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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by julianh@lemm.ee to c/gaming@beehaw.org

(edit: vague spoilers for outer wilds + dlc!)

If I had a nickle for every time an exploration-based game partially inspired by the failure of skyward sword involved uncovering the ruins of an ancient civilization of goat-like creatures with three eyes, included time travel as both a major story and gameplay element, had a blue aesthetic for an advanced ancient civilization, and then had a follow-up with a new, previously unknown ancient civilization that has a green aesthetic, I'd have two nickles.

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[-] Lowbird@beehaw.org 29 points 11 months ago

Oi, careful with the Outer Wilds spoilers. That game is the last game people should know anything about before playing fpr the first time.

[-] LemmyAtem@beehaw.org 11 points 11 months ago

PLAY OUTER WILDS

Okay but like whats the game about? What do you do?

I CAN'T TELL YOU JUST PLAY IT BRO.

But like, how do I know if it's even the type of game I will li-

JUST PLAAAAAAAYYYYY IIITTTTTTTT

[-] Pegatron@kbin.social 5 points 11 months ago

Ive seen so many posts by people who trashed the game after not even getting to the start of the time loop, calling it a bad walking sim with nothing to do.

Modern games have programmed people to be incurious and intellectually lazy

[-] NuPNuA@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

I agree that a lot of modern games hold the hand too much, but I found Outer Wilds to be the opposite for me, too obtuse and open to get a grip on the gameplay loop. If you dig that, more power to you, for me it was too much.

[-] bermuda@beehaw.org 2 points 11 months ago

I disagree but I'm too intellectually lazy to bother with a well thought out response

[-] Megaman_EXE@beehaw.org 4 points 11 months ago

I tried outer wilds on gamepass. I went in blind knowing absolutely nothing. At first I thought the graphics made it look like a generic unity indie game. I didn't like how the jumping worked. I was so close to closing the game but I figured "I haven't even gotten past the tutorial. I should at least give it a try."

Oh man. The second you complete the tutorial and you are set free to play I had the best "oh holy shit" moment I've had in years. It's still not everyone's cup of tea but I absolutely loved it. I hope they make a second.

[-] LemmyAtem@beehaw.org 3 points 11 months ago

I gave it the honest try myself and just didn't have fun. I went to a couple different planets, died in some weird gravity reversing situation a couple times, died to the loop a few times, etc. It was neat but wasn't for me. I can see how people would get really into it though.

[-] Addfwyn@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Same. I tried once, bounced off because I just hated how the ship flew. Gave it another honest shot recently, found a couple of the explorers but really wasn't enjoying it. Ended up watching the rest in a Let's Play. Honestly not a bad way to experience it if the gameplay is just not vibing with you.

It's suprising because "ancient progenitor civilization" is one of my favourite tropes in media, but this one really just did not do it for me.

[-] apprehensively_human@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 months ago

I'm not going to lie, this was the reason I slept on the game for so long. What finally got me to pick it up was when somebody told me that it has the same replayability issue(?) as Subnautica, where once you've played through it for the first time you are never again going to have that experience with it on future playthroughs.

But seriously, go play Outer Wilds.

[-] dino@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 11 months ago

I bought it, tried it for about 30 minutes. And got motion sickness...didn't ever again. :/

[-] JillyB@beehaw.org 9 points 11 months ago

We know we aren't an advanced civilization because we don't have a green or blue aesthetic and goat features.

[-] flamingmongoose@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 11 months ago

I desperately want to play Outer Wilds but that would involve spending money on modern machine

[-] Leon@beehaw.org 9 points 11 months ago

if you ever end up getting a steam deck, outer wilds runs well on it. you won't get 60fps on highest settings or anything but I played through the whole thing with the frame rate limited to 45 and it was a great experience.

[-] julianh@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago

You have a console? It's available on most of them (and eventually the switch... probably...)

[-] flamingmongoose@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 11 months ago

Yeah just a switch haha. They announced that port a good while ago and not a lot has come of it

[-] BobKerman3999@feddit.it 1 points 11 months ago

Try on the free Nvidia streaming thing, if you have a fast enough internet

[-] bermuda@beehaw.org 3 points 11 months ago
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