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

Discussion in 'Obsidian Entertainment' started by DosBuster, Dec 14, 2017.

  1. Flou Learned

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    Perfect jab from Fargo towards Bethesda.
     
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  3. Quillon Magister

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    Nah, they'd ask now and it should happen, even AC: Odyssey have it.
     
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    by the person who is responsible of a sad, puny whimper that is "RPG Renaissance" hyped in the not so distant past.
     
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    PC RPG Website of the Year, 2015 Make the Codex Great Again! Grab the Codex by the pussy Divinity: Original Sin 2 A Beautifully Desolate Campaign Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire
    Speaking of IPs, it's crazy how much the models and animations look like Fallout 3/4's. You might think Obsidian have copied animations directly from Fallout 3/4 although it would have made no sense.

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  6. hexer Guest

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    In that particular scene I'm more worried how they made the raptidon hit her with 3 feet of empty space between them.
    Developers need to tweak collision boxes a lot!
     
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  7. fantadomat Dumbfuck! Dumbfuck Edgy

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    But will it manage to get to my heights? :smug:
     
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  8. Terenty Learned

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    Yeah, its uncanny. Its like Todd Howard planted an undercover group of devs into Obsidian midst to ensure the game wouldn't look better than fallout 76
     
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    That's true, although melee combat and melee vs ranged combat will forever look clunky, until we start playing completely in VR. The screen and the weapon HUD makes it impossible to gauge how far your melee weapon will hit or how far your melee enemy can reach.

    Here is another one. Tell me this doesn't look like it's been ripped off from Fallout 3:

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    Edit: the fact that enemies and companions have these lunge animations from quite a distance away certainly doesn't help the player's perception either.
     
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  10. fantadomat Dumbfuck! Dumbfuck Edgy

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    I see no problem if it is. Who doesn't want New Vegas 2?
     
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    I'm not saying it as if it's something that will break the game for me. Just looks curious.
     
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    I think the game is aimed at:
    1) FO4 players crowd (which is very fortunately for Obsidian pissed by FO76 right now and wants some decent ""Fallout"" experience);
    2) Players who think FO3 was a decent RPG, but FO4 RPG aspects were a bit lacking.

    Not the hardcore RPG players.
     
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    And it doesn't look much better either lul.
     
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    Obviously. New Vegas is Obsidian's most popular, best selling and well known game and public and mainstream opinion of it is very positive especially when you factor in that it sold exactly as well as Fallout 3 did. They even have the tagline of "Made by the original creators of Fallout", combined with the similar gameplay to Modern Fallout and the continuing negative reception for every new Bethesda Fallout game helps Obsidian.

    I was actually surprised that the trailer on YouTube is nearing 2 million views and is trending.
     
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    This game will be better than Cyberpunk 2077.
     
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    I'm a little disappointed. I don't like the art style at all. I have the impression that there is a lack of worldbuilding.
     
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    Fallout 1 and 2 had shit combat too.
     
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    I don't mean to get ahead of myself but are you suggesting Todd Howard has a group of highly intelligent shapeshifting gremlins at his disposal?
     
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  19. Doktor Best Arcane

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    Todd Howard IS a highly intelligent shapeshifting gremlin. The only thing he cant manipulate is body height, which is why hes such a manlet.
     
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    I fucking knew it. I initially thought he was Sully from Commando with a name/career change, but now it all makes sense why you never see Todd Howard in direct sunlight.
     
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    You complain about graphics, animations combat? Are you serious? What about gameplay, RPG aspect, quests, C&C, branching story and other stuff that, you know, matters in a game.
    If this demo had good graphics you would have said that was their focus, if it had good animations you would have said they try to compete with RDR2, if it had Soulsborne level of combat you would have said it's popamole for retards. WTF?
    I'd take shit combat, poor animations (has any of you played DARK (2013)? Good game but the worst animations I've seen) and Deus Ex/Vtmb graphics anytime if that meant good story, choices, reactivity, variety of builds, good, polished gameplay and just being a good game overall. Game, not interactive movie.
     
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    This game will make Cyberpunk 2077 look like Cyberpunk 2076.
     
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    Theres no other explanation to this... except that the real designers at Obsidian are highly unintelligent gremlins, but i refuse to believe that
     
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    I just checked their youtube channel. The Outer Worlds trailer is most watched video there by far. I find it interesting though that they only have 60K subscribers, when even Warhorse who only made a single game so far (and created the channel three years after Obsidian) have over 120K (and 6 million more views in total).

    I am glad this video and game seems to be taking off. I want Obsidian to make Bloodlines/New Vegas-like RPGs that let me explore interesting 3D worlds without losing good writing and quest design. Obviously it remains to be seen if Tim and Leon can still pump out that level of quality, and their senile performance with Fallout 1 stream was both amusing and worrying, but I am hopeful.

    I did not know about Atom, I just checked some letsplays and wow that is a total russian Fallout rip-off in the best way. If they can have good writing and translation, it could be awesome.

    Anyway, from kinda fanboyish perspective, I am just fucking glad we are talking about an actual singleplayer storydriven RPG from Tim and Leon. They were so long in those deadend bullshits of Blizzard and Carbine I was worried this time would never come.
     
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  25. Zer0wing Liturgist

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    The visual styles does give some unpleasant Fallout 4 flashbacks, yes. But the combat also looked as wooden as F4.From ME there are companion mechanics and spaceship with same functionality as normandy And those games I hated the most.
     
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