2:10 "What happens in Dubai, stays in Dubai" I've completed this game 3 times already and I've never noticed until now how heavy the foreshadowing is behind that line.
@@Tenmo8life Games don't always have good endings. This game worked so well because the endings aren't good, they're represented as the outcomes of battling outside forces and your own demons. You don't always win
@@Kevduiti wanted to suggest you this game but changed my mind because your content is supposed to be light hearted didn't think you'd actually play it
@@Kevduit I just finished streaming this video for my twitch stream last night and they removed it but I finished the video last night now I’m watching your video
This game is what a TRUE hidden gem truly is. The story is made to look generic on purpose to draw u into a false sense of classic American hero fashion but when the curtain falls you truly are left speechless at what walker has become by the end of the story. Its gritty,brutal and definitely doesn't pull its punches when the last act reveals why walker went insane. I LOVE this game to death and i wish more games would take this approach to storytelling. Definitely recommend buying it!
One of the smartest games ever made (from a moral standpoint). Funfact for the action helicopter scene at the beginning: The devs didn’t want fro start the game like that. But the publisher demanded a call of duty styled WHOOOAAAA!!! beginning. Hence the ironic and sarcastic commentary from the player character during that scene.
The theory is that Walker dies in that helicopter crash at the start of the game and the entire game is his purgatory. Heck, he even says that "we already did this!" the second time the helicopter chase scene starts, and his teammates are confued.
Meh, the game would have been better if they'd included a Far Cry 4 type of option at each stop sign. As is, the moralising preachiness is moot since they don't give players an in-game choice.
@@bc-cu4on the devs do not want you to treat this as a game, they want you to actually take the decision and stop playing in real life that's why they have the prompt "it's only a video game right" or something along those lines, if they did the far cry 4 option it would be the decision of the in game character to stop, not YOU as a player, furthermore if you're going in for the first time you wouldn't even notice the stop sign or the foreshadowing or anything so you won't even think about stopping because you want to get your money's worth by playing what you purchased, but the questions remains at what cost?
I still remember the part where the locals capture and beat one of your squad mates. I remember it being a moment where you didn't have to light up the whole angry mob that had just beaten your buddy dead, but I did. Still think about it to this day. Not many games are written so well, which is a shame.
Seeing Walkers face in the reflection during the WP part is haunting. You see a cold, ruthless man wanting glory just doing the absolute extreme to get that self fulfillment.
I love that you can tell just how far Walker's gone, and you can hear the biggest mental break and not even notice. After they kill the civilians, he specifically chooses the words "we're going to make them pay for what they did" not even "we're going to make them pay for what they made us do" he never acknowledges what's happened is mostly on him, until the end of the game, and depending on your ending he doesn't acknowledge it at all. The ending where he comes to terms most with what he's done is either the ending where he shoots himself or where he gets out and suffers from PTSD. It's bad endings all aroind.
What do you mean "he gets out?" I've always thought he died in the heli crash and that this is Walker's own personal Hell, where this day just Effing repeats over and over. . . and over.
@isaacklein533 I totally get what you're saying a lot of the visuals after the helo crash are super hell-ish. I'm basing my interpretation of the ending off the book "heart of darkness" which inspired "apocalypse now" and both actually inspired the game, and in both of those the protag makes it out with severe PTSD.
@isaacklein533 definitely. Though it is quite different setting wise as it follows a sailor from a Belgian company trying to find plans for trade route through Africa as well as the previous captain from the same company, iirc.
Interesting bit that not a lot of people notice: this game has two ways of scene transtion, screen fade to black or white. When it fades to black it means that the next scene plays out "like it really was" and white means that the next scene has been warped by Walkers mind.
@@marcovonrodziewitzyeah for them to add in a new early ending or at least good guy storyline where you join up with the soldiers them and your squad realizing that y’all are on the same side teaming up to evacuate the survivors and put a stop to the water being destroyed by offbrand Elias (from underrated cod ghosts) and with said team not going insane from war crimes and finding Conrad’s corpse.
