Hardspace: Shipbreaker & How Games Discuss Capitalism
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- Опубліковано 16 чер 2022
- The origin of your blues is the exploitative nature of profit. How does Hardspace: Shipbreaker tackle the complex issue of capitalism?
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getting political now, are we conTHEY? unsubbed and launched out of an airlock
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connor shat
@VirtuasRedem connor when someone doesnt use her pronouns:
I couldn't stop laughing at Conner's shaky ass desk lol
IT'S DOING ITS BEST ;~;
little toy ship on the desk is my favorite detail
it's a mcdonalds happy meal buzz lightyear ship that i painted shhh don't tell disney
that profile picture is cursed
This was a superb video! Really appreciated the connections to real-world issues, especially with sources cited and highlighted during the video. Well-constructed argument all around. Take care!
I really love The Outer Worlds. It's characters really made me care about them and I wasn't expecting to like some people.
Awesome video👍. I really love you went deep and explaining everything and the meaning behind the game and themes it has
hey Connor! I've been a *really* longtime viewer and just wanted to say that I think this is my favorite video you've ever made. I watched it, like, a week ago originally and kept thinking about it and how good it is!
I hope you keep finding success in making things you enjoy, and I'll try to pop by your stream sometime soon!
An entire video on the difference between a game's narrative and its gameplay and the possibly unintended side-effects of that.
Without using the words "ludonarrative dissonance".
Bravo.
I didn't even notice that wow. The word ludonarrative dissonance makes me want to jab a fork in my eye
the term has become so genericized to have lost its original meaning and i figured it best to not even use it
This is your Magnum Opus. Like, holy hell this was well written and reviewed.
omg that means so much thank you!!!
@@boywithprostheticarms3408 hateful much?? Literally who hurt you dude lmao
Why did you turn off the comments on your old videos? Did they bother you with notifications or something?
Came for the Payday...2 years ago BUT stayed for the interesting, well made, essay type videos!
aah how i missed your videos!
I'd rate the video a solid 8 out of 10 just by the writing and execution! I really appreciate the time taking into sitting sources, and I found it phenomenal you where able to bounce back between anti-capitalist meanings when needed, and right back into your criticism of the game!
I would suggest next time compering games that do these themes correctly, if any are to be thought of, heck you could pull a Jacob Geller and bring up shows and film! Non the less wonderful video!
So that's what you've had in the Crock-Pot. Well worth the wait, very well made video!
Well I wasn't expecting to see this channel in my sub feed today
Glad you're back though
great vid connor i really enjoyed it
Fantastic video!
I love this game I've been playing it since It was alpha and the story within it was amazing but I always wished I had some voice I mean you have the option to pick a voice and hearing your cutter respond even if it was short responses would have been great
Wonderful vid!
That was a pretty insightful video
PLS MOAR CONTENT LIKE THIS
Great vid!
Okay this is your best video.
Damn that's a nuanced take. (Loving the look btw) Seeing how you highlighted Hardspace's issues, it makes me think of Papers Please. Like, every decision to guard your job prolongs your game, but there's several really good decisions that cut the game short to make a statement about what a nation with strict borders might value over a more humane cause. I never got deep enough into Hardspace to see where it went, and I just assumed the empty-huskness would've remained to let you think about what the gameplay and framing alone alludes to. So thanks for taking us home to the ending, that's crazy about the lack of systemic changes in its biggest moments.
i used to watch you as a kid, what the hell happened man
Loved it connor
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Really good points! I played Hardpsace when it was in early access, when there was only the first few beats of story. It was actually decent, and felt a bit like an audio book that I got to occasionally listen to while I worked. Seeing how it got implemented in the full game, though... I'm disappointed. IMO, they either should've tried to stick with the audiobook format throughout (maybe moved the people to a different company that you got to watch) and take the hit on the effectiveness of their commentary, or make things way more immersive. I really liked your idea of having the PC be Kaito - on top of what you mentioned, it would give them the chance to make their points clear through an inner monologue from Kaito, or maybe a journal.
The only thing I really disagree with is your criticism of the after game. It's after the story mode, and as such I don't really think it bears much weight. Completely removing most levels of challenge would leave the people who came for the gameplay instead of the commentary feeling disappointed that they got no reward (except for the scary red number going away, which is AWFUL - in my time playing early access, clawing my way out of debt felt like at least semi-legitimate progress, taking it away after is like removing the points system from old NES games) and the game becoming objectively easier. The game definitely needed more content for after the game, but I don't think removing the challenge of a time limit is the answer.
Still, really solid video! Love your content, Connor.
Nice Hair Connor :)
Forgot you made youtube vids. Jk conar the shaw has been epic and will be epic
What is this thing talking to me and how tf did I come across this video anyway.
So it's kind of like the Truffaut Effect. Like how you can't actually make an anti-war movie. Because a film by its very definition must be a compelling visual image, which means the war must be depicted in a compelling manner.
