Shame there isn't anything awful with the story. Maybe just the sheer fucked aspects of what they're doing to all of the Objects and testing them if you think of them as sentient beings.
@@Redreaperify Light Spoilers-not main story related! There are some small dark bits like the deaths/loss of minor workers. The fridge someone HAS to look at OR ELSE. Is one of my favorites. Another is a letter where some old lady’s kitchen opened up into the Board’s dimension, stranding her. I like that Control didn’t overdo the doom and gloom, but kept the intrigue alive.
Appreciate the spoiler warnings. Part of the reason I hesitate to click on lists sometimes is because I wouldn't have enough time to skip a part if I don't want to be spoiled on something
You can also encounter Romani when it's already happened and not know what did whatever it was to her. If you go there on the first or second day without a powder keg, the way will be blocked by a boulder being chipped away at by a man with a pickaxe. If you go on the third day, however, he'll be done and you can go through... too late to prevent her from being taken.
I never felt bad about trapping people in Black Soul Gems. I reserved those for people who _deserved_ it. Skooma dealers in particular often found themselves locked up and sometimes dumped into ocean.
@@Gatorade69 skooma is such a tricky thing. I refuse to kill Khajiit who are literally just participating in what is a spiritual right to them, but the number of racist fucks who are happy to hook others on it is despicable.
In REAL life, a lot of drug dealers are themselves victims, a lot of the time they're heavy addicts, people who can't find other work, (often because of a criminal record) or just people who grew up so surrounded by drugs and crime it's the only world they really know. If we treated addiction as the medical issue it actually is instead of as a life ruining crime, we'd have SO MANY fewer people trapped in really difficult, unpleasant lives due to addiction. It's awesome to me that video games have gotten good enough that they can inspire weird ass philosophical conversations about how our own world works!
Okay usually i know most zelda knowledge and this was something i never even paid attention too, 👏👏👏👏👏 good job you guys for bringing this to whatcultures attention and mine. That game just got a little bit darker lol
So in real life history the Crimean Romani were a group of people (living in the Ukraine). When the Nazi's invaded the region the Romani people were ordered to present for "resettlement", which is nazi code word for incinerator. Josef Mengele was really found of using Romani Children in his human experiments. I haven't played majoras mask but aliens invading and taking a child named Romani who returns in very bad shape seems very similar to that time when the nazis invaded and took Romani children that were then returned in very bad shape. In fact I found recount of an event where two Romani siblings were surgically sewn together back to back in Auswitz. Afterwards they were returned to their parents still sewn togther. The parents of the children were able to get some morphine and used it to kill their two children to end their suffering. This seems similar to the moment described in which the one sister gives the other a drink. Furthermore Link has to assist Cremia and Romani escape from the Gormans. That is very close to Link needing to assist Crimea and Romani escape the Germans. I feel like this whole scenario hides a terrifying truth in easter egg form.
Whoa lots to unpack here and now it makes me want to look into some other things and cross reference some stuff, i will come back and comment again if what i think is true, or at least give some kind of update into my findings on some other things to go along with this whole thing…but wow this is a wealth of information, thank you 🙏
@@Peter_Turbo4 Why would a communist have a picture of the Saturn V rocket, which took America to the moon as their profile picture? That rocket is probably the most iconic representation of the Capitalist American triumph over the Communist Soviet nation - the very piece of engineering and ingenuity that led America to win the space race. Then again that might be the very thing a soviet propagandist would use as their profile pic to make you think they are not a soviet propagandist! Anyway it's actually just a fun fan theory that shouldn't be taken as anything else.
You know, while I figured Malik could die, I worked as hard as I could to keep her alive in the majority of my playthroughs, only taking the other path the last time, when I tried for the first time a lethal one. Which yes, it's odd, since she's much harder to save when you go for non-lethal. I think her survival is canon, anyway, since I'm pretty sure the sequel mentions her being still alive.
In Majora's Mask during the Alien section of Romani's Ranch, you can use the Song of Inverted Time to slow down the aliens if you're having trouble getting them all, or you can let time progress normally if you have a system and enough practice killing the ghosts, or switch between slow time and normal time if you need to stock up on arrows, magic, or otherwise. Not really creepy, I guess, but its neat that it takes the rate of time passing into account.
Aren't there logs you can find that explicitly state that Northmoor was exposed to an OOP and he became powerful and dangerous? The generator was a bureaucratic decision to gain an unlimited, free energy supply and also a way to contain and study a dangerous anomaly. The previous director did not go in there peacefully.
No it's explained that he himself was a parautilarian much like Jesse and Dylan but that because he had become too unstable from binding every single OOP he could and things to him
@@wintertrooper7918 I think I found some documents by the Director Trench that Northmoor became power hungry and thus Trench deeming that Northmoor was no longer fit for the position challenged him to the Service Weapon Russian Roulette, which is actually not a real chance based Russian Roulette but more of a ritual for the Service Weapon to chose the next Director. Trench got chosen by Service Weapon and when Jesse arrived, it chose Jesse.
@WinterTrooper I think I found some documents by the Director Trench that Northmoor became power hungry and thus Trench deeming that Northmoor was no longer fit for the position challenged him to the Service Weapon Challenge, which is more of a ritual for the Service Weapon to chose the next Director. Trench got chosen by Service Weapon and when Jesse arrived, it chose Jesse.
