GameInformer has released a new gameplay video for The Outer Worlds. In this video, The Outer Worlds’ co-director Tim Cain and lead designer Charles Staples show off new gameplay and talk about designing a satisfying RPG combat experience (inspired by Fallout: New Vegas) for Obsidian’s next game.
The Outer Worlds is powered by Unreal Engine 4 and will be a player-driven story RPG. Your choices will affect not only the way the story develops but your character build, companion stories, and end game scenarios. New to The Outer Worlds will also be the idea of flaws. While playing The Outer Worlds, the game tracks your experience to find what you aren’t particularly good at, and this optional approach to the game will help you build the character you want while exploring Halcyon.
In The Outer Worlds, you awake from hibernation on a colonist ship that was lost in transit to Halcyon, the furthest colony from Earth located at the edge of the galaxy, only to find yourself in the midst of a deep conspiracy threatening to destroy it. As you explore the furthest reaches of space and encounter various factions, all vying for power, the character you decide to become will determine how this player-driven story unfolds. In the corporate equation for the colony, you are the unplanned variable.
The game is currently planned for release later this year.
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this isnt open world, it has 2 planets one colonized and one that is wild, it doesnt have open world or space travel, its like kotor but bigger as far as maps go, its not very long but it has alot of choices the upgrade system is done by perks who can be positive or negative and you get them with your actions. Its not vegas 2.
wow you already played it?
Is this one exclusive for Xbox and Windows 10 store?
Nah, its on Steam.
They also say that the Microsoft acquisition hasn’t influenced them. (yet)
Well, I hope it will stay like this…
sharpness and colors are not right
Still don’t understand why devs don’t simply include a simple sharpness option in their game like the one in ReShade.
Can’t wait for the overhype to make people think this game is actually Fallout NV tier, because of articles like this directly referencing it. Going to be spectacular to watch.
Unreal Engine 4 …
sharpness is terrible, they need to tone that shet down a little.
This looks like the Lawbreakers of Dark Souls-style shooters.
Being the pessimist I am, I am supporting the hell out of this game because now that MS bought them I am not expecting Obsidian to make what we’ve loved so much from them. During a keynote Staples said this is exactly the kind of game they like to make, and it was on a very tight budget while thankfully away from publishers’ slimy tentacles. MS says they are going to give them creative freedom. Ok, yes and that would be smart to do exactly that, but still remains to been seen.
RPG games do not ride hard with 300k viewers at the top of the Publisher Advertising Channels known as Twitch and Youtube like BR games because the mainstream hate thinking vs dudebroing down. Just like network television targeted the masses, so do Twitch and Youtube. So more likely than not their next games under MS will be for mainstream audiences – which are absolutely not my thing.
Obsidian makes games I love right now, so this will be a day one buy for me. I hope MS stays consistent with their word, which they have a difficult time doing.
Except this is nothing like anything they have made before. This isnt Pillars of Eternity in 3D or New Vegas in space. They have shown they have no interest of telling a touching or deep story here, and the combat they have shown looks very mediocre.
In another post I was recounting the hoard of game companies that have fallen or become the villains. Obsidian is one of the old good ones. Maxis, gone, Sierra studios, gone, lucas arts studios, gone, etc. I’m going to support this game, even if it is out of displaced nostalgia.
It looks like an even more uninspired Borderlands 2
Let me put it this way… It looks like sh*t and like a bad collage of aesthetics that don’t glue together.
OH man, what a reason for not purchasing a game. Going to buy copies for all of my friends now for finding out about all of this.
I’m significantly less excited for this now after seeing it and learning it will have a VATS like slow mo system.
Hilarious you sad wannabe hipsters. “NV is the best evar omfgggggggg” “oh wait it was made by a woman nevermind.”
This sh*t is hilarious. They act like bigger queens and crybabies that the people they make these dumbas* pictures about.
Like I’m supposed to give a f*k if a woman is on a dev team, or that some guy has a negative display picture of Trump?
This is why I legitimately cant stand these people who politicize or find anything to complain about like this. They’re more obnoxious than my friend’s little brother coming up to me and asking me tech support questions every five minutes.
This video killed my hype.