Pathologic is a video essay enjoyers dream. Multiple hours long videos done by talented creators. Just when I think I’ve seen them all, I come across another fantastic one. I’ve already watched all your other videos now haha
I completely agree. I've watched several hours of people dissecting these games and I never get tired of it! It warms my heart that you liked my video, and I'm glad that it made you watch my other stuff as well. Thank you for that!
This reminds me of a discussion on the nature of the hangman social/word game under jan Misali's video about it. Basically what we realized is that hangman is a pen and paper RPG where the role of the executioner is to understand what the group would have problems coming up with, but also very satisfying to finally have it click. Like a good GM, the executioner is best when they serve the group, since if the GM cheats, lies, or is downright sadistic, the group will turn against them. This is making me realize that that's all games, and Pathologic is one of those with a specific in-group that is just on the edge of being unfairly sadistic, but in a way that is very satisfying. I never thought about the game Dev parasocial dance like this. Thank you for this essay.
Such a great perspective on video games, and particularly hard games and the idea the developers are challenging you personally to best them through the obstacles they throw at you. I've never really thought about games in regards to who made them, but it's a wonderful insight to have. I don't know if I'll ever play pathologic, I've seen Mandalore cover them as well and it doesn't strike my fancy too much, but I have respect for the game after seeing your perspective on it.
I played a bit of Pathologic (first 2 days of the Bachelor lol) and didn't continue it cause it is NOT the game to play in 2020 for me. Watched a bunch of videos on it though and I have immense respect for the game, its developers and what they accomplished with it. I'm so glad this is the angle you took with this video cause I think the most interesting/important thing about Pathologic is the fact that it was made in the first place (if that makes sense)
I get you. I think that one of the most beautiful things about the game is that there is so much to discuss about it that transcends both the game and the medium!
@@pimscrypt Absolutely, people say it's a game that's more interesting to talk about than play. It's no wonder so many great videos about it are popping up left and right ya know, and to make a game like that is quite something!
love this video!! it's such a unique videoessay on pathologic and the intentions of the developers (and also addressing topics within the gaming community that i appreciate a lot to see) the changeling gameplay being the most straightforward "you vs the developers" with the 2 claras is really interesting to dive into!! also love your points on the game difficulty settings in pathologic 2!! (having more options should never be a bad thing tbh) thanks for this video. really good messages and very well constructed
I never really understood people thinking video games aren't art, and as a young artist I shall say art is kinda dumb as fuck but people create a thing so it's art. Like if a video game ain't art than animated movies ain't art
That was my experience with the game, too. I used a guide to find who to talk to for the quests for each day and do them before the game notified me. And to pick and choose the ones that would give me rewards. Didn't read the details, just the starting points and rewards. Even so, I had to use tons of tricks to get by. Jumping in and out of buildings to force the world to reset and remove the rats and muggers chasing me, save-scumming, using elevation differences to stymie attackers, wading through the swamp to escape the bridges in the plague-ridden districts (I didn't realize you could do that until my Haruspex playthrough), buying a ton of food on Day 1 and selling it off on Day 2 for a ton of money and re-buying it on Day 3 plus even more since prices had dropped.
Came here for some more Pathologic videos, left with a happy sense of someone developing and growing I wish you all the best in your future endeavors :)
Good one. I think I didn't quite have the same competitive attitude when playing, but I did feel the same kind of playful approach from the devs when it comes to why the experience is so unforgiving.
What a fantastic video, and an amazing commentary on the relationship between devs and players. I bought both Pathologic 1 and 2 after watching Hbomberguy's video, because i wanted to show my support, but i don't think i will be able to ever play those games
What an extraordinary video. Made me reflect a lot on the relationship between creators and fans as well. I'm really looking forward to your future videos.
There was this one time midgame when I got infected and decided to do things Pathologic Classic style and just bear with the infection keeping it on the low, only to realize a day later that I am short on everything because no matter how much extra running around for the resources I do, the plague still takes way too much health out of me, and I just can't afford to sleep to heal that much / get enough medicine to sustain infection and hp at an appropriate level. And I knew all of that because, for a whole day, I tried my bestest to do all those things and I was still dying. The decision to lose all of that day's progress and just admit that I can't change a single thing in my play to make it ok except for 'go all the way back and not start the day infected in the first place' is probably the hardest decision I had to make in a videogame ever.
