Fionavar Posted June 11, 2023 Share Posted June 11, 2023 Quote Okay trolls, denizens and gecklings, it's Obsidian's 20th anniversary and we're rolling out two new events to mark this amazing milestone! In this one, we invite you to submit the burning questions you have for Obsidian and its Devs! The Squad will then discern the top three after the event closes July 3rd. Gifts from Admin will then be rewarded to the winners of the 20th Anniversary Forum Event: Top 3 Dev Questions. The universe is change; your life is what our thoughts make it - Marcus Aurelius (161) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bartimaeus Posted June 14, 2023 Share Posted June 14, 2023 (edited) wait a second, are we supposed to post here? yep, that's it, that's the question to the devs ok but really, i feel like these two threads need to be pinned/shortcutted some way for all of the individual game forums, make them a global announcement of some kind, nobody hardly even visits this section except for us old grumpy fogies tryna make the "new posts" indicator go away Edited June 14, 2023 by Bartimaeus 1 Quote How I have existed fills me with horror. For I have failed in everything - spelling, arithmetic, riding, tennis, golf; dancing, singing, acting; wife, mistress, whore, friend. Even cooking. And I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying'. I tried with all my heart. In my dreams, I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorth Posted June 14, 2023 Share Posted June 14, 2023 9 minutes ago, Bartimaeus said: ok but really, i feel like these two threads need to be pinned/shortcutted some way for all of the individual game forums, make them a global announcement of some kind, nobody hardly even visits this section except for us old grumpy fogies tryna make the "new posts" indicator go away Passed along the suggestion... “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirottu Posted June 14, 2023 Share Posted June 14, 2023 1 hour ago, Bartimaeus said: nobody hardly even visits this section except for us old grumpy fogies tryna make the "new posts" indicator go away I feel personally attacked. 3 This post is not to be enjoyed, discussed, or referenced on company time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Humanoid Posted June 14, 2023 Share Posted June 14, 2023 Questions and memes are great and all, but have you heard Hocus Pocus by Focus? 1 L I E S T R O N GL I V E W R O N G Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirottu Posted June 14, 2023 Share Posted June 14, 2023 1 hour ago, Humanoid said: Questions and memes are great and all, but have you heard Hocus Pocus by Focus? A perfect song for any situation. This post is not to be enjoyed, discussed, or referenced on company time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fionavar Posted June 14, 2023 Author Share Posted June 14, 2023 The Announcement is now on every landing page at the top - does this help? 5 The universe is change; your life is what our thoughts make it - Marcus Aurelius (161) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ordo! Posted June 15, 2023 Share Posted June 15, 2023 I don't know if we can ask questions about a specific Obsidian's game or if we need to be more general ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JM Caju Posted June 15, 2023 Share Posted June 15, 2023 Hello Obsidian! Are you guys interested in working with remakes? I would love to play Alpha Protocol and FONV remakes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kanisatha Posted June 15, 2023 Share Posted June 15, 2023 Hello Obsidian! What's with the recent push to make first-person-only games? When TOW1 was released, Obsidian claimed they couldn't include a third-person option because of their budget limitations. Well, things are different now, aren't they? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PK htiw klaw eriF Posted June 15, 2023 Share Posted June 15, 2023 (edited) Obsidian, who would win in a fight between The Mystery Man (Lost Highway) and young Cesar (New Vegas)? Who at Obsidian can eat the most hotdogs in 15 minutes? Edited June 17, 2023 by PK htiw klaw eriF "Akiva Goldsman and Alex Kurtzman run the 21st century version of MK ULTRA." - majestic "I'm gonna hunt you down so that I can slap you square in the mouth." - Bartimaeus "Without individual thinking you can't notice the plot holes." - InsaneCommander "Just feed off the suffering of gamers." - Malcador "You are calling my taste crap." -Hurlshort "thankfully it seems like the creators like Hungary less this time around." - Sarex "Don't forget the wakame, dumbass" -Keyrock "Are you trolling or just being inadvertently nonsensical?' -Pidesco "we have already been forced to admit you are at least human" - uuuhhii "I refuse to buy from non-woke businesses" - HoonDing "feral camels are now considered a pest" - Gorth "Melkathi is known to be an overly critical grumpy person" - Melkathi "Oddly enough Sanderson was a lot more direct despite being a Mormon" - Zoraptor "I found it greatly disturbing to scroll through my cartoon's halfing selection of genitalias." - Wormerine "Am I phrasing in the most negative light for them? Yes, but it's not untrue." - ShadySands Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raithe Posted June 15, 2023 Share Posted June 15, 2023 Salutation Obsidian. Are we ever likely to see a similar complexity of choice and consequences as done in Alpha Protocol in any future games? Or was the combined reactivity of conversations, character attitudes, the timing of when and where you met characters and mission choices too stressful, frustrating, and convoluted for testing and story writing to revisit that approach? "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lobotomy42 Posted June 15, 2023 Share Posted June 15, 2023 Do you think you could please continue to release PC games on GOG? