Post #2315007

2026-04-22 04:01 UTC

Outer Worlds was fantastic. Can you make legitimate criticisms about some of it? Sure. You can make legitimate criticisms about anything. But the overwhelming amount of hate I've seen was from fanboys who deluded themselves into thinking it was gonna be New Vegas in space, When nothing even remotely close to that was hinted.. and because it didnt up being what they deluded themselves into thinking it was gonna be, they hated on it. Also, they've made a TON of fantastic games. Alpha Protocol was a mindblowing game with a depth and complexity that still makes it playable today, 16 years later (technically it came out before New Vegas, but Alpha Protocol doesnt get enough love so I'll mention it when ever I can) As for post-New Vegas games.. Stick of Truth was wildly succesful Pillars of Eternity was wildly successful, and created a franchise for them. Tyranny was fantastic and fresh Outer Worlds I already covered. Never played Grounded but it must be wildly fuckin popular to be getting a sequel and a TV show.

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@zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-04-22 15:53

I'm not sure I'd call Outer Worlds "fantastic", but I'd probably still call it "good" which still holds up against he higher up comment saying they haven't made any good games since. It reminded me of the first Mass Effect game in a way, it was a KOTOR game with the soul stripped out of it. Outer Worlds was just FNV with far less soul and in space. I didn't run into any bugs while playing on release though, which was a nice surprise.

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@BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world 2026-04-22 04:58

the only reason i beat outer worlds was for parvarti. there were sometimes quests that were fine, but nothing really memorable. i did not care for its atmosphere and ham fisted blunt as an atom bomb style of storytelling. the combat was also horrible. i genuinely do not know why anyone would even attmept the hardest difficulty, there is just no way its any fun. the perks were practically useless in my eyes because it was so barebones, making it not a real incentive to level up. the gear also sucks outside of that super cool monster mashup outfit.....that you get to wear for about 10 minutes because it comes right at the end of the game id overall give outer worlds a 3/10 it could have been good but too many elements ruin it for me conversely....outer worlds 2? i couldnt even get a quarter of the way through stick of truth was awesome yeah. havent played any others

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