Fun fact: the speedrun for this game takes under a minute, with about half that time spent waiting outside in the opening narrative before they let you open the front door.
I'm with Mark on this one. Reading that guys review of his wife leaving him was better than the game. Seriously, read the rest of it and you'll probably see why she left.
I like how Historian felt he needed to add a citation for Sherlock doing coke so people wouldn't think he was just making an edgy "famous character does drugs" joke.
In the novels it actually rarely comes up and Watson is always telling Holmes how terrible it is. So it is neither a regular occurancs or normalized, it's more of a vehicle to characterize Holmes as a person who constantly need stimulation.
@@SpikeRosered It was more a way for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to get people to not like Holmes, since he absolutely loathed the character. Kind of nice that a later story has Watson reacting with horror when he sees Holmes with a syringe, with the narrative stating that he had helped Holmes get clean. In the story, Holmes had used the syringe in the process of solving the case, not for doing drugs, so it was all good.
I like how they tried to do the storytelling, but it relies on people living in one part of the house, abandoning it completely, and never cleaning it. I was getting really interested when I was finding stuff in "Dad's" typewriter that his been there for almost a year. I was like "Ooooo, this is spooky! Where is everyone?" Then you find more and more recent things, the timeline contracts to like a week ago, and I'm just walking around a messy house. It all amounts to basically nothing.
That’s something that just hit me. The narrative is set up with the intention of the house’s abandonment being quite some time ago, but then boils down to the house simply being vacant for over a week? It feels less like the house has been lived in, and more like the house has been newly moved into (Idk if that was the intention). It really makes a lot of the events feel like they happened way faster than implied. Like the father having a failed book series that led to an alcohol addiction, and the wife cheating with someone else (as well as Sam and her parent’s relationship that led to her running away). Also doesn’t help that you can beat the game in under a minute (which they have an achievement specifically for), as the final room can be accessed from the start if you’re fast enough.
This game is the equivalent of those oscar-bait movies that inevitably get made every year. As an idea, and from the exterior it seems cool and like it should be interesting, but once you go through it you realize it’s a giant nothing burger that tries to distract you from the fact that it’s actually really boring.
Well it surely subverted my expectations but that isnt as good of a thing as some writers think it is. I thought it was a murder mystery or maybe a horror game but its just alone at home: nothing happens.
The irony is the reason Mrs. Davidson left was because he gave Gone home a 5/5. She saw the early copy of the review, thinks to herself "If he's lying about this, what else is he hiding?" than tearfully ran out.
@@pentherapy you are the ONLY person who noticed. Congratulations, it must be hard being the number one detective over at the precinct for exceptional detectives, of which you are lead detective.
Quick fix, the parents don't care that she's gay but the girlfriend is a bad and manipulative person that convinces flannel shirt that they don't like her because she's gay. Give us at least a twist and not just the same trope we've seen for the last decade.
Make the only voicemail there hers, make the twist that she ran away that...week? Night? And thats why no one is there. Add an attempted suicide pact, but gf just wanted to watch her kill herself
My favorite playthrough of this game was from Adumplaze by YMS where he just goes into the house, starts hugging walls and clicking his mouse, and he immediately finds the secret room with the keys to the attic. He goes up to the attic, finishes the game, and when he realizes he finished it by accident, “Sound of Silence” starts playing as he just stares at his computer screen, the glowing reviews for the game appearing one after the other as he does.
I’m glad Adum has touched many people with his gaming channel. I have followed him for years and popped in occasionally on YMS. I had no idea he had other channels and almost found him by accident when searching for a Pokémon Crystal playthrough. I didn’t think much of the channel name or cared about the thumbnail so I skipped it. I found him a few months later when I popped in and wanted more of Adum and crew.
It always feels unjust when you see content creators with large audiences (like that Internet Historian) just sit around and bludge, while hard working content creators like Mark, Bill, Jeff and the Queen get together to film and upload quality content regularly. Hopefully this tiny little channel can grow ❤️
That's why I've subbed to Mark & The Gang and I comment and like all videos. These are self employeed business-people doing their best to establish themselves as creators. The Queen especially, poor lady
I love that when the artist was creating that family photo, they thought to themselves; "how can I show the player that Sam is a lesbian?" F L A N N E L S H I R T
My experience with this game was watching Demolition D play it on stream forever ago and the best part about it was that he fooled himself into thinking there was an actual mystery going on. He was absurdly disappointed when it turned out that no there wasn't any murder mystery or psycho thriller going on and the whole plot was that the characters were gay.
That's the worst part for me. It's boring yes, but the fact that right up until the end of the game they misdirect you into the thinking something, anything, is going to happen. This was an anti-game, and anyone that liked it either has series sunk cost fallacy going on, or they hate video games.
Dude I was trippin on shrooms and played this game when it was free on the PS store. Kept waiting for the scary part and it never came, tripped me out lol
I feel like the “my wife left me and took the Twitter account” guy was just writing an email to his therapist and accidentally sent it to his boss who mistook it as part of the review.
@@DouglasQuaid999 Yeah I get that, it was free for PS Plus. I have it in my library for a reason lol- whoever paid 30$ definitely got robbed imo. That’s also why so many played it, TH-camrs for a bit played many PS Plus games. That’s how I managed to get my hands on many games I enjoy now. Side note, because of Jacksepticeye I got Binding of Isaac from PS Plus and it is in my top 10 in gaming.
My biggest gripe with this game is that it was advertised as a narrative driven mystery that might have some supernatural/spooky stuff... And it just ended being the uninteresting story of a girl who realized was gay, went AWOL and is now a fugitive because you don't just leave the US Army
There is one bit of extremely superficial supernatural stuff close to the end, in one of the secret compartments there is a ouija board and apparently Sam and her GF played with it and the ghost of Uncle Oscar told them he wanted to get out. And that's it, that's all, it doesn't matter, in the game's "message" it matters less than finding a riot grrl zine with a "smash the patriarchy" cover, which serve no actual purpose, or maybe is a "powerful" subtext about how poor Sam is oppressed by her heteronormative bigoted parents. Or something, frankly your guess is as good as mine, I just remember wasting about half an hour walking around hoping for more interactivity than doors and light switches, only to conclude that indeed this was just a waste of both coding resources, time and computer power.
She never went to basic. Until you swear in the second time, you can back out. Doesn’t change that it’s pointless, but at least she didn’t become a fugitive and ruin her life over a girl, i guess….?
@@Web720 nah, she can’t be “discharged” until she’s actually in the military. Until you’re physically at basic training and sworn in, you aren’t *actually* part of the military. Since she ran off before then, they just cross her off a list, essentially. Her recruiter would probably be pissed, but they can’t really do anything about it.
Imagine if the game was about the dad finding more about jfk and they sent army gf to assassinate him but she also wants to maintain relationship with the family, would’ve been much cooler.
Oh, oh, yeah! And then, on the night she's put her plan into motion to kill him via poisoning or something, the family invites her over for dinner and he apologizes to her, talks about the stress he's been under due to the book sales and that it was wrong of him to take it out on her and his daughter. So now, she feels bad about it and has to rush to try and stop her own rube goldberg plan before it's too late! Oh and it's revealed that the mom assassinated JFK.
The game would have been better if we followed the madness of the dad going down infinite JFK conspiracy theory rabbit holes than the bland path it decided to take. Like for real, can you imagine this poor girl traveling all the way to Dallas, Texas to find out that her father was so obsessed with the JFK assassination that he went insane, abandoned his family, and started leaving behind a trail of gradually insane diary entries about how he thinks the FBI is following him? That's the thriller game everybody deserved, but never got.
