I work in mental health. EVERY psychologist I know does this. "How are you" EVERY time you see them, even if they saw you 5 minutes ago. Yahtzee was accidentally spot on.
I am writing you from the dystopian hellscape that is the future year of 2020. Imagine first being asked by one psychiatrist to explain what your depression is like. Then another enters the room and asks the exact same question. Then a third one enters the room and asks the exact same damn question. I might've flipped and asked them to read the damn file.
Incidentally, I know this game gets a lot of flack as the worst of the series, but there is one thing I like about it, compared to 5 Days a Stranger: In 5DAS, characters would periodically appear or disappear depending on when the plot wanted them to be there. Like at the start, the whole house is empty except for the room with Phil, and then the whole house is empty except for the room with Simone, and after that, Jim appears. That whole time, the living room is empty despite the fact that that's where everyone is supposedly gathering, but they don't actually appear there until you meet everyone. On the other hand, in 7DAS, you can meet anyone at any given time (except the dead ones) and talk to them. Everyone always exists and don't just vanish when they finish their scenes. Sure, they don't always have anything interesting to say, but at least Yahtzee put the effort in to giving the player the opportunity to interact with people outside of plot requirements. I thought that was a nice touch.
I think the whole " they didn't have food in 5 days" would have been an interesting thing to acknowledge in game, imagine being stuck in a house with a group of people, no escape, no food, for a week? Gives the desire to escape a whole new level of desperation.
Zero_Burn some of the people were already in there for a while, they would have been at the point where their level of starvation would overpower the purpose that yahtzee originally had for then when writing dialog
Yeah, this isn't the strongest one storywise but it has absolutely the most intense atmosphere and manages to maintain it the whole game. The horror elements are quite impressive here.
Hah, I like how young Yahtzee wrote in an excuse for why the exhausts are still on, and then we got to see presumably the exact same thought process leading up to that excuse a bit later on.
I've read on the subject of what happens if a person were to be ejected into space, with no suit (just trying to be informative; not corrective). If that person exhaled every bit of air from their lungs right before being subjected to the vacuum, they could survive up to 2 minutes before they die of asphyxia. If you held your breath, your lungs would literally burst inside your chest. The most immediate threat is actually being cooked by solar radiation, and if you were rescued you would most likely have sustained 2nd degree sun burns. Space, though very cold, has no gaseous medium to conduct heat away from the body, so the cold is actually kinda down in the list of things killing you. You would also immediately start bleeding from the eyes and mouth, which would make any chance of getting back into a craft very difficult.
Michael LeDuc PS: If a person were to die in the vacuum of space, and their body were allowed to just drift for a few weeks, they would swell to ridiculous proportions; I think its something like twice the normal volume. If I remember the journal correctly, it has to due with water trying to separate out from the tissue.
1:00:45 Trouble with cling wrap is it tends to stretch under pressure. Assuming you don't lose pressure through gaps in the layers of cling wrap, it will likely stretch to the point where the internal pressure is pretty close to vacuum. Pairs with a less ductile supporting structure, it could probably work. Inflatable space modules are being developed on that principle
yeah but given the ending, it might be easier for someone to fake being a psychologist rather than an engineer. maybe adam is an imposter engineer too?
***** You really have to overlook the nature of an entertainer if you want to like their work because you could probably count on one hand all the entertainers that are legitimately nice. Most of them are bastards and thats what makes them funny.
I'd still say there's a limit. Being a garden variety prick like Edward Norton or Russell Crowe, yeah fair enough I'm fine with people still supporting. Actual pieces of shit that have done things that are illegal and hideously unethical like Kevin Spacey or Bill Cosby, I question the morality and sanity of any person who openly supports them.
"If you're doing fantasy or science fiction you're allowed to break one rule and everything else comes from that. You can't just have everything be weird and say 'Oh, it's just because it's sci-fi or fantasy.'" Well said.
"You want me to record myself? AHHHH! AHHHH!" For some reason I really like it when Yahtzee fake-yells. Like in the Bayonetta Zero Punctuation where he attempts to explain the plot of Bayonetta and AHHHHH!
Zero_Burn unfortunately in 80 years, mega-corporations in their attempt to maximize working hours and minimize religious reasons will abolish sundays, making a week only 6 days, they will also create 2 new holidays akin to christmas in order to boost sales during slow months as a result, July 29, 2385 WILL be a Tuesday, unfortunately we will also be dead... OR maybe we can have our consciousness updated to the web and live on forever in the internetz.... god i hope not.
Beating on a fully decomposed horse, but I was a little disappointed neither of them payed mind to how ridiculous it is for the knowledge to send SOS signals to be restricted to two of the crew out any number greater than two. The fact that the First Officer, who’s responsibilities include taking over for the Captain should they be unable to continue their duties, isn’t informed on basic ship functions trusted to the Captain. More to the point, why is there any need to obfuscate such information from the crew? Do they think the others are going to pull pranks making fake distress calls? Is this some new Federation Policy made because 2/3 of their crews kept abusing it or something?
