That's good of course, but the problem is that we don't see much of his efforts even in the games he has worked on. Writing a single companion only makes the rest of the writing look worse by comparison and we aren't satisfied either way.
Yeah, things slowing down. I guess game is already dead.
I am very glad that infinitron is not blindly defending TOW and is instead writing pretty good assessments of Obsidian's condition with its current writing team. Infinitron stat changes (Apologist - 1, Respectful +1).
I don't think Sawyer is the problem at all. In the right team, with other people in charge of areas which are their strength, Sawyer can be a GREAT designer. I don't think he should be a studio lead though.
*mumblegrumbleColonyshipgrumblemumble*
Even if, so what? He really done his part, it's not up to him that no-one stepped into his shoes.
This game is 50% smaller than it looks like. In all areas. All this talk of extensive C&C and hidden approaches, deep systems etc etc. is all ignorance. So much of it is smoke and mirrors. Of course, we can't expect the average "journalist" and Tubers to actually play two runs before writing their reviews.
Fixed it for you
Why would anyone play a game twice in quick succession?
The problem is trying to emulate a previous classic made by different people and a different time (yeah, I would consider Tim Cain to be a completely different person nowadays). The result works if it expresses something genuine about you. Right now, we see a completely different industry composed of burnout oldfarts who don't play games anymore trying to cash in on formulas, a team of pretentious youngsters who despise their audience and the medium, etc. The result? Nothing but trash. People have different personalities and formative experiences. It is bad that people think they can follow a template based on an old game and expect it to be good. This includes satires too. You either have this humor in you or you don't. The recent cRPGs I enjoyed the most are completely different from each other (e.g., Age of Decadence, Underrail, Atom RPG, Battle Brothers, etc.). Atom and Underrail, for instance, are heavily influenced by Fallout, but try to do their own thing. They would suck otherwise.
Jason D. Anderson, you're our only hope.
Inbefore Jason Anderson makes a new game and it's a disappointment to the Codex. There is no reason to believe he avoided decline when every old god suffered from it.
Please, define creatively burned out. He looks like he doesn't give a damn about cRPGs anymore and have other priorities in life. Just because you, as a gamer, care about cRPGs doesn't mean he, as a developer, cares. Also, just because Tim Cain cared about cRPGs in the past, doesn't mean he cares about cRPGs now. Please, guys. Once and for all: stop and think. People change. This personality cult is cancer. cRPGs are hard work. They are hard to make even if you are giving your 100%. Imagine if you see this is as a product to pay your bills.
It's not like we know for sure. Ziets didn't leave, he was fired. Gonzalez did leave, but that's only because he was driven out of the company by an unpleasant coworker. Fenstermaker left after Avellone did, but only for personal reasons and he's yet to come back to the game industry.
Do you think it is easy to make a Disco Elysium, a Fallout, or a Underrail? Are you delusional?
