Yeah facts

Yeah, it was painful to watch.

it's how he plays games like this, unfortunately. he wants to test the limits of the game's parameters, and doesn't acknowledge things that are intended to draw any empathy or affection for characters.

He really hates lore for some reason.

just because he clicks fast through dialog?

I was about to type this same thing.

I've never seen a man more guilty of avarice crimes

literally just said fuck it and am playing myself this is unbearable to watch

Amen to that. Totally on board

I really liked when K8 popped in and translated the Korean stuff, shit like that feels so comfy.

it's bc i dont think he plans on making a full series, was just testing the game out and showcasing it

thornforging it, baby.

i don't pay attention to reputation myself, making money and doing correct appraisals is more important

the game should let you play more before the lore

@@cultoftyler9045 Yeah. Papers, Please feels like a game with some very interesting lore attached and incorporated into the game. This feels more like lore with a game attached.

@@alecp6265 I also think that paper's please intergrates it's lore a bit more slowly, giving you little bits as the days go by and letting you actually play the game and get used to the mechanics before the lore starts taking more of a focus

@@Ihasnotomato While I agree with your comment, I'd say lore typically refers to non-gameplay-relevant background information while story/narrative refers to what's actually going on with your character and impacting the game. Papers Please has hardly any lore and keeps the events/information focused from your character's perspective. You figure out the situation naturally by dealing with a shady organisation rather than reading about one. In that sense, I think this game focuses too heavily on telling you things rather than showing them (e.g. the robot on the counter.)

he's just like me for real

I don’t know, I would still give it to Square Boys Pizza.

One of the last places I'd have expected to find a Smosh reference

there's still time

retirement goals

I feel like he would be an excellent shop owner For me to poop on

BASED

One of the few I've had to stop watching. I love him, but this was just someone smashing the keys. It's a little disrespectful to the game really.

knowing nl's usual performance in SAP, thats saying a lot...

@@carloshenriquemorais250 SAP videos are kino, though

Capitalism Ho!

There's too much front end lore for him IMO

Woah good call, sounds like a perfect fit.

It gets introduced later on, you can hide up to 2 cards from the customer, though doing that too much hurts your reputation and gets you reported as a criminal

@@gray007nl ah thanks, I was so confused what the loop of this game was supposed to be since fro what I seeing in this video its only inspecting an item and then clicking the according buttons over and over. No player decision at all.

that's why game devs should not introduce mechanics via super wordy text segments

All the text was initially written in Korean and then translated to English.

It all stems from 'exotic' orientalism, tiger economies, and the Japanese economic miracle. It's guaranteed that Asian economies will eclipse the West within 5-6 years, though, simply thanks to China's huge population base and willingness to build infrastructure.

@@gooel it's not even close to being guaranteed

@@alexjones4219 I'll happily take your money if you want to bet. It'd be like betting against America after WW2. Mature manufacturing infrastructure, a surfeit of labour, churning out engineers and academics the way we churn out lawyers now. Not to mention Afghanistan's resources, ripe for the taking, and right next door. China plays the long game, yes indeed.

@@gooel While I appreciate your insight I feel you don’t know as much as what you’re talking about as you’d believe. I can’t honestly see anyone securing resources in Afghanistan for the next generation, and I doubt the deeply religiously conservative political landscape would appreciate Chinese investment. Furthermore, your comparison to the USA after WW2 is not fair in the slightest: it was already competing with the industries of Europe before the war, and emerged completely untouched by the devastation that characterised Europe.

@@Whatsuppbuddies On the contrary, the Taliban-controlled Afghanistan is all-to-glad to have a reliable investor, in contrast to the countries that have been bombing, drone striking, and murdering civilians for the past 20 years. I don't say this out of love for China (I would much rather that North America find economic success and dominance), but it's simple economics. As you say, the US had an incredible advantage over the rest of the world in terms of their manufacturing capabilities post-WW2. All of that infrastructure is now in China. Even with economic sanctions (which would hurt the sanctioning countries as much as China, if not more so), China's domestic market is larger than a dozen trading partners combined. Barring some sort of 'quantum leap' tech breakthrough from another country, I genuinely feel that it is foolish to bet against China over the next decade.

you can't change the card after the deal has been made, so most of the time it's better to let them know so you can resell at a higher price later.

@@aquadrious I feel like that's a missed opportunity game design wise.

@@shadethenovice more mechanics along those lines of hiding information are introduced later; but doing it too much hurts your rep/can get you reported.

@@shadethenovice Worth noting, the appraisal you give it and what you can sell it for has nothing to do with each other Even if you wrongly appraise something for 30V but it is actually worth 5V, no one is gonna buy it for 30V But appraising wrongly also drops your reputation and appraisal bonuses Raising a price also makes clients happy and more relaxed in terms of what prices they will accept, i have gotten customers to accept less than 50% of the item's worth because "they are happy" that the value went up

This video is from a year ago

@@K4lamazu LOL. smh

Except you can't skip lore in this game, since you need to remember a lot of stuff for future decisions, even the smaller details are important for knowing what you should and shouldn't do, and not just regarding the bartering mechanics

just take it as entertainment rather than a deep role-playing experience

@@luigisapartment I think they're taking it as entertainment too. I think OP has a fair complaint. I'm on the fence about NL skipping lore sometimes (and this time, I can't really blame him. I hear the game concept and skipped the beginning of the video/weird hub world stuff and just want to see the pawn store stuff), but I don't think it's fair to just dismiss a genuine complaint. Not like OP was an ass about it, and it seems like they enjoy NL, just had a rough time in this one video.

Not just story driven, but knowing the story is required, really easy to get a game over later on when you are presented with choices and don't know what to do You essentially end up playing by trial and error

Oh, you get a LOT of shit you have to pay, later on they introduce special taxes, you have to give away most if not all your money if you are "suspected" of being greedy, etc And good luck ending up with enough money to run the shop at all, i think that you are inteded to take all loans the game throws at you cuz i see no other way to get past day 6

lmao this got a heart