The perfect Joel game. It frustrates the audience as much as it does him. It's very mundane and repetetive, only Joel would just play this to the end. It's a game you never heard about before and will never see again after this.
Despite the horribly slow pacing, this game genuinely has really nice cinematography and camera work in the cutscenes and I don’t know how to feel about that.
especially when mr giraffe enters loves home. I think thats the only time in the game where the slow pacing is warranted and had me on the edge of my seat. Everywhere besides that the slow pacing is insaningly boring and drags out every scene.
The sad part is that I think the cutscenes would actually be quite well paced and interesting... if they were 2 or 3 times faster. They have a genuine sense of cinematography and direction to them. The awful player-hating gameplay doesn't help either.
I'm torn between seeing this as a genuine attempt at a surreal spooky game or just an overly convoluted shitpost that didn't know when to give in and say "haha, you thought this was spooky, nah, fuck you :)"
Beyond the horror theme, isn't that first part so sad? Like this poor guy with a medical condition risks his life to meet his favourite singer, gets kicked in the crotch then hit by a bus, then falls into a trap and gets severed while still holding the flowers he brought
@@shentt8837 maybe, I think that aside of the random stuff dialogue is slow as hell you have to wait for a while after reading it, and so the game feels kinda boring at times it must be a turn-off for some people, gameplay-wise I would never play it but I understand that some people like the gameplay.
the weirdest part of this whole experience, both watching the video and looking up other parts of the dev's online presence, is that I genuinely can't tell if Samir Khatib is taking the piss or if he's Matt Dickie 2: Electic Boogaloo.
You have a low humour tolerance - which is great. People complaining about "bad humour" is just like complaining about you being drunk after one beer. It's like "Shut the fuck up, you're just jealous because you need much more for your fix junkie" Those people are jealous because they live a fucked up depressing live. TL;DR: If you're able to laugh at anything - that is a gift. Everyone who critizes you should just shut up.
God, this game was ALMOST something neat but the pacing was just so painful. There's stuff I like in there, and I wouldn't mind more stuff from the dev if there was significant refinement, but I'm surprised Joel put up with it for as long as he did.
I think the creepy, awkward pacing was the only good thing about the game. Gameplay was really bad. This game obviously wasn't meant to be "good", but frustrating, weird and creepy.
The pacing is that way intentionally. You cannot possibly see those incredibly drawn out pauses of silence as anything else but intentional. I really like this game, and I think it is something neat and awesome, but it’s obviously not for everyone, and it’s not meant to be an amazing game, but I think it is very good at creating unease and surprise. I think this game was in fact meticulously crafted to be this way, and I love it.
I won't lie, this game is enjoyable in its weirdness. I hope the dev's future efforts will keep these crazy graphics and atmospheric music while improving the gameplay.
@@alphalax7747 Are you now leaving replies to every single comment left on this video just to tell us all how much you hate this game? Ah... thanks for reminding me I should avoid Joel's weird fanbase at all costs.
The dev is also a great guy too. He is now working on 3 new horror titles which are in the same universe called “samer hills”. And he recently like joel said released the Debug on itch.io but he also made potato thriller on steam, its an awful great game
It gives me the same kind of feeling as M. Dickie games, where the creator is so self-absorbed that they think everything they do is genius, and the final product is shit, but it's shit with heart behind it.
I feel like this is just some extremely dumbass pretentious shit that the def made just to get argentino cuz its different and WaCkY and """"deep""''' you can even see undertale inspirations with the way the characters talk and the sense of humour of the overall game
M. Dickie has more charm because he's so disconnected from Internet pop culture and just focuses on his niche hobbies or weird shit. There's also the fact that he keeps reusing assets and coding so his games have spaghetti programming that makes crazy shit happen.
Journal Pages, or exposition items like them exist for the isolated horror aspect. For example, Amnesia the Dark Descent has you alone... so it has to tell it via the world... and items. Otherwise you become dependent on other characters which forces a different narrative. Basically it is just a style, and journal pages became super popular due to Amnesia's starting success... till it changed into a super hero magic power pig fighter alien baby game.
