Despite my attempt to actually get it right the first time, there were errors that accidently made it into the final cut. I'll keep this comment posted here and update it as people continue to discover the mistakes. 1) At 2:55:19 I used the wrong take, I got it confused with the correct one and deleted the other. UA-cam says the video is too long to be corrected with their post upload editor. Should have gone "Resident Evil 4 was a game that saved the franchise and changed gaming forever. It was also the game where Resident Evil started taking its worst creative habits and enshrining them as gospel. " 2) Apparently I call Spain Eastern Europe at some point. Obviously that's very stupid. I worked sixteen hour days for like a 100 days straight to get this video done. I was just tired. 3) I say 'Super Nintendo' regarding the game Sweet Home where it should have simply read 'NES' or else 'Famicom'. 4) I attribute a line "There was a door here. Now it's gone." to Silent Hill 1, where the line reads "There was a HOLE here. It's gone now." It's from Silent Hill 2, making this entire point and section largely invalid because of the release year discrepancy. 5) I misunderstood the difficulty system in Resident Evil 4 and did not mention or realize there was an adaptive difficulty feature as well. 6) At some point said 'Sunnyvale', not 'Sunnydale' in reference to Buffy the Vampire Slayer. 7) Numerous other marble-mouthed mistakes throughout, catalogued in exhausting detail by commenters below.
>>It was also the game where Resident Evil started taking its worst creative habits and enshrining them as gospel. well, the meaning behind the words is the same, just said more succinctly
Oh my God. He's actually made a video so freaking long it is compatible with the standard American work days (8hr minus lunch) so now I don't have to waste time switching to a new video every few hours. What a breakthrough in efficiency!
I forget the artist's name, but he had a whole motif of cowboys in the desert/prairie. My in-laws, being bona-fide Texans living in cattle and cotton country, felt a kinship to it.
I hope Noah doesn't see this as a negative because I personally love it: the faint clicks at the end of a chunk of explanation (which I assume are for a script or to end the audio clip?) make me feel like I'm listening to someone tell me interesting stories about their vacation with one of those old slideshow projectors for film photos. :)
@@butHomeisNowhere___ I found Noah during my phase when I was obsessed with Homeworld. I've watched every video whether I've played it or not and have been fascinated. Great observations and such a create way of delivering them.
@murat balamsa Obviously I didn't read any of your incoherent screed, but I think it's hilarious that someone would put something like that in the replies of a random, one-line comment about liking Noah's videos. So...thanks for that, I guess. You've unintentionally brightened my day.
Speaking of Resident Evil 7, as someone born and raised on the Texas/Lousiana border, I am surrounded by houses and properties pretty much exactly like the one in RE7. Possibly why I didn't find the game that scary since it's familiar to me (in a way an empty creepy mansion like RE1 or a rustic near-anachronism of a medieval European village in RE8 is). However, the small details they got right are stunning from the styles of construction to the way humidity decays the buildings and especially wood down to the odd additions and external buildings as the small houses get additions built on over the generations - Great-Grandpappy Claude wanted a den so added one on, Aunt Marie wanted a modern kitchen so they added one on, etc. even though nobody in the family has ever worked in carpentry or construction. And there is ALWAYS that same trailer out in the back used as a storage shed. The only thing missing was two or three boats with holes in the hull that Cousin Boudreaux said he was gonna fix someday for the last 27 years but you can't haul it off now because there's a giant wasp nest in it and you don't wanna go near that.
Very real, especially that wasp bit. Ive lived in the central Louisiana area and am almost always not but 15 minutes away from the exact type of backwoods area the baker manor is in. In the first 10 minutes ethan walks through that weird deer leg gore gate and its not even that striking to me because of the souths weird obsession with taxidermy deer heads.
Do you really have those funny little clothes airers that look like a bicycle wheel? I'd love to see the lower parts of the US, it's all fascinating to me from the Carolinas out to the west coast. The UK is great in its own way but it's too damn small and there's too many people!
@@buggs9950 They're not quite as common as they used to be, but yeah. It's for places where you don't have trees to hang a clothesline. And because they're not exactly cheap, you pretty much keep them until they get so rusty you have to wash the clothes again right after drying them. Then they just sit there like modern art because "Uncle Bobby said he's gonna use some treatment on that thing when he's got the time".
Going through 24hours of rough withdrawal and Noah you may have literally saved my life between this, the SWTOR, and the Dark Souls videos. I understand you're just a hard working individual sharing opinions online - but you regardless of never meeting me or knowing my name, have demonstrably improved my life. Just wanted to say thanks.
Just wanted to offer some words of encouragement - I may not know you personally but I'm proud of you for sticking it out through the shitty withdrawal symptoms! I hope you're feeling better now :)
I just spent a little over seven hours listening to this man talk about Resident Evil. When he was done, I wanted more. He is just that good. I would love to see him take on Silent Hill next.
Noah has never done a multiparter (at least, not intentionally) but if he were to cover silent hill, i suspect we would get one. The first four games alone have so much to talk about, it would be insane to see.
gosh, i thought the same - especially when he talked about SH in the begining. not sure i would want another human being to be subjected to a franchise that has more bad games than good ones, however. the early games are so good tho. would die for his take on them.
Silent hill would be great. Also, a full one on Nier would be awesome. There’s only one other UA-camr that took on nier lore, but this guy’s research into how the game was made in addition lore would be sick
if you want to see a long video on that, you ought to check out NewFramePlus and his retrospective on Sonic animation. The creator is an animator, and has a great way at highlighting the ups and downs of Sonic Team's creative output I'm say that, assuming you don't already know about it. If I was wrong about that, my bad.
Yea, for sure. I’ve watched this one (and a few other Noah deep-dive video essays or travelogues) to chill out on many an occasion when my anxiety disorder flares up.
What's the opposite of comfort? Because listening to Noah refusing to acknowledge again and again the camp in these games was driving me up the wall. It's like seeing someone be confidently wrong for seven hours.
@@nisnast I think your listening comprehension is shot, as he mentions camp (though not always by that term) repeatedly throughout. He mentions how it adds to and detracts from the mood in different instances. perhaps you fell asleep?
Just speaking based on video length alone, no one is ever, EVER justified in giving you shit for not getting a video out by a deadline or to accuse you of putting in low effort from here on out, friend. Thank you, so, SO much for the time and energy you put into this, and in all your other wonderful work. I have never been able to put the time in to getting more than an hour or two into any Resident Evil game in the past, but have always been curious about the series as a whole, so this is most welcome!
these essays are so great because youll go an hour of very eloquent analysis and then he'll deliver a hilarious absurd line in the exact same tone of voice and the whiplash is absolutely incredible
this is the third time im watching this video through (while multitasking, im not crazy) and i keep finding new things to appreciate about your perspective and your writing. "You are the immovable object around which the world pivots" is such a beautiful way to convey the third person camera in RE4 and how it empowers the player
I have also returned to this dissection of the franchise, more than 4-6 times at least, not only to recreate myself while I work, but to clarify my ideas about some titles. The density of reflections well brought is really impressive.
"Nemesis: One boss, one protagonist, one city wide game of cat and mouse until the cat gets shot, blown up, set on fire, melted, obliterated with a laser, and then finally executed old west style with a big revolver." 43:10 I love this.
I love how in the old games your health is characterized by fine, caution, and danger, that and the bleep boop menu sounds really made you feel like you were in a biohazard situation, the old games really had a lot of artistic magic
My favorite part about Heisenberg calling Chris a Boulder punching asshole is that for him to know that, either Sheva spread the legend across the world or Chris repeatedly brags about it 🤣
Or maybe Chris realized that there's potential, and outside of his work getting rid of BOWs, he's a world class strongman, punching boulders around at Highland Games lol
I imagine that Chris had a body cam during 5 and the footage got leaked to the internet. Due to this, Chris punching that boulder became a meme within the RE Universe and Heisenberg surely had access to a computer within his factory.
This video is a literal masterpiece. I have been watching and rewatching it all day. Your analysis is thought-provoking and your prose is a delight to listen to. This video is the first time I've heard of your channel and I'm absolutely going to spend the next few days binging the rest of your work nonstop.
Discovering Noah's videos is one of the best things on UA-cam, binging through his channel for the first time (and there have been other times) was mindblowing, just a solid wall of the most substantive and dryly hilarious games crit ever.
I'm oh-so-jealous of you just finding this channel. When people say something is a "Diamond in the rough", this channel is precisely what I imagine. It might be rough around the edges, but, to me, that's part of what makes it so charming. The man puts in a lot of work, clearly, and I hope he knows just how much we appreciate what he does. Btw: His cyberpunk, Wolfenstein: Youngblood, and God of War videos are (in my opinion) his best... besides this one, obviously!
@@sagewaterdragon I've told so many people about this channel. It HAS to be the best scriptwriting in like any games critique on youtube. I've seen other great longform channels, but man, they really don't come close, do they?
Binging Noah's channel is absolutely worth it. I've listened to and enjoyed a lot of long-form video game discourse, but none of it has prose as thoughtful and beautiful as Noah's. It really sets him apart.
Oh Code Veronica. I remember having to restart the game because Claire had all my weapons and there was no way to give them back to Chris, who had to face the final boss with just a handgun. A truly incredible game.
I felt the resentment bubble up getting to the end of this comment. I'm glad I never got THAT far into the game, only to have that happen, though it did still happen to me twice earlier on. I'm just glad I now realise it's kind of more the game's fault, than me just playing insanely poorly. I was always confused as hell on that, because I've never had an issue like it in ANY other Resident Evil title, and yet, in CV X, I hit that same roadblock TWICE.
Dude, I bought the game when I was at a friends house and we didn't have a memory card so we played it all night. Finally we get to the final bug boss and didn't have enough ammo for chris to beat it. I never picked it up again and just watched the ending on youtube. Fucking brutal.
