Danniels95 So do the buildings in the background. In Ch. 13 the two main buildings you can see burning, and they start to break down and burn more once you progress to the next chapters.
probably too late but here we go, after a certain amount of chapters have been completed, the sound of a crashed helicopter's rotors still moving, this combined with the fact that it continues throughout the whole game even after it's finished and your replaying the different chapters.
Horrifying thought: Joe the Main Menu sniper is the very last person who’s alive in Dubai. I mean let’s be real, after Walker and his men dismantled their only lines of communications to the world beyond the stormwall, blew up their water and killed the only guys trying to keep the peace in the city, there’s only one thing left to do for the residents of the doomed city of Dubai: wait to die. The lone sniper sits atop his nest, looking out over a city swallowed by sand. Beside him, an upturned American flag flaps in the wind, his last hope for survival. He waits and waits for help that of course is never coming, slowly dying of thirst and hunger. He uses his sniper to entertain himself and pass the days, but the sun and sand are relentless. Eventually he gives up all hope of rescue, and kills himself with his rifle. And so the body of Martin Walker’s final victim is left to be eaten by the crows as the city of Dubai burns and finally dies around it. The final title screen simply shows a dead, barren city scape. The American flag lies draped and tattered upon the floor. ...Do you feel like a hero yet?
I had noticed the flag deteriorating throughout the game, but once my mind had already been blown once from the ending, the last title screen knocked me off my feet. I sat there for a solid five minutes contemplating that flag.
The thing that strikes me about the final main menu is how the final view of the city looks and feels like a skeleton. Like the city itself has rotted away and all that's left are bones whistling in the wind. It's the perfect visual to represent all of the death you've caused. You killed the city of Dubai. There's no one left to scream anymore.
It's worth noting that the Star Spangled Banner that plays overtop of the main menu in the distance only plays one verse at a time based on the chapter you're on. They put a lot of detail into this, because if you were to sub in the lyrics, the parts for each chapter actually apply to the flag itself. The segment in Chapter 10 when the flag is tattered, but still waving, is "...gave proof through the night, that our flag was still there." And by the end of the game at Chapter 15, when the flag is torn down, the segment of the national anthem that plays is, sadly, "Oh say does that star spangled banner yet wave." Just makes it even more depressing.
Matt Leis I Was wondering if Hendrix had actual meaning. it was the first I heard of the Hendrix's perverted anthem, I was blown away how it fit the game so fucking well
IIRC Hendrix his rendition was a protest against the horrors of the Vietnam war. In his version he emulated the sirens, bombs, gunfire and whatnot of the war itself. Draining the song out of its normal running time into a complete frenzy of unsettling sounds.
"Do you feel like a hero yet?" "How many people have you killed today?" "To kill for yourself is murder, to kill for your government is heroic, to kill for entertainment is harmless." *"If you were a better person, you wouldn't be here"*
The U.S Flag code states that flying the Flag with the Union(the Stars) upside-down is meant to be used as a signal meaning the situation is dire. Throughout most of the game, the Flag is shown this way, conveying that Dubai is in great distress. After the game ends, and you see the ruins of Dubai now consumed by the elements, the Flag has fallen and covers the Sniper, but the Flag is now right-side up. Symbolizing that Dubai is no longer in distress, because there's no left alive to be distress.
The fact that everything in this screen gets collapsed and destroy, but the only building that stays in sharp is Burj Khalifa is kinda creepy for some reason
Well once your inside the tower you see an aquarium and the remaining of the 33rd and when you go up you see everything is still clean and not ruined like the other buildings but when you shoot konrad and look down on the chaos you did a 33rd soldier walks up to walker and tells him what now and when he says “just get me a god damn...radio?” You see the water gone and no power that means you had a hallucination so that means the building was already destroyed on the inside but not collapsed
im pretty sure Emaar properties (if the company is even canon in the game) wanted to make sure the tower wasn't gonna collapse. even with everything mother nature could throw at it, then again the tower looks completely fictionalized compared to the actual tower irl
Sort of! Things had been going poorly for months if I recall correctly, but Delta Squad's arrival pushed things over the edge in this short amount of time.
AJmon I've got a question; what is the track called that starts when the screen for Chapter 6 comes on-screen? The one that's really distant and ambient.
