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I mean when I first I played out of while because everybody was just singing its praises every podcast you listen to everybody love the game I'm typically not a puzzle type gamer even harder that this game that I play this game on stream Which just sort of really messes with the ADHD and I'm already operating at like 20% capacity when I'm streaming a game Cuz I'm talking to Chad. I'm trying to be entertaining That's already like kind of hurting the experience So I ended up beating this game off stream and I'm glad I did that and I'm also sad I did that because I wish I just had it kind of catalogs for myself or whenever I You know when you get to the sort of ending moments I don't really want to get into spoilers unless blessing really want like maybe after the break We get into kind of talking about more about what happens, but I just for me I've just been wanting Roger or Roger and Kevin to play this game Which would just be like a disaster to watch them both together on camera together try to chart through this game Yeah, but it it just reminded me of the sort of existential I guess dread and also hope and the sort of emotions that I felt kind of Leaving the theater after watching interstellar and being like damn what's all this for so significant exactly but you know Even though everything will be gone and you know this plant the Sun will blow up and with nothing that we've done will ever matter ever again It's like but we still have each other and we still have the moment So let's make the most it's just like it's just such an awesome story And I love the way that it deals with kind of the investigative aspect of it the the string theory the finding clues Letting each clue go into the next and of course the soundtrack just kind of keeps you know Kind of keeps you going through and I remember walked after I beat it in 2019 2020 Daniel I released a no clip doc on it and that was yesterday. Yeah, that was really really damn good really cool I just sort of get insider knowledge about how they built the game and how kind of every video game is built on planes Right like you PLA and I guess they're spelled the same way I get no, but I guess arrow planes and like a flat plane's like a field Yeah, no, no like it every game is sort of you know You're always building on a flat surface I'm not how you deal with but like to kind of get inside an all from the developers and how this game is built on spheres because each Planet is sort of like that sort of Mario Galaxy vibe where you can kind of just run around a planet in a couple minutes and find the other side of it, but the way that the game deals with weird sort of mechanics and you know these two planets called the The twin planets that oh yeah that eventually you know They're sort they revolve around each other tin But one you know over the 22 minute cycle the sand from one planet is slowly go the hourglass ones what they're called the sand from one Planet is being stuck to the other and how you deal with puzzles there and just like it's all just so genius I think it's maybe the smartest puzzle game you'll ever play and also one of the most charming games you'll ever play when you know When you start to kind of find out about this ancient race of of beings that saw you know Explore the galaxy and kind of came before us. It's amazing CP says just tuned in thought about buying it earlier today bless now beat this game for the first time in 2025 Should see peep by this game.
Oh, yes. Yes. I so I took a picture of me and our wilds I think I have to my journey Yeah, I kind of have to go back to 2019 when it launched because I was in the same boat as Andy of listening to podcasts reading reviews Right? This is back when I listen to like every viewing podcast on the planet and so many Podcasters and so many of media folks and game journalists that I follow were like post playing out our wilds We're saying this is one of the greatest games ever played like this is one of the greatest games ever that's ever been made Experience experiences.