@@zombieslayer02gjustzombies85 Yeah, sure, let´s include new options that totally antagonize the message of the game so some dimwit can feel like a hero...
“To kill for yourself is murder. To kill for your government is heroic. To kill for entertainment is harmless.” One of the most profound and thought provoking quotes from this game
This was such a surprise back in the day - seeing the player in the credits was a cute touch, but just helped lull you into a false sense of security before it aimed its hits Ruthlessly - glad I picked it up on GOG as well as Steam so if any of my friends want to give it a try, I can still pass it along
"Hey, I'm craving some good psychological horror game. Do you know any?" "Try Spec Ops: The Line." "Spec Ops? Sounds like shooter action game." "Oh TRUST ME."
freaking love this game, from the upside US flag and the sniper on the main menu getting torn as time went on (or dead in the sniper's case) to emptying magazines in those damn juggernauts oh also white phosphorus, cos yay😂
14:43 The NPC singing him little song, humming happily while there's huge explosions all around him. I have tears in my eyes, i was CONVINCED it was Kev singing until he and the voice were talking at the same time 😂😂😂
Something important to note in the final cutscene between Konrad and Walker is the angle of Konrad’s pistol: It’s aimed over Walker’s shoulder at US If you let Konrad shoot you, YOU are taking responsibility for your actions during the game. Shooting Konrad can be seen as perpetuating the “it’s just a game” mentality, saying that just because it’s fiction nothing you did had any significance. Do you feel like a hero yet?
@@steelbear2063 I don't think it's about being the most "war crimes ridden", it's how it presents the aftermath and the moral dilemma that make it interesting. Plenty of games let you commit war crimes, but they rarely address the consequences.
@@steelbear2063I think it comes very close to showing the brutality of war, yes. And it’s not just “1s and 0s.” Video games are an art form, with stories and principles of their own.
I love this game. Especially the fact that it practically points out and laughs at most games only allowing the player to interact with them through violence while letting you do kind of a crazy amount of small choices through just that. Incredible shit.
What I love about this game's intro is that not only do you get a glimpse of what's about to happen, but one of Dubai before Walker too. Showing you how (relatively) peaceful the city was before Walker's rampage. The 33rd really are the closest thing to "good guys" in this whole game.
Btw forgot to mention love the sarcastic quips the game forces on you in the form of tips in the loading scenes. Its taunting your ignorance on how bad the situation has gotten with your interference with the ppl of dubai that your actions caused massive casualties on all sides and instead if u have focused on your mission no unnecessary loss of life would have been caused.
As i said on the stream prior to this game. I recently got the short novella "Heart of Darkness" this is somewhat based on. I'd wholeheartedly reccomend the read. You can get through it in a couple of hours.
I remember the American flag in the pause screen tears up as you go through the game and the hole background changed too and as soon as I noticed I kept pausing the game after a couple of stages just to see how bad it got
Severely underated game. One of my favorites of all time. Very satisfying gameplay and sick ass story. I wish they'd make more! I was so close to beating it on FUBAR difficulty, but just couldnt make it happen.
Chapter 13 and 14 are the ultimate challenge of your perseverance, I have beaten the game on FUBAR, took me about 6 hours and a LOT of game over to get it done.
@kevinl5219 4 main 1 semi extra 1 pull the trigger shoot 2 let konard shoot you 3 depending on the above 2 1 leads to the military coming then you either put the gun down and let them save you or you 4 shoot them and fail lead to a a ending if you win you get the sub extra ending although that's not count as a main ending
Yep. I actually listened to one loading screen question and was like 'you know what, I actually don't want to continue'. Love the game for having driven me there by the weight of the story alone.
