Exactly. I realized this when I played this game. Its the same feeling I got when I played a Hitman map for the first time and suddenly all the moving parts clicked, and I didnt know why I didnt get as much enjoyment out of the same missions anymore despite loving the game. Rewatching a TV Show or re-reading a good book works well, but games should embrace the sense of wonder and excitement they give much more
Exactly. I realized this when I played this game. Its the same feeling I got when I played a Hitman map for the first time and suddenly all the moving parts clicked, and I didnt know why I didnt get as much enjoyment out of the same missions anymore despite loving the game. Rewatching a TV Show or re-reading a good book works well, but games should embrace the sense of wonder and excitement they give much more
this is where some randomization and procedural generation could be well utilized. change some of the planets around, change some of the riddles around, the dialogue and writing, and you're looking at something pretty fresh yet familiar.
>complete the story in different ways
What do you even mean by this
The only way to complete the story is to break the loop and there's like three different ways to do that without destroying the universe, none of them are very satisfying because you're explicitly trying to cop out of the path in front of you
What do you want, an ending where you save all the hearthians or something?
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I don't feel like arguing. When you play a game with alternative endings you'll get what I mean.
4 weeks ago
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Man, I say this with sincerity, I have played plenty of games with multiple endings and I cannot think of a single better way or even alternate way to end Outer Wilds. It ends the way it does because the entire point of the game is a meditation on the inevitability of death.
4 weeks ago
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He means real endings that contribute to the plot, not meme endings
Brainlet.
4 weeks ago
Anonymous
Even if you put aside the kazoo music endings you still have three different endings to choose from. What other kind of ending would you possibly want for this game? When you say contribute to the plot, what do you even mean?
That would be some deep rooted "random generation." You can't randomly discover that a tornado rotating the other direction is the one you need to find. You can't randomly define new "Quantum rules" (or if you can, I'm not smart enough to do it). You can only really have random solutions to disappointing variety of puzzles like a slide puzzle, or an exploration puzzle where you randomly place 10 jigsaw pieces in a random location to find so that when you go searching the next time, you don't already know the solution. Outer Wilds was too handcrafted to do that.
The only thing I could think of randomizing would be the actual coordinates and I much prefer them as they are because by this point they're pretty recognizable. Seriously, procedural generation and anything like that should stay far away from OW. The handcrafted nature of the game is why it's so good.
that doesnt work thematically, all these quantum places that shift location in the game are reflections and fragments of the eye of the universe but the actual EYE is a physical, static place that possesses these properties within it. the whole crux of the game is the random launches of the probe to actually locate the eyes static location (those coordinates)
absolutely not. making content infinite complexity destroys the value of it. having a finite amount of finely crafted content meticulously designed, and discovering all of it will always be better than infinite randomness.
proc gen is should only really be used for populating an environment with visual noise like grass and trees and garbage and stuff. not actual gameplay or story.
I feel like doing this would just feel like something like Remnant 2 does, where you feel like you come across novel biomes and puzzles but you then realize it's just some stitched together set pieces.
It's a genuinely shit game by today's standards, but Might & Magic 1 is easily the game I think about the most and the one I'll probably remember the longest. The unique and intimate feeling of spending hundreds of hours dying over and over, just to map out one more tile in this game to gain player knowledge, find secrets, decipher cryptic messages and archaic clues, is something that I think about to this day. God what an experience. I want to print out my entire map into a tapestry and hang it on my wall.
Ganker complained about how open world lose its charm after the first playthrough.
a genre based on first playthrough would be relentlessly shit on by the retards here.
>people will always discover something new on each playthrough
You speak as if people wouldn't look up guide nowadays and get it all done in a single playthrough.
I'd say Obra Dinn is easier to forget about so you can replay it. Sure the general plot is easy to remember but putting the right names on the right people needs work.
There isn't really anything else exactly like it out there. I'm hoping in five years or so we'll see a bunch of copycats emerge, or Mobius publishes something similiar enough given Echoes showed it wasn't a one-off, but right now there isn't anything that scratches the exact same itch. I got similar vibes to it from Obra Dinn and Metroid Prime, and I've hear anons talk about it being close to Subnautica if that helps.
>I've hear anons talk about it being close to Subnautica if that helps.
The problem is that Subnautica focus on survival craft.
Some anons didn't like it because of this.
It doesn't take a genius to figure out, every Outer Wilds thread reads exactly the same, and no one but shills ever bother to reply/sperg out over shill accusations.
I played your game btw, it's an interesting concept for sure but the story/narrative was uninteresting and bland, and without that, there was no other motivation to continue playing.
Well of course it reads the same, vast majority of people who play the game have the same reaction, which is "this is the greatest thing I've ever seen", and the people who complain are mostly bitching about pronouns. I'm not even the OP and I shill this game for free because it's genuinely incredible.
>the story/narrative was uninteresting and bland, and without that, there was no other motivation to continue playing.
I just liked the exploration, puzzles, and flying. I liked the story, but it wasnt a driving force behind me playing it
Walk me through in detail the financial understanding that you have: do you think that Mobius is legitimately paying somebody to shill a game that is years old at this point? Just answer me that.
It doesn't take a genius to figure out, every Outer Wilds thread reads exactly the same, and no one but shills ever bother to reply/sperg out over shill accusations.
I played your game btw, it's an interesting concept for sure but the story/narrative was uninteresting and bland, and without that, there was no other motivation to continue playing.
I know the feeling. Super Metroid was able to give some of it even though it's not in the same category really. Tunic is the closest I've played, but that's more game than Outer Wilds and it's not really so much an interactive diary it is trying to figure out what you have to do next.
I can appreciate how clever the design is but for some reason outer wilds never really clicked for me. I'd also say try obra dinn, absolutely brilliant game. Subnautica is more "traditional" but the exploration is really well crafted, even if there's no real puzzles. Probably worth a try anyway.
There's nothing, the only real choice is to go watch let's plays/convince your friends to play it and let you watch and read steam reviews of people completing it for the first time ad infinitum.
And also listen to the soundtrack again.
>I want to play games like this forever
Did you post the wrong picture or something? Once you know, you know and you can beat the game and the DLC in a single loop. This game doesn't have replayability, why would you play it forever? Cractorio on the other hand, now that's a hard game to stop playing.
Firewatch is pretty good, but its very short. Quite a shame. Also a game you can only play once. I think its not comparable to Outer Wilds its a game in the same cateogory I think and I kinda miss it ngl.
Sometimes I lay awake at night thinking that Deathloop could've been the lovechild of Dishonored and Outer Wilds, and then I remember we aren't in this universe and I'm glad Arkane's dying for this.
I wish I had non-shit internet when Deathloop and the update came out, I really wanted to gently fuck with people during their playthroughs but the online was genuinely unplayable.
Reminder that reviewers gave this game a 7 on release because the dev team only made shovelware mobile games before this. This made me lose all respect to reviewers
Well, the graphics is bad, as well as doing runs of the Brittle Hollow again and again, which is the closest planet (if I remember correctly) so you are likely to get there first and burn out.
moon is the closest, I went there first. then I probably went to the big planet, either because it was big, or maybe the museum tells you its full of storms
It is my sincerest recommendation that you play INFRA. Even though INFRA has nothing at all to with Outer Wilds, it is the same kind of rabbit hole puzzle game of trying to orient yourself inside of a story that has been going on without you. It is also a puzzle game about figuring out how to access areas, disguised as a simulator totally unrelated to what it’s actually about.
It’s also a game about having 5 flashlight batteries and having 4 camera batteries and having 4 flashlight batteries and having 5 flashlight batteries, in the same way Outer Wilds is a game about losing oxygen
The only thing that really does suck about INFRA compared to Outer Wilds is that it’s got a lot of points-of-no-return and permanently missable stuff, which is WILDLY fucking irritating in a game about exploring looking for solutions to puzzles. This especially plagues the early levels. INFRA kind of wears on its sleeve the episodic mod-based nature of its development with a lot of “stopping points”
Noita starts simple, but Once you win the game, you might start experimenting with the world outside of just the path down. Then you'll discover side-areas alongside the straight path down, discover areas to the left and right of the mine entranceand eventually reach the areas above the mine entrance. Eventually you'll figure out that you can dig through unbreakable rock located at the very ends of the world and reach parallel universes.
