The first time I played it was the night I discovered my dog was dying, and I played it to stay awake with him until the vet opened. After chewy died, I found the “end of the game” (I refuse to spoil anything) and I haven’t been touched by a piece of art like that before or since. It had a sense of optimism to what came next and was a lesson about mortality that I won’t forget.

@parkerriggs3861

Ай бұрын

A life event that really hurt me as well happened when I played this game and it changed my life after. It's still hard sometimes and I imagine you miss him still so much but the message behind this game is one of immense beauty and hope for better future things.

@jotjakubjot

19 күн бұрын

😂🎉

@Pacers00

8 күн бұрын

@@jotjakubjotwhat the fuck is wrong w u

@leaf1673

7 күн бұрын

dude same- played this game, grandfather dying, end of game + grandfathers death -> revelation about life and death bro

My kids keep asking me to spoil this game for them. I can’t. I won’t.

@captainmcknight

Ай бұрын

I try to get into it, but I don’t know what to do, I fly to a bunch of planets then die, then I get frustrated and put the game down. I want to watch this video to see where to go, but I don’t want everything spoiled,

@abraxolotl

Ай бұрын

​@@captainmcknight No real spoilers here (its all stuff you can see when you first enter your ship) , but just on case someone wants zero info, here's the warning. ----------------------- my best safe advice is to use the computer in your space ship to organise. It helps so much to keep track of high-level information you learned. Don't forget that your hud shows you all your potential tool keybindings. I spend ages completely overlooking things like camera mode. Besides that, I found I most enjoyed the game settijg small mini goals (aided by the ship computer)

@emilianocastillejos1330

Ай бұрын

@@captainmcknight Outer Wilds is a pretty slow game to finish with no guides or anything, but thats what makes it great, figuring out things by yourself is super fun and rewarding. Some tips would be to use the computer in the ship and use the rumor mode to see if you’ve missed anything on places you’ve visited, read the lore in the walls and scrolls, and in general take your time with the game, if you miss something go in the next loop no problem. And if you really feel like you’re stuck do look up a guide or something to at least get you back in track, its your game and you decide how to play, it would suck for you to drop such a good gane as this for getting confused and lost, its your game and you decide how to play. If you feel burnt out then take a break and come back later

@JJJS-mu9hj

Ай бұрын

​@@captainmcknight Same

@saschaberger3212

Ай бұрын

@@captainmcknight what he said at 1:30 is the key. Everything you need to do or can do is explained there. You fly to anything you can think about and try to apply those mechanics. You learn a little bit of the whole picture and die. Then you travel somewhere else. Hope you find a something in the video to get you started without robbing you from experiencing it for yourself. It's worth it

I’m so glad you explained the fact that watching this video will rob you of the whole point of this game. It really is a once in a lifetime experience.

@abdellahartist8485

27 күн бұрын

I'm playing it and it's Boring af wtf is this shit

Outer wilds is a game I will forever remember, not many other games have given me such satisfaction when solving puzzles, its such a good blend between cozy and fear of the unknown. Glad its gotten a lot more recognition over the past few years and that you’re covering it now

@mharvinalsivakumar9105

Ай бұрын

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@mharvinalsivakumar9105

Ай бұрын

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@Talon1124

11 күн бұрын

“We do not have much connection, you and I. Still, this encounter feels special. I hope you won’t mind if I think of you as a friend.”

Time to re-live the joy of descovery vicariously again.

One genius aspect of Outer Wilds is that the puzzles don't need items or level ups or dialogs to be unlocked : you can do everything first time, as long as you know. Usually game devs don't do that because it's too obvious and there is no challenge, but Outer Wilds managed to do puzzles that you can solve without item/dialog unlock but that you mostly don't solve at first because they test your knowledge. And when you understand, you excaim "it was obvious ! It was under my nose from the start !". This game is lightning in a bottle. (sorry if I'm not clear english is not my first language) @Gingy I'm not sure you "fly right through" the quantic moon, it's just the atmosphere make you lose visual contact for a second so the moon just change position (I think).

