Joe Fielder
@joefielder.bsky.social
Principal Narrative Designer on The Outer Worlds 2 at Obsidian (Deathloop, Ghost of Tsushima DC, Star Wars Battlefront II, Flame in the Flood, some BioShocks) he/they, ADHD
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My favorite quest in Outer Worlds 2 is when you help a group of completely milquetoast middle managers try and find dirt on executives - and they have no idea what to do with it. Peak Obsidian.
Oh, hey! I wrote that one.
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Game #37 for 2025. Outer Worlds 2.
I had a blast with this one. Excellent writing, fun combat and decent exploration. Loved the companions. Aza 😍
I really like the flaw system and how it dynamically reacted to and influenced my playstyle.
100% going to replay it soon with a different build.
🤘😁🤘
I had a blast with this one. Excellent writing, fun combat and decent exploration. Loved the companions. Aza 😍
I really like the flaw system and how it dynamically reacted to and influenced my playstyle.
100% going to replay it soon with a different build.
🤘😁🤘
November 11, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Game #37 for 2025. Outer Worlds 2.
I had a blast with this one. Excellent writing, fun combat and decent exploration. Loved the companions. Aza 😍
I really like the flaw system and how it dynamically reacted to and influenced my playstyle.
100% going to replay it soon with a different build.
🤘😁🤘
I had a blast with this one. Excellent writing, fun combat and decent exploration. Loved the companions. Aza 😍
I really like the flaw system and how it dynamically reacted to and influenced my playstyle.
100% going to replay it soon with a different build.
🤘😁🤘
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Sweater weather is so conflicting. I look real cute in a big cozy sweater but also how will anyone know that I have cool tattoos
November 11, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Sweater weather is so conflicting. I look real cute in a big cozy sweater but also how will anyone know that I have cool tattoos
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I genuinely can’t choose a fave between the companions that you can recruit in The Outer Worlds 2. Waaah I just love them all, they’re all so unique and fleshed out and just feel like fully formed characters. 🥺 a little found family here to save the world
November 11, 2025 at 11:29 AM
I genuinely can’t choose a fave between the companions that you can recruit in The Outer Worlds 2. Waaah I just love them all, they’re all so unique and fleshed out and just feel like fully formed characters. 🥺 a little found family here to save the world
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Outer Worlds 2 has one of the most diabolical choice.
Putting an ad inside your ship.
Putting an ad inside your ship.
November 11, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Outer Worlds 2 has one of the most diabolical choice.
Putting an ad inside your ship.
Putting an ad inside your ship.
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I would just live my life so that Joyce Carol Oates does not feel the need to destroy me.
November 11, 2025 at 5:56 AM
I would just live my life so that Joyce Carol Oates does not feel the need to destroy me.
Just recently rewatched Kwaidan, Yojimbo, and Sword of Doom. Such a talent.
hearing reports out of Japan that Tatsuya Nakadai has passed away at 92. RIP to a legit legend.
November 11, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Just recently rewatched Kwaidan, Yojimbo, and Sword of Doom. Such a talent.
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I finished Outer Worlds 2 last night and it was AMAZING. I immediately started a second playthrough which is very rare for me.
BUT I need to highlight SPECIFICALLY the radios in the game. They essentially made 3 Fallout-style radio stations with completely original music. Absolutely BONKERS.
BUT I need to highlight SPECIFICALLY the radios in the game. They essentially made 3 Fallout-style radio stations with completely original music. Absolutely BONKERS.
November 10, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I finished Outer Worlds 2 last night and it was AMAZING. I immediately started a second playthrough which is very rare for me.
BUT I need to highlight SPECIFICALLY the radios in the game. They essentially made 3 Fallout-style radio stations with completely original music. Absolutely BONKERS.
BUT I need to highlight SPECIFICALLY the radios in the game. They essentially made 3 Fallout-style radio stations with completely original music. Absolutely BONKERS.
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Probably my favorite song on an OST absolutely FULL of stunningly good songs with excellent lyrics - something practically unheard of for game soundtracks.
One of my absolute favourite moments on the project was composing this piece. I hope you all love this OST as much as we all loved creating it!
