No one does lets plays like Jesse, I'm so glad he's still doing his thing a decade on from when I first started watching him, I've never found a videogame youtuber I've liked half as much
I would have to say, its THAT exact infectious glee that's got me coming back again and again year after year for this, and new content! Thanks for all the years entertaining us Jesse! Heres to another year!
Super interesting that Novik talks about crashing and landing on the planet eden from a previous expedition. Directly from one of Lems other novels (literally called eden)
The start of this game really reminded me of Amnesia Rebirth for a hot minute. Waking to a hostile desert environment, memories hazy and confused, main character looking down at their body and talking to herself, seeking others while losing track of space and time along the way…those others being an unknown as to whether they are alive or if they camp will be deserted… 🤔
2:30:02 The Pando thing is fascinating, btw (it's located in Utah). It is "an aspen clone that originated from a single seed and spreads by sending up new shoots from the expanding root system. Pando is believed to be the largest, most dense organism ever found at nearly 13 million pounds. The clone spreads over 106 acres, consisting of over 40,000 individual trees. The exact age of the clone and its root system is difficult to calculate, but it is estimated to have started at the end of the last ice age. Some of the trees are over 130 years old. It was first recognized by researchers in the 1970s and more recently proven by geneticists. Its massive size, weight,and prehistoric age have caused worldwide fame".
This reminds me of a game from years ago, like Soviets found a wormhole and wound up on a similar planet, but by the time the player shows up its abandoned, leaving old 50s looking towns on a desert world. Bonus points if anyone know the name, because I certainly forgot. Edit: That was easy: "Lifeless Planet"
The reason tatooine is an entire desert planet is because it was quite literally GLASSED BY NUKES and the natives only survived by going underground. Those that stayed underground became Jawa, those that went and lived outside were the Tusken (yes they are technically originally the same species)
18:27 considering how scared of sharks Jesse is you would think he would be nore cautious about going into the waters of an unknown planet that could have anything living in it.
This game is literally down my alley. I just wish I didn't have a massive backlog I'm slowly working my way through. Feels like a game or two per year now.
"What about this makes me want to do this" This is games at their worst, when they won't even give you the courtesy of blasting exposition at you but are making you go through repetitive busywork
I love space exploration games (and alien planets), and the atmosphere and views of this game are GORGEOUS. To quote Jesse: "I'm ALL in". Can't wait to see more!
If you didn't read the book (Stanislaw Lem: The Invincible), I highly recommend doing so after the playthrough. It will probably a couple of questions.
45:54 That's a ridiculous assumption about "fish" and animals. They are ALWAYS cautious or scared of things they have never seen before. Touch water lightly and the fish near there bolt in all directions. It's a natural response in nature. This game is great but that little context there annoys me.
33:18 I get this is based on an old book, but having just binged a bunch of space videos recently, their confusion of life not existing is funny. (Because xenobiology is basically a crapshoot due to us only having one example of a life bearing planet)
Did everyone else see the rock face at 2:45:37? It's so clearly a face I thought for sure Jesse would fixate on its significance. What a weird game. I do feel like the metal roots were more compelling before they were just everywhere, like yeah I don't know what the deal is, but they're obviously just structural, and underground they could have been anything.
Yes you should read the book, if you like reading sci-fi novels. It's a product of the time and era it was written in (1960s), but well worth the read IMO. Stanisław Lem is one of my favorite writers.
Speaking of skyrim, i wonder when thats starting back up, Jesse said at least august buuut then he had to drop some projects and do some re shuffling sooo /shrug.
5 minutes in and I'm guessing this is the demo that had the malfunctioning robot in it? If so I remember it being really intriguing so I'm excited! UPDATE: I am LOVING how the plot is progressing so far.
@JoriDiculous Yes!! Just got to the point with the robot but even before then it felt really familiar. Although I wouldn't have been surprised if it was a different game with a similar premise, feels very much like space Amnesia! Also love the added cutscenes (I believe they're new unless I forgot about them)
@@EATIncYeah the cutscenes was cut from the Demo. I really like this game, got a nice suspension when playing it since you newer really know what's going on.
Spoiler or whatever you want to call it for anyone that wants it. I'm told the song being sung the the MC is Zachodźże słoneczko a Polish traditional song.
