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The Outer Worlds 2 director says not every RPG is "for every single person," so Obsidian is "not going to make a game for literally everybody" because "it waters down the experience a lot"
News He wants to "make sure that the role-playing is really strong"
How Obsidian became Xbox's most prolific studio: "There's not a lot of studios at Microsoft that have an entire external developer making the whole game for them"
Exclusive | There's a reason 2025 is being called the "Year of Obsidian"
Grounded 2 is targeting updates every "four to five months" after Obsidian learned the hard way: "When we started with Grounded 1 in early access we were trying to do monthly updates – that was a hassle and it didn't work"
Features Summer Preview | Obsidian Entertainment details the lessons learned after its first early access adventure, and how it changed the studio's approach to Grounded 2
With The Outer Worlds 2, Obsidian is dedicated to making sneaky playstyles truly viable: "We have a strike team going room-by-room to see if we can stealth properly through each location"
Features Summer Preview | The improvements to stealth in The Outer Worlds 2 reflect the effort Obsidian is putting into creating an RPG that's reactive to your decisions
Obsidian won't rule out bringing Grounded 2 to PS5 in the future, but says that its initial release is "all about being in Game Preview and Early Access"
Features Summer Preview | Grounded was a success on PS5 and Switch, so why isn't its sequel following in its footsteps? We speak to Obsidian to learn more
Everything is bigger in Grounded 2, but Obsidian never considered stretching beyond four-player co-op: "It would have undermined what Grounded was really about"
Features Summer Preview | Our bite-sized preview of Grounded 2 continues as Obsidian gives us exclusive insight into how it scaled up beyond the backyard
After playing The Outer Worlds 2, I'm convinced that it has the potential to be Obsidian's greatest game – and the best FPS of 2025
Summer Preview | The Outer Worlds was a fun sci-fi adventure, but its sequel is shaping up to be something truly special
Obsidian explains Grounded 2 was born from technical limitations of the Xbox One: "This is our opportunity to build the world from the ground up"
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The Outer Worlds 2 is fixing the first RPG's biggest weakness by improving guns "in every way", and the sci-fi nerd in me is already screaming about the Shrink Ray
Opinion Opinion | The Outer World 2's sci-fi weapons sound rad as hell, and the improvements look like such a step up from the first RPG
