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whole time.
Walk into town,
"What's going on around these parts? I'm new here and just arrived.....right now."
"Well, we're trying to resolve this long-standing, complex, decade-long social/political conflict that's probably going to lead us to war."
"I'll take care of it."
"OKAY ^___________^"
OBJECTIVE: Infiltrate a heavily fortified enemy stronghold and find a way to disable the hrrglbglrbglrbglrbgl
Walk into a building, kill 5 enemies, walk upstairs into the one other room in the building and push a button on a console. QUEST COMPLETE! *confetti and party favors*
"We need a part to fix our cooling system, but the one guy who has the part has stubbornly refused to give it to us for months and he's impervious to reason."
Walk 10 feet outside, ride an elevator downstairs, walk 10 more feet to the guy.
"Gimme that part or we'll all die."
"OKAY ^___________^"
I appreciate not having to invest in a sprawling 100-hour RPG, but everything winds up being so abbreviated it's laughable. The wandering stranger template of walking into a variety of settlements and outposts and inserting yourself into the local drama doesn't really work across such a short game because everything has to be resolved so abruptly. If every single sidequest was just built around supporting the central questline, it probably would have worked better.
They eliminated VATS and also the reason for weapon skill points to exist. There's no need for simulated proficiency when you have a real-time combat system that relies solely on player proficiency, but rather than deleting weapon skills they just made points do things like "increased crit %" and decided that was fun.
Upgrading weapons and armor is like unlocking godmode. Once I understood what the Tinker option on workbenches did, I was unstoppable and so were my companions.
I guess maybe a lot of content was cut? I go from steamrolling through combat the entire game and passing trivially low dialog checks, and then get to the final area where I'm suddenly assfucked by enemies and have 100-point skill checks.
Nearly every single perk is combat related despite combat being so easy they're not really worth it. If you try to pick all of the non-combat perks, then after about 2 it devolves into, "well....I guess 25% faster walk speed is good."
The goop gun that makes enemies float into the air and then ragdoll to the ground was the only good gun. Even worked on the final boss! All of the other weapons were the most vanilla melee, pistol, shotgun, machine gun, rocket launcher, and sniper rifle.
The game has a useless reputation system. They provide vendor discounts despite the fact the world is overflowing with money, items, and ammo. Scattered across every table and counter-top, crammed into every drawer and cupboard. You will never, ever, at any point be wanting for ammo or medkits. Waddling across the landscape, every pocket stuffed full to bursting like Marge at the candy convention.
Spoiler, but who cares: if you help out assorted factions, then they show up in the final area to help you raid it and clear out enemy troops for you. It's payoff for completing their quests favorably, but in terms of the story it makes no sense at all. They had no idea you were going there, why you were going there, and EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. you tried to explain to someone who you are and what you were doing they were just like, "Huh? Wha? Wa ha ha, you sure are crazy with all of that crazy talk!"
This game kind of sucks :(
The one silver lining of the game is that it ran buttery smooth, load times were virtually non-existent, and I can't recall a single bug I encountered the entire time. So at least it was really polished. |
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The Outer Worlds is good. I don't expect you bonobos to care because Trumps NT by not mentioned in it, but it is 10/28/2019, 10:32am PDT
Re: The Outer Worlds is good. I don't expect you bonobos to care because Trumps by Mysterio 10/28/2019, 11:04am PDT
Don't you have to sell your soul to Tim Sweeney or join Xbox Live or something? by Roop 10/28/2019, 4:00pm PDT
on.....Xbox I guess? NT by you know you can buy it on PC? 10/28/2019, 9:10pm PDT
Most of us aren't going to support that piece of shit Sweeney NT by - 10/29/2019, 5:46am PDT
But that being said tell me about the game by - 10/29/2019, 6:38am PDT
Yeah PC, they're bringing Microsoft Live back only you pay for it this time by Roop 10/29/2019, 9:54am PDT
I bought it off Epic Games Store NT by Do you guys play video games? 10/29/2019, 11:29am PDT
Ah. One of those. NT by Mysterious Stranger 10/29/2019, 2:11pm PDT
Just saying you didn't have to sell your soul. There's still the borg collective NT by Roop 10/29/2019, 4:00pm PDT
buying a game with almost zero DRM is selling my soul NT by kay 10/30/2019, 8:13am PDT
Look not my fault, it's about meaningful choices and consequences and assholes by Roop 10/30/2019, 8:57am PDT
Let's move this to the Epic Store forum by HAKEEM THE DREAM 10/30/2019, 10:56am PDT
You press a button and if you have the skill and the required item to do it NT by It's hacked. 10/29/2019, 1:19pm PDT
Fucking Sweeney. Fuck Tim Sweeney. by That worthless asshole 11/16/2019, 9:03am PST
Someone said he's like Roger Goodell by I forget who 11/16/2019, 9:08am PST
Re: The Outer Worlds is good. I don't expect you bonobos to care because Trumps by Judge Barry 11/17/2019, 5:04pm PST
I signed up for it. Guess what. by Ice Cream Jonsey 11/17/2019, 8:41pm PST
I can't believe how bad the new Microsoft Game thing is by Ice Cream Jonsey 11/24/2019, 7:58am PST
For what it's worth... by CattleHumper 11/25/2019, 2:30pm PST
Re: For what it's worth... by Ice Cream Jonsey 11/25/2019, 6:54pm PST
Re: For what it's worth... by CattleHumper 11/26/2019, 9:08am PST
Re: I can't believe how bad the new Microsoft Game thing is by Ice Cream Jonsey 10/03/2021, 9:17pm PDT
Did the guy that writes Questionable Content write this game? by Rafiki 12/17/2021, 12:32pm PST
Maybe that's just how things are done by in space? 12/18/2021, 3:00am PST
They could have called this game "That's It?!" because that's what I said the by Rafiki 01/06/2022, 11:15pm PST
You're the only reason I still check this place, Raf NT by god speed 01/07/2022, 12:33pm PST
He is a video game experiencing gift NT by Richard Linklater 01/09/2022, 7:19am PST
The whole time I was expecting some idiocracy subplot but there never is one by Worm 01/08/2022, 6:03pm PST
thanks wrom NT by gruman 01/15/2022, 7:45pm PST
I'm buying it because it's on sale and I'm a rube by laudablepuss 01/14/2022, 9:26pm PST
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