3:18:01 so I did some extremely rough guesstimateion maths and based on how meny stars are in our galaxy there should be around 25k spacefaring civilisation and I think ied got it to something like there should be around 2k that can reach any point in the galaxy with some form of FTL. Now granted the maths wasn’t anything complicated or anything it is basically start with the number of stars then divide that number by 4 for how meny should have planets around them then keep going 1/4 down and down for dose the sun have any planets around it then down again for are any of them planets in the Goldilocks zone then down again for did life ever evolve on that world as it’s not a given then down again for did that life that started get killed of by some cosmic event that renders the planet dead and down again for the ones that survived forming intelligent life then down again for that intelligent life surviving to form civilisations then down again for that civilisation not wiping itself out then down again for it reaching our level of tech again for space exploration again for starting to colonising local space (like their moon) again for taking over their system again for leaving their system again for not been wiped out before they can colonise planets outside their system (basically at this point they have kinda hit a save point or a 1up as it will take 2 suns going super nova to wipe them out something that’s really unlikely) I think at this point I added in a few more 1/4s for good Measure just to be sure then I was I’ll add one for discovering FTL then another for been able to been able to reach a quarter the way across the galaxy then another for half way then three quarters the way then one more for been able to get anywhere in the galaxy so that’s a lot of 1/4s and we are still left with a really high number of galactic civilisations that should be out and about. All this leads me to 3 conclusions. 1# they are already here watching us and keeping an eye on us, maybe as a zoo maybe to see if or when we are ready to meet other life. 2# they are already here and we are so violent they have put earth under quarantine until we smarten up (as I’ve said in the past people keep looking for intelligent life in outer space, me I’m still waiting for them to find intelligent life on earth as I don’t think there is any yet). 3# this part of space that Sol is in is the equivalent of the artic wastes no one really comes here so we haven’t bumped into anything yet and may not for some time, I mean even in Star Trek us meeting the Vulcans was an accident, one of their ships was passing though our system at just the right moment and picked up a incredibly small warp signature and they decided to come have a look, literally a minute earlier or later and who knows how long it would have been before earth bumped into another alien race, maybe we are in a similar situation and sol is just a back water town lost in the wilderness.
50:29 OK a reference most of Jesse's viewers will be too young to get. Did the the good doctor have the fish on the in-flight meal? As everyone else that had it has been taken ....ill!
2:40:28 This is literally the exact same danger as with the masks on a plane. It's called hypoxia, which is where your brain doesn't get enough oxygen and as a result you become unresponsive and unable to perform even basic tasks.
23:00 yer it's completely silly to have a planet spanning ecosystem we definitely don't have anything like that in our solar system as long as you don't count Jupiter or Mars or Venus or Uranus or moons like io and Titan all of which are single biome ecosystems. Earth is the odd one out been the only planet or planetoid or moon that is multi biome its far more common for planets to be mostly one thing earth is in a really unique position there may be other planets around other stars that share our diversity of landscapes but a little to close and your a desert a little to far and your a frozen wasteland.
Biome implies living ecosystems, hence the "bio", so yes, in the strictest sense, these real planets are all the same biome, namely, none. However, these planets and moons are not uniform in regional climate either.
Sad i missed the stream yesterday. Anyway, great game (I still got the end part too do so better get on with it). Justs love the aesthetics of it, very 70's SciFi movie. No you dont have to have read the novel, this is Based on the novel, so not same story or character. And im happy you right from the beginning you start exploring. Its story around. Have the scanner out all then time, its kind of "important" and helps with navigation :) SPOILERS: If you did the *right* thing and gave Gorsky air, he will help you underground. A really cool sequence that gives even more questions of wtf is going on?
We need to come up with a new name for this sort of game, walking simulator is too dissmissive. Interactive story? No idea, but these games can be extremely engagin, as this particukar game shows, and as such deserve more respect.
I'm just gonna say it, if this involves time travel instead of the other ship just landing first and getting brain wiped this game suffers from real bad writing.
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No one does lets plays like Jesse, I'm so glad he's still doing his thing a decade on from when I first started watching him, I've never found a videogame youtuber I've liked half as much
The glee Jesse gets from new stories is infectious.
I would have to say, its THAT exact infectious glee that's got me coming back again and again year after year for this, and new content! Thanks for all the years entertaining us Jesse! Heres to another year!
