Game News The Outer Worlds: Murder on Eridanos expansion revealed, coming March 17th

[Infinitron]

It's not clear whether Microsoft have any plans to tell the studios they've bought to share IPs with one another. Right now it seems like each studio is retaining considerable autonomy, each one continuing to create and work on their own stuff.

 

[luj1]

At this point Microsoft would make a better game than Obsidian

 

[Cirtdear]

More jelly for the jelly sandwhich.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

Long-haired white female in my 2021 RPG? Disgusting.

At least they managed to get enough science points to research long hair technology.

doesn't matter since she's immediately stuffed into the fridge to give the protagonist a motivation. Obsidian should know better and do better.

 

[Zeriel]

Almost like the team of people making a game is more important than just some lead position guys' names. And even then there's no guarantee lightning will strike twice.

It worked for Arcanum and Bloodlines, but unfortunately the prime years of the boomer and the gen xer are over.

Culture changed. Hell, in the early 2000s even David Gaider of gay unicorn fame was doing shit like a hardcore mod for BG2 TOB.

Die a hero or live long enough to become the villain, etc etc.

 

[Morpheus Kitami]

I'm curious as to how they handle this. Murder mysteries really don't work if they're extended beyond a hour or two and 15$ for 2 hours of gameplay is a really bad deal. Is this going to be 4 hours for someone with no previous gaming experience and the use of only one finger, and everyone else can breeze past it in a second?

 

[DeepOcean]

Probably the story will change half way through from a murder mystery to let's defeat the Brain Eaters or whatever with some plot twist like they are the final evolution of SJWs or something like that.

 

[Devastator]

My impression of OW was that it was not a good RPG and not a good shooter. So I wasn’t sure why they even made it.

 

[The Dutch Ghost]

My impression of OW was that it was not a good RPG and not a good shooter. So I wasn’t sure why they even made it.

Probably because taglines like "From the makers of Fallout and Fallout New Vegas" build up expectations and sell.
These days people should really look into the product itself before they are ready to spend money.
The last ten years have shown that even great game developers and other creators are quite capable of going in decline and ruining their own reputation.

 

[underground nymph]

Constantly these old bums get seduced by money.

Corrected.

 

[bandersnatch]

At this point Microsoft would make a better game than Obsidian

Microsoft IS making this game. They own Obsidian and any sense of autonomy is fake news. They are Billy's bitch and will push his woke agenda or they will go bye bye.

 

[A horse of course]

My impression of OW was that it was not a good RPG and not a good shooter. So I wasn’t sure why they even made it.

The Bordericklands and Morty le wacky humour attracted the r*ddit audience, and it benefitted massively by being marketed at the same time as the height of an anti-Bethesda backlash after Fallout 76. Literally every comment on the trailers was some variation of a jilted-girlfriend-esque stab at Bethesda.

 

[Justicar]

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Tim cain will make a good gaem guys its gonna be great.

 

[Darkforge]

Long-haired white female in my 2021 RPG? Disgusting.

It's okay, she appears to have been murdered. Everyone can calm down.

 

[Fenix]

OK, I watched the gameplay, and vomited instantly.
Mistery solved.

 

[Awakened_Yeti]

weep for the future

 

[Roguey]

weep for the future

Those are game journalists, they've been like that for decades.

 

[Awakened_Yeti]

weep for the future

Those are game journalists, they've been like that for decades.

my point is that that demand dictates the market

so its not good when piles of shit sell like hotcakes

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Hotcakes sell? IHOP? I haven't bought a hotcake in decades.

 

[The Dutch Ghost]

Hotcakes sell? IHOP? I haven't bought a hotcake in decades.

I was thinking about that expression yesterday and I was thinking "What are hotcakes? Do a lot of people still know what hotcakes are these days?"

my point is that that demand dictates the market

Was there that much demand for an average DLC like Murder on Eridanos? Or for a rather half assed shooter-rpg like The Outer Worlds?
Sure I like FNV and I thought Fallout 4 was the pits but even then TOW is barely okay in comparison.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Flapjacks, griddle cake, hotcake, slapjacks.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Outer worlds..... showing the world... their junk...

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