THE OUTER WORLDS 2 IS SAVED

The first one is weird because the story/setting and companions were very good but the gameplay and RPG mechanics didn't live up to the Obsidian hype and was more similar to Fallout 3.

This looks like Tim Cain is finally free to make a more hardcore RPG based on player agency and build crafting, especially after BG3 knocked it out of the park by being unapologetic.

I am a big Todd guy. Love TES 3-5 and even FO3/4. I will admit that Starfield was a massive dissapointment and I couldn't get through more than 5-6 hours. But somehow, some way, this game will be worse, I guarantee it.

lol ok

It's an actual RPG

confirmed actual perk system

traits have mechanical variation

It's already better than any shit Bethesda put out. Nothing will be worse than Skyrim perk trees

unironically

Wow, it's going to be so amazing to spec into Guns, Persuade, and Lockpick for the 5649th time. This is really going to revolutionize the rpg formula.

would rather see Outer Wilds 2 and I really don't, a sequel could only screw up what was a fine little story on its own

Companions were good until you leave the first planet and then their storylines get hijacked by retard writers.

what is Anon Babble's problem with the first game? i think it sucks but its better than a lot of games you people enjoy

what trait let's you chop off your dick and wear a dress?

it's the ugliest fucking video game I've ever seen and I'm not exaggerating

2 years later and trannies are still malding over the superior starfield lmao

Anybody who says this does not play many games.

who is sawyer

When the developers of today (homosexuals and women) are given carte blanch they almost always overextend and deliver a jumbled mess if a product and I expect no less here

ign.com/articles/how-the-outer-worlds-2-lets-you-go-wild-with-rpg-character-building-ign-first

“We're looking for ways to incentivize the player to experiment with different builds, either traditional or non-traditional,” design director Matt Singh told me in a conversation about how the team has revamped its RPG mechanics.

“We would often see characters good at everything, which by the end of the game, minimized your personal experience with your character,” lead systems designer Kyle Koenig told me when reflecting on the first game and considering changes for the sequel. Part of how Obsidian is doing that is by moving away from the Skill categories that grouped your stats together in the original and going with individual Skills that have more drastic differences between them. “We wanted to focus on making each individual level-up and investment really important.

“We have a lot of Perks that are catered towards non-traditional play styles,” Singh mentioned, giving an example of carving out a build for players who essentially kill every NPC in sight. You can go down that route and lean into it with Perks such as Psychopath and then Serial Killer that’ll grant bonuses, like permanent health boosts, for playing this way. “Especially in an Obsidian game where we allow you to kill anybody – the game's going to respond, it's going to roll with it, and you're going to still be able to complete the game.

“Even if you want to mix and match them, you can be a character that's all about plasma and burning things alive while getting healing from it – or using shock damage to scramble automechs and have them fight for you temporarily while paralyzing creatures and humans – or using corrosive damage to take away all their armor and make it so all your attacks against them are critical hits that deal insane amounts of damage.”

The dude who made the Jsawyer mod for New Vegas :^)

100% know what your fav quest was

which one ?

TOW also read like it would be really cool, then I actually played the game. Even though the rpg elements have pretty good bones (too many "lol +10% damage durrrr" perks though), everything else is so uninspired that I can't even remember any characters or story beats or locations. A perfectly "fine" game, nothing more. I suspect the same will be true of the sequel. I might pirate if I have literally nothing else to do for 30 hours.

better have fun guns. thats all i really care about

Bury Saarfield

Saarfield is shit, but nothing Obsidian has put out after NV has been anywhere near even decent. The only company that's fallen off harder then Obsidian is fucking Bioware.

Outer Worlds 1 was just "we have Borderlands at home" this looks to be more of the same(aka utter dogshit)

Saarfield is shit

Obviously. Actually impressed by how factually wrong the rest of your post is

Pillars 1 was just a generic BG1/2 clone that would've been totally forgotten if it had came out in the early 2000s back when that was popular

Tyranny was the same, and everyone forgot about it the moment it came out.

Pillars 2 was even more of the same, and by this point people caught on and the game flopped, selling 1/10 the number of copies needed to break even.

