Greg's voice acting is so bad that if you'd asked "You didn't hit her did you?" he would have probably answered with a voice message saying "I did not hit her, it's not true! It's bullshit! I did not hit her! I did nahht!"
@@juliusebola9389 A combination of physical and cultural factors resulting in unequal risk to gain ratio make male population more eager and careless about seeking sex and women more picky and careful. As a result, women are annoyed and men are bitter.
Idk if anyone's pointed it out yet (and I'm only an hour and a half through the video) but at 15:50 when John was going through the calls, the number that she called and that John tried to redial is the suicide hotline number
It's obviously not in the real version. This must be a 'hip' version for teens or something. I read Hamlet and he never said O fuck. It would be funny, though...
My favorite part was that he was all faux-smug about remembering the password from the very beginning, but then he totally blanked on Applesauce. I was laughing my ass off.
I found detective's VA not very believable and it felt wrong when simulacra's voice slipped to normal dude voice (that's on inconsistent editing). So yeah, not so great overall.
Indeed super weird they never think that you might be the kidnapper, and I thought the twist would be something like you're the bad guy all along, plus those strange sounds in the background were really suspicious too.
As far as I can telly, the only way to get the good ending where both Taylor and Anna live, is if you manipulate everyone. Basically lying throughout the whole game. The key pivot point where the ending changes is telling Ashley that you have feelings for her too and using her information and picture on the new Spark profile.
I have met verbal "harassment" way worse than Murv's. I just told him that you can say whatever you want idc but no physical harassment, then he failed to get a rise out of me so after a while he just got so bored and left me alone. So sure Murv is really nasty but I'm not reporting yet
Wow, the tech company trying to shut Anna up to avoid a sexual harassment scandal is very on the nose. Weinstein story that cracked the Sexual Harrassment issue wide open broke likely well after game dev completed, and that bit definitely strengthened the impact of the game’s topical commentary.
(replies to e-mail) You do ANYTHING, Faraday - and you'll be hearing from my lawyer. I've put up with your tyranny for numerous years but you are now crossing a line by claiming that keeping a pervert in the company is a worthy sacrifice. It seems only YOU can think for YOURSELF, i'm just doing things which are GOOD for the company - if you can't accept that, you're not cut out to be the leader of Faraday SECURITY. So i'm giving you 3 options, Step down from your leadership position, sack me and hear from my lawyer, or actually ACCEPT what true sacrifices are and do things for the COMPANY, not what YOU see fit - as that means you're a power-hungry maniac. Choose wisely, otherwise you will be unemployed as I know for a fact that Elizabeth from HR would do a better job running the place than you - consider this your final warning, otherwise I will also see to it that you are put in jail for aiding a pervert.
Yup! There was one or two other times that i was screaming out an answer or whatever, but Applesauce was the one I knew we were all screaming together lol
“Elizabeth, you seem like a precious cinnamon roll - I don’t hold anything against you.” - John Wolfe, 2017 I love that my guy right here was getting so hype about sending that sexual harassment report, looking like he was getting ready to square up with Elizabeth AND the boss at the security company for trying to cover it up #HeartsForJohn lol
John, it's mentioned in the email she sent to the tech support guy which version her phone is. It's Applesauce if I remember correctly. Edit: Went back just to make sure, you can see the email in 33:57
To be fair to John, the game had him locked on that screen, so it wasn't like he could go back and check. Especially with how long Greg was taking to finish texting.
“Taylor, the criminal, you show sympathy for him.” Yeah so far his worst crime was not reaching the bathroom in time and making horrible one liners/puns. He’s Totally Worth killing????
Currently paused at 2:40:00 to leave my theories - will edit when video's finished. My guess so far is that Ashley is somehow behind all of this. They kept it pretty subtle, but at one point even John took a moment to say how Ashley was totally crushing on Anna, during the drunken texts. It feels like that also, since she basically pressured Anna into joining Spark and even made a profile for her - She may even be Catfishing under the James persona, since that guy somehow knew so much about Anna and her past. When we the player text Ashley, my only guess is she's feigning ignorance so she can get away with whatever she's doing with Anna. And with the creepy glitched-up texts from "James" ...well, the name and photo was likely a real person. Maybe Ashley did something to hurt or get rid of him in real life? I don't see how that would help her at all, unless maybe she got busted and tried to silence him. I'm not sure if the game's intent is to have supernatural elements, or if it's simply the lore of the near-sentient IRIS computer trying to help out (and creep out) the player. I guess I'll see once the playthrough is finished, but this has been really interesting to watch so far! *edit / spoilers* Okay damn, I was way the fuck off. I should've figured it'd come down to being "supernatural" of sorts, but the whole beginning really seemed more like a whodunnit mystery. I still think it was an interesting little experience though, John pretty much covered all the little flaws the game had.
Can't remember the last time I watched a 3+ hour youtube video from start to finish, loving my run through of John's old content. How good is this game, as well. The typos are great at creating a semi-realistic and believable scenario. Looking forward to the next extended playthrough of a game as good as this.
Only 28 minutes in but just had to comment because John’s reactions to the cringey tinder messages are killing me 😂😂😂 Gonna settle in for a fun ride with this one.