I got to the Arctic base having used all my ammo and healing on the boss on the plane... There are several plant tentacles you have to pass (from memory) once you get to the base... I could neither kill them nor weather the damage and push through... I had only one save file and i saved before moving on to disk 2 (when the Arctic base begins)... Gutted.
after i made almost precisely the same mistake back in the day, i began making every save in new slots. i still do it today, even though many games don't allow for making this sort of catastrophic mistake.
"Resident Evil 4 is a game that saved the franchise and changed gaming forever... Fucking... God damn it..." *DOG BARKING* What a perfect way to end that chapter.
@@romeocastillo316 he meant it in terms of taking the series in a new gameplay direction. With Code: Veronica, REmake and Zero, the same repeated gameplay formula was getting stale. Zero especially was criticized for it.
@@romeocastillo316 REmake was very well received critically but did abysmally commercially (a fate that also befell every Onimusha title after the original) Zero didn't get the praise of REmake and had the same commercial trouble. Even RE 4 itself sold poorly until the Ps2 port. Not a fault of Capcom or the games, rather because of being on the GameCube which had some fantastic titles but sold poorly. Along with the other comment noting that people felt the series was growing stale, these two issues left the series in a bad place. The development difficulties 4 itself encountered only added to the crisis Capcom found the series to be in at the time. Then throw in some spin offs of questionable quality over the years, Capcom was looking for a miracle by that point.
I have Covid and last night I had the worst fever of my life. I had this video on the whole night I was trying to sleep and kept waking up and hearing your soothing voice talking about a new different Resident Evil game. Thank you for making my night bearable, truly.
I love the idea that Rebecka Chambers in RE1 has all the answers and could easily kill all the monsters. But she’s just so nice that she lets Chris solve it on his own so he can feel like the hero. 😄
Yeah I actually always loved Chambers as a kid. I highly suggest people read the books by S.D Perry written in like 2001 I think? Fantastic and fun reads. Also dives deeper into the characters. Chambers was always one of my favorite characters due to Resident Evil: Zero Hour. (First book) if you are a die hard fan, you’ll really enjoy them! Cheers ✌️
Oh my god. Noah, PLEASE switch on the auto-subtitles if you haven't already (sometimes it takes time for them to show up for viewers). As a hard-of-hearing person I really want to be able to understand you!
This feature should be a standard thing in all UA-cam videos - one of those amazing QOL things I feel creators shouldn't be able to untoggle in their videos. Better yet he should leave them open for fans to subtitle the video properly if you really want to since UA-cam does allow for that.
@@InfernalMonsoon Nah - the thing about not allowing creators to untoggle the subtitles is that it would be risking the auto-subtitles misinterpreting what the creator is saying and forcing the creator to let the computer put words in their mouth.
It took me weeks to get through this video because despite it being fascinating, it's so dense with important parts that any time my mind wandered for even a moment I had to rewind to listen again. It's amazing how a video this long can be so absent any kind of filler or junk. Fantastic stuff!
"In practice, you have a bunch of useless weirdos zooming all over the place, moving all the shit, chattering nonsense to themselves and everyone around them, with no intention or ability to contribute to the objectives, which you must shoulder all the actual work for. So I guess... Not that different from playing online after all." This may be one of the greatest lines I've ever heard in a UA-cam video.
The best part of the Ada campaign (And arguably the entirety of RE6) is the coop partner. A nameless agent that only exists in gameplay and that cannot interact in any way with objects that lead to progression, open doors or chests, prompts not even appearing. Whenever Ada hooks somewhere he just shows up besides her at the end of the cutscene, like he got there earlier and was just waiting the whole time. He's an extra through and through and it makes the whole thing just hilarious if you're there with a friend.
If i remember correctly he wasnt in the game originally. Ada' section was designed purely for singleplayer but because ppl complained about not being able to co-op that part of the game like the rest of it, they just said fuck it and gave player 2 a ghost agent man that doesnt actually exist.
@@cobra29935 I honestly think that's the coolest thing I've ever heard as a "fix". Its like the most "in-line", almost campy "fuck you" the devs could have done, and yet I still love its inclusion. Like the original comment says, it truly made for some hilarious co-op moments, when either you or your friend get to play out as a literal extra. A truly bold choice to say the least, and a level of passive aggression patch-wise that I strive to reach one day
You know it's a great video when you start to get melancholic that it's ending while there's still 3 hours left. 4/14/2022 Update: I've probably seen this video five times now. Not only is the density of insightful content per minute high but its consistent across the entire 7.5 hours. Meaning everytime I put this on in the background at work something new I missed the previous time catches my attention. Incredible work man. 6/28/2023: Three more rewatches in but a little different this time... I'm playing the series! Which can 100% be attributed to this video--more than that--this is the first horror game I've ever played. I've currently beat Claire's playthrough on Remake 2, and am now playing Remake 3. I started with the more modern games to ease myself into it. It's insane, I've always heard the original RE2 is one of the greatest games of all times, and now I can say Remake 2 is in my top 5. It may actually be the best game I've ever played. 2/28/2024: Watching this one again, I actually have been moving through some of the 'Hits' of your catalogue: Resident Evil, Fallout Revised, Gears, etc. Like I said--god damn almost two years ago--I like to have these on while I work. They are wonderful background audio, and now I even use them when I write! Thanks you Noah
I remember the documents in the original RE2 making a HUGE deal of the old historic museum being repurposed as a police station. It was a huge point of contention among the public that Chief Irons was overspending public funds on an old tired museum. His eccentricities were all part of his character building in explaining why he called his officers to the station and barricaded them in with the aim to hunt them down one by one. He’s a psychopath and an unreliable ally for Umbrella; a consistent theme in RE GAMES: don’t ever expect an immoral/amoral person to be reasonable, reliable, and/or sane.
You know, the name "Resident Evil" is actually brilliant :) I always took it to mean that there is an evil that resides within the Spencer mansion, a "resident evil", as you traverse the mansion, a residence, getting to the bottom of what exactly happened there. It's also an allusion to "Sweet Home", in a way, plus, it sounds pretty nice if I do say so myself.
@@nerag7459 The Japanese team weren't the ones who named it Resident Evil though? In Japan the game is called Biohazard. The English localizers named it Resident Evil.
@@Maloolz Wiki: "Capcom ran an internal company contest to find a new name. Resident Evil was chosen since the game takes place in a mansion." It sounds like pure Japlish.
The recording process and audio in your videos is so refreshing. Feels like a conversation, like I’m in the room with ya. Love it, don’t ever change it!
"You could absolutely run the entirety of Resident Evil 1 as a tabletop campaign if you cared to." Me, a DM trying to think of something spooky to run in October: That is NOT a bad idea...
00:38:05 Confession: back in 1998 when I played Resident Evil 2 for the first time, I saw Claire wearing those red denim shorts and leather jacket, and I was honestly envious that I was not as brave as she was. Reality be damned, I wanted to be a punk rock badass, but I was too timid.
"can this video really call itself thorough..." is when I checked the runtime and took me a good second to come to terms with the fact it was longer all Indiana Jones movies combined. Never change, man.
You've outdone yourself with this project Noah. It's truly incredible how you managed to analyze all of these games and build such a humongous video. Extremely interesting watch, I've learnt a lot about a franchise I've barely played. Thank you for your amazing work, you may find it hard to see it but it is unrivaled in the videogame industry.
idk he spoke a looooot about modern race shit that had no place in the vid. he also whitesplained over the actress who plays shiva. He admits hes being racist by ignoring her point of view but then goes on to do it anyway.
When you mention the "suggestion" of an American town, I think it goes even above that, happens in the first game as well, its a japanese artistic\ideal view of the West, much the same way we do with the east\orientalism. I love how the statue its just called, " statue of the goddess" what goddess? Athena, Juno? Who cares it looks the part. Modern games could use that stylistic approach.
Personally I absolutely loved End of Zoe. Not because it was good horror, but the sheer comedy of it. I loved the absurdity to it and was a nice little relief after playing everything else.
@@Slaanashyep. The most intense part is the first gator river and the second gator lake if you fucked up and have no spear left. The fisting combat is hella easy 1 on 1 because you can just strafe around the molded and takes minimal damage. After that so long as you have ~2 spears and 1 bomb on you there is nothing to fear.
You know I know there is an 8 hour video on Death Stranding but most of the cutscenes were in that and they all played through, this video seems to be entirely filled with analysis. So indeed what a goddamn achievement
As someone who did actually play Outbreak with other humans back in the day, I would just like to say it is actually an excellent experience played that way (assuming you have two other capable players of course).
I was thinking the same.i have no clue when he played outbreak,but back on release it was pure amazing.hes playing all these game years later after release. I prefer these types of vids by older more experienced players,who played on initial release
I watch/listen to this just about every night while I fall asleep. Just wanted to say thanks for this video. It’s helped me fall asleep during a pretty rough final semester of undergrad
It's a testament to Noah's work ethic that he can release a seven hour vid and not immediately make me think, "holy fuck, does this guy seriously think he can waste an entire day of my time?" Kudos, you mad scholar-king.
You noted Japanese culture while discussing Alfred Ashford using the line about a boy in makeup. While Alfred is CERTAINLY not a great character, and there is a lot of gross undertones to him. One thing to know is a lot of the "he's a boy that wears makeup, what a monster" thing is injected into the game by the English localizers. A lot of the direct dialog about it is not in the Japanese version. For example, the infamous "Alfred, you crossdressing freak" line is 100% invented by the localizers, in the original version the Japanese line is more like "Alfred, you are completely insane" in regards to his plan, nothing is mentioned about his clothing tendencies.