In the stranger's simulation there's a panel thrown away that shows a flower followed by the finding of the eye, wich implies that the strangers knew finding the eye would give birth to new life but still chose to not let their current one die. This was most likely the reason why the Prisioner released the eye's signal and why the cry at the end is most likely from relief and his efforts were not in vain.

@Cruxin

27 күн бұрын

That's the prisoner themselves' house and painting. They were the only one willing to see the positive, essentially

At 22:00 in the video he shows the supernova. Nice editing.

@artofsarahjane

26 күн бұрын

Didn't notice that til I read this! Ty

Note that we dont really "expierience" the time loops from a lore perspective. The nomai said people were arriving before they even entered the black hole, meaning the memories we have of the cycles come to us before we even have a chance to do them. Its like sitting in your chair and telling yourself "im going to read this book now", and the second you finished that thought you suddenly know the entire content of that book, because you read it in a now erased future and send those memories back to the "real" you, right this moment. i know its really hard to wrap you head around. But essentially, for our hearthian protagonist, he wakes up, and gets his head flooded instantly with all the information you will ever gather in the game. He knows there were multiple loops but he can only recollect waking up once, and suddenly having all that knowledge. The whole wake up, die, repeat stuff only happens in a theoretical future that gets erased instantly, because we get that knowledge in the past and thus prevent that future from happening, and even if we choose to repeat the same future, the machine causing the loop will eventually shut off, be it by us or natural causes, erasing the theoretical timelines, leaving us once again where we started the game.

@jonmarcmondor

Ай бұрын

Wow dude. You just blew my mind. I just beat the game and never quite put that all together

@zeonnexio6918

Ай бұрын

Basically, you time travelled back to the past, to your past self, but with all memories intact. It's a mind-blowing idea that is really difficult to execute due to huge numbers of Newfound activities and possibilities. But the game did it wonderfully, by only making you take a single path even after knowing your future.

@thegeekypants

Ай бұрын

Very interesting perspective. Never thought of it that way. Although i dont know if i agree completely because if youre inside the ash twin when the sun goes supernova, your physical self gets sucked in and thrown out into the next loop with the same memories. you can literally go and talk to yourself inside the atp. i think that your consciousness and memories get copied and pasted onto your new body just like in the game soma. this makes me think about the nomai in a different perspective. from their point of view, they were ready to blow up the sun killing themselves in the pursuit of the eye. yeah sure their memories would get transferred onto their past self, but from their perspective, they would still keep on living through that process until they die (presumably from the supernova that they create). At that point, the nomai that eventually find the eye wouldn't technically even be same nomai that started the project. They did not care if THEY were the ones to find the eye and know its secrets, they just wanted the eye to be found and its secrets uncovered somehow, somewhere.

@pasty609

Ай бұрын

I don't see how this is different from experiencing the loops yourself though. The continuity of consciousness is already basically just receiving memories from the previous versions of yourself right? Like the me tomorrow wakes up with memories of my past self. The many loops in outer wilds don't "exist" but they were still experienced by the player.

@RareSauce7406

17 күн бұрын

that's right, but not fully right. you would still recall waking up every time and it would feel as if you were in a time loop, since you keep ALL your memories from the previous loop. it's a time loop in practice since it feels like one, but in theory you die at the end of every loop and that future gets 'rewritten.' the hatchling can recollect waking up over and over again because it's part of the 22 minutes.

“Some of y’all sleep to these videos” is great

I've always thought that 22 minutes was the loop time because thats as much time as the Nomai could squeeze out of a supernova. Their writings talk about how the amount of energy required for larger and larger time differences increases at a disgustingly high exponential rate. And the most energy they could ever possibly generate was from a supernova. They calculated that even with the astronomical amount of energy generated by a supernova, the most time that would buy them was a measly 22 minutes. Banger video as always, brother.

@Jeg1041

Ай бұрын

That's exactly correct

@Accurate_Vision

Ай бұрын

I think that's actually explicitly explained in some of the notes. There are myriad notes in the game though, all spread across different planets, so I can understand how Gingy may have missed it. Not to mention the walls where you need an insert to make them appear, as there are some inserts that need to be carried quite a long distance.

