People News Colin McComb has joined Larian Studios

[Infinitron]

Tags: Colin McComb; Larian Studios

Six days after announcing his departure from inXile, Colin McComb reveals that he too has been hired by Larian Studios, where he'll be joining fellow Torment: Tides of Numenera writer Gavin Jurgens-Fyhrie.

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What started as a story about possible trouble at inXile increasingly looks like it's actually a story about Larian, who also recently hired Rock Paper Shotgun's RPG writer Adam Smith. What are those crazy Belgians up to? Unfortunately, it sounds like it might be a while before we find out.

 

[Somberlain]

Divinity: Original Soy 3

 

[Darth Roxor]

What are those crazy Belgians up to?

no good

 

[Grauken]

rapid growth, even faster implosion, but probably still two years off

 

[Bocian]

Rock Paper Shotgun's RPG writer

Get the hype train going, we might see new Planescape: Torment soon.

 

[Grotesque]

What are they up to?

Making more money by slowly reaching for the triple A studio status.

 

[Infinitron]

Inb4 Larian starts snatching Obsidian devs

Inb4 Swen starts buying out entire studios and founds a global isometric empire

 

[Curratum]

What does Adam Smith have to do with Planescape? I'm not sure I follow.

 

[Urthor]

Sinking ship, rattus rattus, etc etc.

The weird thing isn't that Sven is doing a CD project red with all his Divinity millions, it's that he's doing it in not Eastern Europe.

 

[lophiaspis]

Inb4 Larian starts snatching Obsidian devs

Inb4 Swen starts buying out entire studios and founds a global isometric empire

Inb4 D:OS2 was a flash in the pan and the company collapses from overreach.

 

[Infinitron]

The weird thing isn't that Sven is doing a CD project red with all his Divinity millions, it's that he's doing it in not Eastern Europe.

That's what Larian's St. Petersburg office is for. But if you're hiring designers/writers, you want them to speak English. Swen is doing that in the cheapest way possible by working in Ireland (I wonder if Colin moves there too).

 

[Bohr]

It seems Swen is steadily building up Larian's prestige, money no object.

I'm sure he'll fit in well.

 

[Black]

What Larian needs is fewer writers, not more.

 

[Riddler]

Inb4 Larian starts snatching Obsidian devs

Inb4 Swen starts buying out entire studios and founds a global isometric empire

I'm sure Sawyer would be much happier in Europe anyway.

 

[Tacgnol]

What Larian needs is fewer writers, not more.

Less writers like McCuck, that's for sure.

 

[Black]

I mean, he's gonna fit right in next to the rock paper shit "writer".

 

[LESS T_T]

He listed his job as "Senior Narrative Designer" rather than writer, whatever that means!: https://www.linkedin.com/in/colin-moulder-mccomb-2a00065/

Developing storylines, characters, narrative beats.

 

[Infinitron]

With this amount of hiring, fair guess that this will be the point where Larian begins working on more than one RPG at at a time. And "a project I wanted to work on" sounds like something non-Divinity.

 

[Black]

ALRIGHT GUYS, WE NEED MORE WORDS
EACH ONE OF YOU HAS A QUOTA OF 10K WORDS MINIMUM, DEADLINE IS COMING

 

[LESS T_T]

And "a project I wanted to work on" sounds like something non-Divinity.

Yeah, I imagine he would refuse to work on a game where elves are corpse eating maniacs.

 

[FeelTheRads]

"Looking quite good"

So much enthusiasm from someone who worked on the project.

Translated it pretty much means "it's not falling apart, it might get released".

 

[Doma]

I just want them to make something thats not another D:OS. I just cannot get into those games.

 

[Cyberarmy]

I was going to post "Vader NOOOOOO" gif but then I realized that I don't care about both anymore.
So random gif for you

 

[Kem0sabe]

Yet another shit sjw writer to join their recent hire of a shit sjw writer in the form of Adam Smith.

You all know how all this is going to end, more sjw shit all over larian's questionable content.

 

[Prime Junta]

Post some Disco Elysium news you twerp