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00:00 Welcome to Observer
08:12 The Story of Observer
26:41 So… Adam was [SPOILER]
29:11 Why do I like this game so much?
30:26 Side Quests & Worldbuilding
39:51 The Atmosphere
47:55 The Mechanics
57:15 Analysis
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Or is ai Adam Adam and real Adam god? He creates Adam and Adam acts against him to enter a cognitive world?
Gotta give it to them I really do enjoy this game. I didn’t even realize it was them who developed it unlit after I beat it. Still have no hope they will do SH2 justice
This game came out after my father passed, and Lazarski's voice acting hits so fucking hard. He really elevated clichés to something very human.
So glad you covered this one. It's definitely a case of lightning in a bottle for bloober, which is a shame. Their other games would benefit greatly from having the thought they put into Observer. Also, I wasn't the biggest fan of the ending/s at the time, but hearing you talk about it softened my opinion slightly. I realise I wanted a "good" resolution to the father/son dynamic, when that was never possible form the start of the game 🙁
Anyway, thanks for a great analysis!
Idk if I've asked this at all, but is there any chance you will ever cover Bugsnax? It's such a cozy and adorable game, and yet that ending and the underlying themes are pretty serious and interesting too!
This game and Get Even are always mixed together in my head. That's all, nothing interesting just thought some other people in the comments might feel the same lol
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I haven't played Observer myself, but I dearly love and admire Rutger Hauer as a person as well as a writer and actor and I miss him since his passing. One particular quote from his movie, "Blind Fury," (a highly underrated film if you ask me) that means a lot to me and describes many of my own struggles wherein he states, "My life changed, it didn't end." Over the past eight or nine years I've struggled with severe disabilities that I'm still receiving treatment for (what little can be done at least) and it turned my entire life upside down due to the pain and the loss of full control of my body (I can walk with a cane, but every second of my days are pure agony and uncontrollable limb movement) and while I'm still coming to terms with all of the things I can no longer do, I still try to find ways to function despite all I go through.
That quote, "My life changed, it didn't end," has basically become my mantra through all of this and in that way, I owe a great deal to Mr. Hauer for this revelation and my subsequent attitude I must take to make it through every day. Outside of acting, he was an incredible humanitarian and believed that anyone who has the means to help their fellow human beings should do so, something I have always long believed as well ever since I was a little kid and first heard the words, "With great power comes great responsibility." Yeah, I know, I'm a huge nerd.
Interesting tidbit of trivia to prove he was also an excellent scriptwriter is that his final monologue at the end of the movie Bladerunner he wrote himself during a lunch break while shooting the film on a napkin and then suggested to the director that they use it instead of the originally planned line and ran with it.
Ok, I'm done gushing, but I just wanted to touch on this considering Observer was the last thing Rutger Hauer worked on before his passing if I remember correctly, so I felt the need to say my piece on the man. Anyone who is as much a fan of him as I am will understand why I went to the trouble and know that he deserves no less.
your videos be so deep
A great vid on an underappreciated game.
Also, there was nice bilingual touch when Daniel walks to the AI Adam's head and the voices in the background are chanting "luring him in".
I've watched an at this point an absurd amount of deep dives into assorted (usually horror) video games and I find myself checking your channel weekly. Your content is clear and concise and I personally just quite like your delivery (: Even with mild to no knowledge in the subject going in I always get entertainment from your videos. I hope you continue to make content ! Will definitely be supporting it <3
I wanted to like this game. I really did. It had interesting things going for it, especially that side quest, ERRANT SIGNAL, and the fact it's got Rutger Hauer (who, sadly passed away about a year before system redux came out) playing Lazarski.
Good is a bit of a stretch. Not bad, mind. Just okay.
Umm…Cyberpunk IS a sci-fi dystopia. It's just a particular flavour of dystopia
Observer was the first Bloober game i played! I was so excited to see more. I saw the reviews for another game of theirs and rushed to play it, hoping for an experience just as good.
That game was The Medium, so. I had a bad time, ESPECIALLY as a victim of CSA.
I cannot wait to rip this studio apart for their take on silent Hill 2 which is probably going to be like "no you see, Angela's dad was the hero actually."
hmmm4_4 Goood show kinda nice
I'm confused and would like to know what you define as cyberpunk since for as long as I've been into it the whole thing has been sci-fi dystopia with unchecked corporate greed and questions of trans-humanism and the self being major aspects of it.
I really want silent hill 2 to be good but I will admit bloober team handled the mediums story so bad they basically make a child who has been abused the bad one and minimise what the offender has done with attempts to make him seem good by having him and his family save Jewish people during the war ect
that's what happens to babies when they watch too much telly
Thus are all those who defy the Overlord Kyron. Let His Words wash over you, and know that Her Peace is the Peace the World needs!
(Tyranny has a character named Kyron, who is the leader of the 'evil' empire you're serving.)
I have to admit, this and the Nier: Automata video actually make weird sense to be together like this, as you did a deep dive into this one, going through themes and the like, in a way you didn't for the former specifically because this one grabbed you in a way that one didn't, and so you wanted to learn more.
This is not a judgement, by the by, it's just an observation(And I didn't even need to mind jack anyone to make it). But regardless, there are a lot of weird parallels between the two titles. From the body hoping at the end, which is what 9S does in the first two main endings, to the ideas of self, to the idea of a plague that targets the brain, which is kind of what the virus that blew the bunker up did, on top of the Red Queen and it's…WTF moments near the end.
One in particular interesting bit is with the Pig she spends a bit on discussing, as there was a moment in Nier: Automata that actually did the EXACT same thing. Asking you if it was right to kill something, in this case a person you had been with for a long time in the game by that point, because reality was painful, or to give them a lovely dream, in this case by directly erasing all their memories.
And the third way out, of just walking away? The game called you on that, as it had an ending for that one(One of the 21 additional ones that are small dialogues and then over things.) which called you out on thinking you could get away without making a decision in and of itself.
Again, no judgement, but it is neat that you can actually see why this one might have grabbed you with its presentation and themes, where that one, which has similar but not only comes to a completely different conclusion, but presents itself in another way, didn't. Cool stuff.
1:11:32 Haha, I share your confusion.
messaging the polish company asking why the characters names are polish
50:02 – I was gonna make a joke here about Rutger Hauer starring as Daniel Lazarski based on his ID picture, but it turns out Rutger Hauer starred as Daniel Lazarski. Go figure. I just figured they ripped off his likeness, tbh.
I think there may be an aspect of the writer just being better writing cyberpunk-esque stories than straight up horror? I really liked Observer. Felt very simple conceptionally with a lot of mess around it. That works in cyberpunk as it's part of the genre. In straight up horror? Less so. Horror has a need to tie things up for catharsis while the cyberpunk convention does not.
I can't help but wonder if we are supposed to disagree with Daniel's opinions and attitude as the player character. The narrative doesn't paint him in a positive light, and it's very obvious that his attitude was a part of the estrangement of his son. I think Daniel's lack of empathy is meant to represent how society perceive class C citizens. I don't trust Bloober enough to think they understand the lack of nuance in their anti technology takes are bad, but I do think Daniel's character isn't meant to represent the values of Observer…at least not all of them. I think he just shows us an important and heartbreaking facet of the world, one that is a familiar enough to ours to cause deep discomfort.
Also, great job with all the literature references and tie-ins, your videos are always so detailed it's always a treat to see them!
Mert I need you to know that every single day i hear you saying technology bad in the depths of my mind and I'd have it no other way
The AI doesn't want humans to invade its realm, so it invades humanity's realm. Nice story bit.
LOVE this video! Finally something I agree with you on.