Obsidian most known game fallout new vegas: actually broken without mods, to the point where mods are near mandatory to play.
Obsidian makes pillars of eternity which while okay, has massive issues in balancing, pace and difficulty (and not the git gud kind, more the I’d you don’t already know something the game never mentions, you’re kind of screwed).
Obsidian: after making a trash port of pillars of eternity on switch “we’re abandoning updating the game, also we made it 30gb yet still just as bad as when it was 5gb, also no pillars of eternity 2 for switch”
- games that run perfectly fine on switch doom, doom eternal,witcher 3, skyrim, dos 2, no mans sky, mortal kombat 11, etc…
Outer worlds. Actual meh. And vastly overrated.
Obsidian entertainment is the reason dungeon siege doesn’t exist anymore because of how bad 3 was
Sure star wars the old republic 1 and 2 were very good and so was South Park stick of truth. But that’s about the end of their line of unquestionably good games.
Why should I have any interest in avowed or outer worlds 2?
They made Grounded recently and its fucking awesome.
Outer Worlds was a AA game, so people calling it “trash” because its not Fallout in Space are just idiots.
They were selling The Outer Worlds for $60 despite it being an AA game.
Wait… they sold a game for the default price that every game is sold for regardless of quality, length or any other defining characteristic? I’m shocked!
It’s just worse than Fallout tho is the issue. The issue isn’t that it isn’t enough like Fallout, it’s that it’s lower quality than even Bethesda’s middling Fallout 4. Obsidian can’t create a big budget project from scratch to save their life. They should stick to CRPGs, they’re far better at those.
So the AA project is worse than the AAA project? Do you think this is some kind of point that you’re making to me?
Is your argument that lower budget automatically equals worse game? If Obsidian was better than Bethesda they’d make better games. Not like it would’ve been difficult to outdo Fallout 4 or Starfield even on a smaller budget. Obsidian outdoes themselves when they work with smaller budgets. Their smaller projects are far better than their big ones like Outer Worlds or Alpha Protocol. Obsidian just sucks when they actually have to put resources into gameplay mechanics and open world exploration rather than just writing. Games like Outer Worlds are going directly against their strengths.
I feel like Outer Worlds becomes a lot more enjoyable after a mindset shift from “this should be a Fallout clone” to “this is like an FPS version of KotOR.” Avowed might turn out the same way since there is already so much expectation that it’ll play as a Skyrim 2.0
People who make excuses for games because the poor wittle studio didn’t spent a lot of money on it are idiots.
They were hired to make this game and were given a small amount of money for the budget. They used that money to make the game. Do you really think a small independent developer that was struggling to keep the lights had the bank account to pay for a AAA development?