Agree. It definitely helps define Pat as a more research-focused reviewer, something that really shouldn't be a USP, but here we are.

It's like when people do playthroughs and they explain/ speedrunning tips and lore alongside (IE: Volvagia with old Zelda games). It just makes it more complete and better.

Im not a fan of it personally, but it doesn't put me off or anything. Personal preference I suppose

It's great especially where it matters. Doing a review of games like Spec Ops: The Line or Halo 2 without at least touching on the history of the studio would be making a fundamentally incomplete review, I think, but I'm also very much an author's intent type person.

@@eazyv2069 I totally understand the appeal, just not high on my personal priority list for whatever reason

Are they telepathically controlled or did they just replace voiceomms with telepathy. Because if they are telepathically controlled, all of them, why would they need to talk to each other if it's basically a hivemind

@@eccomi21 they can only receive telepathic orders from Fettel. But the clones themselves cannot send any telepathic messeges. It's a one way thing, clones cannot telepathically communicate.

@@eccomi21 it's not a hive mind clones might recieve orders but they can't send anything that's why squads use radios and why they have command clones

@@Warhammer_lover @eccomi And when Fettel's killed, the replicas all go catatonic, which seems pretty sensible as a safety feature against him going nuts...

You should have finished the game.its worth it ✌️

It's pretty much down to the AI guy and the level design guy working together like they were a married couple. Combine that with the intelligent choice of voicing way more context-sensitive barks than normal and having really satisfying particle & dynamic lighting effects, and gun battles in this game are just a treat.

analytical doesn't mean autistic hihi anal

It came off as severely autistic my dude but it was also super cool and wholesome. I'm glad you pointed it out

super autistic

it does

I find that neat personally, don't really care if you came off as autistic or not, liking the small details is always a good thing.

also the horror and paranormal is the part of the story. there's no "you're hallucinating" it is happening in their world because of alma so yeah when phantoms are rushing towards you it's not scary but it is happening as well as irritating and apparently they can hurt you people tend to say "yeah there's horror and it doesn't work" but horror is like nudity or harsh language - it doesn't have to fuck your mind and you can tell a story without them but when you add them it's a delicate balance between making it a part of the world and story or being cringe while of trying to be edgy for the sake of being edgy.

Check out John Woo

I would actually second this.

@@danielfarr1971 Viva Piñata is unbelievably underrated and needs attention

Have you ever played Ultrakill? If you have not, and you can at least tolerate PS1-esque style, consider to give it a go. It's cheap, short, but boy oh boy it's amazing. It's densely packed with action, dynamic, kinda brutal and hella fun to play. It's feels like DOOM (2016) but on steroids

@@VasiliyOgniov Thanks for the recommendation. Sounds very interesting, I might actually try it out

@@VasiliyOgniov I assume by uberkill you mean ultrakill, right?

@@ijones36 Yeah, im sorry. Dumb mistake, fixed

I bought it yeeeears ago and 1 or 2 friends got it alongside me, but never wanted to play. So alone I went. Aaaand it was dead lol, barely anyone playing. The concept of changing objectives mid mission was so cool, too bad it didn't last. ps.: and he's probably only mentioning it because he researched the studio lol.

this game is so obscure, that googling 'Section 8' will return some legal stuff occupying many first entries. The game doesn't appear until result 5 or 6.

I played the multiplayer demo back in the day. The game definitely intrigued me, but the gameplay didn’t really grab me, IIRC. I do wish the unique spawning system and changing objectives were implemented in a better game. Like, imagine having ODST-style drop pods for a Halo game type. Like, if you could turn that on as a Custom Games setting, or have it be something you can Forge with.

I think a decent summation would be that the horror doesn't touch the mechanics, and is instead purely aesthetic.

