He's not wrong. If the original captain was killed during a mutiny, the new acting captain would still be called "captain", but he wouldn't be THE captain an investigator would be looking to identify.
Right. Jon, playing a detective game I love that relies on you noticing small details about individuals and environments in order to solve it. This is going to be frustrating, isn't it?
OdysseusOfGaming Having played this game I can tell you that unless you’re really on the ball or really lucky with the guesses this is going to get very annoying very wuicjly
"You win again logic! Which means i lost. But if i lose to myself technically... i win! So long Loser!" -Jon's inner bladerunneresque theatrical cut monologue
I was thinking while watching that he still has the -1 Perception, but this game allows him to balance it out with his +10 Intelligence. He made some spectacularly accurate deductions about the main plot while he was missing obvious things right in front of him!
@@iOhadRubin For me he was super easy becuase I already knew those tattoos were from a South Pacific culture, and there was only one crewman from there, but if you don't know that it's way harder.
I remember Dan playing this, and literally begging people to play it themselves before watching anyone else. Its been quite a while but now, well, here we are. Jon, PLEASE keep playing this flipping thing.
Jon, I've watched you for years, and this is one of my all time favorite games, so I went into this video worried, but....bloody heck if you weren't actually _really_ rather good at it.! I mean, you had some pretty out there errors, but you caught most of them really quickly, and you actually caught some decently subtle details and made some good guesses to get 9 fates quickly. (In particular, the 3rd mate's steward was a good catch.) Speaking as a fan of this game, A, yes yes yes show more of it, and B....don't rush through it. Savor it. Enjoy it. This is a game you can really only play once, and there is _nothing_ else like it on the market. Oh, and don't spoil yourself. On any of it. It's worth taking the time. Everything is solvable. You _can_ solve all the fates without blindly guessing. (Although there may be some times where you'll fall back on it.) Seriously, this one is special. Treat it as such. This was the fastest I've ever smashed a like button, and I'm already looking forward to the next part.
Man: *Has long hair. Not certain but could be blonde or ginger. Also has a large tattoo on his chest, shoulders and back that look almost Celtic or Iceni... or southern pacific* Jon: He's obviously French.
I really love that guy - from the moment you see his corpse you are told you can identify him, his tattoos are the most obvious thing ever... but so few people seem to connect the tattoos and the time period (when tattoos were culturally significant) to reach the conclusion that the tattoos identify his ethnicity. Maybe it's because I'm Australian and we are exposed to the tribal stuff from our part of the globe more than folks in Europe and North America are? Dunno 🤔
"Was this before or after what we just saw?" I'm going to guess after considering people normally get smashed together into one piece by giant tentacles.
Just a note: you want the gunner's store to be below the waterline because then there's less chance of hot metal ending up in your powder magazine during a fight.
I would really love to see a series of this, a lot. Though I would actually like it to be a regular series as opposed to a live stream as the live stream has a lot of interruptions and this played really well with just Jon sleuthing it.
Yes! Full Obra Dinn series! I don't get to play many triple A games so I love it when Jon covers some of my favorite Indies. This was the best new game I played this year by far
Or maybe livestream walkthrough, with all the chat mayhem, who knows. The game surely deserves continuation with all of its intricate plot twists and overall mystery.
For someone with a negative perception, jon makes a surprisingly competent detective. Must be the maxed out intelligence compensating for it. Well done!
*Sees man die with an arm missing, then goes back and sees a memory of that same man with a tentacle wrapped around his arm* Diagnoses: "he just sort of fell over"
1:04:50 - Why do so many people (at least in the LPs I've seen) never instantly get Brennan? That him and Hoscut are buddies is the first thing you learn in the game, then in this scene Hoscut yells; "Brennan get the surgeon's kit", and you find him down the hall with his hand to his ear as he hears his name called.
Oh this is going to be great. Let's see Jon's skill in deductive reasoning. Either way this is a real solid game. 5:30 yes Jon. Ships did have a sort of bathroom. Mostly in the form of a sort of wooden outhouse at the back at the side of the ship. Edit 2: Jon for the love of my sanity please pay attention to the dialog. It contains more clues then you might think. The first word in the first scene you see is literally "Captain". Making it rather easy to find the murdering gunman. Also when faces are Unblurred you have enough clues to figure out someone's name.
