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Angelus on 20 June 2020
Ryuu96 said:

Lets do a question.

Obsidian & InXile, basically bro studios, Xbox's two main RPG teams, both with a very different tactic though if rumours are true.

Obsidian is working on 4 IPs (That we know off) split between 200ish employees (Outsourcing amount unknown), this will mean Obsidian will release a steady stream of quality content but maybe not show their full potential with restricted team sizes.

InXile on the other hand, is going all out on a single IP, combing their entire studio for one project, aiming to be a full on AAA studio according to leaks and working on a RPG of a huge scale, this however will likely mean we won't see anything from InXile for around 4-5 years after Wasteland 3.

Very different approaches, which do you prefer? What one makes you more excited?

Arguable, since neither one is working on Fable. That's not to deny their pedigree of course, but Playground are the ones who've been entrusted with the one well established commercial brand RPG MS actually owns. Hell, the biggest IP they own period, outside of Halo, Gears, and Forza. 

As for which approach I like better between inXile and Obsidian...I'm not quite sure tbh. On paper, I prefer the idea of a mega game on the scale of something like Witcher or Cyberpunk, provided that level of quality is actually delivered. On the other hand, those types of games take a very long time to come together, and the wait can be killer. If Obsidian continues to work on projects more on par with something like Outer Worlds, that may not be quite as exciting every time one rolls around, but they are still quite good, and can come around a lot more often to boot. 

Ultimately then, I would say that the two approaches compliment each other. One studio gives me a steady diet of RPG goodness to hold me over until the other studio brings out the big guns. Win win.



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Shaunodon on 20 June 2020
Ryuu96 said:

Lets do a question.

Obsidian & InXile, basically bro studios, Xbox's two main RPG teams, both with a very different tactic though if rumours are true.

Obsidian is working on 4 IPs (That we know off) split between 200ish employees (Outsourcing amount unknown), this will mean Obsidian will release a steady stream of quality content but maybe not show their full potential with restricted team sizes.

InXile on the other hand, is going all out on a single IP, combing their entire studio for one project, aiming to be a full on AAA studio according to leaks and working on a RPG of a huge scale, this however will likely mean we won't see anything from InXile for around 4-5 years after Wasteland 3.

Very different approaches, which do you prefer? What one makes you more excited?

Well I'm glad that we can hopefully get the best of both worlds regardless.

I'd say concentrating a whole studio on a 4-5 year full on project makes me more excited. So that'd be my answer. In reality however, Obsidian's overall body of work is better to me, I'm loving the prospect of a AAA Pillars of Eternity sequel or something similar, and their projects should be much closer to release. So I'm more interested in Obsidian right now.



Shaunodon on 20 June 2020
Angelus said:

Arguable, since neither one is working on Fable. That's not to deny their pedigree of course, but Playground are the ones who've been entrusted with the one well established commercial brand RPG MS actually owns. Hell, the biggest IP they own period, outside of Halo, Gears, and Forza. 

As for which approach I like better between inXile and Obsidian...I'm not quite sure tbh. On paper, I prefer the idea of a mega game on the scale of something like Witcher or Cyberpunk, provided that level of quality is actually delivered.

To justify the kind of budget and production that The Witcher and Cyberpunk now have, it has to be from a studio and/or IP that are truly proven and marketable. I don't think even Obsidian would have enough weight around thier studio or IPs to justify that yet. It really would be only the Fable IP that could get that kind of backing right now.



EspadaGrim on 20 June 2020

Klob just Confirmed that the Bloober document is true and they are looking to be acquired by potentially 6 different companies.

Bloober are perfect for Gamepass and The Medium seems to be their most ambitious project to date MS better open up their wallet and outbid those other parties.

https://mobile.twitter.com/klobrille/status/1274445530719019008?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet



Angelus on 20 June 2020
Shaunodon said:
Angelus said:

Arguable, since neither one is working on Fable. That's not to deny their pedigree of course, but Playground are the ones who've been entrusted with the one well established commercial brand RPG MS actually owns. Hell, the biggest IP they own period, outside of Halo, Gears, and Forza. 

As for which approach I like better between inXile and Obsidian...I'm not quite sure tbh. On paper, I prefer the idea of a mega game on the scale of something like Witcher or Cyberpunk, provided that level of quality is actually delivered.

To justify the kind of budget and production that The Witcher and Cyberpunk now have, it has to be from a studio and/or IP that are truly proven and marketable. I don't think even Obsidian would have enough weight around thier studio or IPs to justify that yet. It really would be only the Fable IP that could get that kind of backing right now.

I don't disagree, but I'm simply basing my statement off what Ryu said the leaker posted about inXile being the studio that MS is funding for some mega game that's supposed to be cutting edge, hyper ambitious, etc. When an RPG project is described to me along those lines, Witcher and Cyberpunk are the type of games I think of.



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Shaunodon on 20 June 2020
Ryuu96 said:
Shaunodon said:

To justify the kind of budget and production that The Witcher and Cyberpunk now have, it has to be from a studio and/or IP that are truly proven and marketable. I don't think even Obsidian would have enough weight around thier studio or IPs to justify that yet. It really would be only the Fable IP that could get that kind of backing right now.

According to that Era leaker though, InXile has a bigger budget than both Obsidian and Playground for their RPG which shows a crazy amount of trust if true given InXile's IP catalogue doesn't really have a major seller.

If true I'd definitely be more excited for that then. Hopefully they'll have a decent first glimpse of it soon.



EspadaGrim on 20 June 2020

Honestly I just hope that Obsidians AAA IP is cutting edge when it comes to tech, Inxile’s has been confirmed to have a bigger budget than it and Fable and they have stated that they are pushing themselves to be top of the line.



kirby007 on 20 June 2020

im calling it 4th of july MS drops the goodies



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Shaunodon on 20 June 2020

Early July.



kirby007 on 20 June 2020

my reasoning for the 4th is that during the 4th every american is drunk so whatever they show it will be recieved with great praise



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