Thread 724544908

What are you seething about

>only the people who would've liked the game have bought it
Are you clinically retarded?

>>724544908 (OP)
only 1600 reviews? grim

>>724544908 (OP)
This is one of those games where it's already scared off most people who would have left a bad review (most potential customers). But this seems like a really bad indicator for sales even compared to the first game. And yeah, it's like 40% worse green line so far.

is this all you can muster obsidian?

>the game I'll never buy nor play is very bad, everyone should rate it low
why?
>because woke or something, I saw a screenshot on 4chan, I don't know

What's the point of this anymore? How many bad games do we have gloat over before it's just a comfort ritual?

>>724544908 (OP)
>Played that garbage first game and still bought the sequel.
>Paid 70$ for a Game Pass title.
At this point, they’re already faggots. Of course the reviews are “very positive.” It’s all written by the same brain-damaged retards who actually liked it. And even then, the game still flopped hard.

>>724545793
>esl
>random complaint along the lines of "anti-worke fatigue" out of nowhere
saar?

>>724545742
Only 0.3% of the population is transgender and only a subset of those play videogames

>>724545793
>why?
Because muh internet crusade! It's super serial you guys! You have to take it serious!
>>724545843
Guess he struck a nerve for you.

>>724545793
this troon is seething

>>724545914
"Struck a nerve" is the new pajeet cope phrase.
The game is just more of the same super mediocrity with obsidian's mask slipping.

>>724544908 (OP)
Its on game pass, I doubt many people will bother buying it.

>>724544908 (OP)
Anyone that bought this trash was gonna give it a good review before they even played it. It was a foregone conclusion. Good little cattle

>>724546021
See the problem with that is how microsoft scared off a large chunk of their gamepass users with the price hike and they stopped doing those cheapo "first month" things ages ago because people were using them to play freshly released games like Outer Worlds 1 for $2. And it's not exactly pulling in more potential customers either.

>>724545957
mommy!!!

>>724544908 (OP)
It's more about HOW many revies there is, not if Honestly. Meta just changed. It's how many there.
1600 is a joke number

>>724544908 (OP)
its kinda fun

>>724545994
>"Struck a nerve" is the new pajeet cope phrase.
It's twitter sjw phrasing from like 2020

>>724545742
>6k
OHNONONONo hahahah. this is a truly, fucking legit flop!! is it on gamepass?

I have finished the game now (pirated of course).

It is ok, but basically a small game with an extra budget for assets. A lot of things have been cut down and feel tacked on for the sake of it.

>Bad balancing in general
>Higher difficulties are untested and they just increased the numbers x2/x3
>Companions are not only worthless, you can't even give them weapons anymore
>Melee has harsh survivability issues and there are enemies you can't even melee
>Armor is worthless. It's subtractive, but you get 10 armor while enemies deal 300-500 damage.
>Stealth is lazily tacked on and you get insane damage multipliers so it still works. You regularly can't use stealth, like at bosses.
>All those skill checks are meh. There's never anything good hidden behind it. All the unique stuff is out in the open. You learn that very quickly.
>Act 2+3 have notably less stuff than the 1st
>Quests are all just fetch quests
>It's super woke. Women rule. Evil women are never really evil, but have a reason. No cleavage allowed. Men do all the shit work. No mention of sex or even relationships at all (at least it also means to trannies). No one has children. All blacks are super capable. 80% of the NPCs are brown.

The game is fully out now and less people play this than Veilguard or Avowed. The game was probably cheaper, but still.

>>724547292
>is it on gamepass?
Yes, but so have other comparable games and they pulled better numbers.

>>724544908 (OP)
What's the problem? The game was made for people who loved TOW1 and it seems like it satisfied them.

>>724545957
Is this one of those games where every male character is either evil or weak and pathetic?

>>724548212
>The game was made for people who loved TOW1 and it seems like it satisfied them.
The game does everything ok, but nothing stands out. The negative top reviews are right.
Source: I finished the game.

It's not even "for fans", as the game has simplified many things to aim at a broader audience.

>>724548228
Yes. Quite predictably so.
Evil woman? The game will tell you at lengths how misunderstood she is.
Evil man? Yeah, no redemption.

It was tiresome quick.

>>724544908 (OP)
This is pathetic dude. You're seething the freaks enjoy the games made for them?? Maybe you want them rate hentai anime games and give them mixed reviews over not being DEI enough?

its really bad, i may drop the difficulty down to story mode and speed run the main quest just for completion sake, but its really boring.
whoever made the foot step sound needs their ears gouged out with a piece of glass, its like a crackling popping noise repeatedly playing through the entire game. the game has like 1 sound track for open world and its just 3 notes played over and over again, and it plays during major story cutscenes over the cutscene music
just basic shit like the world assets are the most generic lifeless things ever, over half the map for the intro to the game is just gray textures

>>724545793
It's funny. Obsidian replaced gamers with the modern audience, and they didn't show up.

