Life really do be a highway (Heading Out

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КОМЕНТАРІ • 164

  • @TheMrTatero
    @TheMrTatero 22 дні тому +42

    “A lone wanderer would make an excellent ring-bearer” said the rockstar
    Fucking what lmao

  • @mauriaagria
    @mauriaagria 22 дні тому +136

    lmao people are RIPPING this game up

    • @HackionSTx
      @HackionSTx 20 днів тому

      Doctors HATE HIM!!! Click here to discover WHY!

  • @meowmixone
    @meowmixone 22 дні тому +40

    He’s right behind you. Shia lebouf. He’s gaining on you. Shia lebouf.

    • @samlol4569
      @samlol4569 22 дні тому

      Lmaooo once i read this i cannot un hear it +2

  • @cptnd3851
    @cptnd3851 22 дні тому +193

    "You get out of your car and see someone doing something not socially acceptable."
    damn that's crazy

    • @StagDad_
      @StagDad_ 22 дні тому +11

      Socially acceptable is based on your personal view of the situation, the game is geared towards events that are divisive on the individual level

    • @geometry_quiz
      @geometry_quiz 22 дні тому +7

      ​@StagDad_ wow its crazy how smart you are

    • @anond2015
      @anond2015 20 днів тому

      ​@@StagDad_ Yeah, so your choices are to actively participate as an angsty, jobless, leftist anarchist - or do nothing. Really makes you think.

  • @MauveGun
    @MauveGun 22 дні тому +51

    This is YIIK levels writing, sheesh

  • @edgarclot3905
    @edgarclot3905 22 дні тому +121

    I wish bro could make fun of the game as it deserves

    • @a2rhombus2
      @a2rhombus2 22 дні тому +25

      He will in a year or so when a chatter brings it up again

  • @dsi24
    @dsi24 22 дні тому +35

    Imagining the alternate universe where NL was a Minecraft Andy. He'd probably have recently started hosting his own server again...

    • @Medsas
      @Medsas 22 дні тому +4

      the IP reveal threw him off 😂

  • @ryansch682
    @ryansch682 22 дні тому +80

    I gotta say, this really seems like one of the games of all time
    edit: also I think Interstate Jackalope is a really bad name

    • @TonyTheTGR
      @TonyTheTGR 21 день тому +2

      Interstate Jackalope is a good band name, at least

  • @markpeterson1645
    @markpeterson1645 22 дні тому +242

    This game could be pretty cool but this edgy writing is hard to digest.

    • @XxZeldaxXXxLinkxX
      @XxZeldaxXXxLinkxX 22 дні тому +89

      It also seems to be badly advertised. It presents itself as a "roguelite inspired": driving game but it plays more like a visual novel with the occasional driving mini-game

    • @eewweeppkk
      @eewweeppkk 22 дні тому +54

      Seems like a hate letter to the devs' collective dads.

    • @pckables
      @pckables 22 дні тому +25

      @@XxZeldaxXXxLinkxX Yeah, it seems like it has the same problem that games like Hand of Fate have, forgetting that roguelites need items/buffs that actually change and affect the gameplay.

    • @deadPr0tag
      @deadPr0tag 22 дні тому +6

      at least the visuals/music are pretty nice, shame the other stuff kinda ruins it

    • @ricetotherescue
      @ricetotherescue 22 дні тому +2

      @@XxZeldaxXXxLinkxX yeah it kinda reminds me of that monster prom/roadtrip game that i forgot the name of. that game was pretty popular and it's a whole series now on multiple platforms, and it feels pretty similar to this, so i think you're right that if they had marketed it differently it wouldn't feel like such a disappointment

  • @vinaymalut5702
    @vinaymalut5702 22 дні тому +134

    Driving too simple for racing fans. Resource management too simple for resource management fans. CYOA elements too simple for CYOA fans. Who is this for?

