PC Gamer has reviewed Diablo 4: DIABLO 4 REVIEWĪ live service action RPG that almost buries everything that makes it great.ĭiablo 4 tries to ground us in its dark fantasy world, but that's an impossible task in a game where you can pull a legendary two-handed axe out of a wolf.
And, like I said, in the end, that's us." But we want to tell more confined stories that the player can experience with their companions, and then move from part of the world to part of the world. "We could go off and create an 8km x 8km open world and then deal with all the consequences of that-because that makes it a different style game. And 2 was even less linear, but still again you have this core story as you're going."įor Avowed, the focus is going to be specifically on your companions, and how their story relates to the driving narrative of the game. Pillars is less linear than Outer Worlds, but it's still a game that has you go through a story. "Outer Worlds is the greatest, latest example of that, and even Pillars. "That's when we backed up and said again: What are we good at? What's our lane?" That core, for Urquhart, is Obsidian's dedication to storytelling. The feeling, then, was that Obsidian were better served not following Bethesda's example of a grand, open world, but instead staying true to what an Obsidian game should be. "What we do is we make our awesome RPGs, right?" Mojang makes an awesome Minecraft, and Turn10 makes awesome racing games," says Urquhart, referencing a handful of Obsidian's sister studios at Microsoft. "I think over the course of time as we worked on it… Bethesda makes an awesome Skyrim. "Originally we were pitching, in essence, our Skyrim," confirms Obsidian CEO Feargus Urquhart in an exclusive interview with PC Gamer.īut that is not what Avowed, as it currently exists, is going to be. And yes, it turns out that was the plan-at least at first.
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