When The Outer Worlds was first announced, I was excited at what looked to be a retro sci-fi Fallout-style game from the studio that created arguably one of the best Fallout games: New Vegas. Don?t shuffle Obsidian off into a Fallout-only corner though! The studio has plenty of experience with a wide range of other RPG titles, including Alpha Protocol, Dungeon Siege III, and South Park: The Stick of Truth, and it?s pouring all of its experience into this latest title. Although Obsidian is now a part of the Microsoft family, we?ll at least be getting The Outer Worlds on PlayStation as a last hurrah, so I had to go check out what they were showing at E3 2019.
Right off the bat, I fell in love with the environment in The Outer Worlds. It?s a sci-fi Wild West, evoking the same kinds of feelings I got from Firefly or Borderlands. The perfect blend of retro futuristic tech along with a lawless frontier on a forgotten and abandoned planet leaves the player feeling both empowered and altogether helpless. The Outer Worlds is a proper Obsidian RPG though, so it?s not always up to your guns to do the talking. Sometimes you have to charm, lie, persuade, or intimidate. Sometimes you have to pick locks. Sometimes you have to use a holographic disguise. The options available to you depend entirely on your particular character build, and not just tangentially either.
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