Observer - Story Explanation and Analysis
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- What if I told you... that Silent Hill could become a reality... and when I say reality... I mean OUR reality. If you don't believe me, listen on to find out how such a thing could happen.
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My favourite exchange in the game was when Dan was talking to a Sexbot. He tries to leave the conversation saying something akin to
"...I'd have said goodbye, but I guess there's no reason to"
"Yeah, it'd humanize me"
"What did you say?"
"You can have your way with me" *hangs up*
EXACTLY this. Mine is the same as well. We share the same feeling. I was perplexed when she said it. It caught me so off guard. Her change in tone also made it more real
I totally forgot about this. This was definitely creepy haha
Yeah, that was a great little moment.
There are multiple hints of robots becoming self-conscious throughout the game.
One of those harmless cleaning ones you can find near the end is banging it's head against the wall non-stop.
It aint a Maz Derrat video without mentioning the Unconscious.
The whole time I was waiting for a Jung reference.
It ain't a Max Derrat video without a bleak outlook on our lives at the cusp of digital consciousness without a positive message at the end
As someone who's going back to school for brain augmentation, this story, and this analysis, is pretty interesting
which is unlike the game, a boring walking simulator
@@slamdangles Its not a walking simulator. Its just kids like you with ADHD cannot enjoy games that revolve around atmosphere and story rather than gameplay.
@@slamdangles nah, the gameplay is nothing special but the story, the ambience and the soundtrack paired with high intensity dream eater sequences were more than enough to make up for the gameplay
For an indie dev team? This game was phenomenal. I loved the sights, story, and aesthetic. I’d love to see what they could do as a full sized studio.
@@asneakylawngnome5792 lets see now
16:00 I just noticed that in Adam's head's game, when you run through the obstacle course, the audience are pixelated versions of Amir, Helena, Karnas, Adam, Dan himself, and the pig with the VR glasses
What always disturbed me the most, was the idea of visualizing the thoughts of the dead. On multiple occasions do we see the thoughts and memories of the dead. Truly disturbing
"Quite an experience to live in fear isn't it. That's what it is to be a slave".
"All those moments will be lost in time, like tears, in the rain".
@@contemplationemeraude "You've done a man's job, sir. I guess you're through"
It's funny that you quoted that line since Rutger Hauer is Dan's voice actor in this game.
It's quite startling that he died on the same year as Roy. May he rest in peace.
@@jaspermcminnis5538 "It's too bad she wont live, but then again who does?"
This game is absolutely incredible. Just snagged the remaster and can't wait to play it again
I feel like we played a different game, because you said it's absolutely incredible and I just uninstalled it because it was so fucking bad. Observer is fucking AWFUL.
@@slamdangles it's said the you have to leave 10 same comments to just prove your point that is wrong LUL
@@filipgasic2642 cry more the game sucks
@@slamdangles lmao you're the one crying if you're leaving dozens of comments
@@wujek7616 game still sucks
holy shit this game would be so amazing in VR
hell no VR would be way too crazy for Observer lol.
It originally was gonna have vr support, but they canceled it for some reason. I do believe there’s a mod for the original version, not redux that finished the vr support
No! Trust me bro! You don't want these horrors in VR.
That’d be one hell of a migraine
If you play a Cyberpunk game this December, make it Observer. It's well worth it more than other options on the genre that may come out later this week.
This comment aged like a fine wine.
@@Ytnzy250 I love both. Very much. Observer is like a single mission from Cyberpunk 2077 condensed and then expanded into a single game.
Hell no it looks horrible and can not interest me enough and love Cyberpunk 2077 way more.
@@timschutte3961its indie game, but i wouldnt play it again
Cool. I finished this in one day. Got me quite hooked actually.
@mongo dogstyle what is bullshit?
@mongo dogstyle I'm talking about the game talked about in the video man. How did you think I was talking about cyberpunk :D?
@Daylien369 stoopid ruclips.net/video/9VVDOmod6nU/видео.html
It's a shame that Orwell portrayed the future so accurately with 1984. It certainly seems to be the way we are going.
Because he was part of the club, and why the indoctrination camps made sure it was required reading
I remember a comment on RUclips discussing it saying something like we live in the very worst dystopia as we don't have flying cars or cool futuristic technology
Just everything bleak and depressing
this has haunted me lately... too much. its relieving to hear this from you
🙄
Jeez, the depiction of "lockdowns" in this game ended up becoming very relevant this year didn't it?
