An Annual Review of No Man's Sky 

Shammy nice to have you back. I wish I didn't work so I could watch the review -_-

Shammy Hope you’re doing okay, man! Glad to have you back!

you should defiantly take a break and review a good game, like A Hat in Time, or if you want a challenge, Hollow Knight!

christian toledo I was hoping for doki doki literature club

Didn't skip the ad, that's how much I love you hahahahaha! Take care, bye! 🍄💋🍄💋

_567 people found this review funny_

I would like this comment, but you have 420 likes. Nioce

1600 people found this review useful.

i was the 826th like :)

I want to like this comment, but the balance must not be disturbed.

Turtles all the way down

I thought it was turtles

@@dipzoid8596 it's a play on that

@@dipzoid8596 in his first review of this game he joked that the dev is fully staffed by giraffes, he adapted the expression as a reference to that

I've used the phrase "fuckin' microwaved" more times than I should have

Aged like fine wine

Ohhh shit. lmao

I don’t think I’m getting the deeper meaning but yeah, chaz is a dogshit name

Wait what does that mean?

imma name my child chaz now.

Ga ga ha ha me toooo !!! Hoo hoooo !!! Look at 'is cute litol ears !!! Deir so floffyyyy !!!

Listening to a sarcastic world weary owl rail this games developers raw has to be the absolute BEST part of my weekend instant subscribe.

@@thechonkersking2647 he hasn't posted in a year, doubt he will but hopefully he does. His writing is amazing

@@cosmicwonderer6269 well you are in luck

wittle owl howd bibble so cute!~ I came for the funny ha ha cute tee hee owl but stayed for the bibble studies

I didn't even notice he said that XD

Burn!

And then he goes on for another 5 minutes complementing the game and its developers after attacking it for 35 minutes. This guy makes no sense.

Sun Tzu He's recognizing the fact that not everything's black and white, that there are redeemable aspects to this game. It's commendable for someone as fed up with the game as him.

Audric Sage Eh, people who don’t understand nuances hate them, since THEY’re so Black & White, by definition, huh ?

Writing on Games Gasp! Senpai noticed Shammy!

cant agree more

>.> you seem to be everywhere

The amount of effort he puts into these is frankly amazing. Like, when he takes a Polaroid, you can watch the picture slowly develop, and it's such a small detail that I bet most people didn't even notice it, and I don't doubt that it took a bunch of effort to do. So he put a bunch of effort into a tiny joke in a little square that most people won't even see just because of consistency and being funny. Damn, Shammy, you really ARE the man. Owl. Whatever.

Noah Boddie I think you mean Senpai noticed Writing on Games you reprehensible troglydite. I can't believe the nerve of this generation, how dare you... (Please don't lynch me)

nope it's me

@@heartache5742 And yet his Mother still watches his Video's. So the Point was still accurate.

and also his grandma

Also me, if you're not ignorant and count a trans girl.

@@LtSprinkulz Yep, i am, so go back to the boy corner

Really sad

Shame

I found this video and completely forgot to why i even wrote this Huh neat

@@Joey099 hah, I happened to stumble upon it again too, since a new Shammy upload always initiates a binge of all his videos. Did you happen to remember why you originally commented that? I also remember seeing it so I know why.

@@Mixu. i think because after the video came out people kept saying that he needs to make a new video about the game because it is good now He said on twitter after the video released yes i know and i won't That's what I remember at least but honestly when I stumbled upon the comment i didn't remember why i wrote it

Kawgrath won my respect

Don't forget he has other reviews on this same game. And I don't recall a single thing being repeated.

*the fact that he could talk about the game in a coherent manner is absolutely astonishing.

If we wanna get technical, he had over an hour of coherent, nonrepetitive thoughts on No Man's Sky

FILTHY ACTS AT A REASONABLE PRICE: ROMANCE RAILROAD wow he came up with more content playing this game than Hello Games did while making the fucking game

MandaloreGaming dad please, I miss you.

more like Men Galore Gayming amirite lol

You and Shammy are my new favorite ps4 and if either of you review a monster hunter game I would die

Hi there, Mad Dalore Gaming

MandaloreGaming I like to think you're either shammy's boyfriend, his dad or I guess his owner since he's an owl.

"16 times the detail..." - Todd Howard talking about Fallout76

I'm curious, did it happen the first time you were watching this video or a time you rewatched it?

@@georjayzt9465 I like how this comment implies everyone else also ritualistically rewatches Shammy videos

Thats synchronicity

mariochaosspear Im gonna try this thank u

Haha yes me too thanks

thank you

santiago gallego better notify us on how that turns out

santiago gallego I'm gonna leave a comment just to get notified about the results

Trim Prism Luckily I can. But I can’t hate a good video

Trim Prism welcome

But furries are gay

No u

No better smart ass

GiggaGMikeE *gun shot noise*

Pours a glass of jack daniel

dude, the game fucking sucks. just get over it.

