This is to make Game Pass appear more valuable, nothing more.
Then I won’t touch either. I am not giving Microsoft money.
I didn’t buy that either
I’ll never understand why people just can’t NOT buy a game they know is shit.
I also do not understand people’s desire to be part of the group so much they buy things that aren’t what they want and just play it anyways. I think it’s just all forms of addiction.
Oof. I love Obsidian, I really do, but The Outer Worlds 1 wasn’t at all the kind of game I was looking for. NPC’s felt very cardboard-y, each and everyone you had to talk to was anchored to one place, the world didn’t feel lived in or alive.
And then asking $80 for a sequel to that?
That’s gonna be a no from me dawg.It was also short. For 80 dollars I would expect 120 hours in game like RDR2. That’s the bar. If it’s not that long, I think I finished the first one in 25, then I’ll happily wait until it’s lower
RDR2 is such a slow-burn masterpiece that I’m still enjoying that game years after it released. The game is longer than 120 hours given how it implies you take your time and enjoy the views, the immersion and the story.
RDR2 was deliberately designed to be a high inertia experience that takes its sweet-ass time to start off and difficult to slow down when its going.
RDR2 is so great the NYT film reviewer mentioned as one of the best stories that year.
I loved The Outer Worlds, it was just my kind of game, but after having watched the new trailer for The Outer Worlds 2, I am worried, the story seems unfocused and messy and some of the weapons seems to just be a big generic blob design.
This being said, I will do what I normally do, wait until release and watch as my favourite youtube gamer shows it on his channel, after one or two episodes I’ll buy it and stop watching if it is good.
Same. I was willing to keep Outer Worlds 2 on my radar because I love Obsidian and they’ve earned my attention even though I didn’t particularly enjoy Outer Worlds 1, but at that price point the game has dropped off my radar. Unless it’s getting New Vegas level praise post launch I probably won’t be paying any more attention to this game.
Similar. Although I happily leave it at my wishlist and buy it once it’s diacounted like $15… I still have way more games to play than I can manage.
That and the completely garbage inventory with no good filter and sort.
That first game felt like a demo with lot of polish but didn’t feel like a precursor for an $80 game. And already cost me $30 for the first time of meh.
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It’s almost funny that the most recent trailer ends with the line “the game about capitalism, made by capitalism.”
That’s more sad than funny
You can’t stop me >:C
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$80 is twice the annual mountain biking pass at my local state park.
Not a chance.
People are struggling to buy groceries.
CEO: Let’s raise the price of a good people don’t need because money.
I can only hope this move backfires spectacularly.
It’s The Outer Worlds. It will.
The first game was shit. The game it was confused with became the greatest game ever made. Go buy that one instead.
No man’s sky is not anywhere near the greatest game ever made. Id honestly take outer wilds over either game being discussed. Outer wilds has a charm that’s impossible for a AAA studio to match, and it’s a solid gravity sandbox besides that.
The NMS game loop is just trying to make number go up as efficiently as possible for nanites and credits. It’s not fun. It is and always has been a grind.
This was peak satire given you genuinely thought that they were talking about NMS and then proceeded to talk about Outer Wilds, the true game that OP was referencing, by accident.
I’m pretty sure they meant Outer Wilds, which is one of my top games of all time.
Great game, but wildly different type of game
Where does No man’s sky come from ? How could it be confused with The outer worlds ? People confuse it with outer wilds, both no man’s sky.
Other commenter said NMS, I confused it with this one thinking they were talking about the same thing.
What game was it confused with?NVM, I just realized it was No Man’s Sky. Though I seem to recall that the launch of that game was also a shit show. I’ve heard it got much better as time went on.
No, they’re referring to The Outer Wilds. They’re absolutely right, The Outer Wilds was infinitely better than The Outer Worlds. Granted, they were doing different things but holy shit I wish I could replay Other Wilds for the first time again. One of the best experiences ever!
Nope, Outer Wilds.
Don’t worry everyone, it’ll proabably be on gamepass on release. You should all get that /s
Ugh. I hate subscriptions, people parroting this “just get gamepass, it’s cheaper” is just silly. Once they got you hooked in- they’ll increase the prices for sure.
Like others said, it is mostly done to make gamepass more appealing vs the 80 bucko’s.
I say No to either and settle for i’ll wait for a nice good sale at some point in future time.
I personally am at a stage where I have a few games I rotate with sometimes something new(er) in between.
I got so much at this point that I am not interested in full-price titles due to “lack” of things to play, I tend to not often stick to 1 anymore as I used to.
Time to join patient gamers who wait for a sale
You can probably wait for this one to be free, or at least bundled.
That’s funny, it’s my first confirmed “wait until it’s on sale” game
Same here, though I heard middling reviews for the first game, so I probably won’t play it regardless. Not that I’d pay $80 for a videogame anyways, lol. Even if it was HL3.
