Are you happy now?
>>732292653Yes
>>732292653whatever they are going to produce next is going to be just as shitty so who cares?
>>732292653veryS
>>732292653They had the chance to respond to criticism and course correction the game’s tone and they doubled down instead. Even redditors hate the whimsical, well, reddit tone of the game.
>>732292653unironically yes. now if everone who worked on this turd got fired my day would be made
>>732292653>UnderperformedWhy do they expect propaganda games to make a profit at the first place? They already got money from whomever comissioned the propaganda from them.
>>732292653Who asked for the second game?
>>732292916it was on goypass which is where propaganda goes
>>732292653I won't be happy until Obsidian is closed.
>>732292885You're saying the writing is even worse in 2? I was able to ignore the shitty dialog and story in 1 because i kind of autistically got into the gameplay. I even did a challenge run where i got 0 kills. How did they make the 2nd worse?
>>732292746There's no next game, Obsidian is done for.
>>732293180we can only wish
>>732292653They're designing for a market with no people in it. Who the fuck is that toon moon for? People who like Pops from Regular Show?
>>732293145I didn’t play it, but that’s what the journos said. And if even the marvel-quip-addicted gaming journalists think it’s too much, I don’t feel like subjecting myself to that torture.
>>732293180Obsidian died after Tyranny came out.
>>732292653maybe one day ill try it again but for now the gameplay felt off dunno why
>>732293236It’s their attempt at ripping off the vault boy. Bethesda’s flanderized version of the vault boy, specifically.
>>732292717
>>732292653Yep
>>732292653And that's how you know they will 100% make a third one
>>732292887Im curious about something, did you actually play the game, anon? And i dont want any of you other retards jumping in for him. This is a 1v1 situation. Respect the duel.
>>732292885>They had the chance to respond to criticism and course correction the game’s tone and they doubled down instead.Not really. Outer Worlds 1 received more praise and sold more copies than it deserved. People were so angry about Fallout 76, they rallied around a mid game just stick it to Bethesda.
Btw, only the first planet of OW1 was good because it was written by the original writer before he left. That's why that companion Parvati went from being depressed about her father to all of a sudden quirky asexual lesbian due to the new writer being an asexual lesbian.I know fuck all of the second game but I could only imagine how bad it must be.Did the DLC even make the first game better or no?
>>732293898I have, yesIt sucksI'm glad I never paid for it since I pirated it but now I'll never get back that time I wasted downloading it in the first place
Is it that bad? I watched a friend play it for a short while and he said it's very coolI didn't even play the first one
>>732292653>Things you'd rather do than buy and play The Outer Worlds 2 at full price
>>732293180Good riddance
>>732292717fibby
>>732294012Assuming you are actually the same anon, what didnt you like about it?
>>732292653Almost, now shut down the studio
>>732292653i couldnt fucking believe there even was a 2nd
>>73229404280% of the dialogue options are locked behind skills you can only get in late gameDURING THE FUCKING TUTORIAL ALONEso much shit is locked behind other shit that you'll always guaranteed to miss out on a lot of stuff
>>732292653I'll be happy when nu-bsidian goes bankrupt
>>732294050https://youtu.be/lYDzhLOPD3E?si=ws4qzL44BCWiBLCp
>>732292653Well yes, but i am kinda sad that the 3D VATS genre is dead now. Still better than writing of this shit though.
I feel a little better.
>>732292653KWAB
>>732294139I don't like you asking so many questionsNow do me a favor and stream yourself killing yourself so I can watch it while I eat popcorn
>>732293940I have forever maintained Outer Worlds succeeded primarily based on a huge market gap because people want more of these types of games but they take a long time to make and Bethesda was/is busy being Bethesda and shitting itself. They also front-loaded >>732294004the first game heavily.Entirely succeeded based on the lack of any competition.
>>732293180Next PoE will lean hardcore into gay sex and bestiality like BG3 did and everyone will praise it.
>>732292653I don't really care about this series
But I was told /v/ always loses.
>>732294253No coherent thoughts or criticism? Cant say im surprised, really. Thanks for proving my point though.
>>732292885They had the chance to do for it what fallout 2 did for fallout 1 and they blew it.
