Lige fra den første trailer rullede over storskærmen ved The Game Awards sidste år var Obsidian Entertainment lynhurtige til at slå fast at The Outer Worlds er et godt gammeldags rollespil. Her har du vigtige valg at træffe og en verden at udforske. Dog slår udvikleren nu fast, at de tilgår historien på lineær vis, og at de mange valg skal træffes imellem en række brændpunkter.
I et interview med Game Informer fortæller den ene af spillets to instruktører, Tim Cain, at selvom alle spillere oplever disse brændpunkter, så er det imellem dem at din unikke gennemspilning tager form.
"Our story structures look like footballs, where there are all these points that everybody will pass through. [When you get the power regulator for your ship] — did you work with people? Did you buy it? There's more than one of them out there, so which one did you take? How did you handle the people who were using it? We try to arrange our story by thinking about the points all players are going to pass through, but then we try to remember what the context was so that things change to reflect the choice you made. [...] We don't demand that those dramatic points play out in any specific way."
Herunder kan du se 15 minutters kommenteret gameplay fra spillet, der forventes at ankomme d. 6 august.
