For me it's the part where he calls it "probably forgotten" because it came out 6 years ago; if i think about it i remember the time between fallout 1+2 as a lifetime, and that was like 3 years? But this, at 8 years old now, and I'm thinking "firewatch old and forgotten? It just came out, I'm so excited to see more of this trend in interactive storytelling"😂😂😂 Best part of being a fossil who came up when games having graphics was revolutionary; i don't even play them anymore, but l love seeing where the tech(nology&nique) is with RUclips. I even find channels full of old games i never got to try, or knew of when i was young
@Scp716creativecommons did you ever play Mordor: The depths of dejenol? (It had nothing to do with LotR) Man I miss that game. I've been trying to figure out how to get it working on a modern computer. I find older games were simply better then most modern games. Idk if it's a fossil thing, or if they simply were better. I choose the later personally. 🙂
something a lot of people playing also miss, if you divert your route at any point before entering the cave to find Brian, the locator will start going off. And it leads to a dead deer with a tracker attached to it as well as some status reports. Upon finding this Henry reports it in and realizes the whole conspiracy was a hoax and that camp with the radio tower was just some people performing tests on the enviroment.
I talked about the deer and it leading to Dave’s hideout but I didn’t know about finding out it was all a hoax, unless it’s a different point of the game
Firewatch was never forgotten. It's a fantastic game that, whenever I see brought up, is still held in very high regard. It's a single player game that, unless you missed achievements, you can only really play once. Kinda tired of people calling some older single player games "forgotten" just because they aren't highly replayable or some live service that's getting updates; people remember and love Firewatch, it just doesn't require much discussion nowadays.
Well to be fair I think most of us would be a little unsure if we wanna get with the guy who has a wife with Alzheimers. Like..... I feel like that would be too big of a hurdle to get over lol
What a beautiful game - it's a shame there is little replayability value once the main story is told. Would be great to have some wholesome task-based DLC where you can explore the environment more!
I always wanted a sequel or like some continuation but I guess it would ruin the point of the game being that it’s meant to be unsatisfying as Henry is just going back to his life. There is the free roam mode to explore the park but that’s really it.
I hated this guy, mostly because of how the dev treated people playing this game while streaming or on RUclips, copyright claiming a lot. Wish you would’ve talked about that, but makes sense it wasn’t the focus.
I wouldn't say this game has gone forgotten. I still see it yearly in "top indies of ___" and I remember people being fond of it at the time it came out too. The reason it isn't talked about much is because of how the developer acted really shitty and tarnished his reputation. But its still a very beautiful game, even if the ending leaves a lot to be desired
Yeah a lot of people have been saying this in the comments, I’m probably going to make a follow up video talking about it after my next video, because it’s very interesting
I just started this game and it's pretty damn sad before starting the job at the tower. I thought my guy was gonna hook up with the girls shooting the fireworks... Had to turn it off when I got back to the tower... damn vandals... Hope we catch them... anyway.. I was shocked how I felt from the start of the game.
This isn't tragic and the game isn't forgotten, it's just old. This isn't the story of why the game was forgotten like the clickbait title intends, but it's just a recap of the game - this sucks.
fair enough, you are allowed an opinion. The tragic story is of how all the lookouts are looking for escape and some succumb to upsetting conclusions with Dave possibly dying and Ned losing his son. Also yeah the game isn't forgotten per say, but its better than calling the video (The Tragic Story of A Old Game)
So, is the game actually not that complicated? We do our job as a lookout guy, but we eventually cross Ned's path, so she act like she doesn't know, covering him in order to keep her job if the police were to know she was protecting a weirdo in the forest She plays along, and leads us to various locations so we don't cross Ned, but unfortunately for her and Ned, Henry is persistant about all this One thing i don't get, is the "area 51" sorta place. She seems shocked to know that Ned made a bio of her as well. Again, does she act confused, as it was a plan from both her and Ned to lure Henry, or is she really surprised by this? This game confuses me, and that's what i like about it Like you, however, i do think she didn't know about Brian. Or once again, does she? After all, why covering Ned so much? Maybe she was afraid about Ned's secret and her involvement being discovered, and Henry was the man who knew too much about this place Another thing i don't get, is Delilah's flirting. Ned heard what she and Henry were saying to eachother, and in a note, he seems jealous So was Delilah actually starting to care about us for real? And it wasn't just a plan to pull Henry to her instead of Ned's secret? Again, this game has many, many interpretations. And i'm really sad that i don't have a clear answer about Delilah. I ended up caring about her through the game, and i can't get the idea that she "might" not be our ally out of my head Or again, is she? I don't KNOWWWW!
