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

[Reinhardt]

If Solasta and that alien porn game will be shit too i will abandon rpg games. Nothing else even remotely interesting in foreseeable future. When codex said everything is shit - it was right. Unironically. Now i see the truth.

What about Colony Ship?

I'm not a fan of AoD.

 

[Deleted Member 22431]

The problem isn't that games are infected by politics. The problem is that they're infected by shit politics.

The problem is that some devs want you to agree with their politics. It's a zero sum game without any compromise. Adopt our views or GTFO, is the idea for most of these valley girl writers.

The problem is that people want to pretend they care about politics because they want to signal their virtuosity and moral superiority via Twitter and Facebook. It's all about mindless superficial moral grandstanding. They don't really care about real-world problems. The only thing that matters is signaling the right things to their own group. That's it. Now, if we consider that cRPGs are supposed to be about systematic reactivity and deep choices, especially ones of moral nature, then it would be naive to suggest that this won't impact the quality of the quest design, writing, etc. Tough subjects are strong themes and require a strong hand, but you can't have that if your moral imperative is to parrot a sanitized image of a social justice warrior. Moreover, one of the common traits of these people is the presumption of infallibility. They don't consider the possibility that they may be wrong or that these controversial political subjects are open to interpretation. Otherwise, their pretense of moral superiority would vanish. So there is no real possibility that they would consider substantial feedback about these political blindspots with interest. If you add to that their bad work ethics they inherited from their fake pseudo-courses in women studies, copious amount of dunning kruger effect and poor direction, this is what you get. You have better technology to do cRPGs, a template to follow that has more than a decade, and yet the games are worse and worse. If Obsidian disappeared tomorrow, it would make no difference to experienced gamers.

 

[Dishonoredbr]

Don't take it so personally, she's not a real person.
I'm pretty sure there are plenty of people in your RL circle, that would benefit more from the love you have for Parvati be directed towards them instead of a CGI illusion

It was meant to be joke but sure. Gonna make sure to give plenty love to all 4 people that i actually care.

 

[Reinhardt]

Don't take it so personally, she's not a real person.
I'm pretty sure there are plenty of people in your RL circle, that would benefit more from the love you have for Parvati be directed towards them instead of a CGI illusion

It was meant to be joke but sure. Gonna make sure to give plenty love to all 4 people that i actually care.

And Parvati is 3 of them in different playthroughs?

 

[Zboj Lamignat]

that alien porn game

The what now?

 

[Dishonoredbr]

that alien porn game

The what now?

I guess he's taking about subverse.

 

[Reinhardt]

that alien porn game

The what now?

Subverse. It's like TOW but females are not ugly. And i bet it has better writing.

 

[fantadomat]

I finished the whole game and think that it is a halfassed third of a game that didn't get finished. There is very little content,no exploration,no balance,no economy and poor writing. The whole game have to open world areas,the opening one and monarch one,after that is just tunnels and shit. A lot of the fedex quests are spread out only to pump up the timer. It is a shell of a game. The economy is also fucked hard,i never bought a thing in the whole playtrough and ended up with more than a 100,000. Leveling is also shit,it was that boring that at the end i just picked up vendor's price reduction trait...after i had 100,000. The writing is really half assed,it just shows how they were intending to make a bigger and more fleshed out game,but something happened and they wrapped it up in this garbage. Trough the whole game there is talk of the board....but in reality you never meet a member of the board. There is just some retard that plays out like just normal evil dictator. You could see everywhere that they were intending to have more people on the board but scraped that content.
I wouldn't recommend it for any reason for anyone really.

Good parts.....well the shooting is ok. Also the art direction for the levels is pretty neat,there are some great views. It is shame that the level design in itself is very bad and boring.

 

[Shadenuat]

If Solasta and that alien porn game will be shit too i will abandon rpg games. Nothing else even remotely interesting in foreseeable future. When codex said everything is shit - it was right. Unironically. Now i see the truth.

What about Colony Ship?

At this point where it comes to reactivity, my bet is basically on Colony Shep game.
Maybe Cyberpunk as well, but it's probably limited in its branching similar to W3.

I finished the whole game and think that it is a halfassed third of a game that didn't get finished. There is very little content,no exploration,no balance,no economy

Imagine rpg where you don't steal, and you end up with 6025 ammo for one gun. And also similar amount of 2 other ammo.

It's like game has legitimate cheat mode on. Absurd.

 

[Monocause]

Just finished the MQ on Monarch (so probably like 50-60% through the game?)

80%.

the trick Obsi used is that companion quests take you through multiple loading screens across planets and add around +10 hours to the game.
there are also fetch quests that do the same.

If you guys wait for New Reno, Athkatla, or Tarant of RPGs, don't worry: you wil never get it. Monarch is the biggest quest hub they managed to do. And it's not even that big.

Well that's a bummer, especially since Monarch is not a very good quest hub. Lots of filler combat, and ye gods, I really find that orange-y visual effect a strain for the eyes.

