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🎮 XCOM: Enemy Unknown "Last Stand" E3 2012 Trailer
• XCOM: Enemy Unknown "L...
🎮 XCOM 2 - Announcement Trailer
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🎮 DEATH STRANDING 2（Working Title）- TGA 2022 Teaser Trailer - [ESRB] 4K
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🎮 Diablo IV | Official Release Date Trailer
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02:11 XCOM: Enemy Unknown "Last Stand" E3 2012
04:20 XCOM 2 - Announcement Trailer
07:43 DEATH STRANDING 2（Working Title）- TGA 2022 Teaser Trailer - [ESRB] 4K
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Hannah, first Diablo IV trailer: "No, NOT the blood of the willing! You are NOT willing!"
Hannah, new Diablo IV trailer: "I will NOT pre-order now. I will Exit! And watch a funny Portal video."
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but i thougth she liked being a heretic.......:P
Yes, more X-com and X-com 2. And you were kind of correct, we lost to the aliens in the 1st game, and in the 2nd game you're controlling a rebel force.
Yesssss
Xcom is how I spent my entire high school summers. Lots of good memories
The reason Xcom 1 lost the war was because a lot of people lost in their playthrough against the aliens. So the devs saw that in their data and went with it.
@@seb81 is that true?
@@jamieworrell385 th-cam.com/video/NWiLUzDe3uA/w-d-xo.html They talk about it in the first 2 minutes.
A bit of widespread knowledge from the gaming world - Hideo Kojima is a madman. Even if the stuff he creates makes sense, it's still weird. 😀
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If you think Hideo is a madman, you missed (forgot) "Yoko Taro" (Drakenguard, Nier, Nier: Automata) ;)
@@nobodx calling someone else a madman doesn't take away from another persons creativeness or "madness" they may or may not know who Yoko Taro is but it doesn't matter. that's not the subject at hand and Yoko is no way pertinent.
He's mad as hatter, but one of the greatest creative minds of our time, and I adore him. As they say, genius and madness are two sides of the same coin.
@@nobodx If Kojima and Yoko Taro had a collaboration, the universe would implode. They're both such visionary storytellers with he kind of gift you might see once every 50 years.
DS 2 breakdown: we got nothing, we don't know. As far as any of us could guess all those baby scenes could be some character's nightmares.
God I love Kojima's insanity... DS1 trailer comes out, we have no idea what's going on. Play through that, DS2 trailer comes out, we still have no idea what is going on.
2023: Non-Gamer is horrified by graphics
2025: Hannah's playthrough of eldenring part 27 in full twitch streamer setup.
So XCOM is a turn base strategy game where you command a fireteam of soldiers from across the world. You take a movement and then the enemies take there's just like a game of chess. There's also a base building aspect of the game where you build new rooms and research new weapons, armours etc. You can also fully customize you're soldiers from changing their name, voice, language, hair, skin, face, and clothing which is greatly expanded in XCOM 2. If a solider dies they stay dead so it can be very difficult when you lose a really great solider who you put so much effect into crafting and you do really get attached to you're soldiers as well. All of this of course is greatly expanded in the sequel where soldiers can even form special friendships and gain bonuses when finding alongside each other.
XCOM had two endings you win or you lose. From running out of soldiers to losing the support and funding of nations to just straight up not doing the missions there's so many ways you can lose the game. So with XCOM 2 the canonical ending was we lost this created a really different experience where we XCOM were the underdogs fighting in the shadows against the alien forces who've taken over the world. The "good" ending in which we won could also be canon as maybe after the events of XCOM 1 the Aliens came back and won so I guess you could argue that it doesn't matter what endings are canon we lost regardless. XCOM 2 is set 20 years after the first game so it's a pretty big jump but if XCOM 3 does ever release I can see it being a game about humanity working together with the good aliens.
The XCOM games go back to the original from 1994 followed by Terror from the Deep which was pretty much the first game but set underwater and thenX-COM: Apocalypse a very cool game set decades after the first two games. Instead of being set around the Earth this game took place in a large mega city inspired by Mega City one from Judge Dredd. Instead of gaining support of other nations you had to gain support of different Corporations who would supply you with unique items and gear. The city was fully active as well it was kind of like a top down view where you can see cars driving around with police and even gang members. Buildings could be destroyed if damaged and it just felt like Sim City mixed with XCOM a cool concept that I'd love to see in an XCOM 3 just modern.
There is a game that takes place after XCOM 2 called XCOM Chimera Squad, where instead of fighting against the alien races, you're a police squad consisting of multiple races fighting against gangs and cults in a city. Instead of managing different countries, you have to manage the panic in different sections of the city to keep being funded. The biggest difference is that you have preset characters that you use in your squad. This allows them to have personalized voices and personalities, as well as unique skills and abilities that only they can learn. The maps are also smaller, usually having multiple small maps in series with breaching options between them.
