Obsidian most known game fallout new vegas: actually broken without mods, to the point where mods are near mandatory to play.
Obsidian makes pillars of eternity which while okay, has massive issues in balancing, pace and difficulty (and not the git gud kind, more the I’d you don’t already know something the game never mentions, you’re kind of screwed).
Obsidian: after making a trash port of pillars of eternity on switch “we’re abandoning updating the game, also we made it 30gb yet still just as bad as when it was 5gb, also no pillars of eternity 2 for switch”
- games that run perfectly fine on switch doom, doom eternal,witcher 3, skyrim, dos 2, no mans sky, mortal kombat 11, etc…
Outer worlds. Actual meh. And vastly overrated.
Obsidian entertainment is the reason dungeon siege doesn’t exist anymore because of how bad 3 was
Sure star wars the old republic 1 and 2 were very good and so was South Park stick of truth. But that’s about the end of their line of unquestionably good games.
Why should I have any interest in avowed or outer worlds 2?
The only critically acclaimed ones are the ones that are reusing half the assets from the previous game in the series, like KOTOR or FNV. Outer Worlds was not “critically acclaimed”, it’s reception was generally worse than Starfields, and it didn’t have the excuse of high expectations like Starfield had. Outer Worlds failed to meet modest expectations.
Obsidian is fine if you give them small projects but the second you give them something big the whole thing turns out worse than the average Bethesda release.