@@ShoesShoesington I really didn't like the first stream of this game when Joel quit out of frustration the chat kept pressuring Joel to keep playing when it was obvious he didn't like the game and was bored. obviously he finished the game but :/ cmon
Idk why chat hated this game so much. It literally made the perfect Joel stream. It was stupid hard and frustrating, it had CBT, the story felt like a fever dream, and it was unintentionally funny. 10/10 game.
well youre watching it from the future, as it's happening live you cannot skip ahead the frustrating parts, cant know if all this repetition will have ANY payoff, or whether joel wont shaft a more interesting game for this because of his perseverance.
I was wondering when another video of Giraffe Town was gonna be recommended to me. First time i saw this game was from Friends Without Benefits and godamn this game is a roller coaster of insanity and fever dreams
This game's actually cool as shit and brilliant. I fucking love that david lynch shit. That type of horror, where it's just unsettling, uncomfortable, weird, dreamlike, a bit awkward, maybe with some far too long pauses. That type of shit where there's no gore and no spooky jumpscare monster, but everything's just... off, and there's an omnipresent sense of anxiety and vague dread, the feeling of a nightmare or a bad drug trip, that's legit my favorite type of horror. Honestly, except for how long and samey that road part at the beginning is, how many enemies there are at the Silent Hill part, and how much goddamn health the final boss has, I'd even say the gameplay's alright.
I would definitely reduce the number of enemies in the bloody grate area. A good thing a developer can do is playtest their own game. If it is too hard for themselves to beat, even when they know all the ins and outs, then the game is probably too hard for most people to beat.
I remember when gettin' to the After Credits during the stream, with how sloggish everything was and how the meta humor made me completely Stone Faced, I randomly, (But appropriately), put on the clip of Tom Servo screaming "End" and put it on loop until it was all over...
Man, the plot of the game, I mean, the part where Giraffe is searching for Love and find her, it is very close to the plot of one short story "Okkerville river", written by one russian authoress, Tatiana Tolstaya. Even the atmosphere is close enough to the book.
watched this stream with a black and white filter over top (colors are too exciting for my monkey brain when i'm about to go to bed) and i liked it way more, crazy
Wow this game is amazing, though I very thoroughly agree with Joel on the pacing. I love this sort of artsy game and I hate how many of them seem to consider an extremely slow pace "extra artsy".
28:17 Yo Jorbil, I think the best Guns mod to MC is Techguns, there's a lot of weapons and there's a M16 too, you have to gather materials and build machinery to process things like titanium or uranium and it's a really fun mod, there's zombies with guns too and there's a chainsaw just like in Doom Hope you check it out!
1:25:40 Yeah, Lidl has a bunch of these bootleg products from what I remember 1:27:00 Yeah, I remember that horrible song Also, Rest in peace, Big Dog :(
@@tigertoxins584 most people on the internet with anime profile pics and japanese names (especially with parentheses with another english name or translation) are just weebs and are not japanese.
“make a better game and then critique” is a rubbish argument. i hate that shit. “you can’t criticize food if you’re not a chef” “you can’t criticize a teacher if you haven’t taught” etc.
You can criticize gameplay if you have played a lot of games. You can criticize cinematics if you have seen a lot of cinematics. Protip: You can find out if someone is a competent critic by their use of the following words: "Rip-off" "Inspired by" "Boring, like any other" "Uses tried and testet strategies" "Inovative" "Needlessly complex"
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"only 30 minutes left" with over two and a half hours left.
It's fucking scary how long this stream was
1:28:22 "There was some other thing i wanted to show off before we ended" :v
Wouldn't be a Joel stream without him saying "This'll be over soon guys" with literal hours left in the video.
3:16:40
Birds outside Joel's window get meaner everyday
Watching this live was like being in a never ending fever dream
*Like* a never ending fever dream? :)
And really fucking boring as well
yes
more like a 5 hour nightmare
I watched it for a hour before school
It was...
an experience.
The perfect Joel game.
It frustrates the audience as much as it does him.
It's very mundane and repetetive, only Joel would just play this to the end.
It's a game you never heard about before and will never see again after this.
