@@khanlusa so i do apologies for being late to this as im new to the channel. but i had a thought when u mentioned ur phalasophobia (sorry if i spelt that wrong) but i was thinking, i used to be terrified of the dark because of stuff that happened in my past with "someone ur ment to look up to", and i played a lot of horror games where u walk in the dark and over time i was actually able to start going to sleep without lights. i still need my battery radio though so that my subconcious is kept focused on that while im alseep as nightmares while lucid dreaming isnt fun. but side tangent aside sorry, i was thinking games can and could be a good control excersise for people to help them have a controled form of exposure therapy. was just super curious what ur thoughts are on this and if you think it could be a good idea? (of course with the understanding that the game is respectful if it directly targets a phobia... trying to remeber that game that was about phobias but i cant remeber)
Personally I didn’t find it bad at all, short and to a scary point maybe. But I’d happily support an indiesk game if it stays true to the source material and really tries to show a story
Saaaame. I've probably seen the scene a dozen times now the pleading of Caz's voice, *begging* not to lose a beloved friend who has also been his guiding voice and a HUGE part of his life... *hnnng the writing and the voice preformances ARE SO GOOD*
I mean, they did apparently take inspiration from the Southern Reach Trilogy & Annihilation, so I'd say they succeeded at making something both existentially terrifying and aesthetically compelling (just like nature, huh).
Hubby is a sub mariner who Immidately Felt Like He Knew Everyone On The Rig cause they were speakin his language When we got to that part of the game he flipped off the screen at the same time, freakin gold I laughed so hard I cried 😂
One of the best things of this game is the voice acting and people: no-one's a stereotype, no one feels forced, each character feels like someone you'd meet on the street. From The humor and slithers of comedy sounds genuine and even got a chuckle out of me, especially the conversation between Brodie and Caz by the flare. Every bit of fear sounds like the crew are all on the verge of breaking down. Caz himself has moments that feel like they'd come from a 'rational', violent hospitalising of a man aside, main character who just wants to get off the rig. The sadness and sorrow is like a gut-punch, enough to leave me so by the end. From the quiet moments where the characters actually process the hell they've been through, to just that heart wrenching letter at the end. Not to mention Roy and Brodie's deaths. Each one is just...brutal. Roy's is one of the last good things for Caz; his mate, his mucker, his chum. The whole game, Roy is scared and doesn't want to be left behind and Caz doesn't want to, the bond feels so real and it's almost hollowing to see the big man lying there. How it's also topped off with Caz's comments of how he was loved by Suze and the kids, and then how Finley follows that up for salt on the wound with another mention of how loved the big man was, all of it just hits hard. Brodie's death feels like the last chance of hope on the Rig is gone, with Caz almost giving up and Finley doing so completely. Brodie spent the whole game trying to be this beacon of light almost, just doing his best to keep the Rig going and to ensure that people could get off of it. So, it's soul crushing once he claims his peace and Caz stays there in those last moments, and what's the kicker for me is that little, final trade of humor, the joke and the chuckle between the two and yet it ends the way it does. I could talk on this game for hours but I'll end my closing remarks with the fact that the Chinese Room made something special and equally horrific.
Roy only has five minutes of screentime in a near 3-5 hour game, yet he's many people's favourite character. It's subtle, but it just shows how good the writing is in this game.
I had hope we’d get off somehow and have a happy ending right until Roy died. After that I teared up and just sat there for a while thinking “we’re not getting out of this, are we?”
I thought the 'oil' or bubbles in question during the flashbacks were rather film being burned or melted. Should be really iconic to anyone before the digital age. Definitely like how its use goes considering the picturebook vibes to it.
It's crazy to think that Caz's VA is the same dude who voices Adam Smasher in Cyberpunk 2077 and Edgerunners. It was jarring finding that out because Caz is such an emotional character, while on the flipside Adam Smasher is an emotionless psycho. Alec Newman is an amazing VA...
Don't look up the Byford Dolphin incident. It's too brutal. Just know that barometric pressure is a dark evil magic. This game also reminded me of the Piper Alpha collapse.
Cliff notes for those morbidly interested but not wanting to look it up themselves, from someone who only read about it several years ago and has mostly forgotten about it past the main points: People go inside chamber, chamber has oopsy, people become Jam.
@@JarodHarrison-jj7oq More like one of them becomes jam while the other three get flash-cooked on the inside. The silver lining of the incident is that the four people inside the three chambers died so quickly they most likely didn't even get a chance to process the pain. The man on the outside of the chamber who got hit by the diving bell, on the other hand? That poor sucker experienced severe physical trauma all over his body and died on the way to the hospital. Pressure is a scary force...
@JarodHarrison-jj7oq I think its like, two people that became jam. One was bitch slapped by a gigantic steel door, another two had all the nitrogen in their blood become gas instantaneously, which uh... is incredibly unhealthy, to put ot lightly.
21:49 Hi! I am not an engineer, but I was raised by one and have adsorbed a load of knowledge along the way. You can simulate what is being done with the tension wenches with a 2 leiter bottle, some cooking twine, and a bath tub! So the bottle is standing in for the entire rig, top to bottom. And let's say the top quarter is the Do Not Cross line; if water gets past here, everyone on board is dead. And about half way is your comfortable bufferzone, the ideal place for the waterline to land HOWEVER! There's a bunch of STUFF inside the rig; gennies and lights and *air* for people to breathe; air that is more boyant than water, which means you're gonna need a way to Have Air In the Work Zones Even When The Waves Are Hitting High above your ideal water line. So step one is anchor the bottom by drawing seawater as ballast. So we put an inch of water in our bottle, fill the tub to our ideal water line, and put the bottle in the water... for it to immediately tip over to try and reach neutral boyancy. Worse if you splash about. Now grab your cooking twine. Pull 3 lengths as wide as your arm span. Take one, wrap the middle around the top of the bottle just below the lid ridge, and tie it off. Repeat with the other lengths, trying to keep their tie offs equadistant from one another around your central Load Bearing Support. Then take the ends of your strings, stand ins for the teathers, and pull them down to the bottom of the tub and pin them under your feet to simulate the Footing Anchors on 2 sides of the rig. Once the tethers are tight, they hold The Entire Bottle against the bottom of the tub. Since the bottle stands nice and the bottom of the tub is flat, this suddenly makes it an Extremely Stable structure. Splash around in the tub all ya like, it won't tip over; not unlike lashing a piece of furniture into a truck bed so that its surface area and wind resistance doesn't cause it to fly off. Within the rig, we can see they're using a counterweight system in conjunction with the boyancy of the air maintained inside the rig. This would be if you loosened up on your strings; the bottle will float but resists tipping thanks to the ballast in the bottom and tension held at the top. If one desired to make a More Accurate model, they'd need to be able to section off the ballast chamber and add a pully system near the top through which the tether cables run, as well as counter weights that add up to *more than the weight of the entire rig* to counteract all that air AND tidal effects constantly pushing and pulling and bobbing the rig around. The counter weights are key; between that and the footing anchors, the rig has a web of support that starts in the legs, goes up and out, then down at an angle; gaining stability without obstructing operations or forcing a top down redesign. This also means your tension tethers can be confined to their own pipes running through the ship to guide them to the pully system, and how hard the pully gets pulled on tells you how much force is getting distributed by the system; same way a suspended scale works at a grocery store. I hope this was informative enough to build greater understanding! ( EDIT! corrected some spelling errors I made in my excitement to share )
I'll probably never see myself stepping on an oil rig irl but dammit the voice acting in this game just feels so REAL like i genuinely felt bad when our coworkers succumbed to the shape and when caz said his final goodbye games really are art fr 😭
I adored this game! The full weight of the horror of this infection hit me when I heard Gibbo say "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to!" and "Oh god... I can still see his face!" Those lines were even more soul destroying to me than him wanting his mom (which don't get me wrong, still stabbed me right in the chest). But I can't even imagine how horrific it would be to still be almost fully in your right mind as you watch your body, completely out of your control and rapidly growing strange cancer-like growths, slaughter your friends. At least Muir and Trotts were so mentally gone they weren't even aware of what was happening but Gibbo KNEW who he was, what he was doing, and who he was doing it to.
