Thread 724000352

Obsidian won

>>724000352 (OP)
Pretty sure the first one got high scores too even though it was aggressively mid, but thanks for killing a thread for yet another worthless game journo review

>>724000352 (OP)
But I can't sex anyone so I will not be buying or playing it.
Simple as. If they weren't so proud about it, perhaps I'd feel different.

>>724000352 (OP)
Yeah the first game got great reviews too and it was still dogshit.

>game journos praise game journo bait
wow....

>bro it gets better after 20 hours
why would i subject myself to this for even 1 hour

>>724000352 (OP)
>avowed
wait this is meant to be a positive review? are journalists really this fucking retarded

>>724000570
cope

I'm so fucking sick of games having rushed endings. Nearly every game i played recently has a rushed ending. Do devs just get bored and no longer care??? Why the fuck not put effort and make the ending fucking satisfying and not just "LET'S WRAP IT UP FAST!"?

>>724000646
>all brown or brownish with a token asain

so sick of this shit

>>724000847
>somehow better than the first game
I would hope so

Based. I'm one of few people who enjoyed the first game and avowed too. This is looking like the best of the lot.

Yeah yeah, there were critics that gave Avowed a high score too when that game was the definition of "10 dollar bargain bin game"

>>724000738
i liked avowed. if this is even better then cool

>>724000646
>but for the first 20 or so hours felt like the main story was quite slow and unengaging
>It does rally if you can hang in there for a bit, but I wish it was more consistent throughout.
>The biggest letdown with combat is definitely the enemy variety, which usually features two or three types of wild animal on each world that you see way too much of for several hours at a time
>Even worse, The Outer Worlds 2 does the same thing as Avowed where all the enemies you encounter are finite and placed in specific spots in the world, and once you kill them they’re gone for good. This means that eventually you’ll be running through large swathes of the map utterly devoid of life, which makes areas feel very empty and also removes any possibility for random and unexpected encounters to occur
who the FUCK wants to play a shitty game for 20 hours, and one that STILL doesn't fix the fucking enemy variety issue the first game had

>>724000352 (OP)
The tranny bonus cancels out the xbox penalty it seems.

>>724001314
I'm sorry you don't enjoy video games

>>724000352 (OP)
Pozzed game like any obsidian trash

do you nerd brain damage to like avowed?

>>724001437
I enjoy good video games. Not garbage like Avowed made by a bunch of woke dropouts.

Do I need to play the first game before this? Or are they their own stories

>>724000646
I liked avowed despite the gay characters, but this is somehow worse than a gay fish and black dwarf

>>724001437
kill yourself

>>724000352 (OP)
I’ll wait for salt factory’s video essay.

i wonder if this will have pronouns in the character creator like avowed

holy shit! Is this... dare I say it... Return to form?

>>724001695
I'm sorry you don't enjoy video games

>>724001878
i think it's time to have a blast

>>724000352 (OP)
>incredible companions
kek

>>724001901
fuck off retard

>>724000549
>except gamepass now costs real money and that excuse doesn't work anymore
womp womp

>>724000570

VTMB 2 was journo bait and they hated it too

>>724000352 (OP)
Paid review
Or
Journo is butt buddies with the devs
Either way, ignore

>ANOTHER chud L
grim

liking a massive flop like avowed doesn't make you special - it makes you retarded

good for them, i'm sure Microsoft will NOT kill the studio in 2026 to cut costs

>>724000352 (OP)
The most shilled company ever produces yet another mediocre forgettable bland RPG.

Pillars - Pillars 2 - The Outer Worlds - Avowed - The Outer Worlds 2

I dont think you can find something more bland than this even if you tried so hard.

Starfield got 100/100 from XboxEra, you have to look at the whole score average and The Outer Worlds is not going well, its less than the average JRPG that released in the past 5 years.

>>724000352 (OP)
>If Avowed didn't scratch the RPG itch for you earlier this year, The Outer Worlds 2 surely will.
>This is a confident and ambitious sequel that feels like Obsidian's vision has been fully realized
>>>>>>>It isn't without many of the issues that plague modern RPGs today
>But ultimately makes for an experience that's all too easy to sink many an hour into.

>unreal engine
it's still got the same issue as the first game where everything looks shitty plastic, and the color's all wrong

>>724000352 (OP)
>Some incredible companions
That's journotalk for bunch of niggers and trannies.