And once you reach that point, the game truly begins. Tell me, have you ever created your own sun before?
Since people mentioned Disco Elysium, I'll mention Planescape Torment. It's not a puzzler, but an RPG. It's much less open-ended and much more conventional than OW but it has an interesting world and an engaging plot.
There is no game like it, and no game is good, AND you can nver replay it. Brutal. Assuming you played the DLC too? Most people probably wouldn't agree but IMO just as good as the main game, so that's your only saving grace
I think if the game is a 10, the DLC is a 9. The fact that your spaceship really isn't important for the cast majority of it is a point against it but it's also made up for by the fact that the river rafting is so fun. Genuinely, reaching the Stranger and dropping into the river is one of the greatest moments in any video game I've played.
I think the DLC topped the base game for me. Some of the puzzles, the sense of fear, the music. It hit all the right notes for me even though I never really liked puzzle games before
I said 9/10 but it's closer to a 9.5. Perfect atmosphere, perfect level design, the three major puzzles you have to deal during the survival horror sections are genuinely brilliant, especially if you go Endless Canyon>Shrouded Woodlands>Starlit Cove. I nearly yelled at my screen after trying the solution from the hidden slide reel at Endless Canyon.
>Endless Canyon>Shrouded Woodlands>Starlit Cove
This is the intended path right?
Cuz I notice that there is a “explore more” symbol on the endless canyon part.
It did make the rest of the dlc trivial with the solution.
I have to imagine, yeah. Because while it does trivialize the rest of the encounters (mostly) it makes sense as the reward for dealing with all the survival horror bullshit.
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I think shroud woodland is doable without the trick especially if you find their secret entrance and wait for the dam to kill them.
Starlit cover has that bullshit at the end with 3 or 6 owls walking around without their lamps in the dark.
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I think no matter what starlit cove should be saved for last because it really needs the context of the previous two hidden slide reels. Plus, doing the solution it gives you felt unbelievably climactic. the DLC teaching you about the combination locks to make you think you'll be hunting them down like a collectathon to open the sarcophagus and then pulling the rug out from under you and turning the final puzzle into an any% speedrun is fucking incredible, one of the greatest things I've ever seen in any game
It worked on me especially since I was a Halo fan from childhood so it being a real, functioning ringworld was something I had never once seen done in any game.
there is a near infinitely small chance you can solve the game on your first every try i guess, but you are playing a game designed around you dying. its kinda the main thematic throughpoint that everything everywhere dies eventually
It's been out for 3 fucking years, go harass some thread dedicated to a new indie you're so certain nobody could be interested in talking about on a vidya board.
Be honest Ganker if you were really trapped in that scenario, and figured it all out would you be brave enough to try and fix it? Given the explicite reprocusions if you fumbled it.
Probably most people would eventually go for it, just to escape eternity. You could plan everything up to a certain point and practice a ton, but eventually you'll arrive in new territory and I imagine it would be fucking nerve wrecking.
I'd be practicing the run from ash twin to Dark Bramble a lot more I can tell you that. Would be shitting myself waiting for the ship to drift past the anglers though.
i'd be too pussy to go through the dark bramble after the first visit, i imagine
then again you'd be stuck in the loop for an infinite amount of time so i'd probably suck it up eventually
There's really no choice but to move forward or relive the same day for eternity. I would probably practice the route to the mothership like 20 to 100 times before yanking the core though.
The planet does a full rotation in that time. It's kind of like how the planets are no bigger than the Epcot center. Scaled for the purposes of the game.
I still seethe at the game because I got filtered by one of the last puzzles. How to get inside the Ash Twin.
This was the only puzzle that broke me. Other than that, great game with an amazing soundtrack.
I was an impatient retard and landed my ship in the right spot on accident. I wasn't even sure what I did differently at first until I saw my ship got blown away to a random place.
Play Gnosia
I want to, but playing Among Us intimidates me. What cheap strategies are there to win so I can unlock routes consistently?
Same, though I was streaming for a friend who I was in a voice chat with, so he gave me a hint instead. I assumed the sandstorm would suck me up before being able to teleport , so I'd not tried it.
I admit I cheated and looked up the solution too. It just didn't make sense to me that Ember Twin needed alignment with the pad to get into the planet I'm standing on. That doesn't make a ton of sense to me.
I got filtered by gravity tower with the broken slab.
I completely forgot that the tower would drop into the black hole near the end.
I remember spending 2-3 hours spinning around the black hole in hope that it would propel me to the gravity wall and just rage quit
This shit sucks as soon as the time loop bullshit starts it's so fucking obvious what is going to happen i thought shit like was cool and mindblowing when i was like 12. A true midwit game
Yea, I actually understand what you mean. Theyre totally different games but the exploration of MP1, the scanning, discovering a story and general sense of loneliness really do kind of have a similar vibe.
I only played Prime 1. while there's some sense of exploration, the whole thing is incredibly linear. And there's definitely not the aspect of "slowly understanding the story/universe" in Prime.
No it isn't. Fuck you. Obra Dinn is Ace Attorney but with no interesting characters, no interesting plot, and no cool holy shit moments after the first 10-20 minutes.
Play The Invincible, it just came out.
Made by the Polish and based on Lem's book, so the writing/dialogue is noticeably better than anything written by AAA westoids while still looking high-production and polished I'd say.
qrd? Is there gameplay? The literal trailer footage said it was a walking sim so I'm doubtful I wanna play it
in b4 some schizo tries to say Outer Wilds is a walking sim like always happens in these threads
It is mostly a first-person walking sim with some light puzzling (maybe I'm wrong, I haven't played that much yet), but your choices matter a lot it seems so there is replayability in that. But yeah, don't expect Myst or anything like that. More of a Metroid Prime thing with more writing and huge amount of small details, putting you into the shoes of a stranded planet explorer.
It is mostly a first-person walking sim with some light puzzling (maybe I'm wrong, I haven't played that much yet), but your choices matter a lot it seems so there is replayability in that. But yeah, don't expect Myst or anything like that. More of a Metroid Prime thing with more writing and huge amount of small details, putting you into the shoes of a stranded planet explorer.
>walking sim with some light puzzling
So basically Scorn again. This game looks good and has an interesting world, but I've never been so bored playing a game than when I was playing Scorn.
I didn't like Scorn, but liked this. You can try the Demo, it's relatively meaty and was the thing that sold me on the game. Otherwise I probably wouldn't bother.
I know walking sims get a bad rep here, but I love exploring weird spaces in first-person 3D worlds.
Doesn't matter if it's a pure walking sim, a puzzle game like Antichamber, or an actual FPS like Half-Quake Amen.
Anyone here feeling the same? Maybe you guys got recommendations?
Currently looking forward to Broken Reality 2 and the ENA game.
A thought just occurred to me: was it fucked up for the Hatchling to just leave Gabbro behind
Like, everyone else makes sense, impossible to explain and convince in time, but Gabbro could at least be convinced, right?
It's strange to me that they made a time loop game and then there's absolutely nothing to do in your village. No way to take advantage of the loops to solve issues, no getting to know the local retards, no reason to feel attached.
some Majora's Mask-esque sidequests with multiple endings would be interesting, being able to see that the seemingly obvious best solution might not be so, or having problems that are mutually exclusive to solve etc.
they don't have that many resources. also having stuff to do that is unrelated to the "main" story would risk people focusing on the wrong stuff and not making progress.
The Witness is great but is nothing like Outer Wilds or any other game in this thread. It's 99% a puzzle game and 1% pretentious trash. At most you can say the island was inspired by Myst or something.
Elden Ring unironically.
Yes, I know it has open world bloat and soul combat, but traveling across the map gives me the same experience as Outer Wilds. Finding the Siofra river for the first time was unforgettable.
There is also Subnautica too, but I have low tolerance for survival craft.
