You know a game is lacking for content if the patricianTV reviews only add up to 2 hours

This game is the equivalent of going to a store and finding a new flavor of something you really like and after taking the first sip/bite, you decide you'll finish this one but never get it again

I killed ever last person on the rich people planet and was very disappointed the ending slides didn’t acknowledge that.

When I did my Board playthrough, I didn't have to destroy Edgewater. I think it's because I did the sidequests for all the people at the botanical garden before forcing them back. Akande had a line about being surprised the cannery was meeting quotas, and then it moved on.

I had the exact same experience with the hunger twist. It was supposed to be such an earth-shattering reveal, but all I could think was "Huh, just like that lady in that one side quest said."

Fun fact: Way back when, a bunch of mystery writers got together and made a list of rules to avoid when writing a murder mystery. One of those rules was no Secret Twin Siblings unless the audience has been duly prepared for them. After this, and Glass Onion, I'm inclined to agree on that note.

I'm a film people When you shoot in grayscale, you create harsher and more distinct shadows which helps make subjects come off as more defined. Tonal contrast in black and white gives the impression of a more distinct image that comes across as more detailed; this is of course also possible with color photography but you have to either do a lot work with on set lighting or do a decent amount of work in post, but shooting in black and white naturally does a lot of the work for you. Basically it boils down to lighting, and as you know lighting + modern video game dev that doesn't understand the ins and outs of their engine = muddy garbage most of the time.

Think the way games misunderstand skill-based speech checks are that they don't make them a knock-out for a dialogue exchange. Like take the scenario, you are (role)playing as an engineer-type and you have taken skills accordingly to such, in this case (MECHANICS). You then get into a situation where a guard refuses you to enter a back area of a ship. Instead of frontloading the (MECHANICS) option, there should be a set-up dialogue of "hey, I was called in here to check the engine in the back" and then when the guards response with "oh we had a check-up days ago" you can then choose the (MECHANICS) dialogue to say something like "oh yeah, but the filtration filter is a Wehrncraft model series 600zx, requiring some very specific backup parts we had to order, which just arrived today" or if you don't have the (MECHANICS) skill for that, you can (BLUFF) "oh yeah, but you know how it is with the management, if it ain't done 100% according to proceedure, we have to do it aaaaaall over again and Tim, you know Tim right? yeah he ofc fucked it all up, so now I'm here on my off day, trying to undo all of that mess!". These two choices have the same starting point, but different flavour of what you wanna roleplay. Moreso, it gives the choice to try playing into the character you are trying to convince, maybe a non-sense persona would still refuse the bluff, but the mechanics check comes for place of authority and professionalism.

I thought Byzantium was a pretty on the nose jab at "byzantine bureaucracy" which is shorthand for needlessly complex and obtuse government or other organizational structure. With a bit of "byzantine politics" thrown in, which connotes backstabbing and conniving court politics that would fit in with the Board.

I never bought into the food thing at all. If the nutrition really was that much of a problem, how have children grown into full-sized, seemingly healthy adults?

To me one of the main problems with this game was both the level and graphic design of it all. It seems they didn't know what they wanted the game to be, but knew they wanted it to be BOLD. So you get this mish-mash of 50's sci-fi serials, mixed with art-nouveau décor, industrial revolution themes and architecture, snarky post-modern characters with a pink Skrillex haircut, and monsters that look like they were put together by an outsourced studio. Guess what, none of these elements go well together. It constantly pulls you out of your immersion as well. People give New Vegas shit for it being brown and depressing to look at, but at least its aesthetics re-enforce how harsh survival in a post-nuclear desert is. Are you telling me people in the outer colonies are severely malnourished and poverty-stricken but they have the means to buy moustache wax, hair dye, makeup and maintain state-of-the-art weaponry? Also, why does the loot you get in a Marauder camp is the exact same thing you can expect from a town or a high-class manor in Byzantium? It makes 0 sense for a corporate overlord in the metropole to stack shitty pistols, ammo and grenades when the whole city is packed with police and borderline unreachable to most people in the colony. It's such a basic oversight from a studio with tons of experience making immersive RPGs it just boggles my mind

I really think that the best way to play this game is a full genocide run, it was pretty interresting to see the game restructure itself after each quest giver death, and will probably be the only thing i remember about it in detail in a few year.

