Why do people suck this game's dick so much? It's just a pretentious garbage game written by retarded leftists for fucking retarded theater kids.
you are the perfect example of a 4chan brainrot npc
thats ok i didnt finish it too OP
What's this game is about?
>>724664636Old bad new good
>>724664636you know how you go through life learning and experiencing new things, only to die, so none of that knowledge and growth actually matters at all?it's about that.
>>724663758I like the puzzles and music, it's nice
>>724663758should they make games for angry low-vocab chuds?
>>724663758Explain what makes this game leftist. Try not to sound like a schizo when doing it.
>>724664636flying a spaceship into anglerfish
is this the game that has the highest triggering power of all the videogames in /v/?
>Can fly from planet to planet with your ship>Can fly from planet to planet without your ship>No objective markers telling you where to go, it's all up to you>No loading screens except for when you dieSeems pretty good to me
I pirated it and it was well worth it but I won't pay for anything that uses theythems
>>724665676See >>724664713
What's the point in this cutesie troon shit when Kerbal exists and does everything better and has no women, minorities, or leftist propaganda?
>>724663758>ship navigation is good>retard writer forced to gender the npcs for latin based languages kek>>724664636majora's mask/groundhog day ripoff
>>724663758The game would have been a lot better if it were more conservative with the translator. You never really have to think about what anything means or where you have to go because it is all spelled out for you in plain English. Other than that, it does a marvelous job at feeling like an adventure.
>>724663758>American with political obsession and brainrotYou don't have good tastes anyway, you wouldn't get it.
>>724667479The problem is the average person is extremely stupid so if you make a game too difficult, it will flop. The issue is compounded thanks to TikTok making the majority of the population have the attention span of a flea.
>>724667479To hear the devs at Mobius tell it, they had enough trouble as it was trying to make the mystery of the ATP feel like a natural, logical discovery, allowing for moments of revelation while not being too obtuse. I imagine having to manually translate Nomai glyphs and such would run counter to that goal and make this game's already narrow appeal even narrower.
>>724664850But that's true though. Buddhists were right yet again.Nothing matters. I will leech and be a NEET for as long as I can.Buddhists are essentially NEETs. They have lay people which are like parents who provide money and food.The world is suffering because some guy decided that the world population should be 8 billion with his inventions. Nobody asked to be here.
>>724667479It would've been cool if there was an option at the beginning that let you enable/disable the ship log. Kinda like a normal/hard mode thing.
>>724668160Evaluating the truth-value of the statement of a theme is painfully un-Bhuddist of you.
>>724667558>if i force my totally-not-political agenda into every game and then call the people who are against it political that means i won
>>724668160Buddhism is the single most useless thought-virus humanty's ever produced. Even Islam has some small, positive quality to it -- there is no upside to Buddhism, only stagnancy and defeat
Name one mechanic that outer wilds has in common with the most popular game genres of today.You can't.That's why it's good.It's not a fucking rocket surgery.In the endless sea of suits and braindead idiots, this small band of devs actually showed an ounce of creativity and put out some interesting mechanics, and it put literally everything else to shame.That's how dim and lame the current scene is, it takes that little.How creatively bankrupt the studios of today are is actually insane. They just regurgitate the same ideas that have been around for one quarter of a century and at best maybe slap a slightly better coat of graphics on top, that's all they can manage...Disgusting and sad.
>>724663758There is something really fun about cackling like a madman once you have that faggot moon pinned down.
>>724667567I get that marketability is always a concern, but I think this that even if Outer Wilds was that difficult without the translator, which I would not know since it was a thought that came to me on reflection, it would probably not be that difficult. There are only so many things you can do in the game and death being meaningless makes it ideal for experimentation, but for any significant logical leap that would not come easily for anyone, you could probably have done a system of talking about it with the museum guys or one of the scientists.
>>724664065Maybe, but there's a decent chance it's one of the dedicated boardshitters posing as a brainrot npc.
>>724666740>I pirated it and it was well worth it but I won't pay for anything that uses theythemsliteral brainrot
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>>724668723retard take>>724666740based take
>>724664636local space exploration and solving a problemgive it a pirate, see if you like it
>>724664636You’re an astronaut who touches a weird space artifact. Now you’re stuck in a time loop where if you die you go back to the beginning right after you touched the artifact. Don’t die? Somehow the sun explodes and kills all life in the solar system. Your goal? Solve both of these problems by investigating your solar system for info on the ancient aliens responsible for all of this weird technology.
>>724663758it's a meme to like that game, it is awful
>>724663758>fun puzzles>interesting premise>actual exploration being rewardedI would have liked if it had multiple actual endings instead of just the one you're locked into but it's very engaging and I liked that most of the situations didn't have only one solution to solve it
>>724666667This is part of what I liked, it's genuinely very mysterious and doesn't hold your hand much despite being on rails it lets the players come to their own conclusions on what to do even if some or incorrect or less efficient and that's pretty cool. For example on the quantum moon you have the choice of>moon shuttle>get lucky>fly directly into the moon following orbital imagingI also love the sun station
>>724667567>>724668016I think this game could have been pretty fine if you still had the automatic translator, but you had to manually insert the translations similar to a cipher you figure out or the FFX collectibles
>>724663758>why do people praise the genuinely fantastic video game?Because they have taste.The feeling of having no objective beyond my own curiosity, and watching that objective shift as the story threads wove together to form the information wall tapestry, was something I had never experienced before in a video game.On top of that, the theme of the story hit me like a fucking train. Much like Subnautica, it is a game I wish I could completely forget so I could play it for the first time again.11/10 soundtrackWhat an amazing game.
>>724666740Literal enlightenment
>>724663758the flying is great. so are the planets. but the whole mystery thing should have been an Easter egg instead of being the main objective
I hated the repetition. I hated having to do the same things over and over in 22 minute bursts. I would've rather had an hour per loop so I don't feel as rushed.
>>724671394>That period at the end where you here the main theme at full blastKino
>>724673470well tbf every single puzzle segment in the game can be solved in under 10 minutes and usually you never need to revisit, though I agree some locations and some types of encounters are rather gated by the time too much to properly get into it
>>724663758Scariest game i've ever played. Had to pause it when I accidentally started to fall into the black hole.