@Jeg1041

Ай бұрын

@@Accurate_Vision it's written in the high energy lab in what I think it's the scroll already on the wall. A place which is pretty important to go, he probably forgot about it when writing the script rather than missing the scroll completely

@LukasJampen

Ай бұрын

It's never stated that 22 is the maximum a nova could produce just that they had no other way to generate that much. I always asumed they chose a length they thought was long enough to find the eye and kept it as short as possible reduce the amount of required power. They ask if creating such a loop is possible leading me to assume they calculated how long it needs to be to be guaranteed to find the eye and then concluded after that a supernova is the only chance to reach that energy amount. So it could possibly be longer. They wouldn't need to ask if that was possible if they already knew a 22 minute loop is the max of exploding the sun.

@KeviNOlighT

29 күн бұрын

​​​​@@LukasJampen Oh right, I remember reading from them that that's about how long it would take the probe to reach the ends of the solar system (I assume it's the end of where planets could persist in a stable orbit or something), unless I played tricks on my memory while playing and just assumed I learned that somewhere hah. There's also another time limit, which is how much would the protective shell of the Ashtwin Project could resist the supernova (which probably isn't much longer than that. I guess one could take out the project's core and await the game over to test it out heh).

Something fascinating about the ending that stuck out to me is that the music that played during the Big Bang has the same melody that the Outer Wilds Ventures and Friends played at the campfire. While the post-credit scene does confirm that the gang had some physical influence on the new universe, this brings up an interest regarding the Quantum Frequency that the signal scope picks up when pointing at quantum shards and the quantum moon; the frequency plays a chorus-like tone that changes its pitch now and again, so taking the post-credit scene and the Big Bang melody, this leads me to infer that the Quantum Frequency is actually evidence of music from the last universe. Who knows, maybe the people from the last one had the exact same experience as us and they, too, decided to sing in the last moments of their existence, leaving this frequency as their remnants. It's also sweet to think that our song might play in the new universe in quantum objects, being a representation of how three different species came together in their united curiosity and acceptance of the end.

@sansidee1784

Күн бұрын

That's a beautiful theory ! Never thought about that way

Dont sell yourself short. Your videos are absolutely not mediocre!

35:50 This moment. This sequence of you going into the Stranger, finding the boat and then dropping into a ring-world. I never had to pick my chin of the floor more than during this moment

I think the "stealth" elements off the strangers puzzle was meant to present you with the challenge faced by that species. To get through the puzzle the player must go against instincts and deliberately provoke the scary monsters, luring them away from the path they were blocking. The design of of the levels and strangers are meant to evoke a sense of fear, essentially helping to tell a story through gameplay mechanics about the need to overcome the fear of death.

Funfact for those who found the eye and the quantum moon stuff interesting, that's an actual principle of quantum mechanics called "Quantum Superposition" tldr it works more or less how this game presented it. An object in superposition occupies all possible states until it is observed. the cat in Schrodinger's box is both alive and dead at the same time until observation collapses its quantum state.

This is one of my absolute favorite games. I wish I could wipe my memory of having played it so I can play it again for the first time. Since that's not possible, I watch a lot of blind playthroughs and get my kicks from watching others experience its wonder and perfection for the first time.

I'm ill and have been watching Gingy story analyses for the past 10 hours. What's another hour, really?

@sageviper2981

Ай бұрын

Hope you feel better ❤️‍🩹

I played this game at probably the lowest point in my life: I had spent a terrible trimester in high school after quarantine, which hurt me way more than I was aware of (alongside other stuff). So I forced myself to try out this game I had bought many months before at the beginning of the Christmas holidays. This experience changed me. I had never experienced this much curiosity, this much emotional connection to a videogame's world. I had so many moments where my jaw dropped and I gasped in disbelief, even to some things that probably weren't that exciting. Sometimes it was too much to bear, I feared exploring new planets and the lore bombshells often made me have to take a rest. The game made me care when I just didn't care about anything in life anymore. I finished the game the day before the second trimester began, and the ending was very much lifechanging. Really. An entire game full of new experiences and emotions built up to such an emotional ending that opened my eyes to a new life perspective. I felt refreshed. I went to the first day of the second trimester feeling like a new person. Things got better, even if slowly, but Outer Wilds gave me a purpose and taught me in a beautiful way the value of life, time, the beauty of the world and of death and the fleetingness of it all.

