People News The New Obsidian: Josh Sawyer promoted to studio Design Director role

[Excidium II]

I would appreciate it if you stopped explaining what I'm saying on my behalf. I'm perfectly capable of doing that myself when needed.

which is why you needed like twenty consultants for your shitty review

But it's funny seeing some stereotypical averagedex lowstandards consensus "Doesn't stink nor smell" user complain about divergent opinions being shutdown by angry mobs.

He should check his recent Bloodlines thread in fact. Where's the angry mob shutting down my divergent opinion? Might it just be that I'm not a bitch?

 

[undecaf]

vodka's better.

Whiskey or bust.

 

[Prime Junta]

I would appreciate it if you stopped explaining what I'm saying on my behalf. I'm perfectly capable of doing that myself when needed.

which is why you needed like twenty consultants for your shitty review

Let it go. It's been nearly a year, surely you're over it by now.

 

[Excidium II]

Never let it go, as long as it bothers someone.

 

[J_C]

I would appreciate it if you stopped explaining what I'm saying on my behalf. I'm perfectly capable of doing that myself when needed.

which is why you needed like twenty consultants for your shitty review

He should have lent some consultants to you, so you can write a decent one.

 

[Excidium II]

 

[Mozg]

On topic:

I hope Josh will create his old dream one day: A new Darklands with turn based combat and a classless character development system.

The problem is that there's already a way to do that: Leave Obsidian and crowdfund an indie version for a few hundred grand. A quasi-executive position at a developer that mostly wants to keep its people working on anything it can get is getting further from that, not closer.

 

[Excidium II]

On topic:

I hope Josh will create his old dream one day: A new Darklands with turn based combat and a classless character development system.

The problem is that there's already a way to do that: Leave Obsidian and crowdfund an indie version for a few hundred grand. A quasi-executive position at a developer that mostly wants to keep its people working on anything is getting further from that, not closer.

The problem is he can't/doesn't feel like taking that sort of risk. He doesn't care about games that much.

 

[Prime Junta]

TBH I did expect the review to cause a certain amount of butthurt, but in my wildest dreams I wouldn't have expected that people still obsess about it nearly a year later.

 

[Infinitron]

Re: Darklands

My feeling is that Josh may eventually settle on a tactical turn-based Darklands-like set in Eora rather than Earth, if he ever creates such a game at all.

 

[Excidium II]

My feeling is that Josh may eventually settle on a tactical turn-based Darklands-like set in Eora rather than Earth, if he ever creates such a game at all.

Why on earth would he use the pseudo-D&D world he created for the pseudo-D&D game?

 

[Outlander]

Beer sucks.

 

[Infinitron]

My feeling is that Josh may eventually settle on a tactical turn-based Darklands-like set in Eora rather than Earth, if he ever creates such a game at all.

Why on earth would he use the pseudo-D&D world he created for the pseudo-D&D game?

Brand name recognition to help it sell better obviously.

I don't know, there's been talk of them trying to do a turn-based PoE spinoff (eg, http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/inde...viewed-at-ragequit-gr-and-darkstation.104797/). Seems like it'd make sense to combine that with the Darklands idea, but maybe that would be a separate game.

 

[Immortal]

TBH I did expect the review to cause a certain amount of butthurt, but in my wildest dreams I wouldn't have expected that people still obsess about it nearly a year later.

No matter how many times you frame it like this.. we know it bugs you.

 

[Duraframe300]

My feeling is that Josh may eventually settle on a tactical turn-based Darklands-like set in Eora rather than Earth, if he ever creates such a game at all.

Why on earth would he use the pseudo-D&D world he created for the pseudo-D&D game?

Brand name recognition to help it sell better obviously.

I don't know, there's been talk of them trying to do a turn-based PoE spinoff (eg, http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/inde...viewed-at-ragequit-gr-and-darkstation.104797/). Seems like it'd make sense to combine that with the Darklands idea, but maybe that could be a third game.

?

I don't really get it. How would you set a Darklands style game in Eora?

The setting doesn't really.. fit that well.

 

[Excidium II]

Brand name recognition to help it sell better obviously.

MCA wept.

 

[Bubbles]

I don't know, there's been talk of them trying to do a turn-based PoE spinoff (eg, http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/inde...viewed-at-ragequit-gr-and-darkstation.104797/). Seems like it'd make sense to combine that with the Darklands idea, but maybe that could be a third game.

Bobby Null and I have also talked to Feargus about the possibility of making a separate game in the Pillars of Eternity setting focused on turn-based combat. Pillars of Eternity's area sizes and input systems don't translate well to non-PC formats, but I think a turn-based game could be very cool.

That sounds like they'd be using turn-based combat as an entryway to the console market. I'm not sure if "spiritual successor to Darklands" and "Xbone" are really all that compatible.

 

[Mozg]

I dunno how you do Darklands without it being set in "imaginary history". I guess you could go up one more level of meta and make PoE Darklands where it's a fantastic version of PoE world history believed in by the fake people of PoE world at the time its ohhhhhhhhhhh Gooooooddd

 

[HiddenX]

Keep in mind that Josh loves the German language - I think he'll try to return to medieval Middle-Europe.

 

[Fairfax]

Keep in mind that Josh loves the German language - I think he'll try to return to medieval Middle-Europe.

Duytchlandyr, a kingdom filled with inequality, sexism and racism. The elite has caused global warming with a type of magic that only the rich can learn, and it's up to Arcade Gannon to save the world.

 

[Ninjerk]

So the guy who revived his long-dead account on a forum he hates to write a counter-review for m'dev is ridiculing people about being butthurt in this thread.

 

[Turtle-Zone 3000]

So the guy who revived his long-dead account on a forum he hates to write a counter-review for m'dev is ridiculing people about being butthurt in this thread.

Even worse, he's got J_C as a groupie.

 

[BlackAdderBG]

Keep in mind that Josh loves the German language - I think he'll try to return to medieval Middle-Europe.

Duytchlandyr, a kingdom filled with inequality, sexism and racism. The elite has caused global warming with a type of magic that only the rich can learn, and it's up to Arcade Gannon to save the world.

Make it TB and

 

[Fenix]

I have to think really hard about people here being literally mentally ill, or just having too much free time on their hands to spend days on whining about Sawyer's promotion like an idiot kid. You guys are the little 4-5 old kids who are just standing in one place stomping with their legs on the ground and throwing a tauntrum. WAAAAAAAAAAAA SAWYER WWAAAAAAAAA BALANCE WWAAAAAA NO OBSIDIAN SHIT WATTTTAAAA.

That's what I literally thought.
Much Ado About Nothing - that's all I can tell about it. What's all this fuss about?
Oh look, Sawyer gone wild and peed in water closet! LOOK, he missed and brought a spoonful past the mouth!
I have had a better opinion of codexers before.

 

[Grotesque]

I am actually glad.
Because this is the beginning of the end for him.

Sorry Josh, Pillars sucked ass big time.