Great news for Baldur's Gate style RPG lovers

[Aryvandaar]

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1829926

Obsidian to partner with Paizo Inc. to release electronic Pathfinder games

INDIANAPOLIS -- August 13, 2014 -- Obsidian Entertainment, the developer of Fallout: New Vegas, South Park: the Stick of Truth and the Kickstarter phenomenon Pillars of Eternity, announced that they have entered into a long-term licensing partnership with Paizo Inc. to produce electronic games based on its popular Pathfinder Roleplaying Game intellectual property

Obsidian's first licensed product will be a tablet game based on the highly successful Pathfinder Adventure Card game, a cooperative game for 1 to 4 players. Players each have a unique character composed of a deck of cards and a set of stats. Characters have classes such as fighter, rogue, wizard and cleric, as well as numbers that define attributes such as strength, wisdom and charisma etc. Players will be able to customize their deck to better suit each individual’s vision of their character.

"At Obsidian we have a long history of working with the greatest RPG franchises, and we're thrilled to get to play in the Pathfinder universe now," said CEO Feargus Urquhart. "We're huge fans and can't wait to bring what we do in the electronic gaming world to Pathfinder fans everywhere".

In the world of Pathfinder, players take on the role of brave adventurers fighting to survive in a world beset by magic and evil. The Pathfinder RPG is currently translated into multiple languages, with hundreds of thousands of players worldwide. The Pathfinder brand has also been licensed for comic book series, graphic novels, miniatures, plush toys, apparel, and is being developed into a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game.

"Obsidian is a video game developer at the top of its game", said Paizo CEO Lisa Stevens. "Being able to bring that type of experience and passion to Pathfinder can only mean great things, both for our loyal Pathfinder community and for all fans of great CRPG's."

Obsidian will be at Gen Con 2014 showing off an early prototype of the digital Pathfinder Adventure Card Game in the Paizo booth (#203) and in their own booth (#2151) featuring the first consumer hands on for Pillars of Eternity.

 

[booman]

Nice!
I wonder if they are considering Linux for any of their games?

 

[Aryvandaar]

Pillars of Eternity, an isometric RPG in development by Obsidian Entertainment will be released for Linux. I think that it's likely that any future Obsidian Entertainment games will also get a native Linux version.

 

[booman]

Pillars of Eternity looks graphically amazing!
What kind of gameplay is it? Turn-based?

 

[allenskd]

I've been waiting for that game to come out since the kickstarter ended

Well, I can wait I still want to play some 3DS games myself so...

 

[Aryvandaar]

Pillars of Eternity looks graphically amazing!
What kind of gameplay is it? Turn-based?

No, it's real-time combat with the option to pause. From wiki:

Combat uses a tactical real-time with pause system - positioning your party and coordinating attacks and abilities is one of the keys to success.

http://pillarsofeternity.wikia.com/wiki/Pillars_of_Eternity

Pillars of Eternity will release in Q4 this year I think. So, soon. And the beta starts 18th of August if I recall it correctly.

There is another isometric RPG that will come soon as well. Planescape: Tides of Numenera. However, I'm not so psyched about this because it will have turn-based combat which sucks in my opinion.

I think that the studio made a really bad move, because turn-based just alienates fans. You can have real-time with pause like many D&D computer games, and get the almost exact same result as turn-based, only that you can play it as real-time without pausing if you want to.

 

[Daerandin]

I'm really looking forward to this game. I am a backer of this and am very excited to try it when it does come out.

As for their deal with Paizo, that is good news. Pathfinder is a very good roleplaying game system. I feel confident there could be some pretty awesome games to come out of this.