@@foofoo3344 I don't recall that being a thing at all the way I read it was that is body temperature was continually increasing higher and higher at an alarming rate and finally his power became so dangerous that he either be contained and have his energy siphoned off to power the oldest house or he could have gone up like a nuclear meltdown
@@wintertrooper7918 Ok, after reading through the Wiki, I found out that Northmoor got obsessed with gaining more superpowers and his condition became too unstable so Trench proposed that Northmoor become the living generator to power the Oldest House to "keep the lights on". Even though Northmoor hated Trench, he reluctantly agreed probably because of his loyalty to the Oldest House and the Board. Oh, yes Northmoor was somewhat of a lackey to Board. Trench however didn't fully trust the Board just like Jesse but they both know that they need the Board's help to prevent paranormal attacks especially against entities like the Hiss.
Once in GTOnline, I was driving by warehouses near the train tracks, when outside a door I noticed two npcs in surgical scrubs, covered in blood, smoking cigarettes...I don't know if that's just a random encounter or what, but I think about them sometimes
Kinda same. I knew we could leave her. But also as an old Deus Ex fan, I was convinced we could also save her, just like Jock. (altho Jock is not in immediate danger)
Tbh before she even explained it, i mean even if you dont have rhat whole background of soul gems, i just kinda thought the charges killed the soul and use its energy up, either way both are evil and dark lol
Finding the asari in the hospital, and she said "Tiptree" I kept spawning in and out to hear the whole thing, minus the obvious not giving her the gun. It was weird getting Joker closure, or knowledge
to whoever wrote the script for this video, can you please add the word "project" to the script whenever its jess who is presenting. the way she pronounces it... "prowjeck" is just magic.
I think I have a obscure one for possible follow-up video in the future: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (PC version by KnowWonder) is already quite dark and scary for a kids game, but there is a little detail creepy in its own way: Most of the common enemies in this version of the game can only be stunned with Rictusempra or Flipendo spell and then carried or pushed around until they are thrown into a hole. If Harry doesn't get rid of them quickly enough tho, the stunning spell will wear off and the creatures will get bach on their feet. There are three exception however: - Giant Spiders that remain stunned after casting Rictusempra. You can't move them around and they remain on their back with only their legs slightly twitching. - Cornish Pixies are the most common flying enemies. After shooting them with Rictusempra they will hit the ground and turn into dust. - And the most cruel fate of all waits for Bowtruckles. In this game they are humanoid plant cretures said to protect trees they call home. Unlike most of the other enemies, to deal with them you don't use stunning spells but Diffindo, the severing charm used in the game mostly to cut ropes, vines and spider web blocking paths. In other words: Harry uses the severing spell to rip to shreds a living humanoid cretures so they won't bother him. Not to mention that killing Bowtruckles is the most common way to get a piece of bark needed as a ingredient for a useful potion.
The thing about Malik is that it's a throwback to JC's brother Paul in the original. In the first game, when you turn rogue, you meet Paul is a hotel room, his safe house. Once there, MIB (robot men posing as government agents) storm the place. You have two options: Fight or jump out the window nearby. If you jump, you'll find Paul dead later on, having been overwhelmed. If you fight, he lives. Issue is, if you leave through the window after the fight, he'll still die (it's a trigger point for it). Plus, you don't have to fight. Paul can kill them himself. He's one of many characters you can save in game, but possibly the hardest to do so given players might not even be aware running kills him automatically. Quick shout to Dario from the original RE3. In game, he says he watched his entire family, his wife and child, be eaten by zombies. Hoooooowever, if you read the prequel comic that was released around the same time, you find out the ugly truth. Where Chief Irons killed the mayor's daughter to stuff her cos he had a creepy, maybe disturbingly sexual, obsession with her, Dario was just a coward. In the comics, we see that his family was eaten alive... But he might've been able to save them. His wife trips, his daughter begs her to get up but she's tired and now hurt. Dario, however, runs off to the safety of a barred fence, locking it behind him, and leaves them to be eaten alive as they stand at the very gate, screaming for him to come back, rotting hands gripping their flesh as he abandons them. Good news is, however, he gets what he deserves as zombies break into the warehouse later and eat up his yellow bellied self! Karma's a bitch, eh?
I've been getting back into Bloodborne, and if the game itself is a dream as many things suggest, the entire city of Yharnam is being tortured for the actions of the few. The Gascoigns, Iosefka, and even poor Gilbert! Gilbert, one of like 2 people who are actually friends with the player character, slowly dying in confinement and doesn't even get to die human!
Cordyceps is neither a virus nor a secret in the game. It's not even particularly secret in real life - most people know about it, but especially people who got into TLoU.
BIOSHOCK 1: There are some audios from Mariska Lutz, who says that her daughter Masha was sent to Rapture's orphanage because she would live better there than with her poor parents. Last audio from Mariska says that she has found Masha on the street transformed into a creepy little sister. After that, the fate of Mariska is unknown. If the player goes to Fighting McDonagh's Tavern , in one of the rooms on the upper floor there are two corpres surrounded by pills. These corpses are Mariska Lutz and her husband who commited suicide after seeing her daughter as a little sister, and with no escape from Rapture. (confirmed by Bioshock novel).
It's a 7yr old game, and every single list feature in existance has potential spoilers for every game. Maybe find better ways to use your time instead of whining about non-issues on YT.
