This game is great making me feel disgusted yet sorry for the villains. These people are clearly hyper disturbed, and instead of getting the help they need, they're enabled in their violent tendencies. Hell, wouldn't surprise me if a Reagent fucking loses it and becomes a Prime Asset themselves. I only recently got into the Outlast Trials' lore, but it is absolutely fascinating.
What's also crazy is him saying Weirnicke has charismatic eyes and him talking about how the barrels of Lupara are like charismatic eyes. There's also more references to him having an odd attraction to Wernicke.
Nice video Red Barrels for this game really made an hell of a work. On the surface it's a cheesy cooperative horror title with all the cliches of the genre, but if go deeper on the story the game really shines: government conspiracies, brainwashing, societal control, Jung's collective unconscious etc... I really wonder what the Skinner Man is: we know that this entity already appeared in 1954 when Easterman interrogated former US prisoners in Korea, so i dont think it's only a projection of him made by the reagents. So what the hell is it? Some kind of paranormal entity which is influencing everyone, even the mysterious Board of directors of Murkoff? Or it a manifestation present in the collective unconscious And if Murkoff's goal is total societal control by infiltrating brainwashed reagents in society, not only in the form of assassins but as sleeper agents in position of power, how much they have infiltrated society from 1960 up until nowadays? Can't wait for more lore
@@animeshaggy4333 i don't think so. The Walrider manifested for a brief moment during WW2 when Wernicke was still working for the nazis, so he already what was his goal. He simply used his reagents to further his experimentation if i'm correct The two are somehow connected, but i don't get how
Everything about Franco is violently revolting: his sadism, his almost chunky, vomit-like choice of drink and worst of all, the fact that he sawed off the fore-end and barrel yet kept the full stock of his shotgun.
Franco reminds me of charecters played by Joe Pesci in good fellas and casino, the two characters have a lot in common both being mobsters with a history of violence, do I think Franco hate for his father and weird obsessions is mainly do to parental neglect, never meeting his mother and combine living in a highly violent and ruthless world, his first hit was very likely Franco attempt to impress his father which worked. I am a bit concern that Franco might attempt escape, since it very clear he a lot smarter and a little bit sane then the other prime assets, he has a access to dangerous chemicals and can make his own buckshot ammunition for goodness sake, you think a man with a history of violence and organising raids in Cuba could cook something up, the only reason he doesn't leave is due to the fact he has a lot of freedom in the area it only a matter of time before he gets bored, and with eastermen obsession with Franco gun, I will find it highly funny that Franco actually escapes and hold easterman hostage in the end do that would be unlikely in the end Franco is quite literally one of the trials most interesting characters and I do hope they expand more on the prime assets and see what happens next.
@@jonathanwatson4484 I think most people know what you mean I just thought it was funny that someone may read it one day and think Joe Pesci is homicidal manic in between his roles in home alone 2 an Casino 😂
I've said it before in other theory videos and first time playthroughs of the the first Outlast game, but there is very much a Lovecraft or cosmic horror feel to this series. Murkoff is and has been playing around with things far beyond their understanding. One side for mind controlling the public/having effective sleeper cells, the other wanting to escape the limitations of his failing body for his mind. They're dabbling in the occult either intentionally or accidently through sheer madness (and the human mind being more powerful than we are aware of, which is not a new trend, but not played around with enough), but it's not all just brainwashing and chemicals that's having people go insane and see things is all I'm saying as a theory. Could go deeper like the Spider Eyed Lamb sleeper cell could sounding like Shub Niggurath, Mount Massive Asylum being built on top and inside a mountain that's hiding SOMETHING like Lovecraft's tale "Mountain of Madness," mentions of Dream Therapy and dreams in Lovecraft's work also being related to other dimensions etc.
@@JackkaPakka Easterman clearly look more unhinged in the project lupara trailer, hair loss due to the radiation of the thallium in his pocket etc, do you guys think he's going to be a physical threat in the future ? Fascinating character for sure
@@terminator9489 What isn’t? I think you misunderstand the what “Charisma” means. Literally means a very BIG personality, not pun intended. Franco has that in spades. Every prime asset is that maybe minus the big guy. Forgot his story, but he might as just as charismatic in his own way.
@@HonkHonkler because in a document he stated something along the line of "I want people capable of turning a crowd crazy" How can coyle, gooseberry (however you write it) and franco supposed to to that ?
@@terminator9489 Yeah you said it right there, "CRAZY crowd." That's partly Murkoff's goal remember? Mass brainwashing. The prime assets can 100% control a crazy crowd through fear and intimidation and eccentric personality. Also if it sounds nonsensical, it because I think the WHOLE Outlast series from the first game had a subtle Lovecraft/Cosmic Horror theming if you notice it. So I think their attempts to brainwash the public has unlock or attracted a cosmic madness to the corporations and is subtly warping their intents without them knowing. Mainly Easterman for example. I think his gun sucking (lol) is not just a product of being poisoned. SOMETHING is happening to him due to all these experiments and prime assets. Like a shared growing madness in him and involving the Skinner Man.
