Oops, looks like aliens are attacking you're home. Sadly, we can't help, as our planes seems to mysteriously missing. :) In all seriousness thou, people are free to have differing opinions.
@@Codex_0613 I actually really like what jfj did with this video. The editing, the quick jokes, his valid points. I'd personally love to see a longer video like this from him. I'd come back rewatch it like 5 times, at least
I feel the same way about The Survival genre. There’s this great sense of accomplishment creating a place to live and weapons to protect yourself, all the while everything’s put to get you. It’s fun when your put in this environment foreign to you, and you just do what you can. Great vid J
Furthermore it's highly intriguing when knowing we were once forced to do these basic survival tasks, but now live in such comfort and autonomy that we choose to emulate such rather than re-experience it.
Yeah what I like in games is something I can create in some fashion. I want to be able to impact the game in some way. Even if it's as simple as giving me housing I can create and decorate. Because of the sense of accomplishment, it makes you feel more connected. In survival games in particular, the more stuff you can accumulate, the bigger the house, and so on all show you how well you're doing. Meanwhile though anything could just end you within a moments notice.
I've never felt that way I always find survival games boring and sluggish like I have to do everything over a time period,or completely riley on chance to get something.plis I also get no satisfaction off "surviving" finding food,water and whatever else is boring and feels like a checklist
@@badasscrusader Having to do things over a time period or rely on chance is how like 90% of games work.. so I guess you hate gaming in general? As for the rest like finding food, water, etc it's fun for us. You may not like it, and that's fine.
@@Eventide215 well survival games put you winning or losing to luck,I prefer skill over luck.I see the appeal of survival but it's just boring for me,I guess I'm used to face paced action
Honestly that last bit about them being comfy holds true for a lot of games where you had to work for your position. Anytime I look over what I've done in a game, whether it be a nice base in MC, a filled out map, whatever, I just get real good knowing that was all me.
I am simple man. I see Titanfall 2 clips, I like. Then I rewatch video to hear the dialogue I missed when they came on and overwhelmed my brain with excitement.
long dark is cozy due to its winter and cabin vibe Raft is raft Forest is grizzly, the cannibals can rush you randomly at night. Stranded deep has a hyper realistic style, making it scary
We need more like these J. Yeah there is something special about well executed survival games. You are worth your weight in the genre, so gritty and heavy yet fun. The Lone Dark being my favorite example.
@@Lower1K well, the reason why i seem so friendly is because i grew up in a very unwelcoming and aggressive family and their lives went horribly so I'm trying to be different from them so that i dont end up like them and with the state the world is in i highly doubt that i will turn out better than them Sorry for spilling my lifes story
I can only ever play survival games by myself or in co op with my best friend. We recently picked up The Forest (yes yes late to the party) and have really been enjoying it. I think the adoration for the survival genre tends to come down to satisfaction. It is a type of escapism that entraps you entirely because in the game you have real needs and real goals and real risks to think about. In The Forest, my buddy and I getting raided is a massive frickin deal to us, because of the elbow grease we put into our compound, which has massive log walls and a max height cabin smack dab in the center. That was a lot of monotonous work cutting down in game trees and gathering supplies to create, and we love that accomplishment. You get the satisfaction of erecting something you worked really hard for while also remaining immersed in the fear of being able to lose it all on a whim. In Subnautica, I got great pride from scanning everything I could find and learning about it, because it was how you conquered the world in Subnautica. You couldn't realistically fight anything, I mean you can, but the game doesn't incentivize it. But by scanning and reading those PDAs, not only could I work out elements of the story for myself which was super fun, I got to enrich myself as a player with the feeling of understanding. Of taking what little the planet had offered me and going for all it was worth, gaining knowledge and learning how to maneuver it all. I think that satisfaction is the crux of survival games. You get the utter satisfaction of doing things yourself, even if virtually, and succeed against cosmically blown up odds. While also constantly under threat of having that satisfaction subverted or taken away. Hell, in our Raft save file my buddy and I started a hall of fame of headboards just for our shark which we named Sally, and every head we hung each time she died we named a different cuss like Sally the Whore or Sally the Cunt based on what we'd yell at her when we heard her start chomping our boards. Satisfaction seems to be king
I’ve been basically addicted to The Long Dark for the last few weeks. The art style is beautiful, and the freedom and atmosphere is fucking great. I love the fact that the main enemies are the weather, and my own bad decisions. Every objective and every failure is determined by me, I don’t have to wait for characters to let me play the game, because I am the game. I love it, it’s a really awesome experience.
