The Outer Worlds Pre-Release Thread [GO TO NEW THREAD]

[Heroic Liberator]

ok wait, so i'm real late to this party and i didnt realise it wasnt on steam?

this is just... what

ok, so even if i've just crawled out from underneath a rock and missed the hype train of one of the codex's most anticipated releases of 2019

this is just laughably bizarre, I mean why?

Chinese century, lad.

That being said, it'll be released in a year's time on Steam, so you can get it then if you're feeling philanthropic towards Obsidian.

 

[Roguey]

ok wait, so i'm real late to this party and i didnt realise it wasnt on steam?

this is just... what

ok, so even if i've just crawled out from underneath a rock and missed the hype train of one of the codex's most anticipated releases of 2019

this is just laughably bizarre, I mean why?

Tim Sweeney bucks.

 

[I'm Big Into Anal]

ok wait, so i'm real late to this party and i didnt realise it wasnt on steam?

this is just... what

ok, so even if i've just crawled out from underneath a rock and missed the hype train of one of the codex's most anticipated releases of 2019

this is just laughably bizarre, I mean why?

Chinese century, lad.

That being said, it'll be released in a year's time on Steam, so you can get it then if you're feeling philanthropic towards Obsidian.

even so...


and the wait a year thing is bullshit, steam isnt the codex

 

[CorpseBride]

I have to admit that when it comes to "young people on the Codex", the category seems to be just her and smaug, so I mean... I guess she's doing great!

Right... ?

Spoiler

ItsChon is also part of the new Codex zoomer crew.

And CorpseBride, but she doesn't talk about RPGs, so...

Disagree. Cain and Boyarsky explicitly asked the owners to prevent any interference by Sawyer, plus he quickly lost his (fake) producer role.

Edit: The owners told Sawyer not to interfere, but it's not clear if Cain and Boyarsky asked for it.

As design director he still has the ability to provide feedback, they're just free to disregard anything they disagree with. Clearly they agreed to play it much safer than Troika ever did or even pre-Sawyersidian.

Gaming isn't exactly a priority for me rn, I haven't found the time for it from about 8 months ago. What can ya do?

 

[Sranchammer]

Funniest game since Dark Souls - can't stop laughing!

 

[Fairfax]

As design director he still has the ability to provide feedback, they're just free to disregard anything they disagree with. Clearly they agreed to play it much safer than Troika ever did or even pre-Sawyersidian.

Cain and Boyarsky deserve credit for the game's state. Unless they say otherwise, I find it unfair (and rather absurd) to assume any of that was thanks to Sawyer's feedback, especially when he's shown no sign of fixing his own overscoping problem.

 

[GentlemanCthulhu]

Well consider this: The Outer Worlds... it's not a bad game. It's not a great game either. It's just okay. It's definitely "safe", and it took Obsidian utilizing the full power two industry veterans, the creators of the edgiest and unsafest games of all time - Bloodlines, Arcanum, and fuckin' Fallout, - to even achieve this. IMO it tells you a lot about the state Obsidian is in right now.

 

[Nano]

I hope the increasingly mainstream Safesidian meme will cause Feargus to take a serious look into the direction the studio is going.

 

[Yosharian]

Well consider this: The Outer Worlds... it's not a bad game. It's not a great game either. It's just okay. It's definitely "safe", and it took Obsidian utilizing the full power two industry veterans, the creators of the edgiest and unsafest games of all time - Bloodlines, Arcanum, and fuckin' Fallout, - to even achieve this. IMO it tells you a lot about the state Obsidian is in right now.

A story-driven singleplayer game with no MTX isn't that safe in today's market

 

[jf8350143]

The safest game at the moment is multiplayer game with bunch of micro transcation in it.

Making a single player RPG is already not "safe", why do you think Bioware and Bethesda abandon the genre.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

why do you think Bioware and Bethesda abandon the genre.

And how's that working out for them?

 

[Dishonoredbr]

They played safe with the setting, at least it seems, but if you look at the game and compare to the rest of the gaming industry, nah.

The game isn't a 100+ open world, there's no voiced protagonist , no crafting , no base building , no romances , no post-game contet or playing after the main quest ,etc. Not mention all the dated stuff about the game , animations , graphics, gunplay , etc. If game's writting and quest design is enough to make this game critical claimed , perhaps Neo-Obsidian isn't as bad as some make up to be.. Or Tim and Leonard are so fucking good that actually made this game sucessfully (Critic-wise)

 

[Quillon]

Well consider this: The Outer Worlds... it's not a bad game. It's not a great game either. It's just okay. It's definitely "safe", and it took Obsidian utilizing the full power two industry veterans, the creators of the edgiest and unsafest games of all time - Bloodlines, Arcanum, and fuckin' Fallout, - to even achieve this. IMO it tells you a lot about the state Obsidian is in right now.

Yeah because in 15 years they haven't changed a bit, learned nothing; it was all Sawyer's influence...

 

[Heroic Liberator]

Well consider this: The Outer Worlds... it's not a bad game. It's not a great game either. It's just okay. It's definitely "safe", and it took Obsidian utilizing the full power two industry veterans, the creators of the edgiest and unsafest games of all time - Bloodlines, Arcanum, and fuckin' Fallout, - to even achieve this. IMO it tells you a lot about the state Obsidian is in right now.

