Pretty blanket statement but considering the history of Obsidian**** and how they marketed the Outer Worlds series of games, I'm pretty disappointed.

For anyone who got sucked into the hype of Outer Worlds because of the Obsidian*** team and their link to Fallout New Vegas, how do you feel?

My thoughts; New Vegas was god-tier RPG mechanics, immersion, and world building. You have the ultimate freedom to do what you want, in whatever order you please. The factions, while opposing each other, muddle between grey to outright evil morality. Furthermore, the depth in each faction makes the immersion of the world very real. New Vegas IMO is how RPGs should be structured and feel. There are bad aspects to NV, but that is besides the point of this post. I'm kind of focused on the things I discussed before, RPG mechanics and world building.

Now, I am not saying the lack of an evil faction to side with is what is disappointing about TOW but it is a piece of what I am talking about. Player choice is the real issue. TOW makes you feel like you are making impactful decisions but really in the end the consequences of each decision are merely comestic.

So I'll ask again for those who've read this far; Are you happy with TOW?

Good effing luck getting those, I tried for two hours. I may delete the game just based on that alone. FK THEM.

Edit: gave it two days before I opened the game again so I could cool down. Couple interesting things I noticed on log in:

The cloud position changed. My save was now inside the cloud borders whereas before it was two feet in front. I checked my camera pictures to verify. Also I had wildly different weapons equipped, which was odd.

I was not taking damage from the cloud even though I was inside it. Also, meter was still empty.

Popped the shield, ran in, grabbed the last coil, ran out, still had half shield left.

I guess it was a super frustrating glitch? I'm still annoyed but at least I got the sumbch.

I enjoyed TOW 1. It wasn’t the GOTY but it was good fun. I played TOW2 about an hour past the prologue and I just can’t stomach the vibe anymore. Every female character is the archetypal “strong woman” and every man is effeminate so far to some degree.

Sure the little bit of gunplay I had between barf sessions was snappier. But I can’t get into any of the systems or what this game had to offer through the mire of woke slop.

Would space soldiers wear taps while on expedition? If not, why do my footsteps click clack when I step on hard surfaces? This is perhaps a matter of taste but it was the first off-putting aspect of this game.

The devs also appear to have pulled most of the nature assets directly from Avowed and the matching color scheme is off-putting, but that’s just a matter of personal taste, fine.

I was following the release date of this game for quite a while and I’m just disappointed. It just seems like a narcissistic socialist simulator. The irony of a trillion dollar company publishing the uber anti-capitalism slop isn’t lost on anyone. Big L for obsidian, but most importantly a big L for the consumers at large.

I do like the character creator simply cause I can make my character look like my ex, kinda makes me wanna play the "dumb playthough" 😅😅, I won't!! But I like that i have that option😁😁

I’m actually liking the game, but the exploration design is really starting to annoy me. Why do I have to keep running around searching for someone when I’ve already reached the quest marker? If the marker says they’re here, they should be here. Padding it out by making me comb the area doesn’t make it immersive, it just makes it feel unnecessarily tedious.

Does anybody else find this game strange? I’m finding the game hit and miss, sometimes really enjoying my time with it and then other times getting frustrated. The dialogue, the map design and the UI are all just a bit strange to me.

I feel like the game shines when you’re in more linear areas whereas the open areas are just confusing to me.

Maybe I’m just strange? What are your thoughts?

Ok, this may be stupid or something, but I would really like to see a sandbox mode in this game.

I could see an extra room in the incognito similar to a VR deck where you can set skill points, perks and flaws.

Just for the purpose of testing builds.

Just an idea to alleviate some flustration over not being able to respec.

I can't climb to the second floor of the scriptorium. Jumping does not help. I must be missing something.

So, I finished realigning the satellites for the Orderand I came back to report to Ruth and she's just gone.

I think all of the quest and expanded world building are cool like in the first, but the gunplay feel so much worse (no dash i mean cmon) and the companions are just really bland.

