The Outer Worlds - Obsidian RPG

dreamers75

Obsidian has a new RPG coming, and it will make its worldwide debut at The Game Awards next week. While Obsidian is now under the Microsoft umbrella, this game is part of an existing with Take-Two’s Private Division label. Details on the game are scant, but it will be a new IP from two of the people who brought the original Fallout to life.

https://www.pcgamesn.com/new-obsidian-fallout

https://www.obsidian.net/

ohhhhhhhh:eek:

BeerWolf

Tell me what setting it's set in pl0x !

YouSavedMyLife

Obsidian are always making RPGs, why are we to get hyped about this one?

Skerries

judging by the pop ups 30's era Sci-fi?

Dave_The_Sheep

YouSavedMyLife wrote: »

Obsidian are always making RPGs, why are we to get hyped about this one?

Because they're generally pretty excellent.

degrassinoel

Skerries wrote: »

judging by the pop ups 30's era Sci-fi?

*Reserves 'Flesh Gordon' character name just in case

ERG89

That quote is very confusing. Is it there first game for Microsoft or a Take Two game?
Part of an existing what??

degrassinoel

ERG89 wrote: »

That quote is very confusing. Is it there first game for Microsoft or a Take Two game?
Part of an existing what??

label i think - though it struck me as a new IP, unless it's bioshock related.. OOhh is it Bioshock related?

isometric bioshock RPG would be awesome!

(edit: yeah it's a new ip.. damn, still happy to hear this news though, Cain and Boyarsky RPG yay )

dreamers75

This is why I hate the segregation of the forums

Their RPGs are usually decent add in the original Fallout devs and it might be good.

Lone Stone

well feck i clearly miss read that i thought it said a new obsidian/bethesda fallout

Dave_The_Sheep

I was reading that it may be inspired by Fallout, though that could have been wishful thinking by whoever said it.

Ten of Swords

Unless it's Alpha Protocol 2 (which it's not!!) then, meh!

BeerWolf

degrassinoel wrote: »

*Reserves 'Flesh Gordon' character name just in case

Hmm, might resemble Fallout'a 60s theme.

Mr Crispy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGLTgt0EEqc

Zero-Cool

This actually looks very interesting, definitely looking forward to hearing more. Any chance the thread title can be updated?

Penn

Yeah it's a great trailer. My only worry would be that since Obsidian are now an MS studio, would DLC/sequels be Xbox exclusive?

dreamers75

Cant see the trailer is is 1st or 3rd person?

Nody

dreamers75 wrote: »

Cant see the trailer is is 1st or 3rd person?

1st person.

The first thing coming to my mind looking at it is honestly Borderlands series; same graphical style with the vendor machines etc and similar background story on the large companies expansion out into the wild etc.

Penn

Nody wrote: »

1st person.

The first thing coming to my mind looking at it is honestly Borderlands series; same graphical style with the vendor machines etc and similar background story on the large companies expansion out into the wild etc.

Yeah from what I've seen others say it seems to be a mix between Borderlands and Fallout New Vegas.

Sephiroth_dude

Penn wrote: »

Yeah it's a great trailer. My only worry would be that since Obsidian are now an MS studio, would DLC/sequels be Xbox exclusive?

I doubt it,timed exclusive maybe.

gizmo

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

I doubt it,timed exclusive maybe.

Hard to tell really. It's worth noting that, to date, no title developed by a Microsoft owned studio has been released on a Sony platform. Things may change with these new acquisitions of course but, outside of Minecraft coming to the Switch, which could be argued is a special case given the fact it's already on every other platform known to man, it's a bit too early to tell.

wotzgoingon

I am very interested in this game.

dreamers75

I am inserting money into my computer device right now for this game.

Great to see it's multiplatform, I thought Microsoft's acquisition would've limited the game to XBone/Steam. MS are adapting well to the Good Cop role.

gizmo

Cake of Tremendous Power wrote: »

Great to see it's multiplatform, I thought Microsoft's acquisition would've limited the game to XBone/Steam. MS are adapting well to the Good Cop role.

You're definitely not the only one who thought that but alas, not quite.

The Outer Worlds isn’t a Microsoft game, even though it’s buying Obsidian

It was the first I'd heard of Private Division too, but evidently Game Informer did a piece on them this time last year and they already have some really interesting games signed up.

Kiith

Gameplay footage here. Looks great.

TerrorFirmer

Really excited about this one, New Vegas was a knock-out, can't believe they chose the dumpster fire that is Fallout 76 over a sure-fire hit like New Vegas 2.

