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

[Molina]

What bothers me is that devs no longer have any original ideas in RPGs. From what we saw, it will be an FPS with slowmotion, a dialogue tree and two- three paths to reach the end of the quest. Actually, it'll be KOTOR but in subjective view. It's nice, I'm not saying otherwise, but there's nothing to be excited about. I didn't think they had a great idea, and worse than that... at no time I start fantasizing about different characters I could play.

 

[Sailor Woedica]

Kate's work on Deadfire was totally some of the best, Parvati is definitely going to be so fierce!

 

[Quillon]

New screenshots:

Spoiler

Guess Monarch's too brown and only looks good when its the dead of night with that strange mist's about as opposed to other locations which have more nuanced palette, they look good in different times of day as well...for my taste, from what is shown so far.

 

[Quillon]

Obsidian's community = Infinitron :D

 

[Morgoth]

What bothers me is that devs no longer have any original ideas in RPGs. From what we saw, it will be an FPS with slowmotion, a dialogue tree and two- three paths to reach the end of the quest. Actually, it'll be KOTOR but in subjective view. It's nice, I'm not saying otherwise, but there's nothing to be excited about. I didn't think they had a great idea, and worse than that... at no time I start fantasizing about different characters I could play.

It's almost like devs admitting that the RPG genre has become a pointless time waster. So what do devs do then? Trimming fat on all wrong ends. Like Bethesda, which kills the systems but then doubles down on the boring open world.

Alpha Protocol was a bit refreshing in that ascpect as it departed from this trend, but then botched the execution. I still hope we're gonna see a return to smaller, hand-crafted levels but with deeper systems and better C&C.

 

[vortex]

I still hope we're gonna see a return to smaller, hand-crafted levels but with deeper systems and better C&C.

Like Dishonored ?

 

[Morgoth]

More like Obsidian's take on Prey. I'd play that.

 

[LESS T_T]

Obsidian's community = Infinitron :D

 

[ArchAngel]

I tried to watch one of these previews but it was so boring. I cannot get interested anymore by these quasi rpgs with action combat.

 

[Zer0wing]

- The graphics quality is not *horrible*, but looks surprisingly low-effort given the licensed Unreal 4 engine.

Urine 4 does have a poor default renderer. And FaceFX that was infamous since Oblivion is back.

 

[Infinitron]

So the game's user interface continues to change. Once there was a "Companions" tab to access the companion management interface. That's been replaced by a tab for each one of the companions currently in your party.

Factions from the Reputation section:

 

[Dishonoredbr]

I liked Sanjar Nandi. He seems like a cool guy , i want to help him to fuck over the board.

 

[Infinitron]

Asymmetric character system - companions have a different, smaller set of available perks:

 

[Dishonoredbr]

Assymmetric character system - companions have a different, smaller set of available perks: https://youtu.be/61D07N888M8?t=46

I sure hope the perk aren't final yet. Most of them are plain boring , at least the option that they gave for our character, didn't saw the companions perks yet. Too much about damage and none about dialogue.

 

[Quillon]

Sanjar Nandi

He looks a bit like Tim Cain btw :D

Btw. the inhaler mechanic seems neat; mixing drugs. Now I'm expecting similar things from CP77's smaller inhaler

 

[Kyl Von Kull]

Did anyone expect good shooting? The curse of the action RPG is that you can either make a good action game or a good RPG, but never both.

As far as I know, nobody’s ever done it. Maybe it’s theoretically possible. Sure, New Vegas can play like a second rate shooter (or third rate) after nearly a decade of modding, but think about how many thousands of volunteer man-hours that took. No studio’s going to pay for that kind of work in a new engine.

Maybe someday the curse will be broken, though that would be an extremely ambitious task.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

Did anyone expect good shooting? The curse of the action RPG is that you can either make a good action game or a good RPG, but never both.

As far as I know, nobody’s ever done it. Maybe it’s theoretically possible. Sure, New Vegas can play like a second rate shooter (or third rate) after nearly a decade of modding, but think about how many thousands of volunteer man-hours that took. No studio’s going to pay for that kind of work in a new engine.

Maybe someday the curse will be broken, though that would be an extremely ambitious task.

Forget the action RPG, look at the top 20 entries to Codex top 70 and try counting entries with legitimately good combat. One hand should be enough to count them all, even if you had a few accidents with a chainsaw.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

AwesomeButton pretty sure it has a smaller budget than New Vegas. Half the initial marketing was them saying, “this is not a AAA game.”

New Vegas is an AAA game?

Yeah.
Obsidian was given a massive head start by being able to reuse bethesda's assets. If it was a stand alone title I'd say no, but in context it was.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Did anyone expect good shooting? The curse of the action RPG is that you can either make a good action game or a good RPG, but never both.

As far as I know, nobody’s ever done it. Maybe it’s theoretically possible. Sure, New Vegas can play like a second rate shooter (or third rate) after nearly a decade of modding, but think about how many thousands of volunteer man-hours that took. No studio’s going to pay for that kind of work in a new engine.

Maybe someday the curse will be broken, though that would be an extremely ambitious task.

Let me tell you about Cat Quest.

 

[Sailor Woedica]

Did anyone expect good shooting? The curse of the action RPG is that you can either make a good action game or a good RPG, but never both.

Maybe someday the curse will be broken, though that would be an extremely ambitious task.

Outer Worlds 2 with all the xbox studios sharing their tech would definitely be so good! But I don't really get the issues with the combat rn, it lewks fun especially with the cute companion abilities stuff!

 

[sullynathan]

 

[Infinitron]

>_>

More quests:

Spoiler

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

Heretic book by M. Bakunu?

This guy?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Bakunin

 

[fantadomat]

wanting more than another Fallout clone

Point me to all those Fallout clones. I'll wait.

There are a few Borderlands games, Fallout 3, NV, Fallout 4, the online abomination, Rage, Rage 2, Far Cry 123456. And lots of other kinda sorta similar stuff, like Dead Island, Metro, Stalkers, and the entire Elder Scrolls series which is Fallout 3 with spellz. And if you accept Elder Scrolls as being similar, then there are another 20 games like that too.

Point me to all those Fallout clones. I'll wait.

If you want to play a game like the original Fallout.....then try out ATOM,it is pretty good. Fuck even i bought it.

 

[fantadomat]

Let me tell you about Cat Quest.

It is pretty fun little game,far better than anything obsidian put out in the last few years,can't wait for the sequel.