2:46:24 A quote from Andy Weir's The Martian
Super interesting that Novik talks about crashing and landing on the planet eden from a previous expedition. Directly from one of Lems other novels (literally called eden)
The start of this game really reminded me of Amnesia Rebirth for a hot minute. Waking to a hostile desert environment, memories hazy and confused, main character looking down at their body and talking to herself, seeking others while losing track of space and time along the way…those others being an unknown as to whether they are alive or if they camp will be deserted… 🤔
I was thinking the exact same thing for about the first hour - the intros are very similar
SAME! I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought of Amnesia Rebirth
The main character and tasi's voice actors also sound very similar
Having played it and knowing the mystery it’s fun connecting it to the early stuff. Also love Jesse guessing at the mystery
2:30:02 The Pando thing is fascinating, btw (it's located in Utah). It is "an aspen clone that originated from a single seed and spreads by sending up new shoots from the expanding root system. Pando is believed to be the largest, most dense organism ever found at nearly 13 million pounds. The clone spreads over 106 acres, consisting of over 40,000 individual trees. The exact age of the clone and its root system is difficult to calculate, but it is estimated to have started at the end of the last ice age. Some of the trees are over 130 years old. It was first recognized by researchers in the 1970s and more recently proven by geneticists. Its massive size, weight,and prehistoric age have caused worldwide fame".
this is incredible!
i cannot remember the last time a game genuinely made me anxious for the protagonist. cant wait for the next part!
This reminds me of a game from years ago, like Soviets found a wormhole and wound up on a similar planet, but by the time the player shows up its abandoned, leaving old 50s looking towns on a desert world.
Bonus points if anyone know the name, because I certainly forgot.
Edit: That was easy: "Lifeless Planet"
I saw a trailer for this a while back. The game is way more interesting than i expected it to be.
weird mysterious story driven game with Jesse? yes please!
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The reason tatooine is an entire desert planet is because it was quite literally GLASSED BY NUKES and the natives only survived by going underground. Those that stayed underground became Jawa, those that went and lived outside were the Tusken (yes they are technically originally the same species)
18:27 considering how scared of sharks Jesse is you would think he would be nore cautious about going into the waters of an unknown planet that could have anything living in it.
Space sharks!
Didn't he send the probe?
Love the setting and the atmosphere, and great job hyping the plot as always Jesse!
can't wait for the second part
This stream made me go RIGHT OUT and buy it. Cant wait to finish where he stepped off!
This game is literally down my alley. I just wish I didn't have a massive backlog I'm slowly working my way through. Feels like a game or two per year now.
I went and got the game and the book after the first half hour and I’m enthralled with it. Really happy I discovered Lems work through you
Jesse, you're not a space survivor, you're a beautiful space butterfly, ready to spread your wings! You'd own space! I love your story playthroughs
Its surprisingly refreshing to have a hard science story. So many series have gone off the walls into sci-fantasy land these days.
"What about this makes me want to do this"
This is games at their worst, when they won't even give you the courtesy of blasting exposition at you but are making you go through repetitive busywork
Really glad you came back to this, i love the original story.
I love space exploration games (and alien planets), and the atmosphere and views of this game are GORGEOUS. To quote Jesse: "I'm ALL in". Can't wait to see more!
Because timezones I appreciate these uploads a lot
I'm loving this playthrough, after this one I hope Pacific drive is the radar of fun and strange exploration games you're looking for 😊❤
If you didn't read the book (Stanislaw Lem: The Invincible), I highly recommend doing so after the playthrough. It will probably a couple of questions.
45:54 That's a ridiculous assumption about "fish" and animals. They are ALWAYS cautious or scared of things they have never seen before. Touch water lightly and the fish near there bolt in all directions. It's a natural response in nature. This game is great but that little context there annoys me.
1:12:49 jesse choosing the option to keep trying in vain... my heart 😭
So interesting!!! I need to see more!
a few months ago i randomly watched a full playthrough without commentary, great narrative and watching old jessie play through it is a treat. :D
This is crazy compelling, watched 2 hours of this in one go
Jesse prepared by getting a "Very Space-like drink". Dude went out and got some Capri-Sun.
Never read the book but I loved the game. One of 2023 best release.
This is about on par with the novel I'd say. 🧐👍🏻
Well I’ll be damned
all of that alien architecture reminds me of mineral called bismut, it also makes wierd shapes a little similar.
yeah i thought of that too! from what i understand, bismuth only grows in the colorful stairsteps in artificial conditions
12:56 Protag: "I have to science my way back to camp before I die"
Jesse: "Yeah, but... show me my feet!"
This video was 3 hours?! I need more!
story heavy mystery lets play with jesse - all the yes
33:18 I get this is based on an old book, but having just binged a bunch of space videos recently, their confusion of life not existing is funny.
