People News SHOCKER: Chris Avellone leaves Obsidian Entertainment

[Deleted member 7219]

There may be something to the Bethesda rumours. Someone else left Obsidian and joined Bethesda and is now working on Fallout 4. Not a senior guy, but a programmer.

 

[The Bishop]

Creative Director/Chief Creative Officer/Co-Owner Obsidian Entertainment, Inc.
June 2003 – May 2015 (12 years)

So many years, so many great projects: KOTOR 2, Dead Money, and... well... yeah.

 

[Ninjerk]

First MCA posts in Codex

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Keep up, this was like a week or two ago.

 

[Baron Dupek]

Maybe that "hogwart school of magic" is cryptic name for "press A for Awesome" school of developement?

 

[roshan]

I'd prefer he work over at Double Bear.

Dead State showed a lot of promise.

Why would he leave the clutches of Sjwyer, only to end up in Murderblonde's grasp? I don't think writing abortion fanfic for Doublebear's next game is an apt task for him.

 

[Jedi Exile]

First MCA posts in Codex

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Mah Engrish failed me again.

 

[likaq]

MCA as lead writer / lead designer for time-travel crpg from Inxile =

 

[Cthulhu_is_love]

Finally, now this douche can't mess with the games of lord balance.

And out of the ruins of the old order Sawyerism shall arise.

HAIL SAWYER!!!

 

[Ulminati]

Obshitian indeed.

Obsawyeran now

 

[KevinV12000]

I'd prefer he work over at Double Bear.

Dead State showed a lot of promise.

I have never disagreed with a post at the Codex more than this one right here.

 

[TwinkieGorilla]

But F4llout can't be coming out too far from now. Creative writing work is already done.

LOL.

Subjectively speaking, of course.

 

[Morkar Left]

My bets are on Bethesda! Fallout 4 dlcs and beyond!

 

[Latro]

Finally, now this douche can't mess with the games of lord balance.

And out of the ruins of the old order Sawyerism shall arise.

HAIL SAWYER!!!

Upon hearing news of the fall of the duke of lore, the bastion of soothsaying:

Dark Lord S.: "Finally! The world shall have balance...or they shall have death!"

 

[Perkel]

Plot twist. He will open pub.

 

[naossano]

Now, will MCA join EA, Bethesda or Blizzard ?
Unless he plans of writting review for the codex.
(but only in comics)

 

[Zed]

MCA will become a professional youtuber. His first game to tackle will be Arcanum.

 

[naossano]

But F4llout can't be coming out too far from now. Creative writing work is already done.

Do you actually think that they are writting the thing before making the game ?
I got the feeling that they wrote thing at the end, as an afterthought.

 

[Stompa]

Well damn, guess I shouldn't expect good writing from Obsidian anymore, if all that's left are system designers and those dimwits who wrote most of PoE.

 

[Orma]

Do you actually think that they are writting the thing before making the game ?
I got the feeling that they wrote thing at the end, as an afterthought.

Was that supposed to be a joke or something?

 

[Decado]

There's too many goddamn MCA threads, I'm losing track of where I've posted. Fix it!

 

[pippin]

There's too many goddamn MCA threads, I'm losing track of where I've posted. Fix it!

inb4 mca subforum

 

[Infinitron]

Only two there are. A newspost and a megathread

 

[Stompa]

There's too many goddamn MCA threads, I'm losing track of where I've posted. Fix it!

inb4 mca subforum

Fuck that, MCA deserves a full forum: General MCA Discussion, with subforums for every one of his works. It can even take the place of GD.

 

[Athelas]

Only two there are. Newspost and megathread.

What is your stance on MCA discussion taking place in the Obsidian General thread?

 

[Necroscope]

Maybe something good will come out of this.

Obsidian always seemed to me like a company without any clear focus and with too many personalities on board trying to pull off too different things - the result was usually a clusteruck of a game with only sparks of true capabilities of the ppl who made it. The only 2 games by Obsidian I truly admire are MoTB, which isn't really a game on it's own (and NwN2 OC is a clusterfuck), and New Vegas, which again is more like a huge expansion rather than a new game. With PoE Obsidian finally had a chance to shine very very brightly, make something from scratch on their own terms, but failed utterly. By that I don't even mean that PoE is shit, it's just a game with terribly overdone mechanics and tiring, plethoric writing (far from brilliant but spontaneous MoTB style) yet not very great storyline; a game that overall feels like it doesn't want to played.