Yeah, I'm reading this and I'm like dang I gotta check this out I gotta play this game and I believe it launched on Xbox game pass if I remember correctly cuz I remember playing it on Xbox in particular Yeah, and I tried it played for probably about five to six hours and then fell off and then you're a pass I'll pick it back up try to play some then fall off and then another year would pass I'd be like here somebody else maybe mention outer wilds I remember I think the last time I really try to give it a shot was after I played the forgotten city Which was a game that came out quite a few years ago now that was also a time loop game where you are Essentially you end of the forgotten city and you have to solve the mystery of you know Who's committing the I think was like the Golden Center some shit like that, right? And I remember falling in love with the forgotten city and after being the forgotten city a lot of people were like oh You gotta play out of our wilds is somewhat sort of thing It's kind of a detective ish game you are trying to figure out what's happened in this world And there's there's a time loop element and all these things and I would give it another shot and I've I've tried out outer Wilds maybe like five or six times putting insignificant amounts of hours into it and it just never clicking I didn't like how directionless it was I didn't really love the art style and the presentation of it I didn't like how like it didn't really feel great to play and navigate around because you are in a lot of like zero gravity Slash low gravity environments and so I'm like jumping around and floating into the Sun and doing all this shit I'm getting in my ship my ship gets lost and all this shit and like it's a very frustrating game to play a lot of the time This last time playing it I decided that I wanted to see it through because on paper outer wilds has always been my exact type of game when I read things about it It is like you know play your own pace go any direction like I love games You can go any direction right like breath of wild is my favorite game because you just they just pop you in and go Go over you want and kind of do whatever I love that shit It is the time loop shit that I love it is the investigative stuff that I love right like I love puzzle games too It is it has some yellings of something like the witness something like the forgotten city something like the immersive Sims that I always talk about but for some reason this game that seems to be a combination of all these things just wouldn't work on me and I pick it up this time because later in the year we're doing our top 100 games thing and For that I look at any else I got to play Dark Souls because I know I love Elmering I know I love from software games I got to play Dark Souls for this and I looked at myself and I was like alright outer wilds I'm picking it back up. I started playing it on stream It was a similar thing as Andy where I played for about a few hours on streaming when I can't stream this This is not a stream game. It's a lot of reading is a lot of struggle So then I start playing it just slowly I just started playing it just all my own time and the more I played it The more I fell in love to it to where now after beating it after rolling credits and putting in I think maybe 30 hours into this particular playthrough of the game not fresh when we start from the beginning I downloaded the PS5 version And I started times that you played were you starting over every time or were you trying to jump back in?
I was starting over every time. Yeah, which is kind of poetic for like the ethos of the game being about like starting over and getting knowledge But I started fresh this time. I played through it. I beaten it I think this game is a 10 out of 10 game and it is one of my favorite games of all time Wow, one of the most magical experiences I've had playing a video game ever and there's so many good things I can say about it.
I think the highest Praise I can give to it is how smart it is as a video game how well designed it is You know, I've already dropped the name of many other games I love but I also look at the witness because the witness as a puzzle game That is a game that I fucking love just for how much it is about you know Kind of like the same thing of go in any direction It kind of just like solve things as you put things together really put your brain to the test How does that accept the puzzles aren't like straight up puzzles like you're on the witness, right? The puzzles are more so understanding the properties of the world and understanding like the scientific hey if you do this then this happens Hey, this is the way that this planet works and you kind of navigate it Like with these particular in these particular ways because this is just the way science works in this world It is fucking smart, but then it's also just it's also an emotional experience How is that told you like how you get to a planet and how do you learn the science behind it somebody telling you or are you just kind of like Experimenting so you figure out how the gravity is effectively you play the role of the of the hearthians and you're just kind of like this Civilization who is really curious about their own universe and you are you've been sending out astronauts to different planets to kind of figure out More about your universe, but you're uncovering all these clues from the Nomai and the Nomai are these super advanced one of those typical things What's like these you know these people exist thousands of years ago but they were like way more advanced than we've ever been and they also were very very curious and you Essentially have a translator that finds clues about what the Nomai were doing and saying and discovering in real time And so you will maybe discover something and see a little writing on the wall And the way that they write is also very fast they write in kind of like these spiral Yeah, and so you use your little scanner to kind of start to decrypt what they wrote and you go Okay, what they're mentioning this planet and they're mentioning maybe this thing That's very very fascinating about this planet and that gets added to your string theory board Which when you go back to your ship you see kind of this clue pops up here And now if I go to another planet and I find another clue then those two things relate to each other and it's like oh, okay We're starting to kind of uncover this so it is a lot of you Yeah, taking in this information that was left by this old civilization But then a lot of the things you just kind of experience right like there's it's it's hard to explain without spoiling actual things But like I'll go to a planet and notice a weird thing I'm like oh, why is it that way and the more I kind of take it with it the more I then understand the rule and then I'll like walk a bit further and then yeah There will be a text that is kind of somebody experiencing the same thing I think the fascinating thing about a lot of the texture reading is that a lot of the notes left by left behind are by Scientists right like they are kind of in a similar place of you as they are exploring the universe. They're putting things together They're talking about their theories and all this stuff But then they're also they're just also having these casual conversations of oh wow I looked at this rock and then this thing happened and like they'll integrate like these small stories into it to kind of help you Understand, okay, this is why this thing's happening to me because it happened to these people the same way So this is just the way that this thing works. I don't it's very vague, but also like it's only way to explain it I can if we get a smaller section is this the type of game that a spoiler conversation is Necessary like because if so, I like any idea about her.
