the Indiana Jones game is not what I expected... 

I feel like if they had done 3rd person everyone would be saying it just looks like Uncharted or Tomb Raider. Which is funny because those franchises clearly took inspiration from Indy.

I felt the same about cyberpunk 2077 being first person only and it grew on me, not everygame has to be 3rd person seeing how recently there are less games with the 1st person view

This Game Immediately evoked Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay style gameplay and I loved that honestly. Especially with the 3rd person during Cinematics or traversal then back to first person with general combat. Ended up finding out that Machine Games devs originally worked on Riddick with Starbreeze and so it now makes sense.

Honestly, I was fully expecting this to be Wolfenstein: Indiana Jones. And that sounds great to me.

I’m surprised they went with machine games because they are such an FPS focused studio, but because it’s Machine Games you KNOW it’s gonna be fun as hell and have super satisfying gameplay.

Machinegames should make a new Punisher game

The punches in the face gave me that "yea ok, this is Indiana Jones" moment too lol

I heard a Wilhelm scream in the trailer, and it got me hoping that all of the sound effects will be like old 80s movies/ programmes, like when dudes used to punch each other on the A-Team and it made that familiar, unrealistic smacking sound.

I actually thought the indiana jones game looked exactly like I expected. First person with third person camera for things like climbing. A good focus on narrative, puzzle solving and some fun uses for the whip. I'm looking forward to seeing how this comes together.

I trust Machine Games to make this into the best game they can. Never really being into the Indiana Jones franchise, this seems very exciting.

Looks like they absolutely nailed it with capturing a true Indiana Jones feel. From his facial expressions to the NPC reactions to getting punched in the face to the music. I'm all in!

As a person who ended up even making an Indiana Jones hat themselves, I am super excited for this game and I just really hope that it will run on my steam deck because I had to get rid of my PC

I thought the villain sounded like he was voiced by Troy Baker too, maybe everyone is voiced by Troy Baker and it's an Eddie Murphy in Nutty Professor kind of thing. I wish the guy who played The Joker in the Telltale games got it though because he does a solid Ford impression.

I'm glad they took a risk and made it first person, its gonna be fun

Indiana Jones has already had a few 3rd person interpretations in the past. So It's refreshing to see this jump to 1st person. On first impressions, looks like Machine Games has done a great job with it.

Your cat jumping into your ear at 5:53 was impressive 😂

It feels like it's been forever since we've had a licensed game where the devs had the balls to put you in the titular characters shoes rather than have them on screen as much as humanly possible. I'm all for it

It's exactly what I was expecting.

I think Troy Baker is doing awesome (from what we've heard) voicing Indy. Maybe it's just me but he sounds dead on. Can't wait for this game.

I had hesitated at first at the first person announcement but the gameplay looks fun and we do get to see third person camera for traversal and cutscenes so we get some iconic shots. I’m definitely interested. More so than before the direct

Troy baker voicing Indi makes it even better!

It looks like it has 3rd person in specific situations but sticks mostly to first. I'm all for it. It does make it more distinct from the other Indy-likes out there, and I fully trust MachineGames knows what they're doing with that decision.

The way he whipped to distract the enemy to take him out from behind looked so school

I really would have liked it in 3rd person.

Super hyped about this game! I hope they can do better with a series of games than they did with the movies after "The Last Crusade". We also always need new adventure/archeological/fantasy type games.

As an Obsidian fan boy, Avowed is definitely my most anticipated game this year. I like the direction they're going with the combat, but I hope they do a bit more to distinguish it from TES games in some way other than just the hot swappable loadouts. And while this showcase didn't do a great job showing off narrative elements, that's the one thing Obsidian consistently nails so I'm not worried, especially with a PoE veteran in Carrie Patel at the helm.

This looks fantastic!! So pumped

Great video Jake. Long time viewer. Appreciate your good natured affect. Keep it up.

