Gone Home Expleened 

No it isn't. My sister is a soccer lesbian, not a flannel lesbian, thank you very much.

And just like this game, nothing really happens,

@@koenvandamme6901 Better option if you had to choose, honestly.

@@koenvandamme6901 Are you familiar with the Muslim traditional response to such a circumstance?

Yeah, only more boring and predictable, like watching VHS reruns of the A-Team.

*"You call that good programming!?! Show your faces you talentless hacks!!"* ~UrinatingTree on the Sega Genesis port of _Dark Castle_

Much like how you can win _Facade_ by saying _absolutely nothing_ and letting the insufferable cheating hipsters talk out their problems on their own.

@@TheEmperorHyperion Holy shit, a Urinating Tree reference? What a throwback

Lol

Are there other endings? Or does she turn out to be gay in all of them? Such a twist, didn't see it coming, reevaluated my opinion of homosexuals.

I mean. Very first time Sherlock appears in the books he's experimenting with chemicals. Of course he did drugs, we know how those chemists are

When I read that in the original novels I literally sat the book down and just. Absorbed that fact.

In the novels it actually rarely comes up and Watson is always telling Holmes how terrible it is. So it is neither a regular occurancs or normalized, it's more of a vehicle to characterize Holmes as a person who constantly need stimulation.

To be honest, it was news to me. I always thought Sherlock only did Heroin.

@@SpikeRosered It was more a way for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to get people to not like Holmes, since he absolutely loathed the character. Kind of nice that a later story has Watson reacting with horror when he sees Holmes with a syringe, with the narrative stating that he had helped Holmes get clean. In the story, Holmes had used the syringe in the process of solving the case, not for doing drugs, so it was all good.

Imagine you spend money on a game and get it's real ending within 4 minutes.

I’m glad Adum has touched many people with his gaming channel. I have followed him for years and popped in occasionally on YMS. I had no idea he had other channels and almost found him by accident when searching for a Pokémon Crystal playthrough. I didn’t think much of the channel name or cared about the thumbnail so I skipped it. I found him a few months later when I popped in and wanted more of Adum and crew.

Gone Home speedrun any%

Adum already knew the speedrun path, but it's still a funny video and a good summary of the game

That's realism for ya.

It's set in Oregon though, and that's par for the course here. Of course, so is being Lesbian. It all comes down to the chemicals inside new Subarus.

i thought it was the pink hair

And bpd

woman in flannel is a lesbian, man in flannel is a logger or lives on a compound and hates the federal government.

Me, I did that. I thought it was funny.

Honestly, I didn’t know much besides it was free on ps plus and played by every 2013-2014 RU-vidr.

Remember playing it about 10 years ago, it genuinely pissed me, not sure what’s worse, this or life is strange.

​@@D44RK_Iced_Yogs Nope, you had to pay for this 30 min long game

@@DouglasQuaid999 Yeah I get that, it was free for PS Plus. I have it in my library for a reason lol- whoever paid 30$ definitely got robbed imo. That’s also why so many played it, RU-vidrs for a bit played many PS Plus games. That’s how I managed to get my hands on many games I enjoy now. Side note, because of Jacksepticeye I got Binding of Isaac from PS Plus and it is in my top 10 in gaming.

That’s something that just hit me. The narrative is set up with the intention of the house’s abandonment being quite some time ago, but then boils down to the house simply being vacant for over a week? It feels less like the house has been lived in, and more like the house has been newly moved into (Idk if that was the intention). It really makes a lot of the events feel like they happened way faster than implied. Like the father having a failed book series that led to an alcohol addiction, and the wife cheating with someone else (as well as Sam and her parent’s relationship that led to her running away). Also doesn’t help that you can beat the game in under a minute (which they have an achievement specifically for), as the final room can be accessed from the start if you’re fast enough.

This game is the equivalent of those oscar-bait movies that inevitably get made every year. As an idea, and from the exterior it seems cool and like it should be interesting, but once you go through it you realize it’s a giant nothing burger that tries to distract you from the fact that it’s actually really boring.

