Obsidian Fridays

It must be Friday: someone is griping at the RPG Codex about how Wasteland 2 will be the dying gasp of real RPGs.

Oh, wait, that was posted earlier this week.

I kid, but only slightly. While I’m sure that Wasteland 2 will be awesome with a cherry on top, I’m…less sanguine that it will deliver an experience that meets the increasingly exacting standards of the hardcore-RPG-gamer crowd. (Though it will probably deliver an experience that is vastly more old-school than the latest from Bethesda or BioWare.)

Moving on!

Chris Avellone was interviewed by GameStar, a Russian gaming site, wherein he talked a bit about the rebirth of old-school RPGs and teased the possibility of some Obsidian goodness at E3.

Oh, and according to one thread at the RPG Codex, Obsidian may be working on a next-gen console title.

And that’s about it…which, granted, is still more than there usually is to report about Obsidian in a given week.

5 Responses

  1. Infinitron says:

    I’m…less sanguine that it will deliver an experience that meets the increasingly exacting standards of the hardcore-RPG-gamer crowd.

    Nobody can meet it. 😉 But they can at least try.

  2. Sslaxx says:

    The hardcore old-schoolers can go hang. If it’s a good game, it’s a good game, regardless of anything else.

  3. Micro Magic says:

    There’s Wasteland 2, the Divinity game, the X-com strategy game, it’s looking up for the old school. Perhaps game systems are going to become more complex as people get bored with simple mechanics.

    I hope so, it’s about time.