Comment on Anon wants American companies to make a good RPG

Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• dabu@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I think they meant Owlcat Games, creators of Pahtfinder Kingmaker and Wrath of the Righteous video games. They are based in Cyprus but their developers are all over the place from what I know (so it’s more Europe-Asia kind of thing but I may be wrong)

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  • Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Honestly, everyone’s developers are all over the place. Almost every studio hires contractors from wherever to do things as basic as spell checking to pathfinding to artwork.

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      For RPGs they almost always outsource the writing. Crafting a good story is not really a skill that a lot of the major developers have a lot of call for (normally they just have you shoot the bad guys because) so they don’t have people on staff for it. In RPGs stories are a lot more important though, so they actually have to put some effort in.

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      • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Aren’t most RPG video games developed by companies that primarily do RPG video games? Like, Warhorse was founded specifically to make KCD. Fallout Shelter is the only non-RPG Bethesda has developed since 2008. And The Witcher Adventure Game and the Gwent games are the only non-RPGs CD Projekt Red have ever done.

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    • alilbee@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      pathfinding Pathfinders, you could say

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• iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The post is clearly talking about video games. It is reasonable to conclude they are talking about the Pathfinder video games, which were not made by Paizo, but by Owlcat Games. Whether or not Cypress is part of Asia is kind of debatable.

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