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  • Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024

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  • @howiehiew
    @howiehiew 5 лет назад +6960

    The Critical failure mechanic gave me one of the funniest moments I've ever played. (spoilers for a minor side quest). A farmer asked me to find out what has been killing his rabbits and it becomes quite obvious that his daughter is a werewolf. Naturally I waited til night and what do you know, I was right. She changed and started attacking a rabbit. Unfortunately for her, she made a critical failure which used up all of her fatigue and she fainted. The rabbit was still fighting back though and I realised what was going to happen. I literally had to kill a bunny to save the life of werewolf.

    • @IXIskarfaceIXI
      @IXIskarfaceIXI 5 лет назад +346

      nice

    • @miniaturesandstuff5209
      @miniaturesandstuff5209 4 года назад +213

      Haha that was awesome 😂

    • @dawey8897
      @dawey8897 4 года назад +111

      Try it while ur drunk

    • @madscialex9030
      @madscialex9030 4 года назад +358

      well you never tried to backstab-kill an npc only to miss him, swing too far and cut off your leg (with a small dagger)... D:

    • @rachmatzulfiqar
      @rachmatzulfiqar 4 года назад +65

      @@madscialex9030 lmao

  • @MrChainsawAardvark
    @MrChainsawAardvark 5 лет назад +3987

    My friend's favorite part of the game was mind controlling bears or wolves, moving them into an NPC's house, mage locking the doors closed, and then restoring the animal's free will. This is neither murder or otherwise illegal.

    • @RomaraAhallow
      @RomaraAhallow 5 лет назад +435

      Genius.

    • @foxmulder8955
      @foxmulder8955 5 лет назад +165

      unfortunately mind control doesnt work anymore on animals in the latest version (i remember doing that as well in the past). But it was extremely unpractical to maintain the spell while travelling anyway (since you generally find animals in random encounters and using the fast travel breaks all your spells)

    • @iguanaacuatica5543
      @iguanaacuatica5543 5 лет назад +22

      Lmao i have to redownload the game to do this now

    • @wjrjbnjd
      @wjrjbnjd 5 лет назад

      O

    • @mullerduplooy614
      @mullerduplooy614 5 лет назад +1

      You make me laugh.

  • @Arkalidor
    @Arkalidor 5 лет назад +4858

    necromancer Kerghan: "Life is an anomaly that ushers nothing but suffering. I plan to end it all, end all life, so that noone needs suffer anymore"
    charisma protagonist: "Yeah, well, that's, like, your opinion, man."
    Necromancer Kerghan: "Fair point. Kill me please."

    • @nowheredan27
      @nowheredan27 4 года назад +228

      And that's why the only charisma kill of a last boss ever to be justified is The Master from FO1.

    • @seank.9213
      @seank.9213 4 года назад +69

      @@nowheredan27 Disproven, FEV mutant sterility was only temporary.

    • @nowheredan27
      @nowheredan27 4 года назад +61

      @@seank.9213 Sauce?

    • @io8488
      @io8488 4 года назад +109

      mighty '90s. ok it's funny, anyway the core message of those dialogues it's simple (oversimplified lol) but effective. one of best thing of arcanum is that lore/dialogues/philosophy are meaningful and deep. a game really well made and interesting

    • @ChouanB
      @ChouanB 4 года назад +88

      @@seank.9213 The answer of Marcus has been stated has a joke in the Fallout bible Q&A.

  • @garavonhoiwkenzoiber
    @garavonhoiwkenzoiber 5 лет назад +3920

    This game had one of the most broken abilities I've ever encountered.
    Turn Based, spec in Backstabs and Time Magic, and use the Dagger Of Speed which only costs 1 action point per attack. Once at full Dex you have 70 to 75 action points available.
    You can run into a room, stab 30 people in the spine, and run out again before anyone else gets a single turn. From their perspective, nothing was happening then suddenly everyone in the room spontaneously exploded.

    • @foxmulder8955
      @foxmulder8955 5 лет назад +185

      turn based is for noobs. In real time speed actually has a cap even if your character editor doesnt say so. I always make characters that can aggro every barbarian in kree and win the fight in real time

    • @mayaaaluna
      @mayaaaluna 5 лет назад +504

      TOKI WO TOMARE

    • @informitas0117
      @informitas0117 5 лет назад +507

      Want something broken? Use the spell Disintegrate on another player in multiplayer. Their character is gone forever.

    • @cliffhanger4945
      @cliffhanger4945 5 лет назад +215

      @@mayaaaluna ZA WARUDO!

    • @pnutz_2
      @pnutz_2 5 лет назад +55

      so basically evil quicksilver

  • @MahtiJapponen
    @MahtiJapponen 5 лет назад +2977

    "in no particular order" proceeds to list the races in a very particular order

  • @_JayRamsey_
    @_JayRamsey_ 4 года назад +1935

    Congenital Brain Damage: INT -2
    Stunningly Gorgeous Woman: INT -4

  • @Awrukczek
    @Awrukczek 5 лет назад +5581

    me before playing arcanum: why does sseth hate gnomes so much? Surely they can't all be bad
    me after playing arcanum: genociding all gnomes would be completely justifiable

    • @alexmelik4030
      @alexmelik4030 5 лет назад +1169

      Yeah, if Arcanum 2 was ever released, I would forgive it no matter how bad it would be, if only it allowed us to finally solve the Gnomish question...

    • @dannylamb456
      @dannylamb456 4 года назад +817

      @@alexmelik4030
      with a final solution, no less

    • @vincegalila7211
      @vincegalila7211 4 года назад +38

      What about Vollinger?

    • @thibs2837
      @thibs2837 4 года назад +87

      What do gnomes actually do ? ^^

    • @vincegalila7211
      @vincegalila7211 4 года назад +760

      @@thibs2837 a lot of them are in the rich upper class and some do some rather horrible stuff like breeding a army of half oger bodyguards. Also the only gnome companion tries to kill you.

  • @mayaaaluna
    @mayaaaluna 5 лет назад +1638

    > Fatigue Restorer
    > Cocaine
    11/10 accurate af

    • @ineednochannelyoutube5384
      @ineednochannelyoutube5384 5 лет назад +20

      Its clearly metanphetamine though.

    • @Legitpenguins99
      @Legitpenguins99 5 лет назад +26

      Until it wears off, making you want to commit suicide

    • @LehySnek
      @LehySnek 5 лет назад +39

      @@ineednochannelyoutube5384 No dude it's cocaine. It's even made with Coca leaves

    • @nopushbutton
      @nopushbutton 5 лет назад +17

      @@LehySnek cocaine is much more period accurate as well (they did a lot of cocaine at that point in history)

    • @nopushbutton
      @nopushbutton 5 лет назад

      @F.u.c.k Go.ogl.e bn

  • @sadjohnny6120
    @sadjohnny6120 3 года назад +2138

    I always assumed the whole "product of rape" thing was just ssseth being ssseth, but then I played the game and read the race descriptions and soon realised he wasn't fucking lying.

    • @Hjortur95
      @Hjortur95 2 года назад +450

      the rumored location of the systematic rape laboratory

    • @magmat0585
      @magmat0585 2 года назад +59

      ohhhh nooooooo

    • @IndigoWhiskey
      @IndigoWhiskey 2 года назад +166

      the best bluffs, arent bluffs

    • @combativeThinker
      @combativeThinker 2 года назад

      Kill.
      Every.
      Gnome.

