Is there a good lets play / never-played before playthrough out to watch?

[[M] Lopoetve]

Picked this up hoping for an experience; loved Edith Finch, Subnautica, tons of other games that don't give you a ton of hints and want you to explore, and have a somewhat relaxing flow in between serious games... but I forgot how much I absolutely despise time limits (it's been a very long time since I ran into one). Heck, the last one might have been Majora's Mask, which I also never liked/finished/put much effort in to. It totally ruins the chance to relax for me, and given how little time I have to game, I'm not sinking 20+ hours into something that is going to constantly annoy me.

That being said - I'd love to see this ~played~, see the story, see the puzzles, hear the music (awesome soundtrack so far!) but NOT have the sheer irritation of trying to play them with that accursed time limit running - someone else can deal with that. So I'm hoping someone has a good recommendation for a solid video playthrough I could sit back, relax, and enjoy watching in my spare minutes, rather than simply shelving this forever.

[Sammun Mak]

I believe there's mods that allow you to change the time limit to be much more generous, FYI.

[llefty]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Sammun Mak:

I believe there's mods that allow you to change the time limit to be much more generous, FYI.

Yep! Also, though you'd expect the time loop to make things really tedious and inflate the playtime for the game, it really doesn't. The entire game seems to take most people around 10 hours to beat.

[[M] Lopoetve]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Sammun Mak:

I believe there's mods that allow you to change the time limit to be much more generous, FYI.

Hmm. I know there was one to eliminate it, but that it's game breaking. Doubling or tripling it would make things more sane for me. I REALLY like to take my time in games like this (hell, I scavenged most of Subnautica because floating around in my Cyclops was chill as hell, on my ~third~ playthrough)... but having to rush just... makes it not fun to me. I'll check for that.

[Quillithe]

I saw someone recommend this one once, though I can't attest to it much

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6C40SY9TEU

[ReverendTed]

There are quite a few good ones. Outer Wilds blind playthroughs have become my drug of choice. I just finished Mr Lunario's blind playthrough of Outer Wilds plus the DLC Echoes of the Eye, which I felt was pretty good, though he did accidentally skip a fair section of EotE.
Other good ones:
Playframe, Wanderbots, Materwelons

[fangorn231]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από llefty:

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Sammun Mak:

I believe there's mods that allow you to change the time limit to be much more generous, FYI.

Yep! Also, though you'd expect the time loop to make things really tedious and inflate the playtime for the game, it really doesn't. The entire game seems to take most people around 10 hours to beat.

can confirm, coming up on my endgame playthru here and ~25 hours was my time. But I was being very cautious and thoroughly exploring everything in a completionist kinda way.

[lieutenantkirtar]

I would strongly recommend giving the game a chance without watching a let's play. It is something that can only be experienced once and everyone's journey will be different.

If you really don't want to play it I watched this guy do a blind play through on stream it and it was pretty entertaining. It is 4 parts about 20 hours total.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pf26m0pSijI

[aarcade]

i know i'm late, but as someone who also likes to take their time, regularly stretching out a game to double its average time on howlongtobeat.com, the time limit here didn't bother me. this is just a game about flying around and learning things, so all a death can take away from you is your position. just fly back to where you were. all the meaningful progression is in the player's brain!

[PegasusJF]

I should check these out. It would be refreshing to see a a unique game such as this in the eyes of another. Their first reaction when the sun goes boom is always a treat. JackSepticEye took a few episodes to get to that and it was interesting. Pity he didn't continue the game (AFAIK).

[aarcade]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από PegasusJF:

I should check these out. It would be refreshing to see a a unique game such as this in the eyes of another. Their first reaction when the sun goes boom is always a treat. JackSepticEye took a few episodes to get to that and it was interesting. Pity he didn't continue the game (AFAIK).

actually, if memory serves me right, Jack said that he liked the game so much that he played it off camera.

[Ishy]

Just toggle all the time freeze options on (freeze when reading text, talking to NPCs, and viewing the ship log), and you can easily extend the "time limit" to double or triple the length, because those are things you'll be doing quite a bit (especially the reading part).

The "time limit" is in quotes because there's arguably no time limit in the game. There's a sequence which takes you back to a certain location and time, while showing the stuff you did during the loop, roughly every 22 minutes. People get hung up on thinking that getting this sequence is some kind of a fail-state, when it's not (and if you're experimental, you'll be getting yourself killed many times before your "time limit" is up). If you were in the middle of something, just start the next loop by going there and finish up. There are *very* few locations that require multiple visits to get everything done.

Also, there's some time during the reset sequence to think about what you did, whether you missed something, and what to do next. Oftentimes I found the reset helpful, since I knew where I was headed next, but I was on an entirely different planet and my ship had been flung away or gotten destroyed, so getting where I wanted would've been slower if I didn't reset. There's exactly one instance towards the end where you should feel like you're on a time limit, and it's a very powerful moment because of that.

[Splattergutz]

To the OP. I'm a Subnautica fan and have done heaps of playthroughs of that game.

I think this game is a refunder and no comparison to SN.

Like I'm wondering, when does the fun and intrigue begin.

[ReverendTed]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από CHMA | Splattergutz:

To the OP. I'm a Subnautica fan and have done heaps of playthroughs of that game.

I think this game is a refunder and no comparison to SN.

Like I'm wondering, when does the fun and intrigue begin.

Personally, I found Subnautica to be interesting, but it just became a grind and I didn't enjoy that aspect and lost interest, while Outer Wilds is right up there in my short list of "Best Games of All Time". In Subnautica, I was spending too much time doing the exact same thing over and over to refill my survival meters, which took time away from the exploration and discovery aspects I enjoyed.

[Shard of Manus]

I'm kinda inclined to agree with the time limit, it is a real pain in the ass sometimes. I just got into the Probe module at Giant's Deep core and got supernovad before I could explore, and now have to do the whole thing again despite that it gave me the right willies.

[aarcade]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από CHMA | Splattergutz:

To the OP. I'm a Subnautica fan and have done heaps of playthroughs of that game.

I think this game is a refunder and no comparison to SN.

Like I'm wondering, when does the fun and intrigue begin.

if you're wondering where the fun and intrigue begins, maybe outer wilds just isn't for you. it's 95% a narrative experience (in terms of what parts of the game you're coming to it for)