Man. Hellblade’s progress delete had me on edge the entire time.. until I went back for lorestones. I love that game!

Id say you were spot on with the Dark Souls analysis. Everyone is terrified of the main bad guy who is hopeless and shrivelled while greater more powerful appendages of the system uphold it. Its true to a lot of real world stuff.

Hellblade is also part schizophrenia simulator, with the voices and visual hallucinations, but the "rot" thing simulated paranoia itself. And it was brilliant. Edit: I should say it emulates psychosis rather than schizophrenia. It would be hard to emulate schizophrenia's negative symptoms.

Hellblade really got me. I was stressing and struggled with bird boss. Thought it was over and breathed a big sigh of relief after the rot reached her heart and I just started back before the boss. It was 3/4 through the game.

Falcon is like the elder brother whom you go to when in need of good game recommendations 😎

You did a really really really good job hyping up the fact that there are other acts to Inscryption that are so different without spoiling it at all, big props!

Like A Dragon Infinite Wealth, Kiryu can literally break the turn based system, it's such a cool move and it's badass when he does it, man i'm so excited for Like A Dragon 8

Ah, Hellblade. Love that game. It was finaly a game from developers who not only understand that gameplay mechanics are a part of the narrative, but also had the currage to act upon that understanding. Would never have happend with a big publisher.

In farcry 4's case it actually feels like the good ending considering how evil the other two characters are.

Thank you so much Falcon. Including that spoiler warnering and the time skip stamp before actually stating it is surprisingly something a lot of listicles miss and I cant appreciate it enough (even if I still watched it because it was only Cyberpunk)

THANK YOU, for putting a big obvious spoiler screen before a new game/dlc. Please ALWAYS DO THAT! I genuinely appreciated it being big and obvious and giving me a time stamp to to skip to so I can avoid spoilers until I finish a new DLC I haven’t had the time to finish yet. Praise be to Falcon.

I totally LOVED Far Cry 4's secret ending. I kept saying, "I don't want to play this anymore.". I got this ending before properly playing the game, so now I don't want to play the game at all. Pagan Min's been trying to keep order in the area(evident by how he didn't want his soldier killing the innocent civilians on the bus. His anger with the Golden Path is justified. Their leader, Ajay's father, killed his daughter, and yet he's willing to accept Ajay despite being the blood of that ruthless man. He even gives over control over the territory to Ajay for him to take control and maintain peace.) Yes, this is the Templar way, but I'm not complaining. Freedom can lead to chaos without proper authority.

What about Metal Gear Solid on PS1 and the Psyco Mantis fight? That's the first one I thought of. Reading your saves, using a second controller. A little tense at first.

Something you forgot about Desert Bus: If it stalls out because it hits the side of the road... You have to get towed back, and it tows you back *in real time as well*.

What i love especially about the far cry 4 ending is that it implies you take pagan mins site and fight alongside him against the rebels. If you havent played the game you might think thats bad but if you know how bad and rotten the resistance is it kinda feels like a wish fullfilled.

Frog Factions sounds more wild than Frog Fractions.

ICO comes to mind. The whole game is a dreaded escort-mission. But it's done so gracefully that it gets a pass.

“If a game tells you to jump with A, but it’s actually jump with Y, the tutorial is meaningless.” *Stares in Portal 2*

Falc's joke when introducing Pizza Tower made HIM genuinely laugh, and that made ME genuinely laugh. both made me laugh, but his own amusement was kind of the beautiful icing on the cake.

THANK YOU for the spoiler warning for CP:PL! I actually wish all such channels did like outsidexbox does and "beware spoilers for the following games" on such vids. I'm sure we've all missed a game that we want to go back to but it's 2 years old now

I didnt figure out the Far Cry 4 one until MONTHS after playing. Man that game is such a nostalgia trip for me. That ending is perfect though such a great game.

One I remember, it was common for games to have the appearance of a large battles, mostly war games, but in reality they'd have you run down trenches or at most a closed off field, so looked larger, but was in reality corridors and halls. Then there was the one Call of Juarez game, has near identical set up, running through trenches, from point A to B then trading fire with enemies, then out of nowhere a canon explodes the trench and it's basically the game going "go wild". Just like that you're over the top -running through large open fields, jumping in and out of the trenches and I don't know if that's the first time a map has really been open and not an illusion of scope.