Well, the answer might differ depending on what you want to discover (gameplay mechanics, locations/sites, just exploring and finding content, taking in the game's world, etc.). But for me, some of those games ellicited some of those feelings. (I will probably get shit on for this weird eclectic list but whatever).
Endless mods for something like Doom or HL1/2 or Portal.
Zachtronics Games
Return of the Obra Dinn
Yakuza series
Yume Nikki and its various fan games
B3313
The Witness
LSD: Dream Emulator
Baba Is You
Possiblly Anodyne 2 and Sephonie
Antichamber
Kairo
ZeroRanger and Void Stranger
Psychonauts 1 and 2
The Neverhood
Fear and Hunger 1 and 2
Hypnogigia: Boundless Dreams
BotW/TotK
Death Stranding
Northern Journey
Rain World
I'd say Oddworld (Oddyssey/Exoddus and Stranger), but they are too linear for that. Still worth a shot.
MGSV
Sonic Frontiers however misguided and simple the game is
Banjo-Kazooie
Project Kat and possibly other non-linear RPG Maker-like games (most of them are too linear though)
Hypnospace Outlaw
The Binding of Isaac: Repentance
La-Mulana 1 and 2
The Talos Prinicple sort of, but it didn't exactly do it for me (still a good game)
The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe
Half-Quake Trilogy, Amen specifically
it also nails down the "fuck this block was one to the left when it needed to be one to the right and I have to redo 100 other identical inputs" experience
some kz and bhop maps from css and csgo hit the vibe, including some very light exploration / puzzling trying to find the route or optimal route within a cool atmospheric world https://youtube.com/watch?v=pfkfudhox_k
You played Half-Quake, Kairo, and Sephonie?
That'd be a first for me.
I'll try to remember some more games.
Try these then (scraping the bottom of the barrel here mostly):
Babbdi
MGS3
Inscryption
Hollow Knight
Phoenotopia
Pocket Mirror
Subway Midnight
INFRA
SRB2 with mods
Beginner's Guide
Broken Reality
The Case of the Golden Idol
Chess Evolved Online
Zineth and other Arcane Kids games
Cruelty Squad
Deadeye Deepfake Simulacrum
King's Field
Elden Ring even though I am not a fan of souls
Maybe Tecmo's Deception series
Devil Spire
Dread Delusion
DUSK
Dread X Collection series
Possibly The Forgotten City but I haven't played it
Single-player maps for Garry's Mod (Autumn 2001 is a good example for me)
Worlds
Hyperbolica
Possibly Jazzpunk but I haven't tried it
Legend of Grimrock
Manifold Garden
Myst series
OneShot
Pathologic
Vangers
Star of Providence
The End of Dyeus
The Void
Parkan 2
Cosmology of Kyoto
GROW series
Crypt Worlds
I just started it last night and I can't lie, card games have never really appealed to me on anything other than a surface level so I'm having trouble getting into it.
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Inscryption looks interesting, not a fan of horror but gonna give it a shot
inscryption isn't terrible but it tries to be like 4 slight variations on itself and even though it's "thematic" they all mostly are worse than the original
somewhat luckily the dev realized the first part was the best and made a slightly enhanced version of that as an official "mod"
>Jellyfish puzzle >maneuvered my ship under the jellyfish because I thought that it’s stupid to hide under the jellyfish with your body. >it’s the answer to the puzzle
I am still fucking mad
I went to the dead one on the other planet and rummaged around in its guts, I tried to have a jellyfish push my ship through, I tried to ram a jellyfish at high speed to cover the ship in guts. Felt like bullshit when I finally had to look it up.
That's how I came to the conclusion that I should cover myself or the ship with its guts by messing around with the corpse to cover my suit and then later ramming one to coat my ship.
You can never experience it again, because its entirely knowledge based. Once you know the single solutions to all the mysteries, the game is entirely solved. Unlike other games that require skill in execution. or puzzle games that require skill in solving. This game doesn't have any of those kinds of skills. It only has the knowing part. I very much enjoy it, but you will never get that from any other game.
All that being said: Play La-Mulana. It sort of satisfies that discovery and knowledge aspect that Outer Wilds has. Except it it's more difficult. The clues are more obscure, and you will probably become lost for longer periods of time. But boy does it feel good when you solve the mysteries of the ruins.
>dam breaks when you're in the dream world and you can hear the muffled sound of the water flooding in the real world >wake up in a flooded room with dead owls all around you >tower falls over and gravity in the dream world shifts for a while >approach the bell and there's a muffled sound of bell dinging and then you wake up and it's much louder DING DING DING DING
it's so perfect
As it should. It's really scary when you're immersed in the game. Watching the game on twitch, I get irrationally angry when people aren't scared. Most are scared. Most range from terrorized to mildly scared. But then you have those jaded fucks who feel nothing. And they bother me.
why yes, I too have watched inception.
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I felt excitement >I get irrationally angry when people aren't scared. Most are scared. Most range from terrorized to mildly scared. But then you have those jaded fucks who feel nothing. And they bother me. I'm sorry anon I had a tough life and the most I can experience now is mild discomfort even when my life is on the line.
i thought it was hilarious because the first time i saw the dam, it was already leaking and i said "oh I bet the dam is going to break at some point." And then it broke.
>I felt excitement >i thought it was hilarious
Well that's something at least. Some people just have no visible reaction. All you see is a brief look of confusion and then realization on their face, then it's back to their neutral state. And they might comment on it because they're being watched and they have to say something, but you can tell they're unfazed.
i thought it was hilarious because the first time i saw the dam, it was already leaking and i said "oh I bet the dam is going to break at some point." And then it broke.
I wasn't scared by any of the DLC. I'm not scared by anything. I used to be a huge scardy cat, but I think I scared myself so bad when I was younger it broke my fear factor. Even with all that, what kind of pussy gets scared from a dam breaking? The monsters I can understand cause they can jump scare you, but the dam is just a dam.
1. If you're in the path of the water, you have that feeling of impending doom.
2. You don't know what's potentially underwater. Something could be lurking down there.
3. Whatever you were in the middle of doing, surely a tidal wave will ruin those plans, so at the least, you should be afraid of having your plans spoiled.
1. If you're in the path of the water, you have that feeling of impending doom.
2. You don't know what's potentially underwater. Something could be lurking down there.
3. Whatever you were in the middle of doing, surely a tidal wave will ruin those plans, so at the least, you should be afraid of having your plans spoiled.
Oh and, it's startling. A sudden load crashing noise is akin to a jump scare.
The dam break scared the shit out of me the first time I saw it.
As it should. It's really scary when you're immersed in the game. Watching the game on twitch, I get irrationally angry when people aren't scared. Most are scared. Most range from terrorized to mildly scared. But then you have those jaded fucks who feel nothing. And they bother me.
I felt excitement >I get irrationally angry when people aren't scared. Most are scared. Most range from terrorized to mildly scared. But then you have those jaded fucks who feel nothing. And they bother me. I'm sorry anon I had a tough life and the most I can experience now is mild discomfort even when my life is on the line.
>why yes, I too have watched inception.
why do you have to put it down like that, there are no other games that does this and inception is a boring movie
Inception is dogshit, the premise is good and then they use it to make retarded action sequences in every single level of subconsciousness >trained subconsciousness projections
What a retarded idea
i'll be honest, i loved the base game, but i gave up on the DLC. The loop became so much more annoying with the mandatory "fly into the dlc zone" at the start of every run. If I just had to go stand somewhere, whatever, but it actually requires you to go line up your space ship and time something. Which, granted, the base game makes you do to solve a few of the last puzzles. But to even investigate the DLC requires that you do it EVERY TIME.
>If I just had to go stand somewhere, whatever, but it actually requires you to go line up your space ship and time something.
Oh my fucking god dude please don't tell me you replicated the satellite method of finding the Stranger every single time.
I don't know why everyone is pointing fingers at you when what you trying to say is pretty clear. I agree, even with autopilot it becomes tedious. Still, I enjoyed it a lot.
