iamthetot@piefed.ca to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoObsidian's The Outer Worlds 2 Underperformed, and There Won't Be a Third - IGNwww.ign.comexternal-linkmessage-square94linkfedilinkarrow-up1191arrow-down12 cross-posted to: pcgaming@lemmy.ca
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minus-squareBig_Boss_77@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 day agoYa know… if they had spent a single second on the story instead and maybe made a cohesive plot that followed anywhere close to the first instead of phoning in the bullshit they did…it might have been a bit more well received.
minus-squareVitoRobles@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·9 hours agoI read this review and absolutely agreed with it. Fallout works because they wrote a really compelling real world. Then, they sprinkled jokes. Outer Worlds went the other direction. They wrote jokes, and tried to build a world around that. The Borderlands comparison is accurate. And it’s not like the world lore sucks. Using Borderlands as an example: Tales from the Borderlands focused on a compelling story first. Which is kind of crazy because I don’t understand how they made the original Fallout 1&2 and New Vegas. Like, they created this style of storytelling.
minus-squareBig_Boss_77@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 hours agoI’m not super hip on dev team rosters… so I may be talking out my ass… but i wonder if nothing of that Obsidian is left?
minus-squareBigBananaDealer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 day agoim guessing outer worlds 2 has a similar story to borderlands 4? which if so im definitely not interested lol
minus-squareBig_Boss_77@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 day agoNever played BL4…so can’t comment. As far as OW2… they had a decent bit of potential to work with…and instead went a different route entirely
minus-squareBigBananaDealer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·19 hours agofrom the little i played of ow2 it seemed like the exact same story setup as borderlands 4 lol
Ya know… if they had spent a single second on the story instead and maybe made a cohesive plot that followed anywhere close to the first instead of phoning in the bullshit they did…it might have been a bit more well received.
I read this review and absolutely agreed with it.
Fallout works because they wrote a really compelling real world. Then, they sprinkled jokes.
Outer Worlds went the other direction. They wrote jokes, and tried to build a world around that. The Borderlands comparison is accurate.
And it’s not like the world lore sucks. Using Borderlands as an example: Tales from the Borderlands focused on a compelling story first.
Which is kind of crazy because I don’t understand how they made the original Fallout 1&2 and New Vegas. Like, they created this style of storytelling.
I’m not super hip on dev team rosters… so I may be talking out my ass… but i wonder if nothing of that Obsidian is left?
im guessing outer worlds 2 has a similar story to borderlands 4? which if so im definitely not interested lol
Never played BL4…so can’t comment. As far as OW2… they had a decent bit of potential to work with…and instead went a different route entirely
from the little i played of ow2 it seemed like the exact same story setup as borderlands 4 lol
That’s unfortunate…