This option in Dead Space is very, very silly

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[@babylonian]

Since I was forced to reupload this video anyway, I added a bunch of new content at 8:05 talking about some of the theories about why this feature exists in the first place. Every time they make me take this video down, the video will get 4 minutes longer. Soon it will be the longest video on the entire website

[@DrSpogTTV]

@@gabaghoulspizza yup

[@quantum5661]

goddamn bro, youtube do not like you

[@theninjas2870]

Very cool and awesome, thank you Nick!

[@mikieswart]

this is legendary

[@deforged]

have you looked into Utreon? a couple of creators I follow started uploading there after similar shenanigans with YT, but i still have to keep coming here because so many haven't started uploading there yet

[@PugOnDrugs]

They should have a skip disturbing content button that just takes you to the credits

[@babylonian]

lmao

[@ShiningDarknes]

This is the only acceptable way to handle it. You get the opening where you crash right up to the moment you get any actual horror elements, then it cuts to one of the new game + endings that doesn't end in a jump-scare and rolls credits.

[@Thatraiderswagkid]

And then it sells their copy to somebody who wants to actually play it

[@Bludmaster1900]

​@@Thatraiderswagkid lmaooo

[@memeuz8882]

BAHAHAHA

[@perpetualcollapse]

Nick... this is the 7th week in a row you've shown “Dead Space’s “Hide Disturbing Scenes” option is extremely funny” in class.

[@babylonian]

youtube is the Mrs. Fowl of websites

[@crimsonhawk52]

How do you know the Disturbing Scenes are even in the box?

[@JosephWithaG]

Mrs. Fowl, this one is different!

[@binatlas6620]

​@Don't Read My Profile Photo read these nuts

[@Spacebugg]

​@@binatlas6620 lol gottem

[@glo8516]

Instead of taking this video down again, youtube should add a "hide disturbing scenes" option.

[@Ion115]

so true

[@Echo81Rumple83]

Or maybe not have a kiddie rating and put down honest-to-god mature rating.

[@Ion115]

@@Echo81Rumple83 sure thing

[@Keznen]

@NovalopEZ The whole COPPA shit needs to be done away with. Treating 11-12 year olds as if they're 5 when they're actually in the exact same age group as 13-year-olds is stupid.

[@Hardskullv2]

But the whole video would be blurred

[@MR0KITTY]

Satisfactory has an "arachnophobia" mode, which replaces spiders with very pixelated cats. Sure, there's no spiders on screen anymore, but you're getting jumpscared and rushed by giant pixelated cats faces.

[@lukabrasi001]

i swear the amount of times i was jumpscared by the cats outweighs the actual amount of times the spiders did, just giant JPEGs rushing at you with light speed is scarier

[@chernobyl169]

"Grounded* also has an arachnophobia mode, since there are a lot of giant spiders you fight. It replaces them with even more horrifying grey orbs.

[@anonymousapproximation8549]

@@chernobyl169 RTgames used it when he played it, because his arachnophobia is triggered by the spider's legs and movement, so, while scary for different reasons, isn't debilitating.

[@AX_Hunterz_06]

What Game was it that Put Top hats on the Spiders

[@somemadnessfan4763]

so they turned the game into GMOD

[@me99771]

They should add a version of this mode that goes way further to the point where it becomes a purely psychological horror. Replace all the necromorphs with plushies, replace blood and wounds with emojis, replace screams with children laughing, replace the graffiti about cutting limbs to posters about taking your meds, replace audio logs with meditation instructions, etc.

[@RoyalFusilier]

Pyrovision goggles for Isaac. You could even write it off in-universe as hallucinations and visions becoming way more intense and affecting Isaac's psychology more. Also, I bet a good chunk of people would find the new Plushie Space even more terrifying, especially if you leaned into the clown motifs.

[@samuelantoniocastillomeza5034]

This would be very cool and can even fit as an hallucination caused by the Marker since it's canon that Isaac goes insane.

[@batmabel]

that would be an insanely good (and ambitious) mod

[@biglegs]

Disney did this, it's called Player Select. It's terrible.

[@luigiboi4244]

This just screams “Extreme Sh*tpost” even MORE than the actual video topic.

