The Untold History of Arkane: Dishonored / Prey / Ravenholm / LMNO / The Crossing 

As a French speaker, I appreciate that the subtitles for it are not hard coded :)

@@oDrashiao Thanks! Yea if we did that it would mess it up for French speakers and all over subtitles that would have to go over the subs. 20% of our audience uses some form of captions for accessibility reasons or because they watch in a different language. So keeping it clean is critical for us. We trust people can learn to turn them on. I mean if they're gonna sit down to watch a 80 minute video they probably won't mind, right? :)

Ravenholom could be made in an awesome fann game. If someone has the knowledge,time and resources watch this video.

Please add Russian subtitles!

*EPISODE 4 IS SO MAGNIFICENT. IT`S MY DREAM, ARKANE*

That was always the hope! It's going to be fun to look back at some of these in a few years.

And then you watch NoClip's Bethesda / Fallout 76 "documentary"...

@@listofromantics Oh, buddy. You gotta let it go :D

@@listofromantics I watch that every week 😂

Noclip will one day be bought by some kind of media company, who after trying to monetize it for a few years and failing, will simply remove the videos and/or channel. Seriously, make a youtube playlist of anything on youtube, then a few years later go back and look at it. [DELETED] every 5th video. Sad but true.

PRECISELY. I was amazed as well. So cool that they keep this relic up and running after all these years.

Maybe somebody will leak it

well its in some games like just cause and some more, but for the hl’s age that is crazy impressive

Quite impressive mechanic for the time

Where is the headcrab?

i feel bad for the founder. with REDFAIL the company is over

I feel bad for the diehard anti-Bethesada mob who wilfully ignore the side of the company explored in this video.

Honestly, more than Ravenholm I'm now just pissed about The Crossing. Because what they showed here looks amazing. And you can see early style and development ideas that ended up in Dishonored

Black Mesa is way more polished game than Ravenholm is in it's current state, it's very unlikely to happen

It would be so interesting if Arkane would just release it as a 'mod'.

@Jordan Ghill So, just because you don't like it, it's overrated? smh

Seriously. That electricity nail gun looks SO INCREDIBLE with all the gameplay possibilities.

@Jordan Ghill You're so brave. smh

Can thank Bethesda for that, they did next to no marketing for it + their whole "we don't send games to reviewers until the game is out (and no one cares at that point because journalists have moved on to "the next big thing") : they killed Prey, Dishonored 2 (that came out like 2 weeks before Battlefield / Call Of Duty and other big tentpoles, basically sending it to get slaughtered against the marketing push of those titles). Oh and the optimization for titles was... subpar to say the least, telltale sign of not investing much in QA by Bethesda.

something was off with that game...it had many good aspects, full on bioshock in space vibes...but for some reason, it was so boring and after like 5 hours or so i could not play it anymore...so i guess something was missing for me, but it was good still, but not good enough to play till the end

I would have bought it but I’m not going to support companies using Denuvo.

I woulda bought it if i hadnt seen the original prey 2 😔

@Dutch 'Plan' Der Linde I heard it was supposed to originally be called "Neuroshock", but Bethesda wanted a more recognizable name which was "Prey"...

Same for me.

The Atmosphere in these games you don't find in another game

Same we need a dishonored 3

Isn't Death of the Outsider technically Dishonored 3? I know it's not much more than a large DLC, but I feel like the story came to an end 9considering, well, that the outsider is dead). Another spinoff would be dope though

@@aed3r It was considered the end of the Kaldwin era. But not the last of Dishonored. The studio are taking some time away now to focus on Deathloop and other projects, but Dishonored will return. There are plenty of locations to explore within the Dishonored universe. We've only seen two locations (Dunwall and Karnaca) but there are plenty more to be fleshed out. How and when we will see those, remains to be seen. But Bethesda believes strongly in Arkane, and given the financial success of the series, it wont be the last spin Arkane has at Dishonored.

Just look at the demo made for Unreal 5 game engine, so much quality but zero idea in the gameplay. Ok it's just a demo but that's what they are going to sell us, wonderful realistic images made by technicians with stupid content because there will be no budget left for developing ideas!