The set up for the Lebanese reveal was so fast yet so funny that it makes me mad. Also, did this game just let you play as an NPC observing other characters with more interesting lives? Then again, I haven’t played it myself… might be missing the point of the game.
"When did I become the boring one?! Damn my cool Lebanese sister!" But seriously, how is this a game, it's literally just about a paranoid girl who knows nothing about her family
Yeah, even if they made progress in fixing their relationship, I imagine having their daughter run away would be more stress than they could handle. Sam probably just destroyed the marriage they were making efforts to repair.
Since she never even got to basic, they probably just kick her out with a general discharge and now she has to explain that on every job application she files for the rest of her life.
I played this. A reviewer said it has elementary of horror and a mystery. The only mystery was your sister convinced her friend to ditch the military and would now be breaking the law. And the horror was this is a boring game where the reveal is the whole time she was gay nothing else.
I remember paying $20 to play Lesbian House, I will always remember that day. The day I learned to do my own research and not just buy things on impulse based on what friends said.
The joy I felt at the recreation of The Great Ace Attorney Herlock Sholmes deduction segments and the use of the actual soundtrack 🥺 Was so excited I nearly forgot this video was about another game entirely lmfao
People were flabbergastung because it had misleading advertising and marketed itself as an indie horror game, when in reality literally all there was to the plot was the lebanese twist.
@@ergwertgesrthehwehwejwe Maybe people on 4/8chan, and the then newcoming "Anti-SJW" e-celebs, but the Tumblr side of the internet very much adored this game, literally for Lebanese part, and i say this without any shred of irony. It was unironically the only thing it had going for it, back when having several butt seggs enjoyers in every single Westoid game wasn't completely mandatory.
I remember this being the first time I noticed the massive disconnect between critics and audiences. I bought this after the amazing reviews it was getting, I was playing waiting for it to get good. “This must be all set up, they’re just building the tension, I’m going to find the corpses of my parents soon, and then I’ll have to take out my sister who’s gone mental, or I’m gonna bump into a spooky ghost, or my dads gone all Jack Torrance or something”. I would’ve settled for anything. Instead it was a great big nothing burger. I’ve distrusted critics ever since, and more and more people do the same with every 10 out of 10 for a Last Jedi or a Cuties they give.
Lonnie is one of those people in high school who talk a big game about joining the marines asap to "kill some 'tallyban' " and wear as close to a military uniform as possible to school, only to wash themselves out of basic after half a dozen recycles lol. Way to go Cody
@@blacksuite1 Oh yeah. This was the first time the term "walking simulator" was used to label a game on steam. And the game journos didn't like that at all and took it upon themselves to defend the game with any means necessary. Calling people the now usual names (troll, bigot, etc...), writing articles and so on. This was one of the first cases where you could clearly see the divide between the people who play video games and the people who review them.
@@blacksuite1 imagine if every single food review journalism site told you about a new hot n coming cake shop that made the best cakes ever, like straight 10/10s by every single website you can find but when you go in to buy one, it's actually just literal shit on a plate, and every single one of the journalists defended it with "it's commenting on the good taste of cake by being shit and also actually the person who runs the shop has like a really tragic life story that they wanted to express through the cake, you really gotta emotionally invest yourself" that's what Gone Home was in 2013 (hyperbolically, obviously)
My family isn't home, and it's 1 am... I will search for information among the private spaces and belongings of my family to where they are instead of... sleeping, or waiting until tomorrow to ask neighbors or friends. Yes, that's what I am gonna do.
I remember that the dad's storyline had a bit of a happy ending as he got contacted by a small publishing company with a shit taste in books who wanted to reprint his JFK books and is currently pushing his luck to get them to publish sequels.
Well at least now that he's not a loser his wife will stop cheating on him... he writes in his journal as he cries waiting for her to get home from her obvious date with her boyfriend
Yeah but they don't care because they'd rather complain about how this game doesn't have any action in it ┐( ˘_˘)┌ they really breezed over Terry's stuff which is really some of the most interesting things in the game. He's obsessed with JFK because he was molested by his uncle for the first time on the same day
Ah yes, Gone Home. The game that made me question why the makers didn’t just write a novella or do a comic of the story. One of the devs is in a relationship a comic artist too. So what about this story says “it needs to be a almost gameplay-less game?”
Why can't video games be diverse? Gone Home came early but we got games like the Witness later on. That could have just been a crossword book. It's funny people still get bent out of shape over this game with tons of other games have done the same thing since then and even before. The game is fine and the story is fine, it's literally only infamous because it has gay characters.
I remember every gaming news outlet were saying how amazing this game was. After buying it and playing through the entire game, I NEVER trusted gaming journalists ever again and this was before the whole gamergate controversy
I think that Gone Home was THE moment a "large" (read: use social media regularly) portion of the gaming populace went "wait a fucking minute here" and stopped trusting game journalists this and [redacted event] were two events in 2013 that were a real "left right good night" for games journalism being seen as legitimate
I love how all of us gamers know gamergate was a joke and that these journos shouldn't be trusted, but when a normie MSM reporter talks about it, were racist and sexist and can't possibly be normal people
@@TheLongDon it's kinda funny how the culture has evolved, because even people who didn't know GG existed, or were against it, are now also shit-talking games journalists in the long run, it was a success
@@TheLongDon Please if a normy MSM reporter talks about it they'll vilify it more then actual rapists and pedo's in hollywood For they committed the most horrid crime of all, questioning a propagandist
This "game" was clearly supposed to be a book about a girl that came home to discover her family has completely fallen apart, but it wouldn't get published so the author hired game developers to get it out that way. Only way I make sense of it
You really don't understand how the medium of video games makes this different. Being non-sequential and using the environment is different from what a novel or comic would convey. It's like the people saying Dark Souls doesn't have a story just because there isn't a ton of cutscenes with excessive exposition telling you directly what is happening.
@@Mordalonstop coping, this barely qualifies as a video game. I’ve played with happy meal toys that are more engaging than this (as a child, way back when they had those little sonic handheld games; loved those things)
holy shit, i was bummed out when you said the older storytimes weren't up to snuff but you absolutely knocked it out of the park with this one. This one is your best one yet. Masterpiece. 86/100. My wife also left me.
Someone took inspiration from the Ace Attorney Chronicles... AND I LOVE IT! The frickin review of the dude that got dumped by his wife really did the trick, I'm still laughing as I write this sfhsfhsfhsf
Imagine being the people that gushed over this game back in the day…being so thick headed that they can’t figure out the sister is gay within like 10 minutes and then going through this whole pile of wank just to find out that’s the entire big “twist” and then going WOW SISTER = GAY? SO POWERFUL AND BRAVE 10/10!
This game's... "fans"??? (I don't know if fans apply when I doubt any of them have played any games in their lives) has become *THE* example of "Imbecile who doesn't know anything but loves to pretend to be smart while calling the lamest, most cookie cutter shit "artpiece" they can find the second coming of Christ." It really is a personality flag right here, if you can see past this game's barely made bullshit and see it for what it really is. A 10 hour hackjob "game".
I remember how people thought it was a horror game, it goes to show how narrative and worldbuilding via the environment is very possible and a cool idea.
When I first played this game i thought it was a horror game for whatever reason lol. I mean i was TERRIFIED throughout until i got to the end and was like oh thats it.
