Inside and Character Motivation
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- Опубликовано: 18 июл 2016
- Inside does some pretty interesting stuff in the way it establishes the main character's motivation. These are my thoughts on it.
Intro animation by Strekks
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Outskirts by DEEB
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I never realized that the boy was following the truck. You literally changed my whole view of this game by pointing out that one detail.
The problem with recommending games based on this is that it inherently spoils them, but OFF is really good example of this from all the way back in 2002.
YEAH. I wanted to use more examples, but then I'd be potentially ruining a lot of shit for anyone who watches.
I am intrigued about OFF now. I will put it on a list of games to play and then try to forget the context in which it was recommended.
Saw this video because Chadunda retweeted it. Even if I'm not the biggest fan of Inside, you put across one of the more interesting ideas about the game very well. Pleasure to listen to. Definitely subscribed.
I appreciate it!
Writing on Games both of you guys do amazing work
Writing this a year late, I really enjoyed this video essay. I just felt like there wasn't a conclusion to it, being surprised at the abrupt stop of you're luscious voice. Hopefully that compliment and my cute cat icon will distract you from the unfounded criticism I just dropped on ya.
*Concise conclusion
Yeah, I worked on this video for a video jam where everyone doing it had a short amount of time to work on it (I think we were supposed to do it in a day, which I missed by a bit), so I think that ended up hurting this video. I probably should have tied it to a broader look at writers and how too much exposition kills mystery, but, well, I didn't. It mainly comes off as an appreciation piece, which I think is ok, but it could have been more powerful with a little more power to the conclusion. Even without the cute cat your feedback would have been appreciated (but the cat definitely helps).
The last five minutes of this game was one of the most insane and compelling sequences in any video game I've ever played. What a masterpiece.
Inside is a very open ended game and that's what makes videos like this a toughy for me, but it's still very interesting to compare the thoughts of a different person's experience with such a game.
Gonna real quickly put the wall of text under here so an unfortunate soul won't scroll down to the comments first and see a spoiler.
When I got to the point in the game where the kid get's sucked into the human blob. I felt that, that wasn't part of the plan. I initially always had the impression that the kid was trying to stop the experimentation done on his people, (That's based on the fact that for the entire game he keeps going closer and closer to the problem, as well as most of the game's promotional material showing him in the lab) but most of the last bit of the game confused me.
When you first go into the massive holding space for the human blob, none of the scientists care that you're in there with them, and I can't figure out if that's because they just assimilated the human blob or that it's because it's the first sign of it moving. There's some very Human Centipede-ish shit going on in the game. And that ending where you escape from the laboratory after they capture you just leaves me with so many questions that I'll never have answered.
The boy's motivation to go through with the Dark Project is something I probably will never understand, but I guess that was the point. The ending of Inside felt spontaneous, and too many loose ends were left untied for me to feel a satisfaction with what I accomplished, because I never knew WHAT I accomplished.
But fuck if Playdead ain't good at making games that stick out in my mind. I'm really excited to see what they can do next.
Also good video I guess.
Yeah, I was confused by the way everyone was reacting to the blob before and after the kid becomes a part of it. Like, everyone was crowding around it. Was it doing something different than normal? Had it just recently formed? There is a ton of stuff that I have no idea about, but regardless, the kid had something up his sleeve that I did not expect. I don't know if he wanted to become a part of the blob either, but it seems pretty clear to me that he at the very least wanted to get to it.
Playdead makes shit that sticks with you. Certainly flawed in ways but still thought-provoking.
You could even make the assumption that he went to the center of it all to help out the people that got carried away by the truck at the beginning of the game and that's what's left to help when he eventually get's to the center of the Dark Project. But we'll never know because that's the way the game was built. I do at times find that really lazy on part of the game developers, it's essentially saying "Fuck you, make up your own reasons I didn't care." But the way this game was crafted makes you think that they did care and that there is a true meaning behind it all, but alas.
Still satisfying as fuck nailing those final puzzles.
Your videos are well put together, you only lack an ending. Everytime one of your videos ends I feel like it should have only just begun
I really love this game and I'm happy to see more people talking about it.
Your videos are the freaking best, man. Kudos.
I really liked your analysis, the ambiguity is mitigated by the player because that's just what people do - surmise and create goals and explanations for events, even where there are none - and how you can take advantage of this irony (or lack thereof) from a writing standpoint. Good videos man, very smart.
Loved the video man. Really interesting game and I really liked your perspective.
you should upload more often.
Agreed.
Daaang that's a nice intro animation dude! I don't want to be spoiled on this game so I haven't seen your video, but I'm sure it's as high-quality as the rest!
Awesome intro Raz. And I gotta play this game again because more than one playthrough definitely helps give a bigger understanding of this game's plot. And all those humans, I feel like those are more homonculi than human the more I think of it.
I agree. Great job
I love this video, please make more!
This is a great game to play, especially when the twist at the end isnt spoilt
another great video man keep it up :)
Great video
Nice!
Really underrated game!!
This channel is fucking amazing. You're gonna reach a million subscribers in no time.
Still not a million and that’s really sad because this channel deserves so much more. One of my favorite RUclips channels 100%
Thanks for not wasting time with the spoiler
Characters who have free will can move about in any direction. Characters who are controlled only ever move on a 2D plane. Others move freely. The boy moves in a straight line from the wood to the blob.
I know nothing about this game (just watched it cause I’m on a razbutan binge) but after seeing a second of the gameplay I immediately knew this had to be done by the same people as Little Nightmares. And if not, well…
either way this game seems interesting.
O my I've never though that the blob was controlling the kid since the very start ! it's totally makes sens !
Why do you reckon the boy struggles when hes being absorbed if it's what's controlling him?
That is a good question. I think it is no longer controlling him at that point because it is no longer attached to the devices, so at that moment, the boy is acting of his own free will. But really, who knows. There are a ton of questions left unanswered.
I'm not trying to be argumentative, but that would imply the boy ever had free will. In the alt ending, without control he's shown to bend over like a lifeless husk, implying that he's always been a mindless drone.
The question is who's controlling him and for what purpose? Who knows, maybe it's supposed to be that we as players are controlling him. I dunno, it's so vague it's frustrating haha
Yeah! That is what I love and hate about this game. My interpretation is certainly not without faults, but it is what I am going to roll with until I get some satisfying answers.
Assuming this is true, how did he know about the creature or the lab or the men or any of it? How did he know where to go and how to get in? How did he know any of it?!
come by your channel to check out your new video, turns out i've missed, like 3 of them. sorry :(
As soon as I took control of the flesh ball, I burst out laughing for a solid 2 minutes straight and the game turned into a big joke.
spoilers :(
I think your take is off. I think he’s looking for safety and changes his goals as the game progresses with the new information.
i'm not a fan of stories like this. "decide for your self" is lazy writing.
if i am going to decide what happens in a story...i make my own...i don't follows others to do that...