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

[Nines_Anarch]

Well, the game does one thing good:

It serves as inspiration to shitpost about it.

We cannot deny it. Obsidian did a good job on that regard.

Avellone did abandon the ship on time. We can't blame him. I mean, who would happy to appear in the credits of TOW?

 

[GentlemanCthulhu]

If there were most posts like @Kyl Von Kull this forum would pass for a legitimate place to discuss games.

What do you think this here is? ResetEra?

 

[Kyl Von Kull]

Something that irks me the more I think about it: waking up from an unexpected 70 year cryostasis would be an incredibly traumatic experience - not just physically (which the game notes) but mentally too. The entire world you know no longer exists and everyone you loved is likely to be dead. The game doesn't address this at all. I'm not saying there should have been a backstory quest of some sort, which would harm role-playing potential, but it would have been less jarring if you could comment on how much (or little) things had changed.

You get a bunch of “the world has gone insane” type dialogue options in Edgewater.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

For what it's worth, I'm enjoying it more than both Pillars so far. Although it might be because I'm completely fed up with high fantasy games.

 

[SkiNNyBane]

If there were most posts like @Kyl Von Kull this forum would pass for a legitimate place to discuss games.

What do you think this here is? ResetEra?

No but somehow at times it manages to be worse than reddit.

 

[Sordid MCA/Prosper Hybryd]

Well, the game does one thing good:

It serves as inspiration to shitpost about it.

We cannot deny it. Obsidian did a good job on that regard.

Avellone did abandon the ship on time. We can't blame him.

Nines, let me tell you one horrible truth. The Outer Worlds isn't great, it's just OK. But it's already much better than what you can hope for with Bloodlines 2.

 

[Quillon]

The entire world you know no longer exists

Wasn't that the point?

everyone you loved is likely to be dead.

Assuming the loved ones were back on earth; you've already accepted to be 10 years younger than they will be and never to see them again. And if they came with you, its more likely they are still frozen on Hope rather than have woken up 60 years earlier on Groundbreaker. There is a convo with Vicar in which you can say you have friends, family etc still frozen.

 

[Rafidur]

Something that irks me the more I think about it: waking up from an unexpected 70 year cryostasis would be an incredibly traumatic experience - not just physically (which the game notes) but mentally too. The entire world you know no longer exists and everyone you loved is likely to be dead. The game doesn't address this at all. I'm not saying there should have been a backstory quest of some sort, which would harm role-playing potential, but it would have been less jarring if you could comment on how much (or little) things had changed.

There's a conversation with felix when he asks "isn't it weird when an old friend contacts you and...", one of the responses is along the lines of "ALL MY FRIENDS ARE DEAAAD".

 

[Bendu]

I would say it's Obsidians worst written game yet. The companions are boring and the story isn't very interesting so far. Except for the Moonman I haven't met an interesting NPC yet. But I like the artdesign and the setting (though it really should take itself a little more serious) and the game seems to have some nice C&C. Maybe I will try a Lone Wolf/The Board playthrough someday.

But Obsidian should really reconsider its writing staff. On the one side we had Kreia, Okku, Gann, Kaelyn, One of Many, Veronica, Boone, Arcade and so on... Now we got Maia, Xoti, Tekehu, Parvati, Felix and Ellie.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

If there were most posts like @Kyl Von Kull this forum would pass for a legitimate place to discuss games.

What do you think this here is? ResetEra?

No but somehow at times it manages to be worse than reddit.

Give it time. Edgelords ranting about politics and fruitcakes writing weepy farewell letters to Obsidian but somehow continuing to play the game is just business as usual for a Codex launch week.

 

[Prime Junta]

Give it time. Edgelords ranting about politics and fruitcakes writing weepy farewell letters to Obsidian but somehow continuing to play the game is just business as usual for a Codex launch week.

If I notice you, will you stop going "notice me senpai?"

 

[Nines_Anarch]

Well, the game does one thing good:

It serves as inspiration to shitpost about it.

We cannot deny it. Obsidian did a good job on that regard.