You know what else is comfy about a survival game? I bought The Long Dark only a few months after it got into early access, and seeing it grow and develop from a pretty simple survival-sandbox into this fleshed-out game with a story that still allows you just to enjoy the sandbox is comfy. Seeing the work of the devs as they passionately continue working on the game over all these years and then getting to experience the fruits of their works is nice.
I love detailed and explanation videos like this. Gets your brain pumping the smart juices and makes you think about your own favorite item of the topic and why you love it. I'd love to see more of these from you, especially with the humor you bring to it. I love what you do J and it's sick!
I really like this take on Sock Sights. It feels more personalized to J, and you can tell he's having fun with it rather than just cranking it out like some other people would. You never cease to entertain, angry sock man.
Okay this is not what I expected but this is great. It's like part video essay part comedy routine and I love it. I don't even like survival games and I love this video. Thanks J
This is quite a different perspective I've seen you in, usually I just watch your fun is fun stuff all the screaming and doing stupid shit, but this is actually pretty nice, having a (almost) well mannered ted talk about survival games. Would love to see more of this
I think one of the reasons survival games are so fun is because you at the bottom of the food chain. Being able to work your way up from the ground,collecting resources,learning skills,upgrading your tools,and noticeably be able to trounce those who once scared you shitless...so satisfying
Can you explain how you don’t get bored halfway through a survival game? For me, it feels like when I reach that point of not having to constantly scrounge around for resources just to survive, my interest just deflates like a balloon and I just get bored of it immediately. I just think “ok, well, I’ve finally gotten to the part of actually surviving now and have a steady and renewable source of food/water/shelter/etc so I have no real reason to go outside and explore now, so what am I supposed to do now?” This is why I actually like story in my survival games, something to work towards, an end goal besides just surviving, so when you reach that moment of being able to survive renewably, you still have something to do besides just sit in whatever hovel you etched out for yourself until you get bored of the game and quit.
all I’m gunna say is that Grounded is one of my favorite survival games. Yes it’s buggy, yes I’ve played a lot of survival games, but grounded is my favorite
Compared to your other videos, I can say honestly that I like this type the most. I am aware that these take a long time to make, just with the sheer amount of editing that goes into them, but this kind of content is why I watched you in the first place and keep coming back to every stream. Hearing you be down to earth and talk about stuff is what's entreating to me, and with the right amount of comic relief woven in, it makes the perfect video. Keep doing what you're doing, and never change, you beautiful Texan bastard.
Fade to Silence is a lesser known survival game that is quite fun with providing alot of challenge and choices to survive in a frozen Earth flooded with monsters and a bunch of corruption.
Honestly I'm in the exact same boat here. So far as I've played, I keep gravitating back to survival games as my comfy genre - I've been consistently playing Minecraft since I discovered how mods change it, I always make a point to install Long Dark and Raft on any new machine I get, and so on. There's something about the feeling of being able to handle starting small, and then working your way up to near infinite power POTENTIAL, while still being very easily able to be taken apart by the game if you fuck up. That if you don't actually pay attention to what you're doing - what you're consuming, what you're doing to preserve yourself, and so on - you're not being conscious of the whole survival aspect of immersing yourself in the situation.
Glad this was less essay, and more of "Let me brain-dump my thoughts on a video." It's nice to just hear somebody talk directly and honestly. Missing that element from a lot of UA-camrs
Birds eye view games are good thank you very much. This war of mine especially. Seriously like the video. You're the second gaming youtuber to recently do video essay stuff. The other being soviet womble. Even if on the more simple side of what a video essay would be
My favourite genre has to be horror. I’ve grown accustom to horror games being cannon fodder trash, most involving jump scare filled dung heaps that serve no purpose other than for the bad man to yell “boo!”. It hurts knowing that so much wasted potential fills the genre. But sometimes, just sometimes, you find that special game that just... grabs you. I’ve started to expand my horror game definition to games that aren’t even defined as horror, the long dark for example, it fills me with dread like Silent Hill when a pack of wolves are circling my campfire, it makes me incredibly nervous as I’m walking through a blizzard trying to find the next shack to wait it out and it makes me incredibly tense when I get lost, unable to find my temporary shack with my supplies. (This whole comment has turned less into why I love horror games and more why I love the long dark but whatever) What I’m getting at is that a horror game should involve at least one of these major things, dread, nervousness or just making the player tense, but not all of these things have to be found in a horror game. Sorry if this whole comment seems disconnected, I just wanted to try put together my thoughts.
