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The Outer Worlds (Obsidian) is launching on Steam on October 23
- Thread starter FarSight XR-20
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if you never played it, it's a solid game but don't come in expecting Fallout New Vegas in space. It's strictly a AA open world game and even in the writing department it wasn't all that good. It was serviceable and I didn't regret my time with it, but I think playing it via Gamepass was the way to go
I was wondering when they were going to announce this. Great for Steam players. Should give the game a nice boost in sales.
*shrug* compared to other Obsidian titles it didn't do it for me. I didn't get attached to any of the characters either they were just there for the ride. But I feel Bioware for the most part has always done a better job at characters over Obsidian.
The only real character I enjoyed was the janitor bot and that's because he was just screaming every marketing line of his out loud.
Actually, I think the biggest issue with this game is that it tries to be Fallout New Vegas. The whole journey of starting as a powerless drifter to slowly becoming a really powerful character of your choosing. Issue is, it's barely a tenth of the size and length of New Vegas, so it all feels comically sped-up, the actual outdoor levels are also all just silly with how close everything is to each other. (except for one map, but that appears far too late into the game)
Also none of the companions get the time they really deserve to bloom.
It feels to me like the most pointless game that Obsidian has ever made. not because it's bad, but because it feels like it could have easily been so much more.
Idk why so many on here seem to dislike this game tbh. I really loved it.
(Then again, I have adored every Obsidian game I've played. Maybe they've just got my number)
(Then again, I have adored every Obsidian game I've played. Maybe they've just got my number)
I love this game. If you were waiting for the steam version, please grab it, its really great, and very replayable
Yeah it really just became a trend to shit on this game after it launched. Its sitting at an 82 on opencritic, it s not a bad game by any means.
It's a game that is amazing early into it. But the more I played it, the more the cracks began to show and I realized it doesn't really matter how I build my character. The game isn't uniquely rewarding whether you decide to sneak through it, shoot through it, or talk through it because the game is just flat out easy. No reason to put any amount of thought into which skills to level up because it doesn't matter. No reason to put any amount of thought into the perks because they're a very small number of perks that are the obvious ones to get while the rest are just hilariously useless.
It fails as an RPG in the aspect that how you build your character doesn't really matter due to how easy the game is. I realized this halfway through as I continued to be unengaged by the experience as I played and dropped it. If you can manage to finish one playthrough, cool. But there is very little reason to play the game again. Definitely a game to get on sale or through Game Pass.
Obsidian is one of my favorite developers and I love their RPGs. But I couldn't like this one despite its attempts at being a New Vegas successor.
Absolutely could not get past the combat in the game. And something about it also just seemed very small to me. Like the areas you landed on and explored were just very limited in scope. Not necessarily a bad thing as many open world games have a lot of barren areas but for some reason here it was very noticeable and made a negative impression on me. But again, the combat... was just so off. Try it on Game Pass first without question if you have the means.
I actually agree with pretty much everything here - I only buy games on sale so I didn't feel burned or anything. Yeah, it's too easy, but I just had so much fun romping around. I do appreciate and understand your opinion though, thanks.
I definitely recommend it if you're looking for a KotOR-like game in terms of size and design structure.
It was 60% off on EGS last month, so that'll probably be the launch discount, give or take.
Neat. Didn't find much urge to play it when I had Gamepass, but maybe I'll get this eventually. Cheers for letting us know FarSight XR-20
$60 with a 50% off launch discount probably. Borderlands 3 and Ancestors both had 50% launch discounts.
How could I not? As soon as I took her to the bar I was encouraging her all the way! :) She was adorable!
yea, GP absolutely saved me $60 here because I was ready to buy this sight unseen. The game must not have been very good because barely remember anything about it.
I found the world, characters and setting really compelling but the gameplay was incredibly lackluster. The character building was awful and everything was entirely too easy even on Super Nova. To this day I still dream about a Jsawyer mod type difficulty option. At least give the community modding tools so they can do it for you Obsidian!
I don't know why but I just couldn't get into the combat side, I played a couple of hours but just couldn't get into it.