Outward Definitive Edition

goog game

very fun and although the game is no longer upto date with its combat, still fun to play in today's standard. just be warned, it is a new level of difficulty for those who are inexperiennce with older games.

Got beaten by a chicken. Got into debt. Lost my house. Became a slave. At this point, bashing my head against a hard concrete is more fun. 10/10

Fantastic with a few friends (using the additional player co-op mod)

it definitely has a certain charm and it's fun when it's fun but there a lot of tedious gameplay elements that consume a lot of time so if you're an adult with actual responsibilities there's a chance you won't utilize your time too well on this game update: just got a seemingly unavoidable bug that makes me lose my backpack or most of my items whenever I enter any location, tried it a few times by manipulating saved games and it always happens, I guess this game really doesn't want me to play it

split screen is great

Solid. Optimized and runs well. The Devs know what they are doing and what it takes. This game is Better with others of course :) Don't forget to check out the second one as well!

Design choices so hilariously bad that I must share some of them with you. You see, I can forgive a lot of things, but I cannot forgive terrible UI (I mean REALLY game breaking controls/screens). This of course results in lots of inventory management in the worst way. Examples: -Carrying a sword on my belt. See an enemy in the distance. I pull out a bow and shoot the enemy. They run towards me so I drop my pack to fight (you're supposed to do this because it weighs you down). Oops, my sword magically teleported into my backpack during the 1-second animation while switching to the bow (instead of placing the sword back on my belt where it was sheathed initially). I now have no melee weapon, so I must run back to grab my pack again, and then open the inventory screen. This brings my character to a dead standstill and I must scroll down and manually move the sword to equip it, then close the inventory screen. The chain of events spells certain death because the inventory screen will force the character to just stand there and be killed while I'm screwing with the inventory. Why did I not know this would happen? Why would I? None of this is explained in any way. But that's the UI design for this game -- totally unintuitive and clunky. -Melee combat mechanics are straight out of 2002 - slow animations that don't allow you to stop or move or block until the animation runs its course (but enemies and bosses can lol). Game has a "Dark Souls" role mechanic, but most of the fighting is slow paced: hold block, wait for the enemy to do a combo, poke them, hold down the block button some more. Rinse repeat. Fighting more than one enemy in the open is a death sentence, because, get this, you cannot walk backwards or side strafe like a normal setup. No, these controls are from N64/PS2 era combat: four directional movement keys make your character run straight in those directions, you cannot aim with your mouse. The mouse only moves the camera. That is unless you lock onto the enemy, which then means your character movement becomes slow shuffling and only faces the one enemy, in which case your mouse CANNOT control the camera. This results in the other enemy running offscreen and then just flanking you. A lot. To avoid this, you are heavily encouraged to set traps. Like, spam the hell out of traps. Which is exactly what I want in a fantasy adventure game -- farting around with traps instead of smiting my enemies in the heat of battle that I spent time training and acquiring gear for. Wahoo! -Lots of invisible walls in this "open world" game. -No jumping, because reasons. -Swing a sword at NPCs and nothing happens. -No saving because the devs wanted to avoid save scumming. This means you never die, and when defeated, you will encounter immersion breaking "defeat scenarios' instead. Example: I ask a dude if I can rest somewhere. Screen abruptly cuts to me in prison (which is a bit funny but annoying) without giving me a chance to fight or run - just *poof* you're a slave now. I manage to snag my weapons and armor back, but I am cornered and defeated by a hoard of guards. Now what do you think would happen to me in this scenario? Would they kill me? Strip me of my gear and throw me back in the clink? Torture me to make an example? No, they neatly place my remaining gear into my pack, and then carry me (still fully armored, alive and with a weapon) and all my valuables 5 feet outside the front door and lay me down on the ground. A bunch of brutal bandits turned out to be a very polite cleaning service. "We hope you enjoyed being our slave, bon voyage!" I really tried to like this one, gang.

Goated, exited for outward two

An interesting mix of survival and questing. I keep coming back to it because there is nothing really like it. If you are a bit patient in regards to some peculiarities and jank, there's quite a lovely game here. My only recommendation is to use mono branch, install r2rmodman, after bepinex for mods and get the no reset in town mod from thunderstore. This way you can actually camp and store items in towns without them reseting after 7 days of not coming back to said town. It was like this in old outward, but for DE they changed it for some reason. At least if they added stashes to inns or something, but that didn't happen. This way you're not forced to rush through a questline in order to get a house/houses and i enjoy feeling like a nomad.