This sounds pretty tight.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/obsidi...onster=category





The reason why I like OBSIDIAN is because they were the people behind Fallout series and Planescape: Torment, and also I like NWN2 and KOTOR2 quite a bit.

Seems like they've already managed to raise $1,046,001 out of their $1,100,000 target.

Watch the video in that site

This post has been edited by memphiz_zero88: Aug 26 2015, 07:55 AM

Damn hardcore man, 1 million in a day.

Got to wait for their paypal option to be up.. I guess caught them by surprise.. next 29 days will probably be announcing stretch goals
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stretch goals here http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/obsidi...ty/posts/309364



This post has been edited by kof91: Sep 16 2012, 10:53 AM

im sold.. getting the 35 one...

paypal faster come and take my money

Interesting. I hope they can reach 2.2 million. Extra region to explore is always good


Isometric RPG have long been forgotten for some reason.
It wasn't until Wasteland 2 that finally brought it back to attention.

Wasteland 2 is a post-apocalyptic isometric RPG. This will be fantasy isometric RPG. Fun times ahead for RPG fans.

This post has been edited by Hornet: Sep 16 2012, 04:16 PM

Updates:

http://eternity.obsidian.net/

damn, my cock is tingling from the excitement.

God bless kickstart program.

I believe they will be creating their own rule set rather than using AD&D like older games (Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale, etc) uses. Hopefully it will be as good. I would really love a complex RPG system.

Hehe was asking about the box

Still waiting for paypal option

whoah this is awesome !!!

me buys !!!

Added video on first post hehe.

aye the video just them talking.
can anyone summarize what they said ar?

Basically asking for people to pledge.

well they already gotten my attention by stating what games they produced.

- baldurs gate series
- icewind dale series
- planescape torment
- fallout 1, 2, new vegas
- star wars knights of the old republic 2
- temple of elemental evil (tim cain)

Baldur's Gate is not from them though, nor did they say they made it

BG series is all BioWare.

Nostalgia is such a powerful salesman

I guess people are just tired of playing the same old game from 10 years ago, and there isn't any choice because no publishers want to make isometric RPG these days. It was a long forgotten genre until Wasteland 2 project came along.

i thought black isle developed baldurs gate series while bioware made the engine?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Isle_Studios

bah they published it. bioware developed it. rest in pieces bioware.

co-development

but you give them full credit for planescape

Hehe it's all BioWare, I think they needed Black Isle for the licensing and names or something

Nah man no co-development or anything like that. See the credits, all BioWare.

But yeah Black Isle's great for their PST and Fallout. And also NWN2, not the greatest but definitely better than the first.

ow you are right

I just read that they won't use D&D ruleset, dang wizards are such jerks

100k more to 2 million

It's cool, we get to shoot wizards in the chest with flintlock pistols now! :neat:

reminds me of that Arcanum game

tech vs magic

Paypal payment option is now up at their website.
http://eternity.obsidian.net/

Those who are interested in its official strategy guide (they will be working with one of those strategy guide company) can add $7 at the bottom.

Not surprising, since part of the team made Arcanum.

oh, they made Alpha Protocol?

I riked

i don't think people are chiming in because they made alpha protocol.

but whatever, pledge.

Of course I know that la

I'm pledging because of that reason mah

its 2.5 mil now! O_O
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/obsidi...roject-eternity

yay! paypal time!

fai fai go pledge 10k

durrr i poorfag

But, but they made some of my favorite RPGs of all time.

NWN 1, Jade Empire, KOTOR 1, Mass Effect series, Dragon Age series...

Obsidian made NWN2 and KOTOR 2 but I wasn't too fond of them

well them bioware kena bungkus by ea liao anyway.

hmmm i like nwn2 better though. not too fond of nwn1.
kotor 2 story kinda dafuq for me.
kotor 1 story is really nice and epic for me!

too bad no one bothers to remake kotor 1 with mass effect 1 2 3 graphics though.
but then again it still look goods by todays standard.

NWN 1 story was so good and remarkably epic
Aribeth's betrayal, the old ones

Looking at all the names I consider myself sold.




APPROVED!

