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

[Lord_Potato]

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

Well, it's got both dlcs. Might be worth checking them out.

The original game is very mid.

 

[Shaja]

Pfffff and thinking I bought it years ago back in China on GOG for 30 yuan ($4) feel bad ....

 

[Yosharian]

Just FYI and for anyone else who is unaware. The Spacers Choice edition of this game is widely regarded as complete dogshit. It was a remaster initiated by the publisher and done by a company completely unrelated to the original developer, who by all accounts completely botched the job and produced a giant piece of shit that actually managed to make the original game look good by comparison, quite the achievement

 

[Butter]

This is not the inducement to use EGS they think it is.

 

[Krivol]

Where quake?!

 

[Drowed]

Graphically, the game is not significantly different. Some slight adjustments to the textures and lighting, which arguably makes some scenes better and others worse. The biggest problem by far is the performance, which is disastrous. Even on a 4090 the game stutters and drops to sub-40 frames, with visible stuttering at various times.

I don't know if anything has changed since launch, but if it hasn't, it was a sloppy job.

 

[El Presidente]

Starfield is way better than Outer Worlds.

For this to be true Outer Worlds has to be the very worst RPG ever made.

 

[Silverfish]

For this to be true Outer Worlds has to be the very worst RPG ever made.

"My name is Chester D. Higgins. The D stands for 'definitely not insane'. I use it as a reminder." So, yes.

 

[Mitleser2020]

Graphically, the game is not significantly different. Some slight adjustments to the textures and lighting, which arguably makes some scenes better and others worse. The biggest problem by far is the performance, which is disastrous. Even on a 4090 the game stutters and drops to sub-40 frames, with visible stuttering at various times.

I don't know if anything has changed since launch, but if it hasn't, it was a sloppy job.

They did update it with several patches.

 

[Cael]

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

Well, it's got both dlcs. Might be worth checking them out.

The original game is very mid.

Epic Store. Rusty Halberd. No.

 

[Yosharian]

For this to be true Outer Worlds has to be the very worst RPG ever made.

"My name is Chester D. Higgins. The D stands for 'definitely not insane'. I use it as a reminder." So, yes.

Ok yeah that bit is really bad to be fair

 

[Atlantico]

Ten hours into the game and it's already hitting me with faggotry. Soyfaggotry. The worst kind.

The UI is terrible console-tard slop. Companions are forgettable and annoying. The humor almost never lands.

It's mediocre. I can see potential, it could have been quite good and it isn't. It's mediocre goyslop.

Can't say I'm excited to continue playing, the story has potential, but the worldbuilding is not good. Another game that is made by corporate boomers. It would have been about 10x better if the worldbuilding had been solid and the companions hadn't been so goddam soyfaggy. Wasted potential.

 

[GentlemanCthulhu]

Ten hours into the game and it's already hitting me with faggotry. Soyfaggotry. The worst kind.

The UI is terrible console-tard slop. Companions are forgettable and annoying. The humor almost never lands.

It's mediocre. I can see potential, it could have been quite good and it isn't. It's mediocre goyslop.

Can't say I'm excited to continue playing, the story has potential, but the worldbuilding is not good. Another game that is made by corporate boomers. It would have been about 10x better if the worldbuilding had been solid and the companions hadn't been so goddam soyfaggy. Wasted potential.

The story never goes anywhere beyond "capitalism bad, hurr durr".
it's an incredibly milquetoast game on all accounts.
one thing i found funny is that they removed the character name censor (used to be you couldn't name your character anything Obsidiots considered even remotely offensive)
other than that yeah, it's a C U C K's RPG.

 

[Atlantico]

Ten hours into the game and it's already hitting me with faggotry. Soyfaggotry. The worst kind.

The UI is terrible console-tard slop. Companions are forgettable and annoying. The humor almost never lands.

It's mediocre. I can see potential, it could have been quite good and it isn't. It's mediocre goyslop.

Can't say I'm excited to continue playing, the story has potential, but the worldbuilding is not good. Another game that is made by corporate boomers. It would have been about 10x better if the worldbuilding had been solid and the companions hadn't been so goddam soyfaggy. Wasted potential.

The story never goes anywhere beyond "capitalism bad, hurr durr".
it's an incredibly milquetoast game on all accounts.
one thing i found funny is that they removed the character name censor (used to be you couldn't name your character anything Obsidiots considered even remotely offensive)
other than that yeah, it's a C U C K's RPG.

The companion quest to get that shy lesbian mechanic out of her shell to find love with an older woman really grinds my gears. The lesbo part is annoying enough because why the fuck can't it be normal for once, but the fact that if you imagine that this is a hetero relationship where the young virginal woman is being hit on by an older man who is the commander of a space station and you're suppose to guide them together while the older individual is grooming the younger one with emails and instant messaging... it's just so stupid that would never have been written in an actual game — but since it is lesbians, well I guess we'll just move the bar so low it's touching the floor.

