Nice nice but my most fav is metroid prime 2 echos i would love a remaster of that one
@mikesales533956 минут бұрын
5:23 me sitting in the basement watching this video :O
@foxshoot3138Сағат бұрын
I mean kratos was an asshole that things that been an asshole will give him retribution in the end afther all he do there was nothing if he dlnt push himself to these points tjen all he do before was meaningles If you see by the point in gow 3 he was already soo depp in this that he started to just kill and push because then the gods just win?? In the end his anger just blind him, he has a point in the last part with the girl he seee.
@mikesales5339Сағат бұрын
9:40 squirrel stapler is a comedy first, horror second kind of game which makes both parts stronger in a weird way.
@cowhale24882 сағат бұрын
Thank you for appreciating Elden Beast. I love it so much. The final boss of the game is just gorgeous (the music, the arena, the boss, the animations, everything) Not to mention how fitting it is to fight the original form of the Elden Ring in a game titled Elden Ring
@shinobishinpads63132 сағат бұрын
yo your videos are fucking incredible man, amazing analyses
@joseph82983 сағат бұрын
Not exactly master
@aflockofconnivingmagpies34903 сағат бұрын
I have a theory for the whole Marika & Radagon thing. Given the game's constant symbology of grafting tress, 2 things becoming 1 and whatnot what I think has happened with those two is much like how you'd graft a branch to a tree I think Marika actually possesses radagon's body on some level I mean the line of "you have yet to become me" seems to suggest that they were previously 2 separate entities that became one. This arrangement worked out fine until the shattering in which they came into conflict and began to fight with each other for control over their now shared body, I think however Radagon in the end won as he had the backing of the elden beast itself (or maybe he was possessed directly by the elden beast) but before that Marika recalled the tarnished in the hopes that one would fell Radagon and become her new, host her new "elden lord". As to how Marika even has the power to do this, I'm uncertain but I think this possible ability to take over the bodies of others is what has earned her the title of the eternal, whatever she has done she has inextricably tied her soul and her will up in the influence the greater will has over the lands between. That's what I think is going on there at least.
@thedarkknight7273 сағат бұрын
FatBrett: Could you do a video about Spec Ops: The Line.
@aircraftcarrierwo-class5 сағат бұрын
I kind of love how there is a whole cult that worships Ted Faro as a savior but when they finally actually get to meet him, he's so misshapen by the horror of his choices that they refuse to recognize him and instead reject and murder him. There's something incredibly poetic about that.
@KulHadar5 сағат бұрын
Hard disagree on Fires of Raven being a bad ending. Coral is change but it also represents a total loss of humanity as per the Alea Iacta Est ending. If you value humanity as it is, despite the problems it has, then I would argue Fires of Raven is the good ending. That you're choosing to make a big sacrifice to save the species. Alea Iacta Est not only changes humanity at a fundamental level, it also doesn't imply that things are any better. At the very end of the Alea Iacta Est cutscene Ayre says combat systems ready, like your AC interface does at the start of every mission, so you're still fighting presumably. And Liberator of Rubicon is a kick the can kind of ending, where yes you've freed Rubicon from corpo and govt influence, but you haven't actually made a decision about how to deal with the change Coral represents.
@aaronhall90776 сағат бұрын
That outro was unexpectedly funny :) Great video overall, very interesting.
@domezasrekh37756 сағат бұрын
Aztel is a fallen star-entity the people of the eternal cities tried to mold into their own Elder Beast. It didn't work.
@devnull-dz3gj6 сағат бұрын
Well, guess the same would happen, if you shoot a bunch of Bezoes, Musks, Jack Mas, among others, into space to become "gods".
@frenchspice81896 сағат бұрын
Do you think you'd ever do rdr2? Dutch and his manipulation tactics would be so fun to listen to you dissect
@antoniolewit78527 сағат бұрын
Custom robo is one of those games where the meme “the boss when you fight it vs the boss when you unlock it as a playable character” does not adhere
@garvindreis7 сағат бұрын
Video: No sacrifice was too great. Death Korp of Kreig: We would like to know your location...
@prateekkumar8687 сағат бұрын
Sealed god of rot is the peak cosmic horror in land between. Just thinking about there is a god sealed in these ruins who can still influence the outer world by manifesting inside the child of queen marika, the goddess herself sent a chill down by spine.