The acting in this game is better than a fair amount of movies I've seen. The characterization and dialogue is phenomenal. I was absolutely a sobbing mess by the end of it. This is the third playthrough/recap I've watched because I can't get over how wonderfully heart-punching it is.
A quick note for your closing remarks, personally I consider "answering the questions" to be a cardinal sin for horror stories. A thriller movie can do it fine, and often a horror movie that does answer the questions becomes a thriller in that very instant. The fact this game doesnt tell us what the creature is, where it comes from or what happens after the explosion is what makes this game so much better.
I absolutely agree, adding explanations for the entity, even if written well, would shift the genre of the story. However, I do like games with genre shifts in them, like when a shooter turns into horror by disempowering the player. Problem is, it's difficult to pull off while also doing both genres justice.
While I agree that it’s better to do that, I lowkey still prefer answers because I’m such a curious person that I just need to know everything about anything
Still wakes the deep really gets to me because of how much Caz reminds me of my own father. They've both made super dumb decisions that they thought were justified in making. And both have been through extremely tenuous points in their relationships. I've heard my father have conversations with my mom yhat are very similar to then ones Caz has with Suze, so seeing situations like that in this game really hit me in a weakspot I didn't know I had.
Likewise. Navy spouse here. When Suze, on the edge of weeping, says "BECAUSE I'M SMARTER THAN YOU" I flashed back to every dumb conflict that was made worse by my partner Deciding he was going to do what he thought was right And Nothing I Said Was Getting Through. And the ACHE of having to bellow that at someone you love and STILL not being listened to? It started some conversations. Hubby is much better at hearing me, we haven't had a fight like that in a decade, and now we've begun unpacking the resentment that can froth up around that kinda stuff. But nothing quite hit as hard as this game, and when I showed it to him a new conversation got to start; what we've learned from one another ❤
Oh definitely, the realness of all the characters is what makes it hit harder because yeah, people like Rennick exist and are often to blame for terrible shit happening to the people under them because they care about cost cutting more than safety.
I was not prepared for the gut punch of Roy's death. Don't expect that kind of sincerity in a horror game. I know others have said this but it's so nice to hear you talk about a game you enjoyed. This wasn't even on my radar until your video.
Anyone else reminded of the Permian Basin Superorganism from this game? Eldritch horror coming from underground, body horror resulting from those caught in its grasp (THE BIRTHDAY CAKE), disaster resulting due to capitalist greed & lack of proper safety measures, etc.
specifically caz's interaction with brodie at the end kills me. brodie telling caz about skye, brodie laughing and agreeing when caz says he's never swimming after this. then, the part that really gets me, is brodie telling caz that it's rising, and caz immediately leans down and reassures brodie that he's here. he's staying. he'll not leaving brodie. until brodie is swept away. the last thing brodie hears is "i'm not going anywhere" from caz, on the phone, knowing brodie, himself, is going to go somewhere. caz chose to push his grief down, to comfort brodie in his final moments in contact with someone else, even though he knew brodie was going to die. potentially on that call with him. and finlay, sat behind him, fidgeting with that lighter, could only hear caz's side of it. roy's death hurt. but caz's interaction with brodie before his death truly gutted me.
The part that broke me was... Roy. My Dad is diabetic, and there were a couple of times where he hadn't taken his insulin. One time, he ended up in the hospital, and the other my sibling and I had to call the paramedics. The second time was the most scared I've ever been because I was too young to realize the severity the first time. I know what happens when someone whose diabetic doesn't take their insulin... and knowing how disoriented and scared it makes people. I couldn't stop crying for around 5 whole minutes when Roy died...
I think the creature is an oil catastrophy at sea, the people on the rig experience what birds and fish experience if an oil rig fucks up: mystery-matter rises from the sea floor and covers, changes and kills every in sight
i also really like the theory that Caz died of drownjng at the beginning of the game (like Gibbo) and the rest of the game is his purgatorial quest to Right His Wrongs (cowardice and running from meaningful responsibilities of his family to evade the police). To face conflict head on, and struggle to overcome it. It wasn't about winning or surviving - it was about balancing out his failures in life. Finding the root of the Shape at the drill and realising it was always hopeless, and still throwing the lighter, is the final nail of his redemption in the afterlife. Love the game as a literal narrative as well of course, but both hold up!
regional accents. authentic accents of authentic people - it sells the humanity of the story immediately. grounds us the audience in reality, and from the perspective of normal working people to fully appreciate the unthinkable unknowable horror. the game is fucking gorgeous, the set is sensorily rich with water and industrial pipes, the rich environmental storytelling in the workspace and bedrooms; the isolation of bring susoended over the Ocean and Entirely Alone. The bosyhorror is fantastic. but the voice actors fucking KILLED this. they make every sequence so believable like most amateur and professional game voice acting comes across kind of saccarine and dramatic. the dialogue also suits well. the developers and the entire team clearly pulled all the weight and balanced it perfectly in all the areas it mattered. it looks, feels, sounds, fucking brilliant.
Finlay and Brodie were two of my favorite characters throughout this whole game, along with the Big Man Roy himself. I'm glad they were the three we got to spend the most time with, but it was also the most disheartening to see them go out, especially Roy and Brodie's deaths, which both felt like we were the ones at fault for. This game royally screws with you emotionally...
It's such a good little moment. I especially love that once you light it all other sound except for the flame kind of fades away, just chef kiss. Not to mention you can see Caz's hand shaking, poor guy is terrified.
This game has such a beautiful, heart wrenching attention to detail. How, when Caz dies, you can see his thought processes- the image of family, his life, work, and a seagull like the one you can find dead on the rig before shit hits the fan. The foreshadowing of the flood of the Oil Rig in the painting during the last sequence. How, from the beginning, when Caz hands Finlay his lighter she calls him a lifesaver and in the end he saves everyone by destroying the rig (and hopefully the Shape along with the infected). And, somewhere in the game, you can find a well-written poem called The Trawlermen and the lovecraftian tragedy themes in it truly brings out the essence of the game. This whole game plays like a well-written movie designed to envoke human emotions, how we get to witness all the pain and lives and snippets of history from everyone to their deaths. The research put into history that influences the setting- the drawings, posters, pictures, and sequences designed to make you scared- they’re all so wonderfully thought out and intricately crafted.