Obsidian? KotOR? IWD? NWN2? Arcanum? My favorite RPGs maker all in one team? Dumping in $25. $35 if my wife don't nag that I am still gaming in 2014 =D

I'm pledging $80

Pledging myself for 35$

Gonna pledge $25.

Bioware is dead anyway, might as well pour some money to keep Obsidian afloat and away from publishers.

Hopefully can reach 2.8 million, and George Ziets will join

Hmm.. looks promising. But after the crap sh!t from DS3 i'm not sure if i wanna help them.

Considering how good is their upcoming South Park game, i wont worry too much.

DS3 is just terrible, IMO.

keep in mind that in DS3 case, it was published (money poured) by Square Enix.

with that clear, i can only say one thing.

console-in-mind.

that's why they need this. to enable then to go back to the root without their every move being dictate by fuking publisher.

This.

Without a "boss", I'm sure they can do wonders. I mean like, Planescape: Torment! That alone is enough to convince me

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This post has been edited by khelben: Oct 12 2012, 10:10 AM

Well, its the last day and this kickstarter has just hit $3,403,960 at the time of me writing this. That makes it the most successful game on kickstarter, overtaking Double Fine Adventure.

The amount of support for this has been amazing. Guess many people have very fond memories of the old Black Isle games.

Yeah, 100k more to reach their "Big big city" goal

Actually they already reach that, because Paypal is about 106k already, so total more than 3.5M

They are now asking for any ideas for next stretch goal. But I think we're running out of time.

Hehe, 81 minutes left and it's close to 4 million

$80 pledged

backing it too

23 mins left.. just backed the proj
think they reach 4M already with paypal

whoah this is awesome !!!

4 million !!!

So awesome

rps posted an article regarding Proj Eternity
source

this part makes sense they promising extra content even with extra money doesn't mean they can buy extra time to develop those content.. as often development job adding double man power won't equate to double speed as there are dependencies for complex project. brace yourself for late deliveries guys/gals..

i hope obsidian entertainment is smart enough to stay away from publishers.

Umm, the whole point of asking for pledges is that so they do not need a publisher

yeah lets hope it stays that way.

actually there is no legal binding clause to stop kickstarted proj to get "bought" over by publisher right?

that, i dunno.
deswai i wrote "i hope obsidian entertainment is smart enough to stay away from publishers." since any time any publisher may offer them lots of monies to buy over them or something.

maybe "smart" is not appropriate for that sentence.

i.e. like how ea offered to buy valve and gabe said valve will disintegrate itself if bought over. i.e. ea go fxxk urself

yeah but monies in large large quantities can be tempting.. lets hope they stick to.. but I think with all the kickstarter proj.. some bound to being bought over by publisher.. just matter of time.. or it had already happened?

funded a few proj.. so finger crossed and get deliveries in the end.. but all suppose to happen sometime q3 next near..

This post has been edited by kof91: Oct 18 2012, 05:11 PM

I think they've been burned quite a few times by publishers. Did you know Bethesda actually had a clause that they'd only get a bonus for New Vegas if it scored above 85 (or 90, it was some number) on Metacritic? And because of the QA problems (which, ironically, Bethesda is in charge of), the game scored just a bit less than the required benchmark.

No bonus, gg no re.

Some of them in Obsidian were very bitter about it. I think it was Avellone? But... yeah...

dafuq that's really wtf man.
fallout new vegas is awesome!

yeah I read about it sometime back..
its really idiotic to use metacritic as a benchmark.. so unfair to dev..

Never liked beth. Their oblivion is terribad. Didn't bother bout the latest one.

hmmmm update

Hail, elves. It's been a while since we've had a mechanics update, so I'd like to cover a variety of topics today: the basics of our "non-core" classes, our cooldown system (or lack thereof), an update on how attacks are resolved, and another update on the evolution of our armor system. I'd also like to show you a dungeon tileset test render and some sweet shakycam of some of the combat basics running in engine.

Non-Core Classes
We've previously discussed the design of our "core four" classes: fighter, priest, rogue, and wizard. The non-core classes are the other seven: barbarian, paladin, ranger, druid, monk, chanter, and cipher. Like the core four classes, the non-core classes all start the game with two active or modal abilities and one passive ability.