I hope you tell that to the spiteful people who love that line and always chant the same argument that goes "Capcom won't let that in the remake of CV cuz they woke and scared of being cancelled and ppl are fragile"
I honestly think Japan tends to do a much better job at LGBT representation than western media (talking mainly about anime here) because they just write them like people and don't follow any stereotypes. That doesn't mean it's always perfect, but I wish he and other people would blame that on bigoted individual writers and not try to attribute it to "Japanese culture"
Eastern (mostly asian) handling of LGBTQ+ concepts is actually completely reversed from ours, in the western world we've been comfortable with homosexuality but view transgenderism as a new or frightening thing. In Asian nations transgenderism is more accepted as a concept than homosexuality.
There is some cognitive dissonance built into western propaganda that makes us think Japanese culture is SO conservative and prudish has this implication that we're "better" about transphobia attached to that. We're much more conservative and prudish and transphobic than we'd like to think. It was western localizers who turned a lesbian couple into cousins in Sailor Moon too.
@@moritakaishida7963i have also noticed this in anime. men in anime also just tend to be a bit more effeminate at least from an american standpoint. or at least, they embody a different kind of masculinity. gentler i think. gender and sexuality in anime feels very human, if kinda dreamlike.
While I find some of your complaints with some of the games to be really nitpicky, I have nothing but respect for the beyond ludicrous time and effort it had to have taken to play through this series, form opinions on all of its themes and mechanics, _and_ elaborate on why. Great video. I love Resident Evil.
"I'm going to explain this part, not because it's good but because you must suffer as I have suffered" If that's not a thesis for the entire RE Franchise idk what is.
This is definitely the best RE analysis I have yet to see on this platform. Fantastic work, I watched it over the entire month and was glued attentively for each installment. RE is my favorite series in gaming and a huge influence for me on life in general. It may have some of the highest highs and lowest lows of all fuckin' time, but I still love every second of it.
@@QickBrownFox I second this comment!!! I actually enjoy avalanche reviews better, even though this guys review does remind me of Alex Trebek from jeopardy as if we were listening to a retrospective during an episode of Jeopardy for resident evil!?!?!
I've got to admit I loved the flub at 2:55:19. It was sort of a reminder of how far NCG has come over the years. Keep doing you my man - your content is the best analysis on the platform and I'm absolutely loving this era of your work.
@@nathanielhaven3453 I'm just pissed he skipped Cold Fear, specially as all the plots of the console only games get revealed to me and I'm like... so that's what... that was better? Thank god I didn't miss anything... then the boat thing shows up 3 hours in and I can't but help think Capcom was trolling their muddied corpse, which after watching the 4 and 5 parts is like... all the more painful.
Those spin offs are mostly more arcadey and don't contribute that much to the series other than being fun distractions or boring wastes of time. That said, modes like Jack's 55th Birthday and the raid mode in the Revelations games were super fun.
@@nathanielhaven3453 I'm very aware. I mentioned this though I can see the confusion as I was talking about the comparison since that's what eventually doomed it to obscurity... however I do believe the game is a love letter to it but the joke was that it was a Better RE game than RE4.
took me four nights at work to finish this masterpiece, and i gotta say, it’s been the best seven hours i’ve spent on this site. while i disagree with you a bit when it comes to RE6 (a game i realize is a bad RE game, but i love it anyway), i still love and enjoy the way you articulate your opinions, and the new viewpoints you’ve offered that i may not have ever realized.
I quite liked re6 aswell; and I agree with the "but not for an re game" just a good action game with survival elements. The campaigns were goofy on occasion; but enjoyable nonetheless
Noah's videos are like the historical epics of online video game writing/videos. They certainly rival their run times! Always a pleasure to see the newest upload from the best games journalist online.
I think what makes them so especial is how he approaches the writing process. From what I remember of a video he did while traveling through the US, he likes to write about games like travel authors write about, well, travels. Watching this, I do feel as if I was hearing someone recount their experiences after a long journey, explaining what they meant to them and how it has changed their view
@@DavidAvila-zt8fh Yeah I'd concur. In his travelogues, he seems to put a lot of weight on the philosophy of travel, and I never saw the game critiques that way but he does explore it like a journey. I've always though its just the erudition in script-writing, but thanks for pointing out a pretty valuable aspect of these critiques I didn't really notice before.
I’m a huge resident evil fan. This is hands down the best RE video I’ve ever seen. Absolutely flawless and love the narrative style. No goofy jokes or shitty cuts. Amazing work
I feel like many people want Leon to have romance with Claire so that would 100% erase Steves existence from canon as he was kind of an Claires version of Ada but horrible
I can't believe you did a 7 hour video explaining just about everything in this series. I've never played it, but thanks to you I finally understand a good chunk of what it is about. Thank you.
It took me three days to watch this video, but hey, finally done! "Impressive" as a word doesn't even start to cover it. Seven hours of in-depth analysis for 18 games and the horror genre as a whole, can't imagine how many hours, will power and passion went into the creation of this. I was literally taking notes because some of the insights are way too interesting and valuable. Most of my experience with horror and horror games is second-hand because I get scared far too easy but your work really inspires me to try horror games. Also, I never had much appreciation for the zombie sub-genre and now I'm, at least, very interested. Definitely going to rewatch, take more notes and recommend to everyone who's willing to listen! (And sorry for possible mistakes, non-native English speaker here)
I'm someone who loves video games, but was a cowardly child who was easily scared, so I missed out on a lot of horror media growing up, and I had to ease myself into the genre when I was in my late teens. If it helps, I have never really gotten over fear I get when playing a horror game, rather, I have learned to embrace my fear while playing horror games. An important thing to remember is that, it is always good to take a breather, hit the pause button, and remind yourself that you're OK, you're safe, and nothing will happen to you. Maybe take a few minutes away from it, or even close it up for the day, and return to it tomorrow. Something else I like doing is reminding myself that if I die in a game, I can come back as long as I hit continue, and that there is no punishment for dying other than being sent back a few minutes. Also, no shame for watching or playing horror media in the daytime, with the curtains open, and a fun playlist you've set up in the background to keep you company. Also, your english is better than most native english speakers, so don't worry. Lol
Just finished watching this. What an incredible, incredible video. The way that you managed to weave together a coherent thesis across over seven hours of bulletproof critique of eighteen different games is just... astounding. While there's so much meat to dig into when it comes to the substantive commentary, I would like to mention how hard I laughed at the damn-near breakdown that you experienced at the four and a half hour mark when discussing Revelations 2. As someone who hasn't played the Resident Evil games but has spent my entire life hearing about their rise and fall and rise, getting the absolute lowest point of the fall almost felt like something worth celebrating, and the humor of that bit captured it. All of that praise said, if you read these reviews: please don't feel like you need to push yourself to make videos like this. This was great, but in another comment you said that it took working sixteen-hour days for over a hundred days to make it happen, and nobody should have to do that. Please, take your time, take care of yourself, you're a one-of-a-kind writer and you seem like you're a great person. Don't hurt yourself.
21:39 - The rocket launcher moment is essentially the same feel as the T-Rex in Jurassic Park rampaging in to save the characters from the velociraptors. Resident Evil likes to end on that optimistic departure into the sunrise kind of moment a lot of the time, rather than on a dark you-didn't-really-escape-the-horror-at-all moment like a lot of horror films will.
I remember seeing the length on the red dead video and thinking, man, this is easily his magnum opus. A triumph of Noah’s ability to create long form, thought provoking video essays. I still show that video to people as the thing that NEEDS to be watched first, as it’s such a perfect distillation of everything that is Noah Gervais on UA-cam. Then I see this. I knew from his tweets this would be a big project, but I had absolutely no idea that this was what he had in store for us. Over 7 hours! That is insane amounts of content. I will certainly not be watching this in one sitting, unlike the red dead video. But I feel as if that was certainly not the intention. The red dead video is, much like A western, meandering (in a good way) and willing to take its time and develop its message, and not afraid to take little story trips down a dimly lit, inviting backroad. This video feels more like a miniseries, meant to be enjoyed overtime. Noag, I’m once again astounded by your work. Please never stop making this Amazing content.
I don't think you'll ever read this, but I like the way you talk about things, and can communicate it so eloquently. I'm from a different continent to you. I speak a different language in my day-to-day. I'm not sure how well we would get along if we met on the bus. We probably have very different religious and social and cultural and political views. However, I can really understand the way that feel about these games, your experience. And your exploration of the narrative structure, I find enlightening. You see an American's view of a Japanese's view of America. This is a view foreign and alien to me. Thank you for explaining it so well. It makes the 7 hours take no hours at all.
I love how this presents the contrast in how you praise good games, tear into dull ones and find fascination in the spectacularly bad tragedies of design and writing. In particular, your dedication to pointing out roots and parallels to other media helps give context to the existence of this franchise, something that's not easy to find through most other critique sources.
Ethan’s got personality traits, he’s got tons!!! He’s… he’s a man, he loves his wife, he loves his daughter… he’s mad at his situation… oh! He’s an everyman, which, uh, kinda just means he’s just a normal guy… Whelp, at least he’s not a cop
@@yurifairy2969 yeah, i think to some extent they’re all supposed to have some semblance of blank space so that the person playing the game can more see themselves in the protagonist’s role, if i remember correctly i think i was just jokingly replying to something they said in the video about ethan specifically having very little personality
The way this guy delivers, clears his throat and clicks the mouse button, I feel like I should 8 hours of continuing ed credits for…something after this. I love it for that
FINALLY finished watching after well over a week. Holy shit, what an odyssey. Noah, I've been following you for years now and I've always thought you're nothing short of a brilliant writer, but this might be your greatest piece of work yet, not only for it's MONSTROUS length, but because of the incredible insight you provided into each of the games. I've never finished a Resident Evil game before or been particularly interested in the series, but over the course of these seven and a half hours, you got me to be more invested and interested on this franchise, it's lore and characters, than Capcom ever did over my 24 years on this earth. Seriously, hats off to you, man. Your stuff is absolutely amazing. P.s. couldn't help but to smile when I got to the credits and special thanks section, and saw it had grown over three minutes long. Well deserved
“Resident Evil 4 is inarguably one of the most historically important and mechanically prescient games ever made. I like it better when the other guy sings it, though.” We don’t deserve Noah Caldwell Gervais.
