Obsidian most known game fallout new vegas: actually broken without mods, to the point where mods are near mandatory to play.

Obsidian makes pillars of eternity which while okay, has massive issues in balancing, pace and difficulty (and not the git gud kind, more the I’d you don’t already know something the game never mentions, you’re kind of screwed).

Obsidian: after making a trash port of pillars of eternity on switch “we’re abandoning updating the game, also we made it 30gb yet still just as bad as when it was 5gb, also no pillars of eternity 2 for switch”

  • games that run perfectly fine on switch doom, doom eternal,witcher 3, skyrim, dos 2, no mans sky, mortal kombat 11, etc…

Outer worlds. Actual meh. And vastly overrated.

Obsidian entertainment is the reason dungeon siege doesn’t exist anymore because of how bad 3 was

Sure star wars the old republic 1 and 2 were very good and so was South Park stick of truth. But that’s about the end of their line of unquestionably good games.

Why should I have any interest in avowed or outer worlds 2?

  • Draugdur@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Well, a lot of this is just an opinion and a matter of taste. But for me, the difference is clear: Obsidian makes conceptually good but technically flawed games (although, for the record, I didn’t much like PoE). That’s not ideal, but the thing with technical issues is that they are mostly fixable. Also, technical issues are something I can deal with if the game is otherwise great. Technically, a lot of GoaTs / GOTYs were a mess: Deus Ex was a disaster, The Witcher was also deeply flawed, and the less is said about Cyberpunk’s release state the better. But once these are polished, what you’re left with are great games.

    On the other hand, Bethesda makes technically more or less perfectly functioning games, but they are (for me at least) bland, boring and samey. Which is *not* something that you can easily fix.

    In the end, I enjoyed F:NV more than anything from Bethesda’s kitchen, even with all the crashes (I played it unmodded on an old system so it crashed like once every few hours). And I don’t think I’m the only one.