Scorn is a Disgusting Nightmare Game

In the game Scorn you play as Scornful James, a man who is gross at all times and spends most of his time aimlessly wandering a hell dimension in search of a shower so he can bathe for the first time in centuries. Sadly, he just keeps getting his intestines ripped out instead.
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[@professorgrouch]

Clearly this game was intended to be a spiritual sequel to Bionicle. It went to the one place the kits never went: ooze accessories.

[@tomkrawec]

Oozcessories.

[@crapparc]

Ooze accessories? Sounds more like it's a TMNT game.

[@professorgrouch]

@@crapparc I always recall that one commercial where the Shredder toy is knocked into the ooze and they child says: “You LOSE in the OOZE, Shredder!” …I still can’t find that video online…

[@amadeusagripino6862]

This game is the DOLMEN of the Bionicle games

[@TheMC1102]

There are three things that are certain in life: death, taxes and Oboe assuming that some random detail in a video game is a Bionicle reference.

[@Mediados]

I mean, Scorn is basically Bionicle with human flesh.

[@mighty_zero]

It all comes together

[@CarryOnGames1996]

Trust me, if you’re a Bionicle fan like me and many other people, you will also go out of your way to connect anything and everything to Bionicle.

[@TheMC1102]

@@CarryOnGames1996 I was more of a Hero Factory fan back in the day.

[@LOL-zu1zr]

It’s not random they are bionicles 😡😡😡🤬🤬🤬

[@TrinSpin]

Holy shit that censor image is more horrifying than anything in Scorn

[@ToonamiT0M]

We're lucky. He could have used an image of pregnant Sonic.

[@AleK0451]

@@ToonamiT0M i see blue pregnant thing i see pregnant sonic by proxy

[@Ozzymandius1]

“Cracker Barrel is a food restaurant.” Woah, calm down there. You’re getting ahead of yourself with that statement.

[@alexalexander1772]

Can you dumb that down for the rest of us?

[@JodocusPocus]

​@@alexalexander1772 As someone who hasn't ever heard of Cracker Barrel before, I assume they refer to the quality of the restaurant beeing so poorly, that the term 'food' is debatable.

[@Baracouto]

Imo cracker barrel is awesome, it's a old country vibes restraunt and I haven't had a bad meal from the couple I have been too although like any food place locations vary. I believe the joke is that most crackerbarrels have large stores connected as entrance with all kinds of junk and goodies so some people might actually go there to shop and not eat but that's just my guess

[@ProGamer-lk9qw]

​@@JodocusPocusNahhhh that should be the opposite, cracker barrel smackksss

[@TanThighsYum]

True, Cracker Barrel is Overpriced and the Portions are extremely small. I remember last time I went there I ordered coffee and they charged for every refill lmao.

[@JameaJimea1175]

This game looks like what going to Walmart on 30 Benadryl feels like.

[@theaetherknight5614]

This game looks like me when i overdose on tap water.

[@OkraPlutonium]

That many Benadryl temporarily stops your ability to perceive the passage of time.

[@Gameprojordan]

This game looks like being high on magic mushrooms and trying to play Runescape

[@rexrip1080]

Listen, it was made in Serbia, I am from there and can confirm that that is exactly how living in Serbia feels like with one huge difference. Our president is actually a necromancer, he resurrects dead people to commit voter fraud. Outside of that one fact, it is pretty much spot on!

[@user-nl4ir7cx5r]

Benadryl is kinda nice once you befriend your unconscious mind. It’s also a substitute for antipsychotic drugs in a pinch. Reverses psychosis in those already experiencing it I think.

[@H3rry118]

Brad's wife would've LOVED this game

[@jfs1291]

WOW THAT'S A REFERENCE I NEVER THOUGHT I'D SEE AGAIN. Justice for Brad's wife!

[@seanjenkins5505]

No

[@brya9681]

Old millennial spotted

[@yuranft9740]

What? Whats that??

[@esssss8415]

JUSTICE FOR BRADS WIFE

[@ninjeverett1797]

The David Bowie reference was so uncalled for and funny

[@chemergency]

"HERE LIES SCORNGUY... HE NEVER SCORNED!!!"

[@hazukichanx408]

Scornguy, scorned even by scorn itself. -Scorn

[@Pattamatt1998]

How much scorn could the scornguy scorn if the scornguy could scorn Scorn?

