Hey Dad, how did you feel about Quantum Break? ⌚

My Dad passed away two weeks ago and I hadn't watched a video of yours since. The "Hey Dad, it's me, your favorite son" intro definitely hits different but in a good way

I actually pre-ordered Quantum Break for the Xbox One despite not even having an Xbox One because I love Remedy’s work and wanted to support them. Managed to borrow an Xbox One from a friend and got every achievement and lore bit and everything in a single gaming session. What a ride! Gave the Xbox One back to my friend obviously but I still have the game and the steelbook for it in my collection!

There's also a prophecy twist that's easy to miss. Paul knows the little oopsie caused by Will's interference at the start causes a fracture, but the end of time comes years after his foreknowledge of events ends and he simply assumed that _this_ fracture is _the_ fracture that causes the end of time. Nothing says it couldn't be fixed only for another fracture to happen years later, leading to the end of time he saw. He never cottons on to this mistake, so this is why various Monarch-affiliated characters make comments about how the stutters are happening way faster than they expected and why Paul ultimately 'has' to activate the lifeboat protocol early; they'd all assumed the fracture would progress very slowly and take years to lead to the end of time, but that's not the way it works; a fracture leads to the end of time in just a couple of days. And so we come to 48:10, where it must be possible to change things because they just did... except no, they didn't. Jack and Will using the countermeasure to fix the fracture is simply another part of the closed loop. They were always meant to fix the fracture, they always do and always did fix the fracture... _this_ fracture. There's another one coming, and they haven't truly changed the future. I really liked this game and it's sad we'll probably never get a sequel, although admittedly some of that is it's simply interesting comparing it to other time travel stories. In some ways it feels like it's Legacy of Kain but heavily compressed; you'd half-expect the sequel to reveal that it's possible to make changes by bringing the same object or person into close proximity with it/themself in a different time period. It's almost deliberately the antithesis of Back to the Future, most time travel stories do the opposite of that and establish stable time loops as having always happened, whereas in BttF there is a "first" instance of someone going back in time and the loop didn't exist beforehand, but the extreme that Quantum Break takes it to is noteworthy, right down to how they don't even use the phrase "stable time loop" and instead say "it must be a closed loop."

Many of Remedy's games could be described as a bit janky in places. But if you can just move past the jank they are experiences for sure. I have played games that controlled better, had better mechanics, better shooting and felt great at the time of playing.... but most of them I have forgotten. Alan Wake, Quantum Brake... those I still remember. Also, the number of Remedy games that could actually have the potential to make really good movies it pretty staggering :)

"I was in a dark place, and there was a dark man there. His name was Mr. Door, and he told me that there are many worlds - side-by-side, on top of each other, some inside of others. In one world, there was a writer who wrote a story about a cop. In another world, the cop was real. Door said he himself was in all of them at the same time, endlessly shifting between them." I was late to the Quantum Break party, having written it off at the time due to lack of interest and complaints of technical issues, but picked it up when I wanted to prepare for Control. I was glad I eventually picked it up though, I really liked the story and the characters and the time mechanics were fun. It's not a 10 out of 10 but it's definitely worth picking up.

you make such excellent videos, son. I'm glad I found your channel. I also appreciate that you upload on sundays as it's a nice way to chill on sundays. looking forward to your next work

the thing is Paul really isn't a villain, just a person that lost hope and thinks that nothing can be done and just wants to save the few people that he can in his lifeboat and thinks that Jack's actions will sabotage it you can push him to be more ruthless with the junction decisions and his desease makes him more crazy by the end, but it's not like he wants the time to stop or has some other evil plan

Love that your videos don't end with a smash cut to your face and differently mixed voice work or any other jarring starts or stops - it makes them awesome background videos for when I'm vibing. So many others will suddenly try to catch my whole attention whether I can spare it or not and it takes away from their rewatchability. I'm happy to lie on the couch and listen to your work with my eyes closed after a long day, or complete work to them, or clean the house to them, long after I've watched them properly and got everything I should have out of them on a surface level. Basically keep making good thoughtful stuff that doubles as ASMR, thank you!

