The Outer Worlds

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7.3

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  1. pagepro
    Oct 28, 2019
    4
    First I must ask. Are the people giving this a perfect 10/10 playing the same game? This game is far from perfect. In fact it is far from even being a good game. Nowadays all it takes is for a game to be good is to not have too many bugs and micro transactions. The Outer World doesn't have micro transactions and there are very few bugs (one game breaking bug on the last mission) but thatFirst I must ask. Are the people giving this a perfect 10/10 playing the same game? This game is far from perfect. In fact it is far from even being a good game. Nowadays all it takes is for a game to be good is to not have too many bugs and micro transactions. The Outer World doesn't have micro transactions and there are very few bugs (one game breaking bug on the last mission) but that does not make this a good game.

    It starts out somewhat interesting when you are a fresh adventurer and don't know where the story is taking you. You start imagining an amazing world and hoping that it keeps getting better. As you progress you suddenly realize that it isn't going to get better and never will. I won't put spoilers but lets just say that there is no payoff for anything you do. You can complete a main quest and your reward is just more of the same boring things you already have. There is never anything amazing that happens in this story either like the first time seeing Liberty Prime in action in Fallout 3. Nothing that will "wow" you.

    My biggest gripe is the writing. I found myself physically cringing at some of it. If you are a certain type of person you may enjoy the cutsie playful dialogue and the constant sarcastic statements that your main character makes, along with pretty much every character in the game but I couldn't stand it. If you are looking for a serious story that will intrigue and immerse you then this is NOT the game for you. You may think "oh its finally getting serious" then the next set of lines have you wise crack like something an immature grade school. Its downright awful.

    The gameplay is nothing to write home about and barely worth mentioning. There are only a handful of guns and they are all unsatisfying to use. I went the entire game with the assault rifle just spraying bullets at everything because sniping and the charged weapons just didn't feel fun in my opinion. Melee is a joke I didn't even bother with it. You have heavy weapons which I didn't bother with either as I didnt see any point. The game is so easy it doesn't matter what you decide to use or how you spend you skill points and perks. Speaking of which pretty much amount to a bunch or percentage increases. There is nothing fun about any of it. You will mostly fight the same type of enemy because there is no variety. I can count the number of different enemy types on my hands.Armor feels like an afterthought and the skills seem like they were placed on pieces at random. There doesn't seem to be any thought process that went into designing armor so I just used the set with the highest armor rating. There are only 2 pieces of armor by the way chest and helmet.

    You have companions and companion abilities but they are pretty much meat bags used to distract the enemy. The companion abilities force you into an un-skippable 10 second cut scene every time you use an one so I abandoned them quickly and just shot everything to death. The whole thing is a boring unorganized mess. By the last missions I was disinterested to the point where I didn't bother killing anything and just ran past the enemy. At that point there was no reason to loot anything or explore because the game is so linear that there is nothing to explore.

    I wasn't a fan of the artstyle, the characters, story or gameplay. The only reason I finished the game is because I felt obligated to having been swindled into thinking this would actually be good. The trailer said "from the original creators of Fallout and the developers of Fallout: New Vegas" is also false advertising. They are only the same in name. The original people who made those amazing games no longer work for the company. Overall this game is barely a 4/10 below average.    … Expand
  2. InfiniteArc
    Oct 28, 2019
    9
    In a market saturated with streamlined (if not dumbed down) RPGs, The Outer Worlds brings us an experience that's all too rare in the genre these days. You, the player, matter. Every action you take, every skill you develop, it all matters. The way you play even has a powerful ramifications on the story. Want to be a simple spae captain trying to make your way in the verse whilst lookingIn a market saturated with streamlined (if not dumbed down) RPGs, The Outer Worlds brings us an experience that's all too rare in the genre these days. You, the player, matter. Every action you take, every skill you develop, it all matters. The way you play even has a powerful ramifications on the story. Want to be a simple spae captain trying to make your way in the verse whilst looking out for you and yours? Ayep, that there's a mighty fine option. Want to be a Rabble Rousing freedom fighter for the common man? Go ahead, seize the means of production. Shoot first, ask questions later kinda guy? Yeah... That might come back to bite you in the ass, but hey, no judgement here. Everything is viable, and it all has consequences.… Expand
  3. aeroncastle
    Oct 28, 2019
    10
    I would pay to have this voice actors read everything in the universe, the game makes a lot of things well, but the voice acting makes it art.
  4. DerpyGamer2033
    Oct 28, 2019
    9
    I bought the game on the day of release and have already played 20 hours. The best RPG game of 2019 in my opinion.