What I truly believe is that Delilah knows Ned is in the park so keeps it a secret, so whenever Henry sees Ned or stuff left out by him, they have to cover their tracks like with the phone lines being cut, or saying it was all because of the people at wapiti station, by planting made up documents about Delilah and Henry, I’m just mad we don’t get a conclusive answer but I guess that is the point of the game
Why do you keep zooming in to the texts? The font is big enough to read and I was reading the whole thing just fine but you kept zooming in 😭😭 However I really enjoyed the video and I subbed!
What a clickbait title and thumbnail. I guess it worked though, even if half the comments are saying what I'm saying. It's a single player game with little replayability, but it was big when it came out and is still held in a high regard generally. It's not a live service game or something multiplayer so it comes out, people play it at the time and enjoy it, and then move on to other games. In five years people will start calling Red Dead Redemption 1 and 2 'Forgotten' and 'Rockstar's Hidden Gems' in the buildup hype for GTA 6.
I responded weeks ago to the first comment that said something similar but yes the title is a bit clickbaity but that’s just to grab peoples attention, I don’t want it to be boring as I’m not a big channel. The tragic story is about Ned, Dave, Henry and all the other lookouts tragic lives and even if the game isn’t fully forgotten it’s not proactively remembered by all unless reminded. I’m sorry that it can be seen as clickbaity but it’s the only way a lot of people can get seen nowadays and it’s not actually a false title. Going forward I’ll try and be a lot better in the way I word myself.
Forgotten? At the time the game blew up everywhere. Everyone was playing it online and making videos. Where games like Grow up, Abzu, Shadow Tactics, and Unravel went mostly unnoticed.
I bought it for $3.99 on the ps store. I don't hate it, but I'm very glad i didn't pay the full price of 19.99. The game really doesn't have much going for it other than mystery and an ok story. The gameplay is severely lacking. This is essentially a walking and talking simulator where your dialog choices don't matter. The map is depressing. There's not much exploring to do. No wildlife other than the buck you run into at the beginning. Story is ok, but when it ends, all you'll have is questions you'll never get answers to. Delilah is clearly lying and involved with Ned to what extent who knows game won't explain. Why did ned and Delilah drag Henry through all this? What was the game plan when they trapped henry in the cave?? Did they really burn a forest down just to make henry even more suspicious and determined to find out what was really going on? In the end the one thing this game does right is get you invested mostly because you want answers, only to blueball the fuck outta you and tell you nothing. You never get to meet Delilah, you never understand why ned was soo hell bent on exposing his horrible secret to you of all people, and why the fuck Delilah would help him orchestrate such a weird set of events. Oh and there's no replay value here ending stays the same no matter what choices you made. I unfortunately never found the tortoise and never will. All in all for $3.99 I'd give this game a 4/10 the game is interesting while you play it when it ends you realize your left at a cliffhanger but the show flopped so you won't be seeing the next episode.
I wrote my 15-page school paper on Firewatch, my teacher got intruiged and played through it about three times. He didn't even like video games at the time but he loved this one. Got a straight A
@@genesisbandit I wrote it on the echochamber effect and picked firewatch as an example because I felt like it depicted it pretty much perfectly with Delilah and Henry only being able to communicate with each other and mutually feeding their superstitions to the point where even the player expects some big conspiracy to be revealed at the end still very proud about that one haha
After I learned that the Firewatch dev filed DMCA struck downs against pewdiepie for playing this game my interest in this game went null. It just seems so slimy to first give written a permission to upload the game play footage, then profit of free advertisement and after pewdiepie was accused of racism, throw a sissy fit.
what I remember or what I guess happened is that Ned found the camp and stole the underwear to make the sign at the broken wires but didn't actually do anything to the girls, they just didn't show up to their aunts house as they went joyriding. Unless Delilah was lying to us, what she likes to do.