Yeah, we can do that a little bit. Yeah for that. Um Yeah, I don't know I think this is one of those ones where I want to give a few a few minutes ago It's and then maybe we can hop into something oh, yeah, rush by the way I'm super just gonna get to as well. Um, I just want to shout out like how well the world is designed Because you're in a galaxy you have multiple planets that you're traveling to each planet kind of has its own vibe and kind of rules to it You have for example, you have brittle hollow which is a planet that in the middle of it is Is this like spoiler, but not really small is right?
This is one planet. Um in the middle of brittle hollow You have like a black hole that is sucking parts of the planet in and so as you get there You kind of have like one you have a limited time to sort of explore it But then also as these parts of brittle hollow are getting sucked in you can then start exploring the inside of the planet What is fucking cool and like that's sick? That's the gimmick of just one planet which leads to really really fucking cool things every other Planet is kind of equally cool in terms of like the different things that they're doing they all have their own kind of gimmick Yeah, you know, but I think the first time exploring brittle hollow was one of those really overwhelming things where You know if you take a wrong step, you might get you start to fall towards that my goal I'm just like what is happening right now? This is freaky is how the effect of it is really cool the way time You know the time and space and images like warp around it.
It's just it's really really so fucking cool Um, I was surprised getting toward the end of this game about how well it wraps up as well to you again I'm not gonna spoil it here, but like I played most of the game by myself in the last few sessions Again, I didn't stream the game but in those last few sessions I had a friend that was watching me play the game just on discord because she wanted to just like you know Help me out a little bit slash experience experience because it's one of her favorite games as well So we're playing and I get to the end and things culminate in such a powerful way where I'm like I've never seen a video game do it like this. Oh, it's here So I was having full body chill and at a certain point like I'm tearing up She's crying over the discord call like having this emotional moment together I'm like this is unlike anything I've ever experienced like I this is a game where I know many people were probably like me as far as Trying it out playing some and then probably falling off because it is I think a cumbersome game at first I can't imagine finishing this game and not feeling something like if you're if you're able to push yourself through this game to get to the Ending and experience the full thing it is fucking like again a An insane video game that I can't believe exists in the way that it does especially because it's indie and it does things Where it ain't even mention that about how the usually games are designed on like a plane Right usually games are flat and every planet here Not only is like every planet here is obviously on a spherical thing So everything has to count for grabbing different ways different kinds of gravity But then also like you have your scatter they can send out to take pictures of things You have your ship and everything kind of works on an ongoing continuous system So like if your scout is on a planet that planet on a video game is not level needs to remain rendered to some extent if your ship gets Fucking flung out into space and lands on a different planet like the things that are happening here ship have to remain Consistent and so I don't know if they're rendering the entire world at all times or if they're just figuring out ways to render like where you are Where your ship is where your scatter is and like those kind of things But it on a technical level is just fucking insane that this game works one thing I really loved about it And and loved listening to or watching the no-clip documentary on it was talking about you know This game began development in 2012 and Alex Beach I'm sort of like the main guy who created all of it and it was his college thesis like in game development And so it started that early it obviously looked a lot You know I think once Annapurna started getting involved That's where you know budget was able to raise a bit and they're able to you know hire more artists and stuff because the game looks a Lot rougher way back when it was being developed But him talking about this is not a game that you're gonna level up or power up your ship or power up your suit Or get this you're not seeing you're not getting progression and the reason why he wants you to keep playing is because you are interested in something Yeah And if that is enough to keep you around then he did a really good job of keeping you there because you're not you know We've seen some games that even if you're kind of bored with the overall prospect or the overall mechanics or the story or whatever It's like oh, but I'm leveling up that feels nice. There's none of that you are Conting if you continue to play this game is because you want to know what's happening You're really fascinated by something and that's like just what the human fascination can do and can drive you towards Which is that has a lot to do with like you know space exploration nowadays where it's like we are still fascinated by things We want to still learn that's like part of our human nature It's a very bold thing to you because the game does not point you in a direction Like even even it's something like I mentioned breath a while and how you can not go any direction at least in breath a while You have towers and you have like four main objectives And so like the game is kind of pushing you towards things this game is purely trying to push you towards things just with how it designs The world but it doesn't have way points. It doesn't have a go here It you don't even know what you're looking for when you start the game playing through it Is there any sense of progression or is it entirely just you're always doing something?
