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Today, I decided to play through the Steam version of Call of Cthulhu Dark Corners of The Earth. I also touched on the development history and turbulent connections with publishers such as Bethesda Softworks. - เกม
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She was power walking cause she was in heels. And
Your character is afraid of heights and suffers vertigo, which explains the blur.
she was gettng shot, she could have taken them off in a single movement
@@tyranictester but fashion!
@@tyranictesterWait I didn't see the heels because I was just listening but if they have the back strap on the heels it can be far more annoying to take heels off then regular boots.
@@tyranictesteryou don't take heels off in a single movement lmao, and stopping to take your shoes off makes you more of a sitting duck than constantly moving but not running
@@tyranictestershe was getting shot at, why waste the time taking shoes off and being a stationary target for a shooter?
Most publishers doesn't care about the game, they are looking at the company's net market.
that's what happens when games cost more and more and the only actual investors have never played a video game in their lives.
me when im a middle schooler who doesn’t know about video game publishing
@@e7193 8 years old me when I pretend I knew what my parents talking and if they asked me to explain I just pretend I didn't heard anything. 🤓
publishers used to care
greedy publishers started in ps4's Next generation era and it rolled over to ps5
buggy? janky? rushed and unfinished? yes. but also unparalleled mood and atmosphere, which is what I loved the most about this game and is still what I remember the most.
The moment you mentioned Bethesda, I saw where we were going. This is a well known business strategy of theirs, find a struggling studio, promise to help them out, but put up a whole bunch of stupid artificial roadblocks or just outright withhold payment, see them crumble, swoop in and buy the pieces of the shattered company for a song. It's filthy and I don't doubt a big part of the blame for how this game turned out lays on them.
I mean them outright going “make game on da Xbox instead of PC” kinda fucked them over a lot since they had to downsize or outright scrap most of what they promised during development.
Thanks Bethesda, very cool!
Remember, this is why Bethesda owns Fallout.
Everyone insists EA is the worst company ever, which is absurd when Bethesda exists.
@heckssoda588 "Yeah, I understand this company bankrupted yours and stole your life's work, and you'll never see a dime for it, but you have to understand, they're not the bad guys because they don't have DLC."
@@AJadedLizard While Bethesda is absolutely shitty for doing this sort of crap, EA has straight up killed beloved game franchises and developers alike in an attempt to make more money. That's why people think EA is worse than Bethesda.
@@the_furry_inside_your_walls639 Wait, they've killed people?
The drunken info dump is pretty loyal to source material, that is exactly how Innsmouth's history is dumped on protagonist in Shadow Over Innsmouth. Lovecraft loved talking head and found writing exposition.
I'd expect as much considering it's a novel, but it's kind of annoying when I see it in a game where they had more freedom.
@@shteve.mp4 Eeh... No. Lovecraft was just a mid to bad tier writer who didnt take to actually improve his craft.
Good writing practice is to not info dump. You weave the information in through the narrative and events, letting your readers learn as the story progresses.
I have the feeling that it's been a very long time since any of you have actually read Shadow Over Innsmouth, or perhaps any Lovecraft novel for that matter
@@TheGateShallStand Nope. Did a lil reread a while back. His works truly give a glimpse into his... Interesting mind
I admit it's been twenty years or so since I read Lovecraft, but something to remember is that he didn't write any novel length stories. The guy wasn't Stephen King with 1000 page epic tomes.
Most of his stories are like 50 pages, written for scifi magazines.
It's a lot of foreshadowing, an exposition dump, maybe a chase scene then a spooky twist ending that makes the narrator go mad. (you/they were an alien/frogman/apeman/ratman all along!!!)
At the Mountains of Madness is his longest and most 'adventurous' story but even then the climactic payoff is essentially an exposition dump.
"This linear console shooter from 2003 doesnt have any open world elemets, so it's a little boring" what rhe hell did you expect?
I honestly hate that this thought process has become the norm. Like open world is great, but sometimes it becomes a little much after playing your 3000th one and you just want to relax and play something more linear.