Didnt play the DLC because I never discovered anything related to it in the base game, and after the ending it felt wrong to just jump back in and explore again. Is it as good as the base game? And worth it after finishing it?
it's best to play it after finishing it and playing it on the same save so you can jump right in. It starts on the new radio tower on Timber Hearth. It's great, some people think it's slightly worse than the base game, some people think it's slightly better and some think it's just as good ,tastes can vary.
It legitimately builds on the lore and answers one very important question you might be asking when everything is said and done. As for "not finding any clues" it inserts something in the museum and a location on Timber Hearth that kicks off the search, it feels extremely natural extension of the base game and doesn't shit on any feels you had before.
It is good, substantial, and worth it. I recommend it if you enjoyed the main game at all.
it's best to play it after finishing it and playing it on the same save so you can jump right in. It starts on the new radio tower on Timber Hearth. It's great, some people think it's slightly worse than the base game, some people think it's slightly better and some think it's just as good ,tastes can vary.
Alright thanks. Does it change the ending at all? Or does it not require you to do the ATP -> Dark Bramble route?
For me it was flying to Giant's Deep for the first time, crossing the cloudy stratosphere too fast and suddenly finding myself surrounded by storm, lightning and tornados. On top of that my ship was going too fast so I hit the water and saw the horrors that awaited under there so I literally went "no no no no" while reversing and flying away from that godforsaken planet.
I've played a lot of games. There is nothing else which compares to the radical expectation subversion and whiplash which was described in
For me it was flying to Giant's Deep for the first time, crossing the cloudy stratosphere too fast and suddenly finding myself surrounded by storm, lightning and tornados. On top of that my ship was going too fast so I hit the water and saw the horrors that awaited under there so I literally went "no no no no" while reversing and flying away from that godforsaken planet.
. It's the only gameplay experience intense enough to actually have a lasting effect on me.
Games with charm, soul, and satisfying payoffs? Sorry chud we don't make those anymore, now buy the Spider-Mxn battlepass to learn about cis privilege.
>bumbling about for an hour no idea what to do
That's pretty it much it until you find an intruiguing lead. Attlerock and Giant's Deep have a few easy to find interesting stuff. Anything you find on one planet will you elsewhere, while trying to find your second lead, you'll get another intrigue and so and it keeps rolling.
On your ship at the inside but at the back is a log. It's all the hints you've found, read them. It also tells you if you are still missing shit, find them, you'll figure it out.
The Painscreek Killings, totally different kind of game, you are a journalist trying to piece out a murder that happened 10 years ago in a deserted little town, but it scratches the same itch, you explore places, read texts, those texts give you clues on how to access more places and get more clues, etc, etc. All of this while you piece together what happened on the town and who committed the murder.
>forever
Good new, you can. You're trapped in a loop right now.
"Pandora's box" games should be a category of their own. I genuinely love games that are designed to be played only once.
Exactly. I realized this when I played this game. Its the same feeling I got when I played a Hitman map for the first time and suddenly all the moving parts clicked, and I didnt know why I didnt get as much enjoyment out of the same missions anymore despite loving the game. Rewatching a TV Show or re-reading a good book works well, but games should embrace the sense of wonder and excitement they give much more
this is where some randomization and procedural generation could be well utilized. change some of the planets around, change some of the riddles around, the dialogue and writing, and you're looking at something pretty fresh yet familiar.
Just having multiple endings would improve Outer Wilds a lot. I do hope that a spiritual successor appears at some point
There are like six different endings dude
I obviously meant endings that complete the story in different ways and not "Bad ending. You uninstalled the game".
>complete the story in different ways
What do you even mean by this
The only way to complete the story is to break the loop and there's like three different ways to do that without destroying the universe, none of them are very satisfying because you're explicitly trying to cop out of the path in front of you
What do you want, an ending where you save all the hearthians or something?
I don't feel like arguing. When you play a game with alternative endings you'll get what I mean.
Man, I say this with sincerity, I have played plenty of games with multiple endings and I cannot think of a single better way or even alternate way to end Outer Wilds. It ends the way it does because the entire point of the game is a meditation on the inevitability of death.
He means real endings that contribute to the plot, not meme endings
Brainlet.
Even if you put aside the kazoo music endings you still have three different endings to choose from. What other kind of ending would you possibly want for this game? When you say contribute to the plot, what do you even mean?
the alternative endings are technically that, thats why theyre endings. only one endings is teh "primary" one though, like most games
That would be some deep rooted "random generation." You can't randomly discover that a tornado rotating the other direction is the one you need to find. You can't randomly define new "Quantum rules" (or if you can, I'm not smart enough to do it). You can only really have random solutions to disappointing variety of puzzles like a slide puzzle, or an exploration puzzle where you randomly place 10 jigsaw pieces in a random location to find so that when you go searching the next time, you don't already know the solution. Outer Wilds was too handcrafted to do that.
Just randomizing the 3 pieces of the final puzzle would be enough, for a start - so that you can't just speedrun the game in a single loop.
That just feels like busywork, though, it's still the same steps
The only thing I could think of randomizing would be the actual coordinates and I much prefer them as they are because by this point they're pretty recognizable. Seriously, procedural generation and anything like that should stay far away from OW. The handcrafted nature of the game is why it's so good.
that doesnt work thematically, all these quantum places that shift location in the game are reflections and fragments of the eye of the universe but the actual EYE is a physical, static place that possesses these properties within it. the whole crux of the game is the random launches of the probe to actually locate the eyes static location (those coordinates)
absolutely not. making content infinite complexity destroys the value of it. having a finite amount of finely crafted content meticulously designed, and discovering all of it will always be better than infinite randomness.
proc gen is should only really be used for populating an environment with visual noise like grass and trees and garbage and stuff. not actual gameplay or story.
I feel like doing this would just feel like something like Remnant 2 does, where you feel like you come across novel biomes and puzzles but you then realize it's just some stitched together set pieces.
I am glad you retards weren't designing this game
This
Hopefully we get more like them soon since the indie scene is the only thing keeping gaming fun nowadays.
It's a genuinely shit game by today's standards, but Might & Magic 1 is easily the game I think about the most and the one I'll probably remember the longest. The unique and intimate feeling of spending hundreds of hours dying over and over, just to map out one more tile in this game to gain player knowledge, find secrets, decipher cryptic messages and archaic clues, is something that I think about to this day. God what an experience. I want to print out my entire map into a tapestry and hang it on my wall.
Ganker complained about how open world lose its charm after the first playthrough.
a genre based on first playthrough would be relentlessly shit on by the retards here.
Just craft your world with so much love and attention to detail that people will always discover something new on each playthrough. Easy.
>people will always discover something new on each playthrough
You speak as if people wouldn't look up guide nowadays and get it all done in a single playthrough.
Or just fuck replayability fags, absolute bane to vidya. Only game that pulled that off really well was Armored Core 6
The Return of the Obra Dinn isnt quite the same but its similiar in that you can only play it once.
Thanks, will check it out
I'd say Obra Dinn is easier to forget about so you can replay it. Sure the general plot is easy to remember but putting the right names on the right people needs work.
It's possible to challenge yourself a bit too with some of the crew members and find alternative ways to identify them.
Or to identify some in different orders, rather than relying on process of elimination.
Obra Dinn is an absolute banger
I'll do a little bit of shilling and recommend Case of the Golden Idol to anyone wanting more Obra Dinn
God i love golden idol. That game is detective crack
Fucking Christ I love Return of the Obra Dinn
There isn't really anything else exactly like it out there. I'm hoping in five years or so we'll see a bunch of copycats emerge, or Mobius publishes something similiar enough given Echoes showed it wasn't a one-off, but right now there isn't anything that scratches the exact same itch. I got similar vibes to it from Obra Dinn and Metroid Prime, and I've hear anons talk about it being close to Subnautica if that helps.
>Metroid Prime
That's a good point, I thought about that too when I was replaying OW recently. The logs, the remnants of a once great race, etc.
>I've hear anons talk about it being close to Subnautica if that helps.
The problem is that Subnautica focus on survival craft.
Some anons didn't like it because of this.
>Subnautica focus on survival craft
I tried that game because of Outer Wilds threads and I fucking hated it so much.