One thing that is missing from this gameplay is disguises. Indy disguises himself (mainly as a Nazi) in the original films. It would be such a missed opportunity if there isn't a Hitman style disguise mechanic that allows you to tackle situations differently than just stealth or all guns blazing. With unique dialog and story tied to those disguises.

Troy Baker did such a good job with the Indy impersonation. Excited for this title!

Hey Jake! Your videos are awesome. I always wanna know what you have to say before I buy a game. I love to see your passion for a well crafted, well helmed game and you've pointed me to a couple of my favorite series and games

3rd person would be a great throwback to Temple of Doom.

Lmao. It actually looked exactly what I imagined when they first announced it. I was stunned when I saw the first-person footage. Looks amazing.

The best option would be to include both 1st person and 3rd person view that the player can choose between. I typically much prefer 3rd person because it causes less motion sickness.

Speaking on the music aspect of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, I believe that the game is in good hands with Gordy Haab, because he has already worked on music for the Staff of Kings, SW:ToR, Battlefront & Battlefront 2, Jedi: Fallen Order & Survivor, and MultiVersus. It sounds really good for me and it was nice to hear some familiar music now and then.

3:37 Yeah. The face punching would’ve sold me as well. 😅

I'm excited for Indy! Didn't expect 1st person, but it looks like it loves the source material

Game looks great but I’m 100% in agreement with you! The idea that 1st person is supposed to be the ideal way to experience this is undercut by the fact that they are switching back and forth between perspectives. For me the perspective comes down to what is the game about? It’s Indy, a huge IP., I want to see myself playing as Indy. It’s akin to my issues with Cyberpunk, I make all these cosmetic choices making a character I want to watch that character in action. Same with Indy. Also I keep seeing the same response of “people would compare it to Uncharted”, thats such a silly argument. You don’t make decisions because people will compare your character to the other games that were inspired by your character!

Nice shoutout for the "Wilhelm Scream," and yeah, wow. That is a nice touch in-game. And damn, I REALLY want Avowed to be good.

Looks Amazing!

Avowed coming this fall is the game I most can't wait for from this Direct presentation.

Im glad it’s not what I expected. Perhaps it will be something I never knew I needed this whole time.

switching the camera perspective every time you climb a ladder or rotating a puzzle piece is crazy, I think they should limit it to cutscenes like CoD campaigns.

I'm excited. I recently watched the trilogy, and the thought of being able to jump into that world AND be at the helm of Indy, AND play it this year?! I'm stoked. I will admit I was a bit bummed to see it was first person game, but still very excited to get my hands on it. Great review, Jake. You know what? Today ..the pizza is on ME.

I did the same thing when I saw FP instead of 3rd.

I am sold on this game, I love Indiana Jones so much and I can’t wait to play this and see where the story goes

For once I was like 1,000 and on a video for the Indy game - woot! Thanks for the info on the Indy game being made by the team behind Wolf. Wolf is a series near and dear to my heart and I truly brought BJ back in such an awesome way. Keep it coming Jake 🤘 someday the pizza will be on me

This looks amazing! I can’t wait to play it! I know they designed it for a first person view but I sure hope they give us an option to play it in third person as well. I mean, they do have certain scenes that go to the third person like when Indy uses his whip and climbs so I feel like it is possible

I think first person allows them to differentiate themselves from something like the uncharted series. I feel like this seems like a good hybrid as well with larger actions such as swinging and high action being set in 3rd person. I’m excited over all.

I’m glad it’s in FP. Otherwise to me it would just feel like another uncharted re-skinned as Indiana Jones.

Yeah, this looks pretty awesome! Cant wait!

Definitely will play bro it. I hope it’s a great game. My dad passed several years ago and was a big Indie fan. Wish he was here to see it and play it. I’m going to play it for the both of us.

Honestly looks sick, was already a big fan of both the wolfenstein reboot and the Indiana jones series and I'm very excited!

