PCGamer has shared a video, showing 60 minutes of PC gameplay footage of Obsidian’s upcoming RPG, The Outer Worlds. Obsidian Entertainment is well known for games such as Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 2, Fallout New Vegas, South Park The Stick of Truth & Pillars of Eternity.
This looks like a good Fallout 4 but unfortunately also outdated. The lighting is very flat and far from impressive. The AI for both enemies and friendlies is dumb as a bag of hammers. The world also feels empty for some reason. I do not know how old this build is and how far it is from final, but as it is right now, it doesn’t look great.
Lip-syncing is also far from great, though facial animations look OK and definitely better than many recent games. I do hope they will include an FOV (field of view) slider in the settings, because the current FOV is comfortable only if you are a fish. Same goes for the damage numbers on screen, which I really dislike and I am hoping for a toggle option.
The shooting mechanics seem fine, though the melee combat looks very basic. Also, the new V.A.T.S. (Vault-Tech assisted targeting system) now called T.T.D. (tactical time dilation) looks like a regular slow-mo effect. Still, I noticed that the energy bar did not deplete at the same rate when standing still.
Hopefully, the story and characters will make the difference in the game, but with names like Nyoka & Parvati I’m not one hundred percent sure. I think this game might be a bit late to the party. It would probably sell like crazy if it was released in, let’s say, 2015. Right now I have serious doubts, but let’s hope Obsidian will deliver as they usually do. And even if they don’t, the modders will probably overhaul the game.
By the way, what’s up with the video thumbnail?!
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I haven’t watched the video but I watched another one that PC gamer posted (15 mins long, probably a slice of this one) and the impression I got was that the characters, writing and dialogue are pretty atrocious. In an RPG, that’s a very bad sign
I am not sure you can even read. This is being made by the guys that created Fallout (literally), and Vampire Bloodlines. Two games praised for their dialogue and writing. Also the company that made Fallout NV and KoTOR II which were lauded for their writing and quest design. If you’re going to troll try using reality rather than pissing in the wind.
Do some research before you spew ignorant comments. ALL of the people who wrote those games you mentioned are long gone. This is The Outer Worlds’ lead writer: https://twitter.com/fictivate
Oh boy, what engine is this? Looks like something from at least a decade ago.. Hmm, it’s time to lower my expectations I guess..
looks at new vegas and fallout 4….nah fam, i am good the graphics are fine.
UE4
UE4, but that doesn’t prevent garbage developers from making outdated lookin games.
Puke FOV and decade old graphics. Should have cell shaded it and called it Borderlands, somethign, somethign.
pcgamer a known affiliate of Epic…just saying
why am i not surprised…
Indeed. PC Gamer has shilled hard for EGS for some time now while also whining and nitpicking over the slightest thing in relation to Steam – more so since Valve refused to bend the knee to SJW activist ‘journalist’ demands for censorship on Steam.
Then, surprise surprise, PC Gamer announced that Epic Games would be their main sponsor at the PC Gaming show 2019. Imagine my shock!
They often shadow ban those who dare question their activities so you were fortunate to have been censored only that much. In common with all SJWs with something to hide they seek to deplatform or otherwise censor those not marching in lock-step with them.
And forever alone pathetic incel snowflakes like you continue to vomit garbage all over the place. Anyone using the term SJW is a pathetic waste of space (on either side). It’s a shame actual reality is not something you can grasp but instead insist on impotently screeching in forums, which I guess makes sense seeing as that is exactly what you are. Impotent. Not that anyone would touch you even if you could get it up.
Carry on REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEing!
You’re the one who in every thread about anything even remotely about women, or diversity, or not being a c*nt is the having a cry about it. Being a shut-in with no social skills may not be your fault, but your inability to function in the real world with other people is not reality for the rest of us, so stfu about things you obviously don’t understand.
Reading your comments would be funny, if they weren’t so utterly pathetic.
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I don’t see the problem
Borderlands with fallout dialogues. This game will live or die on the quality of choices it has and how replayable it is.