So I think you're not giving enough consideration to the one point in the story where you do interact with it, Industrial Action. You don't ever have to do it. You can just keep your head down and keep working and nothing will ever happen to you. Whether by design or by accident, the game has centered the player as the catalyst for the movement.
connor my beloved
I wish they just... didnt do the story like most of us Early Access players rallyed for.
We just wanted more ships not some story that is just not done well, Most of the Early access had no new ships which is the NAME sake of the game.
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Excellent stuff! I'm a loooong time watcher and this is probably the best thing you've ever made. Please, absolutely do get more political
Welcome back bro!
heavily disagree. people tend to play video games to escape reality, not to be reminded of how awful it is, so pushing the political message more would make most folks want to play it less. Hardspace, in my opinion, is a perfect balance, it has it's political undertones and story on the side, while keeping the core gameplay in tact. y'know, the part you probably bought the game for. remove the story entirely and it's still a fun space game where you tear ships apart.
it's been shown many times before, games with bad story but solid gameplay (Battlefield, Chivalry) tend to survive a lot better than games with good story but bad gameplay (pretty much any walking sim). as much as I love story games (Oneshot is my absolute number one favorite of all time, and i usually really dislike RPG puzzle games) the gameplay should really come first, so I don't believe sacrificing gameplay for the story, as you seem to be suggesting, is a very good idea...
Pog video
this is.... really good???
like, really, *really* good???
My personal favourite example of anti-capitalism in gaming is Cruelty Squad. The game is a disgusting biopunk mess of broken textures, some of the most vile sounds the human ear can handle and more. Similar to Hardspace, death has to be paid for, but death is also nonexistent within the world. People pay to live, but dying removes your ability to die, severing your divine light. There is not end to the megacorp hellspace that exists within the world.
Words cannot describe the game, go play Cruelty Squad.
this kinda funny because the developer isnt anti capitalist, he's just finnish
Ludonarrative dissonance:
the conflict between a video game's narrative told through the story and the narrative told through the gameplay.
Have to disagree with you, lets take the idea of playing kai. Reality is a mess because we don't have agency unless we make it. The game giving us a forced choice is no choice at all. Having an NPC make a choice lets the story show the consequences they want to teach about. In a game already full of heavy handed moralizing, giving the player a choice and then punishing them for that choice only dissociates that player from it.
Hey…
Are you still good after that one “incident” with doom? You really didn’t deserve all that hate.
A time stamp for when spoiler warning ends would be nice. I still haven't finished the game but would like to at some point.
And now, a bit of rambling:
I wonder if like to dislike ration that return youtube dislikes shows me is accurate for this video... On an unrelated note, I like how Abigail Thorn always playfully jokes about her transgender situation, even if the video in question is not really connected to the topic.
And a little bit closer to subject: it does look jarring when you switch to camera, especially since I'm used to hearing your voice from behind the screen from the payday 2 days. It's also curious that you don't bother girlvoicing in your videos. I wonder if you do this because you don't feel the need to, or is it because you feel it would alienate even more of your audience. But, as I say for myself, it would be a shame to trade your usual voice with all of its range to just one voice.
my voice will change from day to day based on how i feel, but overall i don't feel a need to change it that much. maybe if i was a girl i'd feel that way but i just like the body type i have and my voice too :>
@@ConnorShawVA I'm pleased to know the reason your voice is what I'm used to is internal.
Games discuss capitalism in a cringey establishment friendly way that also panders to silly people
Play Cruelty Squad. That game is not establishment friendly. It is a vile putrid criticism of the status quo and the future of capitalism, and it is fantastic.
@@Virgil-Arcanum Capitalism, as in, the real definition, where you have free market voluntary transactions, voluntary on all sides? Or do you mean the silly lumpenprole gas lighting definition of capitalism where it means rich mobsters who own the government get to do whatever they want and somehow the solution is to give more power to the government?
@@mickeymickey9914 ive always noticed that people who hate capitalism also hate government, but then how do they think communism/socialism works?
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*Arrives cuz of a doom vid*
*Not even a doom fan*
Have a Nice Day
*Refuses to Elaborate Further*
*Leaves*
Note: I will revisit this video to possibly watch it due to me being interested in political BULLSHIT.
Not watching now because reasons, but still I hope that tomorrow, when I watch this video, it won't be someone pointing at Fascism and saying "Capitalism".
it's not, but if it was, it wouldn't be wrong
@@TDOTCRFH4 Dammit. I am just 6 minutes in had the only thing I hear is:
"My physical senses perceive a market middled by the government of X country,
making the Economy Corporatist.
I will use the Bias of my brain to misinterpret the data and say >Capitalism Bad<
because I ignore the fact that
>things that Corporations do under Corporatism would make the same business fail under Capitalism because there would not be a Government covering its ass
Sir I don't know what your talking about dude It's a good game dude like man you gotta get idk what I'm even saying man I didn't even watch the video I just like commenting haha
So funny literally laughing 😑 get over yourself loser
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Brain rot
Dead channel
Channel already dead 😂