Y'know, were I in Yahtzee's position and knowing the way the internet works I'd try to avoid allow a soundbite of "you have some very full, supple lips" that people can honestly say was directed at Gabe...
48:00 Don't forget Cowboy Bebop, where even starving bounty hunters can manage to own a space ship and a small fleet of EVA vehicles. There's space truckers and face sucking aliens in that too. Also, Space Dandy, and Outlaw Star.
sixtopian I think the idea is that Jet spent his life earnings on some cheap ship so he could live the dream of being a pennyless starving bounty hunter.
Kristina From what I understand Jet was doing his thing solo until Spike came along, and I doubt Jet would've stolen it since he got it straight out of a police officer job. The junk yard thing is entirely possible, maybe even more likely than buying it.
Its interesting that Yahtzee sees this as the weakest in the series because its honestly my favourite, though that might just because its in space, and I love sci-fi
Please don't skip The Countdown Trilogy! I know they were just tiny little text-based games Yahtzee made as glorified filler to hype people for the final Chzo game, but they're a part of the mythos nonetheless! ;_;
"She's like Spock in that respect." "The very rare, full-tilt female Autistic." Hey, Spock and an Autistic have more empathy than Angela. She's just a really a bad officer trying to be like Spock or like Data, but she fails in being consistently logical. She is a clever send up of that character type, though.
I can see 7 Days a Skeptic being remade as a mod for System Shock 2. Furthermore, I can see an installment in the Trilby/Chzo Mythos being done as a mod for the first Deus Ex. Considering recent creative mods in those two games, like System Shock Infinite and The Nameless Mod, I can see Yahtzee's design aesthetic and knack for storytelling would make of good mods for those games too.
Looking back on it, this game actually does have a cool atmosphere and sense of horror, but in terms of plot and characters it's a slipshod mess. I think it would have made more sense for the protagonist to have been the engineering officer, which would have justified how he ends up fixing everything while removing the problem of Adam sitting around like a bum.
Heat dissipation via radiation is still pretty effective. It will take a while, but things do eventually freeze in space by venting infrared. That's why thermoses need that metallic coating.
I think Alpha Protocol did dialogue quite well. You got a short time to pick your tone, and then it went from there... rather than topic-structure. It also then tied into a "how much this character likes you" system. Good game, a little flawed, but very clever and lots of fun once you get a feel for it.
i actually figured out how the food thing worked in 5 days, the late owner of the manor was into making his own dried meats, hence the giant bag of salt, the pantry where it was all stored was on the wall cut out for our view so we never see it,
I learned something recently; I learned this game’s main theme is a song from Yanni. It came on in a store I was in; I was really disoriented for a minute, because I’d never heard it outside of the game before. I Shazamed it, and whaddya know...Yanni.
lxjoe96 I would say in reply to your clearly remedial attempt at offence that you turning a situation of viewed compassion into an act of homoeroticism would inform me that; your through process seems to be the only factor in this situation which is "Kinda gay"
So, that coffin made it all the way to THE EDGE OF KNOWN SPACE in 400 years? From where, you know, light had to travel 13.7 billion years to reach us? Man, I want a box like that.
Farmeryeti I never used floppy discs but grew up in the transitional phase between them and CDs where they were still everywhere but since I was young there was no reason to actually use one. It took me awhile to realize what the save button was supposed to look like though. I just assumed it was a memory card or just the "Save Button" and never thought about why.
Farmeryeti I used them up until I was 16 in high school... after that I bought a 100 Megabyte USB stick (which was super expensive), but was better than burning CDs or buying 20 floppy discs. Floppy discs were kind of useless unless you wanted to save your word documents or play doom. .... I feel old now :(
+Farmeryeti Floppy disks were in use until early high school for me. Then we weren't allowed to carry disks to school for fear of viruses, then by college we were using Megabyte level USB sticks.
Captain Chahal: the first to die, and no one really cared First Officer Garrett: Too blind to see the truth Helmswoman Serena: she just never really knew what was going on. Engineer Adam: useless yet he knew all along Dr William: never trust the new guy Jonathon Somerset: i don't have words...i really don't
You know how I know Yahtzee is evil? It's not because he's got a file on his desktop labeled evil, it's because he repeatedly refers to people as fools. Super villains always call people fools.
And when they see a mountain in the distance, they have to make a sweet skull fortress built into the mountain.. Can't be a supervillain without a secret mountain/volcano base...
The Russian film "Solaris" from 1972 is quite an interesting story following a psychologist in a sci-fi setting. The story is probably older than that, but I really enjoyed the 1972 version.
NastyLittleBagginses Also the book is vastly different, and in my opinion much better than either of the films base on it (one by Tarkhovsky, the other with Clooney).
So why exactly are the ship's main communications array designed to function as a dungeons and dragons retracting spike trap again? Who BUILT this deathtrap of a ship?
No, that's allright. The blood would get on the ship, as a big object (in vacuum) will attract stuff around it. BUT it would likely rattle around like little icecubes, because it would be frozen. That would probably look pretty cool.