25:29 is a very interesting auditory hallucination of Caz's, especially if your theory about him being infected too is correct. Considering that Finlay might be infected too, since she also claims to hallucinate stuff when it's close, maybe the Shape was TRYING to get one of them to blow up the rig? It'd also explain why Addair was attempting to stop Caz from relighting thre flare stack, if that's the case... (Other than the basic "he's a little fash git who hates Caz and wants to kill him" motivation he already had going on, anyway.) Either way, i get the impression that the Shape's primary objective is simply to get rid of the drill and rig boring into its home by any means necessary, and if that means assimilating and/or manipulating a few bothersome primates along the way, so be it. (Does this mean that it's sentient? Unsure. it could simply be octopus-level-smart, and just referencing the memories of the people it's infecting/subsumed in order to work out how to get rid of the horrible thing that just crashed through its ceiling. Much to think about!)
A great game on a great story from a great team. Maybe it's too early to tell really but I honestly hope it gets nominated once GOTY 2024 gets announced
I'd like to say you are the reason I bought this game. I'd barely gotten to the point where Caz is saved from drowning/freezing to death before I paused your video, bought the game, played through the entire thing, then came back and watched the rest. The end left me a wreck as well. Those kinds of scenes always get to me, something about that pointless kindness, just doing it for the sake of kindness' sake is something that always hits something in me that gets a strong emotional response from me. Also. To anyone reading this that's on the fence. Buy the game. It's incredible. Seriously.
I’ve never gotten claustrophobic playing a game before but the pontoon section at 22:22 made me genuinely uncomfortable. The sound design of Caz shivering and sputtering water just felt so viscerally real.
The somber scene with Roy, the last call with Brodie, Finlay hearing her son* in her last moments, the final message from Suze... This is the only video I've watched on this game, but god fucking dammit did this hit me in the feels. You know the actors and writers killed it when you start to tear up from just a couple of voice lines and a bit of background story. Fantastic job from the devs. And a massive thanks to you as well Khanlusa for this incredible video. I didn't expect myself to be heavily invested in a 40+ min video at 3am but I'm so glad I did.
There is this Italian comic series called "Dylan Dog", which follows the titular protagonist who is a Nightmare's Detective, (he find himself in paranormal and supernatural situations) in one issue called _Goliath_, he's go to a oil rig which was invaded by a monstrosity very similar to the one of the game. It also absorb the minds of the workers too, This comic was published in 1999.
I was so lucky to find out about this game. Easily one of the best cosmic/ body horror games I've ever played. They did such a good job on humanizing NPCs that you barely get to know anything about. And what goes down with Roy... Caz's voice actor needs to get an award for that performance. Don't even get me started on how good the music and sound ambience is.
Khanlusas: (plays a scary game with confined rooms and dark water) Khanlusas' Ass: Welcome to the Hydraulic Press Channel! kidding kidding! the voice acting is fenomenal in this game! those conversations really made me tear up
Gods, this game... My dad spent my entire childhood and starting adolescence working week-on/week-off on an off-shore oil rig. The platform was going to be shut down, so Dad was given the chance to transfer to Texas and work on the land-locked wells. He and I haven't had contact for a few years now. (Being several dimensions of queer against a die-hard conservative will do that). I almost wish there was a bit of contact, though, so I could show him this and ask his thoughts on it. I got a lot of my love of horror from him, and with his experience in the same time period, even if it's the wrong part of the world... Well, it makes me wonder.
This was a great experience, ended without milking the games runtime, tense, amazing detail from the devs, and actually made me appreciate a properly optimized game in UE5 that is not a resource hog
I recommended my partner play this game for her home stream and while I wasn't able to catch most of it for working, I'm glad she got to experience it and I did tangentially through her and this video. I still tear up at Roy's death and Caz breaking down, and Brody saying he's already back on Skye.....fuck, man. This is on the list of my favorite games I haven't played because of this video. Thanks for bringing it to us 💜
I'd recommend the darkness 1 and 2. It is a really good pair of games that, at least to me had a really realistic portrayal of a man dealing with a eldritch being possessing him. And that scene in the first game where he looses a particular person and what he then does is both shocking and all to realistic.
I remember watching Jacob Geller's Nebula video on how the latter introduced the concept of "quad-wielding" weapons, which hasn't been done in really any game since, and I am still fascinated by the idea.
36:21 I just realized in the background you can hear Finely messing with the lighter, I wonder if it’s the same lighter we give her at the beginning of the game
Oh gods roys death hit me the hardest out of them all and the fast he didn’t even die because of the monster but because of his disorder gods that so real and so tragic I’m tearing up about this
This is my first time consuming media of this game, and I just have to say. Ho-Lee, Shit. These Voice Actors? Fucking, insaaaaaaaaaaane levels of commitment and talent amongst every last one of them, genuinely heart-wrenching to hear these guys interact and just talk about this fucked scenario; absolutely brilliant across the board.
This felt like a personal traumatic episode that someone experienced and made a whole video game about instead of just a video game about people falling into an Eldritch Disaster, I get a glimpse of where the fiction begins and where the reality ends but you still have areas where it's blurry, like the creature and what it is, and what it could represent in the end. Because this situation could very much happen in real life with no Eldritch Horrors involved, just very unfortunate sets of circumstances and extensive amounts of negligence for the maintenance of the rig for example. It's just a little theory on my part of course since I do not believe a situation like that happened before and if it did, that's a ton of money gone down the drain because holy, exploding an Oil Rig is gonna cause so much damage it's gonna be incalculable how much it'd cost in total.
The Roy scene landed so unbelievably well due to the VA and I just...fucking fall apart every time i hear it. I love the comradery Caz has with the crew but he and roy.... like...holy hell you feel like youre there, honestly in a game where I didnt feel -too- attached to most characters I just...never expected to just...have something HIT that hard for me...just...wow, amazing performances
I love industrial work and the connections that spawn in hard working environments. This game is really fun to watch and I care about the characters a ton
This was an excellent breakdown of the story, like wow! Your commentary was great. Personally, I loved this game so much. I think it was just the right amount of playtime. The voice acting was so good, and the characters so very human. The only thing I could think of improving is more interaction with the crew beforehand--I barely remembered the names that I met *once*, but I understand why it didn't stretch that out for too long. For Caz, it was an ordinary day on the rig, and he knew these people already. He didn't need to linger.
Damn it... I wasn't expecting to have the emotional dagger plunged into my heart at the last minute! Where's the warning for "This might make you weep like a wee babe" because now I'm crying and could use a hug. My soul hurts but it's in a good way. Fuck, it made me care! 10/10
Hehe I was kind enough to give that warning to my hubby when I reccomended he play it. He's a career sub mariner, if its on the ocean he's already Extremely Interested. Horror? That's already enough to get him in the door, but it being an Oil Rig got him hooked and I didn't spoil shit about the monster... cause we listened to the audiobook of Lovecrafts' works together and I wanna know which stories HE thought of on first viewing. But I knew the ending was gonna punch him 3 times in a row with spiked knuckles and to have some tissues handy. He still said I didn't prep him enough after 😂😂😂
@@4T3hM4kr0nEh, it's been almost a decade, I'd say it's been just nearly long enough. I mean, some people already call Witcher 3 a "classic," and that was released the same year.
I had to watch a Let's Play of that one lmao but I do own it so it's not out of the question. I'll just have to take my headset off like I do with Subnautica at times, for whatever reason not "hearing" the underwater environment helps a little? Brains are weird.
