Today's featured article on Wikipedia: Outer Wilds

recursive_recursion , 27 minutes ago

one of the best games of all time🙏

if you haven’t played please don’t spoil yourself as The Outer Wilds is an incredible and enjoyable journey that many and I wish to experience for the first time again

this is a game classified in the legendary status

fellow mods; if possible I’d like to personally request a pin for this post

shneancy , 50 minutes ago

one of my top favourite games of all time! And one of the two narrative experiences on that list that I can’t talk about with the “uninitiated” (other is Inscryption)

if you like space, and you like thinking - don’t look up anything about this game. Watch maybe 5 minutes of some gameplay if you’re hesitant.

Though a word of warning, this is a game that’ll take all of your focus, it’s very hard to play it with a YouTube video or a movie in playing the background. And yes the ship movement can feel clunky at first, you’ll get used to it don’t worry - the story is worth it

MurrayL , 45 minutes ago

In my experience, if people are going to bounce off the game it’ll come down to one (or more) of three reasons:

• They hate the flight controls
• They hate the feeling of being on a constant timer
• They hate the lack of explicit direction in what to do next

It’s one of my favourite games of all time, and it has good reasons for all of the above, but it’s definitely not for everyone!

And for anyone wondering, my counterpoints to the above would be:

• Learn to use the autopilot but don’t trust it; learning to manoeuvre precisely will come over time
• Don’t overthink the timer element; pick just one thing to investigate and focus on that, anything else is a bonus
• Use the ship’s computer and follow the unknowns; avoid walkthroughs unless you’re absolutely 100% stumped on what to do next

shneancy , 3 minutes ago

in my experience as a impatient person you simply need to make peace with the timer, it stings at first but then- i think thanks to Outer Wilds i can play souls likes now ::: spoiler because it shows clearly how death is simply a part of the learning experience, it’s not a failure :::

PaupersSerenade , 1 hour ago

There’s a really well done VR mod for this game. It’s actually the only way I’ve played it so far. If you can run Steam VR I highly recommend it! I had to do a reinstall of some stuff so haven’t finished the game yet, but it’s been high on my ‘to-do list’.

Setiyeti93 , 1 hour ago

My favourite lets player has finally picked this up. I will neverbe able to experience it fresh ever again… So watching others is the closest I’ll ever get.

tekila , 1 hour ago

After playing this game I watched so many streams and let’s play of it. I enjoyed seeing how people did it differently than me.

I also convinced my partner to play it on Christmas as my gift for me to watch. (They were instantly hooked)

This is one on my favorite games ever

sylveon , 2 minutes ago

It’s so much fun to watch other people figure things out. It’s the closest we can get to playing the game again.

recursive_recursion , 22 minutes ago

vicariously watching others is our only solution now unfortunately

subignition , 1 hour ago

If anyone hasn't played this game yet: don't read the article!

I highly recommend you experience this for yourself while knowing as little as possible about it. Top tier game.

Dipbeneaththelasers , 1 hour ago

A million percent agree. If you haven’t played it yet, look nothing up and play it as blindly as possible. I’m so glad I did and wish I could do it again.

hannesh93 , 1 hour ago

My go-to game for the question: “if you could forget a game just to experience it all over again” such a perfect game

HappycamperNZ , 54 minutes ago

I got confused more than anything - think I was missing a few key things.

Saying that, my answer would be subnautica.

tiramichu , 27 minutes ago

For real. It’s an amazing game that just can’t be the same again once you know all its secrets.

I bought it for two of my friends, and they both ended up hating it lol. I don’t blame them, but I think it’s very much to do with the mentality of how you approach the experience.

One friend just got plain stuck and gave up. The other found it frustrating that they were doing the same thing several times over, and just wanted to rush as quickly as they could to make progress.

Personally, I enjoyed the slow pace of discovery. I loved that feeling of being a true explorer, discoving facets of lost civilisation. Watching in melancholic awe as a world crumbled around me. Finding just a small piece of new information was always a joy, and made it feel worthwhile to get there, even if I’d done 90% of the journey before.

Slowly getting richer in a game where the only currency is knowledge.