The Outer Worlds 2

A weak showing by Obsidian.

great - except for a few gamebreaking bugs!

save bug

억지 농담으로 가려지지 않는 항성계의 구조적 결함 (2 / 5)

Totally an upgrade from the first game in every way.

It's a recommend from me! It's pretty much exactly like the first game. It's just as mid, just as disappointing, but allows the exact same player agency. Which is why I recommend it! I do really love the games that allow me to play them any way I want, make decisions, side with factions over other factions, steal stuff, kill everything and everyone who catches me stealing stuff, failing quests because I killed someone or something I wasn't supposed to, while it only affects my playthrough of the game without breaking it. I played the last one roleplaying as the psychopathic mercenary, always choosing the worst option, preferably the one which benefitted me and me only, tried to screw over just about everyone I came across. I stole everything and when I got caught I threatened myself out of it, but when they caught me stealing the second time, I made sure they'd never catch anyone stealing ever again. After completing both the main quest and all the side quests I found in an area I proceeded to kill everything and everyone on the map, stealing everything I found laying around and forcefully stumbling upon whatever people had on them. Every faction hated me and I loved it. The stores were suuuper overpriced because the factions owned all the stores, but it didn't matter because of all the stuff and money I had previously forcefully stumbled upon. It was amazing and the reason I (a notorious dialogue and cut-scene skipper) like and play these kinds of games. This one, however, I decided to shake things up a little. I've matured a little over the years. I've grown as a human being. I'm over 30 now and the boy has become a man! So I decided to go for the modest and helpful mercenary route this time. I tried to complete as many quests and steal as much stuff without being caught as I possibly could. There was one location on the first planet where the people didn't let me in and they thereby forced me to kill everyone and everything and steal all their stuff, but I didn't wanna do it! Fr fr. I'm a changed man. frfrfrfrfr. They forced my hand!! frfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfr When I woke up from that strange dream I must have had about killing a whole outpost of people and robots, in a pool of some named character's blood, I continued on in my modest and helpful journey! The next few planets I was modest, courteous and helpful. Picked some pockets and helped myself to whatever people weren't looking right at (which was pretty much everything because just like in Avowed, the npcs don't really wander around that much). The game offered me a flaw, I took it. Then it offered me another one and idk man, I took that one too. Another one and another one, until it offered me a flaw where I had to accept all flaws, couldn't decline them and I thought to myself "huh, sure, why the fxck not?" Most of those flaws I didn't really notice during gameplay, but pretty late in the game, on the snow planet, the game forced me to accept one that left me no choice but to return to my Outer Worlds 1 days. That flaw made me every once in a while steal whatever stuff I looked at without any button input from me... ...and because I accepted the Flawed flaw, I had no choice but to accept it... ...and since I now sometimes steal whatever stuff I look at, that means that npcs will sometimes aggro me out of nowhere... ...and since I specced myself from the beginning in pretty much only lockpicking and hacking, not speech, I couldn't really lie, charm or threaten myself out of it when I got caught... ...and since I had been a semi modest, helpful and honest mercenary through the game until that point, only letting the beast accidentally(frfr) loose like a few or so times, therefore I wasn't as filthy rich as I was in the first one, I didn't really have the money to bribe the heat... So Everyone Had To Die It was fitting because during that point in the story the quest suggested I should suck up to one of the two major factions in the game. I could choose which one. I had already decided not to side with anyone and basically doing the Wild Card from New Vegas, but now since the game is forcing me to kill everyone and everything and forcing me to steal all the stuff no matter the cost, I decided to just Wild Card it up. Up to the point where I had pretty much completed this big thing the factions could have helped me with, I then decided to go to their headquarters, pretend like I needed their help and proceeded to cleanse the solar system of their disappointing yet satisfying existence. ....and all their stuff too... The funny thing is that I had decided before I opened the game for the first time that I was just gonna pretend. Pretend to be a changed man, pretend to be on some weird Mormon missionary journey, knocking on people's doors, telling them the story of that one guy who once killed everything and stole all their stuff but then was saved by the grace of god, helping with whatever needed help, steal whatever stuff wouldn't be noticed stolen, pretend to be modest, helpful and honest. Because war War never changes And neither do I! And that's why I recommend this game! I hit max level maybe at the 30 hour mark. My playtime is 38.7 hours, so the last few hours got pretty boring because of it. Even though the gameplay didn't really change that much, the whole number-go-up disconnecting from the lobby just made the gameplay very same-ie and underwhelming. The same thing happened for me in the first game. But whatever. I was able to unleash the beast just like I did in the last one. This time it was even better because I was essentially roleplaying as a psychopath roleplaying as a helpful and honest, polite and modest Elder's Scrolls protagonist the whole time. That's what I call Roleplay² I played on Hard difficulty, which had npcs often one shotting me while I was wearing light and medium armor (which I did up until the point of no return). And per usual, in games where I can do whatever I like, kill whatever important npc I so please, I did not use any save-scumming. All my actions were permanent, and I do highly recommend playing games that put a heavy emphasis on player agency that way. There was a lot of weird woke stuff in the game. Body type 1 and 2 and stuff like that. Gay relationships and anti capitalism was usually the punchline everywhere you went. But like they say: Woke ideology doesn't necessarily make a good game bad, while it will make a bad game worse. And I have to admit that I have somewhat of a kink for all these mostly positive, mixed and negative rated triple or quadruple A games. As I try to play most of the games the internet wants me to hate, to see for myself if the internet's opinion matches my own. It sometimes does but usually the games are just a mere 6/10 instead of a 9/10. Which is fine by me as long as I get them on sale! Playing that Triple A vampires 2 game that I don't remember the name of right now next. The one that released last year to a mixed rating. A follow up to some decade or more old game that has a cult following. Looking forward to it.

i like it