Obsidian working on unannounced fourth project
by Ben Gilbert 
{ Jun 13th 2009 at 7:00PM }
According to the piece, the game is being developed on the company's internal engine, though Urquhart had, more or less, positive things to say about his company's experience with Unreal Engine 3. "Our engine, like Unreal, is a tool and different jobs can be done better with tools that are made for them ... there are things that our engine may never do as well as Unreal, but likewise there are things that our engine will do that will be better than Unreal," Urquhart says of the choice. Considering the rest of the interviews answers, we're fairly certainly that the game's not a new Neverwinter Nights nor Knights of the Old Republic 3. Guesses, friends?
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tmacairjordan87 @ Jun 13th 2009 7:09PM
Well they like to work on other western rpg developer's properties in some way, so I'm going with an Elder Scrolls spinoff of some kind.
cptkrush @ Jun 13th 2009 7:28PM
Well they are great at what they do, but the fact they have built an engine from the ground up for this means its most likely an ip of their own and one that they obviously want to put a huge amount of effort into.
ohyeahcola @ Jun 13th 2009 8:08PM
i hope so i can't wait for another elder scrolls
Foetoid @ Jun 13th 2009 9:11PM
As much as Tmac is going to KILL me for saying it, but a Wii Motion+ enabled Oblivion would soil many pants, sell many copies, and actually convince me to buy it. It'd be like Oblivion with the Red Steel 2 controls, and would work brilliantly.
tmacairjordan87 @ Jun 13th 2009 9:13PM
Keep dreaming Foetoid, because it's never going to happen. You'll just have to buy a big boy console.
Foetoid @ Jun 13th 2009 10:35PM
So does the fact i am older than you mean that the Wii is a big-boys console cause it's easily my favourite console ever?
ohyeahcola @ Jun 14th 2009 12:10AM
i sold my wii after playing the fuck out of mario kart and super smash bros. brawl
cptkrush @ Jun 14th 2009 1:14AM
Consoles are personal preference, but in the case, the wii is kind of for kids and families and isn't considered a big boy console because it pumps out nothing but third party casual shovelware with the occasional core gamer hit, where as the two others are more reliable on giving you a great gameing experience with a few shovleware titles. This is fact: example
June 09 games for 360
9 out of 12 games on list worth playing imo
http://hawtymcbloggy.com/2009/05/16/xbox-360-games-slated-for-june-2009-release/
june 09 games for wii
2 out of 29 games on list worth playing imo
http://wii-canada.blogspot.com/2009/05/nintendo-wii-future-all-games-releases.html
Ps3 list is similar to 360s.
Anonymous Coward @ Jun 14th 2009 5:31AM
Glad this degenerated into a fanboy console war so quickly. Me, I'd rather see another CRPG in the Planescape multiverse. 1999's Planescape: Torment is easily the best story-driven game ever in my opinion, and while anything by Obsidian likely won't be as good, it's still a fascinating setting and I'd love to see it given the Fallout 3 treatment.
The Baron @ Jun 14th 2009 10:41AM
Oblivion is even more open-world than GTA, so imagine a worse looking, first person Vice City.
Maybe Morrowind would work? But that game's old as hell now, no publisher/developer would ever risk it.
Charlie_Six @ Jun 14th 2009 1:14PM
@cptkrush, Obsidian is great at what they do? NWN2 was a wreck. Hideous graphics. Required loads of patches before it even began to approach what Bioware's NWN1 had at launch. It was terrible.
tmacairjordan87 @ Jun 14th 2009 1:18PM
I'll second that. NWN2 was a trainwreck when I bought it. Game was ugly as hell and was somehow a resource hog, and it took many patches before my decent computer could even run it at a stable, playable framerate.
Lunastra78 (PSN: lunastra78) @ Jun 13th 2009 7:12PM
Will the next Fallout be made with the same engine as Fallout 3/Oblivion? Or more in the style of the classic Fallouts (non-fps)?
