How much prominence does combat need to have in an RPG? How necessary should combat be to progressing through — or passing — the game? And is there something “lesser” about including an “easy” difficulty setting?
Chris Avellone has parted ways with Obsidian Entertainment, the studio he helped found and co-owned.
Spam Spam Spam Humbug gets group! WtF Dragon is joined by Boolean Dragon, Linguistic Dragon, and others to discuss Obsidian Entertainment’s new RPG, Pillars of Eternity.
Pillars of Eternity launches this week…so have another dragon courtesy of this piece at Niche Gamer. Or a drake; I guess this one is a drake. Yeah.
Blue’s News: Obsidian Entertainment and Paradox Interactive have announced that Pillars of Eternity has gone gold. We’ll all get to play it next week, barring some disaster.
I think we kind of all suspected this: “Feargus Urquhart, executive producer Adam Brennecke and project director Josh Sawyer confirm that the cancellation of the project was a serious blow to the company’s finances...
Obsidian Entertainment took some inspiration from Ultima 5’s manuals when creating the Almanac of the Eastern Reach digital booklet for Pillars of Eternity.
