That said, I do think a lot of the failings of Outer Worlds were rooted in just time and budget, I mean from looking it up it was made by 80 people which is pretty impressive. I don’t know if Outer Worlds could ever live up to Bethesda games on that front. It’s why I don’t think Bethesda could ever just take their games and make them in Unreal Engine and have them be the same games, and why I’m dubious on similar claims for Halo. Not to mention they’ve built that engine to make content easily moddable and that has community has helped keep the games relevant for years after release, something I’m looking forward to a revitalisation on when NVidias new modding tech launches next month.

I mean, I always bring up the whole “you can put a bucket on a Skyrim characters head and rob them” as a key example - it’s goofy but think about how interesting that is from a technical perspective, some quirk of physics and character sight lines that can be exploited in such a way. It’s all the little things Bethesda does that breaths life into their games that they’ve built their engine around - all the world sim stuff and physics stuff. Hard to say, Outer Worlds has it’s strengths but as a “Fallout” type of experience like people were hoping for it fell pretty short. Could it become Fallout but on UE engine? I wonder how would Outer Worlds fare if Private Division gave Obsidian enough time and budget.

Making a fallout shelter style game