I rewatched that part of the video like 3 times trying to figure out why he was so mad, lol. I guess the dog barked once before he exclaimed "God damnit" but only the second bark came through on the mic? Really seems like he coulda trimmed that bit of audio, lol
@@Overcrox So many people complain about his audio quality which absolutely infuriates me. It’s quirks like his bad cut and the dog that makes me that much more endearing.
@@wafflepoet5437 And honestly, when it comes to mistakes like that, Noah is his own biggest critic, which as someone who holds their creative work to high standards I totally understand, but the humanity of occasional mistakes blends so well with the lo-fi recording aesthetic that I really can't find them very egregious.
I think that, given that RE4 has adaptive difficulty, standard should always be tried first. If you struggle too much, the game gets easier. If you are too good the game gets harder. I think that way the balance between the tension and avoiding overepetition is better kept, than otherwise just starting on easy.
The scorpion guy in RE4 at the elevator timer is not invincible. You can absolutely kill him, not only with guns when he is frozen, but also when he isn't frozen, it will just take a whole lot of bullets to do so. There are enough canisters to where a well upgraded magnum can take care of him easily.
Literally about to go to bed, and I open tommorow, I cannot watch this now, but Noah, I'm so happy you've uploaded this. So happy to see a new upload from you, as my days recently have left me cranky and irritable, your video amd voice will bring joy to me! I LOVE Resident Evil, I cannot wait to watch this tommorow after work!!!
If I only produced one piece of work in my life and it was this I would feel incredibly proud. You are a phenomenal writer. Your prose is a delight to listen to and I'm not even a gamer. Happenstance had it that I found your channel and I have enjoyed every moment of every one of your videos. Thank you very much.
Been slowly watching through this in chunks for just over two months and really enjoying it. A lot of great observations about environment design, the way tech, camera placement, etc. work to create the tone of the series’ spaces. And great prose to get it across; I have “The neon still bright and blaring as the city dies” stuck in my head.
I can’t believe I actually sat through a 7 hour explanation on resident evil lol but it was worth every second!!! You did a tremendous and wonderful job and I thank you sir for this piece of work. You made us RE fans proud!!!
as someone who also sucks at video games, it’s really refreshing to listen to someone talk about games from that perspective lol your opinions are absolutely valid
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Despite my attempt to actually get it right the first time, there were errors that accidently made it into the final cut. I'll keep this comment posted here and update it as people continue to discover the mistakes.
1) At 2:55:19 I used the wrong take, I got it confused with the correct one and deleted the other. UA-cam says the video is too long to be corrected with their post upload editor. Should have gone "Resident Evil 4 was a game that saved the franchise and changed gaming forever. It was also the game where Resident Evil started taking its worst creative habits and enshrining them as gospel. "
2) Apparently I call Spain Eastern Europe at some point. Obviously that's very stupid. I worked sixteen hour days for like a 100 days straight to get this video done. I was just tired.
3) I say 'Super Nintendo' regarding the game Sweet Home where it should have simply read 'NES' or else 'Famicom'.
4) I attribute a line "There was a door here. Now it's gone." to Silent Hill 1, where the line reads "There was a HOLE here. It's gone now." It's from Silent Hill 2, making this entire point and section largely invalid because of the release year discrepancy.
5) I misunderstood the difficulty system in Resident Evil 4 and did not mention or realize there was an adaptive difficulty feature as well.
6) At some point said 'Sunnyvale', not 'Sunnydale' in reference to Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
7) Numerous other marble-mouthed mistakes throughout, catalogued in exhausting detail by commenters below.
Good idea.
At 30:40 you say "struggles with the Bdpsffthe specifics"
>>It was also the game where Resident Evil started taking its worst creative habits and enshrining them as gospel.
well, the meaning behind the words is the same, just said more succinctly
Well, it's Europe, and it's east of you…
Probably should pin the comment.
Oh my God. He's actually made a video so freaking long it is compatible with the standard American work days (8hr minus lunch) so now I don't have to waste time switching to a new video every few hours. What a breakthrough in efficiency!
I was thinking the exact same thing. My whole Monday is sorted!
Glad im not the only one that listens to all his videos while working lmaoo
Agreed, I hope he knows how much we appreciate it
I hadn’t thought about it but youre 100% right
I hate having to switch videos every 30 mins to an hour so this video is a godsend
Where are y’all getting these jobs where you can watch Noah Gervais and still get paid?!
you know it just so happens I've got a 7 hour and 28 minute drive through Iowa to get through
Come say hi!
You could drive back and forth across it in that time!
Good to see you here jack!
annnnnnd that's why we can't have nice things like Mailboxes and Deer... thanks asshole.
Hello from Waterloo!
Real ones watch to the end to see Noah standing next to a sweet cowboy painting
I laughed when I saw it, because my in-laws have the same art in their house.
It was the fanciest thing I ever got for $40 at the Goodwill, I don't think your in laws were the only ones.
Hell, yeah! In so excited to see that!
I forget the artist's name, but he had a whole motif of cowboys in the desert/prairie. My in-laws, being bona-fide Texans living in cattle and cotton country, felt a kinship to it.
Whoa! All my favorite YTbers are converging into this video 😱😱😱😱
I hope Noah doesn't see this as a negative because I personally love it: the faint clicks at the end of a chunk of explanation (which I assume are for a script or to end the audio clip?) make me feel like I'm listening to someone tell me interesting stories about their vacation with one of those old slideshow projectors for film photos. :)
I think it’s mouse clicks of Noah turning off the recording. But I also like them!
I love the laid back feeling of these videos
Omg that’s cool
It's clicking to the next page of the script I belive.
haha that and the occasional sip of water or whatever’s really nice to me for some reason
It's been done to death but when Noah tackles a series, he's got 8 hours of my time.
Amen to that!
True and Real. Noah could break down Hello Kitty Island Adventure and I'd listen.
@@butHomeisNowhere___ I found Noah during my phase when I was obsessed with Homeworld. I've watched every video whether I've played it or not and have been fascinated. Great observations and such a create way of delivering them.
Not with his degree of perspicacity it hasn't
@murat balamsa Obviously I didn't read any of your incoherent screed, but I think it's hilarious that someone would put something like that in the replies of a random, one-line comment about liking Noah's videos. So...thanks for that, I guess. You've unintentionally brightened my day.
Speaking of Resident Evil 7, as someone born and raised on the Texas/Lousiana border, I am surrounded by houses and properties pretty much exactly like the one in RE7. Possibly why I didn't find the game that scary since it's familiar to me (in a way an empty creepy mansion like RE1 or a rustic near-anachronism of a medieval European village in RE8 is). However, the small details they got right are stunning from the styles of construction to the way humidity decays the buildings and especially wood down to the odd additions and external buildings as the small houses get additions built on over the generations - Great-Grandpappy Claude wanted a den so added one on, Aunt Marie wanted a modern kitchen so they added one on, etc. even though nobody in the family has ever worked in carpentry or construction. And there is ALWAYS that same trailer out in the back used as a storage shed. The only thing missing was two or three boats with holes in the hull that Cousin Boudreaux said he was gonna fix someday for the last 27 years but you can't haul it off now because there's a giant wasp nest in it and you don't wanna go near that.
Very real, especially that wasp bit. Ive lived in the central Louisiana area and am almost always not but 15 minutes away from the exact type of backwoods area the baker manor is in. In the first 10 minutes ethan walks through that weird deer leg gore gate and its not even that striking to me because of the souths weird obsession with taxidermy deer heads.
Louisiana is such an interesting place lol I want more games to use it as a backdrop for horror.
Do you really have those funny little clothes airers that look like a bicycle wheel?
I'd love to see the lower parts of the US, it's all fascinating to me from the Carolinas out to the west coast. The UK is great in its own way but it's too damn small and there's too many people!
@@buggs9950 i personally never had one but at my great grandmothers place they had a big one outside
@@buggs9950 They're not quite as common as they used to be, but yeah. It's for places where you don't have trees to hang a clothesline. And because they're not exactly cheap, you pretty much keep them until they get so rusty you have to wash the clothes again right after drying them. Then they just sit there like modern art because "Uncle Bobby said he's gonna use some treatment on that thing when he's got the time".
"Let's remember him as the man he was and not the leech wizard he became." My new go to line at a funeral.
Sixty-nine likes....nice
Was gonna quote that myself...
You go to funerals very often?
@@brunoactis1104 biggest social events these days
*anime leech wizard 😂
Going through 24hours of rough withdrawal and Noah you may have literally saved my life between this, the SWTOR, and the Dark Souls videos. I understand you're just a hard working individual sharing opinions online - but you regardless of never meeting me or knowing my name, have demonstrably improved my life. Just wanted to say thanks.
Just wanted to offer some words of encouragement - I may not know you personally but I'm proud of you for sticking it out through the shitty withdrawal symptoms! I hope you're feeling better now :)
godspeed my friend
hey buddy i hope you're doing well!
I stand with the rest here. I hope the rest of the recovery has gone well.
And may his other videos bring help and enjoyment as well.
All the best!
I know what I'm watching this week!
Noah Caldwell-Gervais is Genius and HERE'S WHY
I can’t sorry hbomb I’m busy selling my house to aqua man
Good to see you're a fan too.
As long as we're clear that you have to deliver an 8 hour video in the future.
Love your work, dude! Not half as good as Noah's, but still...
I just spent a little over seven hours listening to this man talk about Resident Evil. When he was done, I wanted more. He is just that good. I would love to see him take on Silent Hill next.
Noah has never done a multiparter (at least, not intentionally) but if he were to cover silent hill, i suspect we would get one. The first four games alone have so much to talk about, it would be insane to see.