    • @ThulerPedro15
      @ThulerPedro15 22 дні тому +74

      Well, Persona games are basically "we stitched a mediocre rpg to a mediocre visual novel" so sometimes the whole is greater than the sum

    • @BeansEnjoyer911
      @BeansEnjoyer911 22 дні тому +25

      You're kinda cooking with the logic here ​@@ThulerPedro15

    • @Thatonefuckinguy
      @Thatonefuckinguy 22 дні тому

      @@ThulerPedro15 Wow bro, this is coming from someone who has clearly never played a persona game ever or has basically zero taste in video games.

    • @101lwx
      @101lwx 22 дні тому +56

      ​@@ThulerPedro15 >guy who's never played persona and gets all their opinions from social media

    • @Thatonefuckinguy
      @Thatonefuckinguy 22 дні тому

      Ya know, casuals do exist, and this game largely screams "telltale games but with driving."

  • @lafrasjohanuys
    @lafrasjohanuys 22 дні тому +31

    lmao at writing "nazi" in marker on a dude's forehead who has a giant iron cross tattoo

    • @JD2jr.
      @JD2jr. 20 днів тому +5

      Holy shit does that happen? I got to the "radio host is Alex Jones but the writers haven't talked to anyone outside their downtown apartment complex in their lives" and stopped.

  • @idsappples
    @idsappples 22 дні тому +13

    Living for Nl refusing to weave between traffic or slow down and rather run off road to instantly crash into the car in front of him, pogged content

    • @KeepPoundingThatMass
      @KeepPoundingThatMass 22 дні тому

      He just accepts his fate as he approaches a patch of traffic, going "guys guys guys" as he smashes into the back of a car going 70mph over the speed limit.

  • @toritwopointoh
    @toritwopointoh 22 дні тому +8

    Honestly seems fun and has a cool style but this writing is so self serious its crazy

  • @gooseum
    @gooseum 22 дні тому +27

    "interstate jackelope" has gotta be one of the worst names they've ever given a video game protag. the writing in this game is also just... not great

  • @plouiswags1659
    @plouiswags1659 22 дні тому +14

    The Interstate Jello-Shot

  • @nachoman4ever
    @nachoman4ever 22 дні тому +12

    I like the idea and style. The choices need a lot of work. Writing is fine not the best. Im just under an hour into the video, and it seems the driving courses could use a lil more zest (maybe make detours riskier with more obstacles)

  • @cptnd3851
    @cptnd3851 22 дні тому +100

    the writing hurts

    • @avromostlund5166
      @avromostlund5166 22 дні тому +16

      "hoOldAWn holdAWN, this is Iyit foLkS, Dis is tha hero we alwayz wanted but nevur deservered"

    • @mesut3284
      @mesut3284 22 дні тому +12

      its soooooo corny. also, i'm trying to escape politics and the current state of the world, not get brownnosed in it through my favourite form of entertainment

    • @professorfrog7181
      @professorfrog7181 22 дні тому

      ​​​​​​@@mesut3284 fym politics, do you see activities associated with government rule in game? Did it ask you to vote on legislation? Stop using that word in this ridicolous manner.
      Also, no one is forcing you to play this war of mine, you can stick to fortnite and fall guys but "social issues and philosophical discourse dont belong in MY favourite pasttime" is not a point, you are not tied to a chair and you are not forced to play every game that comes out if its not for you
      Thankfully, because this game sucks balls

    • @willbaker8505
      @willbaker8505 22 дні тому +11

      ​@@mesut3284too bad, thats what its there for

    • @missbelled6700
      @missbelled6700 22 дні тому

      @@mesut3284 -2 sorry that art deals with the real world ya big baby

  • @ThaChildishOne
    @ThaChildishOne 22 дні тому +9

    Wake up honey the vancouver canucks actually good this year

  • @ILicence
    @ILicence 20 днів тому +8

    What's with the heavy handed social commentary?