Grounded was a "Honey I've Shrunk the Kids at home" and everyone forgot about it the week it came out

Outer worlds was just a shitty Borderlands clone that, within 2-3 weeks of the game coming out, the number one discussion was "I've forgotten I played this" and "oh yeah, that happened"

Avowed tried to be a Skyrim killer, but failed so bad as basic game design it somehow manages to have less world interactivity then fucking Morrowind did in 2002

Expecting OW2 to be anything other then pure dog shit

The people who played it finished it and moved on.
The people shitposting about it got bored and moved on.

shan't read

The first one sucked so I don’t have any hopes

Tyranny was the only good game Obsidian made in the last decade.

Tranny was not a good game

kek slam dunk

WOAAAAAAAAAAAH plus 1% DAMAGE RESISTANCE???? THIS IS THE BEST RPG SINCE CYBERPUNK!!!!

It's fucking lifeless. It's without character. It is the most bland, absolute nothing of a game you can imagine. It's not horrible by any means. It runs, it functions, it has a beginning, middle, and end. But I could not for the life of me recall a single character. The entire game is just so fucking BORING. They tried to make Mass Effect, New Vegas, and Borderlands all into one, and did nothing any of the games do well correctly. It is a game made by committee. It is the safest, most inoffensive thing you can possibly create. It was made by committee. It, unironically, has absolutely no soul or passion in it. It is a nothing of a game. It is a 5/10. You will at least remember a dogshit game, but you can play through this entire game and literally forget everything that happened right after you beat it because it's so fucking lifeless.

I didn't realize you took the barbarian class
How low must your int be that you immediately jump to mutilation and crossdressing.

It's fucking lifeless. It's without character.

wrong

If Bethesda and Obsidian are owned by Microsoft, what prevents Obsidian from using Bethesda's Creation Engine 2 to make Outer Worlds 2 exactly? they've already proven with New Vegas that they could shit out a new game that's really good if they reuse assets and have an engine already made for a first person sandbox RPG

game was so boring and ugly I played it for 5 hours and uninstalled after I left the first planet like everyone else did

What do you think they're doing right fucking now with a sequel to an existing game lmao

what prevents Obsidian from using Bethesda's Creation Engine 2 to make Outer Worlds 2 exactly?

Obsidian lacks the manpower to do it, and Obsidian themselves have admitted they don't WANT to make those kind of scale of games. They just want to make very middle of the road AA style games.

they have no passion, no drive. They just want to be eternally mid.

What do you think they're doing right fucking now with a sequel to an existing game lmao

Unreal Engine 5 slop with items that can't be moved around and with a world that will feel as static as Outer Worlds or Avowed

Mandatory RPG mechanic, moving items around

Not him but, its 2025. No one is asking for full on Bethesda level immersive sim, but looking at Avowed its pathetic how backwards and primitive it feels compared to any other game

Will it be more woke than OW1 and Avowed?

believe it or not, RPGs are more than just levelling up, equipping gear and selecting perks/skills, it's also interacting with your surroundings, including items

When that's your big worry it's only right to have a laugh mate

Sawyer isn't involved.

im hype

as vast as a swimming pool

deep as the morning dew in the the summer

never buying another obsidian game after the first outer worlds and avowed

perks with dialogue and choices!

backgrounds with dialogue and choices!

shit even Starfield had

Anon....I know we're desperate to hate Starfield but Obsidian has failed to make a BG killer, a Skyrim killer, and a Fallout killer. This isn't making things better when they can't claim better than Fallout 3 at this point. This Obsidian cycle gets so tiring. They just released fucking Avowed.

I was only hoping they had learned their lesson and course corrected their bottom of the barrel character dialogue. But it looks like they doubled down on it instead. What a shame. What a waste. ,

Tried too hard to be funny and it wasn't. Then they desperately drop quests in your lap while promising choices but ultimately making it black and white - either go good guy or go corpo and the corpo shit doesn't seem close to good at all until its way too late in the game. They make ghost towns and just fail to make you give a shit about the story or the characters. And every time there is a character you like they drop the ball somehow.

Sawyer won

Is Sawyer even working on it?

