The Outer Worlds

Weirdly enough, combines the far future and space faring of Starfield, and the dystopian "Corpos are scum" theme from Cyberpunk 2077, and it came out before both. Jokes aside, The Outer Worlds is a semi-open world FPS RPG where Main Character Protagonist Mc-Gee is thawed out by Doc Brown's wacky descendant, who sends you on a galaxy spanning quest to fetch more drug- chemicals to revive your fellow colonists still in stasis, many of which are brilliant scientists and engineers that can help humanity with dire impending problems, that the corrupt government is too stubborn to solve on the account of their own heads being too far up their own asses. I made my character The Adoring Fan (and named him Adora) from TES IV Oblivion and Starfield because he is a dimension hopping immortal wizard who is keen on saving the doomed dimensions of existence, and also because it's funny. You can whack things with 1 or 2 handed whacking devices, shoot an unvaried amount of enemies with a variety of guns, while using NotVatsTM bullet time to make precision strikes with added force and status effects, and then put your desired skill points into your nuclear persuasion skill to Speech 100 your way to victory. Then get ripped off by merchants, like any good RPG, will charge you your literal internal organs for just a bite to eat, and then give you 5 cents in return for something actually valuable, then causing you to laugh because you just realized, that kind of shit is true to life COUGH GAMESTOP. Then in your off time, you and two party members can ragdoll something 10 times your size into the sky because Tactical Time Dilation + Melee Attack said so. The game is certainly a bit weak and hollow in some areas, the variety isn't great, but it's a decent enough RPG, and doesn't overstay it's welcome at about 25-40 hours long. Worth it on a sale. Here's to hoping the sequel is much richer in just about all aspects.

I love this game. But somethings the games does just push me away. It kept on surpsing me with its witty dialogue, charming characters, and small but interesting worlds. I know others say the worlds are bland and cookie cutter but I think thier half right. One thing I don't like are how skills are grouped together, Obsidian really should have kept them seperate (at least on supernova difficulty). There's only 3 ammo types, all abundant and no variants. Perks have no requirements other than some being locked away until you take five from a previous tier. In short, while the game looks like it wants you to actually role play a specialized character (like old school rpgs), the game also has too many ways to become a jack of trades. It's like Obsidian leaned more to modern Bethesda game design compared to thier other fps rpg. I really wish Obsidian just took what was already great about New Vegas and just expanded upon them. Here's hoping they do just that in the sequel coming soon

Play this on the PS4 and I had a lot of fun exploring and engaging with the world. The second half could have done with a bit more content, but I did enjoy what was there. +Most compainions & chacter arcs +Exploring the worlds and stations +Decent Combat +Universe was interesting and well crafted - Needed more content at the end, - Did like how one compainion was forced on me, didn't mind him as a person though I have yet to try the DLC, but willl do so now that I own it on PC

At the core, the game is a solid clone of experience that once made Fallout 1 and 2 great - well written, troubled, open world with well developed characters, a main quest that makes complete sense in-universe (rather than long string of coincidences that happens to make player visit every major location), side quests related to the town/planet you are visiting, and a drifter player who drops into location, spends a real-world day solving problems that threaten inhabitants long term survival (whether their like your solution or not), pick up clues for the main quest and move on. You know, come to city, fix nuclear plant, negotiate peace between factions that did not even consider talking, expose a conspiracy, move on kind of staff. And do that because you can, not because locals had presence of mind to tell you to. This is great comeback from games like New Vegas or Fallout 3/4, where player could only act as agent of existing faction and do what (s)he's told - here we're back to being a force of nature reshaping the setting. Mechanically, the game is an FPS with shallow RPG elements and deep, deep dialogue. Most of the depth is in story and dialogue. The FPS gameplay is rather easy, making lot of stuff (companion skills, the slow time ability, crafting mods) redundant as most things can be just gunned down. Skills and stats are not that important outside dialogue and most perks affect the redundant abilities - no complexity there. On the other hand, the game does not force fake complexity on player, either (no complex crafting for sake of playing to look for components, 150 ammo types and 150 weapons you keep to be able to use each if others run out). What you do with the story is much more interesting than which ability to pick.

Fairly varied locations, very pretty, and plenty of them. Some opportunity for exploration. Interesting NPCs, and pretty interesting quests. Maybe a bit limited in choices in how to resolve quests (mostly having the "good" option and the "bad" option). Still fun to play.