Shitstorm 7 - Stifled

[@TheKrawtch]

a game that takes the Turok 2 draw distance, and turns it into a gameplay mechanic.

[@MsGhoulz]

2 minutes in and the Turok fog is already driving me nuts.

[@dullroar2673]

That's a goddamn pull holy shit

[@GBDupree]

It even has the turok cheat code that makes everything just the outlines. Pencil mode I think it was called

[@AnimeGun]

I really wish they could put in the Disco Cheat.

[@YakuzaPanda]

every battleroyale game needs to have this feature

[@samwegner9535]

“IM READY TO FIND SOME ORPHANS” - crazed ginger man, 2018

[@ironicugandan5826]

Pat never has to find orphans... His basement is full of them

[@colinr0380]

"And if I don't find them occurring naturally in the wild, I'll just have to go out there and make them myself!"

[@angbandsbane]

Isn't saying "crazed ginger" a bit repetitious?

[@ZanraiKid]

You know what's spoopy? Echolocation via JAY-SON!.

[@JackgarPrime]

EcholoJAYSON

[@burgbass]

Gotta get that balloon

[@tailedgates9]

The balloon.

[@TheRealSplitterguy]

TIME TO REPLACE JAY-SON

[@askiaamanirenas4863]

AMZ Hentai t

[@evilbunnysanta]

Someone needs to mod this game to where instead of him yelling hello he does a Rick Flair WOOOO

[@Kwak444]

evilbunnysanta or a handful of tommy wiseau quotes.

[@namegoeshere5220]

Only if they mood the shuffle or arm pats. Either go full Nature Boy, or don't even try to mummy.

[@bigchooch4434]

Oh god PLEASE

[@crypticcorvus2879]

Can you imagine living with a guy who yells out "HULLO!" several times a minute as he wanders around the house leaving the taps running and playing the same song on repeat whilst aggressively clapping?

[@colinr0380]

I think I was roommates with that guy once. He never did the dishes either.

[@RunLikeAVillain]

That and the intermittent huffing and throat clearing made me crack up the longer it went on. It's not even that funny, but I was losing my shit.

[@rosclark4611]

It's called Tourette's

[@maximutatro3176]

“A sad reminder but thanks?” -THE best Matt quote

[@RedRust]

completely sandbagged by pat, too

[@HighwaterTrousers]

Fun Fact: Stifled is developed by a self-proclaimed "5 human" team called Gattai Games, who are located in Singapore. As a joke, they recently released a game last April called Muffled Warfare, which is essentially the concept of sound from Stifle, "but with guns in it." BECAUSE ALWAYS GO GUN KIDS.

[@pairaitowo]

HighwaterTrousers Aww yeah, always nice to see my country’s game devs getting some attention!

[@WeaponOfMyDestructio]

your rice and vhicken is delicous!

[@pairaitowo]

WeaponOfMyDestructio Thanks! My dude

[@HCSR2]

Muffled Warfare! Where we grab a bunch of blind people from all over the world, drop them in a deserted island, and give them guns! Remember to tune in this Sunday for the latest in reality TV; Muffled Warfare!

[@pocketlint60]

> "Five Human Team" But how many total employees are there?

[@megasartshack]

Fun Fact: the logo in braille translates to "eden"

[@murciadoxial8056]

Looks like someone was inbreeding in that orphanatorium

[@RainDaemonic]

how could you tell without touching it?

[@IstasPumaNevada]

RainDaemonic, Megafang must have one of those special braille monitors.

[@TheKrawtch]

Sure was nice of them to use Braille so even blind people could play.

[@GenerationWest]

Remember kids, don't have kids.

[@bast01]

Great advice

[@ultraspinalki11]

Sterilize your balls as soon as possible!

[@OutSinGaming]

look at this dude

[@ironicugandan5826]

They always bring ghosts or turn into ghosts

[@frederickfreakerson4550]

I don’t plan on ever having any kids.. but also I don’t think anyone will ever love me again..

[@Dontrel3030]

I can't take this game seriously because the protagonist keeps screaming helloooo!! like the guy from Disaster Report.

[@bigchooch4434]

Press X to Jason

[@4Wilko]

*Jump scares and minor startle spooks for cowards like myself list:* 11:55 - Minor 13:30 and 13:47 - Minor 14:49 - Minor 18:00 - Not so bad 21:26 - Not a scare, but Pat got spooked 25:46 - Not so bad 30:12 The whole video was leading up to that last one!

[@Keezawea]

you´re a hero

[@4Wilko]

The oversaturation of certain tropes in spooky game design certainly isn't helping.