    The game has performance issues, not the most modern graphics and gameplay. But for RPG this is not new, the main thing that the game has-a well-developed role-playing system, an interesting story and the concept of the world. This game reminded me of the good old days of    I bought the game on the day of release and have already played 20 hours. The best RPG game of 2019 in my opinion.

    The game has performance issues, not the most modern graphics and gameplay. But for RPG this is not new, the main thing that the game has-a well-developed role-playing system, an interesting story and the concept of the world.
    This game reminded me of the good old days of KOTOR 2/Fallout New Vegas. Not for a **** who loves Fallout 76 and Mass Effect Andromeda.    … Expand
  5. Zomombi
    Oct 28, 2019
    7
    Good game. Only real complaint is that it is too short. Hopefully, we will see something similar of a grander scale from Obsidian, in the future.
  6. Azzyg
    Oct 28, 2019
    5
    Sorry but the people shouting "perfect rpg" from the rooftops are honestly deluded or have never experienced a good RPG before.

    Good things: -Quests and dialogue were varied and had choices, the humour was spot on there were times I literally burst out laughing. -Story was also competent, not the best but not bad. I won't spoil here. -Graphics and art style were really stunning, I    Sorry but the people shouting "perfect rpg" from the rooftops are honestly deluded or have never experienced a good RPG before.

    Good things:
    -Quests and dialogue were varied and had choices, the humour was spot on there were times I literally burst out laughing.
    -Story was also competent, not the best but not bad. I won't spoil here.
    -Graphics and art style were really stunning, I could really look around and admire these planets. (only bad part is characters show little emotion).
    -Bug free, didn't experience a single bug in my whole playthrough.

    Bad things:
    -You never see your character besides in the menu. You might roll your eyes at this or whatever but seriously, you spent a good 30mins making that perfect looking character. Guess what? You only ever see your character in your menu. Not a single time ingame, even at the end credits it shows a random default character. Not yours.
    -Day and night/waiting/sleeping is pointless without ingame time and NPC routines.
    -The world feels static, the towns don't feel alive. NPCs don't have schedules or routines, they literally stand in the same spot day and night. (besides the odd patrolling guard).
    -Skills/perks are boring, no innovation or fun. Mostly it's just boring percentage increases.
    -Loot and gear is boring. So many reskins. Even the "unique" items are rarely unique. There are a handful of fun items but nowhere near enough. Most items are not even worth picking up, you might be thinking, "can't I sell them though?" and yes you can. However bits.. you get way too many bits and nothing useful to spend them on. I broke down most items instead of selling and still finished the game with 40k bits with nothing to spend it on. Complete waste of time since the game ends at the credits.
    -No minigames/fun side games. I don't mean crap like lockpicking/hacking minigames. I mean fun side games like gambling/brawling and other minigames that are in most other rpgs.
    -No Crafting/professions, how can you have an RPG without these core features? And no, I don't consider the very basic modding system to be crafting.
    -You can't interact with the world. Besides opening/closing doors you can't even sit down in a chair and drink a beer at the bar. Isn't this meant to be an RPG? How can you roleplay in a world you can't interact with.
    -Exploring is often pointless and unrewarding, mainly because the loot is so bad and there being so few hidden quests.
    -The game is just too short, you can't play on after the credits. Yes you can start a new game and play differently but everything you've done up to that point is gone. No free roaming or NG+.