Thank you for sharing that story! It truly hits like a ton of bricks when you have to redo sections of the game because you made a bad call, or because something happened that you didn't forsee. I thank the developers for at least having the mercy to not have the infection carrry over to all your previous saves.
Your videos are SO good. I really enjoy them so much. It's been an excruciatingly bad day for me but listening to you talk about games as made it a bit better. Thank you.
Thank you for this! I believe that we should say to dev`s that we love them and appreciate their ideas more often. There are so much hate articles and comments about their creation( Of course, this game shouldn`t be loved by everyone, but I just want to cheer up people who gave us such unique expirience. Just to show them, that their hard work isn`t useless and hated. Just to give them motivation to create. P.S.: your Changeling look is gorgeous) I would fell in love, but you are only 12 days old XD
I agree! Ice Pick Lodge especially deserve a lot of love for what they've made. Which makes me so glad that more and more people have been discovering them these past two years or so. And thank you, that's really sweet of you! That joke made me giggle out loud haha!
I didn’t know you, your video just got recommended, I’m watching now but this comment is just complement on your hair, loved the color! Brazilian here, it has been a long time since I write anything in English, so I am sorry for any mistake
I always like to see people reflecting like this on the screamy rage "reviews" of several years ago. I didn't make videos like those, but I enjoyed them and felt defensive when I met people who found them uncomfortable. Certainly it's still fun to complain! But, well. The way the player and the player character are uncomfortably separate in Pathologic is so much fun! Dankovsky can become aware of it, I wasn't aware it's such a thing for Clara all along.
Complaining can be fun, I agree. I don't think that ever went away. I think the big issue, that a lot of people grew out of, was the anger and the yelling. It was mostly just "look at how much this thing SUCKS" - and after having heard that a hundred thousand times it's not criticism anymore. It's just noise. I really like that too! How Dankovsky's quest log changes his primary goal of trying to cure death to simply say that everything was meaningless. What makes it even more great is that you can talk to Clara about it, after one of the final reveals, and she just says "yeah I knew".
Such a good video! I somehow missed Roger Ebert saying that games can never be art. That statement is so disappointing. I'm glad that you do commentary on games discussing their importance and relevance! I really liked how you used Pathologic to describe games as your friendly rivals, and thought it was funny when you said that Pathologic allows you to crawl to the finish line. I've never played Pathologic, but it sounds like the player has a particularly unique relationship with the developers. In other ways, so much of video games are the developers antagonizing you, and it's strange that this is the fun. It sounds like Pathologic definitely takes that to a whole different level!
I liked this video a lot. It's one of my favorites of yours. It's interesting. Your experience with these games reminds me of my own experience with COVID. At first, it was like the first game. Very hard to beat, but manageable. I could find ways to "trick" myself into being okay. But like the Second game. The latter half of Covid was really rough for me. I felt similar in the way that I was not beating Covid, It was beating me, and that I just had to keep crawling to the finish line without the finish line being in sight. I have felt in real life how you felt in the game when coming to find the shop. When life gives me a break from the nightmare that is our assistance under this plague. Those moments of relief. For me, such a moment was when the Election was called for Joe Biden. I remember crying in my car while driving home at 3am. Listening to his speech about a hopeful future. A light of hope after so long in darkness. I have stumbled since that speech, and all has not become perfect, but still, my world is brighter than it was before it. Because in a way Life is a Game, and If the Developer is God, then I know one Prayer that They will Always Answer:" Humble Me Oh God. "
I’m really glad you liked the video that much! 💙 And yeah, it’s hard to play and talk about the games without comparing them to our current situation one way or another. It feels really hopeless at times, but that finish line is somewhere ahead of us. We can never forget that.
It's absolutely wild that the algorithm showed me your FNaF video and a couple of others at some point but somehow never showed me this one even though it knows I like Pathologic. Why did I need to watch Codex Entry's 5 hour video to find out about this one???
@@pimscrypt You should give the 2021/current version of you a pat on the back! Just finished it last night, amazing video. I'm looking forward to your next production, whatever it may be.
I, like probably many others, played about an hour of Pathalogic and got completely overwhelmed and confused by it then uninstalled it. After watching this video I honestly feel like giving it another try!
