When I saw the ads for The Outer Worlds, I thought Fallout + Space. It sounded awesome! When I first started playing I was excited, exploring new alien worlds. I started gaining team members! Parvati and Vicar Max had interesting tangents. Fighting the Mantis Queen was cool. The quirky A.I. onboard computer on the ship The Unreliable was hilarious.
But slowly, the storyline began to fizzle out, and the theme of the game, fighting the evil space corporation Spacers Choice began to lose it's appeal.
The game goes nowhere...it fizzles out. It's not an incredibly long game to begin with, but players have found ways to beat the game in under 11 minutes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4aybZ-ltXA
One of the comments says it all: “Not knowing the story and just watching this speedrun makes it break down like this: ‘Local man steals materials to fire himself into the sun.’”
Granted, there are multiple endings, and the speedrun ending has the player skipping a ship supposedly holding frozen colonists into the sun. It makes me feel like the game I played was mostly sidequest fluff. Essentially, it was.
The Outer Worlds now has a DLC called Peril on Gorgon. Maybe the story will pick up, and depart from the mired "evil corporation" theme.
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