    END:
    I really wanted to love this game. I've played RPGs for so many years and was looking forward to this. But honestly I felt so disapointed. Besides the dialogue choices, the RPG elements are non existent.    … Expand
  7. TWERQEN
    Oct 28, 2019
    7
    It's Hard to evaluate a big and story-branching game as Outer Worlds in such a short time, but we can already tell that it's hard to get a grip in this world. Of course choice system is ripped straight from fallout nv, but all of the characters are somewhat cartoonishly good or bad. I think it's all have to do with the fact that the big arch in this game is fight against giantIt's Hard to evaluate a big and story-branching game as Outer Worlds in such a short time, but we can already tell that it's hard to get a grip in this world. Of course choice system is ripped straight from fallout nv, but all of the characters are somewhat cartoonishly good or bad. I think it's all have to do with the fact that the big arch in this game is fight against giant corporation/government and there's no solid arguments in real life for supporting big business with all of the corruption surfaced just in a past decade.
    In any case, the world is big and beautiful, the shooting part feels good even tho the game is converted to bullet sponges-fest closer to the end, so it's really playable, but it's not really that grounded to reality rpg/fps mix that previous obsidian's game of the same genre was (nor that it claimed to be, even tho it heavily borrows from it).
    TLDR: Better then fallout 3 and especially 4, but not as good as brilliant Nev Vegas.    … Expand
  8. WhistlerSprings
    Oct 28, 2019
    10
    There seems to be a ton of negative reviews or points based on the perception of this game with seemingly no foundation. Complain about graphics? The game is beautiful, look at any other similar RPG from Bethesda and OW is in a class of its own. AI? Yeah the AI isn't the most intelligent but once again a complete evolution from past inspirations. This game at its core is for the fanbase ofThere seems to be a ton of negative reviews or points based on the perception of this game with seemingly no foundation. Complain about graphics? The game is beautiful, look at any other similar RPG from Bethesda and OW is in a class of its own. AI? Yeah the AI isn't the most intelligent but once again a complete evolution from past inspirations. This game at its core is for the fanbase of the genre, make no mistake. if you came in expecting anything else then you didn't know anything about Fallout or Obsidian.

    At its core, OW is the current peak of what this genre of games can provide. It completely outclasses any Fallout game ever, and has rendered Bethesda completely obsolete.    … Expand
  9. Gimmicks
    Oct 28, 2019
    10
    Possibly the best game of 2019. Good dialogue, great voice acting, good story, exellent worls, combat not the best.
  10. Ttaman
    Oct 28, 2019
    4
    It's okay, not great. By piggybacking off the coattails of previous games of a similar genre, The Outer Worlds is able to gain a hyper hype following by unsuspecting fans but is only an incomplete ersatz FO4 style adventure. While the user interface and gameplay mimics familiarity, it is unexciting, to say the least.

    TOW is a shell of previously successful games from 5 to 10 years    It's okay, not great. By piggybacking off the coattails of previous games of a similar genre, The Outer Worlds is able to gain a hyper hype following by unsuspecting fans but is only an incomplete ersatz FO4 style adventure. While the user interface and gameplay mimics familiarity, it is unexciting, to say the least.

