Games You Should Only Play Once 

it’s quality work, now pls get some sleep

incredible video, I concur, get some sleep please

You should try Abzü. I played it once, with my daughter, it was maybe 4 hours, we were both mesmerized and sad it was over. Ever since then i have tried finding a new game for us to play, and yet, she insists on playing Star Stable or the SIms. It might take another 30 years for her to come around to dear old dad and enjoy a good game without demanding some infinite gameplay loop.

Absolute amazing video. Your voice is truly mesmerizing. I wish you had ten times the views because you have totally changed my view and perspective on many of my favorite games. Keep it up my dude because you do amazing work.

And just as Manifold Gardens held a mirror to you, the epitaph you have given us reflects something of our own nature… We watch, we listen as you and countless others dissect tropes and ideas and experiences; we live vicariously through these monuments of the past, through symbols of what once was. Why? For some, it makes sense to recapture the feeling of the first time. But what about those who never experienced it? I ask this due to my experience with Undertale. Originally, I was unsure about playing it; I watched and listened as others talked about it, as they dissected it; I feasted on the animations and songs. But only recently did I decide to play it. I’ll admit, there’s probably a lot I lost by knowing what would happen; by knowing the story (even if I didn’t know all the details) and by not being surprised by the bigger plot twists. Why did I choose to live vicariously, before living directly?

I tried playing, but seemed too boring and hard for me. I know that we have to get this "cool experience" from exploring abandoned alien civilization, but honestly, I don't see how it can be that interesting.

@@gbolter2800 the cool part is gradually learning how to finish the game, and the weight of the choice to finish it upon learning how

​@@gbolter2800It's a very difficult game to get into, but if you find a spark of interest, the game ignites until you're rolling the credits and shedding a few tears. If you ever decide to give it another try, don't think of it as a challenge to overcome, think of it as lessons to learn and a world to explore. The "character" you play as would be curious and would desire to read and absorb all the text left behind by the previous civilization. If you can adopt that same curiosity, it's a truly magical experience :)

Specifically came down into the comments to see if anyone was taking about OW. What I wouldn't give to be able to play it for the first time again...

@@blooberry7901 omg i know how that feels.

Yes. ... I loved Minecraft ... until I started trying to share it on youtube.

I'm kinda experiencing this right now, too. I've been doing let's plays on my other channel, and I'm learning that editing isn't fun if I'm not getting views, and the games that I want to play, I just can't unless I'm recording the experience. I think I'm learning that a RU-vid career is actually not what I want if I want to hang on to my hobby of gaming as a hobby rather than a job.

putting what you love on the internet can change your incentives around

Condolences to all of us using internet excessively… just look at speech limitations of frequent Twitter users over the past 10 years… didn’t think I’d still be alive when people found 3 sentences to be too much if there’s one word they don’t know well enough… Only EFL students on other side of the world can speak English beyond simple paragraphs when they actually care about human communications of the levels used by adults last century… but now they expect Biden speech level communications to run the world?! It’d be laughable if it weren’t so concerning and hopefully just a deception, even if that’s a scarier reality if they’re playing this hard into the Presidential Theatre department, shall I call it?! Man the worlds a mess and only English as a foreign language students seem capable of writing at levels of casual personal messages on social media 20 years ago where people didn’t consider a paragraph to be a book or whatever…. Moments where I wish they were just an AI and not actually that developmentally damaged by intentionally lowered standards of thinking capabilities, etc. Which discourage creation of ideas that require more than 240 characters to articulate… Why try shortening one’s thoughts for others instead of offering all of it with more to engage their minds so that they actually Understand the thinking? Is it that their brains will burn out if they saw too much?! (The Typical concerns for communications in the 2020s, I suppose? : D)

Yeah, games with a restrictive meta often turn me off sooner than anything. Especially when the game itself (or the community arounds it) treats anything but meta as unviable.

Is the guy above me serious?!

@@michaelbarker6732Ya know I'm intrigued now

Is the guy two above me serious?!

I firmly believe guys 3 above me are demonstrable eedjits.

I'll admit I gave up on it about 2 hours in - but have I just had the whole mystery of the game spoiled here? Is it not worth firing it up again, now I know about >the previous guy

It is definitely worth firing up again 🔥🔥

@@CorkyMcButterpantsdefinitely worth a play through for the atmosphere alone

Man played it once, and I keep seeing the game for the next year's to come thanks to references and Easter egg by games.

Same. Firewatch truly is a gem 💎

Was about to say exactly this. That game is absolutely profound, and should be shared, but we'll never get the same experience.

It's so fantastic, gut wrenching

I'm always so surprised when I read something like this - I've personally replayed it a few times because it never fails to give me the same feelings again

@@lisagna7234 It's been a couple years. Maybe I'll do it again.

