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Kaan Serin

The Outer Worlds 2 director's stance on AI is that "Obsidian should never outsource the things that it's amazing at," like the famed RPG dev's knack for good writing

The Outer Worlds 2 gameplay trailer screenshots.

Obsidian Entertainment's been responsible for some of the best RPGs in the biz (Fallout: New Vegas, Star Wars KOTOR 2, Pillars of Eternity, to name a few), so the director behind The Outer Worlds 2 sees no reason why the developer should outsource its best qualities to AI.

Speaking to the My Perfect Console podcast, Brandon Adler said one of the things he realized while directing the studio's latest sci-fi satire was that "Obsidian should never outsource the things that it's amazing at, like our quests and ours characters and our stories - those are the things we should keep internal." And he views AI use in game development in a similar way: "You don't outsource the things you're good at to AI."

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