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Feb. 24th, 2020 12:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynWell, this should be interesting. I was poking through the games on the Playstation Store the other day to see what they had in the way of science fiction based games other than bullet hells- Skyrim's nice enough but I've been doing fantasy gaming a while now, and after watching several episodes of Girls und Panzer I wanted to do something in a non-magic setting. They had X-Com 2 on sale for $18 (base game plus three DLCs), so I got that- I loved X-Com: Enemy Unknown and Enemy Within, as well as the original X-Com: UFO Defense and X-Com 2: Terror From The Deep. Tried loading that up. Print is ridiculously TINY on my tv. Apparently 2k/Firaxis/whoever is victim to the delusion so many software companies have, namely that only two uses of a display are possible: one is attached directly to your desktop computer, no more than thirty inches from your face, and the other is that you own and use a seventy-two inch or larger television which you may very well be using from about thirty inches away anyway.
I'm gonna set the PS4's accessibility options to allow Zoom viewing, which is done by the PS button plus (I think) X button. We'll see if that helps.
The interesting part isn't that, though. It's the 'people who liked this game also bought' selection. One of the games mentioned in that section was called The Outer Worlds, and I did not recognize the font or imagery at all, so I clicked on it.
It's a semi open world space-based RPG. From Obsidian. Specifically, from the people at Obsidian who were responsible for Fallout New Vegas and at least two of the writers from the original Fallout game. When I checked the reviews for it, the reviewers said 'it's not the Fallout universe but it's the same kind of humor and it's really well written and unlike the aggravating aspects of many RPGs you can kill any npc you want except for one and the script will adapt, and also the first patch allows you to set a slightly larger font size, and it has a semifrontier style like Firefly but without Joss Whedon's fingerprints being all over the place, and and and'...
So, yeah, last night I fired it up and started on my new character there. I am avoiding any further information about the game until Meredith is further into the plot.
I'm gonna set the PS4's accessibility options to allow Zoom viewing, which is done by the PS button plus (I think) X button. We'll see if that helps.
The interesting part isn't that, though. It's the 'people who liked this game also bought' selection. One of the games mentioned in that section was called The Outer Worlds, and I did not recognize the font or imagery at all, so I clicked on it.
It's a semi open world space-based RPG. From Obsidian. Specifically, from the people at Obsidian who were responsible for Fallout New Vegas and at least two of the writers from the original Fallout game. When I checked the reviews for it, the reviewers said 'it's not the Fallout universe but it's the same kind of humor and it's really well written and unlike the aggravating aspects of many RPGs you can kill any npc you want except for one and the script will adapt, and also the first patch allows you to set a slightly larger font size, and it has a semifrontier style like Firefly but without Joss Whedon's fingerprints being all over the place, and and and'...
So, yeah, last night I fired it up and started on my new character there. I am avoiding any further information about the game until Meredith is further into the plot.
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Date: 2020-02-25 12:11 am (UTC)(I would put real money in a tip jar if you ever went back and finished "Notes From New Vegas". Or even did a similar write up of Outer Worlds.)
Have fun!