world upon. He even did some early in-engine tests with the Unity engine.

He was easily the most active person on the technical side in the early months. But unfortunately, after a group call with the founders and larger dev team, some of them, including one of the founders, were text-chatting after the official video meeting ended. They discussed many things, including politics, and were being very demeaning toward a particular set of views and some popular political commentators. I hadn’t seen this chat, as I closed out of the window right after the video conference ended, but “D” stayed on and read these messages.

The team rarely, if ever, discussed politics, and especially in the recent, divisive political atmosphere today, I have kept my personal beliefs to myself, and have made it a personal rule to never delve into political discussion on my YouTube channel or on this game project, as I know how aggravating and upsetting it can get when two opposing positions clash.

Soon after, we got an email of resignation from “D”, saying that he was reminded of a previous workplace which was similarly demeaning to the political views he held, and that he felt oppressed and uncomfortable working with us anymore. I remember one line from the email that still sticks with me today, “The world has gone mad.”

 

[X Prime]

Why do I suspect the buried lede there is that the founders and such were rabid leftists?

 

[pee pee farms]

Quest: you must infiltrate the enemies polycule and steal their dilator. Optional objective: collect 15 butt plugs from enemy corpses.
Why is everyone complaining this game sounds epic.

 

[jje100010001]

Why do I suspect the buried lede there is that the founders and such were rabid leftists?

Probably not originally, but with the amount of turnover effectively making Nu-Obsidian a different company, it’s likely that the leadership left are true believers.

 

[Mike Matei's Penis]

Can we go back to the Microsoft that wouldn't even allow a black woman on the cover on Fable 3? God I miss the 2010s.

 

[The Doom Slayer]

Can we go back to the Microsoft that wouldn't even allow a black woman on the cover on Fable 3? God I miss the 2010s.

I hate to tell you this but a black woman is most likely taking over Xbox after Spencer leaves

 

[Golden Boy]

He's doing it very grudgingly - he can't help taking potshots at "those OTHER gifters" for forcing him to do this.

I saw this sentiment on so many left leaning RPG youtube content. seems like sour grapes considering the right wing grifters get more views than the pro-left grift.

To me it just shows how indefensible the comments are that are coming out of these companies. Not even the biggest sweepers want to defend this anti-white shit anymore.

 

[Caddo Cobgang]

I just read more about this,Art Director legit has to be fired for that shit, its one thing to feel sympathy for people, its another thing to bitch about crusty white dudes and purposely alienate your fucking auidence that openly, I think people like Grummz are complete and utter retards, but this shit is starting to smell of BlackRock Money

 

[Anon88]

I just realized how weird it is that they’re not reusing Ydwin as a companion in this game seeing that she’s kind of a fan favorite and that they had some of her background already wrote and unused. The little I’ve seen of it actually looks kind of cool and I would love to see it actually in a game.

 

[Prokhor Zakharov]

I wonder when companies will realize that when their people freak out and attack their fans, it's not that they won't play the game, because they will play it, but they will literally never, ever pay a single red cent for it.

Anyone who buys this game, and is white, is a fucking race traitor.

The staff of Obsidian discriminate against and actively hate white people. Don't ever let that leave your mind when you hear the name of this game or the studio that created it. Make a point of mentioning it whenever anyone you know mentions the game or the developer and it is unlikely they have heard about this bullshit. Don't be a pussy, make it clear that if they buy this game, or anything else made by this company, they are a fucking race traitor. Black people do it all the time "Don't shop their, they called someone a nigger!" White people should do the same. Make them pay for their bullshit! We need to make it known that if you discriminate against white people, it will hurt your company, and your bottom line. The only reason this soy faced cuck can say what he said without a second thought is that he doesn't think it will harm him, the game he has worked on, nor the company he works for. We need to prove that he is 100% fucking wrong. If you buy it or support the company he works for, you are proving him right! Show him, and everyone else that will discriminate against white people that we will make them pay, one way or another.

You can be damn sure that I will cold, dead in the ground before I will ever give Obsidian another single bloody cent of my money ever again.

 

[TrainWreckWatcher]

Anyone who buys this game, and is white, is a fucking race traitor.

The staff of Oblivion discriminate against and actively hate white people.

I think you meant Obsidian, but yeah you're right.

 

[Prophetic Spirit]

I think you meant Obsidian, but yeah you're right.

But Oblivion hates whitey nords and niggers shitguards too.