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

[Naraya]

Why are people complaining about the [redacted], then?

Codex needs a Winnie The Pooh emote.

 

[FreshCorpse]

First chunk of gameplay I've watched. It does look pretty promising. Feels like Boyarsky is a bit wasted talking to the Easy Allies bozos

 

[Infinitron]

Archived:

 

[Nano]

Leonard showing off dem legs.

 

[Dishonoredbr]

Leonard's legs vs Megan's legs.. Who has the best legs?

 

[hexer]

65/100
Is the dream over?


https://gamingtrend.com/feature/reviews/gilded-space-age-the-outer-world-review/

 

[Duraframe300]

Vice (unsurprisingly) joins in the *Game wasn't anti-corporate/racist/whatever* crowd

Despite the corporate dystopia, it retains Fallout’s “gotta hear both sides” emphasis on player freedom and choice: Sure, you can “yeet the rich,” but the game is just as willing to let you shut down an environmentalist commune and shuffle the folks therein back under the corporate yoke if that’s the sort of asshole you wanna be.

(In fact, one of The Outer World’s most jarring attributes is the way the political frame in dialog options shifts from quest to quest and world to world. A variety of choices are always available (as is outright violence), but the range of dialog options offered is inconsistent. Sometimes, as in the opening quest which lets you de-power an entire corporate settlement, your character can inhabit a burn the corps down, let’s dance in the flames radical mode. Other times, its as if a different writer has picked up the pen, offering your character only resignation (or even naivety) as their most anti-capitalist tone. On the planet of Monarch, where one corp is trying to enact incremental reforms, I found myself rolling my eyes as my character seemed suddenly befuddled that the Corporate Board might break its own rules.

How dare the game look at both sides. MUUUUUUUH POLITICS. Probably would only be satisfied if you have LESS choices. All radical anti-corporate of course.

It's by Austin fucking Walker as well.

 

[TheImplodingVoice]

So will there be a lot of communist good, capitalism bad lecturing in the game? I want to look forward to playing it. But I'm a little bit over game developers trying to lecture me into goodthink

 

[Duraframe300]

So will there be a lot of communist good, capitalism bad lecturing in the game? I want to look forward to playing it. But I'm a little bit over game developers trying to lecture me into goodthink

SJW's complain that the game doesn't lecture you on goodthink. So, you might be safe there.

 

[hexer]

So will there be a lot of communist good, capitalism bad lecturing in the game? I want to look forward to playing it. But I'm a little bit over game developers trying to lecture me into goodthink

From the review I've posted above, none whatsoever.

 

[TheImplodingVoice]

So will there be a lot of communist good, capitalism bad lecturing in the game? I want to look forward to playing it. But I'm a little bit over game developers trying to lecture me into goodthink

From the review I've posted above, none whatsoever.

Ah nice. Going to go through the review now. Thanks for posting it.

 

[hexer]

LOL!
Bethesda launched a Fallout sale on Steam until Tuesday

 

[RepHope]

Vice (unsurprisingly) joins in the *Game wasn't anti-corporate/racist/whatever* crowd

Despite the corporate dystopia, it retains Fallout’s “gotta hear both sides” emphasis on player freedom and choice: Sure, you can “yeet the rich,” but the game is just as willing to let you shut down an environmentalist commune and shuffle the folks therein back under the corporate yoke if that’s the sort of asshole you wanna be.

(In fact, one of The Outer World’s most jarring attributes is the way the political frame in dialog options shifts from quest to quest and world to world. A variety of choices are always available (as is outright violence), but the range of dialog options offered is inconsistent. Sometimes, as in the opening quest which lets you de-power an entire corporate settlement, your character can inhabit a burn the corps down, let’s dance in the flames radical mode. Other times, its as if a different writer has picked up the pen, offering your character only resignation (or even naivety) as their most anti-capitalist tone. On the planet of Monarch, where one corp is trying to enact incremental reforms, I found myself rolling my eyes as my character seemed suddenly befuddled that the Corporate Board might break its own rules.

How dare the game look at both sides. MUUUUUUUH POLITICS. Probably would only be satisfied if you have LESS choices. All radical anti-corporate of course.

It's by Austin fucking Walker as well.

Fucking retards getting mad that the game actually offers you OPTIONS? Should just stick to their VNs.

 

[Nano]

Fucking retards getting mad that the game actually offers you OPTIONS? Should just stick to their VNs.

Can you not read? The writer is complaining that quests sometimes don't offer enough options.

 

[Duraframe300]

Fucking retards getting mad that the game actually offers you OPTIONS? Should just stick to their VNs.

Can you not read? The writer is complaining that quests sometimes don't offer enough options.

No, he isn't. He's complaining that the quests don't offer the *right* options. Or to be more precise, doesn't confirm to his politics. As with other SJW reviews it's not anti-capitalist enough.

Thats also why there's a snide remark about *both sides* in the beginning.

 

[Tigranes]

He complains about both things.

First para: "hey, you can fuck the rich or fuck the treehuggers!" Sounds great to me.

Second para: "range of choices and reactions are inconsistent and vary weirdly." Legit complaint on C&C if true, has nothing to do with POLITIKS and everybody's oversensitive whinings about it

 

[santino27]

Fucking retards getting mad that the game actually offers you OPTIONS? Should just stick to their VNs.

Can you not read? The writer is complaining that quests sometimes don't offer enough options.

No, he isn't. He's complaining that the quests don't offer the *right* options. Or to be more precise, doesn't confirm to his politics. As with other SJW reviews it's not anti-capitalist enough.

Thats also why there's a snide remark about *both sides* in the beginning.

To me, the second paragraph of the snippet you posted reads more like a complaint regarding the inconsistency of the writing between quests/areas. Not just that you don't have the same options, but that because of that, it feels weirdly disjointed.

Given issues with Obsidian's writing team in the past, that doesn't seem so unlikely.

 

[Duraframe300]

He complains about both things.

First para: "hey, you can fuck the rich or fuck the treehuggers!" Sounds great to me.

Second para: "range of choices and reactions are inconsistent and vary weirdly." Legit complaint on C&C if true, has nothing to do with POLITIKS and everybody's oversensitive whinings about it

Second para is just as obviously about subjective politics

offering your character only resignation (or even naivety) as their most anti-capitalist tone. On the planet of Monarch, where one corp is trying to enact incremental reforms, I found myself rolling my eyes as my character seemed suddenly befuddled that the Corporate Board might break its own rules.

It's also Austin fucking Walker ffs. By far the worst of the bunch and he has done that shit in the past. If you think he's got actual good itentions about that...

 

[hexer]

Fucking retards getting mad that the game actually offers you OPTIONS? Should just stick to their VNs.

Can you not read? The writer is complaining that quests sometimes don't offer enough options.

No, he isn't. He's complaining that the quests don't offer the *right* options. Or to be more precise, doesn't confirm to his politics. As with other SJW reviews it's not anti-capitalist enough.

Thats also why there's a snide remark about *both sides* in the beginning.

Please god no, it's enough most women in the game look butch.
Why women want to be like men, don't they realize they have strengths of their own?

 

[Duraframe300]

Twitch plays Outer Worlds starts in 5 minutes



Bring popcorn.

 

[Infinitron]

It's live.

 

[Hellion]

These "chat commands" streams are beyond retarded.

 

[Yosharian]

What the fuck is going on in this stream?!

 

[Duraframe300]

These "chat commands" streams are beyond retarded.

2000 monkeys on a typewriter and all that.

 

[Dishonoredbr]

This is glorious.