henke on 13/5/2020 at 07:47
Y'know, the Outer Wilds writer recently (
https://kotaku.com/outer-worlds-developer-hires-outer-wilds-writer-1842876848) got hired by the Outer Worlds folks, just to make it even more confusing.
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I was on the fence about supporting it when it first popped up on Fig and ultimately decided against it, because it looked way too ambitious for a student project and the money they were asking. And when it finally came out there was all that brouhaha with the Epic exclusivity
It is very ambitious, but at the same time it feels like they've managed the scope very well. It's both a big and small game at the same time.
I forgot it's an Epic sclusie on PC. I got it on PS4, where it's 25% off currently, tho I think that discount ends today.
Starker on 13/5/2020 at 13:41
Yeah, I figured the conceit would make it a bigger game than would be possible otherwise. They originally pitched it as Kerbal Space Program meets Myst meets Majora's Mask. But to me Obra Dinn is the more intriguing comparison, as it's by far my favourite walking simulator / FPX game.
nicked on 5/7/2020 at 08:29
I forgot this game existed because it wasn't on Steam (just because of visibility, not because I have any entitled-gamer beef with Epic), but picked it up in the Steam sale on a bit of a whim because I'd tangentially heard it was good.
Holeeey shiiit, how does this thread only have 12 posts?
I finished it last night, damp-eyed and blown-minded, and I gotta say, if you've not played this game, and you have any interest at all in narrative adventure games, you must play it. Don't read anything about it, it's best to go in completely cold and discover things at your own pace.
It's just over a tenner on Steam right now, or 20 quid on Epic if you care about the devs getting a bigger cut of your money or whatever. Best game I've played in years.
Aja on 28/9/2021 at 19:46
I bought this last year during a sale and finally started playing it this week. Going into it completely blind, for the first half hour or so I didn't understand the hype. But then when I finally got into my ship, hit the thrusters, and just... lifted off into space, it started to become clear.
I'm only a few hours in, but I've already had some amazing adventures (minor spoilers). I tried to land my ship on the satellite orbiting Giant's Deep, but it fell off into orbit. I tried to catch it with my thrusters but couldn't match it, and I plunged down through the atmosphere into the ocean, where the waves crashed around me as I gasped for air among the churning water columns and lightning strikes, watching my ship up in the sky, orbiting hopelessly out of reach. I managed to get to dry land but only in time for the sky to blacken. I found a sheltered spot and looked up to the clouds as the sun erupted all around me.
This game is special, one of the few that truly exemplifies the potential for the medium. And, uh, it's also kind of an immersive sim, so everyone here should love it. The expansion is out today, and I'm wondering if anyone has nonspoilery advice on whether I should install it now or wait until I've completed the main game first.
Thirith on 29/9/2021 at 08:49
This is what I found in the discussion thread under the Eurogamer review:
“ To bundle up some of the questions about whether this is standalone, etc - it's a separate purchase that requires the main game and forms part of its setting, but which doesn't interact all that much with the main narrative/other planets, though finishing the DLC plotline does give you a different overall ending. I don't think it matters hugely whether you play it before or after the original content, but I think it's better experienced with knowledge of the main game.”
(
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2021-09-28-outer-wilds-echoes-of-the-eye-review-a-wondrous-spooky-addition-to-the-solar-system#comments)
demagogue on 29/9/2021 at 09:57
I can only speak for my own case, but I definitely don't want to touch any DLC or updated version until I'm done with the vanilla game.
I made the mistake to add the DLC to Kingdom Come: Deliverance before I'd finished the vanilla game, and then I realized they shoved these side-stories right in the middle of the main campaign, and it was very jarring to have characters that really need to be worrying about the main plot of the game suddenly concerning themselves with these side-matters. Since then, I've been paranoid about any game that embeds DLC into it and re-colors the original experience.
Also, the base game (I'm talking about Outer Wilds again) is already a really tight package as it is. It's not the kind of game I'd want to see altered from that at least until I was finished with it.
I thought I posted my thoughts about this game earlier, but evidently it was in a different thread. But anyway, it's definitely special. I think what particularly won me over is just how clever it is with the different worlds, and integrating the gameplay with its puzzles and its mysteries. It wants to try all of these ideas; they really go all out to best realize them; and I'm happy to join in their quest to do it.
Aja on 30/9/2021 at 15:41
Then it's settled! I'll wait till I've finished the game before installing the expansion. I'm finding that when I play for long stretches, I start to get melancholy. When I finally came across a character who also knew that they were in a time loop, I felt a little better, a little less alone.
nicked on 1/10/2021 at 06:29
I haven't played the expansion but it seems a strange choice for this game since, as dema said, everything is so tightly designed and self-encapsulated. Adding stuff into the main thread of the original can surely only be distracting bloat.
Thirith on 1/10/2021 at 14:30
That's definitely a possibility, but none of the reviews I've read suggest that to be the case - and there are plenty of bits and pieces in the main game that add to the world and characters rather than to the puzzle, and I could imagine the DLC to do this too while presenting its own, self-contained puzzles... if done well, and everything I've read so far suggests that it was indeed done well.
Aja on 12/10/2021 at 20:27
Several times while playing Outer Wilds I noticed that, as I approached some mysterious thing or place that I'd been trying to get to for hours, I was literally agape, as in my mouth was wide open in awe at what I was seeing. This game has power over my emotions, and I'm sad that I only get to experience it once for the first time. I bought the expansion and have played a few loops of it so far, and I'm happy to report that so far it's stunning. I won't go into detail, but I've had at least one mouth-wide-open moment so far.
