It's safe to say Josh Sawyer knows a thing or two about RPGs since he's been behind a couple damn good ones (Pillars of Eternity, Pentiment, and Fallout: New Vegas among them). And according to the long-time Obsidian Entertainment developer, good game writing can only go so far if the pacing is a slog.
Speaking to Game File about the studio's mammoth, branching scripts – that sort of look like trees full of nodes instead leaves – Sawyer said that quality words aren't the only thing that matters. "You can write really great individual lines and have great characterization," he explains. "And if the pacing is really bad and drags, the players are going to get tired of it."