@@HaplessOne Understandable, but most games do have some branching paths even if they are mostly linear. Take Doom from 1993 for example: there is only one way to finish each level, but taking the time to explore will reward you with more weapons, ammo and powerups. Games that are PURELY linear do tend to be a bit boring.
@@zephyrprime8strongly disagree it's a genre type I personally cannot stand any form of open world game and only like linear games there are tons of us who do. So your argument is valid and all but meh 😑 pretty weak at best
Guys... I think OP's comment is more about "This linear console shooter" and "doesn't have any open world elements". Because obviously a linear shooter wouldn't have open world elements... especially in 2003.
@@acolytebazel3590 Well, I feel like calling them exploration elements is more accurate. But yeah, a game with literally nothing additional to do can be a bit boring. Like I said before, even Doom from 1993, that was a linear shooter, had exploration elements.
I like how they basically give you a BFG with unlimited ammo at the end of the game!
Unjokingly there were atleast 50 skill issue moments lol.
There were so much more I cut from the video u have no idea 😭
I really wish there were more games based on the Lovecraft Mythos. And, focusing on more than JUST Cthulhu, as cool as he is-
Great video, as always!
True that. There's like three bigger ones and two of them aren't mostly about cthulhu
The new Alone in the Dark is a great game with eldritch horror elements, highly recommended.
Ikr, is Lovecraft really that hard to explore and adapt in games? It almost feels like back when people said Dune was impossible to be adaptable
@@Cappuccino_Rabbit It is, eldritch horror is insanely difficult to get right. It's a lot about atmosphere, getting the occult pieces right and trying to drive home how grand these beings are compared to an infintesimal human. Signalis gets the eldritch part just right even though it's not directly an eldritch horror game.
A Night In The Woods.
lock your framerate to 60 fps and it fixes most of the game, your game is running at like 3000 fps
I didn’t even consider that 😭. I’ll definitely keep it in mind for any future games I play with issues like these
@@shteve.mp4older games tend to have issues with uncapped framrates on newer hardware mostly due to engine limitations if you haven’t installed a patch to fix it (if applicable). Rule of thumb I go by is always try and limit the FPS of older games because you never know what to expect honestly, as for all I know, the game can pull a Skyrim and have the physics tied to the FPS.
Not using a standard framerate cap on the gpu software is dumb anyhow. You only needlessly burn electricity and waste both your gpu and fan lifetimes for no reason at all being constantly maxed out. Look what rate your tv or monitor has and cap frames to it by standard. I had a program that even forced frames on old applications the Radeon software didnt even work on
such an underrated horror game and one I like to go back to every so often
thank you for the video
By far my favorite CoC game .
"No wonder you work in retail" hahaha
🤣
The Great Race of Yith is a little more complicated than all that. They aren't just transmitting thoughts across space, they're actually swapping the mind of a Yith with the 'Specimen', allowing the Yith to observe firsthand the locality of their target while the transferred Specimen is interrogated and questioned for knowledge of their species, and they can also transfer across time as well as space, meaning the Yith you meet could be dead long before you meet them.
From their perspective, you haven't been Born yet.
They know a lot about humanity already so usually the specimen is kept 'comfortable' and even allowed some measure of freedom.
I believe that all the yith are temporally in the past, but obviously they think of time and space and identity very differently. One of the friendliest of the mythos.
@@draconicfeline6177 Specimens are actually encouraged to mingle and speak with other Specimens in Yith custody. As Mythos entities go, the Yith are actually....nice?
The scariest shit is that the Yith are at the literal "end times" where they lose the war against the Polyps.
All the Yith's plans that involves flinging their minds into the past is to prevent the Polyps from gaining the upper hand in an interdimensional space war.
It is not uncommon for a Yith to observe the horrible death at the end of their life, just to last-second transfer their mind into a Human while the poor Human has a few moments to collect themselves before being torn to shreds in a body beyond their mind's time.
