Developer Obsidian Leisure has seemingly been being attentive to the complaints about a number of the writing in The Outer Worlds. On the time, the sport was criticised for making use of an excessively comedic tone regardless of having an general bleak setting. In an interview with PCGamer, The Outer Worlds 2 recreation director Brandon Adler has acknowledged that the unique recreation “may generally be one notice,” with reference to its writing and strategy to comedy.
Adler spoke about wanting to usher in extra selection in writing with The Outer Worlds 2. “I need to give gamers one thing new from that, in order that they don’t really feel like ‘Oh, we’re simply working by means of the identical varieties of jokes, the identical sort of content material, the identical sort of concepts and themes again and again,’” he stated.
He talked about that gamers will discover much less silliness in The Outer Worlds 2, and that, usually talking, there can be a darker tone to thinks when in comparison with the unique recreation. This largely happened from Leonard Boyarsky – beforehand a co-creative director on The Outer Wilds alongside Fallout creator Tim Cain – taking on as the only real artistic director for the sequel.
“You’ll discover that there’s slightly little bit of a much less foolish, darker tone that comes out. That’s primarily due to Leonard,” Adler stated. “That’s his form of vibe, and so he has extra of a push on that stuff. And so I feel even the general story feels slightly bit like a darker tackle what’s happening there.”
Nonetheless, for gamers that is perhaps afraid of The Outer Worlds 2 over-correcting into changing into too darkish and critical, Adler stated that there’ll nonetheless be humour to be discovered fairly simply within the upcoming title.
“We nonetheless wished to make it possible for we had loads of the identical feeling as the primary and so when gamers are interacting with the completely different factions, additionally they get to see that absurd humor that comes by means of,” Adler defined. “Hopefully it’s slightly bit much less foolish and much more absurd.”
The Outer Worlds 2 just lately acquired a brand new trailer that gave us a take a look at the sport’s story. The trailer additionally confirmed that the RPG can be coming to PC, PS5 and Xbox Collection X/S on October 29.
The trailer featured the participant character taking up the position of an agent of the Earth Directorate. On a mission to research some threats to the universe at Arcadia, the participant may even should face off in opposition to main firms which can be extra excited about looking for a revenue than serving to humanity, similar to Auntie’s Selection.
Obsidian and Microsoft have additionally confirmed that The Outer Worlds 2 would be the first recreation underneath the Xbox Sport Studios banner to be priced at $79.99. Particulars about this, together with the $99.99 Premium Version, will be checked out in our protection.
Within the meantime, additionally take a look at particulars concerning the three main factions of The Outer Worlds 2 – The Protectorate, The Order of the Ascendant, and Auntie’s Selection. And for some extra context concerning the unique The Outer Worlds, take a look at our assessment from when the sport got here out in 2019.
