Obsidian is skeptical of creating a potential The Outer Worlds 2 as a fully open-world game

[Raide]

I would rather play a game that's smaller but is filled with stuff to do like the yakuza game's

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Agree. I would rather games have much smaller worlds but with way more interactive options. A more believable and lived in world would be way more interesting to me, rather than massive open zones of nothing.

 

[ActWan]

I'll have to see how it plays out in OW, but I don't doubt they'll pull it off so it's nice they don't view open world as the singular goal for what they want to do moving forward.

 

[Deleted member 7462]

If it feels like KoTOR or Mass Effect 1 then it'll be a hit for me. That type of game is surely missing these days.

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Sure, I loved KotOR, but that wasn't an open world so much as a world with a few defined areas/paths that you traveled down, though not all of those paths were necessary to find to complete a planet.

I think "go anywhere" open world games are the best games for action adventure games in 3D, but I'm cool with this type of game, especially from Obsidian considering how much I loved both KotOR 2 and Alpha Protocol. However, to me, Fallout: New Vegas is the best game ever made, and that's Obsidian working with a "go anywhere" open world, so I'd like to see them tackle that again.

 

[Bony Manifesto]

It's funny, I saw a thread a couple of weeks ago that said open-world games should not be afraid to have much wider gaps between content (instead of the aim I think the Assassin's Creed developers had of showing the player something of interest every 30 seconds), and there was near unanimous agreement. Now we've got a thread that suggests the open-worlds should be scaled back to allow an even more dense concentration of content, and pretty much everyone agrees with that too!

I guess people are just really unsatisfied by the middle-ground we have now and want games to pick a side.

 

[oofouchugh]

This sucks to hear, no one really makes good open world RPGs anymore.

 

[unicornKnight]

I love Open world games, at least the ones I ve played worked really well (botw, ac Odyssey, Skyrim, fallout 3) but they should what works best for them.

 

[TeddyShardik]

I'm just glad they no longer have to be skeptical of being able to make a potential next game, period.

I don't care if it's open world or not.