The Outer Worlds Pre-Release Thread [GO TO NEW THREAD]

[Yosharian]

Steam loads easily in offline mode if you set it to offline mode before losing your internet connection. If you do that, it won't try to update at all.

 

[Quillon]

Has anybody who is not from California play/review this game yet? Would you use the word "safe" to describe TOW?

I would use "safe" to describe PoE & PoE2 but not for sjw political shit, the devs there just don't wanna add complicated systems/quests cos they tend to be buggier; meaning a quest like Beyond the Beef(tm) would be deemed too complicated and unworthy of commitment in a Josh Sawyer game these years, I wonder how it is in a Cainarsky game tho.

 

[Dishonoredbr]

Giant Bomb thoughts about the game ( starts at 16:17):

 

[rusty_shackleford]

the vice review is a butthurt goldmine that basically boils down to
"how dare you have options! I demand a linear pro-communist story!"

 

[Kazuki]

Hmm, i'm tempted to buy this game on steam next year.

I can wait after all patch and possible dlc released.

 

[Doktor Best]

the vice review is a butthurt goldmine that basically boils down to
"how dare you have options! I demand a linear pro-communist story!"

I appreciate you taking one for the team, i personally would rather dip my testicles in sulfur acid than reading a vice article.

 

[Quillon]

This twitch play autism is still on, wow.

 

[Dishonoredbr]

This twitch play autism is still on, wow.

They're making good progress, so proud of them. I wonder if they gonna take out the energy from Edgewater or the deserters.

 

[Quillon]

This twitch play autism is still on, wow.

They're making good progress, so proud of them. I wonder if they gonna take out the energy from Edgewater or the deserters.

I just watched a few mins, they are not doing shit Parvati doing all the work.

 

[Eisenheinrich]

First german mainstream review gave it a lukewarm response with 83 %, saying the game is rather bland and uninspired, has lots of fetch quest, lacking motivation for protagonist, but good writing and side quests. Playlenght is somewhat between 20 and 30 hours. Also the game looks mediocre and the small budget is showing.

For reference, they gave the PoE games both PoE games 92 %.

Seems like Obsidian has more than one problem in their RPG department.

 

[jf8350143]

This twitch play autism is still on, wow.

They're making good progress, so proud of them. I wonder if they gonna take out the energy from Edgewater or the deserters.

I just watched a few mins, they are not doing shit Parvati doing all the work.

At least they get the spirit of a leadership bulid right.

 

[Duraframe300]

First german mainstream review gave it a lukewarm response with 83 %, saying the game is rather bland and uninspired, has lots of fetch quest, lacking motivation for protagonist, but good writing and side quests. Playlenght is somewhat between 20 and 30 hours.

Seems like Obsidian has more than one problem in their RPG department.

4Players (which imo I trust more) has it at 86.

Both critizize consequences a bit, but honestly both also only did one comprehensive run (as any early review). So, we'll see. That one review where even a small difference like talking once to a companion makes a difference to the ending has me a bit more calm on that aspect. We'll see anyway.

Also lacking motivation for the protagonist isn't an argument for me from what I've seen. Same opinion on that as on New Vegas.

 

[Quillon]

This twitch play autism is still on, wow.

They're making good progress, so proud of them. I wonder if they gonna take out the energy from Edgewater or the deserters.

Do we know what difficulty they are playing on?

I'm sick of watching people play on Normal, at least Cohh is doing a legit Supernova

I'm guessing story mode, which would allow standing around doing nothing while the companion picks the enemies up.

 

[Duraframe300]

This twitch play autism is still on, wow.

They're making good progress, so proud of them. I wonder if they gonna take out the energy from Edgewater or the deserters.

Do we know what difficulty they are playing on?

I'm sick of watching people play on Normal, at least Cohh is doing a legit Supernova

I'm guessing story mode, which would allow standing around doing nothing while the companion picks the enemies up.

