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I always try stealth archer but then I suck at stealth so I just go melee. This time I’m going to do it im going to finally do a stealth archer play through and not give up

I think your kind of missing the point by not explaining that the entire society is run by the hunting of sentient wales. Nevertheless, the outsider asks you if you think your own sense of morals hypocritical. I think its interesting to believe that this game has "good" or "bad" endings in a game that has no heros. I'm reminded of BioShock when the real morality of the game is the perception of your choices being a responsibility or a consequence

First video of yours I've seen. And honestly I thoroughly enjoyed. I watch video essays all the dang time. But somehow your approach to going over these topics felt less like a lecture. And more like my bro really enjoyed a halo game I didn't vibe with and sincerely wants to share what he sees and why he sees it that way. And just sold me from start to finish

I either go for stealth archer, or the absolutely broken unarmed Khajiit fisting build. One shot Suplexing will never not be funny or satisfying to me.

This has to be one of my favorite video essays on UA-cam. Hands down. The storytelling of what is an amazing story has me in tears. Thank you for this, and thank you for breaking down (or building up) a series I hold dear to my heart.

I've always aimed to be a jack of all trades, but after mods? The world is my sandbox, and everyone is trapped with me

Personally I find archery to be boring, it's an instant victory strategy. I find myself gravitating to stealth+dagger gameplay as the stealth tree incentivises but what annoys me is how prone to failure it is. If you spec into sneak, chances are you're planning on carrying loot that might not belong to you. You also may want more sneak rolls and power attacks to get the most out of that multiplier, so chances are you upgrade stamina more than health and you don't even touch magicka. It helps that the bar is green and the thief skills are all green leaning you in that direction as well. So basically, you're now a glass cannon by game design. High damage, but if you get caught, you die. This also means with an emphasis on stealth skills, you probably have very little skill points spent in anything that doesn't maximise your stealth gameplay. So, you have no points in shields, or two handed, and whatever you have in one handed probably is more generic because all you want to upgrade is your dagger, you don't care to upgrade maces or axes or swords because you don't use them. This means your gear probably is _just_ a dagger. With no perks anywhere else and an emphasis on loot via carry weight and stealth, why would you carry anything else? But enemy level scaling doesn't always play nice. Those Draugr deathlords don't care if you haven't found a glass dagger yet (since you've been playing stealth, you haven't been smithing to make one), they're going to tank your 16x multiplier hit and survive, and even with level 100 sneak, him and all the draugr around him are going to know where you are and kill you. Your only choice is to run away and _wait_ for enemies to lose interest, which is boring. And it's not just level scaling, there's scripting too. Enemies can sometimes just see you for no reason. Some will warn you to back off, some will trigger when you step over an arbitrary line, some will engage combat right out of dialogue. If you spec into stealth, and your gameplay revolves around having the first turn against the enemies, what are you supposed to do about enemies that don't care? While not Bethesda's fault exactly, this is ridiculously common in mods especially. Forced combat, who cares if you're a stealth build? And none of this is even mentioning dragons. And so, stealth dagger gameplay does come with a backup. The bow. Bows are lightweight weapons (especially since arrows are weightless) that even without investing in archery you still benefit from Sneak skill's perks, so might as well take a bow with you. Those enemies that won't die in one hit? Don't worry, shoot from a distance and they'll never find you no matter how many hits it takes. Enemy telling you to back off? Listen to his advice and shoot from a distance. Enemies triggering combat walking into a trigger field? Shoot them before entering it! Combat right out of dialogue? Shoot them before talking! Dragon? Shoot it! Stealth Dagger is a fun way to play the game. It becomes a puzzle of who can you kill and in which order to not alert everyone else. The failure state being getting detected because you made a wrong choice. But that fun evaporates immediately when you do everything right but still can't win and detection is forced, so you have to default back to Stealth Archer to clean up the problem before going back to a more fun form of gameplay.

This was one of the best Halo video essays I've ever seen. ODST truly holds a special place in my heart, alongside Reach, for the jarringly real way it tells the story of humanities struggle, a struggle that you outlined and captured phenomenally. Beautifully done.

i fucking love this guy

I have no context for the rest of your channel, so when I heard that diss towards Viva Pinata "2", I felt shocked. The game is a little jank but Skyrim is far worse, please do talk about it, what's wrong with TiP?

I also believe these games mastered something that I absolutely adore in games. Anger. Hate. This game makes you hate people. It makes you angry. It gives you time to connect to something before tearing it away. The betrayal halfway through the game is a perfect example. The anger and hatred the game filled me with after that moment was extraordinary. There's a reason to do high chaos and that reason isn't because it's easier, but because your angry. You're pissed off at the world and believe no one connected to these people deserve to live. Your angry and you hate these people. And that is such a fun way to experience a story.

I’ve never seen a video of yours, saw the first ten seconds and believe me you have a Subscriber. PBS FTW.

Rangers Apprentice mention!!!

