The Outer Worlds: Review After 100% 

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Finally a review not written for quick views. Thanks for clarifying the history of the Obsidian team. They created Fallout but it’s out of their hands now. Most reviewers just say “they made New Vegas”. That is misleading. Yes, the story has some meaningful choices and can be played for more than just the 12 hour main quest. Thanks for reviewing this honestly. The game is great enough to be totally immersed in. That’s all that matters to me.

Hope for Outer Worlds 2 they add more enemy, weapon and gear variety. Also more interesting perks and make consumables useful.

I'm loving these 100% game reviews. Gives a unique and more in depth perspective you usually don't get from other reviewers.

Man. Someone who doesnt blow through the main story, with no sidequests, and then says the game is too short? Wow Color me impressed

i loved this game so much. I hope in the next game they add more weapons and armor. I felt like this game was lacking in variety concerning armor and weapons. I would use the same stuff for a large portion of the game

This guy is under rated. Most reviews have alot of opinion without much experience. This is quite the contrary. Well done.

I enjoyed this game, mostly because I actually took Obsidians "warning" that it would not be a massive AAA game to heart before playing. That being said, I hope they go all out in their next entry now that they have the financial means to do so.

Supernova is the JSawyer mod of New Vegas. I love it simply because it makes the game more like an immersive sim, but I would recommend going for a loner playstyle (maybe bring companions along for their quests) as they can be dumb.

I think that if it’s intended to be a AA experience, it should be priced that way. Full AAA price sets expectations

I think the fact that the game is more digestible as opposed to being an overwhelming, grandiose story where nothing ultimately matters, save 5 choices. Obsidian does a fantastic job of establishing scope, then fleshing the game out within that scope.

I instantly subscribed. You are a very good game reviewer sir. Thank you for this review. I'm starting this on xbox now.

I honestly love this game, it's not got as much depth as other titles from Obsidian but it's got the groundwork to be a series of excellent games. Also the comedy in this game is so much fun.

The rpg systems of this game were pretty generic and barebones. They’re easily the weakest part of the game. Having said that, the Flaw system is definitely the best idea the game has to offer. But it could definitely use some improvements, like each flaw having more unique downsides instead of sharing the same attribute penalties, and offering flaw-specific perks instead of a generic perk point. Hopefully, Obsidian carries this system over to the sequel and improves upon it.

Good review, can’t wait to see more

very impressive content. super surprised you only have 11.7K subs. I'm sure this will change quickly.

Great review, particularly about the side quests and the RPG aspects.

Nice review. I'm a big fan of the game but your comments are fair. I would have added that your companions have their own conversations so which two you bring along with you on which missions can give you loads of different dialog to listen to.

I'm looking for new games to try. I just discovered you. I like your approach to reviewing games. Coupled with your knowledge & experience in gaming, your reviews look to be very helpful to me. I plan to watch your review of Dying Light next. I've enjoyed many games over the last 3 decades: doom, wolfenstein, thief, fallout, skyrim, metro, stalker -- each of those titles, as you know, contain many sequels, dlcs, etc. Keep up the good work. Thank you.

It is a pitty, but today when you say "Fallout" bethesda games styles comes to mind, since it has become such a big factor in gaming world... "From the creators of fallout" really hypes you up if you had a loveable experience with the old crpgs and the New Vegas strong points.

Very good review, thanks! The title has been confirmed to be in July's Humble Bundle, so will definitely be giving it a try.

Gorgon did a good job of expanding on what was there and fits into the main quest well. Eridanos felt tacked on and actually messed up the pacing a bit imo. I think it would’ve worked better as a post main quest adventure or played with a different character if they reworded a couple things.

First time watching not WOTR content! Definitely enjoying your reviews.

I am a big fallout fan and I admit that I was hoping that this would be more of a big open world fallout game with great side quests and lots to do. Like you said though, they have a bigger budget now for the Outer Worlds 2 so I'm excited to see what Obsidian can do next.

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Good review and engages with comments. Subbed.

I wish great success to you brother. You are my number one video game buying guide. You are like RU-vid personification of r/patientgamers. Also you always review types of games that i like to play.

Ahhhh thankyou! A reviewer who doesn't try to compare this game to fallout, so so so dang refreshing. Subbed just for that

Some of the interrior texture work and building designs are incredible in this game

Good work m8. I really enjoy your 100% reviews and I hope there are more to come :)

Just ran across this review thank you you do a great job ill check back for more 👍

Great review. I agree that the full price tag and comparisons to Fallout ("Buy this game: It's not Fallout 76") led to a lot of buyer's remorse. Even now. my recommend list on the right side of my screen has the Skill Up review with the thumbnail title "Exactly What We All Hoped It Would Be" and the main title "The Outer Worlds Revives Its Genre in One Brilliant Stroke.". It's not THAT good, it's just good. I guess Skill Up did not 100% it.