Woooow okay! So interesting and yes. Someone staying dead in a game when you put a lot into them would be tough
@@joshualopez7035 yeah that's very much something I see as being a set up for XCOM 3 using the city setting but pretty much expanding everything.
@@HannaHsOverInvested Oh absolutely, in the beginning many of the people who didn't know the nature of the game but saw editable characters in a game set in near future would name and model them after the friends and family... now imagine watching your dearest dying under your command - strangled, shot, infected by a parasite and turned into zombies, mind controlled etc...
And the game was always famous for it's brutal difficulty. It had a difficulty choice but if you picked normal or higher you were in for a challenge. You would definitely bury some people. That is why in the new ones have difficulty of "Easy" "Medium" "Hard" and "Classic".
Hannah: "Okay, this one's for sure gonna be a really nice fluffy story for me..."
Diablo IV: "HEY WANNA SEE SOMETHING COOL?! SCORCHED FEET!!"
XCOM is my favorite game franchise. So many people kept losing XCOM: Enemy Unknown that the devs decided, "OK, that's the canon ending... XCOM 2 is set after you lost XCOM EU." Instead of being members of humanity's last stand, you're now leading a rebellion against the conquerors. It also has this fun thing where you can put your friends into the games.... they have a VERY robust character creation system where you can name and create soldiers that look like your friends. Nothing is better than finding and recruiting your best friend, and nothing is worse than sending them into a bad fight that they don't walk away from. My best friend from high school was a FANTASTIC sniper for a long time in EU, haha.
when i played first time (in 2020 while suffering from covid) i didn`t use that function and used what random generated. In my first full squad i had a Heavy from USA named Donald Trump and sniper from Russia named Vlad Putin, they was best friends and actually looked as a buff versions of their real worlds counterparts. This was mindboggling
We don't know anything about DS2, the beauty of Kojima is that it's almost always weird and nonsensical but still deeply engaging and intriguing
X-COM (the old games) were my jam back in 95! For a short one, check the intro to X-COM: Terror from the Deep.
A spiritual successor to the old X-COM games was the UFO series early/mid 2000s. The intro to the first one, UFO Aftermath, is also quite short but sets the tone very well.
What's missing from the new XCOM (notice the missing hyphen) titles is Chimera Squad, which takes place after XCOM 2. Also worth a look is the intro to XCOM 2: War of the Chosen. WotC was the largest expansion pack to XCOM 2 and really elevated the game to another level.
Also, since you noticed the tagline about the developers: In Civilization V there actually was a buildable unit called "XCOM Squad". Just a little cross-promotion on Firaxis' part.
I appreciate these random collection videos because it lets us see you react to many different franchises which can't fill hours all on their own.
I second checking out War of the Chosen and Chimera Squad. They round out the first half of the story.
I love UFO series, and can only recommend it. The Aftermath nicely portrays the Apocalypse war where Humans try to understand what is happening and trying to fight back (and it have 2 endings). Aftershock is similar to XCOM 2 in that 50 years after the first contact, humans evolved (Cyborgs and Psionics), but due to post-apo isolation lost a lot of tech and now thanks to circumstances tries to regain that tech, learn about history and reunite Earth (including defending it from old and new threats). And probably mine most favourite Afterlight, that takes place at the same time as Aftershock, but on Mars, where remnants of human colonists try to terraform Mars into new home (as the Earth was supposed lost when they departed from Earth), where around 20 colonists struggle against the planet itself. As you terraform the Mars, the whole planet view is greener, with new rivers and oceans :)
I finished the whole trilogy multiple times on hardest difficulty, and even thou Aftermath is a lot about RNG, I love the fact that the combat is real-time and you have 100% hit chance on most enemies when you stand next to them (unlike XCOM 2 where you miss even in that situation a lot). But I played only XCOM 2 when it was released, so I would like to play the whole series one day too.
There is a certain way to appreciate Hideo Kojima's work and Artistic Aesthetics.
He is the Gaming worlds version of Quentin Tarantino, not in the violence and gore departement, but more in the fact that he has a Vision of his Art and the kind of story and experience he wants to share.
Kojima's work is the kinda thing that you either Love it or Hate it.
I mean the Metal Gear series are games about Action Espionnage and Tactical Infiltration, but its also a social commentary about the Industrio-Militaristic nature of our modern world and the hyper consumerism of Capitalism and also a reflexion of what makes people who they are and if they have a Freewill or if we are bound to remake the mistakes of their forfathers.
So, its not for everyone, BUT it is interesting and always something to behold.
About the Death Stranding 2 trailer:
Hideo Kojima is a brilliant madman, his trailers never explain anything and since the game isn't out yet there really is not a lot to go on.