@edocat268 сағат бұрын
😮❤
@kentonkyuubininefox92648 сағат бұрын
I don't think heimdall can actually read minds, I think he is so good at reading people that everyone just says he can read minds.
@GirlDickGang8 сағат бұрын
Brok going what the fuck never stops being amusing to me, god i love swears
@thelil13318 сағат бұрын
One thing that I find sad that I just realised now is that Atreus didn't even atend Brok's funeral. (Sorry for the bad english btw)
@AngstUrnacht9 сағат бұрын
Maybe it’s just my personal taste but I personally got nothing cosmic horror from Elden ring whatsoever. I played all of the souls games before and Bloodborne is my favorite fromsoft game to date because of how well it does cosmic horror in my opinion; Elden Ring rehashed many tropes of the previous games which almost made its lore predictable which I think is the main issue with cosmic horror today. You cannot keep doing the same thing over and over again and expect it to remain horrific in a sense embodying what is unknown. I think part of it is also gameplay - Elden ring makes teleporting and escaping environments so easy that it’s hard to be "scared" when you can just teleport out, unlike in Bloodborne for example where the only way to escape a scary area is to give up all echoes (and still have to traverse it eventually) or push through.
@duhotatoday32779 сағат бұрын
Notice, that Zelda saying that Calamity Ganon had given up on reincarnation is a translation error btw. In Japanese she says the opposite. The localisation is a mess as a whole.
@BigHeadClan9 сағат бұрын
I see that DBZ reference near the end of the video. Well played sir. Honestly a fantastic review on the story and concepts of Elden Ring as a whole. It’s the best and worst aspects of the game because it’s just so much lore thrown at the player and we are rarely told the whole truth by characters in game.
@tambow1310 сағат бұрын
love how you say all people who drink are losers, good way to judge everyone on your own problems.
@deifiedtitan10 сағат бұрын
You’ve lost me in your unreality section, specifically with regard to things like Yarnham burning. You can still have thematic elements make sense and not (seemingly) contradict the things that you yourself as the author put into the work. The issue with taking refuge in thematics or absurdity is that it can be used to justify basically anything when in actuality the idea that emotional impact and internal logic of the subject matter are somehow a dichotomy is false. Pointing out these things doesn’t immediately render the settings unsalvageable or even particularly flawed, but you would specifically have to know the creative intent to state definitively that any a decision by the author was made for thematic reasons (at which point the argument is whether they succeeded with that implementation or even just subjectively if you like the sort if choice they made). Tl;dr - Refuge in thematics is too often used to justify poor execution. It’s okay to expect better, especially when interpretations of themes are external to the work itself and can’t be relied on to justify the decision to a third party.
@OmegaUberDeathbot10 сағат бұрын
Pssssst... It wasn't Sepheroth at Shinra or any other location till he is given the black materia. They are jenova clones in the form of Sepheroth. Since Sepheroth has overpowered the will of Jenova when he fell into the lifestream. Making him even MORE imposing. Unfortunately it wasn't very clear when they translated to English.
@Cadoe12 сағат бұрын
Speaking of cosmic horror... you know this game Bloodborne? Yeah thats kind of that whole games thing
@beeyah80512 сағат бұрын
Lol, great outro😂
@CarlosRivera-db8qq13 сағат бұрын
That’s a funny way to say blood-borne
@ayior13 сағат бұрын
So I know nothing about FFVII beyond this video and whatever containment breaches are commonly known to people - but just on this video I'd like to propose one idea: What if, during his crisis and reading up on everything, he *did* also find the truth? But given he hates Hojo, and that everything would make him just a disposable tool from Shinra (?), he is so repulsed by the truth that he chooses to delude himself into the lie - his desire to merge with the planet or whatever *also* being a desire for ego death to free himself of the truth he runs from? Find that a compelling idea, but idk how it checks out, again this video is my single source of information
@dementiamaster1213 сағат бұрын
This is down right the worse ending possible. Jhonny could have taken your body at any moment and he didnt. I am much happier with the others
@Cindikitten14 сағат бұрын
9:36 Recently I’ve started playing a game called “Outlast” and although for the majority of it it’s minor, but I feel like there are some aspects of humor in it too. Mainly for reasons like how re7 is. The absurdity of certain scenes and voice lines of certain characters like Rick Treager, and I feel like even some of Miles’ notes. If you haven’t already, I think a video on Outlast would be very neat.
