Outer Worlds was fantastic.
Can you make legitimate criticisms about some of it? Sure. You can make legitimate criticisms about anything.
But the overwhelming amount of hate I’ve seen was from fanboys who deluded themselves into thinking it was gonna be New Vegas in space, When nothing even remotely close to that was hinted.
Also, they’ve made a TON of fantastic games.
Alpha Protocol was a mindblowing game with a depth and complexity that still makes it playable today, 16 years later (technically it came out before New Vegas, but Alpha Protocol doesnt get enough love so I’ll mention it when ever I can)
As for post-New Vegas games…
Stick of Truth was wildly succesful
Pillars of Eternity was wildly successful, and created a franchise for them.
Tyranny was fantastic and fresh
Outer Worlds I already covered.
Never played Grounded but it must be wildly fuckin popular to be getting a sequel and a TV show.
BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
the only reason i beat outer worlds was for parvarti. there were sometimes quests that were fine, but nothing really memorable. i did not care for its atmosphere and ham fisted blunt as an atom bomb style of storytelling. the combat was also horrible. i genuinely do not know why anyone would even attmept the hardest difficulty, there is just no way its any fun.
the perks were practically useless in my eyes because it was so barebones, making it not a real incentive to level up. the gear also sucks outside of that super cool monster mashup outfit…that you get to wear for about 10 minutes because it comes right at the end of the game
id overall give outer worlds a 3/10 it could have been good but too many elements ruin it for me
conversely…outer worlds 2? i couldnt even get a quarter of the way through
stick of truth was awesome yeah. havent played any others