[@tdpuuhailee8222]

@@Pattamatt1998 Yes

[@JcDent]

So, to spoil the game (as much as that's possible), the guy that gets immersed in the flesh and the guy that takes the umbilical cord out are two different guys! The first guy somehow becomes a parasite and latches onto #2 guy, providing inventory system but also slowly killing him. They get separated by the torture wheel, but the #1 guy ambushes you in the end cutscene and then you meld into a flesh tower for some reason. I didn't know that I was playing two guys until after I finished the game and read about it somewhere. That revelation did not make the disappointing "plot" anymore interesting.

[@kaitheguy2006]

Oboe can make the most boring games insanely entertaining.

[@Ubermensch201]

It's his gift 😂😂

[@dubblejumpchump]

Scorn wasn't boring, maybe watching it is though

[@You-Know-Youre-Right]

walking simulator

[@sneedclavehere8918]

It's such a shame we never got the original vision of the game where it was a shooter where you could turn into a cyborg and fight through a civil war between the not-Krang and other Scornguys

[@lonewanderer882]

@@dubblejumpchump you forgot to say "man i'ts my favourite game ever, like Amy you know"

[@AgentHeroic]

Its a shame Scorn was so mid, it has fantastic atmosphere, sound design, and art direction. Unfortunately, the puzzles aren't super engaging and the shooting is clumsy, so those two parts cut into the exploration of the world

[@Number1sineaterfan]

It's definitely more of an art piece than anyting, which it's pretty good at. definitely a very unique game.

[@phutureproof]

@@Number1sineaterfan nah its a big grift, art direction is giger, gameplay is boring, not much else to say other than they took someone else's creativity and made a boring game from it

[@Number1sineaterfan]

@@phutureproof having a Giger art direction for a game is pretty cool, we definitely need more like it.

[@lancelotto475]

​@@Number1sineaterfanThe game's art style owes a lot to Polish surrealist Zdzisław Beksiński as well.

[@negative6442]

​@@phutureproofmidwit

[@michaelmacvittie6977]

This game looks like 90% of the budget went into the set dressing.

[@JodocusPocus]

I didn't know how important it would be to me to have some semi-relevant AA game analyzed from a primarily Bionicle based kind of view...

[@Hyperion-5744]

Scorn is definitely in need of a DLC.

[@GhostlyWhiteGuy]

This entire video was either flesh, viscera, or pregnant Liara. I don’t know which part is worse.

[@majorearl12]

The Cracker Barrel references throughout this just made it better, especially from someone who worked in the gift shop area, it is indeed filled with junk, but nowadays it has Pokemon cards/toys and as an expectant father of twins, my wife likes some of the cutsie stuff there. Also, that was an inside look at Cracker Barrel, just missing waiters yelling at each other for not doing stuff right and managers hiding in their office.

[@artival22]

Sb should have told Oboe that this game is supposed to not be played as a shooter

[@0NoName9]

Scorn is a first person survival horror. I have no idea why so many saw it and thought it would be like Doom.

[@doubleaabattery7562]

​@@0NoName9 the evil residents in question

[@iAmPimmiCue]

@@0NoName9 I mean when the trailers dropped it was shown like it was one

[@imalsoTOMATO]

the game definitely went through a bit of development hell it seems, i remember seeing it back when steam greenlight still existed and i think if microsoft didn't acquire the studio the game most likely would have never come out

[@sensensen9673]

Oboe's take on Bowie is on par with his Dead Space "Don't Fear the Reaper" Blue Oyster Cult cover. He's gotta do more 20th-century classic rock covers, they've got a 100% banger rate!

[@Jormyyy]

Sooo, what's everyone's favorite H.R. Giger art piece?

[@alexandrovich7259]

The game in a nutshell.

[@lookausername3512]

Bionicle

[@Mossmyr]

Scorn is more inspired by Zdzisław Beksiński than H. R. Giger.

[@Jormyyy]

@Mossmyr thanks for introducing me to another European surrealist painter :) I can see the inspiration from his work in Scorn now that you point it out. Though, I still see a lot of Gigeresque in it as well. And at the end of the day, I prefer Giger's work.

[@JanJansen985]

The best giger piece is the one that makes your genitals hurt

[@the1misscinny]

wtf is this game???? Is it just "shock value" the interactive experience?

[@SamrayGTR]

If you think about it, Scorn is all real life Bionicles.

[@cathleenmoyle1476]

Why is that?

[@SamrayGTR]

@@cathleenmoyle1476 because literally everything in Scorn is living and is Bio-mechanical… Bionicle

[@cathleenmoyle1476]

@@SamrayGTR I've heard about Scorn being a biomechanical nightmare.