As a doctor...hellblade is actually a way to understand how a paychiatric patient actually think....depression and anxiety can be real and not being treated can usually lead to bad consequence😢...thanx for the spoiler alert for phantom liberty ❤

I have over 500 hours in TotK and I haven't even finished it yet. To be fair, I will leave it paused for hours while I watch videos or something and then start playing again so a lot of that time is just idle time but still. 500 hours. I love these games and I never want them to end.

For the fc4 scenario, even knowing the ending doesn't change much because you'd restart it just to experience the journey to reach it the proper way. The journey itself makes the game.

The tower ending of Phantom was so brutally real it was so clever. Brings you all the way from a night city legend - to another one of the sheep. Very very clever game development 👏🏻

Hellblade was an interesting experience as someone who suffers with extremely mild issues like that the game actually was pretty smooth.

Absolutely love Inscryption and all of its little surprises. And another great list by the best bird of prey ❤

Void Stranger is a game I know of that really plays with you and how it manipulates common conceptions about games. Also, pretty much anything by Yoko Taro fit the Bill as well.

Encapsulating Breath of the Wild BotW: You are wandering in a maze Me: Anyways. *Climbs over the maze

you needed Kratos dying in the Ragnarock fight. Like even the loading screen popped up and everything

Inscription was the game that got me into card games. A must play for sure.

Hellblade is one of my all time favorites. What an experience. Just the voices telling you not to go a certain path made it so cool to play.

I haven't played many games lately, but one that stands out to me is The Plan. It doesn't tell you much, it is sudden, and it tells a story without ever saying a word. Yes, it's more a visual experience but it's still a game.

Shocked that Pathologic wasn't on this list. Trying to approach that game like any other video game is just impossible

That starting warming in hellblade made me complete the game a bit too cautiously, i completed FC5 right in front of my friend once within few minutes and he was just surprised to see the alternate ending

Thank you so much for discussing the masterful Cyberpunk 2077 thing! (trying not to spoil it) I loved it so much and you described it perfectly even though I still think it's much deeper with more layers even.

How did you not mention Stanley Parable in this one? It's basically the Anti-game to every game ever

Inscription blew my mind and was such a treat but I will say I act 1 was so cool to me I wish it had more content or a full game in that style. I woulda been happy if the game ended right after act 1

You should have included Antichamber on this list. It routinely breaks standard video game rules without telling you, and leaves you very vague hints to help you figure out that you need to question everything you've learned about how video games work in order to beat the it.

Awesome list. Made me think of the mundane tasks in gothic 2. And I missed the stanley parable and such. But so glad to see desert bus 😂

18:31 Gotcha... I'm keeping a screenshot of this to show you it in the next decades

One-shot, In Stars and Time, and the Lisa series break their games in similar yet different ways. It's fascinating and aggravating, especially Lisa

Another day, another wholesome gameranx video.

That cyberpunk PL ending was actually heartbreaking. Man I was actually shook. Real feelings of helplessness, hopelessness, and abandonment.

ive never been o thankful for youtube chanells that create actual orignal content.

Interesting collection of software you've got on your desktop at 18:30. Assuming that's your desktop. Battle Realms Complete is a particularly interesting one to note.

Gameranx binge and drink every time Falcon says “to be frank.”

Inner Space from 1994 (a Windows 3.x game). It scanned your computer for files. Those files then became part of the game. It was always a bit disconcerting/concerning that you might be damaging the files that got labeled by the game as viruses.

No metal gear solid psycho mantis fight or Meryl's codec channel? That stuff absolutely blew my mind back in the day. Never has another game broke the 4th wall like that before or since.

I finished Cyberpunk by going through don't fear the reaper, into new dawn fades. It was such an emotional ending. Phantom liberty is strange. It takes all the buildup in the game, alll the strength you gained, all the adventure, and flushes it down the drain. I can't imagine legend V becoming a regular choom once again. It actually makes me feel weird inside.

Cyberpunks one was crazy, especially considering I sided with songbird at first, then replayed it and sided with Reed, wait I started this comment before it finished so falcon bro you didn't even mention the whole cerberus sequence? I ain't even gonna spoil it for anyone who hasn't played it yet because it surprised me massively, all I can say is I highly recommend active camo and high reflexes.

I am SO glad I found this channel!!

I REALLY appreciated the spoiler warning for Phantom Liberty. I was just about to start another playthrough of Cyberpunk. Thanks, Falcon.

