YMS Plays: House of Ashes - COMPLETE

[@sori_osori_]

Who would've known that not doing the plot twist of "Everything was a dream and nothing happened" can improve the game.

[@Alberich_Prince_of_Dwarves]

not that "Lmao Aliens" was much better. But still a smidgen more interesting.

[@Sugarman96]

@@Alberich_Prince_of_Dwarves It's not much better, but at least it's still something that's actually happening.

[@sori_osori_]

@@Alberich_Prince_of_Dwarves Yeah...alien reveal was really stupid. Like for some reason they don't like light? Just like vampires? Also, these super high tech aliens are somehow just can be killed by bullets, pipe and fire. Still, at least something meaningful and that had actual "consequences" was happening unlike previous games

[@klimpomp]

It was more interesting, but they still followed like the exact same plot as the last two times. They even had their own personal trope of people attacking you after they've "died" come back. Like the whole point of those bits in other games was that you're hallucinating. It seems strange to do so many similar things if that's not where you're going with it this time?

[@blunderbuss1395]

heyyyy spoilers dude come onnnnnnnnnnn :(())((((((((((

[@DigitalGamersX]

23:26 Little edits like this are why I love this current editor. Subtle, doesn't drag down the video or stop it unnecessarily, but still adds in a funny visual gag, even when they didn't have to.

[@josephschultz3301]

I love that Gael can speak Arabic, so we have a translator present to tell us exactly how poorly written this game is xD

[@jaydenwatches166]

From an arabic speaker, The arabic language is good, it wasnt translated, the only problem is theyre speaking an egyptian dialect not an iraqi dialect

[@GigiBranconi]

​@@jaydenwatches166surprised to see that, but it's something at least!

[@doar5974]

Gael is my favorite character in the YMSCU

[@ThatScootFanboy]

My personal favourite will always be Daddy Scoot.

[@Sugarman96]

Wario LW is the best character, a pure agent of chaos.

[@theSuper1Player]

The holy trinity of Pals

[@duartevader2101]

Mine is Scoot.

[@darghe]

I can only agree, his savagery knows no bounds even if they are subtle.

[@bleakautomaton4808]

Salim in the best timeline supports his son and was a badass vampire killer.

[@NeoKaiser0]

With no knowledge on the next game I'm gonna call the twist that the villain is actually the main character that doesn't know he is.

[@Alberich_Prince_of_Dwarves]

sooooooo.. Until Dawn ?

[@Guymanbot97]

@@Alberich_Prince_of_Dwarves I wouldn't put it past these developers to just blatantly copy on of their better games.

[@Alberich_Prince_of_Dwarves]

@@Guymanbot97 I mean they're literally playing by the same model. Subvert expectations, characters believed to be dead only to come back later, supernatural element that may or may not just be a psychological thing, mental illness, the ability to kill a main character as another main character, silly death later in the game because you failed to do a QTE or made the wrong choice in the beginning of the game.

[@kittencorp.3295]

20:02 frag grenades are mainly designed to fire out shrapnel that will kill humans, but it won’t have much of an effect on solid structures

[@JesusChristMarie]

We were missing Scoot’s wisdom during the scenes with the Middle Eastern people and the dude who sounded like GWB

[@blunderbuss1395]

that's probably exactly why he wasn't invited

[@aqua5758]

@@blunderbuss1395 He was "wrestling" men when this happened.

[@MaxEllSibSwe]

Every time you guys pointed out an issue I just said to myself: "It's the best made one but that doesn't mean it's well made" and smiled. God how is this the best of them XD

[@janesmith1840]

And it's still worse than Until Dawn

[@MaxEllSibSwe]

@@janesmith1840 YUP. I will never understand how they fell this far from grace to the point that their games can just fucking collapse in on themselves and we aren't surprised. Like, this isn't LiS, these guys were actually pretty quality at the beginning, certainly moreso than this bullshit!

[@josephschultz3301]

@@MaxEllSibSwe While I didn't love Until Dawn like a lot of people (lotta cringe in that game if you go back to it again), it's kind of amazing how far the quality dropped when they released Man of MaCHUNGUS. Literally every aspect got worse and now they just seem to be repeating that. The worst thing definitely has to be the "hey, *SUPER IMPORTANT* choices that aren't actually choices" thing though. I fucking hate that in games. Lying to your audience about plot importance/relevance and giving them a fake option to change it is just bad game design in general.