Black and White cinematography enhances contrast. The highs and lows are so sharply pitted against eachother that it creates a very clear divide. You're also not limited (as much) by color choice and your mind can fill in the blanks without the game having to do the heavy lifting.

it’s been a while since I played so I can’t remember the details, but the meat cubes on Gorgon were the highlight of the entire game for me. realising what they were at the end of the dungeon, and then stepping outside and noticing that they were there at the front door before I walked in genuinely shocked me.

My understanding of the design philosophy for this game is all summed up in the smart-ass finger-guns in the ad campaign and that's it.

3:33 “they didn’t want to work with a criminal organization” that was me when I got my last recommendation only to discover illegal teleporters brazenly in the lobby of the Arcane University

One of the weirdest parts about this game is the Exp system. It feels like they took Fallout's exp system and just multiplied everything by 10. I have no doubt that some manager went "Bigger numbers equals bigger chemical release" and then they just went with it.

1:35 that feeling when filling out the deductions board in Sherlock Holmes games and committing to an entirely, and verifiably, wrong line of reasoning. _Watson must be pregnant._

Ah the good old "We have interstellar travel but we are too stupid to ensure our basic subsistance even with the ridiculous amounts of resources we have access to".

There's a Larry Niven novel called Destiny's Road, about a distant colony on an alien planet where a background setting detail is that colonists have to regularly ingest "speckles" or else die of some poorly defined disease, unless they regularly eat organisms or plants that were originally transplanted from Earth. It's common in this society to plant a fruit tree on the grave of beloved family members, because graveyards are one of the few places on Destiny that Earth plants can actually grow. Later on in the book we find out that Destiny's alien ecology doesn't use potassium - "speckles" are the seeds of a rare plant that uses potassium as a defense to poison predators. I feel like The Outer Wilds' "invisible food crisis" was written into the story by someone who read Destiny's Road a long time ago and didn't quite remember why the colonists couldn't subsist solely on native life.

The central conflict of the story, that this interstellar civilization is somehow unable to even grow enough food to sustain its people, is simply ridiculous. A conflict like this, fighting over basic resources like food, water and electricity, almost makes sense in New Vegas. It's the post nuclear apocalypse, in an already desolate region of America. In the Outer Worlds? It's just too stupid to even take seriously.

What weirds me out is the NPCs I know like new vegas didnt have the best looking characters either but everyone in this game is like a fey-faced supermodel to start with, and then they paste an amount of wrinkles on them depending on how old they're meant to be, but it just ends up looking like they left a 19 year old out in the sun. It's also the really bright irises and defined pupils, it's oddly unsettling

After watching all these videos about The Outer Worlds, I think I can safely say the only way The Outer Worlds 2 could ever improve on the series is to just scrap the entire fucking setting.

I always look at the fashion in rpg’s and the lack of armor variety was such a bummer especially looking at what they had in new vegas.

Woah woah woah, not even a premiere?!?!

Fun fact: The eliminate edgewater quest doesn't happen if you leave the corporate representative in power. Tl;dr: putting the filthy hippy revolutionary in power and then siding with her enemy may've not been a great idea.

Your speel about how stupid the starvation plot is really highlighted how decadent both the developers and detached really are. They have no actual idea of what actual starvation looks like and couldn't be arsed to check. So they just assume a toothpaste that stops your tummy aches would actually be enough to mask it. Ironically the reason they can't write an evil detached decadent city is because they have no self reflection.

I love this game for one single reason: It made it abundantly clear that Obsidian is just an empty name. Every single drop of talent has long since run away from the company

I am still amazed this game is widely seen as a great game by so many people.

The reality of planets with rings in the skybox is so much more mundane. The vast majority of large moons orbit the planet coplanar with the rings so really you'll just be seeing a super thin line along the center of the planet.

