#outer worlds 2

[sillygooseesquire]

So I started playing Outer Worlds 2 and in character creation they give you options for prosthetic limbs so I was like "oh wouldn't it be cool if my characters left arm and leg were prosthetic and then there's a big burn scar on the left side of her face, like maybe she survived an explosion or something like that"

...So I'm like an hour into the game now and uhhh without getting into too many spoilers, there ends up being a big explosion and the guy who survives ends up with a prosthetic arm and leg on the same side and a big burn scar on the side of his face

This is literally what my crew looks like right now:

[themojaveexpress]

stop, that's so cute

[pierkyn]

STOOOOOOP

STOP ITTTT

STOP CALLING ME OUT GAME

[arainywriter]

niles "i found you" abarra. niles "i can't see the commander like this" abarra. niles "i should have kept looking" abarra. niles "can't i just like them?" abarra. niles "still sleeps in his old room even though the commander's room was open for TEN YEARS" abarra. niles "i'm right behind you, commander" abarra.

[tacticalhimbo]

ok thirst aside here's all the new companions from outer worlds 2!!

NILES

Faction: Earth Directorate

Pros: Can Fix Your Shit

Cons: Can't Commit to a Hobby

VALERIE

Faction: Earth Directorate

Pros: Healing, Damage Reduction

Cons: Uses Big Needles, Poor Bedside Manner

AZA

Faction: The Glorious Dawn

Pros: Bloodthirsty Psychosis

Cons: Bloodthirsty Psychosis

INEZ

Faction: Auntie's Choice

Pros: Field Medicine, Formidable Craft

Cons: Didn't take Hippocratic Oath

MARISOL

Faction: Order of the Ascendant

Pros: "Torpifies Enemies"

Cons: Withering World-Weary Wit

TRISTAN

Faction: Protectorate

Pros: Blunt (Like His Hammer)

Cons: Holier Than Thou Attitude

and per the trailer... "No, you can't sleep with them."

[the-8-of-spades]

God I love Obsidian games and I don't need games to have romances but when they gloat about not having romance, a feature their core audience overwhelmingly supports and enjoys and asks for every single time they make a game just feels so off putting. Like you're making it a marketing point that you don't have a common feature of RPGs that everyone likes? It gives me the ick.

[silversiren1101]

Tristan Rao man that you are

I fear he's doing something to me

[monowires]

You’re telling me they made a game where romance wasn’t an option because they wanted to focus more on the story? You’re telling me they did that and then put Niles Abara in said game?

You’re telling me they didn’t want romance but still put Niles “I also thought - at least in those first few years - that you might be out there somewhere, too. That maybe, against all odds, you survived. Kept me going, that hope.” Abara in the game?

What kind of torment is this?