>>724663758I thought it was very good, but I also agree that it's a pretentious game written by retarded leftists and doesn't deserve the massive praise it gets.
>>724674053>pretentious gameWhat does it pretend to be?
>>724671394>11/10 soundtrackReally? There's nothing all that special about the music itself, but it does use the music very well.
>>724670456only 4chan hates this game. Everyone else likes it. I think the game is a bit too reliant on each planet having its own gimmick and also every single line of text feels like it was written by a single person. I think these are the only things holding it back from being a true masterpiece, but I think its design philosophy is pretty innovative and someone will eventually come along and make something that does what Outer Wilds does, but better.
>>724674098Profound.
>>724664065You don’t belong here,predditor. >>724663758Based TRUKE>>724667558Nigger
>>724673770I wish they'd had the guts to make you lose your save if you die for real but I can understand why they didn't.
>>724674376I think people like me who grabbed the warp core without thinking would probably mald into a hiatus for the game and considering how pretty heavy this game is on "fuck around first before you figure it out" that seems like a very heavy punishment. Then again the game is pretty much solveable in the first loop if you have the meta knowledge necessary, so it's quite well crafted anyway
I thought it was really fun, and overall well crafted. Until the ending hit which was just flat and stupid. Ruined the whole experience for me.
>>724674703I like that the ending is sort of a culmination of the game's story elements and has more cool features when you solve all the optional stuff and dlc, but yeah I can see why you would think that. Definitely feels like the weakest part of the game especially compared to dicking around in the starting planet and then getting nuked because you weren't paying attention to the time
Adore this game. Never have discoveries made such a difference
>>724667082is there any sort of mod where I can add niggers? I'm just used to it at this point
>>724664636The culmination of a long line of people planting the seeds of trees they will never live to see.
>>724675701Pretty well said actually, this is probably the most central theme of the game's story
>>724663758Which streamer is this guy parroting with this thread? >>724664570
>>724676359>everyone who has an opinion different from me is just parroting a streamer
>Outer Soi
>>724663758The game itself is pretty boring but it's probably the only instance of a time travel story making sense and properly closing all possible holes that is inherently created by having time travel, which is neat. It's a solid 8/10
>>724663758as a game dev, I like some technical aspects like how they solved rendering and simulating oceans on spheres among other thingsnever played it though, I tend to stay clear of hyped up games because 98% of humanity is clinically retarded
>>724663758you're a thirdieit requires at least 30% whiteness and I doubt you're even in the double digits
>>724663758
>>724677326I'm 100% white (from Sudan) and I hated the game.
>>724663758>Why do people suck this game's dick so much?because they've never read a book before
>>724677326>it requires at least 30% whiteness and I doubt you're even in the double digitsThat's where I got you. My ancestry dot cum results came by mail today and they clearly say tha... no wait, this cannot be...
>>724664636Exploring a solar system and trying to solve (several) mysteries. Doesn't hold your hand and /v/ hates that.
>>724677564puzzle games and novels scratch completely different itches
>>724677194>closing all possible holes that is inherently created by having time travelI was thinking about it, you destroy spacetime when you go through the black hole in ATP but don't enter it in the next cycle. But that happens every time the loop happens because of the probe. It sends information through the black hole, and in the next cycle sends a diferent set of information, so the first set was never sent and causality should broken
>>724663758I played it the first time and wasn't in the right headspace. Played it again during the pandemic and enjoyed it OK, but it wasn't like people make it out to be.I didn't really get the ending
>>724664636It's a essentially a book that's shredded into paragraphs. The gameplay is solving puzzles and using logical reasoning to find these paragraphs scattered in a large sandbox. It's designed in a way that you go through a natural progression of learning information to move on to the next step. It's an ambitious idea, executed pretty much as perfectly as it can, and it's a game for people who like reading and narratives.
>>724677264you have your head dug up your ass for no good reason, the game is good despite being hyped.
i agree with OP but not about political brainrot. the puzzles aren't THAT clever. the best part about the game is flying the rocket ship. there should have been more of that and less face checking envrionments i don't give a shit about for audio logs i don't give a shit about for puzzles that aren't interesting. like, muh quantum moon muh funny cannon muh funny ash twins guys! whatever. the whole game should have been segments like landing on the tornado island or the fish sequence. then it'd be alright.
>>724679854this image actually very accurately describes how i felt about it's writing and everyone who thought it was super deep or the puzzles mindblowing
>>724674570Exactly. Even if it deleted your save file, it wouldn't delete the knowledge from your journey. Then you get the cheevo for beating the game on your first loop.
>>724663758Oh, is this one of those Ops where you post the exact opposite of what you truly think as rage bait to get responses? Well, good job, little buddy. I also really enjoyed the game just as much as you did!
>>724680512Yeah it is rather kino in that regard
>>724663758Not garbage, but it is pretentious redditcore. I liked the central concept of a non-linear information puzzle in a timeloop, but the game taking itself very seriously despite its cartoonish presentation was a source of constant tonal whiplash and became an anchor dragging me out of immersion.solid 7/10 puzzle game with an identity problem, would recommend for kids
>>724673770>That period at the end where you here the main theme at full blastEveryone thinks that song means the sun is about to go supernovaIt actually means the loop is over
I started playing this the other day, been really enjoying it but it can be frustrating trying to race to a place before time runs out only to fall down a chasm or something (fuck that fucking black hole)Then there are other things like the Sunless City where you have even less time to do stuff there
>>724684164Yes I meant exactly the ending and not the sun exploding which has it's own neat audio queue
>>724684173Sunless City was particularly rough until you figure out the shortcut but I suppose that's part of the cool meta elements in the game between harmonic teleporters and natural shortcuts that let you bypass the intended long way around and save time. Like the goated>Parking directly on the bridge of hanging garden>Running through the gravity cannon segment>Geysers in starting planetI just wish Dark Bramble had a shortcut you could use instead
>>724683684>would recommend for kidsReally? You'd recommend a game about the inevitability of death and learning to face said death with quiet dignity to children?
>>724670354you are a genuine prick for spoiling all that.
>>724688192>"spoiling" the basic premise of the game to someone who asked for the basic premise of the game
>>724688514if a retard asks you to shoot him, DO YOU SHOOT HIM?!you should know better!
