LogFAQs > #931053320

It's fun, but nowhere near as good as suggested. It feels like people overpraised it mostly in reaction to the death of that sort of game with BioWare being completely ruined by EA and Bethesda repeatedly shitting their pants in public. I feel like Greedfall got overpraised for the same reason.

Something to remember, though, is that the Outer Worlds is more of a mid-tier Kickstarted game that kind of grew beyond that to be seen more like a AAA title, but there's still a lot of the lower budget and mid-tier design philosophy in it.

My personal problem with the Outer Worlds is game-breaking bugs that make companion quests uncompleteable (which, from my perspective, means the game as a whole is uncompleteable and little more than a fancy drink coaster). But even before that became an issue, a lot of narrative felt rushed and somewhat lazy, and a lot of the branching narrative choices/quest design feel somewhat lame because they're less giving you choices and more just asking "Do you want to do this quest or not?" People just playing for completion likely won't notice as much, but people inclined towards RP are going to notice a LOT of annoying little things that might piss them off.

It's still better than a lot of games, but it's not as good as it could or should be, and it's definitely not as good as people made it sound when it came out.
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"Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76
"POwned again." --- blight family