Will give it a few weeks or a month most likely to see how it pans out and see any major bugs addressed (New Vegas was god awful on release), but would definitely have this right at the top of my most anticipated games list.

dreamers75

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

Really excited about this one, New Vegas was a knock-out, can't believe they chose the dumpster fire that is Fallout 76 over a sure-fire hit like New Vegas 2.

Will give it a few weeks or a month most likely to see how it pans out and see any major bugs addressed (New Vegas was god awful on release), but would definitely have this right at the top of my most anticipated games list.

It looks like the Unreal engine, so thats a good thing.

edit: it is Unreal engine 4

pixelburp

Definitely looks like the love-child of Fallout and Borderlands, right down to the self-aware humour.

Sounds like the game won't be as vast and sprawling as any Bethesda open-world game, which is fine with me. Smaller areas means a more curated, refined experience.

dreamers75

Epic Store exclusive.......

Mr Crispy

Disappointing, but not surprising.

Edit: I see they've got the new Remedy game, Control, as an an exclusive as well.

Kiith

I'll buy it on the Windows Store before i buy it on Epic.

Nody

Kiith wrote: »

I'll buy it on the Windows Store before i buy it on Epic.

If they don't want my money I got no issues with holding on to it for how ever long it takes.

Venom

I was pretty indifferent to the Epic store as it's not like I haven't got Steam, Origin and Ubisoft launchers on my system already so one more isn't an issue and Epic did give me Subnautica for free. But all this nabbing exclusives along with the whole spying on my system without permission lark, is really pissing me off

TheChrisD

So how many months until we start seeing the gaming news headlines where Outer Worlds becomes the most pirated game in history? It wouldn't surprise me given it was #3 on Steam wishlists before this.

Dave_The_Sheep

Venom wrote: »

I was pretty indifferent to the Epic store as it's not like I haven't got Steam, Origin and Ubisoft launchers on my system already so one more isn't an issue and Epic did give me Subnautica for free. But all this nabbing exclusives along with the whole spying on my system without permission lark, is really pissing me off

I've uninstalled it and won't be going back. It wasn't a very good storefront to begin with, the spying is dodgy as ****, and the whole buying exclusives is just ****ty.

I was looking forward to the Outer Worlds a lot, real shame they went this direction (Phoenix Point too).

I guess I'll just have to pirate them, because there's no sense in rewarding this kind of behaviour.

Potential-Monke

It'll be quite nice to know that I don't have to worry about this exclusivity stuff, as I will be playing on PS4. Console gaming 1, PC gaming, well probably like 6 million but we'll take this one!

Nody

Potential-Monke wrote: »

It'll be quite nice to know that I don't have to worry about this exclusivity stuff, as I will be playing on PS4. Console gaming 1, PC gaming, well probably like 6 million but we'll take this one!

I think Angry Joe said it best; PC has now managed to start a console war on PC via launchers (let's remember there's not only Epic and Steam that has them as mandatory).

Kiith

Nody wrote: »

I think Angry Joe said it best; Epic has now managed to start a console war on PC via launchers (let's remember there's not only Epic and Steam that has them as mandatory).

That's more accurate i'd say.

TerrorFirmer

I don't really get the hate, I don't really have a problem with Epic Launcher. If it does indeed lead to lower prices, that's a great thing.

I already have Battlenet, UPlay, Origin, GOG, Steam....one more isn't going to hurt.

PC has now managed to start a console war on PC via launchers

To get the best of both consoles, you'd have to physically buy both, which most people aren't willing, or able, to justify.

Having to weigh up the pros and cons of each and then pick one is the basis for console wars.

Having to simply install another launcher on your PC at zero additional cost (and possibly even make game savings) is not remotely comparable.

I think talk of pirating the game 'so not to reward this behavior' is pretty low in itself.....either buy the game and support the developer, or don't, and 'punish' their choices that way.

You would think Epic Launcher costs $199 to download and install the way people are going on about it, rather than it simply being another launcher in a sea of existing launchers.

ERG89

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

You would think Epic Launcher costs $199 to download and install the way people are going on about it, rather than it simply being another launcher in a sea of existing launchers.

I think people want the choice of where to buy their games. But definitely the future lies on having multiple accounts spread across different launchers, whether people can accept that is another thing.
Not predominantly a PC player but use my Epic Account for no other reason now other than the free games every 2 weeks.