_to the tune of Spacer's Choice jingle_ "It's not New Vegas, it's Outer Worlds!"

Film guy here, its not about film. I think the "black and white part" of the cutscene is a pre-rendered cutscene which is why it looks better. The animations and AO are much better than what the game normally handles. It does a good trick with having most of the frame out of focus on the shot where she's pointing the gun though, they do that to hide that it went from pre-rendered to in game. THAT is where the in-engine cutscene starts. They wanted it to look good to set things up, but had to find a way to transition to the full color game world, and that's the best they could do. You can tell uts different even by the shadows on her face when its black and white riiiight before the door opens.

To your point around 16 minutes, I would like to add on. If we were able to communicate with Phineas during Edgewater (as you mentioned in the 1st part I think), we could have ran some quests that had us test food or something. We could have been introduced to a problem early on, miss opportunity.

I think you are the first person to cover the dlc on outerworlds and now I know why

Having not played the Murder on Eridanos DLC, I can't believe the plot is basically the "Who Violently Murdered Simon S. Salty" episode of Smiling Friends

47:57 the answer is "materials", or rather rendering of materials - the PBR. In b&w pbr looks better since it has to do less of the heavy lifting for our brain to interpret the presented materials as "real", which conversely is harder to do in color.

Its kind of funny these videos will do a better job at reminding people that this game exists more than the actual game itself.

I remember I had gotten to Byzantium and a quest in the main story wanted me to go somewhere and do something, so instead I just started blasting. Ended up just killing basically everybody in my way until I got to the credits. It's a shame the story and game weren't good enough to make me want to keep role playing, and instead drop the act and try to finish as fast as possible.

Pat farted in my front yard in 2013 and still hasn't apologized

It's so weird to me to think of this game as in any way relating to NV or Firefly, both of which I loved, because it just reminds me of FO4, only smaller. Playing Outer Worlds gave me the same feeling I got when I spent a while meticulously planning an ambush for the DLC raiders I was supposed to be making a settlement for, only to find out that I couldn't kill them, and was only allowed to turn on them in the pre-scripted time and place. Or realizing that it made no difference how high I climb in any faction, I won't get a chance to even try to convince anyone to change anything. It was a recurring "hey, maybe I could- oh, I guess not" feeling.

Gogon gives me hope for The Outer Worlds franchise. But then again, Far Harbor gave me hope for Bethesda Fallout, and then we got Nuka World and 76, so I guess only time will tell. As of now, I am cautiously optimistic.

besides human waste, chicken waste is some of the most common and best fertilizer before the industrial revolution.

It's been so long...please come back...need...content...

*Game developers not knowing what vitamins are tracks.*

The fertilizer plotpoint is hilariously revealing about the writers and the writing. Any true nerd, sooner or later comes across the wonderful topic of plants and gardening. 1., Because plants are actually interesting, and watching stuff grow from seeds that you plant is rather exciting. 2., It's fundamental WW1 and WW2 technology. Modern chemical fertilizer can be traced back to Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch in the early 1900s'. The main goal of the process was to somehow fix nitrogen in concentrated forms that were greater then it was naturally available. This came in the form of ammonia, which as it turns out, explodes pretty good too. This is why peacetime industrial agriculture can be switched out for war-eceonomy bomb production with 0 effort, and back when the conflict is over. This was the main driving force behind cheap food in America, and heavily subsidized agriculture after WW2. The government had to get rid of all that military surplus, so they funneled it into your BigMac's. The more you know. Oh and Haber developed a very rudimentary nervegas for pest control, since inscets started to swarm all the suddenly abundant crop fiields. And since he envisoned it as the mighty storm of science sweeping away the hardships that plagued agricultural humanity for millenia, he named the gas Cyclone, AKA Zyklon in german. To kill pests. Naturally the military had their own definitions of "pest". But all this info, now in 2024, is literal ancient history. Both fertilizers and pest-control has been heavily developed since, and is hotly researched field in organic chemistry. If push comes to shove, we can cook up stuff in a lab, purely from inorganic compounds to keep stufff alive. We can even synthesize baby formula that actually doesn't kill the baby anymore. Sure it's very rough on the infant, but it can survive. So the fact that writers decided that the futuristic space people can only make fertilizer from dead people as opposed to using the tech WE ALREADY HAVE IN OUR OWN WORLD AS OF 2024, speaks volumes of their ignorance or at the very least dis-intrest in science and the story and histroy of scince. Also, what happened to composting? And proper soil science? While humans do rot away real neat when they die, they don't automatically turn to plant chow without a whole host of bacteria, fungi, worms and insects to help both our bodies and dead plant matter along the way. Hell, tha majority of the soil IS dead plant matter, and only a very small portion of it has the hard and lumpy bits of tigers and monkeys that had an unfortunate run-in in primordial jungles of old. tl;dr The writers are South-African-junta-tier who after being asked where their food will come from if they kill all the farmers, promptly answered: the supermarket.