Well it surely subverted my expectations but that isnt as good of a thing as some writers think it is. I thought it was a murder mystery or maybe a horror game but its just alone at home: nothing happens.

not a bad idea

Considering gf gave her one of the worst and hardest drug habits to quit you might be onto something

This came out a decade ago.

Yeah, but then gay people bad, and we can't have that.

Make the only voicemail there hers, make the twist that she ran away that...week? Night? And thats why no one is there. Add an attempted suicide pact, but gf just wanted to watch her kill herself

My sides

15:28 so I can go back and laugh for the next while.

i've been in denial all my life that's why i am half lebanese...

Denial in Lebanon?? That's bologna!

It’s a reference from another show

I can't believe she even took the twitter account, absolutely heartless.

Link?

@@SaintofQuartz your name is Watson, you should be supplying US with the link detective

@@foxbuns That's Doctor, not detective.

Dude reviews hentai now, so the wife made the right decision.

There is one bit of extremely superficial supernatural stuff close to the end, in one of the secret compartments there is a ouija board and apparently Sam and her GF played with it and the ghost of Uncle Oscar told them he wanted to get out. And that's it, that's all, it doesn't matter, in the game's "message" it matters less than finding a riot grrl zine with a "smash the patriarchy" cover, which serve no actual purpose, or maybe is a "powerful" subtext about how poor Sam is oppressed by her heteronormative bigoted parents. Or something, frankly your guess is as good as mine, I just remember wasting about half an hour walking around hoping for more interactivity than doors and light switches, only to conclude that indeed this was just a waste of both coding resources, time and computer power.

She never went to basic. Until you swear in the second time, you can back out. Doesn’t change that it’s pointless, but at least she didn’t become a fugitive and ruin her life over a girl, i guess….?

@@xeo4295 Doesn't she get dishonorably discharged then? Thats pretty bad as it can ruin you in getting a job.

​@@Web720after getting arrested

⁠@@Web720 nah, she can’t be “discharged” until she’s actually in the military. Until you’re physically at basic training and sworn in, you aren’t *actually* part of the military. Since she ran off before then, they just cross her off a list, essentially. Her recruiter would probably be pissed, but they can’t really do anything about it.

Or he gave it a 5/5 because he's the real life version of Terry.

Excellent deduction Frozensolid 🧐

Chillingly plausible.

Little did she know the review was just a rant about his marriage and didn't mention Gone Home at all.

Tbh that "I had a dream, too" joke was so perfect I was impressed

Flawless. If it happened in Mortal Kombat Sub-Zero would finish you with a spine jank!

Thats pretty much everyones experience with the game.

Demolition D... sip*... I haven't heard that name in quite a long time.

That's the worst part for me. It's boring yes, but the fact that right up until the end of the game they misdirect you into the thinking something, anything, is going to happen. This was an anti-game, and anyone that liked it either has series sunk cost fallacy going on, or they hate video games.

@@Therealmadkong He's literally streaming right now. He's been streaming this whole time.

Dude I was trippin on shrooms and played this game when it was free on the PS store. Kept waiting for the scary part and it never came, tripped me out lol

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I'm just amazed the queen can even find time these days, she seems like she's a bit busy

That's why I've subbed to Mark & The Gang and I comment and like all videos. These are self employeed business-people doing their best to establish themselves as creators. The Queen especially, poor lady

Are you allowed to post RU-vid links? You want them to have more eyes on their stuff but I don't see any links.

Markfhulu

I know right? Its the biggest "mistery" of the game and it doesnt even feel relevant.

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It was so random too 😂 " to understand why I like this game, let me explain how my wife left me " bro what?😂😂

It's literally what the game calls out the dad for doing with his electronic reviews, and I bet the irony went over everyone's head.

Plot twist, all of the games reviews were written by Terry. That's why they're all positive.

@@pentherapy you are the ONLY person who noticed. Congratulations, it must be hard being the number one detective over at the precinct for exceptional detectives, of which you are lead detective.

Ruined your 69 likes. You’re welcome. =)

@@ArDeeMee dumbass

Critic scores are absolutely worthless. Always go with audience score and read some to make sure they are real people and not bot people or bot bots.

Better yet, he was found tied to a tree with an electrical cable, riddled with bullets, having "self-game overed". 🤔

Sounds thrilling

Only to find his corpse somewhere because _he was absolutely right,_ and the Feds disappeared him?