Pretty excited to explore ancient ruins in avowed and Indiana jones

This Indy trailer genuinely hyped me up. Which for some reason is really hard to do lately. I’m thanking Machine Games for doing something interesting with the gameplay convinced me first person was the right choice in the trailer. Plus the whole jumping from one plane to another was so dope.

I'm not even the biggest fan on 1st person myself, but I can see that working. As long as they provide several opportunities for you to see your character in game (like Deus Ex series does when in cover or doing other things), I believe you will still feel attached to the character. Voice Over will also play a very big role there, especially for the moments when you see only the hands. I'm a game developer and content creator myself, and several games that I expected to be 3rd person went on to be played in 1st person but turned out very good - like Alien Isolation. So let's see! Definitely a capable team behind the game.

Would be good to have 1st and 3rd switchable camara 1st person for puzzles and stuff 3rd for general overlay of the landscape where we decide which camara we choose

Completely agree! I wanted a fully 3rd person game, but this game looks phenomenal and won me over! Even tho I’m disappointed it’s not fully 3rd

low-key happy to see a fresh first person take on this action-adventure treasure hunting genre and the gameplay seems quite fun. we've got enough 3rd person games in this genre, i.e., uncharted and tomb raider games. while it would've been fun to have this in third person im still quite excited to see how it impacts gameplay and if it feels different from the existing games in this genre.

Part of indiana jones film franchise is seeing him fight and run around, imagine if the newer indiana jones movies having the action scenes in first person camera view? Action movies have done it for a few seconds during a specific scene, its the most xbox thing that they continue to release. Hopefully blade is 3rd person

This will be great in VR. :) The problem with video games portraying Han and Indy, it costs a lot of money to have Harrison's actual likeness. I worked with the designer for the Indy pinball machine back in the day, they had the license for "Indy", but not Harrison, so they actually had to go out of their way to make him not look like Harrison, while still capturing the flavor of the Indiana Jones character. Also, when you get down to it, the Wolfenstein games were basically Indiana Jones games in spirit, with all the Nazi killing.

I feel like I'm the only person that wasn't disappointed and was pleasantly surprised by it being an FPS. I'm glad they're doing something unique and that uses the strengths of their studio and isn’t just an Uncharted rip-off that stars Indy like what the Survivor Trilogy Tomb Raider games did.

I was obsessed with Indiana Jones as a kid, I have high hopes for this

I love how your cat disappears behind your head at the 5:55 mark

It looks fantastic and this is coming from a person who prefers third person gameplay. Love Indy this will be a great title.

Can’t express how disappointed I am that it’s first person, I want to SEE Indy

This does look great. I don't mind it being 1st person, but I am curious how will that combat with whip turn out. It looks a bit strange at first

I started playing the Wolfenstein games recently and as a Millennial it brought me back to a time before I got into to RPG type games, when I would just play FPS games like Goldeneye/Agent Under Fire/Nightfire, and I am stoked to try Indiana Jones!

I like the first person thing. It makes the game its own thing.

I felt the same way about the 1st person Jake, until I watched the gameplay vid like 5 more times. It looks like it’s gonna work well in 1st person. Especially the exploration parts. Also if the whip, and gunplay mechanics are done well, it looks like it will be fun. Like for instance if you could disarm an enemy with your whip, and grab their gun in the same motion. Could be some cool combat gameplay mechanics. Also if it was 3rd person, it would Undoubtably be too much like Uncharted.

Are you kidding? - I am totally stoked for this!

I saw a dev interview.... the reason for 1st person is because you get the look and feel of Indiana Jones trough his eyes and i Agree 100%. I saw some gameplay and it looked absolutely briliant from that perspective... pure genius.

First person Indy is so refreshing I'm kind of burnt out on all the third person adventure games we've had over the years. This game looks fantastic.

If you notice in the trailer, they actually did the famous wilhelm scream at 1.35. Something that was done in most of the old movies.

