Today’s game is Outward. I got a friend to buy it for me to try it with him, so I gave it a try. When he first asked me to play it I honestly didn’t expect it to be 50 GB of free space. Crazy how a game can occupy that much space. I thought it’d be a tiny little 5 GB game. But nope. It’s like 10x that.
On first impressions it gives major walking sim meets MMO vibes. Not in a bad way, but I guess the best comparison would be Lord of the Rings. It’s a lot of Walking and Plot with combat interspersed throughout in the wilderness.
One place we came upon was this big ass purple mountain which was cool. I asked my friend what the equivalent of Mordor was as a joke and he said it was this place. I’m not sure if he was fucking with me or serious. But it’ll be interesting to see if he was serious.
We ended up getting knocked out, but instead of dying we got rescued by this wood looking guy. It was cool. I like when games have alternative death systems like this. It makes for an interesting mechanic.
We ended up joining the Blue Chamber Collective, mostly because they were the first faction we saw, but also because they seemed chill. The walk to Berg was a bit of a haul, and we didn’t really want to make it again, so Berg was where we decided to stay.
Once we joined we got 3 days of down time so that gave us a perfect stopping point. My friend was asking me to play again tomorrow so I guess we’ll see if that will happen. I was liking it so far even if it was hard to follow. So I’m excited to play again.
luthis@lemmy.nz 28 minutes ago
I see you have strategically avoided elite dangerous. Congratulations on having a life.