It would've been better if it didn't have a terrible art style and wasn't degenerate propaganda.

Would it really be a thriller or more "chasing the elderly through the country to make them pay alimony"

explain pls

Lesbian

@@MagnumGreenPanther lebanese

@@needabettername1559 Doc Martens are issued to all Lebanese citizens as a rite of passage

I hear that, I wore flannel and docs in 1995... but I'm not lebanese though, just gay

Yup

I didn't know this game was controversial

​@@blacksuite1 you must have a lot of acess to grass then.

@@blacksuite1 Oh yeah. This was the first time the term "walking simulator" was used to label a game on steam. And the game journos didn't like that at all and took it upon themselves to defend the game with any means necessary. Calling people the now usual names (troll, bigot, etc...), writing articles and so on. This was one of the first cases where you could clearly see the divide between the people who play video games and the people who review them.

@@blacksuite1 imagine if every single food review journalism site told you about a new hot n coming cake shop that made the best cakes ever, like straight 10/10s by every single website you can find but when you go in to buy one, it's actually just literal shit on a plate, and every single one of the journalists defended it with "it's commenting on the good taste of cake by being shit and also actually the person who runs the shop has like a really tragic life story that they wanted to express through the cake, you really gotta emotionally invest yourself" that's what Gone Home was in 2013 (hyperbolically, obviously)

@@Hegataro wow that's crazy, I never heard of this game or the drama.

I mean, you play as a woman and most/all are NPCs so... Yeah, you're correct

​@@DanArnets1492 I found an incel in the wild!

"When did I become the boring one?! Damn my cool Lebanese sister!" But seriously, how is this a game, it's literally just about a paranoid girl who knows nothing about her family

Truly one of the games of all time. This got nominated as "Best Narrative in 2013 and I think IGN or some gaming news gave it GOTY."

@@kokomole2137 .they are obviously lebanese, so their opinion doesnt count

Take heart, some people have to learn that lesson from a $70 game

@@MrSubejio Haha, yeah. 76ers we call them.

Hope you dropped that loser

@@RoosterFloyd I have preordered 2 games. Diablo 2. And... Colonial Marines. I learnt my lesson.

@@oz_jones I can do you one better. Last games I preordered was Rogue Warrior and Shellshock 2... Man.. Shellshock 1 was awesome, what the hell.

Good.

Shame they couldnt make another bland 2 hr game to convey that one sentence of information, and charge 30 quid for it

Yeah, even if they made progress in fixing their relationship, I imagine having their daughter run away would be more stress than they could handle. Sam probably just destroyed the marriage they were making efforts to repair.

Since she never even got to basic, they probably just kick her out with a general discharge and now she has to explain that on every job application she files for the rest of her life.

The good ending

You really don't understand how the medium of video games makes this different. Being non-sequential and using the environment is different from what a novel or comic would convey. It's like the people saying Dark Souls doesn't have a story just because there isn't a ton of cutscenes with excessive exposition telling you directly what is happening.

@@Mordalonstop coping, this barely qualifies as a video game. I’ve played with happy meal toys that are more engaging than this (as a child, way back when they had those little sonic handheld games; loved those things)

People were flabbergastung because it had misleading advertising and marketed itself as an indie horror game, when in reality literally all there was to the plot was the lebanese twist.

Truly it was the stunningest of braves.

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@@ergwertgesrthehwehwejwe Maybe people on 4/8chan, and the then newcoming "Anti-SJW" e-celebs, but the Tumblr side of the internet very much adored this game, literally for Lebanese part, and i say this without any shred of irony. It was unironically the only thing it had going for it, back when having several butt seggs enjoyers in every single Westoid game wasn't completely mandatory.

Or that the Lebanese from the army had gone mad and had killed everyone when she returned

@@DanArnets1492 That only happens after she "transitions". Than she offs herself.

realized she couldn't have her pink hair in the army and ran away lmao

​@@Marssnowable She should try again now 😂

Alternatively, she was willing to go, but then they told her she is going to Fort Polk

Sorry.....daddy still can't find his milk

but the mother was the one getting the milk and cigs this time.