And now having finished, that was a lot of fun to watch! It sounds super corny to say but I feel like your personality really shines through on these types of games/videos and that makes it even more enjoyable. I liked the long format as well, makes it easier for me to get sucked in lol.
I put off watching this until playing myself and just finished a few hours ago. I found almost the entire experience INCREDIBLY creepy and then *ENDING SPOILERS* the malevolent force is revealed to be a murderous AI. At which point all horror just evaporates. It's really a matter of preference and what pushes your buttons, but considering that I went through the game believing that Anna was long dead and I was being haunted by her pissed off spirit after something awful happened to her... a crazy AI? The ending really killed the whole experience for me. Also, I feel like Greg's VA thought it was supposed to be a comedy.
Why didnt the main protagonist not screenshot Anna's phone conversation (or video tapped it) with his own phone to show Taylor to convince him he is going into a trap xD?
he was also in sulky mode, so he wouldn't have listened anyway - you've got to hate people like that, who refuse to listen to you and take your advice just because you disagree with them on a few points - he says that he did most of the work with finding Anna and that you were treating him like a sidekick, that's because it was you and Greg who did most of the work - as it was Greg who informed you of the back-ups, which lead to you finding James which got you to Anna - but Taylor's in the background taking credit, all he did was research the mishap on Spark - you spoke to Yolanda, looked through the messages and found James, spoke to Phil, spoke to Cassie and set up the account - Taylor did none of that. Greg informed you of the back-ups, notified you about it being someone from Spark and was willing to hand himself in to rescue Anna. Just saying how it's funny that he takes full credit for what he did 15% of, and you did 50% and Greg 35%.
The Fiery Jungle Lol, when put like that, you are 100% right. Honestly Taylor didn't do much. The protagonist ends up having to do most of the work since they have Anna's phone and the key to solving the mystery heavily relies on using her identity to get information out of people.
Red means scary guys. Right? I can't wait for Rides with strangers in early 2018 tho, shame it got delayed because of money problems. I was pretty hyped for it.
Damn that was extensive. Just finished watching the whole thing. It definitely had its moments where it gave me major chills because the topic was realistic (up until the end...) I didn't like that the big bad guy in the end seemed so mystical and it seemed a little like social commentary? It would have been much scarier if we weren't talking to the scrambled voice of the embodiment of another reality?? (Idk how to describe the Simulacra...) Like John said, I wish there was more of a real life threat, but the little things like the background picture of Anna changing periodically was fucking terrifying to me. They seemed to go too big at the end with their explanation.
Not sure if I really "got" the ending, and the meaning of the virus. The story and ending was much more clear in Sara is Missing. I was on board until the reveal it wasnt a outside threat, like you said. This game was a bit too ambitious for its own good.
John, just wanted to say thanks. There were many moments in this video that made me laugh. It's what I needed to just get my mind off tough times right now as my grandmother is now battling the tougher stages of stage 4 cancer. So thanks again for making me laugh. It's what I needed and a nice blessing. Have a good day!
I’ve got about 34 minutes left for the video the spelling/grammar/voiceacting aside, I really enjoyed watching John play this. Like, I honestly think that certain elements of the sound design are really good at hitting certain feelings- the ringtone, for example, gives me the most uneasy feeling I’ve had in a while. I think if they cleaned up sound timing & some other things it could keep the uneasy/on edge feeling around longer.
This was long, but I really enjoyed it. Yeah, you've missed some stuff (Applesauce and whatnot), but overall I liked your thought processes (the Critical Thinking, eh?) and commentary. Good stuff. The game looks like fun, despite it shortcomings it managed to creep me out. Probably because it's premise is quite mundane. Most of it could happen to anyone, just sitting in their room, right? The little bangs of the pipes in my flat and the wind howling in the night added to the atmosphere :) Just another random thought... It wasn't really explained how you get the phone. Sure, you are given two options in dialogue, but then it's never stated who would send the phone to you or leave it at your doorstep. At least in the previous game you just find the phone in a park or somewhere...
xBenjiSx nice to see a comment like this. Half the comment section was full of backseat gaming haha. And the phone thing irritated me a little as well. If it was explained somewhere, it would be ok. But just a mention in some fake news site, that it happened to some other guy, doesn't mean that it's cleared up.
I''m only 6 minutes into the video and I know this is the stupidest, smallest thing to be annoyed by, but... Couldn't they have changed the timestamps on some of the messages? Like 8-9 texts sent and received within the time span of a minute? Come oooooooonnn.
@Kali Takumi It's not the amount of texts alone, but that combined with their length versus the time span they were sent in. Like the one at, say 7:30 from the mother (might be even better examples but that was the first one I found when I clicked randomly). If it were a couple of words in every message, fine, but it isn't. And I'm also OK with the real-time instant replies since waiting around for a realistic response time would be awful. But they could've at least pretended that half a minute or so passed between every reply instead of stamping like 14 "lengthy" texts as sent in 60 seconds. As I said, it might be ridiculously small thing to get annoyed by, but it is enough to completely break immersion for me.
@Sammy Van Dankstein that's the laziest and worst argument I've ever heard lol Just because it's a game (or movie or book or TV show or whatever else you could apply that logic to) doesn't mean they don't have to put attention to detail into it.
