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

[Delterius]

Sawyer plays Skyrim and banal brothers in his free time, Patel writers books set in dystopian fantasy with murder mystery and politics.

Given that Tim confirmed Sawyer is just the Team Autist, this ensures The Outer Worlds is going to be nothing but INCLINE.

 

[Terenty]

This explains a lot.I now realize why the female characters look like dykes.

The artists draw what they see.

Is it she/her or he/him?

 

[FeelTheRads]

It's soy/soya.

 

[Oracsbox]

I want my sci fi ladies to look like this ! Is it so much to ask ?

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[Terenty]

I want my sci fi ladies to look like this ! Is it so much to ask ?

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Why?
Whats wrong with that?

Spoiler

 

[Butter]

Patel would shoot up from a 3 to a 6 if she just got rid of the dyke haircut.

 

[Fairfax]

Megan Starks is very capable.

Here is a detailed list of everything she’s been responsible for:

http://www.fictivate.com/game-design.html

She’s no Avellone, but judging Starks soley based on Xoti and Kills-in-Shadow would be like judging MCA solely based on Neeshka, or whoever your least favorite NWN2 companions happen to be.

I like the effort she put into that list (wish more devs did the same), but I'm not sure the list itself helps your argument. I don't recognize most of the names, but there are bad examples besides Xoti and Kills-in-Shadow, like Bleden Mark, Obsidian's own Kai Leng. To be fair, some of the blame goes to her superiors. For instance, Xoti's anachronistic lines suggest a lack of a style guide, and they only exist because the Lead Narrative Designer (Sawyer) either missed or approved them. Hopefully Boyarsky will do a better job.

Also, I don't think the Neeshka example is relevant here. MCA inherited the NWN2 companions from Ferret Baudoin and had to write all of them in a few weeks. I'm sure that wasn't the case with all of Starks' characters.

 

[Oracsbox]

I want my sci fi ladies to look like this ! Is it so much to ask ?

Spoiler

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Why?
Whats wrong with that?

Spoiler

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

I don't know if the game will be good, but memes it spawned are fucking glorious.

 

[bzt]

apparently they won't support mods

 

[Roguey]

However Patel and Starks aren't responsible for that. Sawyer plays Skyrim and banal brothers in his free time, Patel writers books set in dystopian fantasy with murder mystery and politics.

Whoa, that first one's not Starks, it's Dini McMurry.

Anyway I downloaded a sample of Patel's first book earlier and I plan to read it and comment on it later.

 

[Major_Blackhart]

Wow. Take some time off from posting and this is what happens. Ok, could be interesting overall.
Got hopes for the game actually, so I'm willing to see what happens.

 

[Abu Antar]

People think this will be any good, I can't believe it.

Disappointment is helluva drug. I can’t live without it.

 

[imweasel]

Anyway I downloaded a sample of Patel's first book earlier and I plan to read it and comment on it later.

Make a thread. I will enjoy reading the Roguey comments.

 

[Quillon]

so per usual, no essential NPC.

New vegas has yes man. Everything else is killable.

Take note, beth turd

This game's yes man could be ADA, ship's AI.

 

[Oracsbox]

I want my sci fi ladies to look like this ! Is it so much to ask ?

Spoiler

why add spoiler tags ?
I deliberately pick non nude pictures there's nothing offensive about these women(far from it)

 

[Roguey]

Anyway I downloaded a sample of Patel's first book earlier and I plan to read it and comment on it later.

Make a thread. I will enjoy reading the Roguey comments.

And done. And FFS people, it's not piracy to download free samples from Amazon.

It's lousy. She's really big on disgusting details.

In a firelit study half a mile underground, Professor Werner Thomas Cahill sweated and reddened under a councilor’s beady stare.

“It’s a wonder,” Cahill said, “bigger than we ever expected.” His hands rested, palms down, on the massive cherry wood desk in front of him, and he licked his lips, searching for words to convey scale. Towering walls crowded around him and disappeared in the darkness above. He felt like a rodent in a viper pit.

The owner of the desk drummed long, slender fingers across it, and Cahill marveled at how clean it was. A councilor of his standing should have a lot more clutter.

