@@Diaz_Nino gonna go with not really, this kinda spoils a bit too much. the first time you go into dark bramble and shit yourself, the time you get to the station and find out that the sun is just dying itself.... kinda the whole point of the game is to learn whats going on
The first time I played The Outer Wilds I went to Giants Deep and landed my ship on the first island I could find. While exploring, one of the tornadoes picked up my ship and whisked it away which in hindsight made sense but wasn't something I thought the game would actually do. I spent ages trying to figure out where my ship went and how to get back into it and, once I did, I was super proud of myself for getting out of that situation on my own. And then, right as I leaving the planet, the fucking sun exploded and I was SHOCKED. 10/10, best way to get started in a game
My first time, I got onto the ship, tried to fly off but messed it up and crashed into the shippad, and for some reason I thought it was a good idea to get out of the ship and look at it. I ended up falling off the hill, so after some wrong turns, I got back to the lift location. But the lift wasn't there, so I didn't know what to do next and just walked around that spot. Until the lift hit me on the head from above (it was trying to go back down). And that's how I died on the first day. From a lift.
When I first played, I had no idea how to land the ship so I crashed front first into the attlerock, spent 10 mins fixing my ship, talked to the guy there, stood around, then when I left, the sun blew up
I should also mention that after the attlerock fiasco, I ended up on timber earth thinking it was another planet, went to the quantum grove, and spent 3 minutes wondering if I was going mad or if the place was actually changing. then the sun blew up… other then that, great game
That happened to me too, and the Island landed near where I was so it was easy to get back to thankfully. Not my ship though. It landed on top of the island… with no clear way to get back to it. So while figuring that out I decided “screw it, Another tornado is coming, maybe if I wait inside the trunk it will carry me up and perhaps knock my ship off the island and land in the water. Right before the tornado killed me, I realized last minute that “wait, the inertia will-.”
It was also cool how friendly the Nomai were to... everything. They called the Quantum Moon a "playful friend", they *asked* their hardware to do things rather than make them, one log had something along the lines of "stop flirting with my sister and just meet up with her already"... etc.
They even referred to their wrecked ships as “injured” rather than “damaged,” which tbh made me think one of the games twists was that their technology was sentient
Honestly this ties into what I love most about Outer Wilds: This game is so kind. There are no wars, no one wishing harm on another person, only one species of predators in the whole solar system. Even in the DLC, which is a little darker, there is no evil, only fear. There is no bad guy in Outer Wilds, no one to stop you from witnessing it's incredible world before it all goes away. And even then, the game doesn't try to make you sad. It makes you melancholic, but happy to see a new start and wondering what might await in this new world, billions of years after yours ended.
@@boomaroom6254 The anglers are as much "villains" as a lion hunting a gazelle is a "villain." They're just creatures who live off of instinct. A villain has to have ill intent. The anglerfish don't have that. They just...exist. As they are. Nothing more, nothing less.
Although it wasn't mentioned in this video, the DLC Echoes of The Eye is an absolutely amazing addition to the game that has adds even more cosmic horror and awesome stuff to explore.
Not mentioning the DLC at all makes it seem like this video was recorded a few years ago....
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Yes. But I very much struggle with getting to the end because after playing for like 15 hours it completely subverted my expectations and gave me the biggest shock I've had in a long long time. It took me an hour before I got my pulse down and could go to bed...
The fact that they didn't retroactively change the map to suit the dlc, but put it somewhere canonically consistent with the lore makes me love the game even more
Ya know outer wilds has a fully fledged VR mod. It’s pretty insane experience, and supports motion controllers and stuff. Honestly, it’s so well implemented, it could have been official.
do you know if it works with the expansion? I'm waiting to play the expansion with VR if it works because i already spoiled myself in the main game without vr
Except because of how unoptimized the original game is, (it's constantly rendering an entire small scale solar system with physical orbits, after all) you'll be lucky to play the game without it taking like 99% of your cpu and gpu
"You can't help but think that the Hearthians would be totally accepting of all of this" Meanwhile Chert is screaming to themself on the surface of Ember Twin
To be fair Chert does come to terms with it if you speak to the in the last minute and a half. Finding out that the universe is about to explode and coming to accept that fact within 10 min of learning it ain't all that bad!
@the running pigeon unfortunately he doesn't come to terms with it. You get an achievement for speaking to Chert in that final moment and it says he has reached a catatonic state. Chert has gone nuts.
Chert made it his lifelong mission to chart the stars, so his existential crisis is less about his own impending doom and more so the sudden realization that his entire life's work is meaningless as all the stars are exploding.
I remember being so skeptical and anxious about the Echoes of the Eye DLC. After playing it, I was blown away at the fact that they were able to capture lightning in a bottle yet again
IT is weird indeed. Everywhere I comment, people tell me how much they love me and my content. Sometimes IT is annoying. But right now, IT would be okay. So say something nice about my content, dear qgent
Yeah, same here. The game being as fantastic as it is, I didn't even think twice about buying the DLC, but I was definitely skeptical whether it could ever hope to be just half as good as the very first playthrough of the original game... and the DLC totally blew me away. Suprised and challenged me in ways I never expected after believing I knew all there was to know about the game. Brilliant design!
it honestly felt like a gift from a close friend, like someone in your life was like "hey i know how much you loved outer wilds and were simultaneously gutted that you'd never get to have the experience with fresh eyes again well guess what? i got you some more outer wilds storyline!"
I feel like it's the only game that truly has this property. You literally can not ever experience the main selling point of this game after you beat it. You'll never get that sense of wonder, curiosity, discovery and emotion on a second playthrough.
@@AngryAlfonse I've never played this game but I definitely want to now but I will say that Dark Souls is like that as well. There is just nothing like your first playthrough of a Souls game. Wish I could experience my first run all over again for sure.
@@butteredtoast9315 Heh, funny I was thinking the exact same thing, only an hour after you on this month old comment. Anyway, to think that if humanity had the ability to erase specific parts of memory, we'd choose to forget suffering...and some of us would do that in order to experience it again for the first time!
Honestly the only games I can think of that truly incapsulate that quote aside from the outer wilds is like, Subnautica, Minecraft. And maybe the portal games but that's it. Almost every other game can be enjoyed equally on repeat as the first time, but these games get a frankly stupidly large amp from the lack of pre-existing expectations
The experience of frantically searching the solar system alone to find a way to stop yourself from dying, for the ending to be you sitting down with your friends and playing music together in collective acceptance of your fate, is one of the most powerful moments in all of gaming
@@brandonaustin6978 the video is full of spoilers and several years old. You can expect spoilers in the comments. Although this wasn't even that big of a spoiler
I'm surprised there was no mention of the absolutely brilliant expansion, Echoes of the Eye. The way it integrates in to the story of the game is one of the most impressive things IMO, despite me being worried it would detract from a nearly perfect experience.
I feel the ending of Echos is just as brilliant, settling the emotional element of the experience wonderfully in a way that still gives me shivers typing this a month after I experienced it.
The fact that they didn't retroactively change the map to suit the dlc, but put it somewhere canonically consistent with the lore makes me love the game even more
It just occured to me... I never used the teleporter from the Ash Twin to Brittle Hollow! I just flew my ship inside the planet, turned it upside down and landed on the ceiling...
I had a very similar thing happen. I made it to the forge without using the teleport by jumping onto the forge as it shifted position and used it like an elevator to the ceiling. In hindsight the other two methods were much easier as I became very familiar with that black hole on my multiple attempts of failing to land the jump properly.
I actually think that my first time ending this game was my favourite: I took out the warp core... and waited for the supernova. I knew I didn't have enough time to make it to the vessel, so I just decided to travel as far away from the sun as possible... and die. And when those words "you are dead" appeared, I had shivers. How amazing that a game-over was such a powerful ending. I had saved my character from an endless loop, I had allowed him to be mortal. It felt amazing. Sure the true ending is cool, but I found comfort in my own little ending.
Man, I wish my first "death" was so hauntingly beautiful. I got the most comforting version where you get eaten alive by a space angler. Gotta admit, I haven't experienced that sort of terror before
I only had like 6 min left, after i first got the warp core, through some unbelievable good flying, which I haven't been able to recreate since, I actually got to the vessel in time, but the sun exploded before I finished entering the adress 🙈 i was crushed, when the game suddenly told me I died and for a few seconds I thought the game had ended and I had failed. Regretted not waiting for the next loop to take the warp core so badly. I still regret it...
@@Khifler pretty sure if I had boosted my ship for a few frames more or less I would have shared the same fate. Just about clipped through the angler fish as it raced past me.
This game made me accept that what ever happens, happens, and that fear from the unknown only holds one back from their true potential, that a happy ending happens with or without you. One of the most important things to do in your life is to make people smile, because they will never forget about being happy, and that's worth more than the whole universe.
It’s also actually made me completely change how I think of death. I still remember a few times standing on the surface of a planet, music swelling, knowing the sun will explode in less than 30 seconds, and there’s something beautiful about that. I knew there wasn’t thing I could do, and I was okay with that, and could instead enjoy how amazing and beautiful the supernova, the planet, and actions I made were. I love this game so much
@@cuvro1353 Yeah, no, fuck that. Dementia is one of, if not the, most horrible ways to die. Slowly losing not only your memories, the very things that make you _you,_ but also your connection with reality and ability to form new memories. I have watched people die of this vile sickness, and it is the most horrible and terrifying thing imaginable; they slowly grow more and more confused, their very confusion makes them angry such that they lash out at the ones they love, and at the end there is only terror and overwhelming confusion before absolutely everything is gone and finally the empty, agonized shell of a human being forgets how to breath and dies. I despise this fucking awful saying, diminishing the absolute horror of what that wretched disease actually does to a person.
Just finished this last night and it's pretty darn bold of them to have one of your opening interactions be playing hide and seek with a couple of cute little kids who get roasted by a supernova in twenty minutes.
The VR mod for this game, called NomaiVR is absolutely breathtaking. It has full 6dof support and truly feels like it was built from the ground up with VR in mind. It even works with the Echoes of the Eye DLC.
@@GingePlaysMinecraft first time experiencing the sun exploding ducked me up good. Had to put the VR headset down after that. Cosmic horror really gets under my skin, but overcoming that eventually and enjoying the ride was worth it.
It will also make you horrendously motion sick for the first few times you try to play. You have not lived until you've been flipped in 3 different gravitational directions with your jetpack on.
I think it’s worthwhile to mention that the Nomai are actually smart and came up with a quicker way to get back to Brittle Hollow after so many of their people fell into the very easy to fall in black hole. After leaving the White Hole you can find a nearby Nomai station and inside it will tell you about how black hole warping works. In short both ends of the warp need to line up before anything can happen, and essentially it lets you warp back to Brittle Hollow as if nothing happened.
@@Star-Commander-Vong navigating to the station, opening the airlock, and standing on the platform, still took several minutes for me but maybe that's because I played on keyboard
This is the first time I've started a game so that a video I want to watch doesn't spoil it, and I am SO glad I made that decision. What a mind-boggling masterpiece of a game.
This is one of the few games where being spoiled will COMPLETELY ruin the game for you. I like to call Outer Wilds a metroidvania that substitutes items and upgrades with knowledge. Having that knowledge while playing detracts significantly from the experience.
Two points about the Brittle Hollow: if you fire the drone at the ground, it tells you how stable it is as a percentage; which is actually shown on a 'how to use' poster inside your ship. The other thing is you can absolutely survive a fall into the black hole area: if you boost perpendicular to the hole, you can set up an orbit around it, flinging yourself higher and higher with each pass. There's even a tractor beam right under the platform with the campfire, letting you refill after surviving. It's honestly lead to some of my best memories; falling into the pit and speeding like crazy around the edges, dodging geometry at lethal speed and carefully monertering my fuel and boost gadges before nailing the tractor beam on a pass and surviving!
Outer Wilds is a true masterpiece, and the fact you can never play it again and get the same experience only betters this. Still makes me cry, every time I hear Travellers. Or see a Hearthean. Or Solanum.....
Like a little baby right? Walking through that forest of dying stars and realising how close to the end everything is, I haven't had a piece of media ever move me like that. And don't get me started on the final campfire, bringing everyone into the song like the cosmic conductor you are. There aren't many that are deserving of the title, but wholeheartedly a masterpiece in every sense of the word that sets the bar so high in terms of narrative and exploration. A perfect example of how uniquely different a gaming experience can be, and absolutely poo pooes any notion that games aren't art.