Why did you say "So we are being cryptid" @ 14:49 ? That makes no sense at all. Its like you made some odd verbal spelling mistake lol. The word is cryptic and not cryptid. Very small spelling change, very different meaning.
The moment Pewdiepie was attacked and DMCA filed (abused) to take down his Firewatch let's plays, was the reason this game no longer existed for me. To this day, it's insane that RUclips allowed it to happen, considering that the person behind this personal crusade - Sean Vanaman, openly hated Pewdiepie and even said that he'll do this for all future titles of Campo Santo, and that he'll go the extra mile and pull on all of his industry strings to try and cut Pewdiepie off from content that "made him a millionaire". Pewdiepie has broken no rules, in fact, on their website it was stated that all streamers have permission to monetize Firewatch videos. It was a personal vendetta from a manchild that decided to abuse the YT DMCA system and his position within the industry, to practically cyberbully a creator for as long as they have a platform. If Sean Vanaman has never apologized to Pewdiepie for this, I do hope the worst to him and that his contributions be erased from the industry because as someone as hateful as him doesn't deserve to be credited anywhere. I can like the game all I want but the fact of the matter is that one rotten apple spoiled the whole bunch for me. You of course, can like the game for what it is. There's no shame in that. I apologize for talking about an issue that happened 7 or so years ago and that it has nothing to do with the game's story.
Yeah I learnt about this a week ago when the video released, I love the game for what it is, so I want to separate it from the devs as obviously they were not nice to pewdiepie or other content creators that tried to stream the game
As much as I would like to watch your content this game is highly boring to me, which is probably why this game disappeared. I’m sorry if you liked the game but most people including me find it extremely boring if not tedious
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Someone calling 2016 "when i was growing up" makes me feel old
seriously tho...
Oh dear haha
For me it's the part where he calls it "probably forgotten" because it came out 6 years ago; if i think about it i remember the time between fallout 1+2 as a lifetime, and that was like 3 years? But this, at 8 years old now, and I'm thinking "firewatch old and forgotten? It just came out, I'm so excited to see more of this trend in interactive storytelling"😂😂😂
Best part of being a fossil who came up when games having graphics was revolutionary; i don't even play them anymore, but l love seeing where the tech(nology&nique) is with RUclips.
I even find channels full of old games i never got to try, or knew of when i was young
@Scp716creativecommons did you ever play Mordor: The depths of dejenol? (It had nothing to do with LotR) Man I miss that game. I've been trying to figure out how to get it working on a modern computer. I find older games were simply better then most modern games. Idk if it's a fossil thing, or if they simply were better. I choose the later personally. 🙂
He's a kid. His wording is a bit clumsy.
something a lot of people playing also miss, if you divert your route at any point before entering the cave to find Brian, the locator will start going off. And it leads to a dead deer with a tracker attached to it as well as some status reports. Upon finding this Henry reports it in and realizes the whole conspiracy was a hoax and that camp with the radio tower was just some people performing tests on the enviroment.
I talked about the deer and it leading to Dave’s hideout but I didn’t know about finding out it was all a hoax, unless it’s a different point of the game
As far as i am aware fire watch wasn't forgotten its just that it has very little replayability and served just to tell the one story.
Stanley parable joke is underrated
its such a good game
Firewatch was never forgotten. It's a fantastic game that, whenever I see brought up, is still held in very high regard. It's a single player game that, unless you missed achievements, you can only really play once. Kinda tired of people calling some older single player games "forgotten" just because they aren't highly replayable or some live service that's getting updates; people remember and love Firewatch, it just doesn't require much discussion nowadays.
Still can't believe D just left the guy like "oh, thanks for letting me lead you on for like 2 months and just leave you" =_=
Well to be fair I think most of us would be a little unsure if we wanna get with the guy who has a wife with Alzheimers. Like..... I feel like that would be too big of a hurdle to get over lol
The game wasn't forgotten the devs were just ass hats
Yeah I wish I knew about this before because I would of talked about it
wait what happened?
i thought this was a super popular video before the video ended but great job!
