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• falidorn@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Outer worlds was received perhaps even better and was more popular than Avowed is currently. People’s memories are fuzzy I guess but Outer Worlds was a genuine GOTY contender.

  opencritic.com/game/7413/the-outer-worlds

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  • Jax@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yeah that doesn’t track at all with what I remember people saying, and what I remember thinking myself.

    I distinctly remember people citing the repetitive gameplay, short campaign, shallow choices, etc. I’m not sure why it was ever a GOTY contender, but there simply never was any way it would ever beat a game like Sekiro. It’s likely that “new Obsidian RPG” drove any hype surrounding the game.

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    • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Disco Elysium isn’t everyone’s cup of tea. It certainly wasn’t mine. And I love Outer Worlds.

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    • falidorn@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It sold 4 million copies. The press lathered it with praise as a lot of major media outlets gave it 9s.

      Game Critics Awards: Best Original Game DICE awards: Best RPG Nebula Awards: Best Writing Game awards: nominated for four categories, including game of the year

      It was nominated and won other awards as well

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      • Jax@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I’m sorry but I genuinely don’t care what game journalists think. Their opinions are about as valuable as mud, and at least I can grow plants from mud.

        Every single discussion I see searching up on Google ‘is Outer Worlds good’ are sponsored reviews from people who got the game for free, or B average reviews from people who got the game for dirt cheap. When I find what real people have to say about Outer Worlds, it’s almost unanimous that it was bad.

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  • danjay@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m surprised it was so well reviewed, I remember being very disappointed with it. Everything felt so small, and shallow.

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