I love that Jon is playing this logic based game that relies so heavily on perception. Two 100% non spoiler hints! First, get a notebook irl. Second: Ethnicity matters, not only because cultural dress/markings/appearence can identify people, or eliminate them, but because small groups that hang out together all the time tend to come from the same country. They knew each other in advance, savvy?
49:19 Yep, the pictures of the crew in the book, are sketches not photographs. The Obra Dinn set out in 1802 and you're investigating it's return in 1807. The first photographic camera was invented in 1816 or thereabouts.
Also, when you're reading any available dialogue written in the book, heard during a "flashback", there's an 'X' next to anything said by the soon-to-be-deceased.
@@metetural9140 In all fairness, it took 3 days to guess what on earth happened to Henry Evans. It is still quite a tough game. Edit : it took 3 days "for me" to
Not necessarily, it could be a red herring. If I was the surgeon, I might say bring 'my' kit instead of 'the surgeon's' kit, whereas an unrelated person, upon seeing an injury, might ask for the surgeon's kit (presumably gaining the attention of the surgeon too) in the same way that one might ask for a first aid kit.
So glad you're playing this game. It was my my game of the year. It's just fantastic, by the end of it I had scribbles and scrunched up bits of paper all over my desk 😁
JON WHY DO YOU KEEP PLAYING GAMES THAT I CAN'T WATCH BECAUSE I NEED TO PLAY THEM WITHOUT SPOILERS!? YOU'RE KILLING ME, JON! also this game is, by all reports, awesome, so i'm glad you're bringing it to the channel
Jon is either draw conclusion too early and wont change his mind for ages or cannot draw conclusion from an obvious clue laid in front of his eyes. Well this gonna be good? Or more frustrating?
1:32 “Captain” ... 1:41 “Exactly what *I* give you” 20:41 - Onwards. Tentacles: (*Menacing*/Zawa Zawa) 20:46 “During a Storm or something” 20:50 “Ooh!” This so far is perception -2, overly cautious +10 the episode, I love it.
@1:24:20 I made the exact same assumption about tattoo guy. That's one of the deaths I was most confused about. All the clues fit, but I think the game is deliberately sending you down the wrong path. Don't worry about the bosun by the way, he's armless.
You know for all the comments about Jon's perception, he's actually been pretty good about putting together the clues he does notice. I've watched a fair few LP's of this where say people are like who could this person who's always following around this officer. Also Jon I imagine you may record the second part before you might read this comment, but the unknown passenger, shipman etc, is actually so you can mark a person's job even if you don't know their identity. Say like hey this guy is in the rigging he's probably a topman so you have that information at hand when he shows up in another scene.
As a huge age of sail era ship nerd, that ship makes me happy. Typically fictitious ships are modelled after the Vasa, a ship that sunk during its maiden voyage before it could even leave sight of its port, so seeing a frigate style of ship rather than a huge over the top Galleon is a nice change.
Good job! The Bosun's mate is one of the hardest people to figure out in this game, and most people solve him pretty much dead last. But you solved him right at the earliest point you can solve him at, without relying on the biggest clue for his identity (that being that he's wearing a French sailor shirt). It's worth noting that the "Unknown X" are there so you can narrow people down -- if you know someone is an officer but don't know which, you can mark them as Unknown Officer. There's one for each major category -- Unknown Officer, Unknown Midshipman, Unknown Passenger, Unknown Topman, Unknown Sailor, etc.
I think the "unknown" things in the list is for your identification, not an actual unknown person. So if you know a person is a passenger but not certain which, you pick "unknown passenger", and if you see someone in a fancy hat but are uncertain about their position, you pick "unknown officer" and can identify further from there.
Well, I hope his next three or so games are sequels to this one, or done in the same style. Seriously, I'd like nothing better than to play more games cracking mysteries with that magic skull pocketwatch!
5:25: No, they did not have bathrooms. They STILL don't have bathrooms. They had heads. Nowadays, we have nice sewer systems and hot and cold potable water aboard ship. In the 18th century, it was basically a small room with a bench in it. The bench had a hole over it that extended over the side of the ship.
34:31: The powder in question is black powder. Back then, it was made out of charcoal, sulfur, and potassium nitrate, AKA saltpeter. Modern day "black powder" is made out of a mixture of nitrocellulose and nitro-guanine. Modern day powder is also FAR more stable than the original recipe. Seeing as how fire or impact posed a major risk for ships during the age of sale, the gunpowder was often stored below the waterline. If a fire started, this made it possible to flood the lower deck to extinguish the fire, while also providing additional protection from impact.
