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Company News Obsidian have trademarked "The Outer Worlds", possible title for Cain and Boyarsky's Project Indiana

Jedi Exile

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Feargus doesn't like innovative games, so it is not going to be anything like Arcanum or Bloodlines.
 

Kyl Von Kull

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Steve gets a Kidney but I don't even get a tag.
If this is a re-imagining of the sci fi genre of how Arcanum was of the steampunk, I think this game could be really good. Hopefully it is isometric with great world building!

The worldbuilding will be amazing even if everything else is disappointing—for Yahweh’s sake, this is Tim & Leonard. And yeah, I sure hope it’s weird.

I very much doubt it will be isometric, though, or cavalier oblique for that matter. In fact, they’ve said it will be an action RPG—it’s one of the few things we know. Maybe first/third person view like Bloodlines. Remember, Take Two Interactive’s “indie” imprint is publishing this, they’re probably spending a decent sum of money on it, and isometric RPGs are just too niche to justify the expense. Even a top down action RPG seems unlikely.

But I’m optimistic that it will be an awesome action RPG with more RPG than action. These two guys have the best track record in the industry in terms of content, even if it’s been nearly fifteen years since they published something together.


Well, Leonard called it a "hardcore RPG" in the 3rd part of his Matt Chat interview.

He also said it’s his dream game in another interview a while ago. He only left his cushy job at blizzard so he could make real RPG’s again.


Feargus doesn't like innovative games, so it is not going to be anything like Arcanum or Bloodlines.

If you listen to the stuff that came out when Take Two announced their new label, the one that’s publishing Indiana, it sure sounded like they were working directly with Tim and Leonard. I don’t think Feargus’ personal preferences enter into it. Not that I would mind his involvement, as I am a grade-A Obsidian fanboy.
 

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Exactly, are you people nuts? Boyarsky didn't leave high level position at Blizzard to work on some indie isometric dodooo.
 

Daedalos

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F-U-C-K YEEEEEEEESSSSS

SCI-FI TURNBASED ISOMETRIC cRPG COMING UP BITCHES!!! WITH STORY, C&C AND GUD WRITING

I TOLD U!

Yes. Yes. Yes.

This will begin to make things right.
 

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lol and of course game journos are now mindlessly copy-pasting UrbaNebula's bullshit speculation: https://www.gamewatcher.com/news/20...-novel-by-e-j-gilmour-be-obsidian-s-next-game

Yes they're totally making a big budget video game based on some ebook nobody has ever heard of.

Yeah that’s pretty ridiculous,unless this book is Tim or Leonard’s secret foray into self published novels under a bad pen name, which seems vanishingly unlikely. Plus, this guy’s other books have unicorns on their “covers.”

I sympathize with the journalists who need to come up with copy though. They must feel they need a peg for the story because “Obsidian may have generic name for new game” isn’t a great headline.
 

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I'd love to be optimistic, but all that Tim Cain bullshittery about simplification, broadening the audience, character creation being an obstacle and then the "shapes as values" straight crazytalk, dims out even the presence of Boyarsky on the team. I guess, we'll see what comes out of this, but I have a feeling that the mechanics will evolve into something trashy like Fallout 4 stat/skill mashup.
 
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If they want to sell and get big numbers on consoles/pc they need it to be third person action focused combat, even if they add a lot of deep rpg systems, it still needs to have good production values and a cinematic feel to it.
 

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lol and of course game journos are now mindlessly copy-pasting UrbaNebula's bullshit speculation: https://www.gamewatcher.com/news/20...-novel-by-e-j-gilmour-be-obsidian-s-next-game

Yes they're totally making a big budget video game based on some ebook nobody has ever heard of.

Of course they will copypaste. Actually doing some research of their own would mean that they would have to do some actual journalism. That sounds like a chore, can't have that.

To be fair other sites are doing a better job:
https://wccftech.com/obsidian-new-game-the-outer-worlds/
https://www.pcgamesn.com/new-obsidian-game-the-outer-worlds
https://www.gamereactor.eu/news/631...sidian+Entertainments+new+game+been+revealed/
 

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Could also be some sort of dimension travelling low fantasy thing.
it's going to be sci-fi with magic, post apoc, and skyrim cosplayer, in space.

they played elex, and they loved the setting, then they played war 40k and loved the setting.
and then decided to make arcanum, IN SPACE.
 
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My bet is fantasy sci fi, isometric, fp, 3rd person in ocassions arpg, with tb combat and rtwp conversations. Everything we love at the codah'
 

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Reminds me of one of Tim Cain's AMA answers 4 years (oh my...) ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comm...sidian_eternity_team_ask_us_anything/cfotz7q/

I think Roger Zelazny's "Lord Of Light" would make a great CRPG.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_Light

Zelazny noted that Lord of Light was intentionally written so that it could be taken as a science fiction or a fantasy novel.

"On the one hand, I attempted to provide some justifications for what went on in the way of the bizarre; on the other, I employed a style I associate with fantasy in the telling of the story. I wrote it that way on purpose, leaving some intentional ambiguity, because I wanted it to lie somewhat between both camps and not entirely in either. I did this because I did not see much stuff being written at that time which fit that description; because I wanted to see whether I could do it; and because I was curious as to how such a book would be received."[3]

mystery.png
 

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Exactly, are you people nuts? Boyarsky didn't leave high level position at Blizzard to work on some indie isometric dodooo.

I have a feeling this is correct. Also, Take Two's new indie publishing platform is not going to drop cash, time, money into weird CRPG genre conventions to please grognards. I think this is a straight-up space-opera sci-fi RPG, a better version of Mass Effect, possibly third-person. That'd be my guess.
 

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Could also be some sort of dimension travelling low fantasy thing.
it's going to be sci-fi with magic, post apoc, and skyrim cosplayer, in space.

they played elex, and they loved the setting, then they played war 40k and loved the setting.
and then decided to make arcanum, IN SPACE.

Nobody played Elex you buffoon.
 

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Title immediately reminded me of...

damn i miss this show.
 

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