    TOW is a shell of previously successful games from 5 to 10 years ago. It might be worth a discounted price on Steam next year, or 1 dollar promotion at Microsoft's store for a month to try; however, it's not worth 60 bucks.    … Expand
  11. Rocker9800
    Oct 28, 2019
    10
    It is true RPG, ant I've found it perfect.
    It is the best RPG for an AA budget and I recommend it to everybody who likes RPGs.
  12. MetaCthulhu
    Oct 28, 2019
    10
    Starting a little bit too shallow, this one is good fun. Getting better and better every next location. After 12 hours I'd say it deserves 8-9/10.
  13. Boston5411
    Oct 28, 2019
    10
    Game was so refreshing compared to the recent games that came out. I enjoyed it a lot had kept a great balance throughout the game with skill and weapons. 100% recommend it.
  14. Wampa842
    Oct 28, 2019
    8
    With the gaping hole left by Bethesda and Bioware, many people expected The Outer Worlds to be the second coming of Jesus. It's not. What it is is a very competent game that is fantastic in its best parts and decent in its worst. Obsidian/PD have taken the defining bits of New Vegas, made them better, and without handicaps imposed by Bethesda, turned them into a game that satisfies theWith the gaping hole left by Bethesda and Bioware, many people expected The Outer Worlds to be the second coming of Jesus. It's not. What it is is a very competent game that is fantastic in its best parts and decent in its worst. Obsidian/PD have taken the defining bits of New Vegas, made them better, and without handicaps imposed by Bethesda, turned them into a game that satisfies the thirst for a real action-roleplay game.
    The writing is witty and gets the point across, even if it becomes a little preachy at times. It has a depth that forces the player away from the "evil corporate bad, freedom fighters good", to consider both sides of the struggle.
    Mission types are on the weaker end of the spectrum. They're mostly fetch quests, but I never felt like I was forced to do them against my will. They also tend to have several avenues to complete them (e.g. sneaky, silver tongue, or guns a-blazing).
    I picked up the game and couldn't put it down all day. Personally I think it's bloody brilliant and a testament to Obsidian's abilities. I had to take away two poitns because I found the music severely lacking, enemy AI below average, and performance poor.    … Expand
  15. EdwardCunha
    Oct 28, 2019
    7
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. A great start, but they really needed to implement the stuff that are also bad about Fallout? Also, there's a lot of silly quests, like, you speak to the NPC, then you go to the next room, read a document that is conviniently right there, go back and talk again to the NPC. Wow, mission acomplished! There are some graphical glitches, but in general it's a good game. Far from perfect, but fun.… Expand
  16. Bocvo
    Oct 28, 2019
    3
    All about character design in this game is just a joke. Dull stories, identical partners, awkward animations. At the start i really thought it's a burns or kind of space disease which makes some characters skin looks like it made cream, but it's just how obsidian think aged people looks like.
    No any relations in this game, which makes no sense to explore your partners stories, it won't    All about character design in this game is just a joke. Dull stories, identical partners, awkward animations. At the start i really thought it's a burns or kind of space disease which makes some characters skin looks like it made cream, but it's just how obsidian think aged people looks like.
    No any relations in this game, which makes no sense to explore your partners stories, it won't change anything, you'll be a no-name captain no matter you'll do or what you say.
    Our slow-mo skill is just the slow-mo skill. The only one thing that makes shooting looks better.
    Maybe the most boring world to explore i have ever seen, there is just nothing to find except one scared of bugs man hiding in the toilet(yes obsidian you hate males we got this). So we don't have almost nothing good in this game except ubiquitous satire about corporations and capitalism which really make me only annoy after few days of playing.
    3 scared males of 10, maybe one day obsidian will make a game again.    … Expand
  17. 2ch_reviewer
    Oct 28, 2019
    0
    Very bad game with a simple scenario, flat world, empty characters and boring gameplay. Literally there is no openworld, you have a road that highlights you a way, short main line, stupid rep system where you can genocide entire villages and be a good guy at the end.
    And mention dialogs in game, they are very very simple and a lot of time there is no choice, just different variations of    Very bad game with a simple scenario, flat world, empty characters and boring gameplay. Literally there is no openworld, you have a road that highlights you a way, short main line, stupid rep system where you can genocide entire villages and be a good guy at the end.
    And mention dialogs in game, they are very very simple and a lot of time there is no choice, just different variations of "yes".
    Your companions are boring and cause no feelings in you, they just giving bonuses to skilles and that`s it.    … Expand
  18. BathroomSync
    Oct 28, 2019
    9
    The Outer Worlds definitely lives up to its spiritual predecessor, Fallout: New Vegas in many ways. Player influence on the world around them is immense, there are too many interesting characters to count, and the writing is excellent.
    The Outer Worlds was announced and came out at a perfect time, a time when confidence in Bethesda's Fallout franchise was at an all-time low and long-time    The Outer Worlds definitely lives up to its spiritual predecessor, Fallout: New Vegas in many ways. Player influence on the world around them is immense, there are too many interesting characters to count, and the writing is excellent.
    The Outer Worlds was announced and came out at a perfect time, a time when confidence in Bethesda's Fallout franchise was at an all-time low and long-time fans of the series desperately desired a worthy replacement.
    I really do hope The Outer Worlds launches a franchise, because we need a new Fallout.    … Expand
  19. GamesBeatAll
    Oct 28, 2019
    9
    It's gorgeous, it's funny, it's varied.
    Great writing. Skills and Perks to fret over as always. Better character generation than expected.
    Lots of loot. I lose myself for hours exploring and searching every nook and cranny.
    Good variety of weapons and armour and combat.
    It fills the RPG gap very nicely for me.
  20. Revadarius
    Oct 28, 2019
    6
    I want to preface this with saying I played the game on PC via Xbox Game Pass. I played on Normal, and I speed-read all dialogue.

    That said, let's begin. You're probably wondering "Wow, why has this jackass given this masterpiece 6/10?". Well, that's easy: This game is short. It lacks content in a variety of areas, including story and character development. There's limited    I want to preface this with saying I played the game on PC via Xbox Game Pass. I played on Normal, and I speed-read all dialogue.

    That said, let's begin. You're probably wondering "Wow, why has this jackass given this masterpiece 6/10?". Well, that's easy: This game is short. It lacks content in a variety of areas, including story and character development. There's limited weapon/armour crafting/modification. The stats and perks are just about varied enough to be able to create a new character with a specific playstyle.