@@kukipett The whole point of the new engine is to give artists more breathing room and more capabilities to be creative. Put in the right hands, it could actually allow for more creative and unique experiences not less. Just because they showed a hyperrealistic setting with bland gameplay for the demo doesn't mean that's what every company and developer is going to do with the engine.

@@co28158 Of course, but do you realise the huge amount of work, time and money you need to make such assets for a game. Games a becoming more and more complex, more and more beautiful but less and less interesting, and there is not much creativity in using quixel assets, the art is in what you create not in what you copy from reality. The unreal 5 engine is wonderfull, but there are no miracles, i guess there is a price to pay somewhere, when i ear someone say "It just works" i start to worry!

@@kukipett how about we wait for A GAME to be made with the engine before we start talking about how it's the death of creativity. Also not every game is going to use unreal 5

@Alexander Supertramp I think you don't need to be that harsh with him. Granted his response sounds naive but I think that the concern is legit and as a game artist that's a concern I can get behind.

Unbelievable

sounds resonable

IIRC there's a way to license the Source engine and assets (including Half-Life assets), but not the IP itself. If you look, HDTF never explicitly mentions "Half-Life" anywhere on the store page. Obviously in the actual game, it literally copy/pastes the characters and maps, but it's fair game for the license agreement they signed. Valve had no involvement outside licensing the Source engine out and selling the game on Steam - both of which it just lets any fucking loser do these days. It's the same thing that a lot of people have done to make mods or small games, but they never had any publicity - or the fucking nerve to charge money for their amateur shit. On the other hand, Valve was funding the Ravenholm project with their own money under the actual Half-Life IP. They would be in charge of marketing, funding, helping/directing the devs, etc. They probably didn't think the profit would make up the investment for a spin-off HL episode. It's easy to say in hindsight that it would've been great and sold tons of copies, but there was probably some justifiable reason in their minds at the time. Valve as a company is just a huge mystery to outsiders and terrible at communicating their decisions/business goals clearly, as we saw with the HL3 silent treatment, paid mods, Greenlight, etc.

His NON-CANON edgy brother

Also Valve: Releases Half-Life: Alyx, making cheaper Index VR headsets

I discovered Dishonored at 30, when I thought I was done with videogames. And it gave me back the same enthusiasm as when I was 6 and played my first games.

@@maverickgayo9320 Thank you. Wish you the same.

I was also 16 when it was released, having just graduated high school. Dishonored was a blind buy, but I had actually played Dark Messiah of Might & Magic, not realizing it was the same studio. I was so hooked on Dishonored, I actually beat the whole thing the day I started it (on PS3) - a whopping 11 hour mostly low chaos playthrough. I couldn't sleep without knowing the Empress was safe. Even though I was tired, I didn't want Emily to hate Corvo so I stayed low chaos. Though, turns out, she wouldn't hate Corvo, she would just be influenced by high chaos in a negative way I literally have over a thousand video games and Dishonored is top 3 of all time. Something like: 1. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 2. Dishonored 3. Bloodborne

@@EhurtAfy Man, thats amazing! Thanks for your response. Low Chaos first try in 11 hours is quite the record. I think it took me like 6 hours to do the first mission. Me and 2 friend pulled and allnighter and spend like 2 hours frantically searching the Overseers back yard for a place to atatch that stupid crank wheel. Turns out we had robbed the place alrdy, because you could go in a different way. I´ve recently spend 3 hours analyzing the walls of light for a paper for uni and had the time of my life. The wayy all the pieces fit together in this game is just mindboogling!

@@gingerwhale871 Yes, it usually takes me a week or two to beat most games that length, but got a bit obsessed. I've now done Ghost + Clean Hands on all the Dishonored games 1,2, and DOTO, but can't bring myself to do the high chaos runs for some reason - never feels right

How does that work?

@@TheAwesomeHyperon ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-HZTStHzWRxM.html

Did you play Mooncrash? I have a feeling Mooncrash is the prototype of Deathloop.

