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New Vegas lead Josh Sawyer thinks turn-based combat fell off in the 2000s due to a lack of 'tactical variation': Even Fallout 1 would 'get to the point where you're always doing nut shots and eye shots'

Real time with pause won the 2000s, but turn-based won the war.

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Fallout New Vegas designer and noted RPG romance cynic Josh Sawyer was sold on Cyberpunk 2077's love stories: "If I were gonna base romances on anything, I'd probably do something like that"

Josh Sawyer doesn't hate romance in games, he just doesn't like when it's party based

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‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Could Spark A Huge Change To Another Great RPG Series

The future of the Pillars of Eternity series could look very different after the success of 'Baldur's Gate 3' according to developer Obsidian's design director.

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Avowed isn't Pillars of Eternity 3, but if the third RPG ever happens director Josh Sawyer reckons it should move to a proper 3D environment "more like Baldur’s Gate 3"

"I think that a third game should be an isometric 3D with an environment more like Baldur’s Gate 3"

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Josh Sawyer says a hypothetical Pillars of Eternity 3 would be 3D, just like Baldur's Gate 3, with 'environmental mechanics, elevation hazards, and dynamic terrain'

"That could be super cool."

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"We're in a post Baldur's Gate 3 world": Indie publisher says Larian proved players "are not stupid" and want "50 million copies" of intense CRPGs

New Blood Interactive wants Pillars of Eternity 3 now

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Random characters kept swearing in Obsidian's font-obsessed murder-mystery when its procedural error system ran amok: 'Naughtiness abounded'

Ah, Scheiße.

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The Decade’s Hardest-Working RPG Creator May Borrow From Final Fantasy

Obsidian wants to make a tactical RPG set in the Pillars of Eternity universe, which is a risky but excellent idea.

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There's hunger at Obsidian for a Pillars of Eternity Tactics game after Avowed, says studio design director Josh Sawyer, but it doesn't sound like it'd get that Baldur's Gate 3-size budget he was fantasizing about

Look, I'll just be happy to get another isometric game even half as good as Deadfire.

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Josh Sawyer says there's "a lot of people" at Obsidian who want to make a Pillars of Eternity Tactics game after Avowed, but the "fanbase is not humungous"

The Fallout: New Vegas director explains the difficulty in making a Pillars Tactics

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Fallout: New Vegas lead writer returns to Obsidian after leaving 14 years ago, but before you ask, no, 'It's not FNV2'

John Gonzalez is back.

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RPG veteran Josh Sawyer finally drops screenshots of a potential Pillars of Eternity TRPG rework

Josh Sawyer teases content for a rework of the Pillars of Eternity pen-and-paper TRPG

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Obsidian vet Josh Sawyer says that while 'it's not that important' if players never finish an RPG—after all, who finishes Skyrim—'we can kind of chill out' on size

It is, after all, how you use it.

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RPG veteran Josh Sawyer says Skyrim is the perfect example of why it doesn't matter if players finish games because "a lot of people never finish the crit path," but "they love it"

It's "just not true" to assume someone not finishing a game means they didn't like it

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Fallout and RPG veteran Josh Sawyer says most players don't want games "6 times bigger than Skyrim or 8 times bigger than The Witcher 3"

Sawyer says most players, including himself, aren't "concerned with finishing games" either

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Pillars of Eternity director thought it had a 50/50 shot before it crowdfunded in 27 hours

They were sure it was the right call, but weren't sure it would succeed.

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Obsidian's Josh Sawyer thought Pillars of Eternity's Kickstarter had a 50% chance of failing, only for the RPG to be fully funded within 27 hours

"Other people at the studio were also like 'are we really not going to do this?'"

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Even if Avowed does well, it doesn't sound like we'll get Pillars of Eternity 3, at least not from Josh Sawyer: 'I am more interested in doing original IP'

Pillars 2 really burned him out, and Avowed is now the future of the series.

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Fallout: New Vegas director Josh Sawyer is "helping on Avowed," but he's "more interested in doing original IP" when he directs his next game

"We'll see where the future takes me"

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Fallout: New Vegas director Josh Sawyer knew the Fallout 3 comparisons were coming, but also knew that what made his RPG special were the things that you couldn’t find in one playthrough

"You always have to prioritise things."

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Fallout: New Vegas director took one look at the Strip on a console devkit and thought, "Oh my god, this isn’t going to run"

Good thing it did!

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Fallout New Vegas director's first D&D RPG launched on the same day as Diablo 2, "which sounds like it would be catastrophically bad," but it ended up helping it instead

Diablo 2 fans "were like, 'Icewind Dale - what's this? Yeah, we'll pick that up too'"

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Fallout: New Vegas director on the “blessing” of working on the RPG: “I never thought I’d get a chance to work on Fallout [again]”

A blessing for Fallout too, as it turned out.

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The idea for a Pillars of Eternity: Tactics game has been floated at Obsidian, but it's still up in the air because 'the audience for them is not huge, typically, but very passionate'

"It's a hard one to make a case for."

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"There have been a number of people actually at the studio who have floated the idea of a Pillars Tactics game," says Obsidian's Josh Sawyer when interviewed about the future of Pillars of Eternity

Josh Sawyer, a lead developer of Obsidian Entertainment's Pillars of Eternity series, was recently interviewed by Limit Break Network regarding his involvement in the upcoming Avowed and what the future holds for Pillars of Eternity.

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