Guys, buy my game about capitalism being bad! No, ignore the rioters attacking police, that's a peaceful protest. Forget cancel culture, that's just consequences. Only bad selfish people complain about lockdowns. Wait, why doesn't anyone want to pay me 70 dollars for propaganda? Truly capitalism has failed. :(See also Disco Elysium.
>>732294270yAH, ITS A CERTAIN ITCH THAT IS A BIT HARD to get. Last time I got the itch played Kingdom come deliverance 1 and it satisfied it. havent played another open world 1st person pseudo-life sim with basic core gameplay since cause I havent had that ich since.>>732294279god, we can only wish. hope its with a deer this time.
>>732295037Disco Elysium did unique game mechanics in a less used kind of setting, had a unique and memorable art style, has whirling rags and was a detective game where you actually did detective work. Outer Wilds was like a shitty Rick and Morty episode combined with tumblr borderlands with generic RPG mechanics that got boring after one hour.
>>732294270it was beyond a market gap to being an actual "protest buy" against Bethesda because of the hatred of Fallout 76
>>732292653What I remember about this is $80 and a laughably bad trailer. Wasn’t there a bunch of political dev drama in between too?
>>732295701To think there's a timeline where outer wilds was actually good and that stuck
>>732293141I like that you can't romance any of them. Like the devs sort of knew nobody would want to
>>732292653A bit, yeah.The Outer Worlds had a pretty lame setting, it would be good to move on. No one wants it to be a super long-lasting franchise
>no more chungus falloutfucking A
The constant complaints radicalized me to buy the game.
>>732292653>boring ass fallout knockoff with a stupid amount of lesbians and a completely uninteresting storyThe fact that piece of shit even made enough to consider a sequel is baffling
>>732292653Obsidian's last good game was in 2010 (stick of truth was ok but I can't stand south park "humor"). Just disband at this point.
>>732292653I dont care.
>>732292653I remain indifferent
>>732294173wow that sounds really dumb
>>732292653There shouldn’t have been a second.
>>732292653I would be happy if Obsidian made something other than slop, but that feels like a distant dream.
>>732293141This picture is the closest thing to discourse I've seen about this game. No one wanted it and no one even cares enough to look into it far enough to find anything else to complain about. It seemed so obvious to me that would be the case, yet somehow they spent 6 years developing it without coming to that same conclusion in spite of every signpost along the way.
>>732292653No. I like a lot of Obsidion's output, and I was a huge fan of the Interplay/Troika Games projects back in the day. I even liked Pillars of Eternity and Tyranny, despite their flaws. The writing in those games always keeps me in despite the mediocre combat in Arcanum/Vampire the Masquerade or the low enemy variety in stuff like Tyranny. And stuff like Pentiment had such a unique style, it makes going into a painfully generic setting like the Outer Worlds all the worse. In a lot of ways, it's the best an Obsidion game has ever played. The gunplay is fun enough and exploring is usually rewarding.The problem is that the writing is shockingly, horrifically childish. Every character is written as some kind of cardboard cutout of a real character filtered through 30 seasons of sitcom flanderization. Companions are okay but if you were hoping for a compelling villain like the Master or even just something darkly funny like Myron the 16 year old drug scientist/sexual deviant then forget it. The overall themes are so unsubtle and totally not compelling. Every corporate boss is simultaneously a Machiavellian demigod capable of controlling an entire star system but also too stupid to tie their own shoelaces. I've read outright Communist propaganda that gives more compelling critiques of the concept of the Joint Stock Corporation than this game. And that just makes me sad. I know the main writer from Fallout New Vegas wasn't with Obsidion for this but Leonard Boyarsky made Fallout, Arcanum/VtM:B, and Tyranny. And I just can't believe this is the same guy that wrote such an eloquent treaty on the nature of power and legalism for Kyros. Most Obsidion villains are so compelling even if they're omnicidal fanatics that meeting the big bad in The Outer Worlds nearly broke my heart. Their entire plan amounts to sticking their fingers in their ears as everyone dies because they're just such dumb all powerful jerks like that.
>>732292653People seem to be shitting on the game but I can't even do that since I just saw the $70 price and ignored it.
