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Indeed! I'm excited about the single save slot and the random scenarios when dying. Should make for excellent and tense exploration and combat.
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Outward - open world RPG where you are an ordinary adventurer and survival is harsh
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Hassar
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I like the idea. The grit and difficulty of an adventure is usually glossed over in games partially due to you being a Mary or Marty Stu with plot armor. A more realistic approach with dirt and diarrhea from drinking unprepared water would make certain skills and character types more useful.
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Diarrhea mechanics are really underused. :D
disagree. scripted content is still king. there have been no "make your own story" games that hold me more than several hoursSo "make your own fun" and no actual decent content of its own. Cool, just like a Bethesda gaeme.
My guess (note - guess) is that it will feature some questing but the majority of the story will be your own creation, how you survived in the wilds, how you hunted and managed to slay some ferocious beast, the secrets you discovered on your travels. This is not a bad thing, in fact it's a great thing as 99% of RPGs force-feed you the story and you have no choice but to oblige. Kenshi was refreshing because you don't "make your own fun", but because of the systems in the game the fun is presented to you in a unique way and it becomes "your" story. So this game will likely be similar, the fun comes but it will be a different experience for everyone. I do also expect it to have some quests, too, in the traditional sense. But it's going to be a great incline of a CRPG since it will deviate from the norm and do its own unique thing (or at least be a Kenshi-like which we definitely need.)
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Kenshi would be my choice for that type of gameplay. But it seems like the game will have plenty of handcrafted quest content, mixed in with the survival, "make your own story" gameplay. So it should be the best of both worlds.
You need to break up with Kenshi dude, you're completely codependent and she's got you fawning over her like she's the freaking Venus de Milo. She's just using you bro, can't you see that? I'm worried about you!
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Epic Store gets exclusive... pre-order: https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/outward/
Steam version will be released at the same day but without pre-order, it will give the pre-order bonus during the first week whatever they are: https://steamcommunity.com/app/794260/discussions/0/1842441871278712653/
Well I have to guess the dev did his best to suppress their publisher, Deep Silver.
Steam version will be released at the same day but without pre-order, it will give the pre-order bonus during the first week whatever they are: https://steamcommunity.com/app/794260/discussions/0/1842441871278712653/
Well I have to guess the dev did his best to suppress their publisher, Deep Silver.
the problem with kenshi for me is that there is no higher level of objective. A goal is must.There isnt really an endgame in it, all the motivation when you play the game is 100% intrinsic. Like you can just mine shit for 9900 hours. That kind of thing is rarely a motivator for me to play.
Compared to something like, not an RPG, but also free-form, zelda breath of the wild.
The key part is botw have an end goal to achieve: defeating ganon. You can go straight up to ganon naked, armed with a stick, but most people can't. The whole game is just you trying to get stronger so you can defeat ganon.
However you do this is up to you. Dont have to get the equipments,special suits, or weapons, nothing is mandatory in that game except ganon, but unless you have ultra instinct, you at least have to do some of them, and it doesnt restrict you to do which one, in which order. If you feel you are strong enough to take him on, you can go with alot of content skipped.
If you wanna explorr and experience the game's contents, then feel free to hoard weapons of mass destructions and go to ganon with a basically firepower of a small army.
I think botw, for me is the perfect balance of do whatever, while still keeping the main objective in sight. Always.
I would like a proper RPG made like that, with real RPG system, and complex dialogue mechanics instead of just action game.
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Kenshi's story is what you make it. I appreciate that in a game that is a bit different. I would also like BotW too, and wouldn't compare them. But Outward seems to have plenty of handmade content and will probably be similar more to BotW in that you can likely skip some content and still get to the endgame, which is scripted questing. But your goal is also to survive the elements, so that's part of your story and experience too. I'm not sure what the endgame will be in Outward though. Is the story 'find your father' or was someone joking when they said that? It seems you just have to survive and pay back a huge debt or something, not sure.
Yeah, to early to tell, but i really quite looking forward to it. At least we know the environment are really varied and some playstyle are quite different.
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Okay, so i actually looked deeper at this game. Watched some videos, since a youtuber mentioned an ending, there is at least a context and an endgame to what you are doing.
And as for others, man, the system sounds incline as hell. One thing i am kinda doubtful is the only one save system. Not because it is inherently bad, but if a bug should happen, it can screw your playtrough.AAlso it kinda trigger the autist inside me.
But other than that the game looks pretty excellent, and as you say, really Botw like. There is even a clothing system that is connected with the weather and environments you are in. Gothic like levelling (has to train, have to do a ritual to unlock magic, etc) yeah sounds pretty amazing.
And the release is 26th? Nice i guess. I guess, depending on how buggy it is, might purchase early
Okay, so i actually looked deeper at this game. Watched some videos, since a youtuber mentioned an ending, there is at least a context and an endgame to what you are doing.
And as for others, man, the system sounds incline as hell. One thing i am kinda doubtful is the only one save system. Not because it is inherently bad, but if a bug should happen, it can screw your playtrough.AAlso it kinda trigger the autist inside me.
But other than that the game looks pretty excellent, and as you say, really Botw like. There is even a clothing system that is connected with the weather and environments you are in. Gothic like levelling (has to train, have to do a ritual to unlock magic, etc) yeah sounds pretty amazing.
And the release is 26th? Nice i guess. I guess, depending on how buggy it is, might purchase early
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Yeah, definitely looks like big incline, I'm excited. I'm picking it up day one. The one save file is a bonus for me, it makes you live with consequences of your actions, hopefully nothing is too buggy though as you mention. This is going to be a sleeper hit I feel.
Well, let us know about it! If it is polished and it is as good as it look, i will get it too.
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Will do! I'll probably start a new thread talking about it when I've played it a bit.
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That actually does look pretty cool. I hope it turns out alright
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- Only one save slot
- Manually saves after every decision/consequence
- Timed main quests
- No pause option
This is bad design for a singleplayer game.
- Manually saves after every decision/consequence
- Timed main quests
- No pause option
This is bad design for a singleplayer game.
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Safav Hamon
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It will probably be buggy too. I'm not risking my only save breaking after 30 hours.
It would only be a waste of 30 hours if you didn't really enjoy that 30 hours and were just wanting to get somewhere. But if the journey is as fun as the destination then permadeath doesn't matter. Big if though, but it can be done. I like the idea of making decisions and there being no turning back. As long as the decisions and the outcomes make sense. p.s. I bet the save game file will be in a folder somewhere and you could copy it and replace the current one in a disaster. I would rather that not be the case though.
Timed main quest? Like Fallout?
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