The bits of context/outside history you provided really helped! The mention of the Byford Dolphin and Paris pipeline tragedies made me pause for research and suffice to say I completely agree with the “Nightmarish” descriptor. Also notable, prior to this video I had no idea what the National Front was (writing from the US) and when I was watching another play through I remember being disturbed but not freaked out (having lacked the actual context) upon seeing the posters on the wall, and knowing specifically what the history of the front was is both awful (for obvious reasons) and very helpful for understanding the story and expressing exactly why exactly Addair’s bbq cannonball of a demise was so satisfying later on. TLDR Thanks for the additional info AND the video! I appreciate the detail of this game a lot more for it :) Ps. Also I 100% agree that the dark underwater stealth sequences were actual hell, and additionally nobody ever will get me anywhere near an oil after watching this. I was already scared of them, now it’s even worse /j (Thank you!)
You see, the rig wasn’t collapsing from general disrepair or The Shape coiling up and destroying everything, it was crumbling because of the weight of Caz’s SOLID STEEL BALLS FINALLY BREAKING THE RIG.
I can't play games like this anymore, have a heart condition, so I absolutely super appreciate your walkthrough of the whole game. Not gonna lie, I teared up at poor ol Roy and Brodie 😿
When making a game about facing a monstrous, alien horror, completely unarmed, The Chinese Room remembered that the most important element to keep players invested was the Human one. The voice acting still keeps me up at night with how hauntingly, beautifully, genuinely human it truly felt. ....Why are you looking at me like you expect an essay long comment? I've slept recently, you'll have to wait until consciousness and I are in disagreement. So, looking at your rather impressive recent upload schedule, don'tburnyourselfoutyourartisnotcontent, maybe on the next one.
I have a bad habit of liking really minor characters in these games, and this one was Roper even though im aware he doesnt do much. But seeing the bit at 32:41 I cant help but think that bro was such a damn trooper if that was the case. his entire body fucked up and lord knows what infecting his mind but bro managed to fight the shape off all the way until caz was leaving. what a fucking gigachad rest in peace roper o7 edit: god salute to all these people, finnley, brodie, roy, caz/ its such a sad game, but all these people are champs. what a good damn story that really endears you to the cast over just 3 to 5 hours. top fucking tier, bloody tears
If you want depressing, wonder why the UK didn't end up with a national investment fund like Norway's, even after pumping the same amount of hydrocarbons.
Back for a rewatch This game caused a number of intense feelings, but also helped me sort out some older ones. Thank you for talking about it. Thanks to you, my hubby and I know how ugly it can get out there. He was considering becoming a diver as Post-Military employnent, and listened when I talked about the importance of unions, the right to stop unsafe work, the right to strike, and worker's rights but he hadn't grappled with What It Looks Like When The Company Man Is The Only Authority Onboard. He doesn't wanna get saturation diver money anymore, cause I found the words to say "I didn't survive being a navy spouse to lose you to someone't profit margin." Our communication has grown again, and your deep dive video was part of that. Thank you for making it ❤
This is legitimately my #1 fear, Thalassophobia, and i want to buy this game so bad, and i'm no slouch, i love scary games, but nah man. just nope. biggest nope of my entire life. good vid btw.
4:13 “There’s a reason experienced offshore saturation divers can swing 1500 pounds a day.” Me a stupid American: “wow they must be pretty strong to swing that much weight around.” I realize they mean money.
I got though this game in two rather long sessions. I stopped the first one right after Roy died and then the next time I played I powered on though to the end. After both sessions a spent a good 10-20 minuets laying on my bed crying my eyes out. Roy's death in particular absolutely gut punched me because it brought back memories of all the pain from when I'd lost people close to me. The guy voicing Caz does an amazing job in bringing across the sorrow, futile rage and seer disbelief that comes with such loss.
Between this and Prototype I'm sold on your channel. Also props for bringing up sensitive subjects without being overly insensitive, or overly sensitive, about any of it. That's refreshing
"Whats up wee man, ya hurt?"
Trot: *incomprehensible screaming of agony*
The wee man was in fact getting fucking eviscerated.
More proof to the theory that Caz is from Glasgow
@@khanlusa so i do apologies for being late to this as im new to the channel. but i had a thought when u mentioned ur phalasophobia (sorry if i spelt that wrong) but i was thinking, i used to be terrified of the dark because of stuff that happened in my past with "someone ur ment to look up to", and i played a lot of horror games where u walk in the dark and over time i was actually able to start going to sleep without lights. i still need my battery radio though so that my subconcious is kept focused on that while im alseep as nightmares while lucid dreaming isnt fun.
but side tangent aside sorry, i was thinking games can and could be a good control excersise for people to help them have a controled form of exposure therapy.
was just super curious what ur thoughts are on this and if you think it could be a good idea?
(of course with the understanding that the game is respectful if it directly targets a phobia... trying to remeber that game that was about phobias but i cant remeber)
@@Mateo-oq7uiMan has the solid balls of steel so it may check out.
As much as I love hearing you tear apart a bad game, it's really fun to hear you talk about a good game you enjoyed.
As a wise man once said, it's more fun liking things than not.
personally prefere uplifing games rather tearing down bad once way to much negativity on the internett already.
Personally I didn’t find it bad at all, short and to a scary point maybe. But I’d happily support an indiesk game if it stays true to the source material and really tries to show a story
This is more a movie than a game, being good movie dosng inheretly make it a bad game as games are experiences...and this is amazing
"Someone else had custody of the communal braincell today"
That is not a mood, that is the title of my life's memoires.
“ talk to me big man?” that fucking killed me. Like I’m genuinely crying thinking about it.
Saaaame. I've probably seen the scene a dozen times now the pleading of Caz's voice, *begging* not to lose a beloved friend who has also been his guiding voice and a HUGE part of his life... *hnnng the writing and the voice preformances ARE SO GOOD*
For me its the "i loved this big man" line, idk why, it makes me go from fine to sobbing like a bitch
This game really knew how to make an otherworldly amorphous flesh monster look absolutely beautiful
I mean, they did apparently take inspiration from the Southern Reach Trilogy & Annihilation, so I'd say they succeeded at making something both existentially terrifying and aesthetically compelling (just like nature, huh).
I mean someone had to love it...I can't imagine why though.
@@BlueTeam-John-Fred-Linda-Kelly it looks like the curtains of heaven
Flicking the finger as a "roger that" signal is such a mood
Hubby is a sub mariner who Immidately Felt Like He Knew Everyone On The Rig cause they were speakin his language
When we got to that part of the game he flipped off the screen at the same time, freakin gold I laughed so hard I cried 😂
One of the best things of this game is the voice acting and people: no-one's a stereotype, no one feels forced, each character feels like someone you'd meet on the street. From The humor and slithers of comedy sounds genuine and even got a chuckle out of me, especially the conversation between Brodie and Caz by the flare.
Every bit of fear sounds like the crew are all on the verge of breaking down. Caz himself has moments that feel like they'd come from a 'rational', violent hospitalising of a man aside, main character who just wants to get off the rig.
The sadness and sorrow is like a gut-punch, enough to leave me so by the end. From the quiet moments where the characters actually process the hell they've been through, to just that heart wrenching letter at the end.