>le scour the sea floor for a copper rock so you can farm rocks faster
Survival crafting gameplay is actually for brainlets, also it's nothing like Outer Wilds at all
I enjoy the music, the biome, and the sea monsters, but yeah, the survival craft gameplay was such a slog for me and I just quited after 10 hours.
The game is a lot better in VR and if you play it on hardcore with permadeath.
This is a shill thread
Yes I am shilling this game from now on because it was really good, cant stop me homosexual
watch out the schizos are already here
So funny that expressing joy about something you like is enough to get you accused of foul play on the modern internet.
It doesn't take a genius to figure out, every Outer Wilds thread reads exactly the same, and no one but shills ever bother to reply/sperg out over shill accusations.
I played your game btw, it's an interesting concept for sure but the story/narrative was uninteresting and bland, and without that, there was no other motivation to continue playing.
Well of course it reads the same, vast majority of people who play the game have the same reaction, which is "this is the greatest thing I've ever seen", and the people who complain are mostly bitching about pronouns. I'm not even the OP and I shill this game for free because it's genuinely incredible.
ok low iq mongrel
>you're obviously in the employ of an indie studio to secretly advertise a game that came out four years ago
>It doesn't take a genius to figure out
>the story/narrative was uninteresting and bland, and without that, there was no other motivation to continue playing.
I just liked the exploration, puzzles, and flying. I liked the story, but it wasnt a driving force behind me playing it
Walk me through in detail the financial understanding that you have: do you think that Mobius is legitimately paying somebody to shill a game that is years old at this point? Just answer me that.
Kys, game is good
>posted almost 22 minutes apart
subtle
you are insane
What benefit would shilling for a four year-old game provide? A couple dozen sales?
>discussing video games on the video game board? Must be a paid advertisement!
You’re too far gone, retardanon…
If I could murder people through the screen I would have racked up a higher kill count than genghis khan.
check out tough guy over here, better not mess with him
have a nice day schizo
>shilling a 4 year old game
guaranteed mentally ill bait
if you've never played it, Myst might scratch your itch as well
NTA, but I've played Myst, and it's just alright. Doesn't hold a candle to Outer Wilds, though.
Tears Of The Kingdom is close enough.
I know the feeling. Super Metroid was able to give some of it even though it's not in the same category really. Tunic is the closest I've played, but that's more game than Outer Wilds and it's not really so much an interactive diary it is trying to figure out what you have to do next.
I can appreciate how clever the design is but for some reason outer wilds never really clicked for me. I'd also say try obra dinn, absolutely brilliant game. Subnautica is more "traditional" but the exploration is really well crafted, even if there's no real puzzles. Probably worth a try anyway.
There's nothing, the only real choice is to go watch let's plays/convince your friends to play it and let you watch and read steam reviews of people completing it for the first time ad infinitum.
And also listen to the soundtrack again.
Get a lobotomy and re-play it
But you could try Void Stranger or Noita, different games but I felt the same "feeling" of adventure and discovery
My only regret in life is not playing this in VR for my first playthrough
That mod is just insane
Fuck off, cuck, no-one cares that you're proud about it
>I want to play games like this forever
Did you post the wrong picture or something? Once you know, you know and you can beat the game and the DLC in a single loop. This game doesn't have replayability, why would you play it forever? Cractorio on the other hand, now that's a hard game to stop playing.
>esl homosexual
>beat game and dlc in a single loop
huh?
to do the DLC you need to die by the campfire
how the hell do you deliver the payload afterwards?
>not bruteforcing the code
NGMI
Kholat
Firewatch
Vanishing of Ethan Carter
The Path
Journey
Dear Esther
Gone Home
The Graveyard
those all extremely shit lol
Nah Journey's great
You think?
Just like Outer Wilds
Firewatch is pretty good, but its very short. Quite a shame. Also a game you can only play once. I think its not comparable to Outer Wilds its a game in the same cateogory I think and I kinda miss it ngl.
Being a mass-reply nagger is worse than being a cuck.
>brainlets still seething at OW threads
Every time.
Sometimes I lay awake at night thinking that Deathloop could've been the lovechild of Dishonored and Outer Wilds, and then I remember we aren't in this universe and I'm glad Arkane's dying for this.
the fact that there was literally ZERO variation in the method to "solve the loop" was really fucking lame
i was having fun at first, but after i realized there was only one real path it soured the experience.
tormenting people online with invis sniper build was fun as fuck though
I wish I had non-shit internet when Deathloop and the update came out, I really wanted to gently fuck with people during their playthroughs but the online was genuinely unplayable.
Hadn't heard much about Tunic but it scratches the Outer Wilds itch for me
I'm in the endgame of Tunic and while it's not on the same level of quality I do think it's a fun game, and really works aesthetically.
Game went from 0 to 60 once you realize you need to TL the scribbles to get the true ending
Chants of Sennaar is fairly similar
Signalis
ASTLIBRA
The Case of the Golden Idol
>quirky reddit 2 deep 4 u snoozefest
I played an hour then uninstalled
Its not quirky and not trying to be deep, youre a brownoid
you got owned retard
Go back
Reminder that reviewers gave this game a 7 on release because the dev team only made shovelware mobile games before this. This made me lose all respect to reviewers
What mobile games did Mobius even make? As far as I know this started as a student project and the studio was formed to complete it.
Well, the graphics is bad, as well as doing runs of the Brittle Hollow again and again, which is the closest planet (if I remember correctly) so you are likely to get there first and burn out.
The game looks great though
moon is the closest, I went there first. then I probably went to the big planet, either because it was big, or maybe the museum tells you its full of storms
Speaking of. Now we know that reviewers rush games skipping all dialogs. You can imagine how it went with this game.
Play the Myst series
It is my sincerest recommendation that you play INFRA. Even though INFRA has nothing at all to with Outer Wilds, it is the same kind of rabbit hole puzzle game of trying to orient yourself inside of a story that has been going on without you. It is also a puzzle game about figuring out how to access areas, disguised as a simulator totally unrelated to what it’s actually about.
It’s also a game about having 5 flashlight batteries and having 4 camera batteries and having 4 flashlight batteries and having 5 flashlight batteries, in the same way Outer Wilds is a game about losing oxygen
Seconding INFRA, it's great.
The only thing that really does suck about INFRA compared to Outer Wilds is that it’s got a lot of points-of-no-return and permanently missable stuff, which is WILDLY fucking irritating in a game about exploring looking for solutions to puzzles. This especially plagues the early levels. INFRA kind of wears on its sleeve the episodic mod-based nature of its development with a lot of “stopping points”
post mega
Looks neat, added to my wishlist.
Play the Monkey Island remakes.
Disco Elysium
i've replayed Disco Elysium 3 times (once on release, then twice when they added VA and extra quests).
Disco Elysium and Noita, while wildly different, gave me some of the same sense of wonder
Why Noita?
NTA, but same idea of expanding scope.
I guess I just never got that far in because to me Noita was about fucking with physics and setting things on fire.
Noita starts simple, but Once you win the game, you might start experimenting with the world outside of just the path down.
Then you'll discover side-areas alongside the straight path down, discover areas to the left and right of the mine entrance and eventually reach the areas above the mine entrance.
Eventually you'll figure out that you can dig through unbreakable rock located at the very ends of the world and reach parallel universes.
And once you reach that point, the game truly begins. Tell me, have you ever created your own sun before?
Since people mentioned Disco Elysium, I'll mention Planescape Torment. It's not a puzzler, but an RPG. It's much less open-ended and much more conventional than OW but it has an interesting world and an engaging plot.
Thanks for mentioning it, I'll update my journal.
heh
I wish I hadn't been turned off by the box art back in the day, everyone only says good things about it.
riven the sequel to myst
Seconding Riven. But also, the entire genre of adventure games. Outer Wilds is just a modern take on it.
There is no game like it, and no game is good, AND you can nver replay it. Brutal. Assuming you played the DLC too? Most people probably wouldn't agree but IMO just as good as the main game, so that's your only saving grace
I think if the game is a 10, the DLC is a 9. The fact that your spaceship really isn't important for the cast majority of it is a point against it but it's also made up for by the fact that the river rafting is so fun. Genuinely, reaching the Stranger and dropping into the river is one of the greatest moments in any video game I've played.
