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How Much Like Fallout: New Vegas Is The Outer Worlds, Really?

The question is: how much is The Outer Worlds a true successor to New Vegas, and how much is just talk?

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MadLad1664d ago

Player agency and varied roleplaying mechanics are staples of an Obsidian RPG.
Outer Worlds was definitely a continuation of the design philosophy presented with New Vegas, albeit fleshed out (for the most part) within the mechanics; if a bit more condensed and ground it terms of the world itself.

A lot of people have already said it, but, Outer Worlds is a fantastic RPG is almost every regard. It's the rare title where the first release of a new ip of this scope has little to no obvious flaws to it. And that said, that leaves the door open to just how impressive a sequel could be, considering this is the base.

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CrimsonIdol1663d ago

While I agree, I think besides the general first person perspective combat The Outer Worlds is way more like Knights of the Old Republic 2 than New Vegas. Obviously the feel of the combat goes a long way to making it feel like a Fallout game though. But the structure of the worlds and the missions, the perk levelling system, the companion quests, influence, having a party for combat, and the general companion banter just feel so much like KoTOR2 to me, which did a fantastic job of much the same things that this game succeeded in doing too. Another great game that like New Vegas seemed like a superior sequel/expansion to the original (although in the case KoTOR2 it was crippled a little by being rushed out the door by the publisher). Either way, loved my time with The Outer Worlds.

AK911663d ago

Sequel ain’t happening not as long as Obsidian is owned by MS.

AK911663d ago

@TheReallRedCruz the Outer Worlds IP is owned by Private Division not MS, unless MS buy the rights of Private Division or Obsidian themselves do the sequel won’t be happening anytime soon.

MadLad1663d ago

You probably would want to recheck the information on this. Obsidian own the Outer Worlds IP. Private Division was nothing but the publisher. With the acquisition of Obsidian, MS now owns the company, as well as all IP. MS does indeed own Outer Worlds.

bluefox7551663d ago (Edited 1663d ago )

I'm trying to get my girlfriend to try it. Her video game likes are limited to 3 games: Animal Crossing, Diablo 3, and Skyrim. I told her it's like Skyrim, lol. She says the reason she didn't like Fallout 3 was because of the guns and the difficulty, but I said that melee is a viable option in this game, though admittedly, I'm only about an hour into it, so I'm not sure how valid this claim is.

Hroach6161663d ago

I’m maybe 5-6 hrs into it now. It became less viable pretty quickly once you get off the first world. It might be fine if you go into it with a melee build in mind from the start, but I didn’t do that so I can’t say for sure. Maybe someone else has that build can comment more.

bluefox7551662d ago

Thanks, you're the only respondant that wasn't useless.

KillZallthebeast1663d ago

Apparrently people dont like your basic bitch girlfriend.

bluefox7551662d ago

Not sure what that means. She's not hardcore enough of a gamer to be my girlfriend? Do people on this website actually have wives or girlfriends? Guess that would explain the bizarre downvoting.

KillZallthebeast1661d ago

it means nothing and the fact your pondering is ridiculous

KillZallthebeast1661d ago

also I down vote no one I have maybe down 2 tops in 5 years

Fist4achin1663d ago

Who cares?! Fallout New Vegas was a winning formula, so why not run with it or at least take the best mechanics and apply it elsewhere!

smolinsk1663d ago

No fallout 3 was, the world map of New Vegas was confusing and dull as hell..

smolinsk1663d ago

no but between fallout 3 and new vegas, fallout 3 was superior i think..

BadElf1662d ago

I would say thats a conversation for another time.

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smolinsk1663d ago

It's not open world, end of comparison.

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The Outerhaven interviews Francisco González of Grundislav Games

The Outerhaven interviews Francisco González of Grundislav Games about his passion for Point and Click games.

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10 Biggest Xbox Mistakes of All Time (So Far)

The Xbox brand has done a lot of good over the years, but their various blunders are pretty wild to look back on in their magnitude.