    • @Kakuretaka
      @Kakuretaka 2 года назад

      In fantasy it happens a lot.
      Let's assume you have a village and it falls on hard times. But the near by ork village has lots of food so you and few lads get your guns kill the men take the women and food.
      Or
      Orks show up kill you and tell the women we will come back and kill you unless you give in to are advances.
      Ogres... Well gnomes in Arcanum breed willing members and get servants out of it. You see a lot of half ogre body guards. They are litteraly a product.

  • @johnga911
    @johnga911 5 лет назад +1871

    The crazy thing is Arcanum is only partly finished. They had so much more ambition than they were actually able to execute. The early 2000s were such a sad time - so many WRPG devs who would have created good games for their own sake, for just a living wage, being utterly fucked over by publishers. Only recently have all these devs begun working together again, with the era of crowdfunding.

    • @ZanathKariashi
      @ZanathKariashi 5 лет назад +214

      And Arcanum is actually the best of the their 3 games, because it came out early enough that they were able to give it a decent amount of post-release support.
      The fan-patch is still nice to have, but not required like it is VtM:Bloodlines or ToEE.

    • @Srksius2802
      @Srksius2802 5 лет назад +7

      @@ZanathKariashi ToEE?

    • @faramir...get_the_palantir
      @faramir...get_the_palantir 5 лет назад +53

      @@Srksius2802 Temple of Elemental Evil, I think.

    • @Srksius2802
      @Srksius2802 5 лет назад +4

      @@faramir...get_the_palantir thank you

    • @jackjackson2026
      @jackjackson2026 5 лет назад +78

      Too bad they've produced sweet fuck all. I wonder if we'll ever get a game we can look back on in 10 years and say "now that's a fucken' classic" like I can do with Half-Life, System Shock and Deus Ex among many other 90's - early 2000's games.

  • @zahnloli123
    @zahnloli123 Год назад +326

    >Half-Ogres: Products of systemic rape
    >Shows a gnome
    Fuck, it took me too long to realize that one

  • @papericard
    @papericard 5 лет назад +1692

    Isolated incidents are part and parcel of living in a big city

    • @MachineMan-mj4gj
      @MachineMan-mj4gj 4 года назад +31

      Gnomes > Orcs. There, I said it.

    • @igooog
      @igooog 4 года назад +155

      The Zephyr merely received a healthy dose of cultural enrichment.

    • @ideclaredwaronyourfrenchas4123
      @ideclaredwaronyourfrenchas4123 4 года назад +39

      @@MachineMan-mj4gj Humans >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Orcs >>>>>>> Gnomes

    • @lyca0n535
      @lyca0n535 4 года назад +3

      @@ideclaredwaronyourfrenchas4123 Where do elves and us halfbreeds fit on the list ?

    • @slyseal2091
      @slyseal2091 4 года назад +62

      @@lyca0n535 _They don't._

  • @TalkernateHistory
    @TalkernateHistory 5 лет назад +853

    I love how many of those default portraits are civil war generals. I see Ulysses Grant is a dwarf and Ambrose Burnside is a gnome (of course he'd be a gnome)

    • @alangoldsmith3
      @alangoldsmith3 5 лет назад +7

      I love you guys' podcasts I'm a huge fan

    • @cpt.awesome7281
      @cpt.awesome7281 4 года назад +7

      Holy shit, I didn't catch that! 😂

    • @mmouse1886
      @mmouse1886 2 года назад

      Wait a second, is your profile picture of Paul von Oberstein?

    • @orboakin8074
      @orboakin8074 2 года назад +9

      There was a Civil war general called Ambrose Burnside? That is such a badass name I still believe it's real.

    • @MagnusVictor2015
      @MagnusVictor2015 2 года назад +22

      @@orboakin8074 It's important to know that Ambrose Burnside is also where the term 'sideburns' comes from. His own set of sideburns was held to be so impressive that people started calling them by his surname.

  • @MsJavaWolf
    @MsJavaWolf 5 лет назад +4776

    One of my favourite things in Arcanum was this: it's an early game spoiler so if you want to play the game maybe don't read it, althought it's unlikely that you will see it on your playthrough anyway.
    I chose an orc as my character, but gave him a little bit of intelligence. My friend also chose an orc, but the background he chose was something like "circus orc", giving him a big int malus. One of the first characters you encounter is your friend Virgil, so I talked with my friend about the game a bit and our progress and it was something like: what did you do after Virgil said this and that? He said: Who is Virgil? The main characters friend of course. Oh, you must mean Wiggel, I was like wtf. I thought my friend was a bit retarded, but it turns out if you have a character with very low int, he can not even pronounce the names of the people he encounters correctly. Small things like this really help the storytelling and they are what a "role playing" game should be about.

    • @therideneverends1697
      @therideneverends1697 5 лет назад +808

      Reminds me of the first 2 fallouts where you could miss entire sections of the game due to crippleing stupidity if you put your INT under 3

    • @midshipman8654
      @midshipman8654 5 лет назад +129

      The Ride Never ends Pretty sure that was in New Vegas too.

    • @everythingeverything6505
      @everythingeverything6505 5 лет назад +347

      @@midshipman8654 extremely reduced, there are like 5 dialogue options opened if you have small int scores and none affect the storyline or any sections of the game

    • @midshipman8654
      @midshipman8654 5 лет назад +149

      @@everythingeverything6505 Couldn't you also not form actual sentences or something? like all of your options were "Ugh Ugh" or something like that? IDK I havent played it in a while.

    • @dsandoval9396
      @dsandoval9396 5 лет назад +14

      That is awesome.

  • @MotherSoren
    @MotherSoren 4 года назад +5647

    Honestly if healing magic was real I'd also kinda consider medicine barbaric

    • @toolatetothestory
      @toolatetothestory 3 года назад +646

      Mood. Like, can medicine just resurrect people with basically no effort? I don't think so.

    • @chukyuniqul
      @chukyuniqul 3 года назад +157

      @@toolatetothestory may be, but medicine doesn't require mana and you need consent to perform it.

    • @toolatetothestory
      @toolatetothestory 3 года назад +646

      @@chukyuniqul No, medicine needs medical tools, medicine, consent (for plebians), usually a sterile environment
      Meanwhile magic ONLY needs mana. Just resurrect some bitch on the spot and boom, work done. Chill for a few hours or chug a potion at most and you can keep doing this all day. You don't exactly need to hurry resurrection either.

    • @sethleoric2598
      @sethleoric2598 3 года назад +643

      I mean, what would you rather have? 18 painful surgeries from some barber with a hacksaw in THE 1800s or would you rather a nice old elven gramma tap you with a stick and your leg grows back.

    • @toolatetothestory
      @toolatetothestory 3 года назад +254

      @@sethleoric2598 Exactly! Sseth was on point by calling medicine barbaric

  • @UberDanger
    @UberDanger 5 лет назад +4252

    Still the only channel I consistently watch every upload

    • @DieHardW
      @DieHardW 5 лет назад +13

      Love u uber baby no homo

    • @TechnicFlow
      @TechnicFlow 5 лет назад +4

      One of like 10 channels out of hundreds I'm subscribed to I have the notification bell on for.

    • @Avidire
      @Avidire 5 лет назад +6

      Nani? Uber danger?

    • @bananawaffles1967
      @bananawaffles1967 5 лет назад +2

      Seth is very entertaining, you both have that in common

    • @j.r.a.1171
      @j.r.a.1171 5 лет назад +20

      dunkey still makes videos?

