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The Outer Worlds 2 was obviously inspired by Fallout: New Vegas, but if you're "tired" of hearing that, its director says it's got plenty of Deus Ex DNA too

Obsidian seems to have a confusing relationship with some of its RPG legacy

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The Outer Worlds 2, the most expensive Xbox game yet

Xbox is putting a lot behind its new space action-RPG sequel – which will be the first $80/£70 video game from Microsoft. Does it earn its price tag? We asked the developer what went into it

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The Outer Worlds 2 has over 90 perks, but you can't respec your character because your "choices are permanent" and the RPG's director wants to make sure "you're building your character and really doubling down"

"There's a lot of times where you'll see games where they allow infinite respec, and at that point I'm not really role-playing a character"

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The Outer Worlds 2 director says not every RPG is "for every single person," so Obsidian is "not going to make a game for literally everybody" because "it waters down the experience a lot"

He wants to "make sure that the role-playing is really strong"

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How Obsidian became Xbox's most prolific studio: "There's not a lot of studios at Microsoft that have an entire external developer making the whole game for them"

Exclusive | There's a reason 2025 is being called the "Year of Obsidian"

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5 reasons why The Outer Worlds 2 looks like the Fallout: New Vegas sequel we never got

Obsidian Entertainment's upcoming RPG The Outer Worlds 2 looks great, and could be the Fallout: New Vegas sequel I've always wanted. Here are five reasons why.

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Fallout New Vegas designer and noted RPG romance cynic Josh Sawyer was sold on Cyberpunk 2077's love stories: "If I were gonna base romances on anything, I'd probably do something like that"

Josh Sawyer doesn't hate romance in games, he just doesn't like when it's party based

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‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Could Spark A Huge Change To Another Great RPG Series

The future of the Pillars of Eternity series could look very different after the success of 'Baldur's Gate 3' according to developer Obsidian's design director.

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Pentiment and Fallout: New Vegas designer Josh Sawyer isn't usually a fan of RPG romances, but thinks Cyberpunk 2077 nailed it: 'If I were gonna base romances on anything, I'd probably do something like that'

"They have their own lives, but you keep coming back together to continue that storyline."

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Avowed isn't Pillars of Eternity 3, but if the third RPG ever happens director Josh Sawyer reckons it should move to a proper 3D environment "more like Baldur’s Gate 3"

"I think that a third game should be an isometric 3D with an environment more like Baldur’s Gate 3"

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Josh Sawyer says a hypothetical Pillars of Eternity 3 would be 3D, just like Baldur's Gate 3, with 'environmental mechanics, elevation hazards, and dynamic terrain'

"That could be super cool."

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I've played The Outer Worlds 2, and Obsidian is bringing seriously improved gunplay and weapons to this Xbox RPG

I went hands-on with The Outer Worlds 2 and spoke to game director Brandon Adler to discuss how this Obsidian RPG aims to fix what didn't work in the first game.

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Stutters and hitches in Unreal Engine 5 games should become rarer over time due to Epic's continuous updates, but we'll still see them for a while because of the way games are made

Yes, I know I sound like a stuck record here, but it's really not the engine that's at fault.

PC Gamer

Grounded 2 is targeting updates every "four to five months" after Obsidian learned the hard way: "When we started with Grounded 1 in early access we were trying to do monthly updates – that was a hassle and it didn't work"

Summer Preview | Obsidian Entertainment details the lessons learned after its first early access adventure, and how it changed the studio's approach to Grounded 2

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With The Outer Worlds 2, Obsidian is dedicated to making sneaky playstyles truly viable: "We have a strike team going room-by-room to see if we can stealth properly through each location"

Summer Preview | The improvements to stealth in The Outer Worlds 2 reflect the effort Obsidian is putting into creating an RPG that's reactive to your decisions

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Obsidian won't rule out bringing Grounded 2 to PS5 in the future, but says that its initial release is "all about being in Game Preview and Early Access"

Summer Preview | Grounded was a success on PS5 and Switch, so why isn't its sequel following in its footsteps? We speak to Obsidian to learn more

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Everything is bigger in Grounded 2, but Obsidian never considered stretching beyond four-player co-op: "It would have undermined what Grounded was really about"

Summer Preview | Our bite-sized preview of Grounded 2 continues as Obsidian gives us exclusive insight into how it scaled up beyond the backyard

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After playing The Outer Worlds 2, I'm convinced that it has the potential to be Obsidian's greatest game – and the best FPS of 2025

Summer Preview | The Outer Worlds was a fun sci-fi adventure, but its sequel is shaping up to be something truly special

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Grounded 2's best feature is happening because Obsidian left the Xbox One behind

After playing Grounded 2, I talked with game director Chris Parker, who says the game's biggest feature is possible because the team left the Xbox One behind.

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After playing Grounded 2 for 30 minutes, it's clear that my favorite survival game is getting a massive glow-up

Summer Preview | Obsidian Entertainment and Eidos Montreal has found big solutions to the smallest problems

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Obsidian explains Grounded 2 was born from technical limitations of the Xbox One: "This is our opportunity to build the world from the ground up"

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3 things I liked and 2 I didn't after 30 minutes with Grounded 2

Honey, I shrunk the sequel.

Windows Central

"I wish everybody could play my game." The Outer Worlds 2 director doesn't like its $80 price tag either, and says it was an Xbox decision

The first Xbox game to cost $80 is The Outer Worlds 2, but its director says the price was chosen by Microsoft and Xbox, not Obsidian, and simply wishes everyone could play.

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The Outer Worlds 2 is fixing the first RPG's biggest weakness by improving guns "in every way", and the sci-fi nerd in me is already screaming about the Shrink Ray

Opinion | The Outer World 2's sci-fi weapons sound rad as hell, and the improvements look like such a step up from the first RPG

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Grounded 2 adding mounts was such a big change that Obsidian had to "rethink how the world works"

"When you add a feature like that into a game, it kind of changes a little bit of everything about the world that you're creating"

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