Thanks!
@@genesisbandityeah man, thought this got hundreds of thousands of views. You deserve more for this masterpiece
Haha thank you, hopefully after I make more videos, they will get pushed out more
Great Video! Although I never played Firewatch myself. It feels so nostalgic to see content about it every now and then
Thank you, the game is great, weird it came out 8 years ago, but it was so good for when it came out
I will never forgive Valve for just absorbing Campo Santo and making them abandon In the Valley of Gods. It looked so interesting from the trailer
Campo Santo had a lot to offer but because of all the controversy, they never had a real chance to shine
What a beautiful game - it's a shame there is little replayability value once the main story is told. Would be great to have some wholesome task-based DLC where you can explore the environment more!
I always wanted a sequel or like some continuation but I guess it would ruin the point of the game being that it’s meant to be unsatisfying as Henry is just going back to his life. There is the free roam mode to explore the park but that’s really it.
Firewatch has got to be one of my favorite video games and favorite soundtracks of all time. Amazing video man.
Thank you so much
I hated this guy, mostly because of how the dev treated people playing this game while streaming or on RUclips, copyright claiming a lot. Wish you would’ve talked about that, but makes sense it wasn’t the focus.
Yeah people have told me about it, wish I knew before as I would of talked about it
I wouldn't say this game has gone forgotten. I still see it yearly in "top indies of ___" and I remember people being fond of it at the time it came out too. The reason it isn't talked about much is because of how the developer acted really shitty and tarnished his reputation. But its still a very beautiful game, even if the ending leaves a lot to be desired
Yeah a lot of people have been saying this in the comments, I’m probably going to make a follow up video talking about it after my next video, because it’s very interesting
I just started this game and it's pretty damn sad before starting the job at the tower. I thought my guy was gonna hook up with the girls shooting the fireworks... Had to turn it off when I got back to the tower... damn vandals... Hope we catch them... anyway.. I was shocked how I felt from the start of the game.
Damn, you played this while growing up?
My condolences
Huh haha, why, because it’s sad?
Just as a thing- encrypted radios are a thing- and the radio delilah gives you seems pretty advanced
Oh dear haha ok, I meant like how it’s easy to join in on different frequencies
I wouldn't say it's forgotten
Maybe not forgotten, but not talked about a lot these days
@@genesisbandit because it's a game that came out 8 years ago
I always wanted to play that game but could never afford an xbox one or a decent PC, it really does look like a work of art.
nice video btw
Yeah the game is so beautiful for coming out in 2016
I played it on my laggy a$$ pc and it took me months lmao
This isn't tragic and the game isn't forgotten, it's just old. This isn't the story of why the game was forgotten like the clickbait title intends, but it's just a recap of the game - this sucks.
fair enough, you are allowed an opinion. The tragic story is of how all the lookouts are looking for escape and some succumb to upsetting conclusions with Dave possibly dying and Ned losing his son. Also yeah the game isn't forgotten per say, but its better than calling the video (The Tragic Story of A Old Game)
@@genesisbanditit kind of was forgotten though after the hype with markiplyer playing it died down
Amazing video, the stanley parable joke was the cherry on top and my que to subscribe
You may like what my next video will be on then
So, is the game actually not that complicated? We do our job as a lookout guy, but we eventually cross Ned's path, so she act like she doesn't know, covering him in order to keep her job if the police were to know she was protecting a weirdo in the forest
She plays along, and leads us to various locations so we don't cross Ned, but unfortunately for her and Ned, Henry is persistant about all this
One thing i don't get, is the "area 51" sorta place. She seems shocked to know that Ned made a bio of her as well. Again, does she act confused, as it was a plan from both her and Ned to lure Henry, or is she really surprised by this? This game confuses me, and that's what i like about it
Like you, however, i do think she didn't know about Brian. Or once again, does she? After all, why covering Ned so much? Maybe she was afraid about Ned's secret and her involvement being discovered, and Henry was the man who knew too much about this place
Another thing i don't get, is Delilah's flirting. Ned heard what she and Henry were saying to eachother, and in a note, he seems jealous
So was Delilah actually starting to care about us for real? And it wasn't just a plan to pull Henry to her instead of Ned's secret?