As a critique of modern shooters at the time, this did well. As for making the player question their choices? Absolutely not. Not once did I feel like anything bad that happened was my fault. THE bad decision of the game, the infamous Willy Pete segment, was not my choice. I did not have the ability to say no and try to get through without using it. I felt NOTHING when, of course, things went bad. So naturally I ended the game by blasting the ghost colonel and going home. The infamous "Do you feel like a hero yet?" did not land with me. Because I understood from the beginning that every gunfight I got into was something I had no choice in. I understood that there was no "just walk away" for my squad. They are trapped in Dubai before they realize what's actually going on. How am I supposed to feel bad about myself?
Amazing game. I remember playing this far too young. Surprised I even got it but definitely did change my view on war and the world which is amazing from a video game.
Probably the best critique of the shooter genre ever made! Not my favorite shooter by gamelplay standards, but absolutely the best story shooter since I've been gaming (about 20 years).
Basically... Spec Ops The Line is meant to look at people who enlist in the army hoping to go to the middle east to "protect their country", tilt its head and ask "what are you protecting your country from?" WHILE Also looking at everyone who plays CoD for the fantasy of being a soldier and asks "What part of this do you even want? What do you enjoy? The killing? The sand? The trauma induced hallucinations? I didn't force you to play. You could have stopped. "
Yeap i remember, i watched multiple document type videos and deep analysis videos on this game, crazy part is theres a secrete ending if you dont shoot the guys at the end but just shoot the gun in the air you get a different outcome
The moment the refugee camp came in to play, I still get goose bumps and I think a few people I've watched theorized this is our hell I was like in a state of shock thinking about it. Meaning this game did it's job and it was worth the mental scarring lol
My favorite military game of all time. This came out during an oversatured market of military shooters where they were so obsessed with who could have the biggest explosions and set pieces, they forgot they’re still making games about war and players were starting to get desensitized. This game baits you into thinking it’s gonna be a cod ripoff, but reminds you your actions have consequences. And also it’s the only game I can think of where the only way to get the good ending is to stop playing.
13:11 fun fact during the stream Kev went AFK for a few minutes, thinking he was safe behind the boxes. Which led to him getting knifed 3 times before he came back
It good other people are trying this game, i had the game for many years but i really slept on this game, first played it when i was young dont remember much of my experience with it but i got back into it this year and being 20 years old i really understand alot more of it and honestly this whole game is slept on. The story is amazing really especially the lore, the gameplay is good and really simple to learn. The real way to play this game is on the fubar difficulty, it was challenging but also easy FOR ME. What really is slept on is the online..played it with a few friends but to have a full match it will be amazing. And don't get me started on the soundtrack! The instruments are BEAUTIFUL. Real music right there! You should definitely check it out if you like rock
when the flash backs start happening to the "choices" youve made and how your squad mates start suspecting that you are going crazy was amazing. I replayed it to get another ending, my favorites are when you kill the squad that arrives or off yourself at the mirror, yt instantly deleted my comment for using the sui word lmao "gentlemen, welcome to dubai"
2:10 "What happens in Dubai, stays in Dubai"
I've completed this game 3 times already and I've never noticed until now how heavy the foreshadowing is behind that line.
Do **I** remember Spec Ops The Line? Well, do **YOU** feel like a hero yet?
How many americans have you killed today?
My ptsd is kicking in again bc of u man!!!!
*flashback of Vietnam* i never want this
*Gentleman. Welcome to Dubai.* 😆/😫
Remember, no Russian.😈
This game has no "good" ending. It's just a bad ending, a worse ending, or the worst ending
Walker going home is the worse ending because he has live with being broken not being a hero not getting that valiant ending
@@tyronechillifoot5573 Welcome to the story of every veteran of every country who goes home. They usually go home broken and without that valiance.