One of the original endings for Cyberpunk has you up on a space station where you are cured as well and then finally release and allowed to go home but that one ends with you listening to messages from all your friends and not responding to them.

in the field of creative expression like video game, you learn the rule to slowly break them as a way to innovate

Fantastic video. Found this one extremely interesting!!

Shout out to that guy who left that ”impressive” greeting to us at that Valhalla map footage at around 2:10 minutes 😂

Nice Spoiler Warning! No sarcasm! Full Stop!! Thank you!!!!

Idk if this counts as " broke the rules but it's definitely a shout out. Metal gear solid when fighting psycho mantis for the first time and getting your ass kicked enough times before it tells you to switch controller ports. That was definitely a first for me and was pretty cool. 2nd bonus is enternal darkness sanity requiem for the game cube. I could tell you how many times I watched my brother play it and if you sanity meter went all haywire it woukd hallucinate the screen. One situation I'll say is when you enter a room without a save cause it won't let you and you die in the locked room which can literally make you nuts in reality. Sanity requiem was a masterpiece and still is to this day

Damn no mention of The Clash? 'should I stay or should I go' is the track that plays during that Far Cry ending. It's worth getting trolled by the game just to hear it.

YES Desert Bus!!! That shit was hilarious, they way the bus had a slight pull to the right was a perfect touch.

Wow, I really thought Falcon would mention the fact that in Desert Bus, the bus doesn't just break down when going off road. When it does, it actually requires the whole thing to be towed back to the start. But the game must just restart from the beginning at that point, right? Oh no, no no no! Your desert bus broke down 6 hours into your run? Enjoy the 6 hour tow back to Tuscon to begin the trip again. The game is literal torture!

That bus driving one reminded me of a dream I had where there was this game Hitchhiker Simulator. I assume stuff actually happened in the game if you played it how you were meant to, but in the dream I was watching a stream of someone playing Hitchhiker Simulator without ever getting into a car. It took them twelve hours and all they did was walk down this road ignoring anyone who tried to offer them a ride while bantering with a guest streamer and chat. For twelve. hours. I think occasionally they tried to leave the road entirely but I can't remember what happened when they did.

0:19 really thought you would talk about portal 2 and the „press space to speak“ joke

God bless you, Falcon; you just crack me up. It is "Frog FRactions", not "Frog Factions". It isn't "like some type of math game", it is literally a math game - specifically centered around fractions! LOL You make those mistakes pretty often, but they are charming and hilarious.

18:57 You think you can jumpscare me but the ads came up, take that! 😆

this video opened my mind, can't remember when last something opened my mind like this a whole game within a game... that's kinda cool in a weird way

i said this in a comment thread earlier but felt it needed to be repeated: as a person with schizoaffective disorder, i LOVE hellblade. i have to play it in a different way than other people would in order to minimize triggers and paranoia but i deeply love the story and gameplay. i think its really important for games like it to exist because it helps show the experiences psychotic individuals have to go through. its an educational experience without feeling like one for non-psychotics and its so refreshing to see something like it in the medium. typically psychotic symptoms are treated EXTREMELY negatively and dangerous in games and other media so seeing the hero of the story - especially a WOMAN - struggling with these issues but still progressing and winning in her own way is AMAZING. a lot of people with psychotic symptoms have played it and have pretty much said the same things; we just have to be careful :) and the permadeath thing is such a GREAT representation of paranoia imo because its not a real threat but you treat it as such because you genuinely believe it to be. 18479/10 love this game

Not mentioned was in shenmue there was a bug that wouldn’t progress the story when you went to work so you kept reliving the same work day over and over until you restarted the game

Its like falcon and jake are about to make us all happy with a duo 10 list review !

I love you Falcon….you pronouncing it Frog “Factions” finally broke me.

The fact that thor reviving kratos during his boss fight wasn't included really shows his research.

Damn, Number 4 has stuff from the Conan the Barbarian comics i used to read back in the '80's, as a teenager. The thing wearing a robe, coming down the stairs with tentacles on it's face and hands, the king that has become a worm-ified puss thing, etc.

Always good when gameranx uploads

Far Cry 4 Will always be my favorite. They wrote Pagan Min so well that people wanted to side with him... Which the developer knew and allowed us to pursue.