I remember the first time watching the sun explode I watched it start turning red and expanding and just assumed it was already like that. Then when it started imploding I tried to use giants deep as a shield, which obviously doesn’t work.
I've been watching a friend of mine play through the game and in his attempts to figure out what's up with the Sun exploding he has decided that Giant's Deep logically prevents the supernova because "You wouldn't be able to see it, and that would just be bad game design." Very excited to see him test this theory.
My grandfather was sick when I started and just a few weeks after I finished he passed away. This game helped lesson my grief, as I felt I went through al stages while playing it and was able to have acceptance. I was sad he was gone, but infinity more happy of the time I had with him.
Yeah… Outer Wilds really does just give you that sense of an existential crisis, but at the end of it all it teaches you that things will move on, and that it’s okay. I was kind of mad when I thought the Nomai was triggering the supernova, only to realize that their attempt failed and the supernova was actually because the sun is just… dying. When I found out about this, I then learned to accept my fate, and it made the ending all the more rewarding for me.
I am a grown-ass, weathered-ass person. The ending has made me cry every time I see it in its entirety. I do not have enough fingers and toes to count the amount of times it's left me bawling. This game is truly something else, something special.
@@JM-us3fr That moment of hope at the end cemented this game as one of my all time favorite pieces of storytelling. I mean the rest of the game was already most of the way there but when Let There Be Light dropped... my god, that was *transcendent*.
Instead of teleporting to the black hole forge, I literally brought my ship down to where it is and landed upside down lmao. One of my proudest moments playing this game, cuz i did it completely wrong. I also got to the sun station for the first time by orbiting the sun and matching velocity with the station, and got to the vessel by going full speed ahead thru the anglers cuz i hadn't obtained the extra clue.
Love that the Eye of the universe is pretty much a literal eyeball, complete with optical nerve that funnels you into what's basically, for the lack of a better analogy, God's brain.
The Eye is the window to the soul. In my interpretation, all the trippy imagery is the eye’s way of attempting to explain, or you attempting by to comprehend, the meaning of the universe. In the end, the Universe was only what mattered to you, and that was also carried on into the next universe as well.
So happy you made a video on this game! Played it this year and I feel like it’s my favorite game of all time now. If anyone watching here is considering getting this game, STOP WATCHING AND PLEASE DO YOURSELF A FAVOR AND GET THE GAME, FINISH IT AND THEN COME BACK AND WATCH THE VIDEO! It’s best played knowing as little as possible.
@@Unkraut MASSIVE ENDGAME SPOILERS FOR ANYONE It makes sense. Whatever the Eye is, it called out with its signal because it needed a conscious observer to create a new universe. You end up being that observer so the new world is based on your knowledge and memories. Seeing the Nomai only as an extinct alien race leaves you as the only sapient species you know, so without you and your race, how can you ever imagine a new civilization? Meeting a Nomai in the flesh (or not... quantum physics man) plants the thought of the possibility of a world full of intelligent species in your brain and the Eye builds the new universe on that.
Spoilers, of course! --------------------- --------------------- --------------------- --------------------- Several parts of that last image change depending on what you do in game. If you fire your Little Scout into the sky while on the outskirts of the Eye, fire it into the Eye itself, or fire it into the Ball of Probability, it shows up in the image. If you don't do those things, it doesn't. A few other events can cause significant changes as well, like talking or not talking to Solanum, as mentioned. The DLC also changes it.
Don't sleep on the DLC, Echoes of the Eye. An incredible partner experience to The Outer Wilds, almost as good in every way and unique enough to warrant its own existence. Just kind of has a... well it just kind of ends and you're left standing there with your pecker in your hands.
Idk, aside from the very last slide reel being a little confusing (which they have improved in subsequent updates), the big emotional climax worked perfectly for me, and the way it changes the true ending is just gorgeous.
This game is magnificent. There's joy, there's horror, there's sadness, and there's acceptance. This barely scratches the surface of the tip of the iceberg that is this game - there's so much to see and experience. And it makes me feel a little less scared about how everything in the universe is going to fizzle out someday, too. ... Oh, and there's a secret ending, where if you mess around with the Nomai time-travel-warp-tech, you can create a time paradox and undo the universe (and also talk to a copy of yourself if you're smart about it). Upon seeing the universe shatter from a violation of causality, the credits roll to a kazoo remix, complete with the audio of someone in the recording studio remarking on how annoying it is, so it clearly must be used.
This game is a fucking MASTERPIECE. This is what I think of when people say cosmic horror. The dread and loneliness you feel while playing this game sometimes is so visceral. Especially in Dark Bramble. Exploring the planets and putting all the pieces together is unlike any experience I've ever had playing a video game. 13:10 When I did this, I was having trouble figuring out how to situate the orbs to get the teleporter to work and I could literally hear the encroaching supernova get closer and closer to me as I tried to figure it out until at the last second I got it and was teleported to the Eye. Definitely one of the most unique games I've ever played and definitely one of my favorite of all time. Edit: Also the ending is absolute perfection. I wish I had a better vocabulary to express how much I love this game.
I have never played a game that made me cry with both happy and sad tears at the same time. I felt so hollow yet so incredibly fulfilled. This game is sad and beautiful. So lonely and comforting. And it brings me to tears that you feel the same way. Thank for covering this game. Keep being awesome
Maybe a weird comment, but fuck it. I grew up in a cult. Despite how horrible it was on so many levels, there was a sense of peace I would sometimes feel during certain events. After leaving, that feeling was my biggest loss. I mourned it for years. That is, until I played Outer Wilds and felt the exact same thing during the ending sequence. I lack the words to describe how much I love the developers for proving once and for all that the same level of beauty, joy, and wonder are indeed possible away from my toxic upbringing. I've suspected that feeling came from good story telling, something any community could have under the right conditions. Outer Wilds proved that to me, and god is it relieving.
1:34 I would have REALLY liked that "Go play it yourself" warning to be a bit more elaborate. Outer Wilds is one of those games where every single thing you know about it before playing takes away part of the experience. (Wanting to wipe your memories to be able to replay this game once again is one of the main memes of the community) If by ANY chance you're scrolling down while listening to the intro and reading this, PLEASE, PLEASE give this game a good hour or two of your time. Test out the waters, refund it if you really really don't like it after 2 hours... but pls, give it a go
@@VerdeMorte unfortunately, my mind treasures outer wilds more than... whatever it was that i lost when i played ride to hell, so it didnt work. WHY WONT YOU GO AWAY OUTER WILDS I JUST WANT TO RELIVE THE GLORY DAYS!
I still remember the first time I played this game, finally making my way to the Hanging City and finding a mass of Nomai skeletons all around, on the floor, in chairs, even in beds. At first I didn't think much of it, just taking it as confirmation that the civilization had died out and nothing more. After all, it's a fairly common trope, finding the long-dead king's skeleton sitting in his throne and whatnot. But then I finally explored the Interloper, and it all clicked. How they all died suddenly, how they could leave a technology like the Ash Twin project half-finished and still running, it all made sense and the hints were right there. That's when I knew this game was special, that every part of this world was hand-crafted and able to be thought through logically. Like how the ghost matter on Giant's Deep is nullified when underwater, explaining how our species managed to survive, still in the water stage of our evolution as explained by Nomai within the geyser tunnels of Timber Hearth. Or how the one vision of the Ash Twin Project that you will see throughout the game seems to have stars moving in the background, yet, if you explore Timber Hearth's caves, you can find an ore with this same star appearance, and text explaining its use in the Ash Twin Project. Or the multiple ways you can break the space-time continuum by playing with the black holes, one of which I still don't really understand. Although small, this galaxy feels real. Although simple, these characters feel real. Very few games gave me a sense of true exploration like Outer Wilds did.
I feel a little bad for anyone who didn't give this game a try for themselves before watching this, because the experience of finding and solving the story in Outer Wilds on your own is unmatched in gaming for me. Fantastic video as always, and I love some of the views you showed off. If you've played Echoes of the Eye and have enough material to make a video of it, I know I and many others would love one.
I'm actually super fucking mad. I love his videos, but why didn't he put a spoiler warning. I thought he would just talk generally about how the game is played and that he liked it. Instead he ended up telling the entire story with no warning. By the time he revealed some crucial spoilers, it was too late and so I just finished the video and spoiled all of it.
@Emmett McClain Yeah, the spoiler warning is a little too brief. However, I think you can still get value out of this game. And even if the game really is totally spoiled, there's an entire DLC about half the length of the original game that is just as good and is not mentioned at all in this video
I remember watching NerdCubed’s play though of this, and I regret not playing this game before watching it. This game is one of those experiences that sticks with you. It’s so beautiful
I recall watching Dan's playthrough from the very beginning, somewhat like a ritual. Much like with Undertale, the magic came not from playing the game itself, but experiencing it with a community. Sitting down in the evening at the end of every week with some tea and honeyed toast and catching up on his progress through the game together with everyone else made it possible to enjoy the game in a much more refined way, or perhaps distilled to its purest form, making every problem and setback in the game not a chore, but a way to collectively indulge in the working out of a grand plan to solve each and every predicament. In short, there's a real magic to watching others accomplish what you are not capable of, but even more when you may look upon such accomplishments aspirationally. Also NerdCubed is entertaining in just about anything anybody that sees this check him out. Now.
@@50mt i feel like these games that are so story driven work best as being watched like a TV series - it helps me appreciate the story a lot more not having to worry about ramming my ship into the planet every time i fly
I went trough the exact same thing, I was happy to find out about the dlc all these years later, it gave me a reason to not only go trough the solar system myself, but also a moment to expierence the absolute briliance first hand without having to rely on good old dan stumbling trough the right solution. I highly recomend you try it yourself, the only caviat is that it does have some "scary" stealth sections that depending on your disposition to it all do tend to keep some people at bay
"Outer Wilds" is my 2nd game after "Return of the Obra Dinn" that I would willingly suffer minor brain damage to forget so that I could have another blind playthrough. 2 of my all time favourites
I see you've didn't spend any time talking to Chert, who has an actual mental breakdown when he realises the universe is dying. That said, this is probably my favourite game of all time and I'm sad that we're probably not going to get anything similar for a while. I'm also sad at how much visibility the game had to have lost due to releasing in the same year as The Outer Worlds.
@@ValosarX I honestly don't even remember that. Even that I find somewhat weird though. I don't actually but stuff from the EGS, but anything I like gets wishlisted on Steam and I'll play it when it inevitably releases there. I'm not so principled that I don't pick up all the free game from the EGS however. I'm mostly a r/patientgamer anyhow, as almost all games are better 12 - 18 months after release, so even though I'll buy stuff on release for developers I actively want to support I'll still wait before playing it.
@@GrimmBones That is very true, even if I don't think the DLC is somewhat of a radical departure from the base game. Didn't like it much myself, but I will always support developers experimenting with novel ideas. I'm genuinely hoping we get an Outer Wilds 2.
@@ffbotha I mean, personally I don't want them to make a sequel, since the story truly feels over. When I saw the DLC, I didn't know what it could add, but, story wise, it added so much necessary detail, to the point where the main game no longer feels complete without the Stranger and the Prisoner. And on top of it, it doesn't feel like ANYTHING from the main game was rehashed. Everything in the DLC felt original, gameplay-wise. To the point where, if you go to beat the game after finishing DLC, the game will feel weird to ya. And I kinda like that. (whether the DLC was enjoyable to play or not, to I feel like the DLC was more enjoyable to watch than to play) However, that said, it does make me happy if I know that the Devs will make a new game in the future, even if it has nothing to do with Outer Wilds. The competency in Outer Wilds and its DLC makes me feel like any new game they make is going to be a fantastic journey, that doesn't feel like a rehash of any of their previous games or DLC.
This is one of my most favorite games of all time The emotional Rollercoaster of exploring the universe, the insane technology of the Nomai, their incredibly sad end, and how it all comes together to give you the biggest dose of existential crisis. Also, if you shoot your camera probe on a surface in brittle hollow it will tell you how stable that particular piece of the planet you're on is.... makes being there MUCH easier.
The energy of “shield your eyes children” has all the energy of this channel that I love. Overspending on sets and overacting to toys is what I live for :)
I mastered Brittle Hollow's black hole gravitational pool so much, I used it as a quick shortcut for some platforms/gravitational tunnels to go around. The downside is.. well, hitting your head against the planet's crust, that is sometimes falling onto your head. I absolutely love this game
"Who in their right mind would buy the wrong game and do absolutely nothing about it." For like a straight month I actively avoided both because I thought they were the same game and thus so content-rich that I wouldn't know where to start or end.