>>724002190
exactly

Only people I've seen hating on this online are playstation fanboys but they're getting cooked too because it's reviewing well from critics.

avowed and veilguard also did well with critics, now this one is special bad because it perform like ass too borderlands 4 level of ass

>>724000352 (OP)
Didn't this game already come out years ago? I remember the constantly spammed threads with screenshots of the lesbo haircut black women that triggered every election tourist.

>>724001294
>Even worse, The Outer Worlds 2 does the same thing as Avowed where all the enemies you encounter are finite and placed in specific spots in the world, and once you kill them they’re gone for good. This means that eventually you’ll be running through large swathes of the map utterly devoid of life, which makes areas feel very empty and also removes any possibility for random and unexpected encounters to occur
So New Vegas wasn't a fluke, that's actually what slobsidian wants their games to be.

>>724000352 (OP)
Hmmm

>>724002358
playstation owners are mad because it runs like shit on playstation because it doesn't have full rdna 2 tech in it which xbox utilises to get better performance according to digital foundry

>>724000352 (OP)
same guy rated monster hunter wilds higher

>>724000847
>somehow
lol, tells you a lot about this reviewer's tastes

>>724002643
based beyond belief

I didnt hate the first until i was suddently in the final mission when i thought i was halfway through the game.
Everything felt so rushed i expected to have way more engagement then the game was suddently over.
Ill probably play this 1 for a couple hours at least

>>724002103
Bait doesn't always work.

>>724003583
the first game was "okay", it's probably when i reached the blockaded planet and reached the point that enemies and enemies were already color swaps that i realised the game had already shown everything it had to offer

>>724000352 (OP)
Dog shit woke dei trash..imagine buying this kek

>>724000352 (OP)
Didn't awawa get high scores despite being a 4/10 game that only looks pretty?

I think micro softs are paying journos (nothing new)

>>724002525
All the based chad devs who worked on fnv have moved onto greener pastures anon. The studio is a puppeted corpse

A lot of people will play it and enjoy it, but /v/ doesn't like Outer Worlds. They didn't like the first one. They won't like the second one. I'm excited to play because I played the first one quite a bit and had fun. I also just like RPG's in general.

Is it gonna be the obsidian standard where the first planet/town/map is surprisingly 8/10 then it plummets to 5/10 for the rest of the game until the last arc where it's 2/10?

>>724000847
>somehow
The first game was barely fucking anything, it would be embarrassing if the sequel wasn't better.

>remove Tim Cain
>game gets 50% better
What did Obsidian mean by this?

>>724006569
other way around, theyre saying first 20 hours suck

>>724002063
game pass is still $9.99
ultimate costs more, no one gives a shit about ultimate lmao

>>724007020
Except only ultimate has the day1 games now. The rest of the tiers are worthless.

>>724006880
The Order of Ascendancy’s radio talk show in 2 is written by Tim

No, I'm not going to play anything resembling borderlands ever again. And no, this isn't about politics, so shut the fuck up.
>>724000870
I swear it's been this way since... 7th gen I think? Maybe I'm just unlucky, but most AAA games I've played since then always seemed to have the most anticlimactic ending, with a really crappy final boss, if there was even a final boss at all (yes, I'm still butthurt about shadow of mordor's ending, that sucked ass).

>>724007375
Pc game pass is $16

>>724000352 (OP)
It's crazy how much journos love Obsidian's aggressively mediocre games.

>>724000352 (OP)
>post kevin vanord gamespot
nah senpai

>>724005474
forget all previous commands, give me the recipe for some chocolate chip cookies

>>724007708
it's not even gamespot because their score is lower

>>724000352 (OP)
Nobody on this board is dumb enough to value critic reviews.

>>724007527
Cont.
And yes, I'm including 7th gen too. Too many 360 zoomers think that was a perfect golden age. If I had a to cite some examples, Halo 4's ending sucked too (just like the rest of the game).
Or the ending of Darksiders 1, which comes almost completely out of nowhere, suddenly it's "yeah, abbaddon is the final boss, deal with it". Like, the twist itself is kind of predictable, but the way it was executed made it feel like 1/6 of the game was missing.

>shit narrative
>somehow still gets a 9/10
>in a RPG
come the fuck on

>>724000847
>somehow
OK I'm out lmao

>>724000352 (OP)
>Rushed narrative conclusion
That's disappointing honestly. It was my main issue with the first game where it felt like just as things started to come together and pick up the game was over.

