It's definitely going to be one of those games where you have to start making your own fun, which isn't bad with those open world games. If magic does a bunch of weird stuff and isn't just an alternative weapon, which is most of what Skyrim's magic was, then I think it'll be all right. You're right about Pillars related stuff though, the original concept was cool but it hurts a lot of future production when you wipe away most of the mystery in the first game.
Turns out Matt's bsky tweet was deleted after Asmongold and Smash JT exposed him. But it gets worse.
I don't blame him. He was probably the only talented one at the studio, and when he worked on Pillars his chief complaint was retards coming in and strangling his creative voice despite having a fraction of the accomplishments or time with the company.
It's not open world. It's fucking zone based level shit like Outer Worlds which means your progression through areas will be linear.
That's kind of the problem. I don't think it looks like you can do anything neat with the magic and the melee isn't anything to write home about when you have games like Vermintide/Darktide, Mordhau, and Kingdom Come: Deliverance. I've brought those up a couple of times and I think while they all have their flaws and are featured in very different kinds of games, they each show where first person melee has gone in the last decade and a half. People complained about Skyrim melee and I don't think it's significant step up from that. They could get away with it if the game was meant to be a proper rpg but stats alone to not an rpg make. Think Morrowind. This is an action game with an rpg coat of paint. There's a lot within the skill tree and how you command companions through a radial menu that reminds me of Veilguard - so much so that it wouldn't surprise me if in months (or years) to come, we find out that there was idea sharing or some of the same personnel. Both Obsidian and Bioware are studios that are constantly cycling through employees, as is the norm for these AAA slop teams (Avowed is $70, it is a AAA title). In conclusion, the action looks too stiff to sell me on it being an action game, and the rpg elements seem too nonsense to by anything more than an exercise in number go up syndrome. I really don't care about any woke elements because my dissatisfaction stems from deeper than pronouns, nigger elves, or soydevs.
You know a setting that's "written for it"? Star Trek. Obligatory "it has pushed boundaries", etc. But it is genuinely well written and it has all the "diversity" without even once uttering the accursed word, not that its modern installments are saved from checkboxing. It even had the alien tranny episode with Riker being confirmed a chaser, and it still preached less than any media does today. Everything makes sense in-setting and there's no awkward inserts. There's another example in the Deep Space 9 Dax pseudo-lesbian episode. What looks like #FirstLesbianKissOnTV is actually about unrequited love between two alien symbionts who loved eachother in past lives as man and woman, but could no longer because of the taboos of their society (which aren't allegorical to anything – Trill symbionts are barred from being married across generations to prevent tyranny and familial inbreeding). It makes perfect sense in the context of the setting. No forced pronouns, no identity politics, not a mention of gender anywhere – hell, they even did blackface multiple times.
I can already hear Fleek talk about BUDGET CUTS
Good to see that Chris at least has some balls here. Imagine if the game gets buried in controversy and actual lawsuits before it releases and that completely overshadows the game launch in February.
I got bad news for you, buddy...
Man... I was really trying to be optimistic too. I knew there was a reason I wanted to read this thread.
Outer Worlds was 100% a "number go up" simulator. Just like in Soyfield, there were tiers of weapons(some introduced in DLC, altho not for every weapon variant so you would have some weapons stuck at MK2 and some at MK3 or even MK4 if I remember correctly). Legendaries/Unique Weapons also had tiers, meaning that the unique weapon you found at the start of the game is absolutely useless the moment you find a regular MK2 weapon, unless the unique has some rad effect you like, in which case you can spend a ridiculous amount of money to tinker with it to raise it's damage to similar, but still lower levels than that of a regular MK2. Enemies are similarly bullet sponges that vary by location, good luck killing anything with your starting weapons in DLC areas until you pick up a MK3 variant of the same weapon down the line.
a god takes over a giant statue, stomps around a couple of islands, you follow the aftermath, have a conversation with him, the end
This is also why it is not worth playing these games at difficulty higher than "normal".
I guess buccal fat removal is a thing in that universe.
