The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition - Obsidian's first-person sci-fi RPG set in a corporate space colony

[Rafidur]

why am I searching abandoned factory on acid planet for fruitcake for an asexual

Where is the option to attempt to teach her about the wonders of dick?

 

[Prime Junta]

did the reviewers get pot & cocaine along with their review copies to actually like this garbage? Or was it the sweet microsoft dough!

Nah. The tragic thing is, a lot of people actually like this shit.

I'm not at all surprised at the review scores. This is really easily digestible.

I know I've been shitting on it here nonstop but that's only because I was hoping for something more, not just another lazy, safe, one-note, one-joke thing.

why am I searching abandoned factory on acid planet for fruitcake for an asexual

I found the fruitcake. Now she wants nicer togs. She's one demanding asexual. Also apparently unable to do the most basic things, like her own shopping. I'm amazed she made it to 28.

 

[Theophrastus]

Something that irks me the more I think about it: waking up from an unexpected 70 year cryostasis would be an incredibly traumatic experience - not just physically (which the game notes) but mentally too. The entire world you know no longer exists and everyone you loved is likely to be dead. The game doesn't address this at all. I'm not saying there should have been a backstory quest of some sort, which would harm role-playing potential, but it would have been less jarring if you could comment on how much (or little) things had changed.

 

[SkiNNyBane]

If there were most posts like @Kyl Von Kull this forum would pass for a legitimate place to discuss games.

 

[Prime Junta]

Much of the stuff you ask for in that post does in fact exist in the game. It may not lean into it as hard as you want, but it’s definitely there. Half the people in Edgewater told me to stop asking so many questions and stop mentioning the Hope, or the board will come down on me and possibly the whole town. Numerous other references to collective punishment. There’s propaganda all over the place. The company towns are all police states with a free market fetish. They’ve created a whole religion to justify the regime. Just weird to pretend like none of that’s there. I wish TOW had more bite, but that doesn’t mean it’s toothless.

I strongly differ here. It is toothless. It's all window-dressing, or hammering away at the one-note joke. The propaganda is joke propaganda, the religion is a joke religion, and the brainwashed drones don't even take their own brainwashing seriously. Like, the religious character's vision quest ended by taking drugs and him shooting his ego in the face, FFS. There's no weight to any of it. It's carefully de-fanged, pretend satire, the diametrical opposite of something with teeth.

If there were most posts like @Kyl Von Kull this forum would pass for a legitimate place to discuss games.

Strong agree, he's a quality poster even if he's sometimes wrong.

 

[GentlemanCthulhu]

I'm not saying there should have been a backstory quest of some sort, which would harm role-playing potential, but it would have been less jarring if you could comment on how much (or little) things had changed.

Nah.. why do that when they can give you a trait for +4% effect from food items? It's obviously so much better this way...

 

[Nines_Anarch]

Well, the game does one thing good:

It serves as inspiration to shitpost about it.

We cannot deny it. Obsidian did a good job on that regard.

Avellone did abandon the ship on time. We can't blame him. I mean, who would happy to appear in the credits of TOW?

 

[GentlemanCthulhu]

If there were most posts like @Kyl Von Kull this forum would pass for a legitimate place to discuss games.

What do you think this here is? ResetEra?

 

[Kyl Von Kull]

Something that irks me the more I think about it: waking up from an unexpected 70 year cryostasis would be an incredibly traumatic experience - not just physically (which the game notes) but mentally too. The entire world you know no longer exists and everyone you loved is likely to be dead. The game doesn't address this at all. I'm not saying there should have been a backstory quest of some sort, which would harm role-playing potential, but it would have been less jarring if you could comment on how much (or little) things had changed.

You get a bunch of “the world has gone insane” type dialogue options in Edgewater.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

For what it's worth, I'm enjoying it more than both Pillars so far. Although it might be because I'm completely fed up with high fantasy games.

 

[SkiNNyBane]

If there were most posts like @Kyl Von Kull this forum would pass for a legitimate place to discuss games.

What do you think this here is? ResetEra?

No but somehow at times it manages to be worse than reddit.

 

[Sordid MCA/Prosper Hybryd]

Well, the game does one thing good:

It serves as inspiration to shitpost about it.

We cannot deny it. Obsidian did a good job on that regard.

Avellone did abandon the ship on time. We can't blame him.

Nines, let me tell you one horrible truth. The Outer Worlds isn't great, it's just OK. But it's already much better than what you can hope for with Bloodlines 2.

 

[Quillon]

The entire world you know no longer exists

Wasn't that the point?

everyone you loved is likely to be dead.