>>724686562the next generation of goth girls aren't going to raise themselves
>>724668723>Name one mechanic that outer wilds has in common with the most popular game genres of today.Looking with the camera.Looking in first-person mode.Gravity.Localized gravity with unusual objects (Super Mario Galaxy to start with, but games earlier than that, like walking on the ceiling in Twilight Princess, or even way back to Sonic where you gravitate towards certain items)PuzzlesPuzzles in a sandbox environment.Open World.Ship piloting....Have you just never played a platformer or puzzle or RPG game before?
>>724674703I don't think I've ever heard someone dislike the ending. To me the ending was the best and most emotional part.
I'm going to be brutally honest. I got filtered by the invisible death matter that you have to keep repeatedly firing the drone and taking pictures over and fucking over to just walk through shit safely.Fuck that shit. Someone make a mod that makes the invisible death bullshit visible and I'll play the stupid fucking game, but I am not dealing with this retarded-ass kaizo shit.
>>724691121>old bad new goodIt's so fucking gay.
>>724663758It was fun, and it actually felt like exploring and figuring shit out instead of just following a checklist or being manipulated into getting dopamine hits, like most games today. I don't see how the game could possibly make you this angry.>retarded leftistsYeah, I hate them too, and the genderless fish people were extremely gay. That doesn't really take away from the fact that it was a fun game with a neat concept.
>>724668634>t. jewish brained numbers go up retard
>>7246913061. You can take pictures without firing the drone2. There are never any mazes to navigate through. The paths are always super clear and easy to follow. Maybe you're misremembering.
>>724663758I didn't read anything but the ship logs and I enjoyed it
>>724691329How tf was that your takeaway from the ending?
>>724664065At least I'm not a LIBTARD
>>7246914031. I don't fucking care, it's bad time-wasting game design just like invisible blocks over pits in Mario hacks. Remove it. It's shit.2. There's at least two areas with so much of the shit that I'd define them as mazes, especially considering that you're on a goddamn time limit before you die. Having to waste time sitting there taking pictures over and over pisses me off.
>>724674254Most people are musically illiterate and are incapable of properly judging the quality of a musical work. The result of allowing normies to have access to music.
>>724670354Sounds exactly like Halo.
>>724688535yes, obviouslyone less retard in the world
>>724688535> dude if you kill metaphor bs in 2025
>>724691548You sound like you want to be mad. Somehow I doubt you'd enjoy the game even if ghost matter wasn't a factor.but I did find this anyway https://outerwildsmods.com/mods/ghostmatternerf/
>>724664065FPBP
>>724691726I'll give it another chance with that, I suppose. I'll probably rage at the ship controls sending me into the sun next, but it is what it is. That at least is a git gud problem and not insufferable bad design.I do really like this genre of game, that's the reason I'm so mad. I was intrigued by the plot and the mystery, but the ghost matter kept killing me over and over and over. Void Stranger, Environmental Station Alpha and Tunic were all very enjoyable to me.
>>724691306the ghost matter is never difficult or even tedious to avoid... Did you not do the tutorial???
>>724663758as soon as I tested the flight mechanics, I knew what kind of game this would be and dropped it right then. The walking until then had been a hint, it was that stupid, flowing movement that feels like input lag that so many of those types of games have. Then flying was the opposite of fun so I knew the game wasn't about the 'game' part and that part had suffered severely for it.
>>724691851People like you make me more mad than the game itself.
>>724663758>I'm scared and confused about positive sentiment for a game>here's an ambiguous yet flagrant criticism so I can seem above it all and not appear vulnerable for liking somethingthis website is so gay.
>>724691897Sorry, I wasn't trying to be condescending. I genuinely think you might have missed something though. The only place I remember ghost matter being annoying was on the dark bramble piece on Giants deep and maybe in the sunless city. Other than that I feel like it was just used to block off random paths. I hope you're able to go back and enjoy the game though!
>>724691818It's extra funny that you can complain about it to the dude.Also ghost matter is pretty easy to avoid, you learn kinda quickly that it's hydrophobic and there's usually a lot of ways around it
>>724663758I always confuse this with the Rick and Morty game. I liked Blue Prince so i'd probably like this but it supposedly has some time constraint thing and that puts me off
>>724692256Blue Prince is fucking garbage with babby tier "puzzles" that are harder to execute due to being an RNG fest than actually mentally solve.
>>724663758You lost tranny
>>724663758lol
>>724663758If you don't get it, you are low IQ.It's literally that simple.
>>724664065Fpbp op is not just a fag, but a retarded one
>>724691329Are you actually retarded?
>>724663758It's midwit reddit slop for zoomerskek they're itt raging so hard too
>>724689885ah yes it's just any other game because other games have movement mechanics and this game also has movement mechanics and you can move the camera (just like in any other game)retard take, sorry
>>724668723Peak reddit right hereUpdoots to the left!
>>724695263>zoomoid thinks the first-person adventure genre is just a default feature of all video gamesan entire generation cooked frfr senpai no cap on MLK
>>724664065fpbp
>>724664636exploring and investigating the state of the solar system. uncovering the past, trying to make sense of it, and make use it.it is not an instant gratification game
>>724692256There is no time constraints. You get 22 minutes to explore before things reset, but it's more like a 22 minutes schedule. You can play it as much as you want.
>>724663758i got filtered by the tutorial when the gay aliens wanted me to practice flying the ship or whateverlike cmon bro just let me play the game
>>724677264>A lot of people say that this game is good, so I won't play itHow about you make up your own damn mind? Just pirate it and see for yourself.
>>724663758this and baldurs gate 3 are the only good woke games I can think of
>>724674053>GRRRRR, LEFTTTTTTTTTTIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSTTTTTSSSSSS!Just slit your throat faggot.
>>724699161You can just walk right past them, anon. The tutorials are optional.
>>724699645>LEFTTTTTTTTTTIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSTTTTTSSSSSS!>Just slit your throat faggot.No. It's relevant, because it made the writing kind of cringe in parts and detracted from my experience.
How come rightoids only seethe at games and never actually make them?
>>724700524Industry capture. But anyway, rightoids just quietly make apolitical games. Leftists should try it sometime.