Its because really the best melee system is hellish quart. Skyrim needs to have somone redo the melee to be like that.

Stealth archer in Far Cry 3 is a goated way to play

Robocop always messed me up a bit, like the dude literally died and they still made him go back to work.

It irritates me when people say games should be for fun. No games HAVE to be fun, but they are not FOR fun. Enjoying a game is what draws you in, but really games change you and force you to adapt to challenges to both your skill and your mind. Fundamentally that is an even better sensation than mere fun could ever be.

I always turn my play-through into an alchemy poison build. I started doing an Argonian vampire blood mage and it slowly turned into another alchemy character lol 😂.

Melee in Skyrim is only interesting if you use a shield. And to me it’s only slightly more interesting than archery.

ice spike and icy spear are baller though

I find that if you play on legendary difficulty, you pretty much have to be a mage.

This was very, very well done. I really enjoy your take on this concept. Who you are when no is looking and who you are when no one can stop you are just amazing concepts to play out in games or tabletop. I have always loved the dishonored games because of these concepts and because of how intimately you can shape the game.

Absolutely based Ranger's Apprentice reference early on, subbed immediately

Mods can fix a lot of these issues. Ordinator for new perks and its sister mod for new spells makes magic and stealth a lot more fun. Melee is harder to fix.

If you play modded it’s either stealth archer or conjuration

Who are you when noone can stop you? That's a very interesting question, and for me, I had a bit of self-revelation from this game, and who I am as a gamer, and as a person. Around the time the game came out, a lot of webcomics naturally made jokes about the game, and what it was like to play it. Penny Arcade did one about the joke of having 2 guards talking to each other, reacting to random noises that the player makes when sneaking around. And how most stealth games would have them say things like "Uh, must've been rats". In the comic strip, Guard A starts bitching at Guard B, who had said "Must've been rats" with "It's not rats Steve! It's NEVER rats Steve!! Why don't you just shut up about the damn rats!!" Then, Guard A, proceeds to be eaten by rats, to the confused response from Steve. At first, Steve is THRILLED that he was right for once! It WAS the rats!! But then the rats ate both of them, and thus the punchline. The caption to the strip was that one of the guys are Penny Arcade, was having a blast playing the "Pied Piper of Murder", using nothing but Summon Rats to clear every mission. I thought this was funny, so I decided to try it out, on a very rare (for me) Evil Run. I got to the brothel level, before I genuinely got sick, and just couldn't continue. The first time I had the rats eat one of the prostitutes, who was just minding her own business, I felt sick. I just didn't WANT to play like that. I don't LIKE playing as a bad guy. I know they're not real, but I'm still playing the main protagonist in the game, and when the game is First Person, it's really hard to not feel like it's ME in that role. And....I don't want to be the kind of person who casually kills anyone. I don't find any thrill in "indulging my darker urges", because I apparently just don't have those urges. I don't feel like it's a catharsis to play like that, I feel upset, I feel anxiety, I feel like I'd rather be doing ANYTHING but continuing to play that game that way. I stopped that playthrough, never to pick it up again. And any game that gives me the moral option of "do you do something to help someone else, usually at your own personal risk" or "do you harm someone for either no reason, or to further your own goals", I've pretty much accepted that I'm always choosing Option A in that scenario. It's not really even an option for me. Option B is just NOT on the table. I know the game offers it, but it's just not feasible for me, so it's not even going to be considered.

An interesting insight I had when going for the Mostly Flesh and Steal achievement (not buying any upgrades to your Outsider powers, only using the default, single rank of Blink), is that it's actually a LOT easier to play the game than you think. Because here's the thing....most of the map layouts, are simply filled with loot to fuel your upgrades. But if you aren't actually using whale bone, or bone charms, there really isn't much in the way of motivation to go explore the maps. Usually the only reason you go off the beaten path, is because you picked up your lover's heart, pointed it around, and saw "....ooh! There are 2 whale bones that way, AND a bone charm!!" so you go off to encounter whatever challenge is over there. And run the risk of having to actually cause harm to the denizens of Dunwal. But....if you don't embrace the temptation of the Outsider, to "be interesting", to go and try and find resources to make you more powerful, you really have no need to even bother. You can actually navigate the maps towards your actual TARGET, incredibly easy, with just the single rank of Blink. And since you aren't actively engaging with 80% of the map, or it's denizens....you can easily get a low chaos, no death, no detection result for each map. Because why bother? You're here to take out your target....nothing else. The rest of the neighborhood never even needs to know you were near, because you weren't. So the temptation to become stronger, in itself, the drive to obtain the resources the game tempts you with, is another layer of moral/ethical checks on the player. Will you go mess with these people just to accumulate wealth and power? Do you really need it? I'm sure you WANT it...the temptation is there but....is it needed? And the answer is....no, it really isn't. The first playthrough of Dishonored, I got both the Ghost and Clean Hands achievement. When I did my second playthrough to get Mostly Flesh and Steel, I thought it was going to be a frustrating slog of save scumming, and endless frustration to complete. But no joke, it was the EASIEST run I had of the whole game. Missions were super short, super direct, super focused. The only way it was difficult, is if I strayed from my objective, to try and gain wealth and power.

