It is absolutely on Game Pass for PC and can be downloaded now, with being able to start playing at 7 PM EST tomorrow night too I think from what others have said.
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The Outer Worlds | Review Thread
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It is absolutely on Game Pass for PC and can be downloaded now, with being able to start playing at 7 PM EST tomorrow night too I think from what others have said.
Thanks! I looked a couple days ago and didn't see anything. Great news!
It's already available for preload on the Microsoft store on PC I believe.
Edit: just saw your response above :P
Wait this unlocks at 7 pm EST tomorrow? Hell yes. I'm out of town all weekend so hopefully I can get some time in tomorrow night.
Just for PC and Game Pass PC I believe, console is Midnight EST.
Yeah sorry, I was confusing it in the sense that it's on gamepass on xbox and PC. With that in mind, if I start playing on PC but then want to go play on xbox, will my save be there?
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You need to install it/add it to your library through the Xbox app not the Microsoft Store. Outer Worlds has been addable to your library through Gamepass for 2 or 3 months now while preload went up a few weeks ago.
Man, how I wish it was unlocking at midnight today. I have Thu off and would have loved to put in a good many hours in.
Yup, I'll be playing through game pass pc so this is great news.
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A dream scenario would be that at least two critics gave their own personal opinion in each review.
That way you could have someone who loves old school RPGs review it and also one who is tired of that and want something new, thus covering a wider spectrum, and it would help us remember that reviews are just personal opinions and not a whole magazine or website that has reviewed it.
And yes we are all guilty of it, on different games, trying to find faults in the media outlet, like with Eurogamer here and often with Edge, instead of just accepting that there are different opinions out there. Like "they loved this game, why didn't they love that game?". Different persons, different taste in games, different opinions, different scores. Why are diverse scores ever a surprise?
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Cool, thanks for the info! I tried preloading over the weekend but it only downloaded a small 10mb file.
It's especially weird for TOW because the "Preload" has been up for weeks (IIRC) but it was only 10 MB until very recently.
I love Eurogamer, and have zero problem with their approach to reviews, but I've found their evaluations for some of the best WRPGs curiously off for me. For reference, some of their old review scores:
Planescape: Torment: 7 (or 8)/10
Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines: 7/10
Alpha Protocol: 7/10
Disco Elysium: not recommended or essential
These same games then tend to get glowing retrospectives as the years pass. I have no idea how good Outer Worlds will be and Eurogamer might be dead-on with its evaluation, but, as much as I love the site and its writing, I'm not going to use it as a reliable guide as to whether I'd enjoy this type of game.
Planescape: Torment: 7 (or 8)/10
Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines: 7/10
Alpha Protocol: 7/10
Disco Elysium: not recommended or essential
These same games then tend to get glowing retrospectives as the years pass. I have no idea how good Outer Worlds will be and Eurogamer might be dead-on with its evaluation, but, as much as I love the site and its writing, I'm not going to use it as a reliable guide as to whether I'd enjoy this type of game.
That was what I was about to ask. Everything I have seen points to everyone getting it at the same time which is why you have some people saying they can play it at 5 pm or 6 pm or 4 pm or 7 pm on the 24th.
No rolling unlock on PC. EGS has no such functionality and I imagine Epic doesn't want the WinStore version to have another feather in its cap.
It's on Gamepass for PC. The Xbox (Beta) app clearly states it.
I haven't read any reviews but I can understand this line of thinking under the context of "finally obsidian is off the leash" and having released innovative takes on genres they specialized in, like Tyranny.
There are a different number of outlets reviewing each version, some will apply their score to all versions, others are platform dedicated. The PS4 version has the most reviews, so a single more middling review for the PC version can have a greater effect on the metascore than it would for the other platforms. If the score is dramatically different, then that might indicate platform-specific issues, but your best bet is to check the content of the reviews themselves.
Tom Senior of PC Gamer played it on an average system ("GTX 970, Intel i5-6600K, 8GB RAM") and the review makes no mention of technical issues, which bodes well.
Depends on where you live. The game unlocks on the WinStore and EGS at the same time worldwide:
Some of it might be *specific* elements of presentation too.
Game looks gorgeous, both mechanically & aesthetically, but when watching preview vids and seeing conversations zoom in on the NPC's head I was taken aback. Feels like that move was taken straight out of last gen with Fallout 3, NV & Skyrim. Hell, even Bethesda abandoned that style in Fallout 4.
It doesn't bother me per say, but I can see where some might see things like this as dated.
I'll be playing the game either way.
Okay, I guess that makes sense, but then it's a bit premature to claim they are playing it safe when MS only really came into the picture a year ago. Their next game is the one that should be receiving that kind of critique.
It's a very weird take on a world of a million narrative driven action games with a dark tone getting 9s and 10s across the board not to mention all the samey shooters, yearly sports games, souls likes etc.
I meant like "off the bethesda leash" since this is supposed to be their re-imagining of fallout, but again I haven't played the game or read reviews so I dunno how much that holds up. I am definitely in the camp of reviews being just personal opinions of the writer and editor tho, so if someone says that they feel the game played it safe I'll just chalk that up as the viable experience of someone who's not me. I don't read reviews much in the first place, but if I find a writer who's tastes align closer to mine or who likes to think about games in a way that's close to how I think, then I weigh that writer over others, but like in general I don't really think of reviews as particularly influential to me.
like there's definitely ppl out there who have the "does this innovate?" lens when looking at pretty much every game and prioritize that over a lot of things, which is valid for them imo, I don't really think there is a right or wrong way to judge a game and I think the idea of objective reviewing is dum. I definitely don't think bonuses being tied to metacritic scores is good at all either
like there's definitely ppl out there who have the "does this innovate?" lens when looking at pretty much every game and prioritize that over a lot of things, which is valid for them imo, I don't really think there is a right or wrong way to judge a game and I think the idea of objective reviewing is dum. I definitely don't think bonuses being tied to metacritic scores is good at all either
Disappointing.
Disco Elysium not recommended is a crime against humanity.
that's actually a more than generous score for Bloodlines. Game was a horrible mess at release.
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it's the same game, the scores aren't really lower because of technical issues, it's just that PC-centric websites are usually a bit harsher when giving scores.