Thread 725018601

so the consensus around this game seems to be that it's woke but still quite fun and worth the price tag. I'm still on the fence about getting it now or waiting for a sale. should I get it now or wait?

>>725018601 (OP)
Who the fuck is paying you to shill this?
The consensus around this game is that it's boring as fuck and it sucks.
Go away.

>>725018601 (OP)
You should play Dustborn instead

>>725018601 (OP)
Don't buy this piece of shit.

>>725018601 (OP)
Just burn your money you were going to use to get this. It will be better used in that way.

>>725018663
Jeets gonna jeet. Better than them scamming the elderly i suppose.

I hear it's a true return to form

>>725018869
But did it take the series back to its roots?

>>725018869
>>725018886
T. Corpo bots

>>725018601 (OP)
I pirated this game 2 days ago, I enjoyed the first one but found it very forgettable and cringy but had its moments, this one is too awful desu, the gameplay is mostly the same but it’s all California brain rot speak telling you to do things kind of quests, and most characters are women and some black guys, the dialogue is really bad, and the performance is extremely poor, it’s unplayable at 60fps unless you use dlss (4070), after 3-4 hours of gameplay i uninstalled it, I honestly can’t comprehend that there’re people that paid 70usd for this obvious slop

why is every parody of capitalism the exact fucking same

>>725019181
I suspect its because its always toothless. Its made in a capitalist society, by capitalists, for consumers who participate in and support capitalism.
Hardly in their interests to actually attack capitalism with any real effort

>>725018601 (OP)
fuck off shill

>>725018665
already did

It's not the wokeness that bothers me anymore. It's the cringe reddit writing.

>>725018869
It is. It's shit like the first game. Very return to form there.

>>725019181
Because those who make parodies of capitalism are usually commies who are required by commie law to parrot whatever established guidelines tell them to.
Any other criticisms of capitalism drowns in the flood of tired platitudes and party-approved snide remarks.

>>725018601 (OP)
>consensus
Utter shite.
I think their focus groups consisted of actual niggers, from age 12 to 37. They basically added everything the majority of black ape african niggers agreed with. The nigger market is extremely important because they are dumb as apes and spend their hard earned slave wages like no others. Brand loyalty means everything to a nigger. You won't find a happier nigger than one with Apple Airpods 4 and Apple iPhone 17 Pro, which is why so many MBAs chase the nigger market.
>armor system that serves no purpose, 3 types, extremely similar otherwise
>barebones equipment system
>guns that all play the same, with ADS being the only other functionality
>barebones companion system
>loot exists for the sake of looting and padding playtime, because muh MAU and subscription services and retention~ everything you loot is junk
>legendary mods can't be used on other guns or equipment so you are stuck with the same stuff whole game
>no enemy variety (so the majority of niggers basically polled: "AYOO OPEN WORLD, BUT I WANT IT EZ BRUH")
>directional audio is so fucked you are better off staring at the minimap to see where the actual enemies are coming from
>you assume the role of a caretaker for multiple comically-written factions and the majority of quests require you to make choices for people that don't matter because it's written by neolib cucks
>combat is very spongy, with long companion cooldowns, so you are left with holding one button for up to 2 minutes each encounter
>gameplay loop = loot junk, sell junk, spend all money on ammo , meet the next nigger/girlboss

>>725018601 (OP)
Don't listen to the haters op. It's on the high seas so you can try it out before buying it. I'm personally having a lot of fun with it. Reminds me a lot of New Vegas in terms of how reactive the world is and how you can actually choose evil options.

>>725019704
Brown hands typed this

>>725018601 (OP)
AHEM!

Capitalism is god, and communism is for bums and losers,

OP is a Failed jobless Game journalist whose income nowadays is sucking dick for pennies,

Children and animals are not sexual objects,

Yiff in hell furfags,

Trans just means mentally ill,

Homosexuality is spread through child abuse,

Niggers act like niggers because they are niggers,

a single pedophile jewnigger named (((Joshua Moon)))is responsible for 99% of all cheese pizza posting on 4chan,

The cure for pedophilia can be found in the heavy automated gardening equipment section of walmart,

Diaper fetishists should be offered free euthanasia by the state,

India isn't dying fast enough, and I'm mad about it,

I do not support Palestine, fuck everyone darker than creme/coffeefoam white.

These are your 12 amendments, live by them and wealth, wives and happiness will be yours.

