Josh Sawyer: top related news

All news where Josh Sawyer is mentioned

10.11 / 14:39

RPG Fallout Fallout: New Vegas director knew the Fallout 3 comparisons and bug complaints were coming, but knew that what made his RPG special were the things that you couldn’t find in one playthrough

While Fallout: New Vegas director Josh Sawyer was correct that players would compare the game to Fallout 3 and complain about its bugs, as it turns out, he was also right about what made New Vegas the iconic RPG it is today.

07.11 / 01:59

RPG Fallout UPS Fallout: New Vegas director took one look at the Strip on a console devkit and thought, "Oh my god, this isn’t going to run"

06.11 / 12:23

RPG Fallout UPS Diablo Fallout New Vegas director's first D&D RPG launched on the same day as Diablo 2, "which sounds like it would be catastrophically bad," but it ended up helping it instead

02.11 / 18:31

RPG Fallout UPS Fallout: New Vegas director on the “blessing” of working on the RPG: “I never thought I’d get a chance to work on Fallout [again]”

27.09 / 14:33

RPG UPS The idea for a Pillars of Eternity: Tactics game has been floated at Obsidian, but it's still up in the air because 'the audience for them is not huge, typically, but very passionate'

27.09 / 10:23

RPG Fallout UPS A Pillars of Eternity Tactics game has been pitched by "a number" of Obsidian devs, because fans "will play a lot of them, even if they're not that good"

26.09 / 21:37

Fallout UPS Obsidian Devs Have Floated the Idea of a Pillars of Eternity Tactics Game

14.09 / 17:51

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

15.08 / 22:53

RPG Dreams Adventure Fallout 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"

15.08 / 00:01

Fallout UPS Extreme Josh Sawyer says Fallout: New Vegas has deathclaws in Cazador 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'

14.08 / 18:11

Fallout: New Vegas director says he would lead a new Fallout game if granted creative freedom

14.08 / 17:01

RPG Fallout Pillars of Eternity's Josh Sawyer isn't directing follow-up Avowed because he doesn't feel like an "overprotective parent": "I don't care. It's not mine. It was never mine"

14.08 / 01:19

RPG Dreams Fallout UPS 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?'

13.08 / 19:53

RPG Fallout UPS 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'

13.08 / 03:39

RPG Fallout 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

12.08 / 17:19

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

06.08 / 19:50

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

05.08 / 21:14

RPG Fallout Provident 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'

01.08 / 20:44

Action Avowed Might Be Getting Delayed to Early 2025

29.07 / 20:30

RPG Fallout UPS Twitter 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"

29.07 / 14:35

Fallout UPS Twitter 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

26.07 / 18:59

RPG Fallout UPS "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

13.07 / 06:55

RPG Adventure Fallout Avowed Does Actually Include Some Contributions from Pillars of Eternity Creator Josh Saywer

27.06 / 20:07

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

30.05 / 13:35

RPG Adventure Fallout UPS 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"

03.05 / 12:41

Simulation Fallout UPS 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'

24.04 / 18:41

New Vegas Director Has Interesting Take On Fallout TV Series

24.04 / 00:03

RPG Dreams Fallout UPS 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'

23.04 / 09:04

Fallout UPS Fallout TV show sneaks in New Vegas lead designer's map of the setting

18.04 / 16:13

Platform Fallout UPS Fallout New Vegas director Josh Sawyer says its gruelling card game is actually 'not that hard' and you cowards need to 'try again'

18.04 / 11:20

RPG Fallout Twitter As the Fallout TV Show sends fans to Bethesda games in droves, Fallout New Vegas director says give the RPG's much-maligned card game another go as it's "not that hard"

17.04 / 12:27

UPS Cyberpunk Cyberpunk 2077 sequel lead says avoiding crunch is key to keeping studios afloat: "Sustainability is incredibly important"

11.04 / 15:45

Overwatch Fallout UPS 'Devs are getting ground up as collateral damage': Fallout: New Vegas lead says burnout has replaced crunch as 'the primary hazard of the game industry'

26.03 / 17:03

RPG Divinity CEO Larian was "thinking about" Baldur's Gate 4, but D&D 5E wouldn't work with "all these ideas of new combat that we wanted to try out"

13.03 / 14:47

RPG Xbox One PS4 PS5 Pentiment enables 120fps on Xbox, after previously being available on PS5

06.03 / 11:51

RPG Fallout boxing CRPG veteran Josh Sawyer reveals how Pillars of Eternity got its name

29.02 / 12:57

Twitter TikTok Nintendo Helldivers 2 looks a lot like Metal Gear Solid 5 sometimes, but devs and fans alike agree that's great: 'More games should directly copy stuff'

28.02 / 17:57

Action RPG Stealth As Helldivers 2 draws Metal Gear Solid 5 comparisons, Obsidian RPG master Josh Sawyer says "more games should just directly copy stuff that feels good"

27.02 / 14:30

Adventure Nintendo Pentiment director says 120fps being disabled on Xbox is a bug, but it will be added in the next patch

27.02 / 13:03

Xbox One Pentiment Will Get 120 FPS On Xbox In The Next Patch

27.02 / 12:07

RPG Pentiment director blames "bug" as former Xbox console exclusive runs better on PS5

27.02 / 08:09

PC Xbox One Xbox Series X Microsoft PS4 PS5 Pentiment’s 120 FPS Mode Will Return on Xbox Series X/S With Next Patch

26.02 / 21:17

Platform Puzzle Pentiment 120FPS on Xbox Was Disabled Due to a Bug, Creator Says

23.02 / 16:02

RPG Fallout Fallout: New Vegas director reveals the RPG's most twisted Vault was inspired by the Haunting of Hill House's author

