No One Told Me ‘The Outer Worlds’ was Secretly a Mass Effect Game and Now I’m Mad

I’ve spent a good amount of time with The Outer Worlds since it was released at the end of October and there is plenty to love about the game. It washes the bad taste of Fallout 4 out of your mouth. The gunplay and melee combat are fun, and there are plenty of ways to make the game challenging for yourself (i.e., flaws to choose or opting not to take on companions). Between all the praise the game has received for being a top-notch RPG that shows other game development shops how to do this setting right, NOT ONE OF YOU JERKS TOLD ME THE BEST PART OF THIS GAME WOULD BE COMPANIONS AND I CAN NEVER FORGIVE YOU! More Than Fallout, Much Like Mass Effect I jumped into The Outer Worlds because every person who could, said that Obsidian made the best Fallout game of them all, Fallout: New Vegas. A game I never played (forgive me). The prospect of playing a game from Obsidian that was like Fallout but more ambitious, with a space theme and a better variety of locals to explore was too good to pass up. But if someone had told me that this game had some Mass Effect injected into it, I would have been throwing up signal flares, organizing parades, and talking until my lips fell off about how excited I am.

I’m a huge fan of the Mass Effect series and I’m not alone in that. Just check out how the rest of the BNP crew feels when we talk about how the game influenced our game preferences. If there is one thing we can all agree on, it’s that one of the more compelling parts of the game are th…