This looks like Tim Cain is finally free to make a more hardcore RPG based on player agency and build crafting

Tim is retired and only a consultant on 2.

black and white

all the choices boiled down to siding with the incompetent stupid male or the competent smart female

>No respec

Oh, so it will be just like New Vegas where I have to either read the wiki or trial and error every perk I consider potentially useful because depending on the actualy % chance of that Super Slam perk it could either be irrelevant or gamechanging. Nice.

I don't have anything against it, I just have nothing good to say about it. It's not bad, it's just ok.

HOOOOOOOOLY SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT IS THAT ENVIRONMENTAL STORYTELLING WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW THANK YOU BETHESDA

pentiment not mentioned at all

Says a lot about our society.

This.
Plus Tim had his fucking freedom with OW1. They begged him to direct it and were willing to meet extra demands he had. With full control, a long career full of tons of experience, and his pick of crew....he made OW1. Even if he were director of OW2 that's no saving grace.

You can go down that route and lean into it with Perks such as Psychopath and then Serial Killer that’ll grant bonuses, like permanent health boosts, for playing this way.

That screams generic by the numbers stat boosts. Not worthwhile roleplay. Why not make it unlock a perk where it’s harder to complete quests, if not flat out locks you out of some routes because the npcs are too terrified to even be in the same vicinity as you. Why not make it so you’re locked out of all vendors because they don’t want to do business with you outside of a ludicrous mark up?

Not just your average environmental storytelling. Its LE EPIC TOP HAT! Hope I can respec my name into Sir Hattington of Le Outer Worlds. Fuck it I'm just gonna name my character that from the beginning!!!!

No one remembers Pentiment is even a thing because it was so shit and worthless.

Fallout 4 was such a low bar to beat and they still couldn't do it with Outer Worlds, it felt like the skeleton of a game

And don't forget to wear a bear costume and spec into knives because OH MY DOG IS THAT A TEDDY BEAR WITH A KNIFE HOLY FUCK HAHAHAHAHAHA THAT'S HILARIOUS ENVIRONMENTAL STORYTELLING BRAVO BETHESDA BRAVO

Oh boy here we go. Listen. Numbers go up. You like that right? Just shut up and take it. We're not triple A here. See. See? This is what I was telling everyone! Baldur's Gate 3 made you entitled you fucking pricks!

It's kind of a crazy place for his career to end considering his legacy but there are lower notes to end on all things considered, especially for the old guard CRPG guys.

it felt like the skeleton of a game

thats the main issue i had with the game. theres like 1 town and 1 planet and the rest of it is just like a couple small areas

Outer Worlds is absolute proof that normalfags don't actually like good things and they just consoom whatever they perceive to be liked. There was nothing going for this garbage and it got glowing praise because it was made by the "good developers" while the "bad developers" were shitting the bed with Fallout 76.
You can convince a normalfag of literally anything if you can make him believe it's the consensus.

All I can say is that I'm happy he could end on a financial success at least. Tim Cain was never the guarantee success people made him out to be and he knows it. He genuinely needs a good team and Obsidian doesn't have that.

no respec

fuck you. Just fuck you. Im not modding rpgs released in 2025 just so I can have a qol feature.

inb4 git gud

I'm not restarting the game because a perk I thought was cool/good for my character turned out to be useless due to a bug/incompetent game design. Get a fucking clue, Obsidian.

The public mythos of No Man's Sky is a testament to that. I picked it up months ago. First time ever playing it. I am absolutely sure most people praising its redemption have not tried it. Never seen a game reduce planet exploration to shopping at different aisles in a grocery store. Of course they can do 40 updates when the content is shallow and easy to implement.

compromised national security in the name of ideology

This is how you can tell this is conservative slop. The NSA was a fucking evil agency before trannies got anywhere near it. It exists to push wars and regime change and spy on you, not maintain "national security". Not surprising at all it would be full of trannies.

The worst part is feeling how much the writers are resisting doing this type of humor. Everything is on the verge of being this.

There are far too many examples to list, but I do very much agree on NMS. It's like 3D Starbound, down to adding promissed features in a barebones retarded way.