There's there's a log on your ship that if you go to the more things you discover the more the log feels in That's really the only kind of sense of progression slash that slash I guess your own knowledge of the world and kind of like the more you learn the more you kind of want to know like where the story goes And so you have yourself as a motivator And then you have the log that helps to kind of keep track of if I go to an area and I say I missed a thing If I miss like a piece of text or something my log will be like hey This is what you learn here But then also there is more to learn here in this area But it kind of doesn't tell you that until you get to those areas and then they pop up and you know I think the game does a good job of making sure that you've uncovered what you need to uncover But outside of that it really is just your own motivation and I am again It all comes back to just me being impressed by how fucking smart this game is and how confident and bold it is with being like Hey, just fly You have a whole galaxy just fly around and like you can discover things in any sort of way and Everybody's gonna experience the story in a different order But it all by the end of it is hopefully going to make sense to you and I think yeah I was a bear for bringing up this miracle thing from Big Josh There's a boldness in the way that it does that yeah, will you do super chides insane? I finished my first OW play through a week ago haven't felt that way about a game in forever genuine astonishment as you connect the dots to the ending Yeah, I think it's impossible for anyone to not feel that yeah, but if you see this to the end I think it would really be shocking me for somebody be like yeah, I didn't do much for me I don't see how anybody with human emotion could be like apathetic to the mess the messaging in the themes by the end of it Yeah, Jordan Vicar says if you want more Outer Wilds talk Please check out the Portland Kevin's episode on it on the PlayStation Plus game Club podcast Oh, yeah, and then Zeke's be also giving a shout for something to check out here Please check out Austin Walker's review of the game previously from vice and waypoint perfectly encapsulates being an ecologist Someone who has studied and understood the environment on a profound level. Mm-hmm. Is that resonated all?
Oh, I mean yeah I think so it's one of the things that toward the end of the game. I started feeling was just like It's tough to talk about that's what I guess you talk about sort of um, I don't know There's there's this feeling of it all is gonna end because like the thing is like Sun keeps exploding in this world Right, so like that kind of triggers this like all right. Let's go again Let's go again. Let's go again after when you're getting close to 22 minutes you start to hear the music And you're like oh this runs about to end the Sun's gonna supernova everything's going to die I hope I can discover enough before yeah wake back up on timber hard and there's some times where I'll be in the middle of reading something I'm like fuck I gotta be right there are other times where I that run for me is kind of tapped out of alright I kind of like explored this area and this music starting so it's I don't know I don't have time to go somewhere else and I just sit and I just watch the sun explode And it's this feeling of like almost peace and the more you play it and the more you kind of understand the what's gone on in this world And the civilization I was here before you and also the more you kind of feel I guess like the vastness of it But also kind of get a sense of like there's a finality here It's based off of kind of the situation you're in it turns into like the turns from a scientific like puzzle game to a very emotional one in a way Where I remember growing up using go to church right and like in church they gave a lot of sermon illustrations And there's like a lot of that for not all right, but one of the ones that always stuck with me for some reason is my pastor talking about How you know there's interest there's praise and worship we sing music I'm using songs to God is way to worship God right and like the in the sermon illustration the pastor would talk about why One of the reasons why worship is important.