The blonde haired woman (Lea Seydoux) was a prominent character in the first game and the shirtless guy (Norman Reedus) with long blonde/white(?) hair was the main character. The baby could be the baby from the pod since its heavily implied, but then again you never know with Kojima. Also the creepy robot/cyborg character from the last scene could tease a return of Troy Bakers villain from the first game.
For those of us who feed on the emotions of others, these reactions are quite tasty. Thanks!
Others have probably mentioned by now, but XCOM is notoriously tricky. The canon ending is that the humans lose and the aliens take over, which is where we find them in XCOM-2
I like that. I think it's cool for part two.
Hey Hannah!
Hope to answer some of your questions during the video!
Xcom2: are we the rebels? Yes, you guessed it! XC2 assumes you lost baaadly in XC1 the Earth has basically surrendered to the aliens, and your rebel army has to retake the planet.
Diablo: Do we enjoy this? Yes! gameplay wise its kinda different you slaughter about 100 demons per minute and its really fun :D
SInce you are about the graduate from Non-Gamer, I recommend watching Razbutens short video essay(s) about what gaming is like for a non gamer, short little experiments with his wife th-cam.com/video/ax7f3JZJHSw/w-d-xo.html
Thank you! Do you know if this creator is okay with reactions?
@@HannaHsOverInvested No idea, sorry :/ There are existing reactions up on youtube, but I havent seen any policies or anything, but he seems like he is cool with it (dont take this as a guarantee :) )
@@HannaHsOverInvested The creators are active with the community and welcome reactions, but the studio could be a different matter.
@@HannaHsOverInvested It would be so nice for you to see those videos even if is in private because they breakdown game concepts and storytelling
6:44 Hannah's standard pick-up line. 👏
12:00 Pure gold!
LOL standard pick up line 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I don't know why, but Kojima promising to stop predicting the future in his games (the COVID lockdowns were a bit *too* close to some of what happened in the first Stranding) made me laugh
Hi! I was the person who asked you to react to the original Death Stranding trailer way back when! Don't worry about being confused, even Death Stranding fans are confused about this trailer XD I can at least confirm that the baby the lady is holding is indeed the same baby that was in the pod. And the guy at the end with the guitar is the villain from DS1, who's supposed to be dead (although we never see his body) but apparently not lol
I got the XCOM collection (EW, 2, and Chimera) for $20. I felt like I committed robbery.
The real special thing about it is how it randomises your soldiers, so there's a level of attachment to them that makes every playthrough unique.
I'm really hoping this isn't taken as an insult, but when you read the titles at the beginning of the video really slowly and clearly it reminded me of whenever my mum would walk past my computer and try to talk to me about a game or show she's never seen me play before haha. love your videos
Fun fact the shadowy figure who says hello commander in the x-com trailer is the voice from honest trailers.
XCOM 2 follows the bad ending of XCOM 1, where the XCOM Project loses and the aliens take over earth, and starts using humanity for nefarious purposes under the guise of charity and helping us further. The remains of XCOM are acting as a guerilla force hunting down ADVENT before the slow genocide of humanity is finished.
So the thing about xcom's story:
In the first game Enemy Unknown (or the expansion Enemy within), an unknown alien force starts to invade Earth. As a response to the invasion Project Xcom gets activated. Xcom is an international special forces unit with the sole purpose to stop an alien invasion (there is actually a third person shooter The Bureau: XCOM Declassified which kinda explains that this isn't the first time aliens tried to invade, but last time they were stopped, hence why humanity prepares for their return by making xcom).
In XCom 2 the story picks up years later, assuming that the canon ending of the first game is that you failed horribly and the aliens took control of the whole planet and are leading it under the name "Advent". In this game you pretty much play as a resistance group who tries to break the control of the aliens over humanity.
The best Xcom animation is when that bug-like Chryssalid thing fells you down, and pokes you. That is actually their egg laying organ. So your soldier becomes a zombie for a few turns and then a fresh new bug comes out of your former squad member.
How's that 🤪
i love it how DS2 and Kojima don't give a damn about super fast cut action scenes... and goes for art and cinematography
"Is that... what's his name from Transformers?" Peter Cullen, who plays Optimus Prime is not in XCOM, but you can find him as the voice of Eeyore from Whinny the Pooh. :D
Kojima is like a mad prophet. His games are insane rambles that somehow turn out good and end up predicting the future. Metal Gear Solid 2 which came out in 2001 somehow predicted what the internet would do to the public zeitgeist and division in the spread of information. I'm sure we'll understand something about Death Stranding better in 20 years.
The best thing about Firaxis' XCOM (they took over from Mythos, who made the original X-COM: UFO Defense in 1994) is that they looked at the metadata, and because more people lost the game than won it ... the plot of XCOM 2 is that the aliens now rule the world.
Diablo might be the only franchise where any outcome that doesn't end with both the angel, Inarius, and the demon, Lilith, dead would spell absolute disaster for the human race.
