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Outer Wilds. Any explanation that I give would be massive spoilers, but it captures a genre, aesthetic, and theme that, in my experience, has been virtually unused by any other game before and still remains extremely underutilized
I came to say Outer Wilds as well. Honestly changed my perspective on what a video game can be and I can't find any other game that gives me that same feeling. The only bad thing about Outer Wilds is you can only really experience it once
I’m four hours in and just don’t get it
That's fine. 4 hours isn't enough to really get into the meat of the game yet. If you feel like you're kinda stumbling around a bit without quite knowing what the goal of the game is, that's normal. The game is specifically designed to not give you any objectives, and a big part of making the game enjoyable is to not try to judge the game by regular game design conventions. There are no win conditions, no lose conditions, no objectives, and the game becomes much more enjoyable if you just play the game in the way that you think makes the most sense. You'll just need to have a bit of faith that there is actually an end, you just never get told how to get to the end.
If you're struggling with not crashing, then that's a different issue altogether, and honestly my advice is to just use autopilot. Make sure to disable autopilot if you start to see that autopilot is going to crash you into the sun.
I get it might not be for everyone. Until the main thing happened the first time I wasn't sold either, but personally, the game does an amazing job at making me naturally and fervently curious about what the heck was going on
You’re basically dropped into a huge set of mysteries.
You get to explore, at your leisure, anything you want.
There’s places and dialog and written records that contain clues and references to different threads of those interconnected mysteries.
As you play, read, explore you uncover more and more and what happened, is happening, and will happen start to make sense and you build a picture in your mind of what’s going on.
There’s no unlocks or progress except for these moments of discovery. And as you learn and discover more you can get access to new places to dig into the mystery because you have acquired the knowledge that lets you do it.
Don’t feel bad if you don’t click with it. I love puzzle oriented games and while this was the most unique experience ever in a game (and I suggest all people try it), it was really a mental challenge getting through this game. I actually abandoned the DLC, because I honestly reached my limit. You have to really love repetition.
What part don't you get? If you can be more specific, people might be able to help you out with some largely spoiler-free hints.
For example, do you not get 'what the goal is' (this is a legitimate concern, and someone might be able to give you a direction to pursue for example)
I saw the question, came to post this only to see yours.
It truly is a unique experience. I jokingly say to my family that if I ever have some kind of temporary amnesia prompt me to play that.
I also occasionally watch let’s plays of streamers to vicariously experience some of those moments of realization as the story unfolds.
Seriously play it if you haven’t and avoid streams, videos, etc like the plague. The game progression is 100% knowledge based. So spoilers really do take away part of the experience.
Thanks! I have it but haven’t played it yet. This may be what finally gets me out of my video game rut!
Yep. By far the best game ever made. It's not even close. It's truly an experience. I wish I could play it again. I've watched so many streams of people playing it for the first time just trying to recapture some of the magic for myself.
I’ve heard so many friends say this. And I have the game but it’s like I forget it’s there and so I’ve never played it. I need to fucking play it…thanks for not spoiling anything and reminding me :)
Yeah not a big gamer, but I've enjoyed what I've played so far. Loved Myst and Riven when I was younger, and it scratches that itch. I think I only played like 10-15 hours before I got too busy to play anything. I should really get back on it to see it through
One of those games I'll never understand the hype, I despise Fortnite but I get it. But this, looks just meh
I got the game because of a video review that struck me with how little it gave away. Because it bent over backwards to avoid spoiling it.
I played it for 5 minutes and thought, standard tutorial level design and the models could use some work.
10 minutes after that I was on my way with a code and just headed to explore. A few minutes later something crazy happened, and I was struck thinking “what just happened”
A few hours later I was pulling on a thread of exploration when I saw some celestial event that reminded me about another thread of another mystery and made me go “ohhhh, so I need to go here and check this out at a certain point in the orbit”
One crazy weekend was over and I had felt wonder, sadness, frustration, melancholy and hope in such amazingly timed waves of intrigue and discovery that I wish I could do it again.
It may not be to everyone’s taste and I get looking at the initial style and thinking there’s cut corners but there aren’t.
I will spoil one technical detail. The entire solar system is emulated in real time. Things and events are inter connected in ways that I’m personally shocked they ever got the game to run on the Nintendo Switch. It’s a technical masterpiece even if it doesn’t look it at first glance.
Not Outer Worlds, which is a shooter, Outer Wilds is a story based.... Um.... I feel like anything more than that is a spoiler
Easy best game I've ever played.
I'm talking about that one
Looks? So you've never played it? Then you can't comment. Only way to actually get it is to play it or at least watch someone play it blindly.
Not really
Yes, really. There's an exception to literally every single rule. And this game was an exception to many people's rules. Could be yours too. You won't know until you experience it. You can pretend you know what it is all you want meanwhile, but that's all it is, pretending.
Again, not really. You don't have to agree with me but don't try to tell me what to feel or rate.
Again, yes really. I'm sorry you're offended, but that's just how some things are. When you don't understand something, it's not because you're stupid, it's because you haven't tried to understand it. And you've literally admitted to not trying to understand outer wilds.
And that's that. It's fine, you don't have to. But every thing you think you know or feel about it is made up, since you've never actually experienced it. Imagine going on Google maps and rating some place you've never been to. Or those people that give ratings to books and movies that aren't out yet. That's you in this situation. And well.. now THAT is something I'll never understand.
According to YOU. Not me
That's not how facts and opinions work, I'm sorry. Good luck!