The Outer Worlds 2 - Reviews Thread

Can console version remove all of the fucking head bob, blur, and play at 90 FOV?

First game gave me motion sickness so I couldn't play it.
 
I love this game, holy shit i can now talk about it. I was surprised how brutal it is in terms of lore. The Protectorate is a Stalinist rule on the planets, and will literally send you to get mentally refreshed for the slightest infraction.
The side quests are great, and the companions are well written, the Arbiter that joins up with you is the best one.

Also the onboarding is one of the most well done intros where it lets the player decides to go stealth or guns blazing with the tutorial being situational.

It's not as wacky as the first one but actually more grim the more you read the lore.

The flaws are better in this game and i actually chose 3-4.
My only gripe is some of the combat situations can be unfair
 
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Danteyke223 said:
I love this game, holy shit i can now talk about it. I was surprised how brutal it is in terms of lore. The Protectorate is a Stalinist rule on the planets, and will literally send you to get mentally refreshed for the slightest infraction.
The side quests are great, and the companions are well written, the Arbiter that joins up with you is the best one.

Also the onboarding is one of the most well done intros where it lets the player decides to go stealth or guns blazing with the tutorial being situational.

It's not as wacky as the first one but actually more grim the more you read the lore.

The flaws are better in this game and i actually chose 3-4.
My only gripe is some of the combat situations can be unfair
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Sounds promising!
 
Oh also there's a lot of male leaders / side characters, and there's no punching down . I've done 71% of the game. You will see diversity in terms of people but the game moves around in Ideological frameworks rather than skin color or gender being a theme. Neither Capitalist or the Commie / Fascist are good alternatives and both are presented as bad, but the protectorate are kinda the main bad faction / sort of but there are subfactions with varying goals
 
Danteyke223 said:
I love this game, holy shit i can now talk about it. I was surprised how brutal it is in terms of lore. The Protectorate is a Stalinist rule on the planets, and will literally send you to get mentally refreshed for the slightest infraction.
The side quests are great, and the companions are well written, the Arbiter that joins up with you is the best one.

Also the onboarding is one of the most well done intros where it lets the player decides to go stealth or guns blazing with the tutorial being situational.

It's not as wacky as the first one but actually more grim the more you read the lore.

The flaws are better in this game and i actually chose 3-4.
My only gripe is some of the combat situations can be unfair
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Sounds great. Bestbox!
 
Game is very reactive in dialogue where if you have certain npcs in your party then talking to relevant npcs different reactions will be provided " at least based on how i played" but will need to replay it

For instance if you show up at neutral Protectorate npc with Tristan ( the arbiter ) in your party, you can complete a side quests in a sort of different route.
 
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First one also scored 8.5 meta but i feel that game was like 6/10
This one has 8.1 meta which is worse...


My personal reason why i didn't like OW1 was that humor was just cringe. It never landed and characters were just stupid all around.
 
pepeno said:
First one also scored 8.5 meta but i feel that game was like 6/10
This one has 8.1 meta which is worse...


My personal reason why i didn't like OW1 was that humor was just cringe. It never landed and characters were just stupid all around.
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Besides the intro cinematic with Buddy and the Earth Woman, and some quest text this one is much more serious and the humor is more in the background.

Though depends cause there is a character option to play dumb
 
The Cockatrice said:
I dont expect Obsidian to excel at animations, but heres hoping it has great level design.
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Level design is…. Probably one of the best i've seen and very Deus Ex 1 in terms of building design. You can hack, crawl through spaces, most buildings have multiple access points. There was one building where i had high enough observation to find a secret corridor leading to a different part of the map.

Outdoor maps are also good( sort of ok) but the building ones are the best

There is a bit of dead space felt when walking to different locations on the map and wish there was a mount to speed it up at times but fast travel is plentiful
 
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GymWolf said:
Sounds like another 6-- to buy at 5 dollars in the bargain bin if the scores of the first game are anything to go by :lollipop_grinning_sweat:
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Exactly. This is a game to pick up a year or two from now, in a steep promotion. Or maybe a humble bundle.
Or for people that still have gamepass, and have nothing else to play right now.
 
