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

DalekFlay

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The dissonance between player choices and the story is at its lowest on the DLC. Not even the writers could come up with an excuse for your character to choose the "bad" side when someone directly asks you why you would even consider it.

Hmmmm...
I assume the bad ending is giving it to the daughter so she can make moola? I think she offers some nod to morality by saying she can fix the formula and save the barbarians or whatever they're called, while the mother just wants to ignore the problem. I could be misremembering though. I couldn't get the "make them work together" ending as I couldn't pass the skill check.
 

KVVRR

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The dissonance between player choices and the story is at its lowest on the DLC. Not even the writers could come up with an excuse for your character to choose the "bad" side when someone directly asks you why you would even consider it.

Hmmmm...
I assume the bad ending is giving it to the daughter so she can make moola? I think she offers some nod to morality by saying she can fix the formula and save the barbarians or whatever they're called, while the mother just wants to ignore the problem. I could be misremembering though. I couldn't get the "make them work together" ending as I couldn't pass the skill check.
Yes, but it's absolute cope and an obvious deflection to not make it all about her wanting to clean her family's name. The scientist on charge on the project, her own mother, spent YEARS trying to fix the stuff without any success whatsoever, burning through so many people that they resort to dumping the insane ones on other planets (this being the origin to every single maurader/bandit in the game) and resorting to stuff like making cube-shaped meat out of them when this wasn't an option, so really, what could she possibly do to fix it? The game gives you no evidence to suggest this is, again, anything but a foolish belief.
The only reward you get as a player is money, and not even that much of it - I believe that it's about 2000$ more than if you just help the mother or help them work together. And it's not like you actually need the money for anything at all in this game, so it doesn't even work for gameplay porpuses.

All of this is ignoring that helping the daughter means bringing the board on board (heh) and as we all know that's a horrible HORRIBLE idea. It can't end possibly well.
 

DalekFlay

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Yes, but it's absolute cope and an obvious deflection to not make it all about her wanting to clean her family's name. The scientist on charge on the project, her own mother, spent YEARS trying to fix the stuff without any success whatsoever, burning through so many people that they resort to dumping the insane ones on other planets (this being the origin to every single maurader/bandit in the game) and resorting to stuff like making cube-shaped meat out of them when this wasn't an option, so really, what could she possibly do to fix it? The game gives you no evidence to suggest this is, again, anything but a foolish belief.
The only reward you get as a player is money, and not even that much of it - I believe that it's about 2000$ more than if you just help the mother or help them work together. And it's not like you actually need the money for anything at all in this game, so it doesn't even work for gameplay porpuses.

All of this is ignoring that helping the daughter means bringing the board on board (heh) and as we all know that's a horrible HORRIBLE idea. It can't end possibly well.

Very similar to the main quest having...
reasons to choose The Board like population control and competence, but still obviously writing them as the evil choice anyway.

I still think most of the game's issues come down to scope and budget, but even if that demanded binary choices they could have written them better. I think the normal dialog/email writing is better than some say, as long as you can handle the twee and bubbly brainwashed capitalists satire they're going for, but the overall plot structure and choices are pretty lame.
 

HoboForEternity

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Steve gets a Kidney but I don't even get a tag.
the most memorable thing about this game is doing ellie's quest, and because the audacity of that shitty bitch i shot her parents (it just looks she's just a few inches away from pulling the trigger herself anyway) but she got mad so she shot me and i killed her.
 

kreight

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Lmao why are you using spoiler tags, no one cares.
Right. No one cares but the discussion of this shit game has like more than 200 pages. Literally any game is better than this shit but this one happened to be made by murican obsidian. So here you go.
 
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Lmao why are you using spoiler tags, no one cares.
Right. No one cares but the discussion of this shit game has like more than 200 pages. Literally any game is better than this shit but this one happened to be made by murican obsidian. So here you go.

Nobody cares about the plot, and if "discussion about why something fucking sucks" counts as something having value, then Kiwifarms thread stars are the ubermensch.

Edit: I had to google this to make sure I meant "good super man"
 
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kangaxx

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the most memorable thing about this game is doing ellie's quest, and because the audacity of that shitty bitch i shot her parents (it just looks she's just a few inches away from pulling the trigger herself anyway) but she got mad so she shot me and i killed her.

For me it was prematurely ending Parvati's date on the space ship with a science hammer. The more I look back on that game the worse I think it was.
 