[@Hegataro]

Gael had the same experience with the Arabic in this game that I had with the Czech in Deus Ex: Mankind Divided Google translated, not double checked by a natural speaker, spoken by american voice actors

[@etrs]

Adum needs to play dx

[@Oujouj426]

Wasn't that developed by a French or Quebecois Dev team? You'd think they'd know better than to rely on the American method considering how hard they tend to mangle french.

[@Hegataro]

@@Oujouj426 It was developed by Eidos Montreal indeed There are news papers in the game that are very clearly french and then translated word by word into czech, because they have nonsensical syntax

[@theautisdickcritic]

Same with the Indonesian in the original Uncharted.

[@thatguyseb8824]

Dark Pictures is the American Horror Story of videogame franchises.

[@Bhazor]

22:46 the pop up of her blood soaked face with the :I expression got a real laugh out of me.

[@klg9549]

Maybe I'm being overly-optimistic here, but I always justified the characters' behaviour in Until Dawn because ... they're immature, asshole teenagers, and I liked that if you picked the "good" choices it made the whole story into something of a redemption arc by having them all go through hell and grow to genuinely care about each other (especially Emily, who despite starting out as one of the meanest is the one who uncovers a ton of the mystery and does end up genuinely caring for Matt if you get a good ending). And Mike wasn't cheating on Emily with Jess, they were just exes. When you have ADULT characters going around acting like teenagers and cheating and having a love triangle like it's a soap opera, all my potential care for whether they live or not goes down the toilet. None of these characters are likeable, except for maybe Salim from what I saw here. What the hell happened to the writing after Until Dawn? I'm gonna assume it's different people, because it can't be the same person.

[@denboix7524]

Until Dawn charcaters were flat well

[@lugoorstar]

@@denboix7524 fat*

[@Persephone01]

Until Dawn was actually written out of house! Its written by two horror screenwriters who are fantastic :) One of them actually has his own independent film company where you can submit short horror screenplays (Im working on one now) and get a potential cut. I'd love to work for Supermassive games as I have loads of cool horror concepts that are in the similar ish vein to UD and not the Anthology pictures.

[@lillieampurra]

salim is great because his only conflict is "i am fighting a war that i dont want. i want to go home to my son. in order to go home i have to work with the people who call me the enemy" and none of the interpersonal drama shit

[@aqua5758]

Yeah I thought that Rachel and Eric were in their late 20's by how immature they were, but they were actually nearly 40. Salim is the GOAT. He's funny, charismatic and also Buffy the vampire slayer

[@SomeIcelandicDude]

Love Gaile's perspective and insight on this one, not enough Lord of The Rings talk though 6/10.

[@Alberich_Prince_of_Dwarves]

I love that Adum & Pals are deliberately trying to play as poorly as possible. That genuinely makes this tripe more bearable. Can't wait for the next installment in the Dork pictures Anthology.

[@Spacie_687]

First time?

[@Alberich_Prince_of_Dwarves]

@@Spacie_687 not really.

[@JustaRandomGuy890]

The grenade in 20:00 is actually somewhat realistic, the explosive charge in a grenade is very small and doesn’t not cause a lot of damage what is dangerous is the fragmentation the grenade throws, this wouldn’t hurt a wall too badly

[@JustaRandomGuy890]

21:50 Gaels character is clearly wearing a ceramic plate which can easily stop any pistol caliber… just as I gave this game credit…

[@Vulgarth1]

@@JustaRandomGuy890 Internal trauma maybe.

[@theSuper1Player]

19:16 That line was oddly delivered. It sounds less like he’s telling Nick to come back to his sense and more like he’s telling him to break the picture’s neck bones

[@ohitspep]

Until Dawn really was a fluke, wasn't it?

[@LRiv1996]

Until Dawn was a much longer game with actors who made the experience much better. They had Rami Malek, who was a character that had such a tragic ordeal to go through and he performed very well. Also, Until Dawn being a longer game helped to establish the characters a lot better. Despite the cheesy dialogue (which is reminiscent of older slasher films), the later half of the story became a lot more tense and actually got Adum invested in the game.

[@josephschultz3301]

@@Sm0k3turt What planet do you live on and when will the aliens be invading?