@@bondfall0072 There are less _Silent Hill_ games than there are _Resident Evil_ why would he do a two parter?
gosh, i thought the same - especially when he talked about SH in the begining. not sure i would want another human being to be subjected to a franchise that has more bad games than good ones, however. the early games are so good tho. would die for his take on them.
@@TheMoviePlanet alot more to talk about
Silent hill would be great. Also, a full one on Nier would be awesome. There’s only one other UA-camr that took on nier lore, but this guy’s research into how the game was made in addition lore would be sick
So how many patrons do you need before we get the 30 hour "A Thorough Look At Sonic The Hedgehog"?
if you want to see a long video on that, you ought to check out NewFramePlus and his retrospective on Sonic animation. The creator is an animator, and has a great way at highlighting the ups and downs of Sonic Team's creative output
I'm say that, assuming you don't already know about it. If I was wrong about that, my bad.
@@arcflashhazard_ I didn’t and I’m going there right this second.
@@holysparkbatman This, AND the music of Sonic the Hedgehog, by Liam Triforce, I believe. Also long as hell with a lot of great content
there isn't a human being alive who could survive that endeavor.
@@toddmansilver12 You underestimate my power
Is this anyone else’s comfort video?
Yea, for sure. I’ve watched this one (and a few other Noah deep-dive video essays or travelogues) to chill out on many an occasion when my anxiety disorder flares up.
Meeeee
It's been my companion on a few rough mushroom trips, along with his Dark Souls video
What's the opposite of comfort? Because listening to Noah refusing to acknowledge again and again the camp in these games was driving me up the wall.
It's like seeing someone be confidently wrong for seven hours.
@@nisnast I think your listening comprehension is shot, as he mentions camp (though not always by that term) repeatedly throughout. He mentions how it adds to and detracts from the mood in different instances. perhaps you fell asleep?
Just speaking based on video length alone, no one is ever, EVER justified in giving you shit for not getting a video out by a deadline or to accuse you of putting in low effort from here on out, friend. Thank you, so, SO much for the time and energy you put into this, and in all your other wonderful work.
I have never been able to put the time in to getting more than an hour or two into any Resident Evil game in the past, but have always been curious about the series as a whole, so this is most welcome!
@murat balamsa lol nobody is reading any of this
@murat balamsa geez just make a video yourself. You have too much time on your hand as it is.
Noah's videos should be preserved for historians in 100 years to truly learn what was behind those video game in detail
@murat balamsa there is a saying where I'm from: "the best steermen remain on shore."
@murat balamsa Who hurt you
these essays are so great because youll go an hour of very eloquent analysis and then he'll deliver a hilarious absurd line in the exact same tone of voice and the whiplash is absolutely incredible
SEVEN HOURS. Noah, you spoil us
Your turn. Where is YOUR marathon episode?!
Looking forward to your 8 hour One Piece vid as a response
Honestly your time is better spent on this than reviewing another isekai lmao
Mister Basement, what are you doing here?
@@peoplesdiscofront respecting a master is what he doin
this is the third time im watching this video through (while multitasking, im not crazy) and i keep finding new things to appreciate about your perspective and your writing. "You are the immovable object around which the world pivots" is such a beautiful way to convey the third person camera in RE4 and how it empowers the player
I've done dishes, taken trash, changed diapers, and made dinner all to this video today and I'm only halfway through 🫠🫠
I have also returned to this dissection of the franchise, more than 4-6 times at least, not only to recreate myself while I work, but to clarify my ideas about some titles. The density of reflections well brought is really impressive.
Yeah I keep rewatching this one too. It's such a comfort experiencing an absolute master thesis on a wonderful game series
Immense respect to you for managing to stick it out through the entire franchise after starting with RE0.
The mad lad actually went and reviewed the whole bloody series. One boulder punch for you my friend.
One boulder punch for you brother
He will be the one to continue the Redfield bloodline
I know I will be taking this in chunks.
Not gaiden :(
"Nemesis: One boss, one protagonist, one city wide game of cat and mouse until the cat gets shot, blown up, set on fire, melted, obliterated with a laser, and then finally executed old west style with a big revolver." 43:10 I love this.
this is why og re3 is superior
@@whodatninja439 and always will be 👌🏽
I love how in the old games your health is characterized by fine, caution, and danger, that and the bleep boop menu sounds really made you feel like you were in a biohazard situation, the old games really had a lot of artistic magic
I wonder if "fine" is meant to show that you're never quite good, or if it's translation jank that became accidentally iconic.
My favorite part about Heisenberg calling Chris a Boulder punching asshole is that for him to know that, either Sheva spread the legend across the world or Chris repeatedly brags about it 🤣
Or maybe Chris realized that there's potential, and outside of his work getting rid of BOWs, he's a world class strongman, punching boulders around at Highland Games lol
I can't tell which I want to be true more.
i like to imagine it means he just walks around punching boulders all the time and heisenberg happened to see one of those
Ethan: "Ugh, does Chris tell EVERYONE that story?"
I imagine that Chris had a body cam during 5 and the footage got leaked to the internet. Due to this, Chris punching that boulder became a meme within the RE Universe and Heisenberg surely had access to a computer within his factory.
This video is a literal masterpiece. I have been watching and rewatching it all day. Your analysis is thought-provoking and your prose is a delight to listen to. This video is the first time I've heard of your channel and I'm absolutely going to spend the next few days binging the rest of your work nonstop.
Discovering Noah's videos is one of the best things on UA-cam, binging through his channel for the first time (and there have been other times) was mindblowing, just a solid wall of the most substantive and dryly hilarious games crit ever.
I'm oh-so-jealous of you just finding this channel. When people say something is a "Diamond in the rough", this channel is precisely what I imagine. It might be rough around the edges, but, to me, that's part of what makes it so charming. The man puts in a lot of work, clearly, and I hope he knows just how much we appreciate what he does.
Btw: His cyberpunk, Wolfenstein: Youngblood, and God of War videos are (in my opinion) his best... besides this one, obviously!
@@sagewaterdragon I've told so many people about this channel. It HAS to be the best scriptwriting in like any games critique on youtube. I've seen other great longform channels, but man, they really don't come close, do they?
Might take more than a few days ; >
Binging Noah's channel is absolutely worth it. I've listened to and enjoyed a lot of long-form video game discourse, but none of it has prose as thoughtful and beautiful as Noah's. It really sets him apart.
Oh Code Veronica. I remember having to restart the game because Claire had all my weapons and there was no way to give them back to Chris, who had to face the final boss with just a handgun. A truly incredible game.
Yep Code Veronica was harsh lol.
I felt the resentment bubble up getting to the end of this comment. I'm glad I never got THAT far into the game, only to have that happen, though it did still happen to me twice earlier on. I'm just glad I now realise it's kind of more the game's fault, than me just playing insanely poorly.
I was always confused as hell on that, because I've never had an issue like it in ANY other Resident Evil title, and yet, in CV X, I hit that same roadblock TWICE.
Dude, I bought the game when I was at a friends house and we didn't have a memory card so we played it all night. Finally we get to the final bug boss and didn't have enough ammo for chris to beat it. I never picked it up again and just watched the ending on youtube. Fucking brutal.
I got to the Arctic base having used all my ammo and healing on the boss on the plane... There are several plant tentacles you have to pass (from memory) once you get to the base... I could neither kill them nor weather the damage and push through... I had only one save file and i saved before moving on to disk 2 (when the Arctic base begins)... Gutted.
after i made almost precisely the same mistake back in the day, i began making every save in new slots. i still do it today, even though many games don't allow for making this sort of catastrophic mistake.
The comparison between the cabin in the woods “zombie redneck torture family” joke and the bakers from resident evil 7 is fucking genius
"Resident Evil 4 is a game that saved the franchise and changed gaming forever... Fucking... God damn it..."
*DOG BARKING*
What a perfect way to end that chapter.
2:55:10
I just love these slight errors.
Why re4 "saved" the franchise? It wasn't in trouble
@@romeocastillo316 he meant it in terms of taking the series in a new gameplay direction. With Code: Veronica, REmake and Zero, the same repeated gameplay formula was getting stale.
Zero especially was criticized for it.
@@romeocastillo316 REmake was very well received critically but did abysmally commercially (a fate that also befell every Onimusha title after the original) Zero didn't get the praise of REmake and had the same commercial trouble. Even RE 4 itself sold poorly until the Ps2 port. Not a fault of Capcom or the games, rather because of being on the GameCube which had some fantastic titles but sold poorly.
Along with the other comment noting that people felt the series was growing stale, these two issues left the series in a bad place. The development difficulties 4 itself encountered only added to the crisis Capcom found the series to be in at the time.
Then throw in some spin offs of questionable quality over the years, Capcom was looking for a miracle by that point.
Talk about Magnum Opus
Tbf the magnums do a lot of work in the game.
😲 I know. Totally unexpected!🤯
noah's magnum opus is the travel content and i will absolutely hear no other opinions on this matter
@@supernoob17 Noah is the video game review to travelogue pipeline
“Boss, I need the day off work, there’s a bearded nomad in an orange van dissecting the mechanics of a 25 year old horror game series ”
"Understood. Have a good day off."
"Thank you for your email. I am currently out of the office watching the new Noah Gervais video."
We all laugh but right now there’s an intern at polygon that is just doing EVERYTHING wondering why everyone in the office has their airpods in
I had a guy once try to take the day off to play a video game......I fired him by the end of the day....At Will states are amazing
@@lutherheggs451 so you didn't give him the day off, and then you fired him anyway?
I have Covid and last night I had the worst fever of my life. I had this video on the whole night I was trying to sleep and kept waking up and hearing your soothing voice talking about a new different Resident Evil game. Thank you for making my night bearable, truly.
So the best part of the video was not watching it at all and sleeping?
