The Outer Worlds Review Thread - 86 Metacritic / 85 Opencritic.

[mjk45]

Barozi said:

starcraft said:
I've just left the first planet. Really enjoying the game so far. I do wonder what it cost them to make. Everything is very pretty but you can also tell its not pushing the graphics envelope. You get the impression they've done a really excellent job of creating a stylised world with a set, limited budget. All the dialogue and options are top notch so far.

If I had one gripe, its the character being mute. I understand there are drawbacks to settling on a male and female voice actor and removing the ability of the player to imagine their voice however they'd like, but I do believe a decent voice actor for your character would improve engagement even further.

I don't think a voiced charactet will improve anything. You need to read your choices before selecting one of it. Why would I need to hear my selection again when I already read it?

The other option would be a system of using renegade, paragon, romantic, calm etc. options without showing the text (or at least much of it) but that risks you selecting something that you wouldn't have chosen if you were able to read the full line beforehand.

The easiest way to voice the MC , is to voice all the introductions and general speech that happens through games like this and leave the rest to text.