One thing I love about Outer Wilds is when it goes from "I have no Idea what to do next," to "I know what I have to do, but I don't know if I have the strength to do it."
I wash literally shaking when doing that final rush on the last planet you have to go through, and because of it I crashed a couple of times and had to do all the last part again lol. This game gave me so much stress and I still loved it so much
So glad I'm seeing more people talk about the game, it's a classic. Kinda wish the spoiler warning at the start was WAAAAAAY more elaborate tho.. It's the kind of game that you have to play blind to get the best experience
@@Prof_awesome for people who haven't played this game, yes that simply isn't enough. The main gameplay loop of the game is literally to learn, and he should put more emphasis on how learning about certain mechanics literally robs gameplay mechanics from you
@@Prof_awesome It really isn't. Coming from the Outer Wilds sub seeing a few people coming to try out the game after watching this but then having the whole experience ruined as they just can't play the game the same way, they watched this video then literally can't un-learn the things spelled out. Spoiler warnings are fairly common, but it NEEDS a 'No really don't watch this video until after you play the game if you have ANY intention of playing it yourself.'
While I liked your assessment of the Hearthians and their feelings of acceptance or nonchalance with death, you only really touched on the hearthians still grounded on Timber Hearth. The travelers have their own super interesting feelings towards death and the end of the universe. Riebeck the traveler on Brittle Hollow is quite anxious and openly terrified of the endless void of space. But them being on Brittle Hollow proves how they used their passion to overcome their fears and their dread. Gabbro on Giants Deep is so chill and blaze that it's even odd by Heartian standards. It's fitting that they're the one that's trapped in the time loop with the player since they're of a mind to just sleep and play the bassoon all day. On the Ember Twin there's Chert, an astrologer who came out to the twin planets to update the star charts. But having been staring at the stars, their starting to put the pieces together and figure out that the universe is dying. Their reaction is sort of the antithesis to the whole "all hearthians are chill space hippies" because they really start to break down. Chert's dialogue is honestly pretty harrowing as they start to panic, unlike anyone who's fully come to grips with their mortality. It's even worse when you remember that's they're not in the time loop like you, and they're forced to come to the same awful realization every 22 minutes. In the last minute of the loop they seem to pull themself together and asks you to sit with them, they ask you how you're coping with the end of the universe. (Such a beautiful goddamn game.)
Here's some of Chert's direct dialogue. “It’s the stars, you see. All the other stars are dying out. Oh, why did we have to be born at the end of the universe? And our sun, it… The star charts! Why? Why did I want to update them so badly? I didn’t have to know, but no, oh no, I had to update the star charts! I had to go looking for things I shouldn’t have! And now our sun is about to… about to… oh… ...I don’t feel well. I’d like to be alone, please.” Player: I found something! “Why, isn’t that great! Do you know what, I’ve found a few things myself! Most of them have to do with the sun exploding! Oh, who cares?! What does it matter?! Nothing matters anymore! The sun is about to go supernova! And me, all my research, my life’s work, wasted! Wasted, you understand?!” “I can’t believe this. I can’t believe this is happening. I can’t… I won’t! I won’t believe it!”
The most heartbreaking part about Chert is the fact that you can tell him about the end of the Universe and he's the ONLY Hearthian who believes you. Meaning you can actively cause his panic attack.
I really love how this game creates amazing moments that seem accidental and perfect at the same time, like once near the end of a cycle I fell into the black hole in Brittle Hollow and found myself on the edge of the solar system with no ship, no fuel and only about half a tank of oxygen and so I decided to just pull out the signalscope and listen to some fine music while waiting for my inevitable death... That was the first time I have heard them play all at once (except for Solanum). It was only for a few seconds but hearing that song in it´s full glory for the first time was such a great experience!
Outer wilds is genuinely the most profound experience I've ever had playing a video game... And calling it just a video game doesn't do it justice. It kick-started yet another existential crisis in my life but God dam, if it isn't the most fun existential crisis I've ever endured, and I wish I could forget it all so I could do it all over again.
This game sparks an idea: What about a game where this concept is divided into different stages? Like you're a maintenance guy on a space station at the start and have to fix a critical component in say 10 minutes time, next task will have a 30 min window and so on eventually opening up more mechanics and meaningful choices how to resolve your problems eventually biting you back later.
WOW. This UA-camr RADIATES Love for Science and such. I cant hold back the Urge to recommend his Fans many more just like him: Joe Scott, Sci Man Dan, Tier Zoo, Hbomberguy, Oversimplified, Bluejay.
im three minutes into the episode, and being reminded why i never finished this game. I love horror games. I like thrills. This game does not give me thrills, it terrifies me. The kind of terror that makes the floorboards under your feet fall away, and you have no recourse but to rip of your headphones and cover your eyes. I've done that twice to this game, and even watching the footage of the teeth in the fog makes my stomach go wobbly. This is the game that taught me intimately of my phobia of teeth and black voids, as if something irrationally large is set on swallowing me whole. I'm glad there are "spoilers" and jokes in this, because otherwise i don't think I'd ever know how this game goes.
I've done pretty much everything there is to do in this game EXCEPT making through to the nomai ship with the power source. Dark bramble absolutely terrified me and when I eventually managed to make it through the first time only to discover the ship needed a power source and I'd have to do it all again it broke me lol I literally couldn't stomach the thought of doing it again so I just watched a playthrough to see the ending. Which is a shame because I absolutely loved everything about the game up to that point but that hazy void and the figures lurking in the mist... it evokes a primal fear in me that I can't get passed.
To anyone who hasn't played the game: **DO NOT WATCH THIS VIDEO.** Seriously, the entire point of the game is to explore it yourself, and you will miss out on a lot of the game's best stuff if you watch this, and that stuff is *really* worth experiencing untainted. The spoiler warning in this was nowhere near how strong it should have been.
Honestly I feel like this should be re uploaded with a massive spoiler warning. And it should be in the title. And everywhere else. The worst part is that you can’t play it more than once.
A quick tip for brittle hollow: If you fall you aren't immediately drawn into the black hole! Most people naturally try to thrust away from the black hole, but this is futile because the hole has a pull much greater than your thrust. Instead, try to miss the black hole by moving to the side. This will cause you to orbit and has the potential to be used as transportation (one side to the other) around brittle hollow!
Oh my God, I've never heard that second part of the Double Slit experiment where observing the electron passing through causes its waveform to collapse into two slits, that's insane! Why was that not taught as an integral part of the experiment when I learned about it in both high school and college physics?!
It is. If your major is Physics or Engineering. If not, it's unnecessary. especially in high school because it requires you to actually go in depth on principles of quantum physics (and also equations in wave and particle physics in order to do the actual measurements). It's not just "oh here's a neat experiment they did, and done". He gave a pretty simplified explanation.
@@7792pnaurfr Even in physical chemistry, essentially chemistry's quantum physics class, they didn't include that part about adding a particle detector to know when a photon was ejected, and that demonstrating how observing the particle directly affected its waveform. They always just use it to show how that experiment showed photons propagate as waves.
@@micahphilson but they don't XD. That's the point of the experiment, photons behave like particles AND waves at the same time. That's their superposition
@@Royvdl They don't particuarly exist as both at any given moment, photons propagate as waves of probability and interact with objects as a predictable newtonian particle. What this second half of the experiment shows, in one experiment, which is still taught in those classes but as a separate discussion with separate proofs, is that observing or interacting with the photon at one point causes it from that point forward to act as a predictable particle, hence only interacting with the detector in straight lines through the slits instead of an interfering wave pattern. What I learned from this video is that this same experiment actually demonstrated this effect, rather than how it's usually used to just say these researchers proved photons travel as waves.
The existential dread in this game **REALLY** caught me off guard as I played it without knowing much going into it other than it's critically acclaimed and allegedly objectively superior to its wayward titular doppelganger Outer Worlds. After getting through the tutorial portion and finally getting out exploring I realized I became almost paralyzed with fear when the supernova theme would kick in and I'd hadn't finished exploring some nook or cranny that it took me the entire loop time to get to in the 1st place. This coupled with some really genuinely terrifying nightmare imagery like the water spouts on Giant's Deep & the infamous angler fish I almost stopped playing. Thank goodness I persevered as eventually i just became desensitized and my dread (usually) was replaced curiosity as I obsessively tracked down every log entry and tried to figure out the secret to reaching the endgame. Another thing that threw me off is that at 1st I thought the game was some flavor of walking simulator but quickly realized it's a bona fide adventure game that's actually very challenging to complete without a walkthrough. I myself eventually caved when I couldn't figure out how to get past the Giant's Deep current and the angler fish on the way to The Vessel. If I paid attention I probably could have figured out the latter but the former is definitely one of the more obtuse puzzles in the game unless you get there through blind luck...
@@vomitcomet Ah - I know exactly which room you're talking about - it's the one with the tornado simulations right? I explored it way before trying to get to the center of Giant's Deep and never read the wall translation again...now I feel dumb 😞
I quit the game. I have only once in my life been so incredibly terrified of a game that I stood up and screamed and that was Subnautica... until I played Outer Wilds. And I LOVE to play horror games and all horror media. But its these empty, vast, unknown games that scare the living shit out of me. After some hours playing, I went into the "angler fish place" and immediately froze up. I was petrified looking at where I was and just sat there, not moving and after a minute of just sitting there .. I heard a loud af scream and just alt-tabed and never came back. This game makes me weep and as much as I want to go back, I just know its going to be torture for me.
@@HOVNA if you don't use your thrusters the anglerfish will not aggro on you. When you go through one the portal it sets you at a set speed, just cruise on by em at that speed, only when you feel like you've put enough distance between them you can SLIGHTLY boost again. They react to sound you see, so don't make too much noise. I really hope you pick this game back up again.
A little tip for giants deep, is to think "you spin me right round" those who know what I'm hinting at will understand, but hopefully that doesn't give too much away 😂
The music genuinely brings a tear to my eye to this day several years after playing it for the first time.
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Outer Wilds is probably one of my favoritest games of all times. The echoes of the eye expansion though is definitely a nightmare. It scared me shirtless 😳
5:40 for what it's worth, you can tell if the part you're on is about to collapse by having your scout on it. It shows the structural integrity of whatever it's on if what it's on can take damage.
WOW. This UA-camr RADIATES Love for Science and such. I cant hold back the Urge to recommend his Fans many more just like him: Joe Scott, Sci Man Dan, Tier Zoo, Hbomberguy, Oversimplified, Bluejay. If we expand this to those that fuse 'Education and Fun', it's veen MORE Channel.
This was the best and easiest to understand explanation of Thomas young's experiment I've ever heard. Never thought I would have my two passions for science and gaming interwine like this it's why I loved this game so much.
Upisnotjump - i wonder if he will cover and/or react to the newest video of Some More News. That guy really is on top of his game now, as his newest video shows.
This is the first time I actually listened to a UA-camr when they said “spoilers ahead, go play the game first!” And yeah Really glad I played it first
This is absolutely the wrong way to get more eyes on it though. This video spoils a *massive* amount of the game, and anyone who has not played it before should not watch it. The spoiler warning in this was entirely inadequate.
Super cool you got to introduce so many people to this hidden gem of a game, imo your spoiler warning wasn't enough though. It's an amazing game, and the whole point is piecing together the story - you take that away you basically take people's ability to enjoy the game away (which is happening since folks in the comments are recommending to curious people to NOT play this game after having it spoiled). "Im going to spoil the story now" works for most stories, for Outer Wilds it's more "you basically can't play this game if you watch this video first" because the story is the only actual progression you make in the game.
Absolutely love the Data impersonation. Also while I knew about this game and some times got it confused with the other game, it makes me sad that I didn't take my time to play it. The story of Outer Wilds really deserved more love then it got. Thanks for the video
The magic of discovering what exactly is going on and what happened cannot be compared. And that feeling you get when you’re in the vessel and the final pieces finally click of what you must do to reach the eye was one of the most amazing gaming moments for me. The realisation that you must break the loop. What a beautiful game man
WOW. This UA-camr RADIATES Love for Science and such. I cant hold back the Urge to recommend his Fans many more just like him: Joe Scott, Sci Man Dan, Tier Zoo, Hbomberguy, Oversimplified, Bluejay. If we expand this to those that fuse 'Education and Fun', it's veen MORE Channel.