Joseph Dow I always assumed it was a wedding ring glittering. (Wasn't there a reference to her being married or something?) But looking again, it's probably more likely that Yahtzee just goofed while making the talking animation.
Joseph Dow I kept fixating on that in this scene when I played the game as well. Thought it was her tick or something, but probably an accidental pixel drop there.
I used floppy discs all the time when I was younger and I'm only 19. I always wondered why they weren't floppy, then I was introduced to the big actually floppy discs. I've never used, or even seen those.
AzzahNoble Seriously I think most people know about floppy disks and VHS tapes and all that. Why do old people assume that anyone younger than 25 won't have any knowledge or experience with technology made obsolete before they reached high school?
Quite entertaining entry this week but I couldn't but notice it failed to answer that key question about this game: did you just want to go into space?
I've not played any of these games but honestly I enjoyed watching this one unfold more than 5 Days A Stranger. Maybe I'm uncultured, perhaps I just think a space station is one of the best horror settings, maybe I just knew exactly what I was in for this time and just appreciated what I was experiencing more. I don't tend to play adventure games but I may have to go download this.
After watching Star Trek TNG, the character of the psychologist makes perfect sense now. He's very much a send-up of Deanna Troi, like in the times when he fails to adequately counsel people who are troubled, or gets intrusive with the other crewmembers. Imagine how Troi would act if she faced the same situation as this game. It would be freaky to have the possessed mangled corpses of Worf and Picard chasing her around.
When I first played these games I never thought that the creator is a big deal, I didn't have Internet at the time and the games were included on a disc that came with a magazine I was subscribed to.
I do somewhat despise the sentiment that most of us wouldn't know what floppy discs are. As if technology magically disappears from human history when a new generation is born, and only those who lived with it would have knowledge of it. It's slowly becoming as grating as the old 'only 90's kids would remember...' rhetoric.
***** See, you say that. But watch a little Kids/Teens REACT and realize that most millennials probably don't know what a floppy disk is, because they'd have no reason to.
*****Unless you're into history, there's really no reason you'd learn about the floppy disc. Today it's "Put the blu-ray into your blu-ray drive" before that it was "put the DVD into your DVD drive" and before that it was "put the CD into your CD drive". How many people would ask what came before CDs in this age?
8O I am pleasantly surprised to see an ego review so soon. The idea of being a psychiatrist than manipulates the mood of their crew which affects the outcome of conversations and the direction of the plot.
That clip thing is completely indefensible. Haven't you ever done anything with safety gear? You have TWO clips, and you never unclip one until you've clipped the other!
it bothers me that adam asks if theres anything inside the casket, and then responds with "very twilight zone" when being informed that theres nothing in it, when he should probably say something like "o-oh", didn't he leave the idol in there after opening it? I might be mistaken, because i don't pay very good attention, but you'd expect him to be a bit more jarred, oh well.
So, Yahtzee, your efforts to stem the tide of people telling you what the movie's name was were successful. Nobody has a buggery clue what it was. Instead, the subject matter of the tide has been replaced with people methodically explaining what would kill you were you in space without a space-suit. 'Grats.
SiLenT366 I got stuck at the "guess the captain's password" puzzle for a bit because the implication was that it was the captain's birth date but it didn't accept the format I had in mind and I then thought it had to be something else. That puzzle could have been designed a bit better.
***** Would that be a battle to see which of them can rape the other, or a battle to see who can rape the most other people? Ooh, maybe they see how many people they can rape within a time limit, then have a final rape off against each other. My nipples are hard just thinking about it.
Actually, explosive decompression is apparently a myth. Remember that you're only going through a pressure difference of 1 atm, which while incredibly uncomfortable is not instantaneously fatal. In fact, if not in EVA gear in space, it is better to exhale fully as holding your breath will cause gas to start entering the bloodstream unrestricted, causing bubbles in the blood, similar to the ailment 'the bends' that divers suffer when resurfacing too fast (i.e. changing the pressure around their body too quickly). However, you would likely die of asphyxiation long before any pressure-related problems caused you issue.
ace5762 Yes, I scuba occasionally and at depth you can get up to 3 atmospheres. So, while it could be extremely painful and aside from the fact that there's nothing to breathe in space, moving from 1 atmosphere to 0 instantly could be said to be the equivalent of moving from 40ft deep to surface instantly. It's not necessarily instantly fatal if you know how to properly surface rapidly in an emergency.
This one is my favorite... it's not the best but the scenery and the story just fits. I don't agree that the end was stupid... I mean it literally tells you it is Malcolm at the very beginning.
the claustrophobic movie you were describing reminded me of Europa Report, it had kind of an oldschool vibe to it. not sure though if there was any dog involved
I’ve gotta say I’ve watched this video about three times and I disagree with Yahtzee, to this day I am still impressed by Gabe’s random food item names for the saves
It obviously is the weakest Chzo Mythos game. There's even a bug in the main menu where it quite clearly states commentary is off.
Black and about to retire? Holy hell that dude is so dead.
hahahahahaahahahaha
And his birthday coming up. A triple whammy
@@SuperHothead14 I think that means he's a horror movie bingo
I think hes supposed to be asian though
@Conn Benn Eh, close enough.