All 4 are depressing brilliant
All endings are good ones in my eyes, your just a cynic
@@Tenmo8life Games don't always have good endings. This game worked so well because the endings aren't good, they're represented as the outcomes of battling outside forces and your own demons. You don't always win
Didn't ever imagine you getting onto this game but I'm actually quite excited to see how you tackle it all, it's a hellish journey
I naturally joke when I'm in tense situations, so this game had me running out of things to say
@@Kevduiti wanted to suggest you this game but changed my mind because your content is supposed to be light hearted didn't think you'd actually play it
@@Kevduit I just finished streaming this video for my twitch stream last night and they removed it but I finished the video last night now I’m watching your video
@@matthewaabarzua149 That sucks, hope it gets reinstated.
@@Kevduit just in tense situations?
This game is what a TRUE hidden gem truly is. The story is made to look generic on purpose to draw u into a false sense of classic American hero fashion but when the curtain falls you truly are left speechless at what walker has become by the end of the story. Its gritty,brutal and definitely doesn't pull its punches when the last act reveals why walker went insane. I LOVE this game to death and i wish more games would take this approach to storytelling. Definitely recommend buying it!
It’s a diamond in the rough, if you know what I mean…
@@ArcologyCrab-gq9ubrough sure is correct
One of the smartest games ever made (from a moral standpoint).
Funfact for the action helicopter scene at the beginning:
The devs didn’t want fro start the game like that. But the publisher demanded a call of duty styled WHOOOAAAA!!! beginning.
Hence the ironic and sarcastic commentary from the player character during that scene.
The theory is that Walker dies in that helicopter crash at the start of the game and the entire game is his purgatory. Heck, he even says that "we already did this!" the second time the helicopter chase scene starts, and his teammates are confued.
If i remember correctly it's no longer a theory the dev confirmed that walker did in fact die@@padmanabhanvaidyanathan7182
@@padmanabhanvaidyanathan7182
"Wait, this isn't right"
Or something along those lines and your comrade is like "wtf are you talking about".
Meh, the game would have been better if they'd included a Far Cry 4 type of option at each stop sign. As is, the moralising preachiness is moot since they don't give players an in-game choice.
@@bc-cu4on the devs do not want you to treat this as a game, they want you to actually take the decision and stop playing in real life that's why they have the prompt "it's only a video game right" or something along those lines, if they did the far cry 4 option it would be the decision of the in game character to stop, not YOU as a player, furthermore if you're going in for the first time you wouldn't even notice the stop sign or the foreshadowing or anything so you won't even think about stopping because you want to get your money's worth by playing what you purchased, but the questions remains at what cost?
I remember this..went in not expecting much..came out traumatized
I dont like sand
It‘s coarse, rough and irritating and it gets everywhere
A Jedi, a Sith, and a child killer walk into a bar. The bartender says, "Get the fuck out, Skywalker".
Q: What does Anakin do in his spare time?
A: Padme.
Now I get it...
this is the only game that actually showed the reality of war super underrated game
and maybe cod waw too
I also think it might be the only piece of media that (mostly) avoids the pitfall of the impossibility to make an anti-war movie.
Six Days in Fallujah, by some of the same creators, is really accurate aswell.
It isn't really about the reality of war. It is a story about ptsd and drug induced hysteria.
Call of duty Vanguard was that game for me. I can't believe it was really like that...
@@maxbracegirdle9990
Lmao, good one
Spec Ops: The Line
Otherwise known as "War Crimes Simulator"
Yet it has less crimes than a prologue to any CoD game. It's just the only one to point one out.
I still remember the part where the locals capture and beat one of your squad mates. I remember it being a moment where you didn't have to light up the whole angry mob that had just beaten your buddy dead, but I did. Still think about it to this day.
Not many games are written so well, which is a shame.
Yeah unfortunately there is no way to avoid the White Phosphorus part of this game except for not playing the game at all
Cry about it
Everyone ignored the literal Stop Sign, when you enter Dubai in the first scene. And it was placed in the middle so you see it. You kept going on…
@@akiluro2981
Yeah it's a video game
@@akiluro2981- Wow, a person played the video game they bought with their money?!?!?! 🤯🤯🤯
Seeing Walkers face in the reflection during the WP part is haunting. You see a cold, ruthless man wanting glory just doing the absolute extreme to get that self fulfillment.
