Re: Free Game: "Outer Worlds" and "Thief"

On 4/4/2024 9:50 AM, candycanearter07 wrote:

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote at 16:33 this Thursday (GMT):

I totally forgot it was Thursday. Well, obviously not 'totally',
seeing as I've remembered now... but usually I'm a bit more
on-the-ball. Oh well, I'm sure you'll none of you notice if I rush
through this announcement. ;-)
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* The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition
https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/the-outer-worlds-spacers-choice-edition
    Firstly, you may have this one already (Epic gave it away
    back in December just passed). The game itself is essentially
    "Starfield", albeit a bit more tongue in cheek and less focused
    on quantity-over-quality. Whether you like it or not really
    depends on whether its humor lands with you; gameplay-wise,
    it's basically standard 'Bethesda-open-world', even if its
    not made by Bethesda. A good game, in my opinion; not great,
    but good.

 Wasn't that one of those "bombed on release but redeemed over updates"
games or am I thinking of a different space game?

It's an awesome game on par with or better than Obsidian's Fallout NV who also made this, since release.  Reviews were very good, which is why I bought it besides being a big Fallout fan. It did bomb sales wise, but that's because it came out as one of the first Epic exclusives before anyone was really using Epic.  It's barely a space game, it's a CRPG like Fallout except on some different worlds in a late-capitalist dystopia that's falling apart.
The only space game I know of that might fit "bombed on release but redeemed over updates" is No Man's Sky.  That still doesn't sound like my type of game other than being a space setting, but it's on my wishlist and who knows, I might buy it someday.
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