The Outer Worlds sapping name recognition from The Outer Wilds due to adjacency alone really sums up the complete karmic curse Obsidian decided to inflict upon us all with this game - the true sin wasn't being Borderlands 3 sweetened with aspartame, it was eclipsing literally the first game to ever hit me with such a sense of cosmic terror that I still shudder whenever I imagine some of that game's visuals and scifi suppositions I think I could go a few more years without ever seeing someone fall *between* space again

Im glad someone was able to summarize why i only played 1/3 of the game and cant bring myself to care enough to finish it

You know how in NV they had multiple currencies? Thought for some reason since the game focused on corporate towns they’d have corp bucks as they were a means to pigeon hold their workers into staying as their money is only valued in territories the corporation controls.

Hms erebus and hms terror didnt cheap out on food. The expidition was stocked for 2 and a half years at sea with new canned foods. Problem was canning at the time used lead solder and over time it poisened the food, and then they got trapped in pack ice off the coast of prince william's island* (i believe that is the name of the island that is called the "hand of franklin" in the passage that they got iced in at.)

I wasn't expecting a part 2, fucking sweet. Glad I found his channel, I love long form content like this.

I wonder if this is what dementia feels like. Having played all the way through The Outer Worlds starting the day after it launched and not playing any of the DLC, being completely unable to remember large portions of the game feels mildly distressing. I have memories of various sections, but either they're out of order or were changed after launch or... something. I remember Edgewater, Byzantium, the general structure of the plot, and most of the characters... but specific events, missions, and choices are just... new to me. Is it just that this game leaves so little of an impression? _Was_ the game actually changed after launch? Am I actually starting to decline, losing the ability to create long-term memories?

The Outer Worlds is a serviceable game that didn't meet my expectations and didn't overstay it's welcome. I played it once, moderately enjoyed it, and never touched it ever again.

I've recently played both this game and disco Elysium and its staggering to see the difference in writing quality and how the game talks about different ideologies . Even comparing the coalition to the board really shows the difference .

I was probably a little too excited to see this got posted today. I really enjoyed your first part and it explained pretty much every issue I had with the game thoroughly and much more well spoken. Def subbing to you, I would love to see more content

'Finally sold out' being the last line before the patron credit-roll I'm really hoping was intentional, because that got me cackling.

I remember being hyped for this game. I don't remember anything from playing the game.

Didn't expect Part 2 to drop so quickly, certainly a good watch!

Been waiting for this bad boy 🫡

I love that this video caused all the 16 year old communists to crawl out of the woodwork.

I beat this game and all dlc. It felt like an absolute chore to get through and only did it because I felt determined to finish the game

I’m genuinely curious on what the legacy of this game will be if Starfield delivers on even half of what they’ve marketed

patrician i am hoping and praying that for the past month you have been cooking up the most devilish and detailed retrospective on stairfield

Love the dry sarcasm, always-welcome Firefly comparisons an Jun Ito "hole" references. Excellent long-form critique!

