cf. KOTOR 2
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Replying to @Nymphomachy
It is fair to point out that in the gaming world, the games famous for having decades-long fandoms because they were shoddy and incomplete at launch did not actually financially succeed as a result of this And in fact were famous for sinking or almost sinking their creators
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It does not do you any good to have a small but dedicated fanbase that spends the next ten years making mods and patches that eventually make the "fully restored" version of your game a darling of the indie scene By that point you've already been fired
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
It bears repeating that all of the MeToo personal allegations against Chris Avellone aside, it does seem to be primarily for professional reasons he and Obsidian parted ways in the end For all that he was beloved by fans he was hated by bosses for intrinsically related reasons
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I.e. "For God's sake Chris you only had two fucking companion characters and their personal questlines to write in this game and we're supposed to launch in two months and it's STILL NOT DONE?! This is more text than all the other companions put together!"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
"And half of what the text is ABOUT is all this weird creepy shit about rape and miscarriages and whatnot"
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It is telling that, despite his name being the big selling point for PoE 1, neither of his characters turns up alive in PoE 2 and none of the fans seem particularly bothered by that fact
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Replying to @arthur_affect
lol I had to look this up and of-fucking-course he wrote Grieving Mother and Durance
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Replying to @Nymphomachy
Grieving Mother is the fairly obvious "Ravel Puzzlewell archetype" who canonically shows up periodically in his stuff as a result of seeds of her soul being cast across the multiverse
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
My first Avellone game was Kotor 2, so Durance was the one who jumped out more to me, the guy whose gimmick is that Avellone has read the setting bible and underlined all the stuff he doesn't like in red. It works a lot better with Star Wars lore, I have to say.
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I guess he thought he would balance out the character's provocative nihilistic philosophy by also making him deeply personally unpleasant
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
What was fun was I screwed up the triggers for his quest, so when I rested in LITERALLY the last room in the final dungeon of the game, barely a hundred feet from the final boss, Durance woke me up in the middle of getting my spell slots to rant more about his prostitute god.
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