100 points for “Gefrorener Verlierer”. You got the adjective declension right and everything. Gut gemacht!

OK, so I am about 1 hour into my Pontiac Bandit run of Outer Worlds, and it’s a charmingly and somewhat darkly humorous mashup of Fallout and Mass Effect: Andromeda so far. Loving the voice acting. For example: I’ve met Parvati, the engineer who is clearly suffering under the yoke of corporate employment in Edgewater…

Thanks for the first impressions on The Outer Worlds! I love the Nihil Obstat / Imprimatur metaphor, that’s a great way to look at it. Anyhow, I’ll try to respond to the rest of your post later but I just saw the UPS delivery truck drive off, literally as I was reading your post, so that means my copy is sitting…

Yep, the main quest in Andromeda picks up to a pretty exciting tempo once you get to about the halfway point (although that can take quite a while!), and a few of the loyalty quests are pretty fantastic (Peebee’s and Liam’s are clear highlights of the entire game). The fetch quests are atrocious by their volume alone,…

Ha, yes I definitely know that feeling. I’m admittedly also trying to keep myself psyched up for it after 6 weeks of waiting (since I pre-ordered it)!

I mean, you can’t take one review as the be-all and end-all. Heck, I even enjoyed Mass Effect: Andromeda pretty well, despite everyone saying it was awful. Not that there weren’t significant flaws, but, I dunno. For me it’s pretty easy to enjoy a game as much as I choose to, as long as it “clicks” on some basic level,…

Ah, the Soil Stradivarius... I discovered that kind of by accident, but it’s in a pretty interesting/challenging vault as I recall, so you should have some fun with it. I like Fallout 3 even hen it’s a little janky (or more than a little).

Well, I’ve heard both good things and bad things about The Outer Worlds, but my PS4 copy is arriving in the mail today and I’m definitely still excited to put in some hours over the weekend. I’ve heard that the character build system is pretty flexible and interesting, so I think I’ll be attempting to play as Doug…

I guess the original? Not completely clear when I bought it on Steam. I haven’t cracked it open yet, but @Shingami Apple Merchant advised me not to get the 20th anniversary edition, so I guess the other option (i.e. the one I actually got) was the original.

Nice, I am a big fan of exploring “ancient” games that everyone else has already played 3 times ten years ago. I don’t much care for horror, but that sounds... wacky!

Ah, cool, that is good to know. I liked this one just fine, and I did enjoy the payoff at the end of that last 5th mission, but it’s true that I was kind of thinking, “Well, that’s probably the high point, now do I really want to play something slightly less fun than that?” But if there’s more equally good or better…

Fair enough, I had no idea what Bachelor Party was so I didn’t know the timeline.

Ha, awesome coincidence. I took a screenshot of that parrot line too, it was so ridiculous.

Hang in there with FTL. It took me many, many hours to ever beat it (on Easy!), but it was fun all along the way, so no complaints.

I was tempted by Void Bastards but I have already bought way too many games in the past few weeks (Control, The Outer Worlds pre-order, Chrono Trigger, Gabriel Knight, Phoenix Wright trilogy, and Untitled Goose Game later today)... at some point I have to cut myself off!

Looks pretty straightforward for this weekend:

What Have You Finished This Week?

Couldn’t afford Bill Murray so they got infamous bargain-basement second-rater Tom Hanks? Interesting...

Thanks for your comments on AI: The Somnium Files. I was intrigued enough to wishlist this (although $60 is a lot since I just went on one of my two giant game splurges of the year and spent like $150 in two weeks)... but the dumb sex jokes definitely sound like a turn-off to me too.

Awesome, I’m looking forward to it. The base game was so hilarious in every single detail— especially the spittoons, of course, but right down to the item interaction prompts (you see a few shelves that remain unlooted, so the prompt is “[E] Render them looted”) and “new day” banners, like “Day Eleven” which managed…