this games (Overture and Black Plague) did something with me, very few games/books/movies manage to do. they injected a special form of awe and wonder into my intellectual veins. and the music man. the sounddesign overall is phenomenal, but the music has magic to it as well. after i finished it, i didnt want it to end, so i consumed everything on the internet about it and your essay is one of the best by far. very well done mate. funny, i never could get warm with the amnesia series but played Some one day out of boredom, and it also blew me fucking away with its rich and complex philosophical questions, it invoked in me. Soma is highly philosophical, while it never tries to be. one can say, it is the extreme opposite of Nier Automata, which screams in you face every 4 minutes, how it thinks how philosophical it is, yet never really is. I think that frictional games has some of the most brillant storytelling and atmosphere geniuses in the industry, cant wait for their next game to play it. by the way, i gave amnesia another try and finally managed to love it, i dont know why i needed so long to accept it. haha. but soma opened the door and penubra tugged me in and beat the shit out of me XD

That firelink shrine theme is serene behind your voice

Hoping you are well.

Wish more Indie games stuck to the slow simmer of environmental horror instead of making scripted jump scares their main source of unease. Feels like even modern Frictional games started making games with drawn out game over animations to give the streamers something to react to

This is one of my “I did not know how much I needed this” moments in life, which don’t happen all that often. Simply put, this is outer wilds + Carl Sagan as narrated by this gem!

Ngl, I had a crush on the outsider when I was little 🙂‍↕️

What’s the music in the middle of this video ?

been 7 years and yet I gotta admit the lore is Amazing would like to hear more about Dishonored 2

I still come back to watch this all these years later Its the perfect series to unwind and drift off to. Love these would love to see a come back someday

AWESOME MUSIC DUDE. WISH I COULD HEAR YOU OVER IT.

Simon then wakes up, drinks a shot of whisky, and forgets all about this stupid nightmare he had. I like your voice, but damn is SOMA ass.

Specie does not matter. This identity should be ACTUALLY intelligent before it CLAMS to be Grudges are bad therefor it is by BAD PEOPLE, not by specie. Bieng human have NOTHING to do with it.

While watching this video there is popping up a question in my mind. Simon is not human. He doesen't need any nutriment except from electricity power. Couldn't he swim to the surface (I mean, he's a diving suit...) and maybe others like him that the WAU will create and then they could repopulate the earth? It's not as paradisiac looking like in the ark... but it is more real (?).

I like the serious and calm tone of the video.

Dude, i know its been a long while since you've uploaded and may have stepped away from the platform for any of a number of reasons. Just wanted to reach out as a random soul who you'll never meet that i see you as the rawest talent I've ever come across on the platform. Your work on Soma is something I come back to at least once. A year. Thank you so much for your incredible work and for leaving the vids up. You're one of the best, and i truly do wish you the most wonderful, fulfilling life. Tell your stories. They deserve to be told, in whatever medium you choose

The real horror is the fact that SSDs aboard the satellite (or whatever they use for storage 100 years in the future) will slowly degrade, corrupting the data, leaving less and less storage space for digital paradise and its inhabitants. At some point they'll have to erase each other to make space for the simulation. And eventually it will go dark...

*this is the first game ever that made me think deeply about my own level of awareness and consciousness. certain parts were Soooo confusing but when u finally figure it out, you're like WOW HOW DID I FIGURE THAT OUT??? it makes you question what human awareness ACTUALLY IS* 👌

I always rewatch this series every few months. The Bioshock series as well. It’s just great commentary

Spoiler: Simon is dumb af

14:30 so to me this proves that the outsider dosnt only favour high chaos, Daud loses the interest of the outsider when he settled into the life of been a heartless killer, it’s only when Daud starts to feel guilty over his actions when Daud has a choice to make that the outsider becomes interested again, yes he never took the mark away but after Daud played his part and cut off his morals that’s when the outsider got board. He dosnt favour one way or the other it’s the choice that interests him, seeing what you do now and pointing out the other path you could have taken.

What part of the game is the clip at 0:41 from

Thank you for this amazing series. SOMA is truly the best game I have ever played, a true piece of art.

I still hope to hear news about Dishonored 3.

love these vids. still coming back to em

please for the love of god return to this channel your analysis's have me on the edge of my seat.

