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Topic	The Outer Worlds looks sick
ParanoidObsessive 10/22/19 9:22:23 PM #64:	wolfy42 posted... I didn't watch reviews etc on it, but not surprised people are saying it's basically Fallout NV 2 heh. My only concern is if people who say that are referring more to gameplay or narrative/setting. Because from what I've seen it kind of seems like the humor is a bit more ridiculous/over-the-top than it is in New Vegas, which kind of concerns me, because I'm not a huge fan of more absurdist, loldumb humor. But if it's more like a bit of clever subversive humor interspersed into a game that's at least somewhat serious at the core, I could be totally down for that. I'm probably going to buy it either way regardless, but I'll probably wait a bit. The shitshow that is the gaming industry these days basically makes me never want to buy any game at launch. And I can't even use "Well, I want to support the developer if the game is good" as justification to want to pay full price, because they're owned by Microsoft now, which means they're probably as good as dead to me after this game anyway. Unbridled9 posted... Let's hope it's less buggy than NV. While I liked it a lot I recall getting multiple game-ending bugs whenever I tried to play NV back in the day. A lot of that is because they were building the game in Bethesda's absolute shitty horrorshow of an engine, made worse by the fact that Obsidian wasn't even familiar enough with it to use whatever shortcuts and workarounds Bethesda themselves would use to cobble broken code together and make it sort of work. Obsidian's own track record for bugs isn't spotless (Alpha Protocol springs to mind), but some of their most notable instances of buggy games (New Vegas, KotOR2) came from trying to build a new game in someone else's broken engine with no real tech support (see also, why modern Bioware was fucked when EA ordered them to use the Frostbite engine for everything). I can't say it will be bug free or perfect - especially when most games in general release buggy as fuck and depend on Day 1 patches to not be complete ass - but I don't think it will be as bad as New Vegas was at the start (though at least in New Vegas' favor, they did FIX most of the bugs with later patches, unlike Bethesda who usually just shrug and expect the modding community to fix everything for them). --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family <cite>ParanoidObsessive posted [p:929115784] in The Outer ... [t:78103728]...</cite> <quote>wolfy42 posted...</cite> <quote>I didn't watch reviews etc on it, but not surprised people are saying it's basically Fallout NV 2 heh.</quote> My only concern is if people who say that are referring more to gameplay or narrative/setting. Because from what I've seen it kind of seems like the humor is a bit more ridiculous/over-the-top than it is in New Vegas, which kind of concerns me, because I'm not a huge fan of more absurdist, loldumb humor. But if it's more like a bit of clever subversive humor interspersed into a game that's at least somewhat serious at the core, I could be totally down for that. I'm probably going to buy it either way regardless, but I'll probably wait a bit. The shitshow that is the gaming industry these days basically makes me never want to buy any game at launch. And I can't even use "Well, I want to support the developer if the game is good" as justification to want to pay full price, because they're owned by Microsoft now, which means they're probably as good as dead to me after this game anyway. <cite>Unbridled9 posted...</cite> <quote>Let's hope it's less buggy than NV. While I liked it a lot I recall getting multiple game-ending bugs whenever I tried to play NV back in the day.</quote> A lot of that is because they were building the game in Bethesda's absolute shitty horrorshow of an engine, made worse by the fact that Obsidian wasn't even familiar enough with it to use whatever shortcuts and workarounds Bethesda themselves would use to cobble broken code together and make it sort of work. Obsidian's own track record for bugs isn't spotless (Alpha Protocol springs to mind), but some of their most notable instances of buggy games (New Vegas, KotOR2) came from trying to build a new game in someone else's broken engine with no real tech support (see also, why modern Bioware was fucked when EA ordered them to use the Frostbite engine for everything). I can't say it will be bug free or perfect - especially when most games in general release buggy as fuck and depend on Day 1 patches to not be complete ass - but I don't think it will be as bad as New Vegas was at the start (though at least in New Vegas' favor, they did FIX most of the bugs with later patches, unlike Bethesda who usually just shrug and expect the modding community to fix everything for them). --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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