BTW - I've seen people complain about loading times. I've got the game installed on an SSD and it's really, seriously a non-issue; my GF had installed it on her HDD and I've seen they're quite bad there. SSD is very strongly recommended for TOW.

 

[fantadomat]

alien porn game

Will be an alien porn game,it can't fail lol,even the codex backed it!

 

[Shadenuat]

Well that's a bummer, especially since Monarch is not a very good quest hub. Lots of filler combat

Well now prepare for some filler fetch quests

BTW - I've seen people complain about loading times. I've got the game installed on an SSD and it's really, seriously a non-issue

Same. Loads were instant for me. Used SSD.

 

[fantadomat]

If Solasta and that alien porn game will be shit too i will abandon rpg games. Nothing else even remotely interesting in foreseeable future. When codex said everything is shit - it was right. Unironically. Now i see the truth.

What about Colony Ship?

I'm not a fan of AoD.

Doesn't mean that the colony ship will be a bad game. Also Encased looks promising.

 

[Reinhardt]

Maybe Cyberpunk as well, but it's probably limited in its branching similar to W3.

Hey, i'm talking about RPGs!

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

that alien porn game

The what now?

https://rpgcodex.net/forums/index.p...-wacky-galaxy-full-of-hot-alien-babes.126797/

 

[GentlemanCthulhu]

Guess what? I managed to bypass the character name filter by simple memory editing. I can finally name my character "Pakistani".

 

[Shadenuat]

Guess what? I managed to bypass the character name filter by simple memory editing. I can finally name my character "Pakistani".

a quest in the game to remove name filter would be something old Troika would probably included in the game.

 

[Reinhardt]

Guess what? I managed to bypass the character name filter by simple memory editing. I can finally name my character "Pakistani".

You could just name him "Asian"

 

[jf8350143]

that alien porn game

The what now?

Subverse. It's like TOW but females are not ugly. And i bet it has better writing.

An alien porn game where you can only play as a human male is the definition of opportunity wasting garbage.

 

[GentlemanCthulhu]

The problem isn't that games are infected by politics. The problem is that they're infected by shit politics.

The problem is that some devs want you to agree with their politics. It's a zero sum game without any compromise. Adopt our views or GTFO, is the idea for most of these valley girl writers.

The problem is that people want to pretend they care about politics because they want to signal their virtuosity and moral superiority via Twitter and Facebook. It's all about mindless superficial moral grandstanding. They don't really care about real-world problems. The only thing that matters is signaling the right things to their own group. That's it. Now, if we consider that cRPGs are supposed to be about systematic reactivity and deep choices, especially ones of moral nature, then it would be naive to suggest that this won't impact the quality of the quest design, writing, etc. Tough subjects are strong themes and require a strong hand, but you can't have that if your moral imperative is to parrot a sanitized image of a social justice warrior. Moreover, one of the common traits of these people is the presumption of infallibility. They don't consider the possibility that they may be wrong or that these controversial political subjects are open to interpretation. Otherwise, their pretense of moral superiority would vanish. So there is no real possibility that they would consider substantial feedback about these political blindspots with interest. If you add to that their bad work ethics they inherited from their fake pseudo-courses in women studies, copious amount of dunning kruger effect and poor direction, this is what you get. You have better technology to do cRPGs, a template to follow that has more than a decade, and yet the games are worse and worse. If Obsidian disappeared tomorrow, it would make no difference to experienced gamers.

Well said.

 

[Reinhardt]

that alien porn game

The what now?

Subverse. It's like TOW but females are not ugly. And i bet it has better writing.

A porn game with Alien where you can only play as a human male is the definition of opportunity wasting garbage.

Well, yes. That's why i didn't donated to them - no lesbians.

 

[Dishonoredbr]

A porn game with Alien where you can only play as a human male is the definition of opportunity wasting garbage.

What ? Only humans male ? Total decline.. I was hyped for some lesbian action .

 

[Reinhardt]

A porn game with Alien where you can only play as a human male is the definition of opportunity wasting garbage.

What ? Only humans male ? Total decline.. I was hyped for some lesbian action

Loverslab will fix it. At least in this case we can be pretty sure.

 

[Mortmal]

Just finished the MQ on Monarch (so probably like 50-60% through the game?)

80%.

the trick Obsi used is that companion quests take you through multiple loading screens across planets and add around +10 hours to the game.
there are also fetch quests that do the same.

If you guys wait for New Reno, Athkatla, or Tarant of RPGs, don't worry: you wil never get it. Monarch is the biggest quest hub they managed to do. And it's not even that big.

I thought big city was supposed to open up after Monarch? Byzantium or something.

It does , also since you are not there yet

Spoiler

Transmitting the message to earth , even doing it without witnesses, completely fucks up your standing with corporations, thus removing many quests in Byzance before you can complete them

.

 

[fantadomat]

LoL we are getting to the 80th page of talking about anything else but the game .