I always enjoyed seeing you with your direct broad speech your actual kindness that you have to the people you love and care and your emotions always making you be as expressive as you can of trying new things both for fun and for feeling and doing things that you enjoy Its something that I am already happy to see when I have discovered and found this video Im so glad of the first times I met you always enjoying myelf allot even if I do not know that much about you personally and of your opinions I still enjoy you and I hope for you literally the best like if you were a friend Keep it up JFJ!
I remember as a kid learning about the rts genre through halo wars and the first thought I had about that game was imagining the spartans doing all this cool stuff on the ground and me not😄
Any game that sticks me at the bottom of the food chain and then gives me all that I need, little by little, to climb my way to the top is a damn fine game.
i honestly fully agree with you, i hate when a game puts you in a view where you are "watching" a person do stuff you command them to do then have it where you have to think rationally of stuff like showing your body to the enemy, being able to know where the enemy is, and hitting the enemy, like how are any of those near realistic when it is like you have a drone where you can see around corners and the bullets come from far off to the side
This video is great, you explain things really good and you manage to make it funny. Great video J, i hope we can see more like it eventually with other topics.
grounded is such a great idea that had a lot potential and the game is good and you can tell by watching the dev's talking about grounded that there putting a lot of effort and work in to the game and yes it's buggy but every update the game feels more polished and more fun can't wait until this game is finished.
Y'know.... J. I.. worry sometimes, about you. The slurs the dog whistles, the worrying jokes. I live IN GEORGIA, there are far too many really bad racists around me for me to ignore that.. But..... This, this makes me a little less worried, I watch the VODS sometimes, and that too. You're human, and you admitted that the slurs are a fault in DBD, so... You're just human, like all of us. I'll continue to enjoy your content, and you as a person, not an icon or idol. This isn't me trying to be negative, I appreciate you, and I hope that maybe helps with some of your own worries. In general, I know I specifically don't matter all that much. Good luck, I'll be watching and enjoying as always.
*Gets throat torn out by a wolf, quickly bleeding all over the snow while the pack circles you and loudly growls until you lose conciousness* GOD DAMN THIS GAME IS SO COZY
i do not mind the 3rd person camera in games as long as you control the character or reprecent a character in what you're seeing, i also think that ck2 in multiplayer can be considered "survival" if you exclaim outloud that you want to get the saint bloodline
I don’t know what game genre you’d call ‘playing max Mania/Hellborn Krieg on UVHM in Borderlands 2 and going ballistic while still being on a tightrope of death’, but whatever that is it’s my favorite genre and I haven’t found anything that scratches the same itch since
Dude is missing out on that feeling when you turtle for half the match and r&d and then watch your glorious army stomp all over competition. Total Annihilation did that for me. But I get it, to each his own.
If I had to put into my own words why I personally think you and others might love the genre, I think it's because it resets us, to a time where the struggle isn't finding the right font size for tomorrows conference, or figuring out what color of bow goes with the gift basket you're making for Karens midlife crisis party. The Survival genre puts you back into the....."shoes" (I guess?) of our primitive ancestors, of finding just enough resources to survive day to day, building up the leftovers of each days haul until you can eak out some form of comfortable living
I agree, it’s the same you feel about survival is how I feel about open world games, then done right, i good story attached to it makes is all the better, being able to make choices, the that’s why I enjoy the mass effect, SWTOR, and dragon age, a since of choice, a since freedom, to be something else
Imagine Red Dead Redemption 2, in all its glory, but its a survival game where your a settler and you have to build up a town, or live alone by gathering resources, fighting outlaws, hunting for food, etc,
This is just my take on survival games, if you want to read it go ahead. When I was a kid was never that interested in the Commons linear story or multiplayer games, I always wanted to have an open world & make my own unrestricted choices. Naturally I grew to love survival games & RPG's. Survival is probably my favorite genre, and you almost you always know the bare minimum of what you're going to get & if there's extra like the (personally) griping story of subnautica, then great. Except for Rust, I wouldn't group that up in the same category it's like some limbo of survival & fps where your "survival" is not getting murdered by other players. Not knocking it's place but it's always been weird to me that it's called a survival game considering food & water are really secondary objectives & your only real threat is other players. In think 7 Days is one my favorite examples in terms of surviving in a very free environment. You can do whatever you want to survive. Want to build a base? Reinforce an existing one? Hunt for food? Have a farm? Trade for weapons? Craft weapons? Harvest resources? Loot for weapons & some resources? Trap zombies? Kill zombies? Make a good horde base? Make a vehicle & run away from your problems (horde night)? That's why I love survival games. Even in an RPG there's only so much replayability before know just about everything that's going to happen (though that still takes forever), but in a survival game you might get lucky & shoot up the ranks early, or struggle for every scrap.