[@flowonthego]

Disappointing. The scares get less as we go on in spooks. Want prime screams.

[@cpt.joestar1284]

Your doing God's work 4wilko

[@itsfreg6885]

GoFundMe campaign to give 4wilko a big fancy medal of valor at the end of Shitstorm

[@Ozymandias2x]

I love how his sonar lets him READ PRINTED WORDS and SEE COLORS.

[@stenzel27]

Ah, babies. The most terrifying of all monsters.

[@lovelygargoyle5248]

And the worst of all STDs!

[@ragnar3434]

Oh yeah that reminds me, there needs to be a game for Eraserhead already so Best Friends can play it

[@LaZrKaTz4109]

In case anyone’s curious it says “eden” in Braille on the loading/saving stuff

[@PotatoIsNotCute]

I have nothing to add, I just wanted to appreciate Nadeshiko.

[@triniyoshin]

That beginning sequence was actually a really nice touch. Because it's his home he's extremely familiar with what he owns and where it's all located. That is why the view was so clear.

[@jimbothompkins]

I'm not sure i understand how this game works. How does sound help him read text? Or see colors? Is it just that he is picturing what he thinks it should look like?

[@CaptainCarnivore]

I have nothing to say here, I just like to hear Pat's screams

[@jeffreyflowers5203]

We all do.

[@LeudieBlues]

SBF screams give me life

[@YouCheekyMinx69]

I like to hear Pat cream If ya know what I mean Kentucky fried Green Bean

[@jeffreyflowers5203]

@@YouCheekyMinx69 Woolie beans,Zachs clean,pat knows what I mean

[@drearmouse9510]

I love Shitstorm. Can't believe it's been seven years of Zaibatsu fun for me already. We gotta get these guys to 1mil, damn it!

[@jackstrub2885]

It looks like this guys house is on fire and hes just blissfully unconcerned

[@thepickles8833]

... "This is fine."

[@4thSurviver]

I thought the alarm clock was a fire alarm.

[@Hookening]

Welcome to the coughing and yelling simulator.

[@DarthFennec]

I like how you can read magazines and see paintings by echolocation. That makes sense.

[@callahaine100]

The "Hellooooo" part at 5:42 cracked me up so much it destroyed all the horrific potentiel of this game! At every creepy moment I was thinking about it!XD

[@mr.platinum8388]

Strangely, I would be down for more Haunting Grounds if they ever decide to do it. It has menacing giants, psycho maids, and enough material for us to make jokes about their old RE 4 LP.

[@thepickles8833]

and of course, bad British accents

[@SamuelCatsy]

And jiggle physics

[@gaminggoddess85]

Probably won't do it for fear of getting the "Fiona the shellshocked rape victim, shown here super preggers with her rapist's baby" ending.

[@LiuBarrowin]

@@gaminggoddess85 Oh you gotta hate dogs to get that ending, and I think Pat would spend more time praising Hewie than playing the actual game, so no worries there

[@gaminggoddess85]

+LiuBarrowin I thought you meant that as "Pat would spend more time praising Hewie than playing so Hewie wouldn't die", which I can totally see because Pat.

[@Cr3zant]

If someone was blind and relied on sound to see, wouldn't background noise make it harder to see clearly, not easier? Like, echolocation works by sending out sound signals and seeing how long it takes for the sound waves to rebound back to you, so background noise would only get in the way of that and conflict with your own sound waves, right?

[@M7S4I5L8V2A]

At first it may be like the Daredevil movie where Mat Murdock first gets his echo-location. However I would assume it's like normal hearing where you can pick out certain noises and tune others out like your own heart beat.

[@WoodlandDrake]

No, shutup though, Daredevil does it!

[@athenatheshewolf]

I'd argue that the sound waves from the background noise would serves as 1. Landmarkes and 2. Give extra feedback/information regarding the location of things. For example, if you hear music playing in the other room, the wall will muffle it, so would anything in front of it, etc. I think if the background noise was loud enough it would disrupt his ability to hear the clicks he makes. (His name is Ben Underwood.) I haven't watched his documentary but maybe he addresses that.

[@megasartshack]

realism often doesn't make for good game design.

[@chadschmaltz9790]

Maybe, but also consider how people can adapt and enhance the other senses when one is no longer available. Many people who became blind or deaf claim that their other senses grew much more acute after they lost their hearing or sight. So for someone like Ben who learned to use echolocation, he probably became so familiar with the noise he would make that it would "stand out" against the background noise. If you have ever had a friend with a very distinct voice and were at a busy location like a mall or a cafateria; did you notice how their voice seems to cut through the crowd noise? I imagine that echolocation for Ben worked in a similar fashion.