42:02 Beth/Jesse holding Polaris...nice!

I'm hooked on your channel. Great stuff. I'm excited every time I see your new episode is posted. Thanks for all your hard work.

39:10 Just got the idea that the device the team used to avoid being affected by time is the same that FBCs team use to avoid being affected by the Hiss

Pretty awesome game but im more in love with the Remedy universe that connects , Alan Wake and Control, I hope that Remedy can one day reacquire the right for Quantum Break and Max Payne so they can connect those games with Control and Alan Wake as well. Also great video and awesome job son.

Son, i've been really enjoying these videos lately, and have been going on a tear through your content. Your videos are so perfect for when i'm studying or working. Keep up the great work son.

It's pretty heavily hinted, especially with a note addressed to Jack in the final act of the game, that Martin Hatch is actually a Shifter, and probably the Shifter you see in that act shredding up Monarch soldiers. I can't remember the exact details but I think he's existed on earth for thousands of years, using some chronon event in a cave to travel from the end of time into our world. EDIT: Welp, that's what I get for commenting before the end of the video lol

Longform poetry, my friend… you’re a skilled creator and one of my favorite retrospective channels. You have a soothing cadence that makes digesting your thoughts easy.

Amazing retrospective as always Can't wait to hear you tackle Control (my favorite 2019 game)

Probably my favourite notification to get on youtube these days son, is another of your videos. Probably my favourite long-form creator, thanks for all you do mate.

Hey Son, I love your videos. I lay down & go to sleep to them almost every night. I was wondering if you were planning on doing a series on Resident Evil at all in the future. I loved your Silent Hill series and RE is my favorite franchise. Thanks, much love.

Always good to see your videos.

Was just rewatching the Deus Ex retrospective again for the 500th time and got the notification for this, what an amazing Sunday morning! Time to sit back with my coffee and enjoy some great analysis from my favorite son!

been waiting for this for a long time. Excellent recap and analysis of the game design. Is Control next?

Can't wait to watch this fully tonight. Thanks for more binge content, son.

Literally just finished QB a few hours ago, fantastic timing! Keep it up son!

Great, and very underrated, underappreciated game, sadly mostly forgotten nowadays.

Interesting bit of trivia for you. Shawn Ashmore and Brooke Nevin have actually worked together in the past. They played cousins Jake and Rachel in the tv show Animorphs, which was based on the YA book series of the same name.

Something I just noticed is that the AWE in Alan Wake happened in 2010, while the Fracture happens in 2013. So unless the TV production company shot the show and waited almost 4 years to broadcast it that means at some point between Alan Wake had to have left the Dark Place. Either that or the Alan Wake we see in the trailer for the show "Return" isn't even Alan at all, because in Control they FBC has notes stating that Alan Wake hasn't been sighted in nearly a decade, and makes no reference to the show. Which honestly I'm gonna just chalk up to a story writing goof cause when you involve time travel in a shared universe shit just gets totally fucked.

Love you vids! Keep it up 👍 not sure if it's your bag, but as a recommendation I suggest the Darksiders series for retrospective review

Hey Son, great video proud of you.

Sunday, perfect time to relax and enjoy another masterful crafted video of my favourite son 🥰

As always, a well crafted video! I did enjoy the game at the time. The TV show was ok but it was a bit frustrating to wait 30min to be able to continue playing. A good Remedy game in my book, with tons of potential for more stories... One can hope...

This is great and all son, but I can't put a video on the fridge. What am I supposed to do, buy one of those smart fridges? Do you think money grows on trees? Great video as always lol.

I'm really glad that you explained that there wasn't a TV show for this because I have been avoiding the game until I could find the show so that I would have some way to at least try to understand the plot since I figured it would involve separate dimensions or time travel from the title.

The aesthetic of monarch’s laboratories and weird time travel equipment was some of my favorite sci-fi artistic direction ever

I definitely want to check Quantum Break out sometime. I’ve heard from a lot of people that it can be frustrating with BS sections, but same goes for Control, and I freaking loved that game, so.

