When The Outer Worlds 2 was shown at Gamescom Opening Night, I made a confession to the friend I was watching it with. I'm no sci-fi RPG fan – I only played the Mass Effect trilogy last year, if you can believe it – and The Outer Worlds is just as much of a mystery to me as Bethesda's Fallout games and, of course, its latest endeavor Starfield.
The truth is that I'm a medieval RPG girl. Give me magical settings and arcane legends any day, but put me in a space helmet with an alien blaster in hand and I'll probably lose interest by lunchtime. But having played Avowed earlier this year and fallen in love with Pentiment last Christmas, I felt compelled to take my friend's sage advice: to skip Fallout 4 completely, cross my fingers in hopes of a Fallout 3 remaster someday, and play another of Obsidian's beloved RPGs instead.