It is one of those scary things that genuinely freaks me out when I really think about it, you could have a neighbour that suddenly goes a bit bonkers and starts acting weird, they'll call you by your full name and they'll walk strangely as they go about their daily lives - it is as if they had a personality change and suddenly, one day they grab a gun and drive off into the hills where they go to fulfill their destiny to prevent the Polyps from winning the Interdimensional Space War. You might never see them again and their family will be fucked up about their wife/husband/son/daughter/mom/dad just stood up one day and said: "This one shall traverse to the mountains with our projectile accelerator, don't call the authorities I have this under control, this one would say that we would never meet again, but the truth is, we already never didn't." they then got into their car and drove away, leaving behind the car keys - something that your neighbour reportedly didn't need to operate their vehicle.
They would've never found the body of your neighbour, but you could swear that you hear the wind cackling when you're out walking in the woods, thankfully you'll never know of the wind's masters, by the time the Polyps are free you'll be long dead... _Unless you're next..._
Not this man completely glancing over Shadow over Insmouth
Just like the rest of the world! It is my favorite Lovecraft story and would make a great movie/game by itself
To be honest Sir, You should check background of the PC port because this is quite a story to be honest. In the end transition from Xbox to PC was made by one man.
And BTW - The first part of Innsmouth is quite free adaptation of The Shadow over Innsmouth story - hotel chase included ;)
About March family background story - This was a part of Zadok Allen's story, to introduce a background of the Esoteric Order of Dagon.
And... really good video. ;)
i did NOT expect to see my local mall in 0:45 😭
the flashes of white between transitions are such a sensory nightmare it's making me feel physically ill
The yiffians become a whole different kind of horror game if you are a furry.
"They quickly found themselves in the hands of Bethesda Software..." _Ah._
Every time I hear more about the company, I find myself more and more perplexed that anyone is mad at Bethesda for now being a wee bit questionable in the quality department. We should have known. They weren't directly responsible for all that happened here, but just look at the circumstances... How are we all so mad. How can we even complain with this sitting right here, inches from our face. How.
There are Usenet posts from 90s where people talk shit about Bethesda always walking back on hype and releasing underwhelming garbage compared to what was promised. I suppose every generation just has to relearn that Bethesda sucks.
"it's 2006 technology"
MGS3 and F.E.A.R.: Are we a joke to you?
Fear: 10/10
When you first progress to the floor with the cloaked enemies, and one kicks you in the face from the ceiling, I jumped like 6 inches.
The original F.E.A.R. is awesome. I gotta play it again.
Yeah made by the biggest and most famous and veteran studios with big budgets and enough time. Meanwhile there are hundreds of other games from the same era that also function like ass
@@AbuHajarAlBugatti the thing in 2002, very good AI for its time and very believable even if some events are scripted
The budget wasn't really high even despite being published by Konami it was always treated by them as a sleeper hit
Very informative video. Just one slight nitpick: The Simon the Sorcerer based on NetImmerse would've been Simon 3D, whereas the content you're showing is from Simon the Sorcerer 2. The latter is a 2D game based on an evolution of the AberMUD V engine. It's inhouse and wouldn't have been available to an indie studio at the time, nor is it capable of 3D graphics.
Thank you, I didn't even notice!. I'll make sure to focus more on the title of the gameplay videos I find from now on.
This was one of my favorite games when I was in Jr. High. Happy to see a new vid from you!
Thank you! Honestly, if I need this game back in the day I'd have hated it cus I'd never be able to complete it 😭
A channel that alligns with all my niche interests with high quality editing, can't wait to see more!
Thank you!
Great video, I was absorbed the whole way through, the backstory to the game’s development was fascinating.
So this is the game that legendary glitch belongs to. I’ve seen footage of that cannon section so many times, but little was said about the game itself.
A modern remake for a game like this could work, it’s a cool premise!
Definitely subscribing, I like your style.
I loved this game. It's flawed AF, but nothing felt like stalking the streets of Innsmouth quite the same.
I played this game a few times completely through, and I've enjoyed it each time. I would love for someone to pick it back up.
Watching this in night feels like getting flashbanged while getting raided.
Absolutely amazing video!!!! Keep these weird af games coming!!!
It is simple how to write a good Cthulhu Mythos game. YOU DON'T! Cosmic horror is impossible to translate to the screen! You can't translate existential dread and the feeling of insiginficance into a shooter.