I loved the add ons. Murder on Eridanos was super fun being the PI. LMAO I correctly figured out who was the villain but it was more on my own gut feeling than the clues I was finding :P

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Honestly, one of my favorite games of the last 10 years. While it's obvious TOW was done on a modest budget, it has so much heart! It's apparent what a labor of love this was for Cain, Boyarsky and their team at Obsidian. I did four runs (twice including both DLCs and once with the hidden 'dumb ending') and absolutely loved it. The writing (dialogue!), companions and many key NPCs like Welles were just wonderful IMO. Incidentally, I agree 100% regarding the DLC suites; I felt the setting, atmosphere, player agency and choice in Peril On Gorgon was *far superior* to Murder On Eridanos. I actually felt that MOE was the weakest, most tedious act of the entire game. Overall, this game is a feel-good RPG-lite experience packed with personality. I cannot wait for the AAA sequel!

I just started this on the switch. I'm about 8 hours into it and am absolutely in love with it.

The time dilation thing might get more powerful as you go, but I rarely use it unless I'm getting messed up pretty bad. It's useless in the beginning.

I lost interest after reaching Monarch. The enemies were just bullet sponges and there was so much loot that it just felt like they were artificially increasing the gameplay time. Seriously though I constantly had max ammo without any real effort.

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I'm having a blast playing it!

I think this game has done a lot of damages to the reputation of Obsidian, which is not fair i think. POE2's last DLC (Forgotten Sanctum) was released in the end of 2018 and was very good, I really wonder how much the lack of budget damaged TOW.

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My optimistic thought, after finishing, was that this game laid a great foundation for future iterations.

I know I am late to this, but just discovered your channel. Just wanted to say that I agree with you about the DLCs. Peril on Gorgon was a lot better compared to Murder on Eridanos. Similar to how I felt about Fallout 4's Far Harbor compared to Nuka World. I just liked the tone of Gorgon, and the feeling of dread as you learn what the coporation was doing. And Eridanos just did not compare to it for me.

Playing it again recently with the murder dlc and I’m using a max skilled companion build, and this game has A LOT of great extra dialogue that rewards specific and non spicier of builds. I fell like this game took the core concept of RPG’s and did their skill system so well. The game lacked in other spots which is why I can’t wait for the sequel, but this game was a true show of amazing rpg mechanics that aren’t overly complicated and it’s sad to see no games come after it with its same concept.

The extremely bright color pallette coupled with the ridiculously blurry TAA made navigation annoying. I gave up avoiding enemies not just because they're fodder but also because trying to discern things in the environment hurt my eyes. Monarch was atrocious.

Love this game just bought recently on ps4 and cant stop playing. The story, characters, and the world are just amazing and fun. I highly recomend playing outer worlds and I cant wait for the second one

I feel you there man idgaf about to hanging characters in game. I only married lydia bc it was 2011 everyone did it

Just bought this one stoked to try it

I enjoyed it, mostly because it's the closest to a game representation of Firefly that we'll ever get, and also because personally I really enjoyed the game's sense of humour. Humour is of course very personal and I guess it didn't land with you: that's fair.

Totally understand the "floaty" criticism of the combat because I felt the same exact way. Compare the combat of Outer Worlds to the combat of Darktide, another FPS with melee elements, and the difference is night and day. (Obviously there's a lot to criticize about Darktide too, but the combat is on point.)

Getting the game for $40 with all the DLCs, as you can today, makes it very worth it.

This being a AA game makes so much more sense. I never knew that I just figured it was the new Fallout when I was playing and was let down. The game did a lot right but between the simplified builds and the games tone feeling lost to me the game to me didn't really have any heart if that makes sense. It was the most average game I played that year hands down.

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The gameplay looks significantly better than the last demo. I'm really hoping they lean more onto their crpg roots for world building, character development, and character building though. Right now, the character building in particular looks a bit simplistic and I'm a bit worried after outer worlds. Obsidian has been one of my favorite developers over the years, but I felt like outer worlds was a bit shallow in comparison to their other work.

Game is really good. I was one from he crowd that despised this game for some reason. I only played 5 hours years ago and never touched it. But lately i bought this game again with all DLCs and currently I have the blast with it. Im waiting for Spacer Choice Edition by the way.

you say 100... you are now my second fav reviewer next to acg

I'm glad I saved this game for so long I got it when it came out but knew I was gonna be waiting for a while to purchase dlc to make the game better so I just experienced character building and the tutorial then just never played it lol

I naturally spread my point out to become a jack of all trades. Once you get to level 50 on things, you can honestly start to level other things up. Of course I'm only level 6 so I'm sure that will change with time, unless there's a level cap.