Loved this episode; in particular the positive spin you put on the ending is really important (to counteract the existential dread). Thank-you for covering OW! The best part for me is that at no point does the game tell you to stop the sun going supernova (or that it's even possible). The player decides that goal for themselves; 'this is a video game so I must be able to save the day'. That's why the end is such a gut-punch; the developers knew we would set that as our goal (which is why they put all those hints in). In particular, one of the other astronauts (Gabbro on Giant's Deep) has the same ability you do and the same knowledge that the sun is about to blow up and he just...chills out in a hammock, meditating and playing his flute. He understands his fate and accepts it; he doesn't struggle against it. The game (much like our reality) doesn't care about our struggles; it simply is and any purpose or meaning we superimpose over the top of it, is of no consequence to it. The sun will explode in 22 minutes regardless of our actions, our goals or our purpose; all we can do is decide how we want to spend our 22 minutes. Does Gabbro have it right; instead of spending his time frantically zooming around space trying to stop the unstoppable, he just enjoys his 22 minutes? Maybe. Maybe not. The game (much like our reality) won't tell you right or wrong; it doesn't care one way or the other. Ultimately, nothing you do in Outer Wilds matter. At the start of the game, your sun explodes and ends your race. At the end of the game, your sun explodes and ends your race; no action the player can take changes that (or any) outcome. That kind of hard nihilism can either be freeing (Gabbro) or upsetting, which is why the tripy bonfire sing-along ending exists as an emotional counter-balance. Even all of this^, is meaning I have superimposed over the top of the game. OW truly is a masterpiece.
I remember the first time I survived long enough for the sun to explode, I was messing with the spinning rings on the moon, and at the very moment I moved the ball to the eye of the universe symbol, the sun exploded. Considering the fact that the eye of the universe symbol looks like a supernova, I got confused and thought that I had triggered it.
Ever since I got really high at the start of the year, I've been hit with an ever looming sense of dread about the eventual end of all life. Cosmic Horror is constantly on my mind, but atleast in the world of Outer Wilds, the end is just another beginning for new life to enjoy the bounty that we have been blessed with. I only hope to be able to watch over the story of the universe as it goes ever forwards.
@@Bluesky35102 You can find it by searching for 'Ognisty Outer Wilds'! (Reworded this a few times because I think some filter bots are deleting the comment :( )
Found it, nice work!! Very good shirt. Might have to snag me one off your Redbubble shop. I have a navy heather shirt of the OW Ventures logo (also from Redbubble) and it's very comfy!
full spoils for a (bad) end: you can escape the supernova after you break the loop. You drift in space until your ship runs out of resources and you slowly suffocate/starve alone as the last member of your species, and potentially the last sentient being in the galaxy. The game wants you to know that it doesn't think you're very clever lmao
You know, I've played several horror games in my lifetime but none made me as afraid as flying into a Gas Giant just to discover that it's surface is riddled with tornados who pick up pieces of land. I have yet complete anything in this game. Everything scares me to death because it gives me some instinctive kind of fear that I haven't felt anywhere else. It's a nightmare and so beautiful at the same time. The music is also A+ Edit: Dark Bramble also made me quit several time. Want to be trapped in a ever expanding fog filled void with cosmic horrors in them? Nope, not doing that, fuck that
Subnautica already traumatised me for "giant swimming monsters in poor visibility", so much I couldn't finish it, so I avoided Dark Bramble for most of the game, and by the time I worked up the nerve it had me in full panic mode. I was so careful on my first couple of journeys I genuinely didn't even see an anglerfish and that just made me panic even more. I was in a complete paranoid spiral and wound up needing a guide to get through. Meanwhile my little brother went there early on, got spooked nice and early. His solution? Put on "Push it to the limit" at full volume, fly into dark bramble at full speed, then basically drift his way through Dark Bramble. By pure luck he found his way to the [Spoiler]. Watching him use this method on discord with his friends was fucking iconic.
Back when it came out, I said to myself "I'm getting Outer Worlds, once I finish that, I'll get Outer Wilds." unfortunately, I forgot about this promise to myself, and now that I've seen it, I really wish I gave it a go. I've been watching people play it, but like a lot of games, your own experience is the way to go.
You can still play the DLC if you haven't seen anyone play it. I find it one of the best DLCs in like all of gaming. It's in my top 5. Not sure you would want to pay for the game and DLC just for that, but I can't recommend it enough.
It is REMARKABLE that you spent as much time on brittle hollow as the twins. Like what about dark bramble?? Thats like literally the biggest one. Then giant's deep is small but densely packed with info, i mean, a third of the main quest is setup AND resolved there, along with giving you the secret to enter the quantum moon and even having some hints about the ash twin project i think. And the twins get a pass because it's two whole planets, they earned it
This is a game you can really only play once. It left me so amazed and then so sad that it was over. Nothing else has ever given me that feeling, and I miss it.
it's a testament to this games writing that my reaction to learning that the supernova doomsday device doesn't work was dismay and grief rather than relief
I remember my first loop of Outer Wilds and it was amazing. I was on a planet at one of the stations that shows you where the quantum moon is at any given point. I was reading some Nomai script and everything got dark. I turned around to no longer see the sun, only then *only see the sun* I was in awe because of how panicked I was at first. And now, this game has helped me be okay with death and the ending of things. It's a beautiful story that genuinely changed how I viewed the world.
There were so many hints to the Nomai not being killed by their experiments at all. Right at the start of the game, when reading up on ghost matter, you are literally told it takes centuries, if not millenia, to fully evaporate. And you find ghost matter on EVERY planet except for Dark Bramble. When you finally explore the Interloper, it's a moment where you smack your head and realize the game had already told you in a far less roundabout manner what had killed the Nomai.
My absolute favorite game ever made! The ending made me cry so hard, was so happy, depressing and accepting. You find out everything ends but that's ok, it's a natural process.
I never even thought about using the teleporter on the ash twin to get to the black hole forge on brittle hollow. When I played outer wilds I just raised the forge itself and jumped on top of it for an elevator ride to get to the top. It’s cool how there’s multiple ways to get up there
i understand the difficulty of exploring the ember twin and brittle hollow, but to me, that really added to the whole experience. it felt really satisfying to get to the high energy lab, and just as satisfying to reach the southern observatory. traversing those planets may be difficult, but it’s not unfair. Running through a cave or a city, cutting every possible corner, and reaching your destination just in time to see the entrance close behind you is one hell of an adrenaline rush. Figuring out the best route through trial and error is a core feature of time loop games; it’s how their progression works.
Can we have more videos of UpIsNotJump explaining quantum physics? It's oddly calming, yet really interesting at the same time. (Yes i called you that just to piss you off)
The only bad thing about this game is it's so memorable that you can never recapture the magic of your first playthrough
It makes me sad
I find watching someone play it is almost as enjoyable
Never played. Would it still be worth after spoiling it through this vid?
I had the opposite experience. If I put down the game for more than a couple days, I forgot everything about it.
@@Diaz_Nino gonna go with not really, this kinda spoils a bit too much. the first time you go into dark bramble and shit yourself, the time you get to the station and find out that the sun is just dying itself.... kinda the whole point of the game is to learn whats going on
The first time I played The Outer Wilds I went to Giants Deep and landed my ship on the first island I could find. While exploring, one of the tornadoes picked up my ship and whisked it away which in hindsight made sense but wasn't something I thought the game would actually do. I spent ages trying to figure out where my ship went and how to get back into it and, once I did, I was super proud of myself for getting out of that situation on my own.
And then, right as I leaving the planet, the fucking sun exploded and I was SHOCKED.
10/10, best way to get started in a game
My first time, I got onto the ship, tried to fly off but messed it up and crashed into the shippad, and for some reason I thought it was a good idea to get out of the ship and look at it. I ended up falling off the hill, so after some wrong turns, I got back to the lift location. But the lift wasn't there, so I didn't know what to do next and just walked around that spot. Until the lift hit me on the head from above (it was trying to go back down). And that's how I died on the first day. From a lift.
It's just "Outer Wilds" btw. It's already similar enough in name to The Outer Worlds, so let's try to keep it at just that lol
When I first played, I had no idea how to land the ship so I crashed front first into the attlerock, spent 10 mins fixing my ship, talked to the guy there, stood around, then when I left, the sun blew up
I should also mention that after the attlerock fiasco, I ended up on timber earth thinking it was another planet, went to the quantum grove, and spent 3 minutes wondering if I was going mad or if the place was actually changing. then the sun blew up… other then that, great game
That happened to me too, and the Island landed near where I was so it was easy to get back to thankfully. Not my ship though. It landed on top of the island… with no clear way to get back to it. So while figuring that out I decided “screw it, Another tornado is coming, maybe if I wait inside the trunk it will carry me up and perhaps knock my ship off the island and land in the water.
Right before the tornado killed me, I realized last minute that “wait, the inertia will-.”
It was also cool how friendly the Nomai were to... everything. They called the Quantum Moon a "playful friend", they *asked* their hardware to do things rather than make them, one log had something along the lines of "stop flirting with my sister and just meet up with her already"... etc.
They even referred to their wrecked ships as “injured” rather than “damaged,” which tbh made me think one of the games twists was that their technology was sentient
@@alexsiemers7898 I mean, considering once the cannon found the eye, its coordinates stayed constant, maybe some of their tech _is_ conscious
Honestly this ties into what I love most about Outer Wilds: This game is so kind. There are no wars, no one wishing harm on another person, only one species of predators in the whole solar system. Even in the DLC, which is a little darker, there is no evil, only fear. There is no bad guy in Outer Wilds, no one to stop you from witnessing it's incredible world before it all goes away. And even then, the game doesn't try to make you sad. It makes you melancholic, but happy to see a new start and wondering what might await in this new world, billions of years after yours ended.
@@CassetteGlitch the anglers are both another predator (besides the owl things in the dlc) and a villain.
@@boomaroom6254 The anglers are as much "villains" as a lion hunting a gazelle is a "villain." They're just creatures who live off of instinct. A villain has to have ill intent. The anglerfish don't have that. They just...exist. As they are. Nothing more, nothing less.
Although it wasn't mentioned in this video, the DLC Echoes of The Eye is an absolutely amazing addition to the game that has adds even more cosmic horror and awesome stuff to explore.
god that dlc was so eerie
Not mentioning the DLC at all makes it seem like this video was recorded a few years ago....
Yes.
But I very much struggle with getting to the end because after playing for like 15 hours it completely subverted my expectations and gave me the biggest shock I've had in a long long time. It took me an hour before I got my pulse down and could go to bed...
The fact that they didn't retroactively change the map to suit the dlc, but put it somewhere canonically consistent with the lore makes me love the game even more
Outer Wilds isn't a nightmare but that DLC sure tries giving you some!
Ya know outer wilds has a fully fledged VR mod. It’s pretty insane experience, and supports motion controllers and stuff. Honestly, it’s so well implemented, it could have been official.
I need this in my life. *Smashes wallet into the screen*
came here to say that, it works really well, highly recommended
do you know if it works with the expansion? I'm waiting to play the expansion with VR if it works because i already spoiled myself in the main game without vr
God I wish my PC could handle the mod.
Except because of how unoptimized the original game is, (it's constantly rendering an entire small scale solar system with physical orbits, after all) you'll be lucky to play the game without it taking like 99% of your cpu and gpu
"You can't help but think that the Hearthians would be totally accepting of all of this"
Meanwhile Chert is screaming to themself on the surface of Ember Twin
Meanwhile Gabbro is like "ah shit, here we go again"
To be fair Chert does come to terms with it if you speak to the in the last minute and a half.
Finding out that the universe is about to explode and coming to accept that fact within 10 min of learning it ain't all that bad!
@the running pigeon unfortunately he doesn't come to terms with it. You get an achievement for speaking to Chert in that final moment and it says he has reached a catatonic state.
Chert has gone nuts.
@Dorraj I'm gabbros defense I'm convinced they were high when they linked to the statue
Chert made it his lifelong mission to chart the stars, so his existential crisis is less about his own impending doom and more so the sudden realization that his entire life's work is meaningless as all the stars are exploding.
I remember being so skeptical and anxious about the Echoes of the Eye DLC. After playing it, I was blown away at the fact that they were able to capture lightning in a bottle yet again
IT is weird indeed. Everywhere I comment, people tell me how much they love me and my content. Sometimes IT is annoying. But right now, IT would be okay. So say something nice about my content, dear qgent
Yeah, same here. The game being as fantastic as it is, I didn't even think twice about buying the DLC, but I was definitely skeptical whether it could ever hope to be just half as good as the very first playthrough of the original game... and the DLC totally blew me away. Suprised and challenged me in ways I never expected after believing I knew all there was to know about the game. Brilliant design!