I get this is one of those weird reverse bait thread people post because they have 8 or 9 different mental disorders that prevent them from conversing like a normal person.

That being said, I am sort of looking forward to it. Outer Worlds 1 was okay at best. I liked Avowed though so Im hoping this is more like that.

normalfag lesser posts something that doesn’t measure up

It’s embarrassing at this point

what the fuck do you mean artstyle change? avowed has the same tranny artstyle as outer worlds, anyways, i played outer worlds for like 1h and it was dogshit

Modern WRPGs are a bunch of monkeys tossing shit at each other and everything else in a ball room, shrieking in monkey gobbledygook how they're the best at organizing balls as they cover the ball in shit.
A handful of people are so desperate for a decent ball they'll pretend shit-flinging in inherent to WRPGs and should be graded by amount of shit... meanwhile the vast majority are revolted and leave the ballroom.
This is the most pathetic thread on Anon Babble right now.

As someone who thinks most Obsidian games are mid, I've got zero problems with them honestly. Average experiences to fill the gaps, play casually through. I'd argue they're perfect gamepass games. Hell, if you said you think they're all great it's whatever. Its the faggotry of their fans putting each game on a pedestal and trying to contest it as a superior product. Even Tim Cain for OW1 was telling people not to make this a war against Fallout. But these obsidianfags can't go a day without trying to shit on something just to feel happy about their choices.

t. played skyrim when xe was 12 and now its xir gold standard for rpgs

The first game was lame as hell
What can this game do to regain your trust in Obsidian, Anon Babble?

The people who played it got bored and moved on.

The people shitposting about it got bored and moved on.

ftfy

The first one was disgustingly woke. The dyke NPCs were vomitous to look at

Nothing. Close down, industry blacklist Sawyer and the fucking women, everyone else can move on to better things.

straight into the bin after beating it twice, it was pretty fun

Yeah the segmentation was so off that you don't even run into the "deathclaw" tier enemy until you're more than capable of obliterating it in a few seconds of sustained fire

Oh no, how do we keep up with Bethesda!

Steal more ideas

Literally that, i'd laugh even harder if they also copy the persuasiom system. Fucking hacks

No respec, the choices made matter, allows multiclassing but also focuses heavily on specialization of differing playstyles

thank god. no master of all playthroughs

>Expanded Backgrounds that affect dialogue options and relationships at multiple points throughout the story

>Expanded Perks that include different roleplaying options and playstyles, even having stuff like "serial killer" perk

>Traits are now defined by an economy of positive and negative traits with stuff like "if you slide into enemies you break their knees" and "you are dumb, get dumb dialogue and can't learn certain skills"

All of this but sonehow your character STILL can't get laid because that's icky. But he'll still get to watch other characters get laid, just like Outer Worlds 1 and Avowed.

I had a huge soft spot for TOW1

the PROBLEM was that after the first planet you can tell they ran out of money and had to scrounge to finish it.
hopefully with microsoft backing they can flesh out the full game

Was OW1 actually good? Haven't played a decent rpg in a long time and need to scratch that itch.

The problem is that after the first planet the dykes took over every aspect of writing. That's why the mechanic suddenly turned into an asexual nonbinary dyke like her new writer and why the reasonable, intelligent sympathetic priest character dropped all pretense of thoughtful examination for religion and went full LOL IMAGINE BELIEVING IN A SKYBABY I'M CONVERTING TO ATHEISM NOW PRAISE SCIENCE after smoking weed in his companion quest.

read the thread you absolute dongus .

shut up i want to discuss the actual game not your troon illusions you retarded nigger

everything after Terra-2, the first planet is where the quality declines

It looked like LOTR then it looked gay

Shut the fuck up you fucking faggot apologist. That's exactly what happens you dumb cunt, Parvati suddenly turns into an asexual dyke and Max turns his back on religion. Don't even try to act hard when you unironically guzzle down this leftist wokeslop you little bitch.

do your progressive reddit friends know you type troon and nigger when you're anonymous on Anon Babble? oof yikes

Was OW1 actually good?

i enjoyed it

this game could really benefits from stealth assassination animations