The Long Dark

all the things.

I've been playing this video game called The Long Dark, which is just about surviving in the Canadian wilderness.

Yes.

And what you've basically described is the bare minimum of what you're carrying around and what you're looking for all the time so that when you inevitably... as I do regularly, fall down half a mountain or get attacked by a wolf or anything else, then you can just quickly bandage up your ankle or take a painkiller or an antibiotic and you're set because you've got it in your bag.

I said this last livestream, but I'm going to announce it here on the podcast too.

If something happens in the next livestream, or if I lose the Long Dark Thousand Days Challenge, I'm just going to livestream Fallout from now on.

Because I wanted an excuse to play Fallout for anything, you know? Like, the problem is, I'm pretty sure all the music is copyrighted, so I don't know how it's gonna work.

Can I even livestream Fallout without risking copyright infringement? Because there's a lot of copyright in there, right? The entirety of the Galaxy News Radio is all copyrighted music.

We played some Fortnite.

I had a heartbreak in The Long Dark, so much so that I don't know if I'm going to be playing the game again for a while.

Oh, I think we know.

I mean, you know, eventually probably, but I didn't delete the game off the system, but man, I had such a game going and my hubris yet again, like caused me to get killed.

And it had a narrative element that we were releasing episodically over the course of years.

And that is The Long Dark.

And so it's narrative mode.

Winter Mute has ended.

Yeah, and it also has David Hayter, who you probably know as Snake from the Metal Gear Solid.

Oh, yes, yes, yes.

uh also Elias Tufexis uh who uh does so much he's like in Star Trek and uh yeah uh oh he's also I mean Adam Jensen in Deus Ex uh is the one that people are always begging for for more of that so we're all we're all Canadian the game is set in Canada uh and I have jokingly referred to it in the past as player versus Canada because that's kind of what it is What's the name of it again? It's called The Long Dark.

The Long Dark.

It's a commitment, and I would have needed more of a run-up to clear time.

I play like I say I play LA 1800 I haven't finished Baldur's Gate I've got Fallout London that I'm still working through Spider-Man I just downloaded The Long Dark because it was $2.79 on Steam and I'm just like yeah okay I've got a lot I've got all three I've got the Tomb Raider remasters to go through and then at some point I'm going to have to get to Oblivion which let me tell you about my experience playing the first Oblivion right um I played the first Oblivion for four months before I went round my mate's house to see him playing it, and he was in full Daedric armor, and I asked where he got it, and he said, oh, I got it from one of the Oblivion gates, to which I said, what are those? And he said, what do you mean? And I was like, you know you have to do the second main storyline mission in the original Oblivion to...

unlock the Oblivion gates opening up around the place.

No. Yeah, you do.

Animal Crossing, Old Horizons, obviously.

Played a little bit more of The Long Dark, obviously.

I started a... custom interloper game which uh custom yeah you can like customize like all kinds of stuff in your survival game so this

isn't hard enough i want more moose

So anyways, turn scurvy off, uh, nerf the wolves a little bit.

And when you do a custom game, it allows you to, um, use perks on interloper.

You can only use two perks, but on a custom game you can use, I think it's six might be five, uh, uh and i and you get the perks by playing a lot so like i got all these perks and i want to use them you know so like so i'm doing a custom game but in the uh it's lovingly referred to in the long dark community as intercoper because you're trying to cope with the fact that interloper is really hard so you made it easier for yourself but uh but anyways so

sorry it sounds like mom brain has something to say to raw meat

saw that on Steam and I was like this looks like one of those not a cozy game because it's kind of stressful but almost like a therapeutic game it looked fun

it's not for me but I did like the art style kind of reminded me of those like Telltale games and like The Long Dark like that comic graphic novel type of yeah i i like the art style but it's it's not a game that i'm

i was this close to getting it on steam yeah

i was almost getting it

And then I...

So because I couldn't think of anything to play, I told Jack a while ago that I would give The Long Dark another shot, and so I finally downloaded it, and I'm trying the survival mode, and...

while i still hate it um there's a part of me who's very very intrigued now because it's it's much different when you're free from the narrative um like when you actually can just kind of focus on the survival element because that game is pretty deep uh deep enough to where i found myself actually watching some videos to actually kind of learn how to properly play it so i'm gonna give it a fair run i i tried it once and i didn't know any of the controls and uh fairly certain i'm you know freezing to death as we speak in my save state but um but yeah i'll give it a few more shots because it is a much different game in the survival mode compared to the main campaign that i played before

i first picked up the long dark ryan gave me one piece of advice and that was just get the cat tails that's all he told me and it's like it makes a world of difference

he told me the same

thing

think permadeath, the thing that it really brings to games, and I think it's kind of interesting because when it's designed to be permadeath i think it typically the balance makes a lot more sense to that

the the balance