Tyranny, the new RPG from Obsidian, gets a release date and will have day-1 Linux support [Updated]

Wow! That was sooner than I had expected, thankfully I finished PoE's "White March" expansion just last month so I'm raring to go for more Obsidian crpg-ing. Now, basically everything that remains of the gaming year 2016 is saved for me. :D :D :D :D :D

The fact that they replied to me to confirm day one has me happy! :)

Paradox is a model developer and publisher as far as I'm concerned. They have been an avid supporter of Linux since day one -- in this case meaning the day Steam for Linux was officially released. Crusader Kings II was one of the first Linux games I purchased on Steam, and I am proud to say that I have played it exclusively on Linux. :D

is it turnbased combat? cuz i'm such a sucker for turnbased combat and i love pillars to bits.

Such great news! Good job Obsidian!

Thank you to Obsidian and Paradox for being two great Linux supporters with their games, preordered after seeing the news.

But I must say that if I have to nitpick something is that they could have waited more time between the release of the Leviathans expansion for Stellaris and this game, I don't know where I will find time to play both :P


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How many confirmed day one releases is this now?

Damn it looks awesome but I have to pass for now, I still have to finish PoE with the expansions. Seriously there too many games on Linux available now. Not good for my productivity ;)

Awesome news! Still not pre-ordering, though. I'll buy it day 1, most likely, so long as the reviews aren't terrible nor is it riddled with bugs.

Will it have workable character development system? (and not like PoE)
Will it have good exp system? (and not like PoE)
Will it be possible to play as single char and not a whole party? (and not like PoE)

I have yet to even start Pillars of Eternity, so on the wishlist it goes for now. I do like the "evil has already won" approach, it's a theme I've been curious about for a while. I just hope the overlord isn't a two-dimensional "conquer the world because I can" villain.

I've had Tyranny wishlisted since 22nd April. Looks good :)

Awesome news! So many potentially great games coming to Linux! Its going to be a great Christmas! Still not pre ordering.

I have yet to even start Pillars of Eternity, so on the wishlist it goes for now. I do like the "evil has already won" approach, it's a theme I've been curious about for a while. I just hope the overlord isn't a two-dimensional "conquer the world because I can" villain.

It's not like those are so unrealistic. Up until recently "conquer everyone I can" was more or less an accepted principle of statecraft--not the only possible approach, but a common and perfectly respectable one. When we look at historical kings, Roman emperors and so on are we very often measure them by the "Did he expand the country/empire's territory? Yes? Then he was good!" yardstick.
And to this day it has its adherents--Dick Cheney, for instance.

@Swiftpaw that's not quite fair. PoE was not riddled with DLC, and you didn't need to play them at all to enjoy the main story, in fact they were completely irrelevant to the main plot. What was annoying though is how the DLC's were meant to be played halfway through, and I thought they broke the balancing of the main story. I played through to the end and felt like I was much too powerful at the end, even though had upped the difficulty.

Having said that, PoE + DLC was epic, it took me 200 hours. I'm not ready for another similar RPG this size, going to take a rest!

btw. is there some mod that makes PoE playable for single char?

Even games like Might and Magic VI were playable as single char, as you could just kill monsters again and again and get stupid lvl and thus go through some of those areas which were stupidly hard. BG was playable as single char, as your level progression was much faster. Everything in PoE however seems to be designed against it.

I've had Tyranny wishlisted since 22nd April. Looks good :)

It doesn't seem like it was announced all that long ago but I've had it on my list since March 15 . . . man this year is moving fast.

Another Paradox game to be ruthlessly bombarded by DLC afterward (or have a huge portion of the game withheld during development) so if you want the complete game you have to fork over way more $$$$$ later on? No thank you, I'll wait for the GOtY edition, as with all Paradox games.

So I *really* don't like DLC. However, I really feel that games like CKII or EU justify microtransactions because if they're your type of thing, you can get thousands of hours of enjoyable playtime out of them. Do you need pink saddles for your cavalry? No! But why not throw some money the developers way for creating such a rewarding game and continuing to patch and update it years after release?

I also feel that Pillars 'DLC' was done right, as they're really more of an expansion than a dinky DLC.

I have yet to even start Pillars of Eternity, so on the wishlist it goes for now. I do like the "evil has already won" approach, it's a theme I've been curious about for a while. I just hope the overlord isn't a two-dimensional "conquer the world because I can" villain.

It's not like those are so unrealistic. Up until recently "conquer everyone I can" was more or less an accepted principle of statecraft--not the only possible approach, but a common and perfectly respectable one. When we look at historical kings, Roman emperors and so on are we very often measure them by the "Did he expand the country/empire's territory? Yes? Then he was good!" yardstick.
And to this day it has its adherents--Dick Cheney, for instance.

You know, I actually considered that as I was typing that comment. The problem is that it's kind of an easy default that gets boring quickly. More importantly, I had more in mind than just expansionism. If the guy's leading a nation to world domination, that's fair game. But would you call that "evil has won"? At a glance, it sounds more like your stereotypical "evil overlord raises an army of nobodies/monsters/undead and goes on a power trip for the sake of his own ego" and that's what I'm wary of. Not making assumptions, but it's something I'll want to look into when reviews come out.

The experience ought to be quite different based on whether we're part of some nation who has conquered another and is reinstating order, or some bad evil dude working for a badder evil dude with the sole purpose of making people miserable. I expect the game falls somewhere between the two.

I want the complete game up front, otherwise it should be in early access or release an expansion later on. I'm talking an actual "expansion", too. I like my games DLC-free like in the good ol' days, otherwise I'm waiting! :D

There's DLC that's pretty useless and/or crappy, but I feel that no one uses the term "expansion" anymore, because expansions are now sold as downloadable content... just like the base games, really. In this context, hating on DLC but welcoming expansions seems contradictory to me. All DLC expands a game in some way, and the *expansions* we grew up with are now marketed as DLC. It's a rather poor choice of words for today's market, but it's easy to forget and warp the meaning behind an acronym. You could call them add-ons, expansions, extras, kits... they're all downloadable anyway.

That said, I certainly agree that cutting a game down into DLCs to inflate the price of the complete, base experience is crap. But waiting for consolidated editions as you propose solves that problem nicely, especially if you also wait for a sale. At the end of the day (or year :)) you get more content for whatever price you're looking to pay.


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Looking forward to it. And great to see that it's coming out on GOG. Paradox own games have some issues with Steam lock-in. I suppose Obsidian managed to convince Paradox to avoid it.