@@AxxLAfriku Jump into a star, please, just do it. I'm sure it will make everyone a lot happier.
@@AxxLAfriku Your content is 95.7% pure. Pure liquid excriment.
it honestly felt like a gift from a close friend, like someone in your life was like "hey i know how much you loved outer wilds and were simultaneously gutted that you'd never get to have the experience with fresh eyes again well guess what? i got you some more outer wilds storyline!"
Whenever someone says "Do you ever wish you could forget the game, to experience it again?" Outer Wilds is the game they're talking about.
I feel like it's the only game that truly has this property. You literally can not ever experience the main selling point of this game after you beat it. You'll never get that sense of wonder, curiosity, discovery and emotion on a second playthrough.
@@AngryAlfonse I've never played this game but I definitely want to now but I will say that Dark Souls is like that as well. There is just nothing like your first playthrough of a Souls game. Wish I could experience my first run all over again for sure.
@@butteredtoast9315 Heh, funny I was thinking the exact same thing, only an hour after you on this month old comment. Anyway, to think that if humanity had the ability to erase specific parts of memory, we'd choose to forget suffering...and some of us would do that in order to experience it again for the first time!
Honestly the only games I can think of that truly incapsulate that quote aside from the outer wilds is like, Subnautica, Minecraft. And maybe the portal games but that's it. Almost every other game can be enjoyed equally on repeat as the first time, but these games get a frankly stupidly large amp from the lack of pre-existing expectations
It’s subnatica for me but outerwilds is a close second
The experience of frantically searching the solar system alone to find a way to stop yourself from dying, for the ending to be you sitting down with your friends and playing music together in collective acceptance of your fate, is one of the most powerful moments in all of gaming
Honestly during that sequence I was more focused on the fact we were giving life to the next generation of explorers
Dude. Spoilers wtf?
@@brandonaustin6978 the video is full of spoilers and several years old. You can expect spoilers in the comments. Although this wasn't even that big of a spoiler
I'm surprised there was no mention of the absolutely brilliant expansion, Echoes of the Eye. The way it integrates in to the story of the game is one of the most impressive things IMO, despite me being worried it would detract from a nearly perfect experience.
I feel the ending of Echos is just as brilliant, settling the emotional element of the experience wonderfully in a way that still gives me shivers typing this a month after I experienced it.
The fact that they didn't retroactively change the map to suit the dlc, but put it somewhere canonically consistent with the lore makes me love the game even more
And i am surprised theres no mention of the awesome VR mod NomaiVR
I think this might mean we can expect a sequel
Hes likely saving it for another video
It just occured to me... I never used the teleporter from the Ash Twin to Brittle Hollow! I just flew my ship inside the planet, turned it upside down and landed on the ceiling...
Mind blown. That's why I love this game. I feel incredibly stupid for not thinking of this.
I had a very similar thing happen. I made it to the forge without using the teleport by jumping onto the forge as it shifted position and used it like an elevator to the ceiling. In hindsight the other two methods were much easier as I became very familiar with that black hole on my multiple attempts of failing to land the jump properly.
Same ahahhahaa 🤝 brute force gang!
A fellow pioneer of space travel 😎
FUCKING BRILLIANT !!!
I actually think that my first time ending this game was my favourite: I took out the warp core... and waited for the supernova. I knew I didn't have enough time to make it to the vessel, so I just decided to travel as far away from the sun as possible... and die. And when those words "you are dead" appeared, I had shivers. How amazing that a game-over was such a powerful ending. I had saved my character from an endless loop, I had allowed him to be mortal. It felt amazing. Sure the true ending is cool, but I found comfort in my own little ending.
Man, I wish my first "death" was so hauntingly beautiful. I got the most comforting version where you get eaten alive by a space angler. Gotta admit, I haven't experienced that sort of terror before
@@Khifler those things were so scary lol
I only had like 6 min left, after i first got the warp core, through some unbelievable good flying, which I haven't been able to recreate since, I actually got to the vessel in time, but the sun exploded before I finished entering the adress 🙈 i was crushed, when the game suddenly told me I died and for a few seconds I thought the game had ended and I had failed. Regretted not waiting for the next loop to take the warp core so badly. I still regret it...
@@Khifler pretty sure if I had boosted my ship for a few frames more or less I would have shared the same fate. Just about clipped through the angler fish as it raced past me.
I thought I was the only one who did that! Definitely a perfect ending.
This game made me accept that what ever happens, happens, and that fear from the unknown only holds one back from their true potential, that a happy ending happens with or without you. One of the most important things to do in your life is to make people smile, because they will never forget about being happy, and that's worth more than the whole universe.
Well put.
I like to believe that making others happy IS the universe.
It’s also actually made me completely change how I think of death. I still remember a few times standing on the surface of a planet, music swelling, knowing the sun will explode in less than 30 seconds, and there’s something beautiful about that. I knew there wasn’t thing I could do, and I was okay with that, and could instead enjoy how amazing and beautiful the supernova, the planet, and actions I made were. I love this game so much
i have never seen the point of the game so succinctly put. this is exactly what i got out of it.
This game is one of the few story games that you wish you can play again, but never can have the same experience.
Yes. Absolutely.
As a Brick Once said "When I am Old, Dementia Won't be a Curse, But a Blessing"
up there with portal
@@cuvro1353 Yeah, no, fuck that. Dementia is one of, if not the, most horrible ways to die. Slowly losing not only your memories, the very things that make you _you,_ but also your connection with reality and ability to form new memories. I have watched people die of this vile sickness, and it is the most horrible and terrifying thing imaginable; they slowly grow more and more confused, their very confusion makes them angry such that they lash out at the ones they love, and at the end there is only terror and overwhelming confusion before absolutely everything is gone and finally the empty, agonized shell of a human being forgets how to breath and dies. I despise this fucking awful saying, diminishing the absolute horror of what that wretched disease actually does to a person.
@@notsae66 tis a quote, go watch brickys video on it. :)
Just finished this last night and it's pretty darn bold of them to have one of your opening interactions be playing hide and seek with a couple of cute little kids who get roasted by a supernova in twenty minutes.
Hanging City School District... The skeletons...
And the _audacity_ to have you literally snuff them out of existence with the DLC's ending.
The VR mod for this game, called NomaiVR is absolutely breathtaking. It has full 6dof support and truly feels like it was built from the ground up with VR in mind. It even works with the Echoes of the Eye DLC.
yeah, I am still absolutely puzzeld how there are not more people talking about it. I am so happy I did my first playtrough in vr tho.
That sounds unimaginably terrifying
@@GingePlaysMinecraft first time experiencing the sun exploding ducked me up good. Had to put the VR headset down after that. Cosmic horror really gets under my skin, but overcoming that eventually and enjoying the ride was worth it.
It will also make you horrendously motion sick for the first few times you try to play.
You have not lived until you've been flipped in 3 different gravitational directions with your jetpack on.
@@gubzs to be fair I think you would have a similar experience if you did that irl.
I think it’s worthwhile to mention that the Nomai are actually smart and came up with a quicker way to get back to Brittle Hollow after so many of their people fell into the very easy to fall in black hole. After leaving the White Hole you can find a nearby Nomai station and inside it will tell you about how black hole warping works. In short both ends of the warp need to line up before anything can happen, and essentially it lets you warp back to Brittle Hollow as if nothing happened.
pretty sure that's the thing that he said takes 3-4 minutes
The Nomai are rather like Starfleet: very scientifically gifted, but have absolutely no regard for workplace safety
@@fghsgh Uh, no? If you activate the White Hole Station it rotates around to align with Brittle Hollow pretty much immediately.
@@Star-Commander-Vong navigating to the station, opening the airlock, and standing on the platform, still took several minutes for me
but maybe that's because I played on keyboard
@@fghsgh that might be if you didn't rotate the station, otherwise it's pretty quick imo
This is the first time I've started a game so that a video I want to watch doesn't spoil it, and I am SO glad I made that decision.
What a mind-boggling masterpiece of a game.
Good call.
This is one of the few games where being spoiled will COMPLETELY ruin the game for you. I like to call Outer Wilds a metroidvania that substitutes items and upgrades with knowledge. Having that knowledge while playing detracts significantly from the experience.
Two points about the Brittle Hollow: if you fire the drone at the ground, it tells you how stable it is as a percentage; which is actually shown on a 'how to use' poster inside your ship. The other thing is you can absolutely survive a fall into the black hole area: if you boost perpendicular to the hole, you can set up an orbit around it, flinging yourself higher and higher with each pass. There's even a tractor beam right under the platform with the campfire, letting you refill after surviving. It's honestly lead to some of my best memories; falling into the pit and speeding like crazy around the edges, dodging geometry at lethal speed and carefully monertering my fuel and boost gadges before nailing the tractor beam on a pass and surviving!
Outer Wilds is a true masterpiece, and the fact you can never play it again and get the same experience only betters this.
Still makes me cry, every time I hear Travellers. Or see a Hearthean. Or Solanum.....
Like a little baby right? Walking through that forest of dying stars and realising how close to the end everything is, I haven't had a piece of media ever move me like that. And don't get me started on the final campfire, bringing everyone into the song like the cosmic conductor you are.
There aren't many that are deserving of the title, but wholeheartedly a masterpiece in every sense of the word that sets the bar so high in terms of narrative and exploration. A perfect example of how uniquely different a gaming experience can be, and absolutely poo pooes any notion that games aren't art.
I personally cannot get that experience, you’re quite lucky!
Travellers is absolutely heart wrenching...
I remember the first time watching the sun explode I watched it start turning red and expanding and just assumed it was already like that. Then when it started imploding I tried to use giants deep as a shield, which obviously doesn’t work.
Smart if its fire, unfortunately it doesn’t stop plasma
Watching the planet actually melt b4 you would be crazy
I've been watching a friend of mine play through the game and in his attempts to figure out what's up with the Sun exploding he has decided that Giant's Deep logically prevents the supernova because "You wouldn't be able to see it, and that would just be bad game design."
Very excited to see him test this theory.
@@kashino55archive94 what on earth.
@@kashino55archive94 He should try attacking the sun at night next
My grandfather was sick when I started and just a few weeks after I finished he passed away. This game helped lesson my grief, as I felt I went through al stages while playing it and was able to have acceptance. I was sad he was gone, but infinity more happy of the time I had with him.
I’m so sorry to hear that. I’m really glad you found some comfort within the game.
Yeah… Outer Wilds really does just give you that sense of an existential crisis, but at the end of it all it teaches you that things will move on, and that it’s okay. I was kind of mad when I thought the Nomai was triggering the supernova, only to realize that their attempt failed and the supernova was actually because the sun is just… dying. When I found out about this, I then learned to accept my fate, and it made the ending all the more rewarding for me.
bless you
A friend gifted this game to me when my mom passed away. It is such a blessing, and taught me a lot ❤️
I am a grown-ass, weathered-ass person. The ending has made me cry every time I see it in its entirety. I do not have enough fingers and toes to count the amount of times it's left me bawling. This game is truly something else, something special.
Same same. Despite all the cosmic horror, there is still some hope at the end. I just love it
@@JM-us3fr That moment of hope at the end cemented this game as one of my all time favorite pieces of storytelling.
I mean the rest of the game was already most of the way there but when Let There Be Light dropped... my god, that was *transcendent*.
The damn music makes me cry on its own the ending is devastating
Instead of teleporting to the black hole forge, I literally brought my ship down to where it is and landed upside down lmao. One of my proudest moments playing this game, cuz i did it completely wrong. I also got to the sun station for the first time by orbiting the sun and matching velocity with the station, and got to the vessel by going full speed ahead thru the anglers cuz i hadn't obtained the extra clue.
Dude I did something really similar lol, you can parkour up through the broken corridor up to the black hole forge.
@@buckett9758 I did exactly that. I thought I was the only retarded to go that way
What a madlad, i tried those things, failed at all of them and then did them the easy way lol
@@buckett9758 I thought it was the intended way they give you those lovely resting nooks and each next gap is reachable lol
You did the Feldspar run lmao
Love that the Eye of the universe is pretty much a literal eyeball, complete with optical nerve that funnels you into what's basically, for the lack of a better analogy, God's brain.
How did that never occur to me!? So cool.
The Eye is the window to the soul. In my interpretation, all the trippy imagery is the eye’s way of attempting to explain, or you attempting by to comprehend, the meaning of the universe. In the end, the Universe was only what mattered to you, and that was also carried on into the next universe as well.