That makes me very glad to read! I highly recommend using various guides and saving a lot. No matter how much you “cheese” through this game, I’d say that it’s worth it.
i saw you put a pathologic clip in a fnaf video and u used it correctly in the context and i was like oh they understand pathologic. so i searched ur account and boom pathologic essay! im excited to watch this i love a good pathologic essay!
@@pimscrypt I just finished the video and i really enjoyed it!! your analysis is very good and I think you truly understand this game :D! the story of the miracle when you found the store with money right at the end of the game was incredible and just such a PATHOLOGIC thing to happen!
Thank you for this video. RagnarRox retweeted this and I am so impressed by your structure, philosophy, manner of speaking and I'm shocked that you have so few subs. Please keep up the good work
Hittade jag precis en till svensk i vilt tillstånd som tycker om Pathologic?! Det här är en ovanlig upptäckt. O_o Men sjukt intressant video! Snyggt jobbat!
It really warms my heart that you’re going through all of my older stuff, and that you’re liking the channel! Hope you’re gonna like all future stuff just as much! 😄
I'm a strong believer that ALL video games should have difficulty sliders, or even better a custom difficulty option, if a dev wants to make a challenging gaming experience, thats great, but not everyone if as capable as each other, and an easy mode on a challenging game for some, will be just as hard as standard for most players On the flip side, and of personal interest to me, is with a difficulty slider you can up the challenge, you can take a game that you love and fully understand and give it the tools to continue competing against you at your (new) level, games become significantly more replayale with a simple difficulty slider, more so with a custom difficulty option
This video was great. And I looked at the reviews you put up and most of them did describe the difficulty as enhancing the "theme of the story". Yeah they didn't get the meta purpose of the difficulty which you talked about but I think their criticism is still valid not everyone can pour over a games themes the way you have here and themes don't make a game fun(Heck to them the themes made the game anti-fun). Similar to this I honest to goodness love the Call of Duty Black ops 3 campaign it has layers and themes I love to dig into like I do pathologic but the characters are flat and it's hard to engage with the story on a surface level but it's still my favorite.
Another great video! I adore the idea of these games, but have absolutely no interest in putting in all the work to get the cool story and world building xD so thanks to you and a few other people i've watched recently I get to enjoy these games anyway.
So when you started your story about finding the store that takes money I thought it was going where my version of it went; which was to say murdering a soldier for his rations in cold blood and that SOUNDS really bad but what makes it worse is that I tried to do that again a day later because I was in dire straights only for that second soldier to not have any rations. I killed 2 men for food who were just doing their jobs and the difference in how much easier it was to pull the trigger the second time was unsettlingly great. Nothing makes you feel like/understand the act of being a monster quite like Pathologic.
Thank you for sharing that story! And I totally agree. You also look at the people who’re trying to rob or kill you in a very different light after something like that. They’re not just your gamey enemies, they’re going through the exact same thing you do.
Professor Flowers sent me here! I'm a sucker for essays about Pathologic and enjoyed hearing about your experience. Also your accent is cool. Looking forward to your future work!
She is the coolest professor around! I'm really glad you liked the video, and I hope you'll find my future work just as interesting! Also this is probably the first time someone has ever called my accent cool. That made me smile!
15:11 dude misspells Cormac McCarthy while referencing his most mainstream, least challenging novel ever published as an example of something off putting and challenging while also indirectly exposing that the point of the game he’s reviewing went soaring over his head unnoticed. Why should anyone in their right mind be listening to this man? How did he get this job??? I don’t mean to sound condescending but holy shit, that’s fucking bad
This essay sucks. This game is a simulator and story-game, not a constant dark souls boss. The warehouse ambush during the Haruspex route was probably the shittest example you could've given.
It's hilarious that young people perceive their peers as so fragile that discussing anything related to a pandemic is mentally crippling. Every video starts with something like "Most people wouldn't want to talk about a fictional pandemic right now because supposed pandemic has been so rough" (that the biggest problem during it has been a pandemic of obesity due to people sitting all day while stuffing their faces with sugary processed food.) "You are so stunning and brave for living thru that! I'm even more stunning and brave than most tho, so I will be talking about it. I understand if you are too emotionally fragile and mentally weak to watch tho."
