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Are you incapable of having thoughts and opinions of your own?
He's a Gankerermin, what do you expect
meh maybe it's someone trying to make a outer wilds thread that won't die in three replies by using baits.
Yes, its awful, avoid it like the plague.
only game that gives me an inkling of hope for the future of this shit hobby
I enjoyed it to a degree but I was playing it right after a break up and couldn't concentrate enough to finish it. When I brought this up on a random thread anons encouraged me to finish it, and some IRL friends have done the same. I'm yet to do it but I believe it, its certainly an experience worth playing for yourself as opposed to watching a video about it. I guess it depends on how cynically you play games, its certainly an artsy slowburn, if that appeals to you I think you'll enjoy it
If you ever do get back to playing it, I'd highly recommend the echoes of the eye dlc
thanks anon, I will do
The DLC is filtering me hard
For a moment I thought of giving you a simple clue but even that clue might ruin the entire thing for you. The dlc has incredible "OH SHIIIIT" moments when you figure things out. Someone ruined one important one for me about putting something I was holding on the ground ( thanks vtards ).
Someone on here told me how to get past the anglers just outright and it pissed me off a bit
What are you stuck on? I was stumped for a good hour before I realized I completely missed a location
Ive just been seeing my ship tell me I need to explore more on certain parts and I dont see anything. I'm sure i've seen all the reels so far. I really want to know why the dam breaks
Have you seen any ghost matter around? Be sure to look up for an aerial view of the other side of the ring
I found an artifact, not sure if thats what you are talking about. I dont want to spoil for any other anons but I did something with it and went somewhere and did something but now I am so lost haha. Not sure if that makes sense.
The dam most likely breaks because of a combination of just being old as shit with no maintenance and the force of the ship suddenly accelerating to avoid the sun going nova putting a lot of extra pressure on it. It seems like it had been damaged for a while before we got there and it just needed a little push to fully break.
As an aside a dam on a ringworld really would be a good idea since you'd generate effectively free energy since the water is just going to flow around the back again anyway
This, I enjoyed the main game but have given up on the dlc like 3 times now.
its a puzzle game. its basically a myst with a lot more movement
Why is Ganker so obsessed with reddit?
Is reddit dead yet btw? I heard they went on "strike" not long ago.
lol. Their "strike" had a hard limit for 3 days.
But I tried using some subreddits to read about very specific game issues and stuff ( because Ganker sucks for talking about games ) and most of them are still locked?
>they went on "strike" not long ago.
All that happened was some subreddits made it so you couldn't post for a day, that's it. I can still goon to all the sissy hypno captions I want
>I DON'T BROWSE REDDIT, I MEAN, WHATEVEN IS REDDIT? RED + IT??? WHAT LOLXD
the post
You're a homosexual and go on reddit every fricking day like most people here.
Go back
They can't stand the fact that anonymity killed Ganker by letting schizos and bots ruin all discourse while reddit is way more popular
No. There are valid complaints about the game, but it's far from being a walking sim. The game is about trying to put together a series of mysteries, and yeah, it is really easy to figure out what's happening, but that means that you can try to solve it early without all the clues.
There also are very real hazards and obstacles to deal with. The jetpack is fun, but it will kill you. It will kill you a lot.
I wouldn't call it a walking sim, it's an exploration/puzzle game. Give it a try, if you don't like it before the refund period is up it's not for you.
This. If you're going to like it, it will hook you in the refund period. Set a timer, play, then evaluate if you want to play more.
It's a puzzle game more than a walking game.
>t. started playing last night
Don't get spoiled anon
Trying not to. Although I did google what you were supposed to do with scrolls after taking one to my ship in the hopes I could bring it back home or something. That was on my first trip in the ship and I was exploring the mine on the starter planet whose name escapes me. I almost false-positived myself about the Thing because I was underground when it happened the first time and had no clue what was going on.
You need to self-direct your experience in that game. Make of it what you will.
It's the best walking simulator game ever made. if you don't like walking simulators you won't like OW.
