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On 08/06/2025 07:51, Anssi Saari wrote:
> Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> writes:
> 
>> Yeah, I had a false start at Outer Worlds a few years back on release,
>> and now I'm doing an earnest run at it. The setting *is* really
>> interesting, and I like the humor, but it's one of those games where I'm
>> going to stick to the main quest line.
> 
> So how is that going? I've been thinking of the same as the sequel was
> announced and actually restarted yesterday. From Epic stats my previous
> attempt was all of four hours. I can already tell the extreme
> corporatism at the start gets old really fast.

I didn't have a problem with that as to me it came across not as some 
sort of serious political commentary but instead really just a parody. 
Admittedly parody has a long history of effectively being used as 
criticism in an easier to take format.