Fallout: New Vegas director Josh Sawyer is “helping on Avowed,” but he’s “more interested in doing original IP” when he directs his next game

Obsidian’s Avowed might be a big, AAA, first-person RPG, but it also serves as a follow-up to the studio’s own Pillars of Eternity – a pair of isometric RPGs that served as a Kickstarted throwback to the likes of the original Baldur’s Gate games. Josh Sawyer, director of the original Pillars games and other Obsidian classics like Fallout: New Vegas, has a hand in assisting with Avowed, but it sounds like he’s more interested in new IP for the next big game he takes the lead on.

Last year, Sawyer noted that he’d happily make Pillars of Eternity 3, but it would take Baldur’s Gate 3’s budget to convince him. Would he still want to do a third game? “I don’t know,” he tells RPG Site. “I feel like now Avowed is where the Pillars universe has kind of gone. And it’ll be interesting to see where the audience picks up on that, and maybe that’s where the Pillars universe kind of goes in the future. So I think there’s a lot of different possibilities of what to do in the future. I do think that I am more interested in doing original IP necessarily, than existing IP. But we’ll see where the future takes me.”