In FC4 it makes more sense to just sit for 15 minutes till Pagan returns. That ending is much better than siding with Amita or Sabal. They both turn out to be bigger psychos than Pagan.

metal gear solids psycho mantis boss fight should of been #1. Switching out your playstation controller to port number 2 broke the rules of how a boss should be approached.

BotW and Tears of the kingdom are nice free open games, but if you look at the map you still have the Ubisoft formula (go to new area and climb the tower to unlock the map) after a full game the map is full of icons, for me it always ends up feeling more like a chore (the 100% stuff). In my opinion Elden rings take on the freedom was more exemplary (it even made AAA developers mad that it worked) No indicators or towers to climb for a map, you could wander around and find the map of the area in a chest or at some waypoint next to the road; And it is just a map (a simple paper map with some nice designs). That was the only game I took the time to learn the layout of the world, mostly because the beautifully crafted world.

i did exactly that in dmc 5 tbh, i killed big bad boss at the beginning which tooke me hours and i got the credit roll just like that, then i played it again like a normal gamer. it was fun to say the least.

Inscryption looks really cool but the only part I really think looks fun/cool is the first area. The rest seems fine aesthetically and it's really interesting narratively but the first area is so cool that I wish that there was a whole game that was just that.

Batman Arkham asylum when the scarecrow shatters the fourth wall. How people don’t consider that one of the freakier moments in gaming, I’ll never understand. That left me feeling vulnerable for a while thinking I can’t trust anything I see anymore.

I greatly appreciate that Phantom Liberty spoiler warning. Keep on being high quality!

Gradius series well fit the final boss video game-breaking rule. Even the first game has introduced a surprisingly easy final boss that doesn't move or attack, and it's been a tradition since (aside a few exceptions, can't remember which ones): increasingly difficult levels and bosses (later games also have boss rush stage), then the final stage is always a base/lair with a weak final boss waiting at the end of the level. Too bad they don't make Gradius games anymore...

Five Nights at Freddy's 1 has a similar crash thing to Pizza Tower with the 1987 Easter Egg. Where you set the animatronic AI in Night 7 to 1-9-8-7 and then on PC the game will have Golden Freddy Jumpscare you and crash your game before the night even starts. Console and Mobile ports take you to the main menu.

You ever play Asura’s Wrath? I didn’t know it was presented like weekly television episodes. So the first time the credits rolled i thought the game was over and it was the shortest game ever😂

I intuit the writers behind Phantom Liberty will be pleased to see that what they did has been noticed. There was some genuinely beautiful writing in that DLC and the fact that a great part of it is interactive and another one "feels" interactive is a great feat.

im gonna say that phantom liberty just missed the point of the other ending where no matter someone loses. And then every single romance options and other important characters either forgot about V or just moved on. V was going to die no matter what, the aldecados ending will always be canon to me

"Pizza tower is anticapitalist" Finally the Falcon +Peter Coffin crossover episode Iykyk

FarCry's easter egg edgings in 4 and 6 are arguably the best endings you can get for your player character. In 4 you end up doing what you came to do and not turning the country into worse place. In 6 you end up escaping and chilling out on a beach in Florida, sure the rebels fail but you don't have to go through all the trauma and you get out of the country to make a new better life for your self.

I know it's a game but driving a forklift like that with a crate brought me back to the real world lol

Inscription definitely broke the rules and messed with you

I've been watching a lot of Gameranx videos and I'm just curious... does Falcon do this all unscripted? His narration of these videos is so amusing and hilarious.

Literally everyone knows about the Farcry 4 short ending by now

"it's damp squib, frankly im shocked you've gotten this far in life without knowing that" "everyone has blindspots your honor!" omg he did it to us hahahah

oh, when Undertale crashed my only thought was "WTF?? NOW YOU CRASH" and it took me some time to boot it up again and understand that it was not a bug.

Imagine being an actual forklift operator, going home and booting up Shenmue and the next part of the game is the forklift operation lmao

You missed so much regarding Frog Fractions that would have been perfect for this list. RPG World, the game hidden in Glittermitten Grove is not Frog Fractions 2, it's actually Frog Fractions 3. The game's creator considers the ARG that unlocked that hidden game as FF2. Later on, Frog Fractions got a Steam release, including DLC that gives the frog a hat. This DLC is actually Frog Fractions 4. After beating it, you unlock a new game that is considered Frog Fractions 5.

Can we get a beastie boys like mix of jake and the falcon going back and fourth in one of these countdown videos that would be fire.

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