"It's not a bug, it's a feature" "It's not a stream, it's a supercut" "It's not over, it's joever" "It's no"t the witcher 3 video, it's nothiing" Thanks for the video Nodja
1:28:00 the main point of game' Ammo Managment is not about having enough total ammount, but spending curently loaded ammo wisely. If you find yourself with a reloading pump shotgun in a middle of a fight - good fkng luck. 2:45:30 Dark Place is an allegory for Subconscious - Alan dives deep into it for inspiration and Dark Presence is what Jung called a psychological "Shadow" - the part of us so dark, it frightens even ourselves, thus we hide it from our Consciousness. Every human have a "Shadow" so yes - everyone can become Taken, Scratch or whatever you call it, IF or WHEN this "Shadow" TAKES over them. THAT'S WHY it requieres SPECIFICALLY dark, grim and sad art to feed on.
I don’t think BG3’s spot is moving, but god I want this to be my game of the year so bad, this is so perfect in almost every way, a bit of jank here and there but those are definitely not game breaking, and the whole story, the visual, the mix media, everything. God this is exactly what’s missing in the world right now, this game and BG3, like lost legends from the olden days of gaming, with the technology of our times, perfection.
Really fun playthrough. Started watching right after finishing myself. Not the happiest with the ending but one of my favorite games absolutely. The writing is just so good
Cool game, I rather enjoyed it, though I wished Joe went straight for the main story instead of spending time on side stuff when we're this close to the end. Edit stats: Stream length: 05h53m09s Edit Length: 04h27m24s Time Saved: 01h25m45s (24.28%) Number of cuts: 1033
It is kind of crazy just how closely aligned mine and Joe's thoughts are on the story. I get that's more likely to happen when you experience a game by watching someone play through it than by playing it yourself, but we ended up having the same thoughts about things that Joe never commented on until his post game thoughts. I thought of "Alan and Scratch are in the same body" earlier on, while Casey was interrogating Wake and was suspicious of him, I started to think if there was a reason (even a reason Casey couldn't know of) of why he was so firmly untrusting of Wake. But ultimately I thought they wouldn't do it, because I thought it was a less interesting idea than Scratch having to manifest separate from Alan: a combination of Alan's darkest thoughts and all of the negative fictions and half-truths about him made real and embodied by the Dark Presence. However, I continued to consider it, because I thought the whole point of American Nightmare was destroying Scratch's physical body, even if his spiritual manifestation remained. So it wasn't that big of a twist to me, but it was a disappointing one, and accompanied by what is probably the worst scene in the game. Scratch/the Dark Presence then inhabiting Casey is also just out of nowhere, to me... I get that Casey being weakened and overcome by the influence of the Dark Place had been set up, but Scratch being able to jump bodies like that... it's just weird. I am also not entirely certain of the relationship between Scratch and the Dark Presence, and how it compares to the relationship between Barbara and the Dark Presence, or the Taken and the Dark Presence. As did the phone call from future Alan, and the bullet of light. Sometimes Saga makes deductions because of her supernatural abilities. But other times it is informed by great deductive reasoning, *critical thinking,* you might say. But her reading through all of the cult's internal documentation about how they are trying to prevent Taken forming from the people rising from the lake, then somehow not realize that's what they're doing until the end of the game, is baffling to me, and clearly it was to Joe, too. They could have just not had all of that documentation in the game for Saga to discover, and it would be fine if she didn't put it together, even if a little weird with all of the circumstantial evidence. Like Joe, most of my issues are with the ending. Also like Joe, I think that many of my issues (with the story overall but especially with the ending) can be alleviated or even entirely resolved with DLC. I guess we'll see.
This might seem a bit rude because they seemed to have put a lot of work into this game but some of it feels like... I dunno like it was assembled partly by an AI with the odd spelling mistakes and run on sentences that a writer like Sam Lake would defo catch and NPCs just doing odd things like reading in toilet stalls which seems so out of place for something otherwise so well crafted. I know Unreal 5 has AI integration and I'm not saying the whole game is but part of it does especially the DLSS which makes textures warp in and out of reality for a split second like in the first video where the letters on Saga's FBI jacket would change to different letters for a few split frames.
Weird take; this isn't even an Unreal game, for one. And pretty clearly, I think, the strange NPC behavior is there just as a funny little thing for players to notice. And in a game this long, with this much text and this many textures, you're bound to have some spelling mistakes and some texture issues. If anything, the occasional quirks and minor mistakes make it seem far more human.
@@TheTopgeartony These quirks are a result of intentional and unintentional Finnish cultural and linguistic influence from Sam Lake and the rest of the Finnish team from Remedy. It seems strange because the approach isn't American / English (British).
@@tupamas late but is there some sort of example list, reading a book upside down on a toilet felt intentional, but not much comes to mind in terms of what can be considered culturally finnish influenced as im pretty detached from that side of the world
"It's not a bug, it's a feature"
"It's not a stream, it's a supercut"
"It's not over, it's joever"
"It's no"t the witcher 3 video, it's nothiing"
Thanks for the video Nodja
It's not delivery, it's DiGiorno.
Looking up because you let me down.
1:28:00 the main point of game' Ammo Managment is not about having enough total ammount, but spending curently loaded ammo wisely. If you find yourself with a reloading pump shotgun in a middle of a fight - good fkng luck.
