The Outer Worlds 2

Super fun game. Went Gun build and kinda just killed everything. WHICH I enjoyed very much:)))))

ARR U SERIOUS WITH THIS ♥♥♥♥♥♥ OPTIMIZATION?

it's not bad. it's just mid. i think i got it for 40 ish bucks on sale, which was slightly too expensive for me. 20 bucks would be the perfect price, 30 would be fair, but 60?! 70?!! 80?!!! hell no. granted, i haven't finished this game yet. however i did finish the outer worlds 1 so i think i know what to expect, and the 20 hours i have on records is still enough to make some judgements. i dislike the open area design. the first game was more linear. it felt shorter, more concise, which made it tolerable. this game feels bloated yet empty at the same time. it's all directionless padding. combat is shallow, it's all healthbars and damage numbers with little meaningful expression. bad gameplay would have been fine if the RPG side of it was good. for example, skyrim has really bad combat systems, but it's tolerable because you have a lot of different options and ways to build your character (especially with mods). there are a lot of combat systems to express yourself with, so the shallow combat ends up feeling rather flavorful. now, in outer worlds 2 there may look like you have a decent amount of options, but you really do not. RPG systems and skill building that LOOK like they would integrate with the game, or LOOK like they have a lot to invest in, are actually really shallow and superficial. wanna try fast swinging 1-handed blades to quickly apply DoT effects, getting elemental weapon mods and investing skill points into science and medicine to maximize poison or frost damage? doesn't really work. between skills, perks and mods it LOOKS like you can make defined playstyles out of this, but you really can't. i don't know how else to explain it. it's all fake. invest all you want, you spam mouse 1 while holding a hammer or you spam mouse 1 while holding a rifle. that's the full extent of what you can do. none of the RPG systems change that at all. no amount of leveling will change that. try and invest into stealth? you still end up as a warrior wielding a big hammer somehow. i can't explain how it doesn't work. it just doesn't. it's the floaty and shallow skyrim combat, without any of the added options. no magic, no shouts, no alchemy, no enchantments. okay but how about outside of combat you may ask? disco elysium, planescape torment and other CRPGs which have zero combat, are still amazing RPGs. so clearly a good RPG isn't defined by how well leveling impacts combat. so how is it in outer worlds 2? it's okay. you frequently get the option to "use" one of your skills in dialogue to get +10 xp. what to do with a high medicine or science stat? well that's easy! you talk to an NPC who's ranting about something delusional or weird and you either get a medicine or science check to say something like "i think you have a concussion" or "ghosts aren't real, you probably saw something else" and get rewarded with +10 xp. or there will be a locked room and there will be 3 ways to enter, one entrance that uses the hack skill, one that uses brawny trait/engineering skill and one that uses lockpick. your skills just determine how you enter a room, or you mention it in dialogue to get slightly more XP or extra money. [b] you get a lot of chances to use your skills and traits, but it doesn't meaningfully matter and none of your uses and interesting. [/b] the roleplay opportunity for the medicine skill in fallout new vegas is actually interesting, in that there are multiple opportunities to perform surgery on people throughout that game (which you will otherwise fail horribly). in outer worlds 2, you get some dialogue options with NPC doctors, which result in them giving you some money, which isn't as interesting. moreover, medicine has an actual place within the world of new vegas, since that's a game where you take a lot of damage and healing is both slow and dependant on items with actual scarcity, making the medicine skill needed outside of combat; moreover the limb and rad system make it so medicine is actually quite valuable in combat too. there's an economic benefit to the medicine skill and it helps you survive in the wastes. in conclusion, the medicine skill has actual interesting uses outside of dialogue and impacts gameplay meaningfully. being a doctor helps you in many ways. not by a crazy amount, but enough to define your character. however in outer worlds 2, medicine is just for extra rewards in dialogue pretty much. get some extra XP or money. sure you can spam your inhaler in combat a bit more often, but it doesn't really have an impact because companions have free healing powers, you have infinite carrying capacity so you never run out of food or charges and the map is covered in full-heal stations (including the infinite use one that's on your ship). despite giving you many skill checks, the medicine skill isn't meaningful or impactful. lastly, it's also a bit directionless, i mean it gives dmg bonus against animals for some reason, has perks that improve acid effects (which is for robots and armored enemies afaik?) so the use for it isn't well defined. making it bad in a genre that's about defining who you are. a lot of skills have that issue. writing and story is basic. i'd say that "comedy" and "dystopian satire" is for tone and worldbuilding not, they're not literary genres. the game isn't actually funny or politically interesting. i don't think it's supposed to be. the story is that of a generic sci-fi adventure. the humor is just for making things lighthearted and quippy, nothing is actually serious. the dystopia and satire is just for theming, dictating who your enemies are and how things look. it's aesthetic. superficial. this time it's not criticism (although i'm personally a little disappointed by it) as it's clearly supposed to be generic and simple. it's not trying to be deep. it just wants a functional plot for a video game, a reason to shoot stuff. as such it doesn't fail, seeing as how it accomplishes what it means to do. it's not to my taste but others will prefer it. TLDR: game is not bad but it's lacking in any kind of depth. can't recommend it because of the high price.

This game keeps crashing.. It's sadly also a little woke.. All the badass and tough characters so far, are all females.. It´s also difficult to actually make a male character that looks like a manly male.. But hey, you can give them all kinds of girlie stuff on.. make-up, piercings and the typical body type instead of male and female. We wouldn't offend the smallest of minorities...!

WAY WAY WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY TOO MUCH DIALOGUE. I get that the strong point of this game is the writing and not the gameplay, but Jesus H Christ, this was boring as hell. It was just one giant monologuing conversation after another.. And what i hated the most was that literally everyone's vocabulary was like they just came out of a thesis defense for an English literature grad. Like the average gamer does not even speak English as their first language! Who is this game for??? I stopped playing it. You can't even mod this God Awful UE5 game, and the companions are the worst offender. If they were interesting, I would have stuck around and finished at least one playthrough. But no, They drone on and on, none of them are genuinely likable or interesting. I feel horrible writing this review, I just want the devs to know. I really wanted to give you guys a chance. Since I liked the humor and some of the companions in the first game. But this is just a let down.

I got to the mission right before the end and realized I just didn't care. The writing is almost insultingly juvenile. Which do you like more? Super-fascists that will torture you to make you behave? Super-capitalists that will murder and eat their mom for 3 bits and half of a promotion? Or the genius techno-seers that use math to see the future and want to use their planet sized super computer to make the universe better? It's like they didn't even try giving you real options outside of "good, bad, and worst". I also just don't enjoy the combat at all. The armor and weapons are just boring, and every combat feels the same. I'd much rather have 80gb of hard drive back than finish this game... and I really liked the first game.

黑曜石，，史上最过誉的工作室.现在有微软当爹的情况下做的还不如没钱时做的一代,我永远也不会原谅黑曜石。。。 哦对了,如果新的辐射做的好我就原谅你