[@josephschultz3301]

@@Sm0k3turt Eh, props for rolling with it. Good on ya.

[@railenherman6482]

Wow, I actually liked this game.

[@josephschultz3301]

@@railenherman6482 That's not our problem, yo.

[@JustTheWarning]

Hilarious. I love Gael, esp the therapy role-reversal and explanation of bad translations (even though they had someone who spoke it in the studio clearly?!??) Bro yeah, these games have gotten so boring and monotone and "your choices never actually mattered", it's hard to watch- this is the only time I've actually been able to see the entire game, cause ya'll played it lmao

[@AdonanS]

20:16 Oh now it has to struggle. The thing has been pulling dead and living bodies into the darkness with ease up until now.

[@inciaradible7144]

For a game that focuses on telling a story solely through characters, the voice acting, character animations, and script are shockingly awful.

[@Guymanbot97]

I was gonna say. It felt like the voice mixing was just so awful for most of the characters. With the exception of the racist army guy, everyone sounded like they were literally phoning it in.

[@inciaradible7144]

@@Guymanbot97 yeah, it's pretty shocking; maybe they weren't paid enough to try harder? Idk.

[@railenherman6482]

I actually liked this game and the characters.

[@Guymanbot97]

It's crazy to think that Until Dawn was pretty competent in what it was trying to do. But so far every release these guys have done afterwards just feels confusing. And why are we still doing this "episodic games" thing. I thought Telltales initial death would have been a sign as to why that was a trend that should probably end

[@sori_osori_]

I kinda think developers don't really know what made Until Dawn successful. Despite Until Dawn being a enjoyable ride, it still had similar problems that Dark pictures anthologies had (especially the ending being not that different for each route), but the characters and story were fun despite of cliches. Also it had some nice set-up for later deaths and few surprises. I think developers just thought "let's copy Until Dawn but without what made it good" and we got...this.

[@gogleiztrash7034]

Until Dawn had more time and effort put into it. It wasn't an annual Halloween cashgrab like its succesors.

[@sori_osori_]

@@gogleiztrash7034 The lack of time and effort really shows in the casting as well. Personally Dark Pictures anthologies series reusing the same actor(or face model) for different characters really bothers me as the series goes on. It's almost Dhar Mann level to me.

[@Alberich_Prince_of_Dwarves]

They had Sony money for Until Dawn. Dark Pictures they reuse models. The Clarice woman was in Little Hope as well and the black american was from Man of Medan (the nerd brother)

[@Alberich_Prince_of_Dwarves]

@@sori_osori_ Dude, yes, the model reusing is so weird. I don't mind if a game is reusing assets if they have a tiny budget, but I have to wonder if Dark Pictures has next to no budget when they make these episodic mini-games. Man of Medan *looked* pretty good to me, all things considered. Little Hope looked pretty good, too. I have no clue what was up with House of Ashes, because I remember the reveal that Ashley Tisdale was in it *looked* good to me as well. As far as I'm aware, these games sell. So who is pocketing the money?

[@mdmPr0ductions]

0:20 "If you can't even pronounce their name, should you be able to pick them?" Gael 2022

[@Luna-Fox]

The cut the rope choice can result in Eric's death, plus it affects what Rachel thinks of you. I understand why it seems like the game railroads choices, but they do have impact.

[@tdata545]

2:53 I'm totally okay with picking this helmet off of this bloody floor, but creepy crawlies, gross. NO THANK YOU.

[@cuddlesthetiger5739]

The timer icon was the most menacing enemy in the entire game

[@sirleeproductions]

lol

[@SonicHaXD]

I like how every time the monsters show up. The boyz get sexual XD

[@comradewolf4901]

Furries man. SMH

[@Kittysuit]

these games are much more fun to play online with a friend because two story lines are happening at the same time, instead of just passing the controller around. and i think thats how they were meant to be played. ps. jason is best boii

[@AMasondude]

I should have started watching this channel along time ago, this is gold.

[@LangstonDev]

Glad to see Lil Weinsteins getting fair representation in AdumPlaze.

[@-inputoutput]

i love when games go 'holy this guy needs all the help we can give him, lets just play the game 4 this invalid' adum just goes 'HAH NO CONSEQUENCES HAHAHA NICE GAME LOSER'

[@levikrupp1440]

I mean, the game is just proving Adums point. Adum knows his poor gameplay won’t affect anything so he doesn’t even bother.

