when i played it i felt like i was playing fallout new vegas all over again
feeling didn't last too long and neither did the game but i still enjoyed my time, i'd say worth it on sale 100%
I got it for free
>this game must get better soon, I'm 10 hours in >it ends
when i played it i felt like i was playing fallout new vegas all over again
feeling didn't last too long and neither did the game but i still enjoyed my time, i'd say worth it on sale 100%
No good but its fun (in the beginning). History is moronic. Characters are dull and forgettable. Weapon variety is basically non existent. You just get better versions of weapons you already had.
Doesn't scratch the new vegas itch, but it can scratch the bethesda itch. Leveled loot sucks and the story pigeonholes you a bit but otherwise it was alright. Haven't tried the dlc.
Outer Worlds has a tone of being a comedy game. Everything is satirical and dialog is ironic.
But there's a problem; there is only one joke. In the entire several hour long game, which is at all times trying to be funny, there is one joke. You will hear this joke several thousand times in a row.
The joke is "corporations are greedy and stupid".
Now, dont' get me wrong. It's true that corporations are greedy, and they often are stupid. This is an accurate observation. But hearing the exact same joke over and over and over and over and over and over and over isn't good comedy. Over the course of the first hour of the game it goes from kind of funny to bland to actually aggravating, an then it just keeps going for the entire game.
The actual gameplay and quests are just okay. Really mediocre. Not bad.
Married with children had jokes about masculinity, jokes about relationships, jokes about working retail, jokes about marriage, jokes about parenting, jokes about sex... even as much as it repeated itself it was actually pretty diverse in its sources of comedy.
In outer worlds everything just always comes back to "wow look at how absurdly moronic, incompetent, and shortsighted these corporations are, it resulted in an unpleasent situation!"
it's not a joke though, a joke has a set up and payoff to the punchline, a joke is funny. Outer Worlds is a capitalist dystopia in the far future. somehow you have conflated the atmosphere and setting of the game into "one joke", utterly baffling.
I had a great impression on the first planet, it had a self-contained story building up to a resolution with a choice.
Then I went to another planet, saw all the same assets again, and the last planet was forgotten to "focus" on a directionless main plot.
Then went to another planet after that, saw the same assets again, game still had nothing new to say. By planet 4 or 5 this kept repeating and my goodwill was spent, was impossible to keep giving a shit.
I know 50% of Ganker is reducto ad absurdum but in this case it is EXACTLY as this anon says :
Like, Fallout 4 is moronic in terms of characters and story, right? To the point of being a joke. But its still pretty playable as a dumb open world shooter because there's a lot of content to explore, loot, craft, fight, whatever, even if its not particularly great at any of them, at least theres a lot of it to keep you invested and wondering what you might come across next.
TOW also has shitty story and characters to the point of being a joke, but also doesnt deliver on places to explore, or stuff to loot, or enemies to fight. It's hyper-economical on all fronts so it isnt even engaging when you turn off your brain and just try to enjoy the gameplay, because it's a much shallower version of several games that you probably already own, and once it starts recoloring assets its clear that it's just punching the clock until its long enough to justify its pricetag (and even this is allegedly debatable).
What's worse than a bad game? A soberly disappointing game.
No, you'll just hate yourself for giving the game a chance. It's bad, not mediocre or average like people claim, actually bad. If you want to scratch your Fallout itch play: >any Fallout game you haven't played >any overhaul mods for them you haven't played >the Fallout mod for Hearts of Iron 4 >Underrail >Atom RPG >Wasteland 2 & 3
I also had the Fallout itch this year, and played Fallout: Tactics, Wasteland 3, Underrail, and Old World Blues(Fallout mod) for Hoi4 this year and they're great. I put over 1k hours into all of them combined this year. I tried the new update for 76 too, but it didn't add anything of note and only played for 2 days before uninstalling.
No. If you got any enjoyment out of Fallout 4, your standards are low enough to also get some enjoyment out of 76. It even does a few things better than 4, since it knows its a soulless looter shooter unlike 4 which still thought it was a RPG.
