Rebel Galaxy Outlaw

I don't quite understand all the negative reviews. If you don't like the game, return it. That's one reason most of my games are on GOG in the first place. Anyway. My setup is a keyboard and mouse, I7 laptop, 6g graphics card,16 gig of ram. I don't play games online so it isn't an issue that this is a solo game. I am not a programmer and the last time I worked on a computer the 386 just came out. Negative. The inability to save. From what I read the game is suppose save whenever you land on a station. It doesn't. It will save at odd times, like right before a battle. So if you are overwhelmed and can't win, the second to the last save could be two hours ago. Personally I don[t know why the creators of the game did it this way but that was up to them. It is their game, if you don't like it, return it. Of course you can always save the game and quit, go out to the save game folder, and copy the file. Really not that hard, a little annoying, but I like the game and it is worth it. This isn't a negative to me but I can see where some people don't like it. You will have to do A LOT of small missions, going back and forth, shooting mines, yadda yadda. You don't get a Death Star right off. But seriously, most game are like this. You have to kill a whole lot of goblins in most fantasy games before you get the Sword of Incredible Awesomeness. I guess the creators could have had one of those levels for people who just want the story and very little battle, don't know. Now personally, I could go for having pilot skills, being able to make up what my pilot looks like, but that's okay. The game is small, especially considering some new games that have come out. That's good because all my games need to be on my hard drive. If you like yaw, roll, all that stuff, it is there. But be aware you can, as I do, work at getting the most powerful ship there is and killing everything. You can also rescue the pilots for a reward or shoot them. Music is incredible, was on Rebel Galaxy too. Personally I turn off the music and listen to a podcast or audiobook because there are a lot of small missions. If you like Heavy Metal, you'll like the intro. I appreciate the in-game stuff, but wish the characters inside were like the character in the intro. Finally, to those who wrote such scathing reviews, take a breath. Go outside, breath, if you have a pet give some attention. It's a game for god's sake.

This feels like it has no connection with the gameplay of the orginal and that makes me very sad.

First game (Rebel Galaxy) was very good with minor game play issues (simple quest line and very bad in game menu). I expect those issues will be fixed with Rebel Galaxy Outlaw, but unfortunately this game went even worse: it has same terrible menu, and completely garbage mouse/keyboard controls which makes game complete unplayable (unless you wish to use push-to-kill no-brain Game Consoles game play with auto aim-auto attack mode).

I was able to play at first, now it always crashes without any changes made to my computer. The gameplay wasn't good enough to waste my time trying to corner the problem.

It's been a while since I played it so it's *possible* it has improved, but I really doubt it. I played it at release and I knew I was going to hate it within the first 30 minutes, but gave it two hours on Steam before deciding I'd rather have the money back. Music - Some people might like it, but I think those people have terrible taste in music. All the music sounds like a Chuck-E-Cheese interpretation of Country Dad-Rock played by people whose only exposure with music was TRL in the early 2000's. It's incredibly cringe. Gameplay - It was an absolute mess when I played. Annoying noises and pings that couldn't be disabled, crap completely covering the screen with flashing quest pointers and other nonsense constantly in your face. It honestly has one of the worst UIs I've ever experienced in my entire life leading to an equally horrible UX. The HUD and noises that come along with it were so awful as to completely ruin any positive aspects that the game may have otherwise had. Story - Seemed interesting enough at first and if the whole game felt as nice as the first "spaceport" you start at I would be giving this a different score entirely. The voice acting seemed competent, the PC interesting and I liked the few characters that I did meet before giving up on the game entirely, but the actual core "gameplay" aspect was just far too awful for me to play this for story alone.