(Because xenobiology is basically a crapshoot due to us only having one example of a life bearing planet)
Hope you do a full playthrough, cause this looks amazing - but not really my type of game to play on my own
"oh, they dug too deep and too greedily" really made me ugly LOL!
Did everyone else see the rock face at 2:45:37? It's so clearly a face I thought for sure Jesse would fixate on its significance. What a weird game. I do feel like the metal roots were more compelling before they were just everywhere, like yeah I don't know what the deal is, but they're obviously just structural, and underground they could have been anything.
I love it when you play space games! They're my favorite.
Why are there 5 lights on the map during the flashbacks? I thought they were 4 people on the planet and 2 on the ship? A bit confused..
Huh, Stanislaw Lem wrote Solaris. I've seen both film versions, i didn't realizethey were based on a book. Interesting
The book version of Solaris is a wild one! Definitely worth a read!
FoR tHe AlGoRiThM
Jesse the most distracted explorer ever. here is your objective, oh look their might be a shiny thing over here .
Yes you should read the book, if you like reading sci-fi novels. It's a product of the time and era it was written in (1960s), but well worth the read IMO. Stanisław Lem is one of my favorite writers.
I don't know why but this reminds me of Jesse's first Skyrim Video. Excited for this playthrough!
Speaking of skyrim, i wonder when thats starting back up, Jesse said at least august buuut then he had to drop some projects and do some re shuffling sooo /shrug.
I really dig the pulpy sci-fi aesthetic
This is amazing, captivated all the way through, and with Jesse's enthusiasm about it all, im just hooked. Part 2 pleasee
I heard "feet feet feet feet feet" and "im ready to get very weird." I wish i knew how to clip things
To be fair, the people making fun of starwars, might want to take a look at our own universe - most planets really are just one thing...
Saw this live... madness.
I'm hooked ;-;
The alliance.
Nice!
Watched this live on twitch. Really love the story and aesthetic of this game. The super old school sci-fi music is so good.
These Skyrim mods just keep getting better
5 minutes in and I'm guessing this is the demo that had the malfunctioning robot in it? If so I remember it being really intriguing so I'm excited!
UPDATE: I am LOVING how the plot is progressing so far.
Yes, as you probably know now :P
@JoriDiculous Yes!! Just got to the point with the robot but even before then it felt really familiar. Although I wouldn't have been surprised if it was a different game with a similar premise, feels very much like space Amnesia! Also love the added cutscenes (I believe they're new unless I forgot about them)
@@EATIncYeah the cutscenes was cut from the Demo.
I really like this game, got a nice suspension when playing it since you newer really know what's going on.
you need a 10% that in a new game you get hunted by Riddick.
Read. That. Novel.
It's so strange and beautiful and amazing.
28:27 Jesse faceapp smiles
Is that character marrit the same voice actor as karlach in bg3?
This reminds me of Fire-watch except more science😂❤
Omg I haven't been hooked to a walking sim like this in ages! What an amazing game!
Jesse begining it strong with a space drink 😂
ball is life
It better not be Space Sharks
I may be wrong, but the player character's voice sounds like the Returnal player character to me.
I had NO idea that it launched already... brb gonna play it and then i'll be back for the VOD
the game is a bit on the silent side honestly, hard to hear what they're saying compared to jesses voice volume
Spoiler or whatever you want to call it for anyone that wants it. I'm told the song being sung the the MC is Zachodźże słoneczko a Polish traditional song.
I had to pause my watching cause i realised I needed to play the game. Ima few hours in and wll contunue this alter XD
I keep thinking this is a Wolfenstein sequel based on the thumbnail
3:18:01 so I did some extremely rough guesstimateion maths and based on how meny stars are in our galaxy there should be around 25k spacefaring civilisation and I think ied got it to something like there should be around 2k that can reach any point in the galaxy with some form of FTL.
