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>Obsidians The Outer Worlds series second game failed to meet sales expectations and has since then according to insiders last week, will not be getting a third installment. A recent official announcement by Microsoft has since then confirmed the series is officially cancelled.
>Avowed, from the same studio, has also been put under the microscope after also failing to meet expectations and now new rumors within the industry and from sources on the inside are speculating it too will be canned leaving the studios future up in the air.
Wait -- But I thought these games were selling well. /v/ told me they were doing well. And people kept saying >go woke go br-ACK... Implying the games were doing well.
What happened?
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LMFAO
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>Selling medicore games at full price
Why would you buy this when you can buy much better games like tainted grail and KCD2 for same price or less
They look like cousin games, something that seems alright but you have no interest in playing it for more than an hour or two
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>The Outer World 1 did poorly. A lot of people called it a shit and woke version of Fallout. They double down for the sequel and make it even worse and even more filled with millennial trash writing and quips.
They only have themselves to blame.
Besides that - what did they expect? The primary fanbases of Sci-Fi and Fantasy Action games are men. Men who like boobies and killing cool shit and looking cool while doing it.
None of those people want these ugly pastel colors and weird coral fish people.
They want to be a giga chad knight or gorgeous beauty and kill cool looking monsters while epic music is playing.
Who were these shitty games even for?
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>>732247550
Rate xbox's rpg studios
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>>732247550
Nobody ever gave a shit about Obsidian. Gamers only pretended to like Obsidian when complaining about Bethesda. You can't find a single praise for Obsidian that doesn't mention Bethesda. In the end Obsidian can only survive in Todd's shadow.
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>>732247642
the sad part is the company *burning wouldn't affect him personally. he's still set for life and probably owns multiple cars and houses.
*if that's even true, failed to meet sales expectations can still mean turning a profit
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>>732255807
That's not true. People used to like Obsidian because they were desperate for crpgs and they were ex-Bioware devs who worked on Baldur's Gate and Planescape Torment and shit.
People who liked Obsidian typically loved Avellone's barely-disguised-self-insert shit who thought they were much more clever than they were.
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>>732247642
It's amazing how terrible this dude was for the game. They spend a HUGE amount of assets making gay face fungus for the main character which isn't even visible when you're running around doing shit.
And when I say gay face fungus, I mean literally homoseexual looking fungus.
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>>732248267
Last I checked they were trying to get people to shoot ice and also coming up with shit from the 'files that Alex Jones knew a decade ago.
>>732249875
Grounded 2. Something POE related. any bethesda sloppy seconds game. Using assets from other xbox properties in some cheap game with their RPG logic.
Since they produce games on a regular basis without big delays or big budget overruns, I think they'll just throw some sort of shit together for the subscription service.
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>>732247550
>Unreal Engine 5
eww miss me with that shit
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>>732255343
I remember when XBox pushed for JRPGs in the 360 era with Mistwalker and I think one other Japanese company? Maybe it was just Mistwalker.
I don't expect Microsoft to actually support this, and to eventually drop it like they do.
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Enjoyed ToW2, still pirated it though. Really it's just a series of incremental improvements from the first game, but nothing impressive at all for the genre, and I still skipped through 95% of the dialogue, which is about as if not more verbose. If they had hired a different set of writers people would appreciate the game a lot more and this isn't remotely an exaggeration.
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>>732247550
The gay stuff was the least of Avowed’s problems. The gameplay was just boring and generic as possible. Not as bad as Starfield which is literally unplayable but it makes you wonder wtf they were doing.
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kek
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>>732249875
I don't think we ever got official confirmation. Also, "failing to meet sales expectations" doesn't say much. Microsoft has put a 30% profit margin target for their Xbox studios so Avowed could be doing 20% profit and still fail to meet their expectations.
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>>732248171
>They double down for the sequel and make it even worse
Literally everything about the second game is better than the first including the writing and companions (still not great).
Not worth $80
or $70
or $60
or $50
or $40
or $30
maybe a cheeky $20 after a few beers.
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>>732257589
it's because obsidian cannot make interesting games at face value. tow is not a good fps and avowed is not a good action game. they basically never changed "just serviceable enough" approach to gameplay in their rpgs and that shit doesn't cut it anymore.
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>it's bad but it broke new ground!
>Sure they hastily undid a leveled upgraded gun system to a flat grey quality only and 5 whole usable guns but...
>Yeah companions no longer use gear because you chuds kept putting them in heavy armor with machine guns but don't you like the combat variety of every companion being downed instantly?????!?
>Yeah they removed companion kill commands and replaced it with nothing but don't you like getting a useless heal or minor buff every 90 seconds instead
>Just don't read or listen to the game
>Now it's not worth $90 or even $80 or $70 or $60 or $40 but it's free on gamespass sar and for $20...
Every thread. How are they still paying your subcontinent to post