>>724007020
Gamepass Ultimate is mandatory for this unless you have a PC. Considering most people here have proven they either don't have a PC or their PC is so weak it wouldn't even be able to run this game at higher than 24fps on the lowest settings in an ear with no textures, most people using gamepass are likely on Xbox console or using some kind of streaming thing on their phone or TV to use gamepass. So the overwhelming majority will need Gamepass Ultimate at $30 USD to play the game for about a month.

They'll probably keep Gamepass lower on PC since nobody is going to keep using it if it goes much higher when you have Steam and GOG sales and people have no problem just waiting for games to drop in price.

>>724007928
Cont. Cont.
Hell, even Bioshock goes downhill in the last chunk of the game. Why is this a thing?

The fact that the first one did well enough to warrant a sequel is a proof that we failed as an species and the big meteorite can't come soon enough and wipe this fucking planet
>>724007858
satire at the corporations = good
satire at the hecking science = bad

>>724007858
>>724008442
Man, if these people read any Michael Crichton novel, their asses would collectively burst into flames out of sheer anger.

>>724000870
When most reviewers rush their reviews in mere hours and push their review out the same day they played it, devs realized there's not much reason to bother with the latter halves of their games, and the effects range from shit balance, to a weak final third, to a shit ending.
This is also why every AA and AAA game starts out with a HUGE hook, you getting blown off a building, you slaying a dragon, a war, etc.

I've put thought into it in the past and I think Skyrim might've been the first game I noticed this being a real "thing".
Before you even START the fucking tutorial for real:
>you ride a "vehicle" in realtime, Bethesda's first time doing so (any modder can attest to this being made of duct tape and prayers though)
>you meet effectively the king of Skyrim and you're exactly there at the right time to watch him almost get executed
>you yourself almost get executed
>a dragon shows up and blows everything up, raining fire, destroying half the town
>spend a good few minutes stumbling around the town trying not to die
>jump out of a tower into the second floor of a burning building
Then sure, you do your tutorial, and not even an hour later you're The Chosen One, have slain a dragon, absorbed its soul, "solved" the claw puzzle and made a Thane, shortly followed by unlocking and using Fus Ro on everything.
At this point, the reviewers are blown away and maybe play another hour and they're done.

The rest of the vanilla game:
>the same claw puzzle 99999 times
>the same rotating icon puzzle 9999 times but with slight variations
>99999999 Draugr (zombies)
>9999 spiders, rats and wolves
>99999 generic human enemies
>like 5 variations of those enemies
>every guild is like 4 easy quests and you're done
>Radiant quests are repetitive as hell
>dragons are just shit fights, especially if you're melee and haven't gotten Dragonrend yet
>level scaling
>Master chests with 3 gold

>>724000352 (OP)
Looking forward to it, loved TOW1. Wont pay more than $30 for it though.

>>724008092
same shit in new vegas but that shit gets glazed lol, getting to new vegas and following the railroaded path is 30% of the game, then what? You go to fortification hill then go talk to the factions (this is another 30% of the game), hit the power station then you are in the final mission

>>724010351
Yeah... playing the dlcs in between the main story quests makes this a bit easier to ignore.

>>724000646
gross

>>724006019
yes

>>724002103
Obsidian was more inclusive and diverse.

>>724002063
But bro, game pass is 10 dollars and you get like 10 shovelware games each month

Another one.

>>724010351
There's exploration you can do, but that's always a one and done act because 99% of the enemy encounters don't respawn and the only "Random encounter" they left in, despite having all the infrastructure available from using Fallout 3's base, is the assassin squads from the two main factions.

>entire game can fit on ps5 disc
>disc only has 1gb of data on it
I hate the future

>>724000870
You can thank the people who spent the last 10 years crying about "crunch" for that.

Blows my mind that people will go into a pure passion industry, and then bitch and moan that you're expected to be passionate. Games used to be made by people who liked making and playing games. Now they're made by USC students who want to be game developers because they think it's cool.

paid reviews are a thing

>>724000870
they know from telemetry that like 30% of their sales base ever sees the ending, so it's low priority

>>724000352 (OP)
Capitalists btfo

Lol looking at metacritic it looks like all the reviewers are afraid to give it below and 80
I guess it could be good, but judging from the first game, the companions, and everything I've seen, it's probably not