I work in mental health.
EVERY psychologist I know does this. "How are you" EVERY time you see them, even if they saw you 5 minutes ago.
Yahtzee was accidentally spot on.
I am writing you from the dystopian hellscape that is the future year of 2020.
Imagine first being asked by one psychiatrist to explain what your depression is like.
Then another enters the room and asks the exact same question.
Then a third one enters the room and asks the exact same damn question.
I might've flipped and asked them to read the damn file.
@@Elcarsh In 2024 now
Everything got worse
@@bigrigjoe5130much
@bigrigjoe5130 And two weeks later it's much worser...
"which one is the savey one?"
"the one with the arrow leading INTO the disk."
They've had that exact conversation three times now...
its like gabe is incapable of learning
Incidentally, I know this game gets a lot of flack as the worst of the series, but there is one thing I like about it, compared to 5 Days a Stranger:
In 5DAS, characters would periodically appear or disappear depending on when the plot wanted them to be there. Like at the start, the whole house is empty except for the room with Phil, and then the whole house is empty except for the room with Simone, and after that, Jim appears. That whole time, the living room is empty despite the fact that that's where everyone is supposedly gathering, but they don't actually appear there until you meet everyone.
On the other hand, in 7DAS, you can meet anyone at any given time (except the dead ones) and talk to them. Everyone always exists and don't just vanish when they finish their scenes. Sure, they don't always have anything interesting to say, but at least Yahtzee put the effort in to giving the player the opportunity to interact with people outside of plot requirements. I thought that was a nice touch.
To be fair, the ending twist is brilliantly foreshadowed by the opening soliloquy.
I think the whole " they didn't have food in 5 days" would have been an interesting thing to acknowledge in game, imagine being stuck in a house with a group of people, no escape, no food, for a week? Gives the desire to escape a whole new level of desperation.
Zero_Burn some of the people were already in there for a while, they would have been at the point where their level of starvation would overpower the purpose that yahtzee originally had for then when writing dialog
fsffda How long was the longest resident there?
Zero_Burn no idea. Either way, starvation just wasn't part of the story yahtzee was trying to tell
Zero_Burn I'm pretty sure the kid was in there for years
tmsplltrs I think it was more like weeks/days, its set not long after the previous resident killed himself
I imagine a space psychologist would spend a lot of time twiddling his thumbs until the captain tells him to get a second job.
Yeah, this isn't the strongest one storywise but it has absolutely the most intense atmosphere and manages to maintain it the whole game. The horror elements are quite impressive here.
Hah, I like how young Yahtzee wrote in an excuse for why the exhausts are still on, and then we got to see presumably the exact same thought process leading up to that excuse a bit later on.
I'm rewatching these for the umpteenth time and am already miserable again knowing I'll run out soon.
I might have an addiction.
Word.
I am also back for another watcheroo
@@SeanMcGehee as am I
@@kazy8029one of us!
@@SeanMcGehee same, same
for an hour every sunday you guys make me feel like I have friends
doesthismeet yournamepolicy like if you cry everytime when people lie about them not having friends
likeajon T_T
doesthismeet yournamepolicy same here
doesthismeet yournamepolicy That comment just got more sad with every word.
doesthismeet yournamepolicy Play them back a couple of times a week. Treat yourself.
I've read on the subject of what happens if a person were to be ejected into space, with no suit (just trying to be informative; not corrective). If that person exhaled every bit of air from their lungs right before being subjected to the vacuum, they could survive up to 2 minutes before they die of asphyxia. If you held your breath, your lungs would literally burst inside your chest. The most immediate threat is actually being cooked by solar radiation, and if you were rescued you would most likely have sustained 2nd degree sun burns. Space, though very cold, has no gaseous medium to conduct heat away from the body, so the cold is actually kinda down in the list of things killing you. You would also immediately start bleeding from the eyes and mouth, which would make any chance of getting back into a craft very difficult.
Michael LeDuc PS: If a person were to die in the vacuum of space, and their body were allowed to just drift for a few weeks, they would swell to ridiculous proportions; I think its something like twice the normal volume. If I remember the journal correctly, it has to due with water trying to separate out from the tissue.
The film is called trapped in space. It was made in 1995
Dominic King That is an excellent match to Yahtzee's description, nice catch!
I saw it like a year ago, at a friend's party. I thought 'oh shit, that's what he's talking about'.
The film is called Trapped in space
Someone already commented it ya bastard, can't you listen to instructions
1:00:45 Trouble with cling wrap is it tends to stretch under pressure. Assuming you don't lose pressure through gaps in the layers of cling wrap, it will likely stretch to the point where the internal pressure is pretty close to vacuum. Pairs with a less ductile supporting structure, it could probably work. Inflatable space modules are being developed on that principle
For some reason, I keep coming back to this ego review before any of the others.
Something about the setting and atmosphere are just so compelling.
Same :(
Jack doesn't have the same banter as Gabe
@@drkinferno72 Who the fk is jacques?
