A walkthrough with Feargus Urquhart, CEO of Obsidian
I love going to these press days. We get coffee, Danish and some weird pretzel things that are sort of savoury but sweet too and no-one ever seems to eat them. What’s just as intriguing is watching a room full of journos all being politely cautious of each other whilst trying to find the right moment to do a bit of ‘smooze’ with whichever PR or developer dude is hanging around.
So sitting down with Feargus Urquhart, CEO of Obsidian, it was refreshing to talk to a guy who wasn’t interested in sucking up to a journo for the sake of a bit of space in their publication. Feargus, besides having a fiendishly difficult to spell surname, is quite rightly quietly confident that Neverwinter Nights 2 can stand on its own merits and doesn’t need shoring up with smooze… and watching as he takes us through the game, we’re inclined to agree with him. So come with us on a skip through the world of D+D, Neverwinter stylee…
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