Oh I was wondering if this would show up here. I saw Nerd3 (pretty sure it was him) do a short video on this a while back, I've been meaning to play it since then but haven't. Though I am tempted to see how this plays with the -1 perception thing ;)
I've asked about Obra Dinn a few months ago and the comment went unanswered, really happy to see you play it. I'm hoping to watch every episode if it becomes a series (it will, right?). I've both played the game myself and seen it on multiple channels and yet I still enjoy watching it and comparing other's way of thinking to mine.
The Gunners Store would have been below the gundeck because if gunpowder gets shot it blows up, gundeck having all the magazine on it would compromise the safety of everyone aboard, as well as the safety of the ship itself.
I saw this game around last year, but didn't know what to do with it so I ignored it. but you can get me to watch basically anything, and boy, what a fun trip this is!
Very well done, Jon! Your deductive abilities are enviable! I don't think that gunners would be wearing "fancy hats". There jobs were dirty, chaotic, and not especially glamorous. I would have thought someone wearing the top hat would have been a passenger. The others with the bicorns and tricorns would have been higher ranking individuals according to the traditions of the times. As well as the very noticeable uniforms which would also be worn by higher ranking people. Why would they mutiny when a monster is tearing the boat apart? Wouldn't they all just want to abandon ship?
It's interesting how "Abagail Hoscut Witteral was crushed by falling rigging" works. That's not really the case; she was whacked by it being swung at her.
Bosun dies missing an arm. Previous scene shows the kracken with a tentacle wrapped around soon to be missing arm. Jon's conclusion: did he fall? No, let's put that he was clubbed by the beast...
To my great shame, I discovered that one when I rage-quit about 8 hours in and received the reply to my very low-quality report 😂 On the bright side, I saw all 3 endings to the game as a result of rage quitting, curiosity, and actually finally finishing my damn insurance report. This game is so awesome ❤️🐙
It's very interesting watching other people sleuth through this. I worked out William Hoscot by his scottish accent in the clip rather than the brother/sister link. Interesting how different people respond to different clues!
"There might be some more corpses I can take advantage of" PHRASING JON
Do you know the fine for necrophillia? Just asking for a friend. His names Jon
JustSammy ROBBING CORPSES IS SOMETIMES JUSTIFIED
@@gargoyles9999 Yes... Robbing... XD
"So, she came above during a storm of some description. And was hit by - oh."
My favourite moment when watching people play this game
CAPTAIN! OPEN THE DOOR
Jon: I can’t confirm he’s the captain
THE CAPTAIN COULD HAVE BEEN OUT
He's not wrong.
If the original captain was killed during a mutiny, the new acting captain would still be called "captain", but he wouldn't be THE captain an investigator would be looking to identify.
@@ManyATrueNerd Where would he be out? He is on a ship. Not like he can just pop out to the shops without the crew knowing! lol
Yes, but the game also flags that you're going to need to make *some* assumptions in order to solve this.
What? If u open the door at a friends house do u then live there?
Right. Jon, playing a detective game I love that relies on you noticing small details about individuals and environments in order to solve it. This is going to be frustrating, isn't it?
OdysseusOfGaming Having played this game I can tell you that unless you’re really on the ball or really lucky with the guesses this is going to get very annoying very wuicjly
Please refrain from bellowing at your computer or mobile screen.
@Boaty McBoatface And to this day, sailor's refer to brandy as "Nelson's Blood."
He does well though!
"The Bosun and the Bosunniate"
Dear Lord this is going to be a trip.
It's always fun to watch Jon play 4D chess against his own brain
"You win again logic! Which means i lost. But if i lose to myself technically... i win! So long Loser!"
-Jon's inner bladerunneresque theatrical cut monologue
I like how 90% of Jon's ability to identify people boils down to "Bald Y/N?" and "Fancy hats".
This video can be boiled down to:
UK’s most un-perceptive man attempt to solve crime.
And I love it.
To be fair the Magical watch does the heavy lifting.
I'm quite sure that the gunner's store is separated from the guns because of the danger of accidental explosion.
Gotta love Jon's conviction that he'd be better at building boats than actual boat builders.