The game usually starts getting pretty confusing as it proceed as well the ending. There's four ending in this game: 1. Konrad count to five and you shoot yourself in the mirror and screen fades to black. Other three endings is lead to Epilogue. 2. Kill all American soldiers and reply back on the radio "Gentlemen, welcome to Dubai" and screen fades to black. 3. You get killed by the soldiers and fades to black. 4. You surrender and go home actually screen fades to white.
Why would the rest of the screens fade to black, then? Yager said that fades to white mean self-deception in general, which includes, but is not limited to, hallucinations. I think it's more of a commentary on the nature of power in general. Notice how this last screen is the ONLY one where the flag is in its proper orientation, and NOT upside-down. You can say that if flag getting more tattered represents Walker's psyche getting more damaged, then this flag is the shreds of the idea that he has restored order at the cost of great sacrifices and suffering (damage and charring), the last attempt of a delusional mind to excuse it. Fade-to-white, then, just shows it's all a lie.
@@GeorgeMillerUSA this is actually incorrect, the surrender ending actually ends with a fade to black, the fade to white occurs earlier, when walker gets into the vehicle and it drives off. Edit: improved grammar.
Nope all you wrong.... What the soldier said was a hallucination "were going home" fades white... Then you see soldier talk to walker n he says" who says i did" fades to black
I found this beautiful. In a melancholic way. The music certainly helped... But if I'd heard it without, heard it with only the sound of the dust and wind and flag flapping away, hopefully, I might have been _more_ moved.
Chapter 14 and 15 really made my heart drop for some reason. The image of the man’s corpse being eaten and picked apart by the ravens/crows, the huge flaming buildings, the sad, droopy, deteriorated flag. Chapter 15 is what really got me though, because I saw the game end and I felt achieved with my ending (I tried my best to get the good ending), and then I saw the black and white screen of the broken down, lifeless flags, and the demolished buildings that were no longer burning, but were toppled over and barely staying upright. This was such a good game, very good story, very deep moments, and at the same time very action packed. It just saddens me that it didn’t do well at all in sales and popularity, considering how much depth they put into the game.
I felt so bad when I saw the sniper dude finally dead. Like this is the only game I played and at the end I legit felt bad and felt like I had to think about myself and the choices I made in this game...
I miss when games have these kind of menus as you progess through the campaign. So far, on top of my head, Portal 2 and Spec Ops The Line are the only games to feature this kind of menu.
One day, there was an American sniper in Dubai. His name wasn't known, but that is irrelevant. Looking out at Dubai was totally boring, so he occasionally took out his binoculars to see what he could see. Eventually, he got out his rifle out a few times and aimed them at targets only he thought was there. He soon died, with ravens coming to peck at his corpse. They eventually devoured him whole, leading only their feathers to show he was ever there. The end.
Also worth a mention that in both chapters you end up by yourself. In the beginning of chapter 6 you start playing alone, at the end of chapter 10 after your trucks blow up you end up alone. Are the corpses that hang are Lugo and Adams?
@@Niklas1611 My dad played the whole game back in 2012 and saw all the menus. He loved the game a lot, and this version of the Star Spangled Banner stayed in my head forever.
@@nicolelung2852 I feel this comment too much, Man was probably minding his own buisness and then this pops up... a cascade of memories long suppressed flood into him once more
What's sad is chapter 14 and 15 because the buildings are on fire on chapter 14 and he's also dead getting eaten by birds, then in chapter 15 the flag is broken and the buildings are just the frame and it's super foggy, this game is sad
I never went to the title screen enough times throughout the game to notice all the details they put into it. That was actually shocking when the sniper was suddenly being devoured by crows.
Couldn’t we have had the actual music that plays over the title screens? There’s probably an analysis on what happens here as well, they line up with what’s happening in game.
There's not a lots of games who has this amazing detail when the main menu change depending on where did stop in the story like Max Payne 3, Resident Evil Village, Alan Wake. I don't know if other games has that but if someone knows, tell me, i'm a open book.
I think several people have asked, let me try and find out. IIRC I'd assume its from the game's score. Not sure it was ever released for sale/streaming.
Joe is missing in chapter 13 and the radio tower is attacked in that chapter, then in 14 he is dead. Almost like he saw the senseless attack on the tower and just ended it all realizing there was no hope in trying to escape.
Another detail in the menu screens is that the American flag deteriorates as you progress through the chapters.
Danniels95 So do the buildings in the background. In Ch. 13 the two main buildings you can see burning, and they start to break down and burn more once you progress to the next chapters.
probably too late but here we go, after a certain amount of chapters have been completed, the sound of a crashed helicopter's rotors still moving, this combined with the fact that it continues throughout the whole game even after it's finished and your replaying the different chapters.
