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http://www.clubsilicononline.com/2009/01/b...-we-belong.html

 

Back to where we belong

 

Texas Logo After five years in California my family is returning to Texas. YEEEE-HAW!!

 

I start at Heatwave Interactive as Audio Director (managing and A/V department) on February 2nd.

 

While I have loved Obsidian, and our experience in California has been very valuable, SoCal is not a place to raise a family on one salary, unless you're insanely rich. There's a lot of other reasons I'll go into not the least of which are those damn jacked up trucks ;)

 

Needless to say we're very excited and relieved to be moving and will keep you posted as to developments.

 

January 10, 2009

 

Obsidian needs a new audio director.

It is always sad to see one go. Best of luck to you, Mr. Brandon!

"Your Job is not to die for your country, but set a man on fire, and take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe."

It is always sad to see one go. Best of luck to you, Mr. Brandon!

 

We're all pretty sad to see him go!

Matthew Rorie
 

We hate to see our Obs people leave.

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Hades was the life of the party. RIP You'll be missed.

Well, this sucks.

"My hovercraft is full of eels!" - Hungarian tourist
I am Dan Quayle of the Romans.
I want to tattoo a map of the Netherlands on my nether lands.
Heja Sverige!!
Everyone should cuffawkle more.
The wrench is your friend. :bat:

We hate to see our Obs people leave.

 

Our?

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Brandon will be missed. He is awesome.

Thanks for the awesome avatar Jorian!

Please don't leave Alex! I will destroy you.

Please don't leave Alex! I will destroy you.

 

Now now, we mustn't be selfish. As much as I wish Obsidian talent stay with Obsidian it is also good to see some of that Obsidian talent spread across the industry, bringing higher quality games to us as a whole. :x

"Your Job is not to die for your country, but set a man on fire, and take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe."

Who will give Alpha Protocol the Deus Ex vibe it needs now?!

Dragonblade of the Obsidian Order

 

No sleep for the Watcher

I reckon they chased him out for not getting enough Monty Python references. >_<

"It wasn't lies. It was just... bull****"."

             -Elwood Blues

 

tarna's dead; processing... complete. Disappointed by Universe. RIP Hades/Sand/etc. Here's hoping your next alt has a harp.

I nominate Martin O'Donell.

 

 

... what? Totally realistic.

"Alright, I've been thinking. When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade - make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons, what am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager. Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons. Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons. I'm going to to get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!"

A great shame - the audio in Storm of Zehir was the best I've ever heard from a D&D game.

 

There can only be one sensible replacement - Kai Rosenkranz, of Gothic fame (the soundtrack to Gothic 3 was even better than SoZ)

Best of luck to Alex in his future work.

 

Whoever becomes the audio director, I nominate he/she contract the awesome Jeff Tymoschuk (http://www.greenwiremusic.com/) to make the music for upcoming Obsidian games. He added a lot of the atmosphere to Penny Arcade Adventures. Also check out the music in the trailer for Ron Gilbert's upcoming action/adventure/rpg game DeathSpank - http://grumpygamer.com/6338868

There can only be one sensible replacement - Kai Rosenkranz, of Gothic fame (the soundtrack to Gothic 3 was even better than SoZ)

Woah, I thought I was his only fan!

 

Anyhow, I absolutely love Kai's work, but using Gothic 3 as an example might not be the best choice. In Gothic 3 they used an orchestra for the first time and it really clashed with the original Gothic feel. The tendencies were there in Gothic 2 already (remember the dock music?), but in Gothic 3 they were in full blast. Pompous, epic and extravagant is OK for a D&D game, but for Gothic it felt.. wrong.

 

Apparently Kai thought so too because for Risen he's scaled back the sounds and scope of the music. Listen to this:

 

http://www.worldofrisen.de/download_14.htm

 

(it's a small .zip file of a 1 minute long medley)

 

I love it! It reminds me of the music from Gothic.

Swedes, go to: Spel2, for the latest game reviews in swedish!

为什么每次来都看到坏消息。。。

Her mind is Tiffany-twisted, She got the Mercedes Benz

She's got a lot of pretty, pretty boys, that she calls friends

How they dance in the courtyard, sweet summer sweat.

Some dance to remember, some dance to forget

  • 2 months later...

Lawlor? I could already think up of joke names for this guy.

 

But you know I still love you Scott <3

Lawlor? I could already think up of joke names for this guy.

:(

 

Sad about Alex Brandon - I also thought his work on Obsidian's games was excellent and very refreshing.

"An electric puddle is not what I need right now." (Nina Kalenkov)

He's pretty new in the biz then. We'll see. :)

 

This will be interesting, seeing as how most of his work consist of Tony Hawk games.

He's pretty new in the biz then. We'll see. :)

 

This will be interesting, seeing as how most of his work consist of Tony Hawk games.

 

I guess you guys haven't heard about how Michael Thorton gets from his safehouses to his missions, then. It's pretty "rad".

Matthew Rorie
 

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