[@boomtube7732]

"If you heavily blur it out you should be okay." *This is beyond parody.*

[@Dracosian4802]

honestly, with how KZbin is, I wouldn't be suprised if Blurring it makes it MORE likely for it to be flagged

[@liamzakhaev]

@@Dracosian4802 It does, rimmydownunder had a video demonitized because the blur at the beginning of his callisto protocol video put it under higher scrutiny for some reason

[@Dracosian4802]

​@@liamzakhaev ah yes you are right, I thought I'd heard something like that recently

[@BouncingTribbles]

Quentin Tarantino said in an interview that they filmed an ear cutting scene for Reservoir Dogs, with full detail, but the version of the scene where they just panned away and you can just hear the guy screaming was universally considered more disturbing by the cast and crew

[@elinelai1891]

3:36 imagine having this effect permanently on and do a "Nearsighted challenge run"

[@naKuhito]

there’s probably a mod for that and if not there will

[@arthurdurham]

Finally! A 17+ M rated horror game with Dead in the title that's fun for the whole family!

[@pennysantana247]

Don't forget the space!

[@jlco]

Oh wow, the M rated game is made of M rated game. I'm shocked and appalled.

[@MaxxJagX]

@@jlco There are still many Karens out there that would still complain that the M/AO/R thing is bad for their tween/preteen child

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

And in the end it got the same 18+ rating here as the original back in 2008, so their censorship is completely useless and a total joke. Dead Sapce 2 back then needed 6 attempts to even get a rating.

[@alvinite9164]

"Unalive Space"

[@JoshBortolotti]

I feel like corporate told them that there must be at least a feature to "hide the most disturbing content" and the team was like "we are literally only going to dedicate a maximum of 27 minutes on this".

[@TheWinjin]

You gave me an idea. My bet is that it could come from some possibly "new" executive who really wanted to show that he is useful but actually has no idea what he's doing and he came up with this stupid idea like two days before release.

[@RamAurelius]

Probably an attempt to raise their ESG score via making the game more """inclusive"""

[@Devin7Eleven]

@@RamAurelius Exactly what it is.

[@joemama2737]

Yeah my guess was this was the suits at EA trying to make the game more inclusive and family friendly, kinda like how movies will go from R rated to PG-13 rated and cut out all the violence for “inclusivity” judging by 9:25 I think I was right 😂

[@Roccondil]

Yep. And that also doesn’t preclude the idea that Motive also implemented it this way as a joke at the execs behalf. And either the execs will be too back-pat-happy to notice, or will notice but can’t do anything about it because technically it’s been done and their peers won’t want to spend money on a feature that “isn’t broken” or didn’t change the rating at all.

[@NikitaOsito]

I love the arachnophobia mode in Satisfactory. It replaces spider enemies with a 2d sprite card of a cat face. It's honestly kinda scary in it's own way

[@n99centsm90]

What you said at 10:15 is absolutely true. I have never played dead space before and when you showed the cut scene at the very start of the episode my mind filled it in that an alien was slowly chewing the character's guts out or gnawing off their legs. Had I known it was just a transformation scene I would have been a lot less horrified

[@TheMGMfan]

I thought so too; when you blur the scene to the point where it's impossible to tell what's going on, a lot is left to the player's imagination, and without the needed context to know what's supposed to be happening, that imagination can run wild and coniure up something far worse than was intended.

[@creatorofthemind]

7:11 the comedic timing, the passive aggressive blur, a true masterpiece

[@schizopenguin]

​@Don't Read My Profile Photo okay

[@omniscientbarebones]

@Don't Read My Profile Photo readeeznuts

[@cringe805]

​@Don't Read My Profile Photo got it buddy

[@philipdriver4398]

Understood.

[@xlelight]

I think I've never seen a more comical example of KZbin's bootleg blocking system.

[@uitham]

man fuck youtube for this

[@brandon.export879]

I truly believe you can not make a game like Dead Space "more accessible." This is simply a case of "If you like it, you like it, if you don't you really don't have to play it." As you said, it makes sense in instances like MW2 No Russian, but this is in fact fundamentally different. This game was made to strike a certain nerve, in a niche of people that love it.

[@david.godlewski]

i totally get what you're saying and agree to an extent! but from personal experience i can tell you some people have a hard time with some of the most graphic/intense parts of horror games but really love the genre. I know, it's a bad combo. Some things you really can't control about yourself even if u want to. However, this implementation doesn't do the intent justice. It feels like a half baked attempt by a developer who thought the idea was a lost cause (and maybe it was, but I appreciate when games do implement things like this well)

[@DragonaxFilms]

This feature gets clowned on a lot, but I think it has potential to be implemented in a separate game. Imagine some kind of SCP-like game where you play as someone wearing goggles that block out cognitohazards or whatever, so you can never quite see all the horrible things happening around you, leaving it up to the imagination. Could be pretty cool.

[@crowdemon_archives]

It definitely gives you an interesting option to depict "incomprehensible horror" too lol

[@Hello-lf1xs]

yeah - iirc something like that is something that happens in-universe in Lobotomy Corp - it's why everything looks cutesy and charming - and why certain abnormalities don't instantly drive you insane by looking at them

[@einmuzi]

This game already exists: Team Fortress 2 with Pyrovision Goggles. No but seriously such a game really exists. It is called "Haze" and is a forgotten shooter by Ubisoft only released on PS3.