21.02 / 21:03

PlayStation 4 PlayStation 5 Xbox One survival Xbox announces multiplatform releases for Pentiment, Hi-Fi Rush, Sea of Thieves and Grounded

21.02 / 16:51

PlayStation 5 Xbox One survival Xbox’s Pentiment and Grounded are officially coming to Nintendo Switch

12.01 / 00:33

RPG UPS I was already intrigued by this Disco Elysium-inspired, D&D-based RPG where you play as the world's worst cleric, but its demo blew my expectations out of the water

09.01 / 20:52

Cyberpunk CD Projekt Deems Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty a Commercial Success

09.01 / 12:38

RPG With Xbox RPG Avowed Waiting in the Wings, Obsidian Has Updated Pillars of Eternity

08.01 / 20:40

RPG UPS Infinity Merit Nearly 10 years after it came out, Obsidian's isometric RPG Pillars of Eternity gets a surprise update

08.01 / 17:51

Party RPG Divinity Fallout UPS Seasoned RPG devs from Obsidian and Bioware blame the temporary death of the isometric CRPG on 'vibes-based forecasting' from retailers

07.01 / 22:30

RPG Fallout Obsidian and BioWare veterans explain how retailers killed the isometric RPG: "Truly vibes-based forecasting"

06.01 / 13:25

RPG Pillars of Eternity receives new patch 9 years post-release, and I'm guessing Baldur’s Gate 3 and Avowed are responsible

28.12 / 19:17

Celebrity People should remember where the Game Awards came from by watching the 2007 Spike Video Game Awards

14.12 / 19:49

RPG Fallout Twitter CRPG vet suggests D&D 5E is one of Baldur’s Gate 3’s "biggest stumbling blocks"

09.12 / 14:03

RPG Baldur's Gate 3 devs hope its success pushes other RPGs to get weird: "People can go to a publisher and say, 'Well, look what it f***ing did for them'"

08.12 / 17:57

An "embarrassing indictment": developers decry last nights The Game Awards ceremony

08.12 / 13:43

Twitter Celebrity Developers blast the celeb-laden TGAs as 'an embarrassing indictment of a segment of the industry desperate for validation… with little respect for the devs'

29.11 / 16:27

Platform Fallout Twitter Cyberpunk Millions of people have bought Cyberpunk 2077's Phantom Liberty expansion, and even other devs are impressed

27.11 / 18:21

RPG Strategy Fallout Fallout: New Vegas director says he'll only answer one question about the RPG this season, and of course it's about the card minigame Caravan

25.11 / 12:15

PC Xbox One Xbox Series X PS4 PS5 Developers Believe Allowing Studios to Work on Smaller Games Between Bigger Projects is Good for the Industry

14.11 / 20:49

RPG Twitter Infinity CEO After the code for a classic D&D RPG was lost, its lead designer has a message for obsessive fans: "Check this out - I have never had the Icewind Dale 2 source code"

13.11 / 13:15

Provident CEO Baldur’s Gate 3 Director Wants to See More cRPGs in the Future

09.11 / 18:41

RPG Adventure Fallout Celebrity CRPG vet has a specially engraved watch to remind him his underrated game was good, actually

20.10 / 22:47

RPG Divinity UPS Obsidian Would Make Pillars Of Eternity 3 With A Baldur's Gate 3 Sized Budget

20.10 / 16:17

RPG Fallout UPS Obsidian's Josh Sawyer wants to do Pillars of Eternity 3 with Baldur's Gate 3's budget

20.10 / 13:45

Fighting Dreams Adventure Fallout Josh Sawyer would like to make Pillars of Eternity 3 with ‘a Baldur’s Gate 3 budget’

20.10 / 09:47

Party RPG Fallout Microsoft Pillars of Eternity 3 with Baldur’s Gate 3 Budget Is Something Josh Sawyer Would Do (with Turn-Based Combat)

20.10 / 04:05

PC Xbox One Xbox Series X Pentiment Director Would Like to Make Pillars of Eternity 3 if He Got a Budget the Size of Baldur’s Gate 3

19.10 / 23:39

RPG Josh Sawyer Would Make Pillars of Eternity 3 If Given a Baldur's Gate 3-Sized Budget

19.10 / 22:53

PC Xbox Series X Microsoft Pentiment Coming to Switch is “Possible,” Director Says

19.10 / 22:19

Platform RPG UPS Infinity Josh Sawyer would like to make Pillars of Eternity 3, but only if he got a Baldur's Gate 3-sized budget

19.10 / 10:59

Action RPG Fallout RPG legend Josh Sawyer would happily make Pillars of Eternity 3, but it would take Baldur’s Gate 3’s budget to convince him

13.10 / 16:21

Fallout UPS Twitter Fallout: New Vegas director debunks popular fan theory over a decade later

12.10 / 17:57

RPG Fallout Fallout: New Vegas director debunks 13-year-old theory about the RPG's most infamous areas: "They were there for players to Git Gud or Die"

02.10 / 14:03

RPG Dreams Fallout Twitter Pillars of Eternity director jokes about a third game after Baldur's Gate 3's success: "Any day now, I'm sure"

02.10 / 09:09

RPG Fallout Pillars of Eternity 3 with a Big Budget Is Definitely Something Josh Sawyer (and Xbox Fans) Would Like to See

07.09 / 17:25

UPS CEO Larian Studio CEO Swen Vincke pushes back on Baldur's Gate III being "standard" for games

04.09 / 17:13

Strategy UPS Progressive boxing Baldur's Gate 3's least-popular class has become key to its speedrunning community

30.08 / 11:33

Party RPG UPS Twitter Obsidian's RPG design expert reckons he knows why no one's maining Cleric in Baldur's Gate 3, and it's the same reason no one plays them in his games either