"I know, Elizabeth, you seem like a precious cinnamon roll" oh my gosh John, you are my absolute favorite! Haha, never fail to make my day. Keep up the great content! xxx
When your best friend admits they have feelings for you and are coming to terms with their sexuality, saying “oh come on, you’re just being silly” is absolutely awful. Even if you don’t feel the same, it should be like “I’m really flattered and thank you for trusting me but I love you as a friend and don’t want to lose you.” Idk, just a rant 😅 no one will end up reading this anyway so who cares? lol
The voice in Anna's apartment that Greg heard and recorded is the Simulacra saying "I AM YOU, AND YOU ARE I. WE WILL NEVER BE SEPARATED.". Just in case anybody wanted to know.
Like I enjoyed this game but I am so sick of this idea that technology is controlling our lives, like somehow life was more virtuous and real when you got a job at a factory in your local town and married the boy who lived next door. Come on.
I am sick to death of this trend in otherwise good games (looking at you, SuperHOT.) Like, can we give it a rest, dudes? No one's impressed by your woke commentary on technology, no one cares how many "smart" memes you post on Facebook demonizing a cell phone. We get it.
Mellisa Fan Okay so when you're analysing a text, the key ideas and concepts (in this case, the explanation the villain gives for why this is all happening) within the text are called "themes". Man vs technology is a pretty common theme. In this case this theme underpins the entire game.
I don't mind it honestly. Maybe it's because I tend to judge a thing by their quality and not be annoyed by a single thing, but whatever. I didn't mind the story in Superhot either, since the gameplay was pretty solid.
The main message I got from this game is that our online personas or lack thereof shouldn’t be the basis for judgment, not that technology is evil, but we all have our own perceptions.
Mine too. They just seem to think that because you graduated high school some dude in a suit will stand outside of your door with an invitation for a high paying, non-shit workplace that treats you well. Im reading into it but it's a baby boomer thing. I just respond, "a job???? in this economy barbara???"
Not inherently, no. The "get a job and be stable = happiness" is a pretty common boomer mentality, but the mom in this is being a pretty manipulative bitch overall.
I liked the uber long video. Your videos are more immersive than a lot of youtubers in my opinion, and with them being longer, it seems to make them even more immersive.
11:30 He didn't lift the toilet seat, meaning he peed with the seat down and got piss splash all over the seat. Not pleasant to sit down in/have to wipe off before you sit. ........my brother never lifted the seat....... I just said 'seat' a lot.
by the way, 11:51 , the reason they were upset is cause when you don't lift the toilet seat, i guess it gets splashed with piss? then it's annoying to not put it back down cause you'll fall in if you don't realize it's up.
I like the longer videos. Typically, when I watch youtube, I'm at work and large chunks of new media helps push the day along. It's nice to chip away at paperwork and not have to worry about skipping songs on Spotify.
A few things but I know this video is a few years old: 1] The Toliet seat thing: Ashley asking about that the seat getting left down, so that meant Greg would have pissed on it, [although I would rather sit in pee than in a cold toliet bowl]. Meaning Anna would have sat in Gregs piss. 2] That pregnancy test was positive. Even the DEVS got that one wrong by using that photo
You are brilliant at commentating on games. Intelligent, comical and brutally honest. I only found your channel a few months ago and I have to say, you are the most entertaining TH-camr out there. Keep up the great work.
Patchou Mojo most times, it's just rambling. Last time my friend sent me a wall of text, she came crying to me because her boyfriend was grumpy all day long and she thought it was her fault.
That sexual harassment thing literally happened to me and that's literally how the company acts if you try to do anything even though some of the lower managers pushed you into it the higher a manager gets mad at you
I'm so sorry you've gone through that. I can say the same, sadly. About the game, the ending got me kinda sad too, the fact only 29% reported it on a game says a lot, idk...
Hey John, this might just be nitpicking but I just wanna say that the investigation behind the "animal abuse video" in the movie "A Dog's Purpose" revealed that it was edited to be misleading. Anyway I'm still in the middle of watching, great commentary so far XD Just wanna point this out.
I thought that no animals got hurt during the making of "A Dog's Purpose"? I saw the video of the German Shepherd not wanting to go in the water, but I thought actor for the older version of the first owner said that it was just the dog not wanting to cooperate anymore for the day. They didn't force it, he said I believe.
Hold up- i had to grab my glasses but my eyes did not deceive me... John really posted a 3 hour play-through. Time to procrastinate for the rest of the day. :^)
Greg's voice acting is so bad that if you'd asked "You didn't hit her did you?" he would have probably answered with a voice message saying
"I did not hit her, it's not true! It's bullshit! I did not hit her! I did nahht!"
John O'Brien Oh hI Mark
😂😂😂
Greg reminds me of Ross Geller from Friends
F u u u c k I t s o o o m u c h -
It sounds like onision
Greg sounds like he has yet to hit puberty.
He behaves like he has yet to hit puberty too.
celvester allison Or the dude from The Letter.
Arrow Head no there is legit good anime, the weebs make all the shitty anime popular.
