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.
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.
More Avellone: http://www.gatheryourparty.com/articles/2012/06/01/interview-chris-avellone-creative-director-and-co-owner-obsidian-entertainment-inc/
The hardcore old-schoolers can go hang. If it’s a good game, it’s a good game, regardless of anything else.
That’s fighting talk, that is.
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.