So happy you made a video on this game! Played it this year and I feel like it’s my favorite game of all time now. If anyone watching here is considering getting this game, STOP WATCHING AND PLEASE DO YOURSELF A FAVOR AND GET THE GAME, FINISH IT AND THEN COME BACK AND WATCH THE VIDEO! It’s best played knowing as little as possible.
You got the dlc?
Can confirm, I made the mistake of watching this video then watching a play through and now I really wish I hadn’t
aye aye cap'n
@@StoryAndSong1 im so sorry... you really would've enjoyed it blind
I might get it on Gamepass now that I've seen that it isn't just a complete copy of Outer Worlds
Did y’all know if you don’t meet a special someone on a certain moon there are no people in the end cutscene for the new universe?
say whaaat?
@@Unkraut MASSIVE ENDGAME SPOILERS FOR ANYONE
It makes sense. Whatever the Eye is, it called out with its signal because it needed a conscious observer to create a new universe. You end up being that observer so the new world is based on your knowledge and memories. Seeing the Nomai only as an extinct alien race leaves you as the only sapient species you know, so without you and your race, how can you ever imagine a new civilization? Meeting a Nomai in the flesh (or not... quantum physics man) plants the thought of the possibility of a world full of intelligent species in your brain and the Eye builds the new universe on that.
Spoilers, of course!
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Several parts of that last image change depending on what you do in game. If you fire your Little Scout into the sky while on the outskirts of the Eye, fire it into the Eye itself, or fire it into the Ball of Probability, it shows up in the image. If you don't do those things, it doesn't. A few other events can cause significant changes as well, like talking or not talking to Solanum, as mentioned. The DLC also changes it.
Don't sleep on the DLC, Echoes of the Eye. An incredible partner experience to The Outer Wilds, almost as good in every way and unique enough to warrant its own existence. Just kind of has a... well it just kind of ends and you're left standing there with your pecker in your hands.
Idk, aside from the very last slide reel being a little confusing (which they have improved in subsequent updates), the big emotional climax worked perfectly for me, and the way it changes the true ending is just gorgeous.
It's just "Outer Wilds" btw. It's already similar enough in name to The Outer Worlds lol
when you do the ending of the main game again after finishing the dlc, that's the real ending. you won't be disappointed
I guess there's a little bit more closure if you play through the main game after completing the DLC.
I got too scared :(. I read the plot though, 10/10 (I would expect nothing less from outer wilds)
This game is magnificent. There's joy, there's horror, there's sadness, and there's acceptance. This barely scratches the surface of the tip of the iceberg that is this game - there's so much to see and experience. And it makes me feel a little less scared about how everything in the universe is going to fizzle out someday, too.
... Oh, and there's a secret ending, where if you mess around with the Nomai time-travel-warp-tech, you can create a time paradox and undo the universe (and also talk to a copy of yourself if you're smart about it). Upon seeing the universe shatter from a violation of causality, the credits roll to a kazoo remix, complete with the audio of someone in the recording studio remarking on how annoying it is, so it clearly must be used.
WOW.
This UA-camr RADIATES Love
for Science and such.
Facts
@@rustyfisher2081 Try Hbomberguys Vaccine-Video.
It made countless autistic people proud.
This game is a fucking MASTERPIECE. This is what I think of when people say cosmic horror. The dread and loneliness you feel while playing this game sometimes is so visceral. Especially in Dark Bramble. Exploring the planets and putting all the pieces together is unlike any experience I've ever had playing a video game.
13:10 When I did this, I was having trouble figuring out how to situate the orbs to get the teleporter to work and I could literally hear the encroaching supernova get closer and closer to me as I tried to figure it out until at the last second I got it and was teleported to the Eye. Definitely one of the most unique games I've ever played and definitely one of my favorite of all time.
Edit: Also the ending is absolute perfection. I wish I had a better vocabulary to express how much I love this game.
I have never played a game that made me cry with both happy and sad tears at the same time. I felt so hollow yet so incredibly fulfilled. This game is sad and beautiful. So lonely and comforting. And it brings me to tears that you feel the same way. Thank for covering this game. Keep being awesome
Maybe a weird comment, but fuck it. I grew up in a cult. Despite how horrible it was on so many levels, there was a sense of peace I would sometimes feel during certain events. After leaving, that feeling was my biggest loss. I mourned it for years. That is, until I played Outer Wilds and felt the exact same thing during the ending sequence. I lack the words to describe how much I love the developers for proving once and for all that the same level of beauty, joy, and wonder are indeed possible away from my toxic upbringing. I've suspected that feeling came from good story telling, something any community could have under the right conditions. Outer Wilds proved that to me, and god is it relieving.
@@timothyhansen4648 Thanks for sharing! I'm happy for you 🤗
@@timothyhansen4648 Terrible and amazing! I’m glad you found happiness without the (I’m guessing) dangerous influence of a cult.
1:34 I would have REALLY liked that "Go play it yourself" warning to be a bit more elaborate. Outer Wilds is one of those games where every single thing you know about it before playing takes away part of the experience. (Wanting to wipe your memories to be able to replay this game once again is one of the main memes of the community)
If by ANY chance you're scrolling down while listening to the intro and reading this, PLEASE, PLEASE give this game a good hour or two of your time. Test out the waters, refund it if you really really don't like it after 2 hours... but pls, give it a go
I completely agree with you!
It's REALLY hard to get friends to play this game because you can't spoil anything though...
I've tried...
Try playing Ride to Hell till completion, that'll wipe some memories
@@VerdeMorte unfortunately, my mind treasures outer wilds more than... whatever it was that i lost when i played ride to hell, so it didnt work.
WHY WONT YOU GO AWAY OUTER WILDS I JUST WANT TO RELIVE THE GLORY DAYS!
@@DaddyFabioTV i take it you're new to upisnotjump, then. he calls every game he reviews an absolute nightmare, so you'd better be carefull
boosting your comment
I still remember the first time I played this game, finally making my way to the Hanging City and finding a mass of Nomai skeletons all around, on the floor, in chairs, even in beds. At first I didn't think much of it, just taking it as confirmation that the civilization had died out and nothing more. After all, it's a fairly common trope, finding the long-dead king's skeleton sitting in his throne and whatnot. But then I finally explored the Interloper, and it all clicked. How they all died suddenly, how they could leave a technology like the Ash Twin project half-finished and still running, it all made sense and the hints were right there. That's when I knew this game was special, that every part of this world was hand-crafted and able to be thought through logically. Like how the ghost matter on Giant's Deep is nullified when underwater, explaining how our species managed to survive, still in the water stage of our evolution as explained by Nomai within the geyser tunnels of Timber Hearth. Or how the one vision of the Ash Twin Project that you will see throughout the game seems to have stars moving in the background, yet, if you explore Timber Hearth's caves, you can find an ore with this same star appearance, and text explaining its use in the Ash Twin Project. Or the multiple ways you can break the space-time continuum by playing with the black holes, one of which I still don't really understand. Although small, this galaxy feels real. Although simple, these characters feel real. Very few games gave me a sense of true exploration like Outer Wilds did.
I feel a little bad for anyone who didn't give this game a try for themselves before watching this, because the experience of finding and solving the story in Outer Wilds on your own is unmatched in gaming for me. Fantastic video as always, and I love some of the views you showed off. If you've played Echoes of the Eye and have enough material to make a video of it, I know I and many others would love one.
I saw the first three minutes, then I paused the video and bought the game. 22 in-game hours later, I'm back to say it was totally worth the money.
I'm actually super fucking mad. I love his videos, but why didn't he put a spoiler warning. I thought he would just talk generally about how the game is played and that he liked it.
Instead he ended up telling the entire story with no warning. By the time he revealed some crucial spoilers, it was too late and so I just finished the video and spoiled all of it.
@Emmett McClain Yeah, the spoiler warning is a little too brief. However, I think you can still get value out of this game. And even if the game really is totally spoiled, there's an entire DLC about half the length of the original game that is just as good and is not mentioned at all in this video
I wish he had warned a little more. I feel bad for those who did not get to experience it themselves.
@@Meameameameameamea He did put a warning at 1:23
I remember watching NerdCubed’s play though of this, and I regret not playing this game before watching it. This game is one of those experiences that sticks with you. It’s so beautiful
I recall watching Dan's playthrough from the very beginning, somewhat like a ritual. Much like with Undertale, the magic came not from playing the game itself, but experiencing it with a community. Sitting down in the evening at the end of every week with some tea and honeyed toast and catching up on his progress through the game together with everyone else made it possible to enjoy the game in a much more refined way, or perhaps distilled to its purest form, making every problem and setback in the game not a chore, but a way to collectively indulge in the working out of a grand plan to solve each and every predicament.
In short, there's a real magic to watching others accomplish what you are not capable of, but even more when you may look upon such accomplishments aspirationally.
Also NerdCubed is entertaining in just about anything anybody that sees this check him out. Now.
@@50mt i feel like these games that are so story driven work best as being watched like a TV series - it helps me appreciate the story a lot more not having to worry about ramming my ship into the planet every time i fly
I went trough the exact same thing, I was happy to find out about the dlc all these years later, it gave me a reason to not only go trough the solar system myself, but also a moment to expierence the absolute briliance first hand without having to rely on good old dan stumbling trough the right solution.
I highly recomend you try it yourself, the only caviat is that it does have some "scary" stealth sections that depending on your disposition to it all do tend to keep some people at bay
"Outer Wilds" is my 2nd game after "Return of the Obra Dinn" that I would willingly suffer minor brain damage to forget so that I could have another blind playthrough.
2 of my all time favourites
@@baconwizard True. But when you play it yourself, the experience is much more personal. Tho both ways are good in their own right
Another amazing thing about this game is that there are multiple possible endings with some of them actually breaking the universe.
And it ends with the main theme being played on kazoos, which is basically the devs mocking you for literally breaking spacetime
Finally the genius of Super Hans has been acknowledged.
The secret ingredient is crime.
Wait wait wait, Sprometheus watches UpIsNotJump????
@@rouport I do indeed. I’m a fan.
@@Sprometheus I wouldn't be surprised if Azathoth, the dreamer was a fan of of UINJ, the dude puts out great content every time he uploads.
I see you've didn't spend any time talking to Chert, who has an actual mental breakdown when he realises the universe is dying.
That said, this is probably my favourite game of all time and I'm sad that we're probably not going to get anything similar for a while. I'm also sad at how much visibility the game had to have lost due to releasing in the same year as The Outer Worlds.
Well, to be quite honest, the most similar thing to The Outer Wilds is its DLC. :^)
Also it got caught up in the whole Epic Game store exclusive controversy that kept a lot of people from playing it based on their "principals"
@@ValosarX I honestly don't even remember that. Even that I find somewhat weird though. I don't actually but stuff from the EGS, but anything I like gets wishlisted on Steam and I'll play it when it inevitably releases there. I'm not so principled that I don't pick up all the free game from the EGS however.
I'm mostly a r/patientgamer anyhow, as almost all games are better 12 - 18 months after release, so even though I'll buy stuff on release for developers I actively want to support I'll still wait before playing it.
@@GrimmBones That is very true, even if I don't think the DLC is somewhat of a radical departure from the base game. Didn't like it much myself, but I will always support developers experimenting with novel ideas. I'm genuinely hoping we get an Outer Wilds 2.
@@ffbotha I mean, personally I don't want them to make a sequel, since the story truly feels over. When I saw the DLC, I didn't know what it could add, but, story wise, it added so much necessary detail, to the point where the main game no longer feels complete without the Stranger and the Prisoner. And on top of it, it doesn't feel like ANYTHING from the main game was rehashed. Everything in the DLC felt original, gameplay-wise. To the point where, if you go to beat the game after finishing DLC, the game will feel weird to ya. And I kinda like that. (whether the DLC was enjoyable to play or not, to I feel like the DLC was more enjoyable to watch than to play)
However, that said, it does make me happy if I know that the Devs will make a new game in the future, even if it has nothing to do with Outer Wilds. The competency in Outer Wilds and its DLC makes me feel like any new game they make is going to be a fantastic journey, that doesn't feel like a rehash of any of their previous games or DLC.
This is one of my most favorite games of all time
The emotional Rollercoaster of exploring the universe, the insane technology of the Nomai, their incredibly sad end, and how it all comes together to give you the biggest dose of existential crisis.
Also, if you shoot your camera probe on a surface in brittle hollow it will tell you how stable that particular piece of the planet you're on is.... makes being there MUCH easier.
