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Time is not your enemy, forever is.
Chris Avellone / Video Game Designer
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Forever
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Women were the reason I became a monk - and, ah, the reason I switched back.
Chris Avellone / Video Game Designer
Monk
Reason
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I am never going to do an Empire Strikes Back ending again in a game, even if they put branding irons to my feet.
Chris Avellone / Video Game Designer
Feet
Games
Iron
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The most important thing in games isn't the designer's narrative, but the story the player creates through his experiences.
Chris Avellone / Video Game Designer
Designer
Games
Narrative
Player
Creates
Experiences
Important Thing
Most Important Thing
The Most Important
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I don't think I could ever stop being a game designer, that's just where my brain is going to be at until I'm in the coffin.
Chris Avellone / Video Game Designer
Brain
Games
Thinking
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I absolutely knew that I wanted to play role-playing games when I saw a friend of mine playing 'Bard's Tale 2' on his Commodore 64.
Chris Avellone / Video Game Designer
Playing Games
Tale
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The moment you start dictating content/themes/story vs. allowing the player to be a participant in the story and carve their own path, you're doing the player a disservice.
Chris Avellone / Video Game Designer
Path
Player
Stories
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While I'm confident in Obsidian being able to deliver a quality title, it only takes one other Kickstarter developer to ruin things for everyone else and cast doubt on the donation process going forward.
Chris Avellone / Video Game Designer
Donation
Confident
Cast
Deliver
Developer
Everyone Else
Ruin
Title
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On my long list of hates about RPGs, one of them was, I always felt it was an unnecessary chore to make you care about a world when, in fact, what most players care about is their own personal experience.
Chris Avellone / Video Game Designer
Unnecessary
Experience Always World
Experience World Long
Chore
Hates
List
Long List
Personal Experience
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Working with franchises can be challenging, but at the same time I really did enjoy working on 'Star Wars,' for example, and I have done a lot of 'Dungeons & Dragons' games, but I still enjoy it very much.
Chris Avellone / Video Game Designer
Dragons
Dungeons
Example
Wars
For Example
Same Time
Star Wars
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We've pitched and even begun development on a number of fantasy worlds that have never seen the light of day. All of those worlds... It's soul-crushing to see them sputter out, one by one. Lost. Like tears. In rain.
Chris Avellone / Video Game Designer
Fantasy
Rain
Tears
Begun
Worlds
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I've got to be honest, I absolutely don't like designing romances. I think that you get a lot more drama and impact from failed romances, or unrequited relationships that occur in games. I think that creates more player tension.
Chris Avellone / Video Game Designer
Drama
Player
Thinking
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What I like about Kickstarter is it helps games that people want to play still get made, even if you don't pump $20 million dollars into it to try and meet all the stupid bells and whistles that publishers feel must be in games nowadays.
Chris Avellone / Video Game Designer
Bells
Dollars
Million Dollars
Publishers
Bells And Whistles
Nowadays
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In 'Alpha Protocol,' right from the outset, the parameters of the game explain to you that the mission needs to get done. How you approach that is your decision. The rewards and penalties for either path, those are going to balance out into different consequences.
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Parameters
Penalties
Protocol
Rewards
Alpha
Explain
Mission
Outset
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If there's anything I can't stand, it's the cliche of the female handler who's always talking through the radio with your player, telling you where to go and what to do with a sexy voice. It's such a horrible, horrible cliche. You just get so tired of it. It's like, is this all she's ever going to be?
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Horrible
Tired
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I think, actually, any morality system that rewards only the extremes is a flawed system. Players don't approach life that way, they don't approach games that way, and they shouldn't be trained to approach games that way. They shouldn't be in the 'Star Wars' mode where, 'I've got to choose every good option.'
Chris Avellone / Video Game Designer
Extremes
Flawed
Morality
Rewards
Life Good Way
Wars
Option
Mode
Star Wars
Trained
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A lot of the strength of an RPG world lies in its foundation: its systems, lore, and when appropriate, its magic systems. While there are elements tied to 'Project: Eternity' that at first glance seem to be classic fantasy, that's intentional - we do want to recreate some elements of a High Fantasy experience.
Chris Avellone / Video Game Designer
Appropriate
Classic
Elements
Eternity
Fantasy
Magic
Tied
Project
Glance
Intentional
Lies
Lore
Recreate
Seem
Systems
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I think actually any morality system that rewards only the extremes is a flawed system. Players don't approach life that way, they don't approach games that way, and they shouldn't be trained to approach games that way. They shouldn't be in the mode where, "I've got to choose every good option." They should just play the game. And they should get equal consequences or rewards for that, that are different from the extremes.
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Different
Player
Thinking
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When the injustice is great enough, justice will lend me the strength needed to correct it. None may stand against it. It will shatter every barrier, sunder any shield, tear through any enchantment, and lend its servant the power to pass sentence. Know this: There is nothing on all the Planes that can stay the hand of justice when it is brought against them. It may unmake armies. It may sunder the thrones of gods. Know that for all who betray justice, I am their fate. And fate carries an executioner's axe.
Chris Avellone / Video Game Designer
Army
Fate
Hands
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