[@fussanchez2716]

23:10 i love the way the blood (being a liquid) does not react at all to rachel thrashing around

[@jackwhite2654]

I love LW's laugh

[@bobtom1495]

Finally, been waiting for this. And I'm still waiting on No More Heroes 3...

[@siko-society5635]

The king guy has a poggers statue approve

[@de209hoth4]

when bullets just refuse to fire straight out of the barrel (is it just me or did the bullets fire diagonally from where they were aiming like the guns in a bullet hell game when it's the equivalent of an AOE attack through out that entire sequence 20:40 worst guns ever)

[@attackofthecopyrightbots]

my god hes uploading

[@donnytonny730]

jason going back to rescue salim- so fucking hard man like the animation he used to spear that monster from afar near the end- was also a hostage situation like thats kinda sick but also kinda lazy and recycling- but when realizing the epic part its a lot more cool

[@Dynomafia139]

9:45 impeccable reference 😭

[@davejones9469]

I just tried some weed called Cherry Jam...looks like the devs had a bunch on hand too.

[@Owen-zm6sq]

Dark pictures really said "oh you know shitty horror movies from the early 2000s? What if there were more of them and sometimes you had to hit a button?"

[@MSLcorp]

in 9:03-9:04, does that look like the flying shell models look like its the bullet cartridge itself?

[@fearofthechippan]

And I was really excited for this game...

[@anubisizzy]

Are you guys gonna play Mass effect 2, if it's on twitch will it be put on YT?

[@babbymammoths]

I love these games in every way

[@HolyApplebutter]

38:05 I'm so confused by this scene. Like, you think this is punishment for whatshername abandoning her friend earlier... but no. She just... cuts the rope, and ends the situation in about 10 seconds. I know they're just trying to tie up a lose end, but it's practically over the moment it starts!

[@Catzbe]

LWWWWWWWWWW I love his laugh so much

[@sirleeproductions]

Fax ☠️

[@lillieampurra]

21:29 this guy shows up in scenes where a character can die

[@bleakautomaton4808]

I can see that they were going to do the yoink fake out with the monsters in this one, but the last two doing so badly including Little Hope especially tanking, Dark Pictures totally backed up and said "fine real monsters, geez!"

[@MmaSmarty87]

Oh another one of these types of games 😂

[@sevenletters3247]

كنت على بعد يوم من التقاعد.

[@Dynomafia139]

😂😂

[@kristenb7967]

29:54 simultaneous Canadian

[@Xanegoh]

5:20 I'll at least give Man of Medan a slight pass since everyone was huffing fear gas throughout the game. So, the whole "ghosts were actually hallucinations from drugs" isn't that bad. Little Hope's "it was all a dream" copout was fucking stupid. If it didn't come right after MoM, then it probably wouldn't have been as bad.

[@jmarra07]

23:42 Wait...he has a bulletproof vest on. You can't stab somebody with a BPV on lol

[@sori_osori_]

Not to be mean but you can actually stab someone with bullet proof vest. There's knife proof vest that is for preventing from getting stabbed

[@Purutheseal]

Hell yeah!

[@comradewolf4901]

How has Adum not played Cliffhorse yet? CLIFFHORSE.

[@funkybones]

Are y'all gonna upload a complete of NMH3? Just wondering

[@jmarra07]

What's NMH3?

[@ritenac6770]

No More Heroes 3

[@YMS]

Eventually

[@funkybones]

@@YMS good enough for me!

[@Stiasteny]

The big question is: how did they get Ashley Tisdale as an actor? She hasn’t really done anything recently

[@juwonaman]

Let's goooo babeeee

[@andersonsmiths7437]

is it just me or when it comes to the graphics, it looks like the developers put 90%of their effort ONLY on the character’s faces????

