Developer Obsidian Leisure has seemingly been being attentive to the complaints about among the writing in The Outer Worlds. On the time, the sport was criticised for making use of a very 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 method 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, so that they don’t really feel like ‘Oh, we’re simply working by the identical sorts of jokes, the identical kind of content material, the identical kind of concepts and themes time and again,’” he mentioned.
He talked about that gamers will discover much less silliness in The Outer Worlds 2, and that, usually talking, there shall be a darker tone to thinks when in comparison with the unique recreation. This largely took place from Leonard Boyarsky – beforehand a co-creative director on The Outer Wilds alongside Fallout creator Tim Cain – taking up as the only artistic director for the sequel.
“You’ll discover that there’s a bit of little bit of a much less foolish, darker tone that comes out. That’s primarily due to Leonard,” Adler mentioned. “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 a bit of bit like a darker tackle what’s happening there.”
Nonetheless, for gamers that could be afraid of The Outer Worlds 2 over-correcting into changing into too darkish and critical, Adler mentioned that there’ll nonetheless be humour to be discovered fairly simply within the upcoming title.
“We nonetheless needed to be sure that we had lots 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,” Adler defined. “Hopefully it’s a bit of bit much less foolish and much more absurd.”
The Outer Worlds 2 lately acquired a brand new trailer that gave us a have a look at the sport’s story. The trailer additionally confirmed that the RPG shall be coming to PC, PS5 and Xbox Sequence X/S on October 29.
The trailer featured the participant character taking up the function of an agent of the Earth Directorate. On a mission to research some threats to the universe at Arcadia, the participant can even should face off in opposition to main companies which might be extra excited about searching for a revenue than serving to humanity, reminiscent of Auntie’s Selection.
Obsidian and Microsoft have additionally confirmed that The Outer Worlds 2 would be the first recreation beneath 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.
