Black Isle's Torn

[McClure]

Hello everybody.

I'm an old fan of Black Isle's work, and think that the new Obsidian games are the best contemporary CRPGs out there (and yes, you do not fool me with your new name, guys. BI's touch is so obvious everywhere).

While googling for other BI/Obsidian games, I found an unfamiliar name: Torn.

 

I'm curious to know if there is any chance that at any point in the future Obsidian will try and complete this old project, or did the idea die with the name of Black Isle?

[Sannom]

I have my doubts that Obsidian would make that game after all this time. Perhaps something similar, but not the exact same game.

 

If you're interested into that game, read this.

Edited September 19, 2011 by Sannom

[McClure]

Yes, I think it is safe to presume that Torn, as it was supposed to be, is gone. But from what I read, New Vegas borrows A LOT of its ideas, concepts and names from Van Buren (RIP), so hope is still there

 

Do Obsidian employees sometimes comment in the forum and/or answer questions?

[Morgoth]

Do Obsidian employees sometimes comment in the forum and/or answer questions?

Many years back Obsidian staff was quite talkative, nowadays not so much. Even the Big Cheese dropped into the forums and talked to us lower pawns.

 

You're lucky today if you get a developer saying "W00t I like dat horse armor too!" comment. I.E. Non-informative, useless stuff.

[McClure]

Many years back Obsidian staff was quite talkative, nowadays not so much. Even the Big Cheese dropped into the forums and talked to us lower pawns.

 

You're lucky today if you get a developer saying "W00t I like dat horse armor too!" comment. I.E. Non-informative, useless stuff.

any guesses what changed? Edited September 20, 2011 by McClure

[Nightshape]

They realised the community was made up of rabid miscreants and misfits - a whole new kind of global social underclass, and further association would only result in the demise of Obsidian, much as with BIS.

[Spider]

It's not quite as bad as Motgoth makes it out to be. A couple of developers can write fairly lengthy and informative posts, although not very frequently.

 

As for Torn, the game died long before BIS, so I doubt it will ever be revisited (but I'm sure they've already used some ideas in other games)

[Sargallath Abraxium]

They realised the community was made up of rabid miscreants and misfits - a whole new kind of global social underclass, and further association would only result in the demise of Obsidian, much as with BIS.

 

 

...what a load o' horseshyte; whilst anyone 'round in them days knows I obviously admits ta possibly knowin' a few o' yer rabid micreants, said miscreants also replied ta an' answer faaaaaar more queries an' comments than any dev e'er thought o' on the ol' BIS boards, hence one o' the main reasons the devs made theyselves more available ta us miscreants an' the community expanded soo much in so li'l time...BIS died cuz Herve's a dumb@ss...BIObsidian be a ghost town most times cuz the community ain't gittin' that luvin' feelin' anymores...cuz it's gone...gone...gone...whoa oh whoa oh OH!...

 

 

...WHO LUVS YA, BABY!!...

[Fionavar]

Thread Pruned: Seems someone double posted ... must be rusty @ the Internet

[kirottu]

Also, the lead designer of Torn, Dave Maldonado, haven't worked for Obsidian in long time.

[Sargallath Abraxium]

Thread Pruned: Seems someone double posted ... must be rusty @ the Internet

 

...tryin' ta use "Back to..." ta fix up spellin'...me lazyness still knows no bounds...

 

 

...WHO LUVS YA, BABY!!...

[Nightshape]

They realised the community was made up of rabid miscreants and misfits - a whole new kind of global social underclass, and further association would only result in the demise of Obsidian, much as with BIS.

 

 

...what a load o' horseshyte; whilst anyone 'round in them days knows I obviously admits ta possibly knowin' a few o' yer rabid micreants, said miscreants also replied ta an' answer faaaaaar more queries an' comments than any dev e'er thought o' on the ol' BIS boards, hence one o' the main reasons the devs made theyselves more available ta us miscreants an' the community expanded soo much in so li'l time...BIS died cuz Herve's a dumb@ss...BIObsidian be a ghost town most times cuz the community ain't gittin' that luvin' feelin' anymores...cuz it's gone...gone...gone...whoa oh whoa oh OH!...

 

 

...WHO LUVS YA, BABY!!...

 

Hey man, I was around - I really was takin the piss with this.

 

We all know why Interplay imploded, heck, us old folks know damn well that Interplay survived a little longer because of BIS, heck IWD2 is a testament to making a game with next to no resources at all, I remember Josh actually coming to the community with the suggestion of going 3E, obviously trying to figure out if it'd be such a negative backlash it may infact not be worthwhile.

 

Hell, d'ya remember the merc class? Which basically became a feat because of that change.

 

That said after 10+ years of jabbering back at us, they've surely figured that we ain't worth jabbering at.

 

Obsidian ain't BIS, and if the folks ain't posting its good news, means they've got too much to do.

[Gorth]

I actually find a couple of the guys (Nathaniel, Alvin and others) have been doing a decent job in keeping the "miscreants" company in the DSIII forum and J.E. Sawyer is still talking to people in the FO3:NV threads the last time I looked

[sorophx]

if only these forums had a dev-tracker tool to be able to follow dev posts... *sigh*

[Sargallath Abraxium]

...misses the Isle, I does...ya can ne'er truly go 'ome...

 

 

...WHO LUVS YA, BABY!!...

[Gizmo]

I actually find a couple of the guys (Nathaniel, Alvin and others) have been doing a decent job in keeping the "miscreants" company in the DSIII forum and J.E. Sawyer is still talking to people in the FO3:NV threads the last time I looked

His inbox is always full (J.E. Sawyer's)... No new messages make it through.

[Wombat]

I wonder if they would be happy about this but you can stalk follow Sawyer and Avellone on twitter and Formspring (Sawyer only). Luckily to them, I'm not a heavy twitter user, though.