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

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Warned the game is small scale, didn't warn how bland it is (except indirectly by their gameplay videos), it's finished in ~30 h, and they still cut content.

Much ado over nothing.

 

[JDR13]

I'm 15+ hours in, and I'm only in the third area.

 

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~30 h on average

 

[Riddler]

How does one stretch this out to 30h? I finished in 21 and had done practically every quest.

Do people not use the sprint button?

 

[Quillon]

she was wrote by Chris l'etoile.

Saw this on reddit also, strange Patel only gave credit to Dollarhyde for Parvati.

GDC stream last night reminded me of this. Guess Chris wrote Edgewater Parvati and Kate D continued with asexual Parvati, so her long lost mom is forgotten as soon as we left Edgewater.

 

[hexer]

So is this a game of "let's all pretend that we don't play this game"?

You didn't get the memo? The more you hate on Obsidian, the cooler you are.

Yeah, it has nothing to do with Obsidian producing one turd after another.

And people ask me why I sometimes play JRPGs..

 

[1451]

At least in jrpgs characters have actual skills and spells. Here you control a baboon running around with a hammer. Want some engaging fights, hold right click to block(you can't block projectiles, that would be unrealistic in a game about women in positions of power) and left click to smack big lizards.
Truly we have before us the Ass Effect of this generation.

 

[jaydee2k]

That uncentered crosshair made me instaquit. yikes

 

[vortex]

If you switch sci-fi for fantasy, you get the same deal. I'm loosing hope for Pillars 3. :despair

There is a kind of fantasy right now that I feel is best exemplified by J. Rowling. It’s this portrayal of a fantasy where there is not just a male, white, cisgender future for our society. It is a spectrum of colors, a spectrum of experiences, the spectrum of languages, a spectrum of sexual identification, and of sexuality. How important was it for you as a writer to really look at the spectrum of human experience and project it forward into the future of fantasy?

It was hugely important and I honestly wish we could do more of it if we had more time. I’d write a million more words of unique people living their lives. Maybe in future projects I’ll get a chance to do that. But it’s not just representing a hopeful world, or a world that we want to see. It’s, from my point of view, representing the world as it currently is. There are women in positions of power. There are people of color doing all kinds of jobs. There are queer people in every corner and class of the world. And so I want the world of the fantasy to reflect the world of the now. And that means reflecting our current reality.

Every mention of diversity, sexuality in games shrinks immersion. Writers just can't get that. Why?

 

[Lacrymas]

Except when there are pretty ladies to be saved and then thank the male hero with sex of course. It's very funny to me how SJWs have been saying the constant depictions of blacks as primitive, women as duplicitous and cunning, gay men as evil or perverse and etc is ...not ideal, and that's obviously ok for some people, but when straight men are overwhelmingly depicted as inept underlings, suddenly we need social justice for men in fiction.

 

[A_boring_GOG_bot]

An Obsidian game ?

*Season Pass confirmed "

 

[Daidre]

Every mention of diversity, sexuality in games shrinks immersion. Writers just can't get that. Why?

There is something really wrong with this claim and a picture - diversity and sexiness in media are almost at odds right now.

In fact, TOW is so prudish, that I half expected to find factory that produces grown-up, dumb and obedient colonist with suppressed reproduction instinct as cool secret deep into plot. Beside the boy who was hitting on Parvati (failed totally) and her perfect lesbian mommy, I am yet to encounter any NPC who looked or acted as couple, ~8 hours into game.

 

[Yosharian]

Except when there are pretty ladies to be saved and then thank the male hero with sex of course. It's very funny to me how SJWs have been saying the constant depictions of blacks as primitive, women as duplicitous and cunning, gay men as evil or perverse and etc is ...not ideal, and that's obviously ok for some people, but when straight men are overwhelmingly depicted as inept underlings, suddenly we need social justice for men in fiction.

'Not ideal'? That's how you frame what they're saying?

Is anyone actually saying that we need social justice for men?

You're being terribly disingenuous here. You're doing the thing where people say, for example, "All Anita Sarkeesian said was that maybe we should have better female characters..." when actually the principal problems people had with her was all the other stuff she said.

 

[cvv]

i dont mind all the male looking female

Because you are one.

 

[vortex]

Except when there are pretty ladies to be saved and then thank the male hero with sex of course. It's very funny to me how SJWs have been saying the constant depictions of blacks as primitive, women as duplicitous and cunning, gay men as evil or perverse and etc is ...not ideal, and that's obviously ok for some people, but when straight men are overwhelmingly depicted as inept underlings, suddenly we need social justice for men in fiction.

