The worst Obsidian Entertaiment game?

[0wing]

Obsidian is well known for telling brilliant stories and sometimes no less brilliant gameplay but the experience often ruined by bugs of rather strange game design decisions. But even then, Obsidian developed some frustratingly unbearable games. What do you think it is?

I think it's Neverwinter Nights 2. The story and quests doesn't deliver and gameplay is so traditional, it became a bore. The whole NWN1/2 excuse, "single player campaign is meant to show off engine features" really doesn't work. It's possible to excuse bethesda like this. The graphics (both tech and art sides) aren't good enough (epsecially after The Witcher) but it takes an Oblivion-capable PC to run. So... Epic fail.

 

[Makta]

I loved Neverwinter nights 1 and played it far more than i probably should have.. But when i saw my friend play the second game it took me 15 minute to say i would never touch it. Haven't played most of their games since they are not my type of games but at least they look great for the genre etc compared to NVN 2.

Dungeon Siege 3 might also take the spot but haven't played any DS game since the second one.

 

[aenemic]

While I still haven't played Stick of Truth and never finished Dungeon Siege 3, my vote goes to NWN 2 as well. I did enjoy it quite a bit when it was released, but after I finished it I never really felt tempted to go back. The story was pretty lame, none of the characters stood out as particularly interesting (they felt more like charicatures of better characters from previous rpg's) and the game was very poorly optimized.

 

[PlanHex]

I'd vote for NWN2, but since you include add-ons and MotB is great, that suddenly became kind of hard.
The answer is probably Dungeon Siege 3, but I haven't played it. Or maybe one of those f2p things they made: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyforge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armored_Warfare

 

[AskWazzup]

Dungeon Siege III. Have only played the demo, but it was a linear lackluster attempt in comparison to their other titles. It's a decent game on its own i guess.

P.S. I probably played NWN2 the most times out of all the people in this forum.

 

[0wing]

I'd vote for NWN2, but since you include add-ons and MotB is great, that suddenly became kind of hard.

Well, I didn't like the addons personally, since they run on the very same base which is ugly business...

P.S. I probably played NWN2 the most times out of all the people in this forum.

I wish I did too but on top of Obsidian's shit there's our regional publisher's shit. I.e. lackluster localization and troubles with patches. Localization team just took some random pieces from the worldwide 1.01 patch and stufffed into their NWN2 release. Likewise with the rest of them. Which means you guessed what - lack of multiplayer, one of the 'features' and high points of the game.

 

[DirtyOldShoe]

I don't know enough about all those games to give a good answer, but there is some sub-franchise to be consider too, I'm sure for a South Park game fan that South Park game is terrific, but I would be more bias to a South Park game then a Fallout game, unless it was handled poorly. My objectionable view is that for their context, they were made well and appropriately. For example, if the South Park game wasn't extremely offensive, it would be a bad game, because South Park is intended to offend. Just because I don't think South Park translates to video game well, doesn't mean they did a bad job, it just ain't my cup of tea.

 

[AskWazzup]

I wish I did too but on top of Obsidian's shit there's our regional publisher's shit. I.e. lackluster localization and troubles with patches. Localization team just took some random pieces from the worldwide 1.01 patch and stufffed into their NWN2 release. Likewise with the rest of them. Which means you guessed what - lack of multiplayer, one of the 'features' and high points of the game.

Never touched the multiplayer, actually i can't recall playing any rpg in multiplayer ever (aside from diablo, which the purists don't consider as rpg). What i loved is just making all kinds of characters and then trying to role play them. Building and then developing them was my favorite part of the game. And i actually kind of liked the story, of course not nearly as much as motb.

 

[0wing]

Never touched the multiplayer, actually i can't recall playing any rpg in multiplayer ever (aside from diablo, which the purists don't consider as rpg). What i loved is just making all kinds of characters and then trying to role play them. Building and then developing them was my favorite part of the game. And i actually kind of liked the story, of course not nearly as much as motb.

Well, it was advertised as a feature by users, why not to try, really? Aside from that, castrated patches for a NWN2 is near death.

 

[RoyBatty]

I'm going to say Southpark because the combat mechanics are bloody awful and designed for a console controller.