Frostpunk - Opening Cinematics HD

Frostpunk - Opening Cinematics HD.
These are the cinematics at the beginning of the game Frostpunk. New survival game from North Pole where group of people from London struggle to set up new home.
Frostpunk - Opening Cinematics HD.

[@wasdwasd609]

Honestly one of the best intro's I've ever seen. Gets me all teary its so good.

[@adamgarratt3168]

This is the best intro to a game I’ve ever seen, because it does three core things, and it does them masterfully. 1) The setting - “we roam the still, cold world, no horizon in sight.” The post apocalyptic feel of this cutscene is done better than any generic zombie movie or fallout game could ever pull off. The sheer misery, the desolation of it all, is portrayed perfectly, and it clues you in to this games tone. Speaking of which. 2) the tone - “we’ve lost our world to snow, and with it, our last traces of humanity.” That line alone tells you everything you need to know about what kind of game this is. This isn’t an easy world, where you can do whatever you want and not worry about it. There is a price for your survival, and every decision you make, regardless of how merciful or how cruel, is going to carry serious consequences that might just involve someone’s life. In many ways the gameplay encourages you to view people as a resource, and that line there is foreboding of what happens when you go down that path. 3) The emotional stakes - “It was hope that pushed us forward. Slowly. Step by step.” You get such a visceral sense of the suffering this entire journey contained. They travelled for miles in an ungodly wasteland, a frozen hell, for one reason and one reason only - the belief that they can still live. That there’s a chance of survival. That scene of the survivors on the ice cliff surrounded by the billowing snow perfectly shows that struggle against the elements, and it makes you think how anyone can bear to withstand that. That’s why this has got to work. Your citizens have come this far, struggled against so much, and because of that failure is no longer an option. Thus, as the cutscene ends and you descend on the generator, the full weight of responsibility comes pressing down on you. You are the captain, and you have a promise to keep; the promise that this was all worth it.

[@heck6225]

Great comment, sums up the intro and theme perfectly

[@MegakeepWorks]

Sir, I have to use some of your wording in my Frostpunk-esque story. It's too well stated to let it sink in the comment section.

[@nobledonkey17]

Even after all these years this still hits hard and idk why

[@twistedoperator4422]

That's your empathy.

[@saylosrelyks8645]

11 Bit Studios makes great games with had hitting themes and they don't shy away from much.

[@Niikemi]

"You remember our venerable house, opulent and imperial, gazing proudly from its stoic perch above the moor."

[@frashe5533]

The two games about hope and endurance.

[@lowlydovahkiin8084]

I recognize that reference, but it will not distract me from the fact that overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer.

[@flyingsquirrell6953]

*Mother Nature starting the apocalypse but then the indomitable human spirit walks in:*

[@sponandspon92]

The second game rolls in and looks like Father Industrialism is returning to have his vengeance.

[@Jedai_Games]

​@@sponandspon92 or, to kill what's left.

[@jayoenix8763]

Master piece. Music & the art & the game play & the mechanics

[@Gabagool101]

This could seriously be an amazing hbo show

[@edfscout8132]

As cold as the game can be, I'd pay big to watch it.

[@nicholashaas5574]

All of Europe this upcoming winter be like

[@flavivsaetivs5738]

Eventually it was the fucking warmest winter we've ever had

[@CountCalcium]

Ngl the music reminds me of 28 Days laters ‘In a heartbeat’

[@gdobrocsi]

It should. It is the same music.

[@LeSpeederus]

I build a children home, i build a care home for amputees, i gave them back autonomy with prosthetics, i refused to force the londoners to stay, i gave the mother food and the father resources to ge his daughter, i didn't force people to work when it wsn't necessary, i gave them a graveyard and time to mourn their dead in a ceremony, kept hope up and discontent down but NoOoOoOoO! Apparently i went too far because i had guards patroling and some propaganda because little princesses got cranky at every little discomfort while the literal apocalypse was going on.