I can honestly say personally that while I am getting some strong New Vegas vibes (especially as it pertains to the game's satirical nature), The Outer Worlds takes itself far more seriously I find than Fallout: NV. And I truly feel that the creators set out to make more of an homage to Firefly and Serenity than anything else; from the design of the Unreliable to the nature of the crew minus SAM. (In point-of-fact, Parvati is so much like Kaylee that I just call her Kaylee.) This is not a negative, mind you, but a strength as I myself am a Browncoat and this game does what it sets out to do so well. It's SO Firefly in fact that... ----------------------------------------------------------- SPOILERS FOR BOTH SERENITY AND THE OUTER WORLDS DLC IF YOU'VE SEEN SERENITY ---------------------------------------------------------- ...the entire crux/plot/conflict of Peril on Gorgon is ripped wholesale from the third act revelation of Serenity whereas the crew discovers the secret of Miranda is. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- END OF SPOILERS ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- And I LOVE The Outer Worlds for that. It's likely the closest thing we'll ever get to a fully realized Firefly game or continuation.

Thanks, thinking of buying but I still think too much money is asked for a double A game. I am becoming used of waiting a few years and snag mediocre games up for a few bucks, preferable on gog too!

this game was on my radar before it came out and when it did it got a lot of meh reviews and the cost turned me off but as of the time of this comment its on sale for 20 bucks, i think i might pick it up. great review by the way

Ah yes, "the fallout killer", had fun with it for like 25 hours and then I realized I've beaten the game; I thought I wasnt even halfway through at that point...

I think the humour didn’t help this game at all. It was fun at first but every character felt the same due to all of them displaying the same type of humour. Ultimately I just didn’t care about anything because I was constantly reminded that I am playing a game and interacting with comedy performers instead of people.

Tbh this felt more like they were implementing a lot of their work from KOTOR 2 with this title.

I enjoyed my time with Outer Worlds, but it did not exatly blow my mind and I doubt its a game I will replay in the future, I feel I got my moneys worth buying it on sale.

I have never played Fallout NV (I know, blasphemy 😶) so I went into this game with no expectations whatsoever (I really enjoyed the trailer and that's what drew me in) and I loved it. I had so much fun with this game. I agree that it's not "perfect" and I agree with the major points of criticism that I read (side quests not very interesting, using the same skins for weapons, armor and enemies...) but there were times when I was laughing out loud and that doesn't happen very often in games but the humor was so subtle yet dark at times, it was right up my ally 😁 Can't wait for the sequel...🥰 aaaand I'll need to start playing Fallout NV sometime soon before I get excecuted by the gaming community 😆

you do get to see your face during critical shots :)

I'm always surprised how much I disliked TOW in comparison to the rest of Obsidian's work. I really found it mediocre in most aspects, only saved by good writing. I was extremely disappointed in this game and I remember just pushing through so the game would just end, then I hated the ending as well. The worst part for me were the RPG and character building systems, IMO your character is just too good at everything, it sucks (EDIT: LOL I wrote this before watching and I found this point in your review pretty fast)

I actually liked the jack of all trades style of leveling. So many games punish you for not focusing on one or two stats and I feel like I have to choose what I get locked out of. [Edit] I actually have a notebook for fallout new vegas of the when to put how many points into each skill and when to pick which perks. All just to mitigate the locked out of content problem.

Honestly the game was very fun people didnt listen when obsidian said they dont have aaa budgets anymore unless the game does well in wich they will make an expanded sequal

I did get my value out of the game, I did play it through twice completely. So that's enough for $60 I think. Haven't tried the dlc yet. That said, I agree with all the flaws. The jack of all trade things is pretty bad. I think games now days are too scared to introduce major flaws in builds, and just want to reward reward reward. Civ6 sometimes falls into this trap as well, especially with their dlc after the 2nd expansion where every civ is super strong. The problem with making games so easy you can't lose, is it's easy to lose interest in those games. And the lack of more serious choices in this game is also another negative. Companions needed more work as well. For me it gets a B-.

I got the game for free when I bought my current CPU. Then paid for both DLC's. I agree with the reviewer that Gorgon was a great upgrade to the game, but Eridanos is mostly shallow and irritating. If I knew what I know now I would probably not have paid money for Eridanos, mostly because the ending makes you feel like all the "work" you put into it was useless.

TTD works amazing with snipers

Whatever obsidian did with The Outer worlds, keep doing it. This is my top 5 favorite games now.

I've never played the game, and am just watching the review because I like Mort, but the impression that I have had since the game came out is that it is laying the foundations for the sequel, in terms of lore, mechanics etc. That's great for game 2, but not so much for this current one.