The words came out like the first sigh of snow in the autumn air, unexpected and chilling.

The premise of the setting is that a cataclysm drove everyone underground and back to LARPing Victorian-era England. Steampunk without the steam, just as obnoxious. Considering how it's so boring and obnoxious, I have no interest in buying/reading further.

 

[Riddler]

I want my sci fi ladies to look like this ! Is it so much to ask ?

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why add spoiler tags ?
I deliberately pick non nude pictures there's nothing offensive about these women(far from it)

To not clog up the thread like barbarian?

 

[Oracsbox]

I want my sci fi ladies to look like this ! Is it so much to ask ?

Spoiler

why add spoiler tags ?
I deliberately pick non nude pictures there's nothing offensive about these women(far from it)

To not clog up the thread like barbarian?

I'd gathered
However I'd rather the occasional lovely photo than the boring nonsensical utter bollocks of text I've come across here.

 

[PanteraNera]

why add spoiler tags ?
I deliberately pick non nude pictures there's nothing offensive about these women(far from it)

Slow down there Space Cowboy, you have posted non-approved Space Girl's in this thread.
Non-approved by whom you may ask?
Easy Pal this is Spacer's Choice territory.

 

[Roguey]

Megan Starks is very capable.

Here is a detailed list of everything she’s been responsible for:

http://www.fictivate.com/game-design.html

She’s no Avellone, but judging Starks soley based on Xoti and Kills-in-Shadow would be like judging MCA solely based on Neeshka, or whoever your least favorite NWN2 companions happen to be.

Furthermore

She dreamed of Shade.

He was younger and so different from how she knew him, all smiles with bright, big eyes and white teeth. His thick brown hair ruffled in the breeze, and lush summer grass whipped against his ankles where he stood higher up on the slope of a hill.

“Now you’ve gotten it in your hair,” he laughed at her, and looking down at herself, she saw that he was right. Grass clippings clung to her bare legs, littered the front of her sundress, and had clumped in the billowing ends of her long, mousy-blond hair. She was a dirty, disheveled child and delighted with herself for having just rolled down a very bumpy hill.

She beamed up at him.

In the distance, a wind chime clattered its soft song, a sound like pearls hitting bamboo.

“I want to make shadows!” She lunged for him, full-bodied and shrieking as he caught her in the air. They collided like two planets pulled by gravity. It felt like a heavy thing. But he took the brunt her weight, stood against her without toppling. His arms were sinewy but strong. Though they were children, he was nearly four years older. “Can we chase the sun?” she pleaded. “Can we, before it’s gone?”

He bowed his head. He sighed. He bent around her, shoulders flexing. His wings unfurled like the sound of a thick sail cracking. They spread impossibly wide, dark and leathery, but full of blood and life.

Wind whooshed around them but it was no cool relief. The breeze was hot, a sigh of summer.

They were close to taking off.

His lips touched her ear. “Gigi, you are the sun,” he teased.

With a push, they were in the air. Shade’s wings beat the rhythm of their ascent. And the wind chime clattered gently in the distance.

 

[Kitchen Utensil]

Jesus Christ, lol.

 

[Oracsbox]

Megan Starks is very capable.

Here is a detailed list of everything she’s been responsible for:

http://www.fictivate.com/game-design.html

She’s no Avellone, but judging Starks soley based on Xoti and Kills-in-Shadow would be like judging MCA solely based on Neeshka, or whoever your least favorite NWN2 companions happen to be.

Furthermore

In the distance, a wind chime clattered its soft song, a sound like pearls hitting bamboo.

what an odd thing to write,wtf does pearls hitting bamboo sound like ?
The whole thing was one step away from Barbara fucking Cartland.

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For those of you who don't know Barbara Cartland (the worst writer in history) these pics may help to form an impression of her

 

[RK47]

I pictured that passage as an anime and it flowed better.

 

[Fairfax]

It's lousy. She's really big on disgusting details.

The premise of the setting is that a cataclysm drove everyone underground and back to LARPing Victorian-era England. Steampunk without the steam, just as obnoxious. Considering how it's so boring and obnoxious, I have no interest in buying/reading further.

Is that "The Buried Life"? That was the one MCA liked.