People in the Cthulhu mythos don't go insane because "monster ugly now i am insane", but because they realize what the reality of the world is. Imagine an ant living at a graveyard getting a glimpse of our world and realizing his whole world is just a small part of something bigger, the very ground he walks on is just a source of information for titanic beings (the inscription of the gravestone) and his whole world, where his people live since countless generations, is just the remnant of an unfathomable powerful being whose brethren could annihilate you and your world without a second thought and they only don't do that because you are so insignificant compared to them thyt they don't even notice you. And then... you are a normal ant again, having glimpsed the truth but you can't describe it in ant-terms and because of that you can't really understand it either and no one in your colony believes you. THAT is why you go insane and start to pray these beings will never notice you.
YOU CAN'T TRANSLATE THAT INTO A GAME! Simply because a game in its most basic form expects you to understand the rules and gives you agency. Both things humans in the Cthulhu Mythos don't have
That is why "Cthulhu" games are just normal games with ugly monsters in it, far away from what it is supposed to be.
I think it is possible to do, just very hard. I think rather than taking inspiration from the first person horror/light shooter genre they should take more inspiration from crpgs. To me a good call of cthulu game will be closer to something like disco elysium than amnesia or resident evil.
Call of cthulu is a ttrpg, and pretty fun to play. It honestly surprises me that there isn't more crpgs(generally the genre used to adapt ttrpgs) for CoC. Ofc a crpg will be less traditional horror and more atmospheric unease, but I think atmosphere and unease are closer to Lovecraft than monsters and jump scares.
@@imALazyPanda yes, definitely. If at all, the atmosphere route is the correct one, not the jumpscare one
if i'm remembering right the best part of dark corners of the earth was that the start of it was a really good recreation of the short story "a shodow over innsmouth", I remember thinking the game was really really cool for that (it got alot of details right) but then the rest of the game happened and it was fine but not what i wanted lol
I hope no one hates me for this, but I've always felt the story "call of Cthulhu" was overrated, compared to Lovecrafts other works
I agree.
Lets be honest they are all overrated and every story follows the ever same plot but in a different location. Weirdo has weird things happening, discovers the ever same interdimensional seaceeature beings and go mad at the end or die. The third gate by lincoln child was a better lovecraft story than lovecraft
I remember back in the day when I watched some of my favorite youtubers at the time lose their minds and also love this game. it has a special place in my heart ngl, very nostalgic to me
26:00
"I thought these levers were a puzzle but it turns out the key's actually where he said it was"
A small microcosm of the game as a whole
Great video, this is my first video on this channel and I simply subscribed :)
By the way, escape from the hotel, when mutants are chasing you, and you have to lock doors behind or barricade them, run through adjacent rooms, open windows and traversing outside etc. is almost literal experience of main character of the original Shadow over Innsmouth. It's not reconstructed sentence by sentence, but overall very close.
55:18 Why did I immediately go "Just like Madame Web"
One of the only Cthulhu mythos games that isn't a vehicle for a far less compelling story. Thoroughly enjoyed every minute of it.
This game is a masterpiece right up until the final island and boat journey. You go from a fascinating first person experience to pure mechanics hell.
It's sad to hear about the studio. I bought the PC version on a whim sometime around 2010 and quite liked it. It was apparent it wasn't some chart-topping seller but I would never have assumed it left the studio bankrupt.
thats one of the best lovecraftian games ever made. not because of tecnological aspects, but for the loyalty to the story with a few weird calls. Its an amazing game, if you like lovecraft books.
I did a double take when i heard the daughter's name. I'm not used to hearing my name in games / movies lol
I remember playing, the hotel part made me never wana stay in a hotel 😃
I played this when it came out,and i was so proud to have finished it on my own.
I played this game 20 years ago on Xbox and it was absolutely fantastic. My friends and I still jokingly tell each other to "Spread out! Search the area!" after our memorable experiences with this game in its prime.
I tried replaying this game on Steam a few years ago and it was an absolute mess. What he heck happened to the PC port?? I don't think I even made it to the raid on Innsmouth before I gave up on it. I'm somewhat tempted to retry with all the community fixes one day for the nostalgia.