I guess as fulfillment for us as fulfillment for people and it's almost the idea of like when you Acknowledge something is like way bigger than you right? Yeah, that God is way bigger than you acknowledge that something's way bigger than you it almost takes things off of your shoulders and in a way That is important for you. They they they Compared to the idea of going to the Grand Canyon and when you look at the Grand Canyon you stare at like this gigantic space It makes you feel small. There's something freeing about that feeling of oh like I don't really matter to this universe like you do But also like it is kind of freeing knowing how small you are in this vast universe and how little your problems are Yeah, and like I don't wild kind of gave me that exact feeling in like many of the final hours I mean just many of the hours throughout this game where I am I am a small cog I'm just here to learn I'm just here to like see all this happen and like it started happening toward the latter half of the game Where every death I'm like all right cool like I can't do anything to stop the Sun Sit here and watch it explode and supernova and that feeling kind of got compounded board more to what I got to the Game and like to an emotional point like again I can't I can't express how much this game made me feel toward the end of it Incredible asking for you know, yeah, I just want to feel feel to feel everybody Thank you so much for hanging out with us and supporting review of an old game I love that we get to do that here kind of funny We only have to do that thanks to your support You can get the kind of funny membership on YouTube Patreon Apple podcast or Spotify to get the shows ad-free but for everyone else Here's a word from our sponsors this episode's brought to you by built y'all already know I'm a big points and rewards guy But here's a PSA for anyone who rents if you haven't heard of built you're about to thank me earning points on rent Is now a reality where you pay your rent through built You don't even have to check it with your landlord to start earning points that you can use towards flights hotels days fitness classes and even your next rent payment Let me break it down for you There's no cost to join built and as a member you'll earn valuable points on rent and on your everyday spending Built points can be transferred to your favorite hotels and airlines and even the ones you haven't heard of there are over 500 airlines and 700,000 hotels and properties around the world you can redeem your Built points toward points can also be redeemed towards a future rent payment and unique experiences that only built members can access So if you're not earning points on rent my question is why not start earning points on rent You're already paying by going to join built calm slash kind of funny.
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That's the a and we're back with a couple super chats here Stefano says this is my favorite game of all time So happy to hear some coverage Zeke speak once again says your point less on progression equals knowledge you'll get to areas and be like cool But how do I explore this dangerous place and then you go elsewhere learn and come back later with the tools? Yep, the amount of times that has happened where I'm like, okay I guess I can't go here and I go somewhere else and I learned something I'm like what the fuck that's cool That's how that oh shit. I passed by this thing. I gotta go back like it is almost that Metroidvania feel but if it's like if Metroidvania again, it's like if instead of getting a double jump you're understanding that you know Gravity pushes you down like you're learning like a new concept like that the tools are your knowledge, Tim Yeah, yeah, you know, we were kind of debating how spoil we want to get I think it's kind of really tough to talk about the game without Any of the without getting into kind of the spoilery mechanics of it all but just some of the ones that really stuck out to me and Yeah, okay, so recast Roger writes in saying love you guys Please play at least the first hour the DLC on stream would love to see all's reactions to the new planet I did not play the DLC.
I heard a little scary. So I was gonna I'm down. I'm so down that can be cool But yeah, now we are officially gonna transfer into a spoiler section It won't be for the rest of the show just I want to let them talk about whatever they want to hit on spoiler-wise For this game because I was been out a couple years people in the chat seem to want that as well So spoilers bro and continue I wanted to talk about just one of the one of the planets that having to do with the hourglass twins And how anytime you would land on one of the planets either there was a clue that really drove you there And you wanted to find out what the heck was happening there But your spacesuit would get broken by like these cactus spikes or whatever and it was kind of impossible to navigate through there without You know having your your suit get punctured and then that would end a run pretty quickly But to find out and to kind of understand and realize that the sand that is being pulled from one of the planets to the other the other planet the floor is getting higher and Near the end of that run as the sand is compacting more and more You it helps you kind of find an easier route to avoid the cactus and it's just it's little things like that that when you first land There it's like this is impossible But then you once you kind of get the tools of and the knowledge to discover oh shit the plant the sand is You know, it's like in any game whenever you you know when you Drain like a dam in a game and it like oh I can walk down there now But it's kind of the opposite where this is the sand is now building up on this planet now My floor is no longer what my floor was at the start of the run because it's higher now I can now avoid the things I need to and another thing to talk about is the idea like the quantum moon I do I mean like the first thing I wrote down and getting for the solar section was quantum stuff because that was the thing that I think That was maybe the turning point for me of oh shit. I fuck with this where There so in the same location on the hourglass winds so there's two planets that basically revolve around each other It's the ever twin and then it's the ashland that's when it's all the sand and all the sand is being pulled on to Ember twin and so like you have a cave system.
