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While New Vegas was great, I've always regarded Obsidian a little bit as the B-movie developer. More often than not the Outer Worlds 'feeling' is what stays with you: not great, not terrible, hardly special. Almost never have I played an Obsidian game where I was really hooked, though I've played many and finished more than one without being bored or annoyed... Its a bit like that same ish meal you eat every week, good to keep you fed, doesn't get boring, and that's about it.
I agree with B-movie part. They are just secound league, AA or oldschool kind like most of devs was twenty years ago. But if we talk about the rest, probably due to different likings or just titles played my impression about them is totally different. I understand yours as them being "nothing special kind", but I see them opposite. They have great ideas and seem to have really high standards of what their games represent in every aspect they consist of. E.g. overally good Pillars of Eternity with simply all of the quests being superb or having no gameplay Pentiment being nice to play at and having absurdly good audio nobody asked for. Kind of dev who maybe isn't master of code, so won't give you e.g. the best shooting mechanics, but one being from league higher than majority aims for. Totally opposite to typical garbage like Hangar(something) who just desecrated Mafia franchise with only obviously bad decisions and nothing left to praise. And most of the industry being somewhere between. Outer Worlds feels missed, but to me Obsidian are ones representing level being likely to create masterpieces. What I find e.g. New Vegas; Pillars of Eternity or Pentiment.