I love that you can tell just how far Walker's gone, and you can hear the biggest mental break and not even notice. After they kill the civilians, he specifically chooses the words "we're going to make them pay for what they did" not even "we're going to make them pay for what they made us do" he never acknowledges what's happened is mostly on him, until the end of the game, and depending on your ending he doesn't acknowledge it at all. The ending where he comes to terms most with what he's done is either the ending where he shoots himself or where he gets out and suffers from PTSD. It's bad endings all aroind.
What do you mean "he gets out?" I've always thought he died in the heli crash and that this is Walker's own personal Hell, where this day just Effing repeats over and over. . . and over.
@isaacklein533 I totally get what you're saying a lot of the visuals after the helo crash are super hell-ish. I'm basing my interpretation of the ending off the book "heart of darkness" which inspired "apocalypse now" and both actually inspired the game, and in both of those the protag makes it out with severe PTSD.
@@SchnitzelRada Thanks for your input! I haven't read Or seen the novel. I guess I better pick it up, huh?
@isaacklein533 definitely. Though it is quite different setting wise as it follows a sailor from a Belgian company trying to find plans for trade route through Africa as well as the previous captain from the same company, iirc.
Interesting bit that not a lot of people notice: this game has two ways of scene transtion, screen fade to black or white. When it fades to black it means that the next scene plays out "like it really was" and white means that the next scene has been warped by Walkers mind.
One of the best war games ever made story wise... CRIMINALLY UNDERRATED
You mean war criminally underrated.
The game that truly deserves a remaster.
well, better a _remake_ .
@@marcovonrodziewitzyeah for them to add in a new early ending or at least good guy storyline where you join up with the soldiers them and your squad realizing that y’all are on the same side teaming up to evacuate the survivors and put a stop to the water being destroyed by offbrand Elias (from underrated cod ghosts) and with said team not going insane from war crimes and finding Conrad’s corpse.
@@zombieslayer02gjustzombies85 Yeah, sure, let´s include new options that totally antagonize the message of the game so some dimwit can feel like a hero...
“To kill for yourself is murder. To kill for your government is heroic. To kill for entertainment is harmless.”
One of the most profound and thought provoking quotes from this game
Like most simple to me. But sure It sounded deep when I was a teenager but the rest of the game script? 10/10.
More pretentious than profound.
@@dianabarnett6886ironically you sound pretentious saying that
This was such a surprise back in the day - seeing the player in the credits was a cute touch, but just helped lull you into a false sense of security before it aimed its hits Ruthlessly - glad I picked it up on GOG as well as Steam so if any of my friends want to give it a try, I can still pass it along
"To kill for yourself is murder, to kill for your government is heroic, to kill for entertainment is harmless."
Just like how the game fucks with your mind till the end, it really gave me big trauma finishing this game on FUBAR difficulty
dude, I can't imagine it on FUBAR, I was struggling with the difficulty I was on
@@Kevduit oh trust me. It's that, but 1000x worse
@@Kevduit and at the end of the Campaing on FUBAR, you'll be just as brain fucked as Walker is
@Cr1msnF4dger
Time for the endless RPG spam on the final level!
@@MrGMoney1944 or getting pinned down by the MGs & you had no grenade left
"Hey, I'm craving some good psychological horror game. Do you know any?"
"Try Spec Ops: The Line."
"Spec Ops? Sounds like shooter action game."