Katie Bayliss nah man death note was pretty good.
fuUUUCK IT SO MUUUCH
@@cheesy_yeety 10/10 acting -IGN. XD
"Stop digging into my personal life" says the person telling you to keep delving into someone else's personal life
Those fake tinder messages from dudes are pretty damned accurate, I'm impressed.
GtotheOria
was there a send bobs joke in there??
lol, I'm only like five minutes in
This is like listening to aristocrats complain about homeless people. Of course you have no idea what I'm about.
@@juliusebola9389 A combination of physical and cultural factors resulting in unequal risk to gain ratio make male population more eager and careless about seeking sex and women more picky and careful. As a result, women are annoyed and men are bitter.
mental You can’t reason with incels 😬
@@andaiibori7205 I know, but it's only right to remind others why they're wrong
favorite moment was when that guy sang a song and john looked 120 % unimpressed
I would cringe hard
@@aliveslice I did cringe hard holy shit
his dead expression has me in stitches
Idk if anyone's pointed it out yet (and I'm only an hour and a half through the video) but at 15:50 when John was going through the calls, the number that she called and that John tried to redial is the suicide hotline number
It's obviously not in the real version. This must be a 'hip' version for teens or something. I read Hamlet and he never said O fuck. It would be funny, though...
The hotline...
Ok. That explains a little more...
I haven't finished the video.
Spoilers I wonder?
Or just a Easter Egg?
Thanks thought I only noticed
I noticed that as well.
My husband thinks I'm crazy, I'm just over here screaming "APPLESAUCE! *APPLESAUCE!* "
Mina Dannelly yeah I was doing the same thing..
Your husband wasn't here though. That would be very weird.
My favorite part was that he was all faux-smug about remembering the password from the very beginning, but then he totally blanked on Applesauce. I was laughing my ass off.
I was doing the same thing. He even SAW the message where her boss mentioned bugs in the Applesauce OS.
I praise you °^°
Then he looked at the page that has it written in gigantic letters and just completely missed out and kept looking elsewhere. 1:17:20
John moment.
Greg's voice actor is almost as terrible as Greg the character.
As in Greg Heffley
Locked in the Shower he is a pretty shitty character too ngl, not in writing but just his behavior
@@beyondviolet he's less bad in the 3 Movie adaptations
Locked in the Shower true
I found detective's VA not very believable and it felt wrong when simulacra's voice slipped to normal dude voice (that's on inconsistent editing). So yeah, not so great overall.
I feel so validated whenever John goes off on characters that freak out over not getting a text for one day.
If they ignore on purpose that’s reasonable for them to be upset
Indeed super weird they never think that you might be the kidnapper, and I thought the twist would be something like you're the bad guy all along, plus those strange sounds in the background were really suspicious too.
CXX AL I think the sounds in the background was Simulcra, maybe it was the "warnings" it was talking about.
I think it would've been a fun twist to work with.
True, but I got the vibe that we're playing as a character, not us.
Greg literally tells you he thinks your hiding something.
So far we learned that johns 29, he from the USA, and he LOVES the smell of bacon.
And his hair doesn't smell nice. :(
Calnus and he puts the toilet seat down.
Calnus and that he doesn't like unread emails or messages
We know so much that he's like family already lol
Calnus uncle john. The quite one who's really awesome
As far as I can telly, the only way to get the good ending where both Taylor and Anna live, is if you manipulate everyone. Basically lying throughout the whole game. The key pivot point where the ending changes is telling Ashley that you have feelings for her too and using her information and picture on the new Spark profile.
gotta beat the Simulacra at it's own game
I'm with John here, it really is shocking that 70% of players didn't report Murv
Murv the Purv
ikr? I don't think I could bring myself to let that scumbag off the hook, even if it would potentially lead to a 'good' ending.
I have met verbal "harassment" way worse than Murv's. I just told him that you can say whatever you want idc but no physical harassment, then he failed to get a rise out of me so after a while he just got so bored and left me alone.
So sure Murv is really nasty but I'm not reporting yet
@@ginger88895 You seem to be a part of the problem then
I reported that scumbag
Every time the ringtone goes off I have a small heart attack
For someone who's spiraling into depression she keeps her makeup well done at every instance
She uses a picture of herself as a wallpaper.
Otaku Penguin sadly I know people who do that
What bugs me the most is when people have a Facebook profile AND cover photo of them selves
Otaku Penguin "She" or simulcra that is? 😏
Most people do that.
Ctp Volibear "face"book
Wow, the tech company trying to shut Anna up to avoid a sexual harassment scandal is very on the nose. Weinstein story that cracked the Sexual Harrassment issue wide open broke likely well after game dev completed, and that bit definitely strengthened the impact of the game’s topical commentary.
(replies to e-mail) You do ANYTHING, Faraday - and you'll be hearing from my lawyer. I've put up with your tyranny for numerous years but you are now crossing a line by claiming that keeping a pervert in the company is a worthy sacrifice. It seems only YOU can think for YOURSELF, i'm just doing things which are GOOD for the company - if you can't accept that, you're not cut out to be the leader of Faraday SECURITY. So i'm giving you 3 options, Step down from your leadership position, sack me and hear from my lawyer, or actually ACCEPT what true sacrifices are and do things for the COMPANY, not what YOU see fit - as that means you're a power-hungry maniac. Choose wisely, otherwise you will be unemployed as I know for a fact that Elizabeth from HR would do a better job running the place than you - consider this your final warning, otherwise I will also see to it that you are put in jail for aiding a pervert.
