Latest about Pillars of Eternity
The idea for a Pillars of Eternity: Tactics game has been floated at Obsidian, but it's still up in the air because 'the audience for them is not huge, typically, but very passionate'
News "It's a hard one to make a case for."
Josh Sawyer doesn't like Baldur Gate 3-style romances and that's part of why he doubts a new Pillars of Eternity would be a hit: 'I feel like I'm kind of out of touch with that audience'
news It's not romances in general he doesn't care for, just the way they're typically implemented in videogames.
Obsidian's design director would love to add the immersive sim elements of Baldur's Gate 3 into a 'Pillars-y' game: 'we have mostly 2D worlds, so that's a lot more difficult'
News "But even in a 3D world, it's not easy."
Nearly 10 years after it came out, Obsidian's isometric RPG Pillars of Eternity gets a surprise update
news The new Pillars patch has some fans hoping that Pillars of Eternity 3 might be happening.
Josh Sawyer would like to make Pillars of Eternity 3, but only if he got a Baldur's Gate 3-sized budget
news Obsidian's studio design director also said he might want to return to Pentiment someday, but not anytime soon.
Josh Sawyer: 'The most compromised games I worked on were Pillars of Eternity 1 and 2'
News Though he's still proud of them, Pillars of Eternity's game director would have liked them to be different.
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