My first playthrough was with a cutthroat merc who did it all for the money. I figured it would work well in the corporate-ruled setting. I thought it ended up kind of bland though, as the game seemed obviously more designed around a "fighting the man" paradigm. My second playthrough was as the more typical Han Solo type pirate with a heart of gold, and that felt much more rewarding and in line with the game's priorities and story. That was one of the more annoying aspects of the game for me, the limitation, but to be fair it's very hard to make all styles feel "right" and even New Vegas failed at that with a half-baked Legion questline.
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The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition - Obsidian's first-person sci-fi RPG set in a corporate space colony
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My first playthrough was with a cutthroat merc who did it all for the money. I figured it would work well in the corporate-ruled setting. I thought it ended up kind of bland though, as the game seemed obviously more designed around a "fighting the man" paradigm. My second playthrough was as the more typical Han Solo type pirate with a heart of gold, and that felt much more rewarding and in line with the game's priorities and story. That was one of the more annoying aspects of the game for me, the limitation, but to be fair it's very hard to make all styles feel "right" and even New Vegas failed at that with a half-baked Legion questline.
Heroic Liberator
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From Noah Caldwell-Gervais:
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^Conspicuous timing for that post: https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/114260-the-outer-worlds-patch-13-release-notes/
Heroic Liberator
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Well, he's somewhat of a shill, so no surprise there.
Dishonoredbr
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I still watching but so far , the tldr of this video, it's how the game lacked ambition that he hoped and how the combat-loot gameplay don't work well with the best part of game , the dialogue. He likes the naratives but points several flaws (Monarch , A/B/C scheme instead of a more open ended). Also he comments how the game being so easy hurts the replayability.
jackofshadows
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Still watching, my impression is the guy throws some valid points but basically it's all about failed expectations (as always).
IHaveHugeNick
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Holy shit do they have like one dude working on this. It's gonna be half a year from launch soon and still nothing of importance came out.
Shows you how polished the game was at least, hree major patches there's barely any fixes in.
Shows you how polished the game was at least, hree major patches there's barely any fixes in.
Close to half a year and not a single dlc, shows how successful the game was. 
fantadomat
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I have never seem a guy that manages to say so many words and end up telling you absolutely nothing of value. I watched 15ish minutes of that drivel and ended it when the guy said that the writing is good.
noah is great. i love his style and he's good people
IHaveHugeNick
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Close to half a year and not a single dlc, shows how successful the game was.
Calling it now, much like Pillars, DLCs for TOW will be much better than the base game and no one will buy them.
Close to half a year and not a single dlc, shows how successful the game was.
Calling it now, much like Pillars, DLCs for TOW will be much better than the base game and no one will buy them.
I have read the news today that Control DLC will be out at 26 March and kinda thought: "Who will need it more than a half year after realese?"
One big thing in common with TOW here - both games are Epic exclusives (probably under-performed there too) that come to Steam only a year later. Could be a pattern here.
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fantadomat
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I am amazed at his skill to talk for an hour and say nothing of value. I am a bit envious of such people. If i write a book it will 150-200 pages of to the point story,while people like him will make it in to a seven books saga and each having 1000 pages.
Why maintain a game nobody plays?
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Heroic Liberator
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Some people try to reinvent the wheel while BioWare successfully reinvents shit.
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Close to half a year and not a single dlc, shows how successful the game was.
This isn't atypical for DLC content. Dawnguard was released seven months after Skyrim.
fantadomat
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Well old biowaste did invent the wheel actually......the dialogue wheel
Well, Larian trying to invent dialogues where one side is talking and another only role-play talking, indirectly.
Almost made me appreciate the wheel. Almost.
fantadomat
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Well larian did make me appreciate the enchanted editions and beamdog shenanigans. Honestly even the dialogue wheel is better than the larian melodramatic theatre(bad one at that) like monologues. Even with the wheel you could still understand what are you going to say and did let you explore different information options.
It definitely made me appreciate first PoE and smothered my hate for Deadfire to vague dislike.
I hope I would never hit a depths of despair deep enough to appreciate TOW.
PS I've almost forgiven Beamdog long time ago, since I've got decently moddable interface, properly scaling to QHD and 4k out of their BG-milking enterprise. And I can fix their other crimes against a good taste and design with mods.
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