I feel like Outer Worlds is a successor to Fallout 1 and 2. i felt like it was mostly about the story and not about the open-world freedom that the games from Fallout 3 onward have provided. That's not to say it's bad game. I think there are (at least) two main Fallout camps: those that enjoyed the story-driven worldbuilding from the older games and FNV as well as those that enjoy the agency in the newer ones. If you fall into the first camp, Outer Worlds is fantastic.
