{"id":346606,"date":"2025-09-04T01:20:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T08:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/es\/?p=394860"},"modified":"2025-09-04T01:20:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T08:20:56","slug":"the-outer-worlds-2-is-a-critical-game-about-megacorporations-published-by-microsoft-and-its-studio-is-fully-aware-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/the-outer-worlds-2-is-a-critical-game-about-megacorporations-published-by-microsoft-and-its-studio-is-fully-aware-of-it\/","title":{"rendered":"The Outer Worlds 2 is a critical game about megacorporations published by Microsoft, and its studio is fully aware of it"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The development of The Outer Worlds 2 has been entirely under the ownership of Microsoft, <strong>which presents a curious irony given that the first game was conceived and developed before the acquisition of Obsidian Entertainment by the tech giant<\/strong>. The creators have acknowledged this contrast in a recent interview, finding humor in the situation, despite the fact that the premise of the game revolves around critiques of mega-corporations.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">An irony that has not escaped the game director<\/h2>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brandon Adler, the game&#8217;s director, mentioned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghacks.net\/2025\/06\/09\/80-games-are-here-microsofts-pricing-of-the-outer-worlds-2-raises-eyebrows\/\">the obvious relationship between the developer and the content<\/a> of the title. \u201cIt\u2019s ridiculous to say that we don\u2019t realize that. Obviously, we do. <strong>We think it\u2019s funny, and in some way, we address it in our trailers,\u201d Adler stated. However, he emphasized that, regardless of the funder<\/strong>, the message of the game remains the same: a scathing critique of corporations.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Outer Worlds 2 - Official Announce Trailer - Xbox &amp; Bethesda Games Showcase 2021\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ClhDyC0ZECs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Leonard Boyarsky, creative director, also joined the conversation, assuring that the team works enthusiastically and without pressures imposed by the parent company. <strong>\u201cThe people we work with really love the game,\u201d Boyarsky commented, suggesting a development culture that maintains the essence of the original project<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite Microsoft&#8217;s acquisition, developers do not feel fear of comparisons with the Fallout series. Adler emphasized that Obsidian&#8217;s legacy in the genre gives them the confidence needed to meet players&#8217; expectations. <strong>\u201cIt is our legacy,\u201d he stated, while reflecting on the implications of ethical satire in a capitalist context<\/strong>. \u201cCan ethical satire exist under capitalism? 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An irony that has not escaped the game&#8217;s director Brandon Adler, who mentioned the obvious relationship between the developer and the content of the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9318,"featured_media":346607,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1018,1015],"tags":[12413,15647,1361,15648,15649,15650,8526,10454,1404],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[6823],"class_list":["post-346606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","category-news","tag-brandon-adler","tag-corporaciones","tag-fallout","tag-ironia","tag-ironia-dramatica","tag-leonard-boyarsky","tag-obsidian-entertainment","tag-the-outer-worlds-2","tag-xbox","content-category-games"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9318"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346606"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":346613,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346606\/revisions\/346613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346606"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=346606"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=346606"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=346606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}