Quite interesting!

Out of GDC yesterday:

"Obsidian Entertainment, the developer ofFallout: New Vegas and South Park: The Stick of Truth, today announced that they are entering into a partnership with Paradox Interactive to launch their upcoming role-playing game (RPG), Pillars of Eternity.

Pillars of Eternity, an RPG inspired by classic titles such as Baldur’s Gate, Icewind Dale, andPlanescape: Torment, was funded via Kickstarter in late 2012, raising $4.5 million through both backer pledges on Kickstarter and Obsidian’s own website. Feargus Urquhart, CEO of Obsidian Entertainment, stated that every dollar raised through the crowdfunding campaign will be spent solely on the game’s development."

 


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on Mar 19, 2014

Hopefully they don't release it too soon like they did with Knights of the Old Republic II and New Vegas.

on Mar 19, 2014

Very excited!

on Mar 19, 2014

Paradox and Obsidian have already provided 1000s of hours of entertainment in my life, cool to see them team up.  A little worried about bugs, neither has a good reputation in that department.

on Mar 19, 2014

Yea, these are two of my favorite companies out there.

on Mar 19, 2014

Yeah, Paradox has some good people for sure.

 

on Mar 19, 2014

ParagonRenegade

Hopefully they don't release it too soon like they did with Knights of the Old Republic II and New Vegas.

Don't know about New Vegas, but KOTOR2 wasn't their fault, it was LucasArts that made the call for it to be released at the time. In fact most of the time developers don't have a say when a game is released, publishers do. 

on Mar 19, 2014

CK2 and EU4 were pretty good in terms of release quality, unlike earlier Paradox games.

 Edit: From what I've been able to tell by reading the Paradox forums over the past few years, it interestingly traces back to Magicka.  That game (which Paradox distributed) was a sleeper hit for them, generating far more revenue than anticipated.  That bought them some financial wiggle room to only release CK2 once it was very polished.  CK2 then got a great reception and sold extremely well, which let them do the same thing with EU4.  EU4 is now phenomenally successful, so the cascade of good things should continue (*knock on wood*)!

 

on Mar 20, 2014

Lucasarts wanted a Christmas release for Kotor 2 and forced Obsidian them to put it out early and they cut alot of content and were not able to fix all the bugs. Modders have basically fixed it 99%.  Obsidian always gets the shaft with publishers (Sega with Alpha Protocol) hopefully Paradox can make Obsidian launch Pillars of Eternity right. Dieing for that alpha soon... and my copy of Wastelands 2. 

on Mar 30, 2015

I played it for the first time last night. I was only going to have a quick look, a hour later, this is looking amazing. I am glad Easter is coming up and I haven't go anything major planned for a couple of the 4 days break so hopefully I can convince my wife to take the girls and bugger off for a few hours

 

I am not usually that excited when RPGs have lots of text to read but this is so well done that I found myself getting very much into the storyline.

 

The character creation, another part I usually only pay some attention to, so so well done that I ended up doing it twice just so I could try a few different options.

 

Seriously worth checking out. Especially if you love games like Baldur's gate etc

on Mar 31, 2015

Rock on!