Again, this game has many, many interpretations. And i'm really sad that i don't have a clear answer about Delilah. I ended up caring about her through the game, and i can't get the idea that she "might" not be our ally out of my head
Or again, is she? I don't KNOWWWW!
What I truly believe is that Delilah knows Ned is in the park so keeps it a secret, so whenever Henry sees Ned or stuff left out by him, they have to cover their tracks like with the phone lines being cut, or saying it was all because of the people at wapiti station, by planting made up documents about Delilah and Henry, I’m just mad we don’t get a conclusive answer but I guess that is the point of the game
@@genesisbandit Yeah, same.
I'd love to know exactly what's going on, but i guess we'll never find out
Why do you keep zooming in to the texts? The font is big enough to read and I was reading the whole thing just fine but you kept zooming in 😭😭
However I really enjoyed the video and I subbed!
Firewatch is totally a forgotten game. Uh huh... totally...
What a clickbait title and thumbnail. I guess it worked though, even if half the comments are saying what I'm saying. It's a single player game with little replayability, but it was big when it came out and is still held in a high regard generally. It's not a live service game or something multiplayer so it comes out, people play it at the time and enjoy it, and then move on to other games. In five years people will start calling Red Dead Redemption 1 and 2 'Forgotten' and 'Rockstar's Hidden Gems' in the buildup hype for GTA 6.
I responded weeks ago to the first comment that said something similar but yes the title is a bit clickbaity but that’s just to grab peoples attention, I don’t want it to be boring as I’m not a big channel. The tragic story is about Ned, Dave, Henry and all the other lookouts tragic lives and even if the game isn’t fully forgotten it’s not proactively remembered by all unless reminded. I’m sorry that it can be seen as clickbaity but it’s the only way a lot of people can get seen nowadays and it’s not actually a false title. Going forward I’ll try and be a lot better in the way I word myself.
Forgotten? At the time the game blew up everywhere. Everyone was playing it online and making videos. Where games like Grow up, Abzu, Shadow Tactics, and Unravel went mostly unnoticed.
I bought it for $3.99 on the ps store. I don't hate it, but I'm very glad i didn't pay the full price of 19.99. The game really doesn't have much going for it other than mystery and an ok story. The gameplay is severely lacking. This is essentially a walking and talking simulator where your dialog choices don't matter. The map is depressing. There's not much exploring to do. No wildlife other than the buck you run into at the beginning. Story is ok, but when it ends, all you'll have is questions you'll never get answers to. Delilah is clearly lying and involved with Ned to what extent who knows game won't explain. Why did ned and Delilah drag Henry through all this? What was the game plan when they trapped henry in the cave?? Did they really burn a forest down just to make henry even more suspicious and determined to find out what was really going on? In the end the one thing this game does right is get you invested mostly because you want answers, only to blueball the fuck outta you and tell you nothing. You never get to meet Delilah, you never understand why ned was soo hell bent on exposing his horrible secret to you of all people, and why the fuck Delilah would help him orchestrate such a weird set of events. Oh and there's no replay value here ending stays the same no matter what choices you made. I unfortunately never found the tortoise and never will. All in all for $3.99 I'd give this game a 4/10 the game is interesting while you play it when it ends you realize your left at a cliffhanger but the show flopped so you won't be seeing the next episode.
I wrote my 15-page school paper on Firewatch, my teacher got intruiged and played through it about three times. He didn't even like video games at the time but he loved this one. Got a straight A
Haha what, what was the question for you paper because that’s amazing
@@genesisbandit I wrote it on the echochamber effect and picked firewatch as an example because I felt like it depicted it pretty much perfectly with Delilah and Henry only being able to communicate with each other and mutually feeding their superstitions to the point where even the player expects some big conspiracy to be revealed at the end still very proud about that one haha
Title says "Tradgic"
Legend, fixed it haha
The guy can’t even spell😂
@@fishsafe22 and? people make mistakes
@@fishsafe22i can’t spell ether and I’m in high school
dude i love this game i was thinking about starting another run today actually
Its really good, but sadly replayability is not amazing, but do, it was great to revisit
Your channel is underrated
Haha cheers
Calling Firewatch forgotten is a bold and untrue statement
great video mate
Glad you enjoyed
I rarely comment on a video
But this was an awesome video
Thanks for watching
not forgotten, id even say 2016 game of the year
I don’t know about game of the year because of inside and uncharted 4, but definitely memorable
After I learned that the Firewatch dev filed DMCA struck downs against pewdiepie for playing this game my interest in this game went null.
