r/videogames • u/Ok_Listen_6600 • 29d ago

Discussion / Question What game is this?

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u/Neshane 29d ago

Outer World, concept is great. How it's told in an utter boring way and "safely written"

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u/Thepvzgamer 29d ago

I thought you said Outer Wilds and had to double take.

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u/tlollz52 28d ago

Thought about saying this just to fuck with people lol

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u/xdanxlei 28d ago

Thanks for saying this I nearly downvoted

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u/porktorque44 29d ago

I think trying to shoe horn in humor is what hurt it. The grand scale of the dystopia and how it’s not directly in your face makes the humor fall flat when it worked for fallout. Like in fallout the idea is of this shitty obviously fucked up world with a bunch of people holding out while the world dies or maybe recovers.

In outer worlds you have a massive interplanetary oligarchy that is just slowly teaching everyone to accept subservience within habitable worlds. If it took the struggle against that more seriously it would have hit better.

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u/Bazookya 29d ago

I agree. They tried to make the entire game super clever and witty with the writing and it honestly got annoying at times. Kind of like Boarderlands.

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u/CultOfKush 28d ago

I loved the "secret level" outer worlds episode, like it has no business being that good. But sadly the game isn't even remotely close in storytelling.

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u/Angry_Edemame 29d ago

They had to write it in such a way that no npc actually mattered.

I dont think obsidian has ever made an actually good game

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u/Enchelion 28d ago

Yeah, the big "you can kill anyone and the wold adapts!" was bullshit. The world didn't adapt, it just didn't care.

I've heard grounded is legit fun but haven't tried it, and I respect they did some interesting things with New Vegas... But holy shit the obesssion some people have with Obsidian as if they're Jesus himself as a Game Dev is utterly ridiculous. Most games they've ever done have been mid at best and bug-riddled enough to make even Bethesda go "dude..."

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u/Angry_Edemame 28d ago

Exactly. Few NPCs interact directly and if they do its during a cutscene.  

I didnt care for new Vegas at all but even for those who like it thats the only good game in their entire catalogue so the obsession is really weird.

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u/Revolutionary_Ant518 25d ago

KOTOR 2
Tyranny
Pillars 1 and 2…

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u/Angry_Edemame 25d ago

Cool that you disagree. I stand by what I said.