@OcularGod907515 сағат бұрын
And some say 'Elden ring doesn't have a story'.
@ded611518 сағат бұрын
My theory is that the final boss of the dlc will be a weird looking alien that embodies a concept like death or something like the elden beast and all the aliens boss you are talking about
@dummy1o2u20 сағат бұрын
Another thing- Odin says he "never cared much for Brok". But here's the thing, Odin shouldn't *know* Brok is the one who made the spear. There's almost NOTHING that hints Brok is the one who made it- for all he know's Sindri made it, or another dwarf- hell, maybe it wasnt even a dwarf. How the hell would he know Brok made it?
@bj525320 сағат бұрын
.Ellie is the main character. Joel is second most important character. One cannot accept that because she is a girl and people want the protganist to be a man everytime. The whole purpose in part 1 was to bring Ellie to the fireflies. Right from Ellie's birth people play a role in her life to protect her. From the beginning we see Anna very bravely and with so much fighting spirit manages to deliver Ellie as shown in HBO series. Then Anna hands over Ellie to Marlene and Marlene kills Anna as she got infected...when after so many years Marlene also fails to protect Ellie the universe then sends Joel into her life to save her so Joel kills Marlene and takes care of her. Now we see Joel killed by Abby. So now my predictions for part 3 is that Abby will protect Ellie from fireflies. The way Abby went against her own team WLF to save her enemies seraphites that is Lev and Yara she might go against her former team fireflies to protect her enemy Ellie. Also Ellie is refered as the light. Her name also means light. As the fireflies says when lost in the darkness look for the light so it indirectly refers to Ellie as she is the light it means that she is the cure or the only immune girl and the darkness is refered to the infected bad world.
@bj525321 сағат бұрын
Some interesting facts: Ellie is reffered as the light throughout the game and show. Like in some instances we find her sitting and the sunlight pouring on her also some dialogues shows that she is reffered as the light you just have to read between lines. Her name meaning is also light. As the Fireflies says when you are lost in the darkness look for the light. So it refers to Ellie being the light. Like darkness is this infected world and Ellie is the cure and the only immune girl to look for also when Jesse gives them directions to go as Ellie Dina and him is about to leave to find Tommy and Joel he tells that I'll head west Dina can take south and you(Ellie) come from the east. So as the sunrises in the east it refers to as Ellie as she is the light and it can be a possibility that when Jesse says I'll head west it refers to sunset as sun sets in that direction and Jesse eventually died. Also Moose is refered to Joel in the birthday chapter Ellie sees a statue of some wolves killing a Moose and one wolf is seen biting the right leg of the Moose so it refers to Abby shooting the right leg of Joel and we know already that wlf are also known as wolves also you will see a Moose picture frame in Joel's house and when Dina and Ellie went patrol in the beginning they see a dead Moose and Dina asks how many will it take to take down a Moose to which Ellie replies more than one which is a reference to what happened with Joel as more than one were required to trap and kill him
@Saikugo21 сағат бұрын
29:57 Ya know I thought that she was obsessed with Aloy because she was a literal hero and she was fascinated with seeing her do these deeds in the flesh. Like some sort of deranged bard.
@user-zm3hk1bs9y21 сағат бұрын
What an awesome game this was
@KaedeSenou22 сағат бұрын
Does the lake of rot remind anyone else of the River of Slime from Ghostbusters 2?
@aidancanning701023 сағат бұрын
bro mohg has a penis... trust
@Tommy9834Күн бұрын
I don't think the explanation of Cosmic Horror, where we say "Humans are like insects to the gods". I don't think that portrays the difference in scale enough. Instead, I think it's more accurate to describe humans as sibgle cells to gods of cosmic horror. To say we're like insects to the cosmic gods, but I know humans that freak out at a bee, and take steps to avoid mosquitoes and ants, and some even have phobias of insects and bugs. So saying humans are to gods in Cosmic Horror, is giving humans too much credit. We're more like microorganisms that most humans aren't even aware of, to the cosmic gods.
@joshuatian6671Күн бұрын
Iguazu isn’t the final boss of NG++, you are his.