@@Phantom-kc9lyare you a retard?
Soothing? He speaks so fast!
I love the idea that Rebecka Chambers in RE1 has all the answers and could easily kill all the monsters. But she’s just so nice that she lets Chris solve it on his own so he can feel like the hero. 😄
Yeah I actually always loved Chambers as a kid. I highly suggest people read the books by S.D Perry written in like 2001 I think? Fantastic and fun reads. Also dives deeper into the characters. Chambers was always one of my favorite characters due to Resident Evil: Zero Hour. (First book) if you are a die hard fan, you’ll really enjoy them! Cheers ✌️
the patriarchy loses again
@@R3troguy ...but they don't notice and think they've won. :D
@@R3troguy the patriarchy likes Rebecca. Source: im the patriarchy
Y’all are corny as hell, especially the weirdos here with trash headcanon ☠️
Oh my god. Noah, PLEASE switch on the auto-subtitles if you haven't already (sometimes it takes time for them to show up for viewers). As a hard-of-hearing person I really want to be able to understand you!
They work perfectly for his voice too
This feature should be a standard thing in all UA-cam videos - one of those amazing QOL things I feel creators shouldn't be able to untoggle in their videos. Better yet he should leave them open for fans to subtitle the video properly if you really want to since UA-cam does allow for that.
I think YT directly stopped doing community contributed captions, unless I’m mistaken.
@@InfernalMonsoon Yeah UA-cam phased out fan subtitles a while ago, to the disgust of most people.
@@InfernalMonsoon Nah - the thing about not allowing creators to untoggle the subtitles is that it would be risking the auto-subtitles misinterpreting what the creator is saying and forcing the creator to let the computer put words in their mouth.
The idea that Leon is actually a Kennedy tracks so well with the lore, bravo
If he was an actual Kennedy then what was he doing as a rookie cop in a random Midwestern city?
@@grahamcarpenter691 Every Kennedy who DIDN'T become a rookie cop in a random Midwestern city was mysteriously killed.
Especially since his name is Kennedy, that makes total sense. Mind blowning.
"Nothing bad ever happened to the Kennedys."
Not sure how I feel about this TBH. It would imply Leon's favorite adult beverage is the "chappaquiddick" (scotch and murky water)
ba-dumm-tschhhhhhhh
It took me weeks to get through this video because despite it being fascinating, it's so dense with important parts that any time my mind wandered for even a moment I had to rewind to listen again. It's amazing how a video this long can be so absent any kind of filler or junk. Fantastic stuff!
"In practice, you have a bunch of useless weirdos zooming all over the place, moving all the shit, chattering nonsense to themselves and everyone around them, with no intention or ability to contribute to the objectives, which you must shoulder all the actual work for. So I guess... Not that different from playing online after all."
This may be one of the greatest lines I've ever heard in a UA-cam video.
GTAO's heists came to mind immediately.
Ooh my goodness this is like Christmas. 7 hours of Noah and Resident Evil!
I know right!
It feels like i'm dreaming.
@@diegopantoja6608 How amazing is it that we're all like children right now lmao I love it!
You mister, are the greatest of all time
Noah, this is longer than most trilogies. You spoil us
Didn’t expect you to be here my man.
When I saw this 7 hour video my first thought was that he's gone insane. Making coherent 3 hour videos talking about a game series is already hard.
@@zuiop9993 Who says he hasn’t gone off the deep end and his calm voice just masks the fact.
@@Blundellmemes77 Maybe he's still talking about Resident Evil... and will never stop.
@Skeletor But if he's unaware that the camera isn't working anymore, who uploaded the video... mysterious...
Watching this video, it made me realize Resident Evil had this period where it really wanted to be metal gear.
"Kept you waiting, huh? I'm at the outbreak"
@@Tubanapoleon how does it feel to be so fucking funny?
The best part of the Ada campaign (And arguably the entirety of RE6) is the coop partner. A nameless agent that only exists in gameplay and that cannot interact in any way with objects that lead to progression, open doors or chests, prompts not even appearing. Whenever Ada hooks somewhere he just shows up besides her at the end of the cutscene, like he got there earlier and was just waiting the whole time.
He's an extra through and through and it makes the whole thing just hilarious if you're there with a friend.
If i remember correctly he wasnt in the game originally. Ada' section was designed purely for singleplayer but because ppl complained about not being able to co-op that part of the game like the rest of it, they just said fuck it and gave player 2 a ghost agent man that doesnt actually exist.
@@cobra29935 I honestly think that's the coolest thing I've ever heard as a "fix". Its like the most "in-line", almost campy "fuck you" the devs could have done, and yet I still love its inclusion. Like the original comment says, it truly made for some hilarious co-op moments, when either you or your friend get to play out as a literal extra. A truly bold choice to say the least, and a level of passive aggression patch-wise that I strive to reach one day
Sounds like Halo 2
I liked that guy, he had cool melee animations. I made my wife play as p1 so I could pretend I was HUNK the whole time.
Since they already had a clone ada plot they should have just had 2 adas
You know it's a great video when you start to get melancholic that it's ending while there's still 3 hours left.
4/14/2022 Update: I've probably seen this video five times now. Not only is the density of insightful content per minute high but its consistent across the entire 7.5 hours. Meaning everytime I put this on in the background at work something new I missed the previous time catches my attention. Incredible work man.
6/28/2023: Three more rewatches in but a little different this time... I'm playing the series! Which can 100% be attributed to this video--more than that--this is the first horror game I've ever played. I've currently beat Claire's playthrough on Remake 2, and am now playing Remake 3. I started with the more modern games to ease myself into it. It's insane, I've always heard the original RE2 is one of the greatest games of all times, and now I can say Remake 2 is in my top 5. It may actually be the best game I've ever played.
2/28/2024: Watching this one again, I actually have been moving through some of the 'Hits' of your catalogue: Resident Evil, Fallout Revised, Gears, etc. Like I said--god damn almost two years ago--I like to have these on while I work. They are wonderful background audio, and now I even use them when I write!
Thanks you Noah
I remember the documents in the original RE2 making a HUGE deal of the old historic museum being repurposed as a police station. It was a huge point of contention among the public that Chief Irons was overspending public funds on an old tired museum.
His eccentricities were all part of his character building in explaining why he called his officers to the station and barricaded them in with the aim to hunt them down one by one.
He’s a psychopath and an unreliable ally for Umbrella; a consistent theme in RE GAMES: don’t ever expect an immoral/amoral person to be reasonable, reliable, and/or sane.
You know, the name "Resident Evil" is actually brilliant :)
I always took it to mean that there is an evil that resides within the Spencer mansion, a "resident evil", as you traverse the mansion, a residence, getting to the bottom of what exactly happened there. It's also an allusion to "Sweet Home", in a way, plus, it sounds pretty nice if I do say so myself.
Its Japlish. They were flipping through a thesaurus and finding other names based on 'Living Dead'.
@@nerag7459 The Japanese team weren't the ones who named it Resident Evil though? In Japan the game is called Biohazard. The English localizers named it Resident Evil.
@@Maloolz Wiki: "Capcom ran an internal company contest to find a new name. Resident Evil was chosen since the game takes place in a mansion." It sounds like pure Japlish.
@@nerag7459 Fair enough.
A evil within if you will
Finally finished! JSYK, you published this as a book, I'd buy it in a heartbeat.
Did not expect to see you commenting here
Great taste in UA-camrs as well as anime/manga
Reject youtube, return to book
Oh man, yes. If he ever publishes a book of scripts, I'm buying the absolute heck out if it
You might need three people to carry it..
mothers shill
The recording process and audio in your videos is so refreshing. Feels like a conversation, like I’m in the room with ya. Love it, don’t ever change it!
disagree
I’m also in the room, and I’m holding my D**k with my left hand???
To me it sounds like any other audio on a UA-cam video nothing special.
I agree - the slight stumbles and “pressing record” clicks are quite nice. I don’t need the most polished 8-hour media critiques.
"You could absolutely run the entirety of Resident Evil 1 as a tabletop campaign if you cared to."
Me, a DM trying to think of something spooky to run in October: That is NOT a bad idea...
I want in
I actually did that once, make sure you change up the puzzles if anyone is a RE fan, they'll fly right through it you don't!
I did this in 5e D&D. People didn't catch it!
It's *especially* a great idea to reference for how to make a "dungeon" that isn't obviously a flowchart from beginning to end.
It would be better to actually use 2 & 3 as templates, as the scenario is bigger without being out of hand while having multiple potential stories.
00:38:05 Confession: back in 1998 when I played Resident Evil 2 for the first time, I saw Claire wearing those red denim shorts and leather jacket, and I was honestly envious that I was not as brave as she was. Reality be damned, I wanted to be a punk rock badass, but I was too timid.
"can this video really call itself thorough..." is when I checked the runtime and took me a good second to come to terms with the fact it was longer all Indiana Jones movies combined. Never change, man.
@Craig Adams guess we’ll have to wait half a decade for a analysis of RE9 with 3 hours duration
You've outdone yourself with this project Noah. It's truly incredible how you managed to analyze all of these games and build such a humongous video. Extremely interesting watch, I've learnt a lot about a franchise I've barely played. Thank you for your amazing work, you may find it hard to see it but it is unrivaled in the videogame industry.
Noah is very good overall, even if some of his criticism occasionally veers into sjw gender studies territory.
@@arynasabalenka3173 Agreed.
idk he spoke a looooot about modern race shit that had no place in the vid. he also whitesplained over the actress who plays shiva. He admits hes being racist by ignoring her point of view but then goes on to do it anyway.
god, you’ve got some whiny ass complaints in your replies. Suck it up, fuckers.
@@mothweb8088 I think we've been rather mellow here. You're the only whiny one.
