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    The Outer Worlds



    The Outer Worlds is the new game from the makers of Fallout New Vegas. It's out today. You can play it on PC or XBOX One using Game pass, which is £1 for the first month on PC, seems a bargain.

    The Outer Worlds is a new single-player sci-fi RPG from Obsidian Entertainment and Private Division. As you explore a space colony, the character you decide to become will determine how this player-driven story unfolds. In the corporate equation for the colony, you are the unplanned variable.





    Few of us are going to be playing this so figured we could have a thread. I'll be starting Saturday morning. Can't wait!

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    I will definitely be playing it at some point and I hope it's ace but finishing Heaven's Vault, getting Disco Elysium and staving off the urge to replay Mass Effect must come first.

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    I might pick it up in a couple of weeks.

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    Good this! I’ve accidentally give myself silver hair though, couldn’t be bothered fixing it!

    Up to the first big choice, dunno which way to go so doing loads of side missions.

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    Found out this has a survival mode so will be all over that.

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    Just downloaded it - I'm in.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mike View Post
    Good this! I’ve accidentally give myself silver hair though, couldn’t be bothered fixing it!

    Up to the first big choice, dunno which way to go so doing loads of side missions.
    Me too but I've done all the side mission.

    Quote Originally Posted by Yevrah View Post
    Found out this has a survival mode so will be all over that.
    I'd give the actual game a go first. It's really not a 'vast open world' thing like the Bethesda games.

    Hard is so fucking hard.

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    Is it open world though, just in a small ish one?

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    Not sure anything has ever turned me off from a space exploration game faster than "an open world, just a small ish one"

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    The video review I watched suggests it's a fairly directed experience in an open space rather than a Ubi-esque collect-all-the-icons style open world. More an immersive sim in a big spacerather than a Bethesda-y sprawling affair.

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    I am curious to see how Obsidian have got on. As far as I can see they got a massively free ride over Fallout New Vegas, with anything wrong with it (and fuck me was there a lot wrong with it) being Bethesda's fault.

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    I mean they've done a lot more stuff with a lot more polish since their 'flawed gem' days.

    And to be fair making anything in Bethesda's game engine must be a bit silk purse / sow's ear.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bruhnaldo View Post
    Not sure anything has ever turned me off from a space exploration game faster than "an open world, just a small ish one"
    That's good considering it's not a space exploration game.

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    Quote Originally Posted by phonics View Post
    That's good considering it's not a space exploration game.
    "As you explore a space colony"

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    Do you know what a colony is?

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    So we gonna act like there's no chance for large scale exploration in a fuckin space colony? That's the route we're taking?

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    Given that space colonies are entirely made up then yeah, I reckon that's a distinct possibility.

    I'll wait for this to be tidied up (read: the inevitable first expansion that finishes the game) before jumping in but it does look quite good so far.

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    There's a distinct possibility that a space game has no chance of large scale exploration but not the other way around?

    It's fucking space. "Space" is literally in the name. Vast open area is literally implied by the name of it alone.

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    You understand the word 'colony' yes?

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    Explain how "colony" implies a linear story line with no room for exploration.

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    You understand the word 'space exploration' yes?

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    Is this shit supposed to be funny for ya'll or something? I'm trying to understand the rush to be as pedantically obtuse and pretentious as possible?

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    Like we're getting all high and mighty because someone saw a game called "The Outer Worlds", developed by the people who made Fallout New Vegas, read how you "explore a space colony" and was then taken aback that someone seemingly described it in the same linear format that Final Fantasy XIII suffered from.

    Very strange behavior but go off, sis.

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    You did dive in nut deep with a bit of a moist comment. Own it instead of flapping your ballsack in the wind.

    Or maybe read five minutes of a review, which would've been more productive than this mess.

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    Also the game is great so step outside your comfort zone and enjoy it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dark Soldier View Post
    Or maybe read five minutes of a review, which would've been more productive than this mess.
    Or, perhaps, "Oh it's more of a borderlands type shooter than fallout, actually." instead of "Well look at how fucking uppity I can be about video games!" when someone takes a passing interest!

    A dios fuckin mio you people.

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    Quitting again? I'm shocked.

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    Doubling on being an insufferable cunt doesn't make you right but again, go off sis.

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    So, 7 hours in and The Unreliable is ready to take off!

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    Mike can you keep the private thoughts about the game to PM and leave this for the correct purpose of bickering about semantics?

    Thanks.

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    I have bought the game and I think I will be able to play it in about 2 days on this hotel wifi.

    Can't wait to explore space.

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    Looks fucking lovely in 4K with the 2080Ti and a shit load of tweaks to remove CA, bump TA, draw distance, lightmaps etc


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    Started today and put a couple of hours in. Really liking it a lot so far.

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    I did the opposite, fuck 'em

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    Solid game so far.

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    I never seem to have enough hacking materials

    Also, I fought some primals today. The first fight almost went very badly as both my companions were downed and I almost joined them. Second time I had a much better weapon though.

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    Accidentally set my companions on a guard near a door I wanted to hack as I thought an objective was behind it. It wasn't and as my standing with the place was already bad it meant everyone wanted to kill me. Had to roll back to an auto save.

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    I've took the plung and bought this, might get started on it later.

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    This hit £25 on games with gold, so I'm on it tonight.

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    On Supernova difficulty naturally.

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    Ah maybe I should play that. Have it on the mental to-do list but there was no deal for it on PS4 store & I have already downloaded Red Dead 2 and Horizon Zero Dawn and debating which one to embark on first.

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    Started it last night, very promising.

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    Been meaning to try this, so I've spun it up as a high intelligence/perception stealth and weapons specialist.

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    Not knowing what I was doing, this was very hard on Survival difficulty.

    I'll go back when society has disintegrated and work is no longer a thing.

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    I started this like a month ago, but haven't been back since. Might have to give it a go.

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    I originally played this on pc, but started this evening on the Xbox one so I can play on my sofa, I never did get that far, so aiming to get there tonight or at worst by tomorrow evening then crack on while the world ends.

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    Ok just up past the first planet I went with the same as Mike & Mahow. They have nailed the feeling and the general artwork and its refreshing with a bit of colour, I definitely feel like part of a Starcraft or Starship troopers universe or something.

    I sort of ’Miss’ Horizon Zero Dawn and Aloy though and its hard going from a defined characted to a
    Homemade one. The fact that there’s no 3rd person option makes it all a little more unpersonal somehow. On Fallout 3 and NV I would explore in 3rd person And go into 1st for fights only which was a good balance.

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    Finished this now.

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