Exactly why Sonic Forces was one of the best recent series of his
This is why i love jole he really dose beat most of this garbage, never forget waldo
i mean..*i* found the game pretty unforgettable.
I actually heard about this one before, it was actually played on GTLive, but I don't think they ever finished it
@@mitspeithetcMatt patt had to watch a video of the end
Joel : u guys watching on yt got it easy! You can skip all you want!
Me : *no.*
True
Same
Yo right timing I was looking at the comment when Joel say you guys watching on it got it easy!you can skip all you want
Despite the horribly slow pacing, this game genuinely has really nice cinematography and camera work in the cutscenes and I don’t know how to feel about that.
especially when mr giraffe enters loves home. I think thats the only time in the game where the slow pacing is warranted and had me on the edge of my seat. Everywhere besides that the slow pacing is insaningly boring and drags out every scene.
1:03:31 "What does a clown sound like?"
Proceeds to talk in normal voice
I mean is he wrong tho
"resident evil six logo"
"don't bring that up please"
best bit
1:47:39, for anyone curious.
No
WE'RE GONNA MAKE PLATFORMS FIFTEEN FEET IN THE AIR AND CALL IT "A GIRAFFES NIGHT OUT IN MANHATTAN"
You sound like you might either be a maniac or a man who runs IOWA'S LARGEST WILDLIFE PRESERVE.
WE'RE GONNA PUT IT ON A DVD.
What
AND WE'RE GONNA BOMBARD EVERY DVD WITH SOLAR RADIATION
You sound like DON WILSON
3:18:56 the first time I ever made Joel laugh in chat
the highest of honors
i salute you
ok you want a cookie? or my fart?
@@nogidoki3325 Both are tasty
proud of u
If this was localized for Latin America, it would be *El Profesor Jirafales Town.*
i hate you so much
Professor Longaniza
I cant believe this--
*Mestre Linguiça
@@CanaldoZenny based dub
The sad part is that I think the cutscenes would actually be quite well paced and interesting... if they were 2 or 3 times faster. They have a genuine sense of cinematography and direction to them.
The awful player-hating gameplay doesn't help either.
I'm torn between seeing this as a genuine attempt at a surreal spooky game or just an overly convoluted shitpost that didn't know when to give in and say "haha, you thought this was spooky, nah, fuck you :)"
@@plazmasyt I don't think someone could make something with this much effort without it coming from somewhere genuine.
@@plazmasyt I feel like it's a bit of both
@@plazmasyt aaaaaa
@@alphalax7747 Now *that's* the kinda commentary I'm here for. XD
Beyond the horror theme, isn't that first part so sad? Like this poor guy with a medical condition risks his life to meet his favourite singer, gets kicked in the crotch then hit by a bus, then falls into a trap and gets severed while still holding the flowers he brought
@Man in the line This game is way better than Celeste.
I think its too exagerated to the point that it cant be taken seriously
@@paps3841 taking this game seriously is what makes ppl dislike it
@Man in the line Celeste is the biggest example of a game that goes nowhere with its premise
@@shentt8837 maybe, I think that aside of the random stuff dialogue is slow as hell you have to wait for a while after reading it, and so the game feels kinda boring at times it must be a turn-off for some people, gameplay-wise I would never play it but I understand that some people like the gameplay.
Watch without skiping for the full experience
Or don't for a good experience
the weirdest part of this whole experience, both watching the video and looking up other parts of the dev's online presence, is that I genuinely can't tell if Samir Khatib is taking the piss or if he's Matt Dickie 2: Electic Boogaloo.
Definitely takin a piss
this guy made Potato Thriller, he absolutely knows what he's doing
@@Mate_Antal_Zoltan this guy also goes hard on NFT, he's sniffing his own farts
@@CWorm not all NFT projects are bad by default, it's just 99.99% of them are made as scams
My sense of humour is absolute garbage so even without tongo that TV scene on its own is absolutely hysterical to me.
You have a low humour tolerance - which is great.
People complaining about "bad humour" is just like complaining about you being drunk after one beer.
It's like "Shut the fuck up, you're just jealous because you need much more for your fix junkie"
Those people are jealous because they live a fucked up depressing live.
