Pillars of Eternity

abelard · 16-09-2012 8:32pm

I've donated, and still looking forward to it very much, but also a little underwhelmed by the stretch goals. Also, one of my very favourite things about Baldur's Gate was experimenting with all the various classes and combinations of classes you could use to make up a party. With the 1.2 million mark hit though, we are now at only 4 races, 6 classes and 6 companions which feels quite underwhelming as well - I'd really like to see the extra money pumped into lots of new classes, abilities, party members, dungeons, items etc

Sarky · 17-09-2012 2:00am

I'd actually prefer a small number of races with more fleshed out differences. With The only major difference between a human and elf in D&D was a dexterity bonus at the start. It did buggerall to flavour your perceptions of the world or how it reacted to you. I'd much rather they made the race you pick as important for shaping the game as the class you choose, the difference between an elf fighter and a dwarf fighter is usually negligible in these games. So if they spend less time making loads of races and concentrate on history, culture and dialogue that makes a small number of races really unique, I'll be a happy gamer indeed.

Zapp Brannigan · 19-09-2012 6:11am

MAc version funded!

Will we see a Linux one?

Kiith · 19-09-2012 9:51am

I'd say it will reach all of it's stretch goals. Most of the popular kickstarters seem to get a lot of funding in their last 3 days as well, so i'd say it will exceed all of them.

danthefan · 15-10-2012 6:53pm

Around a day left now, they're ~280k short of the 3.5m stretch goal. Hopefully it gets there!

Kiith · 16-10-2012 1:41pm

It's at 3.4 million now, and has become the biggest kickstarter game to date. It will probably reach the 3.5 million mark as well, with around 12 hours to go.

Burning Eclipse · 16-10-2012 2:09pm

/supported. They deserve it

Sarky · 16-10-2012 2:29pm

I am in love with the concept in-game-style screens they posted. I really miss artwork like that in games.

worldalpha · 16-10-2012 2:40pm

That's an insane amount of money raised on KS!

danthefan · 16-10-2012 2:49pm

Backed it for the game plus expansion in the end.

danthefan · 16-10-2012 7:33pm

Comfortably made the 3.5m. Hopefully this game lives up to the promise!

Zapp Brannigan · 16-10-2012 8:36pm

Upped my pledge to $50. So excited for this game, although it is gonna be a long time until release!

mewso · 17-10-2012 12:54am

Pretty cringy stream of countdown to the end - http://www.twitch.tv/obsidian

Sarky · 17-10-2012 2:02am

And that, as they say, is that. With the addition of Paypal, I'd imagine they've hit well over 4 million.

Today is a good day for old school RPGs. Now I just have to figure out how I'll afford a hotel room for Gaelcon this month after blowing all my money on a collector's edition I won't see for another year and a half...

Kiith · 17-10-2012 9:10am

Didn't quite reach €4 million, but hopefully they'll still do some of the goals they hoped to (i.e. live instrumentation). Will be good to eventually see some actual progress on the game as well.

Jilm · 18-10-2012 1:55am

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/obsidian/project-eternity/posts

Kickstarter and PayPal Stats

So as of about 1:30 PM PDT, here’s where we stand funding-wise:

Kickstarter
Backers: 73,986
Pledged: $3,986,929

PayPal
Backers: 3,681
Pledged: $176,279

Totals
Backers: 77,667
Pledged: $4,163,208

Stretch Goals

So that means we hit the 4M stretch goal, right?
Yes!

How do PayPal backers affect the Mega Dungeon size?
It counts toward the Mega Dungeon! We hit fifteen (15!!!!) levels!

Sarky · 10-04-2013 3:27pm

So they've been showing off some of the nice visual stuff they've been working on. It's looking stunning. Well, the character movement needs some work but hopefully that'll be ironed out. The tides and lighting effects are just lovely. This is going to be a very pretty game. If you don't want to listen to the guy talk skip to 1:47.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUleDEFkUtE

Nody · 11-04-2013 9:39am

RopeDrink wrote: »

Give... Me... This... Game... NAO!

I've been gagging for some old-school RPG deliciousness and with the way this is going so far this may very well be what I've been gagging for...

I want... No, I need this game... Do not disappoint me damnit!

How old school do you want to go? There is a nice Eye of Beholder (four party member, box movement etc.) style game out there ( can't recall name off) dungeon crawler that's tuned old style (i.e. make a mistake and you die quickly!) that's cheap and can carry you over,.

Blowfish · 11-04-2013 10:03am

Nody wrote: »

How old school do you want to go? There is a nice Eye of Beholder (four party member, box movement etc.) style game out there ( can't recall name off) dungeon crawler that's tuned old style (i.e. make a mistake and you die quickly!) that's cheap and can carry you over,.

Legend of Grimrock. It's pretty decent alright, but unfortunately they kept some of the flaws of the games it was based on, most noticable being the exploitability of the combat.

Nody · 11-04-2013 10:59am

Blowfish wrote: »

Legend of Grimrock. It's pretty decent alright, but unfortunately they kept some of the flaws of the games it was based on, most noticable being the exploitability of the combat.

That's the only way to make it doable though :P

I'm fine with the "exploit" as you need to be aware of were things are at all time etc. as well.

Kiith · 11-12-2013 2:22am

New trailer/teaser has been released, showing some gameplay. It's looking fantastic.

SeantheMan · 11-12-2013 4:14am

I'd point to Sarkys comment above...the character movement still looks bad. The running is awful

Kiith · 11-12-2013 4:17am

They are a bit rough, but they've apparently said the animations are still in alpha, so i'd expect an improvement as we get closer to launch.

Kiith · 11-12-2013 6:36am

Big write up on Rock Paper Shotgun as well. Loads of stuff in it.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/12/10/mega-impressions-obsidians-pillars-of-eternity/

Raphael · 19-03-2014 5:00pm

Big news recently, they've partnered with Paradox Interactive for Publishing.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/video-games/conferences/gdc2014/11140-Pillars-of-Eternity-Deal-Announced-By-Obsidian-and-Paradox

Sounds great to me - No need to worry about any of the publishing or marketing stuff for Obsidian, who don't really have people who can do that anyways, plus a second QA team to help with Obsidians famous flaw.

Kiith · 19-03-2014 5:40pm

The more people that get to play this, the better. Really looking forward to it.

Reekwind · 19-03-2014 8:47pm

That's good news on the Paradox front. There's a decent-size interview on RPS with the CEOs of both companies

Varik · 19-03-2014 8:50pm

Raphael wrote: »

Big news recently, they've partnered with Paradox Interactive for Publishing.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/video-games/conferences/gdc2014/11140-Pillars-of-Eternity-Deal-Announced-By-Obsidian-and-Paradox

Sounds great to me - No need to worry about any of the publishing or marketing stuff for Obsidian, who don't really have people who can do that anyways, plus a second QA team to help with Obsidians famous flaw.

South Park was remarkably problem free.

How much is really Obsidians fault when they're working on outsourced games which are done to even stricter schedules and contracts.

Raphael · 19-03-2014 9:33pm

Haven't played South Park, but it's true that it's largely not their fault - only so much you can do when the publisher is telling you to stop doing QA and ship. I was mostly being tongue in cheek. Though it is good to have a seperate QA team that haven't tested on every single build.

Kiith · 20-04-2014 8:27pm

The posted a track from the soundtrack a few days ago. Sounds brilliant.

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