The Outer Worlds Pre-Release Thread [GO TO NEW THREAD]

[DeepOcean]

"We had weapons that would knock people out, but that was causing us a lot of problems with how quests were progressing, and how they handled the knocked out state," Boyarsky explained. "We're trying to keep a really tight eye on scope and going 'ok, here's something that's gonna introduce something that we're gonna be knocking down these bugs from now until we ship', so as much as it pains us to maybe not have a pacifist path through, that was one of our main things we were relying on for it, so we took that out."

Ouch. No pacifist run confirmed , pretty sad but understable approch and seems like still possible to make a mostly pacifist run , that's good enough guess..

Do people even like playing total pacifists in rpgs?

I don't like playing pacifist and prefer to murder everyone BUT I like to have that option, it makes you feel the game is bigger than it is and the designers wanted to design a world and not just a bunch of video game levels. It isn't a deal breaker not allowing it but a viable pacifist run is a signal of a developer and not of a lowest common denominator developer.

Once you have a choice to kill or not to kill NPCs, it makes the morality and consequences of the act of murdering far more interesting what is pretty important on a RPG.

 

[Infinitron]

 

[Roguey]

"1950s whispers"

Remove about 50 years, nameless journo.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

How does everyone feel about this being RPG goty 2019 by default?

 

[Terenty]

How does everyone feel about this being RPG goty 2019 by default?

Are there any other rpgs this year?

 

[rusty_shackleford]

How does everyone feel about this being RPG goty 2019 by default?

Are there any other rpgs this year?

does anthem count?

 

[PsychoFox]

How does everyone feel about this being RPG goty 2019 by default?

I honestly have more hope for Greedfall than this.

 

[Infinitron]

How does everyone feel about this being RPG goty 2019 by default?

Are there any other rpgs this year?

Paranoia: Happiness is Mandatory. Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones. Queen's Wish. Maybe Disco Elysium? :fabulouslyoptimistic: And maybe other indies as well.

The Outer Worlds could beat those if it's enough like New Vegas, I guess...

 

[InD_ImaginE]

Paranoia: Happiness is Mandatory. Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones. Queen's Wish. Maybe Disco Elysium? :fabulouslyoptimistic: And maybe other indies as well.

The only competition is Stygian, even then only in the Codex. There is the Sinking City I guess, Adventure/RPG hybrid?

Then watch Fallout 76 wins anyway.

 

[Rivmusique]

Maybe Disco Elysium?

lmao

 

[Child of Malkav]

Any release date for Stygian?

 

[HoboForEternity]

Underrail: expeditions literally come out in 3 weeks

 

[AwesomeButton]

Forged of Blood actually looks pretty good, but I understand what you mean.

 

[SpaceWizardz]

You're all forgetting about Greedfall!!

 

[toro]

You're all forgetting about Greedfall!!

For good reasons.

 

[DalekFlay]

The Outer Worlds could beat those if it's enough like New Vegas, I guess...

If it's comparable to New Vegas it wins by default and is contention for RPG of the decade, obviously.

 

[Daedalos]

It's gonna be either Underrail Expansion or Outer Worlds GOTY for me, probably underrail expo.

Very optismistic to think Disco E will come out, but maybe we will get a nice surprise, eh?

 

[AwesomeButton]

An expansion can be an expansion of the year, but not rpg of the year, as far as I'm aware.

 

[Wunderbar]

An expansion can be an expansion of the year, but not rpg of the year, as far as I'm aware.

https://en.cdprojektred.com/news/th...e-named-best-rpg-during-the-game-awards-2016/

 

[AwesomeButton]

I'm talking about the codex rpgoty polls, not some soy journo marketing event.

 

[jf8350143]

How does everyone feel about this being RPG goty 2019 by default?

It's going to be the best RPG this year and the medias will still put DMC 5 before it when it comes to RPG GOTY.

 

[Daedalos]

An expansion can be an expansion of the year, but not rpg of the year, as far as I'm aware.

If an expansion has enough new and good shit, it should be able to get the GOTY award moniker imo.

 

[AwesomeButton]

An expansion can be an expansion of the year, but not rpg of the year, as far as I'm aware.

If an expansion has enough new and good shit, it should be able to get the GOTY award moniker imo.

This makes it a great, "best-case", expansion but can we call it a new game?

 

[conan_edw]

It's also a mid-game expansion which I think give more reasons for it to be excluded.

 

[Dishonoredbr]

Nothing *really* new, just confirmed that gonna be smaller FNV so instead of 4 Major Endings , it's 3 ( Rick Phineas , Corporations or Lone wolf) with Smaller Slides for NPCs, Locations , Quests and Minor Factions..

https://www.videogameschronicle.com...w-different-endings-work-in-the-outer-worlds/