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An example of dialogue that I like the most is this option later on in the game, you can really feel that the character is starting to lose it with the people they’re talking to, plus it’s hilarious.Īlthough the game may be single-player, you’re not alone in this journey, companions can join you on your excursions around Halcyon and even have their own developed backstories and storylines that you can choose to follow to further bond with your chosen companion. Or alternatively, you can be the biggest SOB this side of the frontier, either works. Gone are the days of the 4 option dialogue wheel with simplistic choices such as good, bad, question and sarcastic option, we’re given a long list of dialogue options to choose from where you can really project yourself through your character. Townsfolk were commenting on my choice in attire, this was one of the many points where I fell in love with The Outer Worlds, as that little attention to detail goes a long way into really immersing you in the world.įurthermore, the dialogue options offer a plethora of quick-witted responses that you can often use as a better weapon than your laser rifle, I was able to save myself a conflict countless times due to my persuasion and I often found myself talking to the enemy more than fighting them in an effort to become “the almighty saviour of the Halcyon system” and gain good stead with all of the factions. I had gained a set of Marauder armour which I adorned without a second thought, however, when I reached the town of Edgewater I quickly learned that I was in for a treat.

After my first encounter with the Marauders, learning the ropes of the new slow-motion mechanic, a smooth new replacement to V.A.T.S. When I was dropped into the game world I felt as if I had been dropped into a familiar world, almost as if I’d been here before, the game was quick to offer tutorials on controls and the setting was warm, despite the reality of it being somewhat hostile.įrom the get-go, The Outer Worlds hits the ground running with stellar writing and comedy to boot, and proves that Obsidian Entertainment knows what they’re doing when it comes to RPGs.

Character appearance, while certainly a step up in graphical fidelity, is somewhat lacking in my eyes as I always seem to run into the problem of “same face syndrome” and I can never really create a character who looks drastically different to my last, however, this is a minimal problem as the only time you see your character is in your inventory, which I feel is a missed opportunity as I, and many others like to switch between third and first person in games such as these. test from Fallout and picking a certain aptitude would boost a stat further and give you special dialogue options, depending on what you pick.

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The skill tree nicely groups similar skills together so in lower levels you upgrade 3 skills at once, but in later levels, once you pass 50 points in a certain skill group, you can pick and choose which skills would benefit your build more.Īptitude is also a nice nod back to the G.O.A.T.

When first coming to this screen I was pleasantly surprised by the explanations for what assigning a point to each attribute would boost in my skills. Once you have been chosen by Welles you will enter the character customisation screen, a staple of any quality RPG, where you allocate your attributes, your skills and your aptitude. Phineas Welles, a mad scientist, hell-bent on saving the colonists of the Hope is caught almost immediately upon entering the ship so seemingly picks a colonist at random, which so happens to be YOU. The whole ordeal being swept under the rug by the Board, for bureaucratic reasons. You wake aboard a giant vessel, known as the Hope where humanity’s future colonists were put into hibernation/stasis to avoid ageing as it was planned to take 10 years to reach Halcyon, this, as you can expect, didn’t go to plan, leaving the ship stranded floating adrift in space. Based in the Halcyon cluster (aptly named after its brightest star), The Outer Worlds is a single-player RPG that needs no introduction, as right from the very announcement of the project, players and Fallout fans alike were immediately drawn to premise of another “Fallout-esque” game brought to you by none other than the team who created Fallout: New Vegas, to say some people were excited would be an understatement, myself included.

If you happen to take a journey among the stars you might find yourself on the frontier of humanity’s farthest colony, Halcyon, where prosperity awaits you, but only if you work for it.