@@lisagna7234 I think that's probably like reading a book a second or third time, some people can and some can't

I was happy with it for sure

"body of work" 💀

@@laupokeWhat, did you just learn how to use quotation marks? What's the point of this reply

@@laupokewhat would you consider this?🤔😂

@@laupoke you are definitely the type of person that makes fun of every little thing you can find. insecurity

A few to mention here just incase no one has played them: To The Moon, Milk inside a bag of milk inside of a bag of milk, Superliminal, Sally Face, Stanley Parable, Before your Eyes, and GRIS are all very good, short single-use games. I highly recommend all of them

⁠@@koop7K To add to this list, The Beginner’s Guide is made by the same creator of The Stanley Parable and it’s likewise as thought-provoking.

I'm just not sure I can consider The Stanely Parable single-use

​@@gierrahyeah if you played it just once, you miss out on literally 99% of the game

Inside was one of those games for me.

You would love “Manifold Garden is a beautiful game”

Impossible spaces have their own appeal.

Thank you so much, I'm happy you enjoy

If you like channels like that I'd recommend Jacob Geller. I'm not a huge gamer but I like how he references video games and approaches them as art

@@nm9688 ooh yes thank you!

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@@babs_babs If you like Jacob Geller, try Noah Caldwell-Gervais, too! His work is especially good if you're looking for something to listen to without having to watch it. Also, Jacob Geller is a big fan c:

man, i wish i could get behind it but the gameplay was such a bore

WARNING POTENTIAL SPOILERS ABOUT ONESHOT PLEASE DO NOT SPOIL THIS GAME FOR YOURSELF PLEASE! Seriously, OneShot is my #2 game of all time because of that whole idea (#1 is LoZ Majora's Mask, which is funny because it's a game completely about replaying it over and over again). But OneShot is much more about non-replayability and reality. It's a game that makes you care about its characters. You are spoken directly to by Niko. The NPCs talk to and of you like a diety to save their world. You grow attached to them because there's an expectation that you will save them because, well, who else will? Then in the final chapter of the game (Solstice), Niko realizes the futility in the world around them. They are not in control, and everything is predetermined. It is bugged so that if you save the world, Niko dies, and if you send Niko back, the world is lost. But Niko still believes in you that you can do something about it. And this Solstice run is what affected me most deeply. It was because the characters of OneShot had a chance to live, you had a chance to save everyone. But Niko will leave, back to their own world outside the game. There is no bringing them back through vanilla means. And since you care about Niko and their situation, you feel burdened by the consequences of playing this game and brining Niko into it. So you must send them back in a Solstice run. But you still feel sad about it. You will never see Niko again. You can try to mess with the game files but it just will never be the same. The thought that it is only your computer's data and not Niko themselves being there takes over when replaying. You care about Niko, and you don't want to put them back into this messed up simulation. Sorry if this sounded ranty and too wordy, I'm a bit eepy. But thank you for reading in case you did.

Real I was hoping it would be at least mentioned in the vid.

Oneshot is exactly what I was thinking about when I clicked on this video

OK. Now I've played through the Manifold Garden. It was amazing. Thank you for making me finally open this game.

Would you recommend replaying it? It's a game I love, and I just started a new playthrough after a number of years, but this video made me second guess it.

@OhShootKid I'm not 100% sure - I played it twice one after another. So I assume that with a break of a few years between playthroughts, it might hit less "repetitive" and more "nostalgic". In short - I think it might be worth your time to replay it after a while if you want to do it. Regardless of your choice, I hope you have a great time with the game.

You should also try Kona - it's a different story but it has the same sort of quality as Firewatch. Kona takes place in the winter though.

I swear I can remember him talking about Outer Wilds too. Been searching for weeks now but I just can't find it

i’m so sad OneShot wasn’t talked about, it’s practically the best, and fits PERFECTLY (literally) with this video

You should give Jacob Geller a try, they are very simiilar

Yeah I do watch him often, but after watching his entire backlog he doesn't hit as hard as the cursed judge.@@Antoine893

This is exactly how I feel about these videos. I get a "nice feeling of melancholy I can't really explain". I really look forward to these videos.

Can't wait for his take on Excel as an Esport.

stay scrawny

How desperate are you?

why bro

Hopefully you get tough bro, let’s get those likes up

Good luck soldior

And the only thing that was like it, overwatch, has not just been abandoned like tf2 but actively murdered lol

@@user-ev5md5sz9xNot true. There are many similar games that never had a chance unlike OW.

​@user-ev5md5sz9x Weird thing to say about a game getting active updates tbh

@@bld9826 that's Overwatch 2, not Overwatch. The original was deleted

sounds like an amazing trip

It's one of my favorite videos of his, second to the Pajama Sam one.

@@TheCursedJudge No video has made me laugh as hard in the Pajama Sam one did in so many years. Perhaps ever.

Escapism. Same with movies and books.

Do Pull ups

What’s your user? We can suck at the game together 😂

I scrolled way too much to see this comment

He doesn't even talk about it lmao

not sure if if thats a good or bad thing@@laupoke

@@Exel3nce If it means he's not experienced it yet, then hoh boy. I sure hope he will.

I don't like to choose the most obvious examples if I can avoid it. Considering the hundreds of times it has been covered, I can't imagine that I could add to the discussion around Outer Wilds.

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