Obsidian Entertainment have announced a partnership with Paizo Inc. to create games based on the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. They've also announced the first title being made with the license, and... it's not what you might expect from Obsidian.
Chris Avellone expands on his earlier claims that Fallout New Vegas dev Obsidian pitched Bethesda ideas for Elder Scrolls spinoffs.
Really Bethesda? Come on
We could have gotten to explore more of the regions or revisit old ones with another developer making them. Would have shortened the time between releases of the main games.
Just thinking about what could've been. Maybe they didn't wanna be showed up on their flagship title Ala new vegas compared to fallout 3 and 4
it's not that hard to show them up when they're like 20 years behind in terms of engine and development skills. If they had gotten the go ahead i guarantee it would have been better than anything they'd made recently.
The issue here was Bethesda was butthurt that obsidian managed to develop a better fallout game at the time (new vegas) than theirs (fo3) so they didn't allow it.
It's funny how they're both owned by Microsoft now. They should be able to work together now.
Playstationlifestyle writes: "The Outer Worlds’ subreddit is full of threads complaining about the Spacer’s Choice Edition, with many players demanding refunds. Publisher Private Division‘s support team responded to some ticket submissions, promising players that their complaints have been passed on to the development studio.
Over on Twitter, developer Obsidian Entertainment has been responding to fans, apologizing for the issues."
Microsoft got nothing to do with this Private Divison and some other dev did this update.
While I get it is an outside studio, Microsoft now has everything to do with any work on their IPs, including ensuring that any third-party hired to develop their games makes sure they work.
@Christopher
MS owns the IP going forward but they do not own the publishing rights to the first game. Private Division does. MS has nothing to do with the remaster, that's why the trailer for the remaster doesn't have an XGS logo.
I get that the Spacer's Choice Edition has issues but the fault lies with Private Division pushing it out before it was ready. It has major issues on all platforms, not just PS5.
***MS has nothing to do with the remaster, that's why the trailer for the remaster doesn't have an XGS logo.***
Microsoft literally owns the development studio, and, yes, they were involved in the port (this isn't a remaster, it's a port for current-gen consoles).
MS owns the dev, yes. But they still have nothing to do with it. Their only involvement is that a studio they own made the game.
Also, it's not a remaster? Really, since when? So upgraded lighting, updated textures, new animations, etc., means it's just a port. Ok.
Let's look at the Steam description:
"The Outer Worlds: Spacer’s Choice Edition is the ultimate way to play the award-winning RPG from Obsidian Entertainment and Private Division. Including the base game and all DLC, this REMASTERED masterpiece is the absolute best version of The Outer Worlds."
What about the Private Division store?
"2019’s hit RPG has been REMASTERED with better graphics, improved performance, additional animations, higher-res environments, and more."
Given that MS is in the middle of trying to buy Actvision, this is very much the bullet loaded into the gun they shot themselves in the foot with.
Wrong. Guilty by association. This goes for this and any other title under their umbrella going forward. No one will draw a line in the sand separating the two when it comes to issues and rightfully so. They made their bed so lay in it, can’t have one without the other.
Good try Christopher. Microsoft doesn’t own publishing rights to first game. The Spacer Choice Edition has bugs on Xbox.
Firstly all versions are the same so this isn’t some big conspiracy.
Secondly Private Division are owned by 2K I believe.
@Christopher
You should to bring back the Bubble system for guys like Obscure_Observer.
the XB version is also borked. This was done by a different outfit and not by MS or Obsidian.
It's bad on all platforms. This article is from PlayStation Lifestyle so they're only going to report on the PS5 version.
Shin, really? You also said go figure as to heavily imply they purposely screwed up the PS version. You even said maybe Sony was right about intentional bugs. Stop and do the research next time
Neither Microsoft, or even Obsidian, are involved in this update.
I'm sure Sony will still now bring this up in litigation. People need to read more than just the headline.
All I have to say is Ghost Wire Tokyo ran fine. Psychonauts 2 ran fine. Wasteland 3 ran fine. There's no evidence that a Microsoft owned company put out a PlayStation game that ran poorly.
But but but…. Microsoft stuck PS5 owners with the inferior PS4 version of Psychonauts 2 so that Series X would be the best place to play on console.
@jin
No.
They honored the promises made to original PS4 owners within the promises of the Kickstarter had prior to the acquisition. Nothing more. Nothing less.
@Jin
There was never a PS5 version announced or promised so PS gamers got exactly what they kickstarted. We also don't know if Sony even gave Double Fine any PS5 dev kits considering they were owned by MS. But sure, MS is bad for giving PS4 gamers a better game by delaying it and giving DF extra funding to finish and include all of the cut content.
Obsidian developed this update. They literally apologized and said they would work on fixing the issues.
The company they used was for graphical updates, but Obsidian still did most of the work. I wish they had taken more time to QA.
“There was never a PS5 version announced or promised so PS gamers got exactly what they kickstarted.“
Could they have made a PS5 version though? Of course they could have.
I hardly think Microsoft are deliberately sabotaging cross platform games…that’s a bit “conspiracy theory”.
I know I'm wasting my energy here, but this has nothing to do with Microsoft or Sony. This current gen port was outsourced to Virtuos, a Singaporean development studio with a surprisingly good track record. The publishing rights of the game go to Private Division, the publishing arm of Take-Two.
This 'remaster' is busted on all platforms. Not even a stable 30 FPS on Xbox Series X's 'cinematic' option. 13900K + 4090 (the most powerful PC components available today) can't run the game at 4K@60. It's currently sitting at Mostly Negative 20% rating on Steam. The game runs worse than Cyberpunk 2077 with Psycho settings and Ray Tracing at native 4K while not looking the part.
And to add insult to injury, they're asking for $60 (currently on a 'special' 20% discount coming at $48). There's no free upgrade. Only if you own the base game and both DLCs do you get an upgrade for $10.
MS owns the IP. They clearly get a build and have to approve THEIR IP to be released the state it was in.
That’s not true, the current publisher for this game is not Microsoft. Microsoft owns the rights moving forward with future games but publishing rights still belongs to take two.
Just a correction, part of the work was done by virtuos. Obsidian was lead and did a lot of work on it and managed the work.
This is just bad management by obsidian.
Obsidian Entertainment CEO and founder Feargus Urquhart stated that though the studio isn't working on a Fallout sequel, he'd love to make one.
Nah. I'm immune to their crap. It's the harm they're causing their fans without complaint that's concerning. Carry on being used.
Come on Microsoft, get these guys to do spin off games while we wait for the main numbered games, they should use the spin off games to take it outside the USA. Take inspiration from the mod to come out and make Fallout London.
Also they should cycle between that and Elder Scrolls spin off games, just set it in a different region. There's lots of places than just Tamriel and that's just what we know of.
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Akavir would be a good place to explore as they have 4 new races there not seen before or if they really want to go "out there" how about Lyg, a parallel version of Nirn which I'm guessing has a alternative version of Tramiel where the possibilities are endless.
You would hope that a FO NV 2 is in development - it should've been greenlit the minute Obsidian and Bethesda were under one roof.
If not, then it's almost a copy paste of the Ubisoft situation where they are leaving obvious cash on the table.
I'll be honest I'm surprised Outer Worlds 2 was green lit and not a New Vegas spiritual sequel after being under one roof now.
They've been wanting to do this for over a decade. Maybe now they'll be able to after they finish The Outer Worlds 2.