"Oh TRUST ME."
freaking love this game, from the upside US flag and the sniper on the main menu getting torn as time went on (or dead in the sniper's case) to emptying magazines in those damn juggernauts
oh also white phosphorus, cos yay😂
"This" Tower is double the size of "That" building... Accurate
This tower being the Burj Khalifa & that tower being the Empire State Building
14:43 The NPC singing him little song, humming happily while there's huge explosions all around him. I have tears in my eyes, i was CONVINCED it was Kev singing until he and the voice were talking at the same time 😂😂😂
Something important to note in the final cutscene between Konrad and Walker is the angle of Konrad’s pistol:
It’s aimed over Walker’s shoulder at US
If you let Konrad shoot you, YOU are taking responsibility for your actions during the game. Shooting Konrad can be seen as perpetuating the “it’s just a game” mentality, saying that just because it’s fiction nothing you did had any significance.
Do you feel like a hero yet?
Yes, because it's all 1's and 0's.
Yeah mate it's a video game, it's not that deep. And besides you think Spec Ops the Line comes even close to being the most war crimes ridden game?
@@steelbear2063 I don't think it's about being the most "war crimes ridden", it's how it presents the aftermath and the moral dilemma that make it interesting. Plenty of games let you commit war crimes, but they rarely address the consequences.
@@steelbear2063I think it comes very close to showing the brutality of war, yes. And it’s not just “1s and 0s.” Video games are an art form, with stories and principles of their own.
Yep, I feel like a hero. Because the game never gave me the option to do anything else. And no “just don’t play it” is not an option
I love this game. Especially the fact that it practically points out and laughs at most games only allowing the player to interact with them through violence while letting you do kind of a crazy amount of small choices through just that. Incredible shit.
This game and Max Payne 3, criminally underrated. Can't believe it took me so long to play them last year.
And The Darkness 2
And Far Cry 3
And Prototype 2
and genshin impact
What I love about this game's intro is that not only do you get a glimpse of what's about to happen, but one of Dubai before Walker too. Showing you how (relatively) peaceful the city was before Walker's rampage. The 33rd really are the closest thing to "good guys" in this whole game.
Jokes on you, they're all bad endings.
Aw yea...Soooo who feels like a hero?
An actually mature themed game
The favorite game of cinical college student TH-cam video essayists with 60k subscribers.
😂 we probably have watched the same essay video on this game
You are painfully correct.
Cynical?
A lot of Nihilist and Misanthropes as well lol. mostly because the games theme fuels their beliefs.
There's like a hundred video essay about this game lol
Btw forgot to mention love the sarcastic quips the game forces on you in the form of tips in the loading scenes. Its taunting your ignorance on how bad the situation has gotten with your interference with the ppl of dubai that your actions caused massive casualties on all sides and instead if u have focused on your mission no unnecessary loss of life would have been caused.
Standard issue gameplay mechanics, one hell of a rollercoaster of a story.
As i said on the stream prior to this game. I recently got the short novella "Heart of Darkness" this is somewhat based on.
I'd wholeheartedly reccomend the read. You can get through it in a couple of hours.
I remember the American flag in the pause screen tears up as you go through the game and the hole background changed too and as soon as I noticed I kept pausing the game after a couple of stages just to see how bad it got
So cool idea from devs...
Severely underated game. One of my favorites of all time. Very satisfying gameplay and sick ass story. I wish they'd make more! I was so close to beating it on FUBAR difficulty, but just couldnt make it happen.
Bro why?
Chapter 13 and 14 are the ultimate challenge of your perseverance, I have beaten the game on FUBAR, took me about 6 hours and a LOT of game over to get it done.
Ik this might sound messed up but thank you for releasing this video because this game was my childhood and I miss playing it.
Cognitive Dissonance is an uncomfortable feeling caused by holding two conflicting ideals simultaneously
Squad commands are not available when you are alone no one is coming to save you
Theres so much detail and nuances in this game each level, esp the white phosphorus part where you see his face thats showing and telling so much
apparently this has 4 endings you could milk another video out of it exploring the different choices
Yep it does
If i remember corretly, 5 endings minimum. 3 on epilogue and 2 before...