>>724664636The sun is going to explode. But you shouldn’t worry because nothing you do can stop it
>>724700524>rightoidsIt’s actually kikes that wish to divide all aspects of society. The easiest way to spot them is the fact that they are seething over an indie game
>>724700524"Rightoids" have made plenty of games, you're just too stupid to realize it.Your problem is that you've internally normalized everything which isn't your particular modern blend of performative degeneracy, and so, much like a marxoid loudly proclaiming that "white people have no culture" from the marble steps of a university's 500-year-old library, all you're doing is revealing to everyone else that you're a provincial moron blinded by ideology.
>>724663758Just a game designed for faggots and necromorphs/zippertits (pic related), nothing good or inteligent about it.
>>724664636the solar system is a giant puzzle and you have to solve it
>>724664636letting go
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>>724688192Nothing that he said is a spoiler. That's literally the premise of the game.
>>724691818my dude, I've seen women complete this game without issue. How is avoiding clearly telegraphed ghost matter the great filter for you?Like swallow your pride and admit you are being a moron, then spend 30 seconds thinking on how to tackle this problem better than you did before.You aren't even a retard, just your ego is hurt and protecting you from getting better.
Nice falseflag raid, tiktok trannies.
>>724703035it's a big spoiler.There is people who gave a hint as to what te game is without spoiling, Look here for a NON RETARD explanation: >>724675701>>724677651>>724679165>>724696104
It's a great game, but I've reached the point twice where I've exhausted all clues and the game expected me to go through each planet all over again. Fuck that.
>>724668160>The world is suffering because some guy decided that the world population should be 8 billionIf everyone was White, that wouldn’t be a problem.
>>724703992The first one is actually a bigger spoiler than anything in the post you're complaining about. The other three are fine.>>724704149I don't think that's actually possible. The game explicitly tells you when you haven't found 'something' in an area, and the only way for that to be the case on every planet is if you haven't actually exhausted any leads at all.
>>724704335>The first one is actually a bigger spoiler than anything in the post you're complaining about.It's foreshadowing, people who haven't played the game wont understand it without context.It's only after they complete the game will they get it.
I had this game hyped up as the best thing ever and you must not know a thing about it or you'll get spoiled, I was pretty disappointed because there is no big major reveal that's actually that interesting.
>>724704426You don't describe the premise of a story with foreshadowing. You do describe the premise of a story with a summary of the first chapter, which is what you're calling 'spoilers.'It's not a spoiler to say Harry Potter is about a little boy becoming a wizard. it is a spoiler to say Harry Potter is about coping with the death of your loved ones.
>>724704596I completely disagree with your viewpoint.Not only that your metaphors are inaccurate as a comparison as well, probably because you don't get "it" what is spoiling outer wilds and what isn't.The proper experience of outerwilds is to know 0% before going in.The less you know, the better.Explaining everything that happens early on completely robs the mystery and awe of it happening.I repeat, the person spoiling things in the manner I objected to, is an absolute cunt, literally robbing people of a good experience.>b-0b-b-b-b--b-b-bbut how will I know if I should play gamejust play it and if you don't like it then don't continue playing it. Everybody and their mother thinks this is a good game, so it's not like you are getting a buggy piece of shit or something. JUST PLAY IT, or don't. But don't be a hyper retard and ruin the game for yourself that you can only experience once.
>>724704838>The proper experience of outerwilds is to know 0% before going in.You're being hyperbolic to the point of absurdity. Knowing that it's a space game is not 0%. Knowing that it's an exploring game without quest markers is not 0%. Knowing these things will not detract from the experience whatsoever. I knew it was a space game with a time loop long before I played it, but i still count it among the greatest games ever made because I wasn't spoiled on the puzzles or the plot beyond the premise. The first loop doesn't even have a 22-minute time limit - the timer doesn't start until you take off in the ship. Thus, you can reasonably predict that within the first hour of the game the player will have experienced death and at least one solar flare, to understand that the game is a time loop and the plot is to solve the mysteries of the looping and the sun exploding.
>>724674376after grabbing the thing, i got the shakes so bad i didn't even see the code show up on the HUDspent several minutes trying to copy it over from my mspaint notes but couldn't do it right and ran outta timeto be honest it was better than the actual ending and really should've deleted the savefile
>>724705102>You're being hyperbolic to the point of absurdity.I am not. I am 100% serious.>Knowing that it's a space game is not 0%.You don't even need to know that it's a space game.Best experience is having somebody install it for you, plop you behind the chair as the main menu screen is loading and that's it.>Knowing that it's an exploring game without quest markers is not 0%.You don't need to know this.The only thing you need to know it's that it's a good game.>Knowing these things will not detract from the experience whatsoever.it will, but significantly less so than those horrid spoilers.> I knew it was a space game with a time loop long before I played it, but i still count it among the greatest games ever made because I wasn't spoiled on the puzzles or the plot beyond the premiseyou are a retard. You lost out on something, and because you didn't experience what you lost out on, you think you didn't lose out on anything.It's like a moron who says he doesn't see what the difference is in having teenage love with a virgin girl, he fucked stacy that had a bodycount of 20 and he still came, so he doesn't see what the big difference on virginity is and body count, like why do you even care bro.The sad part is that you are somewhat dead inside so you can't even imagine why something might be good.>Thus, you can reasonably predict that within the first hour of the game the player will have experienced death and at least one solar flare,You are a fucking cunt and I hate you. Stop this shit. GOD You might be a cuck that loves getting sloppy seconds but there might be new people here that actually haven't played the game and you are robbing them, literally robbing them of their cool discoveries.Genuinely if you were in the same room with me and other people who might want to play outerwilds but dont' know anything about it. If you spoiled it like this I'd knock your retarded ass out.
ok let me leave a post with a retarded opinion on the game that is easily countered, and then ten automatic machines would reply to my post tearing it apart leaving no doubt in an outside observers mind that my opinion is in fact wrong, and that the game is indeed without an issue
>>724673470This shit killed the game for me. Once you figure out what to do you either have too little or too much time. Ffs they should've increased the loop to an hour and just given us a skip time option.
