The Outer Worlds 2

Great game. Reminded me of Prey 2016 and Bioshock. More memorable than Outer Worlds 1. Choices, skills, and perks mattered throughout the game. Dialog was a bit annoying in the beginning with the Marvel movie "everyhing is a joke" but it got better later on. Gunplay was way better than the first. Overall solid choice.

awesome

I liked the first Outer Worlds game and I really tried to like this game, too, but after roughly 20 hours I am just too bored of all that this game is throwing my way to continue playing. Admittedly, the planets look kind of interesting, but this only manages to keep me hyped for about half an hour and unfortunately that it really the only positive thing that I can say about this game. My main complaints are that 90% of the game is actually just a boring walking simulator with about 10% of combat mixed in and even these combat encounters are really unsatisfying as the weapons are just lame and most enemies are absolute bullet sponges -- many enemy encounters ended up with me cowering behind some rock firing 20+ shots from a repetition rifle to kill a single enemy. Sneaking is also not really an option in this game, as sneak attacks don't really yield any damage boost and you end up feeding the bullet sponge again. Then there's the factions, where each single one is apparently only made up of total nutjobs and I somewhat have the feeling that the protagonist is the only somewhat sane person in the game's universe. Most NPCs (including the story-related ones) are just babbling complete uninteresting stuff and I have started skipping entire dialog lines at some point as it has become just tedious -- not to mention that a significant part of the lore and quest-related information is fed to you via written notes and terminal entries and if I had tried to read through all of that it would have added another 15 hours of playtime -- if I wanted to spend my evening reading text then I would have bought a book and not a video game. This is not a terrible game, but overall just a really boring and bland one and nothing it offers motivates me to continue playing it anymore. Thankfully I bough this at a steep discount during a sale, because it absolutes does not live up to its 70€ price tag.

its hard to downvote an obsidian game since Im the biggest new vegas stan you will ever find (check my hours) but, this one really just missed the mark. Im sorry to say, its boring. Im fine with games where dialogue is the focus if the dialogue is good but its just not with this game. I liked the original outer worlds, even though it had rough edges. But this is somehow just not engaging in the slightest. i couldn't bring myself to finish the game. maybe things will change with dlcs but for now i cant recommend this to anyone. Im autistic as ♥♥♥♥ and can watch a single hive drone beat metal for hours in Kenshi but this is somehow less engaging.

Obsidian fix this damn game. It keeps crashing, after all the recent updates. It used to run just fine before that.

buy it

Really enjoyed The Outer Worlds 2. On my first playthoguh I ended up just taking flawed which required me to accept every new flaw, which made the game slightly more challenging. However, nothing too bad. The worst part was was having to take the Easily Distracted skill which limited any skill progression. But really well written dialogue and story. I like how many of the quests could be dealt with in many different ways and had different outcomes depending on how you handled it. NPCs would remember your actions which you would be held up to later during the game as well. Gunplay is really fun, especially with all the different tools you acquire throughout the game, so movement can be really fun. Aiming and hitting enemies is satisfying. Explosive guns make killing enemies a bit to easy, although limited by ammo costs. Perhaps my first playthrough forcing my skill choice maybe ruined some guns' efficacy. Nevertheless, it felt really good overall and nice amount of unique guns. I wish modding guns would allow you to make your own unique, but seems like the effects of uniques are limited to those. Graphics were nice and ran well on my PC at around a steady 140+ FPS, so I am not complaining here. Also runs really well on CachyOS which I was running this on. There is some slight flickering on loading screens, which I am not sure is intentional or not, but limited to these. I didn't have any crashes, which was great! Going to do another playthrough soon, also need to try out the DLC when it comes out.