Stop being antisemitic.
APPLESAUCE! APPLESAUCE!
Anthony lol I was screaming this
God same that was me XD
Yup! There was one or two other times that i was screaming out an answer or whatever, but Applesauce was the one I knew we were all screaming together lol
IKR HUHUHU
Anthony i know right? I was screaming applesauce too. It was in the email from Ed the Techsupport guy from Faraday. The short term memory is real XD
I know a few people who text in small fragments at a time. It usually ends up being around 12 separate small texts instead of a single paragraph.
AeJin Lee I do this... not to this extent though, this is stalker level lol
Same
I do it but it's because I'm used to instant chat and reminding people that I'm writing something larger before they interrupt.
Yes
It's totally annoying when people do this
“Elizabeth, you seem like a precious cinnamon roll - I don’t hold anything against you.”
- John Wolfe, 2017
I love that my guy right here was getting so hype about sending that sexual harassment report, looking like he was getting ready to square up with Elizabeth AND the boss at the security company for trying to cover it up #HeartsForJohn lol
My name is Elizabeth and that made my day lmao
@Tristan T. Moss aweee thanks ^.^
Love the name Elizabeth
Thank you John for calling out the HR lady and sending in report. This game hits all major issues today. So on target.
John, it's mentioned in the email she sent to the tech support guy which version her phone is. It's Applesauce if I remember correctly.
Edit: Went back just to make sure, you can see the email in 33:57
Silver Ace yeah i was screaming at him it was in that tech support email. To be fair I had forgot the name too but knew exactly where it was.
To be fair to John, the game had him locked on that screen, so it wasn't like he could go back and check. Especially with how long Greg was taking to finish texting.
The phone glitches up and fake-resets anyway. It has no long term effects on the plot.
@@ZorotheGallade Thank you, kind stranger. I'm finally free from how frustrating that segment was.
Afterwards, he even scrolls *right past it* while talking about how the OS is never stated. My soul left my body in sheer anguish at that point.
Is it just me or would a video of John messing around/shitposting on apps like Tinder be pretty funny?
Evra Hades I doubt he's the kind of guy to troll people on dating apps. But it wooouuld be funny, I'll give you that.
That's also a fair point, maybe if he found another, more jokey kinda app? No idea what that could be, though...
yes. this. please.
Just you
Sick burn m8
Lol poor Mark waiting this whole time.
“Taylor, the criminal, you show sympathy for him.”
Yeah so far his worst crime was not reaching the bathroom in time and making horrible one liners/puns. He’s
Totally
Worth killing????
Pretty surprised that John kept siding with Greg after it was made obvious he's delusional, possessive and dangerous.
@@ZorotheGallade his voice kinda sounds like pre-pubescent boy or a cartoon character, i personally also tolerates him more lol
Lol I wonder how many people watching were screaming "applesauce" at their screens.... I know I was...
Currently paused at 2:40:00 to leave my theories - will edit when video's finished.
My guess so far is that Ashley is somehow behind all of this. They kept it pretty subtle, but at one point even John took a moment to say how Ashley was totally crushing on Anna, during the drunken texts. It feels like that also, since she basically pressured Anna into joining Spark and even made a profile for her - She may even be Catfishing under the James persona, since that guy somehow knew so much about Anna and her past.
When we the player text Ashley, my only guess is she's feigning ignorance so she can get away with whatever she's doing with Anna. And with the creepy glitched-up texts from "James" ...well, the name and photo was likely a real person. Maybe Ashley did something to hurt or get rid of him in real life? I don't see how that would help her at all, unless maybe she got busted and tried to silence him.
I'm not sure if the game's intent is to have supernatural elements, or if it's simply the lore of the near-sentient IRIS computer trying to help out (and creep out) the player. I guess I'll see once the playthrough is finished, but this has been really interesting to watch so far!
*edit / spoilers*
Okay damn, I was way the fuck off. I should've figured it'd come down to being "supernatural" of sorts, but the whole beginning really seemed more like a whodunnit mystery. I still think it was an interesting little experience though, John pretty much covered all the little flaws the game had.
And what happened to Tobias?! Greg just said that Toby wasn't in Anna's apartment
his online persona will live on
This is the important question here.
It's Greg's like this that make us all look bad.
Gregg Almond but you have two Gs in your name you are obviously superior.
I'm old Gregg!
Nd gregs like onision
Pfft
@@chizothegodofbloodandflash122 actually, he has 3 gs in his name
Can't remember the last time I watched a 3+ hour youtube video from start to finish, loving my run through of John's old content.
How good is this game, as well. The typos are great at creating a semi-realistic and believable scenario. Looking forward to the next extended playthrough of a game as good as this.
Only 28 minutes in but just had to comment because John’s reactions to the cringey tinder messages are killing me 😂😂😂 Gonna settle in for a fun ride with this one.