>>724548228
Female idealism

>>724548228
in a previous thread, an anon mentioned that all the most capable and level-headed characters were women, and the men are usually incompetent or evil.

>>724547961
70 dollarydoos please!

>>724548665
E33 has shown everyone that sexy characters sell.

>>724544908 (OP)
It’s unironically good, and compared to Current Year RPGs it’s great.

>>724548803
>It’s unironically good, and compared to Current Year RPGs it’s great.
It wouldn't call it good. It's ok for one playthrough and it's sadly the best RPG of the year.

Kingdome Come isn't really an RPG (you're Henry and that's it).
E33 has no roleplaying at all.
Avowed is trash.
That's basically it for 2025.

>>724548789
They'll never learn regardless.

>>724549036
Learn? They know it exactly. That's why they were able to avoid it like the plague in TOW2. Anyone in the company mentions it? You will get slammed by HR and expensive consultants.
Xbox having to give up Xbox has a reason.

>>724544908 (OP)
Notice how there are only 1.6k reviews
That's the negative reviews anon

>>724544908 (OP)
Do you think if you went back to Fallout New Vegas's writing you would find it equally as gay as you did with The Outer Worlds? I reckon most /v/tards have been in a mass coma for years about this studio. Perhaps the whole familiarity with the Fallout IP and its themes sort of masks the things that you would have otherwise found intolerable. But there's no mistaking that the NPCs is all hamfisted diversity more than ever. I don't know deny that aspect being missing the equation from Fallout at that time. Like they went more overboard for certain.

>>724544908 (OP)
>>724546021
What's going to happen to Obsidian when the Microsoft money well runs out?

>>724547961
Why would you even pirate this garbage and why finish it?

It's kind of funny that "woke is dead" but woke games keep releasing

>>724545793
Both TOW1 and 2 are woke as fuck though.
Every woman is some short haired girlboss.
The literal first few women you see in TOW1 boss you around and act retarded with short faggoty hairstyles.
I sincerely don't recall a single 'normal' woman in the whole game, which is hilarious because there's numerous normal dudes.

>>724549864
You had to say "releasing", because you knew you couldn't say "not flopping"

>>724548228
They did this in the first game, are you really that surprised that they're doing it again after they became even gayer?

>>724549780
What else should I play? It's free and I have nothing else. At least now I can bitch about it in detail.

>>724549934
>The literal first few women you see in TOW1 boss you around and act retarded with short faggoty hairstyles.
Every NPC in TOW2 is either that, a nu-male or an evil white male. It happens to predictably, it makes the game boring.

>>724545742
People are starting to realize new Vegas was a fluke.

>>724550064
It's more like anyone capable has long fucked off from the studio over the years

>>724550064
New Vegas isn't even that good. It's just fun because of all the freedom you have.
It's just good now because everything else is shit.

>>724550167
It still the only game that combines the bethesda "fuck around in open world" formular with an actual rpg.

>>724550018
How should I know what games you played and what you didn't? Probably should have played Ninja Gaiden if you didn't already

>>724548787
It costs 110 dollarydoos lol

>>724550167
New Vegas is just 'Fallout 3 if they actually tried to make an RPG'
Is it as much of an RPG as FO1-2? No, not really.
Is it more of an RPG than nu-Bethesda games? Absolutely.
That's all people want, proper RPG mechanics.
You could have PS1 polygon monsters and clunky FPS combat and people would still prefer that over Fallout 4.

>>724547961
>A lot of things have been cut down and feel tacked on for the sake of it
That is insane because the first one already felt like that. I remember them pretending it was for replaying but that was a load of shit.

>>724544908 (OP)
>nu-steam
Jeet thread.

>>724550542
Obsidian is at its best taking a game that people liked but was missing something and tweaking things to make an improvement while most of their time can then be spent on characters, quests and themes.
It's why all their best work is sequels and expansions.

>>724550542
New Vegas had writing with a good vision + good source material to work with. Unfortunately it's very difficult to pull this combination because even if you (supposedly) have capable writers, if they're forced to work with an original setting they can spoil it with their own bad tastes in setting and themes, which is what happened with Obsidian's other projects.

>>724550167
>>724550542
>>724550298
I would also add to that the fact they removed god awful metro sections.

>>724550002
Most people didn't play the first game either

>>724549684
If the microsoft money well runs out then the American economy collapses and we basically enter the great depression 2.0 except we already are in the great depression 2.0 just they ignore how bad the living standards are by importing indians.

