The Outer Worlds 2

Looking back at the reviews, this game may have had a rocky release. However, coming to this about a year later, and after about 25 hours into the game I can tell you that I'm having a great time. No idea where I'm at in the campaign as I'm going around the map exploring.. there's a lot to go through. Fallout in Space Edition 2. Proving much stronger in lore, story, side quests, loot than it's predecessor. YOU HAVE COMPANIONS AND OPTIONS TO UPGRADE THEM! I have found many of the chat dialogue options versatile and they shape the story based on how you choose to go along. Still won't forget that I told Arbiter man to do some dishes and he immediately shoots back with 'hilarious'. He has a hard on for specific faction that can lick my swamp ass, so it was deserved. It also seems there's more options for dialogure based on what you choose to master in. There's science, observation, speech, hacking, and many, many more. These also help you along your journey based on how you want to play the game. Some areas are a bit unoptimized. I'm running a 5080 with ray tracing on, everything maxed, and I had to turn on Frame Generation to 2X, and even had to push it to 3X for a new area in the story. I think I'm lucky to be able to brute force this and can see how these areas may run very poorly on older hardware - be wary that you may have to drop your settings. Overall I would recommend that people give this game a try. The first area you land in is pretty intensive, but it's a good starting point to gauge whether your hardware will handle it. If not, just refund it, but definitely worth a try.

This is a pretty fun game, but not for 80$, get it on sale like I did and you'll be much happier. The CEO or whoever up top that said "gamers need to be ready to accept 80$ games" or whatever can suck me.

There were just too many ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and too low interest generated to keep me engaged. So I've given up on it. Go play Crimson Desert, Elden Ring, or Baldur's Gate 3 instead - all are much, much better games.

The first game's story and theme was pretty fun and silly with cool gameplay and environments, so I was excited to see where this game went. While I like the gameplay, weapon variety, worlds, skill tree, random advantage/disadvantage things, the game is just pretty boring. It doesn't take more than a few hours to get too overpowered for the game even on hard. They really hype up the last section of the game to be a challenge, but I think I spent thirty minutes total on the last level, with one boss that took maybe 90 seconds to kill.... Beyond the gameplay, the writers are so obviously anti Christian, anti American/Western civilization, anti men....so much so that the characters, organizations, things people say just don't make any sense. The writing went far beyond beyond a charming satire of capitalism and greed that it just sound pretentious; I would not want to be around ANY of the characters (or the writers) in real life. My favorite side kick character was the robot because she was the only likeable one. Also, why do the side characters need to be talking every second of the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game? When will this trend die?

It's okay, they kinda washed it of any cheese tactics though. I can't use the "tactical" slowdown and spam the companions abilities like I want, later you can with perks I guess. A big letdown. The story is okay, but gameplay is gutted imo from the old one. I still play it, just not the same feeling.

If you are going to get this game cause you like the 1st one don't

It's woke slop anti-capitalist propaganda made by developers that are so "regarded" they probably don't realize that they're benefiting from the system they're trashing. The game itself it's unplayable, but it's hard for some to get past the subliminal and on the nose messaging.