Talk:Obsidian Entertainment

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I changed Chris Parker so that it doesn't now link to the article on the British actor Christopher Parker. I think it's reasonable to assume that they're not the same person. If anyone knows otherwise, feel free to undo the change.

I found out that Sega has purchased Obsidian Entertainment and thought it would be important to add this, as they are now working on a MMORPG for Sega, while Neverwinter Nights 2 is still in development.

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[edit] Sega didn't buy Obsidian.

http://www.sega.com/corporate/corporate.php?item=pr_20060323a&id=hp_news

Sega and Obsidian just collaboratively develop an original role playing game... I think that Obsidian is a developer and Sega is a publisher. Obsidian is still a independent developer.

According to Feargus Urquhart, an RPG Obsidian is developing with Sega is called Project Georgia and single player, not MMORPG.

Looks like someone beat me to the explanation.
Edited and merged the Sega entry into the Games section. A Blue's News page that seemed to spark the confusion has since been corrected. I've also removed the buy-out reference. We only know of a one-shot development partnership, not a merger/purchase.
Wafulls 12:02, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Obisodoan has announced an expansion pack for NW2, is it safe to assume that it's project Georgia. 69.213.250.201 23:20, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 33 Employees?

I work QA in Obsidian, and we've got more than 33 people just in here. I know Wiki looks down on self-editing, if I got an updated staff number would it be okay to put it in myself? Not like you can POV or opinionate a number...

[edit] Project NX1?

NX1 is not a name of US state but an acronym of Nwn2 eXpansion pack 1. NX1 looks like Project Massachusetts.

[edit] KOTOR

Neither company has announced that KOTOR will be continued, except for a article with a list of games in which Lucas mentions they PLAN to continue it. I plan on taking over the world. I took out that part of the article.

[edit] Criticism?

Has anybody noticed that both games that Obsidian has published to data have been extremely buggy and had unreasonably high HW requirements? The article makes it seem as though the company were formed by skilled veterans and people of "Icewind Dale fame", but the quality of their output is disputable, to say the least. Shouldn't there be a Criticism section or at least some toning down of the universal praise in the article?

Adam s 18:26, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

I agree that the praise in the opening paragraph should be dialed down (while having no complaints against either of their games myself). Personally, I think a whole Criticism section would probably be out of place in a relatively short article like this, though — just reworking the existing text to remove the advertising-like stuff would be sufficient to make the article neutral, I think. -- Vardion 23:19, 3 September 2007 (UTC)