The Order of the Ascendant invites you to indulge in data and the latest advances in scientism—welcome to Grand Plan Wireless! Up next: a preview of ‘Fibonacci’, composed by Juliette Jones and Interleave. youtu.be/eguCXgnb9NA
November 10, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Probably my favorite song on an OST absolutely FULL of stunningly good songs with excellent lyrics - something practically unheard of for game soundtracks.
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One of my absolute favourite moments on the project was composing this piece. I hope you all love this OST as much as we all loved creating it!
The Order of the Ascendant invites you to indulge in data and the latest advances in scientism—welcome to Grand Plan Wireless! Up next: a preview of ‘Fibonacci’, composed by Juliette Jones and Interleave. youtu.be/eguCXgnb9NA
October 24, 2025 at 7:55 PM
One of my absolute favourite moments on the project was composing this piece. I hope you all love this OST as much as we all loved creating it!
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Props to whoever did the songs for Outer Worlds 2. I didn't know a song about irrational numbers could be so damn catchy.
Also the art for this game is just fucking gorgeous. I could stare at the Praetorian sky for hours
Also the art for this game is just fucking gorgeous. I could stare at the Praetorian sky for hours
November 10, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Props to whoever did the songs for Outer Worlds 2. I didn't know a song about irrational numbers could be so damn catchy.
Also the art for this game is just fucking gorgeous. I could stare at the Praetorian sky for hours
Also the art for this game is just fucking gorgeous. I could stare at the Praetorian sky for hours
Yesterday was the 24th anniversary of my Halo review on GameSpot. (And the video review where I'm *clearly* uncomfortable being on camera.)
Halo Review
Not only is this easily the best of the Xbox launch games, but it's easily one of the best shooters ever, on any platform.
www.gamespot.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Yesterday was the 24th anniversary of my Halo review on GameSpot. (And the video review where I'm *clearly* uncomfortable being on camera.)
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Many freelancers in the United States rely on ACA marketplace plans for their health insurance. In an industry that has already been working overtime to turn gamedevs into gig workers, freelance and contract devs are about to get even more squeezed. This is unacceptable.
November 10, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Many freelancers in the United States rely on ACA marketplace plans for their health insurance. In an industry that has already been working overtime to turn gamedevs into gig workers, freelance and contract devs are about to get even more squeezed. This is unacceptable.
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Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
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The Outer Worlds 2 constantly makes me chuckle while simultaneously keeping me wildly uncomfortable being wedged between the horrors of late stage capitalism and the horrors of authoritarian communism/socialism.
November 9, 2025 at 9:51 PM
The Outer Worlds 2 constantly makes me chuckle while simultaneously keeping me wildly uncomfortable being wedged between the horrors of late stage capitalism and the horrors of authoritarian communism/socialism.
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The Outer Worlds 2 Review:
+ Obsidian Entertainment best game since Fallout New Vegas
+ Companions you'd love to get to know better as you progress the game
+ The player has many options for how the story progresses
- Wish some factions had more limelight in the game
9/10
+ Obsidian Entertainment best game since Fallout New Vegas
+ Companions you'd love to get to know better as you progress the game
+ The player has many options for how the story progresses
- Wish some factions had more limelight in the game
9/10
November 10, 2025 at 12:37 AM
The Outer Worlds 2 Review:
+ Obsidian Entertainment best game since Fallout New Vegas
+ Companions you'd love to get to know better as you progress the game
+ The player has many options for how the story progresses
- Wish some factions had more limelight in the game
9/10
+ Obsidian Entertainment best game since Fallout New Vegas
+ Companions you'd love to get to know better as you progress the game
+ The player has many options for how the story progresses
- Wish some factions had more limelight in the game
9/10
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It took me my third restart before I even realized the protectorate guards at the Vox hum songs from their faction radio
November 9, 2025 at 11:00 PM
It took me my third restart before I even realized the protectorate guards at the Vox hum songs from their faction radio
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I don’t see many people talking about it but the specific songs created for the faction wireless stations in #OuterWorlds2 are freaking phenomenal!? The specificity of how they tap into the culture of each faction is remarkable on top of creating some outright bangers!
