Interview Chris Avellone interviewed in Jerusalem

[Duraframe300]

Cops vs politicians vs drug dealers in Baltimore

Guess you don't need the IP for that.

This. The whole "i want to do the Wire, i want to do Firefly, i want to do GitS" is pointless. Just copy them and make your own IP. PE is Forgotten Realms updated. Just do the same with Firefly or whatever you want and be done with it.

Well, sometimes its also the charachters and stories inhabiting that setting. And conisdering Chris likes deconstructing things an existent setting is probably even more interesting to him.

 

[tuluse]

Avellone probably wants to include some of the characters from the Wire. They're really well written and iconic. Then again he did a Star Wars game without using any original trilogy characters.

 

[Oesophagus]

Cops vs politicians vs drug dealers in Baltimore

Guess you don't need the IP for that.

This. The whole "i want to do the Wire, i want to do Firefly, i want to do GitS" is pointless. Just copy them and make your own IP. PE is Forgotten Realms updated. Just do the same with Firefly or whatever you want and be done with it.

Well, sometimes its also the charachters and stories inhabiting that setting. And conisdering Chris likes deconstructing things an existent setting is probably even more interesting to him.

Pretty much. The Wire would have been just another cop show if it wasn't for the characters that drove it

 

[jagged-jimmy]

Cops vs politicians vs drug dealers in Baltimore

Guess you don't need the IP for that.

This. The whole "i want to do the Wire, i want to do Firefly, i want to do GitS" is pointless. Just copy them and make your own IP. PE is Forgotten Realms updated. Just do the same with Firefly or whatever you want and be done with it.

He did - Alpha Protocol.