My Summer Car is the ultimate survival game, hands down.
Yes it is
Oh god you're right.
Yeah idk how many times I died on that game
jokes on you i live in Detroit my life is a survival game on maximum difficulty
@@donaldsmith6621 so you live in a gmod dark RP server with no moderators?
These are my favorite things you produce and I hope you keep making them.
>you don't like Xcom or Mechanicus
Them's fightin' words.
The Omnissiah is fucking pissed
FIGHT ME I DONT LIKE THOSE KINDS OF GAMES EITHER
@@Zenetric Have you considered the possibility that you’re wrong?
"Do you think THIS is more interesting than THIS?"
When it's the same damn shooting sequence 20 times, yes actually.
Oops, looks like aliens are attacking you're home. Sadly, we can't help, as our planes seems to mysteriously missing. :)
In all seriousness thou, people are free to have differing opinions.
when jfj tried really hard to flex his 2 brain cells by trying to type a psuedo intelligent script 10/10 needs more farts
yea i got nothing out of this video other than "me like survive"
@@Codex_0613 I actually really like what jfj did with this video. The editing, the quick jokes, his valid points. I'd personally love to see a longer video like this from him. I'd come back rewatch it like 5 times, at least
I feel the same way about The Survival genre. There’s this great sense of accomplishment creating a place to live and weapons to protect yourself, all the while everything’s put to get you. It’s fun when your put in this environment foreign to you, and you just do what you can. Great vid J
Furthermore it's highly intriguing when knowing we were once forced to do these basic survival tasks, but now live in such comfort and autonomy that we choose to emulate such rather than re-experience it.
Yeah what I like in games is something I can create in some fashion. I want to be able to impact the game in some way. Even if it's as simple as giving me housing I can create and decorate. Because of the sense of accomplishment, it makes you feel more connected. In survival games in particular, the more stuff you can accumulate, the bigger the house, and so on all show you how well you're doing. Meanwhile though anything could just end you within a moments notice.
I've never felt that way I always find survival games boring and sluggish like I have to do everything over a time period,or completely riley on chance to get something.plis I also get no satisfaction off "surviving" finding food,water and whatever else is boring and feels like a checklist
@@badasscrusader Having to do things over a time period or rely on chance is how like 90% of games work.. so I guess you hate gaming in general? As for the rest like finding food, water, etc it's fun for us. You may not like it, and that's fine.
@@Eventide215 well survival games put you winning or losing to luck,I prefer skill over luck.I see the appeal of survival but it's just boring for me,I guess I'm used to face paced action
As a person who plays The Long Dark, I can appreciate how hard that triple deer kill was.
Damn, we haven't had a lookie leg tube in a hot minute, superb.
Didn’t even include hobo life...
I know!
Unsubscribed, disliked, reported,
Honestly that last bit about them being comfy holds true for a lot of games where you had to work for your position. Anytime I look over what I've done in a game, whether it be a nice base in MC, a filled out map, whatever, I just get real good knowing that was all me.
Wait, there's water spiders in Grounded now? that's horrifying.
I am simple man. I see Titanfall 2 clips, I like. Then I rewatch video to hear the dialogue I missed when they came on and overwhelmed my brain with excitement.
long dark is cozy due to its winter and cabin vibe
Raft is raft
Forest is grizzly, the cannibals can rush you randomly at night.