[@arekkrol9758]

or a game set in some (not so) distant future where protagonist is a kid/teen and has some parental control implant (like in arkangel black mirror episode)

[@cleverman383]

Black Mirror did this

[@Solid_Sayori]

It also censors scenes involving suicide, but it only censors the event as it is happening. The player still knows that they just witnessed suicide, so if it was to protect people who are triggered by the idea of suicide or with suicidal tendencies, it doesn't work. They even call it "self-inflicted death" as if that is less triggering than "suicide".

[@blacklightgamer97]

autounaliven’tyes

[@iamjustkiwi]

As someone pretty supportive of content warnings and such, even i am very confused by this implementation. You can't really have this game work with censorship since the gore is like the entire draw.

[@jarskil8862]

​​@@iamjustkiwi Person, example my friend, can be all fine with gore and blood. But suicide themes is something he just can't handle as he was the first one to find his friend hanged.

[@TheSunkenShipWreck]

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[@CoOlKyUbI96]

It was always going to end up being a no win situation regardless. Because of how brutal and graphic this entire game is

[@dndboy13]

the weirdest thing to me is that of all games, you put this option in Dead Space, where i think the "disturbing, distressing" content is the draw for most people who love it

[@bananananananabatman8999]

literally the point of the entire series, not even subtly either, the promotional videos for the sequel games outright said that the graphical updates would let the gore be that much more realistic, and is the reason they redid the original.

[@MGame0042]

@@bananananananabatman8999 The first commercials of the original Dead Space 2 was showing mothers and old ladies reacting to scenes that couldn't be shown on TV. That made me want to get it, but monies said "No" at the time. So I am waiting for the part 2 remake after buying and playing this one.

[@t-bonebreaker6494]

Imagine legit buying a game called Dead Space, seeing the age requirement of like fucking M for Mature, and then going to the option menu and activate “Hide disturbing scenes”.

[@jaygooese4242]

Right Cuss Master

[@Puffypoo574]

Finally, episode 3 of my favorite anime, “Dead Space’s hide disturbing scenes are extremely funny.” Hopefully we will get a 2nd season.

[@sorenfarley]

Truly a captivating and invigorating masterpiece.

[@JohnCombine]

My favroite part is when isaac sad boo boo and dead spaced all over the ship

[@codewallette3381]

I heard second season is in development man

[@fableagain]

LMAOOOOOO

[@scolkereybel]

This reeks of some high level executive who thought the problem with normal censorship, was that it skipped over content, and really, in order for a wider consumer base to not feel left out, the general details had to be preserved. So, some team of underpaid staffers were told to go in with a hammer and patch things up, because they thought it was stupid. Its probably why so many of their solutions are so half assed, it reeks of 'follow the letter of the law, but not the spirit'.

[@babylonian]

this is my theory too! really feels like an idea passed down to the devs by an executive, but then the actual person in charge of implementing it clearly couldn't care less lol

[@toadfrommario]

i'd have to see more examples of what scenes are blurred out to confirm, but i think this too. the stuff that IS blurred seems like the kind of stuff people would ask for content warnings for (suicide, vomiting blood, player death), it's like the devs in charge of this were given a list of "things some people don't want to see" and they followed that and nothing more.

[@tendiesoffmyplate9085]

Its illogical though. You still see the monsters and gore. It's absurd to be the point of intentional absurdity.

[@chrisc7265]

@@tendiesoffmyplate9085 A. Logic B. Bureaucracy pick one

[@MrMapacheumr]

Another reason executives shouldnt develop videogames

[@Yesnaught]

It's dumb because if corpses, horror, or dying disturbs someone, they should consider that a game called "Dead Space" might not be for them

[@EspyMelly]

Definitely a case of "Executives ordered us to add this supremely stupid feature because they saw a soccer mom yelling about videogame violence on TV once and we couldn't be arsed to put that much effort into it because the very idea is nonsense". It's a waste-of-time feature for nobody they added to get management off their backs.

[@Spo8]

This is the one. I can feel it.

[@babylonian]

🤞

[@humphreyspellingbee1732]

the year is 2034. Nick Robinson accepts his Academy Award for Best Feature for his 4-hour avant-garde epic, “Dead Space’s ‘Hide Disturbing Scenes’ Option Is Extremely Funny.” He sheds a tear that his magnum opus is finally gaining recognition. Everyone is happy.

