8:53 in the patch notes it says "spiders made more visible so puppies dont get killed accidentally" that was the plot from a different skit they did, they add so many little details to this series.
I still want Greg to have an epic quest to get Greta back. Only in the end, he doesn't get his wife back. Instead, he just has memories correctly wiped. In next episode, the new Greta, (now)green bean farmer, is added but retains some of her repressed "garlic" love while, unfortunately, Greg remains oblivious. Hijinks abound as she tries to get him to remember, but his intense dislike of green beans continues to foil her advances. Ending with Greg giving a too harsh rejection. Next, due to a failed update, the older version of Gregs memories are returned, but his previous too harsh rejection (and his intense hatred of green beans) make him slow to approach her but (perhaps after lookinhg at painting) his initial hesitance is overcome and he musters the courage only find her at a picnic with Bodger. Crushed by his picnic findings, Greg descends into depression. Finally, having given up hope, greg is given a quest requiring players to escort him. Enter the "Lore" Player. Lore is doing a deep dive of Honeywood and knows for a brief time between patches Greg and Gretta were married. Trying to find an Easter egg Lore takes Greg to Gretta's hut. Despite nothing seeming to be happening between the NPCs Lore uncovers a hidden room with nothing. Annoyed at the lack of real payoff Lore quits the escort quest but not before we (and Greg) see the inside of the room is nothing but multiple stickman paintings.
Over and over I get impressed with how good actors the cast are. Like, check out Alan's expressions immediately when Greg meets Greta: There's the big emotions of surprise and bewilderment, sure, but he also immediately brings in those hints of interest, enthusiasm and attraction, which can then grow as the story progresses. Works so well.
Completely agree! They are excellent. And (not to SIMP, but) Brit really seems to have some wonderful "on screen charm" along with her excellent facial acting. (I was going to say, "On screen CHARISMA", but since this is about gaming, that seemed a bit too obvious.)
The intention to detail is incredible. In the bug fixes when Greta is removed (8:50), we can see various references to previous sketches. Defeating the lord with charisma has been fixed, muggers won't keep mugging eachother. Child mode now doesn't disturb the NPCs. You can't take the minigun out of the arena. Exactly those things were part of sketches in other videos. Amazing!
The bit about preserving the NPCs' mental health cracked me up especially because, as you said, in the same patch notes, they *warped his wife and child out of existence* while making sure that he still remembered them.
@ReallyKeepingFictional My head cannon is that the devs are probably aware Greg and several other NPCS are semi sentient, so they are experimenting on them
Thankfully, it gets easier. Petty theft here, assault there, and before you know it, you're knowingly supporting a regime that condones child rape and genocide Play Skyrim: Beyond Reach mod if you want to try that last one
Whenever I play Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic I try to get as many dark side points as possible so I do every bad thing I can possibly do. I usually max out the dark side points before I leave the first planet. Some of the things my character does is abhorrent.
I beg to differ because I've already seen all of these while I'm never complaining because I love vldl too much to care it'd be nice to have something new
As I previously said for the first part, it's Rowan who's the real bad guy here, manipulating Ben into doing evil things and laughing at it without a care.
Rowan is just classically Lawful Evil here sure he might suggest evil deeds that Ben should do but it is Ben who is committing them so Rowan is in the clear.
The joy was in seeing the discomfort his friend felt by screwing over the NPCs. That's why he has the grin the whole time, he *said* it was harder than you'd think...
The wife one should become a saga where Greg becomes more self aware and he sneaks tiny bits in the quests he gives in order to get information about the developer's world
Let's admit it, THIS is the best series by VLDL. Yes, I enjoy all their content, but this is the one that made me subscribe and keeps me "warm on those cold winter nights" if you know what I mean ;)
It's so hard to be the bad guy! I always say I want to do an evil run, but I just care too much about people, even fictional people, lol. Oh, my God, the merchant couple saga is everything to me! I love their dynamic so much! It's so freaking good! I would like to see more of them.
