Nearly 30 years ago, an RPG veteran walked away from Fallout 2 after just a few conversations – with The Outer Worlds 2, he's finally "doing a sequel to a game that I created the IP for"

The Outer Worlds 2 character holding bottle and glass.

Obsidian has a strong pedigree when it comes to RPGs. From making the fan-favorite Fallout: New Vegas as well as having developers who worked on the original back in 1997, there's a lot of talent and love for the genre at the studio. But despite being in the games industry for so long, there's something The Outer Worlds 2 creative director Leonard Boyarsky had never done until this latest game.

"You know, when we left Interplay, we left the design for Fallout 2," Boyarsky tells GamesRadar+ in an interview during this year's Gamescom event. "I'd written, like, a conversation or two for that game, which I think Chris Avellone heavily, heavily edited. But we didn't develop that game. So this is literally the first time I'm doing a sequel to a game that I created the IP for, which is really cool."