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katphood Posted June 15, 2023 Share Posted June 15, 2023 (edited) Question: When will you folks finally give us a nice Fallout 2 clone(2.5D isometric/turn-based, guns, dialogue trees, mysterious storyline)? Edited July 13, 2023 by Katphood There used to be a signature here, a really cool one...and now it's gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gromnir Posted June 15, 2023 Share Posted June 15, 2023 "the wound is the place where the light enters you." am forgetting the origin or attribution at the moment. *shrug* our personal experience suggests we learned far more from our failures than our victories. our query is for any and all obsidian developers who would care to answer and am hopeful responses need not be limited by the twentieth anniversary event; am genuine curious and would welcome any and all developer answers. regardless, our question is as follows: what memorable error related to a game development made obsidian (or individual obsidian developers) better at crafting games? please offer details 'bout the mistake which 'brought about enlightenment as well as the resulting epiphany. thanks in advance. HA! Good Fun! "If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927) "Im indifferent to almost any murder as long as it doesn't affect me or mine."--Gfted1 (September 30, 2019) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fionavar Posted June 16, 2023 Author Share Posted June 16, 2023 17 hours ago, Ordo! said: I don't know if we can ask questions about a specific Obsidian's game or if we need to be more general ? You can ask whatever you want ... what excites you to imagine knowing more about? 1 The universe is change; your life is what our thoughts make it - Marcus Aurelius (161) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ordo! Posted June 16, 2023 Share Posted June 16, 2023 Hey Obsidian ! How deep Avowed and TOW2 will be from a RPG point of view ? Are you using your new resources to go deeper rather than wider ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wormerine Posted June 16, 2023 Share Posted June 16, 2023 While Obsidian is primarily known as "an RPG studio", you have quite versitile portfolio - you made sequels to games from studios with varied sensibilities, you worked with different IPs (from D&D to Stick of Truth), you did variety of RPGs (top down, First Person, action, jRPG) and recently explored different genres all together like survival with Grounded, or narrative adventure with Pentiment. With such diverse output - what do you think makes "an Obsidian game" an Obsidian game? When you explore new possibilities, are there some design concepts or ideals you try to bring to each of your projects, or do you think of each game as its own work, with its own objective, and potentially own audience? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
undernier Posted June 16, 2023 Share Posted June 16, 2023 Hi! I would love to know more about the future of some of my favourite games (Deadfire and Grounded) but there's really one universe that has been particularly dear to me since 1997 so here it is: what's the likelihood of Obsidian making another Fallout game (either 1st person or crpg?) in the near future (that is in less than 10 years/before Fallout 5 is released)? Looking forward to your next projects and Happy anniversary! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sargallath Abraxium Posted June 17, 2023 Share Posted June 17, 2023 ...when??...git on it!!... ...WHO LUVS YA, BABY!!... A long, long time ago, but I can still remember, How the Trolling used to make me smile. And I knew if I had my chance, I could egg on a few Trolls to "dance", And maybe we'd be happy for a while. But then Krackhead left and so did Klown; Volo and Turnip were banned, Mystake got run out o' town. Bad news on the Front Page, BIOweenia said goodbye in a heated rage. I can't remember if I cried When I heard that TORN was recently fried, But sadness touched me deep inside, The day...Black Isle died. For tarna, Visc, an' the rest o' the ol' Islanders that fell along the way Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daven Posted June 17, 2023 Share Posted June 17, 2023 Any chance of a reconciliation with MCA? 1 nowt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gromnir Posted June 18, 2023 Share Posted June 18, 2023 8 hours ago, daven said: Any chance of a reconciliation with MCA? okay, that one made us chuckle. HA! Good Fun! 1 3 "If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927) "Im indifferent to almost any murder as long as it doesn't affect me or mine."--Gfted1 (September 30, 2019) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bugarup Posted June 26, 2023 Share Posted June 26, 2023 You guys obviously do a lot of research on your games, given how detailed and plausible your worlds are so that even little things stick in memory, like rings considered to be tacky to use as jewelry in Tyranny or yacht's name in Alpha Protocol being a reference to cult soviet cartoon, and it's clearly more than "lets google this sh†t", so here's my question - how do you do your research? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bartimaeus Posted June 26, 2023 Share Posted June 26, 2023 Now that we're two weeks into this, are you perhaps starting to think that your player base is just too old and ornery for making memes? 1 Quote How I have existed fills me with horror. For I have failed in everything - spelling, arithmetic, riding, tennis, golf; dancing, singing, acting; wife, mistress, whore, friend. Even cooking. And I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying'. I tried with all my heart. In my dreams, I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarex Posted June 26, 2023 Share Posted June 26, 2023 1 hour ago, Bartimaeus said: Now that we're two weeks into this, are you perhaps starting to think that your player base is just too old and ornery for making memes? I don't think it's even (only) that. What memes can you even make with their offered "themes". They should have left it open and the mods could have done the pruning if needed. "because they filled mommy with enough mythic power to become a demi-god" - KP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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