 

[Ryzer]

Ten hours into the game and it's already hitting me with faggotry. Soyfaggotry. The worst kind.

The UI is terrible console-tard slop. Companions are forgettable and annoying. The humor almost never lands.

It's mediocre. I can see potential, it could have been quite good and it isn't. It's mediocre goyslop.

Can't say I'm excited to continue playing, the story has potential, but the worldbuilding is not good. Another game that is made by corporate boomers. It would have been about 10x better if the worldbuilding had been solid and the companions hadn't been so goddam soyfaggy. Wasted potential.

character name censor (used to be you couldn't name your character anything Obsidiots considered even remotely offensive)

Why putting a character name censor in a SINGLE-PLAYER RPG? but why?

 

[jackofshadows]

The companion quest to get that shy lesbian mechanic out of her shell to find love with an older woman really grinds my gears. The lesbo part is annoying enough because why the fuck can't it be normal for once, but the fact that if you imagine that this is a hetero relationship where the young virginal woman is being hit on by an older man who is the commander of a space station and you're suppose to guide them together while the older individual is grooming the younger one with emails and instant messaging... it's just so stupid that would never have been written in an actual game — but since it is lesbians, well I guess we'll just move the bar so low it's touching the floor.

The whole asexual dyke char arc is writer's (Dollarhyde) self insert. So one can only imagine the details. You can "kill" her yet you cannot condemn "her". That's is all so cringe, my fucking God.

 

[jackofshadows]

Why putting a character name censor in a SINGLE-PLAYER RPG? but why?

Twitch. I know, I know.

 

[Roguey]

The companion quest to get that shy lesbian mechanic out of her shell to find love with an older woman really grinds my gears.

You can just tell her to stick to her job and not have to do that quest at all.

 

[Butter]

Ten hours into the game and it's already hitting me with faggotry. Soyfaggotry. The worst kind.

The UI is terrible console-tard slop. Companions are forgettable and annoying. The humor almost never lands.

It's mediocre. I can see potential, it could have been quite good and it isn't. It's mediocre goyslop.

Can't say I'm excited to continue playing, the story has potential, but the worldbuilding is not good. Another game that is made by corporate boomers. It would have been about 10x better if the worldbuilding had been solid and the companions hadn't been so goddam soyfaggy. Wasted potential.

character name censor (used to be you couldn't name your character anything Obsidiots considered even remotely offensive)

Why putting a character name censor in a SINGLE-PLAYER RPG? but why?

Same reason Disco Elysium censors its own dialogue. Shitlibs made it.

 

[DeepOcean]

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

Yes, watch the download bar fill up, wait the download bar to reach 100%, then on that exact moment, delete the game, this way, you can delete the game before it starts getting boring.

 

[Silverfish]

The companion quest to get that shy lesbian mechanic out of her shell to find love with an older woman really grinds my gears.

You can just tell her to stick to her job and not have to do that quest at all.

Alternatively, you can do what I did: immediately stop playing at this point, wait a few weeks and start a new run where you don't bother with any of the party members.

 

[gurugeorge]

Ten hours into the game and it's already hitting me with faggotry. Soyfaggotry. The worst kind.

The UI is terrible console-tard slop. Companions are forgettable and annoying. The humor almost never lands.

It's mediocre. I can see potential, it could have been quite good and it isn't. It's mediocre goyslop.

Can't say I'm excited to continue playing, the story has potential, but the worldbuilding is not good. Another game that is made by corporate boomers. It would have been about 10x better if the worldbuilding had been solid and the companions hadn't been so goddam soyfaggy. Wasted potential.

Definitely. It's the sort of game where you're kind of internally urging it on to be good, because it has some good elements, and themes you like in games, and you keep wishing ever so hard that it'll be good, but at some point you just give up and realize it's crap and you've just wasted a dozen or so hours of your life.

 

[Cael]

Ten hours into the game and it's already hitting me with faggotry. Soyfaggotry. The worst kind.

The UI is terrible console-tard slop. Companions are forgettable and annoying. The humor almost never lands.

It's mediocre. I can see potential, it could have been quite good and it isn't. It's mediocre goyslop.

Can't say I'm excited to continue playing, the story has potential, but the worldbuilding is not good. Another game that is made by corporate boomers. It would have been about 10x better if the worldbuilding had been solid and the companions hadn't been so goddam soyfaggy. Wasted potential.

Definitely. It's the sort of game where you're kind of internally urging it on to be good, because it has some good elements, and themes you like in games, and you keep wishing ever so hard that it'll be good, but at some point you just give up and realize it's crap and you've just wasted a dozen or so hours of your life.

Sounds like domestic violence...

 

[Yosharian]

Vicar Max is pretty neat IMO

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

I don't even remember other companions other than first two and the robot. The others seemed so insufferable from the first line of dialogue that I didn't even recruit them.