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Danteyke223 said:
I love this game, holy shit i can now talk about it. I was surprised how brutal it is in terms of lore. The Protectorate is a Stalinist rule on the planets, and will literally send you to get mentally refreshed for the slightest infraction.
The side quests are great, and the companions are well written, the Arbiter that joins up with you is the best one.

Also the onboarding is one of the most well done intros where it lets the player decides to go stealth or guns blazing with the tutorial being situational.

It's not as wacky as the first one but actually more grim the more you read the lore.

The flaws are better in this game and i actually chose 3-4.
My only gripe is some of the combat situations can be unfair
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Hello quick question, is there woke stuff? You know, modern politics, commentary and expressions, like Veilguard had
 
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Danteyke223 said:
Level design is…. Probably one of the best i've seen and very Deus Ex 1 in terms of building design. You can hack, crawl through spaces, most buildings have multiple access points. There was one building where i had high enough observation to find a secret corridor leading to a different part of the map.
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Can I kill important npcs?
 
I got quite a long way into the first game, But I did not finish the main story. Got sidetracked into a expansion/DLC where you investigate a murder at a hotel.
The first game starts out heavy handed with the weird corpo drones but turns into a more 'normal' world as you move more into it. Can see how all the factions came about and people just eeking out a living with what they have.
Has that touch of weirdness throughout. More Dr. Who and less Borderlands.

Epic Store offered the game and and a bunch of DLC for free a while back.

My biggest complaint with Obsidian words is how dead the worlds are made. No weather, no life, no movement, nothing really going on in the worlds they make. '
I had the same complaint with Avowed.
 
CrimsonTide said:
It's Steam or nothing unless it's GOG and far cheaper
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Yea the convenience of steam and steam deck has really made me a steam slut.
Even though I can play non-steam games fine and set it all up, I'd still rather just buy the game for a few bucks on steam than play the free epic or gog version I already got.
 
Gonzito said:
Hello quick question, is there woke stuff? You know, modern politics, commentary and expressions, like Veilguard had
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Eh not really, there's one subquest where you can break up a factory riot at Auntie's Choice which very Amazon factory workers esque. People complaining having to work 16 hour shifts with barely any pay, and peeing in water bottles. Ypu can side with the corpos or the protesters
 
adamsapple said:
Not problem for Easy difficulty master race. :pie_raybans:
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Yeah sounds great, I had high hopes for this and it looks like it's delivered. I feel the tone thing is probably it's biggest downfall, not taking itself too serious looks like the problem here but looking forward to it after the woefully underrated Avowed, Obsidian doing the business again.
 
Gamer_By_Proxy said:
Yea the convenience of steam and steam deck has really made me a steam slut.
Even though I can play non-steam games fine and set it all up, I'd still rather just buy the game for a few bucks on steam than play the free epic or gog version I already got.
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The Deck has made me such too and I aint even mad about it lol
 
High praises from Matty.

Calling anything a cross between Mass Effect and New Vegas sounds interesting.

 
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Danteyke223 said:
I love this game, holy shit i can now talk about it. I was surprised how brutal it is in terms of lore. The Protectorate is a Stalinist rule on the planets, and will literally send you to get mentally refreshed for the slightest infraction.
The side quests are great, and the companions are well written, the Arbiter that joins up with you is the best one.

Also the onboarding is one of the most well done intros where it lets the player decides to go stealth or guns blazing with the tutorial being situational.

It's not as wacky as the first one but actually more grim the more you read the lore.

The flaws are better in this game and i actually chose 3-4.
My only gripe is some of the combat situations can be unfair
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Are you an AI or a bot? Your posts seem…. Off
 
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