  • @alexanderrahl7034
    @alexanderrahl7034 Год назад +2839

    It wasn't until Mandalore's video on Arcanum, that I realized Sseth's unbridled bigotry towards gnomes in Arcanum... _is absolutely justified_

    • @user-qz3nv5jf7l
      @user-qz3nv5jf7l Год назад +138

      Like there's any other way to treat them ANYWHERE

    • @crouchinglibcrab9527
      @crouchinglibcrab9527 Год назад +35

      Oh hell yeah me too

    • @SCARaw
      @SCARaw 10 месяцев назад +27

      this game deserve to be played, not just watched on youtube

    • @lizardmedia2257
      @lizardmedia2257 10 месяцев назад +14

      All of you fr admit you still haven't played this game

    • @Tururu669
      @Tururu669 9 месяцев назад +4

      Gnomes suck in any fantasy world

  • @ar1i_k
    @ar1i_k Год назад +774

    I thought Sseth was joking about gnomes and half-ogres
    After Mandalore's video I see, he was just trying to warn us

    • @ZX-Gear
      @ZX-Gear Год назад +107

      Sseth was not fucking around.

    • @alexanderrahl7034
      @alexanderrahl7034 Год назад +99

      From now on, gnomes are "on sight" when I play this game lol

    • @ocal123
      @ocal123 Год назад +11

      ah mandalore, the sane version of sseth

    • @t-90m71
      @t-90m71 Год назад +7

      ​@@ocal123 You got that backwards.

    • @ocal123
      @ocal123 Год назад +2

      @@t-90m71 damm, my bad

  • @unearthlyenemy
    @unearthlyenemy 5 лет назад +2847

    I feel like, by watching this video and just reading the comments, I've been put on about 400 different government watchlists. thanks, Sseth.

    • @KingOhmni
      @KingOhmni 5 лет назад +20

      I know right...

    • @raphaelkap
      @raphaelkap 5 лет назад +171

      There aren't even that many governments in existence, how did you manage this

    • @feritperliare2890
      @feritperliare2890 5 лет назад +93

      Raphael Kapra it seems all the eyes are on Israel maybe alien governments at this point I could believe

    • @Vladislav888
      @Vladislav888 5 лет назад +32

      Raphael Kapra One government can have more than one watchlist

    • @DarkRipper117
      @DarkRipper117 4 года назад +13

      Welcome to the club....you owe it to yourself.!!!🤗

  • @disk3001
    @disk3001 Год назад +2330

    Before playing Arcanum: Sseeth is just memeing against the Gnomes, very funny but kinda extreme
    After playing Arcanum: The most tragic part of this game is that there is a canonical peaceful afterlife and the knowledge that dead Gnomes are not suffering in the darkest pit of hell

    • @hellfiredoughnut1434
      @hellfiredoughnut1434 Год назад +184

      One word "Half ogres""

    • @WingMaster562
      @WingMaster562 Год назад +142

      @@hellfiredoughnut1434 Systemicrape

    • @America_Yea
      @America_Yea Год назад +54

      chances are most of em are not there though LUL.

    • @Tacet137
      @Tacet137 Год назад +19

      Same but IRL

    • @sebasfrankes6501
      @sebasfrankes6501 Год назад +130

      That is why I conjure their spirits, AND LEAVE THEM THERE

  • @jonmcnamara
    @jonmcnamara 2 года назад +251

    I loved this game so much as a kid that I contacted the composer and he gave me copies of the sheet music. We played it as part of our university orchestra.
    Good times.
    Also, I love that you can be an idiot in this game and the entire dialogue and journal are all written incorrectly.

  • @Dartigan
    @Dartigan 5 лет назад +4326

    I demand you post the banana bread recipe.

    • @Salabar_
      @Salabar_ 5 лет назад +697

      Grandma Cookhill’s Three Bowl Bread
      In a large bowl, blend one-third of a cup softened butter and two-thirds of a cup
      of sugar until creamy and light. When this is done, add a fresh hen’s egg and
      beat the mixture a bit more to blend.
      In a second bowl, sift one and three-quarters cup of flour together with one and
      one-half teaspoons baking powder, one-quarter of a teaspoon of baking-soda, and
      a teaspoon of Cumbrian cinnamon.
      In the third bowl, mash three very ripe banana-fruit, preferably of the sweeter
      Cattanese variety.
      Add one-third of the flour mixture to the butter bowl, and beat the two together;
      then add one-third of the mashed bananas and beat again. Continue adding
      both mixtures by thirds to the large bowl until all the flour, butter-and-eggs,
      and banana-fruit are thoroughly blended. Then, if you wish, you may add a halfcup
      of shelled walnuts for flavor. Spread the batter into a well-greased 4" x 8"
      pan and bake for one hour at a temperature of 350 degrees.
      The resulting bread is very healthful and tasty and can be served as an addition to
      the mid-morning meal. It also makes a pleasant snack in a picnic basket, and is
      wholly appropriate fare to offer elven visitors.

    • @BadlanderOutsider
      @BadlanderOutsider 5 лет назад +423

      No banana bread for knife ears.

    • @therideneverends1697
      @therideneverends1697 5 лет назад +214

      INb4 hundreds of people buy coppies of the game for the banana bread recipe

    • @Avrelivs_Gold
      @Avrelivs_Gold 5 лет назад +11

      i wish WoW recipes were that delightful

    • @gamerx112
      @gamerx112 5 лет назад +22

      @@BadlanderOutsider Only good elf is a dead elf!

  • @SneedFeedAndSeed
    @SneedFeedAndSeed 5 лет назад +702

    "A good gnome is a dead gnome."
    ~Gnome Slayer

    • @raspberrypie1706
      @raspberrypie1706 5 лет назад +158

      The only good gnomes are the ones that don't crawl out of their stinking ovens.

    • @chaospacemarine8330
      @chaospacemarine8330 5 лет назад +35

      @@raspberrypie1706 fuck me, I died

    • @yosefyonin6824
      @yosefyonin6824 5 лет назад +25

      @@chaospacemarine8330 me too, that the fucking hilarious

    • @jacqmarthy536
      @jacqmarthy536 2 года назад +3

      @@raspberrypie1706 i wanted to say synagnomes, but yours is better

    • @cjnf11
      @cjnf11 2 года назад +7

      "LET'S MAKE THESE GNOMES GOOD"

  • @alejandropineda02
    @alejandropineda02 Год назад +824

    The scariest thing of the year 2022 is having Mandalore essentially confirm every ridiculous thing Sseth claims is in this game.

    • @SurprisinglyDeep
      @SurprisinglyDeep Год назад

      There are actual Islamist terrorist organisations utilising biplane flying Orcs jihadi suicide bombers in Arcanum?
      I thought that most humans and elves involved in Islamist terrorist organisations in the world of Arcanum considered the vast majority of Orcs to be spiritually lacking since their unsanitary habits means they cannot achieve wudu and their regular consumption of pork is haraam and not halal?
      Additionally I thought that asking the rich benfactors to the Islamist terrorist organisations to go into debt to purchaze the experimental biplanes would be immoral since it would be encouraging the rich benefactors bankers to engage in usury.

    • @SCARaw
      @SCARaw Год назад +42

      just play the game

    • @loserinasuit7880
      @loserinasuit7880 Год назад

      ​@@SCARawNo people need to wait 3 years for confirmation like tards.