Honestly, what this channel is really good at is exposing how poorly written most video game plots are. In most cases shown on the channel, its because the writers just can't work with the gameplay, resulting in the story being filled with awkward padding in order to lazily justify why you have to go to the next level (resulting in such things as long periods of time without any major plot progression or the infamous "protagonist blacks out to transition to the next gameplay segment"). In Gone Home's case, though, its just that its a story with drama that's so mundane (a couple is having a not particularly interesting relationship crisis and their daughter runs away from home to be gay) that it fails to excite the audience at all.
Gone Home is one of those "the writer wanted to write a movie and not a game" situations But no one else on the team really cared about it being a game, either
@@Abon666 It wouldn't be suitable for any kind of storytelling medium because it simply isn't a story, it's a glorified summary section for a wikipedia article about some mundane subject. There's no arc or acts to the narrative, you just slowly read through completely irrelevant info to figure out a resolution that can be inferred within several minutes of booting up the game if you understand basic context clues and story tropes. And the ultimate resolution is mind-numbingly pointless, and to add insult to injury, only the sister and mother's sides contribute to the "Where they went" resolution which makes everything else an even bigger waste of time. And all of the plot could've been resolved by literally doing nothing because they were due back later that day, or if the parents just left a note (this family *loves* notes for some reason, so that's a plothole and a half). The story is the less exciting equivalent to a child waking up to find their mom gone and getting worked up and trying to figure out what happened, just for her to come back home a bit later because it turns out she just ran to the store for a bit before the kid woke up.
@@KaleidosXXI It has the skeleton of a story, but what makes this type of story interesting is getting to know the characters as humans, not just an inference from being a nosey weirdo. Also this girl knows nothing about her own family for some reason? Like she may as well be a stranger, which adds another element of 'who cares.' And even putting all that aside, why tf does nobody ever hide their misdeeds?! Imagine the parents getting home and listening to those messages, just friggin gutted that their daughter bailed and they have no idea if she's ok or where they went. And the mom just reading a book where evidence of her affair is always two feet from her husband. Like, screw these people, they suck.
My brother and I were super into this game bc the eeriness and creepiness kept us on our toes trying to figure out where the demon or ghosts were. Got our friends to play and their reactions to the ending were just as disappointed as our lmao We still shit talk about this game 😂
Internet Historian is different person, this is one of Mark Zuckerberg's many hobbies. he often does these after spending his evenings in the garden happily smoking his meats.
I played this "game" when it was for free during quarantine. It was a waste of time, I hated the stereotypical "I'm a lesbian so I'll run away from home" story. Two years later my 15 year old sister decided she was a lesbian and left my father's home to go with my cheating mother. 2/10 got 1 point because it kinda predicted the future
There was this girl in my highschool days that claimed she was lesbian after getting dumbed by her boyfriend, we all knew it was bs but she went the whole 9 yards and started "dating" this girl that was at the least bi but was a VERY shy A few of us tried warning her that she was just using her to get back at her ex, what made it really sad was the girl already had this feeling from the start. About a month or so later, she cheated on the girl with some actual dumbass who's only positive trait about him was his body, but it was safe to say nobody was really surprised by this Reality can be like a really awful plot to a game/movie sometimes
I was very underwhelmed by this game. The whole set up is pretty spooky, but then as you explore it quickly becomes evident that there's just some basic family drama going done. Felt like a bait and switch.
Ah, but you see, that was its genius! In an era of video games having all these things like "plot hooks", "conflict", "drama", or "fun", this was a game that dared to be different. It teases you with these amazing stories, only to... not have an amazing story. But hey, it's got lesbians. That means it's the most important video game ever made. All jokes aside, I distinctly remember people praising the game for it's bait and switch as you said. Because I guess that's all it took.
I wish I was a modder. I'd add guns to this game and call it "Gone Mad". Make all the objects breakable (shootable) and the final room you get to is the attic where Sam has tied up the parents and is holding them hostage.
I played this game because it was one of the first free games for the ps4 and let me tell you a 14 year old boy was not happy about losing 2 hours like that.
When they said that was the end of the game, I literally did not believe it, I thought it was another bit they were doing. Like what the actual freck was this game?? There was no plot other than “sister gay, parents not good at functioning”
I still can't believe this episode is less than 20 minutes long. It somehow manages to feel like an hour even with the jokes 😂❤ ohmygod this game sucks so hard
I would love to see you guys tackle Obscure (2004) and Obscure: The Aftermath (2007). I feel you guys would totally make those games into funny videos.
@@RuailleBuaille Yeah, and it’s a great length with two games in the series and really matches the funny vibe Storymode has. I think it’s perfect for them.
When I played this game 10 years ago, I had 2 predictions in the first 10 minutes. Sister was gay and Army girl killed everyone out of love for the sister (or at least the parents and *you* cause you're actually a ghost reliving the events) shortly after everyone moved in, and thats why things were unpacked. I was at least right on one guess, and the 2nd prediction would have made it way more interesting.
Finally, I know what this game is about. I remember Extra Credits would gush about this game every other episode, back when I used to watch them. You would have thought this game was the next evolution in narrative entertainment.
So i’m sitting here, enjoying the video. When suddenly Zuck starts making fun of the “my wife left me” review… holy shit, that was written by my life long friend from school! Was kind of stunned it came up.
Imagine you just got home from a LONG flight, took the shuttle, arrived locked out at 1:15 A.M., and the FIRST thing you do is rifle through your family’s shit for no reason other than entertainment.
@@kathrineici9811 yeah, that was Jazzpunk. Gone Home wasn't particularly involved with GG beyond people being upset about reviewers scoring it highly, no corruption or anything unlike with jazzpunk
@@kamikazoo6599 Looking at it, Quinn only did voice acting for Jazzpunk - and I recall that people said that reviewing was corrupt due to that - but also the two people behind it were close with Kotaku as well. Depression Quest was the main thing igniting it though you're entirely right
@@zachanikwano The Stanley Parable was great. Funny with something interesting to say. Everyone's Gone to Rapture was major league tedious though. Made Gone Home look like minor league tedious.
The Dad and Lonny would’ve made for incredible protagonists. The father steadily investigating his conspiracy theories as he starts to learn his wife is cheating on them and reconciling whether or not that’s just a product of his investigations and who can he trust and everything is just going downhill. Lonny, she’s a full blown criminal for skipping on her military duties. Once you sign up, you’re not out until they allow it. You could have this whole adventure of her and Sam trying to find a place to lay low and live happy while evading getting too much attention. There’s an interesting story to tell there and you could probably go through the development of their relationship developing. But nah. Empty spooky house where everything’s fine, kinda, actually. With a bait B-side storyline about potential haunting that goes absolutely nowhere. But you get to listen to cool cassette tapes of definitely copyright music!
This game is like anti-storytelling. There are games I dont care for on Story Time that I will rewatch over and over for the fun commentary and reactions to the insane things that happen in said game. But with this entry, even with the inclusion of a very fun Sherlock theme from the hosts, I dont think I can bring myself to watch it the same way Ive heard Mark say "fuck right off" about Wesker surviving Volcano Mountain All in all, 100/100, my wife took everything from me.
That's relatively common, and iirc the sister is meant to be, or implied to be, autistic or adhd where motor skill issues and poor handwriting generally are more common
My penmaship hasn't changed since I was in elementary school and I'm 22 now Then again, everything I write is only for myself, not for other people to read
Dysgraphia is a thing! Also the introduction of laptops and tablets doesn't really help a student's penmanship either. Although this game is in the 90s so these girls have little excuse
it's like that time you came home early from school but the house was empty because your parents were at the grocery store except in video game form
No it isn't.
