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Obsidian Wants To Work On Pillars Of Eternity Tactics After Avowed, Says Josh Sawyer

By 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Jack Coleman

Published Feb 24, 2025

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Pillars of Eternity series is getting attention because of Avowed.
Obsidian Entertainment and Josh Sawyer are considering a Pillars: Tactics game.
The success of Avowed could help get a Pillars: Tactics game greenlit.

A consequence of the release of Avowed is that the excellent 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Pillars of Eternity series is back in the limelight. The beloved CRPG series that established the univeꦍrse of Eora, the setting of Avowed, is easily one of the greatest creations of the CRPG subgenre. With Avowed's relative commercial success and decent critical reception, there may be an appetite at developer Obsidian Entertainment and publisher Xbox to continue releasing games set in Eora.

Josh Sawyer, director of Pillars of Eternity and Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire, has once again reiterated the studio's desire to create꧅ a Pillars of Eternity tactics game (nice spot, ). During a recent , which Sawyer did not work on in an official capacity, the legendary game director touched on the su🌼bject of Pillars: Tactics.

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Pillars of Eternity inn with water wheel with characters outside.

"Pillars: Tactics is a thing t🎀hat a lot of people would like, a lot of people at the studio would like to work on; there are a lot of people who like tactics games," Sawye💃r began. "The difficulty is figuring out the scope of it, in terms of 'how many people' and 'what sort of visual quality are we going for' and 'how big is it?'".

He continues by explaining that the studio has to figure out a scope for Pillars: Tactics where there's potential for the game to make money. "Tactics games have a very enthusiastic fanbase, but🍒 that fanbase is not humungous," he explains. You're guaranteed to attract fans of the tactics genre, but even if every single one of them bought Pillars: Tactics, it still wouldn't justify a massive triple-A budget.

There may be a relucta𒐪nce on Sawyer's part to work on a project with a limited budget, as he previously expressed his desire to work on Pillars of Eternity 3 but only with a budget comparable to Baldur's Gate 3 ($100 million), 🌳about $95 million more than it cost to make Deadfire. Following Pillars, Sawyer directed Pentiment, a passion project created by a small team of history buffs at Obsidian.

This 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:isn't the first time that Sawyer has mentioned Obsidian's strong desire to create Pillars: Tacticsಞ, so perhaps with the success of Avowed there's a ⛄stronger chance of the project being greenlit.