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Welp. That came out of nowhere.

 

...so is Anthony Davis involved? You'd think he'd be a natural for this...umm...project.

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If you have any problems please come to Kickstarter and I will give you every penny I have but not like this...not like this...

Yeah, what he said. 

 

I love you guys, I really do. Pre-orders, collector's editions, DLC, dual-own (now that I think about it, like, 4 of your games), significant chunk o' change dropped on KS...there isn't much I won't do to support you. But I can't see myself playing this.

 

Fingers crossed that this is something that banks you a huge win so that we can all get back to our regularly scheduled RPG development. 

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I can see why they haven't been trying to hype it on the forums. We're not the target audience

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Well at least they are working on other projects. Always a good thing, and branching out to other genres can keep,things from being so insular.

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A me-too World of Tanks game? Srsly??!?!? Why do they need Obz's narrative skills for that? At least Skyforge is an MMO with a main storyline and quest galore, I can see why they would reach out for Obz. But this?

 

Oh well, I hope they get paid a lot for completely forgettable, cliché war stories. Rob them blind, Feargie! ;)

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Well this certainly wasn't an exciting bit of news... **** happens, I guess.

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Oh well, I hope they get paid a lot for completely forgettable, cliché war stories. Rob them blind, Feargie! ;)

That's not to say a real world war stories doesn't have plenty of potential for depth and nuance, certainly a lot more than Star Wars or the Forgotten Realms. I don't think we'll get that out of Armored Warfare, mind you, but there's a lot of potential (but also a lot more risks attached).

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Absolutely true about the potential. I didn't play it myself, but heard a lot of good things about Spec Ops: The Line, that it had a James Jones-style narrative. But I just can't imagine that kind of story/characters focus in a shooter MMO...

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A me-too World of Tanks game? Srsly??!?!? Why do they need Obz's narrative skills for that? At least Skyforge is an MMO with a main storyline and quest galore, I can see why they would reach out for Obz. But this?

 

Oh well, I hope they get paid a lot for completely forgettable, cliché war stories. Rob them blind, Feargie! ;)

To be perfectly fair, Obsidian makes games.

 

Period.

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Yes, they're a studio that makes money by making games. I know that.

 

Then again, a game of this type doesn't sound like a good bet to me. There are already a few WoT copycats out there trying to get a bigger and bigger slice of that admittedly huge pie (WoT is among most profitable MMOs), so you need to put out something clearly better than what's already on the market. Can they do that? They don't have any experience with multiplayer shooters, nor military warfare games, nothing of this sort.

 

Also, they never built an MMO before, which by all accounts is the most complex game type, carrying the highest risks in the entire industry. There are more examples of failures than of successes.

 

Putting the two together, I'm having a "we're making a WoW-killer!" flashback moment. We all know how those attempts turned out...

 

Why this?

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Skyforge people want to make a tank game. Skyforge people are working with Obsidian already. "Hey, wanna do this other thing for us?"

 

I mean if you've already got a good working relationship with an external studio, you're likely to give them first refusal on a new project rather than take the time and risk associated with finding another partner to do it.

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Skyforge people want to make a tank game. Skyforge people are working with Obsidian already. "Hey, wanna do this other thing for us?"

 

I mean if you've already got a good working relationship with an external studio, you're likely to give them first refusal on a new project rather than take the time and risk associated with finding another partner to do it.

The tanks game was before Skyforge from what I can tell actually.

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