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What was a profound moment that a video game caused you to experience, and why? (reddthat.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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The moment that inspired this question:

A long time ago I was playing an MMO called Voyage of the Century Online. A major part of the game was sailing around on a galleon ship and having naval battles in the 1600s.

The game basically allowed you to sail around all of the oceans of the 1600s world and explore. The game was populated with a lot of NPC ships that you could raid and pick up its cargo for loot.

One time, I was sailing around the western coast of Africa and I came across some slavers. This was shocking to me at the time, and I was like “oh, I’m gonna fuck these racist slavers up!”

I proceed to engage the slave ship in battle and win. As I approach the wreckage, I’m bummed out because there wasn’t any loot. Like every ship up until this point had at least some spare cannon balls or treasure, but this one had nothing.

… then it hit me. A slave ship’s cargo would be… people. I sunk this ship and the reason there wasn’t any loot was because I killed the cargo. I felt so bad.

I just sat there for a little while and felt guilty, but I always appreciated that the developers included that detail so I could be humbled in my own self-righteousness. Not all issues can be solved with force.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I literally tried that game a month ago, and after a couple hours of flying blind in space, with a not great flight control system, having no idea where to go, it completely lost me.

Maybe I missed the point, or maybe it's an issue with me not having enough free time, but if didn't grab me at all.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I could never get into it either. People are so so obsessed with this game. They tell you to never look anything up, etc. I’ve tried it on mouse and keyboard, I’ve tried it on controller and the gameplay does not feel right, so I’ve never left the ground tutorial area.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You basically haven't played any of the game then lol. It's a long slow burn but it's absolutely beautiful. Make your way through that tutorial section and get your ship, from there it really opens up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's interesting you bring up the controls, because that is one of the things that instantly grabbed me about the game. Before I even knew what was going on, I knew I absolutely loved moving around in the world. I used to spin up the game just to zip about for a half hour.

But of course everyone is different. Not every game is for everyone. I really grew to love Outer Wilds more and more over the days.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A few hours? Something about your post tells me that you didn't play past 22 minutes.

Call it a hunch.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

sorry I offended your game, oh fragile one. I even blamed myself for missing something or not having enough time. I ran around the starting area talking to everyone for about an hour, just wandering, and then finally went up into space, struggling with the controls. Landed somewhere with just a guy and a radio, ran all around there, again maybe a total of an hour after my first launch. Crashed a few times at first, of course.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He says that because the main mechanic of the game is that the entire game resets every 22 minutes.

So you couldn’t have ran around for hours without noticing that, which is kind of the first clue as to what kind of game it is.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Notably, 22 minutes from when you see the nomai statue. So the commenter could have spend over an hour in the tutorial area, and then quit before experiencing much of the actual game