Haha, you can do that probe thing with the dam in Echoes of the Eye, too.
wait YOU COULD DO THAT
The energy of “shield your eyes children” has all the energy of this channel that I love. Overspending on sets and overacting to toys is what I live for :)
God, that end bit where it slowly says "Outer Wilds isn't really a nightmare" managed to get a tear out of me. Loved it
I mastered Brittle Hollow's black hole gravitational pool so much, I used it as a quick shortcut for some platforms/gravitational tunnels to go around.
The downside is.. well, hitting your head against the planet's crust, that is sometimes falling onto your head.
I absolutely love this game
"Who in their right mind would buy the wrong game and do absolutely nothing about it."
For like a straight month I actively avoided both because I thought they were the same game and thus so content-rich that I wouldn't know where to start or end.
Every upload on this channel is an absolute treat to watch, the editing, scripting and skits are all top notch
And you're 12
@@officialdazer or a bot
One thing I love about Outer Wilds is when it goes from "I have no Idea what to do next," to "I know what I have to do, but I don't know if I have the strength to do it."
I wash literally shaking when doing that final rush on the last planet you have to go through, and because of it I crashed a couple of times and had to do all the last part again lol. This game gave me so much stress and I still loved it so much
So glad I'm seeing more people talk about the game, it's a classic.
Kinda wish the spoiler warning at the start was WAAAAAAY more elaborate tho.. It's the kind of game that you have to play blind to get the best experience
1:29 - You saying "this video is going to spoil the entire game" wasn't enough?
@@Prof_awesome for people who haven't played this game, yes that simply isn't enough. The main gameplay loop of the game is literally to learn, and he should put more emphasis on how learning about certain mechanics literally robs gameplay mechanics from you
@@Prof_awesome It really isn't. Coming from the Outer Wilds sub seeing a few people coming to try out the game after watching this but then having the whole experience ruined as they just can't play the game the same way, they watched this video then literally can't un-learn the things spelled out. Spoiler warnings are fairly common, but it NEEDS a 'No really don't watch this video until after you play the game if you have ANY intention of playing it yourself.'
@@Prof_awesome As someone who regretted looking up stuff about the game, it's really not enough.
While I liked your assessment of the Hearthians and their feelings of acceptance or nonchalance with death, you only really touched on the hearthians still grounded on Timber Hearth.
The travelers have their own super interesting feelings towards death and the end of the universe.
Riebeck the traveler on Brittle Hollow is quite anxious and openly terrified of the endless void of space. But them being on Brittle Hollow proves how they used their passion to overcome their fears and their dread.
Gabbro on Giants Deep is so chill and blaze that it's even odd by Heartian standards. It's fitting that they're the one that's trapped in the time loop with the player since they're of a mind to just sleep and play the bassoon all day.
On the Ember Twin there's Chert, an astrologer who came out to the twin planets to update the star charts. But having been staring at the stars, their starting to put the pieces together and figure out that the universe is dying. Their reaction is sort of the antithesis to the whole "all hearthians are chill space hippies" because they really start to break down.
Chert's dialogue is honestly pretty harrowing as they start to panic, unlike anyone who's fully come to grips with their mortality. It's even worse when you remember that's they're not in the time loop like you, and they're forced to come to the same awful realization every 22 minutes.
In the last minute of the loop they seem to pull themself together and asks you to sit with them, they ask you how you're coping with the end of the universe.
(Such a beautiful goddamn game.)
Here's some of Chert's direct dialogue.
“It’s the stars, you see. All the other stars are dying out. Oh, why did we have to be born at the end of the universe? And our sun, it…
The star charts! Why? Why did I want to update them so badly? I didn’t have to know, but no, oh no, I had to update the star charts! I had to go looking for things I shouldn’t have! And now our sun is about to… about to… oh…
...I don’t feel well. I’d like to be alone, please.”
Player: I found something!
“Why, isn’t that great! Do you know what, I’ve found a few things myself! Most of them have to do with the sun exploding!
Oh, who cares?! What does it matter?! Nothing matters anymore! The sun is about to go supernova! And me, all my research, my life’s work, wasted!
Wasted, you understand?!”
“I can’t believe this. I can’t believe this is happening. I can’t… I won’t! I won’t believe it!”
The most heartbreaking part about Chert is the fact that you can tell him about the end of the Universe and he's the ONLY Hearthian who believes you.
Meaning you can actively cause his panic attack.
I would just like to point out that the Hearthians go by they/them pronouns
@@kraymerman Fixed 👍
@@rayvongarlic1996 Thank you 👍
I really love how this game creates amazing moments that seem accidental and perfect at the same time, like once near the end of a cycle I fell into the black hole in Brittle Hollow and found myself on the edge of the solar system with no ship, no fuel and only about half a tank of oxygen and so I decided to just pull out the signalscope and listen to some fine music while waiting for my inevitable death... That was the first time I have heard them play all at once (except for Solanum). It was only for a few seconds but hearing that song in it´s full glory for the first time was such a great experience!
Outer wilds is genuinely the most profound experience I've ever had playing a video game... And calling it just a video game doesn't do it justice. It kick-started yet another existential crisis in my life but God dam, if it isn't the most fun existential crisis I've ever endured, and I wish I could forget it all so I could do it all over again.
Wan`t an another kickstart for your re-ality? Watch the videos from the UA-cam channel "Chiron Last".
Are you high? lol
@@SimplyStoner1388 always
This game sparks an idea:
What about a game where this concept is divided into different stages? Like you're a maintenance guy on a space station at the start and have to fix a critical component in say 10 minutes time, next task will have a 30 min window and so on eventually opening up more mechanics and meaningful choices how to resolve your problems eventually biting you back later.
WOW.
This UA-camr RADIATES Love
for Science and such.
I cant hold back the Urge to recommend his Fans many more just like him:
Joe Scott, Sci Man Dan, Tier Zoo, Hbomberguy, Oversimplified, Bluejay.
Actually a pretty cool idea, but that's def several years work
@@ChaoticNeutralMatt What about my comment though?
@@nenmaster5218 Your comment sounds like bot spam lol
God I hope the algorithm grabs your videos soon, you deserve much more attention with this high quality content
I reckon this will be on tv one day
I'm so confused. He already had a million subs by this point
@@mechanicalmonk2020 Where are you getting that statistic? The video was under 200k views when I posted this comment
im three minutes into the episode, and being reminded why i never finished this game.
I love horror games. I like thrills.
This game does not give me thrills, it terrifies me. The kind of terror that makes the floorboards under your feet fall away, and you have no recourse but to rip of your headphones and cover your eyes.
I've done that twice to this game, and even watching the footage of the teeth in the fog makes my stomach go wobbly. This is the game that taught me intimately of my phobia of teeth and black voids, as if something irrationally large is set on swallowing me whole.
I'm glad there are "spoilers" and jokes in this, because otherwise i don't think I'd ever know how this game goes.
same.
I've done pretty much everything there is to do in this game EXCEPT making through to the nomai ship with the power source. Dark bramble absolutely terrified me and when I eventually managed to make it through the first time only to discover the ship needed a power source and I'd have to do it all again it broke me lol I literally couldn't stomach the thought of doing it again so I just watched a playthrough to see the ending. Which is a shame because I absolutely loved everything about the game up to that point but that hazy void and the figures lurking in the mist... it evokes a primal fear in me that I can't get passed.
Y'all not gonna play a game because something in the game spooks you? That's actually insane
Almost every planet is actually based on very common phobias (ash twin sinking in sand Giants deep water and storms ect.)
@@rhidiandavies1991 BRO your soooo close please finish the game you will not regret it 🙏
To anyone who hasn't played the game: **DO NOT WATCH THIS VIDEO.** Seriously, the entire point of the game is to explore it yourself, and you will miss out on a lot of the game's best stuff if you watch this, and that stuff is *really* worth experiencing untainted.
The spoiler warning in this was nowhere near how strong it should have been.
Thank you, you might have just saved me. I'll come back to this once I've played the game (it's still in my ever-growing pile of shame I mean backlog)
@@elmargreeff2726 it was on my backlog for months but now it’s my favorite game of all time
@@elmargreeff2726 Move it to the front of your backlog. It's worth it
Honestly I feel like this should be re uploaded with a massive spoiler warning. And it should be in the title. And everywhere else. The worst part is that you can’t play it more than once.
THIS. I love his videos, but honestly if you watch this video you won't be able to ever play this game ever again!!
A quick tip for brittle hollow: If you fall you aren't immediately drawn into the black hole!
Most people naturally try to thrust away from the black hole, but this is futile because the hole has a pull much greater than your thrust. Instead, try to miss the black hole by moving to the side. This will cause you to orbit and has the potential to be used as transportation (one side to the other) around brittle hollow!
Oh my God, I've never heard that second part of the Double Slit experiment where observing the electron passing through causes its waveform to collapse into two slits, that's insane!
Why was that not taught as an integral part of the experiment when I learned about it in both high school and college physics?!
It is. If your major is Physics or Engineering.
If not, it's unnecessary. especially in high school because it requires you to actually go in depth on principles of quantum physics (and also equations in wave and particle physics in order to do the actual measurements). It's not just "oh here's a neat experiment they did, and done". He gave a pretty simplified explanation.
@@7792pnaurfr Even in physical chemistry, essentially chemistry's quantum physics class, they didn't include that part about adding a particle detector to know when a photon was ejected, and that demonstrating how observing the particle directly affected its waveform. They always just use it to show how that experiment showed photons propagate as waves.
@@micahphilson but they don't XD. That's the point of the experiment, photons behave like particles AND waves at the same time. That's their superposition
@@Royvdl They don't particuarly exist as both at any given moment, photons propagate as waves of probability and interact with objects as a predictable newtonian particle. What this second half of the experiment shows, in one experiment, which is still taught in those classes but as a separate discussion with separate proofs, is that observing or interacting with the photon at one point causes it from that point forward to act as a predictable particle, hence only interacting with the detector in straight lines through the slits instead of an interfering wave pattern.
What I learned from this video is that this same experiment actually demonstrated this effect, rather than how it's usually used to just say these researchers proved photons travel as waves.
It was
The existential dread in this game **REALLY** caught me off guard as I played it without knowing much going into it other than it's critically acclaimed and allegedly objectively superior to its wayward titular doppelganger Outer Worlds. After getting through the tutorial portion and finally getting out exploring I realized I became almost paralyzed with fear when the supernova theme would kick in and I'd hadn't finished exploring some nook or cranny that it took me the entire loop time to get to in the 1st place. This coupled with some really genuinely terrifying nightmare imagery like the water spouts on Giant's Deep & the infamous angler fish I almost stopped playing. Thank goodness I persevered as eventually i just became desensitized and my dread (usually) was replaced curiosity as I obsessively tracked down every log entry and tried to figure out the secret to reaching the endgame.
Another thing that threw me off is that at 1st I thought the game was some flavor of walking simulator but quickly realized it's a bona fide adventure game that's actually very challenging to complete without a walkthrough. I myself eventually caved when I couldn't figure out how to get past the Giant's Deep current and the angler fish on the way to The Vessel. If I paid attention I probably could have figured out the latter but the former is definitely one of the more obtuse puzzles in the game unless you get there through blind luck...
There is a whole room in the game that demonstrates and explains how to get to the centre of Giant's Deep, you just didn't find it
@@vomitcomet Ah - I know exactly which room you're talking about - it's the one with the tornado simulations right? I explored it way before trying to get to the center of Giant's Deep and never read the wall translation again...now I feel dumb 😞
I quit the game. I have only once in my life been so incredibly terrified of a game that I stood up and screamed and that was Subnautica... until I played Outer Wilds. And I LOVE to play horror games and all horror media. But its these empty, vast, unknown games that scare the living shit out of me. After some hours playing, I went into the "angler fish place" and immediately froze up. I was petrified looking at where I was and just sat there, not moving and after a minute of just sitting there .. I heard a loud af scream and just alt-tabed and never came back. This game makes me weep and as much as I want to go back, I just know its going to be torture for me.
@@HOVNA if you don't use your thrusters the anglerfish will not aggro on you. When you go through one the portal it sets you at a set speed, just cruise on by em at that speed, only when you feel like you've put enough distance between them you can SLIGHTLY boost again. They react to sound you see, so don't make too much noise. I really hope you pick this game back up again.
A little tip for giants deep, is to think "you spin me right round" those who know what I'm hinting at will understand, but hopefully that doesn't give too much away 😂
The music genuinely brings a tear to my eye to this day several years after playing it for the first time.
