The problem is that The Outer Worlds isn’t always comedic, and there are serious moral dilemmas throughout the game. If The Outer Worlds was purely a comedy, then its flippancy towards violence might fit well into the world.
While this could complement the game’s comedic tone, it actually undermines some of the stakes of the game’s story, which relies on the player caring about the lives of NPCs. To add to the dissonance, in The Outer Worlds player companions and other NPCs tend to treat the constant loss of life around them without too much concern – despite the danger, the laid-back reaction from the world’s NPCs denies the world an immersive sense of threat. While the introduction to games like Skyrim are similarly violent, the higher stakes of Skyrim's opening dragon attack helps it strike a more balanced tone compared to The Outer Worlds, where the marauders aren't actively attacking the player but simply in-between them and their objective.
This is made abundantly clear from the game’s outset, where the player wakes up on an unknown planet and makes their way from an escape pod to a nearby town, killing every marauder they meet along the way. However, the game’s attitude towards violence doesn’t always align with some of its other goals. Characters in The Outer Worlds are over-the-top, its scenery is colorful, and the game uses much of its humor to criticize the kind of corporate control players seen enforced upon its inhabitants. In general, almost all factions are terrible, just a pick your poison type of deal, but I only see hope if Caesar's Legion and The Institute are in Charge.Like the Fallout games, The Outer Worlds has a sense of humor. House because of my own personal agenda.įo3 BOS are garbage, I don't care for the Enclave in any game, Minutemen and the Railroad are doomed to fail, Fo4 BOS is trash and stupid, only The Institute are viable for long-term human survival
The BOS in almost all games except in FNV are just high-tech raiders, Yes Man ending isn't a viable option in mostly the long run because anarchy will fill the streets and there will be no law and order. NCR and Caesar's Legion are both damned to repeat the pre-war history, and I'd rather not see the NCR repeat the history of the pre-war government and cause another nuclear war, which would wipe out everyone.
As a RightCenter I feel like in FNV, or hell, even in Fallout as a whole, Caesar's Legion is the only hope for the Mojave and even any other states if they branch out assuming Caesar's Legion won the 2nd battle of Hoover Dam.
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