I really love how you edit also just a question when you started this channel did you expect to grow fast or was your expectations lower then that
When I started this channel I only had the Amok Runner Speedrun challenge in mind. However, school took up so much of my time that I quit too early. Then when I started back up again in August, I had set a goal for myself to hit 1k subs by May of this year. That’s what I was hoping for yet I grew exponentially more, something I never expected.
Short answer: No, I was expecting to grow SO much slower. I was only hoping that I’d be able to hit 1k subs by May of this year
@@shteve.mp4i’m glad i found your channel at 2k subs when i started watching your videos the amount of effort you put into your videos you should at least have 100k subs at least cuz your content is really amazing
@@jtletsgo4148 Thank you! Hopefully we'll get there someday 😤
11:44 This literally happens in the story
I managed to beat this game a few years ago (like a decade ago) but the only really big hangup was when Dagon attacked the boat: the island behind him did not load, so I had to look up a guide where to shoot.
Funnily enough. This is one of the better Cthulhu video Games out there. Most officially licensed Cthulhu games don’t get the feel of insanity right.
3 guys and a officer chair in a blazer does not make a studio😂
I played this game somehow it worked perfectly only bad things are both level bug and ending jump. It was fun game
video goes hard as hell!
she loves my craftian til i horror
This is sad. I really liked this game. Sadly the ship segment with Dagon and us shooting some island was bugged. I had to patch it out.
Shadow Over Innsmouth Out Of Time.
I remember this game, I recall enjoying it, despite the dodgy mechanics.
this game has more Flash bangs than a CS2 match bro
Just imagine what I had to go through 😭 at some point I stopped showcasing a majority of the flashbacks if they didn’t really add anything to the story
bro has something against retail workers lmao
I remember when this game came out and how everybody at the time wanted to like it so hard. The character designs always reminded me of claymation characters, lol.
Like skullmonkeys? Beans beans the more I eat, the more I toot, the more I toot, the more I eat. I eat beans for every meal
0:42 my old ass misses malls :(
Was that "Rebecca!!!" Paying homage to Catbug?
14:01 When youre scared to death of step ladders.
youtube has been recommending me this video for months now...fine youtube, i'll watch the video, you happy now!!!!!!!
21:52 Oh! there goes gravity
It's cool to see how much the book borrows from Shadow Over Innsmouth.
I've loved this game for years and I honestly think its the best video game adaptation of lovecrafts work
So two things
The Yith are one of the few benevolent races in the mythos so it makes sense that for the supernatural elements of the story they were chosen as the allies
The other I find super interesting is that you liked most of the game despite the bugs (which really this and Vampire the mascarade are the quintessential doesn't work without the fan patch games) except the first two hours; which is really rare since most people I've discussed the game with tend to agree those first two hours were the best and mostly hate the rest of the game as the focus on exploring and stealth gets replaced with regular FPS combat
It would also be worth noting that a lot of the shooting was added at Bethesda's request since the original plan was for a much slower pacing more in line with the original Shadow over Innsmouth story which yes it has a magical hobo that gives an exposition dump
Tbh I wish difficulty for games went more than just "enemies hit harder" or "you have less X". So easy would be for modern gamers where stuff is highlighted or explained through popup boxes, while hard would have none of that and you just have to figure it out yourself.
Granted it's not that simple, but I believe there's room for both current and past gamers through this method. Yeah sure we can look a walkthrough up and most of us would have done easy first than learning it; but it doesn't stop them from trying. Providing there aren't any bugs or softlocks which older games often had sadly; but even then, more than 1 save slot can help.
This one of my favourite games
so basically, publishers are vampires who drain dev studios and then wears their faces until they rot off.
I never finish this game cause of the bug. In the last mission you need to run fast to escape the collapse of the temple, there is a boundary that the rock will fall down on you no matter what you do, I just die right there and cant progress to the ending. I try to reload, restart the whole level, try to dodge the rock,try to bait the rock, wait for the rock to fall so I can pass it safely but to no avail. I gave up eventually
21:00 We got Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory in 2005, so the AI in this game was already considered dumb back in the days.