Honestly in my first playthrough I actually saved Malik on my first playthrough because I'm the type of guy to literally try everything and anything to save my teammates even if everything in the game says you can't
Cordyceps are much more complex and scary than she outlined. Everything she said is true but the infected ants have their nervous system hijacked for one important reason and that is in order to reproduce. See, certain cordycep viruses are only able to reproduce inside of birds so they hijack ants in order to have them climb to the top of tall plants so they are easier prey. This particular reproductive cycle is not unique to cordyceps but its pretty fascinating/disturbing that these structures adapted such a complex life cycle. Let hope it never jumps to humans 🙏.
Wait so saving Malik was considered a SECRET? I normally play games with the "leave no one behind" mentality so I've always played Human Revolution fighting off the Belltower assailants. It wasn't like it was a really hard fight either (okay it was kind of hard, but not impossible), and the VTOL only explodes if you leave the area so it really isn't as time sensitive as the in-game dialogue makes it out to be.
Even if you stick around, she still dies if you don't kill or stun the Belltower Mercs fast enough... I found that out the first time I played the game...I tend to play a sneak-up-behind-them-and-choke-them-out-for-maximum-XP game so in slowly working my way around to pick off the Belltower Goons, I took to long and she died long before I was able to get them all and then leave the area... Next time, I sacrificed some XP to nail the Goons faster and bought her enough time to fix the chopper and GTFO...
@@1003JustinLaw I was trying to get the most possible XP you can so it was sneak-sneak-sneak-SUBDUE FROM BEHIND (as long as you only taped the attack key, it was a fairly quiet knock out strike for max XP, but if you accidentally hold the key too long, it becomes a STABBY-STABBY Kill Strike for less XP and more noise) so I couldn't shoot or gas them as only the hand-to-hand knock out strike got you Max XP and sneaking around to get everyone takes more time than Malik has unfortunately... I do admit that in that first play though when I found Malik's body in the Harvester Lair, I was less than happy (OK, I was PISSED!!!) so I did my usual Sneak & Bash for Max. XP and then after I had everyone down and napping, I went around with the silenced pistol and shot them all ensuring I got Max. XP AND none of them were EVER able to harvest a victim's corpse...
@@HappilyHomicidalHooligan Actually, you shouldn't take it out on Tong and his Harvesters, cause Belltower sold them Malik's corpse, it wasn't like the Harvesters looted the battle site. Take down every Belltower arsehole though, they totally deserve it, if you listen to their idle chatting they are downright INFURIATING!!
@@1003JustinLaw I didn't kill Tong or the Harvesters that appeared after talking to Tong...I only killed the first group of Harvesters that were guarding the Lair for Desecrating the body of a Fallen Team Mate...After knocking them out for Max. XP, I also shot all the Belltower Goons that killed her before I left the crash site...like I said, I was PISSED!!!
Th Elder Scrolls fact is a common misconception thanks to that dlc. Most souls from soul gems (black or not) doesn't go to the Soul Cairn. Only those used in bargains with the Ideal Masters do, which are a minitory. Souls are stuck in the soul gem until the gem is either destroyed or used in enchanting and from there most will continue on towards their afterlife. Unless they were used in some deal with the Ideal Masters, a Daedric Prince, or somesuch, which will send the soul to the being/s they deal was made with.
as a SCP fan i love to read every bit of lore thrown into the world of Control, it is both funny and scary at the same time, but that one i didn't notice at all
7. huh... didn't know a nintendo game have drug reference in it. 6. that's kind of scary. 5. i think it's another random person. 4. good thing i kept her alive.
Thank you Jess for the spoiler warning in the list, it is really refreshing to see one of you guys still giving warnings. Whatculture has got lazy with alerting viewers of up coming big spoilers. Old game or not...there are a lot of games that will be new to players
Right? I don't know how many times they've spoiled a game that was less than a year old right in the title of that segment. Just because Scott didn't care for Days Gone doesn't give him the right to spoil it without warning just a few weeks after release...
Yep I was going to comment this especially since she said something like "the cordycepts fungus is a virus from the last of us". How can people differentiate between a bacterial and viral infection but somehow still not get that fungal infections exist especially in the world we're living in now? I thought we'd got past this.
@@incredibleflameboy I'm afraid most people can't differentiate between bacteria and viruses either, given they for some reason keep demanding antibiotics when they have a common cold...
Really weird moment during this video. During the Black Mesa portion (watching on my phone btw) I received a call from an unknown caller from New Mexico...
okay, if you're going to talk about a game... do it right. Gordon Freeman did not cause the Black Mesa Incident. the Gman did by delivering such a pure sample, and Vance and the others over Freeman did by going with it, and adjusting power to the antimass spectrometer above 100%. Gordon Freeman even with his ph.d was a "Research Associate" this is lab jargon for the laborer... meaning... he makes no decisions... and he only performs menial tasks and is given no real responsibility or decision making power.
The really unsettling thing about cordyseps is that, while incredibly unlikely, it's possible for it to pull a Bird-Flu and undergo a mutation to be able to infect humans.
About the Last of Us one, you forgot a part of it that makes it even worse: A lot of scientists believe that the ant in the fungus is conscious during that process, dying either by decaying or of hunger. This in turn implying that all of the people who’ve turned into clickers are still conscious and alive should the clicker eat enough
I don't think that that was jakownski because of the uniform. they are very similar to the dark signals uniform with the short sleeve and if it was jakownski don't you think he would have a blue sweater and a white vest but instead he has the same as all the failed candidates that were probably delta soldiers that were abducted in the first game and also wouldn't the FEAR team have a different uniform from the delta ?