[@Kagera80]

Will the “Shit’s Locked” storm continue?

[@4Wilko]

Only in the orphanarium.

[@josephhuggins5394]

shits always locked, its so locked u dont even know how locked shits locked.

[@lifeiscrap103]

This time, your very eyes are locked.

[@lazybumnetwork1379]

Yes, the Orphan’s parents paid the blood sacrifice to make the child orphan invincible.

[@AlexanderAndreassen123]

Oh no, the house is inside a Japanese bath house, the scariest of places

[@gaminggoddess85]

The echolocation gimmick _seems_ cool until you realize it kinda has no reason to be in there, because unlike that one horror game with the blind woman this character doesn't actually have any sight problems.

[@thepickles8833]

yes, this one seems really inconsistent thus far

[@Dontrel3030]

Idk if the game reveals something later on but I don't want to give it the benefit of the doubt.

[@4ever3052pac]

I'm thinking the stuff involving the orphanage and other places without blind powers means that guy was recently blinded, and that orphanage stuff is flashbacks.

[@gaminggoddess85]

If I remember correctly (spoilers for the ending) The whole game is the guy using some kind of VR machine to relive all the good memories he has of his dead wife forever and ever. So there's no real justification for the blindness gimmick or the evil babies and children as far as I can tell, unless I've missed something. Could be traumatic memories of their dead kid are bleeding into his recordings or something I guess.

[@4thSurviver]

When they woke up I thought the alarm clock was a fire alarm and they couldn't see through the smoke.

[@kaizerwave5120]

Why’s the intro scarier than a lot of the games

[@jeffreyflowers5203]

Because those scary faces in the intro actually exist in real life...

[@ganjalf27]

Because it assaults you with their nightmarish, gross faces, that only later morph into less horrible ones.

[@TheSecretLover]

I like to think this guy is in the most polluted city and the only way to disperse the smog is moving around or using your super breath. Edit: The smog was so overpowering, our protagonist has developed sonar powers.

[@phantomspaceman]

It's a New Delhi simulator. In episode 2 you have to ride your bike to work like this.

[@OldReaver]

I had a dream last night that Pat and Woolie were in my town in England stealing stuff, and I said hi so they made me help them. So we walked into a clothes store to steal, and then they got noticed by some random security. So they ran away leaving me there to go to prison... so yeah, thanks guys.

[@danielasilva69457]

Expecting a formal apology on the podcast regarding this subject

[@pseudopiscean6871]

Pat getting away on his little legs should have been the first clue that you were dreaming.

[@jaykelley103]

put this shit on the subreddit mang

[@danielasilva69457]

We need to make this story known. Put it on the subreddit and expose the best friends at once!

[@MrHyperactivebunny]

This is exactly like what happned during the Great Herring War. Between the Lindstroms and the Johansons. The two families controlled the most fertile herring waters off the coast of Norway, so naturally it would seem to be in their best interests to band together. Oh boy was that a mistake. You see, they couldn't agree on what do to with the herring! The Johansons wanted to pickle the herring and the Lindstroms wanted to train them for the circus. Sort of like Seaworld, only smaller. Much much smaller, but bigger than a flee circus. They shot a herring out of a canon only once, but they shot him into a tree. After that no other herring would do it. My grandfather told me that story. Although he always used to call me by my sisters name, and occasionally we wore his underpants on the outside of his pants.

[@thepickles8833]

So.... this is a VR game that utilizes N64 fog as an gameplay mechanic?

[@ghostfear2011]

The Picklestein Monster with N64 pen and ink mode as wellZ

[@breaksystembse]

Omikron Fog hunts us all

[@colbygrey7912]

as A gameplay mechanic

[@TheMadMadman]

I can almost hear Cross-Stitch laughing in the distance...

[@frederickfreakerson4550]

Yes, it is an great mechanic. You are not an very nice person.

[@russellhenson8117]

I love how after 6 years of watching you guys you still manage to put Seinfeld references in your gameplay lol

[@wyattparmbruster1]

08:21 was great. A spooky bouncing ball supernaturally bounces in front of this man and he joyfully responds "Hello!" Hello spooky ball! Good morning! Fine day!

[@samc182]

2:15 Damn woman, how many tests you gotta take? The WHOLE box?! Also, first thing that came to mind when it started was "Why is there Silent Hill fog in my house?"

[@PanzerMan332]

10:36 He clapped, but he was holding something in his hand so... *oh*

[@VerbalLearning]

Pat's streak of being unreasonably proud over his ability to best children or babies continues.

[@DemonFireRain]

Dammit I keep thinking the static pop in the intro is my headphones. Love the Shitstorm guys keep it up!

