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Kotaku: Don't Expect The Outer Worlds To Be As Gigantic As Fallout: New Vegas
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I always prefer depth over breadth, and crafted environments over sprawling open worlds. Trust in Obsidian.
Yeah. Never been a fan of the "wide as an ocean, deep as a puddle" RPG design philosophy. Give me a deep pond lol.
thats fine, I have faith in obsidian.
To me this is the game to set them back on top and also to show microsoft you can get this stuff on a grand scale with more funding.
To me this is the game to set them back on top and also to show microsoft you can get this stuff on a grand scale with more funding.
That's fine, I don't want them trying to do too much for the sake of extra content that isn't of a higher quality. It's not an AAA game with the budget or time to justify that anyways...don't try to be something you aren't. I will be eagerly awaiting a big budget game from them with Microsoft after this proves a success.
Considering KOTOR I and II are amongst my all time favourite games, I have no complaint about this.
Well shoot. I had hoped it would be at least New Vegas sized. It still looks interesting though.
This part also blows my mind a bit.
The game has been in development for only two years.
The game has been in development for only two years.
I can't say New Vegas was gigantic though? But I'm more than fine with a compact RPG game, 20-40 hours for is more than enough. I'm currently playing too much long 50+ hours games at once and I hate myself for that because I basically playing only them for a few months and fucked up my backlog cleaning pacing greatly. I would rather prefer hand-crafted short experiences against huge empty AAA sandbox junk.
A shorter more compact New Vegas style game sounds great to me. Give me a 10-20 hour RPG that is vastly replayable.
Knowing Obsidian and given how successful I imagine this game will be, I think this will be a game worth purchasing the season pass for. I expect very good things.
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That's good. I do not trust Obsidian at all when it comes to making a polished product that isnt isometric, and keeping it from being open world should help alleviate some of my fears.
New Vegas was a worse launch for me than Fallout 76.
New Vegas was a worse launch for me than Fallout 76.
25-hour, AA title incoming. Makes total sense given what Private Division typically funds. And that should be a really enjoyable romp into the world & lore.
The sequel probably goes 80-hour, AAAA truly open-world when funded by Microsoft for Windows 10 & NeXbox exclusivity.
The sequel probably goes 80-hour, AAAA truly open-world when funded by Microsoft for Windows 10 & NeXbox exclusivity.
It was big enough to have 80+ hours of content including many quests having quite a few solutions to them and the game itself supporting various play styles driven by what skills you picked. Its map may not have been the largest or most packed with buildings but it was a very big game.
Picking up bottles is not "content".
Big enough. I'm not sure what the "hundreds of hours" is supposed to be citing either, but a single playthrough didn't take that long. NV took me around fifty or sixty per playthrough, and I wasn't rushing.
Prefer this. It's good news. Burned out wasting time with brain dead traversal getting from one side of the map to another to collect one thing.
Giant crabs and open world are two things I've over in gaming. As long as there's no giant crabs, Obsidian's new game is on the right track.
Giant crabs and open world are two things I've over in gaming. As long as there's no giant crabs, Obsidian's new game is on the right track.
Well, the preview didn't actually look all that open either. If anything, it seemed more like an "openish linear" styled game, similar to Mass Effect, or as others have mentioned: KOTOR. I'm sick to death of these huge, vapid worlds anyway.
Forzatech is primarily developed by Turn 10. I don't think it works for an open world RPG. TOW will probably continue to use UE4. But who knows, down the line, maybe 343i's Slipstream engine will be a viable option for RPGs and the like.
New Vegas really wasn't that big (map wise). It had a lot of content because you could tackle almost every situation in several different ways with different repercussions
If this is lacking in outer worlds I'll be disappointed
If this is lacking in outer worlds I'll be disappointed
New Vegas ain't even that big, it just takes you 900 years to walk anywhere because you move like a snail.
Not every open world game needs to be bigger than the previous one. I would gladly play the game if it has 20 hours of quality content. The urge of developers to have a big open world with a lot of mediocre content is really annoying.
It's Obsidian. I'm not worried about world size. I know it'll be packed with content I want to play that will last a while. It's Obsidian.
So it will be the size of a open world game from last gen then. Which are smaller than this generation games. I'm ok with that.
Understandable. Just give me a strong narrative that's heavy on user choice and I'll be more than satisfied.