Obsidian has bled talent for the last fifteen years, they're not incapable of good stuff but much of the credited NV writers and staff have left.

I coped about Outer Worlds for like a year but it is sub mediocre. Given the development mess Avowed has apparently been through, and that it looks like just Skyrim, and the showcases that are all just YOU CAN MAKE CHOICES BRO TRUST ME I have worse than no hope. Plus, it's penned in for the second half of this year but they've barely shown it off, this thing is gonna launch busted.

The elements that made New Vegas good were the team, the near infinite money they had, and how everyone seemed to enjoy the project. From interviews I've read with Josh Sawyer and Tess Treadwell, it seems like everything went as smooth as game production could have gone. They were never worried about deadlines or anything, despite the 18 month production time. They wanted to have more Legion territory, but otherwise the game is how they wanted it to be. So I don't know how those elements would get replicated.

Pentiment is really good though. Outer Worlds is...ok. I guess we'll see.

I really doubt it. To me, the closest they've gotten to a New Vegas is probably Tyranny, but it's a Infinity Engine style game.

Likely not, it will probably be a more polished Outer Worlds with the added dev time. If the writing is good, it will probably be better than Outer Worlds, but it won't reach New Vegas levels as the team is fundamentally different.

After the Outer Worlds, no. I only remember seeing one trailer a few years ago and it looked like a very generic fantasy setting as well, so I don't know what will make it unique. Maybe it will tide me over until the next Elder Scrolls, but I doubt it'll be anything more than that

after outer worlds was billed as "new vegas in outer space" only to be the most watered down version of that it could possibly be, I'm really not hoping for much. I'll see what the reviews say and might pirate it then

How much of the old Black Isle/Interplay crew is still around? That Pillars of whatever game was pretty good, mostly. Didn't land for me, but that's me. But that was like a decade ago.

don't have high hopes unfortunately. outer worlds was super mid i think this will probably be a bit more interesting but not revolutionary

No, but it might be good.

Nah. They're washed at this point.

hard to be worse than starfield