[@JoshiX-jn5dz]

I know this one year but this legit happened to me, I was the nicest leader ever to them but NOOOOOOO some guy saying we are gonna die made everyone leave…

[@MrAgmoore]

@@JoshiX-jn5dz I was just banished from the city. I'll probably die in the cold.

[@LoboalphaMASTER]

Similar things happened to me, even when everything is going well, people just seem to think that going back to a city turned frozen wasteland is a better idea then staying in the warmth of the steam engine . . . How the fuck do they even expect to reach London when they've got LITERALLY NOTHING, i mean, they used this awesome snow crawler machine to cross this vast distance and get them across much of the way, and with heavy casualties along the way, so how do they expect to survive the journey back?? Its so stupid. I wish there was a way to lie to the public and hide the guy from the other city so that they don't know that they collapsed.

[@myalt3019]

*because you killed all dissenters and made the children work the mines 24/7 and fed everyone sawdust FTFY

[@starsiegeRoks]

​@@LoboalphaMASTER this is a very good insight into why sometimes, shadowy secret police are necessary during times of extreme crisis. If the leader had a stealthy group that could've snatched up that dude at the lip of the crater and made sure he fell in a mineshaft once they found out what he would say. It sounds brutal, but when the survival of the entire city is at stake, sometimes you gotta break a few eggs.

[@Caim6311]

This game is actually hard as hell

[@fugas2.0]

Yes and I love it.... can't wait for Frostpunk 2

[@wyattcrabapple988]

Anyone else get 28 days later vibes

[@LoboalphaMASTER]

Yeah, the song sounds similar from 1:46, but this one is good, the one from 28 days later was sooo much overused that i pretty much can't stand listening to it nowadays, even though its pretty good at setting the mood. Except that in Frostpunk, it seems to have more of a "hopeful struggle" tone to it, rather then an apocalyptic one. I know another derivate of it from a lower sci-fi post-apocalyptic movie which is used as the closing theme of the movie. kzbin.info/www/bejne/rabbXoWeoZtrhNU

[@saylosrelyks8645]

For sure, it's the bleakness being coupled with triumphant hope, a hope that somewhere lies a place where we can create a new future for ourselves.

[@xenopath8069]

That song is a variation of In The House In A Heartbeat

[@Comicsluvr]

My only complaint about this game (and I'm picky so if I only have ONE complaint, the game is GOOD) is that you can't turn your Laws off after a certain time which makes no sense to me. Sure...we'll have the children work in the non-dangerous jobs for A FEW DAYS until we get things built. Oh, look...the Scouts found a bunch of survivors. I guess the kids don't have to work anymore. What do you mean I can't turn them off? The setting, the tone, the feelings of despair and tension are EPIC. When you first see that temp drop warning and realize that you're not ready...PANIC!

[@fugas2.0]

Yeah you're right, hopefully they will address that in game 2

[@pilotbug6100]

it was intentional, the devs stated they wanted decisions to feel permanent, and to drill in your actions have consequences

[@waltir2187]

I just came here for the music

[@jasonkennedy3666]

You mean not to watch on mute? ;)

[@AdamFalconer9]

You can find the song on the official ost. its the bonus track: The Still, Cold World

[@genctubay3239]

@@AdamFalconer9 thank you

[@saveimageas...9352]

@@AdamFalconer9 life saver ,thank you

[@antarcticaresearchprogram8349]

Always gets me hype as fuck!

[@ItzWhisper]

Bro I want an open world game like this with the steampunk style and everything

[@fugas2.0]

oh man tell me about it, that'd be something

[@g3ar75]

I love how all the comments are a week old. Edit: also I don't know about you guys, but the way 2020 is going, we need to start building that generator.

[@fugas2.0]

Not sure why YT started recommending this video now 😂 I just liked the cinematics and soundtrack. We'd need some super generator to burn all viruses away 😁

[@haloharry97]

@@fugas2.0 This got recommended to me after watching Markiplier video on Frostpunk his video come out 1month ago

[@fugas2.0]

@@haloharry97 really? Haha i played it long time ago, think I have few vids on the channel

[@AzureTheAvian]

Except instead of burning coal, I think we’ll need to start making a giant fridge.

