Josh Sawyer Q&A Thread

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[Roguey]

It's an expected feature of open world games to allow you to play on after the credits roll so there's going to be angst over the lack of it regardless of how the conclusion goes.

 

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Trolled by Sawyer:

 

[Fry]

Better not fuck with weebey.

 

[Ninjerk]

some of the Bethesda F3 devs gave feedback on our design docs.

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Imagine those fucks telling you how to do your job.

 

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The Mystery of Lionheart

 

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Speaking of Josh:

 

[Fry]

The project I’m on now is the first one I’ve managed where there’s more than one full-time system designer

I wonder if that includes himself.

 

[Rivmusique]

Cheer up buddy, I'm sure Chris will come back around.

 

[jaydee2k]

Sad this turned out that way. Now that Leonard is back in developing real games I dreamed of all those guys making a new golden RPG together.
Why MCA why -_-

 

[Rivmusique]

He really wants to make Telltale/life-is-strange-ish barely interactive movies. If you love him, let him go.

 

[Grape_You_In_the_Mouth]

The guy who asked that question is a real cool guy

 

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^If you count The White March as a sequel then the future holds promise.



Is that really a thing? FFS SJWs

 

[Sentinel]

Joshua Graham wasn't supposed to be white?
What was he supposed to be then?

 

[Roguey]

Yeah, this stuff is pretty old. 2011:

What would your response to these statements be: "the super racist native american who thinks "casinos" are just places where the "white man flips over little pieces of paper""

Follows-Chalk isn't a Native American, culturally or ethnically.

My friend is saying that your guys were insensitive in your jokes regarding Indians in the latest DLC. Thoughts?

I have no idea what jokes he's talking about, most notably since there aren't any Indians/Native Americans in Honest Hearts.

Well at least with the Dead Horses, there seems to be a lot of influence from Native Americans. And my friend was saying how she saw that "Two-Bears-High-Fiving" joke as being very insensitive. She took it as mocking the NAtive American naming culture.

Two Bears High-Fiving is a reference to a popular mod for the opening ink blot tests from Doc Mitchell. The tribes are influenced by a number of indigenous groups, not simply "Native Americans" (itself a very broad categorization of geographically and culturally diverse groups). The "ethnic" composition of all three of the tribes is intentionally mixed. There aren't Caucasian, African, Asian, etc. Dead Horses. There are just Dead Horses, with a thoroughly mixed background.

What English speakers understand of various Sioux, Cherokee, Sauk, etc. names is usually as literal a translation as they can manage because many indigenous American names are really, really long. Even so, there isn't a homogeneous indigenous American "naming culture".

Cultures based on European backgrounds may treat our names as sounds without meaning, but a lot of them are packed with the same sorts of sentiments -- animal names (e.g. Melissa, Bjorn), religious connections (e.g. Joshua, Johanna, Michael), etc. The names of individual tribals in Honest Hearts is intended to give them a sense of being "other" more than it is intended to evoke specific indigenous connections.

Joshua Graham elaborates on this a bit in his dialogue. The New Canaanites wear more clothing and understand more about technology than the Sorrows, but they're still a tribe.

 

[santino27]

"My friend" clearly needs to get over herself.

 

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Chris Avellone

 

[Fairfax]

Corporal Christina Royce (NCR lieutenant CNPC, used to be part of the Vault 15 squatters in F2 as Christy or something, also a tribute to Wasteland).
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Chrissy

He reused the name in Dead Money, but the character is different. IIRC he said in a presentation that she was going to look like that in VB, though.

 

[Mozg]

HH was just continuing the Fallout 2 tribal thing, which the people complaining about it never played. I was more offended by the voodoo sociology that assumes that Native Americanesque primitives are like a linear developmental stage of proper civilization where it's natural that if you don't have refrigerators and can openers for a while you start talking about spirits and making totems out of bones.

 

[pippin]

I saw HH as a throwback to the kids in Mad Max 3, which is still a pastiche in post apoc settings in my opinion.
Few of the people in those tribes were actual native americans, however. The strange situation they are in could be explained that, unlike other survivors who are living in urban landscapes and have better access to information about the past, these people know nothing about the Pre War days, because they were mostly left with the park rangers' equipment. As a footnote, there's a bit in Wasteland 2 where you find a book that talks about horses and you don't know what horses are. It's still a little extreme, but all things considered I think it's a nice approach to the role of christian missions in America (as a continent). I wouldn't take the dlc stories that seriously, but HH has a very good atmosphere which might not be completely related to gameplay, like in Dead Money for instance, but it's still pretty good.

 

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Honest Hearts is primarily inspired by this:

Probably not mentioned by Josh in this case since it would kind of hurt his counter-argument.

 

[pippin]

Very good movie.