I absolutely loved the 3 Dishonored games and Prey, but i'm a bit worried about Deathloop, i absolutely dislike games where you just repeat the same game loop again and again Like in Mooncrash. And more there is Bethesda behind them and when you see what Bethesda is doing now with Fallout 76 and the problem with Doom Eternal, you are really worried, they are a huge company with no soul anymore that only cares about the money.

@@kukipett I don't think Bethesda will be a factor in Deathloop, except perhaps for some atrocious marketing. I loved Mooncrash for what it was. It was a bit light on story perhaps, and I always prefer the main campaign to DLCs. But I had tons of fun with the concept. I bet Arkane are getting Deathloop set to a point where they are going to integrate the 'rogue-light' experience of Mooncrash into a full story. So long as it's an immersive sim, I'll be happy.

@@kukipett it was dishonored and dishonored 2:)) no 3 sorry

@@Spectru91 death of the outsider is the 3rd game

Thank you for watching! It's our pleasure.

Nice catch!

My exact thoughts. Hope it comes soon!

I just wish I knew beforehand that Corvo was actually tacked onto the game not the other way around. I played with both of them and enjoyed both playthroughs, I was of course disapointed about how they weren't really different from each other (but with the replayability of the Dishonored games it wasn't really that big of a deal), but if it was presented from the start as "Emily is supposed to be the main protagonist, Corvo mode is here just for our fans, but isn't really the main focus" I would probbably pick Emily 1st and have a very different first impression of the game. The way that it actually seemed to me was that it is 50/50 Emily/Corvo in terms of who is the intended protagonist of the game. I wouldn't really mind if they made it 70/30 in favour of Emily with Corvo as a tribute to fans, rather than splitting it like that. I don't know if it is clear what I meant, but I would just like them to make it more obvious that Corvo is an tribute add-on, so I wouldn't expect what I expected thinking that the game was 2 protagonists focused from the start.

Makes it all the greater shame that Dishonored 2 was hampered by several technical/design issues. It could have been so much more than Dishonored 1 but ended up as a sidegrade rather than an improvement. Still, at least it was good. Many sequels can't say the same.

You need to learn better empathy skills Playing as Emily and Billie Lurk doesn't make it any less immersive or relatable for me than playing Corvo or Daud

@@Phoenix-pb4sm The irony of telling someone to learn better empathy skills while failing to empathize with their experience.

Let's hope that Square Enix will get their shit together and let Eidos Montréal finish the Deus Ex prequel trilogy.

@@kasra8255 I'm happy to see another Deus Ex fan. I hope so too.

Man, imagine if Arkane Studios was tasked to develop a real sequel to Deus Ex(2000). 😍

Deus ex mankind divided was excellent as well.

@@NoExplosionsMcgee deus ex by eidos are proper deus ex games as well

*Intern busts down the door*: So I just played Resident Evil 0...

almost every game should have a silly enemy.

Same!

They did not want to make it. That's the whole story

Along with?

@@shittysoulsplayer5038 Bloodborne and Nier: Automata.

@@Ge0rge_0rwell I recently started too

@@Thor_the_Doge I just 100% it, really an amazing game.

@@Ge0rge_0rwell Just a correction, it's Arkane that made it not Bethesda. Bethesda were just the publisher.

There was a time when he said he won't be making games anymore. I'm glad he wen't back on that. I think he is the sole reason Prey turned out to be the best game of 2017

@@nomercy8989 I'll make just one more then ;) Also Prey was possible thanks to other people that were also very key to the making of the game: Ricardo Bare to mention just one, Manu Petit for the Art Direction, it was definitely a team work.

@@raphaelcolantonio8514 Congrats for creating such a great company and pushing game design forward. The way you people were defining and dealing with immersion + creative/emergent gameplay was ahead of its time and I do believe those concepts will become key in the future of VR. Thank your for creating amazing games that are cherished memories and true milestones of game development :)

@@raphaelcolantonio8514 talk Bethesda into letting you do a Fallout. I think Arkane's Gameplay and world building and stuff would kick ass for it. I am looking forward to any game Arkane makes!