[@OneGamer2EnvyThemAll]

I think the protagonist seeing the world clearly when he's in his house is because he's just that familiar with the environment; he doesn't need echolocation to know where he's going since he's, y'know, HOME.

[@AvoCamilo]

Damn , now i want someone to mod this so you can scream "Wahoo!", "It's a me!", "Cowabunga!", "Who you gonna call?!", etc.

[@Crocadok]

"The fear of childbirth empowers me!" - The crazy ginger midget, 2018

[@ProfessionalSpectre]

That baby monster is basically mini-Pats roaming the sewers.

[@MatNightmare]

Pat's professional psychological evaluation of an orphan that witnessed the brutal murder of their parents: "That's the kinda thing that'll fuckin'... Jack you up man."

[@fakeigniz13]

If you wake up in silent hill, to repel the fog just use the following ancient chant: BAAAAAH BBAAAA BAAAAADAAAH BAAAA BAAAA

[@angbandsbane]

30:12 has got to be one of the funniest yelps from the guys I've heard in a while.

[@FLCL_rox]

Saturday night. Some people go out to the club and make some lifelong connections.I spend it watching a thirty minute long youtube video so I can enjoy hearing a 5ft tall Canadian scream in fear. Time well spent.

[@TK0921]

I ain't gonna lie, that first "encounter" with the baby monster thing was the most dread I felt so far this Shitstorm. That was creepy as hell. Hearing distorted baby noises in a sewer in the middle of nowhere when you can't see is creepy.

[@Cs-zp5sr]

"Don't drop that Jr. Mint" nearly killed me laughing. It's the scariest thing that has happened this shitstorm.

[@Infusions]

This game made me understand why Jerry thought the "Hello!" voice was so hilarious.

[@4thSurviver]

La la laaa.

[@GabeSweetMan]

"All adults will eventually become orphans." The most Pat way of phrasing we've had all Shitstorm. Thanks Pat.

[@colinr0380]

These days I hear the word orphanage as "Orphan-phage", like a more threatening version of the Genophage.

[@sansfromcoolmathgames]

Thanks for reminding me how terrified I am of interacting with kids.

[@C24U_]

That shoe is magic! It doesn't fade away despite no sound pulses

[@wyattparmbruster1]

12:35 I love the detail of the sound moving from inside the pipe. That's terrifying.

[@karasun4331]

love you guys!! hello from NZ!

[@brainflash1]

"It needs to be a fucking pair of glasses" *and it needs to be third person until they figure out how to make a full 160 degree POV*

[@prettyswift1801]

Haven't really seen a shitstorm in awhile but i'm glad you guys don't disappoint.

[@darkop3191]

I thought the title was Shitstorm 7 - Seinfeld Helloooo!

[@4Wilko]

Hellooooo!

[@SethTheXenocide]

Cmon, do the voice.

[@namegoeshere5220]

Hello, Jerry~!

[@kentalacrucia]

Name Goes Here Uncle Leo! Hellooo!

[@zule10000]

God I love the intro to Shitstorm 7. Best intro hands down imo. Short, good looking, and cool as hell.

[@teej5128]

his echolocation is so powerful, it allows him to interpret color, incredible

[@pukerat7562]

Have any of these indie devs ever considered making a horror game with a coherent story and, you know, characters?

[@Ranryu692]

You hear and then you see? It's Paige: The Video Game™!

[@Trashmancer0]

I want an unofficial voice patch for this game and it to just be all the screams and cheers from Little Nemo in Dream Land

[@bigchooch4434]

At least the car knocked and waited politely for him to answer the door before obliterating his bones and internal organs

[@LupsakkaLeo]

To pay over 500€ for VR equipment, so you can play shitty indie games where you pretend to be a blind person, is truly the spookiest of horrors known to mankind.

[@dr.popping8560]

So pleased that "It's blood!" has returned. Even more pleased that Matt and I said it at the same time.

[@DesertSun0]

This feels like the proof of concept for the sound system of a Thief game.

[@MrZoichi]

"My fear of childbirth has empowered me." -Pat, 2018 Also, why are we running away from Casca's demon child, courtesy of Griffith?

[@UseZapCannon]

The mental image of this drunk head-wound-cradling blind man stumbling through a storm drain, coughing, clapping and screaming

[@Hikage666]

I kinda always look forward to Pat's sneeze in every shitstorm video this year

[@deimosphoibus]

That scream at the end was quite possibly the biggest scream in a shitstorm video

[@mattholomew2]

Loving the sonar vision in this game

[@KainTepes]

The time has come and so have I.