At chapter 10 you can see a couple hanging bodies on the left building
@@averagetexan9930 you can see that in chapter6 too
In chapter 15 the flag is no longer backwards, does that mean anything?
Chapter 13 what is that?
Adams.
What?
Horrifying thought: Joe the Main Menu sniper is the very last person who’s alive in Dubai. I mean let’s be real, after Walker and his men dismantled their only lines of communications to the world beyond the stormwall, blew up their water and killed the only guys trying to keep the peace in the city, there’s only one thing left to do for the residents of the doomed city of Dubai: wait to die.
The lone sniper sits atop his nest, looking out over a city swallowed by sand. Beside him, an upturned American flag flaps in the wind, his last hope for survival. He waits and waits for help that of course is never coming, slowly dying of thirst and hunger. He uses his sniper to entertain himself and pass the days, but the sun and sand are relentless. Eventually he gives up all hope of rescue, and kills himself with his rifle. And so the body of Martin Walker’s final victim is left to be eaten by the crows as the city of Dubai burns and finally dies around it. The final title screen simply shows a dead, barren city scape. The American flag lies draped and tattered upon the floor.
...Do you feel like a hero yet?
Not gonna lie, i thought he was just randomly shot during the helicopter sequence or something
That's so fucking dark that I would buy it as canon.
Esto es tan bueno que lo tomaré como canon
Where did his name show up though?
I had noticed the flag deteriorating throughout the game, but once my mind had already been blown once from the ending, the last title screen knocked me off my feet. I sat there for a solid five minutes contemplating that flag.
Ong man this game scarred me for life and my dumbass played that as a kid so its effect multiplied
The thing that strikes me about the final main menu is how the final view of the city looks and feels like a skeleton. Like the city itself has rotted away and all that's left are bones whistling in the wind.
It's the perfect visual to represent all of the death you've caused. You killed the city of Dubai. There's no one left to scream anymore.
It's worth noting that the Star Spangled Banner that plays overtop of the main menu in the distance only plays one verse at a time based on the chapter you're on. They put a lot of detail into this, because if you were to sub in the lyrics, the parts for each chapter actually apply to the flag itself.
The segment in Chapter 10 when the flag is tattered, but still waving, is "...gave proof through the night, that our flag was still there." And by the end of the game at Chapter 15, when the flag is torn down, the segment of the national anthem that plays is, sadly, "Oh say does that star spangled banner yet wave."
Just makes it even more depressing.
Because no, it does not wave anymore. RIP Dubai :(
Matt Leis I Was wondering if Hendrix had actual meaning. it was the first I heard of the Hendrix's perverted anthem, I was blown away how it fit the game so fucking well
IIRC Hendrix his rendition was a protest against the horrors of the Vietnam war. In his version he emulated the sirens, bombs, gunfire and whatnot of the war itself. Draining the song out of its normal running time into a complete frenzy of unsettling sounds.
"Do you feel like a hero yet?"
"How many people have you killed today?"
"To kill for yourself is murder, to kill for your government is heroic, to kill for entertainment is harmless."
*"If you were a better person, you wouldn't be here"*
"If Lugo was still alive, he'd get PTSD. So really, he's the lucky one."
“You are still a good person”
"Can you even remember why you came here?"
"Throwing grenades can create clouds of sand that can temporarily blind enemies"
"This is all your fault."
The U.S Flag code states that flying the Flag with the Union(the Stars) upside-down is meant to be used as a signal meaning the situation is dire.
Throughout most of the game, the Flag is shown this way, conveying that Dubai is in great distress. After the game ends, and you see the ruins of Dubai now consumed by the elements, the Flag has fallen and covers the Sniper, but the Flag is now right-side up. Symbolizing that Dubai is no longer in distress, because there's no left alive to be distress.
How ironic that after chapter 15, when everything went to hell and couldn't be any worse, the American flag is no longer upside down
“Mission accomplished 🇺🇸”
There is no one alive to be helped anymore
Guess this mean that the 33rd are now in peace and no longer in distress...
Because all of them died
People can't be in distress if there's no one to be in distress
@@DylanoRevs indeed, also hello my man. never thought you played this masterpiece.
The flag is upside down which is a sign for distress.
When it's down on the ground, it's upright... I'm just going to take that as a sarcastic, "Way to go. you all-American hero, the day is saved."