I don’t mean to sound mean or dismissive, but… I feel like I’m the only one who played the first Outer Worlds. It just feels like it’s one of those things that was supposed to be a thing, but wasn’t a thing.
Don’t get it twisted, I’m not complaining that they’re making a sequel. I’m relieved and hope it does better, I just remember more people complaining about Outer Worlds than talking about it. So I’m hoping this second chance for the franchise really helps it get off the ground (Unless it was a big hit and I’m just badly misinformed about how well it did)
But that 80 dollar price tag? Lemme tell you that’s not a consumer friendly choice, that’s Spacer’s Choice.
Outer worlds just felt so uninteresting to me. I played it, and it was a forgettable experience imo
Parvati was the only light in the darkness for me. I love her and her quest line, and hope there’s more good ace rep like her in other media.
I stopped playing the game as soon as I finished her quest line because I was bored with everything else =\
I also found it underwhelming which is a shame because I generally love Obsidian RPGs. They did a much better job with Avowed recently in my opinion.
I played it in the hospital waiting for my wife to go into labor haha. I’m pretty sure that’s the only reason I remember it. I tried to replay it recently and made it about halfway through before moving on.
I ain’t paying $80 for it and there’s no game pass on Linux. Guess I’m waiting for a sale. 🤷
I was interested in Outer Worlds and No Man’s Sky around the same time and played OW first.
I enjoyed it while I played it and completed the story of the main game.
Then I played NMS and enjoyed that a lot too but when I went back to OW for the DLCs I got bored quickly.
Outer Worlds just seemed less fun after No Man’s Sky.
Yea, no thanks dawg. First game was boring AF, and on top of that, now you want 80 bucks?
Lol $100 games haha
Ya’ll remember when pirating was massive.
Yeah let’s do that again.
Wanna know how i know inflation, cost of living increases, supply chain bottle necks and price increases are all a bunch of fuckin bullshit? Im still paying the same price for an 8th or Oz of weed as I was paying 15-20 years ago in highschool. The last samurai of the lost world of privately owned businesses before corpo whores ruined the world is you friendly neighborhood drug dealers. Lol
I have paid roughly the same price for 3.5grams of cannabis since 1992. The quality has vastly improved but the price remains the same. That does not suggest that inflation is bullshit.
If you want to learn micro or need a refresher here’s a link to MIT’s intro micro which is excellent:
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/14-01sc-principles-of-microeconomics-fall-2011/
Do you live somewhere where it’s still illegal or something? Because I used to pay like $40-60 for an eighth depending on how good it was before legalization and now I can pay like $6 for an eighth of mids or $15-20 for some good shit.
No I im in a place where it is legal. I paid $45-60 for high grade in the 1990s in NJ and that’s the same price it is now. The higher grade stuff just got consistently better.
Crazy how the prices are so varied. Just as good as today in 1985 was $25 an eighth if you knew where to look on the west coast. There already were hybrid and medical experimental strains out for sale.
Fast forward to today and you can settle in on top shelf for anywhere from $5 to $20 an eighth. Anymore than that is crazy expensive.
But of course things that are easy to grow and were illegal before can’t really be compared to other products can they?
In NJ most of it os because it is NJ which has a higher cost of living across the state (last I checked). Until federal legalization happens everything that is sold here is grown here. That keeps prices high as bonded warehousing space is pricy here.
Not sure why they didnt fix their comment but here is the comment that was meant as a reply to your comment but was mistakenly left as a reply to my top level comment. Its originally from @bathing_in_bismuth
YOUR COMMENT BEING REPLIED TO:
I have paid roughly the same price for 3.5grams of cannabis since 1992. The quality has vastly improved but the price remains the same. That does not suggest that inflation is bullshit.
If you want to learn micro or need a refresher here’s a link to MIT’s intro micro which is excellent:
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/14-01sc-principles-of-microeconomics-fall-2011/
@bathing_in_bismuth 's reply:
Does the quality differ? I think it makes a great discussion and maybe a good analogue of current economic state of affairs
Edit. Nvm read quovadishomines post
Does the quality differ? I think it makes a great discussion and maybe a good analogue of current economic state of affairs
Edit. Nvm read quovadishomines post
No thanks. The first was not good enough to warrant buying the second at $60, let alone $80.
Agreed. $40? Id think about it and probably wait for a sale anyways. $80 is just laughable and completely removes any temptation i had to check it out.
I am officially done buying games on release. None of these games are worth 80 bucks.
Do you wanna spend 80 dollars on a new game, or wait a year and buy it for 10 dollars when it works and is actually finished?
WHERE CAN I PRE ORDER IT FOR 120 DOLLARS TO PLAY IT 3 DAYS EARLY AND PAY TO BE A PLAYTESTER?
Like i’m not surprised why games are this expensive.
That’s the kicker. Getting games on release now feels like early access. I’ve been hyped for a few games in day one and there’s either server issues, driver issues, crashes, what have you. These things are so rushed they need a year to be finished.
By then you’ll know if it flops too, avoid getting caught in the hype.
