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HoloDust on 16 August 2018
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Spike0503 said:
HoloDust said:

I guess there are quite a few around here like that. Then there are those who are MS fans, and those who are Sony fans.

And then there are actual CRPG fans, some being that for 30+ years, who don't give a toss about MS v Sony and all that crap, and who are aware that Obsidian is one of the last devs with folks from the olden golden days of CRPGs days who, at least in theory, have talent and knowledge to make proper CRPGs and not diluted mass market dreck with RPG coat of paint - so those folk don't want to see one of the last bastions of CRPGs bite the dust.

But then again, who knows - maybe MS gives them enough freedom and money - maybe they even get them license from one of the well known pen and paper RPGs and let them do their thing...time will tell.

Excellent comment. I agree 100%. I haven't been able to play their recent Isometric RPG games cause I haven't updated my PC but as a Fallout (classic)/Baldur's Gate/Icewind Dale fan, I'm very excited to try them out eventually. If Obsidian gets acquired by MS I give these type of RPGs 0 chance of ever coming out again from a talented studio made of veterans like Obsidian. The genre may resurface at some point since people love to resurrect old genre games nowadays but it will be a huge blow to us CRPG fans.

Well, iso CRPGs have been in kind of renaissance for several years now (Shadowrun Returns/Hong Kong, Wasteland 2, Pillars of Eternity 1/2, Divinity: Original Sin 1/2, The Age of Decadence, Torment: Tides of Numenera...), I think that genre is fairly healthy at this point, though if Obsidian goes under, it would definitely be blow for all the fans of both dev and genre.

If they really need to go somewhere I would much more like it to be someone like THQ Nordic, which is, it seems, on sort of a shopping spree as of late.

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