Looking up and seeing the river loop over you was a fucking kickass setpiece, and I didn’t really care for the DLC nearly as much
I think the DLC topped the base game for me. Some of the puzzles, the sense of fear, the music. It hit all the right notes for me even though I never really liked puzzle games before
I said 9/10 but it's closer to a 9.5. Perfect atmosphere, perfect level design, the three major puzzles you have to deal during the survival horror sections are genuinely brilliant, especially if you go Endless Canyon>Shrouded Woodlands>Starlit Cove. I nearly yelled at my screen after trying the solution from the hidden slide reel at Endless Canyon.
>Endless Canyon>Shrouded Woodlands>Starlit Cove
This is the intended path right?
Cuz I notice that there is a “explore more” symbol on the endless canyon part.
It did make the rest of the dlc trivial with the solution.
I have to imagine, yeah. Because while it does trivialize the rest of the encounters (mostly) it makes sense as the reward for dealing with all the survival horror bullshit.
I think shroud woodland is doable without the trick especially if you find their secret entrance and wait for the dam to kill them.
Starlit cover has that bullshit at the end with 3 or 6 owls walking around without their lamps in the dark.
I think no matter what starlit cove should be saved for last because it really needs the context of the previous two hidden slide reels. Plus, doing the solution it gives you felt unbelievably climactic. the DLC teaching you about the combination locks to make you think you'll be hunting them down like a collectathon to open the sarcophagus and then pulling the rug out from under you and turning the final puzzle into an any% speedrun is fucking incredible, one of the greatest things I've ever seen in any game
Looking up and realizing for the first time "holy fuck, I'm on a ring world" was the moment where I was locked in.
It worked on me especially since I was a Halo fan from childhood so it being a real, functioning ringworld was something I had never once seen done in any game.
Buy an ad homosexual.
I hear it aaaaahhhhhhhh the sweet tones of inevitability, they're coming for me.
I tried to save Solanum by returning to her body with her photo...
shadows of doubt
Majoras mask is basically the same exact mechanic but in a zelda game.
I dunno, I tried playing this, twice even, but I keep dying. Dunno what I do wrong
>but I keep dying.
Then you're playing it right
Whay do you mean. This isn't dark souls, it's some space game.
there is a near infinitely small chance you can solve the game on your first every try i guess, but you are playing a game designed around you dying. its kinda the main thematic throughpoint that everything everywhere dies eventually
It's been out for 3 fucking years, go harass some thread dedicated to a new indie you're so certain nobody could be interested in talking about on a vidya board.
They've been getting mileage out of this in the Lunacid threads so I assume they're just trying it in any random thread now. (You)farmers are pathetic
Be honest Ganker if you were really trapped in that scenario, and figured it all out would you be brave enough to try and fix it? Given the explicite reprocusions if you fumbled it.
No, because the black holes ingame already freaked me out enough, I don't want to go through that in person.
Probably most people would eventually go for it, just to escape eternity. You could plan everything up to a certain point and practice a ton, but eventually you'll arrive in new territory and I imagine it would be fucking nerve wrecking.
> practice a ton
> Just look at the clock! Time to practice killing everyone.
I'd be practicing the run from ash twin to Dark Bramble a lot more I can tell you that. Would be shitting myself waiting for the ship to drift past the anglers though.
i'd be too pussy to go through the dark bramble after the first visit, i imagine
then again you'd be stuck in the loop for an infinite amount of time so i'd probably suck it up eventually
There's really no choice but to move forward or relive the same day for eternity. I would probably practice the route to the mothership like 20 to 100 times before yanking the core though.
>relive the same day
It's 20 minutes
The planet does a full rotation in that time. It's kind of like how the planets are no bigger than the Epcot center. Scaled for the purposes of the game.
The planets are actually even smaller out in space if you use VR. Was a really disappointing experience. The sun was 50 meters across lmao
I'd just try to find a way to cope for 800 years, then the pressure of my doom would make me try for 10 years before coping once more, repeat.
>try for 10 years
you can only try once, anon.
Dark Bramble is terrifying, but only getting to do whatever for 22 minutes before being slain would probably motivate me pretty damn fast
At a certain point, you just get too bored and end it all.
I can see myself rushing dark bramble if I loop for 500-800 times.
I still seethe at the game because I got filtered by one of the last puzzles. How to get inside the Ash Twin.
This was the only puzzle that broke me. Other than that, great game with an amazing soundtrack.
same thing happened to me, except I brute forced it with 2 - 3 hours of exploration and refusal to look anything up
I did the same, I'll admit it. Every other puzzle was done alone but I was just too fucking stupid to get inside the ATP.
I was an impatient retard and landed my ship in the right spot on accident. I wasn't even sure what I did differently at first until I saw my ship got blown away to a random place.
I want to, but playing Among Us intimidates me. What cheap strategies are there to win so I can unlock routes consistently?
Same, though I was streaming for a friend who I was in a voice chat with, so he gave me a hint instead. I assumed the sandstorm would suck me up before being able to teleport , so I'd not tried it.
I admit I cheated and looked up the solution too. It just didn't make sense to me that Ember Twin needed alignment with the pad to get into the planet I'm standing on. That doesn't make a ton of sense to me.
There's some text somewhere mentioning the teleporter target for the ash twins is halfway between them.
I feel like I came across additional text regarding this later, like maybe they patched in a hint when that one tripped up a ton of people.
They did
I got filtered by gravity tower with the broken slab.
I completely forgot that the tower would drop into the black hole near the end.
I remember spending 2-3 hours spinning around the black hole in hope that it would propel me to the gravity wall and just rage quit
you dont even need that to solve the quantum moon or the game, I know because I didnt figure that out either
I cheesed that part. I jetpacked and parkoured my way into the the tower. I still have what's the proper way to solve that puzzle.
better than opening a guide and finding out the answers
You literally just wait until it falls into the black hole
I used the black hole gravity to sling myself between the columns of the tower, I genuinely thought that was the proper way to do it.
Buy a Quest 3, then buy "Into The Radius"..... then enjoy being IN a survival game. The end.
This shit sucks as soon as the time loop bullshit starts it's so fucking obvious what is going to happen i thought shit like was cool and mindblowing when i was like 12. A true midwit game
You immediately guessed how the game would end the minute the time loop started?
>when i was like 12
Yes you are so much more mature now at 14.
>midwit
Fastest way to out yourself as a low IQ trog
Stop replying to yourself nagger
Play Gnosia
>Wtf do I play now?
My game. But it will only be out in 2033 or so.
I dunno play myst or something
God this game was so fucking boring.
Just walking from a literal wall of text to another wall of text to read fucking twitter posts.
>anon thinks flying a space ship is walking
Glad I'm not you.
you are though
Nope because I actually loved this game.
False
Metroid Prime 1 (and to a lesser extent 2) reminded me a lot of outer wilds
actually now that I think about it Prime 2 and Echoes of the Eye are eerily similar in terms of how they contrast with the original/base ganes
Yea, I actually understand what you mean. Theyre totally different games but the exploration of MP1, the scanning, discovering a story and general sense of loneliness really do kind of have a similar vibe.
Outer Wilds cribs really heavily from both Metroid Prime and Wind Waker.
I only played Prime 1. while there's some sense of exploration, the whole thing is incredibly linear. And there's definitely not the aspect of "slowly understanding the story/universe" in Prime.
Our only hope is their next projects
Myst and riven for sure
Try My House.wad
Obra Dinn is basically Outer Wilds but with no spaceship. Pretty sad, spaceships make everything better
No it isn't. Fuck you. Obra Dinn is Ace Attorney but with no interesting characters, no interesting plot, and no cool holy shit moments after the first 10-20 minutes.
I disagree there is cool moments near the end. It's definitely a good game to recommend regardless.
Play The Invincible, it just came out.