Avellone did abandon the ship on time. We can't blame him.

Nines, let me tell you one horrible truth. The Outer Worlds isn't great, it's just OK. But it's already much better than what you can hope for with Bloodlines 2.

I know, but I won't believe it till I play it.
Unfortunately they say the worse is yet to come...

I am fine as long as I am in the game and kick somebodies ass. For the good old days...



But yeah, it seems the good old days will stay in the past forever.

 

[SpaceWizardz]

But it's already much better than what you can hope for with Bloodlines 2.

Mmhm. Pour one out for anyone optimistic about that game, that thread will be unreadable when it launches.

 

[Roguey]

btw... where is my secret crush Sailor Woedica to shine like a bright sun in this dark day of despair where yet another Obsidian title disappoints?

Where is this shill hiding?
https://rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?members/sailor-woedica.25744/

Woe typically takes a break from the forum on weekends. She'll probably be back tomorrow.

 

[Nano]

but every once in a while you have a character basically say "freedom" is communism, which is... a take, I guess.

It is.

The USSR, China, etc. are/were capitalist countries. There have never been any communist countries.

pm_675, see this piece written by my idol Emma Goldman, "There Is No Communism In Russia": https://archive.is/0l8fo

 

[GentlemanCthulhu]

Give it time. Edgelords ranting about politics and fruitcakes writing weepy farewell letters to Obsidian but somehow continuing to play the game is just business as usual for a Codex launch week.

Not everyone lives in your black/white world. We are just disappointed.

Woe typically takes a break from the forum on weekends. She'll probably be back tomorrow.

Cute

 

[DalekFlay]

I would say it's Obsidians worst written game yet.

Not far enough in yet to really pass judgment, but the writing is ten times better than average game writing. Even if it ends up their most meh overall, it's still far above average for the medium.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

But it's already much better than what you can hope for with Bloodlines 2.

Mmhm. Pour one out for anyone optimistic about that game, that thread will be unreadable when it launches.

Yep, I can't even imagine Bloodlines after it gets sanitized by political correctness they way TOW is. That franchise should stay dead, there's nothing interesting they can say in that setting in the current climate.

 

[fantadomat]

It doesn't deserve it,it needs it! How am i to finish this shit if can't just alt tab every hour or so and laugh at some edgy shitpost???

Even the shit-posts aren't enough to hold me through this mediocrity. I abandoned ship.

Makes me wonder though, did the reviewers get pot & cocaine along with their review copies to actually like this garbage? Or was it the sweet microsoft dough!

Nah,they played the first 5 hours and just ditch it. Why do you expect journos to actually finish the game?

 

[Fedora Master]

Some observations to add to the pile:
- Runs well but pop-in is an issue
- Humor is neither funny nor particular offensive
- C&C seems good
- Vicar Max is a cool dude
- Supernova is piss easy

 

[Prime Junta]

Not far enough in yet to really pass judgment, but the writing is ten times better than average game writing. Even if it ends up their most meh overall, it's still far above average for the medium.

Disagree. As little as I cared for AC: Odyssey, the writing in it was better than this. AC: Origins was much better. And these are the very definition of average mainstream games.

 

[conan_edw]

Just got off Groundbreaker, the level design was surprisingly well done. The game is really reminding me of the original in its structure :D
Didn't find the shroud yet so I think I'm kinda confused to its whereabouts. For some reason I'm not really feeling that buildds are game changers but it could be because my companions are adding lots of bonus where I'm able to see most content.
Anyway, it's decent so far.
Also, facial animation is way better than I thought it'd be, never noticed thing as funny faces.

 

[North Gibraltarian Dog]

The spanish version use femenine terms for your character even if you are playing with a male...

 

[Shadenuat]

woah the Cutcontentium city
literally almost every building with cool sign is barricaded
just how much of this game they cut and why? was it all because they wanted to hit that right timing, during bethesda failing and before CD Project rolls out their own title?

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

The spanish version use femenine terms for your character even if you are playing with a male...

Character creator randomizes everything, sure you didn't just make a tranny?