And now having finished, that was a lot of fun to watch! It sounds super corny to say but I feel like your personality really shines through on these types of games/videos and that makes it even more enjoyable. I liked the long format as well, makes it easier for me to get sucked in lol.
also *whispers* appllleeesaaaauuuceee
♫ I WANNNA BEEEE THE VERY BEST. DA BEST THERRRRRRRRRRRRE EVER WASSSS ♫
*throws pokeball at a crotch*
Ello!
me, catfishing people on tindr: I AM THE NEW ORDER, AN EXISTENCE PERFECTED, SOCIETY RESHAPED
No one cares
John's face while Taylor sings is such a mood.
I put off watching this until playing myself and just finished a few hours ago. I found almost the entire experience INCREDIBLY creepy and then
*ENDING SPOILERS*
the malevolent force is revealed to be a murderous AI. At which point all horror just evaporates. It's really a matter of preference and what pushes your buttons, but considering that I went through the game believing that Anna was long dead and I was being haunted by her pissed off spirit after something awful happened to her... a crazy AI? The ending really killed the whole experience for me. Also, I feel like Greg's VA thought it was supposed to be a comedy.
39:22 “The worst is that you can get kidnapped, placed in a torture chamber and no one knows where you are.....chill out though.” Lol my fav part
I really hope this longer format type works out, since it could then mean that you can do more longer games in the channel again. :>
Why didnt the main protagonist not screenshot Anna's phone conversation (or video tapped it) with his own phone to show Taylor to convince him he is going into a trap xD?
WhiteKana the Simulacra might have simply deleted the screenshot.
Simulacra wasn't on the phone tho
he was also in sulky mode, so he wouldn't have listened anyway - you've got to hate people like that, who refuse to listen to you and take your advice just because you disagree with them on a few points - he says that he did most of the work with finding Anna and that you were treating him like a sidekick, that's because it was you and Greg who did most of the work - as it was Greg who informed you of the back-ups, which lead to you finding James which got you to Anna - but Taylor's in the background taking credit, all he did was research the mishap on Spark - you spoke to Yolanda, looked through the messages and found James, spoke to Phil, spoke to Cassie and set up the account - Taylor did none of that. Greg informed you of the back-ups, notified you about it being someone from Spark and was willing to hand himself in to rescue Anna. Just saying how it's funny that he takes full credit for what he did 15% of, and you did 50% and Greg 35%.
The Fiery Jungle Lol, when put like that, you are 100% right. Honestly Taylor didn't do much. The protagonist ends up having to do most of the work since they have Anna's phone and the key to solving the mystery heavily relies on using her identity to get information out of people.
Red means scary guys. Right?
I can't wait for Rides with strangers in early 2018 tho, shame it got delayed because of money problems. I was pretty hyped for it.
Zamb its gonna suck anyway
WIRE KNIGHT STUDIO people are still going to play it though
Watching this in 2024 and seeing the RWS comment hurts a bit, ngl.
im here after simulacra 2 came out trying to remember what made simulacra scary in the first place
When Ashley was like "It made me realize something" I already knew what was coming.
Didn't you know it when she said "date me" before
Greg’s voice actor was awful.
same voice actor as the detective and the simulacra
Fuuuuck him so muuuuuuch
So so bad
I think it fits his shitty attitude, he is all around shitty!
I think he's a good voice actor (fucking loved him as Simulacra) but the way he voiced Greg did make me want to whip my phone out the window.
Three and a half hours of greatness, and the BEST thing in this WHOLE video is John's face when the dude is "serenading". I love it.
Damn that was extensive. Just finished watching the whole thing. It definitely had its moments where it gave me major chills because the topic was realistic (up until the end...) I didn't like that the big bad guy in the end seemed so mystical and it seemed a little like social commentary? It would have been much scarier if we weren't talking to the scrambled voice of the embodiment of another reality?? (Idk how to describe the Simulacra...) Like John said, I wish there was more of a real life threat, but the little things like the background picture of Anna changing periodically was fucking terrifying to me. They seemed to go too big at the end with their explanation.
The fact that only 29% of people reported Murv's harassment is very telling and sad....
Never been so sick of hearing my own name haha! Loved the longer video !
AnnaaBananaaaa I feel the same way after hearing my own name only a few times in television/movies! xD
Not sure if I really "got" the ending, and the meaning of the virus. The story and ending was much more clear in Sara is Missing. I was on board until the reveal it wasnt a outside threat, like you said. This game was a bit too ambitious for its own good.
hey john, it's one of your guys. I dont really have anything important to say.
John, just wanted to say thanks. There were many moments in this video that made me laugh. It's what I needed to just get my mind off tough times right now as my grandmother is now battling the tougher stages of stage 4 cancer. So thanks again for making me laugh. It's what I needed and a nice blessing. Have a good day!
I’ve got about 34 minutes left for the video the spelling/grammar/voiceacting aside, I really enjoyed watching John play this. Like, I honestly think that certain elements of the sound design are really good at hitting certain feelings- the ringtone, for example, gives me the most uneasy feeling I’ve had in a while. I think if they cleaned up sound timing & some other things it could keep the uneasy/on edge feeling around longer.
Listening to a grammar perfectionist reading girly phone messages is extremely satisfying.
This was long, but I really enjoyed it. Yeah, you've missed some stuff (Applesauce and whatnot), but overall I liked your thought processes (the Critical Thinking, eh?) and commentary. Good stuff.
