The Outer Worlds Analysis | So Much Potential

Hey everyone, just wanted to leave this comment acknowledging some of the stuff I left out of the video and some of the stuff I messed up as a bit of an addendum, before someone points it out here in the comments.

Firstly, I messed up ADA’s name a few times, calling her AVA. My bad.
I left out a discussion of Scylla entirely because it was underdeveloped and I didn’t have much to say about it. Same goes for the science weapons, which were advertised heavily before launch, but I found to be pretty underwhelming.
The section of the video on monarch is a little more underdeveloped than the rest of the video because if I went into more depth on Monarch’s main quest I decided that it would sound too much like the section on edgewater, because their main choices are so similar.
Finally, I want to apologize for any stuttering or low resolution footage throughout the video. Midway through the recording process I decided that my computer wasn’t beefy enough to record the game steadily, so I upgraded, but the old footage is still in this video in parts. Hopefully it doesn’t ruin your enjoyment of this or anything like that.

Thanks a mil <3

I think the biggest Issue with Outer Worlds is both the setting, which is...very specific as well as the expectations.

Performance was fine for me on day1. game just felt a tad short.

You may as well always pick flaws, most arent that bad and the benefit of getting perks is too strong

The best moment for me with the companions is ada having sam clean the bridge while she says very…weird…things

I’m surprised to hear it didn’t run well for you because for me it’s one of the few modern releases I can play at an acceptable degree of graphical fidelity and performance

Oh there is a boss, i think i somehow skipped that and didn’t get to kill the villian woman either what????

“this idea that the powerful in society can control the lower classes not only materially but spiritually” oh, you mean like Protestantism?

I actually really love this game for what it is. I can't wait for 2.

You aren't really choosing between 'Edgewater' and the settlers around the greenhouse - you are choosing between Reed Tobson, and Adelaide. Tobson withholds medicine from sick people - he is a brute. There is no contest. Adelaide is right to hate him - even though her speeches (and the summing-up later) are supposed to make you feel a bit guilty, because she is so angry.

Wish I'd known about the third option! Even Tobson said Edgewater was dying - what's the point of siding with him? They were going to be abandoned by the Board, even if they still had power. Far better to work with Adelaide's group to try and produce food for all, and not ship it off-world to be sold for a profit (a profit for the Board, not for the people of Edgewater). Working together was the obvious way forward. Can't believe I never spotted the peaceful option! Next playthrough, this is the way I will go.

Ellies just a realisric character 😂 I killed her parents anyway.
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it's a better space Bethesda-type game then starfield!

The biggest problem with this game is how incompetent the board is. Not only are they objectively evil, but the world building doesn’t even make sense. They could’ve had an interesting message about the growth vs exploitation that happens under capitalism, but like you said, they don’t even add a compelling reason to join the board. Caesars legion is at least as evil as the board, but New Vegas at least gives you some reasonably compelling reasons to join. Joining the board is just dumb, because the game literally explains that they’re running the system into the ground. Even the most selfish, shortsighted character couldn’t justify siding with them

What the fuck. "she's asexual, thats fantastic. i cant explain why, because i take other people's opinions and roll with it". I get why these maga tards call you surburban nerds sheeple now. Black people are the most transphobic people ever, you as a white man are the only one not allowed to be transphobic.

I think a good way to make multiple skills, is to have different stats affect them, so like intimation is affected by charisma and strength

i dunno why people like this completly functional and character!
proceeds to say the asexual retarded weak companion is good
ok whiteoid

You are definitely missing something with Ellie. The idea of Ellie in short, is that she had high expectations in life and she fulfilled them becoming a very good surgeon by trade in a world where she was given. No compassion or expectation of love. When she realized this, she set out to make her own fortune and pass on her parents way of life. Doing the quest with her. Shows the player how she became a mercenary. Larper, and I believe that by showing her compassion and caring that we actually end up changing her outlook on life

Great video ngl, I don't agree with some points of you, but overall good analysis, fantastic breakdown of the choices and philosophie of the game and yeah nice.
I would love a video about Cyber Punk from you with the same kind of analitical writing

I'm was curious about this game but every time I look at it I'm hugely turned off by the humor that seems to be front and center. I don't want to play a "look at how wacky we are" game.

