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

[Dishonoredbr]

Wow. What's the rush, fellas? Save something for launch week

Don't worry, they still have the launch party and Twitch Plays The Outer Worlds 22nd (great idea btw)

Also the music is P.Good.

 

[AwesomeButton]

This Gilded Age stylistic never ceases to surprise me:

 

[Quillon]

huh... live action :D

 

[Dishonoredbr]

huh... live action :D

The Titan Worlds.

 

[Infinitron]

 

[aweigh]

I'll make my first playthru of The Outer Worlds an "Activist" run.

I'll only do quests from People Of Color NPCs and I'll make sure to kill any NPCs who are white or male, to really get into the spirit of the game ^_^

 

[abnaxus]

I'll watch RK47 play it.

 

[Duraframe300]

I'll make my first playthru of The Outer Worlds an "Activist" run.

I'll only do quests from People Of Color NPCs and I'll make sure to kill any NPCs who are white or male, to really get into the spirit of the game ^_^

So you’re going to sell out Phineas first thing? Corporate shill you.

 

[RickOmbo]

Spoiler

 

[bminorkey]

Spoiler

one dimensional characters, tell don't show, hyuge loading screens, ending slide C&C....

 

[Ibn Sina]

Looks like this game will have exactly the same amount of "captivating storytelling" as that of Pillars and deadfire. Meaning zero.. The only "dilemmas" in the game will be of financial nature as the developers are too chicken shit to touch any other issues (like racism, sexism)... Pillars setting was extremely bland as the entire setting felt it was designed by boardroom committee that was afraid of their own shadow.

 

[Zombra]

New Vegas didn't have a brilliant story either. It was 3 armies fighting over a MacGuffin. But the moment to moment had personality and lots of interesting things to do and check out. Will OW live up to that? Really impossible to tell from a few previews.

 

[Nano]

Spoiler

Really jerking their cock with this one. And it's not even really their cock because most of the current devs didn't work on Obsidian's pre-Pillars RPGs.

 

[Duraframe300]

Spoiler

Really jerking their cock with this one. And it's not even really their cock because most of the current devs didn't work on Obsidian's pre-Pillars RPGs.

Technically the Outer Worlds so far Leads did. (Charles Staples, Daniel Alpert) Anyway, the trailers aren’t made by Obsidian, but by a trailer company. Butcher something. They took the quote from ign.

 

[a Goat]

Is it true that you'll be able to play as Moonman? If so, will the soundtrack include his official albums?

 

[The_Mask]

To compare it to a past Obsidian game, the developer told Kotaku that "a good bit of context for the approach is to think of what we did in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II, with potentially more ground to cover and explore in each area."

Those are some big shoes to fill.

 

[Infinitron]

Really jerking their cock with this one. And it's not even really their cock because most of the current devs didn't work on Obsidian's pre-Pillars RPGs.

It's often said that Obsidian have lost all of their old writers, which is substantially true. Saying that they've lost all their old devs - including leads, designers, artists, programmers etc - is, I think, not as true.

 

[Dishonoredbr]

The Heavy armors in the game look P.Good. Also i got FNV gives from this shot.

 

[fantadomat]

The Heavy armors in the game look P.Good. Also i got FNV gives from this shot.

Ahhh no,the fallout armour looks practical while the armour on the right looks like some over designed fantasy garbage lol.

 

[Maggot]

Desert Ranger armor looks like shit ingame tbqh.

 

[Sailor Woedica]

huh... live action :D

Imagine in like just a few years a live action ad with Eder for the new Pillars of Eternity!!!

 

[Dishonoredbr]

Ahhh no,the fallout armour looks practical while the armour on the right looks like some over designed fantasy garbage lol.

Not everything needs to look pratical. It's video-game and sometimes it's just fine to go with the rule of the cool and make non-sense armors that looks good. But this is just imo..

I just really like non-sense armors like Berserker Armor from Berserk , that look cool rather than pratical.

 

[Duraframe300]

The Heavy armors in the game look P.Good. Also i got FNV gives from this shot.

Ahhh no,the fallout armour looks practical while the armour on the right looks like some over designed fantasy garbage lol.

Eh, NCR armor needs to lose the jacket to look practical.

 

[Nano]

It's often said that Obsidian have lost all of their old writers, which is substantially true. Saying that they've lost all their old devs - including leads, designers, artists, programmers etc - is, I think, not as true.

MCA made a post last year where he listed all of the New Vegas devs and whether or not they're still at Obsidian: https://rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/has-your-opinion-of-obsidian-changed-after-avellone’s-revelations-and-deadfire.123110/page-5#post-5728891

52 out of 70 of the devs are not at Obsidian anymore (74%). The 19 devs still at Obsidian (bolded are my additions):

Still There: (~19 18)
Mikey Dowling - Producer
Matt Singh - Producer
Brandon Adler - Producer
Brian Menze - Artist, Interplay/Black Isle vet
Scotty Everts - World building lead, Interplay/Black Isle vet
Daniel Alpert - Character/weapons artist
Sean Dunny - Environment artist
Seth McCaughey - Animator
Shon Stewart - Animator
James Melilli - Environment artist
Anthony Rogers - Tester/additional animation
Adam Brennecke - Additional programming
Justin Bell - Sound designer
Dini McMurry - World building/additional area design, but disregard since she left Obsidian in June
Josh, obviously
Charles Staples - Lead area designer
Jesse Farrell (left, then came back) - Area designer
Jeff Husges - Area designer, Interplay/Black Isle vet
Jorge Salgado - Area designer

Leads - 3/7 (they no longer have the lead artist, lead programmer, lead animator, and lead writer)
Designers (excluding leads) - 3/15
Artists/animators/world builders (exc. leads) - 7/14
Programmers (exc. lead) - 1/14 (lol)
Writers (exc. lead) - 0/5 (but we all know that part already)

Not all of Obsidian worked on New Vegas, of course; for instance, I know that Tyson Christensen (the lead area designer on Alpha Protocol) didn't work on NV and he's still at Obsidian.

 

[Infinitron]

Not all of Obsidian worked on New Vegas, of course; for instance, I know that Tyson Christensen (the lead area designer on Alpha Protocol) didn't work on NV and he's still at Obsidian.

And there's Dungeon Siege 3 also. Regardless, like I said, it's not as true.