Ryuu96 said:
Obsidian is a studio with like 5 creative leads and constantly working on multiple projects at once, I think turning them into a Fallout only studio will absolutely be bad for them creatively, likely lead to creative clashes and people leaving, what do the directors of The Outer Worlds, Avowed, Grounded do when the entire studio is put onto Fallout? That's pretty much a demotion to them. It might be fine for InXile since they seemingly only have one team but still who knows if InXile even wants to work on Fallout. Josh Sawyer and Feargus are down for Fallout but I don't think they'd like to do it at the expense of everything else, at the expense of putting a bullet in Grounded, The Outer Worlds, Avowed/Pillars of Eternity. |
Honestly their directors were getting sidelined alot even without Xbox involvement, Chris Parker hasn't directed a game that actually released at Obsidian since 2014's South Park, after that he seemed to be largely on the sidelines at Obsdian until Avowed began development in 2018, but then development got rebooted on Avowed in 2021 as I recall, with Carrie Pattel taking over as director of Avowed, so I guess Chris Parker is back on the sidelines again. Who knows what Josh has been doing since Pentiment released, I guess he is probably sidelined as well right now, at least until enough of the studio is available for Xbox to put him in charge of a Fallout game. Obsdian is a studio with too many directors and not enough development teams at present.
I'm not saying they should go Fallout only, but having Obsidian and inXile trade or Obsidian and Bethesda trade (or even trading Fallout between all 3) probably isn't a bad idea to allow for quicker Fallout releases while still allowing Obsdian and inXile to work on their own games sometimes.
