Sulphur on 11/11/2016 at 13:48
...is released. And we need a thread about it, so here is one very such thing.
I have not launched the game yet, so here is my understanding of it: it is a Fantasy Role Playing Game set in a grim, dark world where ponies have long since gone extinct. Rumours of the fabled Last Pony have led to a bunch of powerful people in a large nation setting out on a quest to find it, but this is ultimately derailed by vicious infighting over whether the most appropriate thing to do with the Last Pony is to eat it, process it into glue, or elect it as a figurehead for their cause; while this is going on, they're corked by an evil rival faction that smacks them upside the head repeatedly because it's good for a giggle and everyone is entertained by the show.
Meanwhile, someone leaks the original group's confidential dispatches via sly mimeographing, and sends copies to libraries all over the nation. Naturally, every other word from their dissipated quills makes everyone look a right tit, so the public decides they've had enough of all this rubbish and go for a vote instead--
--at which point everything goes a bit pear shaped, or would have if pears existed in this world, so matters are instead a bit aubergine.
I may have elided a few points because it's really hard to remember all this fantasy guff - who can relate to it these days, anyway? Feel free to pick up on anything I've missed, forumgoers!
Malf on 11/11/2016 at 14:24
I had a friend once who I only ever knew as "The Aubergine."
Zerker on 11/11/2016 at 21:35
I think it says something about their marketing that the first I heard of this game was seeing it show up on GOG.
Either that, or the name is so generic I completely forgot.
I did wishlist it, but I haven't even gotten to Pillars of Eternity or Wasteland 2 yet.
Renzatic on 11/11/2016 at 22:02
Quote Posted by Zerker
I think it says something about their marketing that the first I heard of this game was seeing it show up on GOG.
No, it's that they barely marketed it.
I first heard about it a few months back almost as an aside. "Hey guys, Obsidian is making an RPG about being a bad guy called Tyranny." I figured it was a year or two off, but suddenly "...hey guys, Tyranny's out."
From what I'm gathering about the game, it's pretty damn good. But damn, it just snuck up on me, and right at the release of another game I've been looking forward to for awhile now. I'm gonna have to wait to get it until later, because I've still got my current and backlog of games going.
Maybe it's some experiment by Obsidian to see how far word of mouth can drive a games sales or something.
Sulphur on 12/11/2016 at 04:16
The interesting thing is, Tyranny got a decent amount of announcement press. There has been almost nil pre-release marketing save for banners on a few sites, which is a very odd thing considering you want to build customer awareness by getting the hype train going via a smorgasbord of preview pieces. Either they didn't budget for that, or it's an experiment like you said, Renz. Doesn't smack of much common sense if it indeed is an experiment, though.
As for the game itself? I'd say I was on point. There's not a goddamn pony in sight.
Sulphur on 13/11/2016 at 08:11
Well, I just tried rerolling a mage character and playing the game, and it crashes at the load screen. Four times in a row. Now that's the Obsidian QA that we all know and love.
Oh well. Now that my mood to play it is ruined, I might as well give in to that other sort of tyranny and get back to something from EA or Activision.
Matthew on 14/11/2016 at 11:38
Wait, did someone say 'Last Pony'?!
I confess that I'd never heard of this game until GoG started pushing it during their recent sale.
Jason Moyer on 15/11/2016 at 10:17
The combat mechanics feel pretty PoE to me, but the factions/reputation stuff reminds me a lot of Alpha Protocol. You even get bonuses for pissing certain factions off enough. I'm also not really a big fan of the interface; there are basically the same options as you have in PoE, but I vastly prefer the wannabe-infinity engine layout they used in that.
