The Outer Worlds Review - The "Bethesda Killer"

[@awesomeface478]

I had a really standout moment, I developed the robophobia flaw and if you talk to the robot companion it unlocks a special dialogue of you just going, "AHHHHHHHHHHHH!" and ends the conversation. 10/10

[@grayzelfx]

I'm replaying this game right now to try and figure out why it was so forgettable, to put my finger on what it was that led me to finish the game and not come back for another playthrough (unlike New Vegas in which I'm on my 3rd) and not even give the expansions a first glance. Diet Firefly Fallout: New Vegas trying to be Borderlands is the best description I couldn't think of.

[@GangstarComputerGod]

This is the game that got me back into gaming. My life finally quieted down enough I had the ability to play and just picked OW and had such a blast. I love it and can’t wait wait for OW2 now that there is real investment behind it. This was always a smaller project from Obsidian and wasn’t meant to be a big lengthy RPG. It’s a gem and will always have a special place in my heart. I’m enjoying Starfield and definitely think there are some touches straight from OW.

[@pedrovictor20011]

exactly, the amount of influence this game had is heavyy

[@NeedBeans]

Honestly, i played this game once and i just kept coming back. I loved it. And i can't wait for the second game

[@RainbowhawkReviews]

Don’t let me take away your enjoyment.

[@NeedBeans]

@@RainbowhawkReviews don't worry! I'm okay with someone not liking something I like. I won't gatekeep anything 🤣

[@MainBrainDaneInsane]

I audibly went "That's it?!" when the game ended. It was abrupt and concluded nothing.

[@Lycan3303]

Outer Worlds is Star Field if Bethesda put effort into their games

[@mateuscristianschannelen961]

Ouer World was flawed they didn't go far enough with it's ideas, but at least they tried.

[@burtun1760]

I will never understand peoples obsession with lengthy games. Fun games don't have to be long. While I agree with most of your thoughts on the game, I sick of modern gamers insisting that games be 100 + hrs to make it worth their money. Some of my favorite games in childhood were short by today's standards.

[@liamcollinson5695]

I agree I believe 8 to 10 hours is a good time a lot of 100 + hour games just end up feeling like jobs

[@MegaTsab]

I def like games that are really long so I can really delve into the world and immerse myself but that being said the content has to be really really good and not have many points you start feeling like it’s a chore to do certain things. Long games work well for me with RPGs as long as the story and side content is all interesting. Although they may not have the best mechanics Bethesda games are exactly what I need to enjoy long games, I mean I’ve literally played Skyrim like 12 times and fallout 3/4 like 5 times in total between them. Outer worlds didn’t really do it for me tbh, idk what it was but nothing really grabbed me, ended up getting bored through dialogue and missions felt like I was just doing them to get to the end hoping it would be interesting or satisfying, I played for a while and then stopped because I realized I was only playing to pass time. But I get where you are coming from, most game should be on the shorter side, it isn’t easy to make a game interesting and fun enough to be worth having to put in over 20-30 hours to complete it and they better be amazing if you want the player to put 100+ hours in. That being said I can respect someone that likes shorter games, everyone is diff when it comes to gaming, I’m not as into short games just because by the time I really start getting into it and really enjoying it I’ll be half way or almost done and then I’m just left at the end wanting more but most of the time it’s so short that it’s all way to fresh and easy to remember every single second to want to replay it. That’s just me though I love a long, interesting RPG.

[@leeneufeld4140]

And they cost $5.00. If I'm going to pay $50 to $80 for a game, I sure want more than 10 hours of gameplay.

[@wisdomcoffee]

I’m playing this game for this first time and having a lot of fun with it. I’m trying to play a “good” character and finding that it’s hard to figure out what’s just plain vanilla good guy path in the outer worlds.

[@pedrovictor20011]

it plays with your morals

[@cell718]

I played it on the Nintendo switch so it was more of a commuter game for me, you know go to work go home. To bad about Dating relationship options maybe it would have been more memorable.

[@Tom_The_Cat]

I've tried to play through this game three different times, and I lose interest around the same time. Shortly after arriving at Groundbreaker and everyone starts talking about confronting The Board, I say "Okay, that's enough for the night." And don't play again for about three months Nice review, Rainbowhawk. This is the first time I've heard of your channel, and I'll certainly stick around for more

[@Hansiwansi]

Same thing. I tried 2 times. Played to I have no idea. Forgot about it and yeah. first time I remember about it was when I just read the title of the video and thought:" Ah yes, there was once this game"...

[@southsidecompton9668]

No wonder I stopped playing after a whole month when the game came out.