Looking back in hindsight, it would have made a lot more sense to make Somerset the ship engineer instead of the councilor.
Yeah could've predated Dead Space by four years.
yeah but given the ending, it might be easier for someone to fake being a psychologist rather than an engineer. maybe adam is an imposter engineer too?
"You can still like a person's work if they're a bastard." Just thought I'd quote that because it's importance can not be overstated.
***** You really have to overlook the nature of an entertainer if you want to like their work because you could probably count on one hand all the entertainers that are legitimately nice.
Most of them are bastards and thats what makes them funny.
Kolbe Howard aye. just look at Jon Snow
Almost all movie directors i like seem to be kinda unlikable human beings
+Planken - the journalist?
I'd still say there's a limit. Being a garden variety prick like Edward Norton or Russell Crowe, yeah fair enough I'm fine with people still supporting.
Actual pieces of shit that have done things that are illegal and hideously unethical like Kevin Spacey or Bill Cosby, I question the morality and sanity of any person who openly supports them.
"If you're doing fantasy or science fiction you're allowed to break one rule and everything else comes from that. You can't just have everything be weird and say 'Oh, it's just because it's sci-fi or fantasy.'" Well said.
"You want me to record myself? AHHHH! AHHHH!"
For some reason I really like it when Yahtzee fake-yells. Like in the Bayonetta Zero Punctuation where he attempts to explain the plot of Bayonetta and AHHHHH!
I like that as the ships councilor your character can ask all the inane questions an rpg character normally asks but it won't be out of place.
I found a plot hole! July 29, 2385 will be a MONDAY! Not a Tuesday as this game claims!
I feel accomplished and can rest on my laurels. :P
Zero_Burn That kind of bullshit really takes me out of the experience.
FIX YOUR GAME YAHTZEE! YOU'RE RUINING MY IMMERSION!
Zero_Burn How DARE he lie to us. I demand a full refund of my time and a personal apology from him.
Zero_Burn unfortunately in 80 years, mega-corporations in their attempt to maximize working hours and minimize religious reasons will abolish sundays, making a week only 6 days, they will also create 2 new holidays akin to christmas in order to boost sales during slow months as a result, July 29, 2385 WILL be a Tuesday, unfortunately we will also be dead... OR maybe we can have our consciousness updated to the web and live on forever in the internetz.... god i hope not.
CypherRCX maybe that's what hell is.
Zero_Burn I noticed another similar plot hole! They are still using the imperial measurement system! ;D
That ending was glorious, a Gabriel Classic.
In this video, Yahtzee has to look up a walkthrough for his own game.
Beating on a fully decomposed horse, but I was a little disappointed neither of them payed mind to how ridiculous it is for the knowledge to send SOS signals to be restricted to two of the crew out any number greater than two. The fact that the First Officer, who’s responsibilities include taking over for the Captain should they be unable to continue their duties, isn’t informed on basic ship functions trusted to the Captain.
More to the point, why is there any need to obfuscate such information from the crew? Do they think the others are going to pull pranks making fake distress calls?
Is this some new Federation Policy made because 2/3 of their crews kept abusing it or something?
Ryan Schultz crew expendable
These guys have brilliant quotes:"I was possessed by a haunted machete!""We are going to passive-aggressively write notes about you."
Still waiting for the followup, 7 Days A Skeksis...
Jandau85 Well, no, the sequels were called Trilby's Notes and 6 Days A Sacrifice.
I know, I was making a joke about Ben and Gabe's references to the Skeksis in the older Let's Drown Out... videos.
+SmugPlatypus "my dreams alternate between murder, murder suicide, and suicide"
8 Days a Chop Smacker
Maybe a cross over between Chzo and the Rob Blanc series:
8 Days a Bum-sex?
I JUST WANTED TO GO INTO SPACE!
classic
Y'know, were I in Yahtzee's position and knowing the way the internet works I'd try to avoid allow a soundbite of "you have some very full, supple lips" that people can honestly say was directed at Gabe...
GriffinPilgrim He said "very full, supple lips IN YOUR INVENTORY"
Colby Staples Yeah, but quoting things out of context is pretty much the national pastime of the internet.
GriffinPilgrim Are you saying there is something wrong with noticing Gabe's supple lips.
GriffinPilgrim Hmm your right, live on
duffman8472 Wow, should really have taken my own advice and not set myself up for this...
I wonder how many of the 290k views on this have come from me using it as a sleep aid over the years
56:38 Calling out the Cybertruck years before its conception.
if you're wondering how he eats and breathes and other science facts, just repeat to yourself 'its just a game' I should really just relax
+Fadge Plays Games Do you mean Gabe? Sometimes I wonder that, too. ;-)
48:00 Don't forget Cowboy Bebop, where even starving bounty hunters can manage to own a space ship and a small fleet of EVA vehicles. There's space truckers and face sucking aliens in that too. Also, Space Dandy, and Outlaw Star.
sixtopian Those are animes. Nobody cares about anime.
sixtopian I think the idea is that Jet spent his life earnings on some cheap ship so he could live the dream of being a pennyless starving bounty hunter.
gnihton I kinda just assumed they stole it from some one, or Jet found them in a junk yard and fixed it himself
Kristina From what I understand Jet was doing his thing solo until Spike came along, and I doubt Jet would've stolen it since he got it straight out of a police officer job.
