Editorial RPG Codex Retrospective: Roguey smashes the patriarchy in Josh Sawyer's Icewind Dale

[Infinitron]

Tags: Black Isle Studios; Icewind Dale

Since development on Obsidian Entertainment's Project Eternity began last year, its project director and lead designer, Josh Sawyer, has been a figure of much controversy. His design decisions and the philosophy underlying them have been the spark for many a flamewar, causing Codexer to turn against Codexer, pro-Sawyer battling anti-Sawyer in bloody forum combat.

Yet no Codexer has been so vehement in the defense of everything Sawyer like Roguey, the forum's resident radical feminist and creepy stalker. When Roguey completed a retrospective playthrough of Black Isle's Icewind Dale (which was Josh Sawyer's first foray into game design) and wrote down his impressions, we couldn't help but feel impressed (and amused) by his dedication. We asked for more, and we received. I present to you what I hope will be the first in a series of retrospective reviews of the works of Mr. Joshua Eric Sawyer.

Prepare yourself for...

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[Bulba]

rogue=sawyer... everyone knows that.

 

[Tigranes]

o_O

 

[WhiskeyWolf]

Well, this will be entertaining, one way or another.

 

[catfood]

The word 'Sawyer' only comes up 10 times in the article. I dunno about you guys but it doesn't look legit to me.

 

[Tommy Wiseau]

gay

 

[Cosmic Misogynerd]

Heh, awesome review.

 

[Regvard]

Wait, Roguey is a male?

 

[Infinitron]

Wait, Roguey is a male?

Who knows? I default to masculine pronouns because patriarchy.

 

[tuluse]

Wait, Roguey is a male?

She self identifies as female, at least on the codex.

 

[Brotherman Bill]

Infinitron spent 20+ posts talking about how he wanted everyone to ignore roguey, now he makes her the subject of an undoubtedly shit article polluting the frontpage. Good job, herpaderpitron.

We need another mod purge methinks.

 

[MasPingon]

Spoiler

I was afraid Josh might loose the battle, watching him struggle all those damn design decisions demons, but then he delivers in chapter 6 and saves the day. Truly heartbreaking story

 

[Infinitron]

Here comes the drama.

 

[LeStryfe79]

Here comes the drama.

Here comes the drama.

 

[Kalin]

Josh Sawyer, who moved on to greater, worse, and many canceled things

Fixed that for you.

 

[Deuce Traveler]

Damn it, Roguey , we can't brofist you for starting another flame war if you don't make an appearance. Don't make me brofist Infinitron instead.

Icewind Dale was a good game with some nice moments, but the comment about having different writers doing their own thing strikes true. I remember moments in Baldur's Gate quite well, but hardly anything in Icewind Dale even though I beat the game after I beat BG1. Maybe it was a lack of a common thread in between encounters, or that the area seemed so barren because of the winter frontier setting.

 

[Infinitron]

Retweeted by a feminist: https://twitter.com/Noffsnoffs

Roguey's got fans.

 

[Regvard]

Retweeted by a feminist: https://twitter.com/Noffsnoffs

Roguey's got fans.

You know a woman is paper-bag ugly when she is a feminist and her twitter profile pic is a dog.

 

[cvv]

Retweeted by a feminist: https://twitter.com/Noffsnoffs

Roguey's got fans.

You know a woman is paper-bag ugly when she is a feminist and her twitter profile pic is a dog.

You saying Roguey's got bad graphics?

Icewind Dale was a good game with some nice moments, but the comment about having different writers doing their own thing strikes true. I remember moments in Baldur's Gate quite well, but hardly anything in Icewind Dale even though I beat the game after I beat BG1. Maybe it was a lack of a common thread in between encounters, or that the area seemed so barren because of the winter frontier setting.

I don't remember shit from the vanilla but I remember Heart of Winter and Trials of the Loremaster quite clearly. Weird.

 

[BobtheTree]

I actually rolled a full female party in Icewind Dale II.

 

[HobGoblin42]

You know A woman is paper-bag ugly when she is a feminist and her twitter profile pic is a dog.

Fixed.

 

[Regvard]

You know A woman is paper-bag ugly when she is a feminist and her twitter profile pic is a dog.

Fixed.

Not true, at least not where I live.

 

[tuluse]

Roguey's dismissive tone doesn't work as well over a piece this length. Content is good though. Poor mechanics with good content, I guess Roguey is the Tim Cain of cRPG reviewing

 

[Infinitron]

You know A woman is paper-bag ugly when she is a feminist and her twitter profile pic is a dog.

Fixed.

Blaine, have you pre-ordered Chaos Chronicles yet?

 

[Gragt]