I always mix up Outer Worlds and Outer Wilds
this post was submitted on 27 Oct 2023
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I accidentally bought Wilds instead of Worlds. The best accident I've had!
I remember back when Outer Wilds was a free efucational game. You made a good decision.
I'm pretty sure both games have an ending where you fly into the sun, too.
Ending? I flew into the sun in the first hour
I flew into the sun on my very first launch >.> Didn't realize the autopilot wouldn't avoid the dang thing
This is the exact reason I own and beat outer worlds.
Decent game, good world building, not much content by today's standards though. Good that it doesn't waste your time with useless filler tho.
Content-wise was the right middle ground. Not too long but the content was all real content and not ubisoft-like collectaton.
It did feel like it was somewhat empty, not many side quests, but I guess that's better than fetch quests and collectible crap. I think a cross between this and Mass Effect Andromeda would be quite good.
You have to poke around to find side quests in that game. There were about a dozen per world but if you don’t explore a lot you won’t find them.
Honestly from someone who has a backlog of hundreds of games, this is probably a plus. Too many games nowadays have filler that don't add to the enjoyment of the game. Sometimes I might wish a game was longer, but longer in the areas I found enjoyable, not endless fetch quests
Me too. Just bought a Steam Deck recently and I'm playing a lot of games from the ps2 era... And I always find myself stuck to "complete every level with 5 stars" or "grab all collectibles" instead of focusing on good content (or just clearing the game normally to start emptying this backlog...)
There were times when I was thinking the cities were kind of small, but well, they would be small, right?
Only thing I disliked was the gunplay, and lack of gun variety.
A more worthwhile game to play than Starfield.
How so?
This game qas just so uninteresting. I couldn't get past a couple hours
I think a big part of it for me was the perks. Almost none of the perks significantly change gameplay mechanics much -- they're small percentage tweaks to stats.
The firearms were pretty similar, other then the science weapons.
The game played in a pretty linear fashion, even though it was technically open-world. Not much backtracking.
I almost never stumbled across interesting things going on in the world a la Fallout. Just in cities.
None of those features individually made the Fallout series, but collectively not having them adds up.
Was pretty bug-free, which was nice.
It wasn't awful and it did share a lot of similarities with Fallout, but it didn't have the mixture that made Fallout "click" for me.
I really liked it. It was a good visual novel. I'm definitely going to play the sequel
It was pretty light on the RPG mechanics, but to call it a visual novel is an unfounded insult that game simply doesn't deserve
My intention was not to insult them. I want to promote them.
What would you call a game that has a rich environmental storytelling element, but not a lot of agency?
While I do believe your intent, saying Outer Worlds is a visual novel is like saying Warcraft is a tower defense game.
Take a look here, if you want to know what actual visual novels look like. We're talking Disco Elysium and Phoenix Wright.
At worst, if you're really dissatisfied with the RPG elements of OW, you would call it an FPS, which I would personally already feel is downgrading it.
How would you describe the outer worlds in terms of gameplay? What descriptive phrase would you use?
On rails FPS with sci-fi environmental elements?
Interactive narrative?
I simply do not see or agree with the diminutive characteristics you're peppering your responses with. To me it's as much of an RPG as Skyrim / Fallout / Starfield. Just with a tighter budget. And I'm pretty certain that's what the devs had in mind.
Okay, you would call it an RPG. Thank you for clarifying that
When you're describing games, how would you describe the difference between baldur's gate 3, and fallout 4?
That video of is what got me into the game!
I wanted to love this game, I really did, but it had no real charm to it. I've played New Vegas over a dozen times all the way through, I couldn't even be bothered to finish both DLCs for this after playing the main game. There were cool parts but overall it just felt bland and like there wasn't much to do beyond follow the main quest.