Obsidian’s Countdown…To Eterrnity?

Obsidian Entertainment’s countdown is on its final day now, and once again a new snippet of cryptic text adorns their website:

“This world wants to drag us down, it does. It made you a Watcher. No one asks for that. And the weight, that guilt they want to hang around my neck, you don’t have to carry it one more step. You think they won’t let you rest, but it’s not up to them. It never was.”

For some reason, reading this, I was reminded of the Marathon series of games…