Thank you for making this! It's always great to see another Pathologic essay out there
Thank YOU for making one of the essays that made me play these games in the first place!
Pathologic is a video essay enjoyers dream. Multiple hours long videos done by talented creators. Just when I think I’ve seen them all, I come across another fantastic one. I’ve already watched all your other videos now haha
I completely agree. I've watched several hours of people dissecting these games and I never get tired of it! It warms my heart that you liked my video, and I'm glad that it made you watch my other stuff as well. Thank you for that!
@@pimscrypt hey, I’m looking to cite you for a project- what are your pronouns?
they/them, it's in their bio now ^^
I would less say friendly rivalry and more BDSM relationship
In the case of all games? I don’t agree. In the specific case of the Pathologic games? Yeah I buy that take.
@@pimscrypt Yeah, meant Pathologic x3
I'm a humble person: I see a pathologic video and I like and subscribe.
I appreciate that very much!
This reminds me of a discussion on the nature of the hangman social/word game under jan Misali's video about it.
Basically what we realized is that hangman is a pen and paper RPG where the role of the executioner is to understand what the group would have problems coming up with, but also very satisfying to finally have it click. Like a good GM, the executioner is best when they serve the group, since if the GM cheats, lies, or is downright sadistic, the group will turn against them.
This is making me realize that that's all games, and Pathologic is one of those with a specific in-group that is just on the edge of being unfairly sadistic, but in a way that is very satisfying. I never thought about the game Dev parasocial dance like this. Thank you for this essay.
Interesting observation! I'm really glad you liked the video!
Such a great perspective on video games, and particularly hard games and the idea the developers are challenging you personally to best them through the obstacles they throw at you. I've never really thought about games in regards to who made them, but it's a wonderful insight to have. I don't know if I'll ever play pathologic, I've seen Mandalore cover them as well and it doesn't strike my fancy too much, but I have respect for the game after seeing your perspective on it.
I played a bit of Pathologic (first 2 days of the Bachelor lol) and didn't continue it cause it is NOT the game to play in 2020 for me. Watched a bunch of videos on it though and I have immense respect for the game, its developers and what they accomplished with it. I'm so glad this is the angle you took with this video cause I think the most interesting/important thing about Pathologic is the fact that it was made in the first place (if that makes sense)
I get you. I think that one of the most beautiful things about the game is that there is so much to discuss about it that transcends both the game and the medium!
@@pimscrypt Absolutely, people say it's a game that's more interesting to talk about than play. It's no wonder so many great videos about it are popping up left and right ya know, and to make a game like that is quite something!
love this video!! it's such a unique videoessay on pathologic and the intentions of the developers (and also addressing topics within the gaming community that i appreciate a lot to see) the changeling gameplay being the most straightforward "you vs the developers" with the 2 claras is really interesting to dive into!! also love your points on the game difficulty settings in pathologic 2!! (having more options should never be a bad thing tbh) thanks for this video. really good messages and very well constructed
Thank you so much!
This is such an interesting video. I don't think I've ever thought about games in this way before. Great video Pim!!
Thank you so much! It makes me happy that I'm able to introduce new perspectives to people!
Holy Shit that hair...
Im so mesmerized I missed halve the essay
I'm very happy with my hair haha!
I never really understood people thinking video games aren't art, and as a young artist I shall say art is kinda dumb as fuck but people create a thing so it's art. Like if a video game ain't art than animated movies ain't art
Could not agree more!
That was my experience with the game, too. I used a guide to find who to talk to for the quests for each day and do them before the game notified me. And to pick and choose the ones that would give me rewards. Didn't read the details, just the starting points and rewards. Even so, I had to use tons of tricks to get by. Jumping in and out of buildings to force the world to reset and remove the rats and muggers chasing me, save-scumming, using elevation differences to stymie attackers, wading through the swamp to escape the bridges in the plague-ridden districts (I didn't realize you could do that until my Haruspex playthrough), buying a ton of food on Day 1 and selling it off on Day 2 for a ton of money and re-buying it on Day 3 plus even more since prices had dropped.
Came here for some more Pathologic videos, left with a happy sense of someone developing and growing
I wish you all the best in your future endeavors :)
Thank you so much!
Good one. I think I didn't quite have the same competitive attitude when playing, but I did feel the same kind of playful approach from the devs when it comes to why the experience is so unforgiving.