    I feel this game is meant to be played on a harder difficult to pad out and fluff the content. Maybe that was my mistake, but - referring to Obsidian's previous work - I should be wanting to play this game again. Differently, on a harder difficulty, with a different character type. Maybe a Melee/ Heavy armourer, stating into leadership for team play with my companions. But...I don't want to.

    The game play was fun *at first*. But after a while I realized... I hadn't really picked up the new debuff types, I wasn't informed (without specifically looking for it in the codex) about the viability of the elemental types. There wasn't many enemy types to mix up the gameplay either. Leading to a lot of sigh-inducing mission endings where I thought I'd fight a unique enemy as a boss. But nope, just a reskin. Or even the same old enemy I'd killed dozens, if not hundreds, of at that point.

    The crafting/modification/tinkering system is just... like a last second edition? There are not many weapon variations. I found possibly a dozen special weapon/armour pieces. Probably a few more. As well as a select few science weapons. And.... they're crap. Not in practice, but they cost so much to 'tinker' (i.e. level up, which gives increased dps) that they're not worth using after a few levels. Again, maybe on Supernova you'd use them. But it'd be an expensive investment because, as much as you can get lots of money in the game. You can only get it *once* via the quests because most drops arent' worth a damn. Armour/weapons barely sell for anything, and are better for breaking down for weapon or armour parts to be able to repair your items.

    There are only about a dozen or so mods types between guns and melee weapons. The modifications is very bare bones. And that's exactly the best way to describe a lot of mechanics in this game: barebones.
    Your companion quests, side quests, even the main story quests, enemy types, weapons, clothes, armour, mods... there's just enough of said mechanic or feature.
    Which is hilarious, because there's a huge variety of consumables and junk items. Too much even. To the point that it's a pain in dick to specifically search for an item. There are multiple consumables that all have the same exact effect. Be it + to mind/body attritube. Or +1 to personality, but -1 to 3 other stats. +25% health.
    DAMNIT, you need only 1 item with said effect, not 3 or 4. So your consumables become a confusing mess.

    Which leads me onto the menus. There's no sort option to seperate heavy/medium/light armour. Or to seperate light guns, heavy guns, 1 handed melee, 2 handed melee. Or a lock feature to stop you selling/scrapping certain guns. You have to be very meticulous in your menus when you're faffing around with gear. It could certainly be improved, it's one of the worst I've ever encountered in a game.

    Now, let's talk about the space map. You can travel to certain planets or satellites. But most of them are a *1 mission* area, which you won't have to visit again. Specifically, there's maybe 3 huge areas to explore (mostly hub areas) with 1 massive world, 1 large world and several small hub spaces that won't take long to explore. AND THERE ARE PLANETS ON THE MAP THAT MAKE IT LOOK LIKE YOU COULD GO THERE LATER, GIVING A FALSE SENSE OF VASTNESS.

    That's why it took me only 21hrs to complete this game. completing all but 1 mission (I botched a mission due to the order I did a specific set of missions in, no biggie though).

    Sorry to unload my disappointment with this game. It has fun gameplay, I enjoy the companion abilities and orders you can give them. The story is quite well written, along with the character dialogue. It's such a beautiful and extraordinary game. But I feel like it's lacking in nearly all aspects.
    I was raging about it being a "Game of the Year" contender. It certainly puts Bethesda's FO and TES series to shame, that's for sure. But I don't feel it reaches the heights of FO:NV. They tried to copy a formula but somewhere along the line they fell flat on their face. I would love a sequel where they improve. DLC or any form of expansion to this game would be insulting UNLESS they're going to improve all those areas I've mentioned.

    I did enjoy the game, it was fun and nearly a day well spent. And looking forward to eventually owning a little Sprat plushie. IF THEY EVER MAKE 'EM!    … Expand
  21. Urbanebula
    Oct 28, 2019
    8
    First off, any reviews with a perfect 10 or a 0 posted on the 25th of October should be disregarded. There is no way those reviews are fair to the game or true to it's flaws before completing a single play through.

    That said, The Outer Worlds is one hell of a game and a masterful RPG from Obsidian Entertainment. The game is flexible enough that you can make any character you want from a    First off, any reviews with a perfect 10 or a 0 posted on the 25th of October should be disregarded. There is no way those reviews are fair to the game or true to it's flaws before completing a single play through.

    That said, The Outer Worlds is one hell of a game and a masterful RPG from Obsidian Entertainment. The game is flexible enough that you can make any character you want from a socially awkward genius to a lovable dimwit and every quest will offer at least one solid solution for you.

