7 Weirdest Fast Travel Systems That Still Beat Walking

as game worlds get larger and more open developers have had to come up with ways to let players get around them quickly without all the tedious drudgery of having to travel there in real time popular methods include trains taxi cabs and of course trusting your life to a horse with the pathfinding ability of a busted roomba some developers however go the extra mile and give us fast travel systems to not only get us where we need to go but do it in a way that is cool stylish or even more likely downright bizarre here are seven of our favorites enjoy and beware spoilers ahead for the following games get off of me you remember sunset overdrive it was the xbox exclusive from spider-man developer insomniac games in which you played a wisecracking kid who parkours around a city only here's the twist you're unlikable and don't have spider powers it's a bold move let's see if it pays off for them you want me to be your life coach yes what should i do first coach step one never call me coach again shame still that's not to say there weren't weird things to like in sunset overdrive and thankfully for the purposes of this list one of them included the fast travel system sunset overdrive is set in sunset city a formerly nice place now overrun with former citizens who have been transformed into feral zombies by a bad batch of energy drink somehow your character despite their demeanor and whole deal didn't drink any energy drink and so remained unzombified and free to parkour grind and wisecrack their way around the city smashing up people who were their neighbors right up until they picked the wrong can at a soda machine last week all that rail grinding can get tiring though so if you'd prefer you can instead use the little orange fast forward symbols on the map to travel to where you want to be instead of just teleporting you to your desired location though sunset overdrive gives you an in-universe explanation as to why you were in one place and then suddenly somewhere else which is you got blackout drunk after downing a bottle of booze you'll be treated to a loading screen and then your beloved character will stagger reeking out of a portable toilet in a different part of town presumably after having wandered there in a daze to spend several hours sleeping it off in a pool of their own vomit let me just check if this is the fast travel system in spider-man as well huh no adorable subway cut scenes interesting because hideo kojima spent seven years and all of konami's money making it metal gear solid 5 is one of the most incredibly detailed games ever made this is most noticeable in its vast array of overlapping systems that kanye players can exploit to do things like beat a tough boss by dropping crates on their head look out boss take cover there's a laser sight drained on your head another thing that might have escaped your notice on account of how you have a cool dog and a rocket arm is the fact that metal gear solid 5 has a fast travel system that the game absolutely doesn't tell you about please select a landing support helicopter requested yes you can call in pequod your transport helicopter to move you around different landing zones on the map but that takes time if you want to travel instantly between enemy bases you're going to want to harness the awesome power of the postal service as is series tradition metal gear solid 5 allows you to disguise yourself by climbing inside a cardboard box something you'd think the world's various militias and pmcs would be wise to by now and yet what are you doing dotted around the game's outposts and enemy bases are these orange platforms which are actually delivery zones if you remove the paper invoice from these locations you unlock them as fast travel locations and can instantly travel between them by climbing into your cardboard box shuffling onto the platform and then waiting for a truck to come and pick you up and mail you to your destination please select a delivery point [Music] the map has been updated clearly snake thinks this is such a good idea that this also works on mother base where you can mail yourself to the different platforms to avoid having to walk there please select a delivery point 100 guaranteed the soldiers driving you over know exactly what's going on but what are they going to do complain if you're putting up with the code name rancid sloth you're putting up with this thank you boss what is that thing the knights i should call one second thought she listens to their transmissions better find out on her own the magical gang of intergalactic space wizards known as the jedi have lots of incredible skills at their disposal including double jumping force push and of course twirling a lightsaber around without cutting off their own head and limbs one thing they can't do however is teleport which is a shame because jedi fallen order is a game based around the dark souls style of gameplay which is shorthand for you die a lot which is itself shorthand for lots of tedious backtracking it's not all bad news however there are a couple of times that jedi fall in order allows you to fast travel instead of having to do a ton of backtracking and our favorite is the one involving the shio bird that's spelt with three wise on the wookie home world of kashyyyk also with three wise because kashit's most abundant natural resource is apparently the letter y my friend that's here he spoke of a glorious creature for space wizard reasons we don't have time to get into here your character lapsed jedi calcus has to climb a uh hang on i've got wikipedia open rochear a sacred wookie tree that is as tall and massive as it is difficult to pronounce and spell anyway as you climb the tree laser sorting endless oversized garden pests in half along the way you'll start to encounter the shio bird who menaces you for the rest of the climb and then has the nerve to expect you to help it instead of laser sorting it in half hey it's okay we're not here to hurt you still once you have helped it it gives you a lift to the top of the tree where you have a rock hard boss battle because dark souls remember got the bird and the kid most importantly though once you finish the boss fight the shio bird lets you fast travel back down to the bottom of the tree meaning you don't have to redo the entire punishing climb in reverse glad you're okay it does unceremoniously dump you in a swamp though but you can't have everything i guess those roots don't look like your magic they aren't these roots are part of the great world tree and make travel between the realms possible kratos from god of war doesn't so much walk as he does angrily stride between violent murders that being said we do have atreus to look after now so perhaps we