Even if you don't rescue the family in odyssey the game will count as as you did if you skip the quest entirely. I avoided it and after I left the starter island people started saying that the plague destroyed the island anyway even though I didn't stop the priest and guards
5:48 nope its a fungus not a virus. please stop treating fungus, viruses, parasites, and diseases as interchangeable. they are wholly different things.
7:25 - I actually assumed saving her was the default because I refused to be a coward who left his friends behind to die. Like, unless the game made it clear it was actually impossible to save her, I sure as hell was gonna try. 😂 I only learned well after I'd beaten the game that you can just leave instead, witnessing her execution and then finding her corpse later.
Saving Malik echoes the real Deus Ex, where you can save Paul despite 1) being ordered out the window by Paul and 2) possibly dying. It wasn't clear, to me, that I would resurrect and reloaded quickly. It's not particularly useful, but was cool.
Those radio broadcasts on HL remake are related to the 8 hour war. Essentially, after you defeat the final boss and end the invasion, someone else "negotiates" earth's surrender instead.
Having played 5 incomplete playthroughs of skyrim over 6 years, no i am not remorseful of having put an unfortunate rookie bandit into horribly pure torture
I reloaded the Huerta memory hospital so many times just to hear the story..but I never knew it was referring to Joker's sister...or that he had one to begin with.. XD
Don't think the Control one was much of a secret. They pretty much spell it out for you if you have an even passing interest in the story. I did miss the Mass Effect one though and that's one of my favorite game series.
Daaaaamnnnn!! I platined control a few days ago and simply don't pay attention to that really creepy detail. I look upon boards, posters, walls, but that one tottally escapes my eye.
Funny, I didn't know you could leave Malik behind. I just thought it was really though fught you had to go through to continue the story. Worst part is that I am always a passifice so this part usually drains my resources.
Cordyceps is not a virus. It was correctly referred to as a fungus in the video at least once, but identifying it as a virus was really jarring to hear.
Control is such a lore-rich game! I love a game with a lot of (preferably awful) story stuff to find.
Makes sense since SCP was one of its inspirations
Shame there isn't anything awful with the story. Maybe just the sheer fucked aspects of what they're doing to all of the Objects and testing them if you think of them as sentient beings.
@@Redreaperify Light Spoilers-not main story related! There are some small dark bits like the deaths/loss of minor workers. The fridge someone HAS to look at OR ELSE. Is one of my favorites. Another is a letter where some old lady’s kitchen opened up into the Board’s dimension, stranding her. I like that Control didn’t overdo the doom and gloom, but kept the intrigue alive.
@@kohtan13kumi your taste in games are awful
Appreciate the spoiler warnings. Part of the reason I hesitate to click on lists sometimes is because I wouldn't have enough time to skip a part if I don't want to be spoiled on something
That decision in AC Odyssey was so hard to make. I spent quite a few minutes on that screen trying to decide which way to go.
I made and found the village all derelict, however since it was Kassandra's friends, friend
You can also encounter Romani when it's already happened and not know what did whatever it was to her. If you go there on the first or second day without a powder keg, the way will be blocked by a boulder being chipped away at by a man with a pickaxe. If you go on the third day, however, he'll be done and you can go through... too late to prevent her from being taken.
Nazeem is the only “innocent” character I soul trap every playthrough.
I never felt bad about trapping people in Black Soul Gems. I reserved those for people who _deserved_ it. Skooma dealers in particular often found themselves locked up and sometimes dumped into ocean.
I made a ring out of a soul gem I stored Cicero in
Vigilantes always think they are right.
Hey man ! Skooma isn't hurting anybody ! It's some good stuff.
Hey, do you have any Moon Sugar ?
@@Gatorade69 skooma is such a tricky thing. I refuse to kill Khajiit who are literally just participating in what is a spiritual right to them, but the number of racist fucks who are happy to hook others on it is despicable.
In REAL life, a lot of drug dealers are themselves victims, a lot of the time they're heavy addicts, people who can't find other work, (often because of a criminal record) or just people who grew up so surrounded by drugs and crime it's the only world they really know. If we treated addiction as the medical issue it actually is instead of as a life ruining crime, we'd have SO MANY fewer people trapped in really difficult, unpleasant lives due to addiction.
It's awesome to me that video games have gotten good enough that they can inspire weird ass philosophical conversations about how our own world works!
Okay usually i know most zelda knowledge and this was something i never even paid attention too, 👏👏👏👏👏 good job you guys for bringing this to whatcultures attention and mine. That game just got a little bit darker lol
So in real life history the Crimean Romani were a group of people (living in the Ukraine). When the Nazi's invaded the region the Romani people were ordered to present for "resettlement", which is nazi code word for incinerator. Josef Mengele was really found of using Romani Children in his human experiments. I haven't played majoras mask but aliens invading and taking a child named Romani who returns in very bad shape seems very similar to that time when the nazis invaded and took Romani children that were then returned in very bad shape. In fact I found recount of an event where two Romani siblings were surgically sewn together back to back in Auswitz. Afterwards they were returned to their parents still sewn togther. The parents of the children were able to get some morphine and used it to kill their two children to end their suffering. This seems similar to the moment described in which the one sister gives the other a drink. Furthermore Link has to assist Cremia and Romani escape from the Gormans. That is very close to Link needing to assist Crimea and Romani escape the Germans.