Stranded deep has a hyper realistic style, making it scary
We need more like these J.
Yeah there is something special about well executed survival games. You are worth your weight in the genre, so gritty and heavy yet fun.
The Lone Dark being my favorite example.
"They're heckin' comfy!"
That's me right now with SnowRunner
A Yee Yee muddin' trucker survival that makes you feel good
The pathologic 2 clips are just mmm
3:39 my days been good, hows yours been?
no matter what you are always asking how people's days have been
@@Lower1K is there something wrong with that?
It's what allowed me to be more social with others
@@arandominternetperson437 I didn't say there was anything wrong with that, it's just that no matter what, you never fail to greet me
@@Lower1K well, the reason why i seem so friendly is because i grew up in a very unwelcoming and aggressive family and their lives went horribly so I'm trying to be different from them so that i dont end up like them and with the state the world is in i highly doubt that i will turn out better than them
Sorry for spilling my lifes story
How can a genre commentary be so high energy yet so relaxing?
Describing JFJ:
(Loud Texan gun racking noise INTENSIFY)
pretty much just a puppet play but they all have machine guns
I can only ever play survival games by myself or in co op with my best friend. We recently picked up The Forest (yes yes late to the party) and have really been enjoying it. I think the adoration for the survival genre tends to come down to satisfaction. It is a type of escapism that entraps you entirely because in the game you have real needs and real goals and real risks to think about. In The Forest, my buddy and I getting raided is a massive frickin deal to us, because of the elbow grease we put into our compound, which has massive log walls and a max height cabin smack dab in the center. That was a lot of monotonous work cutting down in game trees and gathering supplies to create, and we love that accomplishment. You get the satisfaction of erecting something you worked really hard for while also remaining immersed in the fear of being able to lose it all on a whim. In Subnautica, I got great pride from scanning everything I could find and learning about it, because it was how you conquered the world in Subnautica. You couldn't realistically fight anything, I mean you can, but the game doesn't incentivize it. But by scanning and reading those PDAs, not only could I work out elements of the story for myself which was super fun, I got to enrich myself as a player with the feeling of understanding. Of taking what little the planet had offered me and going for all it was worth, gaining knowledge and learning how to maneuver it all.
I think that satisfaction is the crux of survival games. You get the utter satisfaction of doing things yourself, even if virtually, and succeed against cosmically blown up odds. While also constantly under threat of having that satisfaction subverted or taken away.
Hell, in our Raft save file my buddy and I started a hall of fame of headboards just for our shark which we named Sally, and every head we hung each time she died we named a different cuss like Sally the Whore or Sally the Cunt based on what we'd yell at her when we heard her start chomping our boards.
Satisfaction seems to be king
I'm so happy to see CoJ: Gunslinger representation, it's such an awesome game.
You have such a passion about everything you do and make and it's just heartwarming to see, you're genuinely hard *not* to smile at and with.
I’ve been basically addicted to The Long Dark for the last few weeks. The art style is beautiful, and the freedom and atmosphere is fucking great. I love the fact that the main enemies are the weather, and my own bad decisions. Every objective and every failure is determined by me, I don’t have to wait for characters to let me play the game, because I am the game. I love it, it’s a really awesome experience.
You know what else is comfy about a survival game?
I bought The Long Dark only a few months after it got into early access, and seeing it grow and develop from a pretty simple survival-sandbox into this fleshed-out game with a story that still allows you just to enjoy the sandbox is comfy. Seeing the work of the devs as they passionately continue working on the game over all these years and then getting to experience the fruits of their works is nice.
A great horror survival game that I don't recall ever really got any coverage is Darkwood.
Dark wood is super hit or miss I can get its appeal but it felt like a boring slog to the near end and I just stopped.
darkwood is fucking great yea
I love detailed and explanation videos like this. Gets your brain pumping the smart juices and makes you think about your own favorite item of the topic and why you love it. I'd love to see more of these from you, especially with the humor you bring to it. I love what you do J and it's sick!
I really like this take on Sock Sights. It feels more personalized to J, and you can tell he's having fun with it rather than just cranking it out like some other people would. You never cease to entertain, angry sock man.
