I was not super enamoured with 1. But most of my complaints were from features that just needed more time to cook.
Really hope they get addressed in 2. Would be an incredible game if so.
The Outer Worlds 2 - Official Story Trailer | Xbox Games Showcase 2025
Submitted 3 weeks ago by simple@piefed.social to games@lemmy.world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUDdFBFTYRI
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DScratch@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
The story in 1 was also weak. When you’ve got shit like Disco Elysium out there, the pandering “ooh capitalism is big bad” while also not giving it a serious critique falls pretty flat.
The trailer for 2 even jokes about how its “by capitalism.”
Incblob@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
While I agree with you, it’s a bit unfair to compare the two.
DE is “just” a point and click pushed to an absurd level of quality, meaning that most of the production can go into managing a story.
OW is an fps, meaning you need a gameplay loop, weapons, balancing, environments, etc etc. It’s also a dark satire, not a serious philosophical work like elysium. Reading 10 pages of text on the nature of violence before you get to shoot your gun would not work.
This doesn’t excuse a weak story, but does explain how it’s much more difficult and costly to fit one in there. (yes bioshock, but those games are the exception in fps games).
I would love a better story, with a tightly integrated story, that would be very difficult to pull off in the current game dev space at this scale.
Psythik@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
That was my issue with the game too. The concept was good, but the game seemed rushed. You can literally see blank spaces in the map that were obviously supposed to have stuff there (like an extra companion quarters on your ship that was clearly walled off and deleted, for example). The sequel has potential to be great if they take their time on it.
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
$80 people
Crankenstein@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Welp, guess I can get this one on sale just like I did the first. This i spent maybe $15-$20 on it?
#PatientGamers
fishy@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Yup, this is why the $80 price tag doesn’t bother me. I’ve got a backlog of games I want to play that I probably already can’t finish in my lifetime. This will be $20 a year post release and in two years that $20 will get you all the dlc as well.
eronth@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Well, time and a sale it is, then.
JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The Atari 2600 released for $190 in 1977. Or about $1000 today.
The best selling title, Pac-Man released for $28 in 1982. Or about $95 today.
Compared to so much else that has risen dramatically over time, vastly outpacing video games comparatively, I think it’s a bit hard to argue with the value proposition of modern titles.
docmark@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I think looking at it through an “all else equal” mindset is a little misleading.
Back then it was basically space-age technology. Video games were leaps and bounds ahead of other forms of entertainment, techwise. You could somewhat justify the expense because there was literally nothing like it in existence.
Nowadays? People make video games for classes in high school. I can write a flappy bird game on my phone and play it there. Small projects with less than 50 people regularly end up as bestsellers on Steam. Thousands of titles release on steam every year.
Video game supply is through the fucking roof, yet companies go out of their way to overproduce and underdeliver. QA is nonexistent anymore because of day 1 patches and always-online. They realized a long time ago that when your primary market is children, you can be as absolutely shitty as you want because a parent will give their child anything to shut them up or help them fit in. You can exploit a child’s labor for profit and their parent will pay you just to keep them occupied (Roblox, cough cough).
I mean we all knew video games couldn’t cost $60 for all eternity, but watching the price hike an entire third at once (50% if it costs $90) I think has made people realize just how overvalued video games are in general.
fishy@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Games at that time were cutting edge technology, distribution networks didn’t exist, physical units had to make it to stores, etc. The environment isn’t the same. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think $80 is terribly outrageous in our modern economy but at that price point it has better provide 60+ hours of entertainment. If outer worlds 2 is as good as #1 it’s worth $40 tops. I played that game end to end and can’t recall a single characters name.
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Hamburgers were 28 cents in 1977.
KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Groceries are a small fortune
Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I liked the first one but it was free with the 99 cent game pass. It was very short imo and I would have been pissed off I’d paid full price.
fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I absolutely loved Outer Worlds 1, can’t wait for 2 :D
Xanthrax@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I love Obsidian’s factions!
Crankenstein@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Same. It was rough but damn it was good fun. I really hope they cleaned up the edges with two and full send it with that dark satire angle.
don@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
I’m a Spacer’s Choice man, myself. Everything else is just trustworthy and reliable.
Broadfern@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
“You’ve had the best, now try the rest.”
Crankenstein@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“It’s not the best choice, it’s Spacer’s Choice”
Cenotaph@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
Very excited! I hope they increased the scope a little, as the first one felt just a little short. That said though, I loved what was there!
slazer2au@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Seems interesting enough. The first game was fun and I wonder what ending from game 1 is canon.
omega_x3@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I just hope the flaws have a much better reward than the first. The tradeoff never felt like they were worth it.
pyre@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
that’s one of the things they underlined in the direct. they seem to be more interesting in general. klepto for example lets you sell things you’ve stolen for more money but every now and then you auto steal stuff you look at, which can get you in trouble.
bieren@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Better be game of the year for 80.
Jakule17@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I know absolutely nothing about this game, except that anticapitalist song
Montreal_Metro@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Damn aunty Cleo. What a bitch. lol.
noname_yet2077@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Oh no… (Hope they don’t f it up)
webadict@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I always get extra disappointed by the Outer Worlds, because I always confuse it with the Outer Wilds and would rather play that game.
scrion@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Ah shit. I swear to god, this just happened to me. I came to. the comments, confused why a trailer for Outer Wilds 2 would be age-restricted.
Ugh.
But then again, you cleared up my confusion, so I guess. there’s that.
Psythik@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
I played them both and was disappointed by both. Didn’t even bother finishing either of them.
Depression is a bitch. :(
Crankenstein@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Weird cause I have the exact opposite reaction. Could not get into Outer Wilds. Flying the ship was so annoying.
scratchee@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
On the one hand, the ship was one of the most fun parts for me, but on the other, I do wonder if it was a mistake because it makes the game so much more frustrating for anyone who hasn’t been trained on kerbal space program or some other Newtonian space control game to get the hang of it.
It’s like riding a bike, if you know how to do it you have trouble even imaging why it’s hard, but nobody can do it at first, and it takes ages to get the new instincts to actually enjoy it.