The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition - Obsidian's first-person sci-fi RPG set in a corporate space colony

[fantadomat]

I'm playing this and... wow!

I know some people here said the writing was bad, but...

I'm currently at that scene where Parvati confesses you her love with some mechanic chick and wants to get drunk while asking for your relationship advice.
Just as a reminder, she knows you for ~1-2 days at that point
In addition to the absurdity of the situation of why anyone would even bother you with that stuff after knowing you for a few hours, all of her lines are just written so... horribly.
The hamfistedness with which they write about asexuality is just

And that's just one scene - the rest of the game is not that much better. Everything falls apart as soon as you stop to think about it for a second.
All of this quite honestly fits in the "so bad it is unintentionally funny" category, like some b-movie that thinks it's actually good.
I'm having a blast with it - definitely not for the reasons the developers intended, but I'm not regretting my purchase. Laughing my ass off here.

Watch out mate,the game is pretty dangerous later on. Once i fell asleep in mid combat and ended up with a bump on me head because i slammed that desk hard.

 

[Gordian Nutt]

I already figured this out, it was Omar https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads...il-on-gorgon-dlc.130421/page-253#post-6891681

Did he do concept art for them too?

I thought character modeler and character concepter were different things - if he did both, then yes, good thing he is gone

Also - art lead approved them, so art lead deserves some blame?

 

[DalekFlay]

Watch out mate,the game is pretty dangerous later on. Once i fell asleep in mid combat and ended up with a bump on me head because i slammed that desk hard.

Some cringe California dialog and short haired ladies aside, complete lack of any challenge whatsoever is the game's main problem. Not even just combat challenge, but challenge at doing anything.

 

[Bad Sector]

I'm currently at that scene where Parvati confesses you her love with some mechanic chick and wants to get drunk while asking for your relationship advice.
Just as a reminder, she knows you for ~1-2 days at that point

This is internally consistent in the game though: she only knows Junlei for only the few hours you are on the Groundbreaker :-P.

 

[DalekFlay]

Not defending that super awkward questline, but she says they've been emailing a lot between when they met and when you do the quest. Asexual date night is still ridiculous though.

 

[The Dutch Ghost]

What does asexuality mean anyway?

You want to be close to someone but not have a relation that may involve sex or is not based on a preference on a certain gender?
So basically you just really want to be good friends with someone?

 

[fantadomat]

What does asexuality mean anyway?

You want to be close to someone but not have a relation that may involve sex or is not based on a preference on a certain gender?
So basically you just really want to be good friends with someone?

No interest in sex.

 

[RepHope]

What does asexuality mean anyway?

You want to be close to someone but not have a relation that may involve sex or is not based on a preference on a certain gender?
So basically you just really want to be good friends with someone?

You want some cuck to take care of you without having to give them anything in return. The end game of modern feminism.

 

[Kazuki]

Asexual doesn't exist, to consider it as sexual orientation is ridicilous.

They may have low or lack interest of sexual activity. But that doesn't mean it happen all of time to consider it as sexual orientation.

 

[Butter]

Asexual is basically just antifa: creepy, low T men and fat hags.

 

[Ol' Willy]

What does asexuality mean anyway?

Natural asexuality is extremely rare, but obtained asexuality is one of the symptoms of being high up to the eyeballs on heavy tranquilizers, antidepressants and sedatives. Make your conclusion.

 

[Bad Sector]

Not defending that super awkward questline, but she says they've been emailing a lot between when they met and when you do the quest.

You can send a lot of emails in a few minutes :-P. And i have a feeling that the word "email" there was used like you see it in Japanese media where they use it like IM/SMS from their phones.

But yes, time works in weird ways in RPGs where the world moves at your pace. That is the same with how long she knows you, however.

 

[thesheeep]

What does asexuality mean anyway?

You want to be close to someone but not have a relation that may involve sex or is not based on a preference on a certain gender?
So basically you just really want to be good friends with someone?

Nah, it is way above good friends. Asexual is no the same as aromantic (= not interest in romantic relationship).
It is basically identical to any normal romantic relationship with your primary (and usually only) partner - in a good relationship, that's a bond much stronger than friendship, where the partner becomes as important as yourself (or more, depending on your personality). You plan your life with them, kids if that's your thing, etc..

Except that there's no sexual drive.
Which to any non-asexual person just seems pretty much impossible. Understandable.

To help imagining it, I'd describe it as a total lack of interest.*
Take me, I'm 100% uninterested in sports or cars - just entirely indifferent to the whole thing. I can imagine how my life (or my personality) would be different if I was as indifferent towards sex. I can definitely say my interest or prioritization in sex has dropped significantly since I was 25 or so - it's just not as important to me as it used to be, my interests have shifted.
That doesn't mean an asexual person cannot have any sex, they just do not feel the urge or drive towards it - they can be able to fulfill their partner's needs. Of course, that depends on if the partner is fine having sex with someone who doesn't really display any "initiative" and just kind of offers themselves on a by-need basis.

* That's just one aspect of asexuality, though.
There are those who are actively afraid of it, which can (but doesn't have to) have a traumatic background.

Or, of course, you can look at it like some manchild incel and just point and laugh or say idiotic crap like "just needs a good fuck huehue". *shrugs*

Parvati undoubtedly is an attempt at the first category - thing is, asexual people typically do not display such overflowing "poetic" romanticism as she does.
That's where the whole thing falls apart for me, it would be peak cringe even if she wasn't hammering her asexuality home. And of course with her openness towards an almost complete stranger.

