Obsidian’s New Game Needs Your Kickstarter Money To Get Made!

<p>Obsidian Entertainment&comma; famous for Knights Of The Old Republic II&comma; Fallout New Vegas and Alpha Protocol&comma; have announced their new project&comma; technically&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s called Project Eternity &lpar;working title&rpar;&comma; an isometric fantasy RPG inspired by games like Baldur&&num;8217&semi;s Gate and Planescape&colon; Torment and will be lead designed by Chris Avellone &lpar;lead designer of Planescape&colon; Torment&rpar;&comma; Tim Cain &lpar;creator of Fallout&rpar; and Josh Sawyer&period; But there is a catch&colon; it&&num;8217&semi;s a Kickstarter project&period; And its target is rather large&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But let&&num;8217&semi;s focus on the game first&period; The game&&num;8217&semi;s Kickstarter page promises to &&num;8220&semi;take the central hero&comma; memorable companions and the epic exploration of <em>Baldur’s Gate<&sol;em>&comma; add in the fun&comma; intense combat and dungeon diving of <em>Icewind Dale<&sol;em>&comma; and tie it all together with the emotional writing and mature thematic exploration of <em>Planescape&colon; Torment<&sol;em>&period;&&num;8221&semi; Combat will be real time with a pause function with &&num;8220&semi;positioning your party and coordinating attacks and abilities&&num;8221&semi; being &&num;8220&semi;one of the keys to success&&num;8221&semi;&period; Obsidian are also promising &&num;8220&semi;a story that explores mature themes and presents you with complex&comma; difficult choices to shape how your story plays out&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Sounds pretty great&comma; right&quest; So&comma; just how much is this amazing sounding project going to cost to get funded&quest; Only the measly sum of &dollar;1&period;1 million in 32 days&excl; But&comma; as of 6&colon;33PM UK time&comma; the project&&num;8217&semi;s already got a funding of &dollar;63&comma;000 from 1&comma;041 backers&comma; so it sounds like there&&num;8217&semi;s heavy interest for this&period; And&comma; if you need that extra little push&comma; the incentives are great too&excl; For &dollar;25 you get the game and an exclusive item&period; &dollar;65 nets you the digital game&comma; the exclusive item&comma; a digital copy of the soundtrack&comma; a digital collector&&num;8217&semi;s book and a boxed copy of the game&period; And if you have &dollar;250 to blow&quest; Everything mentioned previous plus a shirt&comma; your boxed game signed&comma; a softcover collector&&num;8217&semi;s book&comma; a cloth map&comma; a cloth badge&comma; a VIP forum badge and a special thanks in the credits&period; And don&&num;8217&semi;t even get me started on the &dollar;1&comma;000 incentives&&num;8230&semi;&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>There are plenty more incentives both between those figures and further on but the message should be through to you now&comma; you need to help fund this game&excl; I am breaking the impartiality of news reporting and flat out telling you to go get this game funded&excl; It&&num;8217&semi;s an old-school RPG by Obsidian and Chris Avellone&comma; for Maker&&num;8217&semi;s sake&excl;  You have no excuse&excl; Go&excl; Click the link at the bottom and go&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Plus&comma; if we hit the overfund&comma; maybe Obsidian will hire an actual QA department for this game&excl; ZING&excl;&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Source&colon; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;kickstarter&period;com&sol;projects&sol;obsidian&sol;project-eternity" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">Project Eternity&&num;8217&semi;s Kickstarter page<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;