Could have sworn we had a topic on this but apparently not. Anyway, THE OUTER WORLDS came out today, the new RPG from Obsidian and specifically from the creator of FALLOUT, VAMPIRE: THE MASQUERADE - BLOODLINES and ARCANUM, Tim Cain. It's a first person RPG which plays a bit like the Bethesda FALLOUTs only with, y'know, decent writing. It's not strictly an open world RPG, instead having distinct zones which you travel between in your starship (like MASS EFFECT or KotOR).
About 5 hours in so far and it's been a blast, with some great, morally torturous decisions, some solid combat and some fun characters. Biggest weakness so far is that the game is pretty easy. I turned it onto the second-highest difficulty level and it's not really presented a challenge so far. It is good to see Obsidian producing a proper, big-budget-looking 3D RPG after so many years spent making 2D retro games. This is pretty slick and, so far, completely bug-free.
Please post your let's plays, folks. I can't play 1st person POV games without feeling terribly ill after a bit, so I need to experience this one vicariously through other people in text format.
I've heard basically this game is Knights of the New Vegas II and yet also with few bugs, and all of that is a good thing.
PS I think this game was mentioned in another thread but it didn't have its own so thanks for getting this started, Werthead.
Started my playthrough today, only to discover that my computer is too feeble to avoid some hilarious lags here and there.
Rocking a Persuade build in story mode, just to see what's what.
I'm definitely asking for this for Christmas.
Having beat the game (with a total of two glitches, Bethesda. Where's your excuses now!?) I can say it is pretty excellent, and scratches the Western RPG itch that's been left mostly vacant for a while now.
The thing I enjoyed most is that there doesn't seem to be a wrong character build. While you do need some fighting you can talk your way through a lot.
Also, yeah, a lot of the choices have no obvious good and no obvious evil outcome. Some of them do have more impact, and unfortunately one of the last big ones is very clearly split between good and evil, but it's nice not to know.