“Slipspace rupture detected” over and over again still gives me chills. This game didn’t have to be this good, but turned out to be a masterpiece. Remember Reach. 😢
I very recently watched both of the Spiderverse movies and was genuinely blown away by how great they are. Same for Puss In Boots: The Last Wish. Pixar / Disney HAS to step up their game if they want to stay relevant.
One thing I found really interesting that you didn't mention about Sword Base is that when you first go there it's I cold and icy, the glaciers are still standing. Everything is dry and blue. Then going back after the covenant s began glassing Reach, the glaciers are all melted. The areas you explored the first time round are covered in water as the sky burns red. The glaciers continuing to melt until sword base is covered. It's really awesome storytelling but also really creative game design to reuse the map but have the story change it in a way that makes sense so that it feels new
I…. Don’t think a RU-vid video has made me cry before, much less 3 times. You reminded me of so many things after watching your videos, small details, character depth, hidden feelings, defensive abrasive habits… I related very heavily to what you said in your private life sections. I know you’ll probably never read this so I’ll just type this out. I was born the same year you were, and though your life has been definitively more difficult. I found myself in a similar situation of emotional isolation. I’ve never been able to voice my emotions, I’ve tried therapy a few times to try and help with my relationship with my parents, family, myself. But I’ve never found it within myself to actually tell the truth, I’ll answer as truthfully as I can but once I leave I always find myself standing in the bathroom looking into the mirror at myself and thinking how much I lied. Truth and feeling have never been together in my mind. Though with how you described your struggles and how you coped with them and how your personality was so abrasive at points I felt relatability. My relationship with my friends is strong and I’m glad I have such a group, meanwhile my relationship with family has always been…. Hard. I’ve never felt good enough to be my father’s son, my mother was never truly accepting of my feelings and my older brother was the comically charismatic perfect son. However I never really fit in, while my family is excited and energetic about everything and ready for any social gathering, I’m 2 hours and done, i just can’t be social with them for that long. My interests are treated like the plague whenever I try talking about what I like. I like games and narratives and stories and lore but whenever I bring it up I get interrupted, told I’m an addict or that they’re violent and horrible. Or straight up ignored, my family will even start conversations while I’m talking to change the conversation. My relationship with my mother is especially strained. If I’m having a bad day and say I’m not in a good mood so I’d like some alone time. She tells me everyone has hard days you still need to talk to people and be happy anyways. Essentially, I call it the “okay, fix it” conversation. I say I’m feeling sad and it’ll be an hour of kind words and soft conversation about when it started but it always ends up as: “just enjoy your time with family” or “it’s the video games that make you think this way” or “your just lazy and stagnant you need to grow up” (i have a full time job and healthy social life with friends) I just…. Can’t feel the same optimism you speak of at the end of your video, where you say that despite all the past bad things you’ve said, you’re a good person. I really admire that. I love how you found something you enjoyed and made it so impactful, your writing, your character essays, your charismatic personality. You make wonderful videos that bring joy to everyone and sometimes like this video, a truly down to earth and brutally honest character breakdown of yourself and a great character. Your emotional honesty is something I’m extremely jealous of, I hope that I one day can have the same and enjoy life like how you have learned to. Thank you, whether you read my unstable rant or not. Thank you.
tbh I didn't know halo reach even had hate for it back when I was playing it on the 360 days, Its not my favorite halo(Halo 2 being my favorite) but its still a very amazing being in my top 5 favorites.
It didn't take me more than a day to beat the main story. And after doing that all the little side missions are so tedious it just makes me want to play something else. I pre-ordered it and played no less than 4 hours. I have way more hours in lego star wars 3 and I haven't checked that in 10 years
The score in this game is so perfect with the tone, marty did great, I still get emotional replaying this game, beating it on laso made it even more visceral
I think Emiles death hits me the hardest, he is always so cold, and doesn’t show emotion and the first time you hear an emotion is just this incredible mix of anger and absolute terror yelling “IM READY, HOW BOUT YOU!?” you can hear the choke in his throat, the thing he never thought could happen happens instantly, from close range, in his happy place, on even turf, he was scared, and mad and disappointed. His voice just gets me.
Okay I will say he might be talking more about the story and the human and plot line and it might not be about the design I’m not saying I’m defending him but I think that’s just what he means.
Funny you should mention RDR2 as a counter example. The gang's story falls apart after 10 hours of gameplay. You can clearly see how most of Dutch's speeches and motivations are clearly BS half way through the Valentine events and most from the gang are disillusioned with him, constantly asking when they are going to actually keep to the plan and go back West to settle instead of heading to the "civilised" East where their "money gathering antics" clearly attract too much attention from the lawmen. Dutch's rivalry with Colm is good. It is an ego battle, I get it. Dutch being hellbent on going after Cornwall despite it being clear that he has govt/Pinkerton backing putting half his non combatant gang in unneeded danger makes it clear how insane he is. And no amount of his charismatic talks can still convince his people he will ever really hold to his promise of sticking to the plan. Arhtur "Most Complex Character in Gaming" Morgan with all his emotions, all his drives only follows him out of sheer loyalty. His loyalty is being questioned more than once before you even get to the Title screen of the game. Yet he just stays there. Like a loyal dog despite it being clear he doesn't even like half the people there but does want to help them get to that better future he clearly knows will never materialize. The way all this is written always annoyed me. It is so clear how Micah got into Dutchs head very early. How that is eating away at Arthurs heart. It is clear Dutch will never ever see Arthur the same, he doesn't trust him, he doesn't treat him as the kid he raised with Hosea. So what IS the gangs driving force to keep following Dutch? Some charismatic speeches that they all know are lies of a madman unhinged?! Hosea can't convince him of anything either. He is just as lost for words, yet keeps following... because he is old?! Nobody except Micah can tell Dutch a single thing. But they all follow him on a list of actions with increasing levels of insanity while clearly stating their doubts but never doing anything because Dutch is that lovely dictator nobody wants to be disloyal to. I think it's proof that even this smaller scale story has serious problems, the upcoming tragic end is inevitable in any player's head before some redneck coughs on Arthur. And we as a player don't even care about the gang. Some cool characters there, you are clearly meant to sympathize with, but overall you know most of them will die and don't even care because uuuhhh look at how conflicted and deep a character Arthur is.
Got my son a 360 at launch and the fucking red ring made me hate it. My first console was a pong only console. It did have 4 versions of pong even double paddle! Online and multiplayer anything is great for knuckle dragging mouth breathers. Fps fans basically