>>724705467your post is factually wrong because why a small company such as the developers of the said game would develop such underhanded tactics of marketing?
>>724702808It's this
>>724705467your post is factually wrong because it doesnt fit the correct political views
>>724705297After grabbing the thing, I died to a cactus.And I still kind of wished they'd make that stick.
>>724663758I tried it once and gave up before the first big happening even occured.
>>724705464>I am not. I am 100% serious.I didn't say you weren't serious. I said you were hyperbolic to the point of absurdity. Your reply is not beating those allegations. Take your pills, jack off, and take a nap. You won't feel better but at least you'll be quiet for a bit.>I'd knock your retarded ass out.Yes, yes... we have already established that you're emotionally unstable.
>>724677264Hello fellow contrarian. Outer Wilds stole my heart and part of that is because I'm a developer too. The game is phenomenal on its own, but understanding the effort that went into the project makes it that much more meaningful. It's the only game that has ever made me shed a tear in my 30 or so years of playing games.
This game is the epitome of>Well you have magic so why can't you have Honda Civic in your fantasy game too??I can't get over a wooden space ship that doesn't even have an airtight hull. The game is just fucking retarded in terms of physics. I can't get over all the retarded things in it. I'm not normally autistic about what's plausible but how can you play this, flying in a wooden space ship that looks like a tree hut built by 10-year-olds, traversing from planet to planet in like 1 minute of flying with no sense of distance or scale, and think that, yeah, this makes sense and is immersive.I also hated the onions-ass characters but that wasn't my main problem.
>>724663758movement's fun>>724664636you're an alien and there's a whole solar system around you with the remains of dead aliens and you are the first alien with a translator so you get to fly around on your ship translating their alien stuff. Also in like the first 20 mins or so (like literally the second after the tutorial) an alien statue looks at you creating a majora's mask like time loop if you die so using your ability to fly around you have to uncover what happened to the dead aliens using their writing in like a metroidvania like game but you get all the items and upgrades you are ever going to get during the tutorial
>>724663758>pretentiousWhy is everybody that uses this word a total retard?
>>724706420>The game is just fucking retarded in terms of physicsThe planets are also walking-distance apart from one another, if it helps.
>>724704149>I've exhausted all cluesthe game builds up to 3 or 4 big clues iircyou can basically guess 1 or 2 of them if you're far enough but you'll need to do some other stuff to get the True(tm) ending (you can repeat it so it's not really missable)if you're stuck on a very specific thing like you can see where you need to go and are basically 80% there then no harm in looking it up, but I think that's only the case if you only have the one clue left in the clue tree for that area, otherwise keep at it and try approaching things with fresh eyes instead of banging your head against a wall
>>724706420where's your sense of whimsy, anon? I've read similar complaints on here for OW and I'm baffled every time. no where does the game sell itself as anything close to a space sim.
>>724663758It delivers in a way that games haven't delivered in for fucking ages Yes it's as good as they say, and yes the way people talk about it is affected by the low state of the entire industry Take a break from baiting it's halloween ffs
>>724706695It just felt like a Saturday morning cartoon I'd watch as a kid. I'm a big boy now. I don't do cartoons.The problem I have with this game in particular though is that, in my mind, these kinds of walking simulator exploration games are all about immersion for me. I play these games for the sense of being there. This game has 0 of that so it completely clashed with what I want from these games, so I just refunded. Someone here just recommended it to me as being like Subnautica, when most of the fun in Subnautica for me was the spooky factor and immersion.And yeah there's a lot of things in most games that you can Frodo about. Like Subnautica tech refining things instantly from rock to finished product. That's what I mean that I'm not normally autistic about what's plausible. If you tell me "it's future tech, bro" I'll just buy it if it fits the setting. But this game didn't even try. It's just a ramshackle wooden fucking space ship with no explanation. It's like the writers didn't take their own world seriously at all. Millenial onions writing, putting it in /v/ terms.
>>724707017nta I agree with you on every point. Still think it's a great game that should be taught in schools
>>724707017it's all personal taste in the end but I think you're in a small minority hereit's one giant puzzle themed around aliens and banjos. for one thing if it wasn't gamified you'd be waiting literal years between planets and that wouldn't fit the 22 minute time limit. the themes themselves transcend the (in your opinion) childish presentation. I think the best media is stuff that captures the imagination of a 10 year old or a 40 year old all the same. the message is timeless and it's wrapped in a very cute quirky story, while also delivering existential themes that you wouldn't find in edgy grimdark space crafting sim #91. the highs and lows offer a wide range of emotions that most games fail to deliver. and as gay as this sounds you can tell it's a product of passion and sincerity, unlike most vidya.
>>724707594>it's all personal taste in the endYeah, I know. But we post bait here and argue, so I had to exaggerate a little in the original post.>I think the best media is stuff that captures the imagination of a 10 year old or a 40 year old all the sameAnd I don't even disagree. But I'm not gonna complain about the Cat Bus in Totoro. It's a Cat Bus. Cute, cool. They just have Cat Buses over there.But I still can't get over a wooden space ship because they didn't even try to explain why that's a thing, when presumably physics work the same way there. To me that just goes from whimsical fantasy to retarded and lazy. So, I'll never play it, and that's my problem, but it's probably a good game if you can look past that.
>>724707954>they didn't even try to explain why that's a thingWell they do explain that the Nomai mined out most of their metals for the ATP shell, which is why their planet doesn't have a lot and uses wood for most things. But they left just enough that they assumed the species would still be able to build stuff.
>>724663758Because it's amazing. Definitely one of the GOAT games.>leftisthuh?Disco Elysium I understand, but not this game. Disco is literally made by communists.>>724667430>majora's mask/groundhog day ripoffA good one too. Probably better than both, but I still prefer MM.
>>724708315I meant why a really flimsy-looking wooden space ship is capable of space flight at all. But this is just my personal autistic gripe I'm repeating over and over again so it's whatever.
>>724708390>Disco is literally made by communists.Oh and btw it might beat New Vegas for me with dialogue options... although I think it did some dumb marxist tropes and didn't feel comfortable with dealing with Fascist ideology. It felt entry level on that part. I thought it was going to destroy all the ideologies in the game too, and it didn't. Just reinforced one over the others. Kinda lame. I want to play a game where I could be marx, hitler, a rothschild or a murdering psychopath (all of the above?) with options.
