FYI: Anytime I’m talking about TLD to friends and family who haven’t played it, I send them your video. Thank you for encapsulating what’s so endearing about this game. It will always be my favorite.
I actually quite like the boredom parts of the long dark. they are so peaceful. nowhere you need to go, nothing you need to do except ensuring your food and fuel supply. the game's goal isn't to escape, so you can just live your life quietly. it's so very different from the world we live in
I love this game so much. You do eventually get to the point where you feel safe even on Interloper difficulty, but it's only after hundreds of hours of play. It seems like you are enjoying your time learning the game, which is good because you can only do it once.
The jump from stalker to interloper is huge. To me it goes as follows: Very Easy = Pilgrim Easy = Voyageur Medium = There's no preset "Medium" difficulty Hard = Stalker Very Hard = There's no preset "Very Hard" difficulty Extreme = Interloper Insane = Outerloper (interloper but you can't go indoors) Lunatic = NOGOA (custom code with everything set to the hardest)
Hope: Early on, I'd made my way through the dam, and out the other side. I guess I still thought of myself as being in Mystery lake, and I eventually found the cave. Got lost going through there, and once I did, I was relieved, thinking I was back in Mystery Lake! Nope. (un)Pleasant Valley. So of course it was brutally cold, out of food, out of water, and I had no maps (was mapping even a thing then?) and I followed a river, saw the farmhouse in the distance, and felt relief. It felt really weird to go inside, it was someone else's home, whereas the Mystery Lake region buildings were much less so, and even a trapper would expect desperate guests to help themselves. Anyway, the farmhouse had very little food in it, and I decided that my journey(and game) would end there, with an inconclusive fate, yet at least a momentary sense of safety and warmth. In hindsight, I went past a lot of shelters and caves to get there, not even noticing them, had zero animal encounters. I remember picking cat tails for food. I must have come down along the bottom of the map, up the "west" side, and overland from the first bridge in the SW. I came through the kitchen door.
The ominous creepy music gives me nightmares every time I hear it because thats the music that plays when your character has died lol I've fallen asleep a few times waking up to hearing that just to see my character died of thirst while I was asleep
There's a reason why I've put in more hours in this game than any other game (2,500+ hours). It's not because it's necessarily the best game out there. It's just that no other game, and I mean NO OTHER GAME puts me in such a deep kind of immersion like The Long Dark does. If you're into that, yeah, this game's world is captivating. And ALWAYS WEAR HEADPHONES when playing this game though. You'd be missing out on half the appeal of the game if you don't.
As the real world seems to be going to hell in a hand basket I find that playing the long dark keeps me from looking at the news too much. I find it calming too say the least. I bought the game years ago and play it more these days than ever. My current run is about 175 days . I have double bear coats and rabbit gloves and hat. every day is a blessing. cheers
I too see the world heading down the shi****. For me the long dark sparks something in me that makes me want to grow more independent of the system. I learned to make my first soup and survival gear just thanks to the ideas the game presented. Enjoy your run my friend, may it last long.
I've only just started playing this game from the last update, Tales from the Far Territory, and I'm in love with it. Your video was a great tribute to everything that I've been feeling from this masterpiece. The Long Dark community is also as welcoming as any I've ever been a part of. Great job, thank you!
Here's hoping this makes it to the right side of the internet, such a great game and the editing/quality of the video feels really freaking good! You need more subs.
My favorite custom mode was to play with interloper settings but turning the wolves frequency down just a little. Imo with the wolves at max frequency, it doesn't make the game harder, just more tedious/time consuming. Having a wolf behind every tree just breaks immersion and makes every trip into a boring chore.
Really nice summary! I have been thinking of getting long dark since i have played most of the other survival games that have seemed interesting so far but for some reason this one has always slipped by even this kind of environment is closest to my heart and home.