My sister is a soccer lesbian, not a flannel lesbian, thank you very much.
And just like this game, nothing really happens,
@@koenvandamme6901 Better option if you had to choose, honestly.
@@koenvandamme6901 Are you familiar with the Muslim traditional response to such a circumstance?
Yeah, only more boring and predictable, like watching VHS reruns of the A-Team.
Fun fact: the speedrun for this game takes under a minute, with about half that time spent waiting outside in the opening narrative before they let you open the front door.
*"You call that good programming!?! Show your faces you talentless hacks!!"*
~UrinatingTree on the Sega Genesis port of _Dark Castle_
Much like how you can win _Facade_ by saying _absolutely nothing_ and letting the insufferable cheating hipsters talk out their problems on their own.
@@TheEmperorHyperion Holy shit, a Urinating Tree reference? What a throwback
Lol
Are there other endings? Or does she turn out to be gay in all of them? Such a twist, didn't see it coming, reevaluated my opinion of homosexuals.
I'm with Mark on this one. Reading that guys review of his wife leaving him was better than the game.
Seriously, read the rest of it and you'll probably see why she left.
I can't believe she even took the twitter account, absolutely heartless.
Link?
@@SaintofQuartz your name is Watson, you should be supplying US with the link detective
@@foxbuns That's Doctor, not detective.
Dude reviews hentai now, so the wife made the right decision.
I like how Historian felt he needed to add a citation for Sherlock doing coke so people wouldn't think he was just making an edgy "famous character does drugs" joke.
I mean. Very first time Sherlock appears in the books he's experimenting with chemicals.
Of course he did drugs, we know how those chemists are
When I read that in the original novels I literally sat the book down and just. Absorbed that fact.
In the novels it actually rarely comes up and Watson is always telling Holmes how terrible it is. So it is neither a regular occurancs or normalized, it's more of a vehicle to characterize Holmes as a person who constantly need stimulation.
To be honest, it was news to me. I always thought Sherlock only did Heroin.
@@SpikeRosered It was more a way for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to get people to not like Holmes, since he absolutely loathed the character.
Kind of nice that a later story has Watson reacting with horror when he sees Holmes with a syringe, with the narrative stating that he had helped Holmes get clean. In the story, Holmes had used the syringe in the process of solving the case, not for doing drugs, so it was all good.
I like how they tried to do the storytelling, but it relies on people living in one part of the house, abandoning it completely, and never cleaning it.
I was getting really interested when I was finding stuff in "Dad's" typewriter that his been there for almost a year. I was like "Ooooo, this is spooky! Where is everyone?"
Then you find more and more recent things, the timeline contracts to like a week ago, and I'm just walking around a messy house.
It all amounts to basically nothing.
That’s something that just hit me. The narrative is set up with the intention of the house’s abandonment being quite some time ago, but then boils down to the house simply being vacant for over a week?
It feels less like the house has been lived in, and more like the house has been newly moved into (Idk if that was the intention). It really makes a lot of the events feel like they happened way faster than implied. Like the father having a failed book series that led to an alcohol addiction, and the wife cheating with someone else (as well as Sam and her parent’s relationship that led to her running away).
Also doesn’t help that you can beat the game in under a minute (which they have an achievement specifically for), as the final room can be accessed from the start if you’re fast enough.
This game is the equivalent of those oscar-bait movies that inevitably get made every year. As an idea, and from the exterior it seems cool and like it should be interesting, but once you go through it you realize it’s a giant nothing burger that tries to distract you from the fact that it’s actually really boring.
Well it surely subverted my expectations but that isnt as good of a thing as some writers think it is. I thought it was a murder mystery or maybe a horror game but its just alone at home: nothing happens.
The "denial is in Egypt, Not Lebanon" joke was my absolute favorite. Well done!
15:28 so I can go back and laugh for the next while.
i've been in denial all my life that's why i am half lebanese...
Denial in Lebanon?? That's bologna!
It’s a reference from another show
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The irony is the reason Mrs. Davidson left was because he gave Gone home a 5/5. She saw the early copy of the review, thinks to herself "If he's lying about this, what else is he hiding?" than tearfully ran out.
Or he gave it a 5/5 because he's the real life version of Terry.
Excellent deduction Frozensolid 🧐
Chillingly plausible.
Little did she know the review was just a rant about his marriage and didn't mention Gone Home at all.
That "my wife left me" review made me laugh harder than it probably should have, haha!
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It was so random too 😂 " to understand why I like this game, let me explain how my wife left me " bro what?😂😂
It's literally what the game calls out the dad for doing with his electronic reviews, and I bet the irony went over everyone's head.
Plot twist, all of the games reviews were written by Terry. That's why they're all positive.
@@pentherapy you are the ONLY person who noticed. Congratulations, it must be hard being the number one detective over at the precinct for exceptional detectives, of which you are lead detective.
Quick fix, the parents don't care that she's gay but the girlfriend is a bad and manipulative person that convinces flannel shirt that they don't like her because she's gay. Give us at least a twist and not just the same trope we've seen for the last decade.
not a bad idea
Considering gf gave her one of the worst and hardest drug habits to quit you might be onto something
This came out a decade ago.
Yeah, but then gay people bad, and we can't have that.
Make the only voicemail there hers, make the twist that she ran away that...week? Night? And thats why no one is there. Add an attempted suicide pact, but gf just wanted to watch her kill herself
My favorite playthrough of this game was from Adumplaze by YMS where he just goes into the house, starts hugging walls and clicking his mouse, and he immediately finds the secret room with the keys to the attic. He goes up to the attic, finishes the game, and when he realizes he finished it by accident, “Sound of Silence” starts playing as he just stares at his computer screen, the glowing reviews for the game appearing one after the other as he does.
Imagine you spend money on a game and get it's real ending within 4 minutes.
I’m glad Adum has touched many people with his gaming channel.
I have followed him for years and popped in occasionally on YMS. I had no idea he had other channels and almost found him by accident when searching for a Pokémon Crystal playthrough. I didn’t think much of the channel name or cared about the thumbnail so I skipped it. I found him a few months later when I popped in and wanted more of Adum and crew.
Gone Home speedrun any%
Adum already knew the speedrun path, but it's still a funny video and a good summary of the game
It always feels unjust when you see content creators with large audiences (like that Internet Historian) just sit around and bludge, while hard working content creators like Mark, Bill, Jeff and the Queen get together to film and upload quality content regularly.
Hopefully this tiny little channel can grow ❤️
🤓
I'm just amazed the queen can even find time these days, she seems like she's a bit busy
That's why I've subbed to Mark & The Gang and I comment and like all videos.
These are self employeed business-people doing their best to establish themselves as creators.
The Queen especially, poor lady
Are you allowed to post TH-cam links? You want them to have more eyes on their stuff but I don't see any links.
Markfhulu
I love that when the artist was creating that family photo, they thought to themselves; "how can I show the player that Sam is a lesbian?"
F L A N N E L S H I R T
That's realism for ya.
It's set in Oregon though, and that's par for the course here. Of course, so is being Lesbian. It all comes down to the chemicals inside new Subarus.
i thought it was the pink hair
And bpd
woman in flannel is a lesbian, man in flannel is a logger or lives on a compound and hates the federal government.
My experience with this game was watching Demolition D play it on stream forever ago and the best part about it was that he fooled himself into thinking there was an actual mystery going on. He was absurdly disappointed when it turned out that no there wasn't any murder mystery or psycho thriller going on and the whole plot was that the characters were gay.
