Obsidian has definitely gotten more corporate following the Microsoft acquisition.

While I haven’t played Avowed or Outer Worlds, from the gameplay videos they don’t look very appealing to me. Too much “console style” FPS combat. I strongly prefer 3rd person for RPGs if we are not going with the classical top down view and turn-based combat.

They definitely went console-oriented, sure, but honestly why do we even need a nv2??? I know story reasons but then you get muddled with Bethesdas stories. Besides, the guys who made new vegas aren’t in the same position, so itd be someone else with a thing they didn’t make with even higher expectations. Just make something new. Avowed was insanely middling for me, despite beating it. They should have just made Pillars 3 at that rate.