YOOOO😭😭😭I’ve almost came close to 100% the game and I’ve never noticed that you couldn’t throw grenades

Before I knew it was worked on by fallout devs, I organically made the comparison to fallout, as it feels VERY similar.

I felt like you got companions too easily (basically handed to you) and there should have been like 10 or something

Yes, my new favorite reviwer.

I know people hate that this is like fallout competition ((if you can even call it that lol)), but fallout will always be better, but I like to see this game as a special story expander showing us what's happened out there if Pesidon successfully send people to space, ik there's flaws in that's but I enjoy that view since it was created by the original makers of the story. And the best part of fallout wasn't even Bethesda's work, it was Obsidian's creativity and they also worked on this game.

I liked the game, I just wish it was a giant sandbox rather than these little modular areas.

I'm playing this game now and the only thing I keep thinking about is how it feels like fallout in space. I'm not sure why you say it is a double A game, but to each there own. I can only guess that it doesn't have graphics that you think it should have. Recently the Starefield show case was out and I'm looking forward to playing it. But the graphics certainly while good, are still not the next generation photo realistic that people bare hoping to see. Just saying.

I mean it was by the people who made New Vegas, but Obsidian historically has done sequels on other peoples games or on ips, typically making a better game. Kotor 2, Nwn 2, and New Vegas. The comparison to New Vegas in space is very apt imo, Fallout 3 and 4 are very different games for being all roughly the same mechanics.

I do like having two companions at a time

I didn't enjoy any of the companions

It's a lot like fallout. My head cannon is this is a hundred or two hundred years after new vegas if house stayed in power.

I dont really recomend playing on hard, the game is not that hard, but, the enemies become bullet sponges.

I earned 100% Achievements as well, nice job.

I really like this game. But it’s not going to be for everyone. The gameplay is mediocre. Attributes, skills and perks are similar to Fallout, but boring. Combat is like Fallout, but with worse controls, Mortisimal called it ”floaty” and that’s not a bad description. The story is linear with a big mainquest and a few sidequests. No sandbox, no open world exploration, no cornucopia of sidequests. Good story, but limited replayability. So what is there to like you might ask? The storytelling, voice acting and companion relationships are really good. Some of the background designs - savescreens, promotional posters, commercial jingles and so on - are exquisite, for what it’s worth. And the worldbuilding is hilarious. Imagine a future like Idiocracy, where corporations have taken over everything and trained everyone to think exclusively in marketing slogans. But with more horror. From existential horror to body horror. This game can make you actually depressed or nauseous. Some of the shit you encounter is so messed up. That’s what I enjoy. But I guess that this satire might work better for you if you already believe that corporations are kinda evil and running a government ”like you run a business” is the worst idea in history. If you are a lefty in other words.

Yeah, I love Obsidian and by all means I do believe that they would be the better developers for the Fallout franchise if they have it... but that marketing stunt really felt bitter.

Yeah, marketing it as a Fallout game was not a good move and still it was. The main reason I heard about it was New Vegas. Not the makers of Fallout, the makers of New Vegas. I loved that game and to be honest The Outer Worlds, brings a bit of that NV feeling to it. Don't know what it is, it just got a lot of love and humor. Only played a couple of hours and I think I am going to enjoy playing it as I bought it on sale on steam.

Never played a game before like this that I appreciated more every time I beat it. I've now finished it 3 times. First playthrough was a slog on Supernova and I did myself a huge disservice comparing it in my mind to Obsidian's Fallouts. It just doesn't have the same depth. It was memorably disappointing when I realized the number of planets available to explore, the limited RPG mechanics and the sparseness of the maps. That said, what we get is all charming and the gameplay loop is tight. The next two runs I played lower difficulties, got through things much more quickly, and hyper specialized my characters. It really benefits from being played this way. It's relatively short, things move quickly, and it doesn't leave you feeling the kind of fatigue you usually feel after a meaty RPG. Here's looking at you, Wasteland 3. Edit: I've since hit 100 percent. I definitely thought Peril on Gorgon was only okay. The DLC's were the last things I had to do. Gorgon was nice in how it could end in different ways, but it just wasnt particularly fun. Eridanos was just pulp to the max and it had the writing it needed to sell the setting. Short and sweet. Kind of like the rest of the Outer Worlds. Overall I loved almost all the writing in TOW, which honestly is the main reason I play RPGs.

1:35 Perfectly said & my buddy said the same thing It’s a AA game, not a AAA game The Outer Worlds is a great AA game Meh to okay AAA game

I honestly would have preferred this game if it had an option for 3rd person. 1st person makes me nauseous. Still haven’t finished this game because of it, sadly…

I praise your 100%. I couldn't be bothered to be frank.

Is this game only 1st person?

morty bro is this the spacers choice edition?

I have played though a few times. The choices do not mean a lot in this game. You can kill almost everyone and still complete the game.