In the event you haven’t been tuning into Fallout creator Tim Cain’s YouTube channel, you might be sorely lacking out on some enjoyable gaming trivia and insights. Whether or not it’s the gritty particulars of how RPG gameplay will get fleshed out or Cain’s personal private expertise as a homosexual dev, the previous Obsidian inventive is rarely in need of an intriguing story. And in a current video on worldbuilding, Cain reveals that the “elevator pitch” for 2019’s spacefaring RPG The Outer Worlds referenced a sure ill-fated however much-loved 2000’s period sci-fi present.
After the success of Fallout: New Vegas in 2010, followers of Obsidian Leisure’s video games have wished both a sequel or one other first-person RPG expertise of comparable fashion. New Vegas noticed Obsidian take management of Bethesda’s strategy to open-world video games and, if you happen to ask its devotees, make it higher. Then in 2018 Obsidian introduced its personal science-fiction RPG, The Outer Worlds, which promised to characteristic the identical first-person perspective and humorousness that New Vegas was recognized for. In accordance with director Tim Cain, the purpose of the challenge was to be extra inviting, interesting to informal gamers with a way of “Fallout meets Firefly,” a reference to Joss Whedon’s short-lived 2002 sci-fi western TV present a couple of band of misfit rebels and outlaws who’re by no means shy to crack a joke or two.
In the event you’ve performed The Outer Worlds, which additionally has its share of humor and attention-grabbing characters, you realize that pitch really harmonizes fairly properly with the ultimate product.
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Take a look at Cain’s video, by which he talks about numerous features of worldbuilding:
Whereas describing The Outer Worlds as having been designed with informal gamers in thoughts, Cain’s fast to level out that this didn’t simply imply the sport can be a dumbed-down expertise.
“You possibly can have issues which might be complicated,” Cain stated, however whenever you “decrease the slope,” you permit extra individuals to see thrilling issues. “The view from a mountaintop” Cain continues, “is simply as beautiful whether or not you climbed up that mountain, or drove up in a automobile.”
Cain provides that a better studying curve additionally doesn’t negate complexity down the highway. “You can begin introducing rather more complicated stuff,” he stated, “nevertheless it sort of means you entrance load issues which might be extra mainstream.”