@@evangedeon2194 that..actually makes sense
So......feel like a hero yet?
Snake said that lol.
@I eat hotwheels cars nigga
Yes
The fact that everything in this screen gets collapsed and destroy, but the only building that stays in sharp is Burj Khalifa is kinda creepy for some reason
Well once your inside the tower you see an aquarium and the remaining of the 33rd and when you go up you see everything is still clean and not ruined like the other buildings but when you shoot konrad and look down on the chaos you did a 33rd soldier walks up to walker and tells him what now and when he says “just get me a god damn...radio?” You see the water gone and no power that means you had a hallucination so that means the building was already destroyed on the inside but not collapsed
@@lazypigeon338 commas, sir. They are important
im pretty sure Emaar properties (if the company is even canon in the game) wanted to make sure the tower wasn't gonna collapse. even with everything mother nature could throw at it, then again the tower looks completely fictionalized compared to the actual tower irl
So everything went down in something like 3 days?
Sort of! Things had been going poorly for months if I recall correctly, but Delta Squad's arrival pushed things over the edge in this short amount of time.
AJmon I've got a question; what is the track called that starts when the screen for Chapter 6 comes on-screen? The one that's really distant and ambient.
I've been looking for it as well.
Well at least the crows are happy, they've got tons of dead bodies to eat.
But nothing to drink.
Spirz but there’s blood.
@@fakeblue8985 dried up.
The end transition faded to white: does that mean those were all just illusions? ;)
The game usually starts getting pretty confusing as it proceed as well the ending. There's four ending in this game:
1. Konrad count to five and you shoot yourself in the mirror and screen fades to black.
Other three endings is lead to Epilogue.
2. Kill all American soldiers and reply back on the radio "Gentlemen, welcome to Dubai" and screen fades to black.
3. You get killed by the soldiers and fades to black.
4. You surrender and go home actually screen fades to white.
Why would the rest of the screens fade to black, then? Yager said that fades to white mean self-deception in general, which includes, but is not limited to, hallucinations. I think it's more of a commentary on the nature of power in general.
Notice how this last screen is the ONLY one where the flag is in its proper orientation, and NOT upside-down. You can say that if flag getting more tattered represents Walker's psyche getting more damaged, then this flag is the shreds of the idea that he has restored order at the cost of great sacrifices and suffering (damage and charring), the last attempt of a delusional mind to excuse it. Fade-to-white, then, just shows it's all a lie.
@@GeorgeMillerUSA this is actually incorrect, the surrender ending actually ends with a fade to black, the fade to white occurs earlier, when walker gets into the vehicle and it drives off.
Edit: improved grammar.
Either that or they’re traumatic memories-the ones that make you wake up in the middle of the night!
Nope all you wrong.... What the soldier said was a hallucination "were going home" fades white... Then you see soldier talk to walker n he says" who says i did" fades to black
I found this beautiful. In a melancholic way. The music certainly helped... But if I'd heard it without, heard it with only the sound of the dust and wind and flag flapping away, hopefully, I might have been _more_ moved.
Yeah. The Star Spangled Banner playing makes it super depressing.
This is if not one of the most darkest war games ever.
Chapter 14 and 15 really made my heart drop for some reason. The image of the man’s corpse being eaten and picked apart by the ravens/crows, the huge flaming buildings, the sad, droopy, deteriorated flag. Chapter 15 is what really got me though, because I saw the game end and I felt achieved with my ending (I tried my best to get the good ending), and then I saw the black and white screen of the broken down, lifeless flags, and the demolished buildings that were no longer burning, but were toppled over and barely staying upright. This was such a good game, very good story, very deep moments, and at the same time very action packed. It just saddens me that it didn’t do well at all in sales and popularity, considering how much depth they put into the game.
Good ending? Spec Ops has no good endings
@@halfgecko3202 It has one. During the epilogue A squad comes to get you and if you wait Martin will drop his gun and he will be bought back home.
@@joepakula3183 and Walker gets to live with everything he's done and possible legal action back home. If he even makes it home
@@halfgecko3202 The closest thing he'll ever get
@@halfgecko3202 and he going to suffer from PTSD
I felt so bad when I saw the sniper dude finally dead. Like this is the only game I played and at the end I legit felt bad and felt like I had to think about myself and the choices I made in this game...
3:58
*This is just... Sad....*
I miss when games have these kind of menus as you progess through the campaign. So far, on top of my head, Portal 2 and Spec Ops The Line are the only games to feature this kind of menu.