  • @edgarclot3905
    @edgarclot3905 22 дні тому +35

    It just gets worse and worse and I'm only 30 minutes in

    • @PickUps
      @PickUps 22 дні тому +4

      I couldnt even make it that far

    • @xiricada7121
      @xiricada7121 22 дні тому +1

      I’m speeding the video at 22min… the voice acting and the dialogue are so bad…

    • @ghostbeats3214
      @ghostbeats3214 21 день тому +2

      20 mins in and I wanna switch to balatro vids (I hate balatro)

    • @anond2015
      @anond2015 20 днів тому +3

      ​@@xiricada7121 The voice actor is good, but the writing is weak sauce.

    • @edgarclot3905
      @edgarclot3905 20 днів тому

      @@anond2015 the Darkest Dungeon narrator couldn't save this crap

  • @RancorousSea
    @RancorousSea 22 дні тому +95

    A lot of ads recently, a little worried that he's got some sort of disease and is doing all of this to leave his family millions of daughters but at the cost of his own soul. Call it Breaking Ad.

    • @10100viperman
      @10100viperman 22 дні тому +18

      breaking dad

    • @DietArdee
      @DietArdee 22 дні тому +5

      NL is not going Bruce Willis on us.

    • @deetsitmeisterjd
      @deetsitmeisterjd 22 дні тому

      ​@@DietArdee"I see dead people"
      Something something insert topical relevant joke relating to Bruce Willis and that Kendrick Lamar diss thing and the sixth sense bar in that one track 👍

    • @paulunga
      @paulunga 22 дні тому

      I wanna leave my family millions of daughters too.

    • @fimmywa
      @fimmywa 22 дні тому +3

      @@StagDad_you’re the only person living in a reality where this comment isn’t satire brother

  • @Danzey120
    @Danzey120 22 дні тому +14

    Go back to sleep honey

  • @whatupboo5512
    @whatupboo5512 22 дні тому +3

    ok if this came out 9 years ago i would've thought this game was cool as hell

  • @iconica9516
    @iconica9516 22 дні тому +37

    the first 20 minutes and almost no driving but every event has been mundane, do X, or do Y, you get A and lose B
    it's a bit uninspired
    few minutes after that and the two radio stations so far have just been "stereotype............." and that's all they wrote

  • @aminazinum
    @aminazinum 22 дні тому +6

    That would be so cool if there was secret Left-Right Game quest or ending.

    • @anond2015
      @anond2015 20 днів тому +4

      Nope, it's be an angsty leftist or do nothing.

  • @TonyTheTGR
    @TonyTheTGR 21 день тому +2

    WAIT -
    The opening sequence of this game is taking the I-75 from Detroit to the US-20?!
    I'm feeling personally attacked by this game already. O.O

  • @itsmeBR1AN
    @itsmeBR1AN 22 дні тому +7

    Life is a highway I wanna ride it all night long

  • @nothda2211
    @nothda2211 21 день тому +3

    how do you have a driving game with a racing mechanic that starts near Indianapolis and not have the Indy 500

  • @SaintSabre
    @SaintSabre 22 дні тому +5

    fortuitous timing

  • @porkloin1826
    @porkloin1826 22 дні тому +3

    19:08 average new yorker mindset

  • @Mr_Fission
    @Mr_Fission 20 днів тому +5

    The voice acting and writing is really hard to tolerate. The protag seems like someone I would not want to be friends with.

  • @hinapuff
    @hinapuff 21 день тому

    the french class jokes got me. hooooly

  • @AdamGaffney96
    @AdamGaffney96 22 дні тому +2

    4:00 Me looking at my 2% mortgage that expires in October. Shit is too real eggman.

  • @maddmaxx5831
    @maddmaxx5831 20 днів тому

    31:38 youre talking about the great race. It's a race where oldsmobile type cars try to hit an exact time while reaching specific locations.

