henke on 11/3/2020 at 18:36
Finished it!
Yeah, this was a solid space-adventure. I guess more than anything it reminded me of ME:Andromeda. Nothing special when it comes to the storytelling, but surprisingly good combat systems and overall a fun way to spend a couple weeks, flying around the galaxy and getting into all kindsa trouble.
chk772 on 31/3/2020 at 21:17
It's a OK game. Maybe even good. Not half as good as all those desperates who trashed Bethesda for Fallout in all kinds of places though. Really, Fallout is 10 times better, in any regard.
Still a fun game though. I hated the last boss fight, though, it's completely unbalanced. I walked in there with gun skills at 100%, and the robots ate me alive. I blasted everything before that, but, that fight is way too hard, at least on the difficulty I played on (the hardest I think). I would have had to walk all the way back, and change my skills to hack the door and computer, but, I couldn't be arsed, to be honest, so, I just left the game short before the end, which was a bit frustrating as well, TBH. Reminds me of those totally unbeatable (at least early in the game) Legion hit squads in Fallout New Vegas.
EvaUnit02 on 10/9/2020 at 02:00
Quote Posted by chk772
It's a OK game. Maybe even good. Not half as good as all those desperates who trashed Bethesda for Fallout in all kinds of places though. Really, Fallout is 10 times better, in any regard.
Agreed, it's certainly a shadow of New Vegas. Definitely suffers from lack of Avellone.
Sadly we live in a time where most AAA games are so shit that a title that would've been considered middle-of-the-road by yesteryear's seems amazing by comparison. The bar has been lowered so far that you need to get James Cameron to charter a deep sea expedition to find it.
Another 6 weeks before this game is free from Epic prison. A nice hefty expansion will be out by then too, on top of a likely generous discount. Looking forward to it.
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/578650/The_Outer_Worlds/)
(It'll be another matter breaking my save out of UWP encrypted folder prison. That I'm not anticipating.)
EvaUnit02 on 28/10/2020 at 01:34
The game is utterly solid. Hooked me in a good way, which is rare in modern AAA's turd filled landscape. Think I'm fairly far in the vanilla campaign (have Byzantium to tackle next), so it seems like the perfect time to try the Gorgon expansion pack (that integrated seamlessly with the main game).
N-ray and plasma weapons are beasts, they melt shit quickly. N-Ray has devastating AOE, lingering damage. Getting the N-ray mods are rare, I had to keep docking and undocking with Groundbreaker to get one to spawn with the vendors. I've modded a shotgun and assault rifle with N-ray, but stuck with plasma for my Sniper rifle for effective stealth attacks.
The seems game is very VRAM hungry. Every few hours it actually crashes from running out of memory. 1440p, high settings, uncapped framerate, 100 FOV seems to just eat up the 6GB VRAM I presently have. Unreal Engine 4's memory optimisation seems to be just as trash as UE3's back in the day, even having the same texture pop in issues.
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Thirith on 28/10/2020 at 08:54
I was pretty excited for this, but then I heard too many pretty mixed things: while many like some of the companions and their writing a lot, on the whole The Outer Worlds sounds like it's quite a bit more generic and toothless than Fallout New Vegas. I'm sure I'll play it eventually, but I've got such a backlog of RPGS that I want to play, it might be a while.
EvaUnit02 on 29/10/2020 at 06:47
Quote Posted by Thirith
I was pretty excited for this, but then I heard too many pretty mixed things: while many like some of the companions and their writing a lot, on the whole
The Outer Worlds sounds like it's quite a bit more generic and toothless than
Fallout New Vegas.
That is the case, yes. The loss of their writing talent (namely Avellone) has affected their quality over the last decade. It's ironic because they have sorted out the technical teething and publisher headbutting issues affecting the overall game quality of their early titles.
Summary of TOW: "Corporatism is bad." There is certainly nuance, but don't go expecting something as interesting and thorough as New Vegas' exploration of "end of frontierism", IMO.