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this post was submitted on 30 Sep 2023
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I get that, but to me it all feels like cookie cutter material. Maybe I'm not searching right, and maybe I haven't discovered enough, but I can't help but feel extremely whelmed.
Soooo, The Outer Worlds?
In terms of exploration, it’s very similar to No Man’s Sky, another boring space game. Every planet has similar terrain, similar plants and animals, similar goals, and similar structures. The differences are ambient light shades, colors and patterns on the plants and animals, and clutter in the artificial areas. The player can go scan life forms and blast bad guys. That’s about it.
But I don’t see how it could be any other way. How else does a studio scale up a galaxy such that every one of the 1000-odd planets is its own unique, interesting, engaging snowflake of a setting without spending hundreds of employee-years on each one?
Maybe AI will be the answer, but I’m not holding my breath.