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@@HannaHsOverInvested Context for you - in the trailer you watched the Angel (Yes those are Wings) is Inarius (Daddy/Father (Not God / Not even remotely the strongest Angel)) to all mankind, and Lilith (The Demon Lady/Mother) you saw summoned in the first Diablo 4 trailer and again here but this time clothed is Inarius's ex-lover. They broke the no-no rules and got together and made the Nephalem (you saw their first child, son, and first Nephalem) in the first Diablo IV Trailer (the black eye'd giant guy who said "Blessed Mother" as it's actually his mom) his name is Rathma.
Lilith wants to use all her children (all Nephalem and mortals) as weapons in her great war against Heaven and to eventually rule over all. Rathma sided with her over Daddy Inarius and summoned her back from the void in the first D4 trailer you watched.
Inarius (you'd think is the good guy right...angel....right....) fears the Nephalem, wants to see Sanctuaries destruction, and the end of the mortal race to prevent them from becoming weapons against Heaven. (So essentially - he wants us dead)
Mommy Lilith - We live - as slaves - to fight her war, Daddy Inarius - we die...dead...for good.
Rathma was right - "There is no Light here...." Diablo 4 is bad vs bad....and we are stuck in the middle of the eternal conflict.
The cullmination of full circle within the lore that this trailer was for D4 actually SPlit my soul inhalf, smashed them together and then disenchanted it into crafting materials.
Only Hideo Kojima knows what the Death Stranding 2 trailer is about...
I love the idea of you watching some full game cutscenes so that you get to see and enjoy the complete story with us.
The Diablo game series may be scary (Death Stranding 2 laughing in the corner though), but the lore is so, so rich you kinda dive into it
That voice is the Honest Trailers guy, doing his Optimus Prime voice.
Is it actually?
@@HannaHsOverInvested
Yep, Jon Bailey.
12:42 Funny, that character's soles also left her😆
Sending comfort hugs! Diablo is gruesome. A vivid memory of playing Diablo 2 back in the day as 14 year old for about two weeks. Lost in nightmares. Really bad for keeping with mental health! me softy... The only game I ever regret buying.
Lol appreciated thank you!
@14:42 Angels are made of sounds and light from the eye of Anu. This one is Inarius, former paramore of the demon Lilith (that you also see in this cinematic). They left a war raging for ever between angels and demons to create Sanctuary (which is kinda Earth to us) and humans are descendant of Nephalems which is the union of both angelic and demonic essence but stronger than both.
Do we enjoy good narrative, mystery and twist plots? Yes we do. Darkening is quite popular since living would be troublesome. This is dark fantasy with so much more than light gore and violence. The Diablo's lore is extremely deep and worth looking into.
I enjoyed playing the XCom games you should watch more of them. Especially Enemy Unknown, for me its the best of the Series, even if the graphcs look old. You will probaby like the last game Chimera Squad the most. Its less dark then the games bevor. But for the story to work, you need to watch them all :)
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA your reactions are always the best, love it so much 😂❤️
Got to love the gothic horror of the Diablo series! :p
And great mommy and daddy are fighting in D4 Lol.
Instead of fighting, they should make another baby or two. :D
Although, perhaps this is what they consider foreplay.
I really like the idea of going with the angel-demon-parents of all humans for Diablo IV. I played Diablo II but other than that I am not a Diablo person so I'm not sure I will play it. But the concept for the story is great if the writing is well thought-out. Hard believing Blizzard can pull that off these days though.
i don't think that was archangel Inarius (he and Lilith created Sanctuary , the mortal world), i think that was archangel Tyriel
@@ciberzombiegaming8207 Quite possible. I still think treading new waters in the story is better than just having the previous game's hero be the new Diablo, and then a girl is the new Diablo ungabunga same same. But I don't actually know jack shit about this game outside of the cinematics and comments.
@@ciberzombiegaming8207 Tyrael shed his wings in D3 and is mortal now. We can tell it's Inarius by his distinct shoulderplates
XCOM is definitely an _accessible_ game in that it's turn-based and grid-based, basically a digital board game. On the other hand, it's also a _game_ game, where what little story is presented during gameplay is really just an excuse for gameplay. Imagine playing chess, but every time you play, the game board is a little bit different, you and the opponent each have different sets of pieces, and there's a sci-fi coat of paint over the whole thing.
In some ways you make your own stories. When one of my friends was playing XCOM 2, he named two of the characters after me and my partner. My friend would regale us with stories of the tight spots that our characters managed to squeeze out of, and he was excited when my and my partner's in-game selves formed a bond. My friend made it his mission to make our characters reach maximum bond and finish the game without letting either of them die.
In case you ever feel like listening to someone play the game, do a good job roleplaying, and also talking through their (sometimes hilariously bad) moves, I recommend Many A True Nerd's XCOM playthrough. He also named characters after himself, his partner, and their cat. Definitely a comedy of errors, but dude kept on truckin' and made it to the end.
