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Fallout: New Vegas director on the art of making sure all your points in persuasion aren't wasted: It's 'all about feelings … but you use numbers to arrive at that feeling'

Obsidian's playbook for providing enough skill checks for your maxed-out Lockpicking.

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RPG veteran Josh Sawyer says Black Isle Studios' stab at Fallout 3 was never going to be made in time: "With the staff we had it would have been at least two years"

Fallout co-creator Tim Cain had suggested it would take 18 months

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Fallout: New Vegas designer slams unrealistic release dates that 'burn out and demoralize the developers' as he shares tips on how to spot when a game needs more time in the oven

"There have been plenty of games that announce a date and I (correctly) predict they will not ship at that date".

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"All it does is burn out and demoralize the developers": Obsidian's Josh Sawyer on "what's infuriating" about unrealistic dates for games that simply aren't ready

"It’s a pretty reliable indicator that a game that has not publicly shown gameplay by summer will not ship that game by the end of that year"

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Despite all the difficulty grousing, Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree has sold 5 million copies in less than a week

Evidence strongly suggests hitting things with swords remains cool.

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Fallout: New Vegas director Josh Sawyer reveals which characters he took from Black Isle Studio's canceled Fallout 3

The Mojave owes a lot to Codename Van Buren

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RPG veteran Josh Sawyer "threw everything I knew" at Icewind Dale, which is partly why the D&D CRPG has "a reputation for being pretty hard"

"I designed all of that stuff to be played by super aggressive min-maxers"

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Fallout: New Vegas director reveals that game balance is 'mostly vibes based', says he only used a weapons spreadsheet 'for maybe a couple of months'

Imperfectly balanced, as all things should be.

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Fallout: New Vegas director Josh Sawyer says his approach to RPG weapon balance is "mostly vibes-based": "the important thing is to see how things feel in practice"

Josh Sawyer thinks the best way to test weapons before a game's launch is to "play around" with them

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Fallout: New Vegas director says the RPG was criticized "for playing very similarly to Fallout 3," but his true inspiration was Fallout 1

"Fallout 1 was foundational for me"

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Fallout: New Vegas director thought 2003 studio closure that took down the original Fallout 3 and Baldur's Gate 3 teams meant he'd never get to work on the RPG series again

Josh Sawyer was project lead on Codename Van Buren

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Josh Sawyer understands why some fans are annoyed by the treatment of New Vegas in Amazon's Fallout series, but he's not one of them: 'Whatever happens with it, I don’t care'

The director of Fallout: New Vegas enjoys the series and isn't hung up on new creative directions.

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Fallout New Vegas director doesn't "care" what the Fallout TV show does with the RPG's lore: "It was never mine"

"Whatever happens with it, I don’t care"

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Fallout: New Vegas RPG veteran Josh Sawyer says he "didn't recognize myself" during Pillars of Eternity 2 development: "I was this huge, awful a**hole"

"It was that feeling of accelerating towards a brick wall"

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Fallout TV show appears to canonize unofficial map that New Vegas director Josh Sawyer drew 20 years ago for his canceled Fallout TTRPG

The map is hidden in an unassuming weather broadcast

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For a moment, Fallout: New Vegas fans thought they'd found evidence of sequel plans, only to find Josh Sawyer's burrito order instead

The 'FNV2' notebook isn't what you think it is

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Fallout New Vegas director Josh Sawyer says its gruelling card game is actually 'not that hard' and you cowards need to 'try again'

If you've never won a game of Caravan, shame on you.

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As the Fallout TV Show sends fans to Bethesda games in droves, Fallout New Vegas director says give the RPG's much-maligned card game another go as it's "not that hard"

Josh Sawyer wants more of us to play Caravan

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'Devs are getting ground up as collateral damage': Fallout: New Vegas lead says burnout has replaced crunch as 'the primary hazard of the game industry'

Burning up.

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Fallout: New Vegas director and CRPG veteran Josh Sawyer says burnout has "replaced crunch as the primary hazard of the game industry"

Burnout is "no joke"

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'Games made by soulless machines': Tech sparks debate over AI stories in video games

Is the future of artificial intelligence in video games playing out in a cyberpunk ramen bar? Tech companies would like you to think so, but game writers aren't so sure.

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CRPG veteran Josh Sawyer reveals how Pillars of Eternity got its name

Pillars of Eternity director Josh Sawyer has explained how the inspiration behind the RPG's name was created

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Helldivers 2 looks a lot like Metal Gear Solid 5 sometimes, but devs and fans alike agree that's great: 'More games should directly copy stuff'

From Big Boss to Bug Boss.

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As Helldivers 2 draws Metal Gear Solid 5 comparisons, Obsidian RPG master Josh Sawyer says "more games should just directly copy stuff that feels good"

And he's right

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Pentiment director says 120fps being disabled on Xbox is a bug, but it will be added in the next patch

Pentiment director assures Xbox players that 120FPS will be enabled in the next patch after it was locked due to a bug.

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