Let's not forget the little sneak attack sound that is pure dopamine

Your video is full of lol moments.

He spitting facts

Watching this reminded me of that time I broke off from my usual hivemind/machine intelligence empires I do that eventually dominate the galaxy, and went with an (albeit militarized) egalitarian empire that was about a similar approach. In some ways, it was almost more enjoyable at moments since it catered to the side of me that wants to help, who wants to make a difference. Who will offer a hand of friendship and aid, but also is willing to use that hand to shield those who can't defend themselves. I ought to try doing that empire again, never got far with it last time before an update required me to restart

I've been replaying this game on Switch for too long now

Conjuration was where it was at in Skyrim!

His book Tigana is fantastic

Ok fine, I'll play Dishonored AGAIN.

"Each version of the melee weapons are just reskins" Bows: Am I a joke to you? I get the criticism, but it doesn't work as a comparison to bows specifically.

I was able to get three of my eight playthroughs to complete without dipping into the stealth archer. They were a (non stealth) archer challenge build, two handed with buffs, and fastest daggers in the north. Even my magic playthrough eventually became a stealth archer.

For me, it's fun to sneak around and "people watch". I feel like I can get the most out of the story by listening to characters talking. Sneaking around is also inherently fun and shooting from a distance is just convenient.

Stealth mage takes a while to really come online but totally doable with queit casting, frenzy spells and some conjuration. But even then I'm using a bound bow so whoops, another stealth archer

No stealth mage ? It's the funniest playstyle with stealth archery, bonus doing it with the dark brotherhood

Halo is a story of the indomitable human spirit. Put our backs against the wall? Good. Now that we have nowhere to run, we'll have to fight. Cut off all our options? No you haven't. You'd be surprised to find that the one option you left open because you thought it so insanely stupid that nobody would try it is exactly what we'll do.

I always liked stories where there are super soldiers and robot killing machines. But you play as just a regular soldier. No super powers No Augmentations Just a human, who *Somehow* manages to stand side by side with these otherwise superior warriors. I'd love to see another ODST, where the Spartans have to acknowledge your skill as a soldier. Maybe even make the Odst known to have turned down spartan Augmentation when offered?

Elden Ring is either too hard or too easy, you just won't find the sort of appealing middle difficulty anymore like you would in Dark Souls or Dark Souls 3. You can make it too easy with spirit ashes or broken builds like bleed but then too difficult by playing the game in a more standard Dark Souls approach.

Never played stealth archer only melee

Your description of Rennala's first phase is hands down the best Puts that fight into an interesting, new light

Lol, it looks more like a puma. Nice reference.

ima very horrible person. a horrible person having a lot of fun

01:07:00 so here's the thing about the bird method: even if it were patched and a wall was added, just turning to the right reveals a dozen sleepy albinaurics just waiting to be ganked from behind Which is to say, that spot is the developer winking and telling you, it's a farming spot, so hop up on that John Deere and start harvesting.

17 minutes in and all I know is I'm glad I've never gotten a high chaos ending, every time I've tried I always feel bad cause I pay attention to lore in games so I teleport from place to place knocking anyone in my way unconscious before moving forward.

16:31 One small thing I think you missed is that Jun isn't sent to simply protect Halsey. Carter tells Halsey that she's being escorted to Castle Base by Jun (Or rather "Noble 3", as Halsey I don't think refers to the Spartans by name other than Jorge, but by designation and number). She insists that she doesn't require an escort, but Carter ignores her and speaks directly to Jun, telling him to "Make sure nothing falls into enemy hands" to which Jun replies "I'll do what's necessary sir." This is how dire the situation has become. Even as the Covenant glass the planet, your team has been sent not on a rescue mission, but on asset denial. All they can do at this point is evacuate whoever you can and enact scorched earth of the rest. Halsey's discovery might be the saving grace of humanity, but at this point there's absolutely no guarentee we can turn the inevitable tide. Saving her life may buy us more time, but losing her will cost us more than we can afford. Humanity is expending the last of their most valuable assets not to achieve victory, but to forestall an inevitable defeat and Halsey, with her unparalelled insight and intellect, has become as expendable as the otherwise priceless Spartans she produced. On a practical note, it makes sense to send a Spartan on this job not just because they can be expected to save their last bullet for Halsey if necessary, but because of their survivavility. In Tip of the Spear we've seen that Spartans can survive a Kestrel crash that would kill or severely wound an unaugmented human. If they don't make it to the base, if they're shot down or caught in a firefight they have no hope of winning, Jun will almost certainly be the last man standing and he can make sure the Covenant don't have the oppertunity to take Halsey alive.