I’m a huge fan of Inside. Genuinely one of my favourite gaming experiences ever. So good.
Limbo is really good too if you haven’t played it, but I personally prefer Inside.
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berty@feddit.org 1 month ago
Got into Inside this week. What a fun little game, the atmosphere is top notch. I play this at night on my laptop with a controller and headphones on, great stuff.
BurntWits@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 1 month ago
It’ll probably be my next intermission artsy short game between longer titles. Did you play Limbo? If so how do they compare? I thought Limbo was only okay but I’ve heard people say Inside is a stronger game.
BurntWits@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
What was it about Limbo that didn’t do it for you? I’ve played both many times so I may be able to help more than the person you replied to originally.
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 1 month ago
I think we’ve already been over it before, some time last year when I played Limbo. I’m not a huge fan of puzzle platformers in general so it starts as an uphill battle. There were one or two puzzles I liked (like the anti-gravity stuff was cool), but most I didn’t for various reasons. Most were either frustrating or forgettable. The liquid stuff was a bit overused. Towards the end it got a little too precision platformy and timed for my liking, some with really tight and unforgiving timing. Although I recognise that some people might enjoy that. Story wasn’t really anything either. It’s a cool mood and some decent looking scenes at times but apart from the graphics and art it almost felt like a browser game.
BurntWits@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Maybe, that sounds familiar.
By the sounds of it, you probably wouldn’t love Inside. You might like it a bit more than Limbo, but it’s got the same things you didn’t like about Limbo, which happen to be the reasons I love both games. The gameplay is basically just a different flavour but it’s quite similar, and it’s also very sparse on story, focusing more on atmosphere and vibes basically, which I actually really like, but it sounds like you don’t.the main focus is definitely on the environment, with everything else sort of on the back burner.
graynk@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
One of my cherished memories is when a friend of mine came over, smoked a blunt, watched the first 15 minutes of me playing Inside and then promptly fell asleep, after which I proceeded to spend the next 3-4 hours beating the game to completion in one sitting with his snoring in the background.