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The Outer Worlds Pre-Release Thread [GO TO NEW THREAD]

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Honestly, my impression of this game is that it is basically "Member New Vegas?": The video game. And I mean that both in a good way and in a negative way.
 
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Zboj Lamignat said:
Thonius said:
Reminder for eh old people I ques. When review mentions Fallout vibes you gotta realize it's about Fallout 4-3 vibes.
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Well, Fallout 1 would be FPS if not for the lack of technology.
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Y'know what, if Fallout 1 was an FPS immersive sim made by the same team as F1 and with the same level of reactivity it probably would still be a good game. We're not talking about a similar game to Fallout 3. Something more like the original System Shock but with the atmosphere of old Fallout.

Basically STALKER before STALKER.
 
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Trans-Financial-Man said:
Zboj Lamignat said:
Thonius said:
Reminder for eh old people I ques. When review mentions Fallout vibes you gotta realize it's about Fallout 4-3 vibes.
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Well, Fallout 1 would be FPS if not for the lack of technology.
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Y'know what, if Fallout 1 was an FPS immersive sim made by the same team as F1 and with the same level of reactivity it probably would still be a good game. We're not talking about a similar game to Fallout 3. Something more like the original System Shock but with the atmosphere of old Fallout.

Basically STALKER before STALKER.
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I was joking, although it's mostly a potato meme (biggest potato magazine opened their F3 review with this claim, because they're super retarded). Anyway, carry on.
 
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Prime Junta said:
trimethylsilyl said:
So are we trusting game journos now?
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We trust the ones that agree with what we're already thinking. It's the Codexian way.
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You can generally trust mainstream journos about banal stuff like presentation, technical issues and this being a mainstream shooter, the combat.

I certainly don't take any cues from reviewers about anything else. Especially in an RPG since 99% of them rush the main quest without touching anything else.
 

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Yeah, one of the journalists in the reddit thread, said the reviewer rushed for the review but his job was writing a guide so he was doing almost everything.

He answered questions about the game, game apparently very easy even on hard and the one above that only enables hardcore settings. Oh and gameplay feels very janky.
 
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I've seen now multiple reviewers complaining about unstable performance on PC. Maybe related to a setting or the Epic DRM?

Especially considering performance on consoles is smooth.
 
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Hellion said:
From the Kotaku review:


Halcyon being called a colony certainly made me bristle at times, though conveniently, there are no sentient races that the colonizers have displaced. In The Outer Worlds, all social problems are filtered through class. Sexism and racism don’t meaningfully exist even though race does; many of the people you meet across classes are black and brown. Race and gender go essentially unacknowledged from the game’s core narrative to its tongue-in-cheek riffs on PR buzzwords, which was frustrating in a game so deeply embroiled in power dynamics. In our world, class and race are inexorably tied, and a world in which questions of class are more eternal than questions of race strikes me as dishonest. I trust in Obsidian to broach those issues with the same grace as they do issues of class, so I wish they had gone there.
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ffs
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Games can let you do anything, meet anyone, but please be aware that no matter where a game takes you, you can never escape US politics in 2019.
 
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