The upgrades list for the wife sketch are incredible, chock full of fun easter eggs, here are a few -Spiders made larger so people don't accidentally kill puppies -Mugger NPC loop glitch fixed -Child safe mode now presents to npcs the same way as it does to players for their mental health And many more, I love this attention to detail VLDL whoever does it, thank you, sincerely
Don't listen to the merchant... he isn't broke.. I once saw him spend a couple hundred thousand in gold on an adventurer then turned around and sold 1 apple for only 1 copper! He's a scammer!
I've seen that fruit merchant scare away muggers. I've seen him chase an adventurer out of town. I've seen him smite another adventurer into a puff of red mist with a single mighty swing of his unbelievably huge sword.
The entire cast does a good job at being the bad guy/villain, but my absolute favorite is Fred. When he's evil, when he's incompetent, or when he's just downright annoyed, dude is cracking me up! MORE FRED PLEASE!
You misspelled Bodger's wife. You know it to be true. Baraduun just laid out the facts he is ugly, wired and unlovable, why do you think his sheep keeps on trying to escape to a better life ?
Ben is me whenever I try to do anything evil related in games. No matter how much I want to try changing things up, I usually feel terrible right afterwards.😂
8:52. Pause it and look at the hilarious patch notes they added. If you've watched all their videos, it's even funnier with all their little Easter eggs.😂
Imagine the server maintenance staff vs the growing npc sentience as a whole mini movie. Greta gets rescued from "buried code" etc. No shame riffing on popular scifi movies throughout.
Just recently discovered this channel. Brings a smile to my face you have more followers than our NZ population! Well done, these are so Kiwi! Incredible production quality and great performers.
Watching the skit about Ben trying to be a villain again it becomes clear that Rowan is very expirienced at being the bad guy. ^^ he constantly gives him advise while telling him he's not up for the task. Love how well those two work with each other.
I cant belive how much this is for a joy for me. All of these people in the making, are making my day better. From bad to amazing, Whenever i see a new video from them. I feel happy and i constant press on it. It's a pleasure from all of us to know and feels the warm you guys are doing
Baelins route. You should do that with Greg to retrieve his wife from cached data from the wipe or something like that. Has to team up with the glitch for help and so on. Just a thought. Think it would be a hit tbh. Tysm for all the videos!!
Finally after a week I am through all of the 28 parts of this haha xD really liked the "baelin's route" and the one where you have to deliver him in this 2D video game acting as britt :-DDD oh and the "lag" one is good too
At both 6:57 and 8:53 Is so cool , the reduced boar heart was a whole episode about having the boars with no hearts and also fixed tin foil man running around. Also the vampire class removed to the vampire episode. The charmisa exploit gets fixed from the charisma episode. Child safe mode gets added form the child episode. Dective mode from the dective episode and vr movement speed made slower so player don’t throw up and the minigun madness one. The npc muggers mugging each other got fixed. I love how they made a ceminatic universe.
I may have commented this when the "playing the bad guy" skit originally dropped but I literally got sweaty palms from anxiety doing Raider stuff to the settlements when I first played the Nuka-World DLC in Fallout 4. Even playing RDR2 I couldn't do unscripted outlaw stuff without feeling anxious, no matter how much I tell myself it's just a game.
That Greta one is still such a bummer...to give Greg a wife like that and then take her away is just overly cruel - that had to have been Baradun's idea 😆 But the other fixes in the patch were damn funny...although "fixing" it so the minigun can no longer be removed from the arena is also overly cruel!!! There was no problem to fix on that one!!
“Does Greg attack you?”
“Worse, he judges you”
Greg being disappointed is still a heavy blow of emotion damage
Did I just hear Steven He in the distance?
It honestly hurts more than anything else
That was a hard one to watch.
Imma instant reload my game if that happens
Heart out. Heart out.
“I’m not angry, adventurer. I’m just really disappointed.” - it cuts like a knife.
Greg should get a quest to get Greta back. Like Baelin's route
YES!!!
