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

On 05/04/2024 06:02, Justisaur wrote:

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

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

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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.

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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.
 

There were quite a few negative reviews on Steam comparing it unfavourable to FO:NV and I never thought it was a fair comparison. The games may look the same at first glance but they play quite differently as CRPG's. So FO:3/NV have a big open world where you can just wander the wasteland exploring all the stories/locations. There is a main quest but I think in many ways it plays second fiddle to most of the other content. OW really isn't an open world and also it's much more tightly focused on the main story line with some side quests.
FO:NV is on my all time classics list whereas OW I enjoyed but I can't say I thought it was a great game. That's really down to personal preferences than one being better as they were trying to achieve different things.
As always though, horses for courses and all that.