What a fantastic video, and an amazing commentary on the relationship between devs and players.
I bought both Pathologic 1 and 2 after watching Hbomberguy's video, because i wanted to show my support, but i don't think i will be able to ever play those games
Thank you so much!
What an extraordinary video. Made me reflect a lot on the relationship between creators and fans as well. I'm really looking forward to your future videos.
Thank you for the kind words! I hope you'll like my future stuff just as much!
There was this one time midgame when I got infected and decided to do things Pathologic Classic style and just bear with the infection keeping it on the low, only to realize a day later that I am short on everything because no matter how much extra running around for the resources I do, the plague still takes way too much health out of me, and I just can't afford to sleep to heal that much / get enough medicine to sustain infection and hp at an appropriate level. And I knew all of that because, for a whole day, I tried my bestest to do all those things and I was still dying. The decision to lose all of that day's progress and just admit that I can't change a single thing in my play to make it ok except for 'go all the way back and not start the day infected in the first place' is probably the hardest decision I had to make in a videogame ever.
Thank you for sharing that story! It truly hits like a ton of bricks when you have to redo sections of the game because you made a bad call, or because something happened that you didn't forsee. I thank the developers for at least having the mercy to not have the infection carrry over to all your previous saves.
Your videos are SO good. I really enjoy them so much. It's been an excruciatingly bad day for me but listening to you talk about games as made it a bit better. Thank you.
Thank you, that’s so kind of you! I really hope you feel better soon.
I should have been looking through everything you've ever posted! Thanks Pim, super excited to watch this ❤.
I hope you enjoy it!
Great essay! I’m always there for another video about Pathologic. Ice-Pick Lodge needs more support, money and recognition 💔
Thank you, and yeah I agree!
Thank you for this! I believe that we should say to dev`s that we love them and appreciate their ideas more often. There are so much hate articles and comments about their creation( Of course, this game shouldn`t be loved by everyone, but I just want to cheer up people who gave us such unique expirience. Just to show them, that their hard work isn`t useless and hated. Just to give them motivation to create.
P.S.: your Changeling look is gorgeous) I would fell in love, but you are only 12 days old XD
I agree! Ice Pick Lodge especially deserve a lot of love for what they've made. Which makes me so glad that more and more people have been discovering them these past two years or so.
And thank you, that's really sweet of you! That joke made me giggle out loud haha!
@@pimscrypt 💙
OMG i love your hair! I wish I could get my hair that blue :,D Lovely video as well :)
Thank you so much! It's never to late to try! :D
I didn’t know you, your video just got recommended, I’m watching now but this comment is just complement on your hair, loved the color! Brazilian here, it has been a long time since I write anything in English, so I am sorry for any mistake
Thank you, that's very kind!
I always like to see people reflecting like this on the screamy rage "reviews" of several years ago. I didn't make videos like those, but I enjoyed them and felt defensive when I met people who found them uncomfortable. Certainly it's still fun to complain! But, well.
The way the player and the player character are uncomfortably separate in Pathologic is so much fun! Dankovsky can become aware of it, I wasn't aware it's such a thing for Clara all along.
Complaining can be fun, I agree. I don't think that ever went away. I think the big issue, that a lot of people grew out of, was the anger and the yelling. It was mostly just "look at how much this thing SUCKS" - and after having heard that a hundred thousand times it's not criticism anymore. It's just noise.
I really like that too! How Dankovsky's quest log changes his primary goal of trying to cure death to simply say that everything was meaningless. What makes it even more great is that you can talk to Clara about it, after one of the final reveals, and she just says "yeah I knew".
Great video. I really liked your part about the angry videogame reviewer.
Glad you liked it!
this vid is so freakin good?? deserves way more attention
Thank you so much! 💙
Hello I just completed first one as a Bachelor yesterday and it's so good. The story is something else entirely. Now I plan to complete second game
Such a good video! I somehow missed Roger Ebert saying that games can never be art. That statement is so disappointing. I'm glad that you do commentary on games discussing their importance and relevance!
I really liked how you used Pathologic to describe games as your friendly rivals, and thought it was funny when you said that Pathologic allows you to crawl to the finish line. I've never played Pathologic, but it sounds like the player has a particularly unique relationship with the developers. In other ways, so much of video games are the developers antagonizing you, and it's strange that this is the fun. It sounds like Pathologic definitely takes that to a whole different level!
