RPG Codex Interview: Chris Avellone on Pillars Cut Content, Game Development Hierarchies and More

[Blaine]

So I am now at around page 115, when we learn that the boss's kids were apparently supposed to be "hired" just like their mother and handsomely paid for their precious output as well.

This thread will NEVER be topped.

Bald-faced lies, clearly every effort was made to thriftily stretch your crowdfunding dollars as far as they could go.

 

[lukaszek]

deterministic system > RNG

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

IHaveHugeNick someone is salty for not pointing at right artifacts after birth i see

I did point at right artifacts, but then this strange man busted down the door, and said, "you should have picked Eric".

 

[DarkUnderlord]

Fuck that Blaine guy ruining everything by treating developers like just another Codexer. DarkUnderlord, ban that turd RIGHT NOW

'k

 

[ga♥]

Fuck that Blaine guy ruining everything by treating developers like just another Codexer. DarkUnderlord, ban that turd RIGHT NOW

'k

hey wassuppp wasn't the grimoire's dumbfuck tag to stay in-place for a year? police abuse? police brutality?

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

Anyway, have I told you guys about an incident I had with Josh?

So this one time I'm standing at the Obsidian cafeteria, just chillin and eating some jelly beans. Suddenly Josh jumps at me from behind and says he has information that somebody is preparing corporate espionage against Obsidian, and he needs to check my bag of jelly beans for electronic surveillance. I was like, okay, sure.

Next day, I run into him during the lunch break, and I ask, 'Hey Josh, how about them jelly beans'.

He looks me dead in the eyes, and says 'Huh?'.

I ask again, and he pokes his finger in my chest and says 'Huh?Huh?'.

He keeps doing this and it is becoming really awkward, so I just turn around and leave.

I tried to mention this to Feargus, but he was busy installing a baby crib in his office, so the newest member of the extended Urquhart family had a place to work.

 

[PulsatingBrain]

Player of Games

One of my all-time favourite books!

The punishment for one criminal in the Empire of Azad always chilled me to the core. So psychotically ingenius.

Spoiler

He's locked in a room with an insane serial rapist, who has been fed huge amounts of hallucinogens and aphrodisiacs. This is broadcast across the planet as entertainment

 

[Lhynn]

So we learned that Feargus Urquhart is a big fan of young adult male empowerment literature. I have to wonder tho, regardless of if its good or bad, why hasnt obsidian made one of those yet?

 

[Sordid MCA/Prosper Hybryd]

IHaveHugeNick do I understand correctly that before Obsidian you worked in Black Isle Studios? If it is so, can you tell something about real Fallout 3? Good sources are saying that it was about RPGCodex's favourite topic, i.e. Communism vs Capitalism.

 

[aratuk]

Yes, provided that someone can prove the incriminating evidence was there before it was deleted.

That's not as hard as you think. It's one thing to delete e-mails to prevent the public from knowing what existed, and another to delete e-mails and try to lie to your own employees and coworkers about them ever existing. They know better.

I would have been wiser to just say that it’s far from a certainty that the emails still exist, since Obs. aren’t required to keep them, and leave it at that.

So we learned that Feargus Urquhart is a big fan of young adult male empowerment literature. I have to wonder tho, regardless of if its good or bad, why hasnt obsidian made one of those yet?

I wonder if he might be reading these books as a means of fishing for story ideas he could try to purloin for inclusion in his studio’s games. Avellone mentioned that he tried to steal a story idea from Capcom, at one point. Pulp novelists would probably offer less resistance, if they ever even realized what happened. I’d like to believe this because the alternative — that he genuinely enjoys indulging in trashy space operas — would humanize him too much and risk incurring my sympathy.

 

[Lhynn]

Communism vs Capitalism.

Communist path only open to low int builds.

 

[Chris Avellone]

One of my all-time favourite books!

The general imprisoned in his own armor as punishment was one of my inspirations for Barik's concept in Tyranny.