Who the hell are you even replying to?

Im not sure he even knows.

MoiderahOfVideos I like the lore. Its pretty interesting, but I agree that its too clustered with abstract shit

thank

too bad Hello never improved their game that much, am I right lol?

56StormWolf nah

Is it wrong that I would be far more excited about Shammy's review, than the actual game? Lol

Jack Dennis It is? I zones out for a second in tfhe video where was this

36:22 the translation text

TheEMSEECOY. I dont know, tanked like Tiananmen Square was pretty good

that is fucking infuriating

Man, the amount of work that he put into, analyzing and theorizing all the religious meaning behind it, only for the mystery to be “duh the simulation had 16 seconds left to live and not it’s just etched into everywhere cuz it’s a glitch like that.” I would break down in tears if I were him in this case.

That's both sad and hilarious at the same time.

Where did this man go btw? I’d very much like more

One final kick in the balls, not only can you not have fun with the game play now you can't have fun with theorizing about the story

holy shit

I think it’s actually just an emo haircut

That seems pretty on point.

I don’t think he needs one

Four in shammy's case. Forgot alcohol

I mean Seems pretty shammy to me

Brendaniel daddy

Brendaddy*

Thatistheplan

Hi Chaz

i thought i recognized your voice at the end lmfao

NoriMori wait women play this game

The Looinrims wait women exist?

The Looinrims ¿

Sara the legends are true?

❗

Bonfire Keeper James I’ve literally just found his channel tonight. He reminded me of Schmolty which is a given because I’m pretty sure they’re friends. But I really enjoy the comedy and I hope he reviews the dark souls games, if he already has I haven’t seen them yet.

Same here, decided to finally watch this after being in my recommendations for few days and glad i did.

I litteraly got the flu and found this channel in the same day wow RU-vid works in mysterious ways

Shit just happened to me. I don't even play games like this anymore, but I was entertained all the way through just by listening to his analysis on it.

I just found this video in my recommended as well, and i absolutly love this channel. Liked and subbed. Also, i wonder why alot people are getting this recommened to them?

Fuck yes people who don't hate me

How can someone hate you? You represent yourself with OWLS. OWLS. Who in their right mind would hate OWLS? On a more serious note, thank you mate, you made me happy I fell for YT's algorithms for related videos and just clicked that thumbnail while not knowing what I was getting into. EDIT: I've just read your pinned comment, and I'm really sorry you had to go through IRL shit. I had to put down my cats in the past and it was so, so hard. I loved them like family and I got allergic to cats after that, which might be a coincidence, but I like to think it's not. Either way, keep it up, keep it at your pace, and try to enjoy what you do as much as possible, it usually goes through and reaches the audience :) Best of luck for future endeavors!

Don't worry Shammy some of your current/old subs like myself don't hate you either, though I'm sure hate subscribing is a thing because people are stupid and need reasons to wake up angry.

Thanks, your comment convinced me to keep watching the video

you got yourself another fan

Yeah he pretty much abandoned this channel

Dr rookie cookie in twitter he says he’s almost done with a new video, but a lot of things happened that got it delayed i think

he's back

I think we have to accept we only hear from Shammy once a year.

@@jamiekamihachi3135 not if you listen to the podcast

You mean. "Do what the fans demand of you".

Hehe.... the call is there. He knows what he must do. Answer the call of your people Shammy!!!

most outlets and sources who talk about nms-Next seem to forget that it was a literal scam, and now the poor hello games are the good guys because they are >fixing and expanding< half way to what they promised,.... after 2 years,.... i don't get it, the help forums are still full of problems and the core game play is STILL the same grind. but it seems the narrativ has shifted again and now we hear talk about evil "entitled" gamer again, . . . .

Radvaldur lol people act like creating a universe in a box is as easy as making a pizza. The shit requires time and refinement which they have been given and have done. With more time there will be more refinement. Will you still be butthurt when the next update releases?

He said he wont on twitter

they did a parade in there, very cool. i saw a tank fired blanks once and people got so immersed they started falling

ImPoppy And the haters who also hate the games call him a “shill” ? Fucking whatever...

Don't judge, it's art.

Your review is way more entertaining than the game itself. ...

seems like shammy got a cute video game analysis boy to like him after all...

Ray, didnt know you were a fan of people activly putting themselves through hell

Whos Downcevick?

