The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition

✔ NPCs are sometimes reused with multiple purposes in multiple quests - it is always a good sign, makes the world feel more alive ? tonal disconnect between the game's humor and serious side ✘ the biggest flaw I see in nearly all open-world games - too many locations and too many combat encounters exist purely as padding, no weight ✘ combat (played as melee) is quite simplistic and gets really easy (and thank the gods, because there is so much of it) ✘ except for the starting location/planet it hasn't grabbed my interest whatsoever - pretty boring/mid ⓘ haven't finished Peril on Gorgon - it was more of the same ⓘ haven't started Murder on Eridanos - unfortunately got spoiled on the mystery beforehand ⓘ no technical/performance issues whatsoever, despite what other people say The biggest issue is that there just isn't that much good or truly bad to say about this game. And that's unforgivable.

I can't finish the game. It never ends. So many “go-fetch” quests and uninteresting storylines in the game. Some people thought it was too short, but I think it drags on way too long. NPCs who were given completely ridiculous problems to create side quests. While there are some interesting aspects to the game, everything else just seems completely superficial. It would have been possible to critique capitalism, and more specifically, astrocapitalism, without creating such a hollow game. The begining and the middle parts of the game was cool, but then it continues with very little planets, and no real motives, and it drags until they allow you to see the final quest, so much lines of dialogue for nothing. I do like lore, but you see an NPC one time and you will never see them again and it brings nothing to the lore. At least the planets are good looking. Some people might say I'm not playing the game right by trying to do everything and even see everything, but there's no way I'm going to play through this game more than once. Still, I don’t feel like I wasted my time. I hadn’t played an RPG in a long time (the last one was Cyberpunk 2077, which was excellent), and once again, I know why. Most games in this genre are a letdown. And it’s really hard, after investing dozens of hours, to tell yourself at the end: "I just wasted time in my life thinking it was going to get better". Let’s just say I know why it’s not my favorite genre. I'll check out the endings on YouTube. I hope Expedition 33 will be better. I haven't played it yet. Maybe it'll just be an endless cycle of good RPGs and bad RPGs one after another for me.

Weirdly low fps to the point of unplayability in its current state, even in 2026. I can play Dishonored 2 just fine, which is notorious for being horribly unoptimized, but not this? Just play the original.

The MOST average Obsidian game. The skeletal frame of an Action RPG Party based game, nothing more. Play Lone Wolf. It'll be the same experience as Recruiting Everyone.

Would rather give this game neither a thumbs up or down, a mid score. However, because I can't, would have to give the game a thumbs down. Overall, I thought the game was boring especially the dialogue. Best way to describe the pacing of the game is for every 5 minutes of actual gameplay, you face 1 hour of the most boring and cheesy dialogue ever. Oh, and this game is woke to all hell. I don't know what planet the devs for this game are from but they were in their own little world when they made this game.

It is running well with a 72 fps cap in nvidia app on my 4080 super at 1440p. I do have effects turned down to medium that I saw a tip online for. The game is fun to come back to for the third time. I completed all dlc before but I wanted to replay it before jumping in to the 2nd game. I like the spacer's choice version more since it has some graphical upgrades and my pc can handle it. It does not have frame generation so I cannot set my fps cap any higher.

Honestly, I haven't checked the math on if this is cheaper than buying the original game and then buying the DLC. Choose whichever is cheaper, because as someone who's nearly 100%'d the original game plus DLCs, I don't feel any real difference. I think grenades are a new addition, I don't recall those in the original game, but other than that it feels the exact same. There's a few visual changes- like Martin's moon mask having a mouth (an aesthetic change I personally dislike), the models seem a bit more detailed, etc... But certainly not worth REbuying if you have the original. Buy whichever one is cheaper and enjoy it, unless you're just a mega fiend for super high graphics with a beefy PC.