Game News Microsoft E3 2021 Showcase: Starfield and The Outer Worlds 2

[underground nymph]

Obsidian’s “we are not like them greedy soulless corporate hacks” is so obviously their greedy corporate marketing strategy;

Bethesda RPGs

 

[JDR13]

PLEASE please please let Starfield be a hard sci-fi game. Focus on realistic space stuff, no space magic, if aliens are present let them be a rare special thing. There are so many fantasy RPGs out there just let us have this one hard sci-fi AAA rpg

There's going to be a space dungeon every 30 feet, and the new Radiant AI 2.0 will have us rescuing space farmers kidnapped by raiders.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Will he ever finish eating that sandwich?

 

[jac8awol]

"Ok so the plebs didn't get it the first time around. But I guarantee that if we do a sequel and shove it far enough down their throats, they'll learn to love it and realise we were right all along!"

Absolute shit trailer. If you're not gonna take your game seriously, no chance I will. Their attempts at humour are embarrassing. It's impossible for progressives to do comedy because they're terrified of offending anyone. It's all 'punching up' or whatever buzzword they've got for shooting their punchlines in the foot.

 

[Flou]

You guys suck. I was expecting a gif of Pete Hines awkwardly tilting his head from one side to another and looking down on everyone. That man should not be on camera, that was very awkward presentation.

 

[Outlander]

When the only interesting AAA stuff going on is something Bethesda is making

 

[Forest Dweller]

So whats the story in this game? i hope we arent looking for dad again

 

[RobotSquirrel]

^ I thought that exact same thing LOL

 

[Nikanuur]

First and foremost, let me tell you, that I"ve been playing tens of hours per week for the past 30 years or so. I've been here from the birthing pain of the PC platform, and at my age of 43 I can still headshot someone while doing 180° in a split of a second. Sometimes. Well, maybe it was just a wet dream lately, never mind that. So, with all of this amounting to the +35 perception bonus towards the shady practices of the developers and players alike, there's only one thing I can say. I am preordering Outer Worlds 2.

**EDIT** few minutes later. Do I have to keep my word? And btw I am released from my wov immediately if it's an Epic realase again, and I am due a free copy of it on Steam or GoG or anywhere else but Epic right?

 

[Infinitron]

And btw I am released from my wov immediately if it's an Epic realase again, and I am due a free copy of it on Steam or GoG or anywhere else but Epic right?

It's a Microsoft game now, not going to happen.

 

[Mortmal]

PLEASE please please let Starfield be a hard sci-fi game. Focus on realistic space stuff, no space magic, if aliens are present let them be a rare special thing. There are so many fantasy RPGs out there just let us have this one hard sci-fi AAA rpg

There's going to be a space dungeon every 30 feet, and the new Radiant AI 2.0 will have us rescuing space farmers kidnapped by raiders.

Just have to remake empyrion -galactic survival , with higher budget and you get that easily .

 

[Nikanuur]

And btw I am released from my wov immediately if it's an Epic realase again, and I am due a free copy of it on Steam or GoG or anywhere else but Epic right?

It's a Microsoft game now, not going to happen.

This escalated pretty quickly... My life is in ruins.

 

[Infinitron]

And btw I am released from my wov immediately if it's an Epic realase again, and I am due a free copy of it on Steam or GoG or anywhere else but Epic right?

It's a Microsoft game now, not going to happen.

This escalated pretty quickly... My life is in ruins.

No, I mean it won't be an Epic-exclusive like the first game.

 

[Draconis]

Obsidian’s “we are not like them greedy soulless corporate hacks” is so obviously their greedy corporate marketing strategy;

Bethesda RPGs

Which is ironic because PoE and TOW are some of the most soulless games I've ever played.

 

[Nikanuur]

Obsidian’s “we are not like them greedy soulless corporate hacks” is so obviously their greedy corporate marketing strategy;

Bethesda RPGs

Which is ironic because PoE and TOW are some of the most soulless games I've ever played.

To call PoE a legendary take on a RPG depiction would be an overstatement, true, but call it one of the most soulless you've played? What is your comparison, Disney's Palpatin Rainbow Makeup Simulator (now with RPG elements)?

 

[Van-d-all]

So essentially the second trailer mocks the first, yet both didn't show anything relevant.

 

[Diggfinger]

Bathesda claims Starfiels id "25 years in the making"


Blatant attack on Cleveland Mark Blakemore , dnt let this stand man!!!!

 

[Cleveland Mark Blakemore]

Bathesda claims Starfiels id "25 years in the making"


Blatant attack on Cleveland Mark Blakemore , dnt let this stand man!!!!

(Begins letter writing campaign and starts to plant evidence many team members of Starfield have standing orders against them preventing them from being within 300 meters of schoolyards or wherever children congregate)

If I had known the XBox One would be this barren I would have never bought it.

 

[Morality Games]

Starfield makes me somewhat nervous in that the setting/time period seems like a big excuse to have vast stretches of barren nothing because humanity is new to space travel and no one has built anything yet.

 

[Decado]

The challenge for The Outer Worlds 2 will be making it interesting. The first game was just soulless. Which is kind of nuts if you think of how hard they tried to inject a particular flavor, a "feeling" that went beyond narrative and setting. But it just didn't work. To continue the food analogy, the flavors were certainly new, but they had a chemical and artificial taste. The game was quite uncompelling and easily forgettable. Plus, too easy and too married to the New Vegas VATS-style hybrid which is the worst of both worlds.

 

[vortex]

The game was quite uncompelling and easily forgettable. Plus, too easy and too married to the New Vegas VATS-style hybrid which is the worst of both worlds.

That's what I've been telling gamers don't want New Vegas 2. Only a handful of fans are vocal about it which won't make it profitable.

 

[Flou]

Bathesda claims Starfiels id "25 years in the making"

How many people at Bethesda have even been there for 25 years? :D

The lies that Bethesda's PR people spit out get just more blatant as years pass. I'm anxiously waiting for Todd or Pete Hines to come forward and tell a tear dropping story of how he had to wait for 25 years to create this dream game of his.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

S T A R F I E L D

 

[Fenix]

Microsoft is starting to have a big problem in their hands with lack of big name exclusives coming out anytime soon.

You are pretty delusional, Microsfot is a giant. It can't have problems, only temporary difficulties. After 2-3 years they will start spit new titles, while other will be choking dust behind them.

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I'm acctually waiting for Starfield. It's gonna be OK at least.

 

[volklore]

I have a slight hope for starfield, which annoys me since I swore I would not have any enthusiasm for any Bethesda project anymore. Their comm' is as vague as usual. They say that it is a 'more hardcore rpg' than what they've done recently but what is 'recently'? Starfield will release on Skyrim's 11th birthday after all. Since the whole bethesda game design story when it comes to character systems is taking the daggerfall's system and mostly trimming it at every new release, it isn't very indicative.
The main positive, oddly enough, is Todd doing the space shenanigans he always wanted to do (I remember a Kirkbride interview which stated Todd was very formulaic when it came to med-fantasy and the only way to get weirder designs past him was to equate them to space-fantasy stuff like SW.) so there is a very slim hope he will be a bit less corporate and a bit more creatively flexible when it comes to that, passion project and all. That's a very fragile rope to hang onto though...