The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition - Obsidian's first-person sci-fi RPG set in a corporate space colony

[Silverfish]

The PS4 fan also drowns out the bland music and cutscene voiceover (which isn't muted along with regular dialogue as I found out).

 

[Fedora Master]

I don't know what's worse, playing this of your own volition or playing it on a console.

Since TOW plays like a console game and is designed with controllers in mind, it doesn't really matter which platform you play it on. It also doesn't feature graphics that makes it run poorly on a console (like BG3, for example), and it lacks a noteworthy modding scene.

The point is that it makes you a disgusting degenerate console peasant.

 

[cvv]

Saying TOW is better than Starfield is like saying slamming your dick in the door is better than castrating yourself with a screwdriver. It's true...

Is it tho.

 

[Vic]

TOW = slamming your dick in the door
Starfield = castrating yourself with a screwdriver

mhh

if playing these games is so painful, why do you do it?

I dropped TOW after maybe 5 hours? And I kept playing Starfield for 200 hours. I guess I have a fetish for screwdrivers

 

[Lord_Potato]

TOW goes out of its way to emulate the negative aspects of Bethesda titles while also being severely reduced in scope. What exactly is the argument for Starfield being worse?

It's simple.
Starfield took 79 hours of my life.
TOW only took around 20.

It is clearly a superior game!

 

[Roguey]

TOW goes out of its way to emulate the negative aspects of Bethesda titles while also being severely reduced in scope. What exactly is the argument for Starfield being worse?

Incredibly stupid writing, beyond awful (TOW is midwitted, Starfield is dimwitted). So much copy-paste filler content to the point where not even Beth fans are satisfied.

 

[cvv]

TOW is midwitted, Starfield is dimwitted

If I had to choose I'd MUCH rather play a game written by a swineherd than a Bay Area college graduate.

 

[Atlantico]

TOW goes out of its way to emulate the negative aspects of Bethesda titles while also being severely reduced in scope. What exactly is the argument for Starfield being worse?

Incredibly stupid writing, beyond awful (TOW is midwitted, Starfield is dimwitted). So much copy-paste filler content to the point where not even Beth fans are satisfied.

Sounds damning, but I remember how people talked about Mass Effect Andromeda.

 

[Yosharian]

Just when I thought the game was starting to get a little easy again, I went to Monarch... holy shit.

It really does say volumes about modern game dev when modders are capable of creating a difficulty curve that shits all over anything the vanilla game has

I actually died. Like, 3 times. Lost an hour or two of progress in total. And I'm not even mad about it, the game was teaching me a lesson.

I hate the tone issues this game has, if they had just gone for a gritty Fallout concept instead of this ZANY LOL thing the game is trying for, it would have worked so much better

 

[Roguey]

It really does say volumes about modern game dev when modders are capable of creating a difficulty curve that shits all over anything the vanilla game has

"I was told to make it casual" - Tim Cain

 

[jackofshadows]

Not really an excuse when there're difficulty levels.

 

[Yosharian]

It really does say volumes about modern game dev when modders are capable of creating a difficulty curve that shits all over anything the vanilla game has

"I was told to make it casual" - Tim Cain

It's honestly sad because the alternate route to getting Monarch access is actually terrifying now because there are mobs with 40 armor and 30k HP that you just cannot kill at that point, I had to actually sneak past some of them and play really tactically with the others.

 

[Silverfish]

The point is that it makes you a disgusting degenerate console peasant.

You're right. I'll start paying more for games everyone thinks are shit anyway and without an option to resell and get at least a little of my money back.

 

[Roguey]

Not really an excuse when there're difficulty levels.

They scaled up once with hard and then did one on top of that with extra features.

 

[Yosharian]

Not really an excuse when there're difficulty levels.

They scaled up once with hard and then did one on top of that with extra features.

actually as far as I can see Supernova doesn't even do anything to monster difficulty

 

[Wesp5]

It really does say volumes about modern game dev when modders are capable of creating a difficulty curve that shits all over anything the vanilla game has

"I was told to make it casual" - Tim Cain

Where did he say that? It explains all the lockpicking and hacking devices all over the place though...

 

[Yosharian]

Yeah you fucking drown in consumables in this game

 

[Fedora Master]

The point is that it makes you a disgusting degenerate console peasant.

You're right. I'll start paying more for games everyone thinks are shit anyway and without an option to resell and get at least a little of my money back.

>paying for games

Technologically illiterate pleb

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

Yosharian speaks wisely. Mod the difficulty, ignore all the companions except robot and the priest, and use Monarch alternate path, and talk to me later about combat being easy.

 

[Roguey]

Where did he say that? It explains all the lockpicking and hacking devices all over the place though...

We were told "make it casual." So some people go "Hey, you dumbed it down." We were told to make it a casual game.

 

[Yosharian]

Yosharian speaks wisely. Mod the difficulty, ignore all the companions except robot and the priest, and use Monarch alternate path, and talk to me later about combat being easy.

Can't use SAM because the difficulty mod affects him, he has 16k HP lol

Also Parvati's stun special is REALLY useful against tough enemies, it's like 5 seconds of complete lockdown.

 

[Silverfish]

Technologically illiterate pleb

I never said otherwise.

 

[Latelistener]

But WHY? Why play this? Why give it your soul and time? Fucking why?

Because even on Codex many gaymers are this:

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After reading Roguey's butthurt in the Dark Souls thread, I believe the situation on Dex may be even worse.

 

[Jermu]

 

[Jason Liang]

I just got this on Epic (for free). Is it worth downloading?