The Outer Worlds Interview with Obsidian's Brian Hines on Gameplay, RP, Microsoft Buyout & More

Wccftech talked with Obsidian's Senior Designer Brian Hines about the upcoming The Outer Worlds and how Microsoft's buyout affected the studio.

[ccgr]

I want to play this one!

[eddvdm]

Me too, but tbh only playing it soon because it's coming for Xbox Game Pass - else I would gladly expect it to go on sale at GOG or Steam.

First and foremost, EGS will never be installed on my PC.

Second, although this time isn't in a bugfest Bethesda engine, I expect some beta quality of bugs just because almost all AAA/AA games launch like that nowadays. Thanks to Epic we now have a good bunch of people who pays full price to beta test those.

[V10Elit3x]

I hope the game turns out well, im craving a RPG title now

[ReadyPlayer22]

I am very interested in their unannounced RPG IP. The team working on that is even bigger than the one working on The Outer Worlds.

[Old_Prodigy]

Wonder if the sequels will make it to PlayStation consoles in the future.

[IzziNomm4234]

Depends if MS goes fully third party or not. Leonard Boyarsky confirmed that MS owns the Outer Worlds IP and Matt Booty stated they want to push it to be a Halo Gears level franchise. If the Outer Worlds sequels come to Switch and Sony platforms its safe to assume that Halo Forza Fable Gears etc will be right along side it.

[Cueil]

All signs point to no

[Raiden]

@ Old _prodigy,

They have already said all games that where been made for multiplats will be will be released, but all sequels remains exclusive to there platforms, no other console will be receiving sequels.

[Automatic79]

Looking forward to this game.

[Cueil]

Yes

[GameStallion]

Got a little excited when watching a video on YouTube about TOW today. MS buyout makes me less excited.

[Cueil]

If I had to pick one of the big three to buy out a company it would be Microsoft because at least we'll get a PC version

[Raiden]

Why is that making you less excite, because MS bought them or chances are you won't be able to play the sequel. You fan boys need to grow up, and stop the fan fanatic bull crap, these developers that MS has purchase is good for everyone, it's only bad because some or most of you swing for the other side, most of these devs do have crunch time anymore, they are not worried about job security on top of it, this is not the TERRY MEYERSON generation who didn't care about games and the gamers, MS got slapped big time this gen, almost all there games couldn't be compared to PlayStation, although GT v Forza, 2 Forza games got released GOW reboot v Gears 4 and 5, GOW took 6yrs to make and Gears 5 took a extra yr which in total development time was 3yrs, all PS4 games started development at the end of PS3, Sony used the 3rd party to cover up there lack of games to give there developers more time to create games, this is why Shawn Layden said way back don't expect those big cinematic games, MS played the smart card this gen is over we lost let's get ready for next gen, more studios working on more than one title make the studios bigger and only market titles that have a following, it's pointless wasting money locking content away from others platforms when those games end up there anyway.bottom line people do what most gamers did, buy all the consoles and enjoy your gaming.

[GameStallion]

It makes me less “excite” because they are a terrible company who infuse invester-first, gamer-second business policies like microtransactions into their first-party games. You make a lot of assumptions, but I actually own both consoles, genius. So moving forward, before you start writing long dissertations about how much you trust Microsoft and how much you actually don’t know, just don’t.