>ITS A PUZZLE GAAAAAAAME
not a puzzle game. it has 0 puzzles. how much you like tetris, jigsaw, sudoku, etc will have zero bearing on whether or not you like this game because they're completely unrelated.
>but but but
not. a. single. puzzle.
You are dumb or simply autistic that's alright. You know environmental puzzles are a thing and puzzles don't obligatory need the use of boards or cartoon pieces or sliding parts or rotating pipes etc etc right? Anything that forces you to use your brain is a puzzle to some extent. Trying to figure out the logic behind your post is a puzzle in some way.
You're right mario is a puzzle game cause you have to figure out how to get to the flag. semantics are important and a significant part of why people hate OW is cause of morons like you who lie about the genre entirely
You're wrong. Overwatch is a pile of shit.
Overwatch is a puzzle game because you have to figure out how to beat the enemy team.
Mario is an rpg because you play the role of mario
Skyrim is an immersive sim because it's immersive and it simulates physics objects.
Mario Kart is a battle royal because there can only be 1 winner.
Theif is a roguelike because you play as a rogue.
Overwatch is a puzzle game because you have to figure out how to report the enemy team for bigotry*
I get that outer wilds is hard to classify into a genre, but it's not a walking sim. Walking sims are a very specific style of game. Outer wilds does not have you walking down a linear or branching path while listening to narration. Labeling outerwilds a puzzle game, an adventure game, or even a platformer is more accurate than a walking sim.
You have a negative connotation associated with "walking sim" that isn't necessarily there. This prompts you to try and lie about the game instead of accepting it for what it is. It's the best game of its genre ever made and probably ever will be made, but that genre is walking sim. walking sim is a subgenre of adventure games that lack combat.
Lol what? Are 90% of point and click adventures secretly walking sims? What about all those streamer bait games like jump king? No combat, punishment for botching jumps is loosing progress? Sure, they're harder and more punishing than outer wilds, but the elements are there. What about the ace attorney games? The fact is that walking sim isn't a real genre, it has always been an insult leveled at a specific kind of lazy pretentious game made by developers that would rather be a movie director. You're expanding the definition of walking sim to include outer wilds.
Also counting the anglerfish and the echos of the eye DLC, outer wilds does sort of have combat. If that doesn't count, then most horror games are walking sims too under your definition.
I once again regret attempting to communicate with NPCs. You're right. Outerwilds is a puzzle game. Gran Turismo is a battle royal. Quake is a platformer. Subautica is a horror game. Minecraft is a 4x. Memories of Summer is a cRPG. Pacman is a racing game.
you can say "this is an adventure game without platforming, puzzles, or combat" if you want but walking simulator is more concise. if you wanted to pretend walking simulator wasn't a genre, you could just call it an adventure game which it absolutely is.
>You have a negative connotation associated with "walking sim" that isn't necessarily there
Walking sim was deliberately coined as an insult. It's always been negative.
OW is a walking-sim(exploration) rogue-lite(loops)
Do you think it has been long enough for me to replay it again and feel some of the magic? Even if I remember all the puzzles maybe it'll feel good out of nostalgia?
Frick it's horrible not being able to play it twice.
Im in the same boat, it's on the shortlist of games I wish I could totally forget before replaying
The only way it is in any way similar to a walking simulator is that there is no combat. The stuff you can do with your spaceship interacting with planetary gravity and whatnot is completely in the opposite direction of what one would expect from a "walking sim."
I just started playing this yesterday and I’ve been enjoying the atmosphere and environments so far. I’m wondering what’s going on with the plot too, it’s pretty neat
What was the first thing you did after getting in the ship?
Let's see who really played the game.
What is the purpose of the ghost matter cave on Gabro's island?
I beat the game but I still couldn't tell you. Is there something there? I know I missed some stuff
The cave shows you that you can survive ghost matter if you're underwater. This is why the hearthians didn't go extinct when the Nomai did.
Let's try another question.
Why was there a jellyfish on dark bramble, and an anglerfish on ember twin?
>spoiler
Oh shit, are they any other instances where you can use this?
