Josh Sawyer Q&A Thread

[rusty_shackleford]

 

[Roguey]

Ah, the "I don't like playing games" role playing gamer.

 

[Major_Blackhart]

I got nothing.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

Ah, the "I don't like playing games" role playing gamer.

Well I also automate and script most of the combat because RTWP is cancer, except I do it on PoTD otherwise what's the point.

 

[Ol' Willy]

Guy should play first Dungeon Siege, lol. The game literally plays itself

 

[<3sRichardSimmons]

Guy should play first Dungeon Siege, lol. The game literally plays itself

I remember when DS1 was first released and PC Gamer's review was basically "it's an interactive screensaver... 90/100"

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

He could just play unpatched Deadfire, that shit played itself even on PoTD.

 

[Major_Blackhart]

You know I'm so glad I never played Deadfire. No interest any longer either.

 

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[Alienman]

For once I fully agree with Sawyer. Rotating camera is decline.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

he's 100% right about the camera issue, people who fetishize being able to rotate the camera are fucking weird

 

[Jedi Master Radek]

Static camera is the best, only losers like to rotate camera.

 

[Major_Blackhart]

It doesn't bother me much either way.

I refuse to agree with him.

 

[Yoomazir]

I dunno, for me rotating the camera is more about breaking the monotony of always having the same angle rather than "oh ma gawd there was a hidden chest there!"

 

[Peachcurl]

There's a good case for fixed cameras. And yet, at least in some games, this means that your visual range is not the same in each direction. Annoying.

 

[<3sRichardSimmons]

There is some irony in the credited Lead Designer of NWN2 complaining about how shit rotating cameras are, but I'm pretty sure he's aware of it.

 

[Roguey]

There is some irony in the credited Lead Designer of NWN2 complaining about how shit rotating cameras are, but I'm pretty sure he's aware of it.

He wasn't in charge of that decision, in fact going as far as to say that if it had been up to him, they wouldn't have made a new renderer.

 

[Ol' Willy]

people who fetishize being able to rotate the camera are fucking weird

It has its uses, though

 

[Diggfinger]

There is some irony in the credited Lead Designer of NWN2 complaining about how shit rotating cameras are, but I'm pretty sure he's aware of it.

He wasn't in charge of that decision, in fact going as far as to say that if it had been up to him, they wouldn't have made a new renderer.

Additionally, that was years ago, he was way more junior back then and obviously not having any say on which projects Obsidian would take on.
So LOLZ and

 

[Quillon]

so what? MS is nosing in his non-violent gaym?



yet he assumed & defined what the audience should expect. if they pitched a racing game it would have also got funded

why pillows games ain't compelling enough? cos they didn't really want to make them apparently

 

[rusty_shackleford]

"here's what we want to make"
ok we'll fund this
"REEEEEE NO IT WASN'T WHAT WE ACTUALLY WANTED TO MAKE"

 

[Butter]

Learn to code Josh. Tavernking is going to accomplish your goals before you do.

I actually have no sympathy for a guy who gets paid as much as Sawyer does to just sit around designing games that other people then make for him.

 

[Major_Blackhart]

This guy is just a miserable customer. Never happy.

 

[Alienman]

Another creator hating his audience, color me surprised.