Well over a decade ago, long before I was covering video games professionally, I backed the Obsidian project that would become Pillars of Eternity on Kickstarter, and it's been wonderful to see the world of the throwback RPG live on in Avowed. But as much as I enjoyed Avowed, it ain't Pillars 3, and a new interview with Pillars project director Josh Sawyer has me dreaming of the possibilities of what might happen if Obsidian ever properly returns to the series.
Both of the original Pillars of Eternity games were isometric games in a slightly modernized form of the same basic 2D style that powered classics like the original Baldur's Gate titles. Sawyer reckons that a third Pillars game might do well to build on the same kind of 3D environments that made the combat in Baldur's Gate 3 so engaging.