    • @vy1585
      @vy1585 Год назад +7

      why would he go play the game again just to make a video for his alt persona

    • @michaeljhonmariano6462
      @michaeljhonmariano6462 Год назад +3

      Double revenue

  • @MrCoolioto
    @MrCoolioto 5 лет назад +2186

    Sseth, the install process for this game is like shoving a screwdriver up my urethra, and even with everything applied, if I tab out of the game, it refuses to open again. The forums have been inactive since 1945. The winter is harsh and the snow has long since covered all my windows and doors. All I wish is to play Arcanum. Yet, still, it fails me at every turn.

    • @supertaoman12
      @supertaoman12 5 лет назад +382

      its generally a bad idea to tab out of old games that run on fullscreen

    • @electricant55
      @electricant55 5 лет назад +260

      That's the reason I printed the entire 80 page guide to Gothic 2 when I played it for the first time

    • @slyseal2091
      @slyseal2091 5 лет назад +48

      This might be late, but have you tried connecting the game to the steam overlay in order to access their browser?

    • @raphaelkap
      @raphaelkap 5 лет назад +122

      @@supertaoman12 tabbing out of Fallout New Vegas creates an audio glitch that honestly scares me.
      I know your message was 7 months ago, but whatever

    • @Vladislav888
      @Vladislav888 5 лет назад +19

      Looks like an old game. Fire up the VM with Windows 98 or something and you don’t have to alt tab.

  • @prestongarvey1857
    @prestongarvey1857 5 лет назад +702

    Honestly I never even thought about a fantasy world undergoing a industrial revolution. I need more games like this.

    • @Fish-ub3wn
      @Fish-ub3wn 4 года назад +15

      Awesomeness 10/10, never repeated, period.

    • @budakbaongsiah
      @budakbaongsiah 4 года назад

      I don't think there's any, sadly.

    • @0oidiedinatimemachineo024
      @0oidiedinatimemachineo024 4 года назад +60

      yeah its a cool concept I'm surprised there aren't more games like that.. I mean theres tons of steampunk themed games and tons of fantasy games but thats diffeerent.

    • @simondaniel4028
      @simondaniel4028 4 года назад +11

      Really great game. Be warned though, it can be a huge undertaking. Worth it though, like great shows or a series of books.

    • @davidsoyele7829
      @davidsoyele7829 3 года назад +27

      Shadowrun is similar, but it's the other way around.
      In Arcanum, they industrialised AFTER the existence of magic.
      However in Shadowrun, magic is rediscovered in the future(like Cyberpunk 2077 in the future) after a couple of centuries, due to some great Calamity or whatever, where magic vanished from the world.

  • @nomadscholar2585
    @nomadscholar2585 Год назад +72

    *picks up monkey paw in Arcanum*
    "I wish for all gnomes to go to the void no matter what"
    *finger curls*
    "I wish for all gnomes in the afterlife to go to the void immediately"
    *finger curls*
    "I wish all gnomes live in a constant state of agony until they die"
    *last finger curls*
    "Alright let's get going"

  • @FourOfClubs
    @FourOfClubs 5 лет назад +3874

    *Arcanum, the game where you can convince the final antagonist to kill himself out of love for the world he hates.*

    • @veluk88
      @veluk88 5 лет назад +359

      And that's a brilliant example of how rpgs should be made. Freedom in every aspect of the game. Arcanum is a must play for any rpg fan out there.
      It's one of (not so many) games i finished and after credits, started new game immediately.

    • @dune1774
      @dune1774 5 лет назад +113

      @@veluk88 Its just some good writing to, having multiple unique endings instead one generic linear ending

    • @oz_jones
      @oz_jones 5 лет назад +140

      Fallout 1 did something similar

    • @gediminaspuskorius1195
      @gediminaspuskorius1195 5 лет назад +39

      maybe because same gnomes created it

    • @CptHalifax
      @CptHalifax 5 лет назад +110

      @@oz_jones Probably because the guys from Troika Games also worked on Fallout 1 and 2.

  • @mememem
    @mememem 5 лет назад +1562

    4:39 he's gnot a gnelf
    Not a gnoblin
    Not a gnome
    He's a gnostic

    • @MarshallBananar
      @MarshallBananar 5 лет назад +91

      That's a gnnoying

    • @douchebagel93
      @douchebagel93 5 лет назад +25

      Mah nigga meme. You seem to subscribe to all the same channels as me.

    • @YoMama9150
      @YoMama9150 5 лет назад +42

      frick, I've been gnomed

    • @poopnach
      @poopnach 5 лет назад +15

      no he's gnot.

    • @Sheridan2LT
      @Sheridan2LT 5 лет назад

      @didierthesuperstar ur moms a ggggggay

  • @derpnip
    @derpnip 4 года назад +347

    "HE IS WORSE THAN A GNOME, HE IS MAY GORK FORGIVE ME FOR UTTERING THIS WORD, AN ELF" -WAAAARGG tv

    • @CuongNguyen-eg1pu
      @CuongNguyen-eg1pu 3 года назад +29

      Brozers please,there are some expression that you cannot use

  • @ThejollyFrenchman
    @ThejollyFrenchman 5 лет назад +857

    "You can have carnal relations with a sheep"
    *goes onto Steam and buys game*

    • @foxmulder8955
      @foxmulder8955 5 лет назад +77

      the gog version is more convenient

    • @ThejollyFrenchman
      @ThejollyFrenchman 5 лет назад +92

      Fox Mulder Convenience is always appreciated when I'm going about my sheep sodomy.

    • @megamike15
      @megamike15 5 лет назад +2

      @@foxmulder8955 gog and steam are the same version.

    • @foxmulder8955
      @foxmulder8955 5 лет назад +47

      @@megamike15 except you don't have to deal with steam using a gog instal

    • @GigaChad-kg4yo
      @GigaChad-kg4yo 5 лет назад +54

      Huh, didnt know we had an "Islam Simulator".

  • @Phantom-of1bs
    @Phantom-of1bs Год назад +300

    “Half ogres, product of systemic rape” after watching mandalores video, that sentence makes sense

    • @Aggrofool
      @Aggrofool Год назад +23

      Effing gnomes man

    • @BR0984
      @BR0984 Год назад

      @@Aggrofool cease your anti-semitic remarks, goyim!

  • @daehawk9585
    @daehawk9585 3 года назад +336

    Once a party member was barely moving. I got tired of it and looked in his inv. Somewhere along the way he decided to pick up a boulder and carry it around. Idiot.

    • @admiralamel9563
      @admiralamel9563 3 года назад +16

      It's actually a quest item for repairing a temple, if you do pilgrimage in the right order in this game you can get OP blessing, but if you do it in the wrong order the gods will curse you to the ground.

    • @waltarron
      @waltarron 3 года назад +6

      @@admiralamel9563 no if you do it in the wrong order you just get rekt at the last altar. Spoiler ahead: in the last altar, what you offer is the PC's life, if you haven't done the other offerings properly, you just die. But if done correctly, you'll be resurrected by the All-Father Velorien (PBUH) as the inscription on his altar states :
      "All gods have a father
      And he watches over them
      His children call
      His children, all
      He holds them all as gems.
      But Velorien is hard and old
      And his ways are set in stone
      He has all
      And expects all
      With your life you will atone.
      But beware what you give
      If his children you don’t know
      Velorien takes all
      And Velorien returns all
      And his power he’ll bestow."

  • @Batavia2000
    @Batavia2000 5 лет назад +2366

    How come Gnomes have been kicked out of 109 countries?