should be trying to set a good example starting now luckily once you get a little further into the game kratos is able to stay out of potentially violent trouble by using mystic gateways to walk the branches of idrisil the immense world tree that connects the nine realms of norse mythology and is this the world tree only an artistic representation of it no the yggdrasil is much much more than this that's right it is much much more in that it's god of war's fast travel system in norse mythology idracil is the center of the cosmos and each of the nine realms that make up the world exist along its branches what this means for the extremely literal-minded kratos is that he can pop into the world tree walk along its branches and then pop back out again when he reaches the branch that corresponds with his destination it's not instant fast travel as you have to take kratos journey along the world tree in real time but you do get to enjoy some gruff dialogue between kratos and atreus that isn't just him shouting the word boy boy usually isn't it's also not 100 foolproof in that you can decide to jump off which i swear we only did once in the spirit of scientific discovery to find out if it was a good idea or a bad idea bad idea see now we know [Music] secret of mana is a 1993 action rpg for the super nintendo that featured great music graphics that were excellent for the time a new real-time combat system and of course an expansive open world for you to run around in hitting bees thanks to the expansiveness of that open world however the game needed a fast travel system to let you travel to new areas and to cut down on long and tedious backtracking especially when there were bees every 10 feet spoiling for a fight so what's the best way to travel quickly across a big fantasy world the developers asked themselves to which their only logical answer was of course getting shot out of a giant cannon find a cannon travel center on your journey and for the bargain price of 50 gold pieces per trip you can climb into this unlicensed guy's huge ornate cannon and he will blast you vaguely in the direction of where you're trying to go yeah just slide into the cannon try not to get exploded and i guess roll when you land once the cannon fires you're treated to a cutscene of your characters getting blasted impossibly high in the sky spinning wildly and with absolutely no control over their landing the party then smashes into the ground at terminal velocity and instead of exploding into a shower of gore and wrongful death suits gets straight back up and starts adventuring again oh hey and we landed on a b that'll save some time [Music] been a while sam it's good to see you remember how to do this you need to close your eyes and picture your destination death stranding is a game that is primarily about walking from place to place while carrying inadvisable quantities of cargo that you're trying desperately not to drop what death stranding also is however is long and after a while the appeal of trudging your way across the entire map to pick up the next story mission starts to become as appealing as well as listening to your baby jar go ballistic for the fifth time this half hour thankfully from chapter 3 onwards you're able to use a fast travel system known as the fragile jump system named after the character fragile played by leia cedu fragile is apparently hideo kojima's homage to mary poppins which you can tell by her can-do attitude and terrifying techno umbrella pretty sure mary poppins jacket didn't do this however fragile is what is known as a jumper someone with teleportation abilities and she's willing to loan them to you to decrease the amount of time you have to spend sliding down a wet hillside while being yelled at by an infant also i think the umbrella is involved in some way as it points in the direction of your destination i don't know the process is kind of vague and confusing in a hideo kojima game i know the process does apparently take a toll of some sort on fragile however so you'd better only use it for really important trips again i'm not a machine you know yes but i just remembered i hate walking you understand right darkness falls as the humans beg their king to save them a noble king known only as the grand wizard [Music] for a thousand years the battle has been waged with only the bravery of the grand wizard to protect as human followers but even though the wizard king is so undeniably cool the drow elf armies continue their attacks they seek the humans most treasured relatives the stick of truth south park the stick of truth took the long-running animated show and mashed it together with lord of the rings style fantasy creating an rpg full of mythical enemies magical items and farts [Music] [Applause] in it you play as the prophecy new kid who is going to unite the forces of good and reclaim the mystical stick of truth while the rest of the cast take on roles as fantasy wizards rogues and bards with varying degrees of success here you can see our massive stables overseen by the level 9 ranger scott malkinson who has the power of diabetes south park is a big town however and you're a small kid and also walk like your crudely animated construction paper cutout which is where the game's fast travel system comes in in keeping with the rest of the cast fan favorite character timmy has also adopted a new fantasy persona that of sir timmy owner and proprietor of sir timmy's fast travel as you journey around south park you discover and unlock fast travel flags which you can travel between with the help of sir timmy and what sounds like an undeniably impressive trusty steed but turns out to be an admittedly adorable stuffed toy still you can't argue with the results [Music] in the superhero themed sequel the fractured butthole fast travel duties are now handled by jimmy in the guise of his superhero alter ego fastpass who uses his super speed to dash you to where you need to go in record time [Music] see you new kid a superpower both better and more socially acceptable than my superpower thanks so much for watching this video about the weirdest fast travel systems that still be walking if you want to 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Channel: outsidexbox

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Keywords: outsidexbox, andy farrant, jane douglas, mike channell, sunset overdrive, insomniac games, metal gear solid 5, the phantom pain, snake, cardboard, box, mail, post, fast travel, travel, jedi, fallen order, shyyyo bird, bird, god of war, world tree, yggdrasil, kratos, cannon, secret of mana, snes, fragile jump, death stranding, timmy, jimmy, south park, the stick of truth, fractured but whole

Id: 3XcEPKhEz4o

Length: 16min 3sec (963 seconds)

Published: Thu Nov 19 2020