Thats pretty much everyones experience with the game.
Demolition D... sip*... I haven't heard that name in quite a long time.
That's the worst part for me. It's boring yes, but the fact that right up until the end of the game they misdirect you into the thinking something, anything, is going to happen. This was an anti-game, and anyone that liked it either has series sunk cost fallacy going on, or they hate video games.
@@Therealmadkong He's literally streaming right now. He's been streaming this whole time.
Dude I was trippin on shrooms and played this game when it was free on the PS store. Kept waiting for the scary part and it never came, tripped me out lol
I feel like the “my wife left me and took the Twitter account” guy was just writing an email to his therapist and accidentally sent it to his boss who mistook it as part of the review.
the turn around of Sam being lebanese is amazing THE PLOT TWIST the utter change of story driven motives, my god this should be in a museum
I know right? Its the biggest "mistery" of the game and it doesnt even feel relevant.
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"They were in denial (which is in Egypt, not Lebanon)" fuckin killed me for some reason. Thank you mr historian
Tbh that "I had a dream, too" joke was so perfect I was impressed
Flawless. If it happened in Mortal Kombat Sub-Zero would finish you with a spine jank!
I can't believe there was a time when this game was praised for it's narrative.
Me, I did that. I thought it was funny.
Honestly, I didn’t know much besides it was free on ps plus and played by every 2013-2014 TH-camr.
Remember playing it about 10 years ago, it genuinely pissed me, not sure what’s worse, this or life is strange.
@@D44RK_Iced_Yogs Nope, you had to pay for this 30 min long game
@@DouglasQuaid999 Yeah I get that, it was free for PS Plus. I have it in my library for a reason lol- whoever paid 30$ definitely got robbed imo.
That’s also why so many played it, TH-camrs for a bit played many PS Plus games. That’s how I managed to get my hands on many games I enjoy now. Side note, because of Jacksepticeye I got Binding of Isaac from PS Plus and it is in my top 10 in gaming.
My biggest gripe with this game is that it was advertised as a narrative driven mystery that might have some supernatural/spooky stuff... And it just ended being the uninteresting story of a girl who realized was gay, went AWOL and is now a fugitive because you don't just leave the US Army
There is one bit of extremely superficial supernatural stuff close to the end, in one of the secret compartments there is a ouija board and apparently Sam and her GF played with it and the ghost of Uncle Oscar told them he wanted to get out.
And that's it, that's all, it doesn't matter, in the game's "message" it matters less than finding a riot grrl zine with a "smash the patriarchy" cover, which serve no actual purpose, or maybe is a "powerful" subtext about how poor Sam is oppressed by her heteronormative bigoted parents.
Or something, frankly your guess is as good as mine, I just remember wasting about half an hour walking around hoping for more interactivity than doors and light switches, only to conclude that indeed this was just a waste of both coding resources, time and computer power.
She never went to basic. Until you swear in the second time, you can back out. Doesn’t change that it’s pointless, but at least she didn’t become a fugitive and ruin her life over a girl, i guess….?
@@xeo4295 Doesn't she get dishonorably discharged then? Thats pretty bad as it can ruin you in getting a job.
@@Web720after getting arrested
@@Web720 nah, she can’t be “discharged” until she’s actually in the military. Until you’re physically at basic training and sworn in, you aren’t *actually* part of the military. Since she ran off before then, they just cross her off a list, essentially. Her recruiter would probably be pissed, but they can’t really do anything about it.
I think it'd be funny if since it's 1 AM you just eventually unlock a room and they're just asleep.
Imagine if the game was about the dad finding more about jfk and they sent army gf to assassinate him but she also wants to maintain relationship with the family, would’ve been much cooler.
Oh, oh, yeah! And then, on the night she's put her plan into motion to kill him via poisoning or something, the family invites her over for dinner and he apologizes to her, talks about the stress he's been under due to the book sales and that it was wrong of him to take it out on her and his daughter. So now, she feels bad about it and has to rush to try and stop her own rube goldberg plan before it's too late!
Oh and it's revealed that the mom assassinated JFK.
The game would have been better if we followed the madness of the dad going down infinite JFK conspiracy theory rabbit holes than the bland path it decided to take.
Like for real, can you imagine this poor girl traveling all the way to Dallas, Texas to find out that her father was so obsessed with the JFK assassination that he went insane, abandoned his family, and started leaving behind a trail of gradually insane diary entries about how he thinks the FBI is following him? That's the thriller game everybody deserved, but never got.
Sounds thrilling
Only to find his corpse somewhere because _he was absolutely right,_ and the Feds disappeared him?
It would've been better if it didn't have a terrible art style and wasn't degenerate propaganda.
Would it really be a thriller or more "chasing the elderly through the country to make them pay alimony"
@@toolatetothestory Ooo, that would be cool too. Faking insanity to avoid paying alimony.
The set up for the Lebanese reveal was so fast yet so funny that it makes me mad.
Also, did this game just let you play as an NPC observing other characters with more interesting lives? Then again, I haven’t played it myself… might be missing the point of the game.
I mean, you play as a woman and most/all are NPCs so... Yeah, you're correct
@@DanArnets1492 I found an incel in the wild!
"When did I become the boring one?! Damn my cool Lebanese sister!" But seriously, how is this a game, it's literally just about a paranoid girl who knows nothing about her family
Truly one of the games of all time.
This got nominated as "Best Narrative in 2013 and I think IGN or some gaming news gave it GOTY."
@@kokomole2137 .they are obviously lebanese, so their opinion doesnt count
The most I remember about this game is a parody somebody made where you play as a car called Gone Vroom
Ruined your 69 likes. You’re welcome. =)
@@ArDeeMee dumbass
George's voicemail on the answering machine absolutely killed me
Imagine coming home and finding it empty and then just going through everyones shit because ???
Thats how you get your ass beat
If anyone wanted to know what happens next, Sam's girlfriend gets arrested for going AWOL, and her parents probably don't patch things up.
Good.
Shame they couldnt make another bland 2 hr game to convey that one sentence of information, and charge 30 quid for it
Yeah, even if they made progress in fixing their relationship, I imagine having their daughter run away would be more stress than they could handle.
Sam probably just destroyed the marriage they were making efforts to repair.
Since she never even got to basic, they probably just kick her out with a general discharge and now she has to explain that on every job application she files for the rest of her life.
The good ending
I played this. A reviewer said it has elementary of horror and a mystery. The only mystery was your sister convinced her friend to ditch the military and would now be breaking the law. And the horror was this is a boring game where the reveal is the whole time she was gay nothing else.
I mean a lot of people are AFRAID of gay people for some weird reason so I BET a bunch of conservatives got jumpscared by it
the horror is that you paid 30 dollars for it
@@javsandarts eghhhhhhhhhhh keep politics with politics this is just a terrible game
@@alexzoo6857 lol, ok snowflake
@@javsandarts the fact that you deleted your comment shows how fragile you are
I remember paying $20 to play Lesbian House, I will always remember that day. The day I learned to do my own research and not just buy things on impulse based on what friends said.
Take heart, some people have to learn that lesson from a $70 game
@@MrSubejio Haha, yeah. 76ers we call them.
Hope you dropped that loser
@@RoosterFloyd I have preordered 2 games. Diablo 2. And... Colonial Marines.
I learnt my lesson.