The junk yard thing is entirely possible, maybe even more likely than buying it.
gnihton oh yah... go me for completely forgetting most of the plot of the show, oh well, it's been years since I have watched it
Its interesting that Yahtzee sees this as the weakest in the series because its honestly my favourite, though that might just because its in space, and I love sci-fi
The bit where Gabe hit the 'end recording' hot key scared the actual shit out of me
Please don't skip The Countdown Trilogy! I know they were just tiny little text-based games Yahtzee made as glorified filler to hype people for the final Chzo game, but they're a part of the mythos nonetheless! ;_;
"She's like Spock in that respect." "The very rare, full-tilt female Autistic." Hey, Spock and an Autistic have more empathy than Angela. She's just a really a bad officer trying to be like Spock or like Data, but she fails in being consistently logical. She is a clever send up of that character type, though.
you know what I think would have helped a lot of these plot issues?
Seven HOURS a Stranger.
I can see 7 Days a Skeptic being remade as a mod for System Shock 2. Furthermore, I can see an installment in the Trilby/Chzo Mythos being done as a mod for the first Deus Ex. Considering recent creative mods in those two games, like System Shock Infinite and The Nameless Mod, I can see Yahtzee's design aesthetic and knack for storytelling would make of good mods for those games too.
Looking back on it, this game actually does have a cool atmosphere and sense of horror, but in terms of plot and characters it's a slipshod mess. I think it would have made more sense for the protagonist to have been the engineering officer, which would have justified how he ends up fixing everything while removing the problem of Adam sitting around like a bum.
This was actualy my favourite from the Chzo-series.
I always thought that Councillor Troi was always on the bridge because she was a Lieutenant Commander and 3rd highest ranked person on the ship.
Telling a recording window to record itself is like telling a calculator to calculate:
X = X + 1
Heat dissipation via radiation is still pretty effective. It will take a while, but things do eventually freeze in space by venting infrared. That's why thermoses need that metallic coating.
Even though you don't know I exist, I choose to believe you uploaded this as a birthday present to me. Because it's my birthday.
I think Alpha Protocol did dialogue quite well. You got a short time to pick your tone, and then it went from there... rather than topic-structure. It also then tied into a "how much this character likes you" system. Good game, a little flawed, but very clever and lots of fun once you get a feel for it.
i actually figured out how the food thing worked in 5 days, the late owner of the manor was into making his own dried meats, hence the giant bag of salt, the pantry where it was all stored was on the wall cut out for our view so we never see it,
Seven Days a VROOM VROOM VROOOOM
I wish more videos ended with "Oh fiddlest-" and everything fucking up.
i love how Gabe grills Adam constantly in this
Yahtzee was that kid when you were younger who constantly told you that you were playing the game wrong wasn't he.
I learned something recently; I learned this game’s main theme is a song from Yanni.
It came on in a store I was in; I was really disoriented for a minute, because I’d never heard it outside of the game before. I Shazamed it, and whaddya know...Yanni.
That has got to be an iteration of the Red Dwarf observation deck.
"IT'S A SMEGGING GARBAGE POD!"
Where's the guy who usually posts
"Yahtzee and Gabe are my favourite homosexuals on the internet"
I miss that guy.
Aiden MacIver You miss him? That's kinda gay
lxjoe96
I would say in reply to your clearly remedial attempt at offence that you turning a situation of viewed compassion into an act of homoeroticism would inform me that; your through process seems to be the only factor in this situation which is "Kinda gay"
Bit gay that, innit?
You're my favorite homosexual :)
i miss homaster
... Oh. Those demonic engines weren't ambient spook noises after all.
So, that coffin made it all the way to THE EDGE OF KNOWN SPACE in 400 years? From where, you know, light had to travel 13.7 billion years to reach us? Man, I want a box like that.
I remember floppy disks, I used them in primary school. Then never again.
Farmeryeti oh my god same! :D
Farmeryeti I never used floppy discs but grew up in the transitional phase between them and CDs where they were still everywhere but since I was young there was no reason to actually use one. It took me awhile to realize what the save button was supposed to look like though. I just assumed it was a memory card or just the "Save Button" and never thought about why.
Farmeryeti I used them up until I was 16 in high school... after that I bought a 100 Megabyte USB stick (which was super expensive), but was better than burning CDs or buying 20 floppy discs. Floppy discs were kind of useless unless you wanted to save your word documents or play doom.
.... I feel old now :(
I remember a friend giving me screenshots from Diablo 2 on a floppy disk and that's it.
+Farmeryeti Floppy disks were in use until early high school for me. Then we weren't allowed to carry disks to school for fear of viruses, then by college we were using Megabyte level USB sticks.
its January 2017 i feel like I'm the only person that still watches these to fill some kind of void
slavezero357 re watching them all
slavezero357 nope, I watch these every day to help me get to sleep
slavezero357 good for depressive periods
just started his ego reviews again. i enjoy his embarrassment; and of course his games are actually quite interesting!