November 9, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I don’t see many people talking about it but the specific songs created for the faction wireless stations in #OuterWorlds2 are freaking phenomenal!? The specificity of how they tap into the culture of each faction is remarkable on top of creating some outright bangers!
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And that's a wrap on The Outer Worlds 2. I laughed. I was shooketh. I fell in love with all of my companions. Really an amazing experience!
November 9, 2025 at 5:37 PM
And that's a wrap on The Outer Worlds 2. I laughed. I was shooketh. I fell in love with all of my companions. Really an amazing experience!
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Outer Worlds 2 was honestly a really great time! About to wrap up my second playthrough (exploring a bunch of stuff I didn't do the first time) has been a blast. I missed so much shit not giving Auntie or the Order the time of day lolol
November 9, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Outer Worlds 2 was honestly a really great time! About to wrap up my second playthrough (exploring a bunch of stuff I didn't do the first time) has been a blast. I missed so much shit not giving Auntie or the Order the time of day lolol
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Listening to Aza and Marisol comparing favorite ways of killing people and making it look like an accident is one of my fave things in Outer Worlds 2
November 9, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Listening to Aza and Marisol comparing favorite ways of killing people and making it look like an accident is one of my fave things in Outer Worlds 2
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Something that really hit me in Outer Worlds 2 btw is how sharply it communicates that under the world's hyper capitalism (which isn't so far off our own tbh,) the only art that is ever appreciated is that which can somehow serve a corporation. ie the corpo radio station is literally only jingles.
"Outer Worlds as an IP really serves as a much needed, fresh cautionary tale about a potential future under unchecked capitalism" I say to my husband as we walk past a panda delivery driver going absolutely fucking crazy apeshit bonkers on a mall food court piano as he waits to pick up his order.
November 9, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Something that really hit me in Outer Worlds 2 btw is how sharply it communicates that under the world's hyper capitalism (which isn't so far off our own tbh,) the only art that is ever appreciated is that which can somehow serve a corporation. ie the corpo radio station is literally only jingles.
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Still alive just addicted to the #OuterWorlds2 man I'm loving this game a lot.
Definitely an improvement in a lot of ways over the first game for me but I just got to the second area and I'm taking my time with the game.
Definitely an improvement in a lot of ways over the first game for me but I just got to the second area and I'm taking my time with the game.
November 8, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Still alive just addicted to the #OuterWorlds2 man I'm loving this game a lot.
Definitely an improvement in a lot of ways over the first game for me but I just got to the second area and I'm taking my time with the game.
Definitely an improvement in a lot of ways over the first game for me but I just got to the second area and I'm taking my time with the game.
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After 35hrs and doing all main, side & companion quests i'm finally done with The Outer Worlds 2. Overall this is my favorite
@obsidian.net game, they did a really great job building upon the first. Its all a little bit bigger and denser without being bloated. Really great game. #TheOuterWorlds2
@obsidian.net game, they did a really great job building upon the first. Its all a little bit bigger and denser without being bloated. Really great game. #TheOuterWorlds2
November 8, 2025 at 10:32 PM
After 35hrs and doing all main, side & companion quests i'm finally done with The Outer Worlds 2. Overall this is my favorite
@obsidian.net game, they did a really great job building upon the first. Its all a little bit bigger and denser without being bloated. Really great game. #TheOuterWorlds2
@obsidian.net game, they did a really great job building upon the first. Its all a little bit bigger and denser without being bloated. Really great game. #TheOuterWorlds2
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Whatever you're feeling, there's an Outer Worlds 2 dialogue option just for you!
November 8, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Whatever you're feeling, there's an Outer Worlds 2 dialogue option just for you!
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A rádio de Outer Worlds 2 devia ganhar prêmio. Essa música é iradíssima e tem VÁRIAS outras muito boas, feitas pro jogo.
The Outer Worlds 2 OST - The Uncomplicated Loaner Song
YouTube video by FlareHazard
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November 8, 2025 at 2:31 PM
A rádio de Outer Worlds 2 devia ganhar prêmio. Essa música é iradíssima e tem VÁRIAS outras muito boas, feitas pro jogo.