Darth Trethon Posted December 31, 2013 Posted December 31, 2013 As most Obsidian fans are aware Chris Avellone is very in involved in three game Kickstarter campaigns: Pillars of Eternity, Wasteland 2 and Torment: Tides of Numenera....and involved in no small measure since he is writing novels, characters and reviewing scripts. That has to be more than a full time job right there. Except it doesn't end there, then this happened: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/waysidecreations/legend-of-grimrock-the-series I just kind of ran into this kickstarter video and watched in disbelief.....during the presentation video at about the 2:10 mark I see this dude that looks exactly like Chris Avellone and the first thing that crosses my mind is: "What the hell? Is that Chris Avellone? No, no, no I'm tripping, there's no way in hell....he's already working on three different games right now." So I keep watching but I keep thinking there's no way that could be him. And then at 3:13 some dude says "Chris, what do you think?" and I'm just tripping big time at this point, I'm thinking "Chris? Did that dude just call this Avellone twin or something Chris?" I had to rewind a few times to make sure I wasn't hallucinating. I scroll down the main KS page and I run into this: "Chris Avellone from Obsidian Entertainment (Fallout: New Vegas, Knights of the Old Republic 2) is attached to the series as a writer." Which of course now it means I have to back the project and all but how is this even possible? Is Obsidian or someone forcing him to like never sleep and just work 24/7 on all these projects or something?
GhostofAnakin Posted December 31, 2013 Posted December 31, 2013 Avellone is a cyborg. I thought this was common knowledge? 8 "Console exclusive is such a harsh word." - Darque"Console exclusive is two words Darque." - Nartwak (in response to Darque's observation)
kirottu Posted December 31, 2013 Posted December 31, 2013 I'm pretty sure his work on Wasteland 2 is already finished, but, yeah, still probably a cyborg. This post is not to be enjoyed, discussed, or referenced on company time.
butterfly Posted December 31, 2013 Posted December 31, 2013 He's also working on the FTL expansion, by the way. 1
C2B Posted December 31, 2013 Posted December 31, 2013 Good time management? While its still a lot of free time he is investing, he only has a small role in all of those projects (Not sure regarding the Grimrock fan movie), and they're pretty spaced out. 1
Walsingham Posted December 31, 2013 Posted December 31, 2013 Maybe, like other greats Philip K. ****, and George Alec Effinger, he takes heroic doses of ...er... nutritional supplements. Or he might just be American. 1 "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.
Mor Posted January 2, 2014 Posted January 2, 2014 [snip]That guy that stands besides him, looks very much like him.. I wont be surprised if its a honorary writer title as a favor to his relative, so that they can get more attention to this project.
Silent Winter Posted January 2, 2014 Posted January 2, 2014 He was sent back in time from the year 2025 to save the rpg genre from being wiped out by an evil time-travelling corporation... ...he had the foresight to bring back a few scripts with him. 5 _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ *Casts Nature's Terror* , *Casts Firebug* , *Casts Rot-Skulls* , *Casts Garden of Life* *Spirit-shifts to cat form*
C2B Posted January 2, 2014 Posted January 2, 2014 [snip]That guy that stands besides him, looks very much like him.. I wont be surprised if its a honorary writer title as a favor to his relative, so that they can get more attention to this project. Its not.