It's funny because it's true

@@godlessgod096 why doe

@@musikalniyfanboichik So essentially, Joseph had done some questionable things in the past, especially regarding his attitude, and responses. Though I would like to state outwardly that Joseph is usually very fair in his assessment. Now, if you remember, he came out with a video on SOMA about three years ago. And in that video he basically conflates his own subjective feelings of him not being scared when playing the game with an objective standpoint, that point being that "SOMA isn't a horror game, because it's not scary". Then people in the comments disagreed with him somewhat (this is usually something that happens on most video essay videos that at first gain praise and likes, but over time people disagree with, even if it doesn't obviously show). It was clear to some that he only played through the game once, this is because several times in his critique he states that there are no choices for certain parts, when in fact there actually is, also showing that he didn’t know there were alternate paths in the game you could take instead, such as destroying or not destroying the WAU. Then he stated in that video, that he was gonna make another video to explain why horror games don't work, which is insane if you know anything about the complexity of the genre that would be quite difficult. Though I’m not saying it can’t be done, I’m just saying you're going to need about a few hours of thorough discussion to explore an immense genre. Then the new video came out, called "Why Horror Games Don't Scare Me", and it was only around thirteen minutes, which tells you immediately that the video was more of a lengthy Tweet, than anything substantial. During the video he says words that downgrade horror games as well, words like ‘spooky’, ‘startled’, or ‘creepy’. He also says a lot of nonsense words; y’know the type of words you read in a flashy vacation pamphlet or see online in Polygon articles, words like ‘really’, ‘genuinely’, ‘actually’, ‘trully’. He will conflait these words instead of being more specific, saying “Horror movies still scare me, sure it has to be above a certain level of camp and actually try to scare instead of startle-”. In the entirety of his video, it seems to be a more accurate assessment of why Joseph doesn't enjoy horror games, but seems to be fine with horror movies, and, to a lesser extent, horror books, which is the relative difference between effort and energy expended versus emotional investment across different media. It will take more effort and energy to actively absorb the atmosphere and connect to the characters of SOMA, and explore the environmental storytelling and internalize all of it whilst allowing yourself to be vulnerable to the dread than passively taking in the tension, and horror, in movies. You can engage on a deeper level (and like any well-made story, horror or not, it gets better when interacted with on that deeper level of understanding), and doing so requires more effort, but still less than interactive consumption of a game, at least on average. He approaches horror games the same way as he does movies, expecting the horror to work without anymore than a cursory effort on his part to make himself vulnerable to it. Overall Joseph’s arguments are vast oversimplifications, perpetrated in an attempt to mask his subjective stances as something more substantial, concrete, and objective without committing to any real objective claim. He simply doesn’t enjoy or understand horror games because of his arbitrary subjective reasons that he states are definitive, self-evident claims and declares them inherent failures of the genre. Despite the fact it’s never true, I think you and me both agree that just because you respawn in a horror game, that doesn’t always mean that the horror is diminished, part of the horror is being found, or chased; or on your wit’s end with nowhere left to hide. Being killed is not the horror, it’s the dread leading up to the scary reality that is failure, and the subsequent triumph. After this video he responds again, making a video called “Subjectivity Is Implied”, where he fundamentally mixes that implications of subjectivity in both conversation (say after watching a movie and sharing your thoughts, for example: “I thought that was really bad”, which isn’t outwardly stating something like “That was really poorly crafted.”) and “in the basics of communication.”. If you also can’t tell that’s a quite bold and condescending take, especially from him of all people, again he is stating that if you don’t understand it’s subjective (which subjectivity isn’t always implied in a conversation so simply, it’s dependant on word usage, as stated before about the two separate statements) then you also don’t understand the basics of communication. With this claim he puts all the blame from himself, onto his audience. He also says that “you wouldn’t want that if you fully understood what the result would be.” when talking about the fairness of comparing real life conversations versus scripted videos, glaring past the point that in his previous video his failure to communicate properly about how he felt, and what objectively is, subsequently blurred the line because of his naivety to understand his poor script writing. He also brings up multitudes of comments while making strawman and funny accents to mock the commenters from his video. He also states “if your desire is a video of only objective facts then you are looking for a dry list of mechanics, and low level terminology.” this is so wrong on so many levels, when people like Ahoy, E;R, Shadiversity, SsethTzeentach, History Buffs, Inigo Gaming, Matthewmatosis, Vsauce, Internet Historian, or CrowbCat alike make videos on Gaming, Science, Movies, and Comics they can still make their objective standpoints on certain mechanics, information, history, and ‘terminology’ extensively fun on unimaginable lengths, some push their content to being more open commentary freeform explanations, most make edutainment, and some also attempt to explain why something might or might not function while also trying to be funny at it. All of these people express their objective facts with certain amounts of interest/comedy without always just stating what they feel. If you can’t tell most if not all of the people I’ve referenced are freakin far and away from being “dry” as he so condescendingly puts it. Again, people can mix their objective facts and subjective opinions, actually that’s what most people do on most sites in order to express something to a wider audience. Presenting facts, data, and research, then offering a conclusion based on how they might have felt on it, or a natural conclusion based on a particular standpoint or prerequisite. He also stated that “No opinion is truly worthless.”, which for one, again he’s using awful word usage like ‘truly’ again, truly worthless? What does that mean? And two, if my opinion is that eels are just electric bananas then yeah, my opinion is pretty fucking meaningless. It’s asinine to assume that an opinion can’t be ‘worthless’, especially because analyzing the worth of an opinion anyway is subjective in nature! Overall his tone is outwardly antagonistic and blatantly ignorant towards what people are actually saying, with broad generalizations of people’s comments on the previous video. Coming off as more dismissive than understanding. Outwardly stating that it’s up to the viewer to tell whether an opinion is subjective or objective without actually changing his language or word usage to help said people but instead making fun of them. He thinks people want him to preface his statements by saying ‘in my opinion’, but in reality it’s not what people are saying, nor is it what people are asking for. He shows an example of the uselessness of this word usage anyway though, but uses it incorrectly at the 7:30 point, you don’t need to say, “in my experience” because it’s redundant, you just need a small qualifier, like ‘I think’. He also uses the phrase “in my opinion”, in the sentence “In my opinion this would lead to unnecessary clutter when writing and recording scripts for videos.” He’s failed to realise that this statement is objective, not subjective, you don’t need to say “in my opinion this would lead to unnecessary clutter” it does, objectively. Because these are wrongly incorporated words squished in between objective statements that don’t need them, you ham sandwich. The point I’m getting at is that you could make your language even more swift with proper word usage, but he isn’t willing. The part of being a writer is being creative with your word usage other than just saying “in my opinion”, if you think you can’t go any further than that, then you are sorely mistaken. tldr: If you want a more comprehensive deep-dive on (even more) issues, then I would suggest the videos EFAP did on them. The podcast breaks everything down pretty perfectly, so if you have any other questions or quarrels go there, or ask me I guess. Response to “Why Horror Games Don’t Scare Me”: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VGEhz9J9D5k.html&ab_channel=MooLer Response to “Subjectivity Is Implied”: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-D_dGhYwlFCc.html&ab_channel=MooLerMooLer

