The Outer Worlds 2

Outer Worlds 2 takes the unique position of being the first RPG I can't finish. Despite all of its flaws, the first game was able to have enough qualities that it made the game worthwhile, qualities that have all been completely forgotten or deliberately abandoned with its successor. Any entertaining aspect you could assign to this game has been delivered far more successfully in better games. The game's one unique aspect, its story, is so sloppily delivered it made the game completely unplayable for me. And keep in mind that I have over 200 hours in AC shadows and almost 100 in Borderlands 3, so that should really tell you something about how truly awful the writing in this game is. The dialogue reads like it was written by a millennial who's never had a real-life interaction with another human being before, and their only concept of human conversation is from reddit posts and twitter arguments. The game starts off promising and allows you to choose from a variety of backstories. For example, you may be tempted to choose the "professor" backstory, though you'll soon realize the game's archetype for such a character is less Doc Brown or even Walter White and more "to be fair, y…

HEY OBSIDIAN...... it's excusable to reskin Avowed so it's less effort to release 2 RPGs in a year..... that's fine. What i want to know is, when CHAT GPT wrote all the dialogue for these games, why did you have the settings at MAXIMUM UNLIKABLE???? It seems strange to me because everyone knows you guys can tell great stories and make great games and yet here are two RPGs where THERE IS NOT A SINGLE LIKABLE CHARACTER IN EITHER. The gaming community understands it's tough to speak up while wearing the microsoft GIMP MASK, so here is the deal. leave the abusinve relationship and we will be here to support you. until then give me my money back.

Horible game would rater get burnt alive than play 10 more minutes of this slop

I actually really enjoyed this game. Much more than the first one. Exploration was enjoyable, story was passable, quests and companions were fun. Some of the critiques on world impact, dropping the ball on some companion interactions, and endings are warranted but i found the gameplay enjoyable enough to let that slide. Worth a play.

Quite addictive. If you liked first one you will love this one. Superb area planning and enough stuff to do to keep you busy!

going with mixed feelings on this one. Buy it on sale. reminiscent of Fallout games in a unique way but still kind of bland too, for like $30-$40 it's worth it to drop 50 hours into the game.