The Outer Worlds 2

I like this game. I like when it lets me save even more. Sometimes it doesn't, and there goes over an hour of playtime when I died.

[h1][b]Вступ[/b][/h1] Оригінал люблю, хоч він і бюджетний. Сиквел – в два рази дорожчий. [h3][b]🎮 Геймплей – 8/10[/b][/h3] RPG, де весело вбивати і впливати на людей. Екшн швидкий і красивий. Дають робити сильні, веселі білди (бігав з молотом, в який вбудований дробовик – всі вмирали за 1 удар, а інші стояли на місці від жаху). Виклик є, але з часом не помічаєш його, якщо все досліджуєш. Грав на нормалі – не вистачило хардкор-режиму, як в Fallout New Vegas. [h3][b]📖 Сюжет – 7/10[/b][/h3] Нормальне поєднання помсти + порятунку світу. Є три фракції (авторитаризм, капіталізм, релігія), на відносини між якими ти можеш вплинути (окрім очевидно злої). Гра ефектно дозволяє бути добрим, мудаком і нейтральним. Є багато перевірок, і навіть босів можна вмовити здатися. Прокачка «мови» не завжди допоможе, важливо ще розбиратися в інших сферах. Деякі завдання – душні (пошук пікселів на всій мапі без підказок). Текст – однотипний, тому діалоги можуть набриднути + майже немає яскравих NPC + поспішний фінал. [h3][b]🛋️ Атмосфера – 7/10[/b][/h3] Сатира і чорний гумор – прикольні. З кожної фракції гра вдало сміється, але зануритися важко. Тут стільки стьобу, що не сприймаєш гру серйозно і бачиш лише придатну карикатуру. [h3][b]👀 Вигляд – 8/10[/b][/h3] Гарний атомпанк з різними, атмосферними планетами (снігова – моя улюблена). На локаціях багато деталей. Зброя – різноманітна (окрім ближньої), а вбивства ніколи не набридають своїми розчленуваннями. З ворогами нудніше – лише тварини помітно змінюються. [h3][b]🔊 Звук – 8/10[/b][/h3] Веселе радіо (прикольні пісні в ретро-стилі з веселою пропагандою), але його мало. Зате ембієнта багато і він крутий. [h1][b]Висновок[/b][/h1] Тут можна всіх весело вбити/цікаво заговорити. Багато враховують і нагороджують уважних, хоча деякі моменти вирішить лише вдала прокачка (справедливо). Таких стьобних RPG-комедій, як ця, майже немає, але баланс комічності міг бути і цікавішим, а світ – повноціннішим. [u]Необхідність гуглити проходження: ~5 разів[/u] 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑 (78 / 100) https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3763121623 🎬 Відео-відгук на 25 секунд: https://youtube.com/shorts/djll08a99G0?si=-31Gy2IgUgYAa9Rc

This is a recommended on sale game, at least 50% off. It isn't a bad game but it tries to take itself more seriously and loses the entertaining campy, satire extreme the first game had. There is still some of it but the charm is gone and replaced with stale, simple dialogue choices even among the crew. The crew itself is pretty meh. I ended up sticking with 2 of them 90% of the time and only swapping them for story line specific missions. Combat is easy even with stealth being pretty weak as an option. You get some special items then almost never use them. I actually forgot several times that I even had 3 of them and never used the time slow ability except to get by 2 hazards. I didn't have many bugs like other people have reported so that helped a lot.

I think the beauty of this game is how much fun it is when you actively seek out every location and find every quest. Otherwise it's a bit boring. Would recommend for explorers and completionists.

It's a good follow up to the first game. Gunplay and character building feels good. Story is decent, but you have to give into the campyness of the game. A lot of people say the story and dialogue are cringe, but in reality it's just campy, and it has a certain charm to it. Reminded me a lot of old Batman cartoons personally. If you like the first game it's definitely worth playing, but the story isn't a direct continuation of the first game so you can play it even if you haven't played the first. Took me roughly 30 hours to finish my first playthrough. One big critique is that the early game is genuinely a slog at times, since you're pathetically weak and enemies are extremely strong, but that might just be because I played on the hardest available difficulty. The middle game is great with challenging but fair combat, but once you hit late game combat becomes all but trivial. While gunplay feels great and weaponry is varied and fun, the balance and scale of combat isn't great in the early and late game. Outside of that, the game is pretty good. It really doesn't deserve the hate it gets.

Gameplay, graphics, satire, RPG FPS style still holds up from the previous game in the franchise. Story is less immersible but definitely a worthy investment for character development. Little to no bugs, frame generation is phenomenal. HOWEVER, the auto save/ manual save bug is abysmal. Not being able to save your game sucks in RPGs, lost about 2 hours of my life in a full rounded character playthrough due to this. Recurring issue. RECAP: Great game, optimize your settings, and save often/check for the option to do so.

There are games that upon finishing you feel "that was great!" - and ones that make you feel "oh thank the f that's over". This was the latter for me and thus the downvote. Sure there were enjoyable moments of exploration which is basically what carried the game for me. Unfortunately the downsides are too numerous. Personally I almost can't stand the 60s scifi esthetic but you can often skip that and concentrate on the more purely scifi parts. Something that is much more relevant is the story, characters and dialogue writing and unfortunately the level here is 'meh' at best and cringy at worst. None of the companions turned out to be very interesting. As for most NPCs, I get that the game is deliberately styling itself very meta on various caricatures and stereotypes but it just goes overboard with this mixing basically zero actually believable writing in there and the joke wears itself out rather quickly. The store is more holes than anything else and asks for suspension of disbelief to an absurd degree. The gameplay is sufficiently fun for me to have continued playing with many long pauses in between. Really most of the experience can just be summarized to meh / cringe and I regret actually even starting this.

Guns are animated really well with fantastic sound design. However some of the really interesting and cool weapons you don't obtain until nearly 3/4ths of the game unless you rush the main quests to get access to new weapons on new planets. The companions are also a good bit inferior to the first games in both banter and also questlines. And the performance is a bit touch and go without FSR or otherwise. Other than that it's a decent game but not worth it unless on sale especially with no word of when DLCs are coming out

This game has massive, tragic flaws. First, this game pretty much requires you to do between 90 and 100 percent of everything in each area (quests i mean, as well as combat encounters) in order to be near or on level for the final part of the region. Okay. Fine. I guess. But, it also massively restricts the number of skill points you get. You can max out, at most, 3 out of the like 15 skills. This is...um. Not a lot. Okay, so they want you to play the game multiple times. Except. Remember that thing I said before? About how you basically have to grind the quests and combat in every. Single. Region? Yeah you have to do that every playthrough. Meaning every playthrough is functionally identical. Meaning there is virtually no reason to play through the game multiple times. This is a tragic, fundamental, conceptual flaw. It drags the entire game down. Topped off with, the incredibly generic story, mediocre world design, and basic gameplay mean there is really no reason to ever play this game more than once or twice. So yeah. No. This game is intrinsically flawed in a way that limits the player's experience because the devs were too pretentious to realize they weren't making something that deserved to be replayed and decided to force replay. Pass on this game. It's an empty, hollow, nothing game.