Not to mention Roy and Brodie's deaths. Each one is just...brutal. Roy's is one of the last good things for Caz; his mate, his mucker, his chum. The whole game, Roy is scared and doesn't want to be left behind and Caz doesn't want to, the bond feels so real and it's almost hollowing to see the big man lying there. How it's also topped off with Caz's comments of how he was loved by Suze and the kids, and then how Finley follows that up for salt on the wound with another mention of how loved the big man was, all of it just hits hard.
Brodie's death feels like the last chance of hope on the Rig is gone, with Caz almost giving up and Finley doing so completely. Brodie spent the whole game trying to be this beacon of light almost, just doing his best to keep the Rig going and to ensure that people could get off of it. So, it's soul crushing once he claims his peace and Caz stays there in those last moments, and what's the kicker for me is that little, final trade of humor, the joke and the chuckle between the two and yet it ends the way it does.
I could talk on this game for hours but I'll end my closing remarks with the fact that the Chinese Room made something special and equally horrific.
Roy only has five minutes of screentime in a near 3-5 hour game, yet he's many people's favourite character. It's subtle, but it just shows how good the writing is in this game.
I had hope we’d get off somehow and have a happy ending right until Roy died. After that I teared up and just sat there for a while thinking “we’re not getting out of this, are we?”
I thought the 'oil' or bubbles in question during the flashbacks were rather film being burned or melted. Should be really iconic to anyone before the digital age. Definitely like how its use goes considering the picturebook vibes to it.
Roy dying and Caz's reaction always kills me, the VA absolutely killed it.
Also, glad to see you growing and finding a good format!
It's crazy to think that Caz's VA is the same dude who voices Adam Smasher in Cyberpunk 2077 and Edgerunners. It was jarring finding that out because Caz is such an emotional character, while on the flipside Adam Smasher is an emotionless psycho. Alec Newman is an amazing VA...
I love how human caz is in this game, he isnt some badass hero. He's just a regular guy trying to live through something he cant really understand
Don't look up the Byford Dolphin incident. It's too brutal. Just know that barometric pressure is a dark evil magic. This game also reminded me of the Piper Alpha collapse.
Oh yeah, pressure is a hell of a drug, poor guy.
Cliff notes for those morbidly interested but not wanting to look it up themselves, from someone who only read about it several years ago and has mostly forgotten about it past the main points: People go inside chamber, chamber has oopsy, people become Jam.
@@JarodHarrison-jj7oq more like pasta sauce but I get what you mean
@@JarodHarrison-jj7oq More like one of them becomes jam while the other three get flash-cooked on the inside. The silver lining of the incident is that the four people inside the three chambers died so quickly they most likely didn't even get a chance to process the pain. The man on the outside of the chamber who got hit by the diving bell, on the other hand? That poor sucker experienced severe physical trauma all over his body and died on the way to the hospital. Pressure is a scary force...
@JarodHarrison-jj7oq I think its like, two people that became jam. One was bitch slapped by a gigantic steel door, another two had all the nitrogen in their blood become gas instantaneously, which uh... is incredibly unhealthy, to put ot lightly.
21:49 Hi! I am not an engineer, but I was raised by one and have adsorbed a load of knowledge along the way.
You can simulate what is being done with the tension wenches with a 2 leiter bottle, some cooking twine, and a bath tub!
So the bottle is standing in for the entire rig, top to bottom. And let's say the top quarter is the Do Not Cross line; if water gets past here, everyone on board is dead. And about half way is your comfortable bufferzone, the ideal place for the waterline to land
HOWEVER! There's a bunch of STUFF inside the rig; gennies and lights and *air* for people to breathe; air that is more boyant than water, which means you're gonna need a way to Have Air In the Work Zones Even When The Waves Are Hitting High above your ideal water line.
So step one is anchor the bottom by drawing seawater as ballast. So we put an inch of water in our bottle, fill the tub to our ideal water line, and put the bottle in the water... for it to immediately tip over to try and reach neutral boyancy. Worse if you splash about.
Now grab your cooking twine. Pull 3 lengths as wide as your arm span. Take one, wrap the middle around the top of the bottle just below the lid ridge, and tie it off. Repeat with the other lengths, trying to keep their tie offs equadistant from one another around your central Load Bearing Support. Then take the ends of your strings, stand ins for the teathers, and pull them down to the bottom of the tub and pin them under your feet to simulate the Footing Anchors on 2 sides of the rig.
Once the tethers are tight, they hold The Entire Bottle against the bottom of the tub. Since the bottle stands nice and the bottom of the tub is flat, this suddenly makes it an Extremely Stable structure. Splash around in the tub all ya like, it won't tip over; not unlike lashing a piece of furniture into a truck bed so that its surface area and wind resistance doesn't cause it to fly off.
Within the rig, we can see they're using a counterweight system in conjunction with the boyancy of the air maintained inside the rig. This would be if you loosened up on your strings; the bottle will float but resists tipping thanks to the ballast in the bottom and tension held at the top.
If one desired to make a More Accurate model, they'd need to be able to section off the ballast chamber and add a pully system near the top through which the tether cables run, as well as counter weights that add up to *more than the weight of the entire rig* to counteract all that air AND tidal effects constantly pushing and pulling and bobbing the rig around.
The counter weights are key; between that and the footing anchors, the rig has a web of support that starts in the legs, goes up and out, then down at an angle; gaining stability without obstructing operations or forcing a top down redesign.
This also means your tension tethers can be confined to their own pipes running through the ship to guide them to the pully system, and how hard the pully gets pulled on tells you how much force is getting distributed by the system; same way a suspended scale works at a grocery store.
I hope this was informative enough to build greater understanding!
( EDIT! corrected some spelling errors I made in my excitement to share )
I'll probably never see myself stepping on an oil rig irl but dammit the voice acting in this game just feels so REAL like i genuinely felt bad when our coworkers succumbed to the shape and when caz said his final goodbye games really are art fr 😭
I adored this game! The full weight of the horror of this infection hit me when I heard Gibbo say "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to!" and "Oh god... I can still see his face!" Those lines were even more soul destroying to me than him wanting his mom (which don't get me wrong, still stabbed me right in the chest). But I can't even imagine how horrific it would be to still be almost fully in your right mind as you watch your body, completely out of your control and rapidly growing strange cancer-like growths, slaughter your friends. At least Muir and Trotts were so mentally gone they weren't even aware of what was happening but Gibbo KNEW who he was, what he was doing, and who he was doing it to.
The Shape as the name of the horror is actually really cool. When I found the poem after fixing the pontoons I started calling it The Deep.
How exactly would this thing have sex with an octopus?
The acting in this game is better than a fair amount of movies I've seen. The characterization and dialogue is phenomenal. I was absolutely a sobbing mess by the end of it. This is the third playthrough/recap I've watched because I can't get over how wonderfully heart-punching it is.
A quick note for your closing remarks, personally I consider "answering the questions" to be a cardinal sin for horror stories. A thriller movie can do it fine, and often a horror movie that does answer the questions becomes a thriller in that very instant. The fact this game doesnt tell us what the creature is, where it comes from or what happens after the explosion is what makes this game so much better.
I absolutely agree, adding explanations for the entity, even if written well, would shift the genre of the story.
However, I do like games with genre shifts in them, like when a shooter turns into horror by disempowering the player. Problem is, it's difficult to pull off while also doing both genres justice.