[@nilly0052]

During the award show they attempt to show the video when suddenly: "This video has been blocked"

[@anothenblue2630]

But that's only the theatrical cut. Five years later, we get Nick's Cut, which is 8 hours longer with 12 hours being pointless filler or references, a grey and brown filter over everything and Isaac's facial hair gets fixed.

[@UnoriginalRyan]

Then he wakes up.

[@anothenblue2630]

@@UnoriginalRyan the dream was blocked for inappropriate language

[@BababooeyGooey]

If I'm being extremely charitable, the only way I can think this can be "effective" is for people who are triggered by depictions of suicide. There's three scenes I can recall where it occurs, possibly more I'm forgetting. But even then, it's such a shoddy "band aid on a wound" implementation I don't see how someone who is sensitive to suicide scenes could not be disturbed even with the filters. Especially since you can still kind of see what's happening anyway lol.

[@niagarawarrior9623]

2:56 this corpse just got spiked through the head and its ripping itself apart in a metamorphosis state. blood is spraying everywhere as its skin if sloughing off, internal organs are dangling out, and its limbs transform into crazy insect legs as it vomits blood and screams at the same time. " this is not that disturbing "

[@babylonian]

hahahah alright maybe i am a little jaded

[@dewanewbie]

Nick: *talks about how putting censorship on a horror game specifically made for adults who loves horror and gore is hilariously pointless" KZbin: "...and I take that personally"

[@Echo81Rumple83]

Of course KZbin takes that personally; the advertisers have them by the balls, not to mention the IRL gore that STILL slips through its imperfect censorship filters.

[@kid14346]

To be fair horror games often run the gambit and you never know what you are getting into. Like some horror games are just slasher films and other horror games are like Iron Lung which in my opinion is so scary that I can't even play it despite literally seeing nothing. Fear and being disturbed are subjective, like I can play games like Resident Evil just fine but for some reason the Mortal Kombat x ray shots are what gets me.

[@ImInForAWuppin]

@@Echo81Rumple83 To be entirely accurate, it's not that the advertisers have youtube by the balls, but that youtube just doesn't have a pair to begin with. From the perspective of advertisers, the fact that you enjoy horror content, or cursing, or gore, or any number of other things youtube disallows/punishes, is just another point of information they can use to target ads more accurately to a person, increasing the odds that you'll buy the product and give them more money. That is the sort of information that youtube and other tech giants SELL to advertisers. These rules are purely on youtube, and it's just that they'd rather shift the blame than own up to it.

[@iamjogun]

I’m sure the death fade to black was their easiest solution to blocking the scenes. “If dead fade to black” is probably less time consuming than looking for specific triggers.

[@crowdemon_archives]

Well, yea. You can kinda apply it to every death scene easily like that lol The other stuff is, uh, "lmao"

[@shirtycurty8068]

Violent games have actually been able to successfully pull this type of thing off AND have it be funny e.g. Gears of War has a "flowers" mode where all blood will be replaced with pretty flowers that pour out of corpses e.g. Call of Duty has a "paintball" mode where all bullets and blood is just paint. This version is hilarious because it simply doesn't work. DEFINETLY a tick box thing the creators had to do cuz upper management told them to do it.

[@GoldKnightProduction]

"I love Lego, but I *hate* plastic interlocking pieces." That's who this option is for.

[@tangovicious4224]

“I don’t want to see disturbing things in my space gore horror game” - Frank the fictive family man, probably 😂

[@ObsessiveGeek]

Right? Like who is this feature really for!!

[@JimTheCurator]

​@@ObsessiveGeek The shareholders.

[@peterbruzon9523]

Ikr! Like Imagine if PornHub had this feature? Like what's even the point 🤣

[@st.haborym]

Yeah no shit right?

[@jarskil8862]

​@@ObsessiveGeek To people who have traumas related on specific events. Blood and gore might be all fine to someone. But suicide, or children dying, etc can be too much to people, due personal traumas for example.

[@StrangeSunset7]

the censorship you had to do in this reupload made it super funny lol. “like, who reacts to someone *GIVE* their own *BOOBOO* “

[@ObsessiveGeek]

Excessive censorship in a video about excessive censorship just adds another layer to the entire subject.

[@silent0089]

KZbin being a sensitive *BOOBOO* as always

[@ntmfalloutproductions4713]

its getting worse

[@VincentAdultmanbearpig]

@@silent0089but who will preserve the perfect souls of our children???? KZbin will shoulder the burden, fighting the war on icky stuff with black rectangles and stern talkings to.