 

[Absinthe]

I would have been wiser to just say that it’s far from a certainty that the emails still exist, since Obs. aren’t required to keep them, and leave it at that.

You can play that game if you want but you're asking to get your ass reamed since the courts aren't known to have a sense of humor about this sort of thing and will harshly rule against you. The existence of those e-mails can be corroborated very easily. It's not like no one in the company would back Avellone up. And it'll get even funnier if it turns out, for instance, that Avellone actually has those e-mails backed up or printed out somewhere at home.

 

[Latro]

How much did Feargus pay for this to happen?

it was supposed to be a cheesecake factory deal, but it fell through

 

[Lhynn]

The general imprisoned in his own armor as punishment was one of my inspirations for Barik's concept in Tyranny.

I really liked the concept for this character. For a lot of characters actually, every archon was fairly interesting.

I actually restarted the game 3 times, and the only time i managed to play it to the end was when i played it solo. Flawed as it was, i was actually looking forward to a sequel. What are the chances of that happening?

 

[Darkzone]

Chris Avellone
Stupid question aside my shitposting: Would you make RPGs based on Elric of Melnibone, Dune or perhaps even Divina Commedia?

 

[Infinitron]

New thread: http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/inde...he-chris-avellone-may-of-rage-archive.121751/

 

[ArchAngel]

Anyway, have I told you guys about an incident I had with Josh?

So this one time I'm standing at the Obsidian cafeteria, just chillin and eating some jelly beans. Suddenly Josh jumps at me from behind and says he has information that somebody is preparing corporate espionage against Obsidian, and he needs to check my bag of jelly beans for electronic surveillance. I was like, okay, sure.

Next day, I run into him during the lunch break, and I ask, 'Hey Josh, how about them jelly beans'.

He looks me dead in the eyes, and says 'Huh?'.

I ask again, and he pokes his finger in my chest and says 'Huh?Huh?'.

He keeps doing this and it is becoming really awkward, so I just turn around and leave.

I tried to mention this to Feargus, but he was busy installing a baby crib in his office, so the newest member of the extended Urquhart family had a place to work.

Keep this up and maybe we forget you were a retard in first 200 pages

 

[rohand]

Anyway, have I told you guys about an incident I had with Josh?

So this one time I'm standing at the Obsidian cafeteria, just chillin and eating some jelly beans. Suddenly Josh jumps at me from behind and says he has information that somebody is preparing corporate espionage against Obsidian, and he needs to check my bag of jelly beans for electronic surveillance. I was like, okay, sure.

Next day, I run into him during the lunch break, and I ask, 'Hey Josh, how about them jelly beans'.

He looks me dead in the eyes, and says 'Huh?'.

I ask again, and he pokes his finger in my chest and says 'Huh?Huh?'.

He keeps doing this and it is becoming really awkward, so I just turn around and leave.

I tried to mention this to Feargus, but he was busy installing a baby crib in his office, so the newest member of the extended Urquhart family had a place to work.

Channelling Jick Magger I see

 

[PulsatingBrain]

The general imprisoned in his own armor as punishment was one of my inspirations for Barik's concept in Tyranny.

Holy shit, I'm surprised that I never made the connection

Spoiler

Bro, people always point to Durance as a total badass (he is), but Greiving Mother is one of the best companions I've ever witnessed in a game and certainly my favourite from PoE. Such an emotional story.

 

[Alienman]

IHaveHugeNick
You should just quit and post on the Codex why, but you need to be as vague as possible while doing so!

 

[Mikeal]

How the hell this thread turned from Chris vs Obsidian Upper Management into discussion about Armenian Genocide?

And HOLY SHIT I WOULD PLAY IN THIS RUSSIAN FALLOUT!!!

 

[JBro]

How the hell this thread turned from Chris vs Obsidian Upper Management into discussion about Armenian Genocide?

Someone let Cenk Uygur in.

 

[GarfunkeL]

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

IHaveHugeNick do I understand correctly that before Obsidian you worked in Black Isle Studios?

I did, and I can confirm that Deathclaws were inspired by Tina Parker.