Tried it 🏴‍☠️, they seem to have gone for "It's bigger than the first one!" and indeed it is. Big, empty spaces to run through with nothing happening. Uninstalled. 70€ saved.

Stop making huge environments full of nothing.

I mean... I'll eventually play it, but when it's on sale for like less than $20aud and all the bugs are fixed and the rest of the content is added.

The current approach to releasing half complete games at high prices, and then just trickle updates, means gamers are incentivised to just wait a year or two after a games releases before giving it a go.

$70 for a game is mad. Even if it was critically acclaimed and award winning who can afford that when most people struggle to live? Even $50 is a lot of money. Big game developers have lost the plot.

Ya know... if they had spent a single second on the story instead and maybe made a cohesive plot that followed anywhere close to the first instead of phoning in the bullshit they did...it might have been a bit more well received.

God man, shits so sad but I'd be lying if I said I was surprised at all. The first one was very OK, like it was certainly a game that I played and bothered completing. They were very lucky someone had the idea to make Parvati in the first game, the rest of the crew was a snooze fest (at least for me). But then I see the shitty commercial they made for the companions in the 2nd game, and no fucking wonder it didn't sell! They tell you nothing, play that god awful song over some shitty footage and crack a joke about how none of them are romance-able. They then charge 80 bucks, and make fun of you if you pay for their premium edition, yea go fuck yourself obsidian, and stop taking credit for new Vegas, none of those team members are still around.

It underperformed due to them overcharging for it.

I had my sights set on buying it shortly after launch, then they decided to charge €80 for it on launch, and still charge €70 for it.

I would be fine with €60, but more is just greedy.

And yes I noticed way too late that they had it on sale for €50 this december, and I missed that opportunity due to other expenses.

I'm not surprised. I was going into the final stretch of Outer Worlds 1 and realized I just don't care. It wasn't a bad game but New Vegas it was not.

It did make for a great Secret Level episode though.

Outer worlds 1 was fine. It was goofy, had character, but no depth to it's story. The gunplay was not good, not for me anyway. Can we not do bullet sponges and leveled lists? Can levels give you abilities instead of numbers? Honestly would have been a better game if it was an isometric RPG, which obsidian is good at making.

Honestly, the first one was Ok, I'm kinda surprised there was a second one.

Ok, not really surprised since every IP needs to be a franchise, but you know what I mean.

Didn't mind the first one, but you are out of your mind if you think I would pay $70 for this game. Especially after they tried to sell it for $80 at first. Thank god that didn't fly. Fuck you Microsoft.

It's crazy too, because most games that launch for $70, you can just wait 3 months and then they'll have a 30% sale. I will be picking it up this March, should go on sale for like 40%.

The first one was mostly terrible and coasted on, 'not Bethesda ' and fallout vibes. But it was shallow and janky.

Outer Worlds 2, Avowed, Mass Effect Andromeda, Dragon Age Veilguard - each one of these games were touted for their improved combat, at least improved movement. That's not to say any are great, just that they're not as clunky as previous games. They are not standout in that regard. So for Bioware and Obsidian, it is still the case that their draw is writing in a higher budget RPG than the startup indie scene. Pretty much where Owlcat is now getting to with Warhammer and the Expanse licensed games, that's where Bioware and Obsidian were 20-25 years ago. Narrative games

Bioware and Obsidian games aren't so fun to play to appeal with mediocre writing. I think like an 80+% reduction of irony, snark, sarcasm, eye rolls, modern slang, knods to modern culture would do wonders for their games writing. Don't have to get rid of all of it. Just have them be more fun finds in a dialog tree that make them memorable and each high quality while the rest of the narrative takes itself seriously. I'll 5 great jokes over 100, "ehh I get it. I guess that's funny."

Haven't they lost almost all of the staff involved with the good games? At this point they're in the same boat as BioWare. All the old guard is gone.

No way in hell I’d pay its nearly $100CAD asking price.

I enjoyed it... sorry.

Your extremely expensive try-hard sequel to a just OK game didn't blow everyone away? Womp womp. Obsidian died when MS bought them.

Not shocked. this seems like, at best, it might be a $10 steam pickup... Same as the first game

Saw it came out and thought for a second "I want to play that" but in reality there was nothing redeeming from the first to bring me back

I didn‘t like the first one so this was a hard pass for me. However I didn‘t even know the sequel was out yet. This thing completely drowned among better priced indie games.