TL;DR: If you're able to laugh at anything - that is a gift.
Everyone who critizes you should just shut up.
@@googleuser9383 Finally someone said it! I completely agree, having a low humor tolerance is a blessing that most people sadly look down upon.
God, this game was ALMOST something neat but the pacing was just so painful. There's stuff I like in there, and I wouldn't mind more stuff from the dev if there was significant refinement, but I'm surprised Joel put up with it for as long as he did.
I think the creepy, awkward pacing was the only good thing about the game.
Gameplay was really bad.
This game obviously wasn't meant to be "good", but frustrating, weird and creepy.
The pacing is that way intentionally. You cannot possibly see those incredibly drawn out pauses of silence as anything else but intentional. I really like this game, and I think it is something neat and awesome, but it’s obviously not for everyone, and it’s not meant to be an amazing game, but I think it is very good at creating unease and surprise. I think this game was in fact meticulously crafted to be this way, and I love it.
this dude is on napoleon cake level layers of irony, i feel like i'm taking a glimpse into the mind of an interdimensional being
Has anyone noticed that recently Joel's streams on YT have had a part near the beginning where it repeats a section twice? For instance, 7:35.
31:53 has it too.
blame youtubes upload bugginess alot of uploaders are having the issue they have to edit out themselves and it consumes alot of time
@@ChilliDogDave How does UA-cam keep fucking up itself
Been happening for about a month on every stream.
Yeah at first I thought I was having a stroke in my sleep
I won't lie, this game is enjoyable in its weirdness. I hope the dev's future efforts will keep these crazy graphics and atmospheric music while improving the gameplay.
It's not
@@alphalax7747 Are you now leaving replies to every single comment left on this video just to tell us all how much you hate this game? Ah... thanks for reminding me I should avoid Joel's weird fanbase at all costs.
@@XelchanTheBrave the best UA-cam channels do have the worst comment sections after all
Same. It's not perfect but it has something that draws me towards it. I really like how it looks and it's atmosphere at times.
The dev is also a great guy too. He is now working on 3 new horror titles which are in the same universe called “samer hills”. And he recently like joel said released the Debug on itch.io but he also made potato thriller on steam, its an awful great game
this is it guys, the only new Silent Hill content we're ever gonna get
It gives me the same kind of feeling as M. Dickie games, where the creator is so self-absorbed that they think everything they do is genius, and the final product is shit, but it's shit with heart behind it.
ehh... I talked to the dev, and he seemed a fun guy.
I feel like this is just some extremely dumbass pretentious shit that the def made just to get argentino cuz its different and WaCkY and """"deep""''' you can even see undertale inspirations with the way the characters talk and the sense of humour of the overall game
chief it.... he knows
M. Dickie has more charm because he's so disconnected from Internet pop culture and just focuses on his niche hobbies or weird shit. There's also the fact that he keeps reusing assets and coding so his games have spaghetti programming that makes crazy shit happen.
@@alphalax7747 Text scroll noises were not invented by Undertale.
This is the Twin Peaks of video games
The Dark Souls of QWOP
This is the shitting of farting......
Journal Pages, or exposition items like them exist for the isolated horror aspect. For example, Amnesia the Dark Descent has you alone... so it has to tell it via the world... and items. Otherwise you become dependent on other characters which forces a different narrative.
Basically it is just a style, and journal pages became super popular due to Amnesia's starting success... till it changed into a super hero magic power pig fighter alien baby game.
I love it. It has many flaws but something about the atmosphere brings me back here every so often.
3:54:16 Frankly I was disappointed Samer Khatib wasn't one of the tools he used
This game had a weird feel-good undercurrent at times
I understand what you mean, but it’s also really damn horrific at others
The new silent hill is looking pretty good.
Kojumbo productions.
Samer hill*
Thank you, Joel. This was the most awful experience to witness live on stream. I hate it.
It was infuriating how shitty the game was, and how frustrated Joel was, it was 4 hours of just ughhh. At least mario 35 after was good
Stfu mango soda
@@mangosoda114 Ikr? Big agree
@@bananafanlol4470 :)
@@ShoesShoesington I really didn't like the first stream of this game when Joel quit out of frustration the chat kept pressuring Joel to keep playing when it was obvious he didn't like the game and was bored. obviously he finished the game but :/ cmon
3:52:38 a weapon to surpass MDickie
Oooooo, yis.