Outer Wilds is probably one of my favoritest games of all times. The echoes of the eye expansion though is definitely a nightmare. It scared me shirtless 😳
The real reason he was standing in front of the mic shirtless ;)
5:40 for what it's worth, you can tell if the part you're on is about to collapse by having your scout on it. It shows the structural integrity of whatever it's on if what it's on can take damage.
The amount of time it took me to get to the black hole forge just for me to accidentally press jump was infuriating
Now I just want to hear him talk about the dlc, it has some masterful storytelling. And is just fantastic
WOW.
This UA-camr RADIATES Love
for Science and such.
I cant hold back the Urge to recommend his Fans many more just like him:
Joe Scott, Sci Man Dan, Tier Zoo, Hbomberguy, Oversimplified, Bluejay.
If we expand this to those that fuse 'Education and Fun', it's veen MORE Channel.
Hopefully a second video about the DLC is in the works because I'd love to see his take on it as well
6:48
Oh, THAT’S how you get there? Ha ha! On my playthrough I just flipped my spaceship upside down and landed on the reverse-grav walkway.
(Me carefully aiming my ship) “the ship has a eject button for a reason.”
Same
"they'd been totally accepting of all of this"
You need to stay with Chert for the entire loop and talk to him throughout...
This was the best and easiest to understand explanation of Thomas young's experiment I've ever heard. Never thought I would have my two passions for science and gaming interwine like this it's why I loved this game so much.
Upisnotjump - i wonder if he will cover and/or react to the newest video of Some More News. That guy really is on top of his game now, as his newest video shows.
This is the first time I actually listened to a UA-camr when they said “spoilers ahead, go play the game first!”
And yeah
Really glad I played it first
Outer Wilds has got to be my favorite game! Thanks for getting more eyes on this masterpiece!
This is absolutely the wrong way to get more eyes on it though. This video spoils a *massive* amount of the game, and anyone who has not played it before should not watch it. The spoiler warning in this was entirely inadequate.
@@wiiu42 Absofucknlootly. I made a second comment about that after I had fully seen it
Watching this just makes me so sad, I love this game with all of my heart. Nothing can compair, and the DLC was phenomenal.
Super cool you got to introduce so many people to this hidden gem of a game, imo your spoiler warning wasn't enough though. It's an amazing game, and the whole point is piecing together the story - you take that away you basically take people's ability to enjoy the game away (which is happening since folks in the comments are recommending to curious people to NOT play this game after having it spoiled).
"Im going to spoil the story now" works for most stories, for Outer Wilds it's more "you basically can't play this game if you watch this video first" because the story is the only actual progression you make in the game.
Outer Wilds is one of those games I wish I could experience for the first time again, over and over again.
If only you were stuck in a timeloop in real life lmao
Absolutely love the Data impersonation. Also while I knew about this game and some times got it confused with the other game, it makes me sad that I didn't take my time to play it. The story of Outer Wilds really deserved more love then it got. Thanks for the video
My first time playing this game I said to myself: Can I land in the volcano?
You can land in the volcano, good luck getting out
The magic of discovering what exactly is going on and what happened cannot be compared. And that feeling you get when you’re in the vessel and the final pieces finally click of what you must do to reach the eye was one of the most amazing gaming moments for me. The realisation that you must break the loop. What a beautiful game man
WOW.
This UA-camr RADIATES Love
for Science and such.
I cant hold back the Urge to recommend his Fans many more just like him:
Joe Scott, Sci Man Dan, Tier Zoo, Hbomberguy, Oversimplified, Bluejay.
If we expand this to those that fuse 'Education and Fun', it's veen MORE Channel.
4:17 I’d like to let you know the unexpected hat falling joke was the first time i’d laughed out loud during the video
So I found it funny yes :)
6:41 THIS IS HOW YOU DO IT??? I always just gimmick parkoured untill I stuck onto the roof 😭
I was about to comment the same thing. My first time I flew up just with the jetpack but later I managed to park my ship upside-down
Loved this episode; in particular the positive spin you put on the ending is really important (to counteract the existential dread). Thank-you for covering OW!
The best part for me is that at no point does the game tell you to stop the sun going supernova (or that it's even possible). The player decides that goal for themselves; 'this is a video game so I must be able to save the day'.
That's why the end is such a gut-punch; the developers knew we would set that as our goal (which is why they put all those hints in). In particular, one of the other astronauts (Gabbro on Giant's Deep) has the same ability you do and the same knowledge that the sun is about to blow up and he just...chills out in a hammock, meditating and playing his flute. He understands his fate and accepts it; he doesn't struggle against it.
The game (much like our reality) doesn't care about our struggles; it simply is and any purpose or meaning we superimpose over the top of it, is of no consequence to it.
The sun will explode in 22 minutes regardless of our actions, our goals or our purpose; all we can do is decide how we want to spend our 22 minutes.
Does Gabbro have it right; instead of spending his time frantically zooming around space trying to stop the unstoppable, he just enjoys his 22 minutes?
Maybe.
Maybe not.
The game (much like our reality) won't tell you right or wrong; it doesn't care one way or the other.
Ultimately, nothing you do in Outer Wilds matter. At the start of the game, your sun explodes and ends your race. At the end of the game, your sun explodes and ends your race; no action the player can take changes that (or any) outcome.
That kind of hard nihilism can either be freeing (Gabbro) or upsetting, which is why the tripy bonfire sing-along ending exists as an emotional counter-balance.
Even all of this^, is meaning I have superimposed over the top of the game.
OW truly is a masterpiece.
I remember the first time I survived long enough for the sun to explode, I was messing with the spinning rings on the moon, and at the very moment I moved the ball to the eye of the universe symbol, the sun exploded. Considering the fact that the eye of the universe symbol looks like a supernova, I got confused and thought that I had triggered it.
5:08 Holy shit I love that shot.
EDIT: 7:00 I'm glad I'm not the only person that immediately jumped while in the forge.
Ever since I got really high at the start of the year, I've been hit with an ever looming sense of dread about the eventual end of all life. Cosmic Horror is constantly on my mind, but atleast in the world of Outer Wilds, the end is just another beginning for new life to enjoy the bounty that we have been blessed with. I only hope to be able to watch over the story of the universe as it goes ever forwards.
It's honestly mind-boggling to see Matthew wearing my t-shirt design for a video. I was so excited to see this and it didn't disappoint :D
Thank you so much for providing my wardrobe. It was perfect!
@@UpIsNotJump It's the first time I've ever seen the design on a real person and I'm so happy with the way it turned out. You're an excellent model! 😉
Where can I get this?? I need it!!
@@Bluesky35102 You can find it by searching for 'Ognisty Outer Wilds'! (Reworded this a few times because I think some filter bots are deleting the comment :( )
Found it, nice work!! Very good shirt. Might have to snag me one off your Redbubble shop. I have a navy heather shirt of the OW Ventures logo (also from Redbubble) and it's very comfy!
full spoils for a (bad) end:
you can escape the supernova after you break the loop. You drift in space until your ship runs out of resources and you slowly suffocate/starve alone as the last member of your species, and potentially the last sentient being in the galaxy. The game wants you to know that it doesn't think you're very clever lmao
You know, I've played several horror games in my lifetime but none made me as afraid as flying into a Gas Giant just to discover that it's surface is riddled with tornados who pick up pieces of land. I have yet complete anything in this game. Everything scares me to death because it gives me some instinctive kind of fear that I haven't felt anywhere else. It's a nightmare and so beautiful at the same time. The music is also A+
Edit: Dark Bramble also made me quit several time. Want to be trapped in a ever expanding fog filled void with cosmic horrors in them? Nope, not doing that, fuck that
Oh yeah, this game really makes you feel like anything could happen at any given time. Simply perfect cosmic horror.
Oh yeah. I gave up on the DLC because of how much it scared me.
Yeah, and the innocent me decided that the first planet to visit is Dark Bramble.... bad idea
Subnautica already traumatised me for "giant swimming monsters in poor visibility", so much I couldn't finish it, so I avoided Dark Bramble for most of the game, and by the time I worked up the nerve it had me in full panic mode. I was so careful on my first couple of journeys I genuinely didn't even see an anglerfish and that just made me panic even more. I was in a complete paranoid spiral and wound up needing a guide to get through.
Meanwhile my little brother went there early on, got spooked nice and early. His solution? Put on "Push it to the limit" at full volume, fly into dark bramble at full speed, then basically drift his way through Dark Bramble. By pure luck he found his way to the [Spoiler]. Watching him use this method on discord with his friends was fucking iconic.
@@dublinjake At that point there's not really much of a point in adding [Spoiler]. But yeah. Also don't play the DLC.
Back when it came out, I said to myself "I'm getting Outer Worlds, once I finish that, I'll get Outer Wilds." unfortunately, I forgot about this promise to myself, and now that I've seen it, I really wish I gave it a go. I've been watching people play it, but like a lot of games, your own experience is the way to go.
Legitimately, recommend it so much, especially with the DLC that came out. Genuine one-of-a-kind experience.
You can still play the DLC if you haven't seen anyone play it.
I find it one of the best DLCs in like all of gaming. It's in my top 5. Not sure you would want to pay for the game and DLC just for that, but I can't recommend it enough.
It is REMARKABLE that you spent as much time on brittle hollow as the twins. Like what about dark bramble?? Thats like literally the biggest one. Then giant's deep is small but densely packed with info, i mean, a third of the main quest is setup AND resolved there, along with giving you the secret to enter the quantum moon and even having some hints about the ash twin project i think. And the twins get a pass because it's two whole planets, they earned it
I just realized i said this two years ago too!!! When i played it!!!
I can confirm that I did find the hat joke at 4:09 very funny
((also good luck with your wisdom tooth recovery))
God I fucking bawled laughing that one got me
This is a game you can really only play once. It left me so amazed and then so sad that it was over. Nothing else has ever given me that feeling, and I miss it.
it's a testament to this games writing that my reaction to learning that the supernova doomsday device doesn't work was dismay and grief rather than relief
Every upload from this man is like a jumpscare
Great review. I do wish there was a bigger spoiler warning or similar. This game is really best experienced knowing absolutely nothing about it.
I remember my first loop of Outer Wilds and it was amazing. I was on a planet at one of the stations that shows you where the quantum moon is at any given point. I was reading some Nomai script and everything got dark. I turned around to no longer see the sun, only then *only see the sun*
I was in awe because of how panicked I was at first. And now, this game has helped me be okay with death and the ending of things. It's a beautiful story that genuinely changed how I viewed the world.
Glad more attention is being given to Outer Wilds, one of the best games ever made
6:41 I just did this by piloting my ship onto the ceiling and getting it stuck there so I could leave the ship.
There were so many hints to the Nomai not being killed by their experiments at all. Right at the start of the game, when reading up on ghost matter, you are literally told it takes centuries, if not millenia, to fully evaporate. And you find ghost matter on EVERY planet except for Dark Bramble. When you finally explore the Interloper, it's a moment where you smack your head and realize the game had already told you in a far less roundabout manner what had killed the Nomai.
FANTASTIC! What a story teller and what a hat collection
Thanks so much!
My absolute favorite game ever made! The ending made me cry so hard, was so happy, depressing and accepting. You find out everything ends but that's ok, it's a natural process.
I'm glad to read through these comments and see I wasn't the only one who felt this way. This game is a fucking timeless masterpiece (pun intended)
I never even thought about using the teleporter on the ash twin to get to the black hole forge on brittle hollow. When I played outer wilds I just raised the forge itself and jumped on top of it for an elevator ride to get to the top. It’s cool how there’s multiple ways to get up there
15:18 Korone: "Oh, I'm die. Thank you forever."
13:18 - Hmmm...what's that streaking through space just next to the sun going supernova? It's a secret!
HEHEHEHE I love how they added that to the base game. >:)
i understand the difficulty of exploring the ember twin and brittle hollow, but to me, that really added to the whole experience. it felt really satisfying to get to the high energy lab, and just as satisfying to reach the southern observatory. traversing those planets may be difficult, but it’s not unfair. Running through a cave or a city, cutting every possible corner, and reaching your destination just in time to see the entrance close behind you is one hell of an adrenaline rush. Figuring out the best route through trial and error is a core feature of time loop games; it’s how their progression works.
Can we have more videos of UpIsNotJump explaining quantum physics? It's oddly calming, yet really interesting at the same time.
(Yes i called you that just to piss you off)