That's on every Ember twin that's slowly being filled up with sand so like in the 22 minute interval They have to like explore and stuff like by the end of that 22 minutes like the fucking cave system is all filled You can't really explore anymore But within that cave system one of the first things I found was like a tablet with a note on it That was written by the I can't want to say zone 9 but I was written by the no my and you know I go up to it and I read a note that's basically a somebody who is writing a note to somebody else being like Dude, have you seen the rocks that disappear and like reappear? It's really weird, right? And I'm like I read that I'm like oh that's weird and I turn around there's a rock right there I'm like oh fuck that's weird and I turn back around read the note again I'm like I'm saying I turn around the rocks gone. I'm like what the fuck is happening I keep doing it where every time I came right away into my camera back the rock the rock appears reappears reappears reappears This is really eerie thing But it was the start of a gigantic mystery that I did not think would go as far as it goes where like the more I Explore probably maybe 10 hours later on me looking at me not worrying about it me focusing on different mysteries and stuff I end up learning about how well what they call the quantum moon which is this moon that The know my people like they're fascinated about they're interested in and they're talking about how the moon appears a different Planets whatever I'm like the moon and then like for some reason I never noticed it I never noticed that there is a moon that just appears randomly and then reappears and I start looking for it I'm like I look up in the side like oh yeah I guess that's a weird look at moon I look away and I'm like all the moon's gone the moon's big rock the moon's gone So then I'm like my goal that then shifted my entire goal to being I'm going to Legally obsessively is legitimately it's so sick and I start chasing after the moon I during one of my loops I see it at a plane I'm like okay I can't look away because I look away the moon's gonna disappear so I'm gonna stare at the moon and I'm gonna fly to it as I'm Flying to the moon I fly to it and then my ship goes through it and I'm like oh that's where I turn around I'm like so it's not a solid moon all right I guess that's the mystery and I keep playing I come back to those cave systems that were on every twin I had the rock I'm exploring it that's going Johnson, but it had the big rock right I go back to exploring those caves and As I'm exploring I or no it's not on there.
It's not a different planet that has like a tower of knowledge or some shit Yeah, so I go into the tower of knowledge and the tower of knowledge is basically a tower that the gnomai made to teach people about the quantum mechanics And you get there and how when something is being perceived it exists So like when it isn't being perceived it is gone So that's one of the things you learn is yeah Well when you can perceive something it exists when you can't it's gone and they talk about how that even works do pictures and stuff And one of the things that you have in your tool set is a scout that can take pictures And so as you're going through the tower of the tower of knowledge. It's kind of like a trial of hey Let's teach you how this thing works It's I am taking pictures of the rock not doing Johnson and I look away and I look back in the rock still there the same way I'm like all right cool. This is working the way I want it to um I Figure all that out and then I don't even think about the quantum moon until the next time I see the quantum I'm like well, I just want to talk about like how this little scout thing that you're taking photos of like you can at any point You can just shoot this thing out of space from your little ship to shoots out And if you take a photo it takes up it shows you in your UI like in you know up on your screen the photo that it took Right and it'll keep flying and you can take another one Then I'll show you at that time in space where that photo was taking place There's a lot of moments where when you want to see what the scout is seeing in real time you span that picture You spent you do and it kind of shows you in bursts where it's flying through right? So in one of these sort of in one of these trials the way to you discover Oh the way to make something always the way to make something being perceived Which is not a grammatically correct sentence But I can if I take a photo of the rocks that are disappearing these quantum rocks or whatever if I take a photo of it And I have that photo up on my screen then it's always gonna be there because it's being perceived and so because of and You start to learn these things to in order to progress this sort of This tower of knowledge right yeah, and then you go shit if I take a picture of the moon of the moon then like maybe that's how I get it To like maybe that's why land and this was a whim where I was like this isn't gonna work But I'll try it so I'm flying towards the moon and do something about I'm flying towards the moon I send my scout out and I like take a picture of the moon as the scouts like flying or whatever And I then go to the moon and then fly to the moon and like I fucking land on the moon I'm like this is a cool thing all time right I don't say anything about that but like that was just like one of many many cool moments I'll say the other one of with the quantum stuff of going back to the cave system that's on Ember Ember Twin I Realize in my log the lock up saying all the supporters over here this one is over here And I'm like I feel like I really explore these caves those one note that I missed I was talking about Or not I know there was like a specific cave system that I started going down and as I'm going I'm reading notes about how the know my have this friend that like disappeared and I'm like oh that's wild like what the fuck happened to the friend and I go all the way down the path and I enter this room that has There's like a light switch and there's a quantum rock and I'm like okay Well, this is the end of the path they're talking about the missing friend like what the fuck happened And then I'm like I'm there for about three minutes before I'm like oh What happens if I like turn off if I stand on the rock and turn off the lights like what so I do that because you have a flashlight So I'm using my flash like the entire time But I turn off the light I open my flashlight I get on the quantum rock and I cut off my flashlight I'm in a different location and I'm like this is fucking cool dude So now I know I can use these rocks to fucking jump around and travel to different places Yeah, the quantum stuff was this was the thing early on that made me go.