I wish there would be Mr.Giraffe being happy at the end, I can kinda relate to him
Idk why chat hated this game so much. It literally made the perfect Joel stream. It was stupid hard and frustrating, it had CBT, the story felt like a fever dream, and it was unintentionally funny. 10/10 game.
@GENESIS CUETO 1:18:18
well youre watching it from the future, as it's happening live you cannot skip ahead the frustrating parts, cant know if all this repetition will have ANY payoff, or whether joel wont shaft a more interesting game for this because of his perseverance.
I don’t know if I can do this again. FWOB already beat this bastard game, I watched all five hours...
I was right, this game makes me genuinely angry to see again.
Watching fwob playlist was one of the best sagas and adventures ive ever been through
I personally rewatch that entire video when it pops up in my recommended, just hearing their reactions to everything over again is always great
@@edragcaler same, FWOBs playthrough is still the best
Joel beat it faster than Cade, Don, Travis, and Jacob, proving that he is the ultimate hardcore gamer
Oh my God, yes! Giraffe Town is such a trip.
I was wondering when another video of Giraffe Town was gonna be recommended to me. First time i saw this game was from Friends Without Benefits and godamn this game is a roller coaster of insanity and fever dreams
This game's actually cool as shit and brilliant. I fucking love that david lynch shit.
That type of horror, where it's just unsettling, uncomfortable, weird, dreamlike, a bit awkward, maybe with some far too long pauses. That type of shit where there's no gore and no spooky jumpscare monster, but everything's just... off, and there's an omnipresent sense of anxiety and vague dread, the feeling of a nightmare or a bad drug trip, that's legit my favorite type of horror.
Honestly, except for how long and samey that road part at the beginning is, how many enemies there are at the Silent Hill part, and how much goddamn health the final boss has, I'd even say the gameplay's alright.
Exactly! I think the ‘bad’ design is even transcendent when it’s done in this way. It’s like the myth of Sisyphus lol
Simply press the *yump* button to *yump* . 1:11:25
This got reccomended quick
Holy shit, that second stream of this game... I think we all came away from it changed, Joel and chat...
As much I love Giraffe Town, The game could really use some patch and some updates to improve the game.
Probably be better as a book
I would definitely reduce the number of enemies in the bloody grate area.
A good thing a developer can do is playtest their own game. If it is too hard for themselves to beat, even when they know all the ins and outs, then the game is probably too hard for most people to beat.
I understand the part before the shoes but the shoes still kinda slippery.
I remember when gettin' to the After Credits during the stream, with how sloggish everything was and how the meta humor made me completely Stone Faced,
I randomly, (But appropriately), put on the clip of Tom Servo screaming "End" and put it on loop until it was all over...
3:42:27 This had me in tears.
at least the giraffe is hot
love that the most replayed part is after the obnoxiously long highway section
This game is actually too good for what it is
Man, the plot of the game, I mean, the part where Giraffe is searching for Love and find her, it is very close to the plot of one short story "Okkerville river", written by one russian authoress, Tatiana Tolstaya. Even the atmosphere is close enough to the book.
Am I high?
I was there for the chaos that was fighting that fucking giant imp monster thing with the PEBIS HANDS that took what, 73 shots to kill
"Blender monstrosity" is the best way to describe it
maybe the dev's computer is so old and bad that he had to hide long loading screens in long cutscenes to even load the game on his end.
A always though "wow joel would love this game"
The persona 5 victory music really caught me off guard, not gonna lie. 1:56:49
watched this stream with a black and white filter over top (colors are too exciting for my monkey brain when i'm about to go to bed) and i liked it way more, crazy
Wow this game is amazing, though I very thoroughly agree with Joel on the pacing. I love this sort of artsy game and I hate how many of them seem to consider an extremely slow pace "extra artsy".
1:20:26 That sure wasn't a joke that took 30 minutes to do ;)
Big Dog did nothing wrong.
