Josh Sawyer was the main writer on New Vegas iirc
Like Fantastapptamus said I remember them making a fuzz about getting the lead writer from New Vegas for Horizon: Zero Dawn. I believe John Gonzalez is his name. But that game showed to me that maybe a lot of the time it is not just a single writer but more the team of writers and how well they work together. Because they had people from The Witcher 3 also and I found that game to be boring.
But this also made me do a little research and look who I found
https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Matt_Rorie
Yeah, I don't want to kojima Avellone and be all like "all the good writing is his".
But also having played both Pillars of Eternity games it was PAINFULLY obvious which two companions Avellone wrote. Cause they were the only two companions that were even remotely interesting.
I think the lead writer for New Vegas went to Guerilla. But it's also hard to tell what "lead writer" even means in a game with this much dialogue
I didn't stick around for much of Pillars because next to my disdain for RTwP I found the game pretty dry to read. I also don't think all the great writing is on Avellone bit I at least believe that he has good ideas that either he or others can make something out. And it also doesn't mean he can't do stinkers.
I guess for final judgement it has to wait what Obsidian puts out next. Don't believe it will be bad but I hope it will have that special something that has been missing for me in the Outer Worlds so far. Though maybe I am also looking back at New Vegas with rosetinted glasses.
Writing this gave me the thought that I would like to see a collaboration between Obsidian and Yuji Horii. Not necessarily Dragon Quest which he probably is working on but on something else because I enjoy his scenarios and stories. Might be a terrible idea but I would really like to see it. Either Obsidian or Larian, thinking more about it.