They make it way more complicated than it needs to be, but, basically, the crisis breaks down like this: Due to mistakes made during the initial terraforming process (presumably because, without support from the Hope's geoengineers, the Board lacked the expertise needed to properly terraform the system), the GMOs used to seed Halcyon mutated into Halcyonic equivalents of their earth counterparts. The divergence was initially insignificant, but 70 successive generations of divergent evolution among the imported crops has caused a collapse in the bioavailability of essential vitamins and nutrients as far as humans are concerned. The nutritional profile of animals native to Halcyon are similarly incompatible with human physiology. In other cases, like in Emerald Vale, the local ecology is outright incapable of supporting earthborn crops. Although humans' caloric needs are still being met by-and-large, they are suffering from pervasive malnutrition; this malnutrition will get worse with further divergent evolution, to the point where most colonists will outright starve due to severe nutritional deficits. Board scientists only noticed the impending collapse 15 to 20 years ago, which is when Chimerists like Chartrand were tasked with solving the problem (in her case, by adapting humans for Halycon's ecology). Why they can't just genetically engineer another batch of compatible crops is not adequately explained; this is a glaring omission in the context of Halcyon importing food from other colonies with what seem to be perfectly compatible crops. That said, I doubt that the Board possesses either the means or the resolve to undertake the extensive geoengineering necessary to suppress Halcyonic crops, protect imported crops, and prevent further divergence among these imported crops all without causing a full-blown ecological collapse. They certainly wouldn't do that when other, cheaper options like the L.E.P. avail themselves to the Board. Regarding synthetic food/vitamins, even conventional vitamins struggle to compete with natural/organic options wrt the bioavailability of their essential nutrients. This is also why vegan diets, even when bolstered by synthetic vitamin supplements, are generally unsustainable in the long run. Most synthetic vitamins are derived from existing flora, fauna, and microfauna. In Halcyon's case, those options are already compromised. The Board also started stockpiling food from other systems around this time, which is where Byzantium's rations came from. Due to collapsing productivity within Halcyon, however, and a declining galaxy-wide economy in the wake of the Earth Directorate's disappearance, the Board cannot afford to import enough food to keep even Byzantium afloat in the wake of a systems collapse. This would also inevitably doom Adelaide's greenhouse--the plants she grows there will still experience a bioavailability collapse, assuming they haven't already. For the time being, they're better than whatever Edgewater has been feeding into its cannery, but Edgewater is literally surviving off of sprats, sawdust, and local mushrooms. The Board has undertaken an extensive coverup as the full scope of the crisis has made itself more apparent. In an effort to facilitate this coverup, appetite suppressants like the one on Roseway were developed. This is why settlements like Edgewater seem unaware of why they suffer from such frequent "plague" outbreaks. The widespread availability of appetite suppressants and filler ingredients (combined with a deliberately under-educated populace) has made it difficult for laborers to notice their own malnutrition, as food still appears to satiate them. The Lifetime Employment Program is an extreme attempt to postpone the collapse for as long as possible. By limiting the laboring populace only to those who are essential for the continued operation of Byzantium and its assorted research centers, the Board hopes that it can find a sustainable solution before a full-blown, obvious famine and the unrest that would accompany it can set in. Welles himself is aware of the impending famine. He is not aware, however, of the actual underlying reason (the divergent, incompatible evolution of Halcyon's foodstuffs) and the Board's plan to "fix" the problem (the L.E.P.). He also is not aware that Earth has gone dark. As to why the Board is pivoting to the L.E.P. instead of just "aggressive" population control, it's not like the two are mutually exclusive. If the L.E.P. fails, the Board can just commit cryogenocide instead. If the L.E.P. works, though, the Board will have a much greater margin of error when it comes to managing their remaining workers. Those surviving workers will also have considerably less leverage than they would if they were the sole surviving laborers, given that the board could easily threaten to have them iced or killed so another batch of popsicles can take their place. It's...almost internally consistent? Especially considering the events of Peril on Gorgon and how Spacer's Choice info-blackout mirror's the Board's (at the behest of Spacer's Choice parent company UDL, no less) own coverup. Max explicitly points this out when you learn Gorgon's big marauder secret if you've helped him reach enlightenment. Even so, the whole plot ultimately rests on the entire colony of Halcyon being founded around a giant idiot ball due to the dereliction of the Hope. This draws your attention back to an even weaker, dumber, and more fundamental plot point: why the fuck are the colony ships segregated by profession and expertise? Like, why would you make one boat for laborers and managers and one boat for scientists instead of just making two boats that are each capable of founding a sustainable, feature-complete colony on their own?