I feel like this whole scenario hides a terrifying truth in easter egg form.
I always wondered the reasons for these names.
Damn.
Whoa lots to unpack here and now it makes me want to look into some other things and cross reference some stuff, i will come back and comment again if what i think is true, or at least give some kind of update into my findings on some other things to go along with this whole thing…but wow this is a wealth of information, thank you 🙏
Yeah, naw
This sounds like Communist propaganda
@@Peter_Turbo4 Why would a communist have a picture of the Saturn V rocket, which took America to the moon as their profile picture? That rocket is probably the most iconic representation of the Capitalist American triumph over the Communist Soviet nation - the very piece of engineering and ingenuity that led America to win the space race.
Then again that might be the very thing a soviet propagandist would use as their profile pic to make you think they are not a soviet propagandist!
Anyway it's actually just a fun fan theory that shouldn't be taken as anything else.
My mind is blown. LoZ got dark.
You know, while I figured Malik could die, I worked as hard as I could to keep her alive in the majority of my playthroughs, only taking the other path the last time, when I tried for the first time a lethal one. Which yes, it's odd, since she's much harder to save when you go for non-lethal. I think her survival is canon, anyway, since I'm pretty sure the sequel mentions her being still alive.
In Majora's Mask during the Alien section of Romani's Ranch, you can use the Song of Inverted Time to slow down the aliens if you're having trouble getting them all, or you can let time progress normally if you have a system and enough practice killing the ghosts, or switch between slow time and normal time if you need to stock up on arrows, magic, or otherwise. Not really creepy, I guess, but its neat that it takes the rate of time passing into account.
Besides trapping the souls, what gets me is in the Personna games and "feeding" the demons lesser demons to advance them...
Aren't there logs you can find that explicitly state that Northmoor was exposed to an OOP and he became powerful and dangerous? The generator was a bureaucratic decision to gain an unlimited, free energy supply and also a way to contain and study a dangerous anomaly. The previous director did not go in there peacefully.
No it's explained that he himself was a parautilarian much like Jesse and Dylan but that because he had become too unstable from binding every single OOP he could and things to him
@@wintertrooper7918 I think I found some documents by the Director Trench that Northmoor became power hungry and thus Trench deeming that Northmoor was no longer fit for the position challenged him to the Service Weapon Russian Roulette, which is actually not a real chance based Russian Roulette but more of a ritual for the Service Weapon to chose the next Director. Trench got chosen by Service Weapon and when Jesse arrived, it chose Jesse.
@WinterTrooper I think I found some documents by the Director Trench that Northmoor became power hungry and thus Trench deeming that Northmoor was no longer fit for the position challenged him to the Service Weapon Challenge, which is more of a ritual for the Service Weapon to chose the next Director. Trench got chosen by Service Weapon and when Jesse arrived, it chose Jesse.
@@foofoo3344 I don't recall that being a thing at all the way I read it was that is body temperature was continually increasing higher and higher at an alarming rate and finally his power became so dangerous that he either be contained and have his energy siphoned off to power the oldest house or he could have gone up like a nuclear meltdown
@@wintertrooper7918 Ok, after reading through the Wiki, I found out that Northmoor got obsessed with gaining more superpowers and his condition became too unstable so Trench proposed that Northmoor become the living generator to power the Oldest House to "keep the lights on". Even though Northmoor hated Trench, he reluctantly agreed probably because of his loyalty to the Oldest House and the Board. Oh, yes Northmoor was somewhat of a lackey to Board. Trench however didn't fully trust the Board just like Jesse but they both know that they need the Board's help to prevent paranormal attacks especially against entities like the Hiss.
Once in GTOnline, I was driving by warehouses near the train tracks, when outside a door I noticed two npcs in surgical scrubs, covered in blood, smoking cigarettes...I don't know if that's just a random encounter or what, but I think about them sometimes
You know, Jess from what culture, I could listen to you talk all day. You should do audiobooks
I didn't even know NOT saving Malik was an option. I've just always saved her.
Kinda same. I knew we could leave her. But also as an old Deus Ex fan, I was convinced we could also save her, just like Jock. (altho Jock is not in immediate danger)
to be fair, the whole trapping soul in gem so you can use the gem to powered some equipment already mess up.
Tbh before she even explained it, i mean even if you dont have rhat whole background of soul gems, i just kinda thought the charges killed the soul and use its energy up, either way both are evil and dark lol
That’s what I’m saying! You’re literally trapping and stealing a soul. How the hell is that an ok thing to do?
@@bn-tc2tk it's only a problem you're a moralist or something. I do feel bad trapping animal souls but not human souls.
@@SBHKur0 Evil is a social construct. All morality is.
I love control, if you really pay attention to the lore you have a whole new view of the game
Finding the asari in the hospital, and she said "Tiptree" I kept spawning in and out to hear the whole thing, minus the obvious not giving her the gun. It was weird getting Joker closure, or knowledge
to whoever wrote the script for this video, can you please add the word "project" to the script whenever its jess who is presenting. the way she pronounces it... "prowjeck" is just magic.
Lmao, cold blooded
In regards to F.E.A.R., being a “phantom” while still having life signs would indicate that he’s astral projecting like in Dr. Strange
No.
