The Outer Worlds 2 - the Earth Directorate strikes back - coming 2025

[Gargaune]

I was kinda hoping it would encourage people to try new games, but I don't have any actual data for that. I don't know if video streaming encourages people to try new shows, for example, unless it's the pandemic and people are desperate to watch whatever

Think of it as TV for videogames and you'll easily map out what the future holds. A lethargic, subscription-captive audience will widely deprecate the struggle of a competitive market in favour of "might as well, there's nothing better on" fodder. Which, yes, is a very topical discussion for this here thread.

 

[<3sRichardSimmons]

Bioshock has decent shooting mechanics, a cohesive environment that doesn't look like it was drawn on an LSD binge and at least tries to do this "storyline" thing. It even has a plot twist or 2.

Bioshock's shooting mechanics and gunfeel are every bit as terrible as TOW's. It does have beautiful environments though (character models look even worse than TOW though). The storyline is stupid, and Armin Shimerman's performance as Ryan is the only thing that makes it work at all. Not to mention the awful hacking mini-game, the bullet-sponge enemies, the complete lack of any sort of meaningful character/weapon upgrades, the stupidly useless plasmids and the stupidly OP plasmids, or the fact that the last 1/3rd of the game is an absolute slog that culminates in one of the worst boss-fights ever seen in a shooter.

I'm not saying TOW is good, it's mediocre at best, and it was a big disappointment coming from Tim and Leonard, but it's definitely better than Bioshock.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

I don't remember outer worlds having particularly bad or good shooting mechanics.

 

[Cyberarmy]

The Outhouse World

Updated my journal

 

[Van-d-all]

I don't remember outer worlds having particularly bad or good shooting mechanics.

anything.

There, fixed.

 

[50726f73706572]

I can't believe i've been working on my game since TOW1. I don't know if I can be better than both JellySandwhich 1, & 2.
May the best tomato can win. Sarcasm 2021.

 

[Wulfric Pinewood]

I wonder if we get turn based combat here

 

[LESS T_T]

From the studio made that cinematic trailer:

 

[Gargaune]

From the studio made that cinematic trailer:

"Treaty on the Anatomy of Candy-Coloured Puke"

2021 Edition
Insufferably Random House Publishing​

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

And someone will exploit speedrun the whole thing in about 5 minutes. Game over before it even starts.


Are those blue crystals flipping me off?

FUCK YOU YA MOTHAFUCKIN' CRYSTALS!!

 

[Infinitron]

From the studio made that cinematic trailer:

 

[the mole]

it's actually real

 

[rusty_shackleford]

From the studio made that cinematic trailer:

video game trailers are fucking garbage
at least movie trailers use -- you know -- actual footage from the fucking movie. Video game trailers pay a VFX company to make their own interpretation of what might be happening in the game using their own models/environments.

 

[Zombra]

Did that trailer just flip us off at 1:12?

 

[Delterius]

at least movie trailers use -- you know -- actual footage from the fucking movie.

the funny thing is that they sometimes don't

 

[Atlantico]

the funny thing is that they sometimes don't

Makes sense to me. The trailer is not the movie, it's an advertisement to attract you to the movie.

It's not a highlight-reel.

I miss film.

 

[Dishonoredbr]

Idk if it's old news but this Haley Stone joined Obsidian as associate narrative designer on The Outer Worlds 2. She wrote a novel called Make Me no Grave: A Weird West.

 

[agris]

I think having people who only write write for games is a mistake. It flattens the experience of the author, and gives you overwritten drivel.

Look at the credits for Fallout, CTL-F "writer". No hits.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Brilliant example of libtard diversity they always brag about: employing nothing but AWFLs.
Reminds me of that hufpo image.

 

[Yosharian]

I can't wait to not buy TOW2, it's gonna be great

 

[vortex]

TOW2 shouldn't overstay humour's welcome but to become dark and twisted.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

why are you trying to get her promoted

 

[Roguey]

Seeing Sawyer in her replies, his break from twitter didn't last long. What an addict.

Her book covers look like the kind of thing Feargus would like. I didn't think much of the short story of hers I read.

 

[Tyranicon]

I'm super sad that all the good RPG writers retired or otherwise fucked off, and that the new generation just sees gamedev as a more prestigious format for their social media activism.

 

[Dishonoredbr]

don't send this tweet to Obsidian, we wouldn't want her to get fired now, would we? GO, my personal army!

DA2 is not a very good game, but it's certainly more interesting , imo , than DAO and DAI '' We need to fight the big obvious bad guy that's bad while being on nose as fuck copy of LoTR ''. At least the setting , how the narative is told and how the characters position change thought out the story is at least cool. The characters don't rely 100% on the player character to progress with their personal stuff.

Sadly the rest of the stuff in the game is really just ... rushed and incomplete.