>>725018601 (OP)
It's free just pirate it and see how you feel about it

>>725019852
Oh yeah, one more amendment:
hagposters are expired karens looking for male approval, or motherfuckers if male.

>>725018601 (OP)
>so the consensus around this game seems to be that it's woke but still quite fun and worth the price tag

>>725019181
>>725019291
>>725019470
You will always embarrass yourself when you speak on things you have no idea about. The hypercapitalist faction is just one of three. The other two are a hyper collectivist north korea esque totalitarian government and the other is a "trust the science" faction based on using math to predict the future. The game makes fun of all factions and the collectivist one is the de facto evil one that you can't join. The capitalist faction is shown to be the most competent (or least retarded) out of all of them

>>725018601 (OP)
>so the consensus around this game seems to be that it's woke but still quite fun and worth the price tag
>that it's woke but still quite fun and worth the price tag
>worth the price tag

It's worth the gamepass price tag if you can get it on a discount. At best.

>it's woke
meaningless word in this case. my main issue with the companions is that the first one you meet is the most boring NPC in the fucking game.
>worth the price tag
not really, get it on sale
>its fun
Yeah, but it has the same thing as the first game where going off the beaten path in the "wrong way" is janky and weird. They encourage exploration, and the exploration is good, but if you truly just wander around it very quickly shoves you back to the intended path.

People who pull their hair out hating the game are very clearly just retards who haven't played it, but any of the
>muh return to form
>goty
>obsidian are back
fags are also lying. I would give it an 8/10, but by god the first few hours are fucking dull.

this game wasn't even worth it for free through steam manifest decryptor

>>725020175
Bro I ain't playing this shit game I don't give a fuck about your points.

>>725020175
no i haven't played it
never seen something so unappealing

like, what's supposed to be the hook to this game? every female has short hair/danger hair
every female seems to have the girlboss attitude, from the trailer, every fucking character talks like a borderlands NPC or like they are in a Marvel movie

if this was made by anyone other than Obsidian it would have been forgotten even faster, the only hope keeping them alive is that they might release a game comparable to New Vegas one day

>>725018601 (OP)
Obsidian games are the definition of "ok", it doesn't offend, it doesn't entertain, it's just there. Probably the worst thing a game can be, like a skinnerbox without payoff. Fucking hate 2025 Obsidian and their "design".

>>725020287
u sound like a fag who just wants to defend libtroon shit because someone called your game about the message "woke"

it's offensively mediocre.

>>725018601 (OP)
>it's woke but still quite fun and worth the price tag
What retard told you that?
It's horrifically ugly and it's quite shocking how little it improves over the first game.

>>725020175
I didn't comment on your shitty game, you chromosomally-enhanced nigger. Not gonna play it either.

>>725020621
i would like to sit down with the devs and ask them why they design females like this

they have to know it is unappealing as fuck

>>725018869
I'm having a blast!

>>725020864
that's what everyone is saying on steam reviews

>>725021025
>steam reviews
retards indeed

There's a lack of variety in reactivity limited by the fact, the missions are linear and without multiple ways of ending them. There's some to be found, requiring conditions to fulfill them, but I only found it at the end of the first planet and it ultimately only ends up changing the slideshow at the end.

I am in the middle of Planet two and I wouldn't compare it to FNV. The writing can be extremely awkward and is mostly composed of the same responses (yes, yes, yes, I will be back).

The lack of granularity in the mission design, world building, dialogue and encounters can also be seen as lacking. It feels like been guided on these invisible railroads, while the game attempts to give you ideas, ultimately, just ending up with the same solution automatically solved by random facts. Most skill checks are unbelievable useless (I reloaded and checked most) and I cannot even say it gives any lore, because it do not. You can complete the mission either way resulting in the same exact rewards.

Lockpicking is good for pickpocketing, but then mostly becomes useless. Hacking seems utterly useless.

This is without saying anything about the abundant hordes of females leading these planets and factions, or all factions share a common idea of sexual identity and relations. But I try to ignore that.

>>725021428
You know games are supposed to be fun right? Why put yourself through this, stop playing a pseudo MMO, Avowed was just like this.

