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

[LudensCogitet]

It is hard to trust his judgement when the first thing he says is

The Outer Worlds is the game you get when the original Fallout and Deus Ex have a baby.

Followed immediately by calling it a damn good game and comparing its story to Witcher 2.
This guy does what I've seen everywhere: says words that make the game sound like exactly what it should be (at least at the beginning of the review) but have nothing to do with the substance of the game itself.

 

[Quillon]

Rewatched the beginning again, guess I really tuned in around when he was talking about game length, now that I see he parroted good shit about the game like most others at the beginning but from there on he echoes what we've been complaining about for 20 mins. Tho structurally the comparisons ain't so wrong(other than Witcher 2, wtf), what's strange is he compares the games etc then says the game is so much fun but when he starts to talk about the game you don't get the idea that he had much fun. Seen this in Angry Joe's review also; their review talk sounded like for a game they'd normally give 6/10 but in the end they all gave it 8s.

 

[PorkyThePaladin]

I think it gets harder to play mediocre games after you become an oldfag. Decades ago, I might have toiled through Outer Worlds, in the same spirit of meh as Ass Effect, Dragon Ass: Obgyn, or Pooplivion, but now I just don't care. It's harder to get into these things unless they offer something interesting, be it just one thing really well done (say writing in Disco Disco or survival/basebuilding in 7 Days to Die).

 

[fantadomat]

I think it gets harder to play mediocre games after you become an oldfag. Decades ago, I might have toiled through Outer Worlds, in the same spirit of meh as Ass Effect, Dragon Ass: Obgyn, or Pooplivion, but now I just don't care. It's harder to get into these things unless they offer something interesting, be it just one thing really well done (say writing in Disco Disco or survival/basebuilding in 7 Days to Die).

I kind of disagree,i don't have problem with mediocre games,as long as they have something unique and interesting,now i am plying Planet Alcatraz and am having a blast. I also managed to play trough mediocre shit like mad max and rage 2. But this one just boring and fucking soulless,fuck i did the dishes in mid dialogue lol. It feels like an empty conveyor belt,corporate shit can.

 

[Cerulean]

I'll never understand YouTubers like the above, who seriously need to learn how to edit. 1 hour and 37 minutes? There are movies shorter than that.

 

[Infinitron]

The Outer Worlds won IGN's Best RPG of 2019: https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/12/10/best-rpgs-2019



Also, "People's Choice" for Best Story: https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/12/10/best-game-story-2019

And Parvati is Best Voice Actor: https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/12/10/best-game-actor-actress-2019

 

[Wunderbar]

Also, "People's Choice" for Best Story: https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/12/10/best-game-story-2019

should've been Disco.

 

[Roguey]

should've been Disco.

When it comes to popularity contests, the one with the most players win.

 

[Daidre]

When it comes to popularity contests, the one with the most players win.

Never thought I would see the day when Obsidian's game wins popularity contest.

Thanks to console players.

 

[fantadomat]

The Outer Worlds won IGN's Best RPG of 2019:

And that should be a surprise to nobody. Who the fuck would expect something else? They are pretty obsolete at this point,going the way of the mechinema. 12 million subs yet getting around 100k for their more popular videos,only trailer make big view counts,but i don't know if they have ads.

 

[thesheeep]

but i don't know if they have adds.

A significant part of their target audience probably does have ADD...

 

[fantadomat]

but i don't know if they have adds.

A significant part of their target audience probably does have ADD...

I do have one,it is called adblock

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

I think it gets harder to play mediocre games after you become an oldfag. Decades ago, I might have toiled through Outer Worlds, in the same spirit of meh as Ass Effect, Dragon Ass: Obgyn, or Pooplivion, but now I just don't care. It's harder to get into these things unless they offer something interesting, be it just one thing really well done (say writing in Disco Disco or survival/basebuilding in 7 Days to Die).

most of self-respecting human beings once they taste good food don't want to go back eating shit.

should've been Disco.

When it comes to popularity contests, the one with the most players win.

if american teen movies taught me anything, is that you can be as beautiful and caring and kind and smart as you want, but the queen is going to be that angry cunt who spent the last month bribing and selling her ass for votes.

 

[PorkyThePaladin]

I was in a Best Buy recently, looking to buy some electronics, and they had Outer Worlds playing on their TVs. And that, my friends, is how you know Obsidian is officially dead.

 

[frajaq]

I miss when games had good writing bros...