  • @MoreEvilThanYahweh
    @MoreEvilThanYahweh 5 лет назад +295

    The gnome cries out in pain as he strikes you.

  • @michaelcastro9026
    @michaelcastro9026 Год назад +33

    "He's overexaggerating about the gnomes, hehe"
    *walks into first village and is immediately threatened and almost tricked by gnome*
    "This isn't a good sign..."

  • @I_HATE_THE_TOS
    @I_HATE_THE_TOS 4 года назад +1984

    The gnome is immunized against all dangers: one may call it a scoundrel, parasite, swindler, profiteer, it all runs off it like water off a raincoat. But call it a gnome and you will be astonished at how it recoils, how injured it is, how it suddenly shrinks back: "I've been found out."

  • @slothz5063
    @slothz5063 5 лет назад +156

    Mass flaging such a wonderful and beautiful video.
    Gnomes are truly the scourge of the earth

  • @RobertA-ej4tz
    @RobertA-ej4tz Год назад +43

    “Somebody decided to write a ton of dialogue around a single spell”. That would be the living legend - Tim Cain 😊

  • @Arcessitor
    @Arcessitor 5 лет назад +3811

    All races are equal. Gnomes, however, are less equal than others.

    • @Fubnin
      @Fubnin 5 лет назад +188

      Super Mega SS 88 Ultra Rightwing Purity Death Squad
      Proportionally, about half as equal.

    • @user-rw3kw7wx7e
      @user-rw3kw7wx7e 5 лет назад +20

      equal less

    • @DougsDiggers
      @DougsDiggers 5 лет назад +103

      Shut up gnome.

    • @wrmvngbds
      @wrmvngbds 5 лет назад +98

      Yep, username checks out

    • @idekman5427
      @idekman5427 5 лет назад +10

      Nice profilbild ;)

  • @rogaldorn7407
    @rogaldorn7407 5 лет назад +529

    >Buy it
    >Absolutely no one who made it gets any money

    • @douchebagel93
      @douchebagel93 5 лет назад +226

      The system is always rigged against honest hard working people. :( The only people that actually receive any money from people buying the game now are probably the corporate pieces of shit at the publisher. TFW you realize copyright law was actually designed to enrich lawyers and corporate bureaucrats instead of actual creators of intellectual properties. :(

    • @superaids3849
      @superaids3849 5 лет назад +239

      and gnomes

    • @Envinite
      @Envinite 5 лет назад +94

      I blame the jews

    • @superaids3849
      @superaids3849 5 лет назад +44

      we need something new we always blame the Jews i blame the chinese

    • @megamike15
      @megamike15 5 лет назад +11

      value gets all the money. but your right troica is gone, sirrea is not seeing a cent....so is this pirating with money?

  • @FirstLast-cg2nk
    @FirstLast-cg2nk 5 лет назад +495

    When discussing race in this game, I'm reminded of the "Difficulty" slider in South Park: The Fractured But Whole. Deciding your race in this game doesn't effect combat difficulty, but rather the general difficulty your character will encounter in literally every other aspect of his life.

    • @budakbaongsiah
      @budakbaongsiah 4 года назад +160

      An actual role-playing game.

    • @stevejohnson6593
      @stevejohnson6593 4 года назад +43

      @@budakbaongsiah now while that sounds harsh, there sadly may be a bit of truth there. good thing people will never all think the same way.

    • @GyaruRespecter
      @GyaruRespecter 4 года назад +41

      So stunning and so brave

    • @bottomlefto
      @bottomlefto 2 года назад +18

      same with the stick of truth. playing as a black jew is the highest difficulty available.

    • @ZigealFaust
      @ZigealFaust 2 года назад +16

      @@bottomlefto Playing as myself in Fractured But Whole was a god damn trip.
      Black and Trans is basically nightmare difficulty in that game.

  • @jamesc-zd8pz
    @jamesc-zd8pz 5 лет назад +205

    Hey hey Sseth, People here

  • @fartalone3142
    @fartalone3142 5 лет назад +492

    "He decides to kill himself out of love for the world he hates" , that is so brutally well said. If you came up with that sentence yourself, you are amazing. Honestly it inspired me , thanks

    • @JayRLetton
      @JayRLetton 2 года назад +19

      Two years later and I'm now wondering if this guy killed himself

    • @not_herobrine3752
      @not_herobrine3752 2 года назад +13

      @@JayRLetton if he did, he sure did some necromancy to get his new video up

    • @ZigealFaust
      @ZigealFaust 2 года назад +9

      @@JayRLetton Fear not, they are alive and uploading shitty content.
      Maybe Sseth shouldnt have inspired them....

  • @ZX-Gear
    @ZX-Gear Год назад +49

    Jesus Christ,Sseth. You were not kidding about the Gnomes. Even Mandalore Gaming had to somewhat agree after that ONE quest.

  • @toaster9922
    @toaster9922 5 лет назад +106

    i wasn’t too sold on this game until you told me about the banana bread recipe.

    • @RomaraAhallow
      @RomaraAhallow 5 лет назад +8

      This game is amazing.

    • @scwirpeo
      @scwirpeo 5 лет назад +15

      @@RomaraAhallow Yea but I can't stick my dick in a game.
      Some warm banana bread tho, oh yes.

  • @Squirtskrrt
    @Squirtskrrt 5 лет назад +240

    Jihad al noori and Hussam al-Moradi holy shit

  • @weekley_submarine
    @weekley_submarine Год назад +133

    " A gaping hole of an existence"
    "A mentally stunted special needs child "
    Sseth writes with such authenticity.

  • @dcethe6943
    @dcethe6943 5 лет назад +744

    Communist Manifesto review at 300k please

    • @thejester3147
      @thejester3147 5 лет назад +27

      Na let him do Das Kapital instead

    • @noahwatt1269
      @noahwatt1269 5 лет назад +2

      Brainletts
      The Wealth of Nations is far superior

    • @Seagull780
      @Seagull780 5 лет назад +25

      @Witch House I don't think the Merchant's guild would fund that.

    • @Seagull780
      @Seagull780 5 лет назад +8

      Can we all start spamming Seth to read SIEGE by James Mason now. I'd join the merchant's guild just to finance that.

    • @Counter-Chicken
      @Counter-Chicken 5 лет назад

      The Jester a video review of Das Kapital would take him literal years to make

  • @draghicivlad2444
    @draghicivlad2444 Год назад +84

    Never played the game and I assumed the half ogre “product of rape” bit was just a Seth joke.
    Now I’m down the rabbit hole and the gnome authorities are banging on my door.

  • @Kartik-fv4vo
    @Kartik-fv4vo 4 года назад +406

    "He decided to kill himself out of love for the world he hated."
    Necromancer Kerghan : I-It's not like I like the world or anything, b-baka!

    • @eriktheshitposterm.i.a6760
      @eriktheshitposterm.i.a6760 3 года назад +16

      hahaha thats funny,
      now go back down to the comment section pit

    • @buckplug2423
      @buckplug2423 2 года назад +1

      Rei > Asuka

    • @eduardojose981
      @eduardojose981 2 года назад

      @@eriktheshitposterm.i.a6760 uh... you know where we are rigth?
      '

    • @combativeThinker
      @combativeThinker 2 года назад

      @@buckplug2423
      Indeed.

    • @exemida
      @exemida Год назад

      ​@@eriktheshitposterm.i.a6760 Wait did I make a wrong turn I thought this was the comments section pit.