The game looks like fun, despite it shortcomings it managed to creep me out. Probably because it's premise is quite mundane. Most of it could happen to anyone, just sitting in their room, right? The little bangs of the pipes in my flat and the wind howling in the night added to the atmosphere :)
Just another random thought... It wasn't really explained how you get the phone. Sure, you are given two options in dialogue, but then it's never stated who would send the phone to you or leave it at your doorstep. At least in the previous game you just find the phone in a park or somewhere...
xBenjiSx nice to see a comment like this. Half the comment section was full of backseat gaming haha. And the phone thing irritated me a little as well. If it was explained somewhere, it would be ok. But just a mention in some fake news site, that it happened to some other guy, doesn't mean that it's cleared up.
Enjoyed the entire three and a half hours, and your commentary was on-point throughout. Thanks for the extra long video, John!
2:27:02 during the Work sucks video, I swear there is someone behind her next to the closet door.
I just went back to see it.... Shit :o .... Whether it is or not I find hidden things way scarier than jump scares lol
I saw it and it gave more chills than the game itself
Game: "What is love (it hurts)"
Me: "What is love (baby dont hurt me)"
No one cares
I''m only 6 minutes into the video and I know this is the stupidest, smallest thing to be annoyed by, but... Couldn't they have changed the timestamps on some of the messages? Like 8-9 texts sent and received within the time span of a minute? Come oooooooonnn.
Well there are a lot of people (including me) who send a bunch of texts at once
I'd say that's a fair complaint, given that text conversations are a pretty important part of the game.
@Kali Takumi It's not the amount of texts alone, but that combined with their length versus the time span they were sent in. Like the one at, say 7:30 from the mother (might be even better examples but that was the first one I found when I clicked randomly). If it were a couple of words in every message, fine, but it isn't. And I'm also OK with the real-time instant replies since waiting around for a realistic response time would be awful. But they could've at least pretended that half a minute or so passed between every reply instead of stamping like 14 "lengthy" texts as sent in 60 seconds.
As I said, it might be ridiculously small thing to get annoyed by, but it is enough to completely break immersion for me.
Lurker I see what you mean. Kind of immersion breaking
@Sammy Van Dankstein that's the laziest and worst argument I've ever heard lol Just because it's a game (or movie or book or TV show or whatever else you could apply that logic to) doesn't mean they don't have to put attention to detail into it.
This was one of my favorite playthroughs in a long time. I was glued to the screen the entire time. What a great game with a ton of content. Loved it!
You just yelling at Taylor's impatience makes this an A+ gameplay
"I know, Elizabeth, you seem like a precious cinnamon roll" oh my gosh John, you are my absolute favorite! Haha, never fail to make my day. Keep up the great content! xxx
1:16:18 MAJOR CHILLS
Right? I was expecting that to happen in Sara is missing, I'm glad they did it in this one.
John's sweetly long video released right after I started brewing coffee! Just perfect, time to get comfy.
When your best friend admits they have feelings for you and are coming to terms with their sexuality, saying “oh come on, you’re just being silly” is absolutely awful. Even if you don’t feel the same, it should be like “I’m really flattered and thank you for trusting me but I love you as a friend and don’t want to lose you.” Idk, just a rant 😅 no one will end up reading this anyway so who cares? lol
I read it and I agree. Thank you for taking the time to comment your view here.
@@BBaaaaa thank you for taking the time to read it 😊
Longe boy
DouchebagJohn isn’t this just normal John?
No because he's not holding out on us.
isnt your name supposed to be guys?
The voice in Anna's apartment that Greg heard and recorded is the Simulacra saying "I AM YOU, AND YOU ARE I. WE WILL NEVER BE SEPARATED.". Just in case anybody wanted to know.
So that what it means and what the video in Phil’s audio recording
@@tenkomari2391 Phil?
Thank you for posting a pull play through. Really dig these instead of having to wait a few days or even weeks for a continuation 🤘🏼
this is so fun to watch. I love how you read this & the story is so interesting. your commentary is really entertaining here
This is old but....APPLESAUCE GOD DAMN IT WOLFE
Like I enjoyed this game but I am so sick of this idea that technology is controlling our lives, like somehow life was more virtuous and real when you got a job at a factory in your local town and married the boy who lived next door. Come on.
I am sick to death of this trend in otherwise good games (looking at you, SuperHOT.) Like, can we give it a rest, dudes? No one's impressed by your woke commentary on technology, no one cares how many "smart" memes you post on Facebook demonizing a cell phone. We get it.
Lisylis I don't think you're supposed to take what the villain of the story says seriously?
Mellisa Fan Okay so when you're analysing a text, the key ideas and concepts (in this case, the explanation the villain gives for why this is all happening) within the text are called "themes". Man vs technology is a pretty common theme. In this case this theme underpins the entire game.
I don't mind it honestly. Maybe it's because I tend to judge a thing by their quality and not be annoyed by a single thing, but whatever.
I didn't mind the story in Superhot either, since the gameplay was pretty solid.
The main message I got from this game is that our online personas or lack thereof shouldn’t be the basis for judgment, not that technology is evil, but we all have our own perceptions.
