Carrie Patel saved Avowed.

[Nautica Malone]

If you don't know her yet, meet your game director - Carrie Patel [events.sfwa.org].

Patel worked as a junior writer [www.imdb.com] on Pillars of Eternity, followed by the Outer Worlds, taking on a somewhat more prominent role in its expansion pack, before meteorically rising to be selected as game director of Obsidian's most ambitious project to date, Avowed. This swift and unprecedented promotion demonstrates Patel's genius and the respect she has garnered from her peers.

In a recent interview [gamerant.com] it was explained how after two reboots of the game, Carrie Patel assumed command over the original team and re-imagined every aspect of the game from scratch, for example, changing the original trailer's gloomy and dreary atmosphere to the more colorful, vibrant style that we see today, adding a much needed woman's touch to a flailing art direction.

The article continues to assert that Patel and her team originally planned for Avowed to be a completely open-world game reminiscent of Skyrim, but after struggling to replicate the technology utilized by Bethesda 14 years ago, and settled on switching to open zones instead, a move which ultimately paid off.

In short, without Carrie Patel to steer the ship, Avowed wouldn't be the resounding success that it is today, and may have never been released at all. We should all be grateful to her for proving that gaming isn't dead, and that people of different backgrounds can come together to create a phenomenal experience for all gamers alike.

[Monk Enthusiast]

I agree, women FTW!!!!

[Kain]

I feel this is a joke thread. Still I'm glad she managed to take control of the game and release it.

[Kindred Spirit]

Replacing tired old RPG clichés of working interior maps with parkour to find all the treasure tingle sounds is exactly what I look for in an Obsidian game!

[Makima]

She also helped with outer worlds which was garbage so...

Welp, if she can make good games and not infect it with real world political crap, then great!

[admiral1018]

I don't get the hate campaign against this woman. I haven't heard her say anything ridiculous or antagonistic like some other developers. Worst comment she made was about the "jank," but that's not deserving of an attack.

[Decidedly Uncouth]

"Women's Touch", I chuckled, but tis' not true.

[Soul]

ToW's writing was garbage though.

[mps]

Some master-level trolling but the paragraph prior to the last isn't subtle enough.

[Invasion_Dec]

I got not problem with her except for two things

1. Please remove hair dye
2. Do not give an unhinged art director free reign to ruin your work

[[Thee] Meritorious One]

LOL, resounding success. Is a resounding success dropping from a day at #1 to less than #10 on both local AND global top sellers on steam in less than a week? How about that all glaring concurrent player count dropping down to far less than half the peak in less than one week. That reeks of commercial failure.