Your questions have made me realize I missed a lot more than I thought, I don't know that one either. I assumed it had something to do with the escape pods from the vessel, but that doesn't explain the jellyfish
>Oh shit, are they any other instances where you can use this?
Nope. That cave is only there to satisfy the curiosity of people like us. There's no other ghost matter in the game that goes underwater. That's why it's wonderful. I wish the game had more opportunities to make discoveries of your own rather than just rediscovering what the Nomai knew.
About the fish, the escape pods can't explain the angler fish fossil too, since it was there when the nomai first landed. The true answer is that both the anglerfish and the jellyfish were native to the planet that dark bramble destroyed. They were sent to the other planets with the fragments of ice from the explosion. The biggest clues for this are the frozen jellyfish on giant's deep, and the icy impact crater on timber hearth's moon. There is no ice on the anglerfish fossil because it would've melted so close to the sun instead of becoming permafrost. To speculate, it is possible that the planet that dark bramble destroyed was the first to develop life in the system, and that it seeded life for all the planets that have life on them. There's an exciting possibility that hearthians evolved from the aquatic life from that planet. You might have had a common ancestor with the anglerfish that eat your ship! Isn't that wonderful? This also leads to the horrifying realization that it is by pure chance that giant's deep isn't infested with anglerfish as well.
I appreciate your autism but you're thinking about the game significantly more than the creators. Consider anglerfish. They breathe air in dark bramble but you want to say they're aquatic animals. If a bunch of frozen fish got flung off a planet into somewhere without water, they would simply die.
I don't know, I agree with anon's analysis. Why else would there be ice on giant's deep? The fish you could handwave that they adapted to breath air
>They breathe air in dark bramble
Wrong! The specimen in the museum specifies that they're adapted for the vacuum of space. Given the incredible amount of time between the destruction of dark bramble's predecessor and the events of the game, I believe they adapted from life in water that was still present in dark bramble to life in the near vacuum of dark bramble happened. It was more than enough time for the hearthians to adapt from simple amphibians to intelligent humanoids.
True. We don't know if dark bramble's predecessor was destroyed violently, or slowly by dark bramble releasing seeds and taking chucks of the planet with it over time.
I don't think the seeds change the size of things, I think it's just a normal extradimenional space. Remember, the fossil on ember twin is full sized, and the probe doesn't change size when going through differently sized portals.
Even if a seed made it to giant's deep before it was killed, that still wouldn't explain the frozen jellyfish on dark bramble because the seeds would teleport jellyfish into the interior of dark bramble, not the frozen exterior.
>They adapted to the vacuum of space
>Zero anglerfish floating around right outside of dark bramble
>Zero anglerfish floating around literally anywhere
I'm sorry m8. It's not adding up.
Anon the game literally tells you that. That's not even speculation on his part
>assuming moronic frog people have perfect knowledge
idk anon. if it were this way, there would be anglers moving around the outskirts of dark bramble. this would obviously be bad for gameplay so maybe at least a fish corpse stuck in the branches. I'm still not buying your
>anglerfish were aquatic animals that evolved instantaneously
either
At that point you may as well ask what the anglers are eating because there is clearly no food in the dark bramble. We can only work with what the game gives us, give us your theory if you disagree with anon's
Barring most likely option that other creatures of a similar scale are present but just aren't shown in the game, the anglerfish could be parasitizing the bramble itself, or could eat the tiny bugs that live on bramble's branches. In those cases, the anglerfish attacking your ship is not because they see you as prey, but because they see you as a rival threatening their territory. I forget where it was mentioned but I remember something in the game suggesting that the anglerfish were very territorial, so this would add up.
I was making fun of the cave's role in a normal playthrough. For most people, and myself for awhile, it's an odd loose end.
My bad, the near vaccum of dark bramble. The specimen in the museum was found surviving the on the landing gear of a spaceship that left dark bramble, so they must be resistant to the vaccum of space, but if one actually left the bramble on it's own, it would likely slowly starve, and would find itself unable to alter it's trajectory.
>it would likely slowly starve
Nice analysis. What exactly are they eating, ever, on dark bramble?
