Comment on Obsidian's The Outer Worlds 2 Underperformed, and There Won't Be a Third - IGN
Acidbath@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Is the second game really “meh”? I enjoyed the first one but that was because I got stupidly high everytime I play. There has been moments where I would sober up and question why everyone in a town hates me and why is everyone dead. Don’t remember the details either, epic games corrupted my save and I gave up.
P00ptart@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The first was meh. Dunno about the second, but I have to assume it was also meh.
ieGod@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Yeah the first was alright, like a small scale Bethesda game with pretty ok gunplay. I got my copy for free (thanks epic) but it still wasn’t enough to interest me to buy the second.
P00ptart@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Well they definitely learned a lot from Bethesda. Maybe too much. But they also outperform Bethesda in a lot of ways. Like using unreal, it just allows way more realistic facial movements than any Bethesda game allows, making NPCs feel far more realistic, and therefore allowing better immersion. But Bethesda absolutely needs to start from scratch with a new engine if they want to continue using their own. With an updated engine it could pump out games much faster than trying to continuously upgrade the old ass engine to look better. It’s seriously out of date when facial movements still are only confined to the mouth like their newest game, starfield. Like games back in the day would use the same engine and get a new one out 2-3 years later. Why can’t we do that again?
I just want more content, if you put out a game I love, I don’t need the most advanced version of it, just give me another with a new story on the same engine. It worked great with old grand theft Auto games. I totally understand why it wouldn’t work like call of duty, because they put almost no effort in the story. But cutting down on on the effort of the engine, and focusing on story, would be fine. Their biggest anchor is the engine.