Edit:
Please continue to confirm your lack of education and deeply rooted sexual insecurities by retard-rating a post about sexuality. It's like outing yourself

 

[Avarize]

This is internally consistent in the game though: she only knows Junlei for only the few hours you are on the Groundbreaker :-P.

It's also realistic. Someone who is asexual would probably have other mental illnesses etc.

No interest in sex.

Like the poster above me is saying modern asexuals have all sorts caveats added to that but that's because it's a socially performative identity for retards, not an actual orientation.

 

[TheDiceMustRoll]

Just beat the game with a bootlicker run - sided with the colonists on edgewater, got fuck all for it, so I joined up with the board. Killed edgewater. Let the lady become the new whatever. Shot phineas in the head. Now I'm playing a "too stupid to think for himself melee man" run. Gonna see if its possible to fly into the sun. ooga ooga

 

[Gordian Nutt]

Some cringe California dialog and short haired ladies aside, complete lack of any challenge whatsoever is the game's main problem. Not even just combat challenge, but challenge at doing anything.

Agree on lack of challenge at doing anything

 

[Yosharian]

The challenge is resisting the urge to uninstall the game

 

[TheDiceMustRoll]

Some cringe California dialog and short haired ladies aside, complete lack of any challenge whatsoever is the game's main problem. Not even just combat challenge, but challenge at doing anything.

Agree on lack of challenge at doing anything

i found this pretty strange, the only time the game was really hard was because I hadn't picked up a new set of weapons and armor lately. The Final Boss of the corpo run was a little tough too, but only because I forgot to bring shock weapons, which was remedied by me re-loading the game, installing one of the 50+ mods I'd picked up in my eight hour playthrough and then steamrolling the boss. That was on hard, I can't imagine what Normal/Easy are like.

 

[DalekFlay]

i found this pretty strange, the only time the game was really hard was because I hadn't picked up a new set of weapons and armor lately. The Final Boss of the corpo run was a little tough too, but only because I forgot to bring shock weapons, which was remedied by me re-loading the game, installing one of the 50+ mods I'd picked up in my eight hour playthrough and then steamrolling the boss. That was on hard, I can't imagine what Normal/Easy are like.

Yeah that final boss and some of the prisoners were bullet sponges on hard, but I wouldn't call them difficult really. Also I had like 300 of whatever they called stimpaks.

 

[TheDiceMustRoll]

i found this pretty strange, the only time the game was really hard was because I hadn't picked up a new set of weapons and armor lately. The Final Boss of the corpo run was a little tough too, but only because I forgot to bring shock weapons, which was remedied by me re-loading the game, installing one of the 50+ mods I'd picked up in my eight hour playthrough and then steamrolling the boss. That was on hard, I can't imagine what Normal/Easy are like.

Yeah that final boss and some of the prisoners were bullet sponges on hard, but I wouldn't call them difficult really. Also I had like 300 of whatever they called stimpaks.

Yeah that was wild, I thought Fallout 3 was "easy" for putting stimpacks as loot in boxes everywhere but at least 8/10 enemies I killed had adreno. What the fuck

 

[Agame]

Codex whiners being thrown off by graphical quality methinks.

It's not a quality issue. You need to be a decent artist to draw women that ugly that consistently. Its more like the character design is an indicator of what sort of game it wants to be. Anyway everyone knew this game was going to be targeted at zoomer console players ever since the fat man rambled on about triangles and whatnot a few years ago.

And this has always felt like a $9.99 w/ all the DLC during the Christmas 2021 steam sale sort of purchase.

It is without question by design. The comic book industry has been pushing this aesthetic of "everyone is androgynous brown people" for a long time. I noticed it creeping into the games industry via the indie scene.

 

[Gordian Nutt]

It is without question by design. The comic book industry has been pushing this aesthetic of "everyone is androgynous brown people" for a long time. I noticed it creeping into the games industry via the indie scene.

Comics have become worse than that with New Warriors and Gotham High where the reasons beyond character choices and plots make no sense at all except for a poor agenda and sense of how to communicate that agenda

 

[TheDiceMustRoll]

Codex whiners being thrown off by graphical quality methinks.

It's not a quality issue. You need to be a decent artist to draw women that ugly that consistently. Its more like the character design is an indicator of what sort of game it wants to be. Anyway everyone knew this game was going to be targeted at zoomer console players ever since the fat man rambled on about triangles and whatnot a few years ago.

And this has always felt like a $9.99 w/ all the DLC during the Christmas 2021 steam sale sort of purchase.

It is without question by design. The comic book industry has been pushing this aesthetic of "everyone is androgynous brown people" for a long time. I noticed it creeping into the games industry via the indie scene.

t. person who never played Drafgon Age III

 

[Agame]

It is without question by design. The comic book industry has been pushing this aesthetic of "everyone is androgynous brown people" for a long time. I noticed it creeping into the games industry via the indie scene.

Comics have become worse than that with New Warriors and Gotham High where the reasons beyond character choices and plots make no sense at all except for a poor agenda and sense of how to communicate that agenda

Yea comics industry is a hilarious meme dumpster fire atm, took years and gallons of SJW sweat and tears to get that way.

 

[Gordian Nutt]

Yea comics industry is a hilarious meme dumpster fire atm, took years and gallons of SJW sweat and tears to get that way.

The games industry would be smart to pay attention to comics warning signs