Taking notes, creating maps and drawing diagrammes has always been a part of good puzzle games. I have hundreds of pages of notes and puzzle diagrammes that I have drawn over years of puzzle solving. I love this form of puzzle solving.

so you agree the mechanics of the game are those of a detective game but the game can't qualify as one because there isn't an in-universe avatar to serve as the detective? because the game is episodic and not a three-act structure? that's the *definition* of policing the genre, dude. the game steps one foot outside the conventions you're familiar with and you argue that has to make it something else. its not even the conventions of the genre as a whole; both auguste dupin (widely considered the original fictional detective, before they even called them 'detectives') and sherlock holmes short stories were or began as largely disconnected episodes. saying you 'know (detective fiction) when you see it' doesn't actually change anything so much as indicate you don't know as much about the genre as you think you do' and thus don't really know enough to be making claims as to what does or doesn't qualify.

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found you on the library discord, great video

Nice vid, thanks for making and sharing

the finals is the best fps

Great work! Euro Truck Streets are saying you're the fastest video essayist in the West. Cackled at the "Murica 3 hour commute" (I have a 1.5 hour commute so there may have also have been the tiniest of tears behind that laugh)

Oddly enough, this is my introduction to your channel. I'm excited to see more videos from you in the future, really enjoyed your presentation style! Glad I checked this out while looking through the jam videos!

This feels like the first chapter of a fantastic video essay, and I hope it comes together someday

legend has it that Microsoft Flight Simulator is still loading

make more videos.

Most of my hours listening Low Roar were in Euro Truck's roads. I can't describe how well 0 and East Europe fit together

I forgot about this channel even though it's excellent.

Yup, britian isnt real, can confirm

Hell yeah! So impressed how quickly you put this together. And those last 30 seconds GOT ME.

TAKA TAKA MENTIONED WHAT EVEN IS A RECOMMENDED DAILY CALORIC INTAKE!! Great video done quick, nice one!

horrible take

I am actually proud of myself for getting out and doing a lot of Stopping and Staring. In the section where you pass a bunch of gargantuan wind turbines, I got out for a minute just for vibes, I got out and played with a bouncy ball against the wall of the Oko for a while in the snow sections, and in the Blue Isles I checked out the houses and infrastructure to discern why people left (which, if you’ve played, you know that you learn right afterwards)

What's the source for the GDC footage at 12:33 in the video? I don't seem to be getting much from looking up "GDC Inscryption" or "GDC Daniel Mullins". Thanks. Edit: Good video!

The strongest and weirdest similarity between "The Case of the Golden Idol" and "Return of the Obra Dinn" is that they are both games where people misremember the title as containing the word "curse". These games cause the mandela effect.

Maybe one of the most underrated channels on KZbin ❤🎉

absolutely agree with the analogy with unpacking, it's illuminating

You criticise the lack of specificity in others' appreciation, and then you end by stating Idol "pushes the video game a little further" - how? in which direction? why is this important? You also skate over the function and implications of an in-universe character.

I finished The Witness many times, played exactly 57 hours, and completed the challenge many times. I liked the game. But if someone asked me about my opinion of the game, I would say the game is bad because I am aware that it is bad, but it suits me. I liked the challenges in the game, but not its style. The way the game increases its difficulty is a bad way. Imagine that you are playing an RPG game. How do you increase its difficulty? I will speak as an example. For example, if I greatly increase the enemy’s health, he did not get a new move or increase his damage. All the developer did was increase the amount of time and the effort that's nedded to be Done with out adding anything new to the enemy, it does not worth the time and the effort spend. That's my ((opinion)) about the game.

The only thing I understood from your video is that you are an impatient person playing a game of patience xD

I'm playing it for years now. Must be to do with high IQ.

This only confirmed my belief that people only love this game because unga bunga big number go up. Im going to get flak for this, but its by far the most boring card game ive ever played. There isnt much going on in the gameplay to keep me interested. It doesnt offer much to diversify the gameplay beyond the first few minutes.

More games should be made from Moebius Comics! I know this one is just inspired by his art style but the worlds Jean Girard created are very much fleshed out and could easily become wonderful open world games as well. ❤

There isn't necessarily an OVERARCHING mystery, but the game does provide mysteries with each scenario: the mystery of how the guy on the bed died, or the mystery of why and how the hell a dude spontaneously combusted. And so I would disagree that it's "not a detective game", since you are deducing what happened based on information provided and using that information to complete future scenarios that are connected

With all due respect, this is a bit contrived. I've never in the 25+ years I've been playing, reading and watching detective stuff seen someone have this very specific (and pedantic, sorry) personal definition of what constitutes "detective". This video is essentially the "discourse around games" you mentioned in the beginning in the most "arguing semantics" way possible.

