The role-playing part of PoE failed on me. I kept playing because of battle encounters (the chalenges of).

Speaking from personal experience, I assume.
Opposite for me. I thought the story was decent and there were some good opportunites for roleplay. The combat? Tedious as hell and not fun. And far too many trash fights.

i can't talk freely here because it's thread from moderator. we can talk later about this ok?

Then you probably will be delighted(?) to hear that Tyranny has no friendly fire. Not even on the hardest difficulty, yay!

I'm actually interested in seeing a good 'be the bad guy' game... emphasis on 'good'. Dungeon Keeper is the best example I have for a game that made being evil fun, and there aren't all that many more on the list... Evil Genius and Ghost Master were both decent.

More recently I was pretty excited by a kickstarter project called That Which Sleeps, in which you played an "Old One" recently awoken and intent on conquering the world that thought it had defeated you. Since that's about a year and a half past due with the lone programmer scrambling to dumb the AI down (he couldn't fix it as-is) for an alpha test, I've pretty well given up on that - Tyranny just might be the game to make up for that.

Looks promising, can't wait.

I will say that, after the fiasco with No Man's Sky, you think GOG would go easy on the puffery for a while. :)

I don't understand why people think NMS is a fiasco. The devs put out a game that did what they said they would, and have kept on top of issues with several patches. There was a lot of hype from people who thought NMS was the next Mass Effect/EVE Online/Descent/whatever mashup, but that's not the dev's fault.

Leaving that aside, this article isn't puffery - it's basically saying 'hey look, an upcoming game release from a popular developer!'. It's the kind of thing stores are supposed to put up news posts about.

This game sounds really intriguing.

But don't you think the "be truly evil for once in an RPG" stuff is really just a headline grabber?

Or maybe thats just wishful thinking for me. I never have the desire to really "be a truly evil character" in my RPG's, cuz I really just like being myself in an RPG, same as I've been since my D&D days as a kid. Always more excited about the idea of imagining "what WOULD I do if i was in this fantastical place/situation/world, how would i function and react?", than role-playing some kind of character that's totally different than myself. And yeah, I'm generally not evil :P. So if it is a game where it's only about playing a truly evil character, well that wouldn't really be as interesting to me.

But what sounds exciting to me with a game like this, is being put in a position where I'm forced to make insanely difficult moral decisions - a mid-level Captain within an evil empire, who is actually some moral person trying to survive in a near-impossible situation. Like, how do I carry out the orders coming from my superiors, accomplishing what I'm supposed to accomplish, yet harming the minimal number of innocents? Some crazy balancing act of trying to hold to my morals/values as much as I can without losing my position, or more likely/importantly my head, in the process. Kind of like that star trek episode where Kirk ends up on the parallel dimension "evil enterprise".

Ideally then you could choose between whether you are a truly-evil member of the Empire, or someone desperately trying to make the best of an impossible situation, or anything in-between.

Now THAT sounds like a very intriguing RPG possibility to me, and those sound like some seriously interesting "moral choices"... if done right, that could present moral conundrums the player has to resolve on a level we've not had before in CPRGs. I'm not sure exactly how easy/possible it would be to create this kind of experience, but hey, I'm not a game dev... But yeah, I'll keep an eye on this one.

And in any case, always happy to see developers trying to push into new territory when it comes to world building, stories, and game-play situations, rather than more or less re-telling Tolkien for the 10,000th time.

No that's not where a lot of the anger comes from, a lot of the anger comes from the things the dev specifically said but isn't in the game. Watch the Angry Review on the game for instance, it refers to a reddit thread that had a long, long list of stuff that was mentioned but never made it in, despite some of it being mentioned or even visibly in the game till shortly before release.

In all games I know that allow an evil char its an evil char in a heroes story. And evil choices are more often dumb and for the sake of doing something evil.

I really hope that Obsidian can pull this off. I think the concept of "Tyranny" is really intriguing, because some of my favorite gaming memories are playing an evil character in games like KOTOR 2 or Mask of the Betrayer.

I'd never heard of either of those. I'll have to check them out!
I'm always having such a hard time playing characters as evil when it's clear the "good path" is just better. It's why I find Tyranny pretty interesting. Like some other posters though, I'm not sure how well it will work. Just being a "bad guy with a heart of gold" doesn't appeal to me very much, so, I'll just wait how this one turns out.

I'm really hoping this one will turn out really good ;)

Will the linux build also be available on gog?
A linux version was announced, but is not present in the system requirements on gog.