@@lastresort554 why not
I think I have a obscure one for possible follow-up video in the future:
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (PC version by KnowWonder) is already quite dark and scary for a kids game, but there is a little detail creepy in its own way:
Most of the common enemies in this version of the game can only be stunned with Rictusempra or Flipendo spell and then carried or pushed around until they are thrown into a hole. If Harry doesn't get rid of them quickly enough tho, the stunning spell will wear off and the creatures will get bach on their feet. There are three exception however:
- Giant Spiders that remain stunned after casting Rictusempra. You can't move them around and they remain on their back with only their legs slightly twitching.
- Cornish Pixies are the most common flying enemies. After shooting them with Rictusempra they will hit the ground and turn into dust.
- And the most cruel fate of all waits for Bowtruckles. In this game they are humanoid plant cretures said to protect trees they call home. Unlike most of the other enemies, to deal with them you don't use stunning spells but Diffindo, the severing charm used in the game mostly to cut ropes, vines and spider web blocking paths. In other words: Harry uses the severing spell to rip to shreds a living humanoid cretures so they won't bother him. Not to mention that killing Bowtruckles is the most common way to get a piece of bark needed as a ingredient for a useful potion.
The thing about Malik is that it's a throwback to JC's brother Paul in the original. In the first game, when you turn rogue, you meet Paul is a hotel room, his safe house. Once there, MIB (robot men posing as government agents) storm the place. You have two options: Fight or jump out the window nearby. If you jump, you'll find Paul dead later on, having been overwhelmed. If you fight, he lives. Issue is, if you leave through the window after the fight, he'll still die (it's a trigger point for it). Plus, you don't have to fight. Paul can kill them himself. He's one of many characters you can save in game, but possibly the hardest to do so given players might not even be aware running kills him automatically.
Quick shout to Dario from the original RE3. In game, he says he watched his entire family, his wife and child, be eaten by zombies. Hoooooowever, if you read the prequel comic that was released around the same time, you find out the ugly truth. Where Chief Irons killed the mayor's daughter to stuff her cos he had a creepy, maybe disturbingly sexual, obsession with her, Dario was just a coward. In the comics, we see that his family was eaten alive... But he might've been able to save them. His wife trips, his daughter begs her to get up but she's tired and now hurt. Dario, however, runs off to the safety of a barred fence, locking it behind him, and leaves them to be eaten alive as they stand at the very gate, screaming for him to come back, rotting hands gripping their flesh as he abandons them. Good news is, however, he gets what he deserves as zombies break into the warehouse later and eat up his yellow bellied self! Karma's a bitch, eh?
I've been getting back into Bloodborne, and if the game itself is a dream as many things suggest, the entire city of Yharnam is being tortured for the actions of the few. The Gascoigns, Iosefka, and even poor Gilbert! Gilbert, one of like 2 people who are actually friends with the player character, slowly dying in confinement and doesn't even get to die human!
Cordyceps is neither a virus nor a secret in the game. It's not even particularly secret in real life - most people know about it, but especially people who got into TLoU.
I was thinking just that as soon as I seen the entry pop up lol
Every single nature channel like "we did an entire episode on this parasite every child knows about real world zombies." Top secret.
Nor is it to people that have seen the Pokemon Paras.
BIOSHOCK 1: There are some audios from Mariska Lutz, who says that her daughter Masha was sent to Rapture's orphanage because she would live better there than with her poor parents. Last audio from Mariska says that she has found Masha on the street transformed into a creepy little sister. After that, the fate of Mariska is unknown. If the player goes to Fighting McDonagh's Tavern , in one of the rooms on the upper floor there are two corpres surrounded by pills. These corpses are Mariska Lutz and her husband who commited suicide after seeing her daughter as a little sister, and with no escape from Rapture. (confirmed by Bioshock novel).
I'm half way thru Alien Isolation rn. Thanks for the spoiler warning Jess! You the real MVP! 👍
Games trash so yeah, she did you a favour
@@davegunnir2801 No.
It's a 7yr old game, and every single list feature in existance has potential spoilers for every game. Maybe find better ways to use your time instead of whining about non-issues on YT.
@@davegunnir2801 fortnite is da best 👌
The Jankowski in F.E.A.R. 2 is Redd Jankowski, Spencer Jankowski's younger brother. Both Redd and Spencer are voiced by the same person.
Number. Six. You said it at the very start of the entry oh my GOD. Cordyceps isn't a virus, it's a FUNGUS.
@Lefein Noel I mean. She SAID it. She SAID fungus before she said virus. You can't blame a script for a lack of thinking.
Honestly in my first playthrough I actually saved Malik on my first playthrough because I'm the type of guy to literally try everything and anything to save my teammates even if everything in the game says you can't
I am well aware of both of the depressing secrets within my favorite Zelda game.
Cordyceps are much more complex and scary than she outlined. Everything she said is true but the infected ants have their nervous system hijacked for one important reason and that is in order to reproduce. See, certain cordycep viruses are only able to reproduce inside of birds so they hijack ants in order to have them climb to the top of tall plants so they are easier prey. This particular reproductive cycle is not unique to cordyceps but its pretty fascinating/disturbing that these structures adapted such a complex life cycle. Let hope it never jumps to humans 🙏.
Wait so saving Malik was considered a SECRET? I normally play games with the "leave no one behind" mentality so I've always played Human Revolution fighting off the Belltower assailants. It wasn't like it was a really hard fight either (okay it was kind of hard, but not impossible), and the VTOL only explodes if you leave the area so it really isn't as time sensitive as the in-game dialogue makes it out to be.
