The Outer Worlds - 10 Reasons It's Better Than Fallout 4
4. It's Not Overstuffed
In a gaming landscape full of 100 hour adventures and endless side-quests, The Outer Worlds is thankfully compact.
If you want to see and do everything in Halcyon, you're looking at around 30-40 hours of gameplay. Just going through the story can be as fast as 15 hours, but the times vary depending on how much side content you want to do.
Although this may sound a little lacklustre, none of the content here feels pointless. Every character has a point and every quest has a beginning and end. You won't be finding any random quests to kill a certain number of enemies for no reason.
This lends itself well to another goal of The Outer Worlds- replayability. With such a brief overall game completion time, it's much more tempting to give it another go as a completely different character and see what happens.
Fallout 4 definitely felt like it was given more content than it needed. Rather than telling good stories, Fallout 4 decided to try and fill the mini-map up as much as possible.
This isn't a problem limited to Fallout 4, but it's definitely an apt comparison.