Firaxis, who made the 2 X-Com games that you watched trailers for today, instead of making X-com 3 next, just released a new game in December 2022 in conjunction with Marvel. It's called Marvel's Midnight Suns. It takes some of its premise and name from a 90s Occult Marvel comic book event that included characters like Ghost Rider, Blade (who was played by Wesley Snipes in movies) and Morbius (the character who Jared Leto just played in his own movie) and others. The game adds some Avengers characters to the mix also, to sell, and it has some of the same tactical, almost chess like combat of the XCOM games, but adds in a card element to randomize what powers you have access to, per round. It also lets you create a character, and you fight along side the marvel heroes. In the trailers they use the default created character which is a woman with long dark hair and 2 swords, but it could be male or female, and you can change the look. Also, there is a segment of the game where you live with the heroes and develop friendships with them, which is optional, but the better friends you are, may lead to more options in combat. Here's a trailer if you ever want to see it.
th-cam.com/video/_CiOR0Z5AoU/w-d-xo.html
If you first get a full rundown of Death Stranding 1.... yeah, that DS2 trailer made about as much sense as could be expected. I went through the whole first one and I don't think I could give you a good summary in less than a solid half hour. Going to war with all the forces of Hell in Diablo makes a lot more sense.
XCOM is a pretty cool strategy game
In the first you control the XCOM, an international organization specialized to deal with extraterrestrial threats, and try to defend the world from the Alien invaders.
And although you can strike back the initial invasion force, in part 2 you learn that they were immediately followed by another invasion force that took out XCOM headquarters and then proceeded to trick humanity into thinking they were peaceful, while doing shady stuff behind their backs. They basically control the world at that point.
And then in XCOM 2, you're basically organizing the resistance operating from a new mobile HQ.
The game combines base building and army managing, where you can recruit, train and customize your soldiers, with a turn based strategy shooter where you control said soldiers and send them against the alien forces. You can also permanently loose those soldiers if you're not careful or luck just isn't on your side.
It also has an important resource management part. You have money and different minerals, and have to decide on what to spend it, and you often have to decide what mission to send your troops on (or if you should send them at all) and what mission you can't respond to, giving you positive and negative effects.
(To illustrate this a bit better, in the first game, missions always came in sets of 3, you could only respond to one of them, and the 2 you couldn't respond to would create terror in the countries the missions were located in. If the terror rose high enough, that country could even leave and you'd get no more funding from them.)
Thank you!
Truth about the Death Stranding 2 stuff is that we won't understand anything until it drops. I watched all trailers for DS1 and understood nothing. Have played it all through, I still don't think I really understand it. Hideo Kojima's mind is a beautiful place but it's also the weirdest thing on this earth, decipherable only to the man himself.
Nope there was no peace in Xcom 2, the aliens won. I think Xcom2 was the only sequel out there where you canonically straight up lost the first game. Xcom is also a great flag trivia game. as soldiers can be form a ton of different countries. They even did this thing where if a character was from one of the countries the game was dubbed in you can have that language in that soldier's voice lines.
XCOM was a 1990's franchise that rocked, hard. The 2012 version was a remake. It was different, simpler... but though I disliked the idea initially... it won me over HARD.
The order of releases, storywise is this:
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (first game of the remake)
XCOM: Enemy Within (DLC expansion that adds new content, story, and abilities into the first game)
XCOM 2 (Second Game. Whilst possible to win the first game, canonically, Earth was conquered and YOU were captured. And rescued 20 years later to lead the resistance)
XCOM 2: Alien Hunters & Chen's Last Gift (released almost together, 1st and 2nd DLC expansions with light lore additions, extra missions and new tactics and gear. )
XCOM 2: Wrath of the Chosen (Third DLC expansion that adds new content, story and characters to XCOM 2. Much more lore heavy).
Chimera Squad (NOT XCOM 3! But takes place after XCOM 2 and is based in a single city as law enforcement rather than a planet wide defence or rebellion... can skip if you want...).
You could watch the trailers in release order but if you are doing the cutscenes and cinematics then I would do videos that collected all the DLC content too. (XCOM enemy unknown with enemy within included and XCOM 2 with all three DLC content included.
Enjoy water you do. :D
To help clear things up.
The canon ending to XCOM: Enemy Unknown is that humanity gets invaded by a collective of aliens led by an alien race called the Elders. Humanity fights against the invasion valiantly, but ultimately loses.
(Fun fact, this fate was decided by actual in game statistics. The Win rate of the game while playing on Commander Plus difficulty was so low, almost nobody was able to complete the game before the fail state was achieved.)
In XCOM 2, you are playing as the remnants of the XCOM project, vastly out gunned and out manned, you have to fight against the alien overlords and kick them off the planet.