That is a great idea!
YES
100% agree
PLEASE
8:53 in the patch notes it says "spiders made more visible so puppies dont get killed accidentally" that was the plot from a different skit they did, they add so many little details to this series.
So are all the other ones
They loved putting littlw details that's why i loved watching them.
lol, good catch
@@PutYourQuarterUpGaming they also fixed the exploit where u can take the minigun in "Minigun Madness" out of the arena haha
I love how, despite all their arguments, Ben and Rowen still actively play together
The one-upsmanship must go on
Greg losing Greta is still brutal.
I still want Greg to have an epic quest to get Greta back. Only in the end, he doesn't get his wife back. Instead, he just has memories correctly wiped.
In next episode, the new Greta, (now)green bean farmer, is added but retains some of her repressed "garlic" love while, unfortunately, Greg remains oblivious. Hijinks abound as she tries to get him to remember, but his intense dislike of green beans continues to foil her advances. Ending with Greg giving a too harsh rejection.
Next, due to a failed update, the older version of Gregs memories are returned, but his previous too harsh rejection (and his intense hatred of green beans) make him slow to approach her but (perhaps after lookinhg at painting) his initial hesitance is overcome and he musters the courage only find her at a picnic with Bodger. Crushed by his picnic findings, Greg descends into depression.
Finally, having given up hope, greg is given a quest requiring players to escort him. Enter the "Lore" Player. Lore is doing a deep dive of Honeywood and knows for a brief time between patches Greg and Gretta were married. Trying to find an Easter egg Lore takes Greg to Gretta's hut. Despite nothing seeming to be happening between the NPCs Lore uncovers a hidden room with nothing. Annoyed at the lack of real payoff Lore quits the escort quest but not before we (and Greg) see the inside of the room is nothing but multiple stickman paintings.
@@Niflheimrr_ELgood fanfiction
@@Niflheimrr_ELbeautiful
That one was just cruel
@@Niflheimrr_EL That lore obsessed player sounds like a greta- hum... I mean, great idea :)
I think they're trying to traumatize us by putting the skit about Greg's wife, Greta, into as many compilations as possible. 😭
Justice for Greta
Over and over I get impressed with how good actors the cast are. Like, check out Alan's expressions immediately when Greg meets Greta: There's the big emotions of surprise and bewilderment, sure, but he also immediately brings in those hints of interest, enthusiasm and attraction, which can then grow as the story progresses. Works so well.
Completely agree! They are excellent.
And (not to SIMP, but) Brit really seems to have some wonderful "on screen charm" along with her excellent facial acting. (I was going to say, "On screen CHARISMA", but since this is about gaming, that seemed a bit too obvious.)
Greg needs his own "Baelin's Route" where he tries to get his wife back.
Pls got VLDL do this
No…get over lt
should combine it with the bug fixing guy that somehow he enters the real world together with the hobo dude that knows its all a video game.
And daughter!
Turns out the homeless guy is real but is in a gaming laboratory being experimented on...
The intention to detail is incredible. In the bug fixes when Greta is removed (8:50), we can see various references to previous sketches. Defeating the lord with charisma has been fixed, muggers won't keep mugging eachother. Child mode now doesn't disturb the NPCs. You can't take the minigun out of the arena. Exactly those things were part of sketches in other videos. Amazing!
The bit about preserving the NPCs' mental health cracked me up especially because, as you said, in the same patch notes, they *warped his wife and child out of existence* while making sure that he still remembered them.
@ReallyKeepingFictional My head cannon is that the devs are probably aware Greg and several other NPCS are semi sentient, so they are experimenting on them
The bad guy playthrough is 100% accurate.
Thankfully, it gets easier. Petty theft here, assault there, and before you know it, you're knowingly supporting a regime that condones child rape and genocide
Play Skyrim: Beyond Reach mod if you want to try that last one
@@Ata.TeaGarglerundertale be like ez but boss is takes hours to beat
At the end, Ben fights Baradun as Megalovania plays. He’s “gonna have a bad time.”