    • @maddmaxx5831
      @maddmaxx5831 20 днів тому

      I do it with my dad, I'm the naviGator.

  • @Magresta10
    @Magresta10 22 дні тому

    no road that goes through connecticut? truly a drivers paradise

  • @sether255
    @sether255 17 днів тому

    New ab workout just dropped

  • @smaxlh
    @smaxlh 22 дні тому +2

    Grand Rapids mentioned ‼️

  • @beeeennnnnnn
    @beeeennnnnnn 22 дні тому +1

    I just shifted into gear baby

  • @punk105
    @punk105 21 день тому

    This is actually me driving up 65 through indianapolis everyday to work. And as NL said, I am not to be passed 😂😂 luckily it's 3 lanes

  • @ryceborzym1402
    @ryceborzym1402 21 день тому

    One thing i hate seeing is when cops flip their lights just to drive through the red light

  • @JJ44285
    @JJ44285 20 днів тому

    You sound congested, and I feel ya man. Allergies this year are horrible.

  • @ghostbeats3214
    @ghostbeats3214 16 днів тому

    Why does he slam the brakes to switch gears

  • @danser_theplayer01
    @danser_theplayer01 22 дні тому

    4:59 5:27
    record time.

  • @kylethedruid7949
    @kylethedruid7949 22 дні тому +1

    Should've tapped Shilah smh

  • @TheMrTatero
    @TheMrTatero 22 дні тому +1

    Narrator sounds like the cuil theory guy

    • @fartgarfunkeljr
      @fartgarfunkeljr 22 дні тому

      Holy shit I haven't thought about that in so long

  • @bigman3274
    @bigman3274 22 дні тому

    he's up so late tonight

  • @JunJunisKing
    @JunJunisKing 22 дні тому +7

    Sometimes NL riffs a little too much, too fast, and it very much resembles that one community episode where pierce hung out with Troy and abed and watched kick puncher with them.

  • @taham33
    @taham33 22 дні тому

    So the dog hater is Ryan's guy, huh...

  • @shares5
    @shares5 22 дні тому +9

    truly awful writing, its so cringy, i cant watch past 10minutes

  • @ahmadburhanhabibi
    @ahmadburhanhabibi 22 дні тому +3

    I dont understand what this game is about, no offense.

  • @natkin6595
    @natkin6595 22 дні тому +1

    This game is critical thinking bait for sure get that bag

  • @samdavidson6274
    @samdavidson6274 22 дні тому +1

    Digging it

  • @a2rhombus2
    @a2rhombus2 22 дні тому +2

    Road trip driving game :)
    Just another roguelite :(

  • @mschuhler
    @mschuhler 18 днів тому +2

    NL isnt allowed to say it, but we get the gist; this game sucks hot shit

  • @professorfrog7181
    @professorfrog7181 22 дні тому +11

    Wow they did it, they crafted the most boring game in history and wrote the worst dialogue for it

  • @SikGamer70
    @SikGamer70 22 дні тому +13

    Me when I armchair critique indie games trying new things in the UA-cam comments section 🤓

  • @-ZeroRed-
    @-ZeroRed- 21 день тому

    My favorite egg has no money to improve the acoustic in his room. Tough times.

  • @tomaszt5050
    @tomaszt5050 22 дні тому +3

    Ugh, this writing...

  • @TheDarkShenzi
    @TheDarkShenzi 18 днів тому

    Thank you for playing this game so I know not to.

  • @AliveChay
    @AliveChay 22 дні тому +11

    Wow this may be the worst game he’s been sponsored to play….

  • @blakebowers1692
    @blakebowers1692 22 дні тому +1

    This game is Trash. Great Stream

  • @ianshukis7276
    @ianshukis7276 22 дні тому +2

    The studio seems like nice people and I get what going on here but this isn’t for me.

  • @Bananeisafree
    @Bananeisafree 22 дні тому

    Hehehe Discount Logan Cunningham is discount :p

  • @LunyDR
    @LunyDR 22 дні тому +2

    Yeah not watching all this. Sorry. Game's not good. Writing is abysmal.