@@LookItsTheCheeseBunger bare bones? Did you watch the video? Lol. Literally came out of a fat woman’s stomach he cut open coming out crying like a fucking new born lol. HUUUUH? lol. Sir, do you know good writing? Lol.
eh, I think him being a mobster with mommy fetishes is good enough for simplicity. I would say even Coyle isn't much that deep either considering he's just a corrupt cop with electricity fetish.
My only issue with him is actuly the style of his gun, if it was his grandads and dads it would more likely to be a side-by-side Hammer gun rather than a over-and-under. While the first over-and-under that was commercially viable was made in the early 1920's from Browning, the earliest one iv seen made was 1909 from Boss & Co, they where considered bespoke items. Lupes tended to be cheaper guns that Italian/Sicilian farmers had to hand as they where mostly of the side-by-side configuration as they where cheaper. But will not take it away form the fact he's a scary new addition to the game
Dude who ever wrote the comic for Barbi definitely has a screw loose in the right place. An extremely disturbing character all around; good job to whoever wrote them. Also what's up with Easterman and the gun? Like bro I can't imagine the meeting room when someone pitched that idea xD
Just got to say I've seen a few other people's take on the batshit crazy characters from the Outlast Trials... and with that I really enjoyed your lore discussion on Bambino.. the psychology of this game it's just fascinating to me....this game feels very real to me lol tbh these experiments would not be hard to create in real life.... in my head I'm like "you know what? there's probably a few governments doing this as we speak lol" like the makers of this game found declassified files.... the boat actually needing to be in the water to represent a womb.... absolutely insane but kind of brilliant lol... You produce some really good quality content sir.. credit to you and your channel...
Well....this game does intertwine with real life events. MKUltra really happened and with the Cuban crisis. Even the time lines are arcuate. Today we have Blackwater which is private agency of former CIA and military, they take on projects our government can't. They are like the escape goat for messy jobs.
Is there an in-game or lore explanation for why the Prime Assets don’t attack each other? They all have differing levels of sanity and self awareness, so I don’t know if they don’t attack each other out of fear of consequences from Murkhoff, or if they have some kind of level of respect for each other? (outside of them trash talking).
@@varicosevaynes I think mutual respect. First off I think there’s always been an (and is) cosmic horror/Lovecraft influence in the series. So my theory is there’s a general unaware cosmic brainwashed (subtly) behavior happening with Murkoff and everyone they traumatize or recruit. So there’s that and the Prime Assets fight back, the X-Pops don’t. They risk trying to take out someone who WILL fight back to the death and they mostly BOTH die in that fight. So unless they literally have no other choice, unleash their anger on the X-Pops.
@@HonkHonklerthat seems to make the most sense. I also sort of assume there’s some sort of solidarity between subjects; like maybe not a full-blown kinship, but at the very least a shared mutual understanding and sympathy that they’re all essentially in the exact same hopeless position. The most they can hope to do is behave and not make their forced stay with Murkhoff more needlessly agonizing than it already is. Also I forget is this before the invention of the morphogenic engine or has that already happened even as far back as the 50s?
@@varicosevaynes Before it. The engine was later and when they're offically finished this Trials's stor/lore, we're gonna see something BIG happen that leads to the creation of the engine. Like the trails are more of an unaware sacrificial ritual that will lead to MAYBE a mental cosmic horror Ascension of Easterman into the Skinner Man or just something to that effect. And it draws the attention of the former Nazi scientist in the first game (forgot his names) who's body is failing him, to find some other way through his mind to escape the limitations of his body. So the Engine and using ALREADY mentally ill people as subjects instead of MAKING them (which is also what the trials is partly doing to the Ex-Pops, traumatizing them), then testing them on the engine. All fail until Billy in creating the Wallrider, which I think is some Skinner Man cosmic horror level ascension that's trying to be reached. Basically starting off as a sort of MK Ultra to better mind control the American public, PARTLY failing (because I think personally it's more attracting something they shouldn't through the power of the human mind being pushed to it's limits), but accidentally succeeding in something else they didn't plan. The mind control is scraped in favor of the new thing they discovered THROUGH the trials and power of madness. Why they move into an Asylum so they can deal with people already half way or fully in madness.
It hinted they use a mix of drugs and psycho therapy, franco see coyle as a corrupt cop, coyle see franco as a mafia informant, franco and gooseberry is self explanatory, coyle and gooseberry is more like a abusive relationship.
I have a feeling that the x pops or test subjects are going to break out of the trial areas and go on a rampage in the facility because dorris says that she was taking with some of the guards and they say Easterman is slowly losing control 🤔 but thats just a theory
I love playing this game with my friends but we're usually too busy screaming and flailing to truly understand the lore, so I very much enjoy videos like this.
@@GeorgeFontaine No, Thank you. Your work is inspiring and It acts as kindling for my creative thought. So sincerely, thank you for your hard work. Not sure many people put it that bluntly, but you deserve to hear it.