>what did they eat
>what is their tax policy
Shut up moron. The ice wouldn't still be frozen after tens of thousands of years, you're a total mongoloid.
Anon...
>ice being rained on perpetually for tens of thousands of years on giants deep
Erosion alone precludes your hypothesis.
I'm pretty sure there's frozen jellyfish in dark bramble because of the (failed) attempt by dark bramble to seed giant's deep. Some (possibly small) jellyfish could've gotten sucked into one of the seeds, teleported back to dark bramble where they froze and died. And of course they exited a larger seed, so that's why they are big, or something like that.
Ok well this ape just went off the rails. Just for anyone who's paying attention to Mr. Spoilerino, he's completely delusional and schizophrenic and nothing he says in this post was true at all.
What's your hypothesis then?
The jellyfish are obviously native to giants deep. They are specifically adapted to enter the core of giants deep. The one on dark bramble is obviously there due to timespace frickery in the brambles dead branch on giants deep. The anglers likely native to bramble seeds.
Then why us the jellyfish on the outside of dark bramble past the roots instead of inside of it, and how did the anglerfish get to ember twin?
I know what you're getting at but there's no reason anyone would actually experience that ever in a normal brain on a normal playthrough
it's a literal walking simulator
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complete shit, which is why Schreier loves it
It's extremely overrated.
The first hour is nice, setting is decent but the core of the game is just made out of tedium.
Every 15 minutes or so you start over, and if you bother trying to explore a bit in a place you spend 10 minutes to reach, you're good for trying again because of the reset.
"Puzzles" are a joke aside from a single one that requires to change your perspective on things, and you're not given enough time to enjoy the atmosphere of the places you work to reach.
I genuinely don't know why everyone loves it so much.
Why are you like this? I can tell you never touched the game for more than 1 hour with how your "review" sounds.
>lie to anon about what genre it is
>get upset when he doesn't like walking sims
>surprised Pikachu
Not anon but I have an irl friend that said pretty much the same thing. Some people really can't handle time limits, I genuinely don't understand it with this game in particular because it takes all of 2 minutes to get to any given place
You can reach anywhere in the game in a few minutes of travel, with a few exceptions that are gated by time. For those, you just rest at the campfire and then travel for a few minutes. This is only true if you can into newtonian physics, if not then you're a moron and don't deserve to get places fast anyway.
No
What is the dark bramble anyway? I assumed that it came from another solar system like the ghost matter did but I don't think there was anything that hinted at that
My crotch, at the center of it dwells my anus.
The possibilities for it's origin are coming from another system, evolving naturally on dark bramble's predecessor, or being somehow related to the eye. Of these, consider your theory the most likely, even if there isn't any evidence for it's origins in the game. Unless you count the easter egg, but I consider that non-canon.
I heard someone speculate that the different seeds in portals in dark bramble connect to other dark brambles in other systems, but that's basically fanfiction.
Not really. The outside of dark bramble has no food and water, the anglerfish would rightfully avoid it even if they could temporarily survive there, only outside interference like a space ship would move one there. If the game was fully detailed, we would likely see a few rare fish corpses that got flung outside the bramble, but the simplified nature of the game doesn't show that for the same reason that we don't see beached jellyfish on giant's deep.
I'm not suggesting that they evolved instantaneously. Dark bramble could've grown slowly over the course of millions of years giving enough time for the planet to have both water and extramimensional spaces for the anglerfish to adapt to. If Dark bramble did destroy it's predecessor suddenly and violently, it's interior could've been flooded for a time as well, and in the time it took for the bramble to drain the water from itself, the modern anglerfish could've evolved. That second theory is way more speculative though. I consider the seed on timber hearth and how fast it has grown good clue to suggest that growth of dark bramble fast on a geologic timescale, but not instant.
My favorite revelation was the quantum moon. I had just finished the quantum trials, and still couldn't figure out how to land on the moon. For some reason I thought a photo wouldn't work because the moon was still moving, eventually I said frick it let's try anyway and my mind was blown when it actually worked
Yes. It's Gone Home in space.
The anglerfish are native to ember twin.
It's a walking simulator for people who thought they were too cool for walking simulators.