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Turn on the New Vegas 2 copium machine: The Outer Worlds 2 director says Obsidian looks at "everything" available when choosing IP to work on, which happens to include Fallout

But I have a feeling the studio is going to stick to originals for a while yet

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Obsidian hopes to stand alongside CD Projekt and Larian by making "best-in-class" reactive RPGs, says The Outer Worlds 2 director: "I don't know if we're there yet, but I'd love to get there"

Year in Review 2025 | The Outer Worlds 2 director on the future of the RPG and Obsidian

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The Outer Worlds 2 director's stance on AI is that "Obsidian should never outsource the things that it's amazing at," like the famed RPG dev's knack for good writing

"You don't outsource the things you're good at to AI."

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The Outer Worlds 2 lead says his RPG isn't a critique of capitalism, but Baldur's Gate 3's publishing lead isn't so sure: "Expression in video games is cooked"

"...because the puppet master still holds the strings"

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Obsidian says The Outer Worlds 2 isn't a deliberate critique of capitalism, which is even more ridiculous than the time Fallout's co-creator said that isn't either

What's better than a thoughtful analysis of history? How about a vague shrug of the shoulders?

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The Outer Worlds 2 director bravely says Chrono Trigger is "the best JRPG ever and it's not even close" - and that it doesn't get enough credit for being one of the only ones where "you don't actually have to grind"

"The pacing on it is just amazing"

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The Outer Worlds 2 director doesn't want games to be "preachy," but the RPG's capitalist satire strikes a nerve "because this thing happens all the damn time, and we're just seeing it over and over on a loop"

"I'll say, to Microsoft's benefit, or to kind of put them in a good light here, they didn't ever say anything to us"

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'Do people even go to the main menu anymore in their games?' The Outer Worlds 2's player-roasting main menu was almost sunk by console gamer habits

Power down at night, people.

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Fallout: New Vegas was "the very first game" Outer Worlds 2 lead studied after the original, but don't expect the classic RPG to majorly influence "every single game" Obsidian does going forward

It's all about reactivity and player freedom

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'In a true RPG, you need to think about what is happening': RPGs have been coddling us, says Outer Worlds 2 director, who's glad to see games like Baldur's Gate 3 let players make mistakes

RPGs started coddling us too much, but it looks like they're trending in the other direction, says Brandon Adler.

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I love that The Outer Worlds 2's Flaw system calls me out on my RPG behavior and then asks me to double-down on it: "Because flaws are optional, we knew we could actually push them a little bit harder"

On the Radar | "We're always trying to look at and observe the player doing something"

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The Outer Worlds 2 developers have one major combat tip: "Pick a lane and stick with it"

On the Radar | Any lane will do, but it's probably important to focus, according to Obsidian

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Obsidian didn't add this cool feature to The Outer Worlds 2 until the game was well into development — here's how it happened

The Outer Worlds 2 directors Brandon Adler and Matthew Singh revealed that one of the game's more interesting features wasn't planned at first.

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The Outer Worlds 2 won't let you respec your character, even if you break your build, because the RPG's director "wouldn't let you respec your story" either

"Just to be clear, no character is perfect," says Obsidian

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The Outer Worlds 2 director is already watching streamers create bad character builds, but that's part of the "true RPG" experience that "the Baldur's Gate 3s of the world" are helping bring back

On the Radar | Game director Brandon Adler tells GR+ that fans are "relearning how RPGs" can offer real player choice

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The Outer Worlds 2's first area is all about nailing Obsidian's "hardcore RPG feel" – which you can trace back to New Vegas, Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines, and the first Fallout

On the Radar | Creative director Leonard Boyarsky and art director Daniel Alpert explain how the first Outer Worlds' unrealized vision laid the perfect foundations for Paradise Island

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My stealth build in The Outer Worlds 2 has me obsessed with a particular gadget, but every single one has "multiple purposes" because Obsidian didn't want them to be "singular use tools"

On the Radar | We get into gadgets of The Outer Worlds 2 with Obsidian

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The Outer Worlds 2 is a love letter to Obsidian's favorite genre, and nobody knows it better than its devs: "The fact that we're able to deliver this style of RPG in this day and age is a fantastic thing"

On the Radar | Game director Brandon Adler and creative director Leonard Boyarsky join us to discuss the choices that helped shape The Outer Worlds 2

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Screw up too hard in The Outer Worlds 2 and your companions may fight you "to the death" because Obsidian wanted the RPG's cast to feel "like they're their own people"

"We wanted to make sure that the companions felt more realistic with how they dealt with the player"

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The Outer Worlds 2 game director campaigned to have Fallout: New Vegas-style factions that tie into the RPG's main story

The devs also "want you to have to deal with the fallout from your choices"

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The Outer Worlds 2 wasn't going to have a third-person view until Obsidian saw the demand from fans: "We actually didn't start doing it until two years ago"

Obsidian brought in another studio to make sure The Outer Worlds 2 had the feature

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The all-powerful 3rd-person-camera lobby convinced Obsidian to stick a Bethesda-style view mode in The Outer Worlds 2

Vile.

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The Outer Worlds 2 lead says players want "deeper RPGs," and that the team has looked to "older Obsidian games" to deliver just that: "How can we bring that back to the forefront"

Game director Brandon Adler wants to "really get back to those sensibilities of a really strong RPG"

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The Outer Worlds 2 directors tapped Ninja Theory and other Xbox studios to shape future games

The Outer Worlds 2 game directors discussed how they were encouraged to talk with other Xbox studios like Ninja Theory for feedback for future games.

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The Outer Worlds 2's first open biome is "pretty big and meaty" because Obsidian "wanted to see how far we could push things," but the RPGs other areas "are not much smaller"

Thorough explorers can expect to spend "a dozen-plus hours" in the area

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