Me: rolls badly to save the teifling child
Also me starring at the load save button: not today!!!
Whenever I play Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic I try to get as many dark side points as possible so I do every bad thing I can possibly do. I usually max out the dark side points before I leave the first planet. Some of the things my character does is abhorrent.
"We messed up by giving Greg happiness" Man! That is soooo brutal! I love it!
I swear Hamish and his wife arguing while the adventurer is just standing there will always get me 😂
Yeah like why no one talking about Hamish and his wife. that clip is my favourite 😂 they really acted well
Man.. you guys did Greg dirty by giving him a wife and ripping his and ours heart out like that...
It's heartbreaking every time I see that one
And daughter!
I genuinely love all of VLDL's content but I can't bring myself to watch it every time it comes up
@@dahn57😊😊
Glad to see Rowan uses his horse pocket L I K E A N O R M A L P E R S O N
What's better than a new episode of Epic NPC man? A 30 minute compilation YEAH BABY!
I beg to differ because I've already seen all of these while I'm never complaining because I love vldl too much to care it'd be nice to have something new
@@dustinduzgames1276 that's fair, I like it because it gives me something to watch on my lunch break without having to look for something else 💖
@@nicholepoisson4519same just finished my lunch tho lol
As I previously said for the first part, it's Rowan who's the real bad guy here, manipulating Ben into doing evil things and laughing at it without a care.
Absolutely
Rowan is just classically Lawful Evil here sure he might suggest evil deeds that Ben should do but it is Ben who is committing them so Rowan is in the clear.
Yeah I don't believe that he couldn't handle it with how much he enjoyed that
The joy was in seeing the discomfort his friend felt by screwing over the NPCs. That's why he has the grin the whole time, he *said* it was harder than you'd think...
Greg must lead a NPC revolution to take control of the server and bring back the Wife Update
The wife one should become a saga where Greg becomes more self aware and he sneaks tiny bits in the quests he gives in order to get information about the developer's world
Let's admit it, THIS is the best series by VLDL. Yes, I enjoy all their content, but this is the one that made me subscribe and keeps me "warm on those cold winter nights" if you know what I mean ;)
It's actually insane how good of an actor Alan is. Amazes me everytime how in character he is
Gigantic acting range 💯
It's so hard to be the bad guy!
I always say I want to do an evil run, but I just care too much about people, even fictional people, lol.
Oh, my God, the merchant couple saga is everything to me! I love their dynamic so much! It's so freaking good! I would like to see more of them.
The upgrades list for the wife sketch are incredible, chock full of fun easter eggs, here are a few
-Spiders made larger so people don't accidentally kill puppies
-Mugger NPC loop glitch fixed
-Child safe mode now presents to npcs the same way as it does to players for their mental health
And many more, I love this attention to detail VLDL whoever does it, thank you, sincerely
Don't listen to the merchant... he isn't broke.. I once saw him spend a couple hundred thousand in gold on an adventurer then turned around and sold 1 apple for only 1 copper! He's a scammer!
I've seen that fruit merchant scare away muggers. I've seen him chase an adventurer out of town. I've seen him smite another adventurer into a puff of red mist with a single mighty swing of his unbelievably huge sword.
04:05 “My poor son” MY STOMACH DROPPED when he said that.
Ben crying while he stabs the old man 😂😂 "pretty fun, right?!"
Rowan gleefully gaslighting Ben, turns out Rowan was actually doing an evil play through after all.
i like how Rowan always acts as the enabler in both the adventurer and mugger settings.
THE TREE IS BLOCKING THE PATH
Except the Invisibilty skit, lol
0:47 Did not expect a jumpscare 😅
Also damn 29:24 talk about a toxic power couple 😅
"Wait - what about him?"
"I want him to watch ...."
