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Fallout: New Vegas Director Doesn't Like Baldur's Gate 3-Style Romances

By 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:James Lucas

Published Aug 14, 2024

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Josh Sawyer would return to Pillars of Eternity with a Baldur's Gate 3-sized budget, but he feels "out of touch" with the modern cRPG audience.
The big disconnect is that he isn't a fan of gaming romances as he believes they "can diminish some characters".

There's been a lot of love for the cRPG genre ever since 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Baldur's Gate 3 stormed onto the scene and swept up 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:every award under the sun last year, which has some fans asking if 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Fallout: New Vegas developer Obsidian Entertainment will ever return to its own cRPG series, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Pillars of Eternity, with a third game.

Avowed, its 𝓰upcoming Elder Scrolls-like RPG, is set in the Pillars of Eternity world.

As reported by , studio design director Josh Sawyer would do it with a BG3-sized budget, but he feels "out of touch" with the modern cRPG audience, so he's not sure it'd be a success.

"If you want to give me a pile of money to make a game, I'll make it," Sawyer said. "I don't necessarily think it's going to appeal to the same audience [as Baldur's Gate 3], and make that money back."

Astarion kisses player against a tree during night of passion in Baldur's Gate 3.

The big disconnect Sawyer feels he has with today's cRPG playerbase is with romances. In Baldur's Gate 3, you can form incredibly in-depth relationships with each of your party members that lead to intimate escapades at camp and quieter, vulnerable conversations as you grow more comfortable with one another.

But Sawyer has long felt out of touch with that side of RPGs. "I'm out of step with that, and it's hard for me to sort of get it," Sawyer explained. "And the things I do get, I'm like, I get it—I don't like it."

Josh Sawyer Has Never Been A Big Fan Of RPG Romances

Neverwinter Nights 2 hero brandishing a sword against a giant demon — via: nwn2.wikia.com

PC Gamer also found a post from 2006 in which Sawyer shared a similar sentiment, saying that while he doesn't hate romances in video games, he does hate "re♒ducing love to shallow, mastubatory fantasy indꦆulgence.

"I appreciate that people wanted more romance options in [Neverwinter Nights 2], but sometimes I think that people want there to be romance 'victory' conditions for all companions. I think that can diminish some characters... That bugs me. I don't like the idea that you can 'win' everything or get everyone on your side."

Sawyer was the lead designer on Neverwꩲinter Nights 2 in 2006.

Baldur's Gate 3 does have fluid characters who react to your decisions in the story beyond your scenes with them—Karlach and Wyll even abandon camp if you attack the Druid's Grove—but there are still romance points and checks throughout the game that determine a 'score' for how well you're doing, so it's understandable why Sawyer would feel out of touch with this approach.