>3 months until release
>no hype
Why does no one cares about The Outer Worlds 2 when the first game was successful?

>>715956687 (OP)
>when the first game was successful?

>>715956687 (OP)
The first came arrived without hype as well, seemed to have done fine.

This is one of those franchises that I genuinely think is better off not existing, fuck. Why are they dragging this poor property through several more years of life support?

>>715956687 (OP)
>download it free in Epic
>check the npc you can marry
>they all look either woke or just plain annoying
>uninstall after epilogue

>game about how capitalism is bad
>$80

The other Outer game was better

>>715956687 (OP)
>$80
Obsidian is being shutdown aren't they?

>>715957236
Good choice. All the companions are trash and I'm not exaggerating.

>>715956687 (OP)
>when the first game was successful
was it? I don't play Bethesda slop, but I feel like this had way less cultural impact than any of the recent bethesda sloppa. I only remembered it existed because I was googling how long outer wilds is and got confused over which game was which

>>715957318
Max is cool, but only before you finish his quest, after which he goes full dude weed lmao

>>715956687 (OP)
lack of paid reviewers and shills this time around, they might all come out at once closer to launch

>>715956687 (OP)
OW1 was the most meh avg game I played

>>715957219
Because microsoft didn't own fallout at the time
>>715957343
It's not bethesda you fucking retard.

Not even the trooniest New Vegas fanboy cared about Outer Worlds

>>715956687 (OP)
because
>the first game was bland and boring as fuck
>avowed was even more dogshit and bland and boring
>the developers openly stated they hate white people
it's that simple really

>>715957257
no, it's about capitalism that has absolutely no regulations

>>715956687 (OP)
the first one was a pretty bad game with an interesting setting, lagged a lot even on good pc's and the combat was just braindead boring

still don't know why the game even tried to sell me ammo in it's stores, i had like 5000+ rifle rounds at the end game

>>715957596
it's the same thing. people still talk about new vegas but not this game, retard

>>715956687 (OP)
I loves the outer worlds 1, im not into big bland wasteland rpgs like fallout so it works for me

>>715958028
No, it's not the same thing. Instead of accepting you're a retard you just doubled down on it.

>>715956687 (OP)
Release as in taking massive shit after being constipated? Sounds like The Outer Worlds 2.

>>715956687 (OP)
There's an Outer Wilds 2?

This game is destined for 170 players all time peak on Steam

>>715958881
Naah, I gander it breaks one thousand easily!

>>715957596
Meh, at least with the numbering it'll be far less likely to be confused for The Outer Wilds; a very different and far better space game.

>>715956687 (OP)
>when the first game was successful?
It was successful because people thought it'd be something it wasn't and games media lied their asses off claiming it was new vegas 2 in space. That trick works only once.

>>715956687 (OP)
Nobody cared about the first.

>>715957257
>2025
>he still thinks not liking capitalism means you are not allowed to be paid
subzero IQ

>>715956687 (OP)
>Why does no one cares about The Outer Worlds 2 when the first game was successful?
Microsoft can't do marketing right.

I really liked the Outer Worlds despite not being a fan of Fallout. I wont buy it full price but at 40 maybe, sure.

>>715957395
>Paid reviews
I actually wonder how big of a difference it will now make for reviews now that USAID got cut so all the shills aren't getting paid

>>715956687 (OP)
lol literalyl who asked for this

$80 gamepass slop

>>715956687 (OP)
Outer Worlds was completely soulless. I've never played a game that was more bland and unappealing before.

We all went into it expecting New Vegas and in a way we got it, just without all the stuff that made New Vegas memorable.

It didn't even have any major issues. It was a perfectly competent game that just wasn't fun or interesting. I was bored out of my mind playing it, why the fuck would I be hyped for a sequel?

The first one is what made me iffy on modern Obsidian. The game completely falls apart after the tutorial planet. The capital planet of the all the bigwig corpos is a fucking street with like 3 side quests, immensely disappointing.

>outer worlds was okay
>avowed was skyrim for girls
>not exactly bangers
>why is there no hype for their next game??

>>715957395
Find one (1) obsidian game where they obviously bribed journos. You can't.
And it has always bitten them in the ass not doing so.

>>715957596
>It's not bethesda you fucking retard.
No shit, he said bethesda slop, go on and say it's not you fucking retard. While we're at it lemme break the news that souls likes aren't made by fromsoft either.