I remember playing the demo for this because I am very old
I absolutely loved this game and to this day thinks it's one of the best games I've ever played
...jumping out the window multiple times because you can't figure out what the actual procedure is? BIG mood. big mood.
If you have read the Lovecraftian Book (Shadow Over Innsmouth) The part with Zadok Allen wouldn't have seem bad to you, that part is actually quite decent. This is almost exactly what happens in the book anyways as Zadok gives you tons of information while drunk, but the Book ended differently than the game.
The game seems really cool
Honestly this game is super cool and i bet that if they created this game with the original storylines it would be a massive hit
I think the funniest thing about EKT was the mods of the Subreddit were actively deleting posts about it being in a porn for *years*. The whole thing could have been figured out ages ago if they had just allowed that angle to be explored.
Me on my way to make a payday 3 joke.
This game is an absolute classic. The beginning is so tense with the stealth &chase sequence, it’s a big payoff when the combat finally comes up
You can see your sim go to the hospital if they're pregnant on the Sims 4.
Let me tell you, I saw this game on early youtube as a walk-through. I REALLY liked it. But at some point entirely forgot it. I remember telling someone recently that there was a Call of Cthulhu game in the early 2000's, and they didn't believe me. Now I can show them this when I talk to them next :D
Cool story. I like horror games since PS2 era but never have played this game.
I thought this is wicked wiz's or shawn's at first from the thumbnail lol
Why you play without DCOE patch? What are you expecting playing on steam. Srsly? On gog game is with fixes
I got the game off a Steam pack so I was going to just use that. Since this video is to tell the story of Headfirst and CoCDCOE, I played without patches to show how the game turned out after all the development problems and whatnot.
I remember this game crashing on me at the same exact point for me on two different machines. And I actually wanted to play it cuz of the Lovecraft mythos.
The Dagon movie is also a good watch
I always got stuck on the part run out of the motel room when the fish people come after you. I played the original version on x box.
Lol! You jumped out the window. I always ran to the next room and locked it. I did not even know you can do that 😂😂😂😂😂
Honestly, if they were able to take a little more time to even just polish what they had in the game and were allowed to drop it on pc to begin with it probably would have been a cult classic, let alone if they were able implement the cut content. Even in its broken state it has the elements of a great dark fantasy
28:00 Bad word. 38:40 😆. 42:10 🤣. 43:15 😅. 48:50 ww. 53:45 Still dies.
G man and the good monsters.
I really liked this game, it was trippy as hell.
Even with the bugs and issues it's still one of the better Call of C'thulhu games
So... A game named "Call of Cthulhu" proceeds to be an adaptation of Shadow Over Innsmouth, a different story entirely?
I loved Dark Corners of the earth
I'm just happy the sinking city 2 is coming 💕
This was my first Bethesda game, lol
Also
The developer of this planned a RE4-like over the shoulder shooter horror but it was canned for obvious reasons.
Yes
The game's good with intriguing plot but they forget fun. Imagine a "riding in the back shooting at enemies" segment but you don't have enough ammo to do that instead of giving you a turret or weapon with infinite ammo like the norm, lol.
After that point which i survived i don't know where to go anymore lol.
*bankrupted.
ARKHAM AZKABAN I CANT MAN😂😂
I thought this game looked cool. A 2008-2014 era Bethesda horror game would have been awesome. I know it wasn’t developed by Bethesda but still.
Back when this game was made, “indie games” weren’t really a thing yet. There were just big and small(ish) developers and publishers. There wasn’t any of this “one dude made this amazing game” stuff or even an ability to crowdfund a product. So props to these guys for even getting this over the finish line.
DCotE was the single greatest HP Lovecraft game for the longest time, potentially still to this day. But it was also heavily flawed...
It really is a shame. I still believe this to be the best Lovecraftian game when it comes to capturing atmosphere and translating his style to video game. It's also how I discovered his work, so I may be biased
this game can be cult classic best horror game ever and yet here we are the developer just give up.