The Outer Worlds

It's very difficult to pick things up (and there are a TON of things to pick up), Autorun is run only. In Battle, on second you are fine, the next you are dead far too often. I finally set the difficulty to story to stop this. Watching talking heads and answering them, running around picking stuff up, and reading computer terminals seems to be about 70% of the game. All that said, I did mostly enjoy the hours I spent running through it. No clue on the DLC as I doubt I'll put more money into this game.

I really enjoyed the story, it's definitely got a lot of the vibe of a fallout game but it feels very different to play. the weapons and armour sets are very cool and the companions were fantastic although i mostly stuck with the first two. there is lots to do and explore, stealth felt fun. and the worlds look great. The dlcs were really fun and i particularly loved murder on eridanos although i'm glad that i played eridanos after peril over gorgon. started playing regular version of the game then moved saves to spacers choice version. definitely go with the spacers choice version as performance is significantly better with fsr while still looking great. some stuff will hopefully be improved in outer worlds 2 though - not a fan of the save/sleep/fast travel restrictions of supernova, would love it otherwise - I'd like to see more variety in the enemies, more species etc. - the item info popups in your inventory are very annoying and make it hard to see what you're doing when managing inventory as half the items are always covered. - no item sorting options for personal container? they have it in normal inventory and when trading so odd that it's not there - messing with loads of items in inventory at one time and between companions caused some weird bugs for me (rarely companions would randomly equip a different outfit or weapon when you equip something on another companion) and armor values being wrong when upgrading which was more common) - fast travelling to a location with an active quest is annoying as it always wants to show you what quest is there not select where you want to go even if you zoom the map in all the way

I walked into an empty alley, which later turned out to be part of a quest. After taking the quest, the empty alley is now full of goons for me to kill. Feels like the world just revolves around you, nothing feels organic or particularly immersive. It's like playing cyberpunk but really small and really bad. The companions are alright.

If you expect the vast open world of New vegas but in space you will prolly be disapointed , you can surely roam around a bit , but that is just it , a bit and do not expect to find elaborate huge story quest in the middle of nowhere or some weapon that is extra special to make you go "WOW". It is a very good game that I enjoyed but it is lacking in a few areas : the weapons are underwhelming , no real variety , the perk system is meeeh , the story is OK but not anything special. I did like the charachters but would be better with a romance option and a bit more depth to them. The first part of the game are the best, it seems a bit cramped later on , it seems that the devs run out of time and/or money and had to push it out. Neverthe less a game that is fun and enjoyable.

I bought the game going in blind. The deciding factor for me buying it was that Obsidian has made games I liked in the past. And boy! This game was just up my alley. TL;DR: A heavily Firefly inspired world, characters and writing, with a Borderlands style, linear, story progression, and a Fallout New Vegas style quest and dialogue design. FPS/Inventory elements are decent, but nothing special. It is an open-world game with a linear story progression. The inspiration from the TV series Firefly is very evident throughout and was a welcome surprise for me. Obsidians quality writing and world crafting is excellent as always, and bears a somewhat similar feel as Fallout New Vegas. Though That is where the similarities with FNV ends. The scope of the world is far smaller, though that means that the characters are written more carefully. Maybe it was the Firefly vibe that did it for me though. That is actually one of my favorite aspects of the game. People feel like they react in a way that real people would do. I can't think of any moment where I felt the characters acted unnatural, or forced, in any way, given the world they live in. This kept my immersion very high throughout the game. The FPS elements are decent. Nothing special. To put it simple: The FPS and armor/weapon system does nothing wrong as such, has a few novel aspects, but it is not the strong point of the game by any stretch. I do agree with most of the other reviews that the second half was quite a bit weaker than the first half. A shame, since after the first half I just wanted MORE. But I had exhausted all my companion quests and most of the side quests, and I felt sad that I lost a little of the "I'm a real space captain with my crew" feeling. I am overall very happy with my purchase. I am considering a new playthough with DLC to see if the lackluster feeling of the latter half of the game is because of pre-planned DLC. But without DLC it has to be a 4/5. A personal 5/5 favorite though.