You realize that Skyrim rapidly became unplayable on PS3, and the bug that caused it wasn't patched for a fairly large period of time, right?

 

When you make a game that can take 80+ hours just to finish the normal plotline without all the divergent quests, you had better fucking test past 100 hours of gametime. 200 would probably be too far, but 120? 130? No way you release a game like Skyrim without testing into 130+ hours.

 

You realize that Bethesda is the one that did QA for F:NV right? So in fact it is Bethesda's fault if there were bugs still present in the game because they could have done a better job at QA instead of doing the shit job they did and pushing it out the door.

 

Whether or not Bethesda did the QA, Obsidian's CEO accepted responsibility for both the buggy state of FNV at release and their general reputation for buggy releases. The blame for FNVs bugs shouldn't be laid at Bethesda's feet.

I wouldn't ever call FNV a turd just because of a crummy console port. The game played well on its target platform and bugs were quickly squashed.

 

While Obsidian should do their best to release a bug free product, it's generally the publisher's responsibility to properly QA the products they release. It wouldn't surprise me at all if the list of Obsidian games with serious bug issues and the list of Obsidian games where the publisher decided to pressure for an early release are exactly the same.

I'm much less forgiving of Bethesda, who haven't been able to release a game without serious issues in at least a decade despite publishing their own titles.

 

Pretty much all of Obsidian's games have been buggy at launch, ElDee. You can't blame all of that on publishers. The only possible exception is their latest game, Dungeon Siege III, which is the first time Obsidian has released a game built on their own engine. The theory being that the inhouse knowledge and control of the engine would allow for a smoother bug hunting and squashing process.

I don't know if Dungeon Siege III was a less buggy experience at launch compared to Obsidian's earlier games. It sounds like its flaws were gameplay related, rather than bug related.

 

I had no problems with Dungeon Siege 3.. The most problems it had were console related stuff like fixed view etc.

 

Rather than thinking about how bad KOTOR 2 or some other game was at release: think about how awesome Fallout 1+2, Baldur's Gate 1+2, and Planescape were.

I actually haven't played any of the new Obsidian games other than New Vegas (which I thoroughly enjoyed). But the old Black Isle games stand out as some of my fondest memories. They managed to ruin JRPGs for me. Games like FF7 felt two dimensional compared to Baldur's Gate 2.

Maybe some of the games Obsidian put out in the past few years weren't so great: but hopefully they can repeat the magic they managed back at Black Isle.

 

So the Kickstarter ends in a hour or so and it seems it was a full success. Nearly 4 million means every Stretch goal achieved. Now we can only wait and see what happens.

 

For those who may be interested, Project Enternity will close in about sixty minutes. As a last stretch goal every penny above 3.5 will go to general improvements to the game, such as real instruments for the game music and such. Now is your last chance to back if you're going to!

 

Final tally was around $4,120,000 when paypal is added to the kickstarter amount. Paypal is supposed to stay open for a while so it will probably rise even more.

 

Well, here we are. Two or three years later and the game comes out on the 26th. For those of you who will receive a copy, or have been in the beta, are you as excited as I am? They've been very consistent with updates and everything I've read in them seems promising.

What are your thoughts?

 

I'm exited for this like hell. This is the true spiritual successor to Baldur's Gate. I won't have as much free time that I would like to when this hit the shelves, but come Easter and I'll have almost an entire week to go into this.

I don't excpet it to have the same impact that BG had on me (heh, played the entire saga at the end of primary school, good times), but hopefully it will have the same level of epicness that the second BG had.

Also, ONE MORE DAY

 

Just started pre-loading woop! Even though I'm pretty sure it's official in 12 mins or something.

 

DL is done! Hoping it unlocks at midnight.

 

According to the PoE website the game will be aviable 17:00 CET/09:00 AM PDT.