[@Whiskeytango812]

As funny as this is, it’s super inspiring for me as an artistic creator. The idea of a horror outlet (game, movie, series etc) where all of the creatures are HEAVILY blurred, to the point where you can’t make out anything other than their colours behind this big blurry square, is really scary! Like some kind of amnesia-esque, weird, mind trippy thing, where the monsters are on screen a lot of the time, and they’re horrifically killing people and mutilating them, but it can’t be seen *at all*. This would especially be even scarier if (unlike the game) it wouldn’t show the bodies of the people the monsters killed, you can just barely see the injuries and a large amount of red behind the blur, and the survivors react in horror.

[@GameDevYal]

Reminds me of one of the games Iron Pineapple covered in his soulslike dumpster diving series, which is based on Lovecraftian horror and all monsters are procedurally generated - you can't even tell what you're fighting, they're just a mess of limbs and eyes flailing around. Combining that with the same "looking at the monsters physically hurts you" mechanics from Amnesia would probably go pretty well together?

[@adog3129]

reminds me of that movie from a while ago, bird box

[@adog3129]

also close encounters of the third kind (except for that horrible ending). really there are a lot of movies that use it

[@DarkFalconDX]

One similar thing is that you can turn on content warnings in Chicory for when the characters take about depression and self doubt. But it's one of the most important parts of the game so it just confuses me.

[@Gadtkaz]

If it makes you feel any better nick, the reupload shenanigans are what got this to show up in my feed :)

[@babylonian]

pogggg

[@CalebFrey]

Same here, never seen it in my feed before (and I spend too much time on KZbin), glad it finally got shown to me.

[@vapor404]

@@CalebFrey i second that

[@VikingPoodle]

Same. This is my first time seeing it. Sorry about the bullshit, Nick. It's a great video

[@arthurdurham]

Same btw. I didn't even know he uploaded it so many times before

[@christiandevey3898]

My thought was it was a “Cover Your Ass” situation, they expected to get backlash over the gore and they want to point to this setting and say, “you can turn it off”

[@tripletsborn4628]

Yeah, but there is nothing here that can be taken as offensive. Not even in fantasy-land.

[@Ozzianman]

​@@tripletsborn4628 US politicians: Allow me to reintroduce myself

[@crowdemon_archives]

@@tripletsborn4628 Well, that is if you're an ordinary gamer, like many of us are (I mean, those who would find shite like this off-putting wouldn't even play this game to begin with).

[@TheBigQQ69420]

"You can turn it off" You can't... it blurs like two things and makes dying less time consuming... the rest is riddled with gore... lol

[@xGOOFYJELLYFISH]

Dead Space went from “your mom will hate it” to “too hot for tv”

[@harveydangerfield]

This whole discussion reminds me of the old "serious sam" games that I played over and over growing up. There was an option to turn off gore in that game, and made it so that whenever you shot and killed an enemy, they exploded with flowers instead, just a fountain of flowers. I think THAT option should exist in more modern video games, frankly.

[@fakskis]

I cannot imagine ANYONE intentionally buying this game, only to go into the settings and flipping on that setting to avoid gore, IN A DEAD SPACE GAME.

[@NrettG]

I feel you would only do it if your kid or something got the game and wanted to play. At the same time who the fuck is letting their kid play this.

[@Cinibonswirl26]

​@@NrettG Gotta love how people bitch about "violence in video games" or "toxic chats". It is rated Mature for a reason. Yet we still cater to those who are clearly not mature enough to handle the online world.

[@NrettG]

@@Cinibonswirl26 Toxic chats I can understand. I don't want to join a lobby where I just get shit talked and downplayed that entire night. But violence in video games? bruh, take care of your kid and stop playing the games. be responsible dumbass

[@cyberneticsquid]

Or maybe... there's people who can handle the gore just fine, but find, say, depictions of suicide triggering. It's not actually implemented in a way helpful with that, but there's a lot of ways to be disturbing, and people aren't always equally okay with them all.

[@volt42re]

@@cyberneticsquid It's kind of implied with a game that contains "disturbing content" that suicide is likely to be in the game. That's just kind of a broad term that I WISH they wouldn't use.

[@TripleJump]

I'm really glad I accidently waited until this edition to watch the video. The clunkily edited in KZbin censorship is really funny and thematically appropriate for a video about clunkily implemented Dead Space censorship and the little addendum at the end answered a lot of questions. Feels like this is the definitive edition of this video imo.

[@angelinasurzhyk6655]

I know!!! The censorship is SO funny and adds to the source material😂

[@deltahalo241]

This feature is absolutely bizzare in both design and implementation, but I'm glad it's there. It's hilarious

[@roeesi-personal]

I watched two of the previous versions of this video and the evolution it had was incredible. It's amazing how KZbin's weird automated filters and limitations breed your creativity instead of stopping you and made you create this video which is IMO better and funnier than the original.

