Obsidian: It's Been a Big Challenge Trying to Make The Outer Worlds With the Amount of Time We Have

The developers at Obsidian didn't shy from revealing how much of a challenge has been trying to make The Outer Worlds with the amount of time they had.

[ccgr]

Hope they pull it off!

[Jackhass]

Hopefully it doesn't ship with the amount of bugs some past Obsidian games have.

[SourtreeDing]

sooo like every game today?

[Alexious]

Red Dead Redemption 2 or The Witcher 3 didn't ship with a ton of bugs.

[TheColbertinator]

@Alexious

Those two had tons of bugs at release. Including loading issues.

[porkChop]

@Alexious

That's not entirely true. Witcher 3 was extremely buggy at launch. It was a month before most of that was fixed. I mean just look up YouTube videos about it.

[LucasRuinedChildhood]

What a bullshit response. You'd be hard pressed to find a game that's as buggy as Fallout: New Vegas was at launch, today and back when it released.

[ShadowWolf712]

Fallout New Vegas also had a RIDICULOUSLY short turnaround time for Obsidian, imposed by Bethesda.

And yet was still better than any Bethesda-developed Fallout title.

[harmny]

what bugs? youre confusing them with bethesda and their horrible optimized engine that they made them use for fallout new vegas

[TheColbertinator]

I love Obsidian but their glitched filled games are all over the last two decades.

Alpha Protocol
Star Wars KOTOR II
Neverwinter Nights 2

Even they've admitted as such

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[-Foxtrot]

I wish people would give them more time, Bethesda really laid into them aswell which is a shame because despite how little time they had New Vegas was a great little gem, imagine if they were allowed 3-4 years.

[DaDrunkenJester]

Hopefully MS can give them their proper time. . . They say they will, but we will see.

[DaDrunkenJester]

@NoHank

Yes I know, but I'm talking about future games from Obsidian or any concurrent game they're making for MS. Obviously this game is too far into development and the contract for a delivered game is already signed.

[MadLad]

Best Fallout.

[Mirdus]

Blame the publishers, Devs would love nothing more but time, but publishers keep telling em to hurry the F up

[PiNkFaIrYbOi]

When you are paying for the game to be made of course you want it completed faster to save on costs. So it isn't like it is a totally unreasonable request to have a game done sooner rather than later and stuff.

Nobody wants a game to go into developmental hell.

[ShadowWolf712]

@PiNKFairYbOI
Sony seems to be doing just fine giving their teams plenty of time to get a game done. Their devs do better work as a result.

It's very doable, dude.

[timotim]

This game will be looked at heavily by the industry and gamers alike. I think it's in Obsidian's best interest to take their time with it and make it everything its suppose to be. That will lead right into whatever they do next.

[ZaWarudo]

Wish they had all the time they need. The game looks really sweet so far.

[KaiPow]

Maybe this will be the last great FPS RPG to drop on this console generation.

[franwex]

Or maybe cyberpunk...?

[generic-user-name]

Why is this poor studio always forced to rush their games? Well MS gave Crackdown 3 like 20 years so hopefully they treat them better.

[Hedstrom]

Well thats game development!

[Stanjara]

It looks to me that Outer worlds, Far Cry New Dawn, Borderlines 3 and Rage 2 are the same game.

[Wolffenblitz]

I don't think Outer Worlds is post-apocalyptic.

Fingers crossed Rage 2 isn't EGS exclusive.

[Question_Mark]

Borderlands isn’t post-apocalyptic, either.

[Stanjara]

I know, but freakers are not zombies eather. You get the point. I understand all three games but their mechanic, leveling up, loot and gameplay are very close.

[SpineSaw]

This is a big red flag....I thought Microsoft was giving these new dev teams unlimited time and money......guess not.

[EDKICK]

They're not making Outer Worlds under MS, Outer Worlds came before.

[SpineSaw]

Well, I did know Microsoft purchased Obsidian but I did not know that Obsidian's current projects would be off hands for Microsoft. So Microsoft will not on this IP?

[EDKICK]

@SpineSaw
Outer Worlds 1 and any dlc/updates or what have you will all be handled by Private Division I don't think they've indicated anything regarding future games.

Obsidian has said their work on Outer Worlds is part of why MS bought them but does that mean MS wants Outer Worlds itself or does MS want Obsidian to do new games like Outer Worlds but as a new IP is the question.

[MadLad]

@edkick

Seems realistic if OW does well, MS will continue the series as a MS exclusive. The name already holds a lot of weight ... as long as it delivers.

[EDKICK]

@TheRealTedCruz
They very well may do that but they also may want to establish something as completely their own or they may want to avoid any "backlash" associated with making a sequel to a multiplat an exclusive.

[william_cade]

Even if it's New Vegas bug style, I will still pick it up.

[mandingo]

Good to hear they’re rushing the game!

[Question_Mark]

Wait, this game isn’t going to be open world? Welp, my interest in it has plummeted.

[neomahi]

Man, Obsidian sure likes to complain.

[sprinterboy]

So basically it's gonna be a buggy mess at launch

[dennigo]

"the amount of time we have" just release it when it's done or it's gonna suck, that's a fact. deadlines are ruining games!

[Rachel_Alucard]

After seeing that Pax demo alot of people were turned off by it last week. https://youtu.be/6ixpOzeeTZ...

Every channel that demo was uploaded on always has way more dislikes then likes, it has nothing to do with the Epic deal since the comments are all targeting things like animations and the game just looking stiff and low quality. What a shame.

[bluefox755]

Seems like they're tempering expectations, doesn't sound good.

[MadLad]

If there's a developer that can work within a time restraint, it's Obsidian. They're dedicated as all hell. It's literally the reason they were given the Kotor and Fallout (post 3) license. They still made better, if buggy, follow-ups both times.

[Dizzy11523]

This game is gonna be a shit show. Their excuses are already making the rounds.

[averagejoe26]

Welp, that killed my hype a little bit.

Didn't realize they were being rushed. Not a good sign.

[Donnie81]

Chop chop obsidian it’s time to start your halo rpg

[FITSniper]

Just take more time guys.