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

[Vulpes]

WTF? How come Cyberpunk 2077 isn't on that list while shit like Watch Dogs and Soy Wars are?

 

[Quillon]

Games had to have a playable demo at E3 to be eligible apparently.

 

[LESS T_T]

Not only Best of E3, it's also nominated for Best Original Game, Best PC Game, and Best Roleplaying Game.

 

[fantadomat]

What did she wrote,anything good?

She wrote:

- Bleden Mark for Tyranny. I thought all of the Archons were well written in the game and the conversation with them (especially Tunon) some of the better moments in the game.

- Fort Deadlight for Deadfire. This area has been a fan favourite. Writing for it was up to par, and Jorge Salgado & team on the area fleshed it out quite nicely.

- Furrante and Aeldys. Bunch of lesser pirate faction characters as well.

- Dunnage, The Gullet & The Narrows, Crookspur and The Undercroft.

Her companions so far have been Beast-In-Shadows (haven't used her in Tyranny, so no idea, but no one here liked her) and Xoti. Xoti is a bit of a mess. I get what she was trying, but I think the accent on Xoti fucked that character completely for me. Also I found Xoti's writing inconsistent. It would be good for a moment and then turn into shit again. This could be due to Sawyer/Patel and their instructions on the companion and where they want to take her, or it could be just Starks struggling to make Xoti fit the Pillars universe. But she can definately write good characters. Those pirates and Bleden Mark were well done and that's why I'm interested in seeing what she can do under different project director, especially when it's Boyarsky making sure these characters and companions really fit his idea of the game.

The same argument can be made for Paul Kirsch as well. He has done some really good work on Deadfire (and the DLCs) and Tyranny + something that hasn't really hit the mark. For example Tayn was well done on the last Deadfire DLC. His sidequests on Deadfire were good as well (Nemnok, Arkemyr, Concelhaut). Huana questline wasn't as strong as the pirate questline (imo), but then again the faction itself isn't that great to begin with. He wrote Tekehu, Maia and Fassina. Tekehu missed the mark (for most of Codex it seems), Maia was solid and I have no idea about Fassina.
For Tyranny he wrote 3 of the Archons (Tunon, Graven Ashe and Voices of Nerat) which were like I said some of the better material in the game. Barik and Verse I found decent enough as companions and don't really have any compaints on those two. His time on The Outer Worlds probably was more limited than Starks' since Kirsch stayed on the Deadfire team to finish the DLC's while Starks moved on to TOW as senior writer.

In other words,she should be kept away from companions! She seems to be good at environment crafting.

 

[Bonerbill]

Kills-in-Shadow and Xoti were both awful.

You're a faggot. Please kill yourself.

 

[Roguey]

Xoti is an annoying anachronism. Quite a bit of Starks' other NPC writing comes across as anachronistic, like tumblrkin finding themselves in a fantasy world. If any of that makes it through Boyarsky's editing passes at least it won't be so jarring in a futuristic sci-fi world.

 

[AwesomeButton]

"Hey y'all, real quick y'all..."

 

[Sailor Woedica]

Not only Best of E3, it's also nominated for Best Original Game, Best PC Game, and Best Roleplaying Game.

It totally sucks that bloodlines 2 wasn’t even nominated for the roleplaying category

 

[pomenitul]

Imagine Xoti voicing her lines with an Ukrainian accent.

 

[Quillon]

Not only Best of E3, it's also nominated for Best Original Game, Best PC Game, and Best Roleplaying Game.

It totally sucks that bloodlines 2 wasn’t even nominated for the roleplaying category

Did it have a playable by the attendees demo at E3 tho?

 

[Sailor Woedica]

Not only Best of E3, it's also nominated for Best Original Game, Best PC Game, and Best Roleplaying Game.

It totally sucks that bloodlines 2 wasn’t even nominated for the roleplaying category

Did it have a playable by the attendees demo at E3 tho?

They didn't include it on the ineligible list

 

[Quillon]

Not only Best of E3, it's also nominated for Best Original Game, Best PC Game, and Best Roleplaying Game.

It totally sucks that bloodlines 2 wasn’t even nominated for the roleplaying category

Did it have a playable by the attendees demo at E3 tho?

They didn't include it on the ineligible list

Yup, in fact they disqualified it cos it was illegible; someone wrote mascarade instead of masquerade and system didn't accept and they ran out of time. True story.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Not only Best of E3, it's also nominated for Best Original Game, Best PC Game, and Best Roleplaying Game.

It totally sucks that bloodlines 2 wasn’t even nominated for the roleplaying category

Did it have a playable by the attendees demo at E3 tho?

They didn't include it on the ineligible list

Yup, in fact they disqualified it cos it was illegible; someone wrote mascarade instead of masquerade and system didn't accept and they ran out of time. True story.

Ineligibility out of illegibility.

 

[Roguey]

It totally sucks that bloodlines 2 wasn’t even nominated for the roleplaying category

What they demonstrated was not award-worthy.

 

[just]

does outer worlds have any male(he/him) writers?

 

[Vulpes]

Yup, in fact they disqualified it cos it was illegible; someone wrote mascarade instead of masquerade and system didn't accept and they ran out of time. True story.

Fucking hell, my sides are in orbit

 

[Wunderbar]

does outer worlds have any male(he/him) writers?

Leonard Boyarsky?

 

[ZVERMIX]

does outer worlds have any male(he/him) writers?

Leonard fucking Boyarsky is the Lead Writer.

 

[Roguey]

does outer worlds have any male(he/him) writers?

https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/107063-so-who-is-working-on-this-game/
Dan McPhee - Junior Narrative Designer
Chris L'Etoile - Narrative Designer

Though I recall L'Etoile was going through quite a few personal problems.

 

[Sailor Woedica]

Oh! Clare deleted the Outer Worlds dlc line from her instagram, sorry

 

[LESS T_T]

Chris L'Etoile - Narrative Designer

Though I recall L'Etoile was going through quite a few personal problems.

But fortunately:

 

[Flou]

https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/107063-so-who-is-working-on-this-game/
Dan McPhee - Junior Narrative Designer
Chris L'Etoile - Narrative Designer

Though I recall L'Etoile was going through quite a few personal problems.

Paul Kirsch worked on the game as well after his work on Deadfire was finished. I imagine his role was more limited as he was kept on Deadfire DLC's while Starks was moved on to the project immediately after Deadfire was ready.

 

[Flou]

Oh! Clare deleted the Outer Worlds dlc line from her instagram, sorry

Dunno what she was thinking, but at least now we know there's a DLC coming

 

[Quillon]

Who is Clare?

 

[Sailor Woedica]

Her concept art on the Deadfire dlc's was flawless (hope I didn't get her in trouble at Obsidian

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