"Dang… It's pretty sad when Obsidian (makers of KOTOR2, F:NV, NWN2, PoE, OW) can't win over a crowd of RPG enthusiasts by giving away their newest games."
Where is this crowd of RPG enthusiasts? At RPGWatch, most of the time, there is just a group of whining, cynical asshats who make wild speculations and like to beat their virtual chests and pretend they have alpha balls and credentials when what they overall have is nitpicking commentary based on two minutes of footage…… which is par for the course here all too often.
Obsidian has had way more depth in its writing, stories and games than Bethesda ever has (Arena onward are action-rpgs not real rpgs)…… and yet people compare games to Skyrim and Fallout (?!?) which had zero depth regarding choices and consequences and were written at a 5th grade level throughout??? Are they fun open world shooters/sword-swingers with minimal lore and linear quests - yep…… but Obsidian has often blown them away (F:NV as just one example) by offering multiple solutions and paths.
What do we really know about this game? It's first person. It's open world. It's fantasy set in the Pillars' universe…… that's it. Yet Obsidian has often made far broader, deeper worlds than Bethesda ever has and has usually been limited by resources more than most (look what they did with F:NV on a short timeline)…. I'll give them some faith at this point since it was a few minutes of video…..
No Mutants Allowed, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, and now RPGWatch are becoming sad gathering places of a few vocal jerkoffs who immediately rip apart anything offered….. with a few exceptions like Drithius who nailed it with his observation.