The Outer Worlds (2019)

This is pretty nice and i like it ok so far. its' a nice blend of the elements I like and woven together well. No hype warranted here though really. it seems everyone is talking about this one around me... I've got a few games on my radar that look similar to this. in some ways this feels a bit streamlined, even dumbed down. it also has a few rough patches i dont like. I dig what they've done with the character building and role playing system though. (Don't think i've played an Obsidian game where I did not feel that way)

The RPG stuff is kind of like 'along for the ride.' Curious how Atomic Heart will compare to this, they look similar in play and style. Haven't played Signal from Tolva but it also looks similar in some ways.

Whats nice about this is it just doesnt feel like an ubisoft or bethesda cardboard cutout, yet lets your romp around somewhere, lol

Enjoying this. Structurally, it's a little by-the-books. NPCs talk to you, they need you to run errands for them, you do so, and then you get some cash. It gets a little laborious at times, I even started actively ignoring new NPCs because I didn't want to go run errands for them. It's also way too easy on the normal difficulty setting. I haven't even come close to dying once. I'll probably play this again in a year and put it on hard (which I normally don't do).

I feel like I'm almost done with this because I'm starting to pop achievements for "Finish all _____ quests" so I probably have 5 or 6 more hours left. I assume.

Good game so far, and it's TOTALLY worth the $1 Xbox game pass deal. I'll probably buy a boxed copy once the price drops.

Thanks to the XBAX gamepass I am checking out The Outer Worlds. I never really got into the fallout games so I am giving this a go-to see how it is. Already I like it a bit more and of course, as is a tradition we have to check out some of the food textures.

Those are some mighty fine nanners.

Alpha's back bellyaching about role playing.

I think my biggest issue thus far with Outer Worlds is with its character creation. I wanted to role play and create a dumb but charming spacer. Curiously, lacking intelligence doesn't rob you of dialogue options, it just adds a 'dumb option.' So, so very often I can now choose between a masterful engineering/medicine option or a dumb option. I'm role playing a very qualified idiot who can pick and choose when she wants to be an idiot or the smartest person in the room.

Not to mention, the game punishes you for selecting these extremes. For low intelligence, I believe I don't cause any critical damage for aiming at body parts. So I should detract a single point from my overly high other traits and ensure headshots exist, right?

It seems clear that these attributes are for gameplay not role playing. Which is fine. The kind of outcomes I'd best relish from my 'dumb charmer build' would need to be tailor-made to allow my spacer to weasel out of low intelligence situations. That's simply a lot to ask of the devs.

Perhaps I'm wrong and some of you have felt able to role play with Outer Worlds? Let me know! I certainly need to play more of it.

Got some 10+ hours in over the weekend and so far I'm loving it. Very interesting space-western setting with great humor and criticism of corporate culture, so I'm happy to be roleplaying a space-communist set on dismantling the corporations.

Despite my open-world fatigue, I found the initial area of Edgewater a bit too constrained. At some point the engineer girl Parvati who tags along commented "I've never come this far!" -- and we're literally 300 meters outside of town.

I like the combat/gunplay well enough (though I did crank up the difficulty to hard, this pushes you to utilize the game's systems a bit more). I do feel bad about all the marauders I'm shooting into oblivion, I wish I could get them on my side against the corps, but most marauders shoot you on sight. Minor spoiler: Later, in Roseway, you get to talk with a Marauder gang leader who needs you to get her ass out of prison.