With the once great visage of Interplay gutted, dragged through the mud and nailed up on a stake for the vultures of corporate interests to pick on its intestines it is quickly becoming clear to me that Obsidian must be the torch bearer to re-ignite the next golden age in PC RPGing.
Dont get me wrong, Bethsaeda, Bioware and countless other studios make nice Role Playing games, however they do not have the gritty realism and the willingness to make games with Mature content. They also do not have the talent to create real living breathing game worlds. I dont know about the rest of the fine people here but I for one always thought that these game worlds needed something, that they had something missing. I think that if you guys would create an original-from scratch isometric RPG, that you might just have the biggest hit on your hands since Fallout.
The fine people at Trokia made a wonderful game but it fell far short of its true potential beacuase of balancing and coding issues.
I suppose Obsidian would be the only studio with the drive, talent and know-how to pull this off. And I hope to god that they do, beacuase I for one am NOT looking forward to KOTOR 2 or some other farmed out sequel (Unless it were Fallout and I dont think that will happen any time soon) I suppose my message would be, dont imitate, dont sell out and definitely dont get bought out.
What I am trying to say is that you the fine people at Obsidian carry the hopes, dreams and ambitions of a lot of old school RPGers. God spped and good luck!
-Drazzil