In my experience, that did not happen, I enjoyed FO4, mostly with mods, so I gave F76 a shot because I saw that it had decent weapon variety, but I couldn't enjoy it, I tried for a whole day, about 6 hours, it was just shit, very much so, the worst part about it is the lag, FO4's combat and animations are bad enough, but having to deal with about 100ms of lag for anything to register is exceedingly shit.
>I enjoyed FO4, mostly with mods
Yah, if you enjoyed it only with mods you probably wouldn't like it. It's only really marginally better if you compare it to vanilla 4. The lag was atleast fixed, mainly because no one plays it anymore.
Hearts of Iron 4: Old World Blues is unironically one of the best Fallout experiences out there, it's my second favorite after New Vegas.
Make sure you get the radio mod too. And now his little friends are just like Bert
First planet is good. It just keeps going downhill from there.
Don't do Pavarti's quest unless you want to try and pinpoint the exact moment she was taken over by a writer who decided she was their self-insert mary sue character.
Do you like space?
Do you like trannies?
Do you like Black folk?
Do you like troony Black folk in space?
If you answered yes to all four then you'll probably like Outer Worlds
It's garbage, I got memed into playing it after watching a few YouTubers say the game was good, some even went as far as to say it's better than fnv but it's genuinely one of the worst games I've ever played.
It's much more stripped down compared to Fallout, though how much you care for Bethesda's two dozen interacting systems in their games that's either a plus or a minus.
You're basically charged to go to various planets and deal with the problem there all while building up to one last big showdown to resolve the major plot of the star system.
If it wasn't from Obsidian and they didn't ram the "From the people that made Fallout" all over the advertising it'd be seem like an alright diet Todd-em-up.
I got through to the end without feeling like I was forced to but it honestly didn't stick with me after the fact.
Quintessential 6/10. It's competent, period. It doesn't surprise. But it also doesn't disappoint. You'll have a good enough time playing the game but you'll forget it soon after finishing.
It's pretty alright at first but then drops in quality. Like a 6/10 on the first planet and then a maybe 4/10.
The game is just very bland. It does nothing interesting or new. It has Borderlands style weapons, but there is way less variety so that part gets boring fast. It has some extraordinarily boring fetch quests and some slightly interesting fetch quests. It has boring characters. It has a ship that you can't fly or really do anything with.
The only thing I really remember about this game's story is that there's an extremely cliche but still slightly interesting unassuming town with a dark secret on the first planet. And there's an (Indian?) woman who you help propose to her crush, who I think is a woman? I remember this part because it was so boring and out of place.
I think you will be very hard pressed to find someone that really likes this game. I guess you can play it if you are really craving that type of game, but prepare to be disappointed despite expecting nothing.
My recommendation: Play Underrail. It's not space, but it is Fallout-y and definitely Sci-Fi. It's the opposite of Outer Worlds, a game with some remarkable shittiness and sharp edges, but also a lot of really memorable and interesting parts.
I hate it when supposed open world games give you multiple small maps instead of one large map, just set your space game on one planet for christ's sake
It is supremely mediocre. The characters and writing are just so fricking bad, and the gameplay/RPG systems are nowhere near good enough to justify how shit everything else is.
I said "supremely mediocre", as in far worse than just mediocre. It is playable, has few bugs, and generally looks good and has good ideas. They just fricking suck. Are you following along?
No. It proved once and for all that Obsidian is a shit company that's been riding on the fact that everyone looks at New Vegas with rose tinted glasses
Outer Worlds is the most aggressively "meh" games I've ever played.
I don't think I could name more than one npc from it despite playing through it 3 times
2nd playthrough was playing a comically evil corpo character just to see how things play out
3rd playthrough was a kill-everything run just to see how things play out
the subsequent playthroughs took much, much less time than the first one to be fair. I only have 35 hours clocked into it.
I was also very bored at the time.
It's okay.
Spacers choice is objectively inferior to just the base game + expansions though, because it adds a shit-awful pink filter to everything, no mods are compatible (and the mod scene died long before the cash grab came out), and it just forcefully upscales all of the textures. Some things look good, most don't, for a wicked increase in requirements.
It's a fine-ish bethgame clone, I'd rate it above starfield, but not by much.
