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HoloDust on 12 November 2018
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JEMC said:
HoloDust said:

inXile is Brian Fargo's company, founder of Interplay and creator of (among others) Wasteland and Fallout. Obsidian was made by ex Black Isle's guys, which was part of Interplay. MS now pretty much has old Interplay in their hands - the same Interplay that couldn't get Wasteland license back from EA, so they created Fallout.

My guess is, now that they, at least in theory, have access to crapload of money, they will either make Wasteland an AAA IP, or create new AAA RPG IP. Potentially, MS will get them D&D license, and there will be AAA D&D after so many years.

As much as I was against Obsidian going to MS, this just got really interesting - there's no place like combined Obsidian/inXile with so many people credited for so many cult classic RPGs.

Ok, thanks for that info. Now the purchase of both studios makes more sense. The only unknown now is if both studios will manage to work well together.

By the way, that hypothetical AAA Wasteland you mention will have to wait, because they're now working on Wasteland 3 and I doubt MSoft will start this new era cancelling that game.

IIRC, inXile's Numenera was built using Obsidian's Pillars of Eternity engine and Chris Avellone, one of founders of Obsidian (and guy who made Planescape Torment, for many best CRPG ever), worked on Numenera as a writer. But who knows...when Chris left Obsidian, many nasty things came to light, it's not all roses there, lot of egos and mismanagement.

Actually, maybe MS will keep them separate - my guess in that case is they shift iso CPRGs to inXile, along with some stuff from Obsidian, and give Obsidian resources to make AAA RPGs, since they have much more people experienced in that sort of thing. Ultimately, I'm really hoping for another Vampire the Masquerade and return to D&D's Forgotten Realms.

As for Wasteland, yeah, they are working on 3rd, but MS can easily give AAA game to Obsidian - or they can just come up with new post-apocalyptic IP. I'm not a betting man, but I have this feeling both Fargo and Obsidian want to make proper Fallout again (and show Bethesda how it's done), even if it's not called Fallout - just like how Fallout was, more or less, sequel to Wasteland, even if it wasn't called Wasteland.