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This game genre should be called "Wilds like"

@Rytio_

27 күн бұрын

I’m stealing this joke in the future, just letting you know

@zortnet

14 күн бұрын

outer likes

@ReverendTed

8 күн бұрын

I believe they've been termed "metroidbrainias" in some circles - where the gating elements aren't powerups, but knowledge.

@sleeper6548

8 күн бұрын

@@ReverendTed personally, I have seen both "Metroidbrania" and "Wilds-like" being used to describe this game in some outer wilds community I am in

@maulibe7631

8 күн бұрын

The authors talks about "metroid-brainia" i like it

God that end is so real, I WISH I COULD FORGET IT ALL TO RELIVE IT FOR THE FIRST TIME AGAIN

@Nalrats

8 күн бұрын

believe me, we all do!

It's honestly life-changing. Puts lots of things in life into new perspective

@Rytio_

27 күн бұрын

It really does…

I watched a play through of this game never expecting to play it myself. Cycle a few years later, I bought it on sale and started playing it. I regret having spoiled the game for myself. But it was still a wonderful experience playing the game my own way. Fortunately (or unfortunately) I haven't seen any of the DLC content, so I got to experience that terror completely unspoiled. 10/10 game

Fun fact, but also spoilers. If you start a new game and exhaust all of Hals dialogue in the museum, Hal mentions that a piece of the nomai statue was chipped off and used to make your ship’s computer, since the nomai statue is made of a material that can store information. This explains why your ships log stays updated throughout the time loop, it’s connected to the same statue you are.

Haha! 0:27 - Syncing "special little game" with the Marshmallow stick twirl was, well - art.

In my essay about this experience, I referred to this phenomenon as the "illusion of the illusion of choice", where every lead ties into the greater mystery. I do like the way you sum it up, though, as arriving at a math problem's answer without using the methodology a teacher taught. Otherwise a short and sweet video, well made 🐻

Just hearing the end music at the end of your video made me slightly tear up. In all my time playing games I never had a game that had the same effect on me as outer wilds. Similar maybe (Journey for example) but they were all still different games. This works only as a game. As a movie or book this would have nowhere near the same impact. Everybodies playthrough is slightly different and they'll discover stuff in different orders and have different conclusions for long parts of the game. Every planet and place to explore feels truly different and they aren't just the same planet with a different color. Despite being on a timer through the whole game I never really felt stressed unless I needed to get somewhere at a specific time to do something but even then knowing that I can fly to every place in the solar system in 2-3 Minutes lessens that a lot and even dying accidentally isn't a big deal as you'll be back fairly quickly. Only at the end will you feel truly stressed as that is the 1 time it actually matters.

@Rytio_

Ай бұрын

Yeah, I wish I could just go through it one more time, but that’s the beauty of it.

how i feel about looking things up, is it CAN be done (as a last resort), but definitely try to even ask another outer wilds player for hints first. just know that when you find out via a spoiler, you will feel VERY silly. sometimes, something that is very easy for one person to pick up, can be EXTREMELY difficult for another person to get (like from a bunch of incorrect assumptions or just not seeing something that, in hindsight, is extremely obvious). but that's also just the outer wilds experience ::)

@dbzfanatic2149

14 күн бұрын

Can I get a few hints then? I just started playing a couple days ago

@ThatJay283

14 күн бұрын

@@dbzfanatic2149 what are you really stuck on?

@dbzfanatic2149

12 күн бұрын

@@ThatJay283 Just trying to put everything together. I keep exploring all the planets but I really haven’t gotten anywhere

@dbzfanatic2149

12 күн бұрын

@@ThatJay283 Just trying to put everything together. I keep exploring all the planets but I really haven’t gotten anywhere

0:40 The best I can recommend is ‘Return of the Obra Dinn’; I’d strongly recommend playing *that game* blind, as well.

"...but there will never ever be another Outer Wilds." The crazy thing is... that there is a game that is (IMO) like Outer Wilds. I consider it to be the Citizen Kane of gaming, in the sense that it combined techniques other games used individually and used new techniques games hadn't combined or used before, and in so doing created such an inspiring game that it went on to inspire and flavor many games that followed after. Two games that have had designers directly cite it as inspiring parts of their gameplay are Dwarf Fortress and Mass Effect. Yes, two games that are about as different from each other as you can possibly imagine. And I can see its influences on games like No Man's Sky as well, and even Outer Wilds. It was a game that was made by a group of programmers who had never made a game before, in a garage, and published by Electronic Arts in 1986. That game was Starflight. In it, you play the fresh, new captain of a newly commissioned faster-than-light starship. Your goal at first is to simply explore, and to potentially find answers to how five sapient alien races came to live on the planet you now know was actually a colony, its history lost to time. Fairly quickly after your initial launch, your mission changes; find out why your sun is accelerating towards an explosion far earlier than its natural life cycle suggests it should. The explosion of your sun is on an inexorable timer, and in fact *every* star you can reach (something like 100 of them) is about to explode. And the longer you take to solve the mystery, the more of them explode. The story of the game is pushed forward by messages left behind by ancient and more recently disappeared civilizations and live conversations with spacefaring alien races. And the cause of the explosions is a plot twist that's been staring at you this entire time, but you don't realize it until it's finally explained at the very end. To be fair, it is narratively fairly linear (or tree-like? It's been a few decades since I've played it), so it doesn't have that same "web-like solution paths, find your own way of solving things" that Outer Wilds has. But I suspect what I described above does detail a lot of the *other* similarities.