>>724663758>WhyIt's good.Not for everyone but it is fun once you get the hang of itIt's even "good enough" to a point were we can accuse you of stealth-shilling the game with a blatant/false hate against it. Fake controversy is the easiest way to market anything those day.Outer Wild could be made better but as it is, it's quite original and new game should learn from it and reach new height.
>>724708763I kinda am getting sick of astroturfing. Trolling OPs have always been cancer, but to monetise it is just killing the internet. There's even this sort of shit IRL with marketing ploys nowadays. Publicity stunts.
>>724708763It's a good walking sim, it's not a good game. I'd rate the whole thing as fairly average as far as games go, but for zoomers who have never played a real game because they're too young for it, it's probably amazing when your comparison points are cawadoody and minecraft.
>>724709143It's not a walking sim, you need to put the puzzle together to advance to the end. It's a 3D adventure game with some platforming in it. But the way you discover the world you're in is a phenomenal experience. A crazy experience. It's very rare to get that sort of experience in a game nowadays. I think games like Returnal where you discover the true nature of the dilemma you're in are extremely fun. In this game, the dilemma is universal and it throws you so many twists that you can discover in nearly any order for a different experience. The problem is... it only works once and after that it's just exploring the world for little eggs here and there to flesh out what you already know. But late game it actually gets a bit tiresome trying to play with the 20 min loop mechanic because there are so many timed events that are so precis. If you fuck it up, that's 20 mins wasted. Otherwise, it's extremely fun to figure the puzzles out and the timings at first.
>>724663758Can we please have more like this game?I've already played every fucking thing similar like Tunic, Animal Well, Void Stranger, and that one captain toad-like thingI've looked everywhere and nothing was able to scratch the god damn itch.Closest upcoming game I'm waiting for is Echo Weaver which is still stuck in development hell apparently.Fuck, i'm so hungry for more.
>>724664636You did get at least 2 honest answer but I'll add one more:It's an exploration game in a time loopIt doesn't have objectives like "go there" instead you are meant to decide yourself (and from the Rumor Mode data you gathered) what you should be looking for next.You need to put together the full picture because only taking small bits are misleading.Then you make a choice to end the time loop or not, asking yourself existential questions about the meaning of life.Flying the spaceship is fun, lot of physics, but you'll spend most of your time platforming, sometime over a black-hole, upside down.No enemy to shoot at, just obstacles to avoid, enemies to flee or exploit, shooting a remote cameraBe warned that it is a regular occurrence for players to give up ~10h in, then retry it months later without overthinking it and finish it in 20h.The DLC is worth 10h itself, its story complete but is completely distinct from the original, and you'll only be flying the ship once every 22m at best to reach the area. This one is even more platform centric.
>>724709434The "puzzle" you're putting together is "go to place, get told thing, go do thing" with the exception of the final puzzle in the game that takes you 5 seconds to figure out. Sure, it's a rare experience in the modern day, but it's nothing special. Ultimately, I went in expecting more puzzles, and was instead met with lots of exposition that doesn't really go anywhere and a story that doesn't really justify the squeeze. It goes in the same category as shit like The Forgotten City.
I can definitely see why people think this is their favourite game. It's done something I think only MM really did as well with world building. I think it did it pretty well for how limited the team seems to have been with the engine and whatnot. But it also did come off like Haruhi Endless 8 to me at times kek. I felt like I was repeating shit a little too much and that the game was becoming a voodoo dance for mere sentences of information.MM didn't have that as much as this game. There seemed to be a lot more packed in the 3 day cycle and a lot more action and stuff like that in it. But MM also didn't have some crazy good rocket and gravity physics, the SCP-like quantum mechanic and the black/white hole mechanics. The rocket and gravity shit was pretty fun to muck around with. I landed on the Sun Station btw. That shit was not easy and felt pretty similar to real rocket shenanigans in real life with synchronising velocities with objects and keeping enough speed to get out of the Sun's gravity and at a specific orbit. I thought that was cool as fuck though.
>>724670781>I also love the sun stationLanding on the sun station was the coolest moment I've ever experienced in a game.
>>724673998I fell into that hole so many time I became master of doing the return trip. I was so fast.
>>724709721>and was instead met with lots of exposition that doesn't really go anywhere and a story that doesn't really justify the squeeze.The payoff really wasn't enough for most people ay. But the puzzles were definitely there and I just liked figuring out the puzzles more than the exposition. But I used to read Elder Scrolls lore in Skyrim so that sort of reward is kinda familiar to me and enough for me. Most people don't like that. I totally get that. But I kinda like getting crazy lore and info and just theorising what actually has happened in the world. It reminds me of things like the Bronze Age Collapse. Piecing together the puzzle pieces, only that mystery is still unsolved. In this game, there is clearly an intended conclusion you're meant to come to and tiny snippets of extra mysteries that aren't solvable with given information.I like reading things and seeing the world reflect what you've just read too. This game does that a lot.
>>724710053When it clicks that they've managed to make the physics pretty similar (though simplified) to real satellite orbit mechanics, it's kinda cool ay. I was thrilled that you had to really think a bit about how you approached this landing.I only really get that feeling in most games when I'm trying to break or glitch games. This one sorta expects it and allows for it. You're free to try a ridiculously hard alternative approach that will kill you many times.
>>724709721>The "puzzle" you're putting together is "go to place, get told thing, go do thing" with the exception of the final puzzle in the game that takes you 5 seconds to figure out.I didn't do this. I started with the goal of beating this and theorising where the puzzles were heading before they gave me clear clues. Only when I finally hit a wall did I need to go more carefully, step by step.
>>724709912you've highlighted something that I feel gets neglected in a lot of these threads. It IS simply fun to fuck around in, especially things like the black hole and the sun station cheevo like you mentioned. Or something as simple as flying the tutorial drone into the sun or trying to get your ship to orbit something. My first attempt at getting to the center of the ocean planet was to go to the edge of the solar system and ram it at full speed which yeah, didn't work but it was fun.
>>724688192you are a genuine smartass for getting three answers with that bait.