When it comes to the balance of active/modal and passive options, the classes generally reflect their D&D counterparts, with spellcasters having more active use abilities and weapon-based classes being oriented toward more passive or modal abilities. Even so, it will be possible to push a spellcaster toward more passive talents and to optionally buy more active/modal abilities for traditionally low-maintenance characters. While all classes will have many more abilities as they advance, here are some basic elements for each of the seven classes.

Barbarians can use Wild Sprint a limited number of times per day, allowing them to rapidly rush across the battlefield to a distant target while ignoring hazards along the way.
Paladins have limited healing capabilities, but their Revive command allows them to instantly snap an unconscious ally awake with a large Stamina boost.
Rangers' animal companions are so closely bonded to their masters that they share Stamina and Health pools, which can be both a blessing and a curse.
Druids can Shapeshift into animal forms, gaining natural -- and some supernatural -- abilities associated with those creatures.
Monks absorb a portion of incoming damage and convert it into a Wounds resource they can use to power their soul-based abilities (such as Stunning Blows) through any weapons they use, including unarmed strikes.
Chanters begin the game with a number of phrases they can arrange to form songs with different effects. Aefyllath Ues Mith Fyr is a phrase that causes allies' weapons to emit magical flames.
Cipher powers often gain intensity as they maintain focus. Their basic Mind Jab starts as a minor irritant but can build to inflict devastating damage.
Cooldowns
Early on, some folks asked about cooldowns and both Tim and I agreed that we weren't opposed to using them in some form if it made sense for our mechanics. To be more explicit about it, the only way in which we are currently using anything cooldown-like is for per-encounter and per-rest abilities. Per-encounter abilities can be used a number of times in an encounter and are then disabled until combat ends. Per-rest abilities can be used a number of times after resting before you must rest to recover them. We've previously discussed grimoire-switching for wizards possibly invoking a cooldown. It's more likely that grimoire-switching will be limited through the inventory system and not by a cooldown.

We also have modal abilities that can be turned on and off at will, with some abilities being exclusive to others, meaning you can only have one active at a time.

Attack Resolution
I've talked about this a bunch on the forums, but not in an update. All attacks in Project Eternity compare the attacker's Accuracy value to one of four defenses: Deflection (direct melee and ranged attacks), Fortitude (body system attacks like poison and disease), Reflexes (area of effect damage attacks), and Willpower (mental attacks).

A number between 1 and 100 is generated to determine the attack rules. If the Accuracy and target defense are the same value, these are how the results break down:

01-05 = Miss
06-50 = Graze
51-95 = Hit
96-100 = Critical Hit
A Hit is the standard damage and duration effects, a Graze is 50% minimum damage or duration, a Critical Hit is 150% maximum damage or duration, and a Miss has no effect. In a balanced Attack and defense scenario, the majority of attacks wind up being Hits or Grazes. If the Accuracy and defense values are out of balance, the windows for each result shift accordingly, while always allowing for the possibility of a Graze or a Hit at the extreme ends of the spectrum.

Damage Type vs. Armor Type
We've previously talked about how different weapon damage types (Slash, Crush, and Pierce) fare against Damage Threshold (DT) in the game. We implemented that system and found that while it worked well on paper and scaled well, it was unintuitive when put into the game. It was not possible for players to make informed decisions about what weapons to use against a given armor type because doing so required making relative damage vs. DT calculations for all weapon types, i.e. having a spreadsheet open for comparison at all times.

In light of this, we are going to try a more explicit damage type vs. armor type model where armor, regardless of its DT, has a familiar weight classification: Light, Medium, and Heavy. Damage types are either good or bad against a given weight classification. When a damage type is "bad" against an armor type, it does half damage before DT is applied, making it very inefficient. Within the "good" types of damage, there's still an efficiency curve against DT for meticulous players to figure out, but it has less impact than avoiding "bad" damage types in the first place.

Energy-based attacks (like most spells) oppose a different characteristic of the armor, its substance type (Natural, Armor, or Spirit) and like damage types, have good and bad opposition characteristics. Weapon bonus damage that is energy-based is applied to the target separately, but at a fractional DT value matching the bonus damage. E.g. if a sword has a fire effect that does +15% the sword's damage, it is opposed by 15% of the target's Damage Threshold.

