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

[RNGsus]

So it's shit after all?

All the games are shit.

 

[Dishonoredbr]

, multiple choice in quests and C&C to get on a properly Everything is shiet level.

I would argue that the science weapons are unique enough.. They all have effects that no other weapon have.

 

[Prime Junta]

No, I'm not a writer by any standards, I'm just a random shitposter. If I'd be a competent writer with some talent, I'd go to bed at night reading the Chris Avellone Appreciation Station thread and sobbing why the codex doesn't appreciate my talents. Now I go to bed reading general and touching myself. Not that I'm complaining.

These sentences were written by a competent writer. Don't sell yourself short, this is good stuff.

 

[RNGsus]

No, I'm not a writer by any standards, I'm just a random shitposter. If I'd be a competent writer with some talent, I'd go to bed at night reading the Chris Avellone Appreciation Station thread and sobbing why the codex doesn't appreciate my talents. Now I go to bed reading general and touching myself. Not that I'm complaining.

These sentences were written by a competent writer. Don't sell yourself short, this is good stuff.

Thank you for condensing that wall of shame.

 

[Dishonoredbr]

Btw Idk if anyone posted here this but it seems like in the UK Chart TOW is top 4 currently. With Split of 78% on Ps4 and 22% on Xbone ( No digital sales, only physhical )

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/artic...of-duty-modern-warfare-sales-beat-black-ops-4

 

[Hot Coldman]

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I wouldn't be surprised seeing some lecture from Tim or Sawyer on the future claiming that streamlining C&C and multiple choice is actually a great thing like that lecture where Tim praised Fifa's player stat sheet and said how RPGs would be better streamlined.

I could see that, now that Obsidian has tried to, and entered, AAA territory.

 

[cvv]

I would say many of the quests in oblivion were creative

This shit so damn subjective. I could never get into Morrowind coz I played it after Wizards&Warrios and Wizardry 8 and it seemed so fucking banal and shit in comparison.

But five years later I played and even finished Oblivion, because that year was the very peak of RPG dark ages and there was nothing new even comparable to TES.

And then I played Fallout 3 and for the same reasons thought it was alright. Like a wank, it served a purpose.

And in about 2012 I played Skyrim and hated it. The dark ages were ending, there were the Witchers and Mass Effect and Dragon Age and Gothic 3 and New Vegas and compared to those Bethesda's new offering felt dated, dumb, with laughable writing and VO, even compared to then awkward semi-indies like CDPR and PB, let alone old Bioware.

I'm p. sure if TOW came out in 2006 we'd all lap it up and then licked Boyarsky's fingers.

 

[Hot Coldman]

I would say many of the quests in oblivion were creative

This shit so damn subjective. I could never get into Morrowind coz I played it after Wizards&Warrios and Wizardry 8 and it seemed so fucking banal and shit in comparison.

But five years later I played and even finished Oblivion, because that year was the very peak of RPG dark ages and there was nothing new even comparable to TES.

And then I played Fallout 3 and for the same reasons thought it was alright. Like a wank, it served a purpose.

And in about 2012 I played Skyrim and hated it. The dark ages were ending, there were the Witchers and Mass Effect and Dragon Age and Gothic 3 and New Vegas and compared to those Bethesda's new offering felt dated, dumb, with laughable writing and VO, even compared to then awkward semi-indies like CDPR and PB, let alone old Bioware.

I'm p. sure if TOW came out in 2006 we'd all lap it up and then licked Boyarsky's fingers.

Maybe... BUT if it came out in 2010, it would have to compete with New Vegas, and that game has proper world
building and interactivity for an open world cRPG

 

[Nano]

How did this game came to be anyway? Was the game planned by Cain who took it to Feargus? Did someone brew this game in their head for years before pre-production started? Was this game the obsession and work of love of someone? I'm gonna wager my left nutsack that Feargus and "the execs" saw an opportunity, a market, for this game and it went into pre-production with a clean slate. No one had any characters, companions, locations, anything concrete in their head before hand. So the game came to life by committee (Feargus). Thank you uncle Feargus, you'll be getting a christmas card again this season. And yes, I still have my right nutsack too, I haven't lost that in a bet yet, thank you.

It was Feargus's concept, apparently: https://rpgcodex.net/forums/index.p...go-to-new-thread.119594/page-177#post-6030796

 

[Reinhardt]

The dark ages were ending, there were the Witchers and Mass Effect and Dragon Age and Gothic 3

 

[Hot Coldman]

The dark ages were ending, there were the Witchers and Mass Effect and Dragon Age and Gothic 3

The Witcher, ME1, DA:O were great. Didn't ever play G3..

