"Will you submit to hypnotic regression to your past life in ancient Egypt? Yes/No" is without a doubt the wildest pop up window I've ever been or will be presented with. I really wanna know what happens if you click no
Mmm... While there likely was some... uhh... probing happening, I suspect it wasn't quite this central to the building of the pyramids. I could be wrong, though, it's not like I was regressed into an ancient Egyptian life of mine.
There's also evidence to suggest the pyramids weren't built by slaves but by people who got paid a good wage, had decent housing, and were allowed days off.
But how could the primitive peoples of 2024 ever create an Ancient Aliens game? Could the game have an otherworldly origin? Ancient Astronaut theorists say.... yes
If the aliens came to us because their planet is in crisis from a cataclysmic event, does that mean their own planet has aliens that cause THEIR events?
We can't know for sure, but what if it were true? I don't see any evidence disputing that claim, so that makes it fairly likely. We definitely have something that we can't exclude as a strong possibility 👌
That whole "Work for us, and we'll help you defend against a cataclysm on your planet" had a real "Nice place you got here... It would be a shame, if something happened to it." vibe.
@@RonParkeryup. It's pretty, it stays pretty, it's rare so FOMO kicks in, and it can be made into lots of pretty shapes. There's no way we wouldn't end up loving gold
The show acting like the only logical way humans would want gold is because aliens is so funny. Definitely not because it doesn’t rust/tarnish and is extremely malleable and can be formed and used for electronics, tools, and even weapons. Of course jewelry just because pretty color that’s easy to shape into pretty shape (but also great for people with allergies like me) almost like it’s a very easy to use metal. But nooo aliens make us think rock is pretty
I love that even in the game they get the difference between "tenets" and "tenants" wrong. WTF are the "basic tenants of construction"? Resident contractors that drink soy lattes?
Yup. A lot of ancient astronaut theory hinges on dated, now-disproved science. Like Sitchen’s theory that Earth was the best source for gold, or the original Chariot of the Gods’s speculation that Egypt’s mummification was preparing a person for scientific resurrection similar to cryogenic preservation. We now know any hope of bringing a person back like that would involve stopping the brain damage that happens within minutes of death-and literally the first step of Egyptian mummification was scrambling and removing the brain through the nose.
I remember playing this game on mobile. When the hair guy invited me to regression therapy to reveal a past life in which aliens manipulate humanity, I started to feel like Ancient Aliens is basically Scientology except without a good guy or a bad guy
Don't worry! If you dig deeper into alien conspiracies you'll discover that many of them do in fact believe that there are good guy aliens and bad guy aliens. The bad guy aliens tend to be the reptilians or the insectoids while the good guy aliens..... Well..... They're often referred to as "the tall whites" or sometimes even "the Scandinavians"........ Yeah, it's exactly as racist as it sounds lmao
It is. Both plagiarized from the same racist bullshit text, the same text the Nazis took from. It’s nothing but trying to gaslight people into submission; that we’re only of worth when we’re scrabbling at the feet of tyrants.
"Plausible Deniability" as a resource is pretty neat tbh. It reminds me of how in Cultist Simulator you have to find ways to avoid/get rid of Suspicion or you'll attract unwanted attention. It's a intriguing concept, & definitely not something I expected from this game.
“Aliens enslave humanity to mine our planet for gold” is literally the premise of Battlefield Earth, a novel written by L. Ron Hubbard, which is just so fitting for an Ancient Aliens game
Sidenote, the way people see the goldfinger reference and immediately interpret it as a Jarvis reference instead is absolutely iconic. Legendary. Jarvis supremacy
Oh sure, when ancient aliens has you experience the past lives of your ancestors to be manipulated by aliens it's ridiculous, but when Ubisoft does it, its "Assassin's Creed" and "okay, I guess"
Being "that guy", but to be fair, in AC, the Isa and the "Gods" might have influenced events, but most of the time Humans or Isa are still very much the ones changing history with their own hands. In fact, canonically, the digital gods get very annoyed everytime either the very human factions of Assassins or the Templars go off the reservation and do whatever the hell they want. Most of the "ancient aliens", on the other hand, explicitly outright states that Aliens are responsible for most of the greatest feats in the Africas... because being "that guy", most ancient alien conspiracies are just diet racism because people in Africa definitely absolutely couldn't make the pyramids at all or other large structures.