    Every side character in the game is well developed and fleshed out, far beyond the Bethesda school of single word descriptors Nazeem in Skyrim is just a jerk. Conrad in The Outer Worlds also comes off as a jerk, until you engage in conversation and realise that he is troubled by a number of things. Even a simple bartender, that would be little more than a trade window in most games, has a history and aspirations that you can delve deep into. It does so much more to develop the world as a real place with people to care about. The companions and plot relevant characters are even better, with complex histories and conflicting emotions on a number of matters. It just makes engaging with them so much more enjoyable, a positive thing considering the amount of dialogue, especially in the early hours of the game.

    The combat is fun and engaging, with the gunplay being largely satisfying and the melee combat feeling nice and weighty. The TTD system is a nice answer to Fallout's VATS system, but this is essentially just bullet time which has the additional incentive of applying debuffs to enemies in order to tip the odds in your favour. Melee weapons allow you to block and you have obtain the ability to dodge in any direction from the start. As for the enemies themselves, they really fall into two categories. Ranged and melee. There are different methods of engagement, some with weak points to aim for and enemies that are susceptible to different damage types.

    One negative aspect of the game is the UI elements. Navigating menus and inventory screens is a fiddly and often frustrating affair, at least on PC. Different key prompts are required in order to scrap, modify and repair items, but these can change on the fly depending on whether you are in the field or at a workbench and so on. It also appears that despite having the cursor appear in these screens, it can only be used to select items, and actions are bound to the keys. There are also some issues with the HUD, with a lot of complaints aimed at the font colours and sizes that can make it quite difficult to read some prompts and item descriptions.

    In spite of this, the game is still absolutely solid. The few gripes that I have are minor and something that I will either simply need to get used to, or that can hopefully be patched with relative ease.

    If you are a fan of engaging RPGs with true depth, choice and consequence you should absolutely grab The Outer Worlds as soon as possible!    … Expand
  22. Harold56
    Oct 28, 2019
    10
    This game is amazing, only problem I have is my character freezes in place after loading.
  23. Sprucegoose
    Oct 28, 2019
    10
    This game reunites everything that i love in an action RPG so much that we can clearly see accounts created just to diss this game in favor of their beloved 100€ yearly subscription-game.... The world is beautiful from the first time you land on it and the first time you get to talk to an AI you know for sure youre on an obsidian universe, yes, an universe created by those in obsidian,This game reunites everything that i love in an action RPG so much that we can clearly see accounts created just to diss this game in favor of their beloved 100€ yearly subscription-game.... The world is beautiful from the first time you land on it and the first time you get to talk to an AI you know for sure youre on an obsidian universe, yes, an universe created by those in obsidian, exactly the same condition as the game that makes you come and hate...
    i play this on a MSI GS65 everything on ultra and it runs flawless, the conversation system is deeper than what seen on previous obsidian art and vastly improved facial animations and modeling makes it feel as an rpg which might sound redundant but we all know what im comparing it against.... The battle system is also improved but the jewel of the crown has to be the rpg mechanics (character progression, habilities etc..). It is how it should be but it is amazing since thats not a standard nowadays.
    For me it reunites everything that im loving from 2019...
    the first thing is that, under a double A tag it wipes the floor with every (theyre not much) triple A in ps4.
    Second it is doing it so well that we can delight ourselves with all the saltiness that makes people create account to give it a 0 and copy-paste a bible that sounds like if they where talking about ”death walking”.
    And third, and what hurts the most to that toxic comunity, IT-IS-COMING-TO-SWITCH.    … Expand
  24. BlackMetal
    Oct 28, 2019
    10
    I love space smuggling!
    Obsidian Entertainment makes games at his own genre, it called - "Obsidian Game".
    High quality, brilliant sharpened formula.
    It is for all of you out there, Space Cowboys!
    10/10 Fireflies
  25. lostcauz707
    Oct 28, 2019
    9
    This game merits love and attention. Obsidian is a great studio when they are left alone. An amalgamation of KotoR, borderlands, ME:2 and Fallout all in one. The attention to detail is staggering. Things as simple as plant life dead by a volcano and flourishing out the outer areas to characters randomly mentioning things you happened to run by. Not linear or forced either. You exploreThis game merits love and attention. Obsidian is a great studio when they are left alone. An amalgamation of KotoR, borderlands, ME:2 and Fallout all in one. The attention to detail is staggering. Things as simple as plant life dead by a volcano and flourishing out the outer areas to characters randomly mentioning things you happened to run by. Not linear or forced either. You explore and they comment, relevantly. Same lovable feel from KotoR you may have missed whole adding a taste of borderlands in their gear. No microtransactions, no loot boxes, just solid game. If cyberpunk is being compared to this, this is your fix until it comes out. The unique characters feel like real people. No one is overly typecasted into roles you feel familiar with. It's a new age an there are new ways of the world.