[@courtneydaniels5559]

This is iconic!

[@periguzeltekce6734]

A whole banger

[@-Mopo]

Talk about a tone setter DAMN

[@905SONICking]

Michael bay on a trilogy movie based off this.

[@ThePhantomSephiroth]

'' We've lost or world to snow.''

[@djJaXx101]

EPIC!

[@groggywater2006]

How it feels living through winter on the British East Coast

[@himfrog]

like movie! I love this Intro.

[@ThePariahDark]

And the world shall end in White Frost.

[@shadowreaper5413]

Geralt should be proud

[@mclovin2408]

This game is the only game that makes me genuinely care about the NPCs, I can’t bear to watch them die and I always regret when I sign the last law on the purpose category, so I see stopped signing it and I try my best to build the closest thing to a utopia with a reasonable leader, even though the londoners often get me mad and I choose the order route I usually go the religion route.

[@fugas2.0]

Yeah I finished all the maps long time ago, can't wait for Frostpunk 2

[@mclovin2408]

@@fugas2.0 yeah I’m buying that instantly no hesitation

[@MV1-OP81-Mclaren]

Soundtrack?

[@zenify881]

It is either the main theme or it is the city must survive.

[@jacobsivertsson3321]

the still, cold world.

[@g3ar75]

@@jacobsivertsson3321 that one yeah, an amazing piece

[@rainmaker6456]

What do you call this kind of art? Where it’s like moving pictures and people usually narrate over them?

[@seanteggert5505]

"leave our homes and head north" doesn't that strike anyone as foolish or stupid? if you want warmer pastures wouldn't you go south near the equator where its much warmer, unless there something I missed. then again it wouldn't be frostpunk with out frost

[@fugas2.0]

Yeah you are right, it doesn't make sense, but you can't have frostpunk in the Sahara. :D I'm actually playing it again... can't wait for Frostpunk 2 to come out

[@eliasvicard3399]

@@fugas2.0 I think it's because in the lore, the U.K built generators only in north of england.

[@fugas2.0]

@@eliasvicard3399 aah make sense then...

[@eliasvicard3399]

@@fugas2.0 this is what is said on "The last fall DLC" if i remember

[@sirrismendozasunlessrealms5775]

I mean, from the very first time I saw it, I assumed it was because they were expecting the Generator to have a city. They said they found it abandoned. So they headed north expecting a city or something.

[@alperenozkan4027]

1:43

[@Amaroq64]

Why is this opening sequence so taxing on older computers? It's a damned video. How do you make a video run at 1 frame every 10 seconds?

[@Deaglan753]

count all the snow flakes, thats why also is running and booting up the game whislt your watching the cutscene

[@legion8863]

What is the soundtrack called?

[@fugas2.0]

The still cold world

[@fugas2.0]

The still, cold world

[@legion8863]

@@fugas2.0 thanks alot

[@sharpshooter33]

Now not knowing what caused this ice age I deffinatly may be putting my foot in my mouth but why not head to the southern hemisphere or Africa? The last ice age was pretty mild there drier but not too differant than it had been before that ice age. That said if it's a snowball earth then yah don't bother moving your dead either way

[@fugas2.0]

Other people in the comments said that it was due to the fact that generators were built around coal deposits and far away from cities due to chaos that was ensuing and also that the weather in the South was even more wild somehow...

[@adamgarratt3168]

The problem with that idea is that many, many people probably thought the exact same thing. With millions emigrating down south, I’d rather take my chances with the elements then having to fight for resources against other people. As well as that, it’s said in a new home that it was believed that there were numerous generator cities already established in the north, so the people on the convoy were tricked into thinking a life up north would be easy and safe.

[@raphaelledesma9393]

This isn’t an ice age (tho you could probably deduce that from how fast it is) so thinking of normal weather patterns isn’t working here. The frost in the game affected the world the same way. So whether you were in India or Britain, the world was covered in snow and ice. In fact, the southern colonies were hit the hardest since they were unused to snow.