His wife doesn't miss him, though (and that's so righteous and powerful. SLAY KWEEN!)

More like Gone Homo, amirite??

"...so I can poison you after I've guaranteed you left me something nice in your will... Oops, did I say that out loud?"

I mean a lot of people are AFRAID of gay people for some weird reason so I BET a bunch of conservatives got jumpscared by it

the horror is that you paid 30 dollars for it

@@javsandarts eghhhhhhhhhhh keep politics with politics this is just a terrible game

​@@alexzoo6857 lol, ok snowflake

@@javsandarts the fact that you deleted your comment shows how fragile you are

*sholmes

Me too!! I was looking thru the comments to see who else noticed

It’s the Lebanese Nationals controlling the video game media.

Well at least now that he's not a loser his wife will stop cheating on him... he writes in his journal as he cries waiting for her to get home from her obvious date with her boyfriend

Yea it's nice he has something to love for

​@@skeetsmcgrew3282her boyfriend got married the week we got back. That river is dry

Yeah but they don't care because they'd rather complain about how this game doesn't have any action in it ┐⁠(⁠ ⁠˘⁠_⁠˘⁠)⁠┌ they really breezed over Terry's stuff which is really some of the most interesting things in the game. He's obsessed with JFK because he was molested by his uncle for the first time on the same day

"Yes indeed, why do anything new at all, ever?" - some fucking moron

Because if it was a film or comic book it would have been called bad, but video game journos and gamers have lower standards.

@@fruiteusfly5307 Shit... You're right. xD

Why can't video games be diverse? Gone Home came early but we got games like the Witness later on. That could have just been a crossword book. It's funny people still get bent out of shape over this game with tons of other games have done the same thing since then and even before. The game is fine and the story is fine, it's literally only infamous because it has gay characters.

@@Garrette63 The Witness was bad too.

I think that Gone Home was THE moment a "large" (read: use social media regularly) portion of the gaming populace went "wait a fucking minute here" and stopped trusting game journalists this and [redacted event] were two events in 2013 that were a real "left right good night" for games journalism being seen as legitimate

Chad move there fren

I love how all of us gamers know gamergate was a joke and that these journos shouldn't be trusted, but when a normie MSM reporter talks about it, were racist and sexist and can't possibly be normal people

@@TheLongDon it's kinda funny how the culture has evolved, because even people who didn't know GG existed, or were against it, are now also shit-talking games journalists in the long run, it was a success

@@TheLongDon Please if a normy MSM reporter talks about it they'll vilify it more then actual rapists and pedo's in hollywood For they committed the most horrid crime of all, questioning a propagandist

My brother gave away our SNES when I was away at college. I was so freaking mad.

It IS a horror game. The horror is that it's considered a game.

@@VyxelOP Skeleton-shivering.

That would have been nuts. Like you find all the normal clues and then the dad's story board has a bullet hole through it.

this is the one comment I have found mentioning the GAAC references. Good on you. (To be fair there are like 3 others but uhhhhh)

Life looks a bit more nord and brighter

Internet who?

whos that, this is mark channel

​@@kuru-kuru5867He's one of Mark's friends

Internet Historian is different person, this is one of Mark Zuckerberg's many hobbies. he often does these after spending his evenings in the garden happily smoking his meats.

Someone did in this very comment section and calling those that disagreed "Cringy and L take"

L for Lebanese

Most of the people who gushed over this game back in the day never even played a minute of it.

This game's... "fans"??? (I don't know if fans apply when I doubt any of them have played any games in their lives) has become *THE* example of "Imbecile who doesn't know anything but loves to pretend to be smart while calling the lamest, most cookie cutter shit "artpiece" they can find the second coming of Christ." It really is a personality flag right here, if you can see past this game's barely made bullshit and see it for what it really is. A 10 hour hackjob "game".

I remember how people thought it was a horror game, it goes to show how narrative and worldbuilding via the environment is very possible and a cool idea.

Even with how much of a clown show the military is now, that would still not be allowed.

I mean at that point you would have remade the whole game.

Already a better game with that one difference

Insert domestic violence stats here

Gone Homecidal.

But htis game is trash.

I swear gamers are some of the most philistine bunch I've ever met.