@kevinl5219 4 main 1 semi extra
1 pull the trigger shoot
2 let konard shoot you
3 depending on the above 2 1 leads to the military coming then you either put the gun down and let them save you or you
4 shoot them and fail lead to a a ending if you win you get the sub extra ending although that's not count as a main ending
@@amanchoosesaslaveobeys6510 Corrrect
Loved being apart of the stream and going into deep conversations with you Kev!
Not allowed on Steam You say???
“And to the seas I went” 🏴☠️🏴☠️
Oh i think we all remember.
I also remember there was no good ending and that the musical queue at the end was spot on 10/10
I absolutely remember Spec Ops The Line. One of the best military shooters out there because the story is do dark. I love this game
The only game to have gone through developement hell, cut alot of content, and still have the balls to show the brutality of war
Kinda like the movie it's based on
@szymoncbortion69 i just found it. It's called Apocalypse Now
I swear, this game change you, and you kinda wish it never ends..
Yep. I actually listened to one loading screen question and was like 'you know what, I actually don't want to continue'. Love the game for having driven me there by the weight of the story alone.
Pussy this game is a glorious war crime simulator 😂and it's brilliant
Oh hell yeah this game is an absolute MUST! For any fans of military shooters. God I love this in
As a critique of modern shooters at the time, this did well.
As for making the player question their choices? Absolutely not. Not once did I feel like anything bad that happened was my fault. THE bad decision of the game, the infamous Willy Pete segment, was not my choice. I did not have the ability to say no and try to get through without using it. I felt NOTHING when, of course, things went bad. So naturally I ended the game by blasting the ghost colonel and going home.
The infamous "Do you feel like a hero yet?" did not land with me. Because I understood from the beginning that every gunfight I got into was something I had no choice in. I understood that there was no "just walk away" for my squad. They are trapped in Dubai before they realize what's actually going on. How am I supposed to feel bad about myself?
“We didn’t have a choice.”
“YOU didn’t give us a choice!”
Absolutely love this game. 10/10 would go through mental breakdown again.
"We need to take cover!"
Kev: "I AM MEETING THOSE NEEDS!"
I legit laughed so hard. Keep that wittiness up Kev!
There are things I WISH I could forget about this game.
Yeah I feel you, don't get me wrong...i played it and I saw every messed up thing in it. And yet...i still feel nøthing.
Amazing game. I remember playing this far too young. Surprised I even got it but definitely did change my view on war and the world which is amazing from a video game.
So good I’m waiting for a part 2 like 10 years later
"Konrad did it. All of it."
No you did
I love that by the end of the game, even the loading screens start antagonizing you.
That building Kev pointed out also requires sewage trucks to come by daily because it's not hooked up to the sewage system
Because Dubai is garbage and should meet the fate it does in this game
Probably the best critique of the shooter genre ever made! Not my favorite shooter by gamelplay standards, but absolutely the best story shooter since I've been gaming (about 20 years).
Basically... Spec Ops The Line is meant to look at people who enlist in the army hoping to go to the middle east to "protect their country", tilt its head and ask "what are you protecting your country from?"
WHILE
Also looking at everyone who plays CoD for the fantasy of being a soldier and asks "What part of this do you even want? What do you enjoy? The killing? The sand? The trauma induced hallucinations? I didn't force you to play. You could have stopped. "
The loading screens had tips that went from "Taking cover reduces enemy accuracy" to "How many Americans have you killed today?"
Yeap i remember, i watched multiple document type videos and deep analysis videos on this game, crazy part is theres a secrete ending if you dont shoot the guys at the end but just shoot the gun in the air you get a different outcome
The moment the refugee camp came in to play, I still get goose bumps and I think a few people I've watched theorized this is our hell I was like in a state of shock thinking about it.
Meaning this game did it's job and it was worth the mental scarring lol
Spec Ops jumped from PS1 to 360, skipped a whole console generation, and still stuck the landing.
Everyone is exhausted and traumatized and he just says "that was fun, right guys?"