>>725021428
I think they just didn't have enough content to feel comfortable with letting the player skip major questlines. So they ended up making everyone basically do the same quests (until close to the end) with choices at the end of the quest. I really like the fact that some speech checks require you having uncovered a specific piece of information in addition to passing a speech check. Also I like how npcs actually acknowledge and react to your choices. But yeah without the true freedom to accomplish quests as you wish and skip major quests because of your choices, it limits the reactivity

>>725018601 (OP)
I'd like to know where they've scooped you up. I've witnessed many a shill campaign on this board, but this one really stands out for the worst of reasons. You are underqualified and overpaid, and the only thing you're successfully promoting is the bankruptcy of whatever corporation is retarded enough to hire you and your own replacement by LLM.

>>725021523
I would rate it higher than Awowed, even if that doesn't say much. NPC's do move around (some do not), and there's interactivity, while Awowed barely had any. The TOD cycle also helps and there's some personality to be found, it is mostly unlikable, but still some kind of personality, which I appreciate. The gameplay can be fun, albeit repetitive and easy (I play on very hard).

>>725021838
Sure, these are good elements for any game preaching the RPG tree. They could easily have added nonlinearity to some side missions or multiple outcomes to the side branches of the main missions. The opposite ends up delivering a illusion of having any input, while resulting in a feeling of dissonance after completion. The player agency is simply too lacking for me to feel like anything, but some kind of weird, railroaded circus ride with lesser writing pretending to be something else entirely.

I would be much more positive, if the writing weren't so repetitive between factions and instead of being comically layed on the player, then being layed seriously on the player and then it would be up to the player to find the comic value. That decreases accessibility of course. Remove the unseriousness factor of the writing and it ends up being quite lacking in all aspects, like a cover up.

>>725020458
>I ain't playing this shit game
>>725020868
>Not gonna play
BUT I HAVE AN OPINION ANYWAY!

>>725018869
Okay, but does it make me FEEL like spiderman?

>>725018601 (OP)
it's definitely overhated because of culture war brainrot but it's objectively a 7-8/10 game. decent but not a masterpiece

>but still quite fun and worth the price tag
ahahahahaha

>worth the price tag

Absolutely not

>>725018869
Will it make me believe a capitalism can fly?

>>725026551
Overhated is true. But I cannot see any fluctuations in rating it by using generalised rating criteria.

For a 1:1 comparison. It is definitely not in the same league as FNV (or even F3). The primary lack of reactivity takes it down, together with the writing.

It is better than Awowed, no discussion, so rating it 5 would be unfair, but so would rating it 8.

Safer to say it is a proper 6.5 with some elements taking it up to 7, yet a lot of elements are driving the scoring down. If the player cannot ignore the heavy emphasis on females in the game, then it would be much lower for those.

I prefer Avowed for the atmosphere and art direction.
>muh flying shit on the table.
lol, lmao

>>725019181
>>725019291
>>725019470
What would be a good parody/critique of capitalism?

Fuck I think there's a bug where weapons/armor stolen from containers do not actually end up in your inventory. I stole Kaur's gun from her chest and Milverstreet's hat from his house but both these items are not in my inventory. Is it possible that these items are flagged as junk and automatically sold?

>>725018601 (OP)
just pirate it

>>725018601 (OP)
Mechanically good. Weak story and characters.

>>725028729
Those are marked as quest rewards and it is just a theory, but maybe they removed the ability to receive them before completing the quest in a patch.

Also, just dismantle the junk instead. Money is no problem and you get the hermit if you ignore traders.

>>725018601 (OP)
>quite fun and worth the price tag

>>725018869
>return to form
>having a blast
What else?

>>725018601 (OP)
>worth the price tag
Yeah, if you're pirating it. I'm only 5 or so hours in but I wouldn't have ever paid more than $30 for a game like this.

>>725018869
the first game was shit
and to the shit it returns

>>725028714
shitting directly on the media conglomerates that demand these sequels and remakes

I made a disgusting brown indian who specializes in medicine and kills everything with a poop gun. this game is awesome

>>725018601 (OP)
Is there any Microsoft owned studio that actually produces decent games?

>waaah waaah muh woke it's woke
This is why Mamdani won.

>the good
it has radio stations with custom music which is all pretty good
>the bad
everything else

>>725033475
Mamdani will make New York a flop worse than Concord.

>>725030667
Obsidian is the only MS studio that makes games at all.

>>725019390
That checks out. You are the target audience for this woke garbage after all.

>>725033719
Then anti-SJWs shouldn't have radicalized people to vote against them.

>>725034135
but the SJWs radicalized the anti-SJWs

>>725034135
lol wut? The only real contender against Mamdani was another Democrat.

>>725034109
what exactly is wrong with Dvstkino?

