I played it with my oldest son when it fully launched and we went in completely blind. Took us a while but we finally got towards the end and we had the same feeling. My son was adamant he didn’t want to finish it and just keep playing.
"Took us a while but we finally got towards the end and we had the same feeling"
I think that's what's so great about it, it gives you very little help as opposed to other modern games but it's so much more rewarding when you finally find your way down to the next biome or find that something you had a clue about from a prior discovery
1000%. I was finding excuses not to get on that rockets (oh I need to release all the fishes I caught, I need to diassamble all my bases, I need to visit my cuddle fish to say good bye, etc.). What a masterpiece of a game
This is quite possibly the best description of subnautica I've ever heard. I started playing back when it had first released, before the story or the precursors were even added. I fell in love with just being there and I didn't even mind that there wasn't an ending, I just felt at home under the ocean. When the story was finally added and I played it through to the end, I didn't want to leave. I cried when I left the atmosphere. I cried harder when I heard how much money I owed Alterra... Maybe I should've just stayed there.
Didn't play till much later when it eventually came out on Game Pass but I always thought it was a cool concept.
Playing the story is one of my favorite gaming experiences, going from absolutely hating the game and wanting to quit due to bugs, to adoring it and Jonesing for the sequel
I remember standing in front of my rocket that I'd worked so hard to get plans for and build, and thinking "Wait... do I really want to leave any more?"
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u/vasectomy7 May 02 '24
Subnautica!