And there we go! What a rollercoaster it was! That final loop was extra stressful but it was ell worth all the torment and anguish.
Time to read all the spoilers.
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oh this is out on PS4 now…
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speeding past the posts in this thread cuz i dunno how much it gets into everything but i just wanted to say i picked this up for ps4 and it’s rly lovely and wonderful! sunday was a good day to start playing this.
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It’s still my favorite game from this year! Recent updates have softened most of the unreasonably hard challenges, but do let us know if you get stuck—we can provide the gentlest of nudges.
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wat
I read some recent patch notes and you can now automatically accelerate the passage of time from your ship, a certain endgame trigger is less oblique, and I think platforming around certain parts of the hollow is also a little easier
They also completely redesigned the interior of the Black Hole Forge, including new artwork and Nomai logs, updated logs and mural artwork at the High Energy Lab to better explain certain endgame-critical behaviors elsewhere, etc. Figuring out that puzzle still requires a pretty big intuitive leap, but the game does a much better job making sure you understand where you need to jump from, to really torture this metaphor. They’ve also made it much harder to overlook the spare fuel canisters the other travelers left in various spots.
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Accelerting time isn’t from your ship, it’s from campfires. That being said, I completely forgot about it after my initial marshmallow.
I need to go back to this game, figure out where I’m stuck, then probably get a nudge. I quit playing because I have this high-intensity background anxiety around games that involve figuring things out where I’m not going to be smart enough to do it (and I don’t want to “lower myself” to reading spoilers).
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Man I’m 2 hours in and not really feeling this so far… I’m traveling and uncovering mysteries but not caring about any of it…
The big issue is that it is not trying to create abstractions and illusions to pretend that the universe is larger than the boundaries of its in game world
As a result everything feels cramped and fake. The world feels more like Disneyland’s Space Mountain than a real place
Which could maybe be tolerable for most games, but not for one that tries to get people invested in its world building and mythos
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It absolutely does try to depict an universe larger than the local solar system. Through bits of narrative you probably haven’t uncovered yet, and also through a couple things going on that have actually been staring you in the face but you haven’t noticed. For me, the moment I realized the real scope of things was one of the strongest moments in the game. It was a game that permanently made me experience the dread of vertigo while I was jumping around, but also later a much more metaphysical and just as dreadful kind of vertigo as I figured out what was going on. Paradoxically some of the effect is accomplished by the very finiteness of the space you’re allowed to explore and how alone you are or aren’t in it.
Like, No Man’s Sky tried to say things about the ineffability and gigantism of space by having billions of galaxies populated with billions of planets, and it never feels as huge as what it eventually turns out Outer Wilds was going towards.
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yeah, I would advise patience in this respect – the scale is absolutely right for the gameplay / puzzles / arc, and while it initially seems a bit pat in terms of worldbuilding, they do a whole lot with that to make it less so
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i’m finally playing this and damn this shit’s got some #lonelygame energy god damn, it’s almost too much
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Yeah, the existence of the other travelers does basically nothing to alleviate that feeling 
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watching this on my lunch break and literally the first thing you do after you take off is the last thing i was trying to do last night, wtf
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So far this game has crashed twice for me on ps4 and both times took my save data with it, which I first found annoying and now, thinking about it, actually endearing
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it really only makes it lonelier tbh
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Skipping to the end of this thread to ask the only question. This game is on sale. Would Rudie (me (hi!)) like it?
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It’s one of the best investigation games, up there with Obra Dinn, so I’d say yes. Just like Obra Dinn though, you have to not mind waiting for what may seem like a long while on occasions. It’s a pretty contemplative game.
So, a pretty insane easter egg was found. Huge ending spoilers, of course. Right at the end of the loop, a black hole appears in the ash twin project, the one that’s actually used to send data back. You can jump into it! This restarts the loop and you wake up at the campfire as usual, but if you go back to the ash twin project you’ll find the you from the previous loop, who very logically popped out of the white hole that receives said data, and have a pretty amusing conversation.
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…holy shit. I gotta try this.
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