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

[Yosharian]

Two CTDs in a row when trying to enter Rizzo's Secret Lab.
What a great returning impression.

I haven't had a single bug in 30 hours of play.

But you had to play The Outer Worlds for 30 hours to discover that, that's what we call a pyrrhic victory

 

[Roguey]

But you had to play The Outer Worlds for 30 hours to discover that, that's what we call a pyrrhic victory

I have a few criticisms, but overall, I'm having fun.

 

[KVVRR]

I'm having fun.

how dare you.

 

[Cosmo]

I have a few criticisms, but overall, I'm having fun.

Any tips on (even artificially) maximising fun would be welcome.

 

[Ryzer]

I have a few criticisms, but overall, I'm having fun.

Any tips on (even artificially) maximising fun would be welcome.

Play something else that is fun to begin with.

Like Smash bros melee with friends for example.

And don't forget to uninstall The Outer Worlds afterwards.

 

[Roguey]

Any tips on (even artificially) maximising fun would be welcome.

Don't participate in activities you don't enjoy. You don't like a conversation, get out of it asap, you don't like being a loot vacuum, only pick up that which is relevant to your character.

 

[Vyvian]

Two CTDs in a row when trying to enter Rizzo's Secret Lab.
What a great returning impression.

I haven't had a single bug in 30 hours of play.

It was just a weird oddity with fullscreen. Putting the game into Windowed Fullscreen temporarily fixed it.
I'm having a decent time, it was pretty easy to jump back in.
It's pretty exhausting talking to these corporate stooges though and it makes me feel violent, I wonder if that was an accident or by design.

 

[Silverfish]

Spacer's Choice edition

You're playing the wrong version of a boring game. The edition you're playing has many bugs. The age is already as it os but now you're making the experience worse with the added bugs.

At the absolute least, did the SC edition fix the problem of items disappearing from the ship's storage box?

 

[Roguey]

Two CTDs in a row when trying to enter Rizzo's Secret Lab.
What a great returning impression.

I haven't had a single bug in 30 hours of play.

Spoke too soon, entered this location and the map bugged out. No crashes though, so it's fine.

 

[Child of Malkav]

At the absolute least, did the SC edition fix the problem of items disappearing from the ship's storage box?

IDK as I haven't played the SC edition. All I know is from various articles and YouTube videos detailing how buggy it is.

 

[Be Kind Rewind]

But you had to play The Outer Worlds for 30 hours to discover that, that's what we call a pyrrhic victory

I have a few criticisms, but overall, I'm having fun.

So this what the type of person that would downrate Fortune's Run likes? A game that looks so shit only someone that's colorblind could stomach it with pisspoor fake RPG elements glued together to a shit shooter, fucking awful ideologically driven writing that would make a East bloc communist line the writers up against a wall and you too for playing it, a game so bad that it's hard to even hate it because you keep forgetting it exists and when someone brings it up you remember, oh yeah, it's that game where a bunch of the ugliest mutts you've ever seen have a light bulb shoved up one ear, the "women" all have short hair and Microsoft employees filed off the serial number from a Justin Roiland script to make fun of capitalism.

 

[PorkyThePaladin]

Someone ask Cain/Boyarski how they made this piece of shit yet?

 

[Roguey]

So this what the type of person that would downrate Fortune's Run likes? A game that looks so shit only someone that's colorblind could stomach it

It looks okay enough with chromatic aberration turned off.

with pisspoor fake RPG elements glued together to a shit shooter,

I sense nothing fake about the RPG elements.

fucking awful ideologically driven writing that would make a East bloc communist line the writers up against a wall

It's not a communist game. It's sympathetic to some of the bosses, and so far the biggest anti-corporation people are terrible people (except Phineas but maybe that will change later)

oh yeah, it's that game where a bunch of the ugliest mutts you've ever seen have a light bulb shoved up one ear, the "women" all have short hair and Microsoft employees filed off the serial number from a Justin Roiland script to make fun of capitalism.

Many of the hair options for women are terrible, true.

It's not a Justin Roiland script. It's Brazil in Space.

 

[Silverfish]

pisspoor fake RPG elements

My favorites were the dialogue skill checks that didn't actually lead to anything. Branching conversation paths or unexpected sequence breaks could never compare to +15 XP.

 

[fantadomat]

Someone ask Cain/Boyarski how they made this piece of shit yet?

Yes,they said that they asked chatgpt to make it.

 

[PorkyThePaladin]

fanta and iren's beefs were more fun to read than anything in Outer Turds.