It's mediocre, anything other than the second to lowest difficulty has enemies being bulletsponges.
Rather than VATS you have a few different abilities but most equate to slowdown+buff.
Outer Worlds is the very definition of a 5/10 game.
It's not bad, it's not good. It just is.
If you can get it for free or very, very cheap, it's a good bit of fun.
What are some good games
I got it for free
It's only 10 hours? Even with the DLCs?
>10 hours
i mean, it's all relative how fast you're playing and what side missions you're doing.
i got 50 hours out of it, including dlcs.
No
when i played it i felt like i was playing fallout new vegas all over again
feeling didn't last too long and neither did the game but i still enjoyed my time, i'd say worth it on sale 100%
Frick off moron. Game is boring trash.
>this game must get better soon, I'm 10 hours in
>it ends
No good but its fun (in the beginning). History is moronic. Characters are dull and forgettable. Weapon variety is basically non existent. You just get better versions of weapons you already had.
It's pretty good and worth it if you do all the quests. Only doing the main story takes 10 hours
it's playable if you have that itch and have exhausted your options(ie, the good games). Just lower your expectations a bit.
Doesn't scratch the new vegas itch, but it can scratch the bethesda itch. Leveled loot sucks and the story pigeonholes you a bit but otherwise it was alright. Haven't tried the dlc.
It's cheaper on cd keys
Outer Worlds has a tone of being a comedy game. Everything is satirical and dialog is ironic.
But there's a problem; there is only one joke. In the entire several hour long game, which is at all times trying to be funny, there is one joke. You will hear this joke several thousand times in a row.
The joke is "corporations are greedy and stupid".
Now, dont' get me wrong. It's true that corporations are greedy, and they often are stupid. This is an accurate observation. But hearing the exact same joke over and over and over and over and over and over and over isn't good comedy. Over the course of the first hour of the game it goes from kind of funny to bland to actually aggravating, an then it just keeps going for the entire game.
The actual gameplay and quests are just okay. Really mediocre. Not bad.
It’s literally the same joke Tim Cain has been telling since the Enclave in Fallout 2.
that's still half the amount of jokes found in married with children which went on for longer.
Married with children had jokes about masculinity, jokes about relationships, jokes about working retail, jokes about marriage, jokes about parenting, jokes about sex... even as much as it repeated itself it was actually pretty diverse in its sources of comedy.
In outer worlds everything just always comes back to "wow look at how absurdly moronic, incompetent, and shortsighted these corporations are, it resulted in an unpleasent situation!"
yes and they're all the same
>my daughter's a filthy prostitute LOL
>my son's a loser LOL
4 jokes instead of 2, my bad.
t. didn't play the game
it's not a joke though, a joke has a set up and payoff to the punchline, a joke is funny. Outer Worlds is a capitalist dystopia in the far future. somehow you have conflated the atmosphere and setting of the game into "one joke", utterly baffling.
I had a great impression on the first planet, it had a self-contained story building up to a resolution with a choice.
Then I went to another planet, saw all the same assets again, and the last planet was forgotten to "focus" on a directionless main plot.
Then went to another planet after that, saw the same assets again, game still had nothing new to say. By planet 4 or 5 this kept repeating and my goodwill was spent, was impossible to keep giving a shit.
I know 50% of Ganker is reducto ad absurdum but in this case it is EXACTLY as this anon says :
Like, Fallout 4 is moronic in terms of characters and story, right? To the point of being a joke. But its still pretty playable as a dumb open world shooter because there's a lot of content to explore, loot, craft, fight, whatever, even if its not particularly great at any of them, at least theres a lot of it to keep you invested and wondering what you might come across next.
TOW also has shitty story and characters to the point of being a joke, but also doesnt deliver on places to explore, or stuff to loot, or enemies to fight. It's hyper-economical on all fronts so it isnt even engaging when you turn off your brain and just try to enjoy the gameplay, because it's a much shallower version of several games that you probably already own, and once it starts recoloring assets its clear that it's just punching the clock until its long enough to justify its pricetag (and even this is allegedly debatable).
What's worse than a bad game? A soberly disappointing game.