The chicken is an all powerful master race. Us eating them is just helping them ascend

I always thought Outer Worlds was an alright game but your points in these videos have kind of awoken me to the fact I never got past Monarch, I met Nyoka and quit, that's as far as I ever got. Really concerns me for Avowed, but at least I enjoyed Pillars of Eternity 1, maybe it's just the team who made TOW that is bad but yeah, really tired of the bro drugs haha nihilism bro so cool trying is futile in a lot of media. Love your stuff Patrician keep up the amazing work.

I think it's just a reference to the phrase "byzantine bureaucracy"

I remember playing this game when it launched and being sorely disapointed. Every aspect of the game, from writing, to gameplay, graphics, character design, music...it's all mediocre. Nothing is so awful to be funny or make you angry at it, but nothing is good enough to make you want to play more. The perfect example of what people today call "mid".

Literally just finished the first part. You are magnificent sir. Thanks for this. Been wanting a good retrospective about this game.

How did so many people work on what is essentially borderlands lul so randum but with out even the shitty memes and think it was a good idea?

Ah yes. The two DLC for outer worlds. Outer worlds: Serenity Or Outer worlds: Glass onion

WOW! I’m actually impressed by how quickly this came out

These videos made me bite the bullet and finally watch Firefly, if nothing else I'm grateful for that.

New Vegas is one of my favorite things ever, so I got this on release day and started playing. About halfway through I got Disco Elysium because the GOG newsletter looked intriguing. It was so much better I thought quite hard about even going back to TOW afterwards...

i had played this game originally on the epic games store and i had to completely avoid dialogue with a character that i cannot remember at all during the final quest because otherwise it would crash the game. i remember feeling absolutely nothing during the ending, not unlike fallout 3... but i remember some of the ending slides from fallout 3, i really cannot say the same about outer worlds.

tfw you watch the video game industry slowly die over the years and all you can say is, GG NO RE

been lovingly obsessed with this channel for a couple weeks now, ive watched almost every vid. commentary and analysis is absolutely unmatched on yt. you should do a video on the skyrim mod Enderal, if you've never played it, it's an absolutely breathtaking standalone (from skyrim) rpg.

I'll be intrigued to see how critics compare and contrast Starfield with The Outer Worlds. The Outer Worlds was supposed to illustrate how Obsidian could beat Bethesda at making open world RPGs and Starfield looks to be the most unintentionally effective rebuttal in gaming history.

I had issues with Vicar Max. His character didn't develop from the bitter man. He irritated me. That said, I'd like to play the DLCs Murder on Eridanos etc. The faces are creepy too, they seem to have used the same facial base for everybody so no matter what their hair, eyes are etc there's always that creepy feeling they're all related.

Watching this all, it feels very much like Obsidian saw how well received Old World Blues was and tried to duplicate it for an entire game.

If you side with Reed in Edgewater, you don't have to wipe the town off of the map in a Board playthrough

2018: “The Outer Worlds has killed Fallout 76 and Bethesda!” 2023: “Fallout 76 is still alive and Bethesda is readying to release their most ambitious title yet. The Outer Worlds is forgotten and fans are already disappointed with Avowed.”

the fertilization conversation reminded me of when Yeonmi Park claimed that North Korea doesnt have access to fertilizer technology lmaoooooo

You know, hearing that npc talking about "slowly stop living" instead of using the word "dying" reminds me of the french ministry of economy talking about "negative growth" instead of economic crisis...