I cant judge the dialogues from what i saw since the game doesnt take itself seriously and its steampunk in space setting is too unusual to make a proper judgement. I have no idea wtf is going on.
If the developers are anything to go by, the game has quite extensive replayability options. You’re right though, I have no idea what they’re exactly going for beyond Art Deco Space Steampunky-vibe.
With that said, I like the look of it. Can’t say I’ve ever seen anything look like this before. It’s certainly unique to say the least about it which is always nice in a day and age where everything looks like a clone of one another.
calling developers behind this game obsidian is like calling bioware, bioware. this game will flop hard.
Unlike bioware there are some key devs left from the old days of fallout.
key devs? who exactly?
Tim Cain, Leonard Boyarsky. They were these since the start of the fallout franchise.
I have no way of confirming that but i’ll just trust you. still, even considering that bioware had some key members back when made mass effect 3, didn’t it? some people act as the soul of a team and i think a couple of people like jsawyer and chris avellone and some others were that for obsidian.
so did tim cain.
I think i wasn’t clear enough, i meant that even bioware with some of its key members wasn’t the main bioware that we knew from 90s.
Literally the guys that created and designed Fallout. Tim Cain is the lead. Do you even internet?
I don’t spend my time searching for people who make video games. how would that benefit me?
Well you would say less uninformed things for a start, and ask less dumb questions. Mostly you’d look less like an idiot. There’s 3 ways it would benefit you.
i wouldn’t say uninformed since i know for a fact that key members that made obsidian, obsidian had left the team years ago. you and durka brought fallout and its developers up out of nowhere and for some reason you think obsidian is or rather was the same team as black isle studio which is not true. your statement basically implies “some of the original fallout developers are still in obsidian so obsidian is still obsidian”.
let’s pretend your comparison which was fundamentally wrong and bizarre never happened, what kind of standards for being smart or dumb and idiot do you have to think you’re smart because you know what video game company a random dude works for?
you remind me of people who struggle with high school math and physics but pretend they’re smart anyways, lol. although i doubt you’ve even finished high school.
Excellent!
Not a single penny for Tencent Timmy.
It’ll be on Xbox Game Pass too fortunately. Not that MS is much better but at least it’s not EGS with their slimy anti-competition tactics telling publishers not to sell their game in other stores.
This game has no mod support. What are you talking about?
It’s PR spin for “no”.
You’re probably right but you never know.
No, but I guess reality is not something people care about in this cesspit. This is an essentially an indie game. Not a massive budget AAA. Adding mod support (which they’ve talked about from the start) is something they want to do, but it costs money and they’re spending all of it on making the game. Post-launch it may come if the game sells well and they can afford to add it.
Looks like sh*t.
It doesn’t look like anything special at all in any way shape or form. Nothing we haven’t seen before. This will be compared to Cyberpunk…
Which is not fair. This is not a AAA. It’s a smaller budget sub-AAA game made by a small team. This game is being made for peanuts compared to any AAA game. They’ve been very open about that from the start.
That might have been the case at the start but now they have MS behind them. They have the money and the support.
That’s not my argument though. Even if it is a AA game it still isn’t doing anything special. How are they meant to differentiate themselves from the market front runners. It’s not fair that it will be compared to Cyberpunk that’s for sure but it will happen whether they like it or not.
MS has NOTHING to do with this game. The deal predates it. MS is not putting any money in. That has already been explained multiple times.
Fine OK that’s fair. But it doesn’t matter. They are making a game exactly like Fallout with a new paint job. I am not bashing it I am just saying, the game is nothing special at all and the reviews will reflect that. Casual players won’t care much because there is no name recognition and hardcore players, once the novelty wears off will look at it and compare it to other open world RPGs out there and this game won’t do that well.
Id sooner take a long nap than bother playing this hideous monstrosity.
From the creators of Fallout. The guys behind Fallout NV and Vampire – Bloodlines. Actual choice based role playing and some of the best writers in the industry. Consequences for actions, and multiple “solutions” for quests as well as complex dialogue options. Should I go on?
everything i’ve said about this sh*t a*s looking sjw color infected game was right, looks like sh*t
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