>>724550542
>That's all people want, proper RPG mechanics.
It's why BG3 and Skyrim are so wildly popular.

>>724550551
The second one is worse.
>"Role playing" is just stat checks
>Nothing significant is ever hidden behind a stat check
>The only consequences are behind some few unmissable scripted scenes and you're always just presented with choices. Nothing happens organically or by accident.
>Everything is sterile and feels the same
>You can choose between comically evil faction A, comically evil faction B or piss them both off equally
They clearly aimed for dumb Gamepass masses.

>>724550751
I can't believe the american economy is being solely ran by an ever growing bubble of shitty games that must keep releasing otherwise people will go broke and die of hunger

The game was made for the people that enjoyed the first game (which isnt a lot to begin with)
Whats wrong with providing a game for the core audience? Why does every game have to appeal to everyone

>>724550751
>If the microsoft money well runs out
Must be running out when they're now making their games non-exclusive. Pretty big fail for a company that was planning with exclusive content.

>>724545742
>11k players was not an indicative of the total players, these are only the idiots that paid extra to play early
>13k on release
not gonna lie, i hoped it'd be successful because at least it'd be something unexpected

>>724550919
I played through the first one, and quite liked that first planet. I should be the target audience, but they seemed to have emphasized the parts I disliked and disregarded the parts I did.

it's priced way too high for my liking
the first game was aggressively mediocre so there's no way I'm dumping 100+ bucks on the sequel

>>724551063
The first planet is also the best in TOW2. After that it feels like they got you out of the refund window and it becomes notably empty with a lot of empty running around.

You think people should be buying games and reviewing them as a public service? All this is telling that people who bought the game weren't disappointed.

>>724550867
>Skyrim
>RPG mechanics
Surely this is bait of a thinly veiled variety?

>>724551349
You can become whoever you want in Skyrim.
Unlike KDC, Witcher, E33, Veilguard and you name it.

>>724550887
>>724550934
Microsoft isn't just making games but they are shitting the bed in every possible way
>Fucked up windows 11 in every single way
>Fucked up windows 10 phase out
>Forcing consumers into bad contracts instead of modular services basically you need to buy all the microsoft or none then triples your sub fee
>Trapped in the AI bubble with needing to buy GPUs
>Buying all these dead studios for shitty netflix games pass
Though I'm sure you Indians will defend them. Funny how these tech companies just turn to stock buyback and utterly stagnate the moment they get an Indian CEO to drive them into the ground.

>>724551423
>You can become a stealth archer, or a stealth archer, or a stealth archer! So many choices!
Skyrim is fucking retarded and is balanced like a child designed it. Pure mages suck dick because they can't scale beyond a certain point, which is hilarious because magic used to be the 'scale indefinitely' build before.

>>724550867
>They clearly aimed for dumb Gamepass masses.
Or yeah just another title to add so people feel justified in subscribing

>>724551476
TOW2 would have been great without the DEI writing and some deeper RPG elements.

>>724544908 (OP)
You are snoy seething? Yes you are

>>724551423
You meant to say you can become everything in Skyrim. I guess you can become a vampire and that has an actual effect on how people treat you.

>>724551498
The balance is ass in skyrim but literally nothing in the game is forcing you to play as the optimized stealth archer, if you keep falling for it it's your fault

>>724551319
>All this is telling that people who bought the game weren't disappointed.
Uh, no? See, even without leaving a review on ideologically charged product you can still be disingenuous on the interned. So there's no reason for people who bought the game that aligns with their ideological views not to leave disingenuous review of that game. And that is just only one hypothetical example why there can be a positive review from a person who was disappointed in the game.

>>724551708
>It's your fault the game is designed to promote the dumbest shit
No, I think it's the game's fault. Which is why it isn't a good RPG at all.
You can play FO2 with a shitload of viable builds, even just going unarmed the whole way through.
There's no way to make an unarmored monk build in Skyrim.

>>724551602
The last game was exactly like this. DEI isn't a new thing they've been pulling this shit for almost a decade now. There was no saving this game.

>>724551832
Sure you can make an unarmored monk. Use fists, 1-h and resto.

>>724551873
>The last game was exactly like this.
The new game is a lot worse. Every NPC has been carefully approved by some commitee. It's incredible.
They also have a thing for old women yelling at you. I wonder why.

>>724552003
>Use fists, 1-h and resto.
>Oh and just casually need like 200+ punches to kill levelscaled enemies lol
Nah, shit tier RPG. Skyrim isn't even an RPG, it's an action game with RPG elements like Far Cry 3.