Obsidian: The Outer Worlds Is The Game We've Been Wanting to Make for a Long Time

The developers at Obsidian Entertainment openly said that they've been wanting to make The Outer Worlds for a long time now.

[Chris_Wray]

The fact they want to make it is promising. Obsidian are fantastic, even when given limited time & resources (New Vegas) or experimenting (Alpha Protocol)

[kevnb]

Even stick of truth was awesome.

[Razzer]

Yes, but come on, that was material straight from South Park and the most simplistic turn based system there is. It is a great game, but how much of it was Obsidian?

[KillZallthebeast]

That's entirely factual but the stick of truth regardless was still put together quiet well. New vegas launched as a mess but after the fact was a good game. Can't recall 1 bethesda dinosaur engine game that launched well

[Razzer]

Personally I thought Alpha Protocol was horrible.

[UltraNova]

Same here, there's no redemption for that mess.

Now I hope MS wont breath down their neck, putting pressure on them to finish with OW just so they can move on to an Xbox only game.

[PhantomS42]

I'll be excited when Obsidian doesn't release a buggy mess.

[MadLad]

It's called anything of recent memory. Notice anything from their kickstarter, where they have full control over funding and development goals, have been of extremely high quality.

[kevnb]

thats because many publishers are horrible and end up sabotaging games because they think they know best, despite them being suits who dont know anything about games.

[pietro1212]

Their recent titles weren't no where near as buggy as past titles. Despite their games being buggy Obsidian is one of the best rpg devs around.

[Sciurus_vulgaris]

Obsidian was forced to rush Fallout: New Vegas, plus the game ran on a dated engine.

[kevnb]

@Sciurus_vulgaris and it was still way better than fallout 3.

[King_Noctis]

You sir are confusing Obsidian with Bethesda.

[Zenbaby369]

That was my first thought.

[Razzer]

No, he is not. Even South Park had stuttering problems. Stick of Truth. Seriously. That game should have been solid from beginning to end.

Just because MS bought Obsidian does not make them perfect, dude. They are far from it.

[KaiPow]

Bring on the snarky dialogue!

[MadLad]

My most anticipated. Obsidian, CDPR, and Larian are the masters of the RPG genre at the moment.

[hborotoy]

How about anthem?

[annoyedgamer]

Lol

[PMind]

The only info I have seen even mentioning RPG elements in Anthem is that it doesn't have any.

[MadLad]

Bioware is a shell of the company it was when they were handling stuff like Kotor, Baldur's Gate.

[Ausbo]

It’s looking more and more like Microsoft made the right decision to purchase obsidian. Game looks great. Amazing what funding and time can do with the talent there.

[lollord]

Microsoft will kill what has made obsidian them though, and turn them into a soulless dev team.

[ReesesPuffs]

You realize Obsidian nearly went bankrupt right? If Microsoft hadn't bought them they may not have had much longer to keep making games like this anyways.

[jagermaster619]

Says the pissed Sony fan, just be happy you get to play one last game by this company.

[Zenbaby369]

@ReesesPuffs I find that unlikely given the recent success of pillars and what looks like the probable success with this game. This doesn't make microsoft a hero.

[mark_parch]

@Zenbaby369 I thought the recent pillars of eternity didn't sell very well

[ccgr]

Looks great, can't wait to try it!

[DrumBeat]

This is definitely in my top 5 for upcoming.

[sampsonon]

when i see this game it makes me angry about that star wars single player game that got canceled by EA.
Can't wait to check our more about this game.

[shammgod]

The tag line for this “try not to break it” what is that referencing?

[-volt-]

Co-op or go home.

[jagermaster619]

Either way I'll play it but you can just go home!

[kevnb]

Im pretty excited, fallout new vegas was light years better than any recent bethesda game including fallout 3.

[Razzer]

Any recent Bethesda game is pretty broad. Doom, Dishonored, Wolfenstein? Skyrim? Again....light years?

[ecchiless]

Maybe he is talking about games made by bethesda and not games published by bethesda.

[annoyedgamer]

Doom is made by ID and Dishonored was put on ice.

[Neonridr]

@Razzer - only one of those games you listed was made by Bethesda.

[timotim]

Huge Elder Scroll fan, but never got into Fallout. However, I like the sci fi spin Outer Worlds has. This will be a big game for Obsidian

[C-H-E-F]

Hmm..I thought they already made Fallout though..

[Trueflames]

So happy microsoft got this studio now and give them money to make even better games

[winter_hill]

.......for PS4. :) Though I'm certain they'll do Xbox exclusives in the future.

[Razzer]

Obviously, I have not been a fan of their work. This goes back to KOTOR2 and NWN2. Even Pillars of Eternity isn't on my fave list while Divinity Original Sin is. Even so, I hope they make a great game and knock it out of the park. They certainly have the resources now.

[--bienio--]

It’s a chances to play this game also in 3rd person view??

[winter_hill]

Doesn't seem likely: https://www.polygon.com/fea...

"There will be a modicum of character customization options, Boyarsky said, but players should expect a more old-school approach. For instance, you’ll rarely see your character on screen outside the inventory menus. They won’t have even have a voice. That will leave room, he said, for the developers to spend their time and treasure crafting a complex narrative adventure. "

[ILostMyMind]

I hope MS don't screw It up.

[mark_parch]

hopefully they have learnt from the mistakes made with rare. it's a whole new structure at microsofts gaming division now and phil wasn't in charge back then so fingers crossed they can keep improving, same goes for all the other new studios