The Outer Worlds Will Allow You to Kill Everyone

From GameWatcher: "The Outer Worlds is going to let you murder any character you like, according to recent information. A blunt way of putting things, to be sure, but given the subject matter...

It is no secret that some fans of Bethesda's Fallout and Elder Scrolls titles have long argued against the implementation of so-called essential NPCs - characters which are crucial for the game in this way or the other, and are thus unkillable. No such thing in Outer Worlds."

[DillyDilly]

Even Little Billy ?

[Profchaos]

Especially

[Leeroyw]

He knows he has it coming.

[RpgSama]

I just bursted laughing at my job because of this comment, hahaha

[TheOpenWorlder]

They forgot to mention this game has no Little Billys or kids. So why wouldn't you be able to kill everyone? Dumb.

[capjacksparrow]

Looking forward to checking this one out.

[lociefer]

Hope there's a dedicated quicksave button then

[Pantz]

This game is looking good

[TacoTaco]

Killing everyone - totally fine. Screwing absolutely anyone though, according to the other article, "massive amount of work for little payoff."

Why can't I be a murderous hooker? Or even a virtuous one? They aren't tied to Bethesda anymore, it's not like they have to worry about bugs...

[carcarias]

I was really surprised by their reasons.

'Massive amount of work?'. It's usually just dialogue options and voice over work, something they're doing all day long anyway. It's still work, sure, but I'm surprised they'd call it massive.

'little payoff'. Really? That depends on a persons perspective. Some players absolutely love romance options and find it a big part of their overall RPG experience.

I'm more inclined to believe they wanted to avoid complications and trouble from having to make romances and characters that would fit all sexual orientations/genders. That makes way more sense than saying, 'We're already writing thousands and thousands of lines of dialogue and having it voiced, we couldn't possibly add a couple hundred more'.

[mkis007]

Was dissapointed it isnt a full open world. Still...gonna keep my eye on it.

[VenomUK]

@mkis007 What makes you say that? I thought it was open-world.

[mkis007]

https://www.dualshockers.co...

[No Way]

They compare it to what they did in KoToR 2.. I'm okay with this.

[King_Noctis]

It is still an open world game, although the game is divided into sections due to the numbers of different planets that the game has.

“Kotaku saw footage of the game just a few weeks ago and said that each section of the game’s two different planets that you can explore are divided into multiple sections rather than being one large world to run about. Each of these different locations will still be large in their own ways and will give you plenty to see, explore, and accomplish, but they just won’t be as vast compared to typical open world games.”

[moomoo319]

Sounds like borderlands

[mkis007]

Maybe I assumed they would be too small for my liking. Still its on my radar.

[m2stech]

Thats great so we can get rid of the annoying tutorial mission guy!

[King_Noctis]

Exactly my thought. He or she is going down at the first sight.

[MasterCornholio]

That would be funny if that’s the way you skip the tutorial.

[Dragonslave]

That sounds cool. However how will this affect getting mission or the story line?

[No Way]

I'd assume you won't.. if you kill them? -_-
Prolly just don't kill anyone, if you want missions, lol.

[Dragonslave]

Yeah that's what I was thinking. I thought that maybe if you killed an npc another npc would take it place. Will have to wait and hear more.

[Profchaos]

Not Lenny.

[Nacho_Z]

It'll be interesting to see how they handle the main story if you can kill anyone. I guess it'll have to be cutscenes and then lock any remotely important NPCs away for the entire game.

[Hardiman]

Really looking forward to The Outer Worlds as it I see shaping up to fill that Mass Effect/Fallout itch. I won't be murdering everyone, well at least the ones who don't deserve it lol.

[Pedantic91]

Killing everyone and having the story continously change is fine.

But romance options is too much work ?

[King_Noctis]

Or maybe romance add nothing to the game?

[Bluemaster77]

Haven't seen a feature like this in a game since morrowind

[KillZallthebeast]

Not sure when romance options became such a big deal in gaming

[carcarias]

I'm not fussed either way.

I've never understood people's obsession with the option of being able to kill everyone but I've nothing against them including it.

[XMarkstheSpot]

Reminds me of Morrowind. Though I killed Vivic and couldn't beat the game cause I think he gave you an item to hold a weapon you needed