Even if you stick around, she still dies if you don't kill or stun the Belltower Mercs fast enough...
I found that out the first time I played the game...I tend to play a sneak-up-behind-them-and-choke-them-out-for-maximum-XP game so in slowly working my way around to pick off the Belltower Goons, I took to long and she died long before I was able to get them all and then leave the area...
Next time, I sacrificed some XP to nail the Goons faster and bought her enough time to fix the chopper and GTFO...
@@HappilyHomicidalHooligan Huh, I just tranq-darted and stun-gunned all of them
@@1003JustinLaw I was trying to get the most possible XP you can so it was sneak-sneak-sneak-SUBDUE FROM BEHIND (as long as you only taped the attack key, it was a fairly quiet knock out strike for max XP, but if you accidentally hold the key too long, it becomes a STABBY-STABBY Kill Strike for less XP and more noise) so I couldn't shoot or gas them as only the hand-to-hand knock out strike got you Max XP and sneaking around to get everyone takes more time than Malik has unfortunately...
I do admit that in that first play though when I found Malik's body in the Harvester Lair, I was less than happy (OK, I was PISSED!!!) so I did my usual Sneak & Bash for Max. XP and then after I had everyone down and napping, I went around with the silenced pistol and shot them all ensuring I got Max. XP AND none of them were EVER able to harvest a victim's corpse...
@@HappilyHomicidalHooligan Actually, you shouldn't take it out on Tong and his Harvesters, cause Belltower sold them Malik's corpse, it wasn't like the Harvesters looted the battle site. Take down every Belltower arsehole though, they totally deserve it, if you listen to their idle chatting they are downright INFURIATING!!
@@1003JustinLaw I didn't kill Tong or the Harvesters that appeared after talking to Tong...I only killed the first group of Harvesters that were guarding the Lair for Desecrating the body of a Fallen Team Mate...After knocking them out for Max. XP, I also shot all the Belltower Goons that killed her before I left the crash site...like I said, I was PISSED!!!
Th Elder Scrolls fact is a common misconception thanks to that dlc.
Most souls from soul gems (black or not) doesn't go to the Soul Cairn. Only those used in bargains with the Ideal Masters do, which are a minitory.
Souls are stuck in the soul gem until the gem is either destroyed or used in enchanting and from there most will continue on towards their afterlife. Unless they were used in some deal with the Ideal Masters, a Daedric Prince, or somesuch, which will send the soul to the being/s they deal was made with.
Not sure if it's her accent or what but I can listen to these list all day
Yeah. Can't imagine what else it could be. 😂
shes too pretty, i get...distracted
That sounds like me... When I'm watching a Jules video
It’s that you’re thirsty and she’s pretty.
as a SCP fan i love to read every bit of lore thrown into the world of Control, it is both funny and scary at the same time, but that one i didn't notice at all
Codycepts are fungi not viruses
She also seems to use parasites and viruses interchangeably too which bugs the crap out of me.
7. huh... didn't know a nintendo game have drug reference in it.
6. that's kind of scary.
5. i think it's another random person.
4. good thing i kept her alive.
Thank you Jess for the spoiler warning in the list, it is really refreshing to see one of you guys still giving warnings. Whatculture has got lazy with alerting viewers of up coming big spoilers. Old game or not...there are a lot of games that will be new to players
Yea I'm overflowing with tears
@@slipvskorn You’re also overflowing with come.
Then maybe they shouldn't be watching these videos to begin with. The big babies.
Right? I don't know how many times they've spoiled a game that was less than a year old right in the title of that segment.
Just because Scott didn't care for Days Gone doesn't give him the right to spoil it without warning just a few weeks after release...
And phiobe being mad doesn't matters cause she dies
5:47, it’s actually a fungus, not a virus.
Good morning from a snowy Erie Pennsylvania, it's currently only 9° here lol. Have a great day everyone!
Little warmer here, in Philadelphia but yeah we got some snow too...yay!...
70 here in Panama City, Fl. Sorry… had to boast… just moved from Kansas City, Mo. lol
cordyceps aren’t virus’s, they are types of fungi.
Yep I was going to comment this especially since she said something like "the cordycepts fungus is a virus from the last of us". How can people differentiate between a bacterial and viral infection but somehow still not get that fungal infections exist especially in the world we're living in now? I thought we'd got past this.
@@incredibleflameboy I'm afraid most people can't differentiate between bacteria and viruses either, given they for some reason keep demanding antibiotics when they have a common cold...
Really weird moment during this video. During the Black Mesa portion (watching on my phone btw) I received a call from an unknown caller from New Mexico...
Jess is the best narrator, just said it !!! s2
I always named my crafted weapons after the person whose soul I used to enchant it. I was not a nice dragon born.
okay, if you're going to talk about a game... do it right.
Gordon Freeman did not cause the Black Mesa Incident. the Gman did by delivering such a pure sample, and Vance and the others over Freeman did by going with it, and adjusting power to the antimass spectrometer above 100%.
Gordon Freeman even with his ph.d was a "Research Associate" this is lab jargon for the laborer... meaning... he makes no decisions... and he only performs menial tasks and is given no real responsibility or decision making power.
The really unsettling thing about cordyseps is that, while incredibly unlikely, it's possible for it to pull a Bird-Flu and undergo a mutation to be able to infect humans.