  • @samlastname5839
    @samlastname5839 22 дні тому +3

    Cool game looks good

  • @135Pandemonium
    @135Pandemonium 22 дні тому +2

    Please bring SAP back!

  • @Datboyo
    @Datboyo 22 дні тому +1

    I fuck with this and would be down to watch again forsure

  • @mypocketshurt646
    @mypocketshurt646 22 дні тому

    Me when im first in nl comments

  • @thatdarnskag5043
    @thatdarnskag5043 22 дні тому +16

    I want to tie a conservative gaming youtuber (à la Quartering or the average Kick streamer) to a chair and force them to play this game beginning to end. Is that too mean? That could be too mean.

    • @deadPr0tag
      @deadPr0tag 22 дні тому +5

      i think they’d get more frustrated at the repetitiveness rather than the stereotyping (saying this as a non-conservative)

    • @StagDad_
      @StagDad_ 22 дні тому +4

      The options are divisive on purpose, it’s a personality-based adventure - the choices you may think are no brainers are viewed equally as obvious from the other side of the fence.
      A conservative player (whose to say NL is not) would be equally as relaxed picking the opposite options to yourself because it is a _video game_

    • @calypso4882
      @calypso4882 22 дні тому +1

      If you've watched NL for any reasonable length of time it's pretty easy to discern his politics in a general sense. Obviously no one is all one thing

  • @gothenmosph5151
    @gothenmosph5151 22 дні тому +14

    The writing is awful. 😂 Its like liberal edgelords from r/im14andthisisdeep were summoned to write this. If youre going to lampoon something make it funny. And i say this as a liberal who thought gamergate was a bunch of conservative idiots overreacting. Or better yet keep ypur politics out of your video games

    • @anond2015
      @anond2015 20 днів тому

      If they wanted to insert controversial topics, they could have at least used a choose-your-side mechanic like Knights of the Old Republic 2.
      When the guy was sold the counterfeit Bible, I expected an option to stall/entertain the criminal. Lose some money to buy him drinks until the cops arrive.

  • @PickUps
    @PickUps 22 дні тому +1

    This game seems really horrible. Im all for those sponsor dollar my dude, but there has to be better options out there than this.

  • @benlavine6259
    @benlavine6259 22 дні тому +14

    still better than the balatro vids

    • @Fummy007
      @Fummy007 19 днів тому +1

      wrong again

  • @wordsandthing
    @wordsandthing 22 дні тому +3

    387 views in 13 min.
    Washed

  • @edwardstorey2278
    @edwardstorey2278 22 дні тому +1

    Unfortunately a terrible game

  • @DeathArcher-ip2gf
    @DeathArcher-ip2gf 22 дні тому +4

    Commenters when game doesn't have rainbow rocket launcher gatling gun to blow up other cars:

  • @DeathArcher-ip2gf
    @DeathArcher-ip2gf 21 день тому +2

    I love this game, the banter goes crazy and the sound track and radio slaps the scenery is also beautiful too

    • @fudgyboo
      @fudgyboo 20 днів тому +5

      Found the dev

  • @nsjhdhdhdbhsudgvdydb7751
    @nsjhdhdhdbhsudgvdydb7751 22 дні тому +2

    Can people stop complaining about the writing. Its literally fine. Video games just like any other art media should be able to explore politics and social commentary.

    • @lxjoe96
      @lxjoe96 22 дні тому +8

      it's cringey and 2-dimensional. Metal Gear games explore politics heavily in every game, you know why nobody complains about them? Because they're actually fun and the messages are interesting. The dialogue in this game reads like a celebrity twitter feed.

  • @elii6441
    @elii6441 22 дні тому +1

    This game is too political

  • @minislag
    @minislag 22 дні тому +2

    70 challengers are so beautiful