>>725018665
YEAH WERE THE KEKBORN!

>>725019390
How have you not killed yourself holy shit lmao

max level comes to quickly

I don't care about the story so I barely had any incentive to keep playing

also super gay that you need max speech to get the good ending

>>725018601 (OP)
Op here, so concensus around anal buttsex is I might get HIV, but it's still quite fun. I'm on the fence about it. Should I do it?

>>725033475
He's obviously a mudslime plant. It's all part of the plan to turn the US into a muslim country. Sharia law soon.

>>725037731
Sure! You can take PREP beforehand, you can have sex with someone you trust or you can use a condom. Lot's of options there. Good luck.

>>725018601 (OP)
after getting scammed on the first game which is barely even 8hrs of content (i beat it even with fully looting and exploring every single small ass "level" it has) i wouldnt buy ANY game made by these devs again.
im sure outerworlds 2 is the same rehashed experience but worse since its DEI woke garbage incarnate.
its also a game no one asked for and ANY positive review about this game is from a paid shill.
they use bot reviewers on steam big time.
no one whose actually played the first game and isnt a literal fucking moron could say anything nice about it
the game marketed itself as a "you'll spend 100s of hours in this deep and complex universe" - but u dont fly a ship (not a real space game) and its just a looter shooter with boring dialog "choices" in maps so small it should have been marketed as a "demo" than an actual finished game.
if the campaign in a single player game isnt even 40hrs, its a fucking cash grab scam and thats all this is
overpriced total slop.
>just block the devs on steam so u never see their embarrassing titles again

>>725037865
based! getting my butthole reamed right now!

>>725018601 (OP)
What consensus are you talking about? No one bought this game.

>>725018869
Some say it’s even a blast to play.

>>725018601 (OP)
Here's a secret. RPGs are one of the most popular genres with women and especially fanfic tumblr girls. 5e and continued emphasis on dialogue cinematics has led to explosive growth in genre popularity among that demographic. My sister got into DnD in college and has since DMed numerous campaigns. Women are VERY into the social element.

Why are these games woke? Because the audience is there, and at this point they're heavily involved in the development side as well. The more the game centers around dialogue and story, the more woke it'll be because of interest from women. The more the game centers on action and combat, the less woke it'll be because it'll draw a more male-dominated audience.

>>725018601 (OP)
I genuinely think the first one is better because there is not a single place in the second one on the level of the Groundbreaker. The second is missing that huge settlement with much shit to do.

>>725041750
I should repirate the first game. playing it on supernova was bit of a self own and I ragequit like 10 hours into the game.

>>725040950
>Women are VERY into the social element.
More like woman enjoy pretending and telling lies.

>>725034198
Exactly. The left said everyone else was deplorables, and Trump won. The right said everyone else was woke, and Mamdani won. Incivility loses elections.

>>725040950
you where made by a woman there for you are DIE and shouldkill yourself

>worth the price tag
No one said that.

>>725040950
>Why are these games woke? Because the audience is there
Where? Why arent they supporting these games trying to appeal to them?

>>725018601 (OP)
It's GOTY

>>725043396
Because
>full-price
>action game
>traditional marketing through gamer-centric channels
Women are not traditional gamers and are difficult to reach the normal way. They'll be bizarrely in-the-know about obscure indie management sims while simultaneously in the dark about anticipated AAA releases. With this audience, marketing will live and die by its capacity to generate viral word-of-mouth (e.g. bear sex ad).

Also Obsidian shot themselves in the foot by refusing to accommodate romance options.

why the fuck is nonsensical melee bullet sponges being shoehorned into my gun games

>>725018601 (OP)
>so the consensus around this game seems to be that it's woke but still quite fun and worth the price tag.
KEK you fucking shills aren't even trying anymore.
Buy an ad or fuck off.

>>725048084
>STOP TALKING ABOUT GAMES

>>725040950
Interesting.
So... where is this supposed audience? Why didn't they come out in droves to play the Outer Worlds 2? Why didn't they come out in droves to play DA: The Veilguard?

>>725048460
Because it's obviously a terrible, unappealing video game.

>>725048137
sorry bud but no one is paying $70 for your shit.

should have kept your games at $50 so you could at least get a couple thousand curious suckers to buy it instead of a couple hundred desperate retards.

Can anyone tell me what the companions are like? They look ultra gay and brown, and even if I kind of want to play the game, I can't imagine using a cast of companions this lame.

>>725048460
6 gorillion players on gaypass