Your Script Wiriting at the End gave me chills. So good

Amazing video, one small thing you said about the strangers tech allowing them to see the future. But didn’t elaborate. But they could scan brain waves and feel emotions of others implying the eye is another living entity. Also the brain tech is how they built the dream by using emotions and memories to construct an experience. Amazing video, love listening to others play throughs.

Your videos are always a big treat. Your writing is so good. Thanks!

Gingy, your channel has provided me with countless hours of entertainment while at my job. I tried The Outer Wilds around the time the DLC came out after hearing about the game time and time again. I flew straight to Giants Deep and was paralyzed with a fear I’ve never felt before or since. I instantly uninstalled and haven’t gone back since. I still think about it and after watching your video and a few other retrospectives, I am going to try again and hopefully complete it this time. Thanks for being an awesome creator

@Gingy

28 күн бұрын

Yo thank you so much for the donation man. Yeah Outer Wilds scared the shit out of me. The core of Giants Deep still unnerves me. Glad you enjoyed the video!

I like the interpretation that the prisoner understood his species wasn't the one to make the call about the fate of the universe, that's why he deactivated the signal, thats why he screeched knowing what he did was heard and was ready to pass the torch to a new generation, just like the nomai gave the "torch" to your species in the game by caring for your ancestors.

Easlily in my top5 gaming experiences of all time. And I'm playing video games since like 1992 or 1993. It's a materpiece. Thank you for the video man. You reminded me how good Outer Wilds was. I'm already starting to forget how the final puzzle sequence works so I may try to go through the whole thing in VR at some point to make it fell fresh again.

Man I love him just ranting and telling about messed up things in a calming voice 🤣

48:13 haha nice dude ! a genius match cut

Yay, my favorite game of all time gets featured! 🥳

@ThisChannelIsAbandoned300

Ай бұрын

And my personal choice for most overrated game ever made

@nazgu1

Ай бұрын

​@ThisChannelIsAbandoned300 You do you, Boo 😌

@ThisChannelIsAbandoned300

Ай бұрын

@@nazgu1 The 'ell did you call me

@PeterParker-jz8eo

Ай бұрын

@@ThisChannelIsAbandoned300troll attempt failed lol

amazing video as always Gingy, keep up the good work

The message at the end is somewhat comforting to me as on this day I buried my Abuelo, it is somewhat comforting to make the most of what we have while we are here because at the end all we have is our experience in life. I just hope that at the end we all enjoy what we've done in life. (5-31-2024)

Just popping in to say that these videos have come such a long way, they’re amazing.

calling your videos "mediocre" is just insulting, Gingy you genuinely make amazing videos. They are always so well written, spoken and often help me to get a better understanding for games I've played but didnt understand on a deeper level, and for that I want to thank you

YES! Been waiting for this review. Definitely be enjoying this video on repeat for a few weeks, gotta relive my first playthrough of this game somehow. :_)

i finished outer wilds right after discovering your channel, can't beliebe it's all coming together

One of the most beautifully melancholic and hopeful games, so wonderful. The music especially has a huge impact on me, I’m glad it has some key importance start to end. Acceptance doesn’t have to be bleak, a comforting message! Also glad that this experience is one of a kind, special is defined thus. I’ve listened to many essays on this game I and I hope many more enjoy it. Great work and insight! ❤

Truly a beautiful game

Thank you for creating this! I get super dizzy playing games like these but I always wanted to play. Thanks to this video I could finally experience the story.

I keep finding myself applauding at the end of each video. Like I've just witnessed a beautiful play or life changing seminar

Hearing the ending of Outer Wilds always manages to make my cry. Genuinely, such a wonderful, marvelous game.

My friend has told me to play this for years and I stubbornly never did. This video is the catalyst for me to play it TODAY. I will be back with my reportings.

Every time this game gets covered by a larger channel it makes me incredibly happy. Outer Wilds is far an away the best game I've played and definitely a once in a lifetime experience for anybody. You've done the game justice with an incredible video ❤

Let’s go!! I’ve been waiting for this!

