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jp's The Outer Worlds (PS4)

[June 13, 2025 02:16:48 PM]

I've accumulated too many PS4 games, so I've been trying to bring them off the pile of shame onto the "pile of played".

So, I started this one...a few months(?) ago - but didn't get very far and was then unable to keep on playing.

My first impressions from then was that this was really interesting, it would take me a while to learn the details of the stats and equipment and numbers and stuff, but that was ok, and that the world/setting seemed interesting and familiar...but in a way that didn't make it stand out or resonate. So, it's Fallout, but in space...but also on the ground. Oh, but this is now like Borderlands too. So, again from my limited time, I didn't feel like I had a strong sense of "wow, this is different and interesting".

After starting it up and getting past the tutorially parts I had a clear sense of what to do - some missions to follow up on and so on. In this case, "you have a ship, but it's busted and you need to get a part to fix it" and a world to explore, places to visit, people and factions to learn about and interact with, and from all of this I expected to - eventually, many hours later, get the ship part and "leave this forsaken rock of a planet".

Along the way I realized that I wasn't too much of a fan of the combat in the game - there's aiming and shooting, but there's also a lot of stats stuff happening and I found that I was dying really easily and quickly and wasn't sure what to do about it.

Then several months of real world time passed...and I picked the game up again.

To my surprise, the "get the ship part" turned out to be a lot quicker/shorter than I expected and within a few hours I was done with that and ready to leave into space where the game opened up with a space map, a new mission, and a general idea of "hey, there's so much more stuff for you to do now". All this while still having open quests back on the original planet!

So, I played some more, did some more missions, moved things along and then...after a mission I kept dying on because "shooty-shooty not so good" I sat down and asked myself... do I really want to keep on playing?

The answer was no, in part because I was a bit frustrated with this mission - but mostly because, I just wasn't engaged with the story or world - the things that were supposed to be funny, weren't (for me) because it felt a bit too...uh... familiar? (as in, I've heard those jokes about corporations that are dumb and have you do dumb stuff..and so on). I also realized that I might have to dig deeper into the crafting and gear stuff just to be better suited to handle combat, and...well, I couldn't be bothered really.

So, I'm done. Not because the game was "bad", I just didn't really gel with it.