    There are a few graphical issues on PC and I did experience a hard crash once. Normal mode also feels incredibly easy once you get going with speech and hacking banking a ton of early experience and bypassing possibly challenging content, kinda like KotoR. You'll also feel some familiarity such as a broken robot that becomes a character on a ship etc.

    It's an overall fresh experience that puts current IPs to shame. Unique characters, funny dialog, great gameplay. Made for RPG lovers that need a familiar, yet possibly perfected, change of pace.    … Expand
  26. TheWitcher90
    Oct 28, 2019
    6
    I am struggling to get into the game. I dont blame the outer worlds. I just thingk I am dont with the bethesda/fallout style gameplay. Its just so uninteresting. If you like fallout you will like this.
  27. orascal-sm
    Oct 28, 2019
    9
    Отличная игра, такой допиленный Нью Вегас, но интереснее. Оптимизация порадовала, на ноутбуке Core i3, 4Gb RAM Geforce 840m очень неплохо идёт, за это отдельный респект.
  28. Baldinor
    Oct 28, 2019
    10
    Lo tengo en Gamepass pc y Xbox One, para mi el juego del año, me ha enganchado desde el primer momento, los toques humorísticos le dan una personalidad propia que pocos títulos tienen.
  29. dafn
    Oct 28, 2019
    7
    A good game with a fun and adventurous atmosphere. Good story, world and characters.

    This is not an open world game like fallout. It is far more linear. Instead of having one big world it has several small ones, and they are are introduced in order. I personally prefer one big world where you are free to explore as you want. I also would like more gunplay and interesting places to    A good game with a fun and adventurous atmosphere. Good story, world and characters.

    This is not an open world game like fallout. It is far more linear. Instead of having one big world it has several small ones, and they are are introduced in order. I personally prefer one big world where you are free to explore as you want. I also would like more gunplay and interesting places to explore. The game feels very cramped and small. Personally I prefer the fallout formula.

    Also, I noticed that if I kill someone without any witnesses I still loose standing with the faction. I feel like that should not be the case as no one knows the person is dead and no one knows I killed the person.

    I would recommend this game, but do not buy this expecting fallout new vegas, you will get disappointed. I really hope obsidian continues to develop the idea and further expands on it in future releases.    … Expand
  30. herpiderp1231
    Oct 28, 2019
    5
    I saw another reviewer describe pretty much every aspect of the game as average, and I can't but agree.
    All in all it's a repetative and forgetful experience.
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#42 Best PC Game of 2019
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#7 Most Discussed PC Game of 2019

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Generally favorable reviews - based on 30 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 25 out of 30
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 30
  3. Negative: 0 out of 30
  1. Cubed3
    Nov 16, 2020
    70
    The problem with this isn't that it is a bad game (far from it), but the fact that it failed to reach its true potential… or maybe the expectations were simply too high, because there's nothing here that anyone can point to and say that it is terrible. Sadly, there's almost nothing that's great either, apart from the role-playing element and the quality of writing. The gunplay? Ok. The exploration? Decent. The plot? Fine. The dominant feeling here is of a game that is good enough so that you won't hate it, but also not as good for it to be the flawless classic that it could definitely be - but again, that's probably those darn high expectations speaking, because flaws or no flaws, The Outer Worlds shouldn't be missing from any RPG collection.
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  2. GameCritics
    Dec 9, 2019
    85
    An excellent effort from Obsidian, and though The Outer Worlds doesn’t surpass its predecessors by offering a world worth visiting over and over, the adventure it presents is more than worth the time spent.
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  3. Game World Navigator Magazine
    Dec 6, 2019
    84
    Usually, a planet has just one or two settlements and a bit of wildlands to explore. But that’s for the best – instead of exploring miles of filler content, Outer Worlds keeps you moving from planet to planet, from one tense situation to another. [Issue#241, p.34]
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