While I agree that it’s better to do that, I lowkey still prefer answers because I’m such a curious person that I just need to know everything about anything
@@They_Hit_The_Pentagon Me too my friend, me too...
@@They_Hit_The_Pentagon This is an ironic statement when dealing with eldritch horror and entities. 😅
@@Nitram4392 right? Like I’m not surviving a lovecraft story.
Still wakes the deep really gets to me because of how much Caz reminds me of my own father. They've both made super dumb decisions that they thought were justified in making. And both have been through extremely tenuous points in their relationships. I've heard my father have conversations with my mom yhat are very similar to then ones Caz has with Suze, so seeing situations like that in this game really hit me in a weakspot I didn't know I had.
Likewise. Navy spouse here. When Suze, on the edge of weeping, says "BECAUSE I'M SMARTER THAN YOU" I flashed back to every dumb conflict that was made worse by my partner Deciding he was going to do what he thought was right And Nothing I Said Was Getting Through. And the ACHE of having to bellow that at someone you love and STILL not being listened to? It started some conversations.
Hubby is much better at hearing me, we haven't had a fight like that in a decade, and now we've begun unpacking the resentment that can froth up around that kinda stuff. But nothing quite hit as hard as this game, and when I showed it to him a new conversation got to start; what we've learned from one another ❤
Eldritch underwater horrors vs. the indominable human spirit
indomitable *Scottish spirit
SCOTLAND FOREEEVAAAAAARRR
Working in the construction industry I can say with 100% honesty that people like Rennick actually exist
Oh definitely, the realness of all the characters is what makes it hit harder because yeah, people like Rennick exist and are often to blame for terrible shit happening to the people under them because they care about cost cutting more than safety.
I was not prepared for the gut punch of Roy's death. Don't expect that kind of sincerity in a horror game.
I know others have said this but it's so nice to hear you talk about a game you enjoyed. This wasn't even on my radar until your video.
Alright boys, strap in and grab a snack Khanlusas got some spooky stuff for us to watch (i love this game)
Anyone else reminded of the Permian Basin Superorganism from this game? Eldritch horror coming from underground, body horror resulting from those caught in its grasp (THE BIRTHDAY CAKE), disaster resulting due to capitalist greed & lack of proper safety measures, etc.
I really should revisit the mystery flesh pit, been a while lmao
@@khanlusaI would absolutely love to see that in one of your videos
@@khanlusa I worked absolutely be happy to hear you talk about the mystery flesh pit.
Birthday cake? Is that the circus clown chymus, or something even more fucked up that's not been posted to the Tumblr yet?
@@angelbloodshinra Yeah, that's it. Sorry, forgot the name of it.
I worked QA on this game and testing Roy's death never got easier
Miss you big man
Thank you for your service ❤ QA is criminally underappreciated
Oh god
I feel like that job should come with like... a therapy animal to cuddle you between play sessions.
specifically caz's interaction with brodie at the end kills me. brodie telling caz about skye, brodie laughing and agreeing when caz says he's never swimming after this. then, the part that really gets me, is brodie telling caz that it's rising, and caz immediately leans down and reassures brodie that he's here. he's staying. he'll not leaving brodie. until brodie is swept away. the last thing brodie hears is "i'm not going anywhere" from caz, on the phone, knowing brodie, himself, is going to go somewhere.
caz chose to push his grief down, to comfort brodie in his final moments in contact with someone else, even though he knew brodie was going to die. potentially on that call with him. and finlay, sat behind him, fidgeting with that lighter, could only hear caz's side of it.
roy's death hurt. but caz's interaction with brodie before his death truly gutted me.
Damn those VA's and writers.. they got me shedding tears at work...
Brodie's call was done so damn well it's criminal that more people wont hear it.
The part that broke me was... Roy. My Dad is diabetic, and there were a couple of times where he hadn't taken his insulin. One time, he ended up in the hospital, and the other my sibling and I had to call the paramedics. The second time was the most scared I've ever been because I was too young to realize the severity the first time. I know what happens when someone whose diabetic doesn't take their insulin... and knowing how disoriented and scared it makes people. I couldn't stop crying for around 5 whole minutes when Roy died...
I think the creature is an oil catastrophy at sea, the people on the rig experience what birds and fish experience if an oil rig fucks up: mystery-matter rises from the sea floor and covers, changes and kills every in sight
i also really like the theory that Caz died of drownjng at the beginning of the game (like Gibbo) and the rest of the game is his purgatorial quest to Right His Wrongs (cowardice and running from meaningful responsibilities of his family to evade the police). To face conflict head on, and struggle to overcome it. It wasn't about winning or surviving - it was about balancing out his failures in life. Finding the root of the Shape at the drill and realising it was always hopeless, and still throwing the lighter, is the final nail of his redemption in the afterlife.
Love the game as a literal narrative as well of course, but both hold up!
regional accents. authentic accents of authentic people - it sells the humanity of the story immediately. grounds us the audience in reality, and from the perspective of normal working people to fully appreciate the unthinkable unknowable horror.
the game is fucking gorgeous, the set is sensorily rich with water and industrial pipes, the rich environmental storytelling in the workspace and bedrooms; the isolation of bring susoended over the Ocean and Entirely Alone. The bosyhorror is fantastic.
but the voice actors fucking KILLED this. they make every sequence so believable like most amateur and professional game voice acting comes across kind of saccarine and dramatic. the dialogue also suits well.
the developers and the entire team clearly pulled all the weight and balanced it perfectly in all the areas it mattered. it looks, feels, sounds, fucking brilliant.
not joking, this is the only other horror game that got me to tear up right at the end since silent hill 2
Finlay and Brodie were two of my favorite characters throughout this whole game, along with the Big Man Roy himself. I'm glad they were the three we got to spend the most time with, but it was also the most disheartening to see them go out, especially Roy and Brodie's deaths, which both felt like we were the ones at fault for. This game royally screws with you emotionally...
What really gets me is that it makes you both light the lighter and let it go manually.
It's such a good little moment. I especially love that once you light it all other sound except for the flame kind of fades away, just chef kiss. Not to mention you can see Caz's hand shaking, poor guy is terrified.
I really can't give over how the rig was considerably more dangerous and scary than the monsters
Gregory was best character by far, he shared a name with my cat and died before all the bad stuff happened, rest in piece
This game has such a beautiful, heart wrenching attention to detail. How, when Caz dies, you can see his thought processes- the image of family, his life, work, and a seagull like the one you can find dead on the rig before shit hits the fan. The foreshadowing of the flood of the Oil Rig in the painting during the last sequence. How, from the beginning, when Caz hands Finlay his lighter she calls him a lifesaver and in the end he saves everyone by destroying the rig (and hopefully the Shape along with the infected). And, somewhere in the game, you can find a well-written poem called The Trawlermen and the lovecraftian tragedy themes in it truly brings out the essence of the game. This whole game plays like a well-written movie designed to envoke human emotions, how we get to witness all the pain and lives and snippets of history from everyone to their deaths. The research put into history that influences the setting- the drawings, posters, pictures, and sequences designed to make you scared- they’re all so wonderfully thought out and intricately crafted.