I would think chaos is our world and that of dishonored. We live in a universe of a tiny conflux of billions of years where all the matter comes together to create some more than themselves in an near infinite ways. Compared to full entropy but stability, order, homogeneity and serenity of the endless timeless void, where nothing can be created as there is not enough energy. You see it in the attitude of the Outsider and how the void looks to us. Entropy on the cosmoligical scale is difficult and contradictory. It in itself is chaotic in nature in the normal sense we use daily, so you're correct. Like water in gas form, compared to the solid and stable like iron. It can mix and churn with other gasses easily, which is conflux. Full entropy however is static. Nothing has enough energy or is close enough to mix and churn to begin with. The void probably knows everything that's going to happen and is more deterministic than we like to think, but not wholly so either or it wouldn't bother. The void reflects an eternalist view of time and all possible timelines and outcomes, if the universe is not completely deterministic. But the details of how and why is lost on the Outsider and the void. He wants to see the small ripples in the ocean when he throws a rock in it, to see if it turn into a tsunami or hurricane. The overall current of the ocean he knows and what it leads to. Right until the end of the universe where there is nothing where time can be relative to. No doubt a very boring thing to experience. I would say eternity but that ceases to have all meaning. Until perhaps the next conflux comes into being to be relative to.

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The hope of the species? Not really. They may be fully conscience, but to me - putting all philosophical pretenses aside - the brain scans on the ARK aren’t human or alive, they’re just ones and zeroes arranged to perfectly simulate the memories and emotions of people long dead. The ARK is a pipe dream full of ghosts; lies living a lie.

I’ve been keeping this video saved on a playlist until I got to play this game, I finally did it recently. Quite a beautiful experience, wasn’t it? And you commentary, like always, really encapsulated the feelings of it. I miss you man, however you are, if you ever decide to make more videos again or not, I just hope you’re okay.

I like to imagine how my 2 Simons are travelling the ocean together making jokes and enjoying life.

God, I despise the Abbey. Freaking Zealots and Overseers are irritating to fight.

There is a hint of Buddhism in the concept that The reward of a soul at peace is to cease existence

I found you by searching for Dishonored lore, but I also played Outer Wilds and so I clicked this. Most youtubers are great at non-stop talking while saying nothing at all. You, on the other hand, don't waste words and you dare to take pauses to let the viewer think for a bit. This video nearly brought a tear to my eye. It seems you have stopped producing content, but you have a subscriber nonetheless. I hope life is going well for you and that you are living it fully, as just as you said in the video, it doesn't last forever. Ever onward.

What happened to this guy? Why did he stop making videos? They are so good

Yeah, I really didn't get on with this game at all. Great video. Wish you still produced them!

13:55 Is THAT the Deja Vu?

Awesome video!

You videos are so good! Your channel really needs a boost, as there are so many games channels out there and very view of such high quality.

This video series is an absolute masterpiece. I played this game for the first time in 2023. It freaked me out so much that I put it down half way through. I then discovered this video and the explanation of the lore just won me over. I continued playing, then also watched this series to the end. This playlist really should get millions of views for how well it is done! Even people who have never or will never play this game would appreciate this, I think. Well done, @Gameological Dig!

What's the song used in the intro?

the biggest issue with the Flesher eating the Curie crew is that its digestive system doesn’t seem to be available anymore since the whole entire head has been mutated and replaced with that structure gel blob. where would its mouth be?

Bro, your videos are quite amazing. You have a documentary movie style that is very professional and you have a voice for radio. Great knowledge of the material and great presentation. I wish you lots of subs and prosperity. GG!

I keep coming back to these videos time and time again. Gameological Dig, hope you are doing well and flourishing. I wish you came back and continued your craft. The effort and thought you put into each and every sentence will always be appreciated. A true weaver/sorcerer of words.

TY so much for making these Bioshock lore videos. It is one of my fav best written stories in video game format. I didnt play the games, i just watched the game movies, but i also watched many analisys videos and commentaries like these here. I dont always have time to play games so many times i just watch the ones that have good stories. I became a fan of the Bioshock universe (multiverse) instantly. :) You have a great podcasting voice and so i will probably watch most of your videos. Great job!

I really enjoyed your video and it has inspired me to finally play outer wilds. I hope for more videos in the future on this channel. Thank you.

Dishonored and Bloodborne are the only neo-gothic stories that understand how imaginative new weird fiction can be when used right. Dark fantasy, cosmic horror and the weird have a lot of fluid overlap.

I wish there was an omnitool terminal at the Infirmary so Sarah could have also had one last chat with Catherine.

The ARK is not a guarantee for humanity's survival, humanity is already gone and dead and the ARK, a billion and one things could happen to it in space such as random space debris and dust and just electromagnetic stuff messing it up, either way the ending for Soma is at best a bittersweet one

still hoping u come back someday