@KiazaKadajКүн бұрын
the music man, the music i’m this game is incredible. Caelids music is so eerie. I can hear the zones ambiance everytime I imagine them.
@DeadPixel1105Күн бұрын
This video gives one of the best explanations and analysis of 'cosmic horror' I've seen in a while. Great video!
@BionicScorpКүн бұрын
Another amazing video, you always are able to share great insights into great topics. Question/idea for you though, are you ever going to make a video on Jörmungandr the World Serpent?
@JC-AlanКүн бұрын
Brett, I just wanted to say that I really enjoyed your conclusion and I whole heartedly agree with you. Gaming at its peak represents one of the truest and most evocative art forms there is. Another game I believe deserves this type of praise is Fallout: New Vegas. As an RPG, it's a lot more direct in its storytelling, but I found some of the "lessons" it taught me as a young man to be absolutely formative in the person I'd become. Thank you for your efforts to normalize this type of appreciation for the medium.
@bbrew995Күн бұрын
“Tell me this guy wouldn’t get votes in America” I’m pretty sure this is half the premise Trump ran on in 2016
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Nice nice but my most fav is metroid prime 2 echos i would love a remaster of that one
5:23 me sitting in the basement watching this video :O
I mean kratos was an asshole that things that been an asshole will give him retribution in the end afther all he do there was nothing if he dlnt push himself to these points tjen all he do before was meaningles If you see by the point in gow 3 he was already soo depp in this that he started to just kill and push because then the gods just win?? In the end his anger just blind him, he has a point in the last part with the girl he seee.
9:40 squirrel stapler is a comedy first, horror second kind of game which makes both parts stronger in a weird way.
Thank you for appreciating Elden Beast. I love it so much. The final boss of the game is just gorgeous (the music, the arena, the boss, the animations, everything) Not to mention how fitting it is to fight the original form of the Elden Ring in a game titled Elden Ring
yo your videos are fucking incredible man, amazing analyses
Not exactly master
I have a theory for the whole Marika & Radagon thing. Given the game's constant symbology of grafting tress, 2 things becoming 1 and whatnot what I think has happened with those two is much like how you'd graft a branch to a tree I think Marika actually possesses radagon's body on some level I mean the line of "you have yet to become me" seems to suggest that they were previously 2 separate entities that became one. This arrangement worked out fine until the shattering in which they came into conflict and began to fight with each other for control over their now shared body, I think however Radagon in the end won as he had the backing of the elden beast itself (or maybe he was possessed directly by the elden beast) but before that Marika recalled the tarnished in the hopes that one would fell Radagon and become her new, host her new "elden lord". As to how Marika even has the power to do this, I'm uncertain but I think this possible ability to take over the bodies of others is what has earned her the title of the eternal, whatever she has done she has inextricably tied her soul and her will up in the influence the greater will has over the lands between. That's what I think is going on there at least.
FatBrett: Could you do a video about Spec Ops: The Line.
I kind of love how there is a whole cult that worships Ted Faro as a savior but when they finally actually get to meet him, he's so misshapen by the horror of his choices that they refuse to recognize him and instead reject and murder him. There's something incredibly poetic about that.
Hard disagree on Fires of Raven being a bad ending. Coral is change but it also represents a total loss of humanity as per the Alea Iacta Est ending. If you value humanity as it is, despite the problems it has, then I would argue Fires of Raven is the good ending. That you're choosing to make a big sacrifice to save the species. Alea Iacta Est not only changes humanity at a fundamental level, it also doesn't imply that things are any better. At the very end of the Alea Iacta Est cutscene Ayre says combat systems ready, like your AC interface does at the start of every mission, so you're still fighting presumably. And Liberator of Rubicon is a kick the can kind of ending, where yes you've freed Rubicon from corpo and govt influence, but you haven't actually made a decision about how to deal with the change Coral represents.
That outro was unexpectedly funny :) Great video overall, very interesting.
Aztel is a fallen star-entity the people of the eternal cities tried to mold into their own Elder Beast. It didn't work.
Well, guess the same would happen, if you shoot a bunch of Bezoes, Musks, Jack Mas, among others, into space to become "gods".
Do you think you'd ever do rdr2? Dutch and his manipulation tactics would be so fun to listen to you dissect
Custom robo is one of those games where the meme “the boss when you fight it vs the boss when you unlock it as a playable character” does not adhere
Video: No sacrifice was too great. Death Korp of Kreig: We would like to know your location...