Oh, this is fucking incredible It got 98 says this exact stretch the game was where it went from what are they cooking to oh they're cooking exactly Yeah, they had those discoveries happening and you feeling like a genius you feeling like you are uncovering some of the craziest shit the universe has to offer and And that's like definitely one of the larger aspects of it all the sort of quantum things that you are experimenting with but I mean there's a lot of other awesome planets that have their own yeah little like cool things about it. There's the Gosh, I'm blanking on the name of the planet bless the what's the plan like just an angler fish blue dark ramble Yeah, dark ramble. Yeah, dark ramble being one of the ones that you kind of fly into with your ship And it's all foggy, but you start to like kind of follow little lights in the you know You might see a little light you might fly towards it and and Suddenly, it's not just a light or a waypoint. It is the light of a monstrous fish yeah, it's very most terrifying thing like you can experience and It's scary as shit right and then anytime you try to fly away from them You get eaten by this gigantic thing the run ends right and then in another cave you discover these know my kids who were at one Time playing a game called like run hide from the angler fish and they said no those rules are too easy in the game You have to wear a blindfold because angler fish can't see you're like oh, yeah I have to just float to this place without igniting my engines with rusters because that's how they are I want to shout out I want to bring up brittle hollow again, which is like the plan with the black hole in the middle of it that like sucks in Different parts of the planet as the time goes because because of the planet being hollow The no my who I guess they tend to do this They kind of make societies underground is what I gather because they did that with ember twin as well But on the in on the inside sphere of brittle hollow they have like multiple Civilizations that are not dead civilizations But like you know as we're exploring the planet you find your way into the inside and one of the coolest things was going from where You can kind of enter on the surface kind of seeing kind of tracking the no my like They were here and then they went in and as you go in you see a lot of these gravity crystals that change the flow of gravity So like if you have like say there's a bunch of gravity crystals on the wall I can then start walking on the wall right now like you know keep me there without falling There's the coolest fucking path of going into the planet seeing a bunch of gravity crystals on the inside of brittle hollow Which is like you know already the other crystals, but then like the inside of itself is kind of crystallized already It's just a very cool visual that I wish I could record a bear It's unfair but that then leaves you just walking upside down on the inside of this planet that then leads into this No my city so fucking cool.
So the way this game just sort of I think one of the cooler things about reading about what the no My we're discovering was like they're very interested in interstellar travel and like teleportation and like going through portals and wormholes and stuff And at one point the no my discover that walking through this one thing makes them appear at another spot But one thousand of a second before they entered it and they're like what that can't be a mathematical anomaly that every time they test it They are appearing before they walked in so they're like shit. We're going back in time. How do we? Really kind of experiment with this?
