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Red Eagle Games and Obsidian Entertainment today announced they have entered into a services agreement which provides a comprehensive framework for Obsidian Entertainment to work closely with Red Eagle Games' in-house development team to create new video games for the PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 based on Robert Jordan's best-selling fantasy series, The Wheel of Time.



"The Wheel of Time is one of the greatest and well-received fantasy series of all time," said Chris Avellone, Chief Creative Officer of Obsidian Entertainment. "Games set in Robert Jordan's universe have the chance to deliver on the epic storylines and the complex characters that the series is known for - and this is one of Obsidian's strengths. It's a natural fit."


ordan's wildly popular books have been translated into 24 languages, and have sold about 44 million copies worldwide. According to Tor Books, the publisher of The Wheel of Time novels, there are about 65,000 The Wheel of Time fan Web sites as a part of a vast global on-line fan community.
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So. ****ing. Hyped. Already.
Can't. Form. Complete. Sentences.
 
want to give a run down of what to expect? I havent read the wheel of time series
 
No elves, no dwarves. woot. Only one non-engineered non-human intelligent species who are tall slightly fluffy bookworms.
Setting is medieval/early renaissance with some technologies such as printing press widespread.

'Magic' very systematic, hugely powerful, the ability to learn a heritable trait. Used widely in the previous epoch (before series of books start) to create a utopia, then researchers used the magic to accidentally partially release the Big Bad. His followers go to war, lots of nasty monsters created through magical GM, goodies eventually kinda win at huge price.
Big Bad mostly locked away, but all male magic dudes go mad, destroy civilization/rearrange several continents. All male magic dudes continue to be doomed to madness up until start of book series, causes the women to band together hunt down and neutralise such threats.
At start of book series Big Bad starts to break free, his top lieutenants released. 'Champion' prophesied to defeat him has been born, though he's also destined to break the world again and faces going mad as all men like him do. Most people hate and fear the very idea of his return, on top of naturally hating and fearing all male magicy dudles.

Cue start of epicly long series, with character development of the main hero based on how the author's experiences in Vietnam changed him.

It's vastly more complicated than that, with a cast of thousands of named characters, thousands of years of backstory alluded to across several continents.
Not your typical D&D "OMG DRIZZT A GOOD ARKD ELF!!!" junk by any means.
 
I've never be a fan of the elves and dwarves and gnomes and hobbits, etc, so maybe I'd like this.
 
Why is Obsidian kicking so much ass all of the sudden? They make an unfortunately buggy KOTOR 2 and then all of the sudden they're making Alpha Protocol, Fallout New Vegas, and now another completely new game game series. KOTOR 2 must have made them some serious cash to be able to fund these projects. Bethesda is probably funding New Vegas, but still.
 
Well Obsidian were founded by most of the Black Isle staff, of Planescape, Icewind Dale, Fallout 1 and 2 pedigree - as well as helping with the Baldur's Gate games.
afaik the bugginess of KOTOR 2 was largely down to time constraints forced upon them so I've forgiven them on that basis.
 
Oh, im not saying Kotor 2 was bad, in fact is a great game in spite of its technical problems, its just that I didn't think it would be enough to catapult them into being such a huge player in the industry.
 
Eejit said:
No elves, no dwarves. woot. Only one non-engineered non-human intelligent species who are tall slightly fluffy bookworms.
Setting is medieval/early renaissance with some technologies such as printing press widespread.

'Magic' very systematic, hugely powerful, the ability to learn a heritable trait. Used widely in the previous epoch (before series of books start) to create a utopia, then researchers used the magic to accidentally partially release the Big Bad. His followers go to war, lots of nasty monsters created through magical GM, goodies eventually kinda win at huge price.
Big Bad mostly locked away, but all male magic dudes go mad, destroy civilization/rearrange several continents. All male magic dudes continue to be doomed to madness up until start of book series, causes the women to band together hunt down and neutralise such threats.
At start of book series Big Bad starts to break free, his top lieutenants released. 'Champion' prophesied to defeat him has been born, though he's also destined to break the world again and faces going mad as all men like him do. Most people hate and fear the very idea of his return, on top of naturally hating and fearing all male magicy dudles.

Cue start of epicly long series, with character development of the main hero based on how the author's experiences in Vietnam changed him.

It's vastly more complicated than that, with a cast of thousands of named characters, thousands of years of backstory alluded to across several continents.
Not your typical D&D "OMG DRIZZT A GOOD ARKD ELF!!!" junk by any means.
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I cant see how they would make a game out of that. does it follow a central character?
 
Krynn72 said:
Why is Obsidian kicking so much ass all of the sudden? They make an unfortunately buggy KOTOR 2 and then all of the sudden they're making Alpha Protocol, Fallout New Vegas, and now another completely new game game series. KOTOR 2 must have made them some serious cash to be able to fund these projects. Bethesda is probably funding New Vegas, but still.
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I refuse to get behind a company too much. They are about money, so don't forget that. New management can come in and turn them into Satan, overnight.
 
I'm not entrusting my first born son to them or anything, im just remarking on how big they've gotten.
 