  • @necrotic256
    @necrotic256 5 лет назад +118

    Did you tell them about that sheep in the brothel, Sseth?
    Ahh, i see you are a man of culture as well

  • @o4zloiroman
    @o4zloiroman 5 лет назад +179

    >usually I turn off the music
    You're dead to me.

    • @Ezio999Auditore
      @Ezio999Auditore 5 лет назад +15

      agreed.

    • @ComicGladiator
      @ComicGladiator 5 лет назад +2

      The music is great...until the sameness of a lot of the tracks becomes annoying.

  • @AngryTheGnome
    @AngryTheGnome 3 года назад +174

    *start describing gnomes
    me: "he's correct you know"

  • @ChubbsRN
    @ChubbsRN 5 лет назад +133

    "Isolated incident" rofl

  • @georgiosgiannoukas3319
    @georgiosgiannoukas3319 2 года назад +53

    "Gets shot down by orcs flying fighter planes, who are later identified as brothers Jihaad al-Noori and Husaam al-Moradi" Fucking laughed for a solid five minutes there.

  • @Dufoth
    @Dufoth 4 года назад +194

    Remember when RPGs had options

    • @_cyber_cookie_
      @_cyber_cookie_ 4 года назад +42

      Yeah, when RPGs were actual RPGs

    • @mortemtyrannus8813
      @mortemtyrannus8813 4 года назад +47

      Options? RPGs don't need options! You just need to push a button that causes something awesome to happen. Remember, button = awesome!

    • @KubinWielki
      @KubinWielki 3 года назад +38

      How do I reply? Hmm...
      1. Yes
      2. No (But actually yes in the next line)
      3. Sarcasm
      4. More info

    • @secretname2670
      @secretname2670 2 года назад +1

      Role playing game with only one role to play. Man i recently played DoS2 and this is the fucking reason why i hated it. No matter if i was a necromancer who committed several warcrimes and a lot more law violations - everyone refers to me as a hero.
      If i dared to even try playing a villain, all the options i had available were in "chaotic retard" category ranging from "kill children for no reason" to "murder a guy who just saved you". I mean come on, even if you are evil , you will not waste all you have just to do something considered evil if it's detrimental to you. I will lie to people for their money, i will murder someone who is against me , but holy shit i will not spend all my time kicking dogs and flaying cats because "muh evil".

  • @shadowoperative2854
    @shadowoperative2854 3 года назад +608

    While gnomes only make up 2% of Arcanum's population, they make up 50% of the billionaires. Hmmm......

    • @averagetaxpayer6029
      @averagetaxpayer6029 3 года назад +127

      "Maybe they just make more money?"

    • @whatamidoingwithmylife4108
      @whatamidoingwithmylife4108 3 года назад +5

      25%

    • @dansmith1661
      @dansmith1661 2 года назад +81

      @@averagetaxpayer6029 They do control the printing presses.

    • @mogscugg2639
      @mogscugg2639 7 месяцев назад +4

      Maybe the humans shouldn't have relied on gnomish bankers for a millennium lol

    • @biosavat9475
      @biosavat9475 6 месяцев назад +3

      Seth is secretly shifting the blame to his brethren so he can upsurp his families gathered wealth and solely control the world. Truly a merchant guild tyrant 😔

  • @RamixTheRed
    @RamixTheRed Год назад +16

    Came here after the Mandalore video.
    The bit about Half-Ogres and Gnomes hits different now

  • @osichan69
    @osichan69 6 месяцев назад +6

    Me before playing Arcanum: Why everyone hates gnomes?
    Me after playing Arcanum and complete Half Ogre island mission: Fuck Gnomes!

  • @guidila8111
    @guidila8111 5 лет назад +83

    A good gnome, is a dead gnome.

  • @Dr4g0n89
    @Dr4g0n89 2 года назад +58

    Half-ogres products of systemic rape... that quest chain was probably one of the best quests in the world of gaming with the worst ending imaginable! Man i loved arcanum as a teenager and i had a playthrough just 2 years ago. Its timeless and epic!

  • @cyberpunkgirl7907
    @cyberpunkgirl7907 4 года назад +54

    " The Gnome *knows* "

  • @caledavid4174
    @caledavid4174 5 лет назад +54

    I'm so glad you managed to reference the Gnome conspiracy and the origins of half-ogres.

    • @oz_jones
      @oz_jones 5 лет назад +24

      Cale David *ISOLATED INCIDENTS*

  • @Kullen64
    @Kullen64 5 лет назад +189

    Yay!!! Do Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines next!!!

    • @hmmmooops
      @hmmmooops 5 лет назад +15

      Oh my god yes

    • @YoMama9150
      @YoMama9150 5 лет назад +4

      Oh boy.

    • @blank4227
      @blank4227 5 лет назад +4

      that one is too normiecore for him, it'd be like if he did EYE Divine Cybermancy. I'd still love to see him review both though

    • @KCzz15
      @KCzz15 5 лет назад +2

      Redemption > > > Bloodlines

    • @Kullen64
      @Kullen64 5 лет назад +5

      Albert Caponi Same 😩 I guess my idea of normie is a little different than his. I’d consider something like KOTOR 2 normie. Not VTMB though 😞

  • @LucioFGR
    @LucioFGR Год назад +16

    Mandaloregaming and you make RUclips feel good just like in 2007-2010

  • @BorrisStonoyanovich
    @BorrisStonoyanovich 5 лет назад +271

    You’ve been busy this week Mandalore

    • @TheLongasen
      @TheLongasen 5 лет назад

      Where's the proof?

    • @assaultspoon4925
      @assaultspoon4925 5 лет назад +56

      @@TheLongasen Wheres the proof against?
      It's 2018, the defendant brings the proof while the prosecution cries and gets praised by Democrats

    • @BadlanderOutsider
      @BadlanderOutsider 5 лет назад +44

      We don't need proof. We have baseless conjecture; far better than proof.

    • @assaultspoon4925
      @assaultspoon4925 5 лет назад +1

      @@comradecommissar1945 And he found it on SpellsofMagic.com

  • @ETIENNELIVE
    @ETIENNELIVE 5 лет назад +303

    We forgot to mention the sad lore of the Gnomes from 1933-1945.

    • @dansmith1661
      @dansmith1661 4 года назад +91

      @@Gabriel-qk8ig How history repeated itself 20 times since the 19th century, according to their media and always 6 million in count. EVERY.SINGLE.TIME.

    • @ideclaredwaronyourfrenchas4123
      @ideclaredwaronyourfrenchas4123 4 года назад +42

      I heard it's a good fiction novel to read

    • @chaospacemarine8330
      @chaospacemarine8330 3 года назад +23

      It'd be sad if it actually happened

    • @dannylamb456
      @dannylamb456 3 года назад +30

      and that they were expelled from 109 countries too

    • @halflifeger4179
      @halflifeger4179 2 года назад +1

      You guys need to get fucking laid lmao

  • @Pottatow
    @Pottatow 2 года назад +45

    One of the best RPGs ever made. You forgot to mention the disintegrate spell which can instantly kill the final boss. The balance behind the spell was that it takes too much mana to cast normally until you complete a secret quest by getting various blessings of the gods at the end you're mana will double allowing you to cast the spell 4 times before you go oom.