@@oz_jones I can do you one better. Last games I preordered was Rogue Warrior and Shellshock 2... Man.. Shellshock 1 was awesome, what the hell.
this games story is essentially you figuring out where your family went after you took a mid day nap
The joy I felt at the recreation of The Great Ace Attorney Herlock Sholmes deduction segments and the use of the actual soundtrack 🥺
Was so excited I nearly forgot this video was about another game entirely lmfao
I still remember back in the Tumblr days how people were flabbergasting all over this game just because the lebanese twist
People were flabbergastung because it had misleading advertising and marketed itself as an indie horror game, when in reality literally all there was to the plot was the lebanese twist.
Truly it was the stunningest of braves.
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@@ergwertgesrthehwehwejwe Maybe people on 4/8chan, and the then newcoming "Anti-SJW" e-celebs, but the Tumblr side of the internet very much adored this game, literally for Lebanese part, and i say this without any shred of irony. It was unironically the only thing it had going for it, back when having several butt seggs enjoyers in every single Westoid game wasn't completely mandatory.
That Doc Martens callout hit me where I live
explain pls
Lesbian
@@MagnumGreenPanther lebanese
@@needabettername1559 Doc Martens are issued to all Lebanese citizens as a rite of passage
I hear that, I wore flannel and docs in 1995... but I'm not lebanese though, just gay
this game was advertised as some spooky game with the empty home etc , only for the punchline to be : "im gay"
I remember this being the first time I noticed the massive disconnect between critics and audiences. I bought this after the amazing reviews it was getting, I was playing waiting for it to get good.
“This must be all set up, they’re just building the tension, I’m going to find the corpses of my parents soon, and then I’ll have to take out my sister who’s gone mental, or I’m gonna bump into a spooky ghost, or my dads gone all Jack Torrance or something”.
I would’ve settled for anything. Instead it was a great big nothing burger. I’ve distrusted critics ever since, and more and more people do the same with every 10 out of 10 for a Last Jedi or a Cuties they give.
Critic scores are absolutely worthless. Always go with audience score and read some to make sure they are real people and not bot people or bot bots.
...Or even better: Word of mouth. Ask your friends if you have any to ask.
Lonnie is one of those people in high school who talk a big game about joining the marines asap to "kill some 'tallyban' " and wear as close to a military uniform as possible to school, only to wash themselves out of basic after half a dozen recycles lol. Way to go Cody
realized she couldn't have her pink hair in the army and ran away lmao
@@Marssnowable She should try again now 😂
Alternatively, she was willing to go, but then they told her she is going to Fort Polk
You can't have pink hair in the military literally unplayable.
Gone Home: the boredom simulator
I was hoping the plot was going to be that Sam was a lumberjack in conflict with her mom of the Tree Service...
Or that the Lebanese from the army had gone mad and had killed everyone when she returned
@@DanArnets1492 That only happens after she "transitions". Than she offs herself.
This game was the hill that games journalism died on.
I didn't know this game was controversial
@@blacksuite1 you must have a lot of acess to grass then.
@@blacksuite1 Oh yeah. This was the first time the term "walking simulator" was used to label a game on steam. And the game journos didn't like that at all and took it upon themselves to defend the game with any means necessary. Calling people the now usual names (troll, bigot, etc...), writing articles and so on.
This was one of the first cases where you could clearly see the divide between the people who play video games and the people who review them.
@@blacksuite1 imagine if every single food review journalism site told you about a new hot n coming cake shop that made the best cakes ever, like straight 10/10s by every single website you can find
but when you go in to buy one, it's actually just literal shit on a plate, and every single one of the journalists defended it with "it's commenting on the good taste of cake by being shit and also actually the person who runs the shop has like a really tragic life story that they wanted to express through the cake, you really gotta emotionally invest yourself"
that's what Gone Home was in 2013 (hyperbolically, obviously)
@@Hegataro wow that's crazy, I never heard of this game or the drama.
I hope gaming journalists never stop embarrassing themselves. These golden moments of involuntary comedy are amazing.
My family isn't home, and it's 1 am... I will search for information among the private spaces and belongings of my family to where they are instead of... sleeping, or waiting until tomorrow to ask neighbors or friends. Yes, that's what I am gonna do.
I remember that the dad's storyline had a bit of a happy ending as he got contacted by a small publishing company with a shit taste in books who wanted to reprint his JFK books and is currently pushing his luck to get them to publish sequels.
Well at least now that he's not a loser his wife will stop cheating on him... he writes in his journal as he cries waiting for her to get home from her obvious date with her boyfriend
Yea it's nice he has something to love for
@@skeetsmcgrew3282her boyfriend got married the week we got back. That river is dry
Yeah but they don't care because they'd rather complain about how this game doesn't have any action in it ┐( ˘_˘)┌ they really breezed over Terry's stuff which is really some of the most interesting things in the game. He's obsessed with JFK because he was molested by his uncle for the first time on the same day
Ah yes, Gone Home. The game that made me question why the makers didn’t just write a novella or do a comic of the story. One of the devs is in a relationship a comic artist too. So what about this story says “it needs to be a almost gameplay-less game?”
"Yes indeed, why do anything new at all, ever?"
- some fucking moron
Because if it was a film or comic book it would have been called bad, but video game journos and gamers have lower standards.
@@fruiteusfly5307 Shit... You're right. xD
Why can't video games be diverse? Gone Home came early but we got games like the Witness later on. That could have just been a crossword book. It's funny people still get bent out of shape over this game with tons of other games have done the same thing since then and even before. The game is fine and the story is fine, it's literally only infamous because it has gay characters.
@@Garrette63 The Witness was bad too.
I remember every gaming news outlet were saying how amazing this game was. After buying it and playing through the entire game, I NEVER trusted gaming journalists ever again and this was before the whole gamergate controversy
I think that Gone Home was THE moment a "large" (read: use social media regularly) portion of the gaming populace went "wait a fucking minute here" and stopped trusting game journalists
this and [redacted event] were two events in 2013 that were a real "left right good night" for games journalism being seen as legitimate
I love how all of us gamers know gamergate was a joke and that these journos shouldn't be trusted, but when a normie MSM reporter talks about it, were racist and sexist and can't possibly be normal people
@@TheLongDon it's kinda funny how the culture has evolved, because even people who didn't know GG existed, or were against it, are now also shit-talking games journalists
in the long run, it was a success
@@TheLongDon
Please if a normy MSM reporter talks about it they'll vilify it more then actual rapists and pedo's in hollywood
For they committed the most horrid crime of all, questioning a propagandist
I think this was the time when walking simulators were really just becoming a thing, so at the time Gone Home was pretty novel.
This "game" was clearly supposed to be a book about a girl that came home to discover her family has completely fallen apart, but it wouldn't get published so the author hired game developers to get it out that way. Only way I make sense of it
You really don't understand how the medium of video games makes this different. Being non-sequential and using the environment is different from what a novel or comic would convey. It's like the people saying Dark Souls doesn't have a story just because there isn't a ton of cutscenes with excessive exposition telling you directly what is happening.
@@Mordalonstop coping, this barely qualifies as a video game. I’ve played with happy meal toys that are more engaging than this (as a child, way back when they had those little sonic handheld games; loved those things)
holy shit, i was bummed out when you said the older storytimes weren't up to snuff but you absolutely knocked it out of the park with this one. This one is your best one yet. Masterpiece. 86/100. My wife also left me.
The Gen-Z humor-like AD with all the random sounds and voice bits just mashed together produced a glorious expleenation, thank you Mark.