[@melissa6470]

Oboes ability to somehow refer to everything as either a bionicle or the games title is impressive

[@Nasiruify]

I feel we didn’t get enough pregnant liara

[@cyancyclone5642]

As someone who just finished mass effect this is so funny

[@TheGary108]

This game is pretty much fits the quote “All Style, No Substance”. I get they were trying to build the atmosphere, but this is one of those games that would have definitely use needed some in game objects to explain some of the lore. Even Dark Souls had some NPC and texts that gave glimpses of the world within.

[@S3mj0n]

Only suckers need explanation and lore. Real man marvel at the unknown

[@slintisbased]

Why does it need lore? Do you need every bit of information spoon fed to you? Does the environment not tell a story itself? Is it impossible to take something for what it without an expanded universe? I mean Jesus, come on. The style is the substance. Scorn is an experience before anything else.

[@doubleaabattery7562]

@@slintisbased You aren't really experiencing anything other than confusion and boredom. Unless you're seriously so easily entertained that a picture of grass painted red can intrigue you.

[@slintisbased]

@@doubleaabattery7562 I’m sorry that you were confused and bored. But maybe that says more about you and your intelligence than the game. Just because you lack the perception to understand the vision doesn’t mean that everyone does. Don’t project your sub 70 IQ onto me

[@doubleaabattery7562]

@@slintisbased I think it says a lot more about you that you assume people who don't like the same exact thing you do are dumb simply because they don't enjoy walking for hours with no goal or purpose, and then also writing paragraphs because the concept hurts your feelings that bad. You must be huffing insane ammounts of copium, play Fear and Hunger instead.

[@salveteinfernum]

Mr.Oboe's Hoes Games, you're one funny guy, I hope you get all the presents on your wishlist this year

[@nagger8216]

7:49 Glad I'm not the only one that realizes romancing Liara is the canonical choice

[@S3mj0n]

Weird way to spell Garrus

[@diodebridge]

Very fair review. I love the world design, atmosphere & music in this game, but the combat isn't very enjoyable and the puzzles are a bit generic. The world is very tight & in enclosed spaces, which, compounded with the current shallowness of the combat/enemies, makes the fighting sections a chore rather than something fun. I think some sort of combination of the two mechanics, puzzles and combat, would've been worlds better. Non-direct combat such as making traps, crushing enemies with the environment, blocking passages, ect. would've fit the slow pace of the game much better. This would also allow for non-linear gameplay too, like you being able to choose whether to outright kill an enemy with a trap, or simply enclose it within an area. Can't stress enough how disappointing they didn't make the environment interact with enemies in any meaningful way, since it seems like such an obvious solution for the lackluster combat. At least to me anyways.

[@piscessoedroen]

The worst part is that the book for this game is more enjoyable than sitting through this game

[@slintisbased]

I think what a lot of people don’t get is that the combat isn’t supposed to be satisfying to engage with. And neither is anything else in the game. It’s a nightmarish, unforgiving hellscape…so it follows that the clunkiness of it all is fully intentional and in lockstep with the larger experience they were trying to create. You’re not a demi god and this isn’t Doom. Obviously, the game is clearly not everyone’s cup of tea. And that’s fine. But many developers have done this before (admittedly, at the expense of a larger audience) and will continue to do so. The prime example of this being the Pathologic series. Scorn is more of an art project to be felt and experienced than it is a standard video game. I just think so many people are missing the point and going into it with the wrong perspective. What arthouse is to film, Scorn is to video games.

[@doubleaabattery7562]

@@slintisbased Lisa the painful has a very good combat system while also making the final fight where you kill all your friends and your apprentice still feel terrible. The game didn't need to be shit for it to feel dreadful (also, fear and hunger.)

[@AngryAsianGamin]

The real scorn was the friends we made along the way

[@archmagosdeciuskronen1501]

M E A T G A M E

[@esssss8415]

S C O R N

[@Twomoredays]

Last screen looks like “I have no mouth, and I must scream”.

[@Kerorofan1990]

Scorn was a game where they clearly put all the work into the art design, and kind of forgot to make it actually fun to play.