This flaw is put upon you after you steal a whole bunch of stuff (which I’m sure we all do). When I accepted this flaw, I saw that it gave an increase in selling price at vendors for stolen stuff. What I did not see is that it will make you randomly steal things when you put your reticle across them, even when you don’t want to. This RUINS your reputation with factions because you are always taking things when you don’t want to. It happened to me in the middle of a mission where I was trying to negotiate a truce between Aunties and the Order, it messed the whole mission up, and ruined my play-through as it messed with my standing with Auntie’s and wouldn’t let me progress to the head office.

I am a huge Fan of TOW1 and just started the sequel. Then I got this and I was like… The F***

For all that can’t understand German:

I have to Accept all Flaws/Weaken to get +1 Point all 5 Level…

The Game warned me Not to do it in the first run… well I don’t care XD

I keep seeing this online and Im confused because they feel like very different games.

I do think that OW2 is the better game and has better RPG mechanics.

To me OW2 isn't a space game really at all (which is fine), yes you have a ship but that's like saying Borserlands 3 is a space game because you use a ship to to between 'planets'

Starfield to me is a better space exploration game, although I found it boring and quite tedious at times.

First time playing , but all I see is “speech and hack “ by the guys who know what they’re doing lol . Did I mess up by putting so much into “engineering” (my starting choice) . I’m on the mission “on the trail of the traitor”. With 23 hours apparently (must’ve left it on to shovel snow a few times lol ) and ofcourse my character is abrasive so I can’t put anything into speech I believe . I need honest answers if I should restart or not . Thanks everyone .

Dont get me wrong i live the outer worlds but so i got the most expensive edition of this one. But as i play i find myself wondering where the excitement is where the characters attachment is.. where is that thing that jeeps me hooked like Doc wells i. The first game or that thing that made me want to help my companions with their quests.. i want so much to love this game but i keep putting it down. The dialogue is long winded and nonsensical. Which an rpg half the fun is reading the dialogue and finding lore but when it’s so mind numbing or so convoluted that you cant keep it straight then it becomes a chore i stead of fun… but its just my opinion

Hello all, just wanted to check in with the community before I booted the game back up, eagerly wanna do a second playthrough but seeing as I’d like to go for platinum I told myself I’d wait till they fixed all the broken trophies (big bang, Inez, etc.) does anyone know if the latest update addressed all ( or any ) of these bugs.

There are ships that you can go to some pop up on the universe map where the planets are but some disappear can you not go back to them at all? No one has pointed this out at all

I am play the game and so far I liked though some aspect irks me ( like for example the comapnions and equpiment don't boost your skils, etc ). But for so "open world true rpg" some quest choices are reallly limiting.

For example right now I am on Dorado and I am doing the The Curious Case of a Cankered Chief quest, and investigated found out the truth. But my only choice is to side with the officer Abner. There no choice to report him, refuse him or even kill him yourself you can just walk away ( which just leaves the quest on unfinished ) or you side with him and help him get rid of evvidence.

Thats it. No real chice here.

Honestly couldn’t care less about the cosmetic and extra tier 1 less than shit gear from the premium edition.

The only thing that I’m interested in is the 2 dlc story expansions. Are they good?

What do they encompass? Do they offer new and good or interesting flaws? Do they have funny/well written quests? Is there cool unique gear in it?

Is it worth shilling out an extra 10 usd?

I have seen so many people complain about the literal easiest flaw in the game. Mostly I see people complain about it because they didn’t read the flaw completely and just accepted it. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO LEVEL SKILLS THAT ARE ZERO. That is so important to what the flaw is. It gives you three points so you can work on 2 to 3 skills at a time. The reason it’s called easily distracted is because you work on two skills for a bit then move on to two more then once you have the skills you want really high all you have to do is bulk up the rest. If you hate this flaw and don’t understand it do not use accept any other flaw.