I really enjoyed this video. It is not mediocre at all. It is very well done.

Would've never learned about this game if it wasnt for you! Such a cool concept amd another great video for me to sleep too. Thankyou for not including a loud part at the end lol

Loved this game. It took me years to beat this game since every time I tried to play I just couldn't get into it. I kept coming back to it because of how much praise it got, and on my third try (after owning the game for 3 years) it finally clicked and I couldn't put it down.

@saschaberger3212

Ай бұрын

I had this with Elden Ring. Glad you found your way

@saschaberger3212

Ай бұрын

@@djm0201 absolutely

Every time I think about the campfire song, it gets stuck in my head and my heart gets heavy. Brilliant experience!

I love this game so much it is literally perfect for me the music the atmosphere the gameplay the story ... and I love your videos the combination of both you and one of my favorite games is just perfection thank you so much can't wait for your next vid

I didnt expect this video but i needed it

good video im excited to see all the coming videos have agreat day man

The game about enjoying the journey and moving forward and being in the moment can only be truly experienced once. The medium is the message. Mastery.

I waited for it so long.

Great video as always

Hell ya! Im so ready for this!

Great video outer wilds in my opinion the perfect game and is glad to have experienced it looking forward to your next video

I saw this video, held off on watching it, and ended up finally getting around to playing it. Finished it today. Not really sure how to describe it but I loved it. Great video as always.

I discovered you through the FF16 video, which onot only convinced me to buy that game, but also made you one of my favorite creators. I am always excited when I see a community post, about a new project!

53:00 "You know some of us sleep on these videos" 👀 THAT is entirely your fault, to have such an awesome voice !!!

I haven't had any spoilers of this game because I want to experience it, so I'm just here to say I really like ur videos and keep going

A beautiful perspective about death in the ending Gingy. Thank you. Such really is life.

Love this game, thanks for making the video.

Peak recognizes peak I was excited to see your video and I am very glad you liked it I don't know why but I get teary eyes whenever I ponder about the game, I love it so much and will forever recommend it

You are rapidly becoming my comfort KZreadr Love the long form content The videos are so well made Thank you for the amazing content

It always makes me happy to see someone discover all that this game is. One more, just happy to be roasting marshmallows at the end of it all.

Judging by your previous videos and the understanding I got from your taste in video games, the moment I saw the word perfect on the thumbnail of this video I knew I should play it myself. About 60% through the game I was really tempted to just watch the video and spoil the game. But the intro convinced me to finish it myself so thank you for that. Now I can confidently say Outer Wilds is one of my top 3 games of all time and it's sad that I won't be able to experience it again.

My first thought was that the universe itself is in a time loop. That pressing the orb and restarting the universe is actually sending the signal back to just before the universe existed and leaving the universe with a signal to lure someone in to repeat the process

Again another beautiful video

the big bang at the end has the best music in the game imo

Beautiful video thank you

I just got this and finished it. Thank you for posting this! Excited to hear your thoughts. 🐐🐐🐐

Every time I remember the ending I think of the Silmarillion. Starts with the God Eru Illuvatar and the Ainur playing music that births a new universe full of life, that eventually leads to the events of LOTR

I literally cried when I finished this game. It was so beautiful and somber. And never being able to play it the same ever again is bittersweet but fits so well with the theme. Surprised you didn’t talk about the music. The soundtrack is what keeps me going and actually playing the songs myself and in my own interpretations is how I can truly relive this experience

Hey uh spoiler alert for a game you can only play once, once you see the story and the puzzle solutions, that's it you've seen what it has to offer Greatly recommend if you haven't played, stop watching the video and go and play yourself

The strangers are not exacty just shortsighted- they are zealous when they put a mind to it. Just like Nomai, the story of them being stranded in the Heartian system is cautionary tale for acting too fast- Nomai's is curiocity,Stranger's- blind faith. As for the vision torches Strangers use- I don't think all of them let you "see the future", my reading was that the one used to scan the Eye was specialized equipment and the scan done at close range.