[@logangrey377]

3:16 kind of a missed opportunity to call out how this looks like one of Hordika Vakama’s weapons😂 (Or claw hand thing if we’re going off of the movie continuity)

[@molassesman4066]

This game is definitely what skill up was looking for when he called armored core 6 ugly A gameless art

[@njdarda]

too bad the forgot to put actual gameplay in. but we got a Durge referece out of that one so it was worth it

[@emekos_]

i like the idea of making an entire game out of H R Giger art but they definitely went about it the wrong way with this boring ass puzzle nonsense

[@BillEGoats]

Please oboshoes, I beg of you to never stop making bionical comparisons with all future games you play. It legit makes me want to not die when I see you dropped new content

[@ricotheskunk3062]

2:06 oml, ur not wrong 😂

[@larilittle1202]

Oboe in Iran we never had Cracker Barrel, but we did have Bionicle! For example: Toa Matau, Toa Vakama, Toa Onewa and Kopaka

[@brennan6884]

Multiple Bionicle references AND a clone wars 2003 reference this is epic

[@dektarey4024]

Mass Effect too.

[@jjay350]

This was pretty much my experience. Luckily it's a free download on gamepass, but I got so bored with it after a couple of hours. Cool looking atmosphere, but that's about the only good thing I can say about it.

[@doubleaabattery7562]

Thank God you didn't buy it when it was a sixty dollar "experience"

[@dr-arm]

Yo at 1:43 was that the exo-toa’s punching arm?

[@KniteTime]

You should give Prey 2006 a shot; it's like Scorn met Portal, but better

[@amadeusagripino6862]

With some Blue Öyster Cult to seal the deal

[@sirfattymann1787]

This game is just Bosnia every august 18'th during the eclipse held every 216 years

[@slothman9731]

I was really disappointed at the ending. I was expecting the guy you had "rescued" would come out of the blue and save you.

[@thekinginyellow7029]

When I first saw this game's demo I thought it was so cool that someone was making a shooter in a Giger inspired setting, and then it released and turned out to be an obtuse puzzle game interspersed with unsatisfying gunplay all wrapped in a "please be disturbed" nothingburger of a story.

[@missesyourjokes]

Welp, I’m glad I never played scorn

[@quint3ssent1a]

Scorn is actually a perfect game to enjoy on streams, because not only you get to suffer from disgust, you can voice it and see other suffer from it as well.

[@SgtBuck01]

The guy who did the art for this also did the art for all of the Tool music videos and you cannot convince me otherwise.

[@Cyranek]

the bionicle piece recognition is truly remarkable

[@oboeshoesgames]

Would you believe that there were 7 more I cut for time

[@Cyranek]

@@oboeshoesgames perhaps

[@SkylarTrahan]

Would love to see you give Outward a try, one of my favorites and hope they make a sequel.

[@TastySnackies]

oboe's autism over Bionicles is my favorite bit on KZbin

[@clairikus9743]

wow is this game a bionicle reference?

[@thientuongnguyen2564]

With more innuendos, gore and jizz jokes.

[@LivingZombieJew]

You should try Afterfall: Insanity it's quite crazy and a lot of fun and it has both blunt weapons and guns.

[@BJWeNeedUDefendingUsWithZeMG42]

"It's S(CORN)!"

[@zzzen.]

I forgot your channel name and searched "obese shoe games" and i found your channel again

[@mrcheesemunch]

What a disappointment of a game, they went so entirely in on style over substance and like...I get it but let's not pretend you didn't just pull the art right out of H.R Geiger's Necronomicon Both this and Agony were massive let downs, I thought Agony looked shit when it was announced but I was hyped for this one since it seemed more subtle and almost like Dead Space but then it ends up just being like a 3 hour game with barely any actual game in it

[@MattPapp]

Me before clicking the video: Let me guess, he is gonna make at least 1 bionicle reference 3 in a row* "Wtf? How long have i've been watching?" Checks time* 1.26 💀

[@yeetsterbunny7033]

Th jump peg game picture was on point, those things are always missing like two or three pegs, so you can't really play, but you still try, with tinfoil or something

[@daves_cr_experience]

Thats the cracker barrel in Branson I think

[@thewhitewikirabbit]

Never change oboe. You are one of the most entertaining commentators for some of the most wretched games.

[@itsWelshy]

We edge closer and closer to a "Clive Barkers Jericho" video, for a brief moment I saw the body horror and thought it was the big day...

[@willwilkie8558]

You are wildly good at singing improve. That was very pleasant

[@chemergency]

Also Cracker Barrel is comfy and soulful lol their food's honestly not bad either, especially the breakfast.