>>732292653not until they get bought by the chinese
>>732293141>>732296161Ngl its kinda funny and pathetic how they went "NO YOU CANT ROMANCE THEM!!!" in the trailer. Like 1) lmao you literally know what people want and consciously choose not to give it to them2) they are so shit anyway people wouldnt want to romance them in the first placeIts like they made it bad on purpose
>>732293145They made the companions, somehow, even worse. They also seemed to take steps to stop speedrunners which backfires as it only gets on the nerves of regular players.
>>732292653I don't care at all
>>732292916In what way was it propaganda apart from the very on the nose message that corporations are le bad! I only played 10 hours of the first game and dropped it btw
>No you can't romance themI wasn't planning to lol. And I'm the kind of sperg who likes look outside mutants.>>732293141On paper these should be pretty different, there are noble robed characters and space marine characters along with a clear range of different planets worth of recruits... yet they all somehow feel same-y in their shape and silhouette. Unsure why as Ass Effect also had everyone as the same general model but they managed to use colors and such to differentiate even different krogan from each other.
Rumors are already circulating. Obsidian will be given the Fallout IP to manage seeing as how Obsidian is unable to create new IPs. Microsoft is basing this decision off Bethesda's busy schedule (TES6, Starfield 2 in the pipeline) and Obsidians track record for going fantastic with existing IPs, but terrible with their own new IPs.
>>732296434And how did that work out for you?
It came out? I haven't heard anything about it lmfao
>>732292653No, my terms are total industry collapse and I will not stop until then
>>732292885>They had the chance to respond to criticism and course correction the game’s tone and they doubled down insteadThey literal did change the tone into something more serious, and it only hurt the experience to be frank. Why do you lie about a game you never played?
>>732298086Since we are talking about 2, it is basically pure emotional appeal and group think manipulation tactics targeting (you) the player starting right from the beginning. 1 is unironically better then this because it largely cleaves to the fairly vanilla but reliable strawman techniques for visual mediums.
>>732292653>game mocking capitalism in a communist society gets cancelled via the proletariat not buying it
>>732292653>>732292717FPBP
As a certified chud, I genuinely do not care about this game. It never appealed to me to begin with. I was a tiny bit more invested in Avowed's failure, seeing as how they had a guy talking about how he was going to do everything in his power to remove and prevent white men from getting jobs in his industry, but this game is just outright uninteresting.The worst I can say for it is that it criticizes free markets, but it does it in such a lampoon/disingenuous manner that its not even worth addressing.
>>732292653No, but I'm also not unhappy. I can't begin to give a shit about this franchise one way or the other.
>>732296434Did you actually enjoy it though?
>>732292653Good. Now make Fallout New Vegas 2 you retards
>>732299256>trusting nu-Obsidian to go anywhere near Fallout
>>732292653happy about what? I didn't do anything
>>732299371The only good fallout was from Obsidian. Obsidian still has Sawyer who is the brains of Fallout.
>>732299478Like 20 years ago before the world ended dude lol. Large studios dont make good games anymore.
>>732299091>seeing as how they had a guy talking about doing everything in his power to stop white men from getting jobs in the industrySource? Not saying you’re wrong. I believe it, but I’d like to see it for a bit of evening cringe
>>732292653>GOOD SHOW, JOLLY GOOD SHOW
>>732299618I was thinking the same thing
>>732292653Yes? Obsidian was never built to last, they never learned their lesson. Their very first game, KOTOR2, was already a rushed mess and things only really got worse. They always overscoped, they always had several projects going on at the same time competing for time and resources. During New Vegas' development, they were making Alpha Protocol and Dungeon Siege III at the same time, and all three came out undercooked.Really, this was a long time coming. Quite literally, the more interviews you look up, the clearer it is that the only reason NV triumphed was because of Chris Avellone. He ran Van Buren PnPs that led directly to many of NV's elements, he was in charge of most of the character writing and DLC directing, with the best DLC being the one he was the most in charge of (Dead Money) and the worst one, the one he was the least involved with. In fact, for the latter he has a story where he had scheduled elements to be put into the game by other devs but a day before the deadline he decided to check things out and realized the things had "fallen through the cracks". Among them? The whole dialogue tree where Graham talks about Caesar and refers to couriers as spies. I repeat: had Avellone not paid attention, that shit wouldn't have been in the game.Obsidian was always the same, always flying by the seat of its pants, so it makes all the sense in the world that the second they lost Avellone, not even Sawyer could save the company culture from games like Outer Worlds or Avowed. The company's fall was a long time coming.