  • @kurtmorales7644
    @kurtmorales7644 5 лет назад +53

    Seth, you're review style always puts a smile on my face

    • @Rickuo
      @Rickuo 5 лет назад

      *your

    • @Rickuo
      @Rickuo 5 лет назад +1

      *an erection

    • @Rickuo
      @Rickuo 5 лет назад

      translation: "I don't have time for your thing, my dear friend. In the mean time, please consider trimming your toenails."

  • @johngordon7384
    @johngordon7384 3 года назад +15

    I don't know man, six million gnomes?

  • @L_Monke
    @L_Monke Год назад +97

    After watching Mandalores review I know why Sseth hates gnomes so much, now I hate them too.

  • @shipso6116
    @shipso6116 5 лет назад +297

    Wonderful game. It's a shame the Troika Games didn't get the chance to polish it into a f*cking huge diamond. Sseth review is also wonderful and funny, as always. :)

    • @KestalDoern
      @KestalDoern 5 лет назад +17

      "didn't get the chance to polish it into a f*cking huge diamond"
      So.... Like everytime they published something.

    • @shipso6116
      @shipso6116 5 лет назад +11

      They lived not long and their best products were created already on the verge of company extinction. They were bound to be defective. It wouldn't be so bad, maybe, if the studio could hope to exist longer. But shit happens. Life doesn't give a f*ck sometimes about our dreams and inspirations. You won't object, I hope, that their games were ispired. Distinctive, not conveyor material. They have "Soul". And not too many games have.

    • @KestalDoern
      @KestalDoern 5 лет назад +3

      I absolutely agree with the things you said as I adore Troika for what they did, even tho I haven't spent that much time on their games. They were like Peter Molyneux, who actually delivered at least 50% of ideas they talked about.

    • @satqur
      @satqur 5 лет назад +9

      Being a broken piece of shit is basically one of the hallmarks of a great RPG. I can't think of a single truly good RPG that isn't an unstable poorly-programmed shitshow.

    • @MrMrtvozornik
      @MrMrtvozornik 5 лет назад +6

      Yeah, that's part of the experience. Only good old broken RPGs like these would let you access like another 3-4% of the game just cause you got some fucking spell. In these days of modern consumer shitshow where literally NOTHING is made if it's not gonna be seen by player and they damn sure make you see it if you miss it cause they invested time in making it, it's really refreshing to see some odd shit like this like Conjure spirit for interogation. No one is leading you by your hand, you can just stumble upon it by chance.

  • @billklatsch5058
    @billklatsch5058 5 лет назад +74

    Best about arcanum was that bananabread recipe out of the manual, i still do it 2-3 times a year.
    Game was decent too.

  • @JohnSmith-451
    @JohnSmith-451 Год назад +45

    A group of Half-orcs is a gang, a group of Gnomes is a "coincidence".

  • @DopecrawleR69
    @DopecrawleR69 5 лет назад +101

    You did, you magnificent chap. One of my favorite games, reviewed by one of the most politically correct African warlords. Jolly good job, my good man.
    P.S. Speaking of army of automatons, if you're not using tech: as a mage, you can use Invisibility ring/scroll/spell, make your party wait somewhere safe, and then go to the lower levels of Vendigroth Ruins. Simply walk up to one of the clunky bastards and click on it - and voila, it turns into item. Balance, ladies and gentlemen. I know it's not exactly "unlimited" army, but you can do that with any automatons in the game (place of Lost Voices, the one in the box in Ashbury and so on). So, case and point, charismatic mage can run with a "6 people/1 dog" party and have an escort of ~10 automatons.

    • @SsethTzeentach
      @SsethTzeentach  5 лет назад +55

      You're kidding me. That's amazing.

    • @ThorKaufman
      @ThorKaufman 5 лет назад +13

      Only works in original patched version. If you are using one of Drog's unofficial patches (highly / recommended) it is patched out. But you get something wonderful, a way less buggy game.

    • @DopecrawleR69
      @DopecrawleR69 5 лет назад +6

      Truly? I could swear I used the same trick in Drog's version as well, since I don't even remember the last time I played without Drog's UAP. And yes, it's essential for this game. And I know for sure that some of the tricks/exploits still hasn't been fixed in it. For example - stealing trapmaker spectacles from Master of Disarming Traps by turning him into elemental of any sort. Maybe it's time for another trip to Arcanum then...

    • @noukan42
      @noukan42 5 лет назад

      Go look for the mechromancer build, that thing is pure genius.

    • @DopecrawleR69
      @DopecrawleR69 5 лет назад +5

      Magestic. This wonderful game maybe as old as yesterday's meme, but till this very day, people still find some new intricacies and interactions between mechanics.

  • @protofan419
    @protofan419 5 лет назад +270

    Mandalore dropped his pills again

    • @deadrixhanon1776
      @deadrixhanon1776 5 лет назад +4

      Nice....

    • @assaultspoon4925
      @assaultspoon4925 5 лет назад +30

      @@unconscious7219 Always 2 there are... Master, and apprentice.
      But which was redpilled?

    • @loremipsum962
      @loremipsum962 5 лет назад

      О привет, а я тебя знаю

    • @loremipsum962
      @loremipsum962 5 лет назад

      @@TheKarabanera я писал протофану -.- Давно думал над тем что большинство как и сам Ссет из снг и понимают русский но зачем-то прикрываются

  • @zanethezaniest274
    @zanethezaniest274 Год назад +17

    Coming back to watch this video after playing the game myself and watching Warlockracy and Madalore’s vids, makes u appreciate all the little details Sseth hid in here. And that Sseth and a lot of people’s justification for hating gnomes is VERY valid.

  • @nicholasvojtkofsky1729
    @nicholasvojtkofsky1729 5 лет назад +272

    The only good gnomes are the ones who never come out of their stinking holes.

  • @drPiotrNapierala
    @drPiotrNapierala 3 года назад +45

    The gnome cries out in pain as it strikes you

  • @windwalkerrangerdm
    @windwalkerrangerdm 4 года назад +43

    "Arcanum, the game where you can convince the final antagonist to kill himself out of love for the world he hates." You are a goldmine, sseth.

  • @krisslanza
    @krisslanza 5 лет назад +99

    You know, I never did realize how evil the Gnomes are in this game until I watched this. Short little, beardless bastards!

  • @kaffeetrinken6352
    @kaffeetrinken6352 5 лет назад +26

    My favorite Ugandan has posted again
    PRAIS THE LORD

  • @dylanmonstrum1538
    @dylanmonstrum1538 2 года назад +23

    Damn, gnomes sound really, really familiar...

    • @brandonmorel2658
      @brandonmorel2658 2 года назад +15

      Yeah, something about their love of money is familiar.

    • @reginaldcampos5762
      @reginaldcampos5762 Год назад +11

      With Humans, it's a gang
      With Elves, it's a mob
      But with Gnomes it's just a coincidence

  • @arvinlarn9543
    @arvinlarn9543 Год назад +18

    2:26 hitting different after Mandalore's Arcanum review dropped.

  • @purpleblah2
    @purpleblah2 5 лет назад +83

    Isn't convincing a misanthropic demigod to commit suicide basically the ending of Fallout 1?

    • @douchebagel93
      @douchebagel93 5 лет назад +32

      Arcanum was developed by most of the same people that made Fallout 1 and 2. I wouldn't be surprised if they recycled some ideas.

    • @desertdevil6451
      @desertdevil6451 5 лет назад +28

      The Master isn't a misanthrope at all. He is just semi insane and on the contrary -- he wants to save the world.