About the Last of Us one, you forgot a part of it that makes it even worse:
A lot of scientists believe that the ant in the fungus is conscious during that process, dying either by decaying or of hunger. This in turn implying that all of the people who’ve turned into clickers are still conscious and alive should the clicker eat enough
I don't think that that was jakownski because of the uniform. they are very similar to the dark signals uniform with the short sleeve and if it was jakownski don't you think he would have a blue sweater and a white vest but instead he has the same as all the failed candidates that were probably delta soldiers that were abducted in the first game and also wouldn't the FEAR team have a different uniform from the delta ?
Even if you don't rescue the family in odyssey the game will count as as you did if you skip the quest entirely. I avoided it and after I left the starter island people started saying that the plague destroyed the island anyway even though I didn't stop the priest and guards
Number 11 Jess never played a single video game in her life she's just reading a script probably written by Jules
My first playthrough of Human revolution was non lethal up until the part with Malik. I considered that to be one of the best parts of the game.
Controi was dope, but the ending and dlcs felt rushed. Still curious about what Remedy is going to do to create their shared universe
Cordyceps is a fungus not a virus...not that, that makes it any less grim for the bugs it infects! :D
Damn. These are spooky.
Northmoor isn't there voluntarily. Some of the lore from a later DLC implies he went power mad and had to be sealed up to stop him.
5:48 nope its a fungus not a virus. please stop treating fungus, viruses, parasites, and diseases as interchangeable. they are wholly different things.
" easy choice right" yeah you kill the family. Oh you meant save them... no thats not the right choice nor the one I'd make
A fungi is not a virus. That was always the problem with the Last of Us story.
Why does her mouth always look like it's glitching out of its own shape?
Yuo*
half of these you find just playing the game properly so this list is disapointment
Maybe Joker should have taught his sister, how to shut the hell up!
My last checkpoint was at that moment in human revolution
In skyrim I did a build with a Split personality
7:25 - I actually assumed saving her was the default because I refused to be a coward who left his friends behind to die. Like, unless the game made it clear it was actually impossible to save her, I sure as hell was gonna try. 😂
I only learned well after I'd beaten the game that you can just leave instead, witnessing her execution and then finding her corpse later.
It's a pretty oblivious Elder Scrolls player that doesn't realize that using black soul gems is incredibly evil, also incredibly convenient.
Fun fact: Paras and Parasect are also based of that virus
Saving Malik echoes the real Deus Ex, where you can save Paul despite 1) being ordered out the window by Paul and 2) possibly dying. It wasn't clear, to me, that I would resurrect and reloaded quickly. It's not particularly useful, but was cool.
Another great video.
if i ever met Jess. I'd ask her to marry me immediatly.
The real parasites are the writers of The Last of Us 2.
that's what the Soul Cairn was?! Gdi, i must've blocked out that bit of information, now i feel like a dick mage...
Those radio broadcasts on HL remake are related to the 8 hour war. Essentially, after you defeat the final boss and end the invasion, someone else "negotiates" earth's surrender instead.
Having played 5 incomplete playthroughs of skyrim over 6 years, no i am not remorseful of having put an unfortunate rookie bandit into horribly pure torture
The fungus spreads by hijacking the insect... It forces it to crawl onto tall plants. They get eaten by birds, and spread by the bird's poop
I reloaded the Huerta memory hospital so many times just to hear the story..but I never knew it was referring to Joker's sister...or that he had one to begin with.. XD
In response to the fact you included black mesa.... you do realize in Half life 2 they literally took over the world.
Don't think the Control one was much of a secret. They pretty much spell it out for you if you have an even passing interest in the story.
I did miss the Mass Effect one though and that's one of my favorite game series.
Daaaaamnnnn!! I platined control a few days ago and simply don't pay attention to that really creepy detail. I look upon boards, posters, walls, but that one tottally escapes my eye.
The last one about control: =O
Funny, I didn't know you could leave Malik behind. I just thought it was really though fught you had to go through to continue the story. Worst part is that I am always a passifice so this part usually drains my resources.
And with the fungus spores grow out of the ant and it explodes. And whatever the fungus lands on it infects next. Nope no thank you.
The crying ghost at the end of Silent Hill 3. It’s never explained, but it’s a big chance it might be Lisa the nurse from the first Silent Hill.
Can't believe I never noticed the ME3 and Control secrets [facepalm]
Jess is the highlight of this channel :)
holy crap i never actually connected the conversations between jokers sister and the hospital conversations
How could anyone not notice thaat the black soulgems that take people's souls to fuel weapons were taking people's souls to fuel weapons?
I think Zelda was the best on this list
The Last of Us part 2 is hot trash.
The Mass Effect one is sad.
I posted one in the last video
Speaking of Radio broadcasts, listen to the radio in farcry 5
[10] for Jess, great work
I'm sure in control that ahti mentions an old man in a container so I assumed it was someone random, not a previous director
There’s a secret image of the fungus at the beginning of The Last of Us.
Not really. The family didn't survive and everyone else died too.
I love remedyverse, i can't wait for their next game
🎼pooor unfortunate sooouls - well that will be in my head all day😂
To forgot to note that Link was dead in Majora’s Mask.
Cordyceps is not a virus. It was correctly referred to as a fungus in the video at least once, but identifying it as a virus was really jarring to hear.