🤣🤣🤣🤣
The "Bad Guy" sketch is so good, and Greg's Wife was such a sad chapter. But the patch notes at the end are good :)
The entire cast does a good job at being the bad guy/villain, but my absolute favorite is Fred. When he's evil, when he's incompetent, or when he's just downright annoyed, dude is cracking me up! MORE FRED PLEASE!
I love Alan trying not to laugh while Adam is poking at him
😂
The wife skit is a brilliant stroke of storytelling. A real rollercoaster ride of emotions.
We need Greta , Gregs wife , back 😢
You misspelled Bodger's wife. You know it to be true. Baraduun just laid out the facts he is ugly, wired and unlovable, why do you think his sheep keeps on trying to escape to a better life ?
Ben is me whenever I try to do anything evil related in games. No matter how much I want to try changing things up, I usually feel terrible right afterwards.😂
The fruit farmer skit is the best!!!👍😹😹😹
I can’t believe you played our boy Greg so dirty, that shit broke my heart. Bring back Greg’s wife!
Gregs loss always breaks me, never get over it how the mods messed it up and cleared everyones mind about her, except Gregs....
I love the game mechanic conversations between Ben & Rowen.
Also, the evil playthrough skit is the truth
14:30 just noticed how the players in the background walk/run. XD so good.
I love all the notes in the patch update and the way they fix previous issues raised by other vids 😂 absolutely brilliant 👊🏻
Love the dichotomy of the fantasy "evil is hard" vs the red dead "good is hard".
For needing to get the painting to town by sundown, Ben and Rowan sure burned a lot of daylight arguing about broken physics.
Requesting VLDL to make a short movie like Baelin's route but this time, it needs to be Greg on a quest of having his wife back
12:11 free ben is my favorite character, he is the matrix neo we never asked for
It’s visible how the quality of skits and filming has been consistently improving, although it was always amazing already. Keep it up guys 😊
Those last 3 were absolutely amazing! I was dying of laughter! You all are amazing
That Greta sketch got me in the feels. I hope you find her again Greg.
She has a better life now as a Bodger's wife
8:52. Pause it and look at the hilarious patch notes they added. If you've watched all their videos, it's even funnier with all their little Easter eggs.😂
OMG, I somehow managed to miss the episode with Adam abusing a NPC in VR.
I was crying from laughter !
Imagine the server maintenance staff vs the growing npc sentience as a whole mini movie. Greta gets rescued from "buried code" etc. No shame riffing on popular scifi movies throughout.
i like how at 8:50 the patch notes refrence other skits made by them.
2:12 Rewatching this and only now I notice how Greg is shaking his head in disappointment in the background 😆
😂😂😂
This made it so much better
In the fruit merchant skit, I thought that the actress was Lucy Lawless for half a second. Haha. Sounds quite a bit like her.
Just recently discovered this channel. Brings a smile to my face you have more followers than our NZ population! Well done, these are so Kiwi! Incredible production quality and great performers.
We need a 30 min NPC uprising film, like how you guys did with Baelin's Route.
Those patch notes were awesome hahaha. I recognized all the "bugs" from previous videos, haha
After rewatching these so many times, I realized if they REALLY wanted to make Greg suffer, they could've brought Greta back.......as Bodger's wife.
I love how it has been years but Rowen still never believes Ben.
Just once, I'd like Rowan to be right. You know his I told you so would be epic
20:27 "excUUUUUUUUUse me!!"😂😂
Got a little gangsta in her! Lmao
Y'all got me crying!!!! 😂😂 These are pure gold. Thank you for all the laughs and entertainment.
The VR one is so realistic. I would do nearly the same thing
Honestly by pure morbid curiosity I would want to find where the limit it.
Watching the skit about Ben trying to be a villain again it becomes clear that Rowan is very expirienced at being the bad guy. ^^ he constantly gives him advise while telling him he's not up for the task. Love how well those two work with each other.
Can we get a Ben vs Rowan skit where Rowan finally wins an argument?