Its really fricking bad. I would say its comparable to starfield in terms of shittiness and writing.
Writing in games as a main gripe is just silly
The best way to play the game is by killing everyone on sight. There are surprisingly very few characters that aren't killable.
Played it for like 1 hour minutes and it felt like a washed out fallout, even lighter on the content
It's the formula distilled down to a perfect 5 out of 10
No, you'll just hate yourself for giving the game a chance. It's bad, not mediocre or average like people claim, actually bad. If you want to scratch your Fallout itch play:
>any Fallout game you haven't played
>any overhaul mods for them you haven't played
>the Fallout mod for Hearts of Iron 4
>Underrail
>Atom RPG
>Wasteland 2 & 3
I also had the Fallout itch this year, and played Fallout: Tactics, Wasteland 3, Underrail, and Old World Blues(Fallout mod) for Hoi4 this year and they're great. I put over 1k hours into all of them combined this year. I tried the new update for 76 too, but it didn't add anything of note and only played for 2 days before uninstalling.
>>any Fallout game you haven't played
Except for Fallout 76, surely.
No. If you got any enjoyment out of Fallout 4, your standards are low enough to also get some enjoyment out of 76. It even does a few things better than 4, since it knows its a soulless looter shooter unlike 4 which still thought it was a RPG.
In my experience, that did not happen, I enjoyed FO4, mostly with mods, so I gave F76 a shot because I saw that it had decent weapon variety, but I couldn't enjoy it, I tried for a whole day, about 6 hours, it was just shit, very much so, the worst part about it is the lag, FO4's combat and animations are bad enough, but having to deal with about 100ms of lag for anything to register is exceedingly shit.
>I enjoyed FO4, mostly with mods
Yah, if you enjoyed it only with mods you probably wouldn't like it. It's only really marginally better if you compare it to vanilla 4. The lag was atleast fixed, mainly because no one plays it anymore.
>fallout fallout fallout atom underrail wasteland
someone needs to at least recommend Stalker and Metro
Hearts of Iron 4: Old World Blues is unironically one of the best Fallout experiences out there, it's my second favorite after New Vegas.
Make sure you get the radio mod too. And now his little friends are just like Bert
First planet is good. It just keeps going downhill from there.
Don't do Pavarti's quest unless you want to try and pinpoint the exact moment she was taken over by a writer who decided she was their self-insert mary sue character.
Do you like space?
Do you like trannies?
Do you like Black folk?
Do you like troony Black folk in space?
If you answered yes to all four then you'll probably like Outer Worlds
>not set in space
>no trannies
>check
>Do you like troony Black folk in space
I like only all of those at the same time. I hate the individual components.
It's garbage, I got memed into playing it after watching a few YouTubers say the game was good, some even went as far as to say it's better than fnv but it's genuinely one of the worst games I've ever played.
It's better on a technical level
the story is frustrating black and white
and combat is average while the meele is fricking awful
>NOOOOOO YOUR MEDIA HAS TO BE 5000 SHADES OF GREY YOU CANT HAVE EXPLICIT GOOD AND EVIL FACTIONS EVERYONE NEEDS TO BE MORALLY EXPENDABLE
moron, Go play checkers or something
Frick no. Wasn’t even worth pirating
You have the option to be evil but there's no point or benefit in doing so
If Ganker hates it, it's probably good.
Yeah, that means that
>Flopspoken
>Immortals of Aveum
>nuSaints Row
>Mafia III
Are actually good games.
one of the most forgettable games ever made
It's much more stripped down compared to Fallout, though how much you care for Bethesda's two dozen interacting systems in their games that's either a plus or a minus.
You're basically charged to go to various planets and deal with the problem there all while building up to one last big showdown to resolve the major plot of the star system.
If it wasn't from Obsidian and they didn't ram the "From the people that made Fallout" all over the advertising it'd be seem like an alright diet Todd-em-up.
I got through to the end without feeling like I was forced to but it honestly didn't stick with me after the fact.
diet todd 'em up is like a hard liquor now, all due to him watering down the formula releasing Starfield.
only the first planet is good enough
everything else is mid to low tier
Quintessential 6/10. It's competent, period. It doesn't surprise. But it also doesn't disappoint. You'll have a good enough time playing the game but you'll forget it soon after finishing.
you are too positive
the game at most is a 5
i beat this game and i remember almost nothing about it
Just play Cyberpunk.