 

[fantadomat]

fanta and iren's beefs were more fun to read than anything in Outer Turds.

Is negromarine alive ? Also lol you read shit in outer tard hahahaha.

 

[Hellraiser]

Someone ask Cain/Boyarski how they made this piece of shit yet?

My personal guess is that it was one or a combination of the below:

Senility.
Letting the new blood have too much freedumb on the project/not telling them their ideas were dumb.
Social Media corrupting them.
A particularly bad outbreak of sawyeritis at Obsidian's offices (explains both the bland perks and why Roguey enjoys the game).
Years of substance abuse taking a toll on their brain cells.
Fallout and Arcanum were flukes or the particular set of development circumstances that made them what they were no longer exists nor could they be reacreated by Cain/Boyarsky.

 

[Butter]

All of their good games were made under threat of bankruptcy/cancellation. Nobody lit a fire under their ass with Otter Worlds.

 

[Yosharian]

It's Brazil in Space.

How fucking dare you make that comparison

 

[Delterius]

fucking awful ideologically driven writing that would make a East bloc communist line the writers up against a wall and you too for playing it

its a world where anarcho-capitalism enabled technological development to the point where earth colonized the galaxy.

the game's ultimate message is that monopoly is bad and festers incompetence.

the game's idealistic solution is to put a competent CEO in charge of halcyon.

it's a fantasy about how the world's problems can be summarized by the words 'crony capitalism is not real capitalism' - as if in real capitalism people don't help their 'buddies' or buyout the competition.

its only communist if you've been lobotomized into thinking that corporate structures are incapable of error. or if you think rent-seeking is a real job.

seriously did you get 'communist vibes' when one middle manager said 'hey our company literally owns everything on the planet if we raise salaries we're just increasing the local consumer base' because if then jesus fucking christ that's a middle school parable about henry ford.

 

[Lambach]

it's a fantasy about how the world's problems can be summarized by the words 'crony capitalism is not real capitalism' - as if in real capitalism people don't help their 'buddies' or buyout the competition.

That's not what "crony capitalism" means, lelz. Crony capitalism is when the government bails out failing business (that are failing due to their own fuckups) with taxpayer money. Crony capitalism is when governments create monopolies by setting up rules and regulations so costly and burdensome that there's virtually no way for a new business to get its foot in the door and major corporations are therefore protected from competition. Et cetera. Corruption and shady business practices are as "real capitalist" as it gets, but what people usually refer to as "crony capitalism" is orders of magnitude worse.

 

[Delterius]

Corruption and shady business practices are as "real capitalist" as it gets

Crony capitalism is when the government bails out failing business

You're just confirming what I said. 'Corruption is as 'Real Capitalist' as it gets', yet 'Crony Capitalism is when Corruption benefits specific people to the detriment of everybody else'. It just shows that the term is meaningless and describes capitalism as it is. The sequestering of public power have been there since before capitalism was a thing, man. That's just how the world works and I'm under no delusion that it can be or ever was different.

Regardless the point stands. The Outer Worlds is an anarcho capitalist fantasy where humanity conquered the stars after government was abolished and due to the leadership of 'titans of industry'. Halcyon is in crisis because everyone who leads the corporate government is a dumbass who is bad at capitalism. No good leadership can surface because everyone at the top is not even a capitalist anymore, but useless landlords who live off the colony's dividends. The game's solution is to put a competent capitalist in charge. The game is about as communist as a MAGA who wants to place Donald Trump in charge of the US not as POTUS but as CEO.

The game at most flirts with Big Corps being bad, but in a superficial and aesthetic way. You have absurdly processed food as your only nourishment and then what? That's just mcdonalds or almost everything at the supermarket.

 

[Lambach]

You're just confirming what I said. Corruption is as 'Real Capitalist' as it gets, yet Crony Capitalism is when corruption benefits specific people.

Well no, I'd say the main distinction is not who benefits, but who gets fucked over. In quote-unquote real capitalism, those who fuck up pay the price. In crony capitalism, not only do those who fuck up not suffer consequences, but they get rewarded instead with a nice big pile of cash taken from Joe Schmuk who has absolutely nothing to do with either the fuckup or the business that fucked up in general, so they can continue doing the same thing.

The game's solution is to put a competent capitalist in charge.

Based and Chad-pilled.

also, I have nary a fucking clue about the game, I just found this discussion interesting

 

[Delterius]

In quote-unquote real capitalism, those who fuck up pay the price.

And that's where the fantasy lies tbqh.