The Outer Worlds

[bellow]

Is this known to be short or something? I feel I've only just got started and I'm getting a point of no return. I've done every side quest too.

 

Unless it's a false ending I'm definitely not getting the 50 odd hours I'd read about.

[bellow]

Yeah, that was it. Short and sweet. I did every side quest I came across and still got about 25 hours out of it. Maybe I should have explored a bit more, freestyle.

 

Still it was a pretty good experience all told, and I think Obsidian are really close to having one of these games have FPS gameplay as a serious option. The guns were so solid in this. Maybe all that Microsoft cash will tip them over the edge. They really could be number 1 when it comes to WRPGs.

[shinymcshine]

I've been playing this for around 18 hrs so far (Xbox Series S, via Gamepads) and it's enjoyable - but as said previously it just lacks its own ideas.

[shinymcshine]

I'm on 25 hrs and have just completed the relay station (main quest) at Devil's Peak (jump started the tower).

 

Which means I've been doing quite a lot of sidequests, but it's getting a bit repetitive (as sidequest rewards are hardly ever worth it). So I think I'll just do the Companion quests and hammer on with the main quest from now on.

 

Game dynamics aren't great - the Perk & Quirk system is pretty poor, with no particularly interesting Perks or Quirks to make things more engaging (needs to take a look at how Wasteland handled these !)

 

Otherwise is so far so........ ho-hum. It feels like someone stuck Fallout, Mass Effect and Borderlands into a corporate blender and voted out the most interesting parts and stuck with the mundane bits.

[shinymcshine]

Took about 5 hrs to wrap up the main quest - fortunately my lie/persuade/tech skillset meant that I could bypass/blag past a lot of combat encounters - was odd to get an end narrative for characters I'd not added to the party (I picked up 4 from 6? but predominantly just used Parvati and SAM).

 

It was a big dose of 'okay' overall.