Yeah I re-played Torment recently on the iPad. It holds up really well. It’s just a very well done game all around.

The golden age of RPGs with Bioware.

He's worked on an impressive number of great games. Prey, SW Kotor 2, Fallout New Vegas, Neverwinter Nights 2, Icewind Dale 1+2 and Alpha Protocol (ok, arguably great) jump out at me https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Avellone#Works

yep, i remember playing Fallout 2 and Planenscape as well, one of the best summers ever (1998 and 1999). I discovered some glitch in Fallout to get more skill points ;) and Planescape, had one of the best plots ever in video games (IMO BG3 doesnt even compare ;))

Some people are a different level of productive, and game development sure was different back in the day:

> During his (Sandy Petersen) interview, John Romero (of id Software) introduced him to DoomEd and simply asked him to build a level. Romero was ultimately happy with the results, so Petersen was brought on to production for Doom. The level from Petersen's interview eventually became "E2M6". He was a fast level designer and produced all maps for the third episode of Doom, Inferno. Petersen designed 17 levels for Doom II, a little over half of the 32 total.

Sweet cheese and crackers, you weren't kidding about "extremely active". He's posting like once a minute.

Mark Darrah worked on a bunch of classic RPGs and has an interesting retrospectives series as well: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN8wmKeck6fe0jtibONfIWzpY...

The Anthem one is very long, but is a really fascinating portrait of cultural misfunction. The biggest factor to me was the entire design was dictated by the 'ghost' of Casey Hudson. His initial high-level vision was sacrosanct, but he also was not around to actually clarify anything or take feedback from development since he had already left the studio.

Arcanum is an awesome game. Shame the OST was never released on vinyl.