@@ze_rubenator particularly when he mistakes the front of the ship for the rear
Jon would´ve sank so many ships they´d be speaking Spanish by now. Or French.
@@TheGwydion777 Possibly even Dutch.
So Jon's gonna build the ships for the Spanish, French, and English so that we're gonna be speaking Dutch. -__-
"We will be seeing this again."
YAY!!!
This is so enjoyable to see you work through with your low (though surprisingly high in this) perception.
Andrew Switzer I think he got it up to +1 during this
I was thinking while watching that he still has the -1 Perception, but this game allows him to balance it out with his +10 Intelligence. He made some spectacularly accurate deductions about the main plot while he was missing obvious things right in front of him!
when will we see it again? not yet apparently
Jon looks at the man with the tattoos: "You had some tattoos. That'll make you relatively easy to identify."
Oh he's in for a hecking ride
Why does he have 2 stars??? It took me ages to figure out who he is!
@@iOhadRubin For me he was super easy becuase I already knew those tattoos were from a South Pacific culture, and there was only one crewman from there, but if you don't know that it's way harder.
@@iOhadRubin He was one of the last ones I figured out. Through my entire playthrough I was trying to get even the slightest hint for who he was
@@edwardhoptrough9933 Ooo look at you, with knowledge that proved valuable!
@@edwardhoptrough9933 Let's try not to put too many spoilers in the comments. I'm sure Jon would appreciate it.
Bosun: Austrian
Bosunmate: French
Unknown man: Verdammt! Where is my French mate?
Jon: I have no idea who this is
I remember Dan playing this, and literally begging people to play it themselves before watching anyone else. Its been quite a while but now, well, here we are. Jon, PLEASE keep playing this flipping thing.
How to assert dominance over Jon:
Wear a hat.
Or, many, many, *many* hats at once.
@@randomsandwichian you would be godly
Jon, I've watched you for years, and this is one of my all time favorite games, so I went into this video worried, but....bloody heck if you weren't actually _really_ rather good at it.!
I mean, you had some pretty out there errors, but you caught most of them really quickly, and you actually caught some decently subtle details and made some good guesses to get 9 fates quickly. (In particular, the 3rd mate's steward was a good catch.)
Speaking as a fan of this game, A, yes yes yes show more of it, and B....don't rush through it. Savor it. Enjoy it. This is a game you can really only play once, and there is _nothing_ else like it on the market.
Oh, and don't spoil yourself. On any of it. It's worth taking the time. Everything is solvable. You _can_ solve all the fates without blindly guessing. (Although there may be some times where you'll fall back on it.) Seriously, this one is special. Treat it as such.
This was the fastest I've ever smashed a like button, and I'm already looking forward to the next part.
36:30, that's a bed, Jon. By suspending it from the ceiling, it remained level despite the rocking of the ship.
It looks too small though
Man: *Has long hair. Not certain but could be blonde or ginger. Also has a large tattoo on his chest, shoulders and back that look almost Celtic or Iceni... or southern pacific*
Jon: He's obviously French.
I really love that guy - from the moment you see his corpse you are told you can identify him, his tattoos are the most obvious thing ever... but so few people seem to connect the tattoos and the time period (when tattoos were culturally significant) to reach the conclusion that the tattoos identify his ethnicity. Maybe it's because I'm Australian and we are exposed to the tribal stuff from our part of the globe more than folks in Europe and North America are? Dunno 🤔
I'm actually afraid of British peoples' imagery of the French.
@@MaximumHeresey
Probably some horrific lovecraftian abomination if we're being honest
@@Kaarl_Mills made out of cheese and... revolution
"Was this before or after what we just saw?" I'm going to guess after considering people normally get smashed together into one piece by giant tentacles.
"She was the firstmates brother."
- *MATN 2019*
Jon: sees a glint overboard
"Cursed Aztec Gold that summons the Kraken."
I love this channel.
Spoilers ahead:
Best part is, he's not wrong!
Just a note: you want the gunner's store to be below the waterline because then there's less chance of hot metal ending up in your powder magazine during a fight.
"This is why they don't let me captain ships anymore."
Wait... anymore??
I'm guessing it's because of _the incident_
Wojciech Dubrownik the incident (ominous music sting) we don’t speak of the incident (thunder claps)
Jon: was this before or after the last scene?
Me: well, he’s still got his lower half, mostly, so.....