When you mention the "suggestion" of an American town, I think it goes even above that, happens in the first game as well, its a japanese artistic\ideal view of the West, much the same way we do with the east\orientalism. I love how the statue its just called, " statue of the goddess" what goddess? Athena, Juno? Who cares it looks the part. Modern games could use that stylistic approach.
Personally I absolutely loved End of Zoe. Not because it was good horror, but the sheer comedy of it. I loved the absurdity to it and was a nice little relief after playing everything else.
It was a fantastic way to relieve the tension, though it did last a bit long.
I honestly kinda missed the camp with how serious RE7 tended to be.
End of Zoe rocks
@@Slaanashyep. The most intense part is the first gator river and the second gator lake if you fucked up and have no spear left. The fisting combat is hella easy 1 on 1 because you can just strafe around the molded and takes minimal damage. After that so long as you have ~2 spears and 1 bomb on you there is nothing to fear.
Seven hours of Noah! There goes my day. Literally, a whole working day! What an achievement.
You know I know there is an 8 hour video on Death Stranding but most of the cutscenes were in that and they all played through, this video seems to be entirely filled with analysis. So indeed what a goddamn achievement
"He's Wesker, his plan is to kill everyone. I don't think he would even take his sunglasses off for sex."
Was not prepared for that line at 3:23:50.
Wesker only gets orgasm from Total Global Saturation
Dude I fucking died laughing at that shit haha
''Glasses stays ON during sex''
6:06:26 got me ^^
@@Aggrofool "Total... Global... Ejaculationnnnn hnnnnngggg"
As someone who did actually play Outbreak with other humans back in the day, I would just like to say it is actually an excellent experience played that way (assuming you have two other capable players of course).
I am praying that one day it will get a remake
@@shermantankgaming7261 Hopefully it gets a faithful co-op focused remake and doesn't get turned into another asymmetric PvP game.
I was thinking the same.i have no clue when he played outbreak,but back on release it was pure amazing.hes playing all these game years later after release. I prefer these types of vids by older more experienced players,who played on initial release
I watch/listen to this just about every night while I fall asleep. Just wanted to say thanks for this video. It’s helped me fall asleep during a pretty rough final semester of undergrad
"I can't help but feel that we've punched the bolder again and we have only just begun" is an amazing line, given the context.
It's a testament to Noah's work ethic that he can release a seven hour vid and not immediately make me think, "holy fuck, does this guy seriously think he can waste an entire day of my time?" Kudos, you mad scholar-king.
Finally finished and what a treat this week has been
@Craig Adams no need to comment that
Hey I love your channel ❤✌🖐
Yea im a week in, finally about to finish it.
You noted Japanese culture while discussing Alfred Ashford using the line about a boy in makeup. While Alfred is CERTAINLY not a great character, and there is a lot of gross undertones to him. One thing to know is a lot of the "he's a boy that wears makeup, what a monster" thing is injected into the game by the English localizers. A lot of the direct dialog about it is not in the Japanese version. For example, the infamous "Alfred, you crossdressing freak" line is 100% invented by the localizers, in the original version the Japanese line is more like "Alfred, you are completely insane" in regards to his plan, nothing is mentioned about his clothing tendencies.
I hope you tell that to the spiteful people who love that line and always chant the same argument that goes "Capcom won't let that in the remake of CV cuz they woke and scared of being cancelled and ppl are fragile"
I honestly think Japan tends to do a much better job at LGBT representation than western media (talking mainly about anime here) because they just write them like people and don't follow any stereotypes.
That doesn't mean it's always perfect, but I wish he and other people would blame that on bigoted individual writers and not try to attribute it to "Japanese culture"
Eastern (mostly asian) handling of LGBTQ+ concepts is actually completely reversed from ours, in the western world we've been comfortable with homosexuality but view transgenderism as a new or frightening thing. In Asian nations transgenderism is more accepted as a concept than homosexuality.
There is some cognitive dissonance built into western propaganda that makes us think Japanese culture is SO conservative and prudish has this implication that we're "better" about transphobia attached to that. We're much more conservative and prudish and transphobic than we'd like to think. It was western localizers who turned a lesbian couple into cousins in Sailor Moon too.
@@moritakaishida7963i have also noticed this in anime. men in anime also just tend to be a bit more effeminate at least from an american standpoint. or at least, they embody a different kind of masculinity. gentler i think. gender and sexuality in anime feels very human, if kinda dreamlike.
While I find some of your complaints with some of the games to be really nitpicky, I have nothing but respect for the beyond ludicrous time and effort it had to have taken to play through this series, form opinions on all of its themes and mechanics, _and_ elaborate on why.
Great video. I love Resident Evil.
"I'm going to explain this part, not because it's good but because you must suffer as I have suffered"
If that's not a thesis for the entire RE Franchise idk what is.
Oh man I am lucky for skipping the Revelations series
This is definitely the best RE analysis I have yet to see on this platform. Fantastic work, I watched it over the entire month and was glued attentively for each installment. RE is my favorite series in gaming and a huge influence for me on life in general. It may have some of the highest highs and lowest lows of all fuckin' time, but I still love every second of it.
Avalanche Reviews RE retrospective, it's also very good if you haven't watched it yet :)
@@QickBrownFox Agreed it's fantastic!
I would also place TheSphereHunter's RE retrospective series as absolutely top tier
@@QickBrownFox I second this comment!!!
I actually enjoy avalanche reviews better, even though this guys review does remind me of Alex Trebek from jeopardy as if we were listening to a retrospective during an episode of Jeopardy for resident evil!?!?!
@@QickBrownFox They're good, but his pretentious fucking voice is so annoying lol
The thing I love about the End of Zoe DLC for RE7 is it doesn't take itself seriously... like, at all. Once you accept that, it's an absolute blast.
This video was extremely educational; executed at the highest rank. Please do one of Silent Hill!
I've got to admit I loved the flub at 2:55:19. It was sort of a reminder of how far NCG has come over the years.
Keep doing you my man - your content is the best analysis on the platform and I'm absolutely loving this era of your work.
God, I love the Shina Island mini-rant. I’ve seen this video like 4 times, and every time rewatch, I find something new I love about it.
"Can this video really call itself thorough while ignoring them?"
**Noah glances at the length of his own video**
"I think so."
The games he skipped weren’t worth the time. Avalanche Jared covered them and even he said they were a waste of time
@@nathanielhaven3453 I'm just pissed he skipped Cold Fear, specially as all the plots of the console only games get revealed to me and I'm like... so that's what... that was better? Thank god I didn't miss anything... then the boat thing shows up 3 hours in and I can't but help think Capcom was trolling their muddied corpse, which after watching the 4 and 5 parts is like... all the more painful.
Those spin offs are mostly more arcadey and don't contribute that much to the series other than being fun distractions or boring wastes of time. That said, modes like Jack's 55th Birthday and the raid mode in the Revelations games were super fun.
@@jakedill1304 Cold fear isn't a RE game tho. Ubisoft made that one too, not capcom.
@@nathanielhaven3453 I'm very aware. I mentioned this though I can see the confusion as I was talking about the comparison since that's what eventually doomed it to obscurity... however I do believe the game is a love letter to it but the joke was that it was a Better RE game than RE4.
took me four nights at work to finish this masterpiece, and i gotta say, it’s been the best seven hours i’ve spent on this site. while i disagree with you a bit when it comes to RE6 (a game i realize is a bad RE game, but i love it anyway), i still love and enjoy the way you articulate your opinions, and the new viewpoints you’ve offered that i may not have ever realized.
Yeah it’s a good action game but a bad re game I understand why it can be someone’s favourite
Its really not good at anything but has nice animations
A game so bad that it is turns around becomes good - Raycevik
I quite liked re6 aswell; and I agree with the "but not for an re game" just a good action game with survival elements. The campaigns were goofy on occasion; but enjoyable nonetheless
Re6 was terrible. The only resident evil game in the core series I do not care to ever try to play again. Too much quick time bs
Noah's videos are like the historical epics of online video game writing/videos. They certainly rival their run times! Always a pleasure to see the newest upload from the best games journalist online.
I think what makes them so especial is how he approaches the writing process. From what I remember of a video he did while traveling through the US, he likes to write about games like travel authors write about, well, travels. Watching this, I do feel as if I was hearing someone recount their experiences after a long journey, explaining what they meant to them and how it has changed their view
@@DavidAvila-zt8fh Yeah I'd concur. In his travelogues, he seems to put a lot of weight on the philosophy of travel, and I never saw the game critiques that way but he does explore it like a journey. I've always though its just the erudition in script-writing, but thanks for pointing out a pretty valuable aspect of these critiques I didn't really notice before.
I’m a huge resident evil fan. This is hands down the best RE video I’ve ever seen. Absolutely flawless and love the narrative style. No goofy jokes or shitty cuts. Amazing work
His wokeness ruins it
@@CYB3R2K elaborate?
@@Terrythetroll. RE5 is insensitive towards black people and Code Veronica reforcing transphobia? This guy is nuts
@@CYB3R2K I don’t think that’s his views specifically. He was bringing it up how other people have thought that
@@CYB3R2K and let’s be honest trans people can be scary sometimes lol
the sheer *malice* in the way you say "Steve" is so viscerally satisfying
I feel like many people want Leon to have romance with Claire so that would 100% erase Steves existence from canon as he was kind of an Claires version of Ada but horrible
@@MrConredsX I think many people wanted Claire to not be sidelined from the action and hanging out with complete losers so often
@@MrConredsX the REDFIELD BLOODLINE
not very many people can make me sit and listen to them for 7 and a half hours. you have talent and should be appreciated for it.
I can't believe you did a 7 hour video explaining just about everything in this series. I've never played it, but thanks to you I finally understand a good chunk of what it is about. Thank you.
Even if you watched this video there’s much you don’t understand and this video isn’t for you.
This video is not just for those who have played the games, it is for anyone interested in RE or listening to Noah.