Yeah because in 15 years they haven't changed a bit, learned nothing; it was all Sawyer's influence...

They have come to embrace Chairman Mao for the gibs.

 

[Talby]

Soyer was a disaster for Obsidian and the human race in general, he needs to go ASAP.

 

[hexer]

ok wait, so i'm real late to this party and i didnt realise it wasnt on steam?

this is just... what

ok, so even if i've just crawled out from underneath a rock and missed the hype train of one of the codex's most anticipated releases of 2019

this is just laughably bizarre, I mean why?

Chinese century, lad.

That being said, it'll be released in a year's time on Steam, so you can get it then if you're feeling philanthropic towards Obsidian.

Imagine Trump tweeting how China is stopping the West from having fun

 

[Dishonoredbr]

Soyer was a disaster for Obsidian and they should get rid of him ASAP.

J.saywer did nothing wrong.

 

[santino27]

I watched him too, he's just going around looting for the last hour or so... nothing exciting going on.

I have zero idea why this guy is so popular. I watched his Elex and Kingdom Come playthroughs. He spends 70% of his time looting and browsing inventory.

I have no time for anyone that overlays their face on to videos.

That's not the worst thing about Twitch for me. It's the constant interaction with the chat. Unending stream of drivel about stupid shit I'm not interested in addressed to people I don't know and don't care about. It's barely tolerable if you're watching a VOD where you can fast forward half of the content but how can anyone watch live streams and not slit their wrists 10 minutes in is utterly beyond me.

Even watching a recording of the live stream on YouTube is annoying as they sometimes just stop playing the game and for 4 or 5 minutes straight they shout the name of the new subscribers or donors or gift bombers or whatever the fuck Twitch has. Cohh Carnage especially is guilty of this. I mean you could just say "thanks to all new subs" or "welcome to the community" or stuff like that but no, some fag, somewhere is going to kill himself if the streamer doesn't say his name.

I really don't understand streaming culture, guess it's time to accept that I've become an old person.

It's just people looking for community wherever/however they can find it. Zoomers just seem to prefer online environments where there's something constantly happening to feed their need for stimulation (between the stream and the overstuffed ever-scrolling chat window) instead of prestigious game-hating forums.

 

[Child of Malkav]

Soyer was a disaster for Obsidian and the human race in general, he needs to go ASAP.

He directed FONV, which was not exactly a bad game, to say the least. Give credit where credit is due.

 

[hexer]

It's just people looking for community wherever/however they can find it. Zoomers just seem to prefer online environments where there's something constantly happening to feed their need for stimulation (between the stream and the overstuffed ever-scrolling chat window) instead of prestigious game-hating forums.

I used to watch Twitch, followed about 15 streamers, bigger and smaller.
Can you believe it every single one of them sooner or later revealed how they either have mental issues or are taking medicine to keep it under their control!

What the hell is wrong with that service?!
Or is streaming attractive to such people?

 

[Heroic Liberator]

It's just people looking for community wherever/however they can find it. Zoomers just seem to prefer online environments where there's something constantly happening to feed their need for stimulation (between the stream and the overstuffed ever-scrolling chat window) instead of prestigious game-hating forums.

I used to watch Twitch, followed about 15 streamers, bigger and smaller.
Can you believe it every single one of them sooner or later revealed how they either have mental issues or are taking medicine to keep it under their control!

What the hell is wrong with that service?!
Or is streaming attractive to such people?

I'd wager that most of them suffer from narcissism, thus being drawn to something such as streaming.

 

[hexer]

He directed FONV, which was not exactly a bad game, to say the least. Give credit where credit is due.

Isn't he also the one and only who forbid writers from writing fluff/cool/snarky dialog responses in FNV because "writers shouldn't put words into player's mouth"?
That is one of the highest order heresies and treasons against a Fallout game one can make.
'Nuff said.

I'd wager that most of them suffer from narcissism, thus being drawn to something such as streaming.

I agree! I also thought how people with mental issues have trouble finding "normal jobs" so this is their way of earning money.

 

[the mole]

any game that isnt right wing hitler youth propaganda with no gameplay is safe

why play games when you can read an interactive book

 

[Dawkinsfan69]

It's just people looking for community wherever/however they can find it. Zoomers just seem to prefer online environments where there's something constantly happening to feed their need for stimulation (between the stream and the overstuffed ever-scrolling chat window) instead of prestigious game-hating forums.

I used to watch Twitch, followed about 15 streamers, bigger and smaller.
Can you believe it every single one of them sooner or later revealed how they either have mental issues or are taking medicine to keep it under their control!

What the hell is wrong with that service?!
Or is streaming attractive to such people?

probably because videogames for the most part suck shit and are totally unfulfilling and making a career out of playing them is a joke, worse than bullshitting excel spreadsheets in a cubicle. even if they're successful (and they're not), they're still consuming trash all day

 

[GewuerzKahn]

Did someone saw in a stream a language option in the settings?

I dislike my native language and Xbox Game Pass doesn't provide an option to download games in different languages.