The Outer Worlds

No, it's not as good as New Vegas. No, the writing, story, and characters are not as good as what we've come to expect of Obsidian. BUT The core RPG gameplay is intact and improved and worth defending in the day of adventure games that like to pass themselves off as RPGs. It's New Vegas with better gameplay and visuals but without the excellent writing, story, and characters. If that's a deal breaker for you I completely understand, but you can't deny the game is nevertheless a good FPS RPG. All the freedom and excellent systems are still there. It's far more fun, interesting, and effective than most modern RPGs. The gameplay is damn good, with smooth controls and performance and a dodge feature that I wish more FPS games would adopt. This game has a LOT of potential, but what's there is already excellent, just not in the ways we've come to expect from Obsidian. I hope they take this success to make more FPS RPGs with this game's gameplay just with the beautiful writing of Tyranny or New Vegas put back in. Until then I will happily play Outer Worlds and its DLCs.

The game is to me like a crossover between Fallout, Borderlands and some Mass Effect. The music and playstyle from Fallout, the humor, some enemies and some weapons are more Borderlands style and the dialogue options as well as the general setting remind me of Mass Effect. Is is a better Fallout? No, the world does not really touch me like the FO universe. The RPG elements are a bit dumbed down and I don´t really like the hacking / lockpicking system. Is it a better borderland? No, the gunplay is just not that exiting, the weapon modification system is not that interesting (but, sadly quite important on higher difficulty levels). Is it a better Mass Effect? Also no. But, is it still a good game for ppl who like Fallout, with all it´s flaws and bad design decisions? Yes.

Take some elements of Fallout:NV as a base, streamline gameplay, adjust narrative to be a pure satire and cut it all short - this is how I imagine creation process for the Outer Worlds. I enjoyed playing the game a lot but it took be about 25 hours to finish with all marked side quests (probably missed some though). Game feels fun, but lacks depth (I really missed some of more serious narrative compared to NV) and ends soon. Overall definitely worth one quick playthroug, but nothing more.

Obsidian - studio that is responsible for the best 3d fallout game. The Outer Worlds started with great promises. Beautiful graphics, interesting plot, interesting world. Well-written characters and cool creatures. For the first 2 hours or so. But the longer you play, the more you see, that developer were short on time or on money. Quests gets boring and repeatable. There are less and less NPCs. And i say like NPCs that i think were supposed to be "interactive" are not. Usually in RPGs if character have name, than you can speak to him and he have some backstory or quest for you. Here, you have many characters with names (among other background individual like "fisherman" or "guard") that the whole line is "hello stranger". Final opinion? Solid action-RPG, but with this whole "Fallout86 killer" hype - we all expected more. More storyline, more characters, more paths and more choices. The UnReliable brings back memmories of Serenity. I really liked it.

While many had high hopes for this title, sadly it petered out into something not remotely what people were expecting. Your basic world exploring rpg that is limited in both exploring and rpg. Minimal skill systems, restricted builds due to level limit, basic weapons and gameplay, there just isn't anything spectacular in this title. It really doesn't matter which weapons you use, it doesn't matter what sides you ally with, or which companions you take or don't take, the gameplay and story are bla. I just finished playing the first time, and there isn't any need to replay any since there won't be anything different. I don't remember one companion name, there wasn't any story to talk about or roleplaying to worry about. You don't even need to raise any weapon skills just grab 2 companions who do 50% more experience than just you, outfit them in the strongest weapons and armor, and breeze through the game. Raise your hack/lockpick to max so you can open anything, raise your 2 companion skills to max so they are the toughest strongest damage dealers and then science so you can upgrade weapons, and fight the same foes, over and over. monkeys, dog thingies, insects and humans.. mmm that's about it.