The one thing it seems to be missing is the ability to romance your companions. Branching dialogue along with a reputation system? Yup. Upgradable skills and abilities? That too. A story that takes us to the edge of the galaxyĪll of the good stuff that you love from RPGs will be making an appearance in one form or another. A fraction of The Outer Worlds team also had a hand in the first two Fallout games. According to Cain, around 20% of The Outer Worlds' staff worked on Fallout: New Vegas for the company as well. In fact, one of the original Fallout's directors-Tim Cain-is a co-director on The Outer Worlds. Obsidian's name may not be attached to Fallout or Fallout 2, but many of its developers are alumni of Black Isle Studios and Interplay Productions, the two companies that did create the franchise. From the creators of Fallout and Fallout: New Vegas That didn't end up happening, but what the studio did announce turned out to be the next best thing. With Bethesda facing the brunt of player backlash after Fallout 76 failed to live up to expectations, people were clamoring for Obsidian to return to Fallout and recapture the series' former glory. Being on a tight budget, there may even be some jank that players have grown accustomed to.Īnd the timing of the announcement almost couldn't have been better for Obsidian. From its dialogue system to its choices and humor, this pulpy sci-fi RPG will feel just as familiar as it will different. The version that didn’t touch fuzzy and get dizzy is on the PlayStation 4, the PC, and the Xbox One.The Outer Worlds is certainly no Fallout: New Vegas 2, but it's apparent that Fallout's influences have bled into it. This version of The Outer Worlds is currently available on the Nintendo Switch. Does that make it worthwhile? Well, it depends on how you feel about that first paragraph. It’s a far cry from Borderlands 2’s unplayable PS Vita port, and as I’ve seen in the homebrew chatterspace, there’s room for possible optimization from the developer. The whole game is here, and it works, and I’m having fun playing it. Instead, this is a mediocre port that is still impressive when viewed from a certain angle. As a longtime handheld gamer, I’m used to fuzzy visuals and dipping frame rates, and either bad ports or no ports at all. Anyone who is invested in video game fidelity will be disgusted with me right now, possibly as a whole human being. I’m well aware how much I’m dancing around apologia territory. Once again I want to stress that The Outer Worlds on Nintendo Switch stops just short of being a disaster.
Meanwhile, I’m 40 hours into Dragon Quest XI Sand still plugging away. It’s too demanding and I have too much going on upstairs for that.
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Nothing against the game really, I just can’t comfortably sit and play a big ol’ RPG on a TV screen. I didn’t stick with it though, and I’ll direct the class back to the first paragraph for why. But it’s also more streamlined and focused than those Fallout sequels, in that it’s much smaller in scale and has less fluff for fluff’s sake. It’s basically a modern Fallout game without all the baggage and intellectual dishonesty from the Bethesda Softworks series, and the more subdued ambition and writing chops of the New Vegasfolks. I played The Outer Worlds a bit when it first came out on my Xbox One X, because I was fascinated by its presence. It’s like, slightly curled, like more of a bend really. So, long story short (it isn’t actually long), now I’m playing the new The Outer Worlds Switch port, and my personal monkey’s paw has curled a finger.
I even played my 3DS more when I had the OG Switch, because that slab of plastic was a bit too chunky for my insular comforts. I just prefer playing games on handhelds it isn’t more complicated than that. I don’t jump into corporate Twitter feeds or comment spaces under articles and yell about it, but that doesn’t mean I don’t want to! I don’t publicly whine when I game I’m interested in doesn’t drop on Switch, but I do pester Jenni at every playtest opportunity. After I got a Switch Lite, I became a lowkey port-begger.
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