Pseudointellctual drivel.

Psst: Rise of the Golden Idol might be a detective game, based your suggestions in this video.

Amazing how you can articulate this up in words and actually making sense. W video. If a game is "too balanced" it becomes stale like League. If a music artist keeps releasing same type of songs over and over it becomes boring, yeah sure Dota has some hit or miss patches but it's the variation that make it age so darn well where league still feel the same. In early 10s or mid 10s people are saying oh Dota is dying and League is the evolution. We nearing the mid 20s now and I gotta say League feels like the dated game, graphic.. game play.. UI.. still needing to purchase heroes etc. League is that kid who peaked in high school. However what League done "better" is that they took a page outta those social media influencers, you just shrill yourself non-stop. Non-stop marketing promos and ads and collabs etc, it's like 95% of their effort is outside the gameplay now. While Dota is darn near doing the opposite, almost no marketing presence but most of the work are in the patches. And somehow League's way is working is exactly what's wrong with us. Really like how you put it with Death Ward is balanced, that's what makes Dota so much better. It's literally the chess approach to league's checkers approach (oh imma build more MR). Outside of just heroes' cc which is a huge part of counter-picking, you can even itemized against match-ups. League moves = pickbans, not so much on itemization. Dota on the other hand you're constantly on the chess game, yeah my last pick pos1 is so good but at the same time their 5 still has ways to compete with the timer. Ghost scept? Glimmer? FS? Damn, I yap a lot.

Sequel time

Video Games Are Bad but yknow what's not? YOUR VIDEOS. Gib us moar

In no part of the game do you need or are you engouraged to use tools or notes. That actually takes away from the game. You complain about the screen and water moving slowly, yet they need to move slowly for you to be able to solve the puzzles. This leads me to believe that you didn't actually solve the puzzles, but looked up the answers 😂. Hope you become better

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I feel like _Lockdown Protocol_ is kind of close...if the Dissident was not killing the crewmates, but instead was stealing shit? Youre doing tasks, but the guy doing the "heist" would have to blend in with others.

say "seen people talk" again, mfer, I dare you, I double-dare you ;)

I had just finished "The Sojourn" and enjoyed it, so I decided to give "The Witness" a try, and it is a slog. I've played for 11 hours, and I'm just exhausted with the line puzzles. The puzzles themselves annoy me. Like all the puzzles that involve getting the absolutely perfect viewing angle, the puzzles that involve memorization etc... My mistake was that I assumed the good reviews of the game were indicative of a game with wide appeal. I like puzzles, but I'm not the type of puzzle lovers who enjoys figuring out the rules of a puzzle.

commenting almost two years after posting but i immediately compared case of the golden idol to the game storyteller (which was released a couple months after this video). golden idol is more complex, but i think they have a narrative style

Maybe the one that is not smart enough is you. The game is great.

Only 4 environmental puzzles? As far as you got into the game you should have found dozens. The slow sections are there to get you to look around and spot them, they are everywhere.

4:36 yeah it’s old and unwieldy, but it’s a great nonetheless. Also you don’t need to keep the engine on constantly, the sail is its own way to move.

Its not a good game. And i have the receipts to prove it I have dragged 3 people through it and the common consensus is, the game is profoundly arrogant, inaccessible and is tailored to people who would call themselves "smarter than you" because they won a game of who can headbutt a wall the longest.

The hearing section was so hard for me, I did the first ones with the birds, but then when the cellphones and other animals appeared I wasn't able to hear the bird anymore, not even using earphones or turning up the volume, I had to look up a walkthrough

Honestly true imo. I was looking for games on the "metroidbrainia" sub (shitty name btw) and was looking for an experience that could only really be had once, in the same vein as Outer Wilds, Obra Dinn, Inscryption, etc. Everyone was recommending the Witness, like always top 3 or 4 recommendations. Heard the game had to be experienced totally blind and that it was "a Myst clone" and I thought "y'know, I like Myst, this seems like a good idea". Then I got into the game, eventually realized it was all just line/grid puzzles, and by the time I was done with the Sun Temple, I realized I just wasn't having fun, and the core gameplay wasn't gonna change. And like, I can't believe this is what so many people consider peak. The puzzles aren't interesting, there's no plot. Everyone's like "GO IN BLIND GO IN BLIND", and I did, because I already made that mistake with Outer Wilds and got copped out of what is supposedly a life-changing gaming experience, but what was I even gonna get spoiled on, fucking line and grid puzzles? I get that the game just isn't for me. I want there to be a bit more substance to the games I play. But I just can't believe that this game is as highly acclaimed as it is. At least the parody game, the Looker, has a sense of humor.

this video just answered more than just the "why did sable feel like such an important game" question I had. this was amazing.

Fantastic video