New Vegas. POE falls short due to RT.
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Josh Sawyer Q&A Thread
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Hmmm.
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This time I actually feel sorry for Sawyer. He believed Joseph/Josan's gossip nonsense and actually thought some former colleagues disliked him. It may have been true, but just by looking at some of the guy's posts, he was an avid anti-BIS troll who acted like a former dev just because he moderated the Interplay forums.
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You should say where you're digging, Fairfax: http://www.winterwind-productions.c...6&t=1336&sid=0596a06eb500c07afc06eca3675edc14
What is this forum?
What is this forum?
Fairfax
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Forgot to include the link. It's a site and forum created by exiles from the Interplay forums after it was closed. I posted an MCA interview they did back then, but I didn't know much about the forum. It has some interesting stuff, but that's for another thread.
pippin
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JES is best anime girl.
I've been replaying IWD and 2 and while they are not mediocre, they aren't really great. They still are the closest thing we ever got to the Gold Box games during the IE days.
I've been replaying IWD and 2 and while they are not mediocre, they aren't really great. They still are the closest thing we ever got to the Gold Box games during the IE days.
IWD 1 is great, burn the heretic.
I will grant you that 2 has some glaring flaws, but considering it was slapped together in less than a year, it's still fairly impressive.
I will grant you that 2 has some glaring flaws, but considering it was slapped together in less than a year, it's still fairly impressive.
pippin
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IWD2 allows for more freedom than 1, in many many aspects. Mechanically it's the best game. But IWD1 had more personality.
joshy cosplaying as cute anime dwarf lady
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Did he stream F:NV while trying to speak German? I need a link for that.
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Rough transcript:
He mostly reads history books and doesn't read much fiction. He read some Tolkien, Martin, Herbert. In the games industry many designers read lots of fiction and that's good, but the industry has to read other authors and cannot only rely on these sources for inspiration.
He's interested in history, for example the history of the Holy Roman Empire or witch hunts and hagiography and thinks that historical figures are more interesting than fictitious figures, for example this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Bohm and this guy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Stefano_Menochio and her https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hildegard_of_Bingen
He uses these characters for inspiration and hopes they make their stories more interesting. He thinks that many designers only use fantasy (fiction) stories, but if they only use these sources, their stories are boring. We need different inspirations from different sources.
He likes hiking, camping and nature and uses all these sources in his stories. He used Zion National Park in Honest Hearts and Yosemite and many places in California. And he hopes that all these sources can make his stories better.
He mostly reads history books and doesn't read much fiction. He read some Tolkien, Martin, Herbert. In the games industry many designers read lots of fiction and that's good, but the industry has to read other authors and cannot only rely on these sources for inspiration.
He's interested in history, for example the history of the Holy Roman Empire or witch hunts and hagiography and thinks that historical figures are more interesting than fictitious figures, for example this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Bohm and this guy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Stefano_Menochio and her https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hildegard_of_Bingen
He uses these characters for inspiration and hopes they make their stories more interesting. He thinks that many designers only use fantasy (fiction) stories, but if they only use these sources, their stories are boring. We need different inspirations from different sources.
He likes hiking, camping and nature and uses all these sources in his stories. He used Zion National Park in Honest Hearts and Yosemite and many places in California. And he hopes that all these sources can make his stories better.
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Prime Junta
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Gotta hand it to Herr Sawyer, it takes balls of brass to record a video in a language in which you're not completely fluent. 
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https://youtu.be/eeUwPLxsp7Y?t=445 Trying to make nice with Chris Avellone again.
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Josh is a mature bro and would not stoop to petty feuds like the traitor Avellone.
Josh is slightly insane, but I will always have an immense amount of respect for his willingness (eagerness?) to explain his thinking and reasoning. These videos are perfect examples of the sort of thing that, were I in his position, I might consider doing and then think "Fuck. That will take hours out of my day. And I already work a 50-60 hour week and am really tired. And I could spend that time indulging in escapism and/or getting shitfaced. Fuck sacrificing that time for some dumb internet nerds."
Regardless of what you think of his design sensibilities, he clearly has a passion for the medium, and that's becoming rarer and rarer these days.
I'm not trying to excuse him making fairly consistently mediocre games, but I do sort of suspect that, if given creative freedom (and if the Codex can get over itsego butthurt), Josh Sawyer's Fuck You Suck My Dick Historical RPG will be a very popular game around these parts.
Still have to see what he does with Deadfire of course. After the creative disappointment that was PoE, I'm slightly worried. Everything we've seen about Deadfire looks more promising, strange, and ambitious than PoE, but Josh's only strong writing credit is Hanlon, and Carrie Patel (assuming she has the CL title this go around) is a mixed bag from what I've seen. It does really seem as though after MCA's self-imposed exile OES just didn't know what to do in the writing department and handed Josh the keys to the kingdom in panic.
I guess we'll see how that works out in the next two years or so.
Regardless of what you think of his design sensibilities, he clearly has a passion for the medium, and that's becoming rarer and rarer these days.
I'm not trying to excuse him making fairly consistently mediocre games, but I do sort of suspect that, if given creative freedom (and if the Codex can get over its
Still have to see what he does with Deadfire of course. After the creative disappointment that was PoE, I'm slightly worried. Everything we've seen about Deadfire looks more promising, strange, and ambitious than PoE, but Josh's only strong writing credit is Hanlon, and Carrie Patel (assuming she has the CL title this go around) is a mixed bag from what I've seen. It does really seem as though after MCA's self-imposed exile OES just didn't know what to do in the writing department and handed Josh the keys to the kingdom in panic.
I guess we'll see how that works out in the next two years or so.
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karfhud
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Eric Fenstermaker held the writing reins on PoE, so Josh Sawyer wasn't really handed any keys to any kingdom...
This is so true.
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He's probably referring to Josh being appointed to the role of "Design Director", well after PoE's release and MCA's departure.
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