[@MattyBoySwizzle]

This feels like a fascinating new genre of iterative video. Can't wait for next week's version, and maybe an eventual director's commentary.

[@TcherryTHOREST]

This is like Grounded's arachnophobia setting that makes spiders scarier instead of less scary by turning them into floating blobs. 😂

[@iamjustkiwi]

I always thought it was really funny how they handled that, but for dead space you just really can't make it work!

[@ZzsarkStormbeard]

I'm super grateful of that arachnophobia setting but it's still fucking scary.

[@derfzgrld]

With the difference that doing that actually works because it removes the visuals of spiders, which is the exact and only thing arachnophobes are affected by.

[@TcherryTHOREST]

@@derfzgrld The end result is better?! I must be floating blob phobic then. 😂

[@nikkiofthevalley]

Also Satisfactory, it turns them into flat images of cats with a glitchy effect. (the audio isn't modified)

[@Holgast]

The really shoddy implementation of this in the player deaths really makes me agree that it was handed down from above and they either didn't have enough time to do this properly, or couldn't be bothered. I get that some people would not want to see the self-booboo scene, if it was just for stuff like that and humans transforming I'd be totally on board. But the death stuff is such an outlier.

[@eclipserepeater2466]

A better (but more work) way to do the booboo scene would be to just... not have it happen at all. Have there not be a character there. If the feature had been planned from the start and had an appropriate amount of resources put behind it, that's probably what we would have gotten.

[@dudearlo]

But you gotta recognize... “Hides disturbing scenes behind a screen effect” is very accurate 😅

[@awii.neocities]

"Over here for the duration of this ᴮᴼᴼ ᴮᴼᴼ" Every single time that voice clip plays i laugh my ass off.

[@BAGELMENSK]

I can see a horror game with eldritch abominations that blur reality, and this feature inspiring it, in some way.

[@ashcar6903]

Kinda like White Christmas in Black Mirror? That actually sounds pretty cool (and terrifying lol)

[@BAGELMENSK]

@@ashcar6903 never seen black mirror

[@lancestryker]

Dead Space but you're playing Isaac Clarke's repressed memories instead of living through them.

[@crowdemon_archives]

LOL immersion but janky

[@natersumkatanuar7631]

Not wanting to see disturbing scenes in Dead Space is the same as going to the doctor to deny medicine.

[@zucumberzeez]

let's hope that this one stays up 😭

[@BlindMango]

I would love to one day see an interview with the developer whose task was to make these and hear all the ways they decided to do these and how entertained they were in doing it... or maybe how much they hated doing it? lol

[@alexjustalexyt1144]

A (maybe) easy fix that would let the option make sense is to basically use "minecraft logic". You don't see any blood, you don't see any parts getting dismembered, when anyone gets hurt or anything then npcs/ characters simply lose hp and the models stay intact, and when character/npc's die then they simply flop over. Would look pretty stupid but would actually make it "less disturbing" and have it make sense.

[@Mekugiofficial]

this reminds me of the one Black Mirror episode where disturbing things were blurred in real life for a child

[@supremechaosbeing2696]

there's nothing scarier than knowing something scary is happening and not being able to see it

[@chadmcdeadlift6792]

I work in an ER. What I see in Dead Space is just a normal Monday for me.

[@BM-yy8db]

I've never been more emotionally invested in anything than the bit between 8:55 and 9:51 to see the great lengths you went through to carefully carry your fire extinguisher buddy through the level. . TELL ME WHAT HAPPENED, DID YOU CARRY HIM TO SAFETY?!

[@Bumblybean33]

For weeks I desperately tried to avoid clicking on this video but you finally got me. I can’t fight the gravitational pull towards “Dead Space’s ‘Hide Disturbing Scenes’ option is extremely funny” a fourth time

[@nano-sult9442]

This option was added for KZbin staff. They sorely need it

[@TheDestructiveGiant]

imagine playing a horror game and turning on an option to hide the scary parts

[@aogasd]

for the game journalists to get a walkthrough of the lore 😭

[@cyberneticsquid]

Imagine enjoying one type of horror, but not another. Like, say, being fine with gore but not wanting to see depictions of suicide. The implementation's almost comically bad, but there is real justification for the idea.

[@yennefer440]

Might be for KZbinrs and Streamers.

[@yareyarejose5080]

@@cyberneticsquid if a movie, show, book, or game has an element that bothers you that much, i think it would be better to just avoid it entirely

[@cyberneticsquid]

@@yareyarejose5080 If that element is central to the media, I agree. But for a singular scene that has little long-term importance, why should one have to drop the rest of the media?