@@Gloomdrake Abstergo says it reconstructs stuff from DNA, but who knows? It could very well be a big hypnosis machine! It's all coming together now.... :D
The Jarvis Johnson Gooooooold. Is amazing. Also isn’t there a crap tone of gold in asteroids and stuff? Why would aliens come to earth where it’s rarer?
My favorite fun fact about ancient aliens is that the narrator (not the host) voices a character in China, IL who is an ancient aliens believer trying to teach it at college and it's basically taking the piss so hard it's amazing that he's participating in it.
My husband and i were OBSESSED when this game came out. The only thing that sucks was it just....stops. The end. Otherwise its such a bizarre and wild ride 10/10 would absolutely recommend
Aliens wouldn't come to Earth to mine gold, it's one of the easiest elements to find in the universe, an average sun like ours has 2.5 trillion tons of liquid gold in a layer beneath it's surface, the Oort Cloud has even more than that in the ice & rocks of it's billions of asteroids. Coming to Earth to mine gold would be like a child going out of their way to pick up a dirty sucker covered in dirt and cat hair off the ground while they're in Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory.
I'm currently in development for a PC game that kinda goes around similar ideas. The "Gods" of ancient civilizations are all actually aliens that are using humans. You start in the future and then time travel all the way back to Sumeria. You meet Gaia who is basically mother Earth and she creates all of these monsters like the hydra, kraken, werewolves, etc. It's a similar combat style to games like Diablo but also has RTS elements for building up cities. We actually emailed Giorgio to see if he would do some voice acting for us but he never got back to me lmaooo.
I feel that a Chariots of the Gods strategy game would be neat. And yeah, the Plausible Deniability is an excellent idea for a mechanic, it could be a resource in so many urban fantasy settings.
The whole "you have to click to continue the text after the voice line is over" thing is basically how all Visual Novels work if you've heard of those kinda games
Discovering this was originally a mobile game is extra funny to me because I’ve seen physical copies of it at a Walmart or Target or something. They made a PHYSICAL release for this game.
Imagine if this is how we tested Science. You're a grad student in the audience, some Meme points at you and BAM you're the first time traveler in human history.
I once came up with this whole ass theory where our ancient ancestors were the meteor that destroyed the dinosaurs. But there was a problem with the cryogenic pods we were in, so we didn't know who we were, where we were, or what this crazy thing we were in was. Eventually, they got out of the ship and were brutalized by apes creating homeosapiens. That's why we can't find the "missing link". I wish I could shill and get my own History Channel show... lol
I absolutely love this series about the "Ancient Aliens". It's easy to poke fun at them because they're so ridiculous, but your mockery is done in a more elegant way
damn. congrats to gabi, i didn't even notice the sub count going up... i remember when it was 20K, 1M is actually in sight-- holy crap. thanks for the great videos-- you're prolly one of my favorite commentary channels (it's between you and jarvis)
I was at a tabletop gaming convention a couple months ago and one of the games I wanted to try but never got the chance to was a 4X game called Anunnaki: Dawn of the Gods. The premise was that each player played as a different faction of aliens visiting Earth in early history, being worshiped as gods by the natives, and trying to conquer Atlantis. I thought the premise sounded delightfully goofy but it also looked like it took itself pretty seriously as a 4X game, so I hope I get the chance to play it someday.
Not that anyone needs to be dissuaded from "we like gold because of aliens" but it's really shiny and really soft- so its perfect for making jewelry and statues and stuff like that. Some cultures valued it as more than building materials and some didn't.
Mom's reminder worked. I've been watching these pure works of art for a while now, but didn't realise I wasn't subscribed all this time. They were already on my main recommendations so it never even occurred to me. Cheers!
