I remember playing odst when i was a kid,but never finished it till recently when i got older and lord it was an experience and after playing reach when i only played the demo when i was a kid it was something.

Stealth archer is alot of fun 🤷‍♂️

it runs fine on steam for me no mods or anything

the game looks great i think, it doesnt need any mods really, i have a bit of a pet peeve when people say "omg that game is 2 years old? it still looks great" yeah no shit it looks good its only 2 fucking years old!!! now im not saying thats what thane was saying its just a get a little peeved when people complain about graphics in games that still look amazing to me and i dont even have rose tented glasses i played this game for the first time 4 years ago semi after just beating subnautica for the first time and a year before beating bioshock for the first time and all of those games look amazing for different reasons and i think some games are meant to look "worse" it gives them character after all thats why people still make pixel art games isnt it? just my unasked for opinion :)

Ayyy you like post rock?! Listen to a gallant gentleman be we lost the sea. What an incredible song

Honestly, you probably had the equipment and stats to handle Godrick on the first day. You might already be aware, but the NPC summons will drastically increase the boss health, and they usually won't do enough damage themselves to compensate.

I’ve never done a stealth archer build, am I cooked?

Me : I'm going to be a necromage this time! Me an hour later : **putting points into the perk for 3x sneak damage for archery**

Wait wait wait... Hadvar? You went with the Empire? The Empire that was trying to behead you?

The corvo I played first playthrough would have stopped at nothing to get emily back. Random guards, friends, enemies, everyone was expendable for his daughter. That's how I saw him in the first playthrough. If you saw him, or was in his way, you were rat food.

acTuALy, the game is named after Hades the place, not Hades the god

The first char I've played on Skyrim was a stealth archer. I've tryed to make different ones time and time again, but I always go back to the sneaky bowman again... 😢

6:10 I think the game is confused as to which Hold you're in

There's also just the basic risk/reward of being a heavy-armor melee attacker vs stealth archer. Melee costs health and stamina and requires a lot of care with positioning and application of Shouts to level the playing field vs 6 bandits and their Chief. But a stealth archer can stay hidden, shoot when they choose, and can reasonably expect to expend no resources beyond arrows. Melee is more interesting and dynamic that you presented it (you forgot about shield bashing) and it's certainly viable in the long run with damage reduction and enchantments making you nigh invulnerable to most magic attacks. Even the stealth archer needs energy resistances when fighting a dragon 1v1. But to get to the point of viability, you have to endure getting one-shot by power attacks, chug all your potions, and employ all the tricks available to you (shouts, cover, and local traps especially) to control how many you fight at once. Stealth Archer just picks them apart one at a time.

I replayed this game before I read the Commando books for the first time and it made those stories feel so much better. I so wish we got a continuation of one or both

Why after 13 years from Skyrim rease people still think that magic in skyrim is weak and useless comparing with other playstiles? Looks like some kind of illusionist made them think that way to have fewer competitors

The real elden ring was the friends we made kng the way 🥲

Man I love: "BADADA DUUUM", there isnt anything quite like: "BADADA DUUUM", wish I had more: "BADADA DUUUM". Great video, great assessment of the game, your sense of humour really clicked with me.

Worth noting: Because arrows have no carry weight and can be sold, they are effectively also money. So it's a good idea to pick up every arrow you find even if you're not going to use them. This also applies to all types of ammunition in the Fallout games, which is worth keeping in mind because at some point you're probably going to have more .38 rounds than you have caps. Same thing goes for pre-war money, which I find hilarious, because they have a base value of ten caps (eight in FO4) and can be used to directly purchase other items via bartering. Meaning that even in the apocalyptic wasteland centuries after the fall of the United States, the US dollar is _still_ a more valuable currency than caps.

when odst came out i was younger and didnt really like it. "when do i get to see the chiefffff" as i got older i was bored and was looking for a game to play so i loaded odst to find a COMPLETELY different experience. 17:22 - did any one else catch the subtitles there where virgil makes an announcement about lost items? that subtle shit is my favorite

One of the few things I truly adore the Infinity is that there is supposedly an Engineer, Grunt and Dumb AI doing onboard maintenance and keeping it running. Two freed slaves helping take the fight to their old masters.

Ah, yes, Sunless sea. one of the most underrated games ever created. "Is there a sea more sunless?"

Installing the Wildcat Combat, Ordinator, and Sands of Time mods fixed this problem handily for me.

