From what I remember of Fallout 3 (and I would assume New Vegas), the game world was presented as a dystopia depicting some sort of horrific existence after a nuclear war... and with a good bit of humor thrown in, which I didn't personally care for. Plus an open world full of areas that mostly looked generally the same... and a story that wasn't that interesting.

Looking at the Outer Worlds... it's looking like this will be basically Fallout in space, right? In other words, a game about humans attempting to colonize another world, and life on the colony ends up being terrible (a dystopian story), but with some attempts at comedy, much like we saw with Fallout 3.

Is that correct?

So I shouldn't expect this to be a space opera RPG with an epic story like Mass Effect 2, am I right?

This was not made by Bethesda staff so I'd not include Fallout 3 as a result of a example .. Now if talking Fallout New Vegas you'd be way motr on the mark for a example as Bethesda was just the publisher not the devs/staff on it and given its the studio truly behind New Vegas it works plus the Mrketing for the game in fact dlaunted that detail

Still All I played of this game so far its like in someways a better Fallout New vegas in space yet in otherways a lesser Fallout New Vegas .. As it has the feel of Fallout New Vegas in ways.. yet in other ways it doesn't and in those ways it Kinda feels like Bethesdas Fallout products in those cases and afew other similar enough games that exisit .. I can't say anything about Mass effect (Never could get into that ip ) But given what I heard of that IP I'd say its nothing like the Mass Affect games