Unfortunately, not much else has been revealed regarding the zombie survival game. Following its reveal, Undead Labs did confirm that the game was still very early in development indicating release would still be a long ways off. Without much else to go on a year later, its understandable that most fans felt a new trailer or development update would be ready, though if State of Decay 3 is attempting to fix and build off of the franchise's legacy, development could be a lengthy one, especially to fulfill that huge open world sandbox survival fant
Since its creation and announcement in 2018, most of the news out of The Initiative has been regarding the talent that has been hired. Led by former Crystal Dynamics Studio Head, Darrell Gallagher, The Initiative finally revealed its first big project at The Game Awards 2020 as a reboot of the Perfect Dark franchise . The announcement came with a debut trailer as well as a developer diary sharing a few new insights on the game and what the studio is doing to revive the franch
It is possible that guns may still exist in Avowed , even if the game is set some time before the Pillars of Eternity games. Avowed Cheats will be set in the Living Lands , a wild northern frontier filled with competing factions and strange beasts. It may be that the Living Lands are less technologically developed than the heart of Eora's empires, but that more modern technology like guns can still be fo
Avowed is the upcoming game from Obsidian Entertainment that has many Skyrim fans wondering if the studio’s new RPG could spiritually succeed The Elder Scrolls series. If the trailer is anything to go by, the new game will share many features with The Elder Scrolls from its first-person perspective to its sword-and-sorcery gamep
The second and final Outer Worlds DLC, Murder on Eridanos , is set to arrive sometime before the end of the current fiscal year. This means that the expansion should be in the hands of players before April 1, 2021. The story of the expansion revolves around a character known as Halcyon Helen, the star of an in-universe show called Terror on Monarch. Helen is looking to go on a final adventure and looks set to be a solid follow-up to the first expansion, Peril on Gor
RPGs, especially open-world RPGs, tend to market themselves on freedom. In The Elder Scrolls 5 the player has the choice to ignore Skyrim 's main quest and head out in any direction they see fit. Few questlines and areas are blocked off by this decision, and many players choose to forego the main story entirely for a more customized roleplaying experie
While Skyrim came out in 2011, a similar flaw can be found closer to home in The Outer Worlds , which released in 2019. Outside of towns in The Outer Worlds , most of the humanoid NPCs the player will run across are Marauders, humans who have lost their minds and become extremely violent due to overuse of the drug Adrena-Time . As a result they attack on sight. Though it’s given an explanation in the story, the madness of the Marauders ultimately feels like a cop-out that avoids the challenges of creating a more robust RPG system for interacting with NPCs outside of quests by coming up with a reason for most interactions to be instantly viol
With the support of The Outer Worlds winding down, it's easy to imagine that Grounded will receive some additional development support as it edges closer to moving past early access. Grounded's community has exceeded 5 million players which could help ensure a long and exciting future. While there is certainly a sizeable scale to consider here, Grounded is arguably not the biggest project in the works at Obsidian Entertainment right
In both Skyrim and The Outer Worlds , the lack of roleplaying opportunities in the open world itself undermines some of the other choices in the game. At the end of the main quest surrounding Edgewater at the start of The Outer Worlds , for example, the player is put in a moral conundrum and has to side with one of two factions. Any questions of mortality, however, feel hard to take seriously when the player is also gunning down swaths of people while carrying messages between the two faction leaders. It’s harder to invest in the lives of the characters in the story in an open-world where life is so ch
It is possible, of course, that The Elder Scrolls 6 will not take place on Tamriel. Descriptions of other continents on the planet of Nirn from the monkey and snake people of Akavir to the lost land of Yokuda suggest that Bethesda could find a fruitful new landscape to explore if it leaves the series main setting behind. However, most rumors point towards The Elder Scrolls 6 being set somewhere in the west of Tamriel, with many claiming that it will be in Hammerfell. If so, The Elder Scrolls 6 will be set in a province already seen in Arena , Daggerfall , Redguard , and The Elder Scrolls Onli
If Obsidian is going to create a first-person fantasy RPG that truly brings the genre into the next generation, however, the studio will need to make significant innovations in the way it handles its open-world storytelling. To do so, Avowed will need to solve one problem found back in Skyrim , but also more recently in The Outer Worl