[@hightowerpm]

Their breakfast is amazing and served all day

[@Un_Important]

Idk the food’s ok but whenever I eat there I start developing a virulent hatred towards minorities

[@CyrusCageSCWS]

Whatever planet this is, they never should've agreed to AI government.

[@user-nl4ir7cx5r]

Inevitable probably

[@CyrusCageSCWS]

@@user-nl4ir7cx5r absolutely not

[@khaair]

Imagine if there was a Bionicle movie with an H.R. Giger esthetic.

[@CaptJABRONIE]

I can't believe how long I spent anticipating this from Kickstarter. Scorn is without exaggeration the most disappointing game I've ever played. I was in awe of how absolutely awful everything except the world design is.

[@judsongaiden9878]

CronenGiger: The Game 0:18 You were supposed to say, "Now you're playing with POWER!"

[@DallingerM]

Longer videos please!!! I can’t get enough of your videos 🙌🏽 they’re so good!

[@tdpuuhailee8222]

This is really wierd video game adaptation of John Wick. Note: John Wick movie's original name was Scorn.

[@SimaoRodrigues...]

"Well yes, I have also seen the Bionicle trailer a week ago, how could you tell?"

[@djtoxicdhg]

Maby this game is secretly a advertisement for bionicle

[@DarthP00P00]

I held off on this game until it was about $20 and for that price I was satisfied. It was like an art exhibit. You don't have fun but you are simply there to just take in the sights. I am a big fan of H.R. Giger's work ever since I saw ALIEN so I was in this for only one reason and that was to experience a game inspired by his art. The Art book is pretty cool as well and goes deeper into the lore a bit.

[@doubleaabattery7562]

Yeah it just wasn't worth it to me. Mostly because they genuinely thought they could release this as a 60$ game when even actual art exhibits make you pay less.

[@fugyfruit]

The only thing notable about this game is that Jerma said it's name a bunch

[@loneronin6813]

He didn't order the grits. He IS the grits!

[@123shotas]

When your math teacher discovers video games

[@sandvichbros1659]

Hey, obeshoe. Are you gonna play the last Killzone game some day?

[@noel8787]

Cracker Barrel is a "premium" brand of cheese here in Australia. A very good cheese though.

[@maxumunum1926]

I'd like to proudly say in all American pride the painting in my room is from a cracker barrel.

[@LeftysPlushStudios]

I speak for everyone when I say the image used for the censoring is utterly horrifying💀 The again so is most of the imagery in Scorn

[@hussarzwei6223]

My favorite part was when Scorn said it’s Scornin time and Scorned all over the place.

[@obsidiancrow450]

i like the game but its 100% because im an hr geiger fan. if you don't care that much about the aesthetics then its definitely not strong enough anywhere else for a buy

[@doubleaabattery7562]

Correction: you like LOOKING at this game.

[@zacharymathey3901]

Who let Oboeshoes play Scorn? hahahahahaha.

[@YourCRTube]

Unironically, this is a really good review, showing you what the game is all about.

[@NIRDIAN1]

This game was weird... Thanks for improving it with Bionicle Observations!

[@nicharred07]

there was small hype when this game was coming out everybody thought it was going to be fleshy doom clone

[@calebrawlins8916]

Glad I only watched this game because the hype over this game just led to a major let down. It isn't even visually appealing. Dead Space 1 on the 360 looked better than this game visually speaking.

[@MazeMe]

Justice for Brad’s wife

[@randomperson2797]

Oh dang I’m here earlier than usual Shame I can’t think of something clever to comment though

[@DigitalContentNetwork]

Why dont you do great documentaries instead of a senseless rant about a perfect game?

[@TheEliProdz]

Is Oboe just playing all the game pass games now lmao

[@tomdr93x]

LB bumper ATM machine

[@marts4169]

Kinda disappointed by this game. Expected John Scorn to be a more charismatic character. At least there were Bionicle references.

[@M-elephant7777]

I'm just here for the bionicle, mass effect and early 2000s star wars references + the episode 9 mockery

[@Simcity24]

I would love to see you play through Observer System Redux. It’s LA Noir mixed with cyberpunk and Outlast. (Less outlast due to not having combat)

[@TitanSix]

This game is a playable version of what happens in a Tool video after the music stops.

[@MalachiThornton-u9i]

Wow this game is actually terrible

[@itstj581]

And as it is a walking sim we can clearly see that it is in fact a direct reference to (and slight ripoff of) kapura adventures

[@PaulSchlock]

In the end, you become a bionicle that was put together without using instructions.

[@womp4275]

Need the Scorn Oddity full version plz