They actually already have recruited Parvati! Considering they barely survived against the first marauders when I went to bed that's impressive!

 

[AW8]

First german mainstream review gave it a lukewarm response with 83 %

Was there the typical dissonance between the text and the score, or is it you who consider 83% to be lukewarm?

 

[Zboj Lamignat]

First german mainstream review gave it a lukewarm response with 83 %

Was there the typical dissonance between the text and the score, or is it you who consider 83% to be lukewarm?

Are w gonna pretend that 83% is not lukewarm by modern review "standards"?

 

[Haplo]

One of the writer for Game Radar is on r/game doing some ''AMA'' about the game. https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/dlhj87/the_outer_worlds_review_thread/f4q8wud/

His opinion about the game so far: ''Yeah. My personal score would probably be a 6 or 7, but mainly because I love the world exploration aspect of Fallout games and this doesn't have much of that at all. If they could've made a more refined combat system, similar to Fallout 4, that would've gone a long way in improving it too, but overall it's pretty good. Not my game of the year, but it has definitely scratched that first-person RPG itch for a while.''

His main problem with the game is the combat and overrall gameplay. It's janky. But he said that the writting is brillant , and probably the best part of the game. (https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/dlhj87/the_outer_worlds_review_thread/f4qk7a8/)

Hm, no open world is incline.
But combat at least on Fallout 4 level would be nice...

 

[Duraframe300]

One of the writer for Game Radar is on r/game doing some ''AMA'' about the game. https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/dlhj87/the_outer_worlds_review_thread/f4q8wud/

His opinion about the game so far: ''Yeah. My personal score would probably be a 6 or 7, but mainly because I love the world exploration aspect of Fallout games and this doesn't have much of that at all. If they could've made a more refined combat system, similar to Fallout 4, that would've gone a long way in improving it too, but overall it's pretty good. Not my game of the year, but it has definitely scratched that first-person RPG itch for a while.''

His main problem with the game is the combat and overrall gameplay. It's janky. But he said that the writting is brillant , and probably the best part of the game. (https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/dlhj87/the_outer_worlds_review_thread/f4qk7a8/)

Hm, no open world is incline.
But combat at least on Fallout 4 level would be nice...

Others have said its better than F4. And then there are different builds....

As with all FPS combat it will depend on how it feels for you. It's certainly not a game you buy because of it in any case.

 

[LizardWizard]

But combat at least on Fallout 4 level would be nice...

The shooting/melee looks at least on par with Fallout 4 and TTD is a straight upgrade from Vats.

 

[Xeon]

Yeah, I always installed a mod to change VATs into Bullet Time so I am very happy about that change.

 

[Diggfinger]

https://www.gry-online.pl/S020.asp?ID=13608 (their English site is called Gamepressure, they're the biggest gaming Polish site)

They said roughly this:


- serious story doesn't fit silly setting


Edit:
Oh, and they gave Fallout 3 9/10 so I would take their rating with a grain of salt.

Thanks, Tim

 

[Diggfinger]

Deadfire is 88 metascore from 71 reviews and we all know how that one turned out.

(But with xbox game pass 1$ deal OW at least has a chance to be played by a shitton of people).

That's because Deadfire was another great game from Obsidian

 

[Daedalos]

So what review sites are actually considered to be "objective" and "fair" in their eyes of Codex? (if any, I mean most codexers dont even agree with its own reviews XD)

 

[Duraframe300]

So what review sites are actually considered to be "objective" and "fair" in their eyes of Codex? (if any, I mean most codexers dont even agree with its own reviews XD)

NONE

statements are established over time through shitposting on the codex.

...and your own personal enjoyment.

 

[Xeon]

I kinda like reviewer from IGN, Dan Simp something. He always posts in Games subreddit and give his opinion. He seemed to like the game. Giant Bomb also seem to like the game.

But probably better to just wait for what majority of the players say.