[@ShadenRyanStudio]

All these space rpgs are always missing one or two things to make them perfect. The next game will always fix a few issues then drop the ball on other things. Starfeild, no man’s sky and outer worlds staff all need to combine their resources and create the perfect space rpg

[@badger_ninja8681]

The reason for that is compromises must be made. developers make those choices constantly. Is it worth the resources? Does it affect stability? How much does it affect system requirements? Does it improve player experience? Is the game engine built to do this thing? Every choice comes with a trade off and is deliberately made with a vision in mind. Putting multiple groups with different ideologies on how to make games together is a recipe for a bad game

[@SkintSNIPER262]

There's nothing NMS can add to Starfield

[@ibrahimalee23]

​@@SkintSNIPER262How about actual planet travel? Y'know where you dont just watch a fucking cutscene of you landing on a planet.

[@SkintSNIPER262]

You can't even do that on NMS. It's a pov cutscene and the game yanks all the controls from you so you don't crash the game lol@@ibrahimalee23

[@1three7]

I just tried it without having to pay for it. I gave it maybe 10 hours and it just kept getting worse lol. It's so obviously trying to copy better games but not knowing anything about what made them good.

[@1three7]

Also I randomly named my character "Hawthorne" purely out of coincidence and was really confused about the jokes of calling myself Captain Hawthorne lol

[@1three7]

Oh and I feel like you have to talk about the feminist slant that was pretty ham fisted. The hair styles are part of that lol but mainly the fact that almost every good person and every person in power I met was a woman. Ever inept idiot or evil villain was a man. It definitely ruined any immersion I went in with after a while.

[@Tehstampede]

I really wanted to like Outer Worlds but the writing was too heavy-handed and really sucked me out of it. It made it really obvious and noticeable that I was playing a videogame and wasn't able to really get immersed in the game's world and story.

[@BruceLee-kf7rl]

One thing I hate about OW is that, the final stage is suddenly a lot more difficult than any other stage, and by difficult I mean enemies being bullet sponges and are able to one or two shot you. The game just goes from normal difficulty to extreme tryhard without the player's consent, which is pure lazy design on the developers' part.

[@danielskorka2365]

God yes, about the small barren maps point. I'm the first to say an open world should serve function, rather than just "look how big we are" but the majority of maps in this game felt linear, and anything outside of quest locations and settlement hubs felt like "oh here, we better just throw a few shiny creatures and dudes in there to be canon fodder". Just felt like really dull shallow level design.

[@Smokinjoewhite]

It's not an open world game.

[@FuzzyPyrate]

I played through the original release and i'm now playing the "Spacer's Choice" edition, which is a remastered version that includes all DLCs and has added space flight to the game in addition to the originals sole "point to point" hyperspace jump format.

[@TJB-Gaming]

Hey there, hope Starfield is going well! Anyway i have a question. I'm finally working on The Second Encounter review and i would like to use a clip from your review. Is it ok with you?

[@RainbowhawkReviews]

Absolutely. Just be sure to put a little source text somewhere when you play the footage.

[@TJB-Gaming]

@@RainbowhawkReviews Absolutely! Tho should i source your original channel or this channel?

[@RainbowhawkReviews]

@@TJB-Gaming Either should work.

[@TJB-Gaming]

@@RainbowhawkReviews Both it is then.

[@TJB-Gaming]

@@RainbowhawkReviews Both it is!

[@sofajockeyUK]

The Outer Worlds is a fine game (and I enjoyed it), but Starfield surpasses it in every capacity. It's unclear to me how there is any meaningful need for an Outer World 2 as the bar has moved.

[@nemesisencounter2060]

Yeah but starfield took a huge amount of influence from it even on the music department

[@sofajockeyUK]

@@nemesisencounter2060 I'm sure there are influences everywhere, but I'm hearing most strongly influences from space movies of the late 1950's and 1960's. Leith Stevens is an obvious one: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jafdgpx9eNymfMk or Nathan Van Cleave: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rYmkeKVpfrJ4mNU

[@GangstarComputerGod]

Why anyone would compare them is beyond me. Starfield has been developed for 15 years with a $500 million budget. OW was a passion project from a small team. Why in the world would anyone think it should be compared?

[@nemesisencounter2060]

@@GangstarComputerGod 7 years lol not 15 and they took ideas from the outer worlds while developing the game even in the music which is suspiciosly similar

[@JerryDechant]

What is the keystroke to holster your weapon? I haven't found it yet, if it even exists. Thanks, if you can accurately answer my question.

[@grayzelfx]

Hold "r" on keyboard.

