C2B's Next-Gen Obsidian RPG Speculation thread

[Walsingham]

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

 

 

 

Misread.

[JFSOCC]

new IP? something completely different.

 

Victorian you say?

 

Well you are the plumber of a sick city, you work in the sewers to clean them up and keep the machines working. meanwhile you try to set out your own living space down there, make it nice, dry, comfortable. You can spend time tunneling to wealthy mansions and as you add these rich folk to the plumbing network you gain access to their houses and can spy on them. This voyeurism is essential in coercing/manipulating your bosses into letting you get better places to work, alternatively you can rob the houses and bring the cool stuff back into the tunnels.

 

 

I dunno, there is just so much that could be done

[Zoma]

Set in a Victorian setting that deals with supernatural stuffs can have lots of potential.

 

Look at the adventure game Sherlock Holmes: The Awakening for instance.

[decado]

I don't think it will be Star Wars related. The Star Wars license is now in EA's hands and they have a big in-house RPG dev in the form of Bioware, so I doubt they'd go to Obsidian for that.

In this Kotaku article from a while back, Feargus said they were being contacted by Warner Bros (amongst others) to do an RPG with them.

Warner Bros has two big franchises that they like to turn into video-games: Lord of the Rings and their DC Comics IPs.

Warner Bros has also stated that they want to look into expanding their roster of DC Comics branded games beyond the Arkham games and Batman.

Could Obsidian's next project be an RPG based on a DC property?

 

 

This may all be wishful thinking on my part though.

 

God almighty I hope not.  DC sucks.

[GhoulishVisage]

God almighty I hope not.  DC sucks.

 

And you are fully entitled to your wrong opinion.

DC's current editorial for their comics and their cinematic universe may be (severely) lacking, but they have some fantastic ips and a rich history to draw from.

They also own Vertigo, so there's that.

Edited September 30, 2013 by GhoulishVisage

[decado]

 

God almighty I hope not.  DC sucks.

 

And you are fully entitled to your wrong opinion.

DC's current editorial for their comics and their cinematic universe may be (severely) lacking, but they have some fantastic ips and a rich history to draw from.

They also own Vertigo, so there's that.

 

They have some good IPs, sure.  It's almost impossible for them not to.  But you're absolutely right about their current editorial focus. It is off-the-rails stupid, IMO.  Batman is played out, and the Man of Steel film was a hilarious disaster.  Superman as a character is one of the most boring and dumb IPs around, and it is time for him to retire.  I think the Superman/Batman movie is going to be an embarrassment. 

 

You are also right about Vertigo, which is probably their strongest imprint in my view, at least from an artistic impression.  They do some really creative things with that label.  So maybe if they do decide to expand the franchise (and here we might not even be talking about what Obsidian has to do with it, since this is all speculation anyways) it will be Vertigo property and it will be awesome.  

Edited September 30, 2013 by decado

[GhoulishVisage]

I was thinking about some DC properties that could make for interesting RPGs. Off the top of my head:

Doom Patrol
Swamp Thing/Animal Man
Starman
The Shade
Gotham Central (Considering Avellone's interest in a The Wire RPG)
Demon Knights

Secret 6
Hellblazer
Frankenstein - Agents of SHADE

JLI

Astro City

That's some non-Vetigo stuff of course.

[Amentep]

Astro City

AFAIK, that one is creator owned, not DC owned.