TerrorFirmer

That choice doesn't already exist though. EA Games are only on Origin, Blizzard games only on Battlenet, etc. Sure, Epic didn't develop Outer Worlds, but fundamentally I don't get the big issue being made about it only being on their storefront, it's not a new concept.

People will still be able to buy them elsewhere, just will have to activate and play through Epic Store. Of the 100's of games I own on Steam/Uplay/Origin/etc, only a handful were bought through the actual client.

Rest were bought on Kinguin/G2play and similar sites.

I mean, lower prices are good for gamers. What's one more launcher to that end.

Nody

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

That choice doesn't already exist though. EA Games are only on Origin, Blizzard games only on Battlenet, etc. Sure, Epic didn't develop Outer Worlds, but fundamentally I don't get the big issue being made about it only being on their storefront, it's not a new concept.

People will still be able to buy them elsewhere, just will have to activate and play through Epic Store. Of the 100's of games I own on Steam/Uplay/Origin/etc, only a handful were bought through the actual client.

Rest were bought on Kinguin/G2play and similar sites.

I mean, lower prices are good for gamers. What's one more launcher to that end.

You mean beyond minor things such as it's a spyware copying information you've not given them permission to and uploading it to their servers? That they are owned by a Chinese company and have had multiple data breaches? Break GDPR rules? No chat functionality, no cloud saving functionality, no offline gaming functionality, only implemented a search function a week ago? But hey; it's only another launcher so that's ok.

johnny_ultimate

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

Rest were bought on Kinguin/G2play and similar sites.

I mean, lower prices are good for gamers.

Probably one of the main reasons Epic's offer is so attractive to developers & publishers. The grey market that has popped up around Steam surely significantly eats into their revenue. Who knows what share a developer gets from their game being sold on an iffy site like Kinguin? Whereas with Epic they get an 88% share (compared to 70% for a straight Steam sale) plus potentially a decent exclusivity bonus. Even if the grey market starts forming around Epic's store, the bonuses and revenue share will counter it somewhat.

Something being 'good for gamers' can have consequences, and so personally I'm not surprised many developers and publishers have been so enthusiastic about Epic's offering. And while some degree of that is corporate greed, I'm sure much of it is also a perfectly reasonable interest in getting the best deal available to them.

TerrorFirmer

Epic Launcher has chat functionality, it also does have offline mode and cloud saves is supposed to be coming shortly.

I don't think the 'spyware' claims are remotely as sinister as are being made out. Tencent hold a minority stake in Epic, yet we've got people making insinuations that the Chinese Government are pulling the strings of a video company in order to spy on the west based on this.

Honestly, people just really seem to want to be illogically outraged over having another launcher.

Personally I think Epic Launch is good for gamers, should lead to lower prices for consumer, better cuts for developers. That's a good thing, Valve and Steam are currently crucifying developers....but people don't seem to care about that.

earthwormjack

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

Honestly, people just really seem to want to be illogically outraged over having another launcher.

Nope. There's multiple valid reasons why people are annoyed over this.

EoinHef

Id like to see anyone point to one time,just one,that we here got a cheaper game because it was on the epic store?

None of us did,they did it once in one region with metro,and to me that was onpy because of the backlash. Lets wait and see if the launcher actually gives us cheaper games before using that as an argument for the launcher.

Potential-Monke

Sounds like there's a market for a 'All-in-One' launcher, you log into all your accounts through, oh lets call it 'Launcher', and your games come up like Steam, etc, and you launch them. Pretty sure if you could get the major players on board, people may even be willing to pay an annual sub (of about €20) just to use this. I probably would if it made everything easier.

However, this seems like a conversation for a different thread and we're bringing this one off topic.

Spear

Potential-Monke wrote: »

Sounds like there's a market for a 'All-in-One' launcher, you log into all your accounts through, oh lets call it 'Launcher', and your games come up like Steam, etc, and you launch them. Pretty sure if you could get the major players on board, people may even be willing to pay an annual sub (of about €20) just to use this. I probably would if it made everything easier.

However, this seems like a conversation for a different thread and we're bringing this one off topic.

Like Playnite?

But back on-topic, I'll pass on this until it's on Steam, when it'll also hopefully be patched and cheaper. It's not like I don't have a massive backlog to get through as it is.

Potential-Monke

Spear wrote: »

Like Playnite?

With that around, what's all the fuss about so?!

dreamers75

Potential-Monke wrote: »

With that around, what's all the fuss about so?!

It still launches the games launcher.

"yo we heard you like launchers so we put a launcher in your launcher"