You are the first person I know to call soma a great horror game. I appreciate its story and there certainly is body horror. But it never scared me

@@eccomi21 Your personal experience is irrelevant to the discussion (as is mine). What makes SOMA great is the superb lighting and environments mixed together with the enemy design and exploration. Wanting to discover more about Pathos II and the people there while hunted by creepy monsters in the dimly lit station makes for quite a tense atmosphere. Frictional preferred playing with people's minds more than showing jumpscare after jumpscare (at least before Rebirth...) and it shows in SOMA, their main goal was the story and having it and the questions it raises linger in your mind long after you stop playing. If Amnesia TDD profited most from game play (light management, mostly), SOMA profits far more in literally every other department since visuals, monsters, story and puzzles were all greatly improved, but light and inventory management were dropped (one could argue it made the game less "gamey" and more immersive as a result). I think those improvements more than made up for that relative lack of game play depth. It seems to me that SOMA wasn't really a game for everyone, as pretentious as that may sound. What is undeniable is the fact that it flew over a majority of reviewers heads who then made crap videos about it which in turn misled their audiences, and Frictional suffered as a result.

@@totallynuts7595 soma is a great game especially story wise, but what i mean to say is that it is not a great horror game. mainly for the reason that it is easy to avoid enemies, and even if you get caught you just wake up where you got caught. there is no penalty, there is nothing to be scared about if you will. i want to compare that to subnautica, a game that is not necessarily marketed as a horror game but leans into it in the later stages of the game. what makes it scary is that theres actual meaning to getting caught and dying, you can lose progress in form of farmed ressources, vehicles or simply distance travled. pair that with the deep sea swimming which means you dont only need to worry about what is in front or behind you, but also what is above and below you. What i am trying to say is, Risk=scary, no risk=not scary that is sort of factual. if you are still scared by soma, you are probably just easily scared and then even exploring a cave in minecraft can be unsettling, but at least even there is risk of dying/losing progress involved.

@@eccomi21 Shouldn't the fear for your life be enough for you to want to not be caught? And as I previously said, the risk you take during a monster encounter is that you go out of your way to play the encounter for longer in order to explore. You actively put yourself in danger for that. You are penalised when you get caught. You start limping. You move slower. If you get caught again, before you get a chance to heal, you die and have to reload a save. How hard should it be to avoid enemies? Gimme another game for comparison's sake. In SOMA I distinctly recall enemies "guarding" the places I needed to get to and most of the time those places weren't simply exits, you couldn't just run past them. Anecdotal evidence, but towards the end of the game there is an encounter with what seemed to me to be a monster in a diving suit, in a very cramped space and it first spawns pretty much in front of you. You have 3 or so distinct areas that you have to get through while hunted by this foe, but the exits are slow to open. What I ended up doing was run around with that guy on my tail waiting for the doors to open. This was a far more aggressive enemy compared to the others, hiding was not effective for very long. If you care, what I find unsettling about Minecraft is how lonely and lifeless the caves feel, I find losing my items frustrating, if anything. Again, an important thing to note is that Frictional are well aware that death in games is more frustrating than scary, they don't want you to fail every section of the game because that would likely not be engaging. Instead, they play with your mind, as I said, using the atmosphere.

It's a drag until the bomb drops and then it picks up from there.

That is until you realize you are on the chopper by end of extraction point that got you killed

​@@Frostwolf_103i dont think it s the same chopper but thats a cool idea

@@MrStinkels Betters is obviously dead too, but it could be continuity mistake. Betters was on that Military plane that crashed down the street where you can access the subway entrance in both Extraction Point and Perseus Mandate.

Holy shit that's so cool

But it did

It looked pretty good on my modern display, but yeah I remember when digital monitors were first popping up and noticing how bad black spaces looked.

This

I never got caught off by the horror moments in FEAR, they only bored me because you get slowed down, and sometimes I wasn't even looking in the right direction

looking forward to that video this man makes the best reviews I've seen ever.

also he sais he is aiming for 11/11 date to realise skyrim vid

@@roach7191 That's gay. I want it this month.