 

[Sailor Woedica]

"We have our own chocolate variant called CCN 76" in The Outer Worlds, Cain says. "Right before we certed the base game, I caught my lead designer—he tried to sneak in 'Tim Cain's White Chocolate Yummies' and I found it, because it was a piece of text."

Back to the Easter Egg."So I found the thing and I deleted it all. Unbeknownst to me, and I discovered this after we certed, he went to an artist and had them write that into the art. So you can't search for it and it's on a character that you were highly unlikely to kill. But he didn't know I was playing a game where I was killing everybody, because I wanted to make sure you could do that and it's fun. I killed that person and [saw it] and then I went to his office but it was too late, we had already certed. So it's in the game."

Ok I finally finished the game and my biggest problem is I really don't know why Tim Cain would think the white chocolate is hidden on a character you were so unlikely to kill? I mean it's

Spoiler

on Chairman Rockwell

who I immediately killed with a tossball stick after talking with him! Anway it was a really fun game!

 

[DalekFlay]

I think it gets harder to play mediocre games after you become an oldfag. Decades ago, I might have toiled through Outer Worlds, in the same spirit of meh as Ass Effect, Dragon Ass: Obgyn, or Pooplivion, but now I just don't care. It's harder to get into these things unless they offer something interesting, be it just one thing really well done (say writing in Disco Disco or survival/basebuilding in 7 Days to Die).

I think this is very true in general. Less free time, more old stuff you want to replay, less patience with mediocrity. In Outer Worlds' case though, I love sci-fi and first-person exploration enough to have enjoyed playing it despite the mediocrity. In another cases though, like Red Dead 2 or Wolfenstein Young Blood, where it's much less "my thing," I bounce off them pretty quickly.

 

[toro]

but i don't know if they have adds.

A significant part of their target audience probably does have ADD...

And the other part of their target audience probably does have SUB.

 

[HarveyBirdman]

I miss when games had good writing bros...

What an anticlimactic speech victory.
>You can't hold the west and the east
Who the fuck cares? The east is nothing but desert. And the Legate is a legate... surely he considered this military tactics 101 situation.

This is why Speech is almost always unbelievably stupid. Pure silver-tongued persuasion is but one weapon in a negotiator's arsenal.
You can't persuade a hyper-rationale negotiator without introducing new data. You needed to negotiate from a position of strength, and not from a position of "cadet's first day of class." A good [100] Speech option would require you collect the data necessary to change the legate's mind, and then allow you to present it persuasively.

 

[PorkyThePaladin]

This is why Speech is almost always unbelievably stupid. Pure silver-tongued persuasion is but one weapon in a negotiator's arsenal.
You can't persuade a hyper-rationale negotiator without introducing new data. You needed to negotiate from a position of strength, and not from a position of "cadet's first day of class." A good [100] Speech option would require you collect the data necessary to change the legate's mind, and then allow you to present it persuasively.

I always felt like RPGs should make speech into a gameplay element like combat or exploration, by introducing intelligence gathering and analysis elements into it. For instance, you would be able to ask NPCs about other NPCs, and from their replies, put together an image of a particular NPC (what they like, what they hate, their strong and weak points, beliefs, past). Using this image, you would be able to select more appropriate dialogue options and "manipulate" them better. Or, as you are saying above, collect enough information from the world in one way or another to create some logical construct that would convince an NPC to do something. Basically make speech into gameplay instead of simple skill checks or a guessing game.

 

[Vorark]

I always felt like RPGs should make speech into a gameplay element like combat or exploration, by introducing intelligence gathering and analysis elements into it.

Reminds me of a NWN2 sidequest in which you analyzed a contract some dude made with a demon and you had to find a loophole to void it. You interviewed all interested parties and then read the contract itself to find clues. Unfortunately there was no failed state since you could brute force the solution, ie. choose all availale dialogue options until only the correct one remained.

 

[Riddler]

When it comes to popularity contests, the one with the most players win.

Never thought I would see the day when Obsidian's game wins popularity contest.

Thanks to console players.

All console players should be shot. Their vile presence defiles us all.

 

[Quillon]

Spoiler

 

[Sailor Woedica]

 

[santino27]

The Outer Worlds won IGN's Best RPG of 2019: https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/12/10/best-rpgs-2019



Also, "People's Choice" for Best Story: https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/12/10/best-game-story-2019

And Parvati is Best Voice Actor: https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/12/10/best-game-actor-actress-2019

What an indictment of 2019, and people in general.