The Outer Worlds vs Starfield

[Gearwar]

I assume many of you have played both. I surely did. I remember getting rather bored of the Outer Worlds about 10 hours in. It all just felt a tad bland and overly satirical to the point where I had troubles getting invested because I felt like the writing was just there to one up each other with clever jokes about capitalists societies failings.

That said, its been a few years and now that I play Starfield I get reminded of the same blandness. The game isn't as much of a satire but it just feels so boring too and its hard to get invested when you are bombared with mundane trash tasks on every planet.

That said, after playing Starfield I was kind of thinking of going back to the Outer worlds and maybe take another peak at it, because it certainly does a lot of things that starfield does wrong a lot better.

[potato]

outer worlds is bland boring garbage

[Boe Jiden]

Outer worlds because atleast it is finished.

[Silverlight]

Yes. Both average games. I'm sad because I always liked space games more than Fantasy ones.

Feels like we haven't had a good sci Fi RPG since new Vegas or mass effect

[Gearwar]

Originally posted by Bellen:

Yes. Both average games. I'm sad because I always liked space games more than Fantasy ones.

Feels like we haven't had a good sci Fi RPG since new Vegas or mass effect

I do not think new vegas is even a sci fi rpg. The last good ones were Kotor I and II and Mass effect as far as I can recall.

[Silverlight]

Originally posted by Gearwar:

Originally posted by Bellen:

Yes. Both average games. I'm sad because I always liked space games more than Fantasy ones.

Feels like we haven't had a good sci Fi RPG since new Vegas or mass effect

I do not think new vegas is even a sci fi rpg. The last good ones were Kotor I and II and Mass effect as far as I can recall.

Fallout being sci Fi or not is an interesting debate I've had with myself.

I say it is, because the nature of the world and it's conflict is based on the scientific advancement of nuclear power, the dangers of AI, cloning and other mad science.

[Scobee]

I read this as "Outer Wilds" and was shocked it was being called bland and boring.

Then I reread the title and went "Oh, yeah".

But I personally think Starfield is great. I don't find it near as bland as Outer Worlds for some reason.

[potato]

i got bored playing outer wilds too

[Erk]

Outer worlds was a game I dearly wanted to love, but couldn't make work. The play balance was terrible. At least I was 80 hours into SF before combat became comically mundanely easy on hard... it happens after the first planet in outer worlds.

[Gearwar]

Originally posted by Erk:

Outer worlds was a game I dearly wanted to love, but couldn't make work. The play balance was terrible. At least I was 80 hours into SF before combat became comically mundanely easy on hard... it happens after the first planet in outer worlds.

I play on Very hard and got about 20 hours into the game and the combat is a complete joke already. Are you playing meele?

[Cooperal]

The Outer Worlds had better writing. I did not like the writing in The Outer Worlds.

While Starfield lacks personality I feel that it surpasses TOW in every other way that I can name.

[Tolfdir]

I tried hard to like The Outer Worlds but it is just too bland and boring. SF, with its huge flaws, is much better still.

[Mtabacco]

Originally posted by Gearwar:

I assume many of you have played both. I surely did. I remember getting rather bored of the Outer Worlds about 10 hours in. It all just felt a tad bland and overly satirical to the point where I had troubles getting invested because I felt like the writing was just there to one up each other with clever jokes about capitalists societies failings.

That said, its been a few years and now that I play Starfield I get reminded of the same blandness. The game isn't as much of a satire but it just feels so boring too and its hard to get invested when you are bombared with mundane trash tasks on every planet.

That said, after playing Starfield I was kind of thinking of going back to the Outer worlds and maybe take another peak at it, because it certainly does a lot of things that starfield does wrong a lot better.

Why do you think we care about your opinion. Play the game dont play it or I know make another thread that no one cares about.

[ᚺᛟᚾᛊᛁᛖᚷ]

Originally posted by Gearwar:

The Outer Worlds vs Starfield

I was just about to start a similar thread and ask players about how they compare their experience playing these two games - so I will sneak into this thread instead.

I mostly liked The Outer Worlds for what it was, I see the flaws/weaknesses that may turn some players off but I enjoyed playing despite them. What I am most concerned about with Starfield is the amount of procedurally generated content - how does Starfield compare to the hand-made Outer Worlds in this regard?

I understand given the size of Starfield universe procedurally generated content was neccessary but depending on how it is done it is something that can quickly turn repetitive, boring and meaningless - how do you think Starfield managed in this regard? How much hand-made content there actually is in Starfield? Is it e.g. possible to say how many planets are hand made (or partially hand-made with some procedurally generated locations added) and how many are purely procedurally generated?

[alex010300]

Outer world is a classical fallout 3 game that doesn’t have a ingame shop.

Both have the same kind of Graphic

[ᚺᛟᚾᛊᛁᛖᚷ]

Originally posted by Mtabacco:

Originally posted by Gearwar:

I assume many of you have played both. I surely did. I remember getting rather bored of the Outer Worlds about 10 hours in. It all just felt a tad bland and overly satirical to the point where I had troubles getting invested because I felt like the writing was just there to one up each other with clever jokes about capitalists societies failings.

That said, its been a few years and now that I play Starfield I get reminded of the same blandness. The game isn't as much of a satire but it just feels so boring too and its hard to get invested when you are bombared with mundane trash tasks on every planet.

That said, after playing Starfield I was kind of thinking of going back to the Outer worlds and maybe take another peak at it, because it certainly does a lot of things that starfield does wrong a lot better.

Why do you think we care about your opinion. Play the game dont play it or I know make another thread that no one cares about.

Why do you think we care about your opinion? Play the game or don't play it and don't make another reply no one cares about in a thread you claim not to care about. No one else who has replied here so far complained about OP starting this thread.