Yea I kinda get it, It's been in my steam library for over a year now and I knew just how good it was, but something in my brain was just not having it. I guess it was the first few hours of learning the very basics of the game, where you really don't know anything and gotta learn all of it the hard way. But now after that's over, it's pretty nice :)
Arti, well done! This is my favorite game so far and I have been playing since 2017. Subnautica comes in a distant second. In that game I built my bases and wanted to see if I could live there long term, so I never built the rocket to leave the planet. I still have the save but no motivation to go back. I loved watching your video because every scene I saw I could tell you where you are within 2-3 seconds. Every region is unique, Mystery Lake is so different from Coastal Highway from Broken Railroad. Now there are getting to be so many places to go you are going to spend less time in them. In the past I would spend a month in Hushed River Valley. The last run I only spent one day trying to prepare for a base there. Want to disagree about one thing you said about desperation in your cycle. What always kills me is overconfidence. I decided to leave the Riken during The Aurora and was killed by wolves. Harvest a Bearskin Coat in a cave with no fire in Ash Canyon only to freeze. Harvesting a moose at the snow just started to fall, It turned into a blizzard.
We are all brought down by our individual flaws :D I mostly overprepare, so far it hasn't come back to bite me, but I feel that all that time I spend double or triple checking stuff will eventually come back to haunt me.
Oh yeah and subnautica is definitely close for me too. I really wanna do a video on it eventually, but right now I already got a few games in line. But it will come out for sure ;)
The atmosphere of The Long Dark was amazing, and I loved the story mode. I generally don't like games that grind you down with how little food and resources you're able to acquire. But in the story mode, it feels great. That being said -- I hated the UI and controls of The Long Dark. It wasn't as bad as another survival game, Stranded Deep, but it was still frustrating. I liked The Long Dark. But man, I wish there was a UI/controls mod for the game. It was just frustrating at times.
Great video about possibly my favorite game of all time. Just a heads up, the jump from Stalker to Interloper is going to be much more brutal than from Voyageur to Stalker, so much so in fact that people have been begging for an inbetween difficulty for years and trying to create it themselves in various custom modes :)
Also, good luck trying to jump up to Interloper, it's an intense jump! The gap between Voyager and Stalker is tiny compared to the gap between Stalker and Interloper.
Got a wolfskin coat ready to be made and just so happened to down a bear, if I can make it to day 30 on stalker I'm prob. gonna jump on interloper and see just how crazy it is. Can't wait to get bumf***ed all over again.
@@Atri4 I believe in you! The biggest tip is don't get too frustrated when you die like 8 times within the first 5 hours of the day in game, there's a reason there's an achievement for surviving 24 hours on Interloper. First priorities are head and hand coverings and matches, all else is secondary.
@@maevesmith948 Ty, yeah I've started to see a pattern of, if you survive the first few days, you're usually set. As long as you get good clothes to fight the ambient temperature, you're doing ok.
@@Atri4 Exactly. The hardest days are the first few, Interloper rips out all the safeguards you have for living, such as a bedroll or choosing your spawn, so it'll be interesting to hear how you fare! As long as each death teaches you something, it wasn't in vain.
@@maevesmith948 Thank you, yeah I've noticed that if you can get through the first few days or so, you can manage. Getting some good clothes to be able to withstand the ambient temperature makes all the difference.
I tried the darkwalker for the first time before going to work. My hands were shaking so bad i could hardly do my job, i was fumbling things for several hours.
I think you can, in the settings there definitely is a hud setting. I know you can set it to all or minimal, and I'm sure there's a no hud setting too.
Good video. It was great, get your word out there the long dark community is an actual thing they are all great ppl. Watch zak the long dark he has a lot of good videos to teach ppl
The video actually starts after two minutes... In this day and age you'll maybe want to rethink that, after all the attention span with tiktok, RU-vid shorts, Instagram etc. Is like non-existent and you start your video wit two minutes of blackscreen? - seems critical. Hope that was not to aggressive feedback.
Nah I get it, I just don't care for that kind of audience. If someone can't sit and listen for 2m, then they can go back to brainlessly watching others make content specifically to capture their baby brain attention.
Great tribute video and nice to see new players trying this great game. I would recommend Zaknafein's RU-vid channel for great tutorial videos. It helped me a lot to get to Interloper level.
Funny, I was going to recommend Zak as well. It doesn't matter what level you play on or how long you've played, you are going to learn something new and useful. I played this game for years before stumbling onto Zak's videos. I didn't even know how much I didn't know! LOL.
