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

"I can't stress enough how often I'd hear a retail rep declare a genre/style/look was dead with zero supporting data."

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

A chicken and egg situation

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

The CRPG receives some love ahead of Avowed 2024 release

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How a parchment of ideas evolved into the RPG work of art that is Pentiment

Holiday Long Read | Edge magazine explores the making of Obsidian's uniquely eye-catching hit

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Before Baldur's Gate 3, these games made D&D's Forgotten Realms a fixture on PlayStation

Play Magazine exhumes the best PlayStation games that incorporated one iconic D&D setting over the years

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

“The most fun things in the game aren't really 5E things or even D&D things, but Larian things"

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

More than a few devs would like The Game Awards to be more about, well, the game awards.

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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

Josh Sawyer gives some tips on how to play your cards right

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Small games can be good for AAA studios, and "directly contributed" to big RPGs like Avowed and The Outer Worlds 2, says Obsidian's Josh Sawyer

Pentiment and Grounded were extremely valuable for Obsidian

GamesRadar

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"

"It was literally never on my computer"

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

One of Obsidian Entertainment's most overlooked games finally found long overdue success

GamesRadar

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

Josh Sawyer has worked on or led design in games like Fallout: New Vegas, Icewind Dale, and Pillars of Eternity.

PC Gamer

Nobody wants to play a Cleric in Baldur's Gate 3, and one veteran RPG dev says it's got nothing to do with D&D rules

"In my experience this has nothing to do with the specifics of BG3 or 5E"

GamesRadar

'A triumph': Brian Fargo, Mike Laidlaw, and other RPG architects weigh in on Baldur's Gate 3

Creative forces behind series like Fallout, Dragon Age, The Elder Scrolls, and Pillars of Eternity react to Baldur's Gate 3.

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The best CRPGs to play after Baldur's Gate 3

Defeated the Absolute already? Here are some options for your next adventure.

GamesRadar

Baldur's Gate 3 is the game of the moment – don't ruin that moment

Opinion | Baldur's Gate 3 is too good to be reduced to an arbitrary moral bludgeon

Windows Central

Pentiment gets updated with more languages and a new map area

Pentiment, the award-winning narrative RPG from Obsidian Entertainment, is getting updated with expanded language support and a new area.

PC Gamer

Josh Sawyer: 'The most compromised games I worked on were Pillars of Eternity 1 and 2'

Though he's still proud of them, Pillars of Eternity's game director would have liked them to be different.

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RPG roundtable podcast: Josh Sawyer, Mike Laidlaw, Strix Beltran, Paweł Sasko, and Lis Moberly go deep on writing and playing RPGs

Listen to our 80-minute discussion with five veteran RPG designers.

GamesRadar

Fallout: New Vegas studio was once developing an Aliens RPG, but Sega scrapped it for Alpha Protocol

Obsidian developer Josh Sawyer shares what happened to the studio's Aliens RPG

Inverse

'Hi-Fi Rush' Reveals How Xbox Game Pass Can Save a Dying Breed of Games

'Hi-Fi Rush' and 'Pentiment' represent a dying breed of games. Xbox Game Pass could be the answer to saving them.

Inverse

Xbox Game Pass's next big indie draws a "bonkers" link between painters and game devs

The gorgeous wood-block style art of Obsidian's 'Pentiment' required a lot of historical research, and it made the devs reflect on the role of art in society.

The Guardian - UK

Pentiment, the 16th-century murder mystery that looks like a playable tapestry

Director Josh Sawyer explains why developer Obsidian decided to make a narrative adventure about a painter-detective

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