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The Outer Worlds Is A Spiritual Successor To Fallout: New Vegas

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4.6849 Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2019

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

E3 2019: Jason Schreier talks to Obsidian's Leonard Boyarsky, co-creator of the original Fallout and now co-director of The Outer Worlds, about what it's been like to go back into post-apocalyptic sci-fi after a decade at Blizzard, how his new game explores fascism and corporate governance, and how video game development has changed over the past 30 years.

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0:00.0

Hello, I'm from the E3 Show 4. My name is Jason Schreier, and I am here in behind the scenes of Obsidian's little booth here, where they are showing the Outer Worlds, their new RPG, and I am sitting with co-game director Leonard Boyarski. Hello, Leonard. How are you?

0:17.8

Good. How are you doing? It is good to see you here. It is good to see your game.

0:21.8

You guys must be excited to finally get to show this thing off in a meaty, substantial

0:25.9

way, yeah.

0:26.9

Yeah, it's been wonderful.

0:28.0

It's really nice to see people's reactions to it.

0:30.2

Are people generally digging it?

0:32.3

That's what they're telling us.

0:34.4

Assuming they're telling the truth, and they're not, on their dialogue trees, they're not choosing the lie.

0:39.2

Exactly.

0:40.0

No, a lot of people are giving us really good feedback on it.

0:43.0

It seems to be being very well received, which is always gratifying.

0:46.2

Yeah, I mean, this is the Fallout New Vegas spiritual successor, or more accurately, because you worked on the original Fallout game, the Fallout spiritual successor that it seems like people are looking

0:55.8

for, which is really cool to see.

0:58.3

So you actually

0:59.8

started obsidian in a few years ago.

1:01.6

Before that you were on Diablo for a long

1:04.0

time. I was actually curious to ask

1:05.9

what it was like transitioning from

1:07.9

like action RPG, hell,

1:10.0

isometric hell to literally hell, to, like, suddenly going back to your roots and going back to post-apocalyptic or Fallout semi-like sci-fi.

1:19.4

Yeah.

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