One Month on Enoch: An ‘Outriders’ Review and Retrospective

William: Outriders is a game that becomes more difficult in about every way the more you play it. Not only for the scaling in difficulty, but just how to feel about the game period. The more of the game you’re exposed to, the more the things it handles in excellent fashion or imprinted on you. And the things that frustrate you about the game continue to magnify. Make no mistake, I still think Outriders, when balancing the good and bad, still finds itself in the black. But there is an exacerbation of its flaws as the game demands more of you. Whether that be farming legendary items, going for gold on expeditions, or the still ever-present crashes that can strike in the lobby or mid-battle.  Mikkel: For the past month, I have affectionately been calling the game the bastard child of Mass Effect and Anthem that has been raised by Borderlands, although the developers (People Can Fly) themselves, say that Outriders’ roots are founded in Diablo which is a very much an apt comparison as well. The ability-centric, carnage fueled looter shooter is a dungeon crawler by any other name and 50 some hours deep, I definitely feel like I got my money’s worth from my stint in the edgy hellscape of Enoch in this “Explicitly not a games-as-a-service” game. I also don’t know how long I’m going to be staying there. Outriders: The Story of Enoch William: I’ve now done a stroll through the story in Outriders a couple of times now via playing with multiple characters. It’s not great. Or rather,…