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Media: The Last of Us (game and show), Resident Evil 4 (original and remake), Dead Space (original and remake), Resident Evil 2, Resident Evil 3, Resident Evil 8, Dead Space 2, DOOM (film and game), Max Payne 3, Gears of War, Fortnite, Breaking Bad
Music Used (Chronologically): Serenade for Strings in C Major Op. 48 (The Evil Within 2), Secure Place (Resident Evil 2), Shooting Range (Resident Evil 4 Remake), Theme of Ada (Resident Evil 4), Rules of Nature (Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance), Tierras de Azafrán (Blasphemous), Serenity (Resident Evil 4), Ending Credits (Resident Evil 4), The Last of Us- You and Me (The Last of Us), Fleeting- Affection (The Last of Us), The Choice (The Last of Us), The Last of Us- Goodnight (The Last of Us), White Palace (Hollow Knight), Lacrimosa (Dead Space 2), Nicole’s Theme (Dead Space Remake), Canonical Aside (Dead Space 2), Wesker’s Theme (Resident Evil 4)
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@cak17
05.03.2024What's the better game?
@6reen6uy
05.03.2024The last of us tv show is not well acted, it’s not well cast, it was a giant wet fart to me. Wowzer the difference in perception here is wild.
@MellowFungus
05.03.2024RE4 distinguishes itself by cutting out content and having one of the worst voice acting performances I've heard.
Truly earned that 10/10 from normie gamers that have difficulties expressing complex opinions and emotions. It's why so many people typically just parrot the opinions of other people.
As a side note, everything he said about the changes to "The knife" is horseshit. But I don't have a 30-minute video and an army of mindless fans to support me so I'll just leave it there.
@banks3388
05.03.2024I'm not playing the cynical remake that censors or alters content for the sake of modern cultural norms… shit we've gotten to the point where remake doesn't even mean remake anymore like in the case of Final Fantasy VII. The fact that any schmuck can remaster their own retro games these days pretty much makes the corpo shit redundant anyway
@gelly225
05.03.2024How intense are the Dead Space spoilers in this vid and it it possible to skip them?
@flamepillarrengoku
05.03.2024Never have I watched a video about 3 separate games I’ve had no interest in beforehand, only to have finished the video wanting to play all 3. Utter masterpiece
@foxhound9780
05.03.2024I really get your take on the TV show it's was cool to see but it never did a better job on a scene to scene basic the only scene I think was better than game was the Joel confession to Tommy with that "all I do was fail her" monologue it it communicated the same content as the game but I was confident enough not to do it Line for line I wish there was more if that.
@LiftedStarfish
05.03.2024Oh my fucking god, Mark Brown got you using 'verb'. Dude, just say action. You sound like such a wanker when you say 'verb'.
@echoflame4279
05.03.2024They did everything right in the Dead Space remake, except for Isaac's look. He looks nothing like the original Issac Clark.
@TheAntiSanta
05.03.2024I dunno, I've watched people who don't have the entirety of Dead Space 1 memorized play through that game, and I can see the age pretty well. Like, sequences where you die instantly if you fuck up once and puzzles that break in really weird ways that a modern game simply wouldn't allow. I watched someone spend like 10 minutes trying to put a battery in the battery hole and they game just didn't accept it.
@zedc6072
01.03.2024you are forgiven for being a teenager in 2013 trying to own Roger Ebert. We forgive you.
@steamtasticvagabond474
01.03.202414:18 what are you talking about? You’re right!
@steamtasticvagabond474
01.03.202423:40 – 24:05
This makes me think of a technique I discovered for running horror oriented tabletop RPGs.
One of my players was being shot at by a dead man hanging from a length of chain. They (un)fortunately failed their roll.
So I asked them a simple question.
“Where do you get shot?”
For those who are curious, they chose the left ass cheek.
@LeafHasLeft
01.03.2024I don't know I feel like even someone who enjoys games quite a lot and has tens of thousands of hours in them can get into a horror game or an extreme drama game because of my anxiety. I will connect too much with a character that I control I will have panic attacks and be emotionally drained by a game so palpable as the last of Us. Breaking it up into 1-hour episodes made it almost far enough away from my own empathy that I am able to watch it. It's the same issue I have with long TV. My anxiety and connection to characters will make me never watch the last few episodes of a tv show. It is a physical and emotional challenge for me to get through good storytelling. I love it. But it is extremely emotionally taxing. I have games and shows that forever sit at that last episode or last hour. But I am also the Kind of person who will cry at the end of a game as silly and fun as Portal 2. I find others input interesting so anyone reading this please give me your thoughts.
@scootinand
01.03.202418:37
I cannot even fathom feeling bored by it. To me it feels like when you hear someone who was so moved by a piece of music that they had to play it themselves, and the simple act of doing that makes it different from the original.
The Last of Us HBO is a cover song, but in the way that Bill plays the piano, or (minor spoiler for TLOU Part 2) Ellie plays guitar.