>>732292717>>732292653>>732292746>>732292760>>732292885>>732292887>"STOP RUINING MY FRANCHISES! MAKE YOUR OWN!">SJW makes their own franchise>SJW franchise 'fails'>SJWs no longer have containment franchises>"HA THATS WHAT YOU GET!">SJWs go back to intruding on your franchise>"NOOO MAKE YOUR OWN FRANCHISE!"Nevermind the fact the OP picture is misleading and a misquote. They aren't making TOW3 because they're refocusing on making DLC for Outer Worlds 2 because it was still a success despite not reaching MICROSOFT'S (Not Obsidian's!) sales expectations. They're not making Outer Worlds 3 right now because they're focusing on Pillars of Eternity again, TOW3 is definitely still going to happen someday in the interview. /v/ just has neanderthals who fall for misleading OPs and articles, and lies, again and again and again... As usual!
>>732292653yes
>>732299562>obsidian>largedon't reply when you don't know what you're talking about, jeet.
>>732299562Large American studios.Because they've all been infested with communist faggots that are creatively bankrupt and thus pump out the only thing they know: Poorly thought out Anti capitalist propaganda.
>>732299569
>>732299256New Vegas 2 will disappoint just by virtue of likely following fallout TV show lore
>>732292653I'll be happy when they release a game that lets me play as a lizard
>>732299091Would you say Disco Elysium was more a "danger" ?Or at least I feel like some people did given how aggressively some people moved to tear that company down.
>>732299702>The company's fall was a long time coming.Lmao. The line that Obsidian is failing when they're more successful than they've ever been, lmao. >Article states Grounded 2 was a massive success and is their biggest moneymaker>Obsidian was desperate for money when they made New Vegas and the Bethesda contract singlehandedly kept them alive during a hard timeLet's not forget /v/'s classic lie: >98% of classic Obsidian is gone!! It'll never be good again!! New Vegas 2 would be TERRIBLE!16 people who worked on New Vegas left- 2-3 writers, the Lead Writer, and a bunch of programmers and area designers, and Chris AvelloneJosh Sawyer stayed, several core team members stayed, Leonard Boyarsky stayed.Last year, the Lead Writer of New Vegas RETURNEDTim Cain, lead programmer of Fallout 1, was hired by Obsidian officially last month.All that's gone after FNV now is:>Some area designers>2 junior writers>Chris Avellone>some programmersThey still have the Director, Lead Writer, some writers, and basically everyone who did 90% of the heavy lifting on New Vegas.Buutttt you won't hear that in the millions of retarded drooling arguments on twitter, youtube, and /v/ because you all are bandwagoner retards who regurgitate everything instead of doing actual research. Lmao. >But Outer Worlds sucked! The writing was cringe!John Gonzales is back though. And he didn't write Outer Worlds.
>>732299937>>732299371It's not nu-Obsidian anymore. Classic Obsidian is back.
>pirate the game to try some open world shooty slop>it doesn't just show you the main menu>the main menu is moon man making sarcastic quips before it opens up the optionsfuckoff
In June 2025, it was announced that Avellone had joined the inaugural project of Republic Games, a new studio founded by video game writer Adam Williams.[287][288] The unnamed project is a dystopian fantasy game described as "A tyrannical regime is brutally enforcing its ideology and crushing all dissent. But a faction of rebels seeks to overturn the tyrants and expose the lies at the heart of their doctrine."[289] Avellone has also been brought on by Red Info, a studio founded by Robert Kurvitz and Aleksander Rostov, former leads at ZA/UM for Disco Elysium, to help with developing the story for their planned spiritual sequel to Disco Elysium.[290I guess there is something to look forward to.
>>732300747that is an interesting mix of people for a game.
So long as Grounded keeps being successful I don't give a shit if they stop making RPGs.