Great overview

My most pressing question about their closed loop theory is.....how do you know it's a closed loop or if they simply don't know how to change time?

When it comes to Remedy games, we need to remember is where they shine is narrative and their shared universe. Cam Rogers btw wrote a novelization of the game to flesh out the stuff that got cut out. [which im planning to narrate since no audiobook exists]

son you really made me proud with making this video of such a gem. it may not be a gem to others but it sure is a gem for me! thank you for this.

Thank you! This game is fascinating.

I like it a lot, perfect sunday afternoon schlock.

My one complaint about this game was probably the individual cooldowns as opposed to the energy pool that was shown in the e3 demo.

You definitely explained this better than the game does. A genuinely interesting plot hidden away.

I loved this game, the thing I liked the most was the narrative, TBH I don't really care a lot about most games unless the story is interesting and this one hook me instantly. The thing I loved the most about the game was how the mixed the "mini series" between nodes, the cast was super good and very well translated into the in-game characters.

I forgot about this game! I liked it but it definitely was not perfect but the story was really cool.❤thanks for covering this!

I’d just like to say that quantum break is one of the greatest games I’ve ever played, it may not be the best with certain mechanics, but IMO it is the only game to truly perfect the multimedia sort of FMV game that was so popular in the past (I’m a sucker for FMV’s so maybe I’m a bit biased) So sad that we lost Lance Reddick so soon RIP. He was one of the greatest antagonists in media history to me, anyways if you’re still reading this I’m not sure why, but have a great day.

Can't wait for Control

I just finished the game for the first time yesterday. Nice timing son.

Great game, under rated. Thank you for doing this video.

Interesting how they brought back Actress Courtney Hope the one who plays Beth in the game and brought her back in the next game Control as the main character Jessie Faden even though Remedy likes to keep every game connected or almost in the same unverse.

I finally finished watching this. Just a few comments. I think the junctions are more interesting than they seem. Perhaps a sub par execution but once it clicks for you, it clicks. Paul is an antagonist, but not a bad person. His larger goal is the same as Jack's, prevent the end of, well, everything even time itself. What each of yhe characters think they know, their assumptions about the things they have seen, that is what changes thus changing how they go about trying to address the end of it all. So when playing him, the choice should be less about doing the choice as paul or for convenience, but actually more about what you think could help save the world somehow. Because that is what william would do, jack would do, and monarch would do, and paul would do. Just pharsed by what one knows. But it is also a clear indication that changing bug thujgs might be hard, lot of work needs to be done... but not impossible. The first one where you chose tonkill someone or not is that clue. That choice is very much a drastic change to one person's life, literywether it continues and so does her ability to contribute to any future events after that point - small in comparison to whooe world and hjiverse, but big to her own self world and still major forhe microcosmos of friends and family and the people she interact ls daily, or would have done so if she lives. To me, this symbolizes that Paul's "great men" approach to history is just false, that is him or Beth or anyone else trying the "I alone will change it all in one single trip to the past" approach sees time as immutable. A single person on a handful of trips, no matter gow "great" the person, will still only have the impact of one person doing a few trips in a world of billions of lives shaping history and each other all at once all the time. That is not gonna cut. You a collective approach, or at least a whole more lotta jumps to the padt... or both.

Thanks for the new context YFS! Did you get a chance to play the new RE4 remake son? Did you ever consider a RE retrospective at some point?

I just played Quantum Break and can't fathom why people think the logic behind this game works. The future I created himself by going back into the past, and it is so funny when people say how good the Remedy did by sticking to the logic of "past can't be changed". In the game what was the original past? If there isn't one it means he wouldn't be in the past if he wasn't in the past and he always being in the past is just illogical. If there is one then he somehow changed the past which is not only illogical but also contradicts the whole idea that the past can't be changed.

I remember everyone who played Quantum Break I knew said it wasn't that good. I've always wanted to try it though. At some point I will.

