>Reveal game in 2021>Dead silence>Finally reveal gameplay 4 years later>It looks the exact same as the first one>Apparently somehow worse than the first game>Game finally releases>Flops hard>Devs announced they're not gonna make anymore games for this seriesHow did the first game get praised to hell and back while the second game got nothing?
>>738992053Don't bother trying to understand the whims of obsidian fans
>>738992053Hm yes, why did it fail...perhaps your image holds some clues...oh yep, I see your problem right there. It seems there's a brown woman on the front of your game. You're gonna want to get rid of that if you want to sell games.
The companions were all woke lookin
The first one was mediocre as hell. The 2nd one is "I'm waiting for a $10 sale including DLC"
I only lasted about 10 hours in the first one. This is by far one of the ugliest, most poorly written and flat out uninteresting sci fi rpgs i've ever seen. I'm genuinely surprised that apparently the first game managed to sell well because simply playing it was painful.
Speaking of Obsidian what the fuck is Josh Sawyer doing? It's like they pay him to do nothing.
>>738992053I kinda liked Outer Worlds 1 thought it was really rough and I wanted to like Outer Worlds 2 but both games run like absolute shit despite not looking very good.Outer Worlds 2 just didn't run on my PC.You can't make a writing-focused cRPG that appeals to people on low spec machines and then make it only run on CAWADOOTY CRUSHER 5090TI
>>73899248710 dollars is very generous of you anon.
These guys need to fire the lead artist, guy is terrible holy shit give a new person a chance and stop supporting this shit, avowed was just as ugly.
>>738992053I actually liked the first one but it definitely wasn’t a favourite of mine, however it was nice to just sort of mindlessly play once.I did like the DLC for it though, that was much better than the base game.Maybe I will try 2 eventually, but not at full price and possibly at 100% booty bay discount.
>>738992674Artist is not even an issue, he's not doing the art alone. The entire leadership is brain rotted, they are the ones who greenlit this.
>>738992727Idk why Obsidian tries to make these first person action type games, I guess to ape Bethesda and New Vegas fan hype.Their more traditional CRPGs are great.I’d much preferred to get a PoE 3 rather than Avowed
>>738992863I imagine they require publisher money to make anything, their closest ties are to Xbox, and Xbox would outright refuse to fund anything that isn't in some way an FPS.
>>738992914Xbox would in fact fund just about anything to slap it into Gamepass to entice people to subscribe to the service. Meaning even if Obsidian keeps making middling to outright garbage, if it can be made exclusively for gamepass, then it can still in some way make some of its money back.
>>738992914Maybe, it’s the Microshit curse unfortunately, they have zero taste and ruin everything they touch.Instead of having some studio just do what they do best and make modest profits while also increasing the brand prestige of Microsoft gaming, they push for half baked shit like Avowed which MIGHT have been good if rebuilt as a traditional CRPG and called Pillars 3, but just failed as an first person action RPGi don’t think avowed was so awful, but it would have been better if the focus was more on mechanics and story than the art and 3D open world
>>738992863It's weird how obsessed obsidian is with Bethesda. How do people not point that out more???
It's insane that Inxile has far better chances of delivering another great rpg. Wasteland 3 already shat on the entire modern obsidian output.
>>738992053>How did the first game get praised to hell and back while the second game got nothing?>praised to hell and back>to hell>and backLOL, it didn't, at least not here. It had some buzz but went out like fruit stripe gum. Avowed does NOT know how to make its own IP. It does incredibly well when it has another game's IP (e.g: KOTOR/Fallout/South Park), but not its own.Outer Worlds 2 had a lot of problems, namely Obsidian ran out of time and money working on it just like they did with New Vegas. Unlike New Vegas however the Outer Worlds IP decided to soft reboot with 2. It also had a different team working on Avowed (thinking both would sell moderately well) which released earlier that year instead of pooling the resources into one hit.Don't forget the following>Crafting doesn't award XP>Tristan is built on a faction that would have had reputation and its own city, instead he is just a named NPC and most of his faction are trash enemies with no reputation consequences for killing them, Tristan will just watch idly by and not give a shit>No carrying limit>Fall damage is hard set way too low>Immediate "you died" screens are rage-inducing>>738992387Tristan is the sole /pol/ / W40K-coded companion, probably made for that purpose, but even then yes the cast is incredibly gay. Not as bad as Avowed though.
>>738992053>How did the first game get praised to hell and backIt didn't
>>738992053I forget everything about the OW1 except this was my guy, Pravati was tolerable but gay, I think the town mayor on the first planet was supposed to be a Shatner impersonation, and the Rick and Morty scientist guy was an annoying fag. That's it, if I finished it I don't remember and that's unique for me I remember every game I finish.
>>738992053>less freedom than FO:NV, a 15 year old game>gameplay is nothing to write home about>the humor is reddit>make all the characters ugly>they aren't even romanceableThey have no clue what sells. Once again they're sorely in need of an ideas-guy.
>>738993020You'd think they'd be obsessed with Lucasarts or BioWare, since the best games Obsidian are known for are for IPs that they didn't create but were only hired to work on. Meanwhile all of their own personal ideas have either been duds or outright shit.
>>738992053The economic model of "rely on investor money based on ESG scores" is no longer functional.
I looked past the woke bullshit in the first one but the second one just piled it on even more. The companions are fucking horrible in this regard.
>>738993673First game was not that woke honestly, aside from being pure RedditslopIt was everything the most cringe annoying Reddit RPG fans claimed to want in an RPG
>>738993673All the factions in 2 are lead by women. Coincidentally all the factions are fucking awful. Total accident, I'm sure.
The annoying mutt companion was the worst. He pissed me off so much I had to tell him to fuck off. I don't think I've done that in any game ever.