Sealed god of rot is the peak cosmic horror in land between. Just thinking about there is a god sealed in these ruins who can still influence the outer world by manifesting inside the child of queen marika, the goddess herself sent a chill down by spine.
😮❤
I don't think heimdall can actually read minds, I think he is so good at reading people that everyone just says he can read minds.
Brok going what the fuck never stops being amusing to me, god i love swears
One thing that I find sad that I just realised now is that Atreus didn't even atend Brok's funeral. (Sorry for the bad english btw)
Maybe it’s just my personal taste but I personally got nothing cosmic horror from Elden ring whatsoever. I played all of the souls games before and Bloodborne is my favorite fromsoft game to date because of how well it does cosmic horror in my opinion; Elden Ring rehashed many tropes of the previous games which almost made its lore predictable which I think is the main issue with cosmic horror today. You cannot keep doing the same thing over and over again and expect it to remain horrific in a sense embodying what is unknown. I think part of it is also gameplay - Elden ring makes teleporting and escaping environments so easy that it’s hard to be "scared" when you can just teleport out, unlike in Bloodborne for example where the only way to escape a scary area is to give up all echoes (and still have to traverse it eventually) or push through.
Notice, that Zelda saying that Calamity Ganon had given up on reincarnation is a translation error btw. In Japanese she says the opposite. The localisation is a mess as a whole.
I see that DBZ reference near the end of the video. Well played sir. Honestly a fantastic review on the story and concepts of Elden Ring as a whole. It’s the best and worst aspects of the game because it’s just so much lore thrown at the player and we are rarely told the whole truth by characters in game.
love how you say all people who drink are losers, good way to judge everyone on your own problems.
You’ve lost me in your unreality section, specifically with regard to things like Yarnham burning. You can still have thematic elements make sense and not (seemingly) contradict the things that you yourself as the author put into the work. The issue with taking refuge in thematics or absurdity is that it can be used to justify basically anything when in actuality the idea that emotional impact and internal logic of the subject matter are somehow a dichotomy is false. Pointing out these things doesn’t immediately render the settings unsalvageable or even particularly flawed, but you would specifically have to know the creative intent to state definitively that any a decision by the author was made for thematic reasons (at which point the argument is whether they succeeded with that implementation or even just subjectively if you like the sort if choice they made). Tl;dr - Refuge in thematics is too often used to justify poor execution. It’s okay to expect better, especially when interpretations of themes are external to the work itself and can’t be relied on to justify the decision to a third party.
Pssssst... It wasn't Sepheroth at Shinra or any other location till he is given the black materia. They are jenova clones in the form of Sepheroth. Since Sepheroth has overpowered the will of Jenova when he fell into the lifestream. Making him even MORE imposing. Unfortunately it wasn't very clear when they translated to English.
Speaking of cosmic horror... you know this game Bloodborne? Yeah thats kind of that whole games thing
Lol, great outro😂
That’s a funny way to say blood-borne
So I know nothing about FFVII beyond this video and whatever containment breaches are commonly known to people - but just on this video I'd like to propose one idea: What if, during his crisis and reading up on everything, he *did* also find the truth? But given he hates Hojo, and that everything would make him just a disposable tool from Shinra (?), he is so repulsed by the truth that he chooses to delude himself into the lie - his desire to merge with the planet or whatever *also* being a desire for ego death to free himself of the truth he runs from? Find that a compelling idea, but idk how it checks out, again this video is my single source of information
This is down right the worse ending possible. Jhonny could have taken your body at any moment and he didnt. I am much happier with the others
9:36 Recently I’ve started playing a game called “Outlast” and although for the majority of it it’s minor, but I feel like there are some aspects of humor in it too. Mainly for reasons like how re7 is. The absurdity of certain scenes and voice lines of certain characters like Rick Treager, and I feel like even some of Miles’ notes. If you haven’t already, I think a video on Outlast would be very neat.
And some say 'Elden ring doesn't have a story'.