I cant belive how much this is for a joy for me. All of these people in the making, are making my day better. From bad to amazing, Whenever i see a new video from them. I feel happy and i constant press on it. It's a pleasure from all of us to know and feels the warm you guys are doing
Thanks
The patch notes are hilarious
Thank you for finally marking these as compilations.
I'd give anything for this to be an actual playable mmorpg...
But no rush or anything because I love the videos themselves! Good work as always!!
I have been watching you guys for years, I have loved almost every skit. You guys are so brilliant, wish I could be a part of it so bad.
3:18 You guys really timed up Ben realizing a bad guy character would kill the NPC with the wind blowing outside!?!
My GF: how much of this do you watch a day?
Me: Yes
We need a mini movie where 3 npcs break free from the video game and find adam alan and rowan in playtech
Bro, if Britt tells you you’re married, don’t question it. 😮
Greg losing his wife is the most saddest in the epic npc man series 😔
These videos are so well done!! Thank you for the laughs ❤😊 and the effort from the team - everything is perfect 😆
9:50 Greg Lost Both His Wife & Child But Before They Were Lost For Ever ‘ Greta Lefted Him A Gift At The End As A Reminder Of What They Had Together.
Baelins route. You should do that with Greg to retrieve his wife from cached data from the wipe or something like that. Has to team up with the glitch for help and so on. Just a thought. Think it would be a hit tbh. Tysm for all the videos!!
Both Fred and his wife must be ex-epic warriors. 😅
When Fred is arguing with Freda, he says “I’ll be the one laughing when I’m on a big adventurer…” (probably getting revenge for the blacksmith)
"So, how was your 1st evil deed 🤓" : Rowan living vicariously through Ben - all the thrill, none of the repercussions! 😅
They need to give Greg an epic quest to find his wife and child and fight against the system that controls the game they live in
I want a route story where the NPC who Ben plays where he is aware, finally gets his revolution going with his fellow NPCs
"YAY! BAD GYUY!" - OMG. Rowan had such a psycho smile at that moment! So funny.
11:56 - The game developers developed absurd game logic just to prove Rowan wrong
You can’t start the day without watching rowen & Ben at each other’s throats. 😳😂
Greg's quest for Greta when?
I haven't felt things this fierce since the "replay quest" skit with Britt.
Bravo
I love how the update log mentions things in other videos.
Finally after a week I am through all of the 28 parts of this haha xD
really liked the "baelin's route" and the one where you have to deliver him in this 2D video game acting as britt :-DDD
oh and the "lag" one is good too
Let Greg wake up! AND GIVE HIM BACK HIS WIFE.
6:55 the patch notes are worth a read! XD
9:37 That was uncalled for 😳😮💨💀
At both 6:57 and 8:53 Is so cool , the reduced boar heart was a whole episode about having the boars with no hearts and also fixed tin foil man running around. Also the vampire class removed to the vampire episode. The charmisa exploit gets fixed from the charisma episode. Child safe mode gets added form the child episode. Dective mode from the dective episode and vr movement speed made slower so player don’t throw up and the minigun madness one. The npc muggers mugging each other got fixed. I love how they made a ceminatic universe.
I was expecting for the wife one to show all those memories and then a player comes up asks her for marriage and she marries them on the spot
Thanks for the Amazing content
Man. I really want to see a whole episode dedicated to Greg solving Gretas fate.
I may have commented this when the "playing the bad guy" skit originally dropped but I literally got sweaty palms from anxiety doing Raider stuff to the settlements when I first played the Nuka-World DLC in Fallout 4. Even playing RDR2 I couldn't do unscripted outlaw stuff without feeling anxious, no matter how much I tell myself it's just a game.
The part where the couple is fighting reminds me of me and my ex fighting in front of the plumber about who's hair clogged the drain.
That Greta one is still such a bummer...to give Greg a wife like that and then take her away is just overly cruel - that had to have been Baradun's idea 😆
But the other fixes in the patch were damn funny...although "fixing" it so the minigun can no longer be removed from the arena is also overly cruel!!! There was no problem to fix on that one!!
Aye Baraduun is the best