Thank you! And again, thank you so much for voice acting in the video!
I liked this video a lot. It's one of my favorites of yours. It's interesting. Your experience with these games reminds me of my own experience with COVID. At first, it was like the first game. Very hard to beat, but manageable. I could find ways to "trick" myself into being okay. But like the Second game. The latter half of Covid was really rough for me. I felt similar in the way that I was not beating Covid, It was beating me, and that I just had to keep crawling to the finish line without the finish line being in sight. I have felt in real life how you felt in the game when coming to find the shop. When life gives me a break from the nightmare that is our assistance under this plague. Those moments of relief. For me, such a moment was when the Election was called for Joe Biden. I remember crying in my car while driving home at 3am. Listening to his speech about a hopeful future. A light of hope after so long in darkness. I have stumbled since that speech, and all has not become perfect, but still, my world is brighter than it was before it. Because in a way Life is a Game, and If the Developer is God, then I know one Prayer that They will Always Answer:" Humble Me Oh God. "
I’m really glad you liked the video that much! 💙 And yeah, it’s hard to play and talk about the games without comparing them to our current situation one way or another. It feels really hopeless at times, but that finish line is somewhere ahead of us. We can never forget that.
Pathologic really does seem to engender introspection in everyone who sincerely engages.
It's absolutely wild that the algorithm showed me your FNaF video and a couple of others at some point but somehow never showed me this one even though it knows I like Pathologic. Why did I need to watch Codex Entry's 5 hour video to find out about this one???
The algorithm disappoints, as usual. Still, I'm very glad that you found the video in the end!
"If you're watching in 2020"
Haha... haaaaaaaaaa. In all seriousness great video mate*
I want to go back and time and give 2020 me a pat on the head for that part.
@@pimscrypt You should give the 2021/current version of you a pat on the back! Just finished it last night, amazing video. I'm looking forward to your next production, whatever it may be.
@@tomjack1000000 Thank you so much, that's very kind!
I, like probably many others, played about an hour of Pathalogic and got completely overwhelmed and confused by it then uninstalled it. After watching this video I honestly feel like giving it another try!
That makes me very glad to read! I highly recommend using various guides and saving a lot. No matter how much you “cheese” through this game, I’d say that it’s worth it.
Great video! Please make more!
Thank you! I most certainly will!
i saw you put a pathologic clip in a fnaf video and u used it correctly in the context and i was like oh they understand pathologic. so i searched ur account and boom pathologic essay! im excited to watch this i love a good pathologic essay!
also epic clara cosplay
That makes me very glad to read! I hope you really enjoy this video, and thanks for the compliment!
@@pimscrypt I just finished the video and i really enjoyed it!! your analysis is very good and I think you truly understand this game :D! the story of the miracle when you found the store with money right at the end of the game was incredible and just such a PATHOLOGIC thing to happen!
Thank you for this video. RagnarRox retweeted this and I am so impressed by your structure, philosophy, manner of speaking and I'm shocked that you have so few subs. Please keep up the good work
Thank you so much! That's very kind of you to write. Hope you enjoy my future stuff just as much!
I knew I was going to like this video when World of Horror came up.
greetings from brazil, nice video mate, but pretty nice
+1sub
Great video. Loved your take on the game. Also cool to see another nonbinary swede into pathologic. Saknar inte heller den arga youtube-eran.
Tack! 💙 Finns ju tyvärr kvar rester av den eran än idag, men är oändligt glad över att det inte är normen längre!
*sneglar mot felix nordh*
Hittade jag precis en till svensk i vilt tillstånd som tycker om Pathologic?! Det här är en ovanlig upptäckt. O_o
Men sjukt intressant video! Snyggt jobbat!
Vi är inte helt enkla att hitta, men vi existerar! Och tack! Jättekul att du hittade hit (och att du gillade videon!).
4 for fucking 4!!!!
On a roll here.