25:29 is a very interesting auditory hallucination of Caz's, especially if your theory about him being infected too is correct. Considering that Finlay might be infected too, since she also claims to hallucinate stuff when it's close, maybe the Shape was TRYING to get one of them to blow up the rig? It'd also explain why Addair was attempting to stop Caz from relighting thre flare stack, if that's the case... (Other than the basic "he's a little fash git who hates Caz and wants to kill him" motivation he already had going on, anyway.)
Either way, i get the impression that the Shape's primary objective is simply to get rid of the drill and rig boring into its home by any means necessary, and if that means assimilating and/or manipulating a few bothersome primates along the way, so be it.
(Does this mean that it's sentient? Unsure. it could simply be octopus-level-smart, and just referencing the memories of the people it's infecting/subsumed in order to work out how to get rid of the horrible thing that just crashed through its ceiling. Much to think about!)
A great game on a great story from a great team. Maybe it's too early to tell really but I honestly hope it gets nominated once GOTY 2024 gets announced
I'd like to say you are the reason I bought this game. I'd barely gotten to the point where Caz is saved from drowning/freezing to death before I paused your video, bought the game, played through the entire thing, then came back and watched the rest. The end left me a wreck as well. Those kinds of scenes always get to me, something about that pointless kindness, just doing it for the sake of kindness' sake is something that always hits something in me that gets a strong emotional response from me.
Also. To anyone reading this that's on the fence. Buy the game. It's incredible. Seriously.
I’ve never gotten claustrophobic playing a game before but the pontoon section at 22:22 made me genuinely uncomfortable. The sound design of Caz shivering and sputtering water just felt so viscerally real.
The somber scene with Roy, the last call with Brodie, Finlay hearing her son* in her last moments, the final message from Suze...
This is the only video I've watched on this game, but god fucking dammit did this hit me in the feels. You know the actors and writers killed it when you start to tear up from just a couple of voice lines and a bit of background story. Fantastic job from the devs.
And a massive thanks to you as well Khanlusa for this incredible video. I didn't expect myself to be heavily invested in a 40+ min video at 3am but I'm so glad I did.
Not her younger brother, she specifically says 'my boy' (maybe you misheard as 'bro'?). She was hearing her son.
18:55 actually, as a parent with adult worries and responsibilities, there's nothing I hate more than missing my daughter's events
There is this Italian comic series called "Dylan Dog", which follows the titular protagonist who is a Nightmare's Detective, (he find himself in paranormal and supernatural situations) in one issue called _Goliath_, he's go to a oil rig which was invaded by a monstrosity very similar to the one of the game. It also absorb the minds of the workers too, This comic was published in 1999.
Nothing is original anymore
I was so lucky to find out about this game. Easily one of the best cosmic/ body horror games I've ever played. They did such a good job on humanizing NPCs that you barely get to know anything about. And what goes down with Roy... Caz's voice actor needs to get an award for that performance. Don't even get me started on how good the music and sound ambience is.
Khanlusas: (plays a scary game with confined rooms and dark water)
Khanlusas' Ass: Welcome to the Hydraulic Press Channel!
kidding kidding! the voice acting is fenomenal in this game! those conversations really made me tear up
Gods, this game... My dad spent my entire childhood and starting adolescence working week-on/week-off on an off-shore oil rig. The platform was going to be shut down, so Dad was given the chance to transfer to Texas and work on the land-locked wells.
He and I haven't had contact for a few years now. (Being several dimensions of queer against a die-hard conservative will do that). I almost wish there was a bit of contact, though, so I could show him this and ask his thoughts on it. I got a lot of my love of horror from him, and with his experience in the same time period, even if it's the wrong part of the world... Well, it makes me wonder.
8:31 That has to be the most realistic reaction to something unnatural in any piece of media I have seen 😂
The voice acting in this game is BEAUTIFUL; it’s genuinely heart wrenching when Caz finds Roy for the last time
This was a great experience, ended without milking the games runtime, tense, amazing detail from the devs, and actually made me appreciate a properly optimized game in UE5 that is not a resource hog
Aw, sweet! The nice Scottish lady is here to talk about more horrors beyond my comprehension.
She’s Scottish?
I recommended my partner play this game for her home stream and while I wasn't able to catch most of it for working, I'm glad she got to experience it and I did tangentially through her and this video. I still tear up at Roy's death and Caz breaking down, and Brody saying he's already back on Skye.....fuck, man. This is on the list of my favorite games I haven't played because of this video. Thanks for bringing it to us 💜
God this game pulls on my heart strings and I haven't even played it. Also love how much more Scottish you were in this video
Same thing happens when I visit my parents, the scottish-isms slip through more 😂
@@khanlusa I wish I'd picked up more of my mum's accent and speech patterns growing up because I love the Scottish-isms 😅
If just watching this video almost made me cry, I can’t imagine what it’s like to experience it playing.
You had me crying (Not that that's hard to do). Best creator I've found recently. Thank you!
I'd recommend the darkness 1 and 2. It is a really good pair of games that, at least to me had a really realistic portrayal of a man dealing with a eldritch being possessing him. And that scene in the first game where he looses a particular person and what he then does is both shocking and all to realistic.
I remember watching Jacob Geller's Nebula video on how the latter introduced the concept of "quad-wielding" weapons, which hasn't been done in really any game since, and I am still fascinated by the idea.
36:21 I just realized in the background you can hear Finely messing with the lighter, I wonder if it’s the same lighter we give her at the beginning of the game
It is 😞
Oh gods roys death hit me the hardest out of them all and the fast he didn’t even die because of the monster but because of his disorder gods that so real and so tragic I’m tearing up about this
Nice Wilhelm scream there around 18:20. Very nice. Very solid.😂
Is that in the game?
@@meili4790 Nope, that was a funny addition by the video author
I love when games are this human with their stories, also never knew I would see something so dangerous and disgusting as beautiful
This is my first time consuming media of this game, and I just have to say. Ho-Lee, Shit. These Voice Actors? Fucking, insaaaaaaaaaaane levels of commitment and talent amongst every last one of them, genuinely heart-wrenching to hear these guys interact and just talk about this fucked scenario; absolutely brilliant across the board.
This felt like a personal traumatic episode that someone experienced and made a whole video game about instead of just a video game about people falling into an Eldritch Disaster, I get a glimpse of where the fiction begins and where the reality ends but you still have areas where it's blurry, like the creature and what it is, and what it could represent in the end.
Because this situation could very much happen in real life with no Eldritch Horrors involved, just very unfortunate sets of circumstances and extensive amounts of negligence for the maintenance of the rig for example. It's just a little theory on my part of course since I do not believe a situation like that happened before and if it did, that's a ton of money gone down the drain because holy, exploding an Oil Rig is gonna cause so much damage it's gonna be incalculable how much it'd cost in total.
The Roy scene landed so unbelievably well due to the VA and I just...fucking fall apart every time i hear it. I love the comradery Caz has with the crew but he and roy.... like...holy hell you feel like youre there, honestly in a game where I didnt feel -too- attached to most characters I just...never expected to just...have something HIT that hard for me...just...wow, amazing performances
Caz says Jesus so many times that I think he is saying his name intentionally.
21:35 so that’s how oil rigs stay still. I’m even more terrified though
I love industrial work and the connections that spawn in hard working environments. This game is really fun to watch and I care about the characters a ton
“If you have a game you’d like to inflict on me” 😭 real
Awesome video!!
This was an excellent breakdown of the story, like wow! Your commentary was great.
