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 2 months 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 2 months ago
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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.
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.