>>715957236
you can't marry any npc

>>715959360
I actually liked the capitalist jeet and antifa questline but the filler world garbage you had to engage with to see that story through really wore me down.

>>715957158
There was a ton of hype surrounding the first game because they kept advertising it as New Vegas in space

>>715956687 (OP)
Capitalism bad fellow redditors
>Brought to you by Microsoft

Even the first game fucking sucked. The 2nd one will not even touch Avowed player numbers. Mark my words

>>715956687 (OP)
All i remember about the first game is that i pirated it, played for 3 hours, got turned off by the writing, characters, aesthetics and shit gameplay and proceeded to uninstall.

>>715957236
The game is actually custom-crafted specifically to make the player annoyed with the companions. It's aping Fallout, where the gameplay loop is that you come across a companion, you engage with them, and they're relatively deferential to you the player. They like you, they grow to idolize you for the things you do, etc. And you do their personal quests specifically so you can find out more about them and get closer to them.

But in The Outer Worlds it's kind of the opposite. Literally the first chick you meet who becomes your companion, actually doesn't even like you or care about you at all. Most of them are just assholes who need you to do stuff for them that is of no benefit to you. Her quest is literally that she's a lesbian (not for you) and is hot for some rando chick on a space station and she wants you to wingman her on a date so she can hook up.

>>715956687 (OP)
>capitalism is LE BAD
>80 dollars
>owned by richest corporation in human history

>>715959786
it has never been easier or faster to make vidya
they can ask any price they want

>>715956687 (OP)
>$80 bucks
It's dead on arrival. And no I'm not subscribing to Game Pass.

>>715959786
>capitalism is LE BAD
Really its corporatism which is even more ironic because the game itself was designed to be a paint by numbers soulless game with nothing controversial in it like a typical generic corporate product.

>>715959786
Oh shit, Outer Worlds was made by the East India Company?

>>715959913
Don't worry it'll be 90% off during the next summer sale after obsidian closes.

>>715959772
> Her quest is literally that she's a lesbian (not for you) and is hot for some rando chick on a space station and she wants you to wingman her on a date so she can hook up.
Don't forget that not only is she a lesbian, but she's an asexual lesbian. An entire companion ruined by a self inserting woman writer. Don't even get me started on what they did to the priest companion.

>>715959786
>hating capitalism means you are not allowed to charge money for anything
imagine being dumber than a 10 year old

Was the first one actually worth playing? I'm pretty sure I have an unclaimed key from some Humble Choice or Monthly years ago. Apparently all the companions are lesbians like in New Vegas and won't fuck you?

reddit writing

>>715959786
The game actually never really (that I remember) comes out an makes a specific stance on capitalism/corporatism being "bad", specifically because they're trying really really hard to make it feel like Fallout in a "both sides of every issue kind of suck" way but instead of just making everyone absurd they make the people with jobs absurd corporate cultists and they make the people without jobs just downtrodden normals who want to live their lives. Which would make it an easy choice (I guess) except that every decision you have to make specifically is written so someone's life is made way worse because of it, or everyone's is.

It's just very dull and not very fun.

>>715960626
>all the companions are lesbians
yes because everything /v/pol/ says is true. The game is WOKE DEI LEDDIT HYPERGAY TRANNY DA JOOOOOS PROPAGANDA

>>715960626
Its aggressively mediocre. Its fine if you desperately want to play something like New Vegas but for whatever reason don't have access to New Vegas.

>>715960626
>Was the first one actually worth playing?
No, not really. It's Fallout 3 or New Vegas, but instead of being a relatively open world it's a series of a few isolated exploration zones you can bounce between, and there's nearly nothing in the way of loot, items, or interesting things to see and do. The characters are super one-note and often insultingly bad and most of them exist to make you feel like a glorified servant for the whole game.

It's about as forgettable and uninteresting as it is possible for a video game to be.

>>715956687 (OP)
I would be hyped for it if Outer Worlds 1 and Avowed didn't exist.
I like "one problem multiple solutions" games but knowing Obsidian that bridge segment (from the xbox showcase's preview) is probably the only good example of it and everything else will be
>SUPPORT capitalism
>HATE capitalism
>can't we all just get along?
No point in wasting $80 on that.

>>715959786
The fact that people don't call out this type of shit more often is insane to me, you have all of these games and movies saying "CAPITALISM BAD!" that are made by soulless multimillion conglomerates and nobody seems to care
It's like those leftoid communist grifters that are all rich as fuck and wear expensive clothes and jewelry

>>715956687 (OP)
I think after Outer Worlds and Avowed, people are finally realizing that the Obsidian they used to love is no mo'. They're now the kings of painfully mediocre games.

