Chris Avellone joins Larian to help write Divinity: Original Sin 2

[HoloDust]

generic-user-1 said:

HoloDust said:

Yeah, it's bit worrying, sure they had success with Pillars, but it seems they are struggling if they need to make those F2P MMOs - then again, if that brings in money so they can focus on RPGs, all the better.

On the bright side, there are still lot of famous RPG designers in Obsidian, they have licensed Pathfinder, so that could be huge for cRPG fans. I find it a bit strange that Chris left when they have such an important license in their hands, but I'm guessing it's not too surprising, given that he was already working outside of Obsidian on Wasteland 2 and Numenera.

i dont think pathfinder is such a great IP, and they didnt get fallout 4 1/2. so i guess he was bored.

he wasnt heavly invested in pillars(you know if you  played it, its a good game but in no way his game).

 

they should have made fallout 4(i bet the game will be as shitty as fallout 3 and not as grand as fallout new vegas), it would have been so great, with perfect humor and not stupid plotlines.

Well, Pathfinder is as close as we'll get to them making D&D I guess in near future, that's why I said it's important license.

As for Pillars, yeah, really good game, but not as good as those gems from the Black Isle/Bioware's era...let's wait and see how Numenera turns out, for some strange reason, from the reveal I was expecting it to top Pillars.

I'm not that harsh on Fallout 3, sure, it is nowhere near the greatness of Fallout 1/2, but I see the way it turned out as Bethesda's inherent incompetance in being nuanced, clever and refined, and not being dicks to fans of franchise on purpose (unlike some other devs - *cough* Tomb Raider *cough*).

Honestly, I think Obsidian should just invent new Fallout cRPG (under fdifferent name of course), after all, I think most of the key people who created F1/2 are with them (while we're at wishful thinking, new Vampire the Masquarade wouldn't hurt either).