This game is perfect for Jon because he's basically just identifying hats not people
I would really love to see a series of this, a lot. Though I would actually like it to be a regular series as opposed to a live stream as the live stream has a lot of interruptions and this played really well with just Jon sleuthing it.
Yes! Full Obra Dinn series! I don't get to play many triple A games so I love it when Jon covers some of my favorite Indies. This was the best new game I played this year by far
Or maybe livestream walkthrough, with all the chat mayhem, who knows. The game surely deserves continuation with all of its intricate plot twists and overall mystery.
At 47:43 the first guy killed, he was taking a dump over the edge of the bow. You can see that his knickers are down by his knees.
For someone with a negative perception, jon makes a surprisingly competent detective. Must be the maxed out intelligence compensating for it. Well done!
It’s the universe balancing itself out.
He has such bad perception the rest of the time, he was extremely perceptive for once.
"...the Bosunniate". Hah, yeah I read that too the first time.
*Sees man die with an arm missing, then goes back and sees a memory of that same man with a tentacle wrapped around his arm*
Diagnoses: "he just sort of fell over"
1:04:50 - Why do so many people (at least in the LPs I've seen) never instantly get Brennan? That him and Hoscut are buddies is the first thing you learn in the game, then in this scene Hoscut yells; "Brennan get the surgeon's kit", and you find him down the hall with his hand to his ear as he hears his name called.
Oh this is going to be great. Let's see Jon's skill in deductive reasoning. Either way this is a real solid game. 5:30 yes Jon. Ships did have a sort of bathroom. Mostly in the form of a sort of wooden outhouse at the back at the side of the ship.
Edit 2: Jon for the love of my sanity please pay attention to the dialog. It contains more clues then you might think. The first word in the first scene you see is literally "Captain". Making it rather easy to find the murdering gunman. Also when faces are Unblurred you have enough clues to figure out someone's name.
_"at the back at the side of the ship."_ Or you know, the poop deck.
1:02:58 The smash cut from "There's only one person this could be!" to an incorrect answer had my sides in orbit.
"... showing the exact moment this corpses dies..." nonono Jon, corpses seldom die... they already be dead...
I love that Jon is playing this logic based game that relies so heavily on perception.
Two 100% non spoiler hints!
First, get a notebook irl.
Second: Ethnicity matters, not only because cultural dress/markings/appearence can identify people, or eliminate them, but because small groups that hang out together all the time tend to come from the same country.
They knew each other in advance, savvy?
Getting Charles Miner torn apart that early is god tier play mate!
49:19 Yep, the pictures of the crew in the book, are sketches not photographs. The Obra Dinn set out in 1802 and you're investigating it's return in 1807.
The first photographic camera was invented in 1816 or thereabouts.
Also, when you're reading any available dialogue written in the book, heard during a "flashback", there's an 'X' next to anything said by the soon-to-be-deceased.
[PER 2] Who's actually calling for the surgeon's kit, if not the surgeon?
Not quite your brightest moment there, dear Jon.
I think you mean PER -2
@@metetural9140
In all fairness, it took 3 days to guess what on earth happened to Henry Evans. It is still quite a tough game.
Edit : it took 3 days "for me" to
Not necessarily, it could be a red herring. If I was the surgeon, I might say bring 'my' kit instead of 'the surgeon's' kit, whereas an unrelated person, upon seeing an injury, might ask for the surgeon's kit (presumably gaining the attention of the surgeon too) in the same way that one might ask for a first aid kit.
So glad you're playing this game. It was my my game of the year. It's just fantastic, by the end of it I had scribbles and scrunched up bits of paper all over my desk 😁
Please play through this whole game Jon! It’s nothing short of a wonderful experience.
JON WHY DO YOU KEEP PLAYING GAMES THAT I CAN'T WATCH BECAUSE I NEED TO PLAY THEM WITHOUT SPOILERS!?
YOU'RE KILLING ME, JON!
also this game is, by all reports, awesome, so i'm glad you're bringing it to the channel
The gunner's store is well where it is, Jon. You don't want the gunpowder stores to be where the enemy is going to be shooting at you
You just changed my schedule too, if you're going to continue, I have to go back and finish this! I'm glad you are finally playing this.
Jon is either draw conclusion too early and wont change his mind for ages or cannot draw conclusion from an obvious clue laid in front of his eyes. Well this gonna be good? Or more frustrating?