Brilliant. One of my favorite gaming experiences ever.
if this is one of your favorite gaming experiences you must have only played donkey kong and super mario bros. This game is fucking trash
Damn, wish I had played this after the System Redux version came out. Made a big difference to an already visually impressive game.
I struggle with dissociation, ptsd, anxiety... And im also poor and disabled. I feel like I live in this type of game a lot of the time- this, signalis, prey, soma... You're a beautiful person Max. Your videos usually help me process and put into words a lot of the thoughts I have. Thanks.
Okay, Imma need you to talk about this game some more.
Sir are you classified as human?
Negative, I am a meat popsicle.
Inb4 Neuralink.
I remember Elon Musk talking about us having to merge with our technology. Around the same time he put out a tweet about the original Deus Ex and the 3 endings, one of which is merging.
After ghost in the shell breaks my mind. I welcome the digital overlord.
Damn max you are deserving of so many more subs
I love your videos man. I know you've been going through really hard times with your health issues and I just wanna say you give me a lot joy and intrigue every time I watch one of your vids so I really appreciate you. I wish you the best
I tried finishing this game twice. The style, the art design, the tone and the dark dystopian setting is incredible. But the gameplay moments and the mind hacking sequences drag on sooo long, I couldn't summon the patience to finish it. The horror elements could've been much better. And the main character's voice acting didn't help either. His voice is incredibly charismatic, but the line delivery was weird.
The line delivery was definitely off
The voice actor was Rutger Hauer who was a Dutch actor most famous for his role in "Bladerunner". If you watch interviews of him, his English doesn't flow like it would for someone whose native language is English. I think that was part of the reason behind his stunted delivery in the game.
@@JWFas Oh my god it's the "tears in the rain" guy? Wow! I don't know how they managed to get him to deliver those lines so unnaturally.
I im in the Middle of Video but Daniel Łazarski, his surname Łazarski means Łazarz, Lasarus, the Biblical figure that was resurected by Jesus Christ.
Adore your videos like genuinely. Saw this and clicked on it instantly. Love from the uk
Amazing video ! Love this and your amazing (:
This exactly where we are heading into as a civilization. This game had a lot of topics that were close to our current reality. Specially the mandatory lockdowns and anti social behavior of the tenants
"The gubbermint didn't let me go to Applebees for a year, literally 1984"
"Chiron, in Greek mythology, one of the Centaurs, the son of the Titan Cronus and Philyra, an Oceanid or sea nymph. Chiron lived at the foot of Mount Pelion in Thessaly. Unlike other Centaurs, who were violent and savage, he was famous for his wisdom and knowledge of medicine." from www.britannica.com/topic/Chiron-Greek-mythology
Also an absolute legend in age of mythology
@@burtbiggum499 dont make me feel that feel again
He also had, shall we say, rather intimate relationships with the young male heroes he tutored
Awesome video about Observer, Max. Thank you.
Look up the game Signifier. It's similar to Observer but is a bit more grounded in reality. Very unique visual presentation as well.
This game has always been one of my favourites with incredible atmosphere and effects
It reminds me of an experiment that was once conducted by two scientists who used a computer to plug their minds up together and their vision changed into black and white pixels forming into bizarre shapes and patterns
Observer is a visual masterpiece for sure, and the story is definitely the best. But it's a videogame first and foremost, so I can't ignore this one big problem in the gameplay: synchrozine does nothing, and not taking it does nothing too. Compare it to the malaria mechanic in the Far Cry 2: if you refuse to take the mission to get malaria pills, if you skip your dose, if you run out - you're dead. game over, no buddies there to save you. In Observer, if you don't take your dose you get visual artefacts, that's it. no real punishment. you can complete the game with just one dose, the one the game forces you to take in the beginning, and you'll get the same endings.
But you have to take it or your vision is severely distorted. And if you take too much you will overdose.
This video was really good, I've been thinking about this concept a lot. It's something similar to what happens in possesor, but the movie is less cyberpunkish and it doesn't have the augmentation stuff.
Just when i needed to get it on switch, major thanks Max!
As a cyborg, I support Cyborg Lives Matter.