Love the vid. You should try Tunic if you haven't already, it scratches a very similar itch

@Rytio_

Ай бұрын

I’ve heard of it, maybe I will some day

@SolDizZo

Ай бұрын

@@Rytio_ Great music at the very least. I listened to the soundtrack for Tunic for a while before playing and it was a very interesting lead in

Marvelous editing bro

@Rytio_

Ай бұрын

Thank you!

Nobody likes Outer Wilds. They love it. I think the only people who dont enjoy the game at all are people who play games like CoD and just want their games to be full of action and never pay attention go duolage or anything. A great example I saw of this was from a game journalist who was writing a review and it started off saying it was an okay game and listing why only to then state, "My biggest issues - a lack of comabt, direction, or martial rewards - are deliberately bold choices made by Mobius Studios." Like this review made me so mad and I started ranting about it to my friends who never played the game before but still agreed with me that it was a dumb review.

Wow, amazing video! and only 61 subs???

Dude this video should have 100x the amount of views it has

I like PB without the J. 4:28 that’s one smooth transition Amazing, absolutely spectacular video. ::)

@Rytio_

Ай бұрын

I can’t even lie, that transition was a complete accident. It just sorta happened when I was putting the two clips together.

There is no other game that can be 100% as good as Outer Wilds, We still like other games

@zimon85

26 күн бұрын

Very true.

Very few games have puzzles that makes the player feel like they figured it out on their own. That perfect balance of level design to make rules easy to understand but the complexity so it’s not too obvious either. Portal 1 and 2, Chants of Sennaar and (arguably) FEZ are the only other examples I can think of but neither have the emotional and existential impact that Outer Wilds has. Paradise Killer has the music and exploration but not the puzzles. Ghost Trick, The House in Fata Morgana and To the Moon have that feeling of puzzling together the story piece by piece but lacks exploration. In the end Outer Wilds is unique. There is simply no other game like it.

@Rytio_

26 күн бұрын

Exactly!

@zimon85

26 күн бұрын

@@Rytio_Great video btw!

@minerman60101

5 күн бұрын

You didn't mention TUNIC, so I am telling you you must play that game :)

@zimon85

5 күн бұрын

@@minerman60101 yeah I’ve heard that. I have TUNIC and Obra Dinn on my list.

The only truly unique game

Im glad im not the only one who experiences buying my first house all the time. Does that mean you're also in a time loop?? 😆 But seriously great essay! I wish i could send this to my friend to hype them up, but i don't want them knowing about the time loop and supernova yet. Once they learn about those two things, ill be sure to send this over to get them hyped to continue the game. 😉

How are the marriages going?

@Rytio_

25 күн бұрын

Y’know, they are… going….

this game is goated

@Rytio_

21 күн бұрын

True!

5:16 bro so true😭 I looked up a guide once and I got spoiled on everything😔 still love the game tho

@Rytio_

Ай бұрын

That’s so unfortunate…

Nice video! Nice game. But I must say, I got a bit tired of this kind of video naming. Maybe that's just my thing, but when I see a title made of a question I immediately interpret it like genuine confusion from an autor. Like "guys, why the hell do you like this thing?". I mean if you not asking a question but stating it (to answer it in your video/essay/whatever)... Then you don't need a question mark. In the current example you (the author of the video (hi)) aren't really wondering why people fall in love with Outer Wilds - you're announcing the talk topic, which should preferably immediately translate into "the reason(s) why people fell in love with Outer Wilds". As I said, that may be just me. But I Really got tired of those confusing unnecessary question marks (:

Do you have any spare micro plastics?

@Rytio_

12 күн бұрын

I… can’t remember…

God, after finishing the video, I’m bamboozled on the low view count and number of subs

@Rytio_

Ай бұрын

Thank you!

u Should try subnautica

@Rytio_

Ай бұрын

I already have! Not below zero, but I debated comparing Outer Wilds and Subnautica throughout the video.

i see outer wilds as less of a masterpiece and more as a framework for a future masterpiece, someone will take this concept and do it better. i am ALL for artistic games that break every boundary, but this one was so lousily executed; for a game all about reading text and finding new things and clues about the world, the writing is extremely poor at making you care for any character, event, or the world itself. the game bored me out of my mind, and not in an artistically intentional way either (for example, omori - 80% of the game is boring and that is the point) and the ending made me go "that's it?"

what you said in the first thirty seconds is my exact view on games😆🥲