Josh Sawyer would make a Darklands 'spiritual successor' if funded

Obsidian studio design director Josh Sawyer has made some notable games: New Vegas, the Pillars of Eternity series, and Pentiment, which includes the line "A whole lot of inconceivable shit happens on this hell of an Earth." Asked about his next project on the Human Can Opener Podcast, he replied, "I don't even know anymore." He said he has already made the games he wanted: "I wanted to make a D&D game—which I got to make immediately.

I wanted to make a Fallout game, which took me another 10-ish years. And then I wanted to make a historical game, and I just got to do that." Sawyer emphasised how much the people around him matter. "Working even on a game that you're not that jazzed about, if you love the people that you work with, can be awesome," he said, adding that "working on a dream game in an environment that sucks—it's never going to be fun.

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