I'm considering buying this even though I'm pretty sure it's terrible, can someone persuade me not to buy it?
thanks
I keep staring at this thing on Steam and GOG but I honestly can not convince myself to get it after everything I have been reading about here on the Codex and other places and after what people I know told me about this game during online chats;
-The design is freaking half assed. Now using world spaces instead of a continuous world space like Bethesda has been doing its abominations is not such a problem as long as these world spaces are interesting, and they are not for many people who have been playing this. Exploration in general is not worthwhile because other than perhaps some additional pickups/items a player is not going to discover any interesting additional stuff that could take the game into a whole different direction. (like in for example Mask of the Betrayer).
And as you end up with shitloads of stuff halfway during the game even barter quickly becomes useless and unnecessary.
The design mentality into character builds, skills, equipment is not on any higher level either, the negative trait stuff sounds good on paper but does not work out that way ingame.
-The quest design is in general average. Little is asked of the player's own mental prowess or determination and drive to find less than obvious or alternative solutions. The game also guides you to play a particular type of character as doing the opposite feels barely rewarding at all, feeling more as if it was put in because people don't always want to play a goody two shoes rather than a viable alternative with a different ideological philosophical outlook.
-The writing in general is shit. Ignoring the SJW'ism/Muh social agenda that has been crawling its way in like with many games these days, the characters and quests are in general terribly written. The Board for example, the main authority who is responsible for the mess going on rather than competent and cunning is cartoonishly evil.
The game seems to be more based on an initial pitch for a game rather than a well worked out one. There is some potential and promise here and there but that is it, a basic foundation that did not get continued further.
I think the biggest problem with this game though is that it is pitched as a successor to FNV because of the developer studio's name (and because FNV was probably one of their biggest successes), something the head of the studio probably happily went along with.
Edit: as it was my birthday yesterday I had considered asking the Outer worlds as a birthday gift but I just can not make someone waste good money on getting me this game, especially when there are so many more better and more interesting things such as books.