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Reiterating something about the upcoming Outer Wilds video
🕑 Added 2021-08-06 04:22:43 +0000 UTCBefore the post starts, I'd like to kindly ask everyone to avoid talking much about the game itself in the comments so that you don't run the risk of spoiling things for people who haven't played it yet. Cheers.
Howdy everyone, I tweeted a while back about how I'm foregoing the option to "go in blind" to this review, but I don't think I really explained well or clearly enough the degree to which I'd like to insist on it. Regardless of how much you like my videos, I think that going into Outer Wilds knowing as little as humanly possible is not only the best way to play the game, it is effectively the only way. I won't be showing a lot of explicitly spoilery things in it because if someone ignores the warning I give at the beginning of the video and a few times throughout I want them to be able to potentially stop and play it with their experience only being partially diminished by the idiot talking owl.
Part of that warning in the intro of the video is that Outer Wilds is the best video game I have ever played, it had an immense personal impact on me. I do not want to rob anyone of that just so that they can watch a YouTube video the day it comes out or whatever. If you plan to watch the video when it's premiering/on the first few days it comes out, which, to be blunt, I obviously would also like you to, then you need to have played the game for your own benefit.
Beyond that, the script is coming along well, it's extremely pretentious and self indulgent but if you're here I'm assuming you're into that shit. I'm sort of writing it as a proper "finale" for these longer videos that take ages to create, as well as starting work on the next video which will be shorter and simpler, but hopefully still maintaining the quality of what I've made in the past few years. I'm extremely unhappy with my output and I'm trying to fix that at the source, so treating this as a finale is sorta helping me process and deal with that in a way that's satisfying to the part of my brain that longs for some kind of narrative through line to things, which is something that's caused me to struggle with fixing this issue in the past. Like, I'm happy with how the Surge 2 video turned out, but it'd always bug me if the last annoying long self indulgent video was about the fuckin' Surge, y'know? Ending it on a game that has affected me more than any other I've ever played feels like it makes much more sense.
Yes, I will probably do another shorter video when the expansion comes out, no I won't be waiting for it to finish this one, it's acting more like a hard deadline because I want to talk about the game as-is with no caveats.
Thanks so much, both for reading and for the support, it really means more than I can express. Thank you.
Comments
Rhys Aitchison
As sad as I'll be to see the long form videos go, I can't wait to see what you can do with a shorter format. Instead of a well written letter once a year I'm happy to get some scrawled on napkins every couple months. Keep it up.
Marche Taylor
I just now saw the new DLC. I’m guessing that this release requires some unfortunate reworking of your video. Have you tried it yet, and would you recommend it?