(I only wish that I found your channel sooner, lol)
It really warms my heart that you’re going through all of my older stuff, and that you’re liking the channel! Hope you’re gonna like all future stuff just as much! 😄
I'm a strong believer that ALL video games should have difficulty sliders, or even better a custom difficulty option, if a dev wants to make a challenging gaming experience, thats great, but not everyone if as capable as each other, and an easy mode on a challenging game for some, will be just as hard as standard for most players
On the flip side, and of personal interest to me, is with a difficulty slider you can up the challenge, you can take a game that you love and fully understand and give it the tools to continue competing against you at your (new) level, games become significantly more replayale with a simple difficulty slider, more so with a custom difficulty option
Hell yeah!
This video was great. And I looked at the reviews you put up and most of them did describe the difficulty as enhancing the "theme of the story". Yeah they didn't get the meta purpose of the difficulty which you talked about but I think their criticism is still valid not everyone can pour over a games themes the way you have here and themes don't make a game fun(Heck to them the themes made the game anti-fun). Similar to this I honest to goodness love the Call of Duty Black ops 3 campaign it has layers and themes I love to dig into like I do pathologic but the characters are flat and it's hard to engage with the story on a surface level but it's still my favorite.
Another great video!
I adore the idea of these games, but have absolutely no interest in putting in all the work to get the cool story and world building xD so thanks to you and a few other people i've watched recently I get to enjoy these games anyway.
Thank you!
4:57 I’d be careful calling that a flaw in the design. It may very well be intentional. Waiting out the people setting the trap.
So when you started your story about finding the store that takes money I thought it was going where my version of it went; which was to say murdering a soldier for his rations in cold blood and that SOUNDS really bad but what makes it worse is that I tried to do that again a day later because I was in dire straights only for that second soldier to not have any rations. I killed 2 men for food who were just doing their jobs and the difference in how much easier it was to pull the trigger the second time was unsettlingly great. Nothing makes you feel like/understand the act of being a monster quite like Pathologic.
Thank you for sharing that story! And I totally agree. You also look at the people who’re trying to rob or kill you in a very different light after something like that. They’re not just your gamey enemies, they’re going through the exact same thing you do.
Great video and great hair! 😁
Thank you!
What are you doing step-demon
What is the name of the Cube video game at 7:48?
It’s called Brayan Odley’s Numbers, which I think has been removed from Steam due to copyright related stuff.
@@pimscrypt Thank you so much! That's unfortunate to hear, but unsurprising seeing that little bit of gameplay haha
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Professor Flowers sent me here! I'm a sucker for essays about Pathologic and enjoyed hearing about your experience. Also your accent is cool. Looking forward to your future work!
She is the coolest professor around! I'm really glad you liked the video, and I hope you'll find my future work just as interesting!
Also this is probably the first time someone has ever called my accent cool. That made me smile!
15:11 dude misspells Cormac McCarthy while referencing his most mainstream, least challenging novel ever published as an example of something off putting and challenging while also indirectly exposing that the point of the game he’s reviewing went soaring over his head unnoticed. Why should anyone in their right mind be listening to this man? How did he get this job??? I don’t mean to sound condescending but holy shit, that’s fucking bad
Went through most of the video wondering if you had a heating problem until you pointed out it's a thematical dressup.
I'm not clever.
It does get a bit cold in the apartment at times though, so the warm clothes didn't hurt!
Male!Clara looks nice
This essay sucks. This game is a simulator and story-game, not a constant dark souls boss. The warehouse ambush during the Haruspex route was probably the shittest example you could've given.
It's hilarious that young people perceive their peers as so fragile that discussing anything related to a pandemic is mentally crippling. Every video starts with something like "Most people wouldn't want to talk about a fictional pandemic right now because supposed pandemic has been so rough" (that the biggest problem during it has been a pandemic of obesity due to people sitting all day while stuffing their faces with sugary processed food.) "You are so stunning and brave for living thru that! I'm even more stunning and brave than most tho, so I will be talking about it. I understand if you are too emotionally fragile and mentally weak to watch tho."
I have no idea what planet you're living on but I bet it's pretty lonely up there.
what with the blue hair, is this a joke
What’s with it is that it’s blue.
@@pimscrypt looks weird, dont get why people do that
@@TheGreatCharlie123 You don't have to get it. It's completely fine to have a boring opinion about hair.
@@pimscrypt you sound defensive. i bet you or someone you know has blue hair xD
@@TheGreatCharlie123 Dude I'm the person in the video.