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Finntrovert
Finland
Приєднався 16 січ 2017
Finntrovert is a Finnish gamer, playing and reviewing various video games.
Thief: Deadly Shadows - Review / Retrospective
Thief: Deadly Shadows is the final entry in the original Thief trilogy, wrapping up the story of master thief Garrett. But how does it hold up, and is it good?
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Thief 1 & 2 - Retrospective / Review
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Thief and Thief 2 are landmark titles in popularizing the stealth action genre, but how do they hold up today? # Mods Used # TFix: www.moddb.com/mods/tfix T2Fix: www.moddb.com/mods/t2fix # Shameless self promotion # Support the channel on Patreon: www.patreon.com/Finntrovert Support the channel on Ko-fi: www.ko-fi.com/finntrovert Livestreams: www.twitch.tv/finntrovert
Arx Fatalis - Retrospective / Review
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Arx Fatalis, the spiritual successor to Ultima Underworld. How does it play, and is it any good? # Shameless self promotion # Support the channel on Patreon: www.patreon.com/Finntrovert Support the channel on Ko-fi: www.ko-fi.com/finntrovert Livestreams: www.twitch.tv/finntrovert
System Shock - Complete Retrospective Series
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A complete collection, as of 2024, of this channel's retrospectives on the legendary System Shock series. # Chapters # 0:00 - System Shock (1994) 1:20:55 - System Shock 2 2:44:55 - System Shock (2023) # Shameless self promotion # Support the channel on Patreon: www.patreon.com/Finntrovert Support the channel on Ko-fi: www.ko-fi.com/finntrovert Livestreams: www.twitch.tv/finntrovert
System Shock (2023) - Retrospective / Review
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The long awaited Nightdive Studios remake of the 1990's classic was released in 2023, but was it good? How does the remake stack up to the original, and how accurate is it to the original's vision? # Shameless self promotion # Support the channel on Patreon: www.patreon.com/Finntrovert Support the channel on Ko-fi: www.ko-fi.com/finntrovert Livestreams: www.twitch.tv/finntrovert
System Shock 2 - Retrospective / Review
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System Shock may be a classic, but so is System Shock 2, and arguably even more so than the first game. How does it hold up today, and why does it have a fond place in the hearts of many players and game developers? # Shameless self promotion # Support the channel on Patreon: www.patreon.com/Finntrovert Support the channel on Ko-fi: www.ko-fi.com/finntrovert Livestreams: www.twitch.tv/finntrovert
System Shock (1994) - Retrospective / Review
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System Shock is a classic, with a rather large legacy, but how is the game itself? Does it hold up at all, and where does this legacy come from? @TheMonolith links. YT: www.youtube.com/@TheMonolith Twitch: www.twitch.tv/themonolith # Shameless self promotion # Support the channel on Patreon: www.patreon.com/Finntrovert Support the channel on Ko-fi: www.ko-fi.com/finntrovert Livestreams: www.twi...
Legacy of Kain - Complete Review / Retrospective Series
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The complete Legacy of Kain review / retrospective series, spanning the entirety of the main story revolving around the nobleman turned vampire, Kain, and the ancient world of Nosgoth, with twists and turns spanning millennia. Chapters: 00:00 - Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain 46:48 - Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 1:38:20 - Soul Reaver 2 2:45:35 - Blood Omen 2 3:53:40 - Legacy of Kain: Defiance # Shame...
Legacy of Kain: Defiance - Review / Retrospective
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The final part of the Legacy of Kain saga, completely and utterly spoiled, where the stories of our protagonists receive what for now is the ending of their stories. How does it hold up? Is the story interesting? Do I complain about aspect ratio stuff even more? # Shameless self promotion # Support the channel on Patreon: www.patreon.com/Finntrovert Support the channel on Ko-fi: www.ko-fi.com/f...