>>724710508It does work, I saw it on youtube but I was never able to get it to work myself. But it was fun trying lol.
>>724674312what a superficial take
>>724688192Game is over half a decade old, anon.We're beyond spoilers now, stepping into discussions of how the narrative and gameplay synthesizes in this game to make it work. How the mechanics of the puzzle work so well. Basically, a bit like how MM and FNV has been for years.
>>724710573it wasn't bait. people genuinely are clueless pricks that ruin things for others and themselves and I'm tired of it.If I had it my way nobody would know what outerwilds is other than it's a good game they should checkout.That's all you need and anymore than that starts detracting from the experience for anybody with any level of imagination.souless npc who have none of that of course wont have this issue.
>>724676986>onions greencontain: people
>>724710586Really? huh yeah I was going insanely fast and the water stopped me pretty quickly. Also the discovery of the ejection button was a bit funny
>>724710780>Game is over half a decade old, anon.I. don't. care!It's a great game that people can only experience once and I want as many people to experience it in an unblemished state.Just because YOU played and and I played it. Doesn't mean we should ignore all the people who still haven't played it.You may even say that you want to discuss things, but the anon clearly asked about a game being new and the response he got was major spoilers for the experience. Absolute travesty.
>>724677264>never played it though>I tend to stay clear of hyped up games because 98% of humanity is clinically retardedI fell you bro, that said you could spare some buck just to see a game that video will confirm you is not like 98% of the rest.Even if you only care for the developing aspect, you might pick up game design trick you can only understand experiencing it.
>>724668634Buddhism began as a system of mysticism about literally how your spirit works and what the different sport worlds are and how to traverse them and only became esoteric and gay later.Buddhism encodes certain lost elements of Aryan mysticism that were being lost by Hinduization, and literally new arrival Scythians had to restore the original Aryan mythology into Hindu culture. This is why Buddhism was actually adopted by the Scythians and the Greeks who spread it to China.
>>724680512>>724682923I would still annoy the fuck out of people who want to reread the clue and not have to "redo" the full search.It's just another case where wanting to be a logical smartass just isn't fun.Also, unless you've reached every astronaut you won't get the full music at the end, and the Prisoner DLC take time
>>724710508>My first attempt at getting to the center of the ocean planet was to go to the edge of the solar system and ram it at full speed which yeah, didn't work but it was fun.Apparently this actually does work?You have to go above a certain threshold of speed.One thing I did was try to escape the solar system by flying backwards into outer space, locked onto the sun and making sure I move relative to it.I got a special cutscene for that too. Was neato. You get the same in the Ash Twin Project because it survives the supernova. That proved to me that the supernova or dying was not the real limiter that made you re-spawn, which was interesting. The coolest thing was the B/W hole warp tutorial in the high energy station. That made everything click for me as to how everything worked... which I've now forgotten completely but it made sense at the time kek. Something like moving energy to go forward in time and make a copy seemed to make everything make sense to me. Why we were repeating. The supernova was supplying energy to make some sort of leap in time, which could be an illusion and your previous play-through really does die while cloning you. Apparently you can get into that tutorial area yourself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiZ8t69_3w8This was insane... pity that area is SUPER annoying to get into.
>>724710907Snape kills dumbledore.Jews did 9/11.Scar kills Mufasa.Everyone dies in Avengers:Endgame (don't know, haven't seen it but I already was spoiled many many times).Snake is in Brawl.Piss is stored in the testicles.OP is a faggot.Niggers tongue my anus.
>>724711318>just isn't funTrue, which is probably the main reason why they didn't go that route, even though it was an option. Same for creating a time paradox, which would also delete your save file but doesn't. Or dying before touching the artifact, which I did in my first playthrough.
>>724691818You are being so honest, I think you can cure your being stupid condition
>>724708596>I want to play a game where I could be marx, hitler, a rothschild or a murdering psychopath (all of the above?) with options.sorry best I could do is drunk cop with oneitisat least he got sober by the end of it you did stay sober anon....right?
>>724664636it's about trying to simulate the feeling of a spiritual experience when you are dead inside (atheist) and the only things you believe in are death are emptiness.
>>724711371>I got a special cutscene for that too. Was neato.I remember getting something similar when i took the warp core out of ash twin and fled to the stranger with it instead of the usual route. In my mind I had just broke the game but I got a little cutscene telling me I starved to death
>>724711639Nah I had to pop pills for the tribunal.I didn't like the ending being affected by drinking... seemed dumb.Oh and if you say anything with testosterone in it, you're a bigoted fascist and machiavellianism does not exist. This REALLY pissed me off. Real elite cops do nothing but lie to get information and access to things to solve crimes. That's 99% of their job. That's why the FBI kept files it could blackmail people with. It's also why they're just a cartel nowadays, the result of machiavellianism kek.
>>724707954>I still can't get over a wooden space shipWe've got steampunk, this is woodpunk!
I don't know why, but I got bored instantly with the DLC when I realised I had to travel in an amount of time to The Stranger itself and places within The Stranger.That seemed tedious and far too much for me. I just ended up reading wikis for shit and while the plot is cool, I kinda am done with the game. This taught me to be more careful with groundhog mechanics. I think Hades 1 had a pretty similar issue for me with this. I hope Hades 2 nailed it better. Something tells me it's just the same as 1, though I hear it's better. There's a point where you really do need warps or things to save time on the grind. Silksong's runbacks are pretty bad too, but once you beat them, they're finished. In this game and Hades it's not like that (well.. maybe it is in Hades 1, I didn't get to find that mechanic if it does).Also Lobotomy Corp. That shit stopped me from replaying it many times now. Rogue mechanics.
>>724711926I fucking hated DE because I started off trying to roleplay as Rustin Cohl and I'm happy that the game humbled me in a way by showing me how fucking incompetent and stupid I/Harry was. That's the right way to approach the dialogue options in this game specifically, and maybe in general, but it really hit me when I went from "hey I wouldn't say something retarded like that wtf these options suck" to "I wonder what the *shits self* button does if you roll an epic failure". It's a wonderful game, but you have to distance yourself from Harry, or temper your ego to really enjoy it. Wonderful game.