>>715956687 (OP)
The moment some nigress AI greeted me on the spaceship I threw that shit to the trash. It was awfully mediocre even to that point I can't imagine it would have gotten much better.

>>715961038
>everything else will be
>>SUPPORT capitalism
>>HATE capitalism
>>can't we all just get along?
>No point in wasting $80 on that.

It's more like

>There's a generator in the basement
>Cartoonish Company that runs the town needs the power to make their canned food! It employs people even if those jobs are miserable.
>But there's a group of outcasts outside the town who need the power for their commune!
>Do you redirect power from the town so the factory shuts down and everyone loses their jobs? Or do you redirect it from the commune so the outcast hippies die and the company makes lots of money?

>>715956687 (OP)
>What if we made New Vegas in space?
Oh fuck yes! TAKE MY MON-
>But we got all these blue hairs and wannabe commies to write it?
OH FOR FUCKS SAKE

>>715960872
>there's nearly nothing in the way of loot, items, or interesting things to see and do.
The attributes and perks are also seemingly designed to be as uninteresting as possible like the rest of the game. Kinda funny that the gameplay and systems were essentially themselves performance art reinforcing the game's main theme.

The first one was bad.
Everyone was using it to dunk on how rotten Fallout76 was, but it turns out Fallout76 wasn't as bad.
That's just embarrassing.

>>715956687 (OP)
Unlike you faggots I actually played the first game to completion and it fucking sucks
I wish I didn't but I was naive thinking obsidian still got it.

>>715961205
>Do you redirect power from the town so the factory shuts down and everyone loses their jobs? Or do you redirect it from the commune so the outcast hippies die and the company makes lots of money?
So many of the quests are this verbatim.

>>715961542
Fallout 76 was a shitpile when it came out, but it probably has been built into a better state now. It's biggest crime though, is that it's an online game so that no matter what you're still stuck with the vanilla Fallout experience.

obshitian have made it clear to me that they dont want my custom
im a "crusty white dude" and if they wont hire me, im sure they wont miss my money either

>>715956687 (OP)
>Release game to mediocre success
>Release a shitton of deluxe editions with le quirky ironic name
>Announce sequel that no one asked for
>Don't market it at all
What are they hoping to achieve? Kill another studio?
btw what will happen with Avowed? Will there be a sequel too?

>>715956687 (OP)
Another Microsoft gaypass slop

Not that every quest needs to be yet another ethical dilemma trolley problem with no clear right answer, but I do find that sort of quest most interesting than just a checklist of everyone's problems which I solve for them by doing the morally correct and ethically uncomplicated thing every time like you end up doing in most RPGs. Go fix the generator, go find my lost son, escort the doctor sick kids at the orphanage. I find that sort of shit boring as fuck. Then every NPC acts like you're Jesus for fixing all their problems and strokes your ego because you did the right thing, even though you didn't face a single difficult choice or messy situation.

I generally like the choice between "Keep my hands clean, but don't effect greater change" vs "Get my hands dirty, and make a difference" type dilemmas. Because on one hand I can save the orphans now but it doesn't resolve why there are so many orphans in need of saving, it just kicks the can down the road, or I could purposefully let the orphans die, sabotaging the efforts to save them, pin the atrocity on the corporation in a false flag, and use the outrage to overthrow corpo control over the colony. One make you feel good about yourself because you did the right thing but everyone still suffers as a result, and the other makes you feel gross for the terrible things you did, but now everyone on the colony is free and people will argue endlessly about which one is the 'right' thing to do.

>>715957236
>after epilogue
Why did you finish the game?

I really want to meet someone who liked the first game and discuss reasons why. No matter how many times I return to it I just don't "get" it.

>>715957236
all the companions are dogshit but obsidian decided "romance bad" and the most you can do with any of them is basically act like a fuckin shrink

>>715963781
Was there anyone in Outer Worlds you actually wanted to romance? Even if it was an option I can't think of a single character I'd want to romance in that game.

>>715963772
>criticizing a game you didn't finish
I seriously hope you guys don't do this.

>>715963872
No, but out of everybody, Ellie wasn't too bad.