Blood Omen 2 - Review / Retrospective
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The fourth part of the Legacy of Kain series, in which we follow the adventures of a younger Kain before he became the undisputed ruler of Nosgoth. How does it stack up against the other games in the series? # Shameless self promotion # Support the channel on Patreon: www.patreon.com/Finntrovert Support the channel on Ko-fi: www.ko-fi.com/finntrovert Livestreams: www.twitch.tv/finntrovert
Soul Reaver 2 - Review / Retrospective
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The third part of the Legacy of Kain series, and a direct continuation of Soul Reaver. How does the gameplay and the narrative evolve as the series jumps to a new generation of consoles? # Shameless self promotion # Support the channel on Patreon: www.patreon.com/Finntrovert Support the channel on Ko-fi: www.ko-fi.com/finntrovert Livestreams: www.twitch.tv/finntrovert
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver - Review / Retrospective
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The second part in the Legacy of Kain franchise, where the ramifications of Kain's decision at the end of Blood Omen become clear, from the perspective of a new protagonist. # Shameless self promotion # Support the channel on Patreon: www.patreon.com/Finntrovert Support the channel on Ko-fi: www.ko-fi.com/finntrovert Livestreams: www.twitch.tv/finntrovert
Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain - Review / Retrospective
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The first in a series of action adventure games revolving around vampires. Does the game hold up, and are vampires still cool? Yes. # Shameless self promotion # Support the channel on Patreon: www.patreon.com/Finntrovert Support the channel on Ko-fi: www.ko-fi.com/finntrovert Livestreams: www.twitch.tv/finntrovert
Ultima - Complete Review Series
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A compilation of all of my Ultima main series reviews. A journey through video gaming history from the very first Ultima, to the final installment. Chapters: 00:00 - Ultima I 17:06 - Ultima II 36:23 - Ultima III 58:02 - Ultima IV 1:23:42 - Ultima V 1:54:05 - Ultima VI 2:25:37 - Ultima VII 3:00:59 - Ultima Underworld 3:25:25 - Ultima Underworld II 3:55:35 - Serpent Isle 4:35:35 - Ultima VIII 5:2...
Ultima IX: Ascension - Review / Retrospective
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Ultima IX: Ascension - Review / Retrospective
Ultima VIII: Pagan - Review / Retrospective
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Ultima VIII: Pagan - Review / Retrospective
Ultima VII Part Two: Serpent Isle - Retrospective / Review
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Ultima VII Part Two: Serpent Isle - Retrospective / Review
Ultima Underworld 2: Labyrinth of Worlds - Review / Retrospective
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Ultima Underworld 2: Labyrinth of Worlds - Review / Retrospective
Ultima Underworld - Review / Retrospective
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Ultima Underworld - Review / Retrospective
Ultima VII: The Black Gate - Review / Retrospective
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Ultima VII: The Black Gate - Review / Retrospective
Ultima VI: The False Prophet - Review / Retrospective
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Ultima VI: The False Prophet - Review / Retrospective
Mages and Mazes is a Far Out Game - Quest for Glory - Part 2
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Mages and Mazes is a Far Out Game - Quest for Glory - Part 2
So, You Want To Be A Barn Cleaner? - Quest for Glory - Part 1
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So, You Want To Be A Barn Cleaner? - Quest for Glory - Part 1
Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny - Review / Retrospective
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Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny - Review / Retrospective
Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar - Review / Retrospective
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Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar - Review / Retrospective
Ultima III: Exodus - Review / Retrospective
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Ultima III: Exodus - Review / Retrospective
Music - (Curtis) Looks Just Like : A Phantasmagoria 2 Tribute
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Music - (Curtis) Looks Just Like : A Phantasmagoria 2 Tribute
Ultima II: Revenge of the Enchantress - Review / Retrospective
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Ultima II: Revenge of the Enchantress - Review / Retrospective
I'm sorry. Twitch sucks, and needs to do better.
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I'm sorry. Twitch sucks, and needs to do better.
I remember when Dragons were scary things to run into in Ultima V and would kill a entire low level party. In U7 they seem to be a speedbump at most.
To me, after all these years, Ultima VII part I and II remain the best games of all times.
@@perfectblue8443 They are masterpieces of storytelling.
I was playing this after I play Crusader and I was like... why this two game feel so much alike but so different. Only years later I found out... oh it using the same engine except crusader is an advance version and uses it correctly... instead of Ultima who trying to make it into a platformer but fail big time....
You and Spoony should duke it out
@@somemong989 It would be interesting to have a chat with him. Hope he's doing good these days.
@@finntrovert haven't checked in ages but last I looked into it, he's not doing well. However his ultima retrospective series is still excellent
Why did he end up in hell in the first place
Because he was kind of a dick, and then he died.
I loved última ix. Thanks for restoring honor to the game. 🥹
*Heavy sigh*... Yet another person criticising the Ultima Underworld games that clearly didn't play them when they were new. I did play this when it was brand new and never had a problem with figuring out how to get down to the sewers. It was not "new player unfriendly". Which, BTW, I didn't have the manual when I played it or internet or youtube guides like you do today. So, even if you wanna try to use the "excuse" of being a "retrospective". Your point is still invalid because a new player today can easily lookup a guide and learn how to get into the sewers with no problem.
The beauty of the internet is that you can make your own video where you can share your own thoughts and experiences, which may be very different of those from other people! Then you can also have people who have an inaccurate view of who you are create a fantasy version of you and say you're wrong because they had a different experience! It's magical.
So I just started playing the remaster of soul reaver 1+2 and haven’t played these games in like 15 years at least. Played the first game on PS1 and the second game on PC and forgot how fucking good they were!!