 

[Hot Coldman]

Infact Piranha Bytes games, Witcher 1 and ME1 are the only voiced MC cRPGs I could get into..

 

[Reinhardt]

This thread really go places...


Infinitron can you merge this thread with "trigger codex" one?

 

[Hot Coldman]

They are not well liked on RPG codex?

 

[MajorMace]

The Witcher, ME1, DA:O were great.

Define "great"

 

[BlackAdderBG]

The Witcher, ME1, DA:O were great.

Define "great"

Compared to nowadays they are definitely great, otherwise on the grand-scale of all RPGs I would say good.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

Can we take a pause and talk about the music? I mean, New Vegas or VTMB are hardly a consistent 10/10 GOTY from start to finish. But every once in a while you would be patrolling the Mojave, feeling kind of bored, then suddenly Jingle Jangle starts playing in the radio and you start blasting out deathclaws to the sweet sounds of swing. And you're having fun again.

I don't normally wish people ill fate, but can we all agree that Justin Bell should be flogged?

 

[MajorMace]

The Witcher, ME1, DA:O were great.

Define "great"

Compared to nowadays they are defiantly great, otherwise on the grand-scale of all RPGs I would say good.

If this was any true, you could confidently tell anyone today to go and try Dragon Age Origins.
Can you ? Do you feel you could look at someone in the eyes and tell them "hey, you should give dao a try, it's great" ?

 

[Van-d-all]

Can we take a pause and talk about the music? I mean, New Vegas or VTMB are hardly a consistent 10/10 GOTY from start to finish. But every once in a while you would be patrolling the Mojave, feeling kind of bored, then suddenly Jingle Jangle starts playing in the radio and you start blasting out deathclaws to the sweet sounds of swing. And you're having fun again.

I don't normally wish people ill fate, but can we all agree that Justin Bell should be flogged?

F:NV only had good music because they used classics. Just like F4 pretty much ripped "Atomic Platters" mix. Other games Bell worked on have virtually unmemorable music.

 

[Hot Coldman]

The Witcher, ME1, DA:O were great.

Define "great"

DA:O was a well executed 3D evolution of its genre. There is a lot of roleplaying avaible in form of dialogue.
I'm personally biased on Wticher. I love European and pagan mythology. There's not a lot of choosing what you say in The Witcher,
no number crunching either, so there's no traditional RPG value. I loved the sound, story and atmosphere, what can I say.

ME1, caveat here that I didn't say great RPG, but just "great", because it's obviously not a great RPG -
What can I say, played iit a bunch of times as a renegade because I enjoy the reactions from NPCs pissing
off the council, aliens, etc. Bit of a guilty pleasure.

 

[GentlemanCthulhu]

F:NV only had good music because they used classics. Just like F4 pretty much ripped "Atomic Platters" mix. Other games Bell worked on have virtually unmemorable music.

I think some of the ambient tracks in FNV are quite atmospheric and nice. It has a lot of tracks too.

 

[Hot Coldman]

Fine, saying ME1 was great on a site called RPGCodex even though it's bad RPG-wise was stupid. I'll own that.. and use the noob card.

 

[Reinhardt]

Fine, saying ME1 was great on a site called RPGCodex even though it's bad RPG-wise was stupid. I'll own that.. and use the noob card.

Saying ANYTHING was great was stupid if you are not talking about some old blobber.

 

[Riddler]

Can we take a pause and talk about the music? I mean, New Vegas or VTMB are hardly a consistent 10/10 GOTY from start to finish. But every once in a while you would be patrolling the Mojave, feeling kind of bored, then suddenly Jingle Jangle starts playing in the radio and you start blasting out deathclaws to the sweet sounds of swing. And you're having fun again.

I don't normally wish people ill fate, but can we all agree that Justin Bell should be flogged?

When the fuck are they going to start contracting real fucking composers instead than using their in-house glorified audio tech? How is this allowed to stand?!

 

[BlackAdderBG]

Fine, saying ME1 was great on a site called RPGCodex even though it's bad RPG-wise was stupid. I'll own that.. and use the noob card.

From the 3 games you pointed, ME1 is the worst and closest to not been RPG at all. With so much pure garbage we got last 5 years even getting actual Roleplaying games and not some larping TPS/FPS elevates them to the status of good.