It's not a simple copy paste job, it's recreating something with your own voice because of how much it meant to you in the first place
@Valsorayu
01.03.2024I hope the silent hill remake does what the dead space remake did. Gaslight us with a fusion of new and old.
"There used to be a health drink here… now it's gone" -The Player (hopefully).
@SuburbaniteUrbanite
01.03.2024What is sad is that because something is a video game, it’s discounted as “oh its the thing that lazy losers do” which is almost always babbled out by old dumb people whose most advanced video game machine growing up was the Atari 2600 or the Magnavox Odyssey. If you do not think that a video game story is art until it enters a more “conventional” medium, you need to check yourself before you wreck yourself. A movie can be turned into a video game and a video game can be turned into a movie. In the end… they are both stories. One you interact with… and one you watch. If you prefer the one where you watch while sitting there slack jawed barely breathing for 2 or more hours and that same story exists in an interactive format, and you think that it’s the best version and that its the only way to fully understand it; then something is wrong with you.
Go play a video game, it will not kill you.
@jimmcneal5292
01.03.202415:34 2005 Doom was an amazing movie. And no, Doom is not about running down a hall with a shotgun, only Doom 1, Doom 2, Doom 64 and Doom: The Plutonia Experiment are about that. Doom 3 and Resurrection of Evil are about slowly walking though dark halls while awaiting for monsters, hiding in the dark or sitting in the next room to jump at you. And 2005 Doom movie recreated the athmosphere of those two games very well.
@shreyameshram
01.03.2024Thank you for spoiler warning, I will watch the video after completing these games. Thank you
@marcusclark1339
01.03.202415:00 why not have a horse in the race, its not a loaded question, and simply put its not, that's just buzzwording by journos that accept the bare minimum and its not even a good adaptation once the hype season ends
and never think its good that its "more accessible for more to see" they're not obligated to know about nor entitled to be appeased to
also bill's the worse ep for obvious reason, wasting his character and arc for a curated safe episode for lgbt character that no one will complain on for obvious political reasons
@marcusclark1339
28.02.2024I'm just gonna say it RE4R is weaker, and ashley wasn't bad in the original, this narrative needs to die out quick
as to weaker feel and soul that's apparent by the cinematography being so lacking to the older version, a back and forth and its apparent, gonna be several years before critiquing it really happens away from recency bias
same to TLOU, every time they remake it they ruin it, character design gets worse each time as they warp their faces cause "realism", but also clear how much a fluke it as to its story when druckmann keeps trying to turn it into the terrible version of the plot he wanted – there's no good reason to remake the story or make it a show, it simply doesn't work cause that gameplay part of it – its not a cultural phenomenon – same circles that would praise it are already praising it, that's all
dead space remake – really its the issues of the plotting and dragging things out, changes cause modern times so younger becomes older cause "realism", weakened characterization ( the captain is a dumbass in the new one) same to the main bad, Isaac isn't stronger for being voiced, if anything it makes him crazier for the options he gives not smarter for it
@MasDouc
28.02.2024"It was 2013! I was a teenager!"
God I'm old.
@Malidictus
28.02.2024Personally, I consider The Last of Us to be an example of games done wrong. Whether one likes the story or not is subjective – I don't. It's also irrelevant, however, because there's not enough of a "game" attached to it. The mere fact that the gameplay can be stripped out of the experience by making it a TV show without losing seemingly anything of substance is damning in the extreme. Yes, I too once dreamed of games being more like movies, back in the 80s and early 90s. Then games like that started coming out… only to prove uncompelling. Cutscenes break the flow of gameplay and have me sitting on my hands, while gameplay breaks the cutscenes because the player character is typically capable of entirely different actions in both.
I also don't consider The Last of Us to be an example of games "maturing". Not unless one sees "maturity" as obvious Oscar Bait. More to the point, viewing ""maturity" as a selling point strikes me, personally, as immature. An actual adult – in my opinion at least, should be confident enough to engage in immature hobbies and secure enough to not need to constantly prove their maturity. In short, I consider those overly glum stories which sell themselves as "mature" to fundamentally undermine the experience in attempting to do so. That's basically the "true art is angsty" trope.
@Malidictus
28.02.2024As to RE4 – I still don't understand why people keep claiming it's the first "real" third-person shooter. Just off the top of my head, I can think of 2001's Oni and 2003's Armed and Dangerous. PC games have been doing third-person action for years before that, and I'd argue doing it better. When I first played RE4 around release, I found it slow, clumsy and unintuitive relative to others I'd played by that point.
Pushing RE4 as inventing the third-person shooter genre feels a bit like pushing World of Warcraft as inventing MMOs.
@phil_matic
28.02.2024The Last of Us as a show was good, it just lost the greatness that the game had. Having shot for shot was great at times, but those shots just worked well in the game. In the show, it isn't exactly the best idea and they missed out on many important parts of the story imo.