Bad Sector

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Lmao why are you using spoiler tags, no one cares.

I do. I have't played the DLC since, as i mentioned previously, i'm waiting for a dirt cheap price for the entire package (including the upcoming DLC) on GOG which will be in at least a couple of years. So i'd like to not be spoiled until then.
 

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Yes, there's still another DLC coming.

https://www.fool.com/earnings/call-...wo-interactive-ttwo-q3-2021-earnings-call-tr/

On February 10, Private Division and Obsidian Entertainment will release The Outer Worlds: Peril on Gorgon, the first narrative-led expansion for the critically acclaimed darkly humorous sci-fi RPG for the Nintendo Switch. The expansion was released previously for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC and is available individually or at a discount as part of The Outer Worlds Expansion Pass, which will also include The Outer Worlds: Murder on Eridanos, the second expansion set to launch on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC this fiscal year, and on Nintendo Switch later in calendar 2021.

Our third-quarter results last year benefited from the launches of Red Dead Redemption 2 on PC and the Outer Worlds.

"This fiscal year" means by the end of March.
 
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Valdetiosi

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Never found big urge to actually play this game seriously for what it was, I actually ended up doing just a character who kills everyone, and that worked out rather smoothly. I guess for me it was the level scaling weapons that did it for me, and the tedium of the plot.
The only regret was that I accidentally took Parviti as party member and after telling her to get lost I couldn't find her to beat her ass.
 

KVVRR

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Yes, there's still another DLC coming.

https://www.fool.com/earnings/call-...wo-interactive-ttwo-q3-2021-earnings-call-tr/

On February 10, Private Division and Obsidian Entertainment will release The Outer Worlds: Peril on Gorgon, the first narrative-led expansion for the critically acclaimed darkly humorous sci-fi RPG for the Nintendo Switch. The expansion was released previously for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC and is available individually or at a discount as part of The Outer Worlds Expansion Pass, which will also include The Outer Worlds: Murder on Eridanos, the second expansion set to launch on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC this fiscal year, and on Nintendo Switch later in calendar 2021.

Our third-quarter results last year benefited from the launches of Red Dead Redemption 2 on PC and the Outer Worlds.

"This fiscal year" means by the end of March.
I wonder how well the last DLC did. I have seen practically no one discuss it online.
 

Volourn

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Finally tried this on Game Pass. I think the term 'Game Pass' fits as in,"I'm gonna likely pass on thbis shit game."

'FO:NV in Space sounds fukkin' awesome' in theory. In practice - if this game shows - it is completely garbage.

Might try to push on a bit since I[m still early but HOLY FUKKIN' SHIT.

Is this Obsidian's worst game? It might very well be.
 

mikaelis

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And the worst part of it was we waited a near decade for the Cainarsky to come. And when it did...

Looks like Anderson was the Mastermind after all...


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Come at me faggy:

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Jokes aside, it was probably the whole team behind that mattered for Troika (as it usually happens)
 

LudensCogitet

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Jokes aside, it was probably the whole team behind that mattered for Troika (as it usually happens)

This is probably right. I also think (at least) Cain went soft. If you watch the No Clip documentary on this game (which I recently did through gritted teeth), Cain talks about trying to make an RPG that is easily accessible and doesn't scare people off, but there's still depth if you want it.

It's like he stopped actually caring about RPGs. Maybe hindsight is 20/20, but the idea as he states it sounds pretty thin to me. As though you can remove all obstacles without removing the incentive to explore complex systems.
 
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TheDiceMustRoll

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Jokes aside, it was probably the whole team behind that mattered for Troika (as it usually happens)

This is probably right. I also think (at least) Cain went soft. If you watch the No Clip documentary on this game (which I recently did through gritted teeth), Cain talks about trying to make an RPG that is easily accessible and doesn't scare people off, but there's still depth if you want it.

It's like he stopped actually caring about RPGs. Maybe hindsight is 20/20, but the idea as he states it sounds pretty thin to me. As though you can remove all obstacles without removing the incentive to explore complex systems.

ROTATE
THE
TRIANGLES
 

Sannom

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space casino town? dead money rehash?
Factory for Rizzo's, I believe. The factory on the right with the smokestacks spewing different colors is probably where they make Spectrum Vodka, gotta keep the branding!

I still need confirmation about what their "Project Ptero" was. I'm betting that they use Ptero blood as a sweetener rather than sugar.
 

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