First game's fucking awful. It's poorly designed and halfassed. There's a location early in the game that speaks to how halfassed it is. Right outside of the starting town, there's a bunch of buildings, and in one them, you can jump on crates to get up to the second floor of one, and it serves not purpose at all. Doesn't offer a stealth alternative. Offers no loot. No content whatsoever. It's just a path back down via stairs. Whole game sucks ass.

>>715962593
>Don't market it at all
They got a 50min presentation right after the xbox showcase.

>What are they hoping to achieve?
Obsidian exists to develop "nerd cave" bait for the game pass.

>>715964665
Why do they keep doing poorly and being shit on then? BG3 basically makes all their pseudo-nerd cave games look like total fucking garbage. It doesn't give anyone their fix.

>>715956687 (OP)
Millions will play it on gaypass

>>715965053
That's like a bunch of homoniggers watching goyslop on Netflix.

>>715964665
A presentation on the Xbox showcase is like no presentation. They need the jeets on 4chan and reddit. They need ads on YouTube and every game show. They need some fake drama to get engagement.

The whole "nerd cave" has been debunked with Veilguard being a failure. I understand why EA thought it was a thing but nowadays does not make sense

>>715956687 (OP)
The game is going to flop and that is a good thing. I am not happy about people losing jobs (seriously) but this game represents a lot of wrong in the industry.
>New $80 price tag for no reason other than corporate greed
>Selling "early access" (AKA the real release date) for an additional charge
>Preselling you DLC before you've even played the game
>First game was very mediocre with very few RPG elements, incredibly small levels, a few decisions that ultimately meant nothing, and the ability to pass every speech/skill check by changing your hat/pants and taking some drugs
>Awful companions with quests that are 5 minutes long except for the asexual lesbian who has an entire quest chain devoted to setting up some cringe ass aromantic date
>Story can be summarized as CORPORATIONS BAD, MORTY *BUUUUUUUUUUUUUURRRPPPP* WE'RE OWNED BY THE RICHEST COMPANY IN THE WORLD MOOOOOOOOOORRRRTTTYYY (yes, I know they weren't at the time)
>Game tries to have a satirical/humorous tone but is desperately unfunny
So, hopefully this game flopping will teach Microsoft and the industry at large a lesson. We don't want $80 games that are selling you DLC, season passes, and early access too.

>>715965716
That's cool and all but you're completely ignoring gamepass, which this shovelware was made for, any additional profits outside of that ecosystem are just nice bonus and NOT the point, I mean look at all the preorder bonuses and seasons passes and editions on Steam, they're literally abusing you like a brain damaged retard with a fat wallet, you get all of that shit "for free" on gamepass

>>715966340
Nowhere near enough people are gonna sign up for gamepass to play it to recoup the cost. Unless Obsidian is fully subsidized by Microsoft and they experience no layoffs then the game will absolutely be a flop. I know Microsoft owns them, but they own plenty of studios and close them or fire half the staff.
Then again, Avowed probably didn't turn much of a profit either and maybe they're just throwing darts at the board and hoping that their one studio with some ancient goodwill will somehow generate them some games of note.

>>715960614
>hating capitalism means you are not allowed to be greedy
fixed it for you, faggot

>>715966638
I remember reading gamepass is in a "sustainable" place for now and that's good enough for microsoft, muh flops don't matter, what matters is to keep making new shovelware so that people don't cancel their sub

>>715964828
Quality doesn't matter, the game pass needs RPGs and Obsidian's job is to develop more game pass RPGs.
Even the $80 price tag is just there to convince you get a subscription (and hopefully forget to cancel it) instead of buying it on Steam/Epic/etc.

>>715965279
Veilguard is godawful, but allegedly it still sold +1.5mil copies.
Either nerds don't watch trailers or they are really that desperate for a new game with swords, numbers and fuckable elves.

I'll probably try it.
I don't know, my problem with Outer Worlds I think is that it's what people try to claim Fallout is, staunchly anti-capitalist.

But the response from Fallout devs is always the same. They weren't interested in making a firm political statement any way in particular, they just wanted to present some interesting options that were fun thinking about, even if that meant presenting brutal authoritarianism as a potentially viable solution. They wanted intrigue in an RPG. Outer Worlds doesn't really have that much intrigue.
>the corporations are short-sighted, stupid and brutal because of course they are
>their citizens are brainwashed and immoral because of course they are (this is sometimes presented in an interesting way)
>they're destroying the galaxy in a global warming analogue because of course they are

Like damn, a corporation with the purpose of chasing profit with no oversight will pursue endless growth to the point of self-destruction? I don't need to discover that.