Made by the Polish and based on Lem's book, so the writing/dialogue is noticeably better than anything written by AAA westoids while still looking high-production and polished I'd say.
qrd? Is there gameplay? The literal trailer footage said it was a walking sim so I'm doubtful I wanna play it
in b4 some schizo tries to say Outer Wilds is a walking sim like always happens in these threads
It is mostly a first-person walking sim with some light puzzling (maybe I'm wrong, I haven't played that much yet), but your choices matter a lot it seems so there is replayability in that. But yeah, don't expect Myst or anything like that. More of a Metroid Prime thing with more writing and huge amount of small details, putting you into the shoes of a stranded planet explorer.
>a first-person walking sim with some light puzzling
Have naggers seriously forgotten what a fucking adventure game is?
>walking sim with some light puzzling
So basically Scorn again. This game looks good and has an interesting world, but I've never been so bored playing a game than when I was playing Scorn.
I didn't like Scorn, but liked this. You can try the Demo, it's relatively meaty and was the thing that sold me on the game. Otherwise I probably wouldn't bother.
I know walking sims get a bad rep here, but I love exploring weird spaces in first-person 3D worlds.
Doesn't matter if it's a pure walking sim, a puzzle game like Antichamber, or an actual FPS like Half-Quake Amen.
Anyone here feeling the same? Maybe you guys got recommendations?
Currently looking forward to Broken Reality 2 and the ENA game.
Zeno Clash 1 and 2
Pathologic
The Void
Jazz Punk
seen people recommending Northern Journey (haven't played it myself)
>Jazz Punk
fuck yes i love that game but never hear it mentioned. havent played since directors cut
A thought just occurred to me: was it fucked up for the Hatchling to just leave Gabbro behind
Like, everyone else makes sense, impossible to explain and convince in time, but Gabbro could at least be convinced, right?
what do you mean leave behind
It's strange to me that they made a time loop game and then there's absolutely nothing to do in your village. No way to take advantage of the loops to solve issues, no getting to know the local retards, no reason to feel attached.
some Majora's Mask-esque sidequests with multiple endings would be interesting, being able to see that the seemingly obvious best solution might not be so, or having problems that are mutually exclusive to solve etc.
they don't have that many resources. also having stuff to do that is unrelated to the "main" story would risk people focusing on the wrong stuff and not making progress.
The Witness is criminally underrated
The Witness is great but is nothing like Outer Wilds or any other game in this thread. It's 99% a puzzle game and 1% pretentious trash. At most you can say the island was inspired by Myst or something.
holy filtered
Fuck off Jon.
does anyone know what the studio is up to now? another game or?
Elden Ring unironically.
Yes, I know it has open world bloat and soul combat, but traveling across the map gives me the same experience as Outer Wilds. Finding the Siofra river for the first time was unforgettable.
There is also Subnautica too, but I have low tolerance for survival craft.
What exactly are you looking for? Exploring the vast expanse? Head-scratching puzzles? Just the joy of discovery of mechanics/systems/solutions?
>joy of discovery
this
Well, the answer might differ depending on what you want to discover (gameplay mechanics, locations/sites, just exploring and finding content, taking in the game's world, etc.). But for me, some of those games ellicited some of those feelings. (I will probably get shit on for this weird eclectic list but whatever).
Endless mods for something like Doom or HL1/2 or Portal.
Zachtronics Games
Return of the Obra Dinn
Yakuza series
Yume Nikki and its various fan games
B3313
The Witness
LSD: Dream Emulator
Baba Is You
Possiblly Anodyne 2 and Sephonie
Antichamber
Kairo
ZeroRanger and Void Stranger
Psychonauts 1 and 2
The Neverhood
Fear and Hunger 1 and 2
Hypnogigia: Boundless Dreams
BotW/TotK
Death Stranding
Northern Journey
Rain World
I'd say Oddworld (Oddyssey/Exoddus and Stranger), but they are too linear for that. Still worth a shot.
MGSV
Sonic Frontiers however misguided and simple the game is
Banjo-Kazooie
Project Kat and possibly other non-linear RPG Maker-like games (most of them are too linear though)
Hypnospace Outlaw
The Binding of Isaac: Repentance
La-Mulana 1 and 2
The Talos Prinicple sort of, but it didn't exactly do it for me (still a good game)
The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe
Half-Quake Trilogy, Amen specifically
Baba is You really nails the experience of finding an answer and feeling both proud and fucking stupid for not getting it before.
it also nails down the "fuck this block was one to the left when it needed to be one to the right and I have to redo 100 other identical inputs" experience
>tfw already played everything on this list
damn
You played Half-Quake, Kairo, and Sephonie?
That'd be a first for me.
I'll try to remember some more games.
how about naissanceE?
some kz and bhop maps from css and csgo hit the vibe, including some very light exploration / puzzling trying to find the route or optimal route within a cool atmospheric world https://youtube.com/watch?v=pfkfudhox_k
Try these then (scraping the bottom of the barrel here mostly):
Babbdi
MGS3
Inscryption
Hollow Knight
Phoenotopia
Pocket Mirror
Subway Midnight
INFRA
SRB2 with mods
Beginner's Guide
Broken Reality
The Case of the Golden Idol
Chess Evolved Online
Zineth and other Arcane Kids games
Cruelty Squad
Deadeye Deepfake Simulacrum
King's Field
Elden Ring even though I am not a fan of souls
Maybe Tecmo's Deception series
Devil Spire
Dread Delusion
DUSK
Dread X Collection series
Possibly The Forgotten City but I haven't played it
Single-player maps for Garry's Mod (Autumn 2001 is a good example for me)
Worlds
Hyperbolica
Possibly Jazzpunk but I haven't tried it
Legend of Grimrock
Manifold Garden
Myst series
OneShot
Pathologic
Vangers
Star of Providence
The End of Dyeus
The Void
Parkan 2
Cosmology of Kyoto
GROW series
Crypt Worlds
Inscryption looks interesting, not a fan of horror but gonna give it a shot
I just started it last night and I can't lie, card games have never really appealed to me on anything other than a surface level so I'm having trouble getting into it.
inscryption isn't terrible but it tries to be like 4 slight variations on itself and even though it's "thematic" they all mostly are worse than the original
somewhat luckily the dev realized the first part was the best and made a slightly enhanced version of that as an official "mod"
>Yakuza
???
>Jellyfish puzzle
>maneuvered my ship under the jellyfish because I thought that it’s stupid to hide under the jellyfish with your body.
>it’s the answer to the puzzle
I am still fucking mad
I went to the dead one on the other planet and rummaged around in its guts, I tried to have a jellyfish push my ship through, I tried to ram a jellyfish at high speed to cover the ship in guts. Felt like bullshit when I finally had to look it up.
did you miss the note left by feldspar talking about it's rubbery electrical resistance?
That's how I came to the conclusion that I should cover myself or the ship with its guts by messing around with the corpse to cover my suit and then later ramming one to coat my ship.
You can never experience it again, because its entirely knowledge based. Once you know the single solutions to all the mysteries, the game is entirely solved. Unlike other games that require skill in execution. or puzzle games that require skill in solving. This game doesn't have any of those kinds of skills. It only has the knowing part. I very much enjoy it, but you will never get that from any other game.
All that being said: Play La-Mulana. It sort of satisfies that discovery and knowledge aspect that Outer Wilds has. Except it it's more difficult. The clues are more obscure, and you will probably become lost for longer periods of time. But boy does it feel good when you solve the mysteries of the ruins.
>dam breaks when you're in the dream world and you can hear the muffled sound of the water flooding in the real world
>wake up in a flooded room with dead owls all around you
>tower falls over and gravity in the dream world shifts for a while
>approach the bell and there's a muffled sound of bell dinging and then you wake up and it's much louder DING DING DING DING
it's so perfect
The dam break scared the shit out of me the first time I saw it.
As it should. It's really scary when you're immersed in the game.
Watching the game on twitch, I get irrationally angry when people aren't scared. Most are scared. Most range from terrorized to mildly scared. But then you have those jaded fucks who feel nothing. And they bother me.
>prowling 1 viewer twitch streams
>shocked they're antisocial psychopaths
Not surprised, just annoyed.
