This game was sold entirely based on the fact it was from the same people who made New Vegas, the greatest post-apoc of all time.
It had a Fallout-style to it in the trailers and screen images.
Upon playing it, I found it to be an AAA graphically beautiful slideshow that was one of the most mediocre RPGs I have ever seen. It's only high points were flagrant steals from BIOSHOCK and FALLOUT. The rest was utter crap. Combat, crap. Exploration, crap. Dialogue, crap. Story was good but it was delivered on rails. Why is all text in a 6 pt pixel font? It's virtually unreadable even on a 4k.
In fact, once you get past the garish graphics and awesome visuals, there's practically nothing there. A single abandoned building in New Vegas had more fun in it than this entire game.
It proves that even when you know what incline is, you can still create decline. I am very disappoint. I paid $40 and I feel like I paid $39 too much. Already thinking of trading it in after three hours of play.
Also, the whole androgenous millennial vibe of gloryhole smoking and dag cyberpunk was casually disguised leftism ... who got their politics in my game again?
P.S. With a title like THE OUTER WORLD you would expect it to be largely open world but it felt claustrophobic and like you were in an amusement park riding a rail looking at things go by.
P.P.S. What is wrong with these millennials thinking making all the women in the game look like crewcut lesbians is going to appeal to anyone anywhere? Don't they have games for lesbians? Why the need for stealth lesbos in everything? Where da white wimmen at? How come we can't have a kicking beautiful babe in a spacesuit with long hair? Is that part of the privilege hierarchy of evil males?
CLEVE-O-METER
"Get woke, go broke"
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1 out of 5 Stars, for the graphics