The Outer Worlds Interview

The release of Obsidian Entertainment’s sci-fi RPG The Outer Worlds is scheduled for tomorrow, October 25, 2019. And if you’re thinking about playing this colorful space adventure, you might be interested in reading this GamesRadar+ interview with the game’s co-directors Tim Cain and Leonard Boyarsky. The interview covers the game’s scope and focus on player choice and reactivity, the directors’ expectations for it, and more. Here’s a few paragraphs to get you started:

“I’m a lot older than a lot of the people working on the game and when we first started on it I said to the team, ‘I hope this becomes your Fallout.'” It’s a sweet sentiment from Tim Cain, the co-director of The Outer Worlds, sat alongside the other co-director, Leonard Boyarsky. Once upon a time, the duo was a part of the core creative team at Interplay Entertainments – responsible for the original Fallout, one of the most influential RPGs of all time. Now, more than two decades later, they are hoping to do it all over again with The Outer Worlds.

“I hope that in 10 or 20 years people are still talking about The Outer Worlds. I hope that games are still being made in this universe. I hope other games are inspired by it…” Cain continues until Boyarsky leaps in to finish his thought; the two are easy in conversation. “I hope that it resonates with people. To do that, it needs to be satisfying in a deep way, in a way that makes people want to just keep on returning to it over and over again. I want this to feel like a universe that people continually want to play in.”

To achieve this lofty goal, Obsidian has constructed a tight adventure cast out across the stars. The Outer Worlds is ostensibly about being lost in space and trying to find your place in it. You are awoken from cryostasis decades after your ship first embarked on its mission to reach the furthest edges of the galaxy, all in an effort to help settle the Halcyon colony. After being left for dead by the colonies’ mysterious benefactors, it is you that will act as the unplanned variable in the decimation equation threatening to consume it all. It’s heady and it’s hearty – this is an Obsidian game, after all.