WHAT?!?! How did I miss this??? What happened? Lol

By September 2014, it had dawned on most of the Pillars of Eternity team that shipping that year would be difficult. It wasn’t just the backer beta; the whole game needed more work. Obsidian needed to polish, to optimize, to spend more time zapping bugs and making sure that every area of the game felt both interesting and fun to play. “Everyone’s looking at each other: ‘No. We’re not even near this. We’re just not there yet,’” said Justin Bell, the audio director. “You have to be able to play from the beginning of the game all the way to the end and feel like it’s a total experience, and that just was not even close to being the case.” Adam Brennecke and Josh Sawyer asked Feargus Urquhart for a meeting.

Over lunch at the Cheesecake Factory, one of Urquhart’s favourite haunts, Brennecke and Sawyer explained that trying to release the game in November would be a disaster. The team needed more time.

Yes, they were out of Kickstarter money and would now have to dip into Obsidian’s own funds, but for a game like Pillars of Eternity—Obsidian’s most important game to date—the extra investment felt necessary. Urquhart argued against it, but Brennecke and Sawyer were persistent. In their minds, the choice was already made.

“Feargus sat Josh and me down,” Brennecke said. “He said, ‘If this game does not come out in March, you guys are both gone after this project.’” Recalling the pressure, Brennecke could only laugh. “OK, we’ll get it done.”

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Source is Jason Schreier's book apparently (Blood, Sweat and Pixels) but I only got it from RPG Codex and can't remember how I got it from there since it's a garbo site which I don't browse. Maaaaybe he didn't mean it, hard to tell the tone from text, or maybe it was an empty threat, and he never would have gone through with it, who knows.

Just realized Grounded went from 10m in Feb to 13m in November, which is pretty good growth.

Also my top 5 JRPG wants

1. Ys + Legend of Heroes (Falcom pls)

2. FFVIIR

3. Grandia collection 

4. Chrono Trigger

5. Digimon Mainline

Also wouldn't mind Atelier, mana, SMT, or Neptunia

@Spade get that timer rollin pimp

#DeathtotheEmpire 

Yeah no FF pls on Xbox, SE can go fuck themselves. Even if it ever comes to Xbox (lol) it's a 19.99 used game sale for me. 

14 days, 22 hours, 35 minutes, and 20 seconds

14.9412 days

358.589 hours

21,515.33 minutes

1,290,920 seconds

Another fake xbot who don't play games, SHOCKED.

Ys

Persona (they can still Atlus it up for P6)

Trails of

Nep Nep

Any other stragglers and one offs from their partners. No games from SE.

Most of those are the ones I want, especially Final Fantasy, Mana, Atelier, Ys, Legend of Heroes, and a sequel or remake for Lost Odyssey. Not interested in Disgaea or a new Parasite Eve though, and Pokemon obviously won't happen. 

The right bumper issue is only getting worse, and it's greatly impacting Overwatch 2 now as most of the best hero abilities are tied to right bumper. Guess I'm going to get one of those cheap $25 PowerA wired controllers that have pretty good reviews on Amazon, I don't want to spend $50 on a new Xbox Series controller until the mid gen controller revision with PS5 like features that Phil has hinted at. 

If I was somewhat intrigue by the game now I'm definitely going to play it. I kind of like when a single person have a vision and don't quit until it is realized.

It depict a project which have been born from passion. An idea that have been nurtured in the mind of someone for many years, taking shapes, being refined and polished. This process often leads to pure gem with complexes storyline and more developed intrigue which tends to engage me in a deeper way.

SoD3 will have multiple open world maps. There is no way it'll have the same visual quality or detail as RE3 but im sure it will look great since it seems like it'll get a considerably bigger budget than previous games.