2025: The year of obsidian?

[Jim Hawkins]

Hey all! Just joined here and i wanted to take a moment to appreciate how hyped i am that we're getting two big budget releases this year, both of which continue two of Obsidian's original IPs with a good chance of pushing them to larger audiences than ever before. Avowed is already looking fantastic and as a fan of the Outer Worlds i have nothing but confidence in the sequel, but i am perhaps even more hyped for what this might mean for Obsidian's future.

There was a lot of negativity about Avowed pre release (for the most bs reasons that i won't even get into) and the internet seems to have turned on the Outer Worlds as well lately, which had me a little worried, but with the release of Avowed and mainstream perception of it changing and becoming increasingly positive, i'm cautiously optimistic that there's basically no way for these games not to succeed. Quality titles like this don't reach the mainstream that often anymore and all it takes is more people playing them for them to become fans, and i think that's exactly what's going to happen. Already we are seeing more and more people going back to pillars and going back to outer worlds, i myself finally started Grounded for the first time (and it's fantastic!) and i realize now that this is only going to escalate, which can only mean good things for the future. It's a good time to be a fan is all.