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piroh21h ago(Edited 20h ago)

Ironically number 9 can save them at this point (releasing games on multiple platforms)

OtterX3h ago

You could add the naming scheme for the consoles, it just confuses customers. I know they wanted to avoid traditional numbering bc it would always be lower than their competitor, but this whole 360 then One then Series thing is confusing af. Imagine a Soccer Mom trying to figure this stuff out. I still mistakenly call the Series X the One from time to time on accident.

RNTody2h ago

Don't forget about the Xbox One, Xbox One X and Xbox Series X! Good luck to Soccer moms around the world.

Cacabunga3h ago(Edited 3h ago)

Phil Spencer is the worst that has happened to Xbox.
They built a respectable brand up to Xbox one. Then this guy took over and things became a joke

MaximusPrime_37m ago

Really good video.

I remember the days with RRoD was big news on here, N4G.

Microsoft had it turbulence number of years.

Looking at the success of Sea of Thieves despite being 6 years old, time to release Halo, Forza horizon 4 & 5 on PS5. It'll help their revenue

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Stellar Blade has sold more physical copies than Dragon's Dogma 2 in Japan, despite PS5 exclusivity

By the looks of it, PlayStation 5 exclusivity does not hurt the sales of Stellar Blade in Japan as the game has passed 90,000 sold physical copies.

Hugodastrevas20h ago

Stellar Blade really deserves way more praise than it got, devs have been adding more and more content, for free, since release and the game already was great to begin with!

BrettAwesome17h ago

More than it got? It got tons, by everyone except the sad wankers who's idea of a sex life, is pulling on their dicks while watching big fake cgi titties 😂

gerbintosh3h ago

Don't see the difference between cgi titties and fake boobs. Also no difference to wanking it to either one of them since both aren't physically there

RiseNShine1h ago

Salty that the game is doing well hm? ;) I suggest some cheese with your whine.

Cacabunga17h ago

I think we can safely claim that Stellar Blade 2 is confirmed!
I got it day one, i have some backlog due to RDR2 i just platinumed.. i will get to Stellar Blade in the near future

shinoff218317h ago

Same but I'm hitting yakuza right now. Stellar blade looks cool though.

neutralgamer199215h ago

Capcom really dropped the ball with DG2. They had easy success on their hand but instead with their stupid decisions ruined the games success

Stellar blade is an amazing game and deserves all the success. For all the artificial hate it got from people who had no interest in the game to begin with this shows if you make a good game it will sell. The so called 1st party drought from PlayStation has meant 4 exclusives in 2024 so far. Other companies need to learn how to run a business and plan for the future

H920h ago

Stellar blade is performing very impressively there, DD2 didn't do well because word of mouth destroyed it's reputation and not about the Microtransactions or performance, bad word of mouth about how the game lacks so many things that were in the first one

Redemption-6417h ago

DS2 sold 2.5M in a little over a week, what the hell are you talking about?

H917h ago

"there", that's Japan, this article is about Japan, the bad word of mouth is about Japan

Hereandthere18h ago

Exclusives matter. No matter what bumbling phil and bond try to say, exclusives is why you buy a console.

The_Hooligan15h ago

How dare you speak common sense!!??

jznrpg10h ago

It would if they added a lot more combat and didn’t focus on graphics

XiNatsuDragnel18h ago

Stellar blade is great excited for 2

anast18h ago

They dropped the ball with dogma. SB is a solid game, it just had to weather the social storm.

shinoff218317h ago(Edited 17h ago)

Said that dd2 was missing things the first one did,like mass effect 2? I haven't played it so I'm really asking.

spss1115h ago

I've played both and I have no idea what people say when they claim it's "incomplete". I've only noticed new things in comparison to DD1 (I would give a list but spoilers). Sometimes I wonder if some people actually played DD1 or maybe they remember it differently. Anyways, if you liked the first one and want more of that, you'll probably like DD2.

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