no Outer Worlds 2 thread ???
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sandorski
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oof. i guess i must be out of touch with the general populace.
What i like:
1. it's hard.
i did choose "hard" at the beginning, and then imagine my shocked pikachu face when the game turned out to be hard! who coulda known. But yeah, mobs do hit hard, requiring me to squeeze out every ounce of FPS sk1lz to take them down. Which is a welcome change since in F3 only Cazadors and Deathclaws had a chance to hurt me.
2. dialogue aren't expositional.
You need to pay attention to what people say, and guess which attitude is going to work to manipulate them. Speaking to NPCs actually takes effort.
3. the game hides information well.
Just like IRL, you don't have an arrow pointing you to the keycard on the desk, but just to the generic area where your target might be.
The visuals are ok. The combat is .. acceptable. The game mechanics are a bit weird, but i got used to them fairly quickly. Enemies are a bit too spongy, but i put that down to having starter weapons.
The movement is not great; you have a doublejump which is integral to the gameplay, but at the same time the geometry doesn't allow for any creativity, there are too many hidden "ledge grab area" everywhere, but if they are not there you can't really interact with the map - creative exploration doesn't exist.
finally, i would say that the world building is perhaps the closest thing i have seen to the original Fallout 1. It really has *that* kind of absurdist, grim aspect about it, made up of fanaticism, ignorance, and having accepted the twisted reality that the NPCs are born in - between the hyperconsumeristic Auntie's Choice, and the drone-like quality of the Protectorate.
What i like:
1. it's hard.
i did choose "hard" at the beginning, and then imagine my shocked pikachu face when the game turned out to be hard! who coulda known. But yeah, mobs do hit hard, requiring me to squeeze out every ounce of FPS sk1lz to take them down. Which is a welcome change since in F3 only Cazadors and Deathclaws had a chance to hurt me.
2. dialogue aren't expositional.
You need to pay attention to what people say, and guess which attitude is going to work to manipulate them. Speaking to NPCs actually takes effort.
3. the game hides information well.
Just like IRL, you don't have an arrow pointing you to the keycard on the desk, but just to the generic area where your target might be.
The visuals are ok. The combat is .. acceptable. The game mechanics are a bit weird, but i got used to them fairly quickly. Enemies are a bit too spongy, but i put that down to having starter weapons.
The movement is not great; you have a doublejump which is integral to the gameplay, but at the same time the geometry doesn't allow for any creativity, there are too many hidden "ledge grab area" everywhere, but if they are not there you can't really interact with the map - creative exploration doesn't exist.
finally, i would say that the world building is perhaps the closest thing i have seen to the original Fallout 1. It really has *that* kind of absurdist, grim aspect about it, made up of fanaticism, ignorance, and having accepted the twisted reality that the NPCs are born in - between the hyperconsumeristic Auntie's Choice, and the drone-like quality of the Protectorate.
I enjoyed the original Outer Worlds, will play this eventually, but I am still working my way through Silksong. Will be a while I guess....
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