Thanks for the very reasonably fast upload time. If this had come out any later, I probably wouldn't have finished it, just like how I didn't finish this game. Time to finally see how it ends.

16:14 Scurvy, beriberi, anemia, marasmus, etc. There are a LOT of diseases caused by malnutrition depending on _what_ you are lacking.

yeah, I got the food reveal before the cut scene as well. I think its odd that you haven't brought up the Earth is not responding part yet. That was also bread crumbed in. I put that together when the gunship crashed, and Sanjar mentions how its odd the gun ship was not getting repairs. The shortages are colony wide, not just board opposition. prior to that, you also had the groundbreaker earth com mission. telling you no word from earth for 6? months, and the prior 3 months were all encrypted. this story is ALSO a major flaw in the game, as the game focuses on the food issue, but also laces THAT giant plot point in. which is arguably a bigger and more terrifying reveal. not sure if you'll get to it, but theres a big plot hole with the "human's for fertilizer" and the hope as well.. stasis, or wake up.. where is the "use the hope's people AS fertilizer" option?

watching this video makes me worried about the sequel considering it's rumored to be bigger than this... if the red thread of the plot breaks loose and catches fire on this scale what if the scale is bigger ?

personally, I find the conflict between the Imperials and the Stormcloaks more meaningful than the battle between the sides in this game. at least in the case of Skyrim, if you think about it more deeply (if this were real life, how would it affect things), the winner of the civil war in Skyrim has a greater importance for the state of the world / politics / future. but yeah great video!

I went through all this and the best I can give to the people of Halcyon is the week-end off and somehow that's suppose to be the best ending.

A note about Byzantium: I think it's much more likely that it's named for WB Yeats's fictional, somewhat mythical Byzantium from his poems "Sailing to Byzantium" and "Byzantium". Especially because those poems in part discuss people being transfigured beyond humanity into immortal constructs forever, which I could see being bastardized into comparison with the workers being shoved into eternal stasis tl work forever.

very nice series! Personally, I saw obsidian's quality drop since Pillars of Eternity 2, so Le Outer Worlds stank from 100 miles away.

To be honest... The early trailers marketed the game as "FROM THE DEVELOPERS OF FALLOUT NEW VEGAS" and that is always a red flag. You can have just a one sole random intern from that time to qualify for such marketing term and I think most games I've played who have played "The developers of ___" card have flopped. If you can't have confidence in your own product standing on their own, then the product deserves all of the flak it it gets. And this was before epic exclusivity deal mind you.

Do you have any plans to do a video like this on Kingdom Come: Deliverance? I think it would be another good candidate, and I'd like to see your opinions on it.

Great work as always

congratz on no longer alternating Fallout 76 and Outer Worlds

I really liked the Outer Worlds when it first came out. I had a lot of fun with it, but when i tried to play it again recently, i just couldnt get into it. I guess this videos give a good explanation as to why

Not a film person, but did a semester of Graphics Processing Algorithms in college. The black and white part of the Murder on Eridanos looks so much better because of the lack of color in the reflections in all of the objects. Very noticeable on the cheeks, under the eyes, and the hairline. The color of a reflection adds dozens of cycles of calculations, per pixel, per frame, per light source, per entity. Think of a color by number book where the number zones are super tiny, and you have to mix and match Red, Blue, and Green to make a skin tone-but-lighter-kind-of-depending-on-the-angle, versus various shades of grey. Shortcuts get taken with the coloring, shading, saturation, etc. that just dont need to happen with the greyscale segment.

hearing that outer world's dlc is the best part(I finished main story but I didn't played dlc), It just reminds me of fallout 4. fallout 4's best part was dlc(far harbor).

I bought this game for my birthday around the end of 2019. I played it, enjoyed my time even though I felt it had a lot missing compared to New Vegas. I completed the game, started another playthrough, then said out loud, “Nah I don’t feel like it”. It’s been 3 years since then, and I still don’t have the desire to replay it.