People News The New Obsidian: Josh Sawyer promoted to studio Design Director role

[Atlantico]

Rather Sawyer than Gaider. Rather Sawyer than Laidlaw. Rather Sawyer than Todd Howard or fucking Hines. Rather Sawyer than Trent Oster or fucking Amber.

Josh Sawyer has more talent in his left testicle than all those people combined.

 

[rohand]

Guess we'll be asking "what would Joshua do" more often now.

 

[Thonius]

Can`t be too bad,I mean at least he plays games and dig history.

 

[Perkel]

Good move imo. He can help designers with his good skills for creation of lore and other stuff like that meanwhile he will leave alone nitty bitty balancing in games to people like Tim.

 

[Blackstaff]

If it dilutes its role in the company in the same way it did for Avellone and its creative director role, that could be a good thing all things considered

 

[Infinitron]

Recent Sawyer post on Something Awful: http://forums.somethingawful.com/sh...06905&pagenumber=818&perpage=40#post458360847

For a variety of reasons, it has been difficult to find dedicated system designers. I was the only system designer on Icewind Dale I & II and Fallout: New Vegas as well. Matt Sheets did junior system design work on the White March, which was a great help to me -- in part because in addition to the system design, I was responsible for the majority of non-programming system implementation, maintenance, and bug fixing.

In his new role, Josh will be in a position to address this problem.

 

[Zeriel]

If it dilutes its role in the company in the same way it did for Avellone and its creative director role, that could be a good thing all things considered

I think Avellone was just too much of a pussy bitch to exert his will on others. He let himself be slowly forced out, after all. Sawyer's autistic and stubborn faith in his own designs will see them reign supreme over all who dwell in the Obsidian lands.

 

[Ellef]

who needs fun anyways

 

[Moink]

They should've put him in finance, that way he can balance as much as he likes.

 

[Trashos]

After FNV and PoE, I find this promotion well-deserved. Congratulations, Josh!

Of course, I retain the right to bitch about your work whenever I feel like it.

 

[xemous]

poe must ve been success

 

[ArchAngel]

Rather Sawyer than Gaider. Rather Sawyer than Laidlaw. Rather Sawyer than Todd Howard or fucking Hines. Rather Sawyer than Trent Oster or fucking Amber.

Josh Sawyer has more talent in his left testicle than all those people combined.

I am sorry to burst your bubble but SoD has better combat, AI and encounter design that Sawyer designed PoE.

 

[Eirikur]

 

[Sizzle]

Rather Sawyer than Gaider. Rather Sawyer than Laidlaw. Rather Sawyer than Todd Howard or fucking Hines. Rather Sawyer than Trent Oster or fucking Amber.

Josh Sawyer has more talent in his left testicle than all those people combined.

I am sorry to burst your bubble but SoD has better combat, AI and encounter design that Sawyer designed PoE.

Considering PoE was made & designed from scratch, while SoD was made from a very (arguably THE most) well known ruleset, from a game that's been modded to hell and back - you find that surprising?

 

[Atlantico]

I am sorry to burst your bubble but SoD has better combat, AI and encounter design that Sawyer designed PoE.

None of the people I mentioned had anything to do with SoD encounter design. If someone's in a bubble, it's you babe.

Besides SoD is a BG1 mod. Who the hell cares about that shit.

 

[Russia is over. The end.]

Besides SoD is a BG1 mod. Who the hell cares about that shit.

When a mod is seriously better than a standalone game in all regards, there's a hilarious problem there.

 

[FeelTheRads]

Who the hell cares about that shit.

Pretty much what anyone should ask themselves about Obsidian.

 

[Atlantico]

When a mod is seriously better than a standalone game in all regards, there's a hilarious problem there.

 

[ZagorTeNej]

A literal Nazi.

 

[Thonius]

Avellone was/is a dreamer, Josh is more like engineer. So while Avelone dreamed about being lead(or not) Josh just did it.
Oh and BG SoD argument is retarded since it uses systems that was build by other dev. Beamdog did not code any systems.

 

[DeepOcean]

Rather Sawyer than Gaider. Rather Sawyer than Laidlaw. Rather Sawyer than Todd Howard or fucking Hines. Rather Sawyer than Trent Oster or fucking Amber.

Josh Sawyer has more talent in his left testicle than all those people combined.

Common, those cherry picked modern retards compared to Sawyer speak more of the mediocrity of Sawyer than anything.

 

[Sizzle]

Besides SoD is a BG1 mod. Who the hell cares about that shit.

When a mod is seriously better than a standalone game in all regards, there's a hilarious problem there.

Especially in the writing.

I mean, I understand that hating on PoE like it is the RPG antichrist is obligatory for some of you, but c'mon, it's not like there isn't enough stuff about it to genuinely crticize, you don't have to go overboard like this.

 

[Daedalos]

Lol. First the news about Boyarsky to get us excited, and now this... Well trolled, old friends.

At least Tranny will be good.... right?

Spoiler

it wont.. go fuckurself

 

[FeelTheRads]

Rather Sawyer than Gaider. Rather Sawyer than Laidlaw. Rather Sawyer than Todd Howard or fucking Hines. Rather Sawyer than Trent Oster or fucking Amber.

Josh Sawyer has more talent in his left testicle than all those people combined.

Common, those cherry picked modern retards compared to Sawyer speak more of the mediocrity of Sawyer than anything.

It speaks about Obsidian and its fandom quite a lot: mediocrity is applauded because hey, at least it's not always utter shit.

 

[Azalin]

Josh Sawyer new Balancer-In-Chief

There goes fun...

Rather Sawyer than Gaider. Rather Sawyer than Laidlaw. Rather Sawyer than Todd Howard or fucking Hines. Rather Sawyer than Trent Oster or fucking Amber.

True,but this is just like saying a movie is better than the Star Wars prequels,not exactly a huge accomplishment