Oh, cool. Which part of you is cyberfied, if you don't mind me asking?
@@johnivanoplimo5172 Pacemaker. It's an annoying lump that itches too often
I can see that being a thing someday
That was fantastic. Thank You.
What a great birthday gift, thanks Max!
Thanks you, I try to perfect my english (i'm french) watching RUclips videos and it's perfect, you speak very clearly.
I love the theme and atmosphere of your videos.
There is a question that needs to be explored in relation to the birthing of a god and its an old question I think. What kind of gods shall we create? It's dubious to assume that the first such entity will be a holistic one rather it is more likely to be fractured and piecemeal entity in much the same vain as its creators. After all this is a pattern of old, the story of the children who are greater than their forebears. Never has their been a big leap between sire and progeny but maybe that'll change? Though I doubt it, we've seen the three ways this goes. In bloodborne we see the loss of humanity and the transcendence into the alien. We see the path of the superman in fiction as a whole. And finally we see the ascendency to another plane of reality.
Will we have Olympian gods playing games as heroes, villains, and celebrities with the world of men? The All-Father who reigns with the touch of a cat burglar? Or will we have some lovecraftian horror which will overwhelm us and sweep us all aside?
This is my favorite type of video.
Thanks for covering this game Max, I first heard of it in one of Nexpo's videos last year but I think your video is a great analysis of this game in it's own right and touches upon themes he didn't discuss in the video itself. I honestly feel this game is way harder & faithful piece of cyberpunk than 2077 will ever be at this point, maybe I'm just angry at CDPR but even if the game turns out good it's never going to compare to this disturbing masterpiece.
This finished this game yesterday, got to say best game I'll played in a while!
Max how I missed this!
Great one
I was hopping that you would analyze the things that I actually wanted to know like the backstories of the characters.
the question of wanting to become like a god is a misleading one. like trading your soul with the devil, you need to know what you're even trading for in the first place
A Max Derrat video upload makes my day more enjoyable.
Another gem of a video! I really like your systematic style of analysing these games.
I need to find myself a copy of this game.
You wont regret it, just finished it today Its one hell of a ride
For a moment I thought this video was about the game Observation, because I forgot the exact title. I think it's about you playing as a computer program that inhabits a drone most of the time trying to help a human astronaut survive a decaying space station, and then also some Eldritch horror stuff happens near the end, like multiversal convergence.
But Observer, the Sci-Fi mind cop investigation game, works just as well for me. I'm still waiting for jacksepticeye to finish it, it's been like 4 years
Like when Johnny mnemonic asked for a pair of iphones.
He just wanted his club sandwiches, clean shirts and a comfortable hotel room.
We may be dead before this happens
I wouldn't bet on true strong AI anytime soon.
Great video max, keep it up! (Or don't, I don't control you, I only influence you)
That’s one crazy story. Excellent video as usual.
The Unconscious is a major connecting thread of The Max Derrat Analytical Universe
I am happy to see that you are makng an interesting video about Observer. We seem to have a similar taste.
The problem with this game is that it has so many amazing things to say but it's not a very pleasant game to play. It's a common issue that Bloober Team has with finding the right balance of stimulus.
Made it to the 7 min mark and was like mmmmmmmmm this sounds like a good game I don't want to spoil it before playing lol
It's a pity that Cyberpunk 2077 failed to deliver on its hype. Mainstream developers will probably avoid the genre itself just because of not wanting the association or optics. Most really dedicated Science Fiction/Futurist games that I know of seem to be stuck in using the walking simulator/story-driven genres. Though i doubt most AAA Studios would deliver on a story of true depth. So perhaps it's not so bad
That game was/is underrated. Loved the atmosphere and narrative.
no it isnt lol its fucking awful
Brilliant. Thanks for uploading.
I appreciate your edge, really
I would like to ask a question, how do we know that the merging of two conciousness created something "Godlike" and not something horrendous or worse, create a living hell for the two beings that merge?
I mean what if the two being merging have personalities so conflicting and so different than they started to fight or opouse the other and this becoming unable to keep a singular existence.
Merging to conciouness would meant that at minimun the comoponent beings will have to sychronize with eacthother, or in more extreme cases, abandoning every sense of the self and ego since it bothe beings cease to exist as two singular being and become ONE new being different from the original components.
If the two beings are unable to reach a perfect merging, what could result?
