Episode 113 - Just Like Real Life! - Outer Wilds

This podcast is new to me, but I am honored to be a part of it.
Welcome back! Today we’re going to be talking about Outer Wilds,
the space sim/adventure/exploration game that, for people who
connect with it, is an absolute gem. In this game, you fly around
from planet to planet, each of which is individually authored with
a surprising number of things to find and learn, and try to
discover more about an ancient race of aliens who have presumably
died off. This is your express goal, anyway. The one that is given
to you by the characters, but the game really starts working when
it is your own self-motivation driving you to uncover more, to push
further into the secrets of each planet and to stop yourself from
dying for even one second. Admittedly, this isn’t an easy goal to
achieve and the difficulty present in the systems of the game makes
this even harder to get into, but if you push past it, and get a
handle on the game, what lies beyond is an extremely deep and
satisfying experience with a lot to love. We’re going to be talking
about spoilers, and what that means for the game and its community,
the long journey of mastering the game systems and how you develop
personal goals and obsessions, and we reveal the instrument that
your player character is proficient in. Thank you for listening
this week! Outer Wilds is one of those games that got a lot of
press (which, episode spoilers, it was for good reason) but because
of a lot of elements we weren’t able to check out right away. I
have to thank our Discord server for being very into it and keeping
it in the forefront of our minds because I really would have kicked
myself if I hadn’t gotten around to it. What did you think about
the game? Are we being babies when we say parts of this game felt
really difficult? Let us know in the comments, or over on the
aforementioned Discord server. Next time, we’re going to be talking
about TimeSplitters: Future Perfect, which I could attempt to make
some tangential comparisons with this game, but it would be an
enormous stretch. We hope you’ll join us then anyway!