Also, I highly recommend you watch the 40 minute video, or just XCOM 2 content, ESPECIALLY XCOM 2: WAR OF THE CHOSEN! War of the Chosen has 4 actors from Star Trek: TNG in it that voice act certain characters. You'll have to figure out who. 😉
Thanks for watching and for this info!
Makes me want to go back and play X-com2 again. Love the reactions as always!
In XCOM 1 it is possible to lose the game. If you lose, the aliens take over earth. XCOM 2 takes place in that future. The world is controlled in all ways by the invader established government. "Advent"
These literally are like 2 out of 3 of my top 5 games of all time.
XCOM EU and XCOM 2 along with it's expansion War of the Chosen (WTOC) has gotten a lot of hours from me still to this day. Turn based strategy, with fully customizable soldiers and weapons. You research and capture the Aliens from Advent and improve your army.
XCOM 2 WOTC is a must watch as it added so much to the story narrative. I'm still playing today especially now with Mods I've added super soldiers and weapons from other games like Mass Effect.
Haven't played Death Stranding at all but it's concepts look cool and it's story seem deep especially since Guillermo del Toro is the director.
Diablo 4 is a buy for me and I'll tell you why because like Warhammer it's more surreal. Unlike 40k where technically everyone is evil in the players mind, in Diablo you are the Hero (The Nephalem) who are fighting back the Darkness of ferocious Demons and corrupted Angels.
Both it and 40k show that war with these forces Will be Brutal and sometimes if you want to save the world or even change it a bit you gotta get down in the trenches with the enemy.
I would definitely check out more Xcom vids. Also another fun one is the intro theme/vid for Ace Combat 5. Has a song playing the whole time but gives you a feel of what the game is about
Your video is like marketing research, seeing non gamer react to game related content. 😂
Xcom 2 was interesting because the concept was "we lost the war, and now you're in charge of leading a resistance in a world dominated by aliens."
Death stranding is such a weird and wild game, Jesse cox did a good deep dive on it in his "gentleman's gaming club" series.
Diablo is fantastic lore wise.
The X-Com series is soooo good and I feel like it doesn't get the attention it deserves. In Enemy Unknown, and its expansion Enemy Within, you are leading a global defense force in defending earth from an invasion of an unknown alien force. Since many of its players like to challenge themselves with higher difficulty and thus many games end in failure, the developers decided that losing the war was the canon ending. XCom 2 picks up 20 years after 'unification' with the aliens. You lead a rebel faction in uncovering the lies pulled over the eyes of the general public and taking back Earth from its new alien overlords.
I have several XCOM recommendations.
The intro for XCOM: Enemy Unknown/Enemy Within (the only difference between the two is the opening quote).
Enemy Unknown:
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Enemy Within:
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There is an XCOM 2 video that has cinematics and gameplay of the tutorial mission (its equivalent to the first chapter in a book and to give an idea what the gameplay is like):
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So as far as death stranding 2. Basic premise is Humanity created an interdimensional rip know as the Death stranding, and crazy eldritch horror, with wierd lovecraftian overtones has gripped the world. Beyond that... its complicated, but the big theme of the story is about Connection. Its also heralded as an artistic achievement.
Yeah X-Com and X-Com 2 are great. Really challenging tactical squad games were positioning of you men is key on if they get the perfect shot, or die.
i need a collage of all your clap intros lol
So for some quick info, that angel at the end is inarius, he is the father of humanity, because he, and the mother of humanity... that demon he throws the spear at uhh fell in love and well... angel + devil = humans...
So hes back cause he kinda got tortured forever afterwards, and has sorta a grudge.
Xcom enemy unknown and enemy within are on my list of all time favorites. Right behind mass effect
I hope she also checks out XCOM 2 later
Edit: lol. I would love for Hannah to watch more XCOM stuff, as the setting is interesting, and in the latest game Chimera Squad, we do become friends with the alien survivors (especially the Vipers)
SNAKEFUCKER LOCATED
In XCOM 2, we canonically lost the war against the aliens in XCOM 1. (Even though those who beat XCOM 1 got the ending where we wiped out the aliens.) So we're sorta fighting from the shadows in 2.
It's a fun turn-based strategy game. I wouldn't mind seeing more reaction to it. It had a very good expansion to it and there should be a trailer for that as well.
I like two story details of Xcom 2, one of which can be easily missed - the open mission is about rescuing the Commander aka the player themselves , in almost all the cutscenes the other characters address the player directly as if they are in the room with them and your told that you lost the war 20 years ago and you having been hooked up to some alien machine all this time. very shortly after that you research the chip they pulled out of your head and they say that the machine was running a simulation of some sorts and you see a fuzzy image of part of the data they collected... and its a combat scene from the first game - so they had a "oh all those times you did finish the game and saved the world did happen....just it was all part of the simulation that the aliens put you in to harvest combat data on how humanity fights and use it against the remain earth forces"
This is sort of confirmed when not only are we told that the data was being fed back into the new hybrid clone soldiers but since they pulled the commander from the machine the alien forces troops have become greatly disorganized (basically a reason why the aliens that have been in charge for 20 years dont just come and wipe you out the next day).