Now granted the maths wasn’t anything complicated or anything it is basically start with the number of stars then divide that number by 4 for how meny should have planets around them then keep going 1/4 down and down for dose the sun have any planets around it then down again for are any of them planets in the Goldilocks zone then down again for did life ever evolve on that world as it’s not a given then down again for did that life that started get killed of by some cosmic event that renders the planet dead and down again for the ones that survived forming intelligent life then down again for that intelligent life surviving to form civilisations then down again for that civilisation not wiping itself out then down again for it reaching our level of tech again for space exploration again for starting to colonising local space (like their moon) again for taking over their system again for leaving their system again for not been wiped out before they can colonise planets outside their system (basically at this point they have kinda hit a save point or a 1up as it will take 2 suns going super nova to wipe them out something that’s really unlikely) I think at this point I added in a few more 1/4s for good Measure just to be sure then I was I’ll add one for discovering FTL then another for been able to been able to reach a quarter the way across the galaxy then another for half way then three quarters the way then one more for been able to get anywhere in the galaxy so that’s a lot of 1/4s and we are still left with a really high number of galactic civilisations that should be out and about.
All this leads me to 3 conclusions.
1# they are already here watching us and keeping an eye on us, maybe as a zoo maybe to see if or when we are ready to meet other life.
2# they are already here and we are so violent they have put earth under quarantine until we smarten up (as I’ve said in the past people keep looking for intelligent life in outer space, me I’m still waiting for them to find intelligent life on earth as I don’t think there is any yet).
3# this part of space that Sol is in is the equivalent of the artic wastes no one really comes here so we haven’t bumped into anything yet and may not for some time, I mean even in Star Trek us meeting the Vulcans was an accident, one of their ships was passing though our system at just the right moment and picked up a incredibly small warp signature and they decided to come have a look, literally a minute earlier or later and who knows how long it would have been before earth bumped into another alien race, maybe we are in a similar situation and sol is just a back water town lost in the wilderness.
After looking up the book this is based on, I think Stellaris had some survey events based on it. 🤔
this reminds me of an old 1950's/60's sci fi movie
Cool game
Seems to me like this metal stuff is like some alien race is creating planets.
50:29 OK a reference most of Jesse's viewers will be too young to get.
Did the the good doctor have the fish on the in-flight meal? As everyone else that had it has been taken ....ill!
2:40:28 This is literally the exact same danger as with the masks on a plane. It's called hypoxia, which is where your brain doesn't get enough oxygen and as a result you become unresponsive and unable to perform even basic tasks.
Alright, who else caught the "The Martian" reference? I just heard it. Wonder who else has. :)
would this story/book be considered part of the iassac asimov series since it involves positronic brains & a space commonwealth??
23:00 yer it's completely silly to have a planet spanning ecosystem we definitely don't have anything like that in our solar system as long as you don't count Jupiter or Mars or Venus or Uranus or moons like io and Titan all of which are single biome ecosystems.
Earth is the odd one out been the only planet or planetoid or moon that is multi biome its far more common for planets to be mostly one thing earth is in a really unique position there may be other planets around other stars that share our diversity of landscapes but a little to close and your a desert a little to far and your a frozen wasteland.
Biome implies living ecosystems, hence the "bio", so yes, in the strictest sense, these real planets are all the same biome, namely, none.
However, these planets and moons are not uniform in regional climate either.
Saying Mars, Io, Titan, and Venus are mostly one thing is as reductive as saying Earth is mostly ocean.
Lets goooo.
2 minutes in I had to stop watching this and check out the soundtrack.
Never seen a finer ball. One could go so far as to say he was the best ball.
ball-e be ball-e-ing
#aintgotcash so i will be watching this game on youtube
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It might just be the accent but Yasna's VA keeps reminding me of Julia haha
Sad i missed the stream yesterday. Anyway, great game (I still got the end part too do so better get on with it). Justs love the aesthetics of it, very 70's SciFi movie.
No you dont have to have read the novel, this is Based on the novel, so not same story or character.
And im happy you right from the beginning you start exploring. Its story around. Have the scanner out all then time, its kind of "important" and helps with navigation :)
SPOILERS:
If you did the *right* thing and gave Gorsky air, he will help you underground. A really cool sequence that gives even more questions of wtf is going on?
Jesse stats:
INT : 19
STRENGTH: 15
CURIOSITY: 100
NEED TO EXPLORE: ♾️
We need to come up with a new name for this sort of game, walking simulator is too dissmissive.
Interactive story?
No idea, but these games can be extremely engagin, as this particukar game shows, and as such deserve more respect.
Voice actor goes from happy upbeat loud voicing straight into quiet thinking voicing. They could've done a better job
Jesse should add chat replay.
I'm just gonna say it, if this involves time travel instead of the other ship just landing first and getting brain wiped this game suffers from real bad writing.
Nice, but I do need to watch this at 2x playback speed, because story progress is really slow. Especially with the off-path exploring.