Oh my god he played the holy game
Credits had the MDickie vibe
I don't know why Joel said this wouldn't be good, this is great
A name I haven't heard in a long time...
JOEL ACKNOWLEDGES CLOWNCORE
I'm glad he played this, it's one of my favorites
Mr Nook couldn't afford to hire KK Slider to act in his game so he hired KK's weird hobo cousin, JJ Snyder
Eating a lemon with hot sauce on it while watching this. Should be good
Was it good?
i want to hear more about this choice of snack
@@AncestralFruitcake I like strong flavours
this dude had Corona
Big Dog uses the same barks as Nintendogs does lol
1:51:43 Vinny can make 1000 voices,
Joel can only do like 3
vinny can make 1003 voices
28:17 Yo Jorbil, I think the best Guns mod to MC is Techguns, there's a lot of weapons and there's a M16 too, you have to gather materials and build machinery to process things like titanium or uranium and it's a really fun mod, there's zombies with guns too and there's a chainsaw just like in Doom
Hope you check it out!
The freaking Morrowind ambience.
I believe Samer is Tunnelz before becoming TunnTlez, so yeah, Joker 2 looks great!
I can't not love this stream
1:25:40 Yeah, Lidl has a bunch of these bootleg products from what I remember
1:27:00 Yeah, I remember that horrible song
Also, Rest in peace, Big Dog :(
The first Strand Type game
Kojima ain't got nothing to this.
15:50 when you're too stoned to move...
1:52:58 getting forked in the throat, this is fine...
The imagery in this game reminds me of exactly how my dreams looked when I was a toddler
This is like the videogame equivalent of the Evangelion elevator scene
Specifically the one with Carl from Aqua Teen
you had to take care of the birds outside
i just was sitting 4 hours
Well... This shit gave me a sleep paralysis at 4 am. Well done Joel, keep playing this shitty "horror games". I like it. Grettings from Chile.
How many other people left this in the middle to watch the Skyrim Gun mod stream he was talking about (then I came back, obviously!)
The clown voice sounds like scooby-doo
This game was a blast to experience live
This brings back awful but amazing memories
me when I go to mixamo and download all the animations
That singing giraffe woman moves like that weird clown in the vaporwave ending to the Sauna 2000 demo. :D
Bravo, Kojima. You did it again!
The alien guys calling the giraffe a stupid horse as he falls on his porch... do I smell a 100 gecs reference?!
I guess this really was a Giraffe Town all along
Oh yes, that is right, it is Joel time again.
Dude at the end of the video i felt like i just got off a roller coaster or something...
I love this game
This game is long enough to watch giraffes go extinct.
33:45 petition to ban joel from talking while playing bideo games
This edible ain't... shiiiiit...
The honey smacks with the banana split gang rings for a prize lol....that is a old photo
Now, why these animals looks like DK from 1999? They're all polygonal and weird…
It’s a stylistic choice I think to add to the strangeness of the game
Well, Rare's style _was_ mostly anthropomorphic animals with googly eyes
Are you actually Japanese, or did you translate/know it for your name? I see you on Joel's channel for nearly every video.
@@tigertoxins584 most people on the internet with anime profile pics and japanese names (especially with parentheses with another english name or translation) are just weebs and are not japanese.
joel you can't just re-upload the joker movie on youtube like that
"There's only 30 minutes left."
_2 hours left in the video..._
Omg skyrim vr is so fun. I can't wait to see this.
3:54:06 i really wish there is also the Samer Khatib in "Tools Used:" section.
RIP big dog 1999 to 2020
:( say big dog for us guys
big dog for us pls guys :(
“make a better game and then critique” is a rubbish argument. i hate that shit.
“you can’t criticize food if you’re not a chef”
“you can’t criticize a teacher if you haven’t taught”
etc.
You can criticize gameplay if you have played a lot of games.
You can criticize cinematics if you have seen a lot of cinematics.
Protip: You can find out if someone is a competent critic by their use of the following words:
"Rip-off" "Inspired by" "Boring, like any other" "Uses tried and testet strategies" "Inovative" "Needlessly complex"
This game is a masterpiece. Nobody could make a better game.