>>715956687 (OP)
The modern audience will buy it so I don't have to

>>715966939
1.5M is a great number for an indie or AA game. For a AAA+ game is not even breaking even, specially taking into account that it was in development for almost a decade

I'm still confused as to why Obsidian deliberately made Unreal engine look like Gamebryo.

>>715966939
>fuckable elves
There is a fuglified dwarf from DA3 and a nogger. Take it or leave it. Oh, and Awoved advertised no romances, but included the gay feesh. They always bitched about how pandering to gamers bad, and "artistic" writing good, well, they meant gay feesh.

>>715970452
The dwarf in Veilguard is caked up as fuck though. They made her a Pixar mom through and through, with the face and massive dumptruck to match.

>>715956687 (OP)
No one cared about it here

>>715956687 (OP)
Because normalfags are no longer obsessed with shitting ob Bethesda so they have no excuse to pretend it's good to make Todd jealous.

>>715956687 (OP)
OW1 was hyped to hell as "NV in space with the original fallout director!". Then it was mediocre but the hype train had it going. Now everyone knows the truth and it ain't pretty. Not only that but even if you did like OW1 you really don't want to talk about it because obsidianfags perpetually have Todd Howard's dick engorged in their ass. They can never discuss any of their games without talking about Bethesda.

>>715956687 (OP)
I dont remember anything about the first game except feeling bored and regretting pissing away time playing it

>>715956687 (OP)
>naming your shit game the outer worlds to try and snuff out the outer wilds coming out at the same time, a small passionate indie game project in development for a long while

>fucking outer worlds has anticapitalist gruel served to the player in his shit story

alright I want those niggers to crash and burn

>>715959786
But enough about The Boys

>>715956687 (OP)
>Sequel to a flop
I'm glad USAID is gone, but it's annoying to see these last remnants come crawling out. Waste of ammo if you ask me.

>Mediocre first entry that had promise in spots but mostly fell apart over time
>Mixed quality DLC
>Remaster that broke a shit ton and was generally just bad
>Sequel gets announced
>Radio silence for years
>Finally get release info
>Game looks generally the same with continued focus on goofy portrayals of hyper capitalism and wacky weapons
>80 fucking dollars
>One of the most expensive games Obsidian and Microsoft have put out
>For a game specifically mocking hyper capitalism

I actually enjoyed the first, but always felt like it was one of those games where a sequel could smooth out the rough edges. From what I can tell, there's little effort to do that, their track record is rough (Avowed isn't exactly filling me with hope for modern Obsidian), and they're charging an arm and a leg for it.

I hope it flops if anything because of the price. This reeks of Microsoft's doing honestly. Outer Worlds isn't some massive franchise. Why make it the sacrificial lamb here? Especially considering the themes of the game. It's hilarious how out of touch it is.

>>715971701
>I hope it flops if anything because of the price
Sorry bro they'll count JewPass downloads and it'll be a huge success.

>>715971809
Microsoft says that, but it clearly does not count. Every studio is getting cuts, even ones they tout as having a lot of engagement on gamepass. They basically have the studios make a game, put it on gamepass, and then cut half the studio after but keep the game there in hopes that at some point the cost will be recouped via one person a year signing up for that game specifically.
Obsidian probably only avoided layoffs due to them having like 3 games in the works, I can easily see layoffs hitting them too once they finish up some of these games.

>>715971809
With how much Microsoft loves laying people off and pumping/dumping devs (see Arkane), I would be surprised if that didn't happen to Obsidian. They don't make giant releases. Hell, they don't even make games to the quality they used to.

They're the exact, smaller kind of dev that would get the axe for not immediately selling a billion copies of a game.

>>715956687 (OP)
Cause the first game was ass on shit terrible. Why would I line up for seconds of a plate of turd? It's turd. I refuse to eat turd. Fuck you.

We were in a weird period of the industry where Bethesda and their spinoff were in a heated competition to make the blandest, most nonoffensive, and boring game ever made. Both games were both so equally and perversely successful in this regard that I cant remember which game was which

>>715956687 (OP)
Ugly female characters with short hair

>>715972818
Pixie cut works on cute ones though. Unless it's a buzz cut, that sucks universally.

Outer Worlds was the most 6/10 of all time.

>>715956687 (OP)
it's the ultimate 7/10 game you play once. I'll play it as the first one was okay but I don't have high expectations. I hope the pacing is better and the environments are more interesting but I'm not holding my breath