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Outer Wilds

It is a yay game

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okay thank you
i will look it up

Yep, really great stuff. As I alluded to before, the allegory really hits home as you move towards the final area of the game. On my first play through, I met up with a random companion just as I was starting the final stage, and we completed that part together. I was blown away.

@Austruck - No worries, maybe this game just isn't for you. It is all fairly Zen and new age-ish.

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ITS FOR YOU!1!1!1!1!1 NEW ZEN AND SLL!!!!!!!!! YOU GET TO FLOWT!!????

No. You'll hate it. And you're breaking my heart for it.




Liiiiiiiiisssaaaaaaaaaaahhh!!!!
*Throws down half empty, sloshing bottle of water*

(sigh) I'll keep trying.

Also, I bought and started Outer Wilds (it was on sale!) along with a bunch of other really cheap games. Total for the whole bundle was about $17. Outer Wilds seems fun (not VR, just PC), once I figure out how to eat something in-game. Apparently Karl doesn't want the corn flakes I was sure he was supposed to eat.

At least it's not all zenny like some OTHER games...

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Oh it’s so zen. Just the calming zen of a comet slowly approaching (in a shroud of beguiling sound and colour )

I'll be honest, I thought that game title was Outer Worlds, and I went looking for it then recognized THAT game for what it was and got all super confused =\ The YT videos I found of "Outer Worlds space travel" were pretty useless.


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I just completed "Portal", a fun little futuristic puzzle game.

Absolute classic. You'll almost definitely like Portal 2 as well (longer and with some new mechanics, but admittedly not as small and perfectly distilled as the original), and a few others that have copied the franchises a bit over the years, if you find yourself wanting more after that.

Been back to Cold Waters. It never leaves my hard drive. It must be one of the games I've played most in my life.

Just made the summit again but with another player. Such a sweet game.

Go ahead. Keep rubbing it in. Make me feel like an idiot for not getting it.

3 weeks or so ago, I ran through the game about 5 times in one day, getting all my achievements except a couple of multi-player ones. The white robe helps a lot once you unlock it, btw!

The first player I ran into last night had a white robe. Is that from completing the game multiple times? Or is it a hidden object in a level? I don't want to know where, if it's that!

I was able to lead the second player to the "discover an ancient creature in the temple" achievement. I didn't know exactly where, so was stumbling around trying to find it. I'm sure they were like dude. let's get to the NEXT level already??? But once we found it, the player kept quickly pinging their symbol light bubble sphere thingy. I'd like to think that was a thank you. More likely though, it was a "OMG you made me wait for THIS?!" We did end up completing the game together. That was so sweet and even more emotional than my solo run. I noticed the level cut scenes change those hieroglyphics to two player glyphs when you play with another player. That was interesting. And I love how, after completing the first run through, you can choose what levels you jump to.

I wish there was a way to control who you play with! Then you and I could just tag out, running AU through every level whether she wants to or not!

@Austruck
I think I have another way to determine if the end game of this is worth your effort in frustration from the earlier desert levels. Have you seen The Fountain? Did you like it at all? That is one of my most favorite and emotional movies. I recognize some issues in it, but between the myth of it all, the climactic score, and the visuals (especially near the end), I am in pure awe when I watch that movie's final act. I experience a similar emotion when playing the final level of Journey! The score, the visuals, the (projected) emotion that I have for this character and more so if there is a companion; it all just comes together and I feel very much the same as I do when finishing The Fountain.

Maybe that's a better point of reference? maybe?

I picked up and downloaded Outer Wilds (thanks Golgot for obsessively posting about THAT one probably more than I posted about CONTROL), and uh... Manifold Garden? I think that's the title. After Journey, I think Manifold Garden will be a nice direction. I hope.

Collect all the symbols (the little ones, not the murals) in the game. As you leave each level, the symbols will be lit up if you collected them - if you see some are still dark, you need to find those!

You're throwing off my binge-watching algorithms. First I had to go watch Labyrinth. Now I have to go watch The Fountain. (Strangely, I have an odd feeling as this movie starts on my second monitor right now that I have seen it before. But I can't remember any of it so I'll play it here as I putz around on the main monitor.

Dang. Didn't know that!!