Pillars of Eternity, formerly Project Eternity

[Ninja_Khorin]

I judge them based on what they've achieved so far.

Apart from Dungeon Siege II and Alpha Protocol, all of their games have been very good in my opinion(or according to general opinion). That is, if you include the games from earlier studios that formed Obsidian(Troika Entertainment and Black Isle)

[okiN]

I backed it on the 20e tier when it first came out, just read the updates last night. Sounds like it has some promise, looking forward to them sharing more info/material.

[Earthdforce]

I hope I'll be able to get on the backer list before time runs out! Will there be multiplayer?

[Leshma]

Probably. Focus is on singleplayer.

[okiN]

So we're gradually getting more details. Apparently the classes so far are fighter, priest, rogue, wizard, monk, druid and ranger, with barbarian and "cipher" (sounds like a psi to me) as stretch goals. It sounds like they're putting a fair bit of thought in it, so I'm reasonably confident it'll be at least ok -- which, for this genre, in this day and age, for that price, is probably good enough. Then there's always the chance it'll actually be great.

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Dat monk

[Ninja_Khorin]

7 days left, gents. They're sitting at 2 512 000 dollars at the moment.

They've added a new tier at 165$. It include Project Eternity + Expansion + Wasteland 2. If only I had that.

New stretch goals:

2.6 million, Adventurer's Hall. Allows you to create your own party a la Icewind Dale, I think.

2.7 million, two more classes. Paladins and Chanters.

2.8 million, George Ziets. The creative mind behind Mask of the Betrayer, also worked with Baldur's Gate 2 and Fallout: New Vegas, among others.

[Freland]

I'm pretty sure they will reach 2.7 million - not so sure about 2.8.
I'm pretty excited about these new crowdfunded PC exclusive games. Also see Star Citizen - a PC exclusive crowd funded space combat sim by Chris Roberts (Wing Commander anyone?)

[Ninja_Khorin]

Okay.

New stretch goals added. I recommend you guys read this: http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/61324-update-20-lore-tidbits-campaign-almanac-big-ol-stretch-goals-and-environment-screenshot/

Ambitious stretch, goals. I doubt they'll reach it, but I pray to the almighty

Also:

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It's boootiful.

[okiN]

Ah, I was just coming to post that myself. Sure is purty.

Indeed 3.5M seems like a lot to hope for, but I guess it's not completely outside the realm of possibility. 3M isn't even that much of a stretch from where they are now, with the amount of days they have left.

[Ninja_Khorin]

Yeah. Imagine though, having two big cities. Would make the game quite epic in scope.

[okiN]

Yeah, the main city always seems to be the most fun part of any RPG.

[Ninja_Khorin]

Didn't take long:

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Before any genious hops in here to complain about horrible UI graphics and characters. That's from Baldur's Gate. Only part of that picture that's from Project Eternity is what you can see in the screenshot I posted a few hours ago.

[Kafein]

When you think about it, most old games had terrible UI in current day standards.

[okiN]

Yeah, it's something that becomes increasingly apparent whenever I replay an old favourite with an added decade of gaming experience. There's definitely been progress in some areas.

[Ninja_Khorin]

I do think Baldur's Gate had an UI ten times better than the disaster that was NVN's interface. NVN's UI looked terribad and it was really needlessly complicated.