Okay this is not what I expected but this is great. It's like part video essay part comedy routine and I love it. I don't even like survival games and I love this video. Thanks J
This is quite a different perspective I've seen you in, usually I just watch your fun is fun stuff all the screaming and doing stupid shit, but this is actually pretty nice, having a (almost) well mannered ted talk about survival games. Would love to see more of this
I think one of the reasons survival games are so fun is because you at the bottom of the food chain.
Being able to work your way up from the ground,collecting resources,learning skills,upgrading your tools,and noticeably be able to trounce those who once scared you shitless...so satisfying
Can you explain how you don’t get bored halfway through a survival game? For me, it feels like when I reach that point of not having to constantly scrounge around for resources just to survive, my interest just deflates like a balloon and I just get bored of it immediately. I just think “ok, well, I’ve finally gotten to the part of actually surviving now and have a steady and renewable source of food/water/shelter/etc so I have no real reason to go outside and explore now, so what am I supposed to do now?” This is why I actually like story in my survival games, something to work towards, an end goal besides just surviving, so when you reach that moment of being able to survive renewably, you still have something to do besides just sit in whatever hovel you etched out for yourself until you get bored of the game and quit.
JFJ video essay.
*JFJ video essay.*
Fucking loved it my man, can't wait to see more of this.
all I’m gunna say is that Grounded is one of my favorite survival games. Yes it’s buggy, yes I’ve played a lot of survival games, but grounded is my favorite
Pun?
@@korokseed1619 no, opinion
Consulartie 282 No I mean the “it’s buggy.”
@@korokseed1619 Damn, I didn’t even see that
Consulartie 282 lol
Compared to your other videos, I can say honestly that I like this type the most. I am aware that these take a long time to make, just with the sheer amount of editing that goes into them, but this kind of content is why I watched you in the first place and keep coming back to every stream. Hearing you be down to earth and talk about stuff is what's entreating to me, and with the right amount of comic relief woven in, it makes the perfect video. Keep doing what you're doing, and never change, you beautiful Texan bastard.
As a map game fan, I know the feeling of “Being insignificant in other people’s eyes”
Ooooo a sock sights! Uncommon but always lovely! They're always great to watch. Nice job, man!
Fade to Silence is a lesser known survival game that is quite fun with providing alot of challenge and choices to survive in a frozen Earth flooded with monsters and a bunch of corruption.
That was a pretty comfy opening. Loved the editing in the vid and the script. Keep up the awesome work man.
J, I have been trying to conclude as to why I like survival games so much and you just helped me answer it. So thank you sock cowboy.
Honestly I'm in the exact same boat here. So far as I've played, I keep gravitating back to survival games as my comfy genre - I've been consistently playing Minecraft since I discovered how mods change it, I always make a point to install Long Dark and Raft on any new machine I get, and so on.
There's something about the feeling of being able to handle starting small, and then working your way up to near infinite power POTENTIAL, while still being very easily able to be taken apart by the game if you fuck up. That if you don't actually pay attention to what you're doing - what you're consuming, what you're doing to preserve yourself, and so on - you're not being conscious of the whole survival aspect of immersing yourself in the situation.
Damn Call of Juarez: Gunslinger? I never thought I'd see that game ever again...
I actually like hearing this side of J hope he does this a bit more often
2:22 You know this going to be good when the sock pulls out the Mason cosplay
7:02 You could have said "lovecraft novel" and it would be on point
Glad this was less essay, and more of "Let me brain-dump my thoughts on a video."
It's nice to just hear somebody talk directly and honestly. Missing that element from a lot of UA-camrs
This was a little different from the norm, but in a good way and this was actually really enjoyable to watch! Keep up the awesome work J
Birds eye view games are good thank you very much. This war of mine especially.
Seriously like the video. You're the second gaming youtuber to recently do video essay stuff. The other being soviet womble.
