Did Deadfire flop? I loved it.
How is Obsidian doing?
Are you guys looking forward to Outer Worlds?
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Nathaniel Carter
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Colton Ward
>Did Deadfire flop? I loved it.
I don't know if official sales figures were ever published, but it seemed to do a lot worse than the first one at least. Picture related.
>How is Obsidian doing?
The entire studio was bought by Microsoft a while ago, so at least they don't have to worry about their finances anymore.
>Are you guys looking forward to Outer Worlds?
Eh, doesn't look like my kind of game, but I might pirate it to see if it's any good.
Joseph Jones
It didn't flop but it didn't do as well as the first time. Obsidian got bought so they're doing great. I don't care about Outer Worlds. Maybe I'll pick it up once it's content complete.
Deadfire's issue for me wasn't the "gay fish" the companions themselves or even the shit romance. My issue is every loose end from the first game is promptly ignored.
>1. Woedica
You can empower her or not but regardless she and all the other Gods are Berath's bitches. It was never mentioned before that Berath is the Queen of Gods yet she appears to be so in Deadfire.
>2. Faction companions
Every companion minus Eder and Aloth are linked to the factions. This forces them to act a certain way and disallows you from using many of the depending on your choices. Obsidian should have given us some more faction neutral companions.
>3. Loose ends
Remember Eder's brother Woden? In the the first game Eder is obsessed with finding out why Woden joined Waidwen. He wanted to know what Waidwen said to him. Eder meets Eothas and even Waidwen himself but doesn't bring it up.
Thaos. We were told that what we do with his soul will have consequences. It amounted to fucking nothing but some throwaway dialogue in a dlc.
Souls. What you do with the souls in the first game ends up doing almost fucking nothing. Hylea gets you a cake, Berath gets you a bell, Galawain gets Eder a litle buff and the rest do fucking nothing. Before the final update Woedica didn't even acknowledge you empowering her.
>World Map/Sailing
Ship combat firstly sucks. It's shit. Second the world map is huge but it's filled with...you guessed it fucking nothing.
>Sidekicks
This one pisses me off the most. The sidekicks are the ones with the interesting backgrounds. We have Rekke a man from beyond the storms, Ydwin a fucking Fampyr, an Endings Godlike.
The warning signs were all there. During the development process of the game Obsidian hardly interacted with the backers in their forums or Discord. (1/2)
Julian Garcia
Instead Josh Sawyer spent all his time talking in the Something Awful forums. The other devs meanwhile spent all their times in a fan discord made by Tumblr. Both those place gave a lot of feedback and the devs replied and critiqued them. This goes especially to Josh in the SA forums. He still goes there now and talks about the game and whines about it failing.
Oh and the main plot. It's garbage. If you cut out the whole Eothas plotline and make your character someone who isn't the Watcher it'd be 100% the same. The plotline for Josh's tabletop game is more interesting than we got even.
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Jaxson Lopez
>What you do with the souls in the first game ends up doing almost fucking nothing.
Well Thaos DID tell you that you were getting worked up over fucking nothing.
Josiah Williams
>Hylea gets you a cake
Julian Foster
You can argue that the Watcher cared more about not going crazy than about the souls. If Thaos wasn't such a raging faggot and just talked to you it would've worked out for everyone.
Gavin Bell
all-time peak isn't a good measure at all. basically always the first week, so based on hype.
Jack Adams
How connected/important is the story from the first game to the second game?
Blake Gomez
>Eder meets Eothas and even Waidwen himself but doesn't bring it up.
This is a joke right? Obsidian can't be this retarded.