It would be a great question if every human had only one consciousness, but we don’t. It is proven that brain’s hemispheres each has its own consciousness, your actions are usually the result of negotiation between the two. It was proven by studying patients, who needed their hemispheres separated surgically. Their eyes and hands, which most correspond with hemispheres, chose different answers or performed different actions when asked to. Add multiple personalities people tend to have (have you ever been blamed by your significant other for acting DIFFERENT when you’re with your friends?) with extreme examples being a multiple personality disorder. Your thought process is a result of negotiation between your personalities residing in different neural pathways, so adding another one is not a big problem. How is that going to be done technologically is a big question, but if it is, there would actually be no big deal.
@@Choo-choo-chookcha The example of multiple personalities kinda still proves that the margin for error still exist
Example: People with multiple personality disorder, even tought multiple personalities can negociate and can reach concensus, that doesn't meant they can't dissagre often, to the point where they might not be able to function properly
@@RexMK- It might, but then it would be indistinguishable from multiple personality disorder. I guess in science fantasy authors see a merging of human brain and AI as an end point, because the two encompass the whole spectrum of possible thinking. I have yet to see a plot when dumb high school dropout merges with Alexa or something )
@@Choo-choo-chookcha LMAO XD
Karen Merges with Skynet, just imagine that.
But if the day come where we can trasnfer our conciousness outside our bodies, I want to be in a robot body that can shape shif like a freaking transformer.
Also do you read Sci-Fi novels by any chance?
@@RexMK- I used to read sci-fi back in the day when I had more time on my hands: everything that Stanislaw Lem ever wrote, popular works by Bradbury, Asimov, Simak, Vonnegut, Phillip Dick. Last novel I read in two years was “Cities of the red night” by Burroughs, which can be classified as sci-fi too if you can wrap your head around fragmented drug-induced hallucinations and outright gay porn.
Discovered this hidden gem last year on Xbox game pass
What a mine fuck it was
Did it draw inspiration from Deus Ex or did it just do Deus Ex again?
The fact that I’ve never heard of, yet alone play, Observer is an absolute pity. Story wise I just left Amir’s apartment. Im absolutely blown away by how fantastic this game is.
I missed this on gamepass i now regret it
I'm new to your channel. Was that intro a nod to Silent Hill 2?
What if fire gives life but also takes it away
I'm glad dot recommended this channel is so nice
Who's Dot? :O
Awesome video thank you for your work
The deterioration of the flesh in this game is like the plasmid in BioShock, it's pretty interesting.
"A man chooses and a slave obeys".
Soma is alot like this. Should totes do a vid on it
Check his video history. He already did.
In my humble opinion SOMA is way better, completely unprecedented and innovative while this one reminds me of blade runner (idk tho)
Already did. Here's a link to it: ruclips.net/video/igKn7Qbz38g/видео.html
At min 9:00 it reminded me of Saya no uta.
Great video btw, I began watching this channel for Silent Hill content, now checking for games to play.
I love Rutger Hauer! :)
thx for the Explanation
"No Future"
~Cyberpunk 2077
Honestly, I paused the video halfway through, because this game sounds so sick, I don't want to ruin it. Is there any chance you could stream a playthrough of this game?
For that matter, I've also really enjoyed watching you go through the Dark Souls 3 DLCs. Is there any chance you could run through the entire game proper on stream? I dont often times watch people play souls, since most of the time they're speed runners not really taking time to soak in the atmosphere and the lore. And that, in my opinion, is a big mistake, since the Souls world is fascinating as fuck.
overflowing with anticipation to keep it yellow.
Everybody is forgetting about Wintermute merging into Neuromancer... how is that possible?
I am simple man. I see yellow Max, I click video. I click like to support yellow Max man.
Could you make video analysis about shutter island and bioshock infinite ? I think your analysis would be amazing about these masterpieces. GREAT video by the way.
Just finished the game a few minutes ago. The whole game is a big wtf. LoL I wanna play again to figure out parts I missed.
Nothing that is observed is unaffected by the observer???
Nothing? Predawn tomorrow morning i will observe the appearance of Jupiter on the Eastern horizon.
How is Jupiter affected by me observing it?
This is an amazing video man.