[@cool898]

Matt, you're right about baby strength, babies have no limiters, they can go full power all the time. They have no concept of death or consequence, that big baby is going to destroy you.

[@dawert2667]

The reason that the first areas are completely detailed is because the person is familiar with it- they have memorized the layout of the house and the car very well

[@Kevinblue035]

i saw an LP of this game somewhere else, it's a really cool idea, but the ending is really whack, and the blindness/echo-vision gimmick doesn't really fit at all with the theme of the story

[@Chaosian]

What the shit was that at the end? Maybe I'm not 'immersed' but a minor startle got the loudest reaction from them of everything this year.

[@mumin19957]

What was that one color-ray-shooting-game these guys played a while back. Going through levels and shooting a "colorgun to see where theyre going?

[@amazingfan15]

Scanner Sombre, i think.

[@4Wilko]

Scanner Sombre is right.

[@mumin19957]

hell yeah you guys are beasts thank u sm

[@deathmetalalchemist2731]

Fun fact - There's actually a blind man who uses echolocation to see! His name is Daniel Kish, and while it isn't like this game(which seems to have a protagonist with only partial blindness?) he's still able to hear reflected sounds when he clicks his tongue and makes a mental image of his surroundings. He currently works to teach other blind folks to use echolocation as well. There's actually been a few humans who have been able to use echolocation, including Lucas Murray, a student of Daniel Kish, Kevin Warwick, who isn't blind, but has a sweet nickname("Captain Cyborg") Juan Ruiz, who is able to ride a bike with echolocation, and also has a sweet nickname("Electro Man") and the kid that Pat mentioned here, Ben Underwood, who unfortunately died when he was 16, but was able to play basketball, football, rollerblade, and skateboard even with his blindness. In fact, he was the first person who used echolocation I ever learned about. R.I.P. Ben. Here's the wiki page on it - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_echolocation

[@Kickback2108]

"Finally Summer." "And yet you still have your fuckin' Christmas lights out!" *Looks up at Australian flag and grits teeth*

[@dallyink7412]

Nice of them to include braille in their video game so blind people can read it.

[@sleepofgiants410]

"It's just the neighbors neighbors neighbors"

[@4thSurviver]

*shoots you in the face "There goes the neighborhood."

[@fractowlish]

My first impression: The house is on fire, and the POV character is hallucinating.

[@davidspackagelp]

This game needs a mod that replaces the echolocation sounds with Ric Flair woos.

[@R0B1NG5]

The real survival horror was childbirth all along.

[@blitz-frenchman663]

This honestly looks really cool!

[@LambentV]

The Nostalgia Critic immediately popped into my head as soon as I saw the classes, cabby hat, and tie 🤔

[@phantomspaceman]

Farts Only is the definitive LP format for this game. I'll see if I can get Markiplier to do it, it will be a nice change of pace from the random screaming.

[@IstasPumaNevada]

You might enjoy Scanner Sombre on your own time. It might not be entertaining enough for a video on your channel, but I found it to be really neat.

[@pseudopiscean6871]

I want a mod of this game with Mrs. Doubtfire’s HELLLOOOOO in place of this dude’s.

[@ARMIV4]

This game actually presents a very rational fear. The bigger the baby the more horrifying it is.

[@xpirate16]

I lost my shit when he yelled HELLO! at the bouncing ball

[@prowlingmonkey]

Orphans. They are either the heroes who will save us or the greatest evil.

[@AJPwny]

Sometimes you roll a 1 & get both.

[@DarthFennec]

"This reminds me a lot of Silent Hill 1's sewer section." It looks like most sewer levels in most games. I feel like sewers are generally all built pretty much the same.

[@roondar6141]

Thought the game was called "Stiffie" for a moment and wondered how they managed to make a horror game out of getting an erection.

[@RexcorJ]

Sounds like a story about someone's Stand coming to life.

[@wolf397]

You ever get a random boner in class during high school? Shit is scarier than any horror movie ever made, especially in the classes where they make you go up to the whiteboard.

[@jayykellyxiii4910]

Casca's hellspawn is all grown up lol

[@confidential5743]

Just came from a berserk video wtf haha

[@firebirdheats]

I like how pat turns into count olaf halfway through

[@Mate397]

Daredevil vision with the added bonus of advanced lung cancer from John Constantine while you try to avoid your fear of being a father.

[@skaianDestiny]

OH! I think I played a game with this similar premise, only it was a 2D Flash game. It even had the same white lines and red enemies.

[@KingRock9717]

Day-18 I heard a bloodcurdling scream coming from the mansion and as I ran towards the room I open the door only to find out that Pat's demon screamed like my sister in law