This is an accurate take haha.
Comment on Obsidian's The Outer Worlds 2 Underperformed, and There Won't Be a Third - IGN
TheGreenWizard@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
God man, shits so sad but I’d be lying if I said I was surprised at all. The first one was very OK, like it was certainly a game that I played and bothered completing. They were very lucky someone had the idea to make Parvati in the first game, the rest of the crew was a snooze fest (at least for me). But then I see the shitty commercial they made for the companions in the 2nd game, and no fucking wonder it didn’t sell! They tell you nothing, play that god awful song over some shitty footage and crack a joke about how none of them are romance-able. They then charge 80 bucks, and make fun of you if you pay for their premium edition, yea go fuck yourself obsidian, and stop taking credit for new Vegas, none of those team members are still around.
SoloCritical@lemmy.world 3 days ago
BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world 2 days ago
dude parvarti was like 95% of the reason i kept playing outer worlds 1 until the end 😂
AlexanderTheDead@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I’m not sure which of you is right, but another comment below said JSawyer is still at Obsidian. That’s the name for me, and probably for a lot of people.
TheGreenWizard@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
I’ll be real, I did not know he still worked there, that’s what I get for saying things without looking it up. That being said, according to Wikipedia, he didn’t have a hand in OW1, Avowed, or OW2. Why brag about having JSawyer if he isn’t even working on it you know?
AlexanderTheDead@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah, I get you. I haven’t played OW2 but Avowed is so… not fun, for me. I’ll give it another shot someday.
OW1 tho was okay I thought. Not good enough to motivate me to play the DLCs I had already paid for, lol.
BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world 1 day ago
i found avowed the best out of the 3 (ow1 and ow2)
try using pistols cause theyre fuckin broken lol
VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
Might just be me but… I really like the companions in the Outer Worlds 2. They’re way better than the first game. The inability to romance them was actually a selling point to me, because I assumed that meant each character’s arc would focus on their own story unrelated to their relationship with the player, like in New Vegas.
So far, I’ve loved how Inez especially expands on the history of Auntie’s Choice. There’s one companion that’s just a little goofy, but I also don’t know how you’d do that character without making them extremely naive.
The game as a whole actually is much more fleshed-out than the first, at least thus far (halfway through). I highly recommend getting it on a sale.