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I just found out about this game last night and it's like catnip for me. The Outer Worlds is a role playing game by Obsidian, creators of best Fallout. Travel between colonies on alien worlds using wit, stealth, guns, brawn, or whatever else you want to survive.
Game trailers show it rife with crazy weapons. The creators emphasized they focused on multiple approached for nearly every main story quest. It's got a fun aesthetic that reminds me of Bioshock mixed with The Old Republic.
The only downside is my wife is a fiend for games with good stories,
loved new Vegas, and I'm probably about to lose my PS4.
I am excited for this game.
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My wife was jonesing for a new game to play and just happened to stumble across it. It's crazy to me how little notice an Obsidian RPG seems to be getting.
I was just thinking of doing another new vegas run, too.
I wonder if I should wait a bit though... I tend to play these games when they come out, then never play the DLC because I don’t feel like playing through the main game again - still haven’t played through the last couple of POE2 DLC, Old world blues, or Nuka World for Fallout 4 for this reason.
I admit I am waiting patiently for the Steam release. Game looks dope. Hopefully it is dope.
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It is sort of a AA game, they’ve said themselves it doesn’t have the scope or budget of New Vegas (let alone the license).
This is definitely a bigger thing than all the isometric stuff they’ve done recently, though, and possibly a precursor to the Microsoft buyout and the resources from that which could benefit them down the road.
I will probably check it out. In fallout I always made a high speech/science/energy weapons character, and it seems like you can more or less do that here.
Quick look, with the devs:
https://youtu.be/_GFrZgko5pw
Launch trailer:
https://youtu.be/EPbrKXda6RI
I was about to do the same, but it's on the Microsoft Windows store too. It's also available in their Gamepass thingy, which means for $1 I can play it for a month. That's certainly cheap enough for me to try out, and it completely avoids EGS.
Maybe next week.
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There’s been some previews, like the giant bomb thing
I've watched a youtube not-quite-an-LP of it. It looked pretty interesting and it's got my attention.Whoops...wrong game. Too many The Outer W-word games...
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https://youtu.be/PY5rZkE8oaI
This guy has a good review. There are definite shortcomings but the RPG aspect is ace.
You're in luck because it isn't a Bethesda product!
Boy, I bet Outer Wilds is glad they came to market first, huh?
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I bought it on the PlayStation store.
Now to play the waiting game.
as an aside I have some friends who refuse to load the Epic store. I've picked up a ton of free games from their weekly giveaway I probably wouldn't have tried otherwise. Operencia stands out. I don't really understand their position.
But I will probably grab this on PSN.
But I'm grabbing Outer Worlds through Xbox Game Pass on PC, because, $1. Come on.
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Quick look -> Over one hour long.
Something doesn't seem right here...
I was intrigued by the trailer and heard the Xbox Game Pass basically adds the game pass to all your existing Gold account time for $1 so I figured I'd pick that up and try this out. The trailer looked like a weird mix of Fallout, Borderlands and Bioshock. Which I figured had a decent chance of being good.
Plus it's by the New Vegas people who had the best modern Fallout.
That's the one-time ultimate game pass upgrade, which merges your existing (console) Game Pass subscription time along with Xbox Live Gold subscription time into console+PC game pass (as they are technically separate now). So, 6 months of Xbox Live gold + 6 months of Game Pass running concurrently + $1 becomes 1 year of Game Pass Ultimate. 2 months of Gold and 0 months of Game Pass become 2 months of Game Pass Ultimate (unless they changed that).
For anyone else who's wondering how the upgrade works. There's an explanation in the first post of the Xbox thread too.
Yes, it is super-complicated. Yes, the names don't help. Yes, it is a absurdly good deal that only exists because, like Netflix, Disney+, etc., Microsoft assumes you'll forget to turn-off auto-renewal or won't care by then.
I think there's a good amount of New Vegas people on this game, but the leads are Fallout OG folks through and through.
With that said the game is apparently good.
Yeah I'll be getting this on PC too; the 60FPS gameplay they've shown looks really good.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTWpSNELLok
"Obsidian, a developer that's made sequels to both BioWare's Knights of the Old Republic, and Bethesda's Fallout 3, has merged these two distinctive flavors and they taste great together. I wouldn't quite call this space frontier themed adventures the best of both worlds, but it's a creative and well-made take that's both familiar and new all at once."
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"The Outer Worlds is the best possible version of a Fallout game."
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It releases at 7PM EDT on Thursday. So you can of course get it Friday as well. And yes the preload is already up. 37GB.
Time to reset the clock!!
Given there's a Switch version, I'd guess the base PS4 isn't the platform to worry about.
What engine is Outer Worlds running on?
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Nah, Bethsoft just needs to stop doing Fallout stuff and return to Elder Scrolls which is what they are actually good at.
They would have been a lot better off if they had just punted Fallout 4 off to Obsidian or some other competent developer and done two more TES games based on the Skyrim Engine instead.