People News SHOCKER: Chris Avellone leaves Obsidian Entertainment

[Athelas]

:D

 

[ROARRR]

your guy

he's got something red on his face

maybe you should change the color

ROARRR

but

Spoiler

here an ugly quickfix

 

[Ismaul]

You went and-

No I wasn't serious. I thought the difference in style...

Just trolling your color fetish.

color: black-->how can I change the backround color????? said:

 

[ROARRR]

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+1 for you

 

[Love]

Who is that babe

Leigh Alexander, game consultant and all around gamer slag. No guarantee how she actually looks now.

 

[Grimlorn]

Meh, not terribly excited about MCA being a professional stretch goal, I'd rather see him as a creative lead.

Yeah why is he only writing what is probably a small part of a game. He should be a lead writer on a new IP or something if he's going to continue writing in games. I'm figuring people would jump at the chance to hire him but maybe his reputation isn't as good in the industry as we think or maybe he's just waiting for the right opportunity.

 

[Fairfax]

Meh, not terribly excited about MCA being a professional stretch goal, I'd rather see him as a creative lead.

Yeah why is he only writing what is probably a small part of a game. He should be a lead writer on a new IP or something if he's going to continue writing in games. I'm figuring people would jump at the chance to hire him but maybe his reputation isn't as good in the industry as we think or maybe he's just waiting for the right opportunity.

I think he's also expensive to hire. The guy used to be creative director and a partner at Obsidian, plus the experience, skills, etc.

 

[DwarvenFood]

No guarantee how she actually looks now.

:D

 

[Sabin Rene Figaro]

Is Chris Avellone gonna keep sprinkling in small amounts of his quality writing over every RPG that gets released in the next 10 years instead of leading on his own? Is he afraid of leadership? Is everyone else a moron that underestimates his writing? Does he have a dark secret that prevents him from making a game too good? Is he actually only mediocre and I am over-rating him way too much? Yes. To all of the above.

 

[buzz]

He's too busy scavenging every trash can in Arcanum in order to fully lead a new project.

 

[Love]

No guarantee how she actually looks now.

:D

Past

Present

Projected

 

[Ninjerk]

He's too busy scavenging every trash can in Arcanum in order to fully lead a new project.

type of nigga that would pick up everything in path of exile

 

[Endemic]

My guess is he had long standing disagreements with Feargus and the other co-owners (creativity and fiscal realities often collide). Having his work on PoE cut down was the proverbial straw breaking the camel's back.

 

[Excidium II]

My guess is the intern agreed not to file for sexual harassment if he left the company

 

[Forest Dweller]

Toe in the water? If he makes it into BT4 he will have worked on every single inXile Kickstarter RPG

I suppose I mean if he still has the same "stretch goal" draw he has had in previous KS he's been a part of. This will give Fargo (and MCA for that matter) a gauge by which they can assume the impact he would have by being advertised as the "next lead on InXile's Mangum Opus of RPGs... VAN BUREN!!!" when they decide to launch it later.

Using this announcement to gauge the interest on Chris Avellone when no one gives a shit about blobbers is not a smart business decision.

 

[ROARRR]

Well there are ca 31.000 backers minus paypal backers and the Kickstarter is at 1,395 Mil .
If every backer theoretically raises his pledge about 20 $, than 1,9 Mil is easily reached.
So maybe inxile is trying to tab that pool?
But I didn´t read the Obsidian Forums to make an overview what the people think about Mr. Aves leaving.
So I think:

Using this announcement to gauge the interest on Chris Avellone when no one gives a shit about blobbers is not a smart business decision.

is an interesting claim.
Why do you think that?

 

[Morality Games]

Chris Avellone might also be there to stimulate post-Kickstarter backers. Even if they attain 1.9 million in late development they can just bill his dungeon as free DLC for backers.

 

[DeepOcean]

Is Chris Avellone gonna keep sprinkling in small amounts of his quality writing over every RPG that gets released in the next 10 years instead of leading on his own? Is he afraid of leadership? Is everyone else a moron that underestimates his writing? Does he have a dark secret that prevents him from making a game too good? Is he actually only mediocre and I am over-rating him way too much? Yes. To all of the above.

With the way Obsidian projects get cancelled left and right, I wouldn't be suprised he was actually a lead on a few of them... its just that we didn't see it. Dead babies can't fly.

 

[Metro]

He's a good writer but nowhere near as good as some of the people here would have you believe.

 

[Jaesun]

He's a good writer but nowhere near as good as some of the people here would have you believe.

Who is a better writer as a RPG Developer? Could you provide us some examples?

 

[AngryEddy]

He's a good writer but nowhere near as good as some of the people here would have you believe.

Besides the guy who wrote Final Fantasy Tactics, who else is writing mature and grimdark stories in the videogame industry?

 

[Irenaeus II]

He's a good writer but nowhere near as good as some of the people here would have you believe.

Final Fantasy

 

[Zep Zepo]

He's a good writer but nowhere near as good as some of the people here would have you believe.

Who is a better writer as a RPG Developer? Could you provide us some examples?

The Underworld Ascendant guy...oh wait..I am drunk...LOL!

Or am I?

Zep--

 

[Ninjerk]

He's a good writer but nowhere near as good as some of the people here would have you believe.

Besides the guy who wrote Final Fantasy Tactics, who else is writing mature and grimdark stories in the videogame industry?

Spoiler

 

[Morality Games]

He's a good writer but nowhere near as good as some of the people here would have you believe.

Final Fantasy

Final Fantasy Tactics is a pretty dark game.

Spoiler

Most key characters die, some in pretty tragic and psychologically perverse circumstances. Even guy who commits the story to writing gets burned at a stake as a heretic in the epilogue. Party saves the world, but costs them their happiness and/or lives and the truth gets suppressed