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Get ready to explore a distant space colony and to decide what kind of character you want to become, as the engaging, player-driven story unfolds before you!
The Outer Worlds, an award-winning RPG, is coming soon DRM-free on GOG.COM!
Lost in transit while on a colonist ship bound for the furthest edge of the galaxy, you awake decades later, and become almost instantly entangled in a deep corporate conspiracy. The question remains - how will you deal with it?

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WiseLearnedMan: Why is there a big banner atop the main page saying "now available" but it still says "coming soon" if i try to buy it?
Behind-the-scenes shenanigans, I suppose. It's the same on Steam, where the game is supposed to be available "in less than an hour". No price there yet, either.

And the banner is gone. Looks like it's not quite ready for prime time just yet.
Post edited October 23, 2020 by Nergal01
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Fun Fact:
Some people will complain that they bought it on steam because it hadn't been announced on GOG
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MysterD: FO:NV was HUGE, while The Outer Worlds...is really not.
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Starkrun: 20-30 hours to beat if you just slowly play though the game and do all quests... maybe stretched to 50 if you really take your time and explore and do everything. main quest going at a reasonable pace is about 14 hours.

Its 3 portal 2's in length, 2 doom runs, a single Neir: Automata play through, 2 bioshock infinite, the entire main quest of Skyrim without fast travel, Dishonored 1 and 2 played back to back.

Thats how long of a game The Outer Worlds is for anyone wondering.... so its not exactly short but compared to new Vegas which runs 38-148 hours including DLC it is shorter then that. Main quest on New Vegas: Ultimate edition no fast travel is equal to doing all quests in The Outer Worlds
I'd have to check b/c I did document it - but I was somewhere in the 35+ hour ballpark to finish TOW, IIRC. I'll have to look.

But, yes - New Vegas: Ultimate was HUGE. Including all DLC's, that took me around 119 hours for one playthrough.
It's out
Looks like I was right. 50% off, $29,99. Or 29,99 €, for the EU.

Oh, and the DLCs are here, too. :)
Post edited October 23, 2020 by Nergal01
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Starkrun: 20-30 hours to beat if you just slowly play though the game and do all quests... maybe stretched to 50 if you really take your time and explore and do everything. main quest going at a reasonable pace is about 14 hours.

Its 3 portal 2's in length, 2 doom runs, a single Neir: Automata play through, 2 bioshock infinite, the entire main quest of Skyrim without fast travel, Dishonored 1 and 2 played back to back.

Thats how long of a game The Outer Worlds is for anyone wondering....
Thank you for this! MUCH better perspective - I was seeing everyone talking about "a bit short..." and was thinking it was like a 10 - 15 hour experience. This is actually a perfect length for me - I found (strangely) as I get older I'm less willing to sink into a massive game. In my younger years I loved it - now it just seems daunting when I see 50 + hours of playtime. Sometimes it's awesome to experience that large and epic a world, progressing from varied region to region (I STILL love Final Fantasy 12 and Dark Souls for this!)...

... but most games like that I just start to feel burn out and frustration at the 30 hour mark, and want to see a game wrap up. Don't get me wrong, I like a *big* game - but so many games start to feel *big* just for the sake of it - it gets tedious. When you find that gem of a game that justifies it, it's amazing ... but it's nice to get a big, deep complete and interesting "full" package in a 20 - 40 hour game.

Heck, I even like my shooters to but in the low end of that range (or less!).