It's a damned good game
At 9:53 you can see his body glitches sideways😂
“I’m smarter now” and immediately notices a shotgun on the floor. Now that’s results
My favorite military game of all time. This came out during an oversatured market of military shooters where they were so obsessed with who could have the biggest explosions and set pieces, they forgot they’re still making games about war and players were starting to get desensitized. This game baits you into thinking it’s gonna be a cod ripoff, but reminds you your actions have consequences. And also it’s the only game I can think of where the only way to get the good ending is to stop playing.
I remember playing this...Getting sucked in...and then laying awake at night thinking, "Damn...that was fahked!"
I love this game. Masterpiece
2:23 the first time Kev acted disgustingly surprised by murder
no way kev actually finished a 5 hour game for once in a video instead of playing for 2 and then dropping it forever
At 5:44 when Kev throws a grenade it kills 2 people but you can see one of the dudes heads flying
I remember playing this game when still attending elementary school, it was something.
9:51 when Kev pops out from behind cover, his character does a little "scatman" move lmao
There are two phrases that bring back vivid ...memories.
"Do you feel like a hero yet?"
And
""Do not trust Sheppard!"
Then Code of Conduct Starts Playing
For everyone else who wants to play this. The camera for the finnishers is usualy dynamic but this breaks above a certain framerate
Also a phenomenal soundtrack. I will never gorget learning who The Black Angels from this game.
13:11 fun fact during the stream Kev went AFK for a few minutes, thinking he was safe behind the boxes. Which led to him getting knifed 3 times before he came back
I literally searched Kev’s channel last week to see if he ever played this game. Creepy.
It good other people are trying this game, i had the game for many years but i really slept on this game, first played it when i was young dont remember much of my experience with it but i got back into it this year and being 20 years old i really understand alot more of it and honestly this whole game is slept on. The story is amazing really especially the lore, the gameplay is good and really simple to learn. The real way to play this game is on the fubar difficulty, it was challenging but also easy FOR ME. What really is slept on is the online..played it with a few friends but to have a full match it will be amazing. And don't get me started on the soundtrack! The instruments are BEAUTIFUL. Real music right there! You should definitely check it out if you like rock
This game slapped so hard I wish they’d remaster it
Broooo just play bionycle heroes that that one dude can die in peace. PLS
He's dedicated, you have to give him that
I too want to see him play Bionicle Heroes
0:40 Another reason why I'll always be against digital only games...license issues?, *BAM* the game is deleted from the stores
That's the future Ubisoft wants.
at least if you owned it before it was removed, you still have it. But yeah, digital only is a mistake.
Kevduit: I think I just got the bad ending.
EVERY ENDING IS BAD. That's kind of the point.
i played this game last month for the first time and boy oh boy has my mind completely changed after i finished it
9:53 Walker figured out the perfect way to peak a corner
The Silent Hill of 3rd person shooters.
Kev yelling "WOOOOOOOOOOOOO SAAAAAAND" while committing crimes against humanity has the biggest Archer energy ever ngl
I love this guy's videos,
Mainly the commentary is hilarious, keep being you man
One of the best shooters to come out, and its all because of the story and how it really makes you see war in a different light
This game is an absolutely masterpiece imo,its so fucking good
This game was so extreme you can’t buy it on steam anymore
@@I-am-MasterChief you can’t buy it period anymore
the reason it's not on steam because of the ost music license expired
I think we all remember the famous quote from Spec Ops: The Line:
"YOU WILL NOT PROSPER WITH WHITE PHOSPHOR!"
watching these old games is like goin back to the core memories of childhood for a split second
when the flash backs start happening to the "choices" youve made and how your squad mates start suspecting that you are going crazy was amazing. I replayed it to get another ending, my favorites are when you kill the squad that arrives or off yourself at the mirror, yt instantly deleted my comment for using the sui word lmao
"gentlemen, welcome to dubai"
"He just died of disappointment" killed me.
Will never forget this game. Its amazing
This and army of two we're such interestingly built games. Well done for sure.
It's not a war crime the first time