Glad to see Gabi is still on that Ancient Aliens grind. Also, since we're on the discussion about the History Channel, I really hope Gabi would also cover Storage Wars after this. That show is lowkey pretty unhinged at times.
So, we're supposed to believe that the reason we love gold is because the aliens taught us to value it and not because it's easily shaped, has an unusually pretty color and is really, really shiny? Right...
I love the classic Melee trance. Brings back memories of me and my old friends all tranced out, never blinking, can’t miss a single frame. Keep up the good work Gabi!
Only five minutes in but...travel back to your past life in order to obtain answers from an ancient race in order to save the world from a upcoming world-ending event? Isn't that just the plot of the first few Assassin Creed games?
Because of ad placement, I just had the Ancient alien spiel at 6:47 interrupted like so: "Did ancient aliens really help to shape our history? **Here's how much wet cat food I was buying...**"
I started to recognise pieces of this game as you went through and am now convinced I've played a little of it, but I have absolutely no recognition or memory of the introduction. It's so weird. Guess the aliens really did wipe my memory
"We're genetically programed to love gold." Whelp. I must be broken. I don't like gold, save for its one metal I know I won't have an allergic reaction to if it's used for peircings.
Some people think building pyramids by ancient humans are borderline impossible, when 2 year old kids figure out making triangular piles of sand will make it stand on its own
I agree with your opening for everything except for one point. 45 minutes have passed? Absolutely not I start playing at 6:00 in the afternoon and next thing you know I hear birds chirping in the morning. But hey, you can't blame me. Baldur's Gate 3 and Dragons Dogma 2 are just too fucking good.
5:00 I'm probably reading too much into it and giving the game more credit than it deserves, but this is actually super cool if done on purpose. The way the hands are position makes it look like, from our point of view, our hands are the same as the alien's hands. I just think that's neat.
There’s something I just love in that’s it’s unapologetically turning into a Gordon Ramsey and Ancient Aliens channel that’s lovingly trolling them, and I’m all here for it.
I finished the 2nd pyramid years ago and haven't been able to log into the game since. I figured they didn't finish developing it. Thanks for showing the ending!
9:29 Oh oh! I know what’s going on there! Just to get terminology out of the way, when you have an image representing a character in a game, that’s a sprite. When you want to make an idle animation for a sprite, you really only need a few frames of animation (especially if you’re using keyframe animation, like they seem to be doing here). You need the starting pose, the ending pose, and a few transition frames. The thing is, idle animations loop. If you leave it at that, when the animation loops, the sprite will appear to “snap back” to its starting pose. What you actually need to do is copy the transition frames and play them backwards, so that the final frame before the loop is either the identical to the first frame, or it’s identical to the second frame. That way, when the animation loops, the transition is seamless. There’s a couple ways to do this, but the most straightforward would probably be copying and arranging the frames in a your animation software (or the game engine’s onboard animation software, if it has it) then loading the completed animation into your game. This…isn’t terribly hard to do. Maybe a bit time consuming if you have a lot of sprites (or at least a lot of instances of a sprite) but like. You already made the animation. You just need to cope/paste, basically. The fact that they didn’t do this kinda blows my mind more than any of the other insanity happening here
I remember what my professor said "there's no What Ifs and presuppositions in History". Hearing Ancient Aliens show keep on saying "what if", that's definitely not a History show. It's a speculation show!
we were destined to love gold, because we're aliens ...but why did the aliens who sent us to love gold also love gold? did they get modified by other aliens? is this a "Turtles all the way down" infinite regression thing?
Man stumbling on this channel during one of the lowest times of my life was pure luck. Gordon Ramsay, ancient aliens, cringe vids, games, even throwing in a guitar once in awhile, just hitting like everything I love. Even shocked me she reacted to that old Mario Bros movie, as ridiculous as it was, I loved it as a kid. Feels like this channel was made for me and it's pretty rad.
if you like the idea of gaining and spending plausible deniability, there's a steam game called "the life and suffering of sir brante". historical fantasy where willpower is the currency spent in order to advance the story in some areas.
