Honestly, the first one was Ok, I’m kinda surprised there was a second one.
Ok, not really surprised,since every IP needs to be a franchise, but you know what I mean.
Obsidian's The Outer Worlds 2 Underperformed, and There Won't Be a Third - IGN
Submitted 9 hours ago by iamthetot@piefed.ca to games@lemmy.world
https://www.ign.com/articles/obsidians-the-outer-worlds-2-underperformed-and-there-wont-be-a-third
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Passerby6497@lemmy.world 33 minutes ago
TheGreenWizard@lemmy.zip 2 hours 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 2 hours ago
This is an accurate take haha.
zebidiah@lemmy.ca 1 hour ago
Not shocked. this seems like, at best, it might be a $10 steam pickup… Same as the first game
TalkingFlower@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
For some reason, I just felt the humour was trying too hard, plus the price tag made the overall package unappealing to me.
CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
The first one was mostly terrible and coasted on, 'not Bethesda ’ and fallout vibes. But it was shallow and janky.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 hours ago
I remember getting it because the hype around it being better at RPG storytelling than Fallout 4 which was still new was the number one thing I heard about it.
While it is better written, I’ll give it that, it very much suffers from the same lack of interesting choices that Fallout 4 has. You have rebel, capitalist, and maybe sometimes a neutral 3rd option. Having two of those three choices just make one side happy and the other mad at you isn’t exactly the kind of depth I was hoping for.
Gladaed@feddit.org 3 hours ago
Shallow and janky is peak fallout.
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 23 minutes ago
I’m afraid you’re conflating “Fallout” with “Bethesda”. Fallout 1&2 are peak Fallout, and they are neither shallow nor janky. Well, maybe slightly janky but more in the sense of “dated” than Bethesda type jank.
stoy@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
It underperformed due to them overcharging for it.
I had my sights set on buying it shortly after launch, then they decided to charge €80 for it on launch, and still charge €70 for it.
I would be fine with €60, but more is just greedy.
And yes I noticed way too late that they had it on sale for €50 this december, and I missed that opportunity due to other expenses.
Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 56 minutes ago
I basically refuse to pay more than $50 for a game.
The outer wilds had some good press but by the time I was interested it was given away for free. Guessing that’ll be the case here too.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
It’s a great game imho, but I was gifted my copy - in no world is a game worth €80, it’s completely divorced from reality. Fucking tragic the publisher just killed it on delivery.
stoy@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
Yeah, the price for new games had been fixed for a long time at €50, and then the industry decided to whack it up to €70 just as the cost of living reached even higher.
And now they are standing around scratching their heads asking why their games failed…
Now, I realize that the cost of living also affects companies and their staff, but come on, you don’t whack the price up by 40% in one go, you start earlier and raise it by 10-20%, let it stabilize and go from there.
That is more in line with the inflation rate.
Damage@feddit.it 6 hours ago
Aside from it being a high price for any game, the first game also was very meh, you can’t expect lots of sales from its fans
P00ptart@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
The first one felt very forced as far as the leftist story goes. I’m as leftist as there is but it still felt really heavy handed. I got maybe 3 hours in and never picked it up again.
Mister_Feeny@fedia.io 5 hours ago
They actually walked back the 80 to 70 BEFORE launch, but the bad press about it stuck anyway.
I skipped it myself cuz even though I generally like Obsidian games, I don't spend money on microsoft anymore.
Kirp123@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I feel that the game would have been fine if it was an actually game worth playing. The first game already was kinda meh and I don’t even know who demanded a sequel. Nobody is going to pay 80 Euro for a mediocre game when they could get a bunch of indie games with that money.
stoy@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
I really enjoyed the first one, and am looking forward to the second, but first it needs to get a better price, and preferably get on GOG.
Yarny@lemmy.ml 6 hours ago
Didn’t mind the first one, but you are out of your mind if you think I would pay $70 for this game. Especially after they tried to sell it for $80 at first. Thank god that didn’t fly. Fuck you Microsoft.
It’s crazy too, because most games that launch for $70, you can just wait 3 months and then they’ll have a 30% sale. I will be picking it up this March, should go on sale for like 40%.
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 3 hours ago
On Steam store.steampowered.com/app/…/The_Outer_Worlds_2/ the lowest price it had was 2 month ago (approx. 1 year after release on Steam I think) at 30% cut, which is 49 Euros down from 70. So it might take another 6 or even 12 months before going lower than that.
Yarny@lemmy.ml 3 hours ago
The Outer Worlds 2 came out October 29th, 2025 (not even 4 months ago). So for it to already be at 30% gives me hope that it’ll go down much more next sale. I’m assuming it didn’t sell that well on steam just looking at number of reviews and all time player count peak.
anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz 1 hour ago
I’m waiting for the game to be released on gog.com. I really enjoyed the first game.
CannedCairn@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
This reminds me to finish the outer wilds.
Katana314@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Call this what you like. Echo effect (previous entry was bad, and so people avoid the very good sequel), $70 price tag…in my case, it was Microsoft nosediving harder than usual on all fronts, including literally bombing children, making it an easy decision to boycott them.
MyDarkestTimeline01@ani.social 8 hours ago
Haven’t they lost almost all of the staff involved with the good games? At this point they’re in the same boat as BioWare. All the old guard is gone.
TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca 6 hours ago
No way in hell I’d pay its nearly $100CAD asking price.
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 6 hours ago
For how phoned in the story was and how badly it runs in UE5 it’s kind of insane that they charged above $50
RainbowBlite@piefed.ca 3 hours ago
I much prefer their isometric titles anyway.
chewables@piefed.social 6 hours ago
I ended up pirating it because the price was just out of the question for me at the time I found out it was released. Which was purely by chance
Overall it was an okay experience but I didn’t like the cast as much as the original, had to download some mods for my first playthrough (not something I usually do) to fix some things I found annoying, and was just kinda bored. If I’d had anything else to do I probably wouldn’t have finished it, and I don’t see myself going back for a second playthrough. Indie games just seem to be doing everything better rn
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
I didn‘t like the first one so this was a hard pass for me. However I didn‘t even know the sequel was out yet. This thing completely drowned among better priced indie games.
Acidbath@lemmy.world 6 hours 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 3 hours ago
The first was meh. Dunno about the second, but I have to assume it was also meh.
ieGod@lemmy.zip 1 hour 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.
alchemy88@feddit.uk 7 hours ago
Shame. I really enjoyed playing this on gamepass. It wasn’t amazing but I completed it which is rare these days.
tiredofsametab@fedia.io 7 hours ago
There were unpatched issues in the first one (it's been so long now I don't remember them all but there was one in a DLC where you're supposed to be able to give an item to a robot NPC but it was just broken in addition to several others).
Looking at the price and thinking of that, it was a "pass until decent sale" for me.
I do like the setting generally (at least based on the first one). It might be neat to have someone else take over the IP and go somewhere with it.
P00ptart@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
They were a little too heavy handed on the preachyness imo. I agree with the point but that doesn’t mean I want to be hit with a metaphorical hammer for 20+ hours.
zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 minutes ago
Your extremely expensive try-hard sequel to a just OK game didn’t blow everyone away? Womp womp. Obsidian died when MS bought them.