1:32 “Captain” ... 1:41 “Exactly what *I* give you”
20:41 - Onwards. Tentacles: (*Menacing*/Zawa Zawa)
20:46 “During a Storm or something”
20:50 “Ooh!”
This so far is perception -2, overly cautious +10 the episode, I love it.
I really love just how much of Jon's detective work boils down to what kind of hat, if any, the person is wearing.
"He was shot with a axe"
Never change honey. XD
Take a drink every time Jon says the word "hat".
Lucas Pope, the creator of this game, also made Papers, Please!
Please finish this, I'm quite enjoying watching your mental process.
Oh Jon. Since you put that one out I am checking constantly during the week for you to upload Part 2. Cant wait 🙌🙋🙌
Welcome to the first detective game where you deduce people's job based solely on their hat.
YES! Finally! I've been waiting SO long for you to play this game!
I bought and played this game like three days ago, it's amazing
All I am geting from this game is: Hats are important.
The rear??? Thats the damn front Jon! This is why they dont let you captain ships!
47:03 That is not the rear, that is the front, more technically the bow.
I'd like to see more of this but not as a live stream. Working out the answers won't mesh well with the pressure from an audience.
ES was crapping when he got squeezed by the tentacle. It squeezed the sh!t out of him.
Please more of this. It was bloody amazing.
Wow what a brilliant game! Thank you Jon and Claire for uploading this 😁
1:03:00 john, you identified that man as the freaking FIRST MATE at the start of the game... how can you get it that wrong? xD
It's not even a guess anymore, it's a bloody confirmed correct identification. 🤣
@1:24:20 I made the exact same assumption about tattoo guy. That's one of the deaths I was most confused about. All the clues fit, but I think the game is deliberately sending you down the wrong path. Don't worry about the bosun by the way, he's armless.
You know for all the comments about Jon's perception, he's actually been pretty good about putting together the clues he does notice. I've watched a fair few LP's of this where say people are like who could this person who's always following around this officer.
Also Jon I imagine you may record the second part before you might read this comment, but the unknown passenger, shipman etc, is actually so you can mark a person's job even if you don't know their identity. Say like hey this guy is in the rigging he's probably a topman so you have that information at hand when he shows up in another scene.
I think having to actually talk aloud about his thought process helps here, because he has to slow down enough to form words.
I love that you're going to do more of this, so happy! :D
As a huge age of sail era ship nerd, that ship makes me happy. Typically fictitious ships are modelled after the Vasa, a ship that sunk during its maiden voyage before it could even leave sight of its port, so seeing a frigate style of ship rather than a huge over the top Galleon is a nice change.
1:04:05 not all Scottish people look the same, Jon
Good job! The Bosun's mate is one of the hardest people to figure out in this game, and most people solve him pretty much dead last. But you solved him right at the earliest point you can solve him at, without relying on the biggest clue for his identity (that being that he's wearing a French sailor shirt).
It's worth noting that the "Unknown X" are there so you can narrow people down -- if you know someone is an officer but don't know which, you can mark them as Unknown Officer. There's one for each major category -- Unknown Officer, Unknown Midshipman, Unknown Passenger, Unknown Topman, Unknown Sailor, etc.
I think the "unknown" things in the list is for your identification, not an actual unknown person. So if you know a person is a passenger but not certain which, you pick "unknown passenger", and if you see someone in a fancy hat but are uncertain about their position, you pick "unknown officer" and can identify further from there.
Evidently this game swept under my radar too
I KNEW I was a fool to treat myself to that extra keelhauling!
I'm so glad you returned to this, -1 Perception Jon. (also... err, no, it was hyped a lot when it was released. not just in Game of the Year lists...)
Isn't it from the Papers please guy?
Yup. It's Lucas Pope's second game
Yup. Its Lucas Pope's second game
Well, I hope his next three or so games are sequels to this one, or done in the same style. Seriously, I'd like nothing better than to play more games cracking mysteries with that magic skull pocketwatch!
With the Mutiny yelling guy, that would've been a younger voice
The editing makes this good to watch.
