Does The Outer Worlds 2 Take Into Account Any Endings From The First Game?

[ad_1] The Outer Worlds 2 launches later this month on October 29 (or October 24, for those who pre-order the costlier Premium Version) and also you is likely to be questioning for those who ought to try to finish a playthrough of the primary sport earlier than leaping into this sequel. Whereas it definitely will not harm to refamiliarize your self with the universe of The Outer Worlds, do not anticipate any of the primary sport's numerous endings to play a job in Obsidian's second crack at this sequence.

We spoke to The Outer Worlds 2 artistic director Leonard Boyarsky concerning the first sport's endings and whether or not the results of it can seem in our playthrough of the second sport, and he gave us a definitive "No".

"No, not particularly, as a result of it's a utterly completely different colony," Boyarsky says, noting the primary sport takes place within the colony of Halcyon whereas The Outer Worlds 2 takes place in a brand new colony referred to as Arcadia. "[Arcadia's] been reduce off. There are references to issues that occurred within the first sport; I do not need to mislead folks although, and [have] them assume there are quite a lot of particulars, however there's the story of the universe that is happening, and we're persevering with that story.

"So there are components of what occurred within the first sport that you would discover references to. I believe gamers who performed the primary sport and favored the primary sport will get pleasure from discovering these little issues that gamers who did not play the primary sport will not."

As regards to Halcyon and Arcadia, The Outer Worlds 2 director Brandon Adler says Boyarsky and Tim Cain, who collectively created the Outer Worlds IP, had been very clear that the concept of this sequence is that every sport takes place in a brand new colony. "So we knew we needed this to be a brand new colony as a result of we've got different tales we need to inform," Adler says. He provides that if The Outer Worlds 2 befell in Halycon, Obsidian must discover a approach to both canonize an ending to the primary sport or handle all of the potential endings and world states gamers ended, and that is one thing the crew needed to keep away from.

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