[@fussanchez2716]

don’t think so - lighting and environments look great. besides, if you watch their faces when there’s no mocap it’s just a blank stare

[@johnReico]

The narrator is Death so he's stack is killing everyone :D

[@AdventurerPotato]

hey I remember this game at bandai gameshow at E3 hahaha

[@alan62036]

WhErE's RaChEl

[@donnytonny730]

the last three minutes get a lot more plausible with a full cast(5) but a lot funnier wiht just sweet life girl and racist american solider (2) whihci is why i think this should exist tbh

[@kittencorp.3295]

In little hope, the twist really was that it was all in your head and I don’t remember there really being proper foreshadowing for it. Man of Medan isn’t really like that though, you can figure out quite early on that the gas is causing hallucinations if you pay even a bit of attention, and figuring out that information will be genuinely helpful to the player and help you keep people alive. Plus, you really did get kidnapped by pirates and have to fight them, and you really were on the ship, so it wasn’t really ‘all in your head’

[@ab-oj9wv]

Salim ♥️ Pipe Name a better romance

[@soyboy8846]

Yay:)

[@OneOfTheLoveless]

I like that this company was like: "well we did make a David cage / dontnod horror game, that was mildly successful. Let's make 5 of these now."

[@CaptainLog]

Why do all the characters look like wet ham?

[@Awoken0]

Any chance for Dark Souls 3 or Bloodborne getting an edited series?

[@sibusisongema1342]

It's currently being edited by fanboy

[@Awoken0]

@@sibusisongema1342 Thanks!

[@Proud11Peacock]

Ashley Tisdale should have sued them for how weird this game made her look

[@sirleeproductions]

lol

[@zacharykaiser5910]

Adum Gael and Joe DeRosa

[@comixproviderftw_02]

Back again, huh?

[@dojan26]

And about time to

[@donnytonny730]

It sucks that you have to do 36 specific arbitrary choices to get an alright horror story with semiemotional character beats

[@Oujouj426]

So can I play this game and let the Americans get merc'd?

[@jmarra07]

They're still making these Dark Pictures Anthology games? Holy shit. Who unironically enjoys these things? They're SO BAD

[@bkebradley]

Is it just me or does this not look that much better than Until Dawn?

[@etrs]

It looks worse.

[@teeniebeenie6338]

Lol

[@Toniscampers]

“What if I don’t?” The series from adum. We get it

[@MJ-kc9ic]

I 👏 did 👏 not 👏 know 👏 this 👏video 👏 was 👏 out 👏 and 👏 I 👏have 👏 notifs 👏 on 👏 fuck KZbin

[@4203105]

Oh that tomorrow war thing. That was so stupid, after a movie full of stupid.

[@logancade342]

"Guyk" sounds like a slur; the most offensive way to refer to just a regular guy.

[@donnytonny730]

i love playing these on my own and seeing how far from the expected this channel provides and how it basically breaks the game by gambling with important characters that branch off later. This is a game to play alone- to play it with multuple people incresaes behavior against the creators intention- part of it is their obvios poor planning and part is how adum plays games if you wanna play the dark picture games after watching adumplayz i recommend you will have a better time- bc you cant mess up as bad as they do try and its a good combo 9/10

[@donnytonny730]

like watching that you can accednetly axphysiaxte Merlin made me laugh here and i wondered if i could save him0 he can go much farther on it turns and preferring his health can inadvertantly cause death. Its difficult there are some characters that can die in like thirty ways and some (mostly the memorable celebrities) that have plot immunity

[@fruitjuiceshibe]

why does this genuinely look worse than a 2013 PS4 game

[@ievandrollinger]

first!

[@kittencorp.3295]

I will say that they are overly hostile to the game at times. Like of course the very first decision you make won’t have serious consequences. It’s the tutorial. It’d be pretty shitty if you accidentally messed up the first QTE because you hadn’t been given a chance to learn them and a character just instantly died. Also, they sometimes act like a choice only has consequences if it makes someone die. Like, if you’re a massive asshole to everyone around you IRL, they probably won’t just straight up kill you, but if you need help later on they might choose not to. That doesn’t mean that being an asshole to them was a ‘fake choice’.

[@knightfallprotocol]

Yeah his ideology when it comes to these games are "if this choice doesn't kill me, it doesn't matter". Even tho he should know by now that these games are built around a domino effect where most of the choices LEAD to death, not INSTANT death.

[@heckingbamboozled8097]

LW is unbeliebably bad at this game.

[@dianaberlin4767]

Yayyyyyyy no Scoot 🥰

[@gogleiztrash7034]

You are obsessed with him. Just ask him out already.

[@etrs]

If you don't like scoot then you shouldn't watch this channel lol

[@LangstonDev]

Also don't like your own comment, it has already been ratio'd to the bottom of the comment section, it's not helping anything.