@lasttrinity0780
28.02.2024I hope the SH2 remake is as good as the new ones
@pafnutiytheartist
28.02.2024For me the dealbreaker with the TV show was that Ellie isn't hot.
@240zwannabe
28.02.2024Wake up babe, Joncob Gingus uploaded 🔥🥶
@TheRexTera
28.02.2024The biggest question of them all. How is the Silent Hill 2 Remake going to turn out? How can they improve the original story at all???
@legopasteyt
28.02.2024My dad didn’t even know TLOU was based on a game and he disqualified it when I told him that it was. 🙁
@vizualwanderer4636
23.02.2024Unless its a movie that is just within the game's universe, I actually want my video game adaptations to just like the game itself
@orcamentomib3003
23.02.2024RE 4 R é um terror estilo hora do horror do Hopi Hari e isso é incrível!
@TidusUltimate
23.02.2024Just waiting for the Silent Hill 2 Remake
@zereimu
23.02.2024Great, Jacob Geller mentioned Resident Evil 4 again, now we all have to drink a shot. I never should have agreed to this.
@Gormathius
23.02.2024I think The Last Of Us was probably easier to make a TV series adaptation for, but I think it's better expressed from a different angle: There are fewer essential elements of it that requires adaptation in the first place than most other videogames. The more cinematic style a game is the easier it will be to adapt into a visual medium, and by contrast, the more it relies on mechanics to convey the plot (when there even is one) the more difficult the adaptation will be. So arguably, you could say Doom was really doomed from the start, since there's so little to work with when you strip away the gameplay.
@alexchaussette
23.02.2024click
@Two49
23.02.2024TLoU show is a great port for people without thumbs. 👍
@valeriadelpio2745
23.02.2024This was so good, I'm floored
@CCrew42
23.02.2024God this video and I guess Dead Space jumpscared me in such a specific way. The name "Elizabeth Cross" means a lot to me, I also actually made it my legal name at one point, so having never played DS1 or the Remake and just suddenly hearing that name made me panic in a way I wasn't expecting. At least I am not alone since Jacob got name jumpscared too lol
@Cosmid_
23.02.20243:40 why did you have to put footage of dead space in fortnite😭 Truly the scariest part of this video essay
@cassiedevereaux-smith3890
17.02.2024You mention what was lost in the recreated cutscenes in HBO's TLoU, but not what you gain. I would say a performance by two terrific artists, Pascal and Ramsey. Their performances are thrilling, and worth savoring on their own merits. Especially as their performances and now unfiltered through CGI, a whole lot that's new is worthwhile. Asked not to play the games, they make the characters fully their own so that even with the same scene, we're getting entire new webs of nuance. It's a different medium with different concerns, yes. But it's also a whole host of different artists than made the original, and that makes the shift between mediums as interesting to me as a painter and a sculptor working from the same model or a performance of a play on stage, and the movie adapted from it.. All of this mut be acknowledged, I feel.
@lepus9588
17.02.2024oh my god ouch
@lepus9588
17.02.2024this fucking ROCKS
@Fleischkopf
17.02.2024i hope they will do the time inbetween tlou 1 and 2 for the next seasons. would be a missed opportunity if not
@owlgoddess8534
17.02.2024i lost my shit when i realized that the dead space remake had interconnected the ishimura even further, not because i found it made anything more scary, but just because i really loved that aspect of dead space 2 and was excited to see it appear here. the whole thing now feeling like one big unit, the trams not feeling like the level start and end but like they were just a method of transport around the ship. i wasn't expecting it to increase the tension, just the overall flow. then it used it to pull out the scariest moment in the whole game for me.
about halfway through, maybe a bit longer, i was on a tram. it was basically from one side of the ship to the other, so it was a longer ride than usual. and then suddenly… it stopped. it hadn't reached it's destination, and it stopped. then, even worse, the LIGHTS went out. everything was suddenly different in the one place i knew i could count on to stay the same. i readied my gun, prepared for some horror to claw its way into the car with me… and then the lights came back on. and the tram continued on its path.
fuck you, dead space remake. that was genius.
@tinmen5943
17.02.2024S.T.A.L.K.E.R that is a game a little supernatural or alien in a way
@miketothe2ndpwr
17.02.2024My highest compliment of TLoU game is that as someone who always circles back and explores everything I can in video games… In TLoU, I didn't.
It was a tough decision and I found myself wondering if it would even be worth it or if I'd use more than I'd gain to get there.
It really made it feel real
@trevor2133
17.02.2024This is exactly what I felt while watching The Last of Us HBO show. It's a prestige show adapting a video game that is aping prestige TV. I also think that bringing on Neil Druckmann as co-showrunner felt safe and uninspired. My favorite episodes were the ones that Druckmann didn't touch and that actually deviated from the source material.
@dualitysystem8430
17.02.2024Those shot for shot scenes in The Last of Us are not for you. They're for the people watching for the first time. The writers decided that those scenes were essential to the experience.
@agraciotti
17.02.2024That was the best analysis of The Last of Us I've seen or read so far.