You could also review these cool games: Star Wars Droids Star Wars Force Commander Dungeon Keeper 2 Vampire the Masquerade Redemption Ground Control 1 & Dark Conspiracy the Black & White series Metal Fatigue Descent Freespace spin-off series Rune DarkVoid Pariah Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine Enter the Matrix From Dust Fracture 2008 the Outcast series Watch Dogs 1 Lords of Magic Lands of Lore Guardians of Destiny This War of Mine Incubation + The Wilderness Missions Time Shift Knight Rider: The Game 1 & 2 Carnivores Cityscape Ubik Evolva Sacrifice
@@rudolphantler6309 Always happy to get more suggestions! Some of those are already on The List, and the rest I'll add to my Look At List. Thank you!
Masculine presenting? In other words - men. Lol. 2020 culture war is over, brother. We're leaving that backwards rhetoric behind
@@themeangene I am not an American, I don't care about your weird aversion to accurate language. XD You'll grow out of this weird focus on people's identities one day.
@finntrovert do you see someone at the cash register in uniform and call them a cashier presenting person? It's okay to admit you have an agenda, brother. Just realize you're stuck in the 2010s culture war. The phrase is offensive to men and women in the United States. Women here would call you a bigot for that language. I guess the UK is different. I'm not personally offended. It's just weird seeing this rhetoric still in 2025 lol.
Ultima Online is my all time favourite game nr1
> now you can play almost every game comfortably with components 3-4 years old Yeah, if in early 00's your hardware was obsolete in one year, now, thx to UE5, new game on your 1060 gonna run as poor as it runs on 4090.
It may only be the 3rd best Thief -game, but it's still a great game, especially with the fixes.
Imagine willingly referring to yourself as Lord British. The games might be iconic but calling yourself British if you don't have to is just cringe.
I liked all the other Ultimas but this one. It sucked
One of my fav games of all time! Do I remember correctly that when you nice to humans you can feed on them, and if you stop before draining (killing) them, they will not turn against you?
8:55 - I was just thinking that the secret passage in your room was in the manual?
the jumping/platforming was just crap.. it reminds me of 'feature creep' and it has no real issue honestly. You said it, death is permanent and falling into the pits without jumping properly means death.. and so save scumming.. was that the intention? Poor game design. In fact I think this game has tones of poor game design choices.
1:22 UO 😭 what is dead may never die
Algorithm sometimes brings great shit. Love your stuff, hope this isn't just popping up in my space
@@soyaflowers Thanks! I'm very glad that people have enjoyed what I do, and while I wouldn't call the growth of people to whom YT recommends these explosive, it's still way more than I ever expected!
⚠️ Warning about the lore (spelling?) System used to level up your health in this game: years ago, i sucked every ounce of blood i could find, and it broke the game. Near the end of the game i leveled health too many times, and when I loaded it back up, I had NO HEALTH. The whole health meter was atrophied. I could move, but if I jumped, I died. Had to start over. I've never been so greedy ever since
Sometimes I think that old school games back there were more close to the future than most modern games nowadays. Watch System Shock is like watching Alien technologies, hard to believe that this was created by humans, an absolute sci-fi masterpiece.
Had you played the game blindly (authentically), you would have developed a more natural understanding of the game's lore/world, tools and mechanics, what is each best for and also what is best for your gameplay preferences, ie the fun of it without the need of stating, sometimes inaccurately, the obvious. Or, as the developers meant it for the player to discover things for themselves as part of the world's attraction through its natural dangers, secrets & magic and your exploration and journey through it (just for the record, you can dispose of zombies in way more ways than one - if you choose so, which is again part of the poetry of discovery and adapting it to your playstyle as you go). Also and rather importantly, the world changes with each higher difficulty (more tasks/loot/more npcs/enemies/areas to explore, necessity of different approaches, simply more content), underscoring both the exploration and player's gameplay evolution aspect. So for any in-depth summary I would also expect a reviewer to definitely finish it on Expert.
Indeed, it is difficult for me to authentically play a game blind in 2024, when I played it blind in the late 90's and have played it dozens of times since. Which is why I don't pretend I haven't played a game I have, but instead try to also look at things from a perspective which may be obvious to someone already knowledgable with the game, and might even seem nitpicky or overly critical. But that's the idea, it might be that for a lot, but I also try to make these in a way where people with 0 knowledge or even intent to play the games would get a decent understanding. Warts and all, since even greatness has flaws.
@@finntrovert Thank you for your carefully weighed words but if so then even more why haven't you played it on expert, ie the full content hmmm?
@nanao.292 I have, multiple times. If you want to see one of those times, you can go to Twitch and watch the full playthrough where I go through the series on expert. I thought I explained why for this purpose I didn't, because especially with Thief 2 the loot hunting just becomes tedious instead of being fun for me.
