Task wrote on Jan 12, 2023, 11:08:
Jeez... I won't lie, this does not give me high confidence in Ubisoft's Star Wars game.

As long as Smedley doesn't start working on it now he's left Amazon...

Task wrote on Jan 12, 2023, 11:08:
Jeez... I won't lie, this does not give me high confidence in Ubisoft's Star Wars game.

I dunno, Immortals Fenyx Rising is surprisingly good. Sure, it's got a bit of Ubisoftism going on, but hey, they removed towers for just using binocular vision anytime you want. It's kind of like a Breath of the Wild clone with Greek gods. But your weapon doesn't break.

Verno wrote on Jan 12, 2023, 07:34:
They need to do a documentary about the making of Skull and Bones, what a disaster.

I feel like there are a lot of drugs and hookers involved, and very, very little work.

Jeez... I won't lie, this does not give me high confidence in Ubisoft's Star Wars game.

jacobvandy wrote on Jan 11, 2023, 23:24:
RIP Splinter Cell/The Crew/Immortals/Mario + Rabbids/Rayman/Starlink or whatever they're dropping... But now they can throw a few hundred more bodies onto the next Assassin's Creed monstrosity, so that's nice.

The Crew, if they indeed cancelled another installment, isn't a big loss. I played the first for a couple hours, and played the demo for 2. Both games have awful controls, with cars that drive so simplistically that there's no learning curve. A racing game without a solid, reliable, good-feeling physics engine under it won't be fun for very long no matter how much content it has. It's what I didn't like about The Crew, and it's a similar issue to the Test Drive Unlimited series. TDU was a brilliant idea, executed terribly.

They need to do a documentary about the making of Skull and Bones, what a disaster.

WannaLogAlready wrote on Jan 11, 2023, 23:05:

Acleacius wrote on Jan 11, 2023, 21:45:
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If it's a good pirate and seafaring RPG your after you should consider Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire.
It's highly rated and frequently on sale under $10 usd for base game, Fanatical gave it away for Free, iirc.

Sadly I'm 2D/ISO impaired -except for platformers or metroids- as l love exploring above all and one look at a 2D screen and that's it, you saw everything there is.
Those far away tiny faceless characters like ants (sorry Ant) and so little immersion, like playing in the 1990s.

I *love* RPGs but hard as I tried for many hours I couldn't finish Tyranny, nor PoE 1, and never started PoE 2.
Maybe I'm not the only one as except for PoE 1 those games mostly flopped.

And I read Obsidian is making a new RPG but 3D, not 2D, because of this consideration.

I'm also an explorer type and usually prefer 3D over 2D but the Pillars games had a decent amount of exploration imo (you don't see everything at once as there is still a fog of war that needs to be uncovered) and controlling a party of characters with that many spells/abilities is simply more practical from a 2D or top-down point of view. There are also "secrets" on the maps that can only be explored if you have a character with high enough perception.
I was never a huge fan of the Infinity engine games but the Pillars games are among my all-time favorites (Tyranny was also meh to me though).

It is borderline mysterious why Deadfire sold as poorly as it did. It was better than the first PoE in nearly every single way. I would not blame it on being 2D or top-down PoV. The Divinity Original Sin games were selling like hotcakes at the same time and even pretty hardcore games like Pathfinder Kingmaker and Wrath of the Righteous did really well.

Maybe people were fed up with Obsidian's buggy releases and the endless waiting for patches but that is even more true for Owlcat and Pathfinder who had quite the messy history with Kingmaker and who keep breaking and fixing WotR in an endless cycle to this day (with an entire new season pass #2 of content coming up).

Or maybe it was simply bad timing in the midst of crowdfunding fatigue or a lack of marketing or whatever... Deadfire is definitely one of those rare puzzling commercial failures.
Whatever the reason may be, it is a very unfortunate failure in my opinion because I would have loved to see more cRPGs with that RPG engine. Primarily a PoE III to finish the story of The Watcher but I think the engine (and developer) would have also been a prime candidate for BG3 or a Star Wars party RPG or... endless possibilities, really.

Oh well, instead of PoE III we are now getting Avowed in the same universe which is expected to be a Skyrim clone for Xbox console kiddies. Great. Really, really great.

Don't get me wrong... I have no issue with Skyrim and, as I said, I prefer 3D 1st/3rd person RPGs myself but we can have RPGs like that a dime a dozen, among many others, from Bethesda, CD Projekt or BioWare (new Dragon Age/Mass Effect).
Obsidian's Pillars/Tyranny-like RPGs were a nice alternative for when you were craving a more traditional party-based cRPG experience and it sucks a little to lose that alternative just because Deadfire (wrongfully) flopped.

Undoubtedly to find even more ways to monetize/loot box the shit out of it.

Cynical? Me? Nooooooo. /s

Where's my Quartz/Digits NFT stuff Ubisoft?
I need it to go with my Super Trump blowing Cowboy Trump NFT cards.

fuck me, what a world

RIP Splinter Cell/The Crew/Immortals/Mario + Rabbids/Rayman/Starlink or whatever they're dropping... But now they can throw a few hundred more bodies onto the next Assassin's Creed monstrosity, so that's nice.

Acleacius wrote on Jan 11, 2023, 21:45:
... ...
If it's a good pirate and seafaring RPG your after you should consider Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire.
It's highly rated and frequently on sale under $10 usd for base game, Fanatical gave it away for Free, iirc.

Sadly I'm 2D/ISO impaired -except for platformers or metroids- as l love exploring above all and one look at a 2D screen and that's it, you saw everything there is.
Those far away tiny faceless characters like ants (sorry Ant) and so little immersion, like playing in the 1990s.

I *love* RPGs but hard as I tried for many hours I couldn't finish Tyranny, nor PoE 1, and never started PoE 2.
Maybe I'm not the only one as except for PoE 1 those games mostly flopped.

And I read Obsidian is making a new RPG but 3D, not 2D, because of this consideration.

xXStellarDadXx wrote on Jan 11, 2023, 20:23:
damn...have been waiting for this game forever...

If it's a good pirate and seafaring RPG your after you should consider Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire.
It's highly rated and frequently on sale under $10 usd for base game, Fanatical gave it away for Free, iirc.

damn...have been waiting for this game forever...