1:14:38 I love how as Noah says "Here's my beef with Steve..." the screen just says "Steve is suffering" with no context.
It took me three days to watch this video, but hey, finally done! "Impressive" as a word doesn't even start to cover it. Seven hours of in-depth analysis for 18 games and the horror genre as a whole, can't imagine how many hours, will power and passion went into the creation of this. I was literally taking notes because some of the insights are way too interesting and valuable. Most of my experience with horror and horror games is second-hand because I get scared far too easy but your work really inspires me to try horror games. Also, I never had much appreciation for the zombie sub-genre and now I'm, at least, very interested. Definitely going to rewatch, take more notes and recommend to everyone who's willing to listen! (And sorry for possible mistakes, non-native English speaker here)
I'm someone who loves video games, but was a cowardly child who was easily scared, so I missed out on a lot of horror media growing up, and I had to ease myself into the genre when I was in my late teens. If it helps, I have never really gotten over fear I get when playing a horror game, rather, I have learned to embrace my fear while playing horror games. An important thing to remember is that, it is always good to take a breather, hit the pause button, and remind yourself that you're OK, you're safe, and nothing will happen to you. Maybe take a few minutes away from it, or even close it up for the day, and return to it tomorrow. Something else I like doing is reminding myself that if I die in a game, I can come back as long as I hit continue, and that there is no punishment for dying other than being sent back a few minutes. Also, no shame for watching or playing horror media in the daytime, with the curtains open, and a fun playlist you've set up in the background to keep you company. Also, your english is better than most native english speakers, so don't worry. Lol
Just finished watching this. What an incredible, incredible video. The way that you managed to weave together a coherent thesis across over seven hours of bulletproof critique of eighteen different games is just... astounding. While there's so much meat to dig into when it comes to the substantive commentary, I would like to mention how hard I laughed at the damn-near breakdown that you experienced at the four and a half hour mark when discussing Revelations 2. As someone who hasn't played the Resident Evil games but has spent my entire life hearing about their rise and fall and rise, getting the absolute lowest point of the fall almost felt like something worth celebrating, and the humor of that bit captured it. All of that praise said, if you read these reviews: please don't feel like you need to push yourself to make videos like this. This was great, but in another comment you said that it took working sixteen-hour days for over a hundred days to make it happen, and nobody should have to do that. Please, take your time, take care of yourself, you're a one-of-a-kind writer and you seem like you're a great person. Don't hurt yourself.
100% this, Noah. I couldn't have said it any better.
21:39 - The rocket launcher moment is essentially the same feel as the T-Rex in Jurassic Park rampaging in to save the characters from the velociraptors. Resident Evil likes to end on that optimistic departure into the sunrise kind of moment a lot of the time, rather than on a dark you-didn't-really-escape-the-horror-at-all moment like a lot of horror films will.
There aren't many UA-camrs who I would watch for 7 hours straight.
Fantastic video, as always.
I remember seeing the length on the red dead video and thinking, man, this is easily his magnum opus. A triumph of Noah’s ability to create long form, thought provoking video essays. I still show that video to people as the thing that NEEDS to be watched first, as it’s such a perfect distillation of everything that is Noah Gervais on UA-cam. Then I see this. I knew from his tweets this would be a big project, but I had absolutely no idea that this was what he had in store for us. Over 7 hours! That is insane amounts of content. I will certainly not be watching this in one sitting, unlike the red dead video. But I feel as if that was certainly not the intention. The red dead video is, much like A western, meandering (in a good way) and willing to take its time and develop its message, and not afraid to take little story trips down a dimly lit, inviting backroad. This video feels more like a miniseries, meant to be enjoyed overtime.
Noag, I’m once again astounded by your work. Please never stop making this Amazing content.
I don't think you'll ever read this, but I like the way you talk about things, and can communicate it so eloquently.
I'm from a different continent to you. I speak a different language in my day-to-day. I'm not sure how well we would get along if we met on the bus. We probably have very different religious and social and cultural and political views.
However, I can really understand the way that feel about these games, your experience. And your exploration of the narrative structure, I find enlightening.
You see an American's view of a Japanese's view of America. This is a view foreign and alien to me.
Thank you for explaining it so well. It makes the 7 hours take no hours at all.
I love how this presents the contrast in how you praise good games, tear into dull ones and find fascination in the spectacularly bad tragedies of design and writing. In particular, your dedication to pointing out roots and parallels to other media helps give context to the existence of this franchise, something that's not easy to find through most other critique sources.
Ethan’s got personality traits, he’s got tons!!! He’s… he’s a man, he loves his wife, he loves his daughter… he’s mad at his situation… oh! He’s an everyman, which, uh, kinda just means he’s just a normal guy…
Whelp, at least he’s not a cop
Also he loses his hand alot
I agree that it's good that he is not a cop
to be fair, none of the resident evil protags are shining beacons of characterization
@@yurifairy2969 yeah, i think to some extent they’re all supposed to have some semblance of blank space so that the person playing the game can more see themselves in the protagonist’s role, if i remember correctly i think i was just jokingly replying to something they said in the video about ethan specifically having very little personality
"All Revelations 2 does is peer backwards into the franchise, yet it is blind to what made it great." The scripts you write Noah are so well done.
"Universal Appeal is a poison masquerading as a medicine."
That's a quote for the fucking ages, hot damn!
Your contemt towards Steve felt so personal and hilarious to hear.
100%. Noah really is a very good actor when he wants to be. The scorn absolutely dripping from the line, "this...is *Steve*," is almost sublime.
I just love how this man single handedly creates more entertaining content than any streaming platform. Thank you Noah, sincerely.
The fact that you can maintain this level of quality and insight over 7 hours is incredible!
As someone who’s never played any Resident Evil game, this was still an astonishing watch. Very impressed with this & your writing ability.
Noah, this is one of the most comprehensive and incredible studies I’ve ever seen on a series of games. Thank you so much for all your hard work 😊
The way this guy delivers, clears his throat and clicks the mouse button, I feel like I should 8 hours of continuing ed credits for…something after this. I love it for that
FINALLY finished watching after well over a week. Holy shit, what an odyssey. Noah, I've been following you for years now and I've always thought you're nothing short of a brilliant writer, but this might be your greatest piece of work yet, not only for it's MONSTROUS length, but because of the incredible insight you provided into each of the games. I've never finished a Resident Evil game before or been particularly interested in the series, but over the course of these seven and a half hours, you got me to be more invested and interested on this franchise, it's lore and characters, than Capcom ever did over my 24 years on this earth.
Seriously, hats off to you, man. Your stuff is absolutely amazing.
P.s. couldn't help but to smile when I got to the credits and special thanks section, and saw it had grown over three minutes long. Well deserved
“Resident Evil 4 is inarguably one of the most historically important and mechanically prescient games ever made. I like it better when the other guy sings it, though.”
We don’t deserve Noah Caldwell Gervais.
I'm trying to figure out what he meant by that.
@@SneakySnipey basically saying that while RE4 may be the original, the "cover" (to use the song analogy), Dead Space, is a better conceived piece.
@@riloegaming Ohh I didn't make that connection, I appreciate it!
"Fuckin'... god damn it. ~dog barks~" - _Noah Caldwell-Gervais, 2021._
I rewatched that part of the video like 3 times trying to figure out why he was so mad, lol. I guess the dog barked once before he exclaimed "God damnit" but only the second bark came through on the mic? Really seems like he coulda trimmed that bit of audio, lol
He said he mistakenly left that take in and deleted the one he meant to use, and can’t swap the audio now that it’s uploaded.
@@Overcrox So many people complain about his audio quality which absolutely infuriates me. It’s quirks like his bad cut and the dog that makes me that much more endearing.
@@wafflepoet5437 Big true! My favorites are when he coughs or clears his throat mid sentence lol
@@wafflepoet5437 And honestly, when it comes to mistakes like that, Noah is his own biggest critic, which as someone who holds their creative work to high standards I totally understand, but the humanity of occasional mistakes blends so well with the lo-fi recording aesthetic that I really can't find them very egregious.
I think that, given that RE4 has adaptive difficulty, standard should always be tried first.
If you struggle too much, the game gets easier. If you are too good the game gets harder. I think that way the balance between the tension and avoiding overepetition is better kept, than otherwise just starting on easy.
This guy established that he's got skill issues at the start of the video so I guess it makes sense
The scorpion guy in RE4 at the elevator timer is not invincible. You can absolutely kill him, not only with guns when he is frozen, but also when he isn't frozen, it will just take a whole lot of bullets to do so. There are enough canisters to where a well upgraded magnum can take care of him easily.
Literally about to go to bed, and I open tommorow, I cannot watch this now, but Noah, I'm so happy you've uploaded this.
So happy to see a new upload from you, as my days recently have left me cranky and irritable, your video amd voice will bring joy to me!
I LOVE Resident Evil, I cannot wait to watch this tommorow after work!!!
If I only produced one piece of work in my life and it was this I would feel incredibly proud. You are a phenomenal writer. Your prose is a delight to listen to and I'm not even a gamer. Happenstance had it that I found your channel and I have enjoyed every moment of every one of your videos. Thank you very much.
watching you open your inventory while surrounded by enemies in re5 to switch weapons instead of using the dpad to quickly switch is killing me
Been slowly watching through this in chunks for just over two months and really enjoying it. A lot of great observations about environment design, the way tech, camera placement, etc. work to create the tone of the series’ spaces. And great prose to get it across; I have “The neon still bright and blaring as the city dies” stuck in my head.
This is truly an act of mad genius. Thanks, Noah.
I can’t believe I actually sat through a 7 hour explanation on resident evil lol but it was worth every second!!! You did a tremendous and wonderful job and I thank you sir for this piece of work. You made us RE fans proud!!!
as someone who also sucks at video games, it’s really refreshing to listen to someone talk about games from that perspective lol your opinions are absolutely valid