[@LowbrowDeluxe]

New Vegas had good story beats, but that's like 20 hours of content. They did not have a handle on building an open world and the plot is just a linear U shape path soft-gated by cazadores and deathclaws.

[@hoodagooboy5981]

Did you do all of the side quests and DLCs? I put 230 hours into New Vegas, and found it epic.

[@nopopshots2722]

The trailer for the second game is an absolute gem. I love it and will be buying the second game lol.

[@dazta6738]

About to try this UEVR. Only reason why i'm finally checkin it out

[@ryansamaxyz]

Do you see the cobbler in your walls to?

[@PersonaMona5264]

Yooo, is that Hawk with rainbow feathers who reviews games? That's so cool.

[@JohnSmith-XYZ]

Considering just how awful Starfield turned out seems like Obsidian won in the end.

[@natheannzbar7925]

There is pick pocketing, I think u have to level up your lock pick skill or something like that. And I think I saw a couple of grenades, tho I never used em.

[@zeroDOLLARg-Ro]

Nope. No throwables

[@samschreiber1640]

I got Outer Worlds from game pass and Uninstalled it midgame. its not that bad but I prefer Bethesda's style more.

[@bhall]

No hand grenades is annoying but you can pickpocket.

[@RainbowhawkReviews]

If that's true, it obviously wasn't communicated properly because you can see me in the footage at 8:12 of me trying to pickpocket and not being able to.

[@bhall]

@@RainbowhawkReviews there are lots of things move game or not communicated. And maybe it's because I'm playing the spacers Choice Edition but if you squat down and sneak it behind a person or a robot the lockpick / hack comes up and let you hold down the button to hack / lockpick / pick pocket

[@cell718]

​@@bhallOMG your right WTF I've just been disintegrating everybody I never even tried this. 😅

[@midnight4669]

OK you kind of failed your one job. You are complaining about no pickpocketing is because - YOU DIDNT SPEC STEALTH. Jesus christ what do you think stealth unlocks? You obviously played the spacers edition which definitely has a washed out color palette. Obsidian had nothing to do with it.

[@dannyburino1674]

I wonder if you'll play Avatar the Frontiers of Pandora?

[@RainbowhawkReviews]

It’s a possibility if I can force myself to stop playing Starfield. But to be frank, I would be more confident if it were developed by Guerrilla instead.

[@dannyburino1674]

The comes out in december. You have plenty of time@@RainbowhawkReviews

[@zenairzulu1378]

You get a sub just for your John Stossel call out🎉🎉

[@murkywaters5502]

Interesting video, man.

[@nemesisencounter2060]

Outer worlds is amazing i even platinum the game

[@HoboJoe658]

Hey, man really enjoy the content keep it up

[@pedrovictor20011]

This is the best game of the xbox one/PS4, Im a moral nerd, really like stories that play with it, and the gameplay is good too wich helps

[@pedrovictor20011]

And yes I diagree with 45% of this video

[@jessemorton9060]

I can’t wait for the outer worlds 2👽👽👽

[@aaronlaughter6471]

I like this game, but it isnt a Bethesda killer, I played it once, and never really had an urge to replay it, unlike F3 and 4, or FNV. It feels like a perfect game to rent for a week. Its not terrible, but it is not perfect as people claimed.

[@RainbowhawkReviews]

“Not great, not terrible.”

[@SeriousClownLOL]

To each his own but it was a bor fest for me. But if you enjoyed it, good for you

[@RainbowhawkReviews]

Don’t know if you’re replying to a comment or didn’t watch the whole video, but I agree The Outer Worlds is a bor-fest.

[@na-dm6jb]

Definitely not the bethesda killer. This game was so boring i couldnt get into it. There also alot of Neo Marxist themes.They gave it a 8.5 and they gave starfield a 7.5. What absolute drivel. Starfield is way superior. This is all a clown show. 🤡

[@RainbowhawkReviews]

I’m not so sure about the Neo-Marxist themes, but the heavy handed nature of the narrative definitely took me out of the immersion. I also want to say that Starfield is superior, but my PC’s getting upgraded/fixed after I was unable to upgrade the SSD myself to play the game. 😢

[@pedrovictor20011]

There is pickpocketing in t game 8:25

[@Varangian_af_Scaniae]

The game was bland. Not good but not bad either. And most importantly, The Outer Worlds is better than Starfield!

[@ogstef]

The Bethesda killer was Bethesda all along

[@nunchuksteev9811]

I thought the game was great. The environments and art were unbelievable. Plusy first playthrough without the dlc was 27 hours.

[@nemesisencounter2060]

Keep in mind Obsidian are the true creators of fallout and make the best fallout game New vegas!