It's nice to pop back on every so often. Especially if I'm feeling down or need something to listen to while I do something else.
Yahtzee accidentally predicted Among Us with this game: Imposters, murders on a Space ship and suspicion.
No comments about the movie, apparently. It might have been Pandorum.
Di, k Really doesn't sound like it...
Di, k i seriously want to know. i watched like 10 minutes of it years ago and its annoying me that i dunno what it's called.
Di, k Dark Star?
Di, k I got a laugh out of your name.
Di, k Event Horizon?
Captain Chahal: the first to die, and no one really cared
First Officer Garrett: Too blind to see the truth
Helmswoman Serena: she just never really knew what was going on.
Engineer Adam: useless yet he knew all along
Dr William: never trust the new guy
Jonathon Somerset: i don't have words...i really don't
I have words; HE JUST WANTED TO GO INTO SPAAAACE.
You know how I know Yahtzee is evil? It's not because he's got a file on his desktop labeled evil, it's because he repeatedly refers to people as fools. Super villains always call people fools.
Well, there are a lot of fools around.
And when they see a mountain in the distance, they have to make a sweet skull fortress built into the mountain.. Can't be a supervillain without a secret mountain/volcano base...
The Russian film "Solaris" from 1972 is quite an interesting story following a psychologist in a sci-fi setting. The story is probably older than that, but I really enjoyed the 1972 version.
A Spootiful Mind Yeah, the book was from the late '50s/early '60s (too lazy to look it up right now). Written by Stanislaw Lem.
NastyLittleBagginses Also the book is vastly different, and in my opinion much better than either of the films base on it (one by Tarkhovsky, the other with Clooney).
So why exactly are the ship's main communications array designed to function as a dungeons and dragons retracting spike trap again? Who BUILT this deathtrap of a ship?
No, that's allright. The blood would get on the ship, as a big object (in vacuum) will attract stuff around it. BUT it would likely rattle around like little icecubes, because it would be frozen. That would probably look pretty cool.
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Does her finger twitching bother anyone else? Also was this intentional?
Joseph Dow I always assumed it was a wedding ring glittering. (Wasn't there a reference to her being married or something?) But looking again, it's probably more likely that Yahtzee just goofed while making the talking animation.
Joseph Dow I kept fixating on that in this scene when I played the game as well. Thought it was her tick or something, but probably an accidental pixel drop there.
I used floppy discs all the time when I was younger and I'm only 19. I always wondered why they weren't floppy, then I was introduced to the big actually floppy discs. I've never used, or even seen those.
AzzahNoble I'm only 16, and I used (the small, un...) floppy disks for the first 6 years of my life.
AzzahNoble They are called floppy disks because the there was a round disk on the inside that was floppy -- not because the casing was floppy.
*****
Oh, I know. But whether or not the casing is floppy is irrelevant. It was still called a floppy disk because the disk was floppy.
AzzahNoble Seriously I think most people know about floppy disks and VHS tapes and all that. Why do old people assume that anyone younger than 25 won't have any knowledge or experience with technology made obsolete before they reached high school?
Thanatos388 'cause they are lil' shits?
Quite entertaining entry this week but I couldn't but notice it failed to answer that key question about this game: did you just want to go into space?
Miss the Ego Review...cant stop watching them
I've not played any of these games but honestly I enjoyed watching this one unfold more than 5 Days A Stranger. Maybe I'm uncultured, perhaps I just think a space station is one of the best horror settings, maybe I just knew exactly what I was in for this time and just appreciated what I was experiencing more.
I don't tend to play adventure games but I may have to go download this.
After watching Star Trek TNG, the character of the psychologist makes perfect sense now. He's very much a send-up of Deanna Troi, like in the times when he fails to adequately counsel people who are troubled, or gets intrusive with the other crewmembers. Imagine how Troi would act if she faced the same situation as this game. It would be freaky to have the possessed mangled corpses of Worf and Picard chasing her around.
Wasn't that kind of an episode? It was just in her head though (Spoilers I guess for a 30 year old show.)
8:05 can’t believe the entire crew vented, that’s extremely sus
Serena was not the imposter
When I first played these games I never thought that the creator is a big deal, I didn't have Internet at the time and the games were included on a disc that came with a magazine I was subscribed to.
"And crowbar, rope, and key and face... ah-" *Realises he didn't know where he was going with that* XD.
I do somewhat despise the sentiment that most of us wouldn't know what floppy discs are. As if technology magically disappears from human history when a new generation is born, and only those who lived with it would have knowledge of it. It's slowly becoming as grating as the old 'only 90's kids would remember...' rhetoric.
***** See, you say that. But watch a little Kids/Teens REACT and realize that most millennials probably don't know what a floppy disk is, because they'd have no reason to.