>>732300845I want to become a billionaire to fund a studio for him to work on. I will not give him all the time in the world, just 18-24 months. No deadline I think is the worst thing you can do to a creative.
>>732300091>Obsidian is failingYes.>when they're more successful than they've ever beenYou seem to believe sales equal quality. My guess is you enjoy the Fallout show and I thus won't read the rest of your post.
>>732292653Yeah, reality lining up with my personal opinions and taste is a good feeling.
>>732294648>>732294139You sure showed that chud, sister. Now that he's faced with your passive-aggressive faggotry he will have to like the game.
>>732299824His self portrait looks nothing like his real life self. The art makes him look like some rugged lumberjack mountain man. But his actual self he's more like some twink bottom boy.
>>732292653
>>732301460Except it didn’t and they’re continuing to make even more expansions for Outer Worlds 2 than initially planned
>>732301072>You seem to believe sales equal quality. My guess is you enjoy the Fallout showNo, and you’re an illiterate retard.
>>732292653I won't be happy until the studio is dead. They clearly can't make a good rpg anymore. It's time to disband and let Joshua be hired by a good company.
>>732301885Anon, you can lie about those games not being failures, but you can't make me believe it.
>>732299824>please let me help you replace me
>>732292653I would be even happier if they also fired all those nu-obsidian clowns and soon to be lonely cat ladies, but this will suffice for now.There are only so many flops microjeet will put up with, anyway.
>>732292653>>732292717/thread
>>732292717got em
>>732299769Seethe impotently as your retarded ilk gets kicked out of every industry, clown.
>>732302162>stats showed 10,000 people played Outer Worlds 2 on launch early access which was $100>100 x 10,000 = 1 million>game total playerbase after counts up to $10 million in sales on launchThat’s not a total failure retard
>>732299769>still a success despite not reaching MICROSOFT'S (Not Obsidian's!) sales expectationsInsane cope. Holy shit you fags are retarded.
>>732293141>and NO, you CAN'T sleep with them >:)
>>732299769This is what delusion looks like
>>732293325True, without Chris Avellone to keep the troons in check obsidian aint worth shit
>>732292653So, if they fail, it's my fault?
>>732294050Look Outside
>>732299478>Obsidian still has Sawyer who is the brains of Fallout.how are you even using his name as a pro
>>732292653I'll be happy when everyone at microslops gaming division is killed and their heads stuck on a pike.
>>732303768Okay and? Fallout is his baby. Not The Outer Worlds.
>>732304016hey dummy retard, his title was design director on outer worlds
>>732292653Was this that tranny space fallout game? Yeah the first one was shit and I hated the characters. Good riddence.
>>732292653it took 1500 people to pass this turd
>Obsidians not the same as it was before>The original devs are no longer thereTim Cain and Leonard Boyarsky are the original head devs of Fallout 1 and 2. Those are the two who literally made the FO universe. Guess what both of them also worked on? The Outer Worlds 1 and 2 for Obsidian. Saying the old devs would fix things is bullshit. People change over time and TOW is what the ORIGINAL devs envisioned Fallout 3 to be.
>>732299801They have over 300 employees and are bankrolled by Microsoft. Are you suggesting that they are a small untested indie darling or are you just shitting your pants?
>>732292653Outer Worlds 2 wasnt likely to be huge in the first place, but Microsoft pushing for $80 on it initially most certainly didn't do it any favors.
>>732304347They have 285 employees. Prior to Microshaft they had 180 in 2018. During NV they had over 100. They were never a small indie dev. It was always a B tier studio that AAA studios outsourced to for fan fiction sequels.
>>732304428I still can't believe they decided that The Outer Worlds 2 was the game to push that. The Outer Worlds 2GUYSI KNOW YOU WANTED TO DO IT, BUT THE OUTER WORLDS 2?! REALLY?! I can't tell if I'm glad that they're this stupid because it makes the $80 push harder, or that I'm mad that they're this stupid because I'm insulted as a human bean
>>732304535Seems odd then how AA their games feel.
>>732292653Yes. The first one sucked my ass.
>>732304620They also increased the gamepass price from 20 to 30 shortly before it came out and it’s still the last notable game to release there