Assuming the loved ones were back on earth; you've already accepted to be 10 years younger than they will be and never to see them again. And if they came with you, its more likely they are still frozen on Hope rather than have woken up 60 years earlier on Groundbreaker. There is a convo with Vicar in which you can say you have friends, family etc still frozen.

 

[Rafidur]

Something that irks me the more I think about it: waking up from an unexpected 70 year cryostasis would be an incredibly traumatic experience - not just physically (which the game notes) but mentally too. The entire world you know no longer exists and everyone you loved is likely to be dead. The game doesn't address this at all. I'm not saying there should have been a backstory quest of some sort, which would harm role-playing potential, but it would have been less jarring if you could comment on how much (or little) things had changed.

There's a conversation with felix when he asks "isn't it weird when an old friend contacts you and...", one of the responses is along the lines of "ALL MY FRIENDS ARE DEAAAD".

 

[Bendu]

I would say it's Obsidians worst written game yet. The companions are boring and the story isn't very interesting so far. Except for the Moonman I haven't met an interesting NPC yet. But I like the artdesign and the setting (though it really should take itself a little more serious) and the game seems to have some nice C&C. Maybe I will try a Lone Wolf/The Board playthrough someday.

But Obsidian should really reconsider its writing staff. On the one side we had Kreia, Okku, Gann, Kaelyn, One of Many, Veronica, Boone, Arcade and so on... Now we got Maia, Xoti, Tekehu, Parvati, Felix and Ellie.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

If there were most posts like @Kyl Von Kull this forum would pass for a legitimate place to discuss games.

What do you think this here is? ResetEra?

No but somehow at times it manages to be worse than reddit.

Give it time. Edgelords ranting about politics and fruitcakes writing weepy farewell letters to Obsidian but somehow continuing to play the game is just business as usual for a Codex launch week.

 

[Prime Junta]

Give it time. Edgelords ranting about politics and fruitcakes writing weepy farewell letters to Obsidian but somehow continuing to play the game is just business as usual for a Codex launch week.

If I notice you, will you stop going "notice me senpai?"

 

[Nines_Anarch]

Well, the game does one thing good:

It serves as inspiration to shitpost about it.

We cannot deny it. Obsidian did a good job on that regard.

Avellone did abandon the ship on time. We can't blame him.

Nines, let me tell you one horrible truth. The Outer Worlds isn't great, it's just OK. But it's already much better than what you can hope for with Bloodlines 2.

I know, but I won't believe it till I play it.
Unfortunately they say the worse is yet to come...

I am fine as long as I am in the game and kick somebodies ass. For the good old days...



But yeah, it seems the good old days will stay in the past forever.

 

[SpaceWizardz]

But it's already much better than what you can hope for with Bloodlines 2.

Mmhm. Pour one out for anyone optimistic about that game, that thread will be unreadable when it launches.

 

[Roguey]

btw... where is my secret crush Sailor Woedica to shine like a bright sun in this dark day of despair where yet another Obsidian title disappoints?

Where is this shill hiding?
https://rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?members/sailor-woedica.25744/

Woe typically takes a break from the forum on weekends. She'll probably be back tomorrow.

 

[Nano]

but every once in a while you have a character basically say "freedom" is communism, which is... a take, I guess.

It is.

The USSR, China, etc. are/were capitalist countries. There have never been any communist countries.

pm_675, see this piece written by my idol Emma Goldman, "There Is No Communism In Russia": https://archive.is/0l8fo

 

[GentlemanCthulhu]

Give it time. Edgelords ranting about politics and fruitcakes writing weepy farewell letters to Obsidian but somehow continuing to play the game is just business as usual for a Codex launch week.

Not everyone lives in your black/white world. We are just disappointed.

Woe typically takes a break from the forum on weekends. She'll probably be back tomorrow.

Cute

 

[DalekFlay]

I would say it's Obsidians worst written game yet.

Not far enough in yet to really pass judgment, but the writing is ten times better than average game writing. Even if it ends up their most meh overall, it's still far above average for the medium.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

But it's already much better than what you can hope for with Bloodlines 2.

Mmhm. Pour one out for anyone optimistic about that game, that thread will be unreadable when it launches.

Yep, I can't even imagine Bloodlines after it gets sanitized by political correctness they way TOW is. That franchise should stay dead, there's nothing interesting they can say in that setting in the current climate.

 

[fantadomat]

It doesn't deserve it,it needs it! How am i to finish this shit if can't just alt tab every hour or so and laugh at some edgy shitpost???

Even the shit-posts aren't enough to hold me through this mediocrity. I abandoned ship.

Makes me wonder though, did the reviewers get pot & cocaine along with their review copies to actually like this garbage? Or was it the sweet microsoft dough!

Nah,they played the first 5 hours and just ditch it. Why do you expect journos to actually finish the game?