@@raphaelcolantonio8514 Yeah if you guys made a fallout game with your VOID engine for Bethesda with your own spin on it, it would be great!

Sustenance!

I haven't played HL:Alyx, but I've watched the playthrough (since I'm not likely to ever own a VR headset). But their bolt electricity thing in Ravenholm looks similar to what Valve did with HL:Alyx, just without the bolt part.

The music in that part was from Deus Ex Invisible War 😄

Or they just releasing The Crossing. Goddamn was that traversal mechanic cool.

Yeah, the short section in the Vault before the ending of HL: Alyx showed what it could feel like.

The new update (U8) of Blade and Sorcery is kind of like that. You can combine spells, use swords, and even kick.

I'd love to see simple Arx Fatalis Remaster, not remake. This is what would be epic for me! Awsome journey - awsome game.

@@cordelian1806 There is a fan mod doing that, btw: www.moddb.com/mods/arx-insanity-mod And another one remaking the game in UE4: www.moddb.com/mods/arx-fatalis-ue4-remastered And if you were to play Arx, there is a fan made engine with ports to different OSs: arx-libertatis.org/

It's one of the best games I've ever played.

The game is just beautiful

It's a great game with such an incredibly strong opening. There are also some wonderful grey choices you make and the ending was pretty awesome. Great game. Highly underrated.

Yeah have fun, you're in for a ride

Honestly poor enemy variety is my only complaint for what I would otherwise call an instant classic.

I agree. They didn't promote Prey satisfactorily though. And the fact that it was a place-holder for the Prey IP is disgusting.

Yes. For me, Blizzard, iD Software and Epic Megagames own the 90s, early 2000s. Valve and Bethesda owns 2000s. And Bethesda just keeps sending it in 2010s. That's just for me. I know the industry would include The Sims and sports franchise games, because they've had quite the following, too. Definitely a lot of choice of some very high quality games. Which is probably detrimental to Valve and the Half-Life universe. They just hold back waiting to figure out and design the "Next Big Thing" (ergo, HL: Alyx).

I agree with this. They may not be my favourite developers even in the best times where everyone loved them, but they are good publishers imho

Dishonored sold well. Dishonored 2 didn't, reason why you won't see a third game. Prey was terribly marketted by Bethesda. As for Doom, I don't think Bethesda had anything to do with the quality of the final product. Bethesda didn't want Mick Gordon to use guitars in his soundtrack, to give you an idea... Bethesda bought excellent studios, who keep making great games, in spite of Bethesda but no thanks to them IMO.

they need to let go off of Fallout.

I definitely got deja vu from quarantine zone watching the ravenholm intro

Anyone feeling a gofundme comin on?!? ;)

@rob yup. that`s right

@rob Fucking HL: Alyx ripped off Episode Four!

@@yurionedge2199 a rip off is if you plagiarize something the exact same way and maybe trying to hide the plagiarism as well. If you take inspiration like valve did with parts of hl:a, then that’s not a rip off since most of the game was still original ideas by them. I mean going by your definition, then a lot of 3D modelers would be ripping off a lot of other 3D modelers (I doubt an AK of M4 model can be that much different after a decade of constant shooters being made) but you wouldn’t call that them ripping off each other would you

Try Dark Messiah if you haven't. While there's less emphasis on stealth (though its still possible to do stealth builds), it is incredibly similar to Dishonored in terms of it's focus on "creative kills".

GepardenK thanks for the rec! Will have to check it out :)

no

What the hell happened to Valve? They blocked Ravenholm from being completed but allowed HDTF to be published?

That's a cool detail - but it also looks like the footage is from Blue Shift rather than op4?

When you are an English speaker, trying to learn French haha

@@mrchiefbs It's probably some sort of higher education. Don't worry about it ... ;)

When you are Russian and learning English and French....

Or English trying to learn French - damnn you guys talk quickly

@@joehowden-osborne8255 You guys talk quickly too. And you don't seem to know what articulating is.

merci! :)

if not, just read sub

Also where I get my birth name!

Thank you