May KOTOR 3 and Imperial Commando forever live in our hearts

It's possible to make end game builds that work and are fun(without bows), but you usually have to cheese it in the early game somehow. I've made dual swords and armored mage build before and late game they are fun to play, but early on not so much. Dual swords in particular gets kinda OP Late game with the use of that shout that increases attack speed.

to me the illusion assassin is waaay more fun than the stealth archer. Illusion in general is tons of fun.

8:52 this makes me wonder though, with Skyrim limited to first person where the area of affect from your melee attacks is difficult to judge and the weapon swings will always be forward relative to where you are facing, is third person just the best option for melee going forward in the series? What melee first person games are able to have more depth?

I always went mage, I like magic. Never really used bows.

I feel like close combat requires the wider field of view of third-person, and while you certainly can play Skyrim in third-person it feels more immersive in first person. As a general rule ranged combat will always feel better in first person.

Halo Reach was my very first Halo game, moving onto Halo 3 a few years after I got Halo Reach. My first experience of Reach was the demo on the Xbox 360, going along that beach, the demo ending in the after the fight at Anchor Nine if I remember right Also, don't really agree with the comment saying Emile said his last words to Six, or directed them at him. Emile was definitely saying "Go fuck yourself" to that Zealot

I was so emotionally invested in this game! The end traumatised my child brain. I loved the first assassins creed, because the hidden blade was simular to my commandos meele attac. One of the best games ever made!

I was a gamer as a child, but during german high school and start of university I didn't play any games. Then in 2016 I got hyped by No Man's Sky and thought to myself to fill the gap with this skyrim thing everybody was talking about. It was one of my first rpgs and I was immediately seduced by the conjuration stealth bow playstyle. All inventory free for loot. And I loved the dark star soul gem thing. Skyrim gets a lot of hate for its casual mechanics, but it will always have a special place in my heart. I did never finish the main story until my third playthrough. It was just encountering weird quests, exploring and shooting arrows at potential friends and enemies alike.

Why stealth Archers think everyone is playing stealth archers? Just why? You are playing stealth archer, I'm playing with an axe....

League is so fucking boring tho.....

Dual weilding plasma pistols, end of😜

In Dark souls, bows are the worst weapon you could choose. In Skyrim, a bow makes you a God

What about Rogue One? The intro/thesis felt disingenuous and incomplete. C+ because I'm an easy grader.

Goated video

Just as a friendly headsup, shortbows in ds3, and elden ring, feel great to use, just in the lock on way

Some cool details I thought would be cool to mention is when you get all the audio logs you can continue to follow that nmpd officer to Sadie’s dad who was killed by the freeze Kinsler put on him, and that it changes your encounter with VIRGIL to where you’re the one telling Dare to stand down and even calling him out in a unique way. Also just the fact that ODST in spite of the hope it does offer at one point will attempt to fill you with so much grief at what would initially seem to he fruitless efforts when at the last mission you witness the Covenant bringing some of their biggest ships and just glassing cities paraphrasing Buck "it’s just like Reach all over again". If you know what happened to Reach then you realize the heartbreaking implications from that, and the fact it’s basically the last human stronghold. It’s powerful stuff, and some people gloss over this stuff and then just call ODST a bad game with a mediocre story because they weren’t willing to witness it.

Theres a time and a place for the unstoppable green tank but without your humble ODST Rookie you can lose the context of your big green hero. Then when you look into the background of ODSTs and realise theyre canonically the most elite human special forces, the SAS or Navy Seals of their time, then you realise how ferocious the Covenant must be to the average civilian.

Archery is the only thing that feels good in Skyrim. You actually need to aim and count travel plus drop. Melee just feels.. bad. No impact. Spells are shooting different colored beams and balls.

I think I never was a stealth archer during any playthrough. I always end up with an elven mace and a shield 😄

Damn Xenophile propaganda! Haha but seriously great video mate, i stumbled across your channel when your video about night city popped up on my feed and I'm glad it did because this channel is a real hidden gem. We greet you as equals fellow star traveller o7

Very good Halo is a good guy never afraid of any alien invaders

3:25 Puma easter egg (written on the wheels)

Crazy how bows were ass in oblivion but were so good in Skyrim. Hopefully in the next game the magic is actually really good......

This incredible thesis, and the way you delivered it is absolutely captivating. Looking forward to more!

I remember it well even 20 years later, was a good part of my childhood.

The playthrough that I put the most hours in back then, was a sword and shield "build" Other than dragons, I didn't really use distribution for much :)