Are all mothers like that? My mom literally just told me what Anna's mom texted her, and it is so freaking annoying!
Mine too. They just seem to think that because you graduated high school some dude in a suit will stand outside of your door with an invitation for a high paying, non-shit workplace that treats you well. Im reading into it but it's a baby boomer thing. I just respond, "a job???? in this economy barbara???"
Not inherently, no. The "get a job and be stable = happiness" is a pretty common boomer mentality, but the mom in this is being a pretty manipulative bitch overall.
A three hour John Wolfe video? Today's my lucky day!
LOL! John cringing through Sparks pickup lines and doling out relationship advice/anecdotes is the returning series I need in this world....
From now on I'm signing all my e-mail "Your Superior".
As far as I'm concerned the canon ending is that Anna survives and elopes with Ashley. Even if them getting together isn't one of the four endings.
im 2 years late but same... wlw rights!!! i love ashley and anna deserves someone who cares for her and has been there the whole time 😳
I kinda napped three times for a couple of minutes but I laughed a lot with your reactions. Worth it. Totally.
I liked the uber long video. Your videos are more immersive than a lot of youtubers in my opinion, and with them being longer, it seems to make them even more immersive.
11:30
He didn't lift the toilet seat, meaning he peed with the seat down and got piss splash all over the seat. Not pleasant to sit down in/have to wipe off before you sit.
........my brother never lifted the seat.......
I just said 'seat' a lot.
by the way, 11:51 , the reason they were upset is cause when you don't lift the toilet seat, i guess it gets splashed with piss? then it's annoying to not put it back down cause you'll fall in if you don't realize it's up.
Personally loved the really long video, nice to just get comfy and watch something for a few hours (and your commentary was (as usual) hilarious!)
I like the longer videos. Typically, when I watch youtube, I'm at work and large chunks of new media helps push the day along. It's nice to chip away at paperwork and not have to worry about skipping songs on Spotify.
A few things but I know this video is a few years old:
1] The Toliet seat thing: Ashley asking about that the seat getting left down, so that meant Greg would have pissed on it, [although I would rather sit in pee than in a cold toliet bowl]. Meaning Anna would have sat in Gregs piss.
2] That pregnancy test was positive. Even the DEVS got that one wrong by using that photo
You are brilliant at commentating on games. Intelligent, comical and brutally honest. I only found your channel a few months ago and I have to say, you are the most entertaining TH-camr out there. Keep up the great work.
I don't text like this, but a long ass message looks so dramatic!
Patchou Mojo most times, it's just rambling. Last time my friend sent me a wall of text, she came crying to me because her boyfriend was grumpy all day long and she thought it was her fault.
I was in a horrible funk of depression and this video is helping me laugh and get out of it. Thank you! 💜
That sexual harassment thing literally happened to me and that's literally how the company acts if you try to do anything even though some of the lower managers pushed you into it the higher a manager gets mad at you
I'm so sorry you've gone through that. I can say the same, sadly.
About the game, the ending got me kinda sad too, the fact only 29% reported it on a game says a lot, idk...
I don't know why, but her background changing from looking down to looking at you really freaked me out
It was proven about a million different times the dog was not harmed or distressed in the behind the scenes video. It wasa falsified story. Sorry.
I've seen the footage and that dog was 100% in distress. Animal movies in general are pretty notorious for that, which is why mostly CGI is used now.
Man, this is interesting and your commentary is epic. This is the best video you have realised this year
"get this boomer shit outta here mom!" i'm cracking up sghagfshdj
I really liked the longer video it was nice to have something to watch threw out the day
Woah 3hrs John!!! Big balls to upload in one shot deserve big views!!!
I enjoyed this. I'm at work right now on the midnight shift enjoying it again.
Hey John, this might just be nitpicking but I just wanna say that the investigation behind the "animal abuse video" in the movie "A Dog's Purpose" revealed that it was edited to be misleading.
Anyway I'm still in the middle of watching, great commentary so far XD Just wanna point this out.
Okay but I love the fact Taylor has bugfixes as his tinder bio, I chuckled a lot
Also omg, what happened to the dog behind the scenes? :O I never knew this
Must be nice to have a phone that allows you to solve puzzles in order to restore your stuff.
Love this longer video format! Looking forward to perhaps seeing more!
Man, that was realistic. The tinder part made me cringe so hard.
That's because you're an insecure teenager.
Would love to see longer videos every so often! I get you can't do it all the time, but once in awhile would be great appreciated!!
I thought that no animals got hurt during the making of "A Dog's Purpose"? I saw the video of the German Shepherd not wanting to go in the water, but I thought actor for the older version of the first owner said that it was just the dog not wanting to cooperate anymore for the day. They didn't force it, he said I believe.
I watched it when I was younger, and found it kinda boring...
No animals were hurt, PETA edited it to make them look bad.
2 hours into the video I realized how long I had been watching. Worth it though, good videos as always John!
Hold up- i had to grab my glasses but my eyes did not deceive me... John really posted a 3 hour play-through. Time to procrastinate for the rest of the day. :^)
BAM! Greg is calling.
I mean, the ringtone and alert sounds as obnoxious as him.. so spot on, Anna.