The Outer Worlds 2's New Star System Will Be Good for Its Worldbuilding
The Outer Worlds 2 is shaping to be a highly anticipated game, riding the coattails of its predecessor from Obsidian Entertainment. Teased at the Xbox and Bethesda joint E3 presentation in June 2021, The Outer Worlds 2 showcased a highly stylized trailer poking fun at the current trend of video game trailers focusing on beasts, humans running, slow-motion shots, and planetary lens flares. The trailer reveals only a silhouette of the protagonist and claims the developers have only finalized the title. This type of meta humor is synonymous with the style of the game world and presents on-brand tongue-in-cheek humor.
Further information on Obsidian's website reveals only that The Outer Worlds 2 will take place in a new star system, with a new crew, but will be the same Outer Worlds. Players of the 2019 game will remember that despite its multiple possible endings, the story of the Stranger, the Unreliable, the Board, Phineas Welles, and lovable Companions wrapped up thoroughly through End Slides with the Unreliable slipping into Halcyon legend. While the cap was placed on this particular story, having the sequel occur elsewhere opens the chance for more thorough world-building.
The Outer Worlds 2: Every Mystery Set Up for the Sequel
In the game's lore, a Great War occurred on Earth in the twenty-first century. The Earth Directorate formed as a planet-wide government that appeared to help stabilize the economic disasters of the War and reel in the many surviving corporations. Acting as the sole regulatory body, the Earth Directorate was also responsible for cataloging and allotting off-world star systems and colonies to the highest bidders. Halcyon was bought when ten corporations pooled their resources, and the story of The
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