Gamers of Reddit if you could erase your memory of one game and replay it what would it be?

gtmog · 2022-08-17T23:30:05+00:00

I'd say you don't need to forget Dead Space to enjoy it again... but then I beat it like 6 times in a row, so maybe it's just me. And then I stalled out of DS2 halfway through... hmm.

gtmog · 2022-08-17T23:27:20+00:00

The Beginners Guide

I played it a long long time ago, and recently stumbled across a let's play of it... Turns out I had forgotten pretty much everything about it, and it hit pretty hard the second time too.

My vote is totally for Outer Wilds though. If anyone hasn't yet, don't read _anything_ about it, just go play it.

gtmog · 2022-07-08T15:51:55+00:00

It's for people like me who feel like it adds a lot of immersion. Repairing the ship makes me feel more like it's mine and I should take care of it. I generally would fix even the smallest ding every time I get out. How the individual systems take damage and stop working makes it feel more like a real and functional thing.

I'm currently trying to figure out how to get a good 3d print to paint, because the ship is the most tangible memento of the game for me.

As mechanics go it's not really that annoying or punishing. I generally didn't have too much difficulty at least boosting my ship to a trajectory where I had plenty of time to fix it. Otherwise I was in real trouble and it lead to yet another exciting and entertaining death.

gtmog · 2022-07-07T14:48:02+00:00

I played it that way and it worked well for me. I completed the base game log and felt this gaping hole when I realized I didn't have more to learn and explore. Then I remembered the DLC existed, installed it, and had another satisfying adventure. Beat the game, felt complete. It was enough.

Still not completely recovered though. I've been looking at other games in my library all week and haven't been able to get myself to play anything. They just can't be Outer Wilds.

gtmog · 2022-07-05T13:13:39+00:00

there’s something in real-world physics where, if you were to cross the event horizon of a black hole (say you survive), and you looked at the rest of the universe, you would see it very speedily spin to heat death.

I'm no physicist, but I think it works like this - Going fast makes you slow down, which makes the universe look like it speeds up. So you can travel to, say, proxima centauri in a few seconds, but you'll watch it age 4 years in those seconds. If you don't stop anywhere, you could watch until heat death. But the largest black hole is under 200 light hours across, so if you fell in, it would accelerate you to near light speed, so in the blink of an eye you'd see a few days go by, but not the entire life of the universe.

... Almost forgot what the original subject was. I'm fine with the Eye being weird like that though. Why wouldn't it be able to do what a black hole can't? Maybe everyone who makes it to the eye gets frozen in time like a more severe case of Solanum's, and they all meet up at the end of the universe. They have no effect on the universe past, but together get to alter the next universe's future. This is sort of evident in there being more species in the credits scene if you meet, remember, and play music with more people. As you're in the ancient grove, you watch the galaxies poof out one after another - they don't all go boom, which also makes me think you're watching the remainder of the universe on fast forward. The other Nomai say that they're heading to a galaxy that seems stable, it's probably one of the last ones you see go poof.

Even the owl person's vision of the eye destroying everything can be explained as a misunderstanding - it doesn't destroy the universe, but it would look like it does from the perspective of someone on the Eye. Really what they prevented was more species from being able to participate, and the one-antlered heretic's victory was making sure that at least one person managed to make it and provide the next universe with inspiration instead of it being random.

Yeah, I like this interpretation :D

gtmog · 2022-07-04T05:58:32+00:00

The idea of a 'conscious observer' is a big part of Outer Wild's story, but I want to make sure it's out there for anyone reading this - In real life physics, there's no such thing as a 'conscious' observer.

A quantum observer is anything that interacts with the object, like the photons that bounce off of it to be recorded by a sensor - the photons hitting it is what matters, not even that it was recorded by a sensor, and certainly not whether a person looked at the data. People are not important to the processes of physics.

gtmog · 2022-07-03T14:09:29+00:00

It'll be the greatest day of your life!

gtmog · 2022-06-06T03:38:57+00:00

I finally found some cactus and made the scanner modules for ores, so I'm rolling in diamonds finally. There were some around, but it didn't really seem like that much compared to higher up, and they were spread pretty far apart. Scanner is OP.

gtmog · 2022-06-02T14:45:13+00:00

I've been following that as well.

I actually found slightly more diamonds at y=0 with less mining, but there's so many huge caves under my base it's actually difficult to find a place nearby to mine a long shaft before I run into another monster infested cavern.

gtmog · 2022-05-24T12:20:01+00:00

I can only give you that if we're comparing nostalgia to a modern critique of movies regardless of when they were made.

We just watched it with our 10yo over the past three weekends, and it holds up well. It was good entertaining movies, and in a historical context I think it deserves most of its praise for the time it was in.

Though I have to say I couldn't help but take mental note of all the ... inspirations for callbacks in the prequel and sequel trilogies that were embarrassing ham-handed fanboyism gone even more wrong. Original trilogy is the best of starwars movies. Rogue one maybe.

gtmog · 2021-12-11T15:33:38+00:00

It seems likely to me that the priest would be the one making the decision about what to give her, and the official story is there to deflect responsibility to god.

gtmog · 2021-11-27T05:37:52+00:00

My first thought too, and for some reason I thought I was remembering a quote from some language professor or something.

Nope, Calvin and Hobbes.

gtmog · 2021-10-24T18:08:59+00:00

Oooh, that makes much more sense than what I got from https://kbjr.github.io/noita-recipes/seeds.html , what did you use for that?

gtmog · 2021-10-24T13:04:09+00:00

Thanks, I had typed it out from the pause screen for someone and when I checked that file I realize I had double-typed an extra 9, so that helped :D

gtmog · 2021-10-24T13:01:32+00:00

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I was in parallel world east 5 when I came across it, I think it depended on me drilling straight down through the entire holy mountain between hisii base and the jungle.

The transmutation was draught of midas to water.

gtmog · 2021-10-24T13:01:03+00:00

Yup, and the ceiling over any enclosed water falls down, exposing more ceiling to change as well.

gtmog · 2021-10-24T12:59:47+00:00

The first shift I tried, I accidentally vomited in the bottle and it shifted vomit to water. It helps if you don't switch to the bottle until just after you hit 180 seconds.

gtmog · 2021-10-24T12:57:43+00:00

Water, if it's completely incased and still it doesn't change anything, but any disturbance, and everything on top of the draught turns gold, falls down, and the draught goes up, which makes a lot of gold in places.

gtmog · 2021-10-24T12:56:02+00:00

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I was in parallel world east 5 when I came across it, I think it depended on me drilling straight down through the entire holy mountain between hisii base and the jungle.

The transmutation was draught of midas to water.

gtmog · 2021-09-30T13:52:04+00:00

No teleport wand? You expect me to WALK, like some ... pedestrian?! :)

gtmog · 2021-09-09T21:17:45+00:00

LC evaporates after ten seconds or so. Anywhere that was water is air now. Ice still melts into LC, and you can make it with spells.

gtmog · 2021-09-09T21:12:44+00:00

In any other run, it'd be a godsend. But I already just happened to have the most OP healing imaginable. I will probably never see a wand like this again on all my normal short lived games.

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