Josh Sawyer: top related news

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30.11 / 12:43

Platform RPG Adventure Fallout UPS Infinity Obsidian's Josh Sawyer thought Pillars of Eternity's Kickstarter had a 50% chance of failing, only for the RPG to be fully funded within 27 hours

Obsidian Entertainment has been pumping out beloved RPGs for decades now, but there was a long period of time where the studio's financial footing was on shaky ground, prompting it to turn to crowdfunding. Though Fallout: New Vegas and Pillars of Eternity director Josh Sawyer now says that even Kickstarter, the studio's saving grace at the time, seemed like a risky move.

01.12 / 21:57

Adventure UPS Infinity CEO Pillars of Eternity director thought it had a 50/50 shot before it crowdfunded in 27 hours

26.11 / 16:25

RPG UPS Infinity Even if Avowed does well, it doesn't sound like we'll get Pillars of Eternity 3, at least not from Josh Sawyer: 'I am more interested in doing original IP'

25.11 / 20:11

RPG Fallout UPS Fallout: New Vegas director Josh Sawyer is "helping on Avowed," but he's "more interested in doing original IP" when he directs his next game

23.11 / 03:11

Fallout UPS Digital Twitter Baldur's Gate 3 dev says Stalker 2's commercial success is proof of a "seismic shift behind so much" and players are "hungry for hyper-engaging, focused experiences"

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

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"