I thought I could watch though all of this and was diapointed when you started talking about the dlc because I haven't finished it yet. 30 minutes into a video, very engaged and now I must continue to not be spoiled if the mysteries. A

One of the best KZreadrs made a video on the best game ever. Perfect.

Ever since your tweet I’ve been stoked for this one. Hell yeah’

@SharkJnr

Ай бұрын

Also your microphone quality sounds phenomenal in this one! Idk if I’m crazy but it sounds better than usual

54:07 Talking about this one I have my personal theory that links our Universe and Outer Wild's one So, we know that the Eye of the Universe hasn't got its original "canon" physical form as it's a purely quantum object. Everything that we experience post entering the Eye was created by the Eye based on our memories and experience, a Timber Hearth's forest as it's our homeworld and the travelers with whom we spent the most time in the last moments of our life. I'm pretty sure that the new universe the Eye creates is also based on knowledge of one who enters the Eye. We may see the evidence of it in post credit scene which is different depending on what we discovered exploring the Solar system. But the key factor here is that a single creature even an intelligent one is not able to comprehend in their head every single minor aspect of how the universe exacly works. So the new universe will always be a bit simpler than the previous one as it will be based on relatively primitive experience of one who started this universe by observing the Eye. Taking that Outer Wild's universe is just another iteration in a possibly endless chain, we could assume that countless steps ago there was our universe being a distant ancestor to the game's one. Through this chain the laws of physics were getting extremely simplified leaving us with the world were planets are just about a kilometer in circumfence, a star goes from red giant to supernova in a couple of minutes and evolution from fish to an intelligent being lasts just several hundred thousand years.

I made a comment about the video needing a firmer spoiler explanation and deleted it because yours is great. I am someone who was watching a video for the game and was turned away by a spoiler warning and couldn't be more thankful. Finished the video and I'm glad you enjoyed the game so much. One moment in the game I enjoy particularly much that you didn't go too deep on is when you finish the DLC and explain everything to the Stranger. The explanation you give him ( the video that plays) is different depending on the amount of information you have discovered up to that point, so you can either give the Stranger the fullest possible explanation knowing everything, the bare minimum if you complete the DLC without doing anything else, or varying degrees between the two and the cutscene will change accordingly. I really enjoy the full explanation cutscene and the song that plays ("Echoes of the Eye"), and I can't help but get emotional watching it because I think it embodies the themes of the game so beautifully. Playing this and returning to it for the DLC is a unique experience due to the problem you talk about at the end of the video of understanding the solution, but needing to go on anyway. Playing this way and still going after all the information so I could tell the Stranger the fullest explanation was quite rewarding and the end of the DLC rivals the end of the main game to me, which would have seemed impossible to even consider at the time. Great game and great video!

Boy does seeing the end again bring tears to my eyes...then an ad played lol

"Unfortunately, I was born too late to explore our planet and too late to explore our solar system." What a beautiful quote.

Man i finanlly get to watch your video! I had this game in my backlog for a few months now, and everybody told me to go in completely blind. So naturally i put off watching your video until i was done with the game. And i got to finish it this weekend. And while the end was predictably bitter sweet, i kow get to watch your video... Finally :))

I like to think the signal heard by the Nomai was the last group of explorers in the prior universe playing music, creating our universe, and thus starting the cycle of life anew. We create the new universe at the end with our music, meaning we're older than the universe we created. And the signal we put out with that music would inevitably be older than the universe we created. In the end of ours, we reminisce on our experiences, and new universe is born, full of life, hope, curiosity, and wonder. Eventually, the next group of curious explorers will hear our signal, find the eye, and create the next one, starting the loop over. The real time loop of the game.

Ita a great story of "you cant keep preventing the inevitable" and "sometimes the people that cant move on stop the rest of us too"

Your analysis has been really touching, as was the Game when I played it. Thank you very much. On regard of your awesome way of approaching the narrative of the videogames I'd like to ask you if you know the Stasis universe and The Brotherhood games. I think you might enjoy them and their themes.