Legend says 1 like = 1 second of render time

Same.

Please elaborate

2 hours??

...You might want to send out a search party. 😳

Maybe he became a Lebanese and shot JFK ?

This had a better twist than the game

There was this girl in my highschool days that claimed she was lesbian after getting dumbed by her boyfriend, we all knew it was bs but she went the whole 9 yards and started "dating" this girl that was at the least bi but was a VERY shy A few of us tried warning her that she was just using her to get back at her ex, what made it really sad was the girl already had this feeling from the start. About a month or so later, she cheated on the girl with some actual dumbass who's only positive trait about him was his body, but it was safe to say nobody was really surprised by this Reality can be like a really awful plot to a game/movie sometimes

Has she been to Lebanon tho?

In some circles that's called a "U-Haul Lesbian."

Sorry mate sounds like your dad is a good man. Had the same situation as a kid

Gone Home is one of those "the writer wanted to write a movie and not a game" situations But no one else on the team really cared about it being a game, either

@@Hegataro - I've always said that a good interactive movie is wayyy better than any walking sim

@@Hegataro Gone home doesn't really feel like a movie script either. If anything the structure of it would be more suitable for a novel than a movie.

@@Abon666 It wouldn't be suitable for any kind of storytelling medium because it simply isn't a story, it's a glorified summary section for a wikipedia article about some mundane subject. There's no arc or acts to the narrative, you just slowly read through completely irrelevant info to figure out a resolution that can be inferred within several minutes of booting up the game if you understand basic context clues and story tropes. And the ultimate resolution is mind-numbingly pointless, and to add insult to injury, only the sister and mother's sides contribute to the "Where they went" resolution which makes everything else an even bigger waste of time. And all of the plot could've been resolved by literally doing nothing because they were due back later that day, or if the parents just left a note (this family *loves* notes for some reason, so that's a plothole and a half). The story is the less exciting equivalent to a child waking up to find their mom gone and getting worked up and trying to figure out what happened, just for her to come back home a bit later because it turns out she just ran to the store for a bit before the kid woke up.

@@KaleidosXXI It has the skeleton of a story, but what makes this type of story interesting is getting to know the characters as humans, not just an inference from being a nosey weirdo. Also this girl knows nothing about her own family for some reason? Like she may as well be a stranger, which adds another element of 'who cares.' And even putting all that aside, why tf does nobody ever hide their misdeeds?! Imagine the parents getting home and listening to those messages, just friggin gutted that their daughter bailed and they have no idea if she's ok or where they went. And the mom just reading a book where evidence of her affair is always two feet from her husband. Like, screw these people, they suck.

It could just be gameplay in reverse. ⏪ But it’s a detail I appreciate.

Ah, but you see, that was its genius! In an era of video games having all these things like "plot hooks", "conflict", "drama", or "fun", this was a game that dared to be different. It teases you with these amazing stories, only to... not have an amazing story. But hey, it's got lesbians. That means it's the most important video game ever made. All jokes aside, I distinctly remember people praising the game for it's bait and switch as you said. Because I guess that's all it took.

But it has a lesbian love plot, so if you hate it that obviously means ur a bigot!!1!

@@arandompasserby7940 Sorry, don’t you mean Lebanese?

@@zacharyturner2944 Oh, you're right! my bad. I meant it has a lebanese love plot, so if you hate it you're islamophobic! 😁👍

Because it was

Yes! Obscure is gloriously dodgy from the moment Sum41 sings the opening montage. More people need to know about it

@@RuailleBuaille Yeah, and it’s a great length with two games in the series and really matches the funny vibe Storymode has. I think it’s perfect for them.

General Sam and Bizzle already took care of that.

What message was it trying to convey? Gay house empty? Didn’t have enough cash for animated models while gay? Gay girls in military leave?

@@kathrineici9811 The “message” was that it involved Lebanese (or lesbians, if you prefer), and that the family disliked said Lebanese tendencies. That’s kind of it.

@@Dr.Oofers I think the real message is “Had no money for Lebanese models, animation too hard”

Well games journalists thought the difficulty was just right.

@@Dr.Oofers such a brave, powerful message. After reading your comment I broke down in tears, 10/10