[@frashe5533]

In the north you have wildlife adapted to harsh weather so you have A. More to hunt B. More to eat Of course you also have coal deposits and fewer people to feed so yeah. Thats why they headed north instead of the equator. Even the coldest winters in that era never reached anything below 12°c in the caribean for example. You can imagine the devastation that the great cold caused there.

[@frashe5533]

Worth mentioning that some places doesnt have seasons at all, just permanent "summer".

[@Spike-hh6pr]

Does anyone knows the song name?

[@fugas2.0]

The still, cold world

[@Spike-hh6pr]

@@fugas2.0 That was fast. Thank you!

[@fugas2.0]

@@Spike-hh6pr no worries

[@BoldOrpheus2356]

The opposite of global warming

[@L-Archange]

Technically speaking it’s predicted that after the global warming there’ll be a global freeze(Think day after tomorrow just less dramatic)

[@executor31]

Global warming is just a term describing the extreme fluctuations of temperature. It makes extreme temperatures higher plus or minus. "Because warmer air holds more moisture, rising temperatures mean air masses will transport more water. This moisture can then become snow wherever it gets cold enough"

[@biff64gc]

Which is why we refer to it as climate change now, because global warming was giving people the wrong impression of what is going on. Global warming implies more heat and less snow, when in reality it's creating more extreme weather events such as stronger storms in summer and winter as well.

[@Stovetopcookie]

If you believe that, sure. Next thing you’ll say we actually put a man on the moon.

[@BoldOrpheus2356]

@@Stovetopcookie reading that immediately made me laugh

[@TheStapleGunKid]

And the sad thing is, even in this world, people would still be denying climate change is real.

[@fugas2.0]

Damn right

[@Deaglan753]

We dont exactly know what is cauing the cold, all we know is an eruption from a volcano happend which managed to blud out the sun causing the intense cold

[@sanddry738]

@@Deaglan753 in a report at some abandoned science facility in the main story scenario it mentions the “Sun is fading”. Which could either imply some issue with rays reaching the earth or the actual star dying. And if it’s the latter then it’s a quite dark future since that’s the guaranteed death of the world

[@Deaglan753]

@@sanddry738 neither of which imply climate change, but rather change in the sun itself But i have a feeling when frostpunk 2 arrives we might get more info

[@TheNapster153]

​@@sanddry738 In the main story as well, I believe it was implied Earth suffered a comet or meteor strike on top of Volcanic eruption. The former is seen in Camp Meteor and the other scientist camp I can't remember.

[@jasonkennedy3666]

Fantastic up until 1:06, when the drums come in and ruin it with 4/4. Do love that first ~66 seconds though... could listen over and over.

[@obeidcurrent4181]

I disagree it's perfect as it is

[@jasonkennedy3666]

@@obeidcurrent4181 You disagreeing, and it being "perfect", are two different things. When it changes to 4/4 it sounds like every other lame song ever recorded.

[@danielschons7691]

@@jasonkennedy3666 that is your opinion

[@jasonkennedy3666]

@@danielschons7691 I'm not trying to be a jerk here but it's an objective fact. Study some music theory and come back. 4/4 is the most prevalent time signature in history. 95% of songs are in 4/4. The first 1:06 of this track is not in 4/4. Sounds fantastic. Then it switches to 4/4. Puke. EDIT: obviously this does involve my opinion. You are right. I'm simply trying to explain.

[@pascalchevalier2261]

@@jasonkennedy3666 i've studied music. Its 4/4. Or at least it always fall back to it. Im curious what time signature you are getting? And the 4/4 drums is perfect IMO. For every struggle humanity had endure, its a steady beat that make us keep on. One of my drum teacher even said that its the most humane and personnally, the bassdrum fits with the slow repeated steps they walk in the snow to make their way to the generator. At 1:46, the steady beat with the rising melody makes me feel like even if we try to keep going on, something above our comprehesion is about to challenge our survival/belief.

[@idontmindpineappleonapizza9591]

What a game