CptStern said:
I cant see how they would make a game out of that. does it follow a central character?
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There is one 'main' character but it follows an ensemble of half a dozen characters you get points of view from regularly with another couple of dozen PoVs scattered around. It's a pretty big series.
I expect the game will be set during a different time period prior to the beginning of the series - or possibly after the prequel but prior to the main sequence. Or during the series but on a continent separate from where most of the events play out.

Oh and Stern if you don't decide to check out the series Robert Jordan, the author, did some of the best (imo) Conan pastiches which you might enjoy.
 
Obsidian is starting to get real busy. My only regret is that we may never get that Aliens rpg from them because SEGA are a bunch of retards.
 
None of their other projects are important any more. Only the Wheel of Time RPG matters.
 
**** YES! I hope this doesn't blow goats, but if Obsidian's involved then I'm sure it will be at least decent. I'm more worried about the Wheel of Time film adaptation.

It's such a great series, there's so much subtlety and so many interesting things going on in every book, I discover new things every time I reread them.
 
thread title said:
best setting ever
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Without reading thread at all, and screwing my eyes shut as I scroll down:

Mortal Engines?!?!

please please please mortal engines

EDIT: Awww, goddamn.
 
Obsidian just got the best setting ever
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Robert Jordan's "The Wheel of Time"
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HE THINKS THE WHEEL OF TIME WAS A GOOD SERIES

HE ENJOYS SOME OF THE WORST PROSE IN THE HISTORY OF FANTASY

HE ENJOYS TERRIBLE PACING, PREDICTABLE DEVELOPMENTS, AND READING ABOUT WOMEN'S DRESSES FOR CHAPTERS AT A TIME
 
Didn't you admit to only reading a small amount of the series? Why yes, yes you did.

So get your opinions from other people more.


The pacing for a couple of books did slow down as things got rather... unwieldy but it picked up again later. The prose is actually very, very good.
The detailed descriptions may not be to everyone's taste but when people actually pay attention to them they'd pick up on a lot of small hints and hidden character appearances. They hide easter eggs basically.

Also the plot is far from predictable [cue Darkside copypasting a typical "anything rendered down to such basics its appears retarded" summary from wherever he read the opinion he holds]
 
I read enough to know it's bad.

I also played the FPS.

But nice job trying to break the credibility of my arguments. I suppose it's kinda hard to defend how the author drones on and on about what those strong, beautiful women of Andor are all wearing, shit-all happens in some books, and the way it's written is just...ugh.

"Picked up again later," he says...when? After Jordan died? Because I'll admit I haven't read the Sanderson stuff.
 
Oh wait, what am I doing? Darkside claiming to care about prose and plot. Silly me! Go read the novelisation of Transformers: The Movie some more.
 
...you may have won this day, but I'll be back.

Also I'll admit the FPS was pretty fun
 
Krynn72 said:
Why is Obsidian kicking so much ass all of the sudden? They make an unfortunately buggy KOTOR 2 and then all of the sudden they're making Alpha Protocol, Fallout New Vegas, and now another completely new game game series. KOTOR 2 must have made them some serious cash to be able to fund these projects. Bethesda is probably funding New Vegas, but still.
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Obsidian still has a lot of fans among the Bioware fanbase. If they play their cards right, there is no reason their games should become commercial successes. But it's good to see Obsidian stepping up, who knows,maybe they will provide Bioware with some competition. (Bethesda don't count)
 
The FPS is one of my all-time favourites, I'm glad you like it :)
Great combat system and textures.


Anyway all prose and pacing concerns of the actual novels aside I don't think many people who have problems with the books object to the setting - which is what's relevant to the game.
 
As long as you can be a Whitecloak and push peasants out of the way, I'm hyped.
 
Eejit said:
No elves, no dwarves. woot. Only one non-engineered non-human intelligent species who are tall slightly fluffy bookworms.
Setting is medieval/early renaissance with some technologies such as printing press widespread.

'Magic' very systematic, hugely powerful, the ability to learn a heritable trait. Used widely in the previous epoch (before series of books start) to create a utopia, then researchers used the magic to accidentally partially release the Big Bad. His followers go to war, lots of nasty monsters created through magical GM, goodies eventually kinda win at huge price.
Big Bad mostly locked away, but all male magic dudes go mad, destroy civilization/rearrange several continents. All male magic dudes continue to be doomed to madness up until start of book series, causes the women to band together hunt down and neutralise such threats.
At start of book series Big Bad starts to break free, his top lieutenants released. 'Champion' prophesied to defeat him has been born, though he's also destined to break the world again and faces going mad as all men like him do. Most people hate and fear the very idea of his return, on top of naturally hating and fearing all male magicy dudles.

Cue start of epicly long series, with character development of the main hero based on how the author's experiences in Vietnam changed him.

It's vastly more complicated than that, with a cast of thousands of named characters, thousands of years of backstory alluded to across several continents.
Not your typical D&D "OMG DRIZZT A GOOD ARKD ELF!!!" junk by any means.
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as I read the beginning of your statement I picture Mordin and him speaking really quickly
320px-Mordin_Solus.png
 
Slug Advisor said:
As long as you can be a Whitecloak and push peasants out of the way, I'm hyped.
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I now want a Thief/Assassin's Creed kind of game where you play a Whitecloak trying to assassinate channelers.
 
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