[@JeanMarceaux]

Good to know that "Nice disturbing scenes" gives the camera a selective cataract, I've always wondered how the legally blind feel, so inclusive, thank you John Dead Space Games 👏🗿

[@PapaPandasHasNoDad]

Man I'm glad he keeps in spirit of the original while adding new content for returning fans

[@mcmann7149]

One thing that I've noticed more and more throughout the years is the performative activism of companies in general. It's at the point where you're damned if you do the action and damned if you don't. Almost no one's going to take you seriously if you put a message or put people in a certain position but others are going to get mad at you if you don't do that.

[@esotericVideos]

I don't think anybody actually cares. Save for a few people on twitter, you aren't damned if you don't IMO.

[@thecheeze9001]

@@esotericVideosu know the, “video games cause violence” rhetoric is back amongst US politicians, right? Companies are basically covering all their bases in case it does come to legislation. And this “feature” is also convenient for streamers who are at the mercy of ever changing platform TOSes, which are increasingly moderated by AI which can never discern context. I don’t agree with the censorship, but to say that no one cares or nobody is being affected by this is plain wrong

[@corvus8638]

@@thecheeze9001 Anything to move to the focus away from their own violent rhetoric

[@Ozzianman]

​@@thecheeze9001 Funny thing, it's almost exclusively an US thing to blame games for violence. Out of touch politicians gonna out of touch yet again.

[@merpymerpington9175]

@@Ozzianman Well something has to cause gun violence, and it *obviously* can’t be guns…

[@redcap1923]

Damn, Isaac is banished to the Sasquatch dimension in cutscenes.

[@Cam-im8io]

This is like the black mirror episode where the mom controls what the daughter sees

[@Techhunter_Talon]

6:28 I can only the nightmares some of these devs went through when working with this game. To make stuff like this, you need reference material. Which means your browser history is going to be showing some... interesting results and topics you've looked up. Not to mention the fact you'll be looking at that stuff too constantly while working on this game's gore system. Safe to say, if any of them had nightmares then it wouldn't be surprising in the slightest.

[@frankpurvis9189]

Didn't they record a goat rotting specifically for the original games home screen.

[@madfox7659]

Some dude I interned under left VFX because they couldn't handle having to look at stuff like that as reference for what they would work on. Really made me think about if I wanted to be in that field or not.

[@RaptieFeathers]

The latest Mortal Kombat had some stories about the trauma developers went through, since they had to watch a lot of the kind of thing you'd see on LiveLeak. The validity of the stories have been disputed, but they make sense

[@RacingSnails64]

I forget what project I heard the report for--though it's a horrible widespread problem neglecting the mental health of game devs all over--but they had to observed photos and footage of people hanging for far too long. People should not have to look at that stuff for extended periods. If the higher ups REALLY want it in the game, they should have to do that research themselves.

[@frankpurvis9189]

@@RacingSnails64 playing devils advocate the higher ups might not know how to program physics or model 3d images. Just because you are in charge of them doesn't mean you know how to do their jobs. I do agree that if you can't handle it you should leave, mental health should always come first sadly a lot of people simply can't afford to take time off work.

[@terribletimes902]

KZbin’s hide disturbing everything feature on this video is even funnier

[@stonexl]

Oh there's no way EA didn't tell the devs to add it in. This reeks of "clueless executives demanding a studio give something more mass appeal".

[@xxitjixx]

Idk how, but I managed to mistake the cutscene with the captain for a remade death scene, where for a second I thought isaac would just fall over, whenever a death scene would play in any context

[@Sprite_real_]

Honestly I was expecting the blood to be turned to like confetti or something but this is so much better

[@averagechannelname9969]

Honestly that would probably be better lmao

[@frenandin]

"Ima fix Dead Space's 'Hide Disturbing Scenes' option is extremely funny" -Nick Robinson

[@babylonian]

AND I NEED YOU NOW

[@frenandin]

@@babylonian Ye or Lady A? We'll the viewer decide.

[@Glitch-Phases]

10:16 I don't remember who said this but I heard a Creator of Horror Media say something along the lines of "Your mind will come up with things more scary then I could ever come up with." That's what I'm thinking off when you say that

[@Greyfoxdbz18]

They should have just turned every model into a care bear

[@JeskidoYT]

oh man this is like an actual game getting rereleased on Nintendo switch!

[@babylonian]

this video is truly my Skyrim Special Edition

[@KaliTakumi]

This is even better the 4th time around

[@babylonian]

it is aging like a fine wine

[@chowder6534]

In gears of war 3, when you turn off gore, enemies spark instead of bleed and no one can get gibbed. Kinda funny to see them ragdolling with the sparks, its like theyre animatronics short-circuiting.