Actually, only Monitor follows one of the Principles. The other two rejected them because they went against what they personally believed (the Mages of Moon believed that magic required the existence of illusion to function, so they rejected the concept of undeniable Truth; the people of Fawn held beauty above all else, so felt no need for unconditional Love). I think Marsten himself tells you this if you ask him about it. And even then, Monitor follows Courage in a strange way; they turned the principle into a rigid, duty-bound code to be followed rather than the true, virtuous expression that Lord British envisioned.
Thief 3 was a game I used to look down on, until I played Thief 2014. Deadly Shadows was a lot more faithful to the series, and the faults were pretty minor in comparison.
well now, mandalore has some competition!
So many polite words to say, 'This is the worst Ultima made.'
I’m of the opinion that this Thief has the best story.
I enjoyed this video. Have you played Clive Barker's Undying? I'd love to see your Review / Retrospective on that game
@@BureMagistrala I have never finished it, but it's been on my radar. Now that I remember it, it goes to my "soon" list.
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Similar to the first game, I have very fond memories of this one as well. As I started playing it back in the days when it was released I was joined by my mother, watching me playing the game, being fully immersed into the story and gameplay. She even stayed up past midnight despite having to go to work in the morning. To this day we joke about that one playsession in which I wasn't able to find the special gloves. I simply overlooked them in the right shop, so I visited the other shops as well. It took me quite some time to recognise the gloves. What a mess - but a very funny incident. My mother isn't a gamer herself - but she was always interested in my hobbies and the stories that come out of them. So Thief: Deadly Shadows is not only a very entertaining game, but a hoard of great memories to me.
@@Chaosherold That is absolutely amazing. I love it that you have these fond memories of the game.
I first came across your channel today thanks to this video. Your content is great and I hope things go your way. But I have a completely off topic question for you right now. Do you have any connections to Scotland or the Scots?
@@Voldazoma Thank you! To answer the question, not really. The only connections I know of are a father who studied and worked on the islands in his youth, and watching a copious amount of television from around there.
@finntrovert For context While watching your video, I couldn't quite figure out where your accent was coming from, so I asked my friend is this person a Scot? And he just like "man are you a dumb, he's Finnish. He litteraly writes on his chanel he's finnish. HE'S NAME IS FINNTROVERT." And I was just like nope you wrong, he's deffinitly Scot ... kinda. And then I thought, why don't I ask the source directly
@alicanakan552 That is a good policy for investigation! Glad to have been able to clear it up. It would be cool to have a Scottish connection aside from TV, but unfortunately that's not the case.
pitää koittaa tätä
@@maestergiguruzugi404 Ei paha idea. Tällä hetkellä GOG:Issa eurolla, niin ei edes lompakkoa paljoa rasita. :P
Christmas came early! Thank you so much for this video, bless you and your family ❤
@@knight_gabriel Thank you. Merry Christmas, and a happy new year!
Merry Christmas, and thanks for all of the great content. Truly an underrated gem of a channel.
@@nazgulsenpai Thank you! Merry Christmas!
Another Finn video ? Count me in !
@@Noz3 A little Christmas something!
WOOHOO LETS GOOOOOOOoooo
To add to the immersion, I paused the video every time the tutorial paused the game. It was... paused.
@@shanara99 I've always wanted to make an im-sim. Guess I succeeded!
Thief 3 is great! It has physics! And you can play it in first person without a problem. The missions are decent.
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I love your videos! They help me enjoy my lazy Sundays: a cup of coffee, a long form video retrospective/review in the background, whilst playing whatever game captures my attention atm. A perfect day.
Thanks! Enjoy your Sunday.
I love the Babylon 5 Outro. Good Stuff :)
@@Zargkhon It pleases me whenever someone notices the homage. XD
@@finntrovert I love Babylon 5. Best Sci-Fi Series ever made. Have the complete Series on DVD :D
YOOOOOOOO LET'S GOOOOOO NEW FINN DROP BAYBEEEEE~
Great video! I mean, I haven’t seen any of it yet, but I’m sure it will match the track record.
@@Trevelyan2 I hope so!
i used to know some finnish blokes who once described thief: deadly shadows as "helsinki simulator" before breaking into an esoteric language of arcane moomin references. this is a trip
@@harley-owo I can see that
i'd like some esoteric moomin simulator
do marathon
Is the writing the same?
Great video as always 💪
Thanks!
Just started playing it and I am highly impressed.
With? Compared to Ultima V-VII this game is basically sacrilege.
@@analogmoz I need 3D and wanted to play Ultima
kinda odd SR1 works fine on my pc... just SR2 refuses to work
It seems very hardware specific. SR2 doesn't work on my desktop, but does run on my laptop, from which I unfortunately can't capture it with acceptable quality.