Not only is it not better, it's not even similar to a Fallout game. It's structured far more closely to a Mass Effect game than a Fallout game.
I couldn't get more than a few hours into 3, New Vegas, and 4, but I'm on my second play through for Outer Worlds.
I have criticisms for sure, but the aesthetic and setting is far more interesting to me and the characters are mostly well written despite some bad introductions.
I love Elder Scrolls but really can't get into Fallout. Outer Worlds has been a blast. Probably helps that I'm a big fan of Mass Effect and KOTOR.
This.
Fallout 1 has a similar time to beat as Outer Worlds and its better than 3 or 4. Fifteen hours to do a full play through also sounds like bullshit to me.It's not better than 3 or NV, infact in some areas it's worse than 4 as well. The Fallout games are basically immersive sims, Outer World looks like an immersive sim but it's not. There are only a set number of ways you can solve a given problem, you might be given more than one problem to solve but within each of those problems there isn't much choice. An immersive sim on the other hand just lets you play with the tools you have in the game to solve a problem like you would in real life. An example to explain myself better is, say if there's an area you have to get to. The Outer Worlds will give you an option to either go guns blazing or go in stealth, but that's about it. If you want to choose to go stealth there's only one way to do it and if you can't do it then you are forced to completely abandon that choice and go guns blazing. A game like NV on the other hand would give you more than one ways to implement the same choice.
There isn't also much branching in the game, you have some branching here and there but they are largely inconsequential and nothing like blowing up a major city in Fallout 3 which leads to a separate questline and altered NPCs on as a result of your actions (Like an NPC ends up becoming a ghoul if you destroy the city and you meet him later on). NV has even more choice and consequences and does it even better. The world is also not as explorable as everything is condensed into tiny areas, with little to no downtime. You rarely find NPCs outside of towns/settlements. It's a very streamlined and limited experience. It's a decent game but it's not really the Bethesda killer that everyone touted it to be. And it's certainly nowhere close to New Vegas which was the absolute best 3D Fallout game.
And oh, the game is also very short. If you do everything in the game that's abut 14-15 hours. Much shorter in comparison to the BGS games/NV. There's very little reason to do a second playthrough as you can pretty see almost everything there is to see in that first run itself outside of the last mission everything plays out exactly the same regardless of what you do before.
If by gameplay you mean combat, sure. If by gameplay you mean ability to role play, ha!I agree. The missions, writing, and characters are much better in The Outerworlds. The world/setting is much more interesting too. But Fallout 4's gameplay and mechanics are more fun. For all its faults, I think Fallout 4's gameplay is the best of the series.
1>New Vegas>2>Outer Worlds>4>3 is probably how I'd rank it, with a fairly hefty gap between OW and 4.
Fallout 1 is also a game from 90s.Fallout 1 has a similar time to beat as Outer Worlds and its better than 3 or 4. Fifteen hours to do a full play through also sounds like bullshit to me.
People love it's theme park design where there is always some whacky thing over the next hill.It's better than Fallout 3 and 4.
To this day, I will never understand the enthusiasm around Fallout 3. Truly one of the most poorly written of the big budget RPGs
Absolutely not. The Outer Worlds positions itself so much as a fallout experience that it comparatively pales to something like New Vegas.
It's better than Fallout 3 and 4.
To this day, I will never understand the enthusiasm around Fallout 3. Truly one of the most poorly written of the big budget RPGs
At the least, Outer Worlds isnt complete shit when it comes to gun mechanics, and the artstyle/world is FAR more interesting than anything in NV.
Yeah, and that's the problem.Outer Worlds has better gunplay imo. You can play it as a shooter.