Oh man you reminded me of some random bluescreen or some random hang I've got when playing single player games where you can only save in a predetermined places Kind of a nightmare if you ask me
What's funniest is that at a first glance this game looks like it was made in Unreal, which is an engine known for crashing every 10 minutes (i'd know, I use this thing almost daily) Granted, this game is made in Unity, which is not much better. Unity tends to crash more on the developer's side though.
@@FlooferLand idk where you get these statistics from, im playing games on both engines pretty often but i dont recall the last time i ever experienced a game crash, maybe recent AAA games have that tendency to crash but id rather just avoid buying them until they get a hundred patches in 2 years
Spoiler (i guess): When you're at a train station, the trains usually get announced "Destination A ➡ Destination B" When you manage to get on the train at the end of BABBDI the announcement goes "BABBDI ➡ BABBDI" You *cannot* leave 😳
46:47 Spanish speaker here, I thought it was cool to translate what the npc said, so here it is: "Gamba and the little one from my home are on vacation here at Babbdi" "I don't know when I'll be able to return to my home, but for the moment I like Babbdi" "Is very special (Babbdi)" "Are you crazy" "I like this music" "My father passed away..." "José Padilla... " (The name of His father)
there's so much potential in a spooky but calming/horror game about urban exploration, this and the long drive so far are the only ones I could find so far
there's infested buildings, abandoned freighters in space, and straight up creepy planets on No Man's Sky so there's that. Obviously, not all planets are that creepy. You can make your home base on a marshy one, build an exocraft to drive across the surface, and explore to hell and back.
The sewer oil thing is actually a real practice thats common in china. They call it gutter oil. People are payed to skim oil from grease traps, gutters and even from pots of broth that people just ate from so that it can be taken to a facility that makes the oil look clear and its then resold
Honestly i love how subversive this game is. Its not horror, its comforting. Unpolished and unsettling, yes. But not horror. Falling won't kill you. You can go anywhere you want. There's no urgency. You can take your time. Everything is okay.
30:41 you sneezing in real life right when you walked into the flies ingame was so perfect also, fun fact: the hole at 36:26 is called a bellmouth spillway, they exist in real life
exploring the entire map (and I mean everything) and getting all achievments took me 2.5 hours, it feels like such a short map and yet its so much bigger than big maps
Between the surreal atmosphere and the creaking, Banjo Kazooie-esque grunting NPCs make as they speak, this game reminds me of another freeware exploration game, Juice Galaxy, that I think would be a great fit for the channel.
What we think of the Eastern bloc, looking back after 50 years anyway. Same concept as thinking back to the US 1950s is a lot different than how it felt to live there at the time.
@@domenik8339 Eh, it did kinda feel like it back then. The dystopian part wasn't that bad but there definitely were taboo topics. And the whimsical? Both a mix of absurds resulting from working around rigid bureaucracy and various spontaneous acts of randomness as means to baffle powers-that-be and make life more colorful. Like, serious 'underground' would paint anti-communist slogans at night, police would come and paint them over leaving big white rectangles on buildings at random, then Orange Initiative would step in and paint orange gnomes on these rectangles.
you should try Lets Find Larry, its made by the same person who made Night of the Consumers. its about 30 minutes long. its like where's waldo if waldo resented the fact you were following him. the music is fun, too
the man speaking spanish at 46:50 translates to this: "gamba and the little one from my house are on vacation here in babbdi" "I don't know when I will be able to return home but for the moment I like babbdi" "it's very special" "you're crazy? (or) are you crazy?" "I like music" "my father died..." (last one is just a name obv)
played Peripeteia and this game for the fist time, the same night... the moment i realized, in both games, the real size of the map, and the freedom of exploration... it blew my mind... im still recovering from that...
46:52 What I managed to translate is: "Gamba and the little girl from my house are on vacation here but babbled." 47:02 "I don't know when I'll be able to return home but for the moment I like Babbdi." 47:03 "It's very special." 47:05 "You're crazy?" 47:07 "I like music." 47:09 "My father died." 47:11 "Jose Padillas..."
Oh shit somebody suggested this one to me but I haven't gotten around to playing it, sweet! :D Now we need some Connor Sherlock games lol. EDIT: "Get in loser, we're escapin' Babbdi" is one of my favorite quotes now
This game is so good, I want more but also I feel like it’s a perfect length, it feels AI generated but not the modern idea of that, but the old school 2018-2021 ai art generators, where you’d put something funny in and get something uncanny and funny back instead of a scarily convincing image
You might check out Eldritch Reanimated; it's a voxel-based roguelike that desperately wants to be a Lovecraftian stealth game, and gives me a lot of the same vibes as this game.
Having you mention Fallout is awesome. I love exploring the map of FO4 just for the creepy buy comfy feeling. If you downloaded a mod to remove all NPCs and enemies it would be a truly haunting experience exploring
this game is great, after like the first half hour of playing the environment felt super heavy. Like i had a feeling that i needed to escape before something bad happened or something😂 it was super oppressing and depressing, great stuff.
Such a bizarre game. Yet I'm compelled to watch and keep watching. 👍🏼😀 Don't know why, but I'm reminded of a movie called Brazil with Jonathan Price and Robert De Niro from about '86 or '87. Weird.
For some reason this game reminds me of another game im a big fan of called Northern Journey. You should give it a look, its a longer game so not one you could finish in a single video but it might still be nice to see what you think of the first bit of it. Or maybe even a series if we're lucky
I read Spanish ok but didn't have time to get it all. Dancing Dude was saying that they were on vacation in Babbdi but weren't sure when they could get back home, that it's very special, and at one point he asked if you were crazy (estas loco?)
I'm curious if the title is _supposed_ to say something sensical. Given the quirks of the menu text, we could assume that there's at least 1 extra letter in BABBDI somewhere (probably an extra B), and that the i at the end is supposed to be somewhere else in the word. Babid? Baibd? Bidab? I dunno.
this is the kind of game a person stuck in purgatory, that somehow got access to a PC with a game engine, would make for himself, to kill some time out of their eternity
Honestly it feels like a weird obscure take on establishments like china or the soviet union. Abstract representation. The chinese symbols. The music....in such a depressed place. An broad exaggeration. And well. The sewer oil.
I've never watched one of your videos before. It's actually kind of painful, as it's reminiscent of the way I spoke through middle and high school, before vernacular was crushed into it. Forcefully. You shied away from a couple of the more protracted-looking puzzles (assuming you recognized them, fun point of the game), but I appreciated the commentary and thoughtful look at this eastern bloc... dystopia? There's something that loves this brutalist architecture - in its own ironic way - underlying all of this, and celebrates it, and that is beautiful. Fairly sure you undermined the concept by going for the achievements so single-mindedly... but that's part of it, too, and I have no idea how much exploration you undertook off-camera. (edit) sorry, screw this site and its "copyright" kowtowing. Google is single-handedly sinking the concept of fair use. Current supreme court and general climate... I guess that's small potatoes.
this place reminds me of Crucible in the Shivering Isles. definitely kept thinking of that guy who really REALLY wants you to kill him, because i always chose to push him off the ledge. i think one of the Dark Seducers makes a remarkk about how they need to put up a guardrail or something, or maybe i'm insane.