How do we overpower it and they're like well we could use the power of the Sun and in doing so we can go back in time further But doing so causes the Sun to supernova and that's the things you're discovering as like oh, that's what's making it all go to shit And for the last I don't know how many hundreds of years Everybody has been experiencing this time loop or you know I don't know how many hundreds of years, but we've been stuck in this day for a long time Wow, it's it's just so freaking fascinating and cool to kind of discover these things on different planets and And one of the documents I'm playing on the writers name But she was talking about how she was one of the things like a lead dev sister Yeah, she didn't want the you know who's writing the dialogue for the no my think at first you the no my feel like the Celestials in Marvel where it's like all these all powerful all knowing but the more that you read and find out about them It's like oh, they're just they're just curious curious space fairing race, you know They just want to discover stuff want to you know, they're flirting with each other here They're kind of talking about you that they she personifies them in a way that makes it feel a lot less Kind of like these were some elder gods or whatever now They're just another race of human being or another race of creatures that were really curious and you also discover that they see the your inception as Well, you're the race that you are the hearthians or whatever they at one point These little tadpoles and like oh that's kind of cool Let's keep an eye and so they've been watching you for hundreds of years. It's just so damn cool man Yeah, I think people are you're wrong you in the chat But also it was one of those things where I don't know if you're keeping a vague on purpose of like what the actual nature of it is Because it is a reveal of what is actually happy. Yeah, yeah, yeah One of the things I want to shout out and this goes to the writing is like How well done the transition? I don't know how you call it transition But I guess the balance of where it goes from these are no my scientists that I'm following to oh user characters Like these are people who are having conversation that are learning like a lot so much of the game is about the knowledge that you gain And like the knowledge of the zone that the notebook kind of one of these don't know my are gaining as they go And so they speak very logically and they speak very much like smart scientists people and there are moments where You realize that they are kind of realizing that she thinks are going to ship and it goes from that like oh Yeah, this is govry school.
Oh if we do this and this too, there was one quote that my friend I was watching me play like it was so cool of seeing the Like seeing one of the quotes that was essentially like hey, I can't do this without you typing right of like You kind of get a sense of the connection that they were making with each other of you know If I have to do if I have to like figure out how to live On this planet without you like I can't like you are like my word like types of um And yeah, like I don't know it's it's done so well and like, you know, I think there are many games So we've gotten we've gotten like what we've gotten gone home You've seen the environmental storytelling of in games like fallout or barge, where you see right on the wall and it's it's Set dressing but it's cool to see that there will be building you'll keep the world building here The way in which out of wiles, you know does the hey, there's writing on the wall Hey, it's audio logs, but that transitions into such a powerful story where you know I'll end up seeing like the left behind bodies of no mind I'm like fuck dude. Like that's crazy that y'all went out like this. Um, it's just done so well and so Hell yeah, what a game. That's that's great.
Okay. So getting out spoilers at this point Wrapping this up because I feel like we should save your 2019 talk for that sounds like a different game You know what I mean? It's tough. It's like I was thinking about this after I tweeted I was like man Another banger of 2019 and I started putting together a flake What would my list be and I started thinking about the games that came out that year and I'm like fuck dude I don't know what I like more between this and Sekiro both are in my top 25 I gotta both are top both are just masterpieces 10 out of you games that you put in death stranding in there Shit that guy was 2019 that gum katana zero.
Not a good. Oh my god. Oh, dude. This go lazy Fuck and I know this is a weird one, but bless I did you're spending a lot of time.
It's like it's borderlands three I mean, yeah, it was more so spending us spending time together Yeah, fuck this also star warshed. I fall in order resident evil to res evil to Everybody What your favorites game for 2019 was and what you think about outer wilds and if you haven't played it yet has blessed and has blessed and had Convince you to give it a shot. I think it's super cool seeing how many people in the superchats and the channel like this is my favorite game of All time like it's almost in one is for you to him because I'm like tim you need to play this game But I'm also don't think you're ever gonna play this game. Yeah, I love hearing you talk about it though Like you ever got to the end of this game tim fuck.
Yeah. Oh fuck me. It's like a religious experience It really is like it's one of those it's probably my favorite indie game I've played since inscription And I think I probably think I like it more than inscription Which is saying something like I can't remember the last time I played something like this I don't know how I would have reacted to this video game experience If I were like a year into the pandemic I would have just like had a full-blown melon like it was it was one thing to experience in 2019 and to still Have just full on tears in my eyes the music swelling And it's just like this all encapsulating like holy shit. This is so overwhelming.
I'm feeling every emotion you can pause We feel but if I had experience I'm like 2021 just trapped in my room Everybody Hey, we're gonna keep the live shows going right now. We're about to get into our very space theme continuing the space adventures with alien Resurrection so strapping for me and eating and Greg's thoughts on that 1997 classic Uh, then after that the boys will return to Johto for the continuation of the niklock until next time though. Love you all. Goodbye