All of this is just filler content in thrilling and swashbuckling adventure. Look at Lord of the Rings.
Every romance in there, you just want to be over with so you get to the most interesting part and that is sense of adventurous, frightening and wondrous quest.
Today,
sexuality, diversity, SJW-ism is filler and cringefest content for social media.

 

[Lacrymas]

'Not ideal'? That's how you frame what they're saying?

Is anyone actually saying that we need social justice for men?

The ones which aren't insane, yes. This is in the context of fiction. What do you think making lists about how men in this game (and in PoE2 for some reason) are overwhelmingly depicted as inept, subservient to women, weak, bad, in the background etc. tries to achieve? It's not simply stating that that's how it is and c'est la vie, let's move on to other stuff. There's obviously some animosity going on and someone not being happy about something.

 

[Lambach]

Another blunder from obshitian.

Hardly a blunder, I see all the normies disappointed in Bethesda are eating this shit up with a shovel, and that's a pretty large market. Hard to tell without specific numbers, but it looks like Obsidian have done what they set out to do.

 

[Deleted Member 22431]

In fact, TOW is so prudish, that I half expected to find factory that produces grown-up, dumb and obedient colonist with suppressed reproduction instinct as cool secret deep into plot.

Reactionaries, pay attention. For all your complaints against the degeneracy of modern gaming, the SJW fanaticism is doing a great job of reestablishing outdated morals.

 

[Deleted Member 22431]

it's just a fact that the writing is mediocre at best.

You could say the same about Fallout 1.

No, you can't. You think you can because you are confused. You are doing a poor analysis. FO was bigger than the sum of its parts, it was an inspired and innovative game, and it was ahead of its time. It had charm and pace. You don't judge cRPG writing by the level of the written prose in comparison to novels, as if the writing were dissociated from the gameplay. Good cRPG writing is always tied to elegant game design.

 

[Deleted Member 22431]

Except when there are pretty ladies to be saved and then thank the male hero with sex of course. It's very funny to me how SJWs have been saying the constant depictions of blacks as primitive, women as duplicitous and cunning, gay men as evil or perverse and etc is ...not ideal, and that's obviously ok for some people, but when straight men are overwhelmingly depicted as inept underlings, suddenly we need social justice for men in fiction.

You don't understand. This is a product made for a male audience that likes these tropes, not for some small minority that is irrelevant in sales numbers. It is an insult that we should play games with quests and tasks that reflect the interests of people that have nothing to do with us. This is not a matter of social justice. It is a matter of coherence and productivity. On the other hand, if people here don't enjoy this proselytism, don't buy their games. It is stupid to complain about Obsidian and then buy their next game. It is that simple.

 

[v1rus]

Got in the game, its cool so far.

Have no idea how that inhaler slot thing works, or what to do companion commands do, and the game doesnt seem to have an explanation for it in the codex. But, eh.

Now, does anyone have a quest list per zones?

 

[cvv]

I actually think that Codex, as well as most of the anti-SJW groups, often end up getting into too much paranoia about games, movies, or whatever product is being discussed at the moment.

That said... Now that I've finished the game, in retrospect, I can see how there is a lot of "weird" stuff in it.

You and some others ITT are like Parvati in the game. You're happily skipping across the dystopian landscape, picking flowers and merrily singing along, completely oblivious to the ambient reality. All the scowling people around you are just grumpies, grouchies and sourpusses.
But sloooooowly, it starts dawning on you something might be wrong after all.

Better late then never tho, unlike some others ITT.

 

[Daidre]

Today,
sexuality, diversity, SJW-ism is filler and cringefest content for social media.

Hm, in my logic video-games = entertainment != social media.

So diversity and SJW-ism are somehow belong in some social media aimed at particular audience, but...

Please, please, I beg you, leave it out of my SP games.

 

[Infinitron]

Got in the game, its cool so far.

Have no idea how that inhaler slot thing works, or what to do companion commands do, and the game doesnt seem to have an explanation for it in the codex. But, eh.

The inhaler mechanic doesn't come into play until you unlock more slots. You can put any consumable in them and when you press F it activates them all at once. But until you unlock the slots it's just for healing.

Companion commands - Z to move a companion to a particular place (they'll shoot at enemies that come close but stay in place), X to direct them to attack a particular enemy. Hold Z for a second to cancel previous orders.

 

[Deleted Member 22431]

What's wrong with an asexual character? It hasn't been done much, I welcome diversity and characters that aren't the usual knock-offs we always get. Deal with it.

Need more tags.

Look, if this game becomes a best seller and Obsidian is set, and it means we get more games like Tyranny, I'm good with it. I really want the best for these guys.

Why?