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Roll the Old Chariot Along
Nelson Schneider - wrote on 12/30/2019
I was not, actually, expecting to see a direct sequel to “Pillars of Eternity” after it helped to bring the Role-Playing genre back from the brink of extinction in 2015. However, that game proved enough of a success for Obsidian Entertainment – the formerly Single-“A” developer forged from the remains of Black Isle Studios after Interplay’s collapse back in the day, currently subsidiary of Microsoft’s Xbox Division – to revisit the concept of crowdfunding yet again. This time, Obsidian went with a videogames-first crowdfunding outfit known as Fig (likely because Obsidian’s own Feargus Urquhart sits on the advisory board, alongside inXile’s Brian Fargo and Double-Fine’s Justin Bailey, to name a few). “Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire” (“Deadfire”), like its …