Sly [PSN SniperChameleon] @ Jun 13th 2009 7:21PM
they said new vegas would be like fallout 3, but they have some people who worked on the first 2, so they might have a good influence on the gameplay. :D
Lunastra78 (PSN: lunastra78) @ Jun 13th 2009 8:20PM
Really looking forward to that then. And I hope they get some more voice actors, it got a bit ridiculous hearing the same voices over and over. :-p
Sly [PSN SniperChameleon] @ Jun 13th 2009 7:21PM
sweet indeed.
Dave @ Jun 13th 2009 7:46PM
Is that Max Payne in the background?
:P
ohyeahcola @ Jun 13th 2009 8:10PM
its probably from the unannounced project. if so there not that smart
CL34N3R @ Jun 13th 2009 10:00PM
@ohyeahcola: It's "they're", as in, "they're not that smart". And yes, that seems to be going around.
ohyeahcola @ Jun 14th 2009 12:11AM
GRAMMAR NAZI!!!!
Hhean @ Jun 14th 2009 8:52PM
The character is Ammon Jerro, from Neverwinternights 2
reagan @ Jun 13th 2009 7:48PM
Anybody know if this might be Neverwinter Nights 3? With the knew MMORPG-like rules for D&D, maybe its another BioWare, Obsidian, and Atari game.
Crusty Magic @ Jun 13th 2009 7:50PM
Spreading our development team a little then eh?
Crusty Magic @ Jun 13th 2009 7:50PM
Spreading our development team a little thin eh?
The Dark Wayne @ Jun 14th 2009 1:02PM
spreading your posts a little thin eh?
Nightbug @ Jun 13th 2009 7:56PM
I guess they figured they didn't have enough balls in the air, and thus were in danger of releasing a finished product.
Metal Gear!? @ Jun 13th 2009 8:20PM
Is he smiling? It kind of looks like he is somewhat scared.
Mack Swift @ Jul 25th 2009 8:51AM
Baldur's Gate 3
dogmaticatheist @ Jun 13th 2009 11:56PM
I really don't get the point of saying "We're working on something, but I can't tell you anything about it." Why not just wait until you have some details?
It reminds me of those pointless homeland security alerts.
"Something suspicious is going to happen somewhere. We don't have any details, but be on the lookout!"
t_m @ Jun 14th 2009 12:03AM
Hmm... a company that has never successfully finished a product should probably concentrate on just one or two at a time. Just an idea...
cptkrush @ Jun 14th 2009 1:16AM
But KOTOR II was better than the first.
The Dark Wayne @ Jun 14th 2009 2:34AM
they never finished KOTOR 2 because Lucasarts made em push it out the door for a holiday release
Skypp @ Jun 14th 2009 12:07PM
They always have an excuse don't they?
I don't like Obsidian, and I never have. Anytime they get the table scraps from Bioware, I groan and think "did KOTOR or NWN really need a sequel if they sucked this bad?" Now they're after Bethesda scraps too. Even when they try their own new stuff, its just a mod to Mass Effect.
The Dark Wayne @ Jun 14th 2009 1:02PM
KOTOR 2 was anything but bad. I dont blame you though, i felt the same way until I really played it. But it improves on the original in almost every way. The writing, the tone, the general story, the influence system was a massive leap I was sad to see was not in Mass Effect, the characters were also much deeper, i didnt discover GO-TOs secret until after 3 playthroughs. Just give it a chance and put aside your predilections, because it's a really great game. I also have no idea where you got the idea this game would be a mod of mass effect. Also, in a manner of speaking, Bethesda is picking up Obsidian's scraps, because Obsidian is mostly made up of people from the original fallouts
pete @ Jun 14th 2009 12:11PM
Shame it's not KOTOR3.
udbdum2 @ Jun 14th 2009 3:15PM
what game is that poster in the back for?
Hhean @ Jun 14th 2009 8:51PM
It's Ammon Jerro from Neverwinter Nights 2
Hhean @ Jun 14th 2009 9:01PM
While it's not NWN3, given some hints Obsidian have been dropping recently on some of the NWN2 boards, it's looking to be a spiritual successor to the NWN games with a different engine and ruleset backing it up.
As in, custom toolset, multiplayer support for small worlds, and a DM client.
My own guess based on information to hand
Ethrunbal @ Jun 15th 2009 5:00AM
Perhaps they're resurrecting Torn?