Thumbs up for soldiering through that D4 trailer
It was rough
XCOM is awesome.
If you want to experience the game and ALSO relax, I'd recommend the Pete Complete playthrough. He could totally sell himself as an ASMR channel.... He's an absolute monster though, so you'll miss out on the existential dread of ACTUALLY playing (and losing. A lot)
The original XCOM games were made in the 90s and are still shockingly good, The opening cutscene still looks fantastic (it's done in cartoon style, so the pixel art still looks on point)
Those were even more "horror" themed, with you as commander forced to expend your men as cannon fodder against better armed and armoured aliens through the early game (your squad of 10 soldiers often taking losses against an alien crew of 3-4) until you unlock advanced tech (and your soldiers gain experience) and you're taking out battleships of 30 elite alien troops with a single badass that you raised from cannon fodder and you're totally attached to. Until he gets a random grenade to the face.
The "new" ones do a great job of balancing fun and difficulty, but the do sadly lack that emergent gameplay/story telling (I still remember a pair of captains on my squad that were both randomly named "Robinson" and those brothers were complete badasses... and that's a game I played 23 years ago...)
I'm sure you'll love just watching the cutscenes though, if watching gameplay isn't your thing.
I would line to mention that Death stranding 1 came on 2019, and it kinda predicted Covid with its plot. Hideo Kojima has a knack if accidentally predicting the future with his game
the xcom trailer lacks soldiers dying right and left, as god intended
Absolutely LOVE the XCOM games. The writers of the games wrote themselves into a bit of a narrative hole with the XCOM Enemy Unknown/Within game where a sequel wouldn't make sense.... if you won. So they checked the statistics for the game. Majority of people lost the game LOL it can be pretty hard sometimes. So they made XCOM 2's story as though humanity lost the war in the first game. The news has propaganda about aliens and they celebrate unification day etc. but it's like an alien police state.
A friend of mine did that exact same squirming reaction to her feet while watching the Diablo 4 trailer hahaha
Disgusting
One little known game I think you’d like is Aztech Forgotten Gods.
Ooh this is going to be good
Hope you had fun watching!
@@HannaHsOverInvested It was a blast!
Flippin' love your reactions. Thank you for another great one.
I Survived Newfoundland.
Minor mechanical spoilers for one mission 2/3rds of the way through X-Com 1:
(Most XCom missions are randomized, but there's some story missions that always turn up. Newfoundland is a canonical shitshow, a military disaster, and a compulsory story mission. It's impossible to win. Your only option is to retreat once you realize that and try and save your soldiers. As a result "I survived newfoundland" is a meme among the community and merchandise sells about it.). For players going in blind, it's easy enough to consider Newfoundland the place where Humanity lost the war, as if you don't know it's coming and aren't quick to realize it, it's where you will get a game over and lose all your men and equipment. so it's also relevant to X-Com 2 and the rebellion as a meme.
Might want to check out the war of the chosen expansion for xcom2. They got some good voice talent to come in for the new units in that one. Interesting side note, the xcom games have always had permanent death of your soldiers be a mechanic, and some back when xcom enemy unknown came out there was a page where people would post memorials to their favorites.
Oh this has probably already been said in the 196 comments.
XCOM trailer really slaps much harder, for the fans of the original games. I spent many an hour in front of a computer with a childhood friend 'co-op' playing that game. So seeing elements from those memories being brought forward 20 years later. The feels.
XCOM2 Trailer. They were really creative with this game. A lot of people will fail to complete the game (first XCOM remake) successfully on their first run (at least without "save scumming"). So they took that into account and for context, the 2nd game makes it Lore that you lost in the first game. The first mission in XCOM2 really drives that one home too. So effectively the aliens conquered Earth and subjugated the human race while all the while convincing the general public that they are benevolent. This places you as the run and gun rebel faction trying to resist and drive out the enemy occupation. XCOM2 also has a fun way of incorporating the role of the player, the "Commander".
As always, I hope you enjoy your day!
Yes Hannah, those strings of that flying guy i DB IV trailer are wings. He is an Archangel ;) you may not like the trailer but a whole universum/world story/płot is very interesting.
Hi hannah.
XCOM saga is mostly a strategy game.
I finished the history of the remake, and it was awesome.
I didnt play xcom 2 of this video but it starts with a bad ending of the previous video aka the aliens won in first game and conquer many goverments so in the sequel we must fight even harder.
I was re reading some short stories of warcraft and i would suggest you read them.
