The Outer Worlds was at all times an RPG concerning the terrors of evil mega-corporations, and there is greater than a little bit irony in the truth that it was in the end launched after developer Obsidian was acquired by Microsoft. The Outer Worlds 2 has been developed fully below Microsoft’s possession, and whereas the sport’s builders are stopping properly wanting drawing any direct comparisons between their mother or father firm and the sport’s plainly evil companies, they nonetheless discover the comparisons fairly humorous.
“The Outer Worlds 1 was initially conceived and made earlier than we have been even bought by Microsoft,” sport director Brandon Adler tells GamesRadar+ when requested about this explicit irony. “However, I imply, it would be ridiculous to say that we do not discover that. We clearly do. We predict it is humorous, and we type of play into it. You even see it, typically, in our trailers and issues like that. We poke enjoyable at that, we get a little bit wink and nod, we notice that entire state of affairs. However, we nonetheless have a message that we’re attempting to inform. No matter who’s funding it, we’re nonetheless attempting to inform that very same message.”
“The people we work with really love the game,” creative director Leonard Boyarsky adds, “so no dictates or anything like that.”
Boyarsky previously called Microsoft’s acquisition of Obsidian “quite a shock,” particularly given the subject material of the unique sport. But it surely appears the satirical chunk of each The Outer Worlds and its sequel are each surviving the brand new overlords properly sufficient. Whether or not moral satire can exist below capitalism in any respect is one other query fully.
