Josh Sawyer, the director of Fallout: New Vegas and each Pillars of Eternity video games, has stated that, as soon as the staff have completed patching Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire, he will probably be “taking a break” from directing video games.
Sawyer revealed the information on his web site, in response to a fan asking if the hearsay was true about him stepping down as a consequence of burnout. He confirmed that he will probably be stepping away from directing video games, and won’t be helming any expansions for Deadfire. “I’m now in my 19th year in the industry and I’ve been working on Pillars I & II for about 6 years,” he says. “I’m going to be on Deadfire (not the DLCs) until we’re done patching and improving it, but after that I’m taking a break from directing for a while.”
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You can try Sawyer’s full response on his tumblr page. He goes on to say that he’s not taking a break from video games growth as an entire, simply directing, and also will be in search of a unique sort of sport for his subsequent mission. “I’ve worked on a lot of party-based fantasy ‘Real Time with Pause’ games. I’d like to shift focus for my next project, but I need to work on something else, not as a director, before that.”
In addition to directing each Pillars of Eternity video games, he has been a designer on fantasy RPGs such because the Icewind Dale video games and Neverwinter Nights 2. He joined Obsidian in 2005, the place he has additionally served as designer on Alpha Protocol, and director of Fallout: New Vegas and the cancelled Aliens RPG for SEGA.
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