#243 | We played The Outer Worlds 2 EARLY and...

Defining Duke: An Xbox Podcast

Last Stand Media & Studio71

Hobbies, Leisure, Video Games

4.9 • 947 Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2025

⏱️ 250 minutes

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Summary

It's been a bit of a rough go for Obsidian as of late. Compared to their usual RPG triumphs, Avowed felt quite a bit less than that. However, not all of it was entirely their fault. At one point, Xbox chose to make this the $80 game that would lead the charge in a new era of high prices. After considerable pushback, they chose to drop the price to $70. While a welcome sight, some have debated if even that is a fair price point for what appears to be a AA RPG. Now, marketing has kicked the hornet's nest with the latest companion trailer. So, here we are. Cog and Matty played the prologue section of the game and our thoughts are mixed. There certainly wasn't a "sound the alarm" moment, but it read to the Dukes like a less confident showing. Much of what makes an Obsidian RPG great is here. However, after the preview failed to show how that would be executed, both Dukes were left feeling like there is more that could've been done. Now, the tough decision falls to Xbox. Do you risk another preview and overexpose the game to try and correct things? Do you ride into launch and hope for the best? Time will tell, but we only have to wait until October to learn just how worth it Outer Worlds 2 will be. Please keep in mind that our timestamps are approximate, and will often be slightly off due to dynamic ad placement. 0:00:00 - Intro0:15:07 - Write Ins0:37:33 - Pete Parsons is leaving Bungie0:51:25 - Tim Schafer on Double Fine’s future games0:55:32 - Hollow Knight Silksong finally has a release date1:11:32 - Xbox Ally preorder date leaks1:12:39 - The reason that Switch 2 ports of Xbox games are delayed?1:23:00 - Xbox Cloud Gaming is coming to Game Pass subscribers1:29:48 - New Starfield updates detailed1:35:13 - High On Life 2 will include 5 playable games1:37:14 - Replaced is set to release Spring 20261:38:59 - Activision responds to Call of Duty concerns1:50:34 - More Clair Obscur is on the way2:04:51 - Atari has acquired 5 Ubisoft games2:09:26 - Ken Levine opens up on Judas2:16:53 - Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines 2’s Wild DLC situation2:23:20 - Naoki Yoshida says there’s no need for new consoles2:26:52 - Herman Hulst on Concord’s failure2:31:46 - Skate enters early access on September 16th2:40:02 - What We’re Playing3:48:09 - Forza Horizon 6 will be set in Japan3:59:05 - Coming soon to Xbox Game Pass4:00:22 - Game Pass Pick Of The Week Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Thank you, everybody.
0:32.3	Welcome to episode 243 of Defining Dugan Xbox podcast today. I am joined as always by
0:41.1	the true Shinobi himself. Lord Cognito, having the best damn week of his life. excited to talk to you
0:49.0	a little bit about video games later today. How are you, sir? I am good. Busy as hell. I don't know
0:54.1	how you do this content create stuff. I don't know Busy as hell. I don't know how you do this
0:54.4	content creative stuff. I don't know how you do it. I don't know how you do it, bro. It is one
0:59.2	thing to the next thing, to the next thing. There is no breaks. I'm like, Jesus. Not that I'm complaining.
1:07.2	Nothing I'm complaining. You know, so so obviously we work hard and we're very appreciative
1:11.4	of things and opportunities and stuff. But it's just like, man, like when stuff happens,
1:17.2	you got to be selective. You just can't do everything. Oh, it's a tough window right now, dude. There's
1:22.4	just so much. I mean, whatever writing is about that. We'll talk about it in a moment. But there's
1:26.2	just so much. It's so much.
1:28.1	Like, I'm catching up on KCD2 while I'm looking at what I'm reviewing right now.
1:32.4	And I'm trying to balance the two because I kind of have doing it a little bit differently.
1:35.3	I normally, normally, I'm like, review all in.
1:38.0	But I'm trying to actually balance the backlog with what I'm reviewing.
1:41.6	And it's been a challenge. I've never had to do this, but it just speaks to how much content's there and stuff that's interesting to cover. It's funny because right now, I was talking to a friend about it last night. I was like, I don't really have a game I've attached my channel to since Oblivion remaster. Right now there's nothing that like my audience and I are like collectively,
2:19.0	heavily anticipating that we're excited about at least. So it's just like this weird wall where I'm just kind of floating from game to game. I'm like a free agent right now. And I'm sure you feel the same way. It's like we can just kind of do whatever, wherever. It's fun, but I feel you on it. Yeah, it's been fun. Yeah, because it's like also with me, you know,
2:24.6	I've been very convention heavy, you know, and very indie independent game scene heavy. And,
2:32.2	yeah, just came back from anime NYC. That was interesting. I saw some digs and trends that blew by by besides the fact. Oh, yeah, bro. I've been there once.
2:35.0	Yeah.
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