• bitjunkie@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    That’s a shame, the first one was incredible. Seriously considered breaking my pre-order rule for the sequel until I saw the price.

  • PonyOfWar@pawb.social
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    3 days ago

    I have to say I don’t really mind that the series is finished. Played and tried to like both Outer Worlds games, but found their world, characters and general writing completely uninteresting. The satire was too much and too on-the-nose for me as well.

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      3 days ago

      I enjoyed the first one enough to play through the whole way once, and play part way a few times after that. Like you said though. The writing was dull, and it seemed like they wanted it to be gritty, but funny, and the satire was too much. The writing was so weak that I didn’t even bother pirating the second one to see if I wanted to buy it. I think I might have chuckled once or twice on my first play through. And the rest of my runs, I just kinda zoned out of all the story stuff and shot things. The combat wasn’t amazing either.

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      2 days ago

      The writing is definitely abysmal, or at least not for me.

      Seems too ‘reddit-coded’ for my tastes.

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    2 days ago

    Good.

    Let that studio die. I’m tired of them pretending they’re some second coming of Jesus because they made fallout new Vegas. Yes we all liked kotor and while pillars wasn’t my thing, owlcats have them beat, it was well recived.

    But either they can’t or simply won’t make a good game. Take whatever talent is left and start a smaller studio which doesn’t just rip Bethesda’s ideas.

    OW is the most generic crap I had mis-pleasure of playing. It somehow made starfield stand out.

    • alphabethunter@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      I want the teams that made Grounded and Pillars to split up, the rest of the company can die. Outer Worlds is a mediocre game through and through, same with their new 1st person rpg.