Even if on the more simple side of what a video essay would be
I need to see you play Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead. It’s probably the ultimate zombie survival game.
i mean it 100% is but at the same time it’s really unfriendly to new players
@@Bamboo_bazooka Unless you’re a masochist
dont drink poop water
@@Bamboo_bazooka which Is why I went in blind folded I wanted it to hurt and I wanted to learn since thats what being a human is about
Bird's eye view game, he'd hate it
My favourite genre has to be horror. I’ve grown accustom to horror games being cannon fodder trash, most involving jump scare filled dung heaps that serve no purpose other than for the bad man to yell “boo!”. It hurts knowing that so much wasted potential fills the genre. But sometimes, just sometimes, you find that special game that just... grabs you. I’ve started to expand my horror game definition to games that aren’t even defined as horror, the long dark for example, it fills me with dread like Silent Hill when a pack of wolves are circling my campfire, it makes me incredibly nervous as I’m walking through a blizzard trying to find the next shack to wait it out and it makes me incredibly tense when I get lost, unable to find my temporary shack with my supplies. (This whole comment has turned less into why I love horror games and more why I love the long dark but whatever) What I’m getting at is that a horror game should involve at least one of these major things, dread, nervousness or just making the player tense, but not all of these things have to be found in a horror game. Sorry if this whole comment seems disconnected, I just wanted to try put together my thoughts.
I always enjoyed seeing you
with your direct broad speech your actual kindness that you have to the people you love and care and your emotions always making you be as expressive as you can
of trying new things both for fun and for feeling and doing things that you enjoy
Its something that I am already happy to see when I have discovered and found this video
Im so glad of the first times I met you always enjoying myelf allot
even if I do not know that much about you personally and of your opinions I still enjoy you and I hope for you literally the best like if you were a friend
Keep it up JFJ!
I never realized how much I like survival games every time I stumble upon one I usually play and I have a blast
I swear, everything you do, top notch. I liked when ya talked about it on stream and now I do even more.
I remember as a kid learning about the rts genre through halo wars and the first thought I had about that game was imagining the spartans doing all this cool stuff on the ground and me not😄
"Or Detroit oh my God." is easily the thing I've laughed the hardest at on your channel, thanks for making that J.
Cant believe I just sat through 7 minutes of comfy jazz with talking and one heart attack. Only to hear "idk coomfy tho"
10/10 make more.
Unknown response towards terraria. Honestly the most full hearted ideal explanation from anyone ive seen.
Any game that sticks me at the bottom of the food chain and then gives me all that I need, little by little, to climb my way to the top is a damn fine game.
Animal crossing is my favorite survival game.
I saw the gem of far sky, I thought people forgot about it but you apparently haven’t. Thank you jfj.
Although not my most favorite genre, it's still one of my most liked.
The long dark looks really cool, I may give it a try
i honestly fully agree with you, i hate when a game puts you in a view where you are "watching" a person do stuff you command them to do then have it where you have to think rationally of stuff like showing your body to the enemy, being able to know where the enemy is, and hitting the enemy, like how are any of those near realistic when it is like you have a drone where you can see around corners and the bullets come from far off to the side
Fun to see J's editing in terms of a video rather than a stream recap
6:55 space sharks and CANCER!!
Probably my favorite genre to play with friends, still need to complete Forest and MC.
This video is great, you explain things really good and you manage to make it funny. Great video J, i hope we can see more like it eventually with other topics.
grounded is such a great idea that had a lot potential and the game is good and you can tell by watching the dev's talking about grounded that there putting a lot of effort and work in to the game and yes it's buggy but every update the game feels more polished and more fun can't wait until this game is finished.
I keep coming back to this video. It has no reason to be this good
Sitting at a dinner table at 1:46am eating ice cream while the outro music comes on is a vibe
Y'know.... J. I.. worry sometimes, about you. The slurs the dog whistles, the worrying jokes. I live IN GEORGIA, there are far too many really bad racists around me for me to ignore that.. But..... This, this makes me a little less worried, I watch the VODS sometimes, and that too. You're human, and you admitted that the slurs are a fault in DBD, so... You're just human, like all of us. I'll continue to enjoy your content, and you as a person, not an icon or idol. This isn't me trying to be negative, I appreciate you, and I hope that maybe helps with some of your own worries. In general, I know I specifically don't matter all that much. Good luck, I'll be watching and enjoying as always.
I’m glad your branching out from stream highlights
never expected this kind of video from you, and I love it!
Great work, J!
*Gets throat torn out by a wolf, quickly bleeding all over the snow while the pack circles you and loudly growls until you lose conciousness*
GOD DAMN THIS GAME IS SO COZY
Oh boy I'm gonna love this series
I’m just happy we got some pathologic two footage in there
Yo holy crap, this format is great man. You should do more of this if its not too taxing to make.