Someone took inspiration from the Ace Attorney Chronicles... AND I LOVE IT!
The frickin review of the dude that got dumped by his wife really did the trick, I'm still laughing as I write this sfhsfhsfhsf
this is the one comment I have found mentioning the GAAC references. Good on you. (To be fair there are like 3 others but uhhhhh)
Imagine being the people that gushed over this game back in the day…being so thick headed that they can’t figure out the sister is gay within like 10 minutes and then going through this whole pile of wank just to find out that’s the entire big “twist” and then going WOW SISTER = GAY? SO POWERFUL AND BRAVE 10/10!
Someone did in this very comment section and calling those that disagreed "Cringy and L take"
L for Lebanese
Most of the people who gushed over this game back in the day never even played a minute of it.
This game's... "fans"??? (I don't know if fans apply when I doubt any of them have played any games in their lives) has become *THE* example of "Imbecile who doesn't know anything but loves to pretend to be smart while calling the lamest, most cookie cutter shit "artpiece" they can find the second coming of Christ." It really is a personality flag right here, if you can see past this game's barely made bullshit and see it for what it really is.
A 10 hour hackjob "game".
I remember how people thought it was a horror game, it goes to show how narrative and worldbuilding via the environment is very possible and a cool idea.
The banter level in this storymode is excellent, felt like I was with 2 friends laughing the whole time.
I literally lost it when she came out as Lebanese. 10/10 a master piece.
Gone Home? More like dad please come home your family misses you.
Sorry.....daddy still can't find his milk
but the mother was the one getting the milk and cigs this time.
His wife doesn't miss him, though (and that's so righteous and powerful. SLAY KWEEN!)
More like Gone Homo, amirite??
"...so I can poison you after I've guaranteed you left me something nice in your will... Oops, did I say that out loud?"
When I first played this game i thought it was a horror game for whatever reason lol. I mean i was TERRIFIED throughout until i got to the end and was like oh thats it.
It IS a horror game. The horror is that it's considered a game.
@@VyxelOP Skeleton-shivering.
Honestly, what this channel is really good at is exposing how poorly written most video game plots are. In most cases shown on the channel, its because the writers just can't work with the gameplay, resulting in the story being filled with awkward padding in order to lazily justify why you have to go to the next level (resulting in such things as long periods of time without any major plot progression or the infamous "protagonist blacks out to transition to the next gameplay segment"). In Gone Home's case, though, its just that its a story with drama that's so mundane (a couple is having a not particularly interesting relationship crisis and their daughter runs away from home to be gay) that it fails to excite the audience at all.
Gone Home is one of those "the writer wanted to write a movie and not a game" situations
But no one else on the team really cared about it being a game, either
@@Hegataro - I've always said that a good interactive movie is wayyy better than any walking sim
@@Hegataro Gone home doesn't really feel like a movie script either. If anything the structure of it would be more suitable for a novel than a movie.
@@Abon666 It wouldn't be suitable for any kind of storytelling medium because it simply isn't a story, it's a glorified summary section for a wikipedia article about some mundane subject. There's no arc or acts to the narrative, you just slowly read through completely irrelevant info to figure out a resolution that can be inferred within several minutes of booting up the game if you understand basic context clues and story tropes. And the ultimate resolution is mind-numbingly pointless, and to add insult to injury, only the sister and mother's sides contribute to the "Where they went" resolution which makes everything else an even bigger waste of time.
And all of the plot could've been resolved by literally doing nothing because they were due back later that day, or if the parents just left a note (this family *loves* notes for some reason, so that's a plothole and a half). The story is the less exciting equivalent to a child waking up to find their mom gone and getting worked up and trying to figure out what happened, just for her to come back home a bit later because it turns out she just ran to the store for a bit before the kid woke up.
@@KaleidosXXI It has the skeleton of a story, but what makes this type of story interesting is getting to know the characters as humans, not just an inference from being a nosey weirdo. Also this girl knows nothing about her own family for some reason? Like she may as well be a stranger, which adds another element of 'who cares.'
And even putting all that aside, why tf does nobody ever hide their misdeeds?! Imagine the parents getting home and listening to those messages, just friggin gutted that their daughter bailed and they have no idea if she's ok or where they went. And the mom just reading a book where evidence of her affair is always two feet from her husband. Like, screw these people, they suck.
My brother and I were super into this game bc the eeriness and creepiness kept us on our toes trying to figure out where the demon or ghosts were. Got our friends to play and their reactions to the ending were just as disappointed as our lmao
We still shit talk about this game 😂
Wait…So nothing happens in the entire game? There is literal nothing here.
Yup
"My wife left me, 10/10 masterpiece"
Life is always a little better when internet historian uploads
Life looks a bit more nord and brighter
Internet who?
whos that, this is mark channel
@@kuru-kuru5867He's one of Mark's friends
Internet Historian is different person, this is one of Mark Zuckerberg's many hobbies. he often does these after spending his evenings in the garden happily smoking his meats.
Nothing else makes you feel old like remembering being there when this game got released
So the most exciting thing that happened in the game...
Is that the lights flickered.
10/10
“Believe it or not, George isn’t at home, so leave a message after the beep…”
"(which is in Egypt, not Lebanon)" is a quality joke, needlessly humorous 😂
I played this "game" when it was for free during quarantine. It was a waste of time, I hated the stereotypical "I'm a lesbian so I'll run away from home" story. Two years later my 15 year old sister decided she was a lesbian and left my father's home to go with my cheating mother. 2/10 got 1 point because it kinda predicted the future
This had a better twist than the game
There was this girl in my highschool days that claimed she was lesbian after getting dumbed by her boyfriend, we all knew it was bs but she went the whole 9 yards and started "dating" this girl that was at the least bi but was a VERY shy
A few of us tried warning her that she was just using her to get back at her ex, what made it really sad was the girl already had this feeling from the start. About a month or so later, she cheated on the girl with some actual dumbass who's only positive trait about him was his body, but it was safe to say nobody was really surprised by this
Reality can be like a really awful plot to a game/movie sometimes
Has she been to Lebanon tho?
In some circles that's called a "U-Haul Lesbian."
Sorry mate sounds like your dad is a good man. Had the same situation as a kid
All I remember about the game is that the sister stole the SNES on her way out and I was thinking, I would be SO MAD.
My brother gave away our SNES when I was away at college. I was so freaking mad.
Bought this game on steam, tried it for 10 minutes, and I was out. Then I just searched gone home story on youtube, and here I am lol
These really well-made Dance of Deduction sequences to go along with the Holmes and Watson shtick make me unreasonably happy.
*sholmes
Me too!! I was looking thru the comments to see who else noticed
I was very underwhelmed by this game. The whole set up is pretty spooky, but then as you explore it quickly becomes evident that there's just some basic family drama going done. Felt like a bait and switch.
Ah, but you see, that was its genius! In an era of video games having all these things like "plot hooks", "conflict", "drama", or "fun", this was a game that dared to be different. It teases you with these amazing stories, only to... not have an amazing story. But hey, it's got lesbians. That means it's the most important video game ever made.
All jokes aside, I distinctly remember people praising the game for it's bait and switch as you said. Because I guess that's all it took.
But it has a lesbian love plot, so if you hate it that obviously means ur a bigot!!1!
@@arandompasserby7940 Sorry, don’t you mean Lebanese?
@@zacharyturner2944 Oh, you're right! my bad. I meant it has a lebanese love plot, so if you hate it you're islamophobic! 😁👍
Because it was
I wish I was a modder. I'd add guns to this game and call it "Gone Mad". Make all the objects breakable (shootable) and the final room you get to is the attic where Sam has tied up the parents and is holding them hostage.