I really hope this is the start of a few Indiana Jones games to come, would love an original trilogy from Machine Games!

I'll be completely honest, I haven't been truly excited for a game since maybe Fallout 4 (although that turned out to for naught), but I'm finding myself excited about this in particular. Whatever one can say about how the combat and level design progressed throughout the Wolfenstein games, the story was solid and the 'ride' of the game was overall enjoyable. If they can replicate that in the Indiana Jones universe, with cinematic cutscenes broken up by stealth sections, action setpieces and puzzles, with the usual Machinegames polish... Like i said, i don't normally buy into hype culture, but I'm very excited for this release.

Hans solo turned into todd Howard real quick

looks awesome, im biased, but who cares

I didnt see a video about it on your channel so whats your thoughts on Dragon's Dogma 2?

Aria sounds sick! I just picked up AOE2 and I fell in love. This sounds like so much fun and I cannot wait. Also avowed and Indiana Jones are top of the list absolutely. I cannot wait to see what these games hold

We have so many 3rd person over the shoulder adventure games. I’m happy it’s first person because my initial thought when they announced it was it’s going to be really similar to tomb raider/uncharted. I’m glad there’s a big focus on puzzles too and 1st person seems like the best fit for that.

Idk i feel like it can be more immersive. I'm excited.

I get enough 3rd person over the shoulder games on my playstation. It's refreshing to get a good 1st person game of this type

Can’t wait for this ,, big fan of the films

Im actually so glad it's first person, it's my preference, I think it's more immersive but what's more important is the fact that it plays into the developers strengths and that it differentiates it from games like uncharted and tomb raider. Looks dope so far, I hope they give us a banger here.

It legit looked like an amazing vr game. I wish this was in vr.

Hey Jake, it's also interesting to say that, if I'm not mistaken, Ninja Theory has said that Saga was gonna make the first game feel like an indie game or something like that, and now they mentioned that "shorter experience" thing. Still excited for the game, but i thought that was weird

when it was announced that the game was being done by machine games I had a feeling it would be in first person and I was a bit disappointed that I was right. but the fact that the game switches back and forth between first and third person depending on the action (ala riddick), that means there is always a full character model, so the possibility of them adding a full third person mode, or even better, the ability to switch between first and third on the fly (ala suffering) is not out of the realm of possibility.

It's like Metroid had a three-way with uncharted and Wolfenstien

I'm glad its first person, it really makes it stand out from other games.

With everything getting remakes/remasters, I wouldn't complain if we got an Emperors Tomb remake with tighter controls cause platforming, fighting, and shooting are all pretty clunky but it was a good game.

It looks WAY better than I expected. I had no intention of playing this. Now I do.

First person games make me sick. Idk why but i get dizziness. I'm so disappointed i wanted to play it

I agree Indiana jones should be in third person perspective

It actually reminds me quite a bit of Escape From Butcher Bay, which makes sense considering ex-Starbreeze employees formed MachineGames

3rd person would be better. However that takes way for effort. Effort in 2023-24 is a lot to ask for.

100% agreed with it being a 1st pov game. Also had this same feeling with Robocop. Both of these should be 3rd pov.

I reckon it’s cheaper to make a game in first person rather than third, because you don’t have to animate in a whole bunch of character movements, and that cuts down development time/ is simpler. Also, they probably realised they can’t compete with Naughty Dog in the 3rd person realm, so are trying to dodge that bullet by going first person, and maybe even trying to stand out, cause it probably looks exactly like uncharted or even Tomb Raider in third person. I agree though, at least a 3rd person option would have been good, the silhouette of Indi in his hat and with his whip is what our eyes want to see when playing the game.

I hope they have like a photo mode that lets you take cinematic shots in third person

I had the exact same reaction to the first person reveal. I’m a huge Indy fan so I’ll still give it a try and I’d love another adventure series to rival Tomb Raider and Uncharted (2 of my favorites).