The lack of content in the base game is what drove me nuts. That being said I cannot wait for 2

I totally agree with your assessment of siding with the board. I made my board playthrough character have low intelligence, and I like how they gave a speech option for that being the reason it got them on their side with Purpleberry Crunch

I describe beating this game as a trudge more than anything. It felt more like a spiritual successor to 3 than new Vegas

I don’t think that most people are playing big RPGs like this more than once, so play through a seeming samey isn’t much of an issue for a general audience

I should leave a real comment i guess. I like outer worlds, but even after a 40+ hour playthrough, i feel like ive played the demo for the real game coming soon. That one line actually summarizes more of my critique than i expected. I also feel some disdain for its name just because the outer wilds is a brilliant, incredible game, one of the few games to make me feel something beyond the surface, and gets confused with this game a lot. Im so glad my introduction to that game was walking in on my dad opening the game for the first time and then getting to play it entirely blind.
Outer Worlds really does have so much potential unrealized. Great vid

🫨🫵 This guy preordered cyberpunk! Make fun of him!

Jk.

I too, was incredibly hyped for this game, more than I had been in years and years. Perhaps that set me up for disappointment a bit, but everything can't be laid at the feet of hype alone. There was so much potential here and it does near nothing with it. The biggest thing that sticks out in my mind was the sheer laziness when it came to the weapons and armors. There's literally just a handful of each and, when I progressed far enough and starting finding the same guns I'd seen for hours but with a "version 2" or "v2" stuck on the end of it, I was damn near speechless. The armors were even more egregious, just the same small handful of armor models, repainted a handful of times and that somehow makes a new armor set.

But surely the most disappointing aspect of the game was the writing and worldbuilding. When the game was announced and it looked like we were going to get a sci-fi satire about a future where corporate greed controls everything even more so than it does now- I was all-in. What we got was frankly juvenile and inane- colonies of brainwashed corporate citizens that are so flat and uninspired that no amount of suspension of disbelief can save you. Your alternate faction options in the form of a mad scientist or a group of supposed """anarchists""" are almost as laughable: With Obsidian clearly trying to go for what a game like New Vegas did with it's faction- making each one full of positives and tons of negatives, meaning there's really no "correct" choice- and unfortunately Outer Worlds just fails spectacularly. The anarchist faction is written even more generically than the corporations and Obsidian's attempts to make them morally grey ends up manifesting as the faction doing a bunch of stupid and outright evil deeds, such that there's no reason that you as a player should feel anything but a desire to say "uh, no thank you, bye! Guess I'll go see what this mad scientist is up to."

I also found the world to be rather boring, with each new zone or "planet" being so small and with so much copy-pasted content and lackluster combat, that I soon lost all desire to explore, which should be the main thing propelling the player forward.

Even with all my problems, and with everything above coming off, surely, as ranty as all hell, I haven't lost my faith in the team over at Obsidian. I know Outer Worlds 2 is in the works and I would like nothing more for it to release and to be superior to its predecessor by leaps and bounds and to fix all the issues enumerated above. I don't exactly anticipate that happening, but I would love for it to happen. Open world RPG fans have been starving since the mid 2010s and I want nothing more than for upcoming releases like OW2, Starfield, and Avowed (the other open world rpg in the works from Obsidian) to be the next great entries in the genre.

Parvati was one of the reasons I figured out I was ace, she’s definitely my favorite companion

Obsidian be like:

>Make a game about corporations & capitalism bad
>Is bought by a 2.5 trillion dollar corporation (second biggest company on the planet)

Ok this is the third video I am watching of yours and while obviously these videos are entirely based on what research you did about the game ontop of your opinion I feel like I need to give this little point of critique.

Around the 19 minute mark you make a few comments about representation. I have generally speaking nothing against this point. When I played the game, although not for long, I loved Parvati. She is as you said adorable. I wanted her to be my friend and see her happy. But then you go off on how this being a same sex relationship is something so special due to representation and then keep going to say that the only people who find it especially noteworthy that it exists are 4chaners with issues.

