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The Outer Worlds is an award-winning single-player first-person sci-fi RPG from Obsidian Entertainment and Private Division.
Lost in transit while on a colonist ship bound for the furthest edge of the galaxy, you awake decades later only to f...
The Outer Worlds is an award-winning single-player first-person sci-fi RPG from Obsidian Entertainment and Private Division.
Lost in transit while on a colonist ship bound for the furthest edge of the galaxy, you awake decades later only to find yourself in the midst of a deep conspiracy threatening to destroy the Halcyon colony. As you explore the furthest reaches of space and encounter various factions, all vying for power, 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.
KEY FEATURES
The player-driven story RPG
In keeping with the Obsidian tradition, how you approach The Outer Worlds is up to you. Your choices affect not only the way the story develops; but your character build, companion stories, and end game scenarios.
You can be flawed, in a good way
New to The Outer Worlds is the idea of flaws. A compelling hero is made by the flaws they carry with them. While playing The Outer Worlds, the game tracks your experience to find what you aren't particularly good at. Keep getting attacked by Raptidons? Taking the Raptiphobia flaw gives you a debuff when confronting the vicious creatures, but rewards you with an additional character perk immediately. This optional approach to the game helps you build the character you want while exploring Halcyon.
Lead your companions
During your journey through the furthest colony, you will meet a host of characters who will want to join your crew. Armed with unique abilities, these companions all have their own missions, motivations, and ideals. It's up to you to help them achieve their goals, or turn them to your own ends.
Explore the corporate colony
Halcyon is a colony at the edge of the galaxy owned and operated by a corporate board. They control everything... except for the alien monsters left behind when the terraforming of the colony’s two planets didn’t exactly go according to plan. Find your ship, build your crew, and explore the settlements, space stations, and other intriguing locations throughout Halcyon.
The game in principle is decent. Level skills, travel around, complete quests, some decisions will impact later events. But I honestly just cannot get past the characters. They are insufferably whiny, the plot is completely silly. The dialogue feels like it was written in middle school. It seems to be going for some kind of over the top ha ha parody of corporatism - but it falls so completely flat. Parody without wit is just, well, annoying. It comes off as very predictable and clumsy.
It's just not funny.
I am pretty surprised by the negative reviews for this game. I thought it was wonderfully written. Tons of sarcastic humor and Verhoeven-esque jabs at commercialism.
I played with Parvati and Max the whole game. The first to companions. I thought they were both really well written and interesting characters. Sure it isn't super deep, but Max does have an interesting turn of personality after an unusual side quest.
Parvati's quest is not so great. It is purely character building but all romance and not so interesting to me. I still really liked her. I like that voice actress, she's the same one who does the lead in Horizon Zero Dawn.
Yes, the enemies do get repetative. That surely could have been worked on.
Also, I HATE DLC that starts in the middle of the story. I had already played the whole game (ps4) so when the DLC came out I had to pick a random save location and then start that DLC which really made it fall flatter than it would have otherwise. It was also too similar to the rest of the game with only slightly different creatures and locations.
For me the selling point is really the writing style. The sense of humor really worked for me. I loved reading all the notes and listening to all the NPCs because of it.
I have completed the game twice so far. The first time I was a real hero, the second - an inveterate villain. The game was able to captivate me for 60 hours. The first locations were especially striking when everything is new and you are trying to figure it out. I was pleased with the game and its variability. I especially liked my partners. Parvati is my favorite.
I agree with other reviews that the plot and tempo sag a little after half of the game, but I was able to enjoy the whole process.
I recommend giving it a try. The game has potential.
"Why is this game not as extensive and intricate as that other game made by a bigger team on a larger budget that took longer to make?" Sigh.
I happen to like the Outer Worlds. It's less "Star Wars" and more "hang out with Luke as he goes shopping for farm equipment", but the world crafting is first-rate, the writing is solid and the finish is kinda pretty. The FPS aspect is handled fairly well, with meaty shooting sounds and fast action you can slow at the push of a button. And the RPG aspect is, well, exactly what you'd expect from a semi-SPECIAL game: lots of well-voiced dialogue and rampant skill checks. The writing is solid, the plot -- serviceable, and the characters more "regular Jane" than "space opera hero".
I think the fluidity of plot progression and the amount of choice in every conversation deserves a shout-out, too. The set pieces are a lot smaller here, but you can play them seamlessly back to front and the game will account for it (which, if you've ever written dialogue trees, is kind of a big deal).
If you temper your expectations a little, there's a lot to like here. Just think less Fallout and more an episode of Firefly set in Tomorrowland.
It's hard to know how to rate this game. On the one hand, everything is more or less in place. It's a servicable RPG. It has characters, it has quests, it has a variety of environments, it has various shootin' and RPG systems to interact with. It tries. I wouldn't feel right giving it a 2, in light of this. But the only reason it's not a 2.5 is the system only allows me to give full stars.
The graphics are...aggressively ugly. Just a riot of messy textures and garish colors. Rather than inspire awe at alien worlds, it just gives you a headache trying to make sense of the environment visually. There's no sense of mise-en-scene or environmental storytelling, they just gob assets into areas until they're overflowing with junk. Nothing seems to be placed with care, it feels rushed and thrown together.
The voice acting is...it would be polite to call it pedestrian. Some standouts, but most is cringe inducing. The writing vacillates between bland and an extremely strained attempt at "zaniness" which might punch some folks' humor ticket but frequently left me rolling my eyes. The goofy corporate angle is fun for five minutes and then is driven into the ground over the running length of the game. The companions, outside of one, feel banal and derivative. The story is ramshackle and never has any sense of momentum or emotional investment.
The shooting mechanics are flat, the weapons lack any sense of punch or power, the status effects are hugely annoying and visually hideous, the AI is one dimensional (stand around until one shot is fired, at which point they all throw caution to the wind and beeline the protagonist) , the bestiary is extraordinarily thin with the same 3-5 enemy types repeating on every planet, to be shot at with the same 5-10 weapon types. Shotgun becomes shotgun 2, assault rifle becomes assault rifle 2, etc. There are a selection of mods, but their effect in terms of gameplay is minimal.
Obsidian feels like a studio in something of a slow, sad decline.
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