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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lol I had to look this up and of-fucking-course he wrote Grieving Mother and Durance
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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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But yeah It definitely sticks out way more when he's only a secondary or guest writer in a game The characters definitely tend to feel like invaders from the Avellone Cinematic Universe
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
I liked Grieving Mother well enough but you can see why Durance was... polarizing Especially since he's your party's primary healer
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my commentary on big-party RPGs is that BGII's "fuck you, go away" button needs to be standard "yes just piss all the way off and then keep going, durance. i hope a lich eats you." "DID you KNOW that WOMEN--" "NOPE. BYE NOW."
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At least in one of his endings he kills himself
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
this is strong incentive to actually finish PoE
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maybe i'm missing something but the combat in that game is just Not Good and there is *so* much of it "alright, everyone line up behind eder and spam ranged attacks. okay, enemies dead? take five steps, check for traps--okay, everyone line up behind eder again."
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