[@RainbowhawkReviews]

Yet they couldn’t outdo themselves when they had the chance with their own IP. Probably because the people who actually worked on New Vegas no longer work at Obsidian. But then again, like I said, perhaps they’re better suited for their smaller budget passion projects (Pillars of Eternity, Grounded, Pentiment).

[@nemesisencounter2060]

@@RainbowhawkReviews ourter world is fantastic wtf you talking about?? Also is an indie title with very limited budget lol

[@nemesisencounter2060]

@@RainbowhawkReviews research is the best argument starfield is a game that takes 12 fucking hours of players wasting time game is not horrible but is a 6 at most

[@nemesisencounter2060]

@@RainbowhawkReviews also fucking pronounce for this weak generation SMH

[@mateuscristianschannelen961]

17:42 And it turns out The Outer Worlds, dispite it's real and disappointing flaws, is still better regarded and with higher ratong on Steam than Starflop. You'd like that Oof honey glazed or maple smoked, fanboy?

[@kentlindal5422]

Ironically, it seems the real "Bethesda killer" will likely be canvas bags and pronouns.

[@davidhouston4810]

OK, you like Bethesda, you are entitled to your opinion. I am free to disagree.

[@RainbowhawkReviews]

And nothing’s stopping you from doing so.

[@davidhouston4810]

@@RainbowhawkReviews Thank you, then I shall.

[@guotyr2502]

I don't get the whole "outer worlds worlds having slightly better combat compared to fallout 4" conclusion you lead woth without any real explanation, tbh it couldn't feel more the oposite because after 3 playthroughs I can attest to the fact that the outworlds shooting mechanics are so bland they make weapons just as forgettable as the factions with a gun play more on par with old titles like fallout 3 and not even high enough to tickle the balls of fallout 4. Before people say I'm a bethesda fanboy I think 100% of people being hyped for starfield are wrong, it soul suckingly unispired, no alien/robot booty having, cardboard box looking, milktoast inofensive drivell that somehow looks even less appealing then no man sky

[@TJB-Gaming]

I was right! I didn't play this game and I'm honestly not interested, as it seems fairly generic. Now... maybe play something good, to cleanse your mind.

[@TJB-Gaming]

Also i hope I'm not annoying with my comments.

[@alexalexander1772]

I enjoyed it on Switch cause it was closest to Fallout. Really couldn’t get into it on the X.

[@Platskull]

Starfield on Playstation 🔥🤣 Just better lol

[@Party_Doll]

Beth killer eh? Guess you havent been keeping up on current events...

[@RainbowhawkReviews]

It’ll take several months for me to put the final nail into “The Bethesda Killer’s” Coffin (Need to upgrade my graphics card first).

[@ibuprofen-noodles]

@@RainbowhawkReviewswhich one are you looking at then? :o

[@herrhimmlerderpacifist7358]

Most of what you said on your list of TOW being a shadow game: (gameplay,locations,aesthetic, characters, factions) can be said for most of bethesda's rpgs as well. The saving grace of this game is that it's more of an rpg with more branching story paths, options to actually side with the baddies, or just kill everyone. I can't say the same for most of bethesda titles. To me, that kind of does make this a bethesda kilker. The outer worlds do rpg content better, which should be the most important part of a bethesda rpg game.

[@RainbowhawkReviews]

Fair points. However, the “Oh, what’s over there?” aspect is what keeps me playing those Bethesda games over and over all these years later.

[@blasphemy47]

Outer world is one of the UGLIEST game I've ever played tbh. There are so many thing wrong with the art style and use of color.

[@RainbowhawkReviews]

I’ve always not liked the color of yellow.

[@southsidecompton9668]

Once again another dumb ass game with character creation but cant even see your character like Bethesda games. I played this game for a month and I got bored. Its 2023 and the game is seating in my room almost completely brand new with no play. Im playing Fallout 3, Fallout New Vegas, Fallout 4 (modded) and Skyrim (modded). Maybe if Outer Worlds had third person view I would play it more often.

[@ryszakowy]

honestly after seeing what starfield looks like it was the bethesda killer and starfield is the final nail

[@KINGKICKASS-cy5cq]

I think we're all in agreement the game was mids, but we bought it anyway to thank Obsidian for New Vegas

[@numalesoybea1348]

That one was highly overrated too

[@ln7929]

​@@numalesoybea1348nah it was great

[@numalesoybea1348]

@@ln7929 only among online tranny forums and comment sections.

[@Gl0ckb1te]

​@@ln7929fallout 3 was miles better, all the dlc really made it even more amazing

[@happyads9439]

Meh, tried it,, couldn't get into I it

[@PCMcGee1]