PK htiw klaw eriF Posted January 2, 2014 Posted January 2, 2014 Chris Avellone is a conduit for an extra-dimensional energy source known as the Speed Force. 1 "Akiva Goldsman and Alex Kurtzman run the 21st century version of MK ULTRA." - majestic "you're a damned filthy lying robot and you deserve to die and burn in hell." - Bartimaeus "Without individual thinking you can't notice the plot holes." - InsaneCommander "Just feed off the suffering of gamers." - Malcador "You are calling my taste crap." -Hurlshort "thankfully it seems like the creators like Hungary less this time around." - Sarex "Don't forget the wakame, dumbass" -Keyrock "Are you trolling or just being inadvertently nonsensical?' -Pidesco "we have already been forced to admit you are at least human" - uuuhhii "I refuse to buy from non-woke businesses" - HoonDing "feral camels are now considered a pest" - Gorth "Melkathi is known to be an overly critical grumpy person" - Melkathi "Oddly enough Sanderson was a lot more direct despite being a Mormon" - Zoraptor "I found it greatly disturbing to scroll through my cartoon's halfing selection of genitalias." - Wormerine "I love cheese despite the pain and carnage." - ShadySands
Keyrock Posted January 2, 2014 Posted January 2, 2014 MCA operates outside the regular rules of time and space. He can simply step outside of the flow of space/time, get a bunch of work done, then step back in without any time having passed. RFK Jr 2024 "Any organization created out of fear must create fear to survive." - Bill Hicks
JayDGee Posted January 2, 2014 Posted January 2, 2014 Like many writers I imagine it helps Avellone to work as much as possible. It's simply the best way to hone your craft and the more varied the projects the better. I mean he can create prefect duplicates of himself like Jamie Madrox None of this is really happening. There is a man. With a typewriter. This is all part of his crazy imagination.
Sheba Posted January 3, 2014 Posted January 3, 2014 Very busy man indeed! "If patience it a virtue how come I am virtually out of it?"
Sargallath Abraxium Posted January 4, 2014 Posted January 4, 2014 ...WHO LUVS YA, BABY!!... A long, long time ago, but I can still remember, How the Trolling used to make me smile. And I knew if I had my chance, I could egg on a few Trolls to "dance", And maybe we'd be happy for a while. But then Krackhead left and so did Klown; Volo and Turnip were banned, Mystake got run out o' town. Bad news on the Front Page, BIOweenia said goodbye in a heated rage. I can't remember if I cried When I heard that TORN was recently fried, But sadness touched me deep inside, The day...Black Isle died. For tarna, Visc, an' the rest o' the ol' Islanders that fell along the way
LadyCrimson Posted January 4, 2014 Posted January 4, 2014 Avellone is a cyborg. I thought this was common knowledge? I thought he was an army of clones whilst the real Avellone is hanging out on his own private island, issuing commands via satellite and such. But I can go with cyborg, too. 3 “Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.” – Alan Watts
HoonDing Posted January 5, 2014 Posted January 5, 2014 Guess he just skipped golf for a week. The ending of the words is ALMSIVI.
Leferd Posted January 11, 2014 Posted January 11, 2014 So it turns out that MCA's Wasteland 2 novella will now be a full length novel. He must have really given up on golf. "Things are funny...are comedic, because they mix the real with the absurd." - Buzz Aldrin."P-O-T-A-T-O-E" - Dan Quayle
DeathQuaker Posted January 15, 2014 Posted January 15, 2014 By not finishing Arcanum. Let's be more accurate: he has CLEARLY taken on all these responsibilities in order to avoid having any time to play Arcanum, thus forever depriving us of gleefully watching his suffering. 3
WDeranged Posted January 15, 2014 Posted January 15, 2014 So it turns out that MCA's Wasteland 2 novella will now be a full length novel. He must have really given up on golf. Or taken up the amphetamines
Amentep Posted January 16, 2014 Posted January 16, 2014 Personally I think those Obsidian concepts that cropped up some time back about a time travel science fiction game were actually early stages of Avellone's time machine, which he's clearly successfully made with the help of funding from Obsidian's other founders. When the concepts got leaked, Obsidian created the "game" concept to explain the artwork so people wouldn't realize they're now in control of all time and space. 1 I cannot - yet I must. How do you calculate that? At what point on the graph do "must" and "cannot" meet? Yet I must - but I cannot! ~ Ro-Man
Mattku Posted January 16, 2014 Posted January 16, 2014 He must not have huge roles as writer for each project to be able to take on so much. Or as this tread implies: amphetamine snarfing, time traveling, cyborg clones....
Walsingham Posted January 18, 2014 Posted January 18, 2014 I implicate a country known as Tibet. "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.
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