[@babylonian]

LOL. accidental fnaf prequel

[@RedLvcid]

I like to imagine that a motive employee is just looking at all the disturbing cutscenes, slaps a blur filter on it, and calls it a day

[@ENDfilms44]

On the topic of backfiring, I feel this is made more for those too grossed out rather than those too afraid. But yeah, the gameplay vs cutscene/setpiece disconnect is still there with that.

[@ObsessiveGeek]

For that vital hole in the market that appeals to people who want to buy a horror title but don't want any of the actual horror!

[@Garry_Combine]

​@@ObsessiveGeekyeah, this totally exists

[@jarskil8862]

​@@ObsessiveGeek People who wanna enjoy horror without wanting to tear wounds open related on someone's suicide, for example*

[@bananananananabatman8999]

@@jarskil8862 well then maybe they shouldn't get a game that depicts suicide very often, has general themes of insanity and suicidal ideation, and has a content warning for depictions of suicide and suicidal ideation. there are other horror games. also, as stated in the above video, it only covers the visuals so you can still hear everything. something else stated in the video is that making it impossible to see just allows your brain to put the worst possible version of what could be happening , like a loved one giving themselves a booboo, for example. so this method would actually make it far worse for people who went through that.

[@ObsessiveGeek]

@@bananananananabatman8999 Exactly, I think some folk forgot to watch the video!

[@kylereid132]

Uh oh, you wrote "hellscape" 30 seconds in... I'll keep my eye out for the 5th upload 🙄

[@halqwertz]

“Giving herself a bad boo-boo” - Nick, 2023

[@Simkets]

This is the moment when someone says or does something so ridiculous that you start laughing and jokingly acting alongside with them. But they just stand there, stare at you, and then say "I wasn't joking 😐". And then you go like "Oh...." and awkward silence ensues.

[@silverwaffles]

This feels like something an executive from EA asked for after being shown a cutscene but not realizing all the death and dismemberment that the game has. They're being pennywise and pound foolish

[@hajilee4539]

Bro this video is fire, can't wait for the next "Dead Space's "Hide Disturbing Scenes" option is extremely funny"

[@gearhead2519]

I wish somebody made a KZbin competitor already, because that intro... *I feel your pain, even though I never made any videos in this website, because HOLY SHIT*

[@bingus4374]

8:38 Look mom, I’m famous! In all seriousness though, I figured if not for creators- it would be in some way for the faint of heart. I am also a slightly squeamish horror enjoyer myself, but the feature seems like such overkill and yet so weirdly ineffective. Regardless, it’s an honor to be mentioned! I came back to this video because I was talking to a friend about it and had no clue it had been revised again. I had to do such a double take lolol

[@RadeonVega64]

nice

[@guyk768]

See y'all at the next Dead Space's "Hide Disturbing Scenes" option is extremely funny reupload.

[@juarezamorim]

Nick really loves the new Dead Space game, since he still plays it to this day.

[@rika8484]

This video and its upload journey are goddamn glorious. Thank you for your dedication.

[@freshglizzy3763]

The clip of Pat really takes me back. Time does fly

[@Pokav1deo]

You could do 90 of these and I’d watch them all. That said, I hope you never have to make another one.

[@trackernivrig]

KZbin really wants you to make your videos like the "Hide Disturbing Scenes" option

[@NintendoSunnyDee]

Man... I wanna see the uncensored version because I hate artists being forced to gut their own work.

[@spaceageGecko]

They didn't gut their own work, this is an optional setting.

[@NintendoSunnyDee]

@spaceageGecko My guy, Nick had to guit HIS work.

[@PouLS]

@@spaceageGecko It's not optional on YT.

[@tammytheranger7645]

You know how KZbin is towards anyone that isn't Markiplier.

[@spaceageGecko]

@@tammytheranger7645 Even mark gets hit by the TOS.

[@dr.muller3243]

The “boo, boo” bit had me dying lol

[@freddislettis9835]

I keep getting excited for a new Nick Robinson upload, and then I see that it's just this again. THANKS KZbin

[@RustyNips]

I know the pain but it's ok as each versis better then the last

[@urielsgift7585]

Nick I'm sorry for the pain you're going through, I just saw the intro

[@bennyballs22]

This is hilarious! Was wondering what that option did but didn’t turn it on because I didn’t want to miss anything. Thanks for doing the work for me lol

[@DeltaDNova]

Hey good idea! Next time I play MW2 I'll just close my eyes and enjoy the screams during the airport "boo-boo"!

[@mrmolo70]

The only possible thing I can think I'd want blurred is the eye stab in Dead Space 2 cause that shit rustles my jimmies.