B_Rik_Schitthaus
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A true RPG.
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$2.1 million and up = Obsidian and Chris Avellone on Wasteland 2 dev team
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A true RPG.
Great! Thanks =)
Back to rather normal levels I guess, with single people throwing in exceptionally much from time to time.
Well, its still more than the usual amount for all the days before, and it was the most substantial spike we've seen so far. If it reaches 2.1Mil, this definitely was a huge factor.
Edit: And the current level of funding still means about 50-72k / day, which is more than enough to kick it over 2.1M.
Hell yes! I've already pledged $115 so hopefully we can reach $2.1M.
You should be.. uh nevermind.
You should be.. uh nevermind.
To be fair he has a point. Let Obsidian help design the game while Inxile programs the game.
Which is how they said its going to be. So its a bit pointless to complain about something not happening.
Yeah, we're basically buying in a license for them to use the engine.
* They don't have to spend time and money on developing their own.
* Obsidian can go into full engine-support mode, keeping them in business for longer.
* Any refinements to the engine that come from this development can in turn be used by Obsidian when their Kickstarter gets under way.
I forgot about the Paypal site; adding that in, less than $300k to go!
Not really. Fargo gave an interview recently that pointed out just how little control developers have over the stability of their games, I'm sure its been linked in this thread. The one game Obsidian has gotten to make on their own tech from the ground up is Dungeon Siege 3 with the very engine Fargo is talking about using here, and it is well above average from a stability/bug free game play standpoint for this generation.
I really hope they hit the $2.1M and I'll be upping my pledge this afternoon. I figured this would be an Infinity engine level of tech for release. If its closer to DS3 in terms of tech but with the old school RPG chops Fargo is talking about it will be my game of the forever.
I'd say hitting 2.1M is more or less a safe bet by now. 17 days for 285K? (Which includes the huge last day funding)
They somewhere mentioned a mod kit, is that already confirmed with the funding? Thats what I really want from it. Give us the engine and the mod kit to make our own games after W2, so that we dont need to wait for 15 years.
ZombieSupaStar
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For the $500,000 extra, they compensate Obsidian for using Chris Avellone AND their Onyx engine tools they have developed (with support for them also assumed).
Its not "a" guy, its the lead designer of Planescape Torment and an important designer in the Fallout Universe.
And its mostly for financing the tools InXile needs. Not meeting the 2.1M requirement would mean that they need to spend a considerable amount of time building their own engine. Using Onyx engine from Obsidian would get them to work on the meat of the game faster.
Edit: He was also the Lead Designer for Fallout : Van Buren.
Though it hasnt been confirmed that its the Onyx engine yet, right? I mean, its the best bet since its the current engine, but theoretically it could be an older engine as well if the older engine is easier to work with or something.
Onyx is Obsidian's proprietary engine and specially designed for RPGs. It hasn't been confirmed that they're using it yet but I think it's a fairly safe bet.
The funding should hit $1.8 mill within the next hour or two.
B_Rik_Schitthaus
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I think there are many amazing games you have yet to play.
What so strange about it? It's standard outsourcing and obsidian people need to be paid.
Captain Tuttle
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wow, this thing is cooking right along. They're really close to the 2.1 now, wonder what their next goal will be?
Bringing Obsidian in was brilliant.
Bringing Obsidian in was brilliant.
CrankyKong
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Looks like they need about 17k a day from here on out to hit 2.1 mil.
Which is less than 1K/hour. Easily attainable.
If that's correct I wouldn't be surprised if they get around 3 million when this is over.
milanbaros
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On a basic level the funding should increase in rate all the time because the value proposition improves with each extra dollar invested.
e.g. invest $15 for a game that costs $1m or $15 for a game worth $2m.
It wont work as simply as that but it may be playing a significant role.
I ended up loving F:NV, but the game was virtually for me on PS3 at time of release. Even after all the patches, I still went through the battle at the end at about 5 FPS - what should've been a 10 minute battle, took me probably an hour.
I can't speak for the other versions and I'm not sure if individual reviews for certain consoles hurt its metcritic score, but it wouldn't surprise me if its PS3 rating brought it down.
F:NV was infinitely worse than Skyrim for me on PS3.
Still, all that said, it was the first game I platinumed on PS3 so that goes to show how good the game was if I pushed through all the technical problems it had.
I hope they do something cool with that, I love this kind of private joke cameos.
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o we know who made those huge donations?Are they associations from websites or really rich people?They are using Obsidian's "own tools". I don't think they HAVE any other tools of their own than Onyx, the rest have been them using others' engines (Gamebryo, UE3 etc.)
IIRC Epic's CEO is one (or some other bigwig from Epic)? Not sure if the others have revealed themselves. I know Avellone donated money, but IIRC it wasn't $10k or anything, more like 250$, if even that.I hope they do something cool with that, I love this kind of private joke cameos.
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A Human Becoming
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I have to give Brian Fargo credit, he did a better job incentivizing people to keep donating passed the initial goal than Tim Schafer did. Tim didn't give real specifics for how the additional money would be spent. I can't recall if he ever gave a threshold for additional platforms either.
It's likely CEO buddies of Fargo's, mainly. The CEO of Razer is also one of the 10k donors.
I know RPGCodex's members collected 10 000$ to get a shrine.
We should all cry very bitter tears that Aliens RPG was cancelled.
Yeah that's the beauty of Avellone working on this first. By the time Obsidian does get around to running its own Kickstarter, Avellone and company will have a much better idea of exactly how to go forward, and how to properly leverage Kickstarter-level funds to create a cRPG.
HP_Wuvcraft
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I will pilgrimage to them all.