2:45:30 Dark Place is an allegory for Subconscious - Alan dives deep into it for inspiration and Dark Presence is what Jung called a psychological "Shadow" - the part of us so dark, it frightens even ourselves, thus we hide it from our Consciousness. Every human have a "Shadow" so yes - everyone can become Taken, Scratch or whatever you call it, IF or WHEN this "Shadow" TAKES over them. THAT'S WHY it requieres SPECIFICALLY dark, grim and sad art to feed on.
I don’t think BG3’s spot is moving, but god I want this to be my game of the year so bad, this is so perfect in almost every way, a bit of jank here and there but those are definitely not game breaking, and the whole story, the visual, the mix media, everything.
God this is exactly what’s missing in the world right now, this game and BG3, like lost legends from the olden days of gaming, with the technology of our times, perfection.
I loved this whole game and the playthrough, thank you so much for the highlights
whether it's a sink or a toilet the result is the same for some people...
The story truly is a monster...
It's not a loop, it's not a spiral, it's a toilet flush
Wise words.
Really fun playthrough. Started watching right after finishing myself. Not the happiest with the ending but one of my favorite games absolutely. The writing is just so good
Cool game, I rather enjoyed it, though I wished Joe went straight for the main story instead of spending time on side stuff when we're this close to the end.
Edit stats:
Stream length: 05h53m09s
Edit Length: 04h27m24s
Time Saved: 01h25m45s (24.28%)
Number of cuts: 1033
God I love Joe, he’s so invested in this
Thank you so much for making these, love what you're doing!
The end is the beginning is the end is the beginning is the end.
God the review section is just so good man, gamers are peak society members
It is kind of crazy just how closely aligned mine and Joe's thoughts are on the story. I get that's more likely to happen when you experience a game by watching someone play through it than by playing it yourself, but we ended up having the same thoughts about things that Joe never commented on until his post game thoughts.
I thought of "Alan and Scratch are in the same body" earlier on, while Casey was interrogating Wake and was suspicious of him, I started to think if there was a reason (even a reason Casey couldn't know of) of why he was so firmly untrusting of Wake. But ultimately I thought they wouldn't do it, because I thought it was a less interesting idea than Scratch having to manifest separate from Alan: a combination of Alan's darkest thoughts and all of the negative fictions and half-truths about him made real and embodied by the Dark Presence. However, I continued to consider it, because I thought the whole point of American Nightmare was destroying Scratch's physical body, even if his spiritual manifestation remained. So it wasn't that big of a twist to me, but it was a disappointing one, and accompanied by what is probably the worst scene in the game. Scratch/the Dark Presence then inhabiting Casey is also just out of nowhere, to me... I get that Casey being weakened and overcome by the influence of the Dark Place had been set up, but Scratch being able to jump bodies like that... it's just weird. I am also not entirely certain of the relationship between Scratch and the Dark Presence, and how it compares to the relationship between Barbara and the Dark Presence, or the Taken and the Dark Presence. As did the phone call from future Alan, and the bullet of light.
Sometimes Saga makes deductions because of her supernatural abilities. But other times it is informed by great deductive reasoning, *critical thinking,* you might say. But her reading through all of the cult's internal documentation about how they are trying to prevent Taken forming from the people rising from the lake, then somehow not realize that's what they're doing until the end of the game, is baffling to me, and clearly it was to Joe, too. They could have just not had all of that documentation in the game for Saga to discover, and it would be fine if she didn't put it together, even if a little weird with all of the circumstantial evidence.
Like Joe, most of my issues are with the ending. Also like Joe, I think that many of my issues (with the story overall but especially with the ending) can be alleviated or even entirely resolved with DLC. I guess we'll see.
Did the first game have these mythology references? ‘Cause I’m really loving these Norse mythology stuff with the Andersons, Valhalla and Ahti.
Yes, most of the characters are from the first game.
You'd love Max Payne then.
@@TheAxeWorld1I really should, before the new ones come out in the future.
Same goes for Control.
1:56:31 made me giggle
This might seem a bit rude because they seemed to have put a lot of work into this game but some of it feels like... I dunno like it was assembled partly by an AI with the odd spelling mistakes and run on sentences that a writer like Sam Lake would defo catch and NPCs just doing odd things like reading in toilet stalls which seems so out of place for something otherwise so well crafted. I know Unreal 5 has AI integration and I'm not saying the whole game is but part of it does especially the DLSS which makes textures warp in and out of reality for a split second like in the first video where the letters on Saga's FBI jacket would change to different letters for a few split frames.
Weird take; this isn't even an Unreal game, for one. And pretty clearly, I think, the strange NPC behavior is there just as a funny little thing for players to notice. And in a game this long, with this much text and this many textures, you're bound to have some spelling mistakes and some texture issues. If anything, the occasional quirks and minor mistakes make it seem far more human.
@@MissEvieYT oh you are right I stand corrected. I still think the odd quirks aren't intentional and really detract in many ways
@@TheTopgeartony These quirks are a result of intentional and unintentional Finnish cultural and linguistic influence from Sam Lake and the rest of the Finnish team from Remedy. It seems strange because the approach isn't American / English (British).
@@tupamas late but is there some sort of example list, reading a book upside down on a toilet felt intentional, but not much comes to mind in terms of what can be considered culturally finnish influenced as im pretty detached from that side of the world
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