>>724708390>>leftist>huh?The hearthians having "they" pronouns because they're a genderless species triggered some anons and convinced them the game is woke and lefty
>>724712558It was more they introduced race mechanics in the setting and never ever utilised them as a proper source of conflict and was too afraid of saying NIGGER.Communists are just so low energy. When they start to prattle on about their mindless ideology, it just comes off like priest dogma - BORING and MEANINGLESS.
>>724706695I don't think anyone expects it to be a space sim, but it's simultaneously too cartoonish and not cartoonish enough. The uncanny valley of gameplay.I can easily overlook things like the toy planetary system, a seemingly ordinary star going supernova, any amount of sci-fi silliness, or that a tiny village of creatures has a goofy spacecraft. But then they throw a lore dump or something like the campfires at me and I'm sucked right out of the experience. It's a game which simultaneously wants you to think and take it seriously while also asking you to turn off your brain. And the "singular they" horseshit is the insufferable cherry on top.Consider the example of the village. I assumed at first that it was an outpost of some spacefaring civilization, or perhaps just a symbolic settlement. The player doesn't have to think about it, and he *shouldn't*. It's a nonsensical set-piece shielded by ambiguity. But then the game dumps lore at you, makes you think about it, and you're forced to reckon with the fact that this tiny village with two dozen creatures is supposedly an entire civilization supporting a dozen astronauts.The game invites the player to do the one thing he shouldn't be doing.>>724712558Singular they will never be acceptable English, faggot.
>>724710053>Landing on the sun station was the coolest moment I've ever experienced in a game.You have not beaten the game unless you've landed a Nomai shuttle on the Sun station.Or accidentally launched your ship using with the nomai catapult because it was fun to land inside
>>724712936>Singular they will never be acceptable English, faggot.SHODAN disagrees.It's better as a THEY because dehumanises SHODAN and makes them more evil.
>>724710053>COME ON TARS
>>724711620>Or dying before touching the artifact, which I did in my first playthrough.That's a prowess in itself.
>>724664065>you are the perfect example of a 4chan brainrot npcCalling someone an NPC while using an NPC word like "brainrot" showing that you have no self-awareness like a real NPC!!!FACT!!!
>>724663758I'm sorry that you couldn't beat it without a guide.
>>724711894You have another ending you can get doing what you did, you just need to take an extra nap.
>>724663758Has anyone tried this in VR? Is it worth setting up or more of a proof of concept gimmick?
>>724713396Come on, Dark Bramble was stupid without it.
If you did not reach the tower of quantum knowledge by slingt-shooting your way around the black hole, you did not beat the gamehttps://youtu.be/bZMFq25xBk8?t=348
>>724704149Just go to areas with an asterisk ( * ) near them on the rumor map.
>>724704536I experienced several major reveals that I really enjoyed, but I guess different people care about different things.
>>724712935>It was more they introduced race mechanics in the setting and never ever utilised them as a proper source of conflict and was too afraid of saying NIGGER.I struggle to believe that anyone genuinely hold this opinion, including you. This is too ridiculous.
the jellyfish thing was kinda retarded but other than that its a great game it kinda feels like youre a kid again and looking at pictures of cool nebulas before you find out how fake and empty space really is
>>724714171I thought about that, but after doing the Sun Station I was hesitant.I used the ship method though.Then I died too. kek
>>724711557>Everyone dies in Avengers:Endgame (don't know, haven't seen it but I already was spoiled many many times).I think only Tony Stark and that Russian spy woman die. The green bitch also dies, but she is replaced with a past version of herself. And Thanos also dies, twice.
>>724713497I did play it in VR and loved it. But I love playing all my games in VR. They're so much more immersive being surrounded by the environment and sounds, etc. Even just the beginning tutorial where you go into the zero G cave with glowing lights on the wall teaching you how to float around in space was amazing
>>724714452That's because you're a gay niggerfaggot.
>>724714601I... don't care about avengers. Period. I wish they all died so we got less slop.
>>724714671I'll take that as an admission to trolling. I refuse to believe that someone doesn't like Outer Wilds because there is no racial friction between the Hearthians and the Nomai. This is an "I AM SILLY" tier opinion.
>>724711690only good post ITT>not required
>on ElysiumBut seriously, to see someone talk about race realists and then not understand how or why they feel so fixated on race, when the opposite ideology is unironically racist and homogenizing (communism) is just hilarious to me. Commies amaze me.Not nearly as bad as neo-liberals though. Those faggots kill more people for race related reasons than anyone and normally for the sake of "stopping race related conflict" because it impacts their profits in their insanely warped minds. In fact, some neo liberals are basically all about deprivation of liberty for the sake of economics. Not only is it ironically uneconomical nonsense, but it's just a complete oxymoron with their agenda. Things like banning political incorrectness cripples the market more than anything to the point where it's now a war tactic that non-western states exploit in western states to leverage their own markets.That was my pickle with Elysium. I did like that the ravers were fed up with the ideologues and just had enough of that shit though. It was naive, but also wholesome.
>>724714661I should try it then. Although I find that on a VR headset dark games don't look all that great so it's gonna be a difficult trade off between playing in VR and playing on a 4k OLED TV
>>724714970>I refuse to believe that someone doesn't like Outer Wilds because there is no racial friction between the Hearthians and the Nomai.I was talking about Elysium, not outer wilds. Seems like these 2 games are coming up a lot lately with regards to "player choice". Outer is with more to do with problem solving and where to start. Elysium is more to do with role-playing and taking a specific strategy with your character.It was off topic really other than "leftist agenda in games" though.Which I think is done poorly and with bias and prejudice and it's now made actual critical thinking of the topics in games a taboo nowadays. Cancel culture doesn't help this. It's like they don't want to sell their own games sometimes. I prefer when devs do act impulsively with their ideals though. If that's just their impulse then whatever. But I prefer more dimensions to arguments instead of dogma.I like being able to commit to many forms of opinion in separate playthroughs in particular. Put myself in their shoes. There's never really several pairs, just one nice pair and several other pairs of flip flops and 2 bags of poo to use as shoes.
>>724713328I was messing around with the well before getting my suit, got shot into the sky, and broke my legs on the landing.
>>724713497I didn't realize it was in VR until after my first play through. Still very pissed.
>>724663758what do you suggest i play instead
