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Outward Previews | "One of the Most Interesting Open-World RPGs I've Played Since Divinity: Original Sin 2" [UP: New Dev Stream]
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The CEO did talk in the gameplay video about how Outward is not like many survival games where you are constantly in a state of starvation and everything you do is to alleviate that. They are trying to balance those survival mechanics with the more typical RPG scenario.
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I really hope they can nail that balance. That's my biggest question with the game.
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I hadn't heard of this and stumbled upon it via PC Gamer randomly (and naturally looked for an Era thread after). This is intriguing, I hope it comes together well for them. I love the sound of the survival mechanics. I'm pretty much in total agreement with the writer of the PC Gamer article, that I love RPGs, but I really love them when you are so weak and ill equipped at the beginning, when every resource is precious. This sounds like the entire game plays this way. And the magic system, it sounds like it needs preparation and reagents in order to work? I can't recall a system like that since Ultima, and that is a system I really enjoyed.
Combat does look pretty jank though, in the video they are comparing it to Dark Souls but... no. Not from that video. Hope they can tighten it up, because the rest of it sounds great.
Combat does look pretty jank though, in the video they are comparing it to Dark Souls but... no. Not from that video. Hope they can tighten it up, because the rest of it sounds great.
Not going to bother with this until it is out since Deep Silver is involved. I expect shenanigans again.
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Sounds intriguing, though the random defeat scenarios seem like they could be problematic. If I understand correctly, some quests have time limits and defeat scenarios basically remove time, so losing a fight could very well result in failing a quest forever. There are no manual saves so if this happens, you're screwed, especially if it was a main quest.
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Video preview from IGN is now on youtube.
Yeah, time is the main loss when you are defeated rather than a game over screen. I do hope there is at least the option to have a fallback save, if not for avoiding sending yourself down a unwinnable path, to at least avoid glitches ruining a playthrough.
*Turns out the game has more than one save slot but that's only for the backend in case of save corruption.
Yeah, time is the main loss when you are defeated rather than a game over screen. I do hope there is at least the option to have a fallback save, if not for avoiding sending yourself down a unwinnable path, to at least avoid glitches ruining a playthrough.
*Turns out the game has more than one save slot but that's only for the backend in case of save corruption.
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Neat. I'm interested. It reminds me a lot of Kingdom Come Deliverance - just hoping that unlike KCD, the combat is good. (and also created by people who are not pieces of shit)
Same here. It's the building your character up that's the most fun to me. Once you get to a certain level the 'role' part of RPG becomes moot. I love the idea of having to work up to earning a backpack or even putting effort into lighting a fire. Throw in co-op and, depending on reviews, I'll be there day one with my son.
We get closer and closer to a proper D&D action rpg everyday. Love you can take a long rest or stay up in shifts to watch out for enemies while you camp.
There's only a compass and a world map.
You can't even see where you are in the world map, you need to look at your surrounding buildings and landmarks to get the idea of your current position.
Talk about going from hype to eye roll. When will this survival shit die?
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Yeah, seems for the first map everything is based on the relative position of the mountain.
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First gaming priority after Sekiro. I actually enjoy those first handful of hours in deep, systems heavy RPGs quite a bit-- figuring out how everything works and connects, making those early build decisions and watching them begin to come together. I didn't find the early game in either ELEX or KCD particularly frustrating contrary to a lot of impressions, doubt I will here.
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A dev explained how multiplayer works for anyone interested.
So the second player will keep their loot and character progression from playing co-op, but the world state will only be saved for the first player.
So the second player will keep their loot and character progression from playing co-op, but the world state will only be saved for the first player.
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Yeah, I went from "Yeah, it looks cool" to "Nope, not into that". How the hell does this compare with D:OS 2? Meh.
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I have a feeling this game will be big and amazing, but it'll need ~6 months to iron out the annoyances, and hone the systems.
Not sure I would actually call Divinity: OS2 "open-world" at all. The closest it came to that would be the second chapter, but it's still primarily just a decently large map that allows you to do things in whatever order you choose for the most part. Nonlinear does not automatically equate to open-world. I also have an allergic reaction each time I hear that term anymore as well, since it essentially lowers the overall quality of the game, and primarily consists of empty spaces, or spaces that would be empty if not filled with menial "shit tasks".
The IGN preview just sounds like it's trying to be another Kingdom Come as far as plot goes.
Seems more like they were just trying to get some kind of validation as to how "great" the game is by bouncing it off an already known entity, even if they have nothing in common except both being RPGs...with local multiplayer.
The IGN preview just sounds like it's trying to be another Kingdom Come as far as plot goes.
Seems more like they were just trying to get some kind of validation as to how "great" the game is by bouncing it off an already known entity, even if they have nothing in common except both being RPGs...with local multiplayer.
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Kingdom Come had a fairly decent story but no survival elements.
This one sounds like any number of medieval survival games with more RPG mechanical and bad combat that tries to emulate Dark Souls. Meh.
I would rather replay D:OS2 or D:OS1 or Divinity 2 or PoE2 or BG1 or any Trails games or... I can keep going for a long time here. :P
Survival games can be done well like Subnautica or Long Dark but it's fairly rare.
The "it is simple" part of the snippet is throwing me for a loop. A simple but hardcore experience would be great, but nothing about the game seems simple. In fact, like most other games with survival elements, it seems chock full of shit to keep track of and pay attention to.
I can't say I'm overly keen on the survival mechanics, but I do like the sound of everything else.
It has been on my radar for a while. I am worried about the combat mechanics, it looks clunky. Then again, ELEX' combat is pretty terrible, but I adore that RPG. As was said above - this could be gem in the making or another forgettable jankfest.
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