Tileset Trials and Tribulations

Environment artist Sean Dunny has been experimenting with building tilesets for our dungeons. "Tilesets?!" you may be saying (or thinking). It may be a surprise, but many Icewind Dale and Planescape: Torment levels started from a tileset or modular unit base. We use these tilesets to generate basic renders for testing layout, navigation, and combat. Once we like the basic layout, we refine it by adding additional "meta" (special) tiles, modifying the tiles individually in the layout, adding lights, and of course having an artist do a 2D touchup pass.

That's all for this week. Thanks for reading!

Update by Josh Sawyer

Latest update! must see





sos

This post has been edited by kof91: Apr 11 2013, 08:36 AM

There's been a lot of news about this game and the kickstarter's success, too bad I was too late to back them up but heck I will get the game anyway.

This post has been edited by s7ran9er: Apr 11 2013, 10:22 AM

actually after the kickstarter ended u can still fund on their website with the same perks for until around feb 2013
jus not many ppl is informed
/edit
can still fund now at http://eternity.obsidian.net/ but jus one tier

This post has been edited by kof91: Apr 11 2013, 11:07 AM

Yeah saw that just before heading to work this morning. Who says games have to be in 3D to look amazing

technically they still using 3d.. unity is a 3d engine
just that they made 2 2d plane.. shown somewhere at end of video

Yeah was talking about the geometry

New teaser!

The next great fantasy role-playing sage...

Made Possible...

by you.

Fuiyo

very nice!

so now the game name is finalized as "pillars of eternity" hor?

This post has been edited by Deimos Tel`Arin: Dec 11 2013, 03:06 PM

Gamescom 2014 gameplay

question: if buy from here, we'll get both Steam version and GOG version?
http://eternity.obsidian.net/buy

"How will I get my digital copy of the game?
We now proudly support both GOG and Steam, so if you prefer DRM-free, you can choose the GOG option, and if you like Steam's integration, including achievements, and possibly cloud saves, you'll be able to choose that as well.

When you fill out your backer survey or pre-order the game, you will be able to select between these options.

If you buy additional copies as add-ons, you'll be able to tell us which one you want per key.

We do not yet have a DRM-free distribution partner for Linux, but we expect to have one available soon."

Extracted from FAQ in Buy Pillars of Eternity

Wow! Now I have two good old-fashioned isometric RPGs to look forward to: Project Eternity and Torment: Tides of Numenera! Way to go, nostalgia gamers! "By Gamers, For Gamers" - God, I missed this slogan, glad there keeping up the tradition

Watched the latest preview and i would say i'm not impressed compared to Divinity Original Sins. This game gets $4M crowd-funded vs $1M on Divinity. The graphics really dated. Not only the graphics but the animations and stuff was equivalently bad. I think the first Baldur's Gate graphics look better. Hmm.. maybe is it the artist problem? Anyway hope this game will turn good because i'm gonna get a copy too.

now can preorder on Steam, RM85 for Hero Edition and RM105 for Champion Edition. comparing to US price, ours are almost 50% off
http://store.steampowered.com/app/291650/

got 10% discount until 25 November



This post has been edited by memphiz_zero88: Nov 12 2014, 07:11 AM

26th of March!

https://eternity.obsidian.net/

PAX East panel:


Looks gorgeous. Wondering if anyone bringing in retail physical?

Sweet. Can't wait. Hopefully Witcher 3 doesn't come out during the same time lol.

I pledged for the physical box

March 26 is the release date. Witcher 3 is in May. Dang guess i'll be grabbing the Royal Edition on Steam which cost RM149. Same price as GTAV. Yeah i rather dump money to these guys than the already filthy rich R* . If you watched the stream, game looks pretty gorgeous. I really can't wait to play.

Physical version available here?

Yeah so far so good. I also backed Tides of Numenera

I'm not sure if they are gonna produce physical copies other than for the backers. Gotta check.

http://kotaku.com/were-really-digging-pill...nity-1693310820



fucuk...

the torment remake right?
i wonder when it will be ready.
how long they started development already ah?

horry shito.
screw gw2.
time to pillars of eternity.

allready get my backer key on gog, waiting for unlock time huhu

when is it unlocking? my mouse is itchy edi..

preloading it huehue
cant wait to play the game