Im not sure how much do you like the books but at least short stories are very entertaning one very disturbing and another with an ending so sad i only read it once
And fun fact, my first experience reading about videogames was reading about xcom apocalypse in the late 90s, which help began my journey as a gamer.
Now im playing warframe, planetside 2 and albion online.
I dont know what genres call ur attention for you to become an amateur gamer in the future, just tell the ones catch your interest in your videos so far, i can offer few insights.
Oh cool! Thanks for this info!
i love how she says she doesnt get the xcom videos when she skips xcom 1 and jumps to xcom 2
Vermintide (1 or 2) are mostly known for the great gameplay but they have an amazing cast of characters with a ton of banter between them. If youre gonna do these you might aswell check a compilation of in-game voicelines. Also its from the Warhammer universe but its got nothing to do with 40K.
As a big X-Com fan I'd love to see more reactions from you :)
Surely the Diablo 4 stuff can't be any more horrifying than the Warhammer 40k stuff.
if you do XCOM2 cutscenes, i highly recommend finding a video with War of the Chosen cutscenes in it, or at least one separate video for later that ONLY has WotC cutscenes in it? whichever is easier
WotC is an expansion that's practically woven into the story, it gives extra lore and adds extra characters and factions, both good or bad; it doesn't have too many cutscenes on its own, but they're great additions
but either way, vanilla XCOM2 is great too, i think there is a 2:40hr video with all cutscenes (and gameplay that has mission-specific dialogue, among other things) which covers basically all of it
I think the diablo series has done a good job of being just dark enough to be unsettling, without going all the way into pure discomfort. I'm normally not a fan of the horror genre of anything, books, movies, whatever, not a fan. But for some reason it's never bothered me when it came to Diablo. It's scary, I would never want to live in that world, but it's one of my favorite series of games. I'm cautiously optimistic about Diablo 4.
XCOM might be a game you could play. It's not an action game, it's turn based strategy with an easy mode available.
It's really approachable because it gives you time to make decisions every turn. The most complex part is outside of combat, learning how to equip and grow your military force and individual units.
The Deus Ex Human Revolution Mechanical Apartheid trailer was well made, but pretty controversial... for obvious reasons.
Think you'd enjoy it if you were looking for anything else to add onto your already ENORMOUS watch list.
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Explaining Death Stranding would take forever. Instead here's a cut scene focused playthrough sprinkled with bits of gameplay so the gaps between don't leave you with even more questions:
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Clash between hells and heaven with created sanctuary, yes we do enjoy that a lot.
Xcom enemy unknown is definitely vintage.
Those aint coals she walks on, it be magma in the depths of the Burning Hells.
Also; yes, we do like that Diablo 4 trailer. A lot.
Diablo has always been extremely grim, dark, violent, and BADASS AS FUCK with a biblical-level epic vibe to it. Which is why we like that trailer; it's all of those things :)
You cannot make a woman to be badass in a 1 minute mark.
Blizzard: Hold my beer.
15.26 Well, you get to slaughter countless Demons for the good of Humanity - more or less.
Ah yes, Xcom or as I like to call it: Murphy's Law The Game. A game so frustrating and yet so addicting at the same time.
You most definitely don't know about Xcom but think of it like a strategic board game where one wrong move could make everything go horribly for you; but even when you made the right move, fate would say 'nuh uh' and everything went horribly wrong anyway and you would have to deal with it. Highly difficult yet highly rewarding and satisfying once you beat everything the game throws at you.
And I would like to mention something that is famous (or infamous) about xcom. Your soldiers can and WILL miss high chance shots. If you don't know, there's a hit chance in Xcom that tells you how likely the guy your controlling are gonna do damage to the enemies be it 15% or 90% or something like that but it is unreliable that you might as well pray before telling your soldiers to take a shot.
yes... do the xcom cutscenes. It'd be interesting to see what you think.
Here's a breakdown for Death Stranding 2: Hideo Kojima is insane.
The Diablo series has one of the best, coolest stories and imigery there are. Full of gray moralities and characters. Yes, that was an archangel. Diablo has all of them, and the setting is an eternal, literal war between heaven and hell. Most angels are depicted extremely arrogant and not willing to help mankind repell hell's forces even though their goals are to just take heaven over, for which they first have to go through earth.
We don't know yet, but it's possible that that archangel has brainwashed those humans to march into hell (and walk on fire...) just to serve as his meatshields so he can take out Lilith. Worst is, if the angels could all get involved, they'd easily snap all of hell out of existence.
If you are interested in watching a XCOM playthrough, I recommend a channel called Pete Complete. I think his videos in general is a joy to watch.
X-com is one of the best turn based strategy games out there, and i highly suggest giving it a shot once the game play channel gets going! The story is amazing, and the game play is top notch, meme moments and all. That's X-com, baby!!
Love the shirt, I need to get one for myself!