My theory is that the final boss of the dlc will be a weird looking alien that embodies a concept like death or something like the elden beast and all the aliens boss you are talking about
Another thing- Odin says he "never cared much for Brok". But here's the thing, Odin shouldn't *know* Brok is the one who made the spear. There's almost NOTHING that hints Brok is the one who made it- for all he know's Sindri made it, or another dwarf- hell, maybe it wasnt even a dwarf. How the hell would he know Brok made it?
.Ellie is the main character. Joel is second most important character. One cannot accept that because she is a girl and people want the protganist to be a man everytime. The whole purpose in part 1 was to bring Ellie to the fireflies. Right from Ellie's birth people play a role in her life to protect her. From the beginning we see Anna very bravely and with so much fighting spirit manages to deliver Ellie as shown in HBO series. Then Anna hands over Ellie to Marlene and Marlene kills Anna as she got infected...when after so many years Marlene also fails to protect Ellie the universe then sends Joel into her life to save her so Joel kills Marlene and takes care of her. Now we see Joel killed by Abby. So now my predictions for part 3 is that Abby will protect Ellie from fireflies. The way Abby went against her own team WLF to save her enemies seraphites that is Lev and Yara she might go against her former team fireflies to protect her enemy Ellie. Also Ellie is refered as the light. Her name also means light. As the fireflies says when lost in the darkness look for the light so it indirectly refers to Ellie as she is the light it means that she is the cure or the only immune girl and the darkness is refered to the infected bad world.
Some interesting facts: Ellie is reffered as the light throughout the game and show. Like in some instances we find her sitting and the sunlight pouring on her also some dialogues shows that she is reffered as the light you just have to read between lines. Her name meaning is also light. As the Fireflies says when you are lost in the darkness look for the light. So it refers to Ellie being the light. Like darkness is this infected world and Ellie is the cure and the only immune girl to look for also when Jesse gives them directions to go as Ellie Dina and him is about to leave to find Tommy and Joel he tells that I'll head west Dina can take south and you(Ellie) come from the east. So as the sunrises in the east it refers to as Ellie as she is the light and it can be a possibility that when Jesse says I'll head west it refers to sunset as sun sets in that direction and Jesse eventually died. Also Moose is refered to Joel in the birthday chapter Ellie sees a statue of some wolves killing a Moose and one wolf is seen biting the right leg of the Moose so it refers to Abby shooting the right leg of Joel and we know already that wlf are also known as wolves also you will see a Moose picture frame in Joel's house and when Dina and Ellie went patrol in the beginning they see a dead Moose and Dina asks how many will it take to take down a Moose to which Ellie replies more than one which is a reference to what happened with Joel as more than one were required to trap and kill him
29:57 Ya know I thought that she was obsessed with Aloy because she was a literal hero and she was fascinated with seeing her do these deeds in the flesh. Like some sort of deranged bard.
What an awesome game this was
Does the lake of rot remind anyone else of the River of Slime from Ghostbusters 2?
bro mohg has a penis... trust
I don't think the explanation of Cosmic Horror, where we say "Humans are like insects to the gods". I don't think that portrays the difference in scale enough. Instead, I think it's more accurate to describe humans as sibgle cells to gods of cosmic horror. To say we're like insects to the cosmic gods, but I know humans that freak out at a bee, and take steps to avoid mosquitoes and ants, and some even have phobias of insects and bugs. So saying humans are to gods in Cosmic Horror, is giving humans too much credit. We're more like microorganisms that most humans aren't even aware of, to the cosmic gods.
Iguazu isn’t the final boss of NG++, you are his.
the music man, the music i’m this game is incredible. Caelids music is so eerie. I can hear the zones ambiance everytime I imagine them.
This video gives one of the best explanations and analysis of 'cosmic horror' I've seen in a while. Great video!
Another amazing video, you always are able to share great insights into great topics. Question/idea for you though, are you ever going to make a video on Jörmungandr the World Serpent?
Brett, I just wanted to say that I really enjoyed your conclusion and I whole heartedly agree with you. Gaming at its peak represents one of the truest and most evocative art forms there is. Another game I believe deserves this type of praise is Fallout: New Vegas. As an RPG, it's a lot more direct in its storytelling, but I found some of the "lessons" it taught me as a young man to be absolutely formative in the person I'd become. Thank you for your efforts to normalize this type of appreciation for the medium.
“Tell me this guy wouldn’t get votes in America” I’m pretty sure this is half the premise Trump ran on in 2016