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Acclaimed post-apocalyptic open-world indie "would have never existed" without Fallout: New Vegas

Thank god for the Mojave Wasteland

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Dying Light dev says we're all too obsessed with "the number of hours a game can offer" and shorter games like the 18+ hour Dying Light: The Beast feel like "the future"

"It gives you those shorter development cycles, and also the ability to try different things."

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Baldur's Gate 3 dev backs Fallout: New Vegas and Pillars of Eternity director Josh Sawyer, wishes he "would get the resources" for his dream RPG: "I want to play that game"

Sawyer recently said he's "out of step" with the Pillars of Eternity and Baldur's Gate 3 community

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Josh Sawyer says Fallout: New Vegas has deathclaws in Goodsprings as a warning to Fallout 3 players expecting another easy ride: 'You can't just slide all over the map and not feel the heat'

The Fallout: New Vegas design director shared some interesting thoughts on the challenges of finding balance in singleplayer games.

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'Fallout: New Vegas' Director Doesn’t Like 'Baldur’s Gate 3’s Style of Romances

'Pillars of Eternity' director Josh Sawyer has some hesitancy at making a 'Pillars of Eternity 3', in the wake of 'Baldur's Gate 3's massive success.

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Avowed shares a universe with Obsidian RPG Pillars of Eternity, but OG director Josh Sawyer isn't on it as he was "burned out" and didn't want to be an "overprotective parent"

"I don't care. It's not mine. It was never mine"

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Josh Sawyer would head up a new Fallout game if Microsoft asked, but he'd have to do it his way: 'Who wants to work on something where the one thing they want to explore is not possible to explore?'

The head developer of Fallout: New Vegas isn't averse to returning to the series, but he has a few conditions.

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Josh Sawyer doesn't like Baldur Gate 3-style romances and that's part of why he doubts a new Pillars of Eternity would be a hit: 'I feel like I'm kind of out of touch with that audience'

It's not romances in general he doesn't care for, just the way they're typically implemented in videogames.

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Baldur's Gate 3's success doesn't make Fallout: New Vegas director Josh Sawyer want to make Pillars of Eternity 3 because he's "out of step" with the RPG's audience

"I feel like I don't have the pulse of that audience"

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Fallout: New Vegas director Josh Sawyer is the latest Fallout veteran to outline their specific terms for returning to the iconic RPG series

"With any project, I think it has to do with 'what are we doing?'"

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Fallout New Vegas director Josh Sawyer explains why the RPG's opening is a perfect example of respecting the player's skill choices

"We're paying attention to the character you made, and we're going to give you rewards"

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Fallout: New Vegas director on the art of making sure all your points in persuasion aren't wasted: It's 'all about feelings … but you use numbers to arrive at that feeling'

Obsidian's playbook for providing enough skill checks for your maxed-out Lockpicking.

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RPG veteran Josh Sawyer says Black Isle Studios' stab at Fallout 3 was never going to be made in time: "With the staff we had it would have been at least two years"

Fallout co-creator Tim Cain had suggested it would take 18 months

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Fallout: New Vegas designer slams unrealistic release dates that 'burn out and demoralize the developers' as he shares tips on how to spot when a game needs more time in the oven

"There have been plenty of games that announce a date and I (correctly) predict they will not ship at that date".

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"All it does is burn out and demoralize the developers": Obsidian's Josh Sawyer on "what's infuriating" about unrealistic dates for games that simply aren't ready

"It’s a pretty reliable indicator that a game that has not publicly shown gameplay by summer will not ship that game by the end of that year"

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Despite all the difficulty grousing, Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree has sold 5 million copies in less than a week

Evidence strongly suggests hitting things with swords remains cool.

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Fallout: New Vegas director Josh Sawyer reveals which characters he took from Black Isle Studio's canceled Fallout 3

The Mojave owes a lot to Codename Van Buren

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RPG veteran Josh Sawyer "threw everything I knew" at Icewind Dale, which is partly why the D&D CRPG has "a reputation for being pretty hard"

"I designed all of that stuff to be played by super aggressive min-maxers"

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Fallout: New Vegas director reveals that game balance is 'mostly vibes based', says he only used a weapons spreadsheet 'for maybe a couple of months'

Imperfectly balanced, as all things should be.

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Fallout: New Vegas director Josh Sawyer says his approach to RPG weapon balance is "mostly vibes-based": "the important thing is to see how things feel in practice"

Josh Sawyer thinks the best way to test weapons before a game's launch is to "play around" with them

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Fallout: New Vegas director says the RPG was criticized "for playing very similarly to Fallout 3," but his true inspiration was Fallout 1

"Fallout 1 was foundational for me"

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Fallout: New Vegas director thought 2003 studio closure that took down the original Fallout 3 and Baldur's Gate 3 teams meant he'd never get to work on the RPG series again

Josh Sawyer was project lead on Codename Van Buren

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Josh Sawyer understands why some fans are annoyed by the treatment of New Vegas in Amazon's Fallout series, but he's not one of them: 'Whatever happens with it, I don’t care'

The director of Fallout: New Vegas enjoys the series and isn't hung up on new creative directions.

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Fallout New Vegas director doesn't "care" what the Fallout TV show does with the RPG's lore: "It was never mine"

"Whatever happens with it, I don’t care"

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Fallout: New Vegas RPG veteran Josh Sawyer says he "didn't recognize myself" during Pillars of Eternity 2 development: "I was this huge, awful a**hole"

"It was that feeling of accelerating towards a brick wall"

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