Ponder it for a moment. You climb a dangerous mountain in a video game very cautiously, even taking hours or even days to get to the top. The very top of the mountain is finally yours, the win is almost there, and then… you fall. That’s what happened to a player from Baby Steps. The video of this player losing control and falling down has quickly and widely become viral.
The clip was posted by u/NobodyAskedDMC, who shared a moment when a player plays as Nate in the walking simulation Baby Steps. After the tough battle is won and the party’s over, the mountain emerges as the place with the highest elevation. But then the character in the game takes an unfortunate step, loses balance, and so forth starts a very scary long roll down to the end. The fall is too long and too hard for any player to bear with. It is as if a player has climbed Mount Everest in a game but stumbled at the top because of their own mistake. The video got hundreds of views and thousands of shares and comments.
The gamers not only agreed with each other about the incident but also pain-relieved, by being sympathetic and thus giving the impossible-to-take-off emotional pain through the responses. What are the gamers’ thoughts? They are of the opinion that this is nothing else but one player’s rage-quitting. The first one who looked at it this way was @susravioli ‘I would uninstall and never touch that game again’ he painted a picture that is exactly the first reaction. Moreover, @Goblin_Gold the one who appeared in the chat also contributed his sad story, ‘This ending broke me. Spent hours climbing only to watch my character tumble down at the very peak.’ Ouch. That must have hurt so bad.
The YouTube video comments echo an environment of raging gamers wherein gamers find peace. @Laesonas yelled, ‘If this happened to me: Turns console off’ kind of the most possible answer it was. @1Riggz took a longer break as the only solution, ‘Game cuts off after that. Not returning until months later lol.’ In like manner, @presinald_ said, ‘Nah I’d never come back after that….if you mention it in chat you’d be getting banned lol 🤣’. The discomfort players feel is beyond description.
Nevertheless, could it be the situation that Baby Steps has a far lesser number of players who actually know what the game is? To settle that cap, Grok gave a literal ‘a physics-based walking simulator where the character Nate climbs a mountain controlled by you’ as an answer. It’s ripping because of the game’s and controller’s falls, which are similar but slightly less than those in Getting Over It. This makes so much sense. It’s one of those games. The kind of game that is meant to frustrate and break your controller apart at the same time. @GrimHopeful named it the ‘Ultimate A Troll,’ he asked, ‘What Do You Expect. You Either Like Suffering And Being Trolled Or You Hate Yourself To Play That Shit.’ Hard, but not quite wrong, maybe.
The users were profoundly moved by @Snib_ai who defined it as, ‘That’s not a fall, that’s a full emotional reset 😒. Indeed, that’s true. It is not just about the loss of progress; it is about emotional torture in full HD. On the other hand, @IshakAlamin developed some philosophical notions by mentioning, ‘Falling after reaching the top hurts more than never climbing at all.’ It’s a big one. And it is also a true one.
However, a couple of them have still found humor amidst the whole absurdity of the situation. @pro6lema pointed out that his life was pretty similar and even made a joke, ‘me showing up late to my own listening party just to fall off stage lol this is my kind of energy 💀’. @GhostPandaStorm saw a connection with the Dark Souls game series, ‘enters fog wall\n\nGravity\n=================================’. And @CurkCrimson simply put, ‘It’s just that scene from Hotrod,’ which is… pretty accurate if you think about it.