I love that someone's finally finishing it on UA-cam, because I bought it and played it for two hours before my eyes started to bleed
Finally? There's plenty of people that have done full playthroughs. 🤨
What a wonderful presentation of a wonderful game :) great job, Jon :)
5:25: No, they did not have bathrooms. They STILL don't have bathrooms. They had heads. Nowadays, we have nice sewer systems and hot and cold potable water aboard ship. In the 18th century, it was basically a small room with a bench in it. The bench had a hole over it that extended over the side of the ship.
34:31: The powder in question is black powder. Back then, it was made out of charcoal, sulfur, and potassium nitrate, AKA saltpeter. Modern day "black powder" is made out of a mixture of nitrocellulose and nitro-guanine. Modern day powder is also FAR more stable than the original recipe. Seeing as how fire or impact posed a major risk for ships during the age of sale, the gunpowder was often stored below the waterline. If a fire started, this made it possible to flood the lower deck to extinguish the fire, while also providing additional protection from impact.
Return of the Obra Jon
YES YES YES YES!!! Victorian insurance adjuster sleuthing Saturday Jon!
Woo! I'm glad this'll be a whole series, I absolutely love this game.
"Like a quartermaster but on a boat"? Every pirate executive and royal navy vessel would like to have words with you.
This game is brilliant! I’m glad Jon got around to playing it.
Oh I was wondering if this would show up here. I saw Nerd3 (pretty sure it was him) do a short video on this a while back, I've been meaning to play it since then but haven't. Though I am tempted to see how this plays with the -1 perception thing ;)
I've asked about Obra Dinn a few months ago and the comment went unanswered, really happy to see you play it. I'm hoping to watch every episode if it becomes a series (it will, right?).
I've both played the game myself and seen it on multiple channels and yet I still enjoy watching it and comparing other's way of thinking to mine.
The Gunners Store would have been below the gundeck because if gunpowder gets shot it blows up, gundeck having all the magazine on it would compromise the safety of everyone aboard, as well as the safety of the ship itself.
I saw this game around last year, but didn't know what to do with it so I ignored it. but you can get me to watch basically anything, and boy, what a fun trip this is!
I really admire your restraint to not just post The Outer Worlds exclusively for the next however long ;)
there are presumably a hell of a lot of people not watching that for spoilers.
I know there is one.
Luckily at least twice a week. I could use more. Like...daily.
Jon if we don’t get more of this I’ll be really disappointed in you. I won’t be able to do anything about it, but I’ll be sad.
OH MY GOD OH MY GOD IB MY GOD IM FREAKING OUT!!! I’ve wanted Jon to do this game for over a year!!!
Me too, this couldn't have come any sooner.
I would love to see you beat this game, it'll be hard but you seem to be catching most of the subtle hints the game gives you so I'm confident
20 min in and i cant watch this i have to play it for myself geez this is a great game
Very well done, Jon! Your deductive abilities are enviable!
I don't think that gunners would be wearing "fancy hats". There jobs were dirty, chaotic, and not especially glamorous. I would have thought someone wearing the top hat would have been a passenger. The others with the bicorns and tricorns would have been higher ranking individuals according to the traditions of the times. As well as the very noticeable uniforms which would also be worn by higher ranking people.
Why would they mutiny when a monster is tearing the boat apart? Wouldn't they all just want to abandon ship?
Drinking game: Make yourself a nice cuppa tea every time Jon says "this guy".
Drink every time "hat" is mentioned
Jon playing a game all about perception ?! Oh no!
It's interesting how "Abagail Hoscut Witteral was crushed by falling rigging" works. That's not really the case; she was whacked by it being swung at her.
Bosun dies missing an arm. Previous scene shows the kracken with a tentacle wrapped around soon to be missing arm. Jon's conclusion: did he fall? No, let's put that he was clubbed by the beast...
38:50 I am ashamed to say that one took me far to long to figure out 😕 I was hoping Jon’s Perception would miss that one 😄
It was literally the last thing I did. I pretty much forgot that the note existed for the whole game
To my great shame, I discovered that one when I rage-quit about 8 hours in and received the reply to my very low-quality report 😂 On the bright side, I saw all 3 endings to the game as a result of rage quitting, curiosity, and actually finally finishing my damn insurance report. This game is so awesome ❤️🐙
It's very interesting watching other people sleuth through this. I worked out William Hoscot by his scottish accent in the clip rather than the brother/sister link. Interesting how different people respond to different clues!
3 things Jon; look up often, look up the roster often, and the mates are your friend.
Please do continue this series