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The Outer Worlds features a colorful cast of Companion characters that you recruit to your cause. If you allow them to stick with you, they'll join.
The Outer Worlds is one of the best RPGs of the year, and it's based entirely around choice and consequence - it's even possible to tank your reputation so hard entire planets will hate you. But is there any The Outer Worlds romance options?
Most RPGs with choice and consequence have some form of romance options, or romanceable characters - no matter what gender your character is - such as Mass Effect or The Witcher. But can you date companions in The Outer Worlds or are there no romance options at all?
The Outer Worlds Romance Options?
There are a total of six companions to be found in The Outer Worlds, starting with the sweet engineer Parvati and the tough pirate gal Ellie, and you'll get to know all of them pretty well over the course of the game - if you want to, of course. It's just as possible to ignore them all and play the whole game solo.
But are any of these companions romanceable? Are there any romance options in The Outer Worlds for players looking for love? Sadly, the answer is no. Developer Obsidian isn't a fan of romancing characters in games, so it's impossible to date any of the characters in The Outer Worlds - companions or not.
However, it is possible to get one of your companions a date! If you bring Parvati along with you to the Groundbreaker ship to meet captain/engineer Junlei Tennyson, you will be able to arrange a romance between the two. It'll be a budding romance that has its ups and downs, but you can steer Parvati towards love - just not with you, unfortunately!
When it was announced that would let you assemble a squad of companions, few people knew exactly what to make of that information. After all, the popular narrative surrounding The Outer Worlds concerned its status as the. While there were companions in Fallout: New Vegas, their roles were somewhatlimited. They mostly served as an extra gun during combat and offered a little flavor from time to time.According to The Outer Worlds senior designer Brian Heins, companions in The Outer Worlds are intended to be much more than that.“Each companion has their own things that they are personally good at,” Heins says. “So you might have a companion who’s really good at lock picking, and if you aren’t, but you have that companion with you, they contribute their skills towards yours so you can now pick certain locks that you wouldn’t be able to achieve otherwise.”. Most importantly, each of your companions in the game boasts a distinct personality that may or may not blend well with your own or with the personalities of your other companions.
That idea of contrarian companions who boast their own views feels much closer to the systems we saw in games like. Honestly, the way that BioWare (and Obsidian, ) treated companions in those games does feel like a big inspiration for how they are treated in The Outer Worlds. Just as in those games, for instance, each companion has a story just waiting to be explored., I even had a companion leave me after certain (entirely optional) events occurred that advanced their own story as well.Even better, your choice of companions in your away team will affect how the world reacts to you and how certain sequences play out.“Each companion has their own point of view on factions in the game, the career paths they’re going on, etc.” Heins says. “If they’re with you when you’re talking to various NPCs they’ll interject and give you their opinion in conversations.”As anyone who fell in love with HK-47 in KOTOR knows, sometimes the best companions are ones that will test you, tease you, or even get you in trouble. It turns out that The Outer Worlds features companions that serve a similar role. Sometimes, your companions will even use their skills to straight-up troll you.“So, you might have a companion who’s a really great liar, which is always fun when you’re having a conversation with them,” Heins says. “It’s like, ‘Are you just lying to me right now?
I can’t tell.’”. While companions having a little fun with you in a private conversation is one thing, there are also times when the attitude of your companions can lead to someunintended consequences if you’re not careful.“One of my favorite companions in the game is a guy named Felix,” Heins says.
“He’s almost like your hype man. So if you have him with you in your party, he may get excited and start egging on your enemies, trying to edge things towards a fight. It’s like ‘Whoa, Felix, calm down.
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Let’s talk our way through here without just getting in a fight.’”Matthew Byrd is a staff writer for Den of Geek. He spends most of his days trying to pitch deep-dive analytical pieces about Killer Klowns From Outer Space to an increasingly perturbed series of editors. You can or find him on Twitter at.
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