>I felt excitement
>i thought it was hilarious
Well that's something at least. Some people just have no visible reaction. All you see is a brief look of confusion and then realization on their face, then it's back to their neutral state. And they might comment on it because they're being watched and they have to say something, but you can tell they're unfazed.
i thought it was hilarious because the first time i saw the dam, it was already leaking and i said "oh I bet the dam is going to break at some point." And then it broke.
I wasn't scared by any of the DLC. I'm not scared by anything. I used to be a huge scardy cat, but I think I scared myself so bad when I was younger it broke my fear factor. Even with all that, what kind of pussy gets scared from a dam breaking? The monsters I can understand cause they can jump scare you, but the dam is just a dam.
1. If you're in the path of the water, you have that feeling of impending doom.
2. You don't know what's potentially underwater. Something could be lurking down there.
3. Whatever you were in the middle of doing, surely a tidal wave will ruin those plans, so at the least, you should be afraid of having your plans spoiled.
Oh and, it's startling. A sudden load crashing noise is akin to a jump scare.
why yes, I too have watched inception.
I felt excitement
>I get irrationally angry when people aren't scared. Most are scared. Most range from terrorized to mildly scared. But then you have those jaded fucks who feel nothing. And they bother me.
I'm sorry anon I had a tough life and the most I can experience now is mild discomfort even when my life is on the line.
>why yes, I too have watched inception.
why do you have to put it down like that, there are no other games that does this and inception is a boring movie
>inception is a boring movie
only a retarded zoomer would say such a thing
Inception is dogshit, the premise is good and then they use it to make retarded action sequences in every single level of subconsciousness
>trained subconsciousness projections
What a retarded idea
>why do you have to put it down like that
what?
>inception is a boring movie
IL KILL YOU YOU PIECE OF SHIT!
i'll be honest, i loved the base game, but i gave up on the DLC. The loop became so much more annoying with the mandatory "fly into the dlc zone" at the start of every run. If I just had to go stand somewhere, whatever, but it actually requires you to go line up your space ship and time something. Which, granted, the base game makes you do to solve a few of the last puzzles. But to even investigate the DLC requires that you do it EVERY TIME.
>If I just had to go stand somewhere, whatever, but it actually requires you to go line up your space ship and time something.
Oh my fucking god dude please don't tell me you replicated the satellite method of finding the Stranger every single time.
just lock onto the stranger in ship log and fly straight to it
I don't know why everyone is pointing fingers at you when what you trying to say is pretty clear. I agree, even with autopilot it becomes tedious. Still, I enjoyed it a lot.
a minor inconvenience for a great experience
they literally TELL YOU how to go back easily
it's one of the very few pieces of mandatory information they forcefeed you
speedreader
Games that came close to that itch I've played:
Return of the Obra Dinn
Toki Tori 2
Tunic
What, puzzle games? Ask your grandma, maybe she has some stashed in a closet.
it's not even a puzzle game, there are no puzzles, only secrets to discover
Play Uru, Ages Beyond Myst.
Don't ask me why but I did a back to back outer wilds + omori and it really gave me a lot to think about. The games aren't even similar
Tunic came close to the feeling that the outer wilds gave me. Definitely worth a shot and you can get it on gog if you catch my meaning
UMINEKO
The maid is a tranny and somehow that's an interesting plot point to people
you missed the point but I do agree that umineko fans are annoying as fuck
what point did I miss, educate me
A rare yet correct response.
After I finish Tsukihime first, so never.
I cant find a youtube video on this. Am I the only one who saw it?
No it's been pointed out several times.
isn't that the thing they used to shut off the eye
I knew what this was but forgot. its in the slideshow cinematics
No you're not but consider the fact that many people played the game long before the DLC came out.
>Wtf do I play now?
The Forgotten City, it's also a timeloop game where you talk to NPCs to resolve different mysteries in the settlement.
Just shoot the culprit bro.
So close to being good, but man what a rotten ending sequence. Also I accidentally discovered the culprit before I even knew who he was.
>accidentally discovered the culprit
Did you decide to do something bad anon?
Yeah, the ending was a bit much. I liked the three non-canon endings though. They were much more realistic and less campy.
This
Good taste anon.
what a game
Personally? Simply the best game i've ever played
you did find and watch ALL the digitized reels, right anon?
Didnt play the DLC because I never discovered anything related to it in the base game, and after the ending it felt wrong to just jump back in and explore again. Is it as good as the base game? And worth it after finishing it?
it's best to play it after finishing it and playing it on the same save so you can jump right in. It starts on the new radio tower on Timber Hearth. It's great, some people think it's slightly worse than the base game, some people think it's slightly better and some think it's just as good ,tastes can vary.
It legitimately builds on the lore and answers one very important question you might be asking when everything is said and done. As for "not finding any clues" it inserts something in the museum and a location on Timber Hearth that kicks off the search, it feels extremely natural extension of the base game and doesn't shit on any feels you had before.
It is good, substantial, and worth it. I recommend it if you enjoyed the main game at all.
Alright thanks. Does it change the ending at all? Or does it not require you to do the ATP -> Dark Bramble route?
You might as well make one more visit to the eye once you complete it.
It's on par with the base game, but not quite as good. Made me really hopeful for whatever they produce next as it proved it wasn't a fluke, though.
Play painscreek killings
Returnal did something similar for me, while being completely different
Well you can't sadly, just get hyped for the next mobius game while playing inferior games. I remember baseding out when the dlc was announced
For me it was flying to Giant's Deep for the first time, crossing the cloudy stratosphere too fast and suddenly finding myself surrounded by storm, lightning and tornados. On top of that my ship was going too fast so I hit the water and saw the horrors that awaited under there so I literally went "no no no no" while reversing and flying away from that godforsaken planet.
That is literally the best video game experience of all time. Everything about that planet is like experiencing the sublime.
>literally the best video game experience of all time
You need to reel it in a little. I loved the game but this is a bit much.
I've played a lot of games. There is nothing else which compares to the radical expectation subversion and whiplash which was described in
. It's the only gameplay experience intense enough to actually have a lasting effect on me.
>I've played a lot of games
Still not enough of them obviously.
Yeah okay name three comparable experiences. Why is this even an argument that needs to be had? Go ahead and name them.
Call of Duty
Ball of Duty
Saul of Duty
Same.
Though being thrown into space scared me more especially when you don't know why you are in space, only to fall down into the ocean.
reddit game for midwits
noone is making you post itt you schizo
Games with charm, soul, and satisfying payoffs? Sorry chud we don't make those anymore, now buy the Spider-Mxn battlepass to learn about cis privilege.
Play slay the princess. If you enjoyed echoes of the eye then I think you'll like it too.
Fez is a good puzzle platformer with a lot to dig into. It legitimately has a puzzle that the community has yet to solve.
You should check out Chant of Senaar.
Looks neat, ty Anon
playing this for the first time right now.
bumbling about for an hour no idea what to do lol am I retarded. any hints on where to go?
You see that giant green planet in the sky?
Rush it.
Don't stop when you are about to enter the atmosphere.
Just full throttle it.
>bumbling about for an hour no idea what to do
That's pretty it much it until you find an intruiguing lead. Attlerock and Giant's Deep have a few easy to find interesting stuff. Anything you find on one planet will you elsewhere, while trying to find your second lead, you'll get another intrigue and so and it keeps rolling.
On your ship at the inside but at the back is a log. It's all the hints you've found, read them. It also tells you if you are still missing shit, find them, you'll figure it out.
The Painscreek Killings, totally different kind of game, you are a journalist trying to piece out a murder that happened 10 years ago in a deserted little town, but it scratches the same itch, you explore places, read texts, those texts give you clues on how to access more places and get more clues, etc, etc. All of this while you piece together what happened on the town and who committed the murder.
Playing this now, story feels very predictable so far
There's a bunch of red herrings, but yeah, it's not really that hard to figure out.
I was recommended this after playing through SOMA. Is it any good?
It's really good, but it's not like SOMA.
A lot of people recommend Rain World but I just couldn't get into it