I am not sure if this is due to you actually rambling or writing a script here, I dont know your content that well but as someone who is not only NB, Pan and very adverse towards sexual stuff, this entire point feels genuinly weird to me in an analysis about a game. This doesnt feel like analysis of a game. This reeks of a social opinion you felt the need to shoehorn in. Again. I aint a Cis Hetero or however you wanna call it. I am for all that matters LGBT. Dont demonize people while you act the same but towards the opposite extreme. Dont be a hypocrit.

I havent subbed yet and listening to this makes me question if I should. I will keep watching your content for now and decide after. But this is not a good look nor point. Its an opinion based on a controversial topic as you know yourself.

You didn't pay much attention to Edgewater if you think Adelaide taking over Edgewater was the best option.

Engage Mint

video on the DLC to see if they fixed it?

I actually really like this game. Certainly better than anything Bethesda's put out in the last 20 years, imo...

For all the problems I had this game, theres an equal amount of things i loved. And even the things i didnt like, i could very easily see them being ironed out in the sequel. I think Obsidian is gonna take all the feedback from this game and make a masterpiece with 2.

Fallout New Vegas and Pillars of Eternity had interesting backgrounds to towns and politics because they were colored by 'colonialism'. Funny part is Josh Sawyer is a big history buff and he directed both those games, so he has a lot of context about the kind of politics that'd exist in these settings. TOW is now colonialism but in space! Except now they don't have a history nerd directing the game.

While the Legion is too cruel, Caesar actually have a reason to do the thing he does, he exists to criticizes the US democracy. Which makes him a better villain

i liked the game a lot, but its got issues. hoping outer worlds 2 hits it out of the park.

speaking of skill systems, I actually love the Mount and Blade Bannerlord system, hopefully other games will copy it or do something similar

Great video man.
Back when this game came out i had super high hopes it would be amazing since NV was pretty good. Sadly the game came out half baked and still after all these years full mod support hasnt been delivered. Also this game is just we happy few but in space

I have nothing against communists and marxists. I have something against hypocrites. Stand true to your beliefs, and don't buy and pre-order video games to support the very system you don't like. Either get the games you want to play for free, or don't get them at all. If you truly want a changed society, then that change starts with you. After watching your video, I can now deduct that you are either: a person with a child-like mentality who critizes the system when it suits you, but still reaps the fruits of living in a capitalist society; or someone who does not stand true to your own beliefs, which makes you someone that should not have a say in anything beyond yourself and your own needs.

As for the analysis of the actual game, its elements and story, I really enjoyed it. Good video!

hot take: alpha protocol > outer worlds

I enjoyed the game just enough to finish my playthrough.

I'm going to give this a watch but I just needed to say, they put Hephaestus in the game as a planet that was supposed to be DLC then just didn't make it. There's locked planets that never unlock because they were never made. They only made 4 planets and put imagined ones on a map to trick you. and the ones they did make are the size of goodsprings from new Vegas. even the "big" capital Byzantium made up of 4 NPCs who give quests and 55 generic guards and civilians.

The Outer Worlds was in no way a bad game but it was NOT a masterpiece

Parvati is great. We stan an ace queen in this house. Her character actually helped me figure out that I was ace, because while I knew it was a thing, I didn't really get it until I saw her talking about it. And it let me go "huh...I guess it can be that simple, then." Instead of needing to feel like I had to have a big long, self-defensive diatribe ready to explain myself whenever the subject came up.

only reason why outerworlds wasnt butchered on reviews was cause 76 was released


Outerworld is avrg at best

I really wanted to love this game.
But it never hit right for me.
Maybe I'll go back to it sometime.

From your description of Eillie, she sounds like your average Third-Worldist-Maoist's description of any western socialist XD

My first time playing TOW in 2020, I thought I was really enjoying the game up till around midday through Monarch then I stopped and didn't play again for about a year and a half.
Seems to be a common theme with current "RPG" games.
Played the first chapter of ac odyssey then stopped for 3 years

I barely even remember this game.