I mean at that point you would have remade the whole game.
Already a better game with that one difference
Insert domestic violence stats here
Gone Homecidal.
11:27 This was the exact moment the "0451" easter egg became the videogame equivalent of the "How do you do, fellow kids?" meme.
This game just depressed me. Parents fighting and cheating, and like all of us I could tell it was a gay thing 5 minutes into the game
I can’t believe she took his Twitter account as well! Poor Pete couldn’t catch a break 😢
Can't wait to watch this 1000 times until the next one is up
Legend says 1 like = 1 second of render time
Same.
We love the great ace attorney references to Herlock Sholmes' 'Dance of Deductions' 😂 Great vid
I played this game because it was one of the first free games for the ps4 and let me tell you a 14 year old boy was not happy about losing 2 hours like that.
Please elaborate
2 hours??
When they said that was the end of the game, I literally did not believe it, I thought it was another bit they were doing. Like what the actual freck was this game??
There was no plot other than “sister gay, parents not good at functioning”
I still can't believe this episode is less than 20 minutes long. It somehow manages to feel like an hour even with the jokes 😂❤ ohmygod this game sucks so hard
TH-cam thought they could hide this video from me, but nothing is hidden when Herlock Sholmes is on the case.
I would love to see you guys tackle Obscure (2004) and Obscure: The Aftermath (2007). I feel you guys would totally make those games into funny videos.
Yes! Obscure is gloriously dodgy from the moment Sum41 sings the opening montage. More people need to know about it
@@RuailleBuaille Yeah, and it’s a great length with two games in the series and really matches the funny vibe Storymode has. I think it’s perfect for them.
General Sam and Bizzle already took care of that.
Story mode is love, story mode is life.
But htis game is trash.
When I played this game 10 years ago, I had 2 predictions in the first 10 minutes. Sister was gay and Army girl killed everyone out of love for the sister (or at least the parents and *you* cause you're actually a ghost reliving the events) shortly after everyone moved in, and thats why things were unpacked. I was at least right on one guess, and the 2nd prediction would have made it way more interesting.
That would have been nuts. Like you find all the normal clues and then the dad's story board has a bullet hole through it.
Finally, I know what this game is about. I remember Extra Credits would gush about this game every other episode, back when I used to watch them. You would have thought this game was the next evolution in narrative entertainment.
Now EC is "Orcs are a stereotype of black people!" and "It's terrible that you're forced to play as a WWII Bad Guy in multiplayer!"
I like how the story was just explained to be twice and I feel like I'm missing something still.
15:34 (which is in Egypt, not Lebanon) is probably one of the best, most undersold jokes i've ever seen. Had me in tears. Never stop making these thx
My dad gone to the store for some milk, he hasn't gone home since.
...You might want to send out a search party. 😳
Maybe he became a Lebanese and shot JFK ?
So i’m sitting here, enjoying the video. When suddenly Zuck starts making fun of the “my wife left me” review… holy shit, that was written by my life long friend from school! Was kind of stunned it came up.
"They were just in denial." (which is in Egypt, not Lebanon) killed me 😂😂😂😂
"I too have a dream, that one day, gamers and normies will rise up as one."
God bless the editor.
That review was 100% written by Terry
God, this is the kind of game you'd have to sleep with people to get a good score for.
Imagine you just got home from a LONG flight, took the shuttle, arrived locked out at 1:15 A.M., and the FIRST thing you do is rifle through your family’s shit for no reason other than entertainment.
They changed the thumbnail video to a scarier version of Mark's stare, very emotional.
Ah yes, one of the games at the epicenter of the Gamergate controversy. Hard to believe it's almost almost a decade now. Truly a game of all time.
This wasn’t the one with a journalist sleeping with the developer
@@kathrineici9811 yeah, that was Jazzpunk. Gone Home wasn't particularly involved with GG beyond people being upset about reviewers scoring it highly, no corruption or anything unlike with jazzpunk
@@legatelaurie Jazzpunk has (as far as i know) nothing to do with Quinn. It was in fact "Depression quest" that started the controversy.
@@kamikazoo6599 Looking at it, Quinn only did voice acting for Jazzpunk - and I recall that people said that reviewing was corrupt due to that - but also the two people behind it were close with Kotaku as well. Depression Quest was the main thing igniting it though you're entirely right
@@legatelaurie
Amazing that Jazzpunk was an actually decent little game.
Not only was this game extremely over hyped, it *fueled the subgenre of walking simulators*
It truly was
A game of thrones...
You can make a good walking sim, just be upfront about it and have good writing/execution.
@@zachanikwano The Stanley Parable was great. Funny with something interesting to say.
Everyone's Gone to Rapture was major league tedious though. Made Gone Home look like minor league tedious.
@@chrisbg99 Dear Esther was good. But it’s definitely not for everyone…
Do you not love paying 40 dollars to walk around a house
@@BluMan506 Yeah, it's a bit pricey. You can get into Anne Frank's for cheaper.
Utterly hilarious and brilliant. The best video I’ve seen this year.
1/10
Reminds me of the ant man reviews, but reverse. The movie is Meh, has lots of problems. 10/10 lol
"best video I've seen this year."
Best video this year, so far. He might post again this year.
I hope IH does more joke / scuff storymodes like this
Really love the fun he sounds like he's having in his voice 🥺
The Dad and Lonny would’ve made for incredible protagonists. The father steadily investigating his conspiracy theories as he starts to learn his wife is cheating on them and reconciling whether or not that’s just a product of his investigations and who can he trust and everything is just going downhill.
Lonny, she’s a full blown criminal for skipping on her military duties. Once you sign up, you’re not out until they allow it. You could have this whole adventure of her and Sam trying to find a place to lay low and live happy while evading getting too much attention. There’s an interesting story to tell there and you could probably go through the development of their relationship developing.
But nah. Empty spooky house where everything’s fine, kinda, actually. With a bait B-side storyline about potential haunting that goes absolutely nowhere. But you get to listen to cool cassette tapes of definitely copyright music!
This game is like anti-storytelling. There are games I dont care for on Story Time that I will rewatch over and over for the fun commentary and reactions to the insane things that happen in said game. But with this entry, even with the inclusion of a very fun Sherlock theme from the hosts, I dont think I can bring myself to watch it the same way Ive heard Mark say "fuck right off" about Wesker surviving Volcano Mountain
All in all, 100/100, my wife took everything from me.
So, your wife took 100/100?
What video was volcano mountain in?
@@eyjay1508 Resi 5, the one where Chris punches a rock. =)
I figured it out.
I like how the sister is going to college, but her penmanship is like that of a preschooler.
Insert “typical American school system” joke right here 😮
That's relatively common, and iirc the sister is meant to be, or implied to be, autistic or adhd where motor skill issues and poor handwriting generally are more common
THAT'S MEANT TO BE PRESCHOOL PENMANSHIP?!
My penmaship hasn't changed since I was in elementary school and I'm 22 now
Then again, everything I write is only for myself, not for other people to read
Dysgraphia is a thing!
Also the introduction of laptops and tablets doesn't really help a student's penmanship either. Although this game is in the 90s so these girls have little excuse
Sam "Im a Lesbian"
Everyone "Yeah Sam, we guessed that when we say you wearing green flannel. Now where is the real mystery?"
I almost started choking from laughing when he said the wife took his Twitter.