My summer car and the long dark are my favourite survival games
I need more Sock Sights. I could listen to J talk for hours about anything. Love you J
JFJ playing that Meet n Fuck music at the end like we wouldn't notice.
RedRuins Softworks needs to finish their game so we can have "Breathedge is fun"
Ah yeah, been hyped for this since I saw it on Twitter. This’ll be good
Hobo: Tough Life's gotta be one of my favourite survival games of like, life (I guess?)
i do not mind the 3rd person camera in games as long as you control the character or reprecent a character in what you're seeing, i also think that ck2 in multiplayer can be considered "survival" if you exclaim outloud that you want to get the saint bloodline
I appreciate the video essay with many advertiser un-friendly jokes
Subscribed for games - stayed for Philosophy
I like the description of subnautica is "SPACE SHARKS AND CANCER!"
I don’t know what game genre you’d call ‘playing max Mania/Hellborn Krieg on UVHM in Borderlands 2 and going ballistic while still being on a tightrope of death’, but whatever that is it’s my favorite genre and I haven’t found anything that scratches the same itch since
Dude is missing out on that feeling when you turtle for half the match and r&d and then watch your glorious army stomp all over competition.
Total Annihilation did that for me.
But I get it, to each his own.
Sometimes all you need is just a comfy game. Not action packed, not intense, just comfy.
i'm so use to hearing J's improvised stream talk, i thought he got someone else to narrate this.
If I had to put into my own words why I personally think you and others might love the genre, I think it's because it resets us, to a time where the struggle isn't finding the right font size for tomorrows conference, or figuring out what color of bow goes with the gift basket you're making for Karens midlife crisis party.
The Survival genre puts you back into the....."shoes" (I guess?) of our primitive ancestors, of finding just enough resources to survive day to day, building up the leftovers of each days haul until you can eak out some form of comfortable living
survival games are good but not my type but you make a good point
I agree, it’s the same you feel about survival is how I feel about open world games, then done right, i good story attached to it makes is all the better, being able to make choices, the that’s why I enjoy the mass effect, SWTOR, and dragon age, a since of choice, a since freedom, to be something else
0:12 New Ormond Rework
2:35
*Zooms in on Torque*
"FUCK YOU"
You're entering dangerous territory, my friend.
JFJ is a scalie/Scaley/Kneesock/Website coder confirmed?
Fuck yes J you had no idea how long I was waiting for another one of these videos thank you!
I agree with the 3rd person part especially but the one exception is Civ 5 because my God is that game a time sucker
I don't know what my favorite genre is, but if there is one thing that makes me like a game, it's making me feel like a fucking speed demon.
Imagine Red Dead Redemption 2, in all its glory, but its a survival game where your a settler and you have to build up a town, or live alone by gathering resources, fighting outlaws, hunting for food, etc,
J: *Survival* Kills 3 deers and takes less than a full dear back... welpppp
Also J for terraria you should either say pain or cthulhu
Or furry
This is just my take on survival games, if you want to read it go ahead.
When I was a kid was never that interested in the Commons linear story or multiplayer games, I always wanted to have an open world & make my own unrestricted choices. Naturally I grew to love survival games & RPG's. Survival is probably my favorite genre, and you almost you always know the bare minimum of what you're going to get & if there's extra like the (personally) griping story of subnautica, then great. Except for Rust, I wouldn't group that up in the same category it's like some limbo of survival & fps where your "survival" is not getting murdered by other players. Not knocking it's place but it's always been weird to me that it's called a survival game considering food & water are really secondary objectives & your only real threat is other players. In think 7 Days is one my favorite examples in terms of surviving in a very free environment. You can do whatever you want to survive. Want to build a base? Reinforce an existing one? Hunt for food? Have a farm? Trade for weapons? Craft weapons? Harvest resources? Loot for weapons & some resources? Trap zombies? Kill zombies? Make a good horde base? Make a vehicle & run away from your problems (horde night)? That's why I love survival games. Even in an RPG there's only so much replayability before know just about everything that's going to happen (though that still takes forever), but in a survival game you might get lucky & shoot up the ranks early, or struggle for every scrap.
I like how out of all the games that were in this video it only shows don't starve in the description
Survival games are my comfort game
Not much rambling good jokes laid throughout
10/10 good watch and a wonderful addition to sock sights