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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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The Outer Worlds is just a side project and it shows.

A side project to what? This was the only big thing they were making at the time. Like calling Alpha Protocol a side project.
A side project to losing weight or planting a new garden at home maybe. I dunno.
 

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Strap Yourselves In
Fallout 4 is actually alright if you have the mod that lets you choose any of a bunch of varied starts, and you can pick up the MQ at your leisure, or not at all. Bethesda games are great for just noodling around, that's their strength. They have enough curious little side-quests dotted around to entertain you. There's definitely an element of emergent gameplay in Bethesda games too (often "out of the frying pan into the fire" types of situations) that keeps them fresh, if you just wander around without any particular goal in mind.

I wouldn't say TOW is much like it, TOW's world is even more cramped than Fallout 4, which is on the limit of allowable crampedness, and you can sort of wander around aimlessly in it; not so in TOW, everything is a theme park ride, all jammed together.
 

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The constant "corporations are bad mmkay" commentary in every single quest, lore tidbit, and piece of dialogue definitely started to wear its welcome out after a while. It's one thing to have some meta commentary in the setting, but I guess dangerhairs couldn't keep it subtle and had to slam you over the head with the crowbar of the theme constantly. Commies gonna commie.
At this point it's full blown clowns-in-clown-world. All this social justice commie crap IS global corporate sloganeering designed for ruling through, at least partially, division. A game about evil corporate rule written by people who have their faces buried deep in the asshole of Earth's trans-national, corporate, ruling powers.
 
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Still better than those Todd's creations, How are called them? Fallout 47, Fallout 74 I don't remember. Sheeeeiiiit.
Much worse overall. The only thing it did better was NPC reactivity to the player.
It's really hard to rank Outer Worlds because I disliked it so much. It's not one of those "so bad it's good in a funny way" or "pretty bad but has some redeeming qualities", it's just terrible mediocrity with some parts worse than others and nothing standing out.
Maybe the real metacommentary was that a game as shitty as Outerworlds would be well received by game journos just because they put an anticapitalist message in it.
 

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The constant "corporations are bad mmkay" commentary in every single quest, lore tidbit, and piece of dialogue definitely started to wear its welcome out after a while. It's one thing to have some meta commentary in the setting, but I guess dangerhairs couldn't keep it subtle and had to slam you over the head with the crowbar of the theme constantly. Commies gonna commie.
At this point it's full blown clowns-in-clown-world. All this social justice commie crap IS global corporate sloganeering designed for ruling through, at least partially, division. A game about evil corporate rule written by people who have their faces buried deep in the asshole of Earth's trans-national, corporate, ruling powers.


Um, excuse me, ACKSHUALLY I'll have you know that the developers cleverly and deftly addressed these issues. Even when corporate interests affect the platforms that their games ship on.

Observe.

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A bit of a pickle for the development team, to be sure.

But not so fast, you angry keyboard warriors.

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And there you have it!
 

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So... they made a game to preach 'corporations bad' but then immediatly sold out to Microsoft.

And now, because Microsoft's exclusivity, they're making a sequel that has nothing to do with the original game to avoid upsetting PS fanboys.

What a disgusting developer they have become.
 
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So... they made a game to preach 'corporations bad' but then immediatly sold out to Microsoft.

And now, because Microsoft's exclusivity, they're making a sequel that has nothing to do with the original game to avoid upsetting PS fanboys.

What a disgusting developer they have become.
Microsoft acquired Obsidian, why are smooth brains shocked Obsidian games are not being published on MS's direct competition?
 

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So... they made a game to preach 'corporations bad' but then immediatly sold out to Microsoft.

And now, because Microsoft's exclusivity, they're making a sequel that has nothing to do with the original game to avoid upsetting PS fanboys.

What a disgusting developer they have become.
Microsoft acquired Obsidian, why are smooth brains shocked Obsidian games are not being published on MS's direct competition?

No idea, is anybody shocked about it?
 
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So... they made a game to preach 'corporations bad' but then immediatly sold out to Microsoft.

And now, because Microsoft's exclusivity, they're making a sequel that has nothing to do with the original game to avoid upsetting PS fanboys.

What a disgusting developer they have become.
Microsoft acquired Obsidian, why are smooth brains shocked Obsidian games are not being published on MS's direct competition?
console fanboys are insane
 

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And there you have it!
I was specifically addressing the SocJus crap being the ultimate modern global corporate grift. I don't care much about the business dealings angle because that's how shit be. Also, it's fine because the TOW1 was self contained. I find the Mass Effect argument interdasting because that series showed us exactly why you DON'T try to make a multi-game story.
https://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=28475
TL: DR - Drew was moved to the cash cow TOR and wasn't head writer for ME2, so all of his threads were dropped.

Now what does concern me is, especially considering the Activision deal, Sony's demise. I personally wasn't planning on a PS5 as I just bought a juggernaut PC and GT7 should be fine on my Pro, but without competition the game industry could get even worse, if that's possible. Oh well, I've got an overflowing GOG library and my 3070 is just itching for some Icewind Dale 2, though I heard some things about arrows not appearing correctly on modern GPUs running the IE.
 

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Much worse overall. The only thing it did better was NPC reactivity to the player.
It's really hard to rank Outer Worlds because I disliked it so much. It's not one of those "so bad it's good in a funny way" or "pretty bad but has some redeeming qualities", it's just terrible mediocrity with some parts worse than others and nothing standing out.

This nails it. TOW is the game equivalent of colourless, flavourless pablum mush that you try and cram back to find some redeeming sustenance in it only to find that you can't stomach it for long at all.



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Wow, she has a lot of free real estate available. She should rent out her forehead as a parking lot.
 
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Amusing, had this come up on youtube after I finished a video. Decided to watch it & read the comments to get some normie opinions as it's recent(Feb 25, 2022) and has a lot of views.


tl;dw: Outerworlds seems to be considered painfully mediocre by normies.

All I remember from this game is being super angry and disappointed that the biggest decision at the endgame was "Be a horrible piece of shit and side with the corporations or be the hero". Truly a thought-provoking and difficult choice, thank you Outer Worlds
heh
 
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Decided to watch it & read the comments to get some normie opinions as it's recent

I don't think Salt Factory is "normie" though as his opinions (haven't watched this video but i have watched a few others at the past) is much closer to what you'd find here than in, say, /r/gaming :-P
 

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