devtesla OP wrote on December 7, 2018 at 8:32 PM

Reply to comment by cute_spider_ni_srsly in it took me like a day for it to sink in but The Outer Worlds looks incredibly good by devtesla

it looks nothing like borderlands lol why is everyone saying this

toasthaste wrote on December 7, 2018 at 8:51 PM

it has a sense of humor which i think is rare enough in shooty games that people don't know what else to compare it to

devtesla OP wrote on December 7, 2018 at 9:38 PM

ehh lots of shooters are/try to be funny.

There's senerio overlap with the whole edge of the galaxy, mega corp thing and the guns but that's about it. It's a dialog heavy RPG with a focus on doing things your own way vs daibo with guns, and the art is it's own thing. There's a whole lineage of immersive sims it's playing with that seems so removed to me lol

cute_spider_ni_srsly wrote on December 12, 2018 at 1:57 AM (edited on December 12, 2018 at 2:07 AM)

yeah basically toasthaste is right. i have a thing for shootery games that take themselves seriously and that thing is that I don't really like them.

i finally got around to trying warframe the other day and it was all Halo and I was like, "well shit". It kind of doesn't matter how good the plot, if it's halo-y or gears-y or anything that looks tough and military and humorless, I'm out.

this world looks colorful and funny and interesting. that's the way it looks like borderlands

Edit: also the setting is almost identical. Edge world frontier town, lots of crazy guns, corporate exploitation is causing gentrify-y problems, frontiersmen vs corporation, life has very little value, both worlds have Scags (whatever TOW calls them)

I get the feeling that Borderlands 3 is going to be an online service mess because of pitchford. This looks like it could be the Borderlands 3 I wanted rather than the one I suspect I'm gonna get.