And Max Payne 3, and Hitman Blood Money
and Undertale
Bulletstorm does it too sort of
NieR does it at the end
detroit become human
I know want to know the story of title screen sniper
me too
One day, there was an American sniper in Dubai. His name wasn't known, but that is irrelevant. Looking out at Dubai was totally boring, so he occasionally took out his binoculars to see what he could see. Eventually, he got out his rifle out a few times and aimed them at targets only he thought was there. He soon died, with ravens coming to peck at his corpse. They eventually devoured him whole, leading only their feathers to show he was ever there. The end.
Jack Arnold thanks for the backstory futaba
Joe The Sniper
@@CravenDrip I think instead of being pushed off, his body was covered by the flag
I like how the tower is messed up after a while
Notice in chapter 6 there are 2 hanging corpses?
And chapter 10
Also worth a mention that in both chapters you end up by yourself. In the beginning of chapter 6 you start playing alone, at the end of chapter 10 after your trucks blow up you end up alone. Are the corpses that hang are Lugo and Adams?
Wait, where?
@@another_random_ace8820 look at chapter 10 timemark. At the tallest skyscraper
@@another_random_ace8820 0.54
Haha I oly saw 3 of them cause I completed the game in just two times!
Same! I only found them by accident, nice inclusion either way.
Me too I only saw the 1 and the last screen because I finished it in a night and a few hours but the last screen fucked my mind
+AJmon Uhh, i'd like to ask; what's the track called that plays when the screen for Chapter 6 is displayed? I can't find it for the life of me.
@@Niklas1611 My dad played the whole game back in 2012 and saw all the menus. He loved the game a lot, and this version of the Star Spangled Banner stayed in my head forever.
Can we just take a moment and say how fucking awesome the menu music is? I haven’t heard menu music like this since Last of Us.
So do you ever actually kill the guy you see in these title screens ingame?
Be N S O N probably what do you think killed him it's likely you did
Nah
Maybe. Probably now that I think about it
One thing I notice is that the flat gets upside down to his original side at the final chapter
What's the track that starts at 1:13?
I know this reply is two years too late but here: ruclips.net/video/sjzdgt5-404/видео.html
@@nicolelung2852 I feel this comment too much, Man was probably minding his own buisness and then this pops up... a cascade of memories long suppressed flood into him once more
At 3:50 how did you just made the guitar only play?
What's sad is chapter 14 and 15 because the buildings are on fire on chapter 14 and he's also dead getting eaten by birds, then in chapter 15 the flag is broken and the buildings are just the frame and it's super foggy, this game is sad
And yet the flag isn't upside-down anymore
Congratulations, America is no longer in distress. Do you feel like a hero yet?
@@halfgecko3202 wait what it's still upside down
I never went to the title screen enough times throughout the game to notice all the details they put into it. That was actually shocking when the sniper was suddenly being devoured by crows.
Once chapter 13 came thats when shit started to go down
Omg this is so sad despacito play rickroll
Just a dark reminder that war is hell.
Couldn’t we have had the actual music that plays over the title screens?
There’s probably an analysis on what happens here as well, they line up with what’s happening in game.
Id like to think thats Joe wailing on the guitar
Did Joe the Main Menu Sniper patch the flag between Chapters 10 and 11?
Thanks for this video, the game is quite short so you may miss some of this screens.
wow.
I've got a question; what's the track called, the one that starts at Chapter 6's loading screens? I can't seem to find it anywhere.
Dat Insane Dude after two years I think it is probably in one of the trailers
This reply is late as fuck, I'm aware, but here: ruclips.net/video/sjzdgt5-404/видео.html
There's not a lots of games who has this amazing detail when the main menu change depending on where did stop in the story like Max Payne 3, Resident Evil Village, Alan Wake. I don't know if other games has that but if someone knows, tell me, i'm a open book.
oh
The background & flag is symbolic to represent walkers deteriorating mental state
Im almost 6 years late but whats the music at 4:00?
I think several people have asked, let me try and find out. IIRC I'd assume its from the game's score. Not sure it was ever released for sale/streaming.
It's music that plays around Chapter 14 or something in-game
@@AJmon did you ever find out
It's called "Welcome to Hell" from Chapter 14
This game is really trippy in my opinion
Joe is missing in chapter 13 and the radio tower is attacked in that chapter, then in 14 he is dead. Almost like he saw the senseless attack on the tower and just ended it all realizing there was no hope in trying to escape.