Personally, I loved this game so much. I think it was just the right amount of playtime. The voice acting was so good, and the characters so very human. The only thing I could think of improving is more interaction with the crew beforehand--I barely remembered the names that I met *once*, but I understand why it didn't stretch that out for too long. For Caz, it was an ordinary day on the rig, and he knew these people already. He didn't need to linger.
Damn it... I wasn't expecting to have the emotional dagger plunged into my heart at the last minute! Where's the warning for "This might make you weep like a wee babe" because now I'm crying and could use a hug. My soul hurts but it's in a good way. Fuck, it made me care! 10/10
Hehe I was kind enough to give that warning to my hubby when I reccomended he play it. He's a career sub mariner, if its on the ocean he's already Extremely Interested. Horror? That's already enough to get him in the door, but it being an Oil Rig got him hooked and I didn't spoil shit about the monster... cause we listened to the audiobook of Lovecrafts' works together and I wanna know which stories HE thought of on first viewing.
But I knew the ending was gonna punch him 3 times in a row with spiked knuckles and to have some tissues handy.
He still said I didn't prep him enough after 😂😂😂
I loved this, it did perfectly with the character moments. And didn't just bank on spooky stuff happening for the fear.
I gotta love how this review of a horror games starts with one of my favorite silly stock songs. Brilliant.
I see this in quite a few of your videos, I really appreciate that you let the emotional scenes just play sometimes, it really gets across the impact.
Fear of the sea eh? You're going to LOVE Soma then.
Now THAT is a classic.
Ah soma the game that caused me to have a extesential crisis just like Simon :D
@@thirdcoinedge not old enough to be a classic...yet. The penumbra trilogy on the other hand...
Christ I feel old
@@4T3hM4kr0nEh, it's been almost a decade, I'd say it's been just nearly long enough. I mean, some people already call Witcher 3 a "classic," and that was released the same year.
I had to watch a Let's Play of that one lmao but I do own it so it's not out of the question. I'll just have to take my headset off like I do with Subnautica at times, for whatever reason not "hearing" the underwater environment helps a little? Brains are weird.
The bits of context/outside history you provided really helped! The mention of the Byford Dolphin and Paris pipeline tragedies made me pause for research and suffice to say I completely agree with the “Nightmarish” descriptor.
Also notable, prior to this video I had no idea what the National Front was (writing from the US) and when I was watching another play through I remember being disturbed but not freaked out (having lacked the actual context) upon seeing the posters on the wall, and knowing specifically what the history of the front was is both awful (for obvious reasons) and very helpful for understanding the story and expressing exactly why exactly Addair’s bbq cannonball of a demise was so satisfying later on.
TLDR Thanks for the additional info AND the video! I appreciate the detail of this game a lot more for it :)
Ps. Also I 100% agree that the dark underwater stealth sequences were actual hell, and additionally nobody ever will get me anywhere near an oil after watching this. I was already scared of them, now it’s even worse /j
(Thank you!)
You see, the rig wasn’t collapsing from general disrepair or The Shape coiling up and destroying everything, it was crumbling because of the weight of Caz’s SOLID STEEL BALLS FINALLY BREAKING THE RIG.
I can't play games like this anymore, have a heart condition, so I absolutely super appreciate your walkthrough of the whole game. Not gonna lie, I teared up at poor ol Roy and Brodie 😿
I didn't know foreigners knew about the Paria 5, I don't think they had seen justice.
I watch a lot of channels that cover dark topics, a couple of them spoke about it. Absolutely harrowing, those men deserved better.
The second you mentioned this game on your channel was one where I immediately looked forward to it. Another top shelf video, as always
The VA in this game has got to be some of the best I've ever heard in the industry.
One detail that I found out was that Beira was the name of a Scottish goddess of the cold I believe?
Like she is associated with winter and all that
I could never play something like this (can't stand horror games), but damn this is beautiful.
Thank you for showcasing it.
When making a game about facing a monstrous, alien horror, completely unarmed, The Chinese Room remembered that the most important element to keep players invested was the Human one. The voice acting still keeps me up at night with how hauntingly, beautifully, genuinely human it truly felt.
....Why are you looking at me like you expect an essay long comment? I've slept recently, you'll have to wait until consciousness and I are in disagreement. So, looking at your rather impressive recent upload schedule, don'tburnyourselfoutyourartisnotcontent, maybe on the next one.
I have a bad habit of liking really minor characters in these games, and this one was Roper even though im aware he doesnt do much. But seeing the bit at 32:41 I cant help but think that bro was such a damn trooper if that was the case. his entire body fucked up and lord knows what infecting his mind but bro managed to fight the shape off all the way until caz was leaving. what a fucking gigachad rest in peace roper o7
edit: god salute to all these people, finnley, brodie, roy, caz/ its such a sad game, but all these people are champs. what a good damn story that really endears you to the cast over just 3 to 5 hours. top fucking tier, bloody tears
An even more bleak ending would have been if the lighter would've just fallen into the abyss with no effect.
Wow, this game is genuinely depressing.
I’m glad I watched this, I think this game would have sent me into a shell for a week.
If you want depressing, wonder why the UK didn't end up with a national investment fund like Norway's, even after pumping the same amount of hydrocarbons.
God I love this game truly caz is the most accurate Glaswegian to hit modern media
Back for a rewatch
This game caused a number of intense feelings, but also helped me sort out some older ones.
Thank you for talking about it. Thanks to you, my hubby and I know how ugly it can get out there. He was considering becoming a diver as Post-Military employnent, and listened when I talked about the importance of unions, the right to stop unsafe work, the right to strike, and worker's rights but he hadn't grappled with What It Looks Like When The Company Man Is The Only Authority Onboard.
He doesn't wanna get saturation diver money anymore, cause I found the words to say "I didn't survive being a navy spouse to lose you to someone't profit margin."
Our communication has grown again, and your deep dive video was part of that.
Thank you for making it ❤
This is legitimately my #1 fear, Thalassophobia, and i want to buy this game so bad, and i'm no slouch, i love scary games, but nah man. just nope. biggest nope of my entire life. good vid btw.
11:30 Congratulations to The Chinese Room, I finally paused a meal while watching body horror.
I love this game! The dialogue is so grounded and real, the emotions so raw! It was a wonderful experience
4:13
“There’s a reason experienced offshore saturation divers can swing 1500 pounds a day.”
Me a stupid American: “wow they must be pretty strong to swing that much weight around.”
I realize they mean money.
I got though this game in two rather long sessions. I stopped the first one right after Roy died and then the next time I played I powered on though to the end. After both sessions a spent a good 10-20 minuets laying on my bed crying my eyes out.
Roy's death in particular absolutely gut punched me because it brought back memories of all the pain from when I'd lost people close to me. The guy voicing Caz does an amazing job in bringing across the sorrow, futile rage and seer disbelief that comes with such loss.
This game deserves GotY, its seriously good
As a greek csa survivor this channel is quickly becoming on of my favorites, for dark game analysis
As a Scot, I think we're best reserved for Fantasy/medieval, Military or something almost exclusively Scottish, like this.
6:50 holy shit this is *maximum* pucker.
19:39, that snap. 😆
Between this and Prototype I'm sold on your channel. Also props for bringing up sensitive subjects without being overly insensitive, or overly sensitive, about any of it. That's refreshing