*****Unless you're into history, there's really no reason you'd learn about the floppy disc. Today it's "Put the blu-ray into your blu-ray drive" before that it was "put the DVD into your DVD drive" and before that it was "put the CD into your CD drive". How many people would ask what came before CDs in this age?
z121231211 it's more along the lines of select a video off netflix
I really liked this game. I wish Yahtzee enjoyed it more. I felt it was well done.
I would just like to see him make a new game, any game! Maybe he's too busy with Zero Punctuation these days; I should read/listen to his book.
His latest game is called The Consuming Shadow.
+Shep karian it's pretty good too.
Saxcat creators of things that are like this can be very critical of their work and play up the bad things
8O I am pleasantly surprised to see an ego review so soon.
The idea of being a psychiatrist than manipulates the mood of their crew which affects the outcome of conversations and the direction of the plot.
It's funny because Gabe guessed that Trilby would get magic and live forever before the second game even started.
That clip thing is completely indefensible. Haven't you ever done anything with safety gear? You have TWO clips, and you never unclip one until you've clipped the other!
To be fair to Counselor Troi, the saucer section was already crashing.
it bothers me that adam asks if theres anything inside the casket, and then responds with "very twilight zone" when being informed that theres nothing in it, when he should probably say something like "o-oh", didn't he leave the idol in there after opening it? I might be mistaken, because i don't pay very good attention, but you'd expect him to be a bit more jarred, oh well.
the room in 12:50 made me laugh a bit, the old cheesy scifi cliche of having a giant glass dome on top off the ship. just like dark star.
So, Yahtzee, your efforts to stem the tide of people telling you what the movie's name was were successful. Nobody has a buggery clue what it was. Instead, the subject matter of the tide has been replaced with people methodically explaining what would kill you were you in space without a space-suit. 'Grats.
Gotta love both past and present Yahtzee covering for why the engines are still on.
The only puzzle I had trouble with (and it is really bad) is the "hide in the shadow" garbage.
SiLenT366 I got stuck at the "guess the captain's password" puzzle for a bit because the implication was that it was the captain's birth date but it didn't accept the format I had in mind and I then thought it had to be something else. That puzzle could have been designed a bit better.
I figured it out because I knew the whole Euro date crap.
Anyone willing to sign my petition for Yahtzee and Gabe to have a rap battle in the next Drown Out?
Unit 2357 I support this 100% percent.
***** It’s all going to be audio anyway with game footage shown on screen. Still, I’ll tune it to hear both.
***** Oh jeez, just wait until the social justice zealots get a hold of that concept....
***** Would that be a battle to see which of them can rape the other, or a battle to see who can rape the most other people?
Ooh, maybe they see how many people they can rape within a time limit, then have a final rape off against each other. My nipples are hard just thinking about it.
Unit 2357 Yahtzee has already put his lack of rapping skills on display (see LDO: Metal Gear if memory serves). It would be a curb-stomp battle.
Actually, explosive decompression is apparently a myth. Remember that you're only going through a pressure difference of 1 atm, which while incredibly uncomfortable is not instantaneously fatal. In fact, if not in EVA gear in space, it is better to exhale fully as holding your breath will cause gas to start entering the bloodstream unrestricted, causing bubbles in the blood, similar to the ailment 'the bends' that divers suffer when resurfacing too fast (i.e. changing the pressure around their body too quickly).
However, you would likely die of asphyxiation long before any pressure-related problems caused you issue.
ace5762 Yes, I scuba occasionally and at depth you can get up to 3 atmospheres. So, while it could be extremely painful and aside from the fact that there's nothing to breathe in space, moving from 1 atmosphere to 0 instantly could be said to be the equivalent of moving from 40ft deep to surface instantly. It's not necessarily instantly fatal if you know how to properly surface rapidly in an emergency.
Also probably very cold.
***** But isnt the absence of heat the killing factor
This one is my favorite... it's not the best but the scenery and the story just fits. I don't agree that the end was stupid... I mean it literally tells you it is Malcolm at the very beginning.
SiLenT366 In fairness, you'd have no idea who Malcolm is if you had never played the game before
SiLenT366 the twist itself is a good one, but "I just wanted to go into space!" completely ruins the established tone, and is therefore stupid
I think the motorbike was the highlight of this part.
Mephistopheles!! It's a good reference, When you know Faust and watch the whole story unfold in Trilby's Notes you will notice some parallels ^^
I like the swear "god fisting dammit" at 31:22.
first watched this when my wife and I had just started dating. Really nice to rewatch these from time to time. :)
15:20: What game is referenced about the brain in the jar?
the claustrophobic movie you were describing reminded me of Europa Report, it had kind of an oldschool vibe to it. not sure though if there was any dog involved
21:53
Good to know they use yards instead of meters in the future.
I’ve gotta say I’ve watched this video about three times and I disagree with Yahtzee, to this day I am still impressed by Gabe’s random food item names for the saves
February 2019 and still watching these.
2020
Yeeeah it's the dumb one! :-P
I kid. I enjoyed this one like the others, although the thematic transition between the two games was kinda jarring.
Shower rod. SHOWER ROD.
The music from 2001: A Space Odyssey that Gabriel was looking for is Ligeti's Requiem, in case he or anyone else cares.