@@godlessgod096 holy shit, did you wrote this? thanks. going to read this one real quick. upd: you made some good points. i don't watch Joseph vids anymore (haven't in a while) and i don't remember if i even watched the soma one.

@@musikalniyfanboichik His guilty error was a rabbit hole to be sure, thank you for reading.

What's up, doc?

We only get one video by Mr. Owl a year.

@@cordia96 and I'd rather it not he another no man's sky review lmao. Even if it would be interesting to hear his thoughts on it post... everything I would much rather him cover something more interesting for both me and him

Matt DuGuay if you like vids like this, definitely check out Joseph Anderson. He does fantastic long form, in-depth critiques like Shammy

Well normally I am not a fan of long form. I need to enjoy the personality of the reviewer or no form will be enjoyable. I love Shammy's style and sense of humor, so I enjoy his content. Just because Joseph Anderson does long form doesn't mean his style will mesh with me.

Just came here to check if he's getting harassed about it :)

Anthony Tomanelli *shame theory

Why is there a catt on my screen

Frans Jacob why is there a ship thing on my screen?

Frans Jacob why does it look like you

Frans Jacob you have a point

blobasuarus- rex Is it sharp

as a Chinese myself, damn i feel bad for laughing like a complete maniac ...proceed to ROFL

"Tank like Tiananmen Square." Meanwhile, in China... "此内容在您的国家不可用

What are you talking about? Protestors left willingly after minor persuasion by the Chinese government. There were no tanks, police brutality, or even outrage!

are you saying that a tank was spotted in tiananmen square?

A17 GaminG I waited 1600 hours for the ending of no man's sky... I'm still waiting...

well said.

jamavo Wait, that isn't how recieved is spelled? Shit.

Man Spore has alot of fundamental problems, but at least it did something truly interesting. Maxis could still be seen in that game, if only just a little bit. NMS is just a culimination of all these crafting survival games and the problems they all have in 1 overpriced package.

Planken "and owls"

And owls

Sorry, but fuck you! 😐

Guardian: did they include the cooking module where you can chop vegetables and go fishing?