It's pretty alright at first but then drops in quality. Like a 6/10 on the first planet and then a maybe 4/10.
The game is just very bland. It does nothing interesting or new. It has Borderlands style weapons, but there is way less variety so that part gets boring fast. It has some extraordinarily boring fetch quests and some slightly interesting fetch quests. It has boring characters. It has a ship that you can't fly or really do anything with.
The only thing I really remember about this game's story is that there's an extremely cliche but still slightly interesting unassuming town with a dark secret on the first planet. And there's an (Indian?) woman who you help propose to her crush, who I think is a woman? I remember this part because it was so boring and out of place.
I think you will be very hard pressed to find someone that really likes this game. I guess you can play it if you are really craving that type of game, but prepare to be disappointed despite expecting nothing.
My recommendation: Play Underrail. It's not space, but it is Fallout-y and definitely Sci-Fi. It's the opposite of Outer Worlds, a game with some remarkable shittiness and sharp edges, but also a lot of really memorable and interesting parts.
I hate it when supposed open world games give you multiple small maps instead of one large map, just set your space game on one planet for christ's sake
Why are the Obsidian shills constantly shilling this trash lately? Frick off you worthless hacks.
I got it for free and its the best free game ive played since alien swarm.
Honestly, It's on par with fallout. It feels like fallout in space.
Not bad. Better than Starfield.
It is supremely mediocre. The characters and writing are just so fricking bad, and the gameplay/RPG systems are nowhere near good enough to justify how shit everything else is.
>its mediocre
>says all the aspects of the game are complete shit
???
I said "supremely mediocre", as in far worse than just mediocre. It is playable, has few bugs, and generally looks good and has good ideas. They just fricking suck. Are you following along?
No. It’s actually shockingly bad. It feels unfinished and what’s actually there isn’t very good to begin with.
I would give it a 6/10
Not the worst thing i played, but no plot and its unfinished.
No. It proved once and for all that Obsidian is a shit company that's been riding on the fact that everyone looks at New Vegas with rose tinted glasses
Outer Worlds is the most aggressively "meh" games I've ever played.
I don't think I could name more than one npc from it despite playing through it 3 times
You've played through this game 3 times? Why?
2nd playthrough was playing a comically evil corpo character just to see how things play out
3rd playthrough was a kill-everything run just to see how things play out
the subsequent playthroughs took much, much less time than the first one to be fair. I only have 35 hours clocked into it.
I was also very bored at the time.
I got it for free so I'll probably end up playing it and liking it.
It's the most OK game ever made. Doesn't do anything particularly offensive or anything particularly impressive.
Remember that Todd was totally "shaking in his boots" when this piece of shit was announced.
It's okay.
Spacers choice is objectively inferior to just the base game + expansions though, because it adds a shit-awful pink filter to everything, no mods are compatible (and the mod scene died long before the cash grab came out), and it just forcefully upscales all of the textures. Some things look good, most don't, for a wicked increase in requirements.
It's a fine-ish bethgame clone, I'd rate it above starfield, but not by much.
it's better than anything released by bethesta but still barebones
its shit
it was used as a tool to dunk on fallout 4, now that time has passed its way worse, even starfield is better. outer worlds is so bland
how is starslop better
I wouldn't say it's shit, but I wouldn't recommend it either.
It's the oatmeal of videogames
>even starfield is better
Let's not go crazy, now.
its fffffine
It's average, probably better than Starfield tho
Is gun play acceptable in any way or form?
It's mediocre, anything other than the second to lowest difficulty has enemies being bulletsponges.
Rather than VATS you have a few different abilities but most equate to slowdown+buff.
That's disappointing. Thanks, though.
Outer Worlds is the very definition of a 5/10 game.
It's not bad, it's not good. It just is.
If you can get it for free or very, very cheap, it's a good bit of fun.
Yeah, I got it from Timmy. I guess it doesn't hurt to delve into for an hour.