It just seems so slimy to first give written a permission to upload the game play footage, then profit of free advertisement and after pewdiepie was accused of racism, throw a sissy fit.
Yeah someone else just bought my attention to this, does seem pretty messed up
I have always wanted to know what happened to the girls, based of ned it doesnt seem like he would do it.
what I remember or what I guess happened is that Ned found the camp and stole the underwear to make the sign at the broken wires but didn't actually do anything to the girls, they just didn't show up to their aunts house as they went joyriding. Unless Delilah was lying to us, what she likes to do.
Isn't this the game that Literally Banned/DMCA'd PewDiePie?????
Wait I just googled it and yeah they took his content down haha, that’s wild
Why does the thumbnail say tradgedy, it’s spelt tragedy😂
eat bread
Racist
@@fishsafe22 how does that corelate do anything
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Why did you say "So we are being cryptid" @ 14:49 ? That makes no sense at all. Its like you made some odd verbal spelling mistake lol. The word is cryptic and not cryptid. Very small spelling change, very different meaning.
Bruh just a verbal mistake
this isnt a forgotten game lmao
The moment Pewdiepie was attacked and DMCA filed (abused) to take down his Firewatch let's plays, was the reason this game no longer existed for me. To this day, it's insane that RUclips allowed it to happen, considering that the person behind this personal crusade - Sean Vanaman, openly hated Pewdiepie and even said that he'll do this for all future titles of Campo Santo, and that he'll go the extra mile and pull on all of his industry strings to try and cut Pewdiepie off from content that "made him a millionaire".
Pewdiepie has broken no rules, in fact, on their website it was stated that all streamers have permission to monetize Firewatch videos. It was a personal vendetta from a manchild that decided to abuse the YT DMCA system and his position within the industry, to practically cyberbully a creator for as long as they have a platform. If Sean Vanaman has never apologized to Pewdiepie for this, I do hope the worst to him and that his contributions be erased from the industry because as someone as hateful as him doesn't deserve to be credited anywhere.
I can like the game all I want but the fact of the matter is that one rotten apple spoiled the whole bunch for me.
You of course, can like the game for what it is. There's no shame in that. I apologize for talking about an issue that happened 7 or so years ago and that it has nothing to do with the game's story.
Yeah I learnt about this a week ago when the video released, I love the game for what it is, so I want to separate it from the devs as obviously they were not nice to pewdiepie or other content creators that tried to stream the game
Two times i have cried while playing games. Once was rdr2 and the second was this. I just want to feel like this again
Yeah it was very emotional, definitely can’t recapture on the second playthrough
Play outer wilds. Don’t look up anything on this game, just buy/pirate and play it blind
Man i feel old, i was 17 when it came out hahahahahah😂, loved it though! Awesome video man
Thank you, yeah the game came out quite a while ago now, its so weird
I finally beat this game for the first time a few days ago. I was 25 when it came out. I feel old 😂
Oh fuck I’m old….
Their needs more likes!
The Stanley joke was excellent!😂
Haha cheers
i love the nods/references towards firewatch for the next 4 years of game beings release
Very cool video! I’m subscribing and I look forward to more of your content! Keep this up and you’ll have lots of subs quick!
Really appreciate it
it's a shame these devs got disolved before they could make their next game
ive seen some indie games took inspiration of being a cryptid/cult horror game thats being set into a firewatch worker
Yeah same, the recent fears to fathom has the lookout trope as well
I remember it's first release I was 8 years old
Great vid
As much as I would like to watch your content this game is highly boring to me, which is probably why this game disappeared. I’m sorry if you liked the game but most people including me find it extremely boring if not tedious
No that is a good opinion to have, the game is the same without, can be repetitive, so can feel boring
Great video. Loved it
Glad you enjoyed it!