Gasped when I saw you made a video on this I love you Gingy

About the stealth section in the DLC, there is a way to do the sections without needing to sneak around the strangers and Andrew Cunningham made an excellent video about the subject of if they are intended to be stealthed or not. Highly recommend watching his video. And i must admit i never thought about how out of place the sections feel for outer wilds until i learned that it is indeed possible to treat it as a puzzle and not a stealth section.

Brothers code Elden Ring, and now outer wilds? What a great day

56:55 "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."

New Gingy video on one of my favorite games ever what a lovely day

Love your work man even though I honestly didn’t like this game I’ll watch any of your analysis

Something that i think a lot of people miss that i love about the game's theme, is that Eyes are so so important to everything in the game. This was something i only realized when the DLC came out but... We have the (1) Eye of the Universe. The (2) mystery species that first came to the eye. The (3) Nomai who tried to reach the eye, before the mystery species cut off the signal before they arrived. And then (4) us, the Hearthians. Each stage of this discovery are represented by the number of eyes possessed by those discoverers.

@sleeper6548

19 күн бұрын

I read this poem from some other video, matches with what you wrote! One eye sent out a signal Two eyes blocked it Three eyes tried to reach it Four eyes reached it

This games finale is hands down one of the best and most beautiful interpretations of the death and rebirth of the universe I have ever seen. Makes me cry everytime I hear that song.

Looking at how the story progressed, I'd have to assume that the eye was initially created because the first universe was dying and instead of wanting it to fade into black, the creators of the eye pulled a Lord Gwyn and reset everything.

@acass2010

25 күн бұрын

Man I've never properly considered the possibility that the eye was created by another species or entity. That would raise a few questions though, one being - why don't they just observe the eye themselves to ensure the universe gets reset instead of leaving it to chance in the hopes that some other being detects and follows it's signal. I think a more likely answer is that it's just a natural feature of a universe to have a reset button of sorts. And it was purely upto luck whether it gets pressed or not.

@WobblesandBean

21 күн бұрын

​@@acass2010 This. It makes no sense for it to be created. It seems like a natural feature that occurs at the end of the universe's life cycle.

I can't listen to the full traveler's song without crying. This game resonated with me on such a deep level. The DLC story in particular.

This game is incredible. The music alone makes my skin crawl. It's such a terrifying theme to talk about and explore. It has deeply philosophical questions of your sense of being and questions a lot of how you perceive de world around you. I played this game while waiting for my daughter to be born, and this game made question a lot about myself. She's here now, and the world has never been the same again since she was born into it. I hope that one day I'm able to see her experience with the Outer Wilds. This is how important I think this game is. It's unbelievably good.

I like how all the species kind of baton-pass the Eye along to help solve the puzzle. The Strangers block the Eye's signal, but then one lets it through for just a little bit. Nomai find the Eye's signal, but then it stops. Weird, why'd it do that? Let's go investigate. If the signal were always there, they probably would've just catalogued it and moved on, but because it was a mystery they fixated on it. And the Hearthians could never have been technologically advanced enough to even find the Eye themselves in time, but hey there's this previous species who seemed to care about it an awful lot so let's give it a look. And the Strangers and Nomai even kind of rely on the Hearthians in a way, because they seem to not really care that much about their own death. You can tell the non-looping citizens of Timber Hearth that the sun is going to explode, and they just go "Aw, nuts." They don't not believe you, but most of them don't seem to care, and the ones that do are mainly upset they didn't have more time to explore. Which is good, because you need an absolutely balls-to-the-walls reckless species to find the Eye and have their first thought be "Oh yeah, I'm gonna jump into the GIANT SPACE VORTEX" I think if all three species found the Eye, the Strangers would worship it, the Nomai would study it, and the Hearthians would explore it.

Life before Death. Strength before Weakness. Journey before Destination.

@jokingswood

Ай бұрын

These words are accepted.

40:52 After getting jumpscared by them a lot, I switched my thinking and started to think the strangers as just another puzzle to solve, this completely changes the way the strangers feel and makes outer wilds what it actually is, a puzzle game!

On one hand. New gingy video is always exciting. On the other, i mourn all the people who watch this video that havent played this game first

35:30 I remember when I first got to the Stranger. I got jump scared so bad I broke my chair. That shit was terrifying for me.