This is a superb game with an amazing story! Time travel with no paradoxes. Just finished the game, and I'm already reading the book Quantum Break: Zero State 🤩

Command and Conquer did stuff like this way back in the day. Excellent mesh of game and show. Not as memeable as Command and Conquer live action characters but still legendary

Been meaning to buy this for a while now, finally went to last week and for some reason, its no longer for sale

I remember a game called defiance that had a TV show that took place alongside it.

Amazing game. Before it's time, really.

Whenever jackspeticeye made a video on this game I thought it was amazing definitely gotta replay it sometime

Great video son, I'm proud of you and the quality of your work is exemplary.

35:55 Wait! It's the Oldest House? The life boat protocol is the oldest house from Control?

Dang it son! I want to watch this video but it's a Remedy game that I have been delaying on playing for years now! Gaaaah this isn't fair!

I'm proud of you, son. But you are still grounded.

I will watch the video later. I liked this game. I checked my achievements and it seems I have all but one which is fish the game on hard. If you like time manipulation, give it a chance. Also this game did it right trying to avoid pitfalls connected to manipulating time.

It's one of those games I've seen people play from start to finish but I couldn't tell people anything about it. It just...exists. It doesn't even fit well into Remedy's own narrative universe, given the worldbuilding Control set up connecting it to Alan Wake.

53:35 Mr Door.

Excited to learn about this game I've never heard of. Thanks for not being afraid to focus on games that aren't super mainstream.

Beth wasn't bullied in childhood due to her being Time-Weird. Her favourite band is freakin' TOTO. If I thought about it enough, I could build a solid in-game case that we all have to travel back in time to PREVENT TOTO from happening. Thanks, Son. That helped.

Some reason i think they wrote charlie for wil wheaton to do but couldnt get him so used Marshall

THIS video is how I find out that Lance Reddick has passed? Damn 😢 "RIP Big Dog" tipped me off to something I was not ready for

Thanks for another great video, son! (P.S. Tell your mother to return my calls please)

liam doesn't die in the control route, his suit is just heavily damage from the fight and stops working.

Now remedy needs to combine elements from Quantum Break and Control

This was a very fun game. Just beat it yesterday. Glad it was on gamepass.

I finished this game last week and absolutely loved it, can’t believe some people said it wasn’t worth it. Remedy never misses for me.

Sone rises over the skies in shared remedy universe once again!

Waiting on Alan wake 2 IVE WAITED SO LONG THEY BETTER NOT FAIL US

It’s so weird how Microsoft wasn’t interested in the Alan wake 2 project but they were very interested in the live action cutscene aspect of it

Thank you son

Holy... As I'm finishing up a 11 month old retrospective of Quantum Break, you upload a video as well. How's that for coincidence? Damn, son

My only problem with this game, we all get disappointed by the ending and then we find out the main story is hidden behind collectible notes.

Remedy is now laughing at Microsoft with the recent release of the masterpiece sequel to Alan Wake.

I want to play this game on PS4 SO badly !

Not feeling this game, but man they are ambitious. Respect! And RIP LAnce Reddick.

Control is next I take it, son?

I enjoyed this video

great video, would love to see a nier/drakengard series :)

I loved this game.

40:51 I think they chose 9/11 because Sam Lake really likes New York and 9/11 was the biggest tragedy in the history of that city.

NISAN OUT OF TEN!!!

After I finished watching the TV show, all I thought was I didn't need to watch them at all.

Son, as a new father (your step sister) thank you for dropping a new video while I've got my hands full!

Keep it up favorite son🎉🎉

Lance Riddick was rad in Toys R Me.

This game hits way different after playing Alan Wake 2.

Man I want this to come to PC.

I like gamer😅 used to live it when younger and enjoy the ruins for what it is 🤷 As for quantum break.... I like it probably my 3rd favourite remedy game behind max Payne 2 (3 is the best but 🤷) and Alan wake. Tried control a few time and always give up on it

Was super confused as to why everyone was calling this guy son until I saw the name lmao

Kind of sucks that they made you have to read the notes to understand the full story as most people would not read those because generally in other games the notes is just bonus information.