I honestly hope that Cyberpunk 2077 will use the narrative theme of "Body augmentation bad, corporations profit off of your insecurities, humanity is no longer human. ect." It would make for an appropriate story mirroring our current world right now.
That is every single cyberpunk game though. There is very few unashamed transhumanist fiction out there
@@LucasDimoveo What if it's a bit different in Cyberpunk 2077?
@@doclouis4236 I'm honestly fatigued of the anti-capitalist and anti-transhumanist messaging that is so common in cyberpunk literature and media. I think it's about time we had something more cyber and less "punk."
That being said, I completely respect and understand the message the creators of these works of art are conveying but I simply am stating I believe it to be overdone.
Personally, I think man's existence has always been a process of overcoming our natural limitations, transhumanism is simply the next stage in human evolution.
@Maddy Elizah That sounds really neat! Very creative
@@okquentin Yeah, I don't think transhumanism is the way. At that point, we're not even going to be technically alive if we fully embrace technology into human bodies. Our "consciousness" will cease too be and whatever other thing copies it is just going to mimic it and not "be" what it originally was intended to be, a flawed by nature but also fully capable human being. I think if we rely too heavily on technology we will regress/devolve even more as a species until we're nothing but a bunch of hairless goblins in a couple of millennia. If anything it still further shows how technology is further playing into the insecurities of body dysmorphia. It's all essentially degeneracy.
My birds love your videos ! :D
This game mastered the gameplay elements of Layers of Fear but with so much richer lore and characters. The side quests in redux were pretty good too albeit brief and kinda buggy
Hard matter.
Thanks!
honey, its another max derrat video!
Another mind blowing video
Thank you
Ill read the books you mentioned
This is like the tenth time you've blown my mind Max. Very great video 👍 👍
that was a wild ride
A lot of your videos are so deep it's feels suffocating...
i would love to read your school essays
I'll have to get back to you Maxi baby. I'm maybe past half way in the game. Dinnae want spoilers
I really enjoyed playing this game i almost beat it but the game started crashing i looked up how far from the ending i was and i only had about 20 minutes left to finish the so yeah needless to say I was a little upset
I admire your videos! I have huge respect for your deep thinking about the games and the movies, uncovering and explaining the metaphors and deep themes. Please keep up the great work and I'd love to see more and longer videos! :D
Adding to a _science_ fiction side of things I can assure you we're _decades_ away from digitalizing and uploading human mind to computers. :)
Elon Musk with his Neuralink makes an impression brain augmentation and digitization is just around the corner, because it's a business. But Neuralink itself is several years before delivering on its promise, and that would be just the first step in the right direction, after which several more decades of research will be necessary.
Another funny thing is we'd like not only digitize the brain and put it on a gazillion SSDs, but also _run_ it. And in this regard technology is several decades behind too. Current supercomputers are capable of simulating only one hundredth at best of more-or-less realistic neurons compared to the size of human brain at a speed of about 1 simulated second in 10 real minutes. That's without any regard to any notion of _thinking_ just neurons firing more-or-less randomly and propagating signals.
So I really doubt I will see any mind digitization even by the end of my life. :)
Pretty much the same goes for body augmentation. Prosthetic limbs are still not something you'd willingly replace your own limbs with. Frankly speaking they still lack tactile feedback even after all the years of research put into it. And we have nothing remotely resembling "artificial muscles". It's even more embarrassing to talk about internal organs prosthetics. Artificial liver Repomen-style? Seems even more distant than digital consciousness! :\
The part where you mentioned that 1 irl second would take a supercomputer 10 minutes makes me consider a story where people live longer lives because they perceive time differently.
Imagine a world where people think they live 600x as long as humans used to, but the reality is they don't, the process is just a 1:600.
@@Mr.Despair. I think it should be other way around to work 600:1 :)
But that's very old and very widespread theme in SF. It was in Inception to name but one movie...
To be fair though, 2001: A Space Odyssey has also stood the test of time.
@Max Derrat - in case you ever feel bad about asking us to hit the like button - I know some creators do! I sure would - it's quite alright. I usually forget, to be honest, a bit shamefully. A reminder helps and i'm always happy to hit the button for a good creator!
Just finished the game. A little slow in the beginning,for the first couple of hours for me. But then the story and I guess you would call them side cases, kept me very interested. Overall, good game. Definitely a silent hill vibe in this one and that’s not a bad thing.