    • @capmar-vell92returns20
      @capmar-vell92returns20 5 лет назад +33

      Both Fallout 1 and Arcanum are directed by Tim Cain. Arcanum is basically steampunk fantasy Fallout.

    • @urosbjelos8415
      @urosbjelos8415 5 лет назад +6

      Arcanum IS Fallout.It even has a fricking Brahmin in it, in that museum in Tarant.

    • @diegowushu
      @diegowushu 5 лет назад +3

      To be fair on the Master, he thought the FEV was mankind's salvation. He loved man, even if his methods were faulty because he lacked information.

  • @JPerry-jw9ik
    @JPerry-jw9ik 5 лет назад +23

    As of 9/19/19, Arcanum's GOG version does work without alteration.

    • @sickcxnt9444
      @sickcxnt9444 4 года назад +1

      Thank jesus, the debug menu on vergil with the 2.0 unofficial patch is too tempting for me

  • @bruh1322
    @bruh1322 5 лет назад +62

    >necromancy spells
    Instantly sold.

    • @RomaraAhallow
      @RomaraAhallow 5 лет назад +1

      You won't be disappointed.

    • @foxmulder8955
      @foxmulder8955 5 лет назад +1

      ​@@RomaraAhallow tbh the only interesting necromancy spell is harm, and it's not even optimal in every fight situation. Conjure spirit only works on very few npcs in the game, its totally dispensable.

    • @RomaraAhallow
      @RomaraAhallow 5 лет назад

      @@foxmulder8955
      was referencing the game itself, but sure.

    • @Darkwizzrobe
      @Darkwizzrobe 5 лет назад

      @@foxmulder8955 You can raise hated enemies and make them fight for you or a small army of the undead.

    • @foxmulder8955
      @foxmulder8955 5 лет назад +1

      @@Darkwizzrobe y but you can already have 5 followers, multiple robots and stuff, i dislike army type builds because i end up spending more time managing my companions, resurrecting them, reloading save files because of bugs, getting framerate lag, this kind of stuff. In fact i tend to design all my builds for lonely characters.

  • @pyrojinn
    @pyrojinn 5 лет назад +76

    I just found out that Troika Games also made Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines and of course, it's a buggy mess that holds itself together with solid plot and dialogues. And that Activision disbanded the studio. What a shame.

    • @michaelandreipalon359
      @michaelandreipalon359 2 года назад

      What a rotten way to die.

    • @lyntoncollins2758
      @lyntoncollins2758 2 года назад +4

      And the Temple of Elemental Evil, which was *also* a complete buggy mess at launch. Both have been fan patched to brilliance, thankfully.

  • @bomblessdodongo3093
    @bomblessdodongo3093 4 года назад +36

    With all this Gnome hate, I’m convinced that Sseth is also a Kobold
    Edit: nvm. Gnomes deserve it

  • @bredt2750
    @bredt2750 5 лет назад +899

    The gnomes tell me that if Arcanum is to thrive, we need more half-orcs and diversity

    • @Xtoxinlolinecronomicon
      @Xtoxinlolinecronomicon 5 лет назад +24

      hehehe

    • @Rickuo
      @Rickuo 5 лет назад +138

      Chaos is a ladder, chaos means profit *rubs hands together

    • @douchebagel93
      @douchebagel93 5 лет назад +141

      Diversity is strength. Unity is weakness. #OrangeManBad #ResistDrumpf

    • @bredt2750
      @bredt2750 5 лет назад +51

      @@douchebagel93 He will NOT divide us! HE WILL NOT DIVIDE US! (Death to the other half of us who support him!)

    • @radarphaser
      @radarphaser 5 лет назад +27

      So much autism in this thread

  • @axellenhart7890
    @axellenhart7890 Год назад +17

    Me before the half-ogre island quest: I don't understand why Sseth hates the gnomes so much.
    Me seeing a gnome after completing the half-ogre island quest: *BREAK THEIR BACKS, BREAK THEIR BACKS, CUT THEM IN HALF, ATTAAAAAAAAAACK*

  • @iosyf8409
    @iosyf8409 5 лет назад +87

    The dance scene at the end was actually pretty good.

    • @Scubadog_
      @Scubadog_ 5 лет назад +1

      Yeah, I wouldn't mind seeing the actual video!

    • @thefirstcrook
      @thefirstcrook 5 лет назад +4

      @@Scubadog_ ruclips.net/video/UGEGpXosjWI/видео.html I got you.

    • @Fish-ub3wn
      @Fish-ub3wn 4 года назад +12

      A coincidental appearence of a certain community, completely non-reliant to gnomes in the game. Really. Now shoosh, go watch pokemon. ;)

    • @MachineMan-mj4gj
      @MachineMan-mj4gj 4 года назад +3

      Say what you will about Hasidic Jews, but them boys can cut a rug like a carpet factory.

    • @MachineMan-mj4gj
      @MachineMan-mj4gj 4 года назад +17

      @@Fish-ub3wn Jew jokes have been a feature of the channel since he started calling his patrons "the merchants guild."

  • @nis5e
    @nis5e 5 лет назад +73

    hey hey people

  • @liudrok
    @liudrok 5 лет назад +22

    Seth you absolute monster, thanks for the upload.

  • @krytenfivetwothreep2485
    @krytenfivetwothreep2485 3 года назад +83

    "These Orcs commit two isolated incidents"
    My dog just started acting weird, almost like there's a high-pitched sound only she can hear

    • @whatamidoingwithmylife4108
      @whatamidoingwithmylife4108 3 года назад

      I don't get it. Please don't try to condescendingly and pretentiously scoff at me as an innocent buffon for not getting this joke, and try to "shelter" my poor "innocent" mind from an edgy joke. It's been done so many times now everytime i don't get a joke i have to contemplate deeply wether understanding the humor of it is worth the frustration of these pretentious autistic neckbeard (I want to say something here but RUclips will delete it) scoffing at me.

    • @krytenfivetwothreep2485
      @krytenfivetwothreep2485 3 года назад +1

      @@whatamidoingwithmylife4108 It's not even an edgy joke, I was just implying that it was a dog whistle. Why so defensive?

    • @whatamidoingwithmylife4108
      @whatamidoingwithmylife4108 3 года назад

      @@krytenfivetwothreep2485 I'm sorry, i just really dislike people belittling my intelligence. I'm not actually upset at you, i thought that you wouldn't even respond and that someone in a few months would reply. I apologize if i cause offense. It was unintended.

    • @krytenfivetwothreep2485
      @krytenfivetwothreep2485 3 года назад

      @@whatamidoingwithmylife4108 It's all good, no offence taken

    • @ShadeDraws
      @ShadeDraws 2 года назад

      @@whatamidoingwithmylife4108 Calm the hell down. Jesus.

  • @moralitiesaspook168
    @moralitiesaspook168 5 лет назад +210

    The merchants guild is a spook

  • @Yourname942
    @Yourname942 Год назад +17

    This is such a poetic and fantastic description: "Arcanum, the game where you can convince the final antagonist to kill himself out of love for the world he hates" Sseeth Tzeentach 2018

  • @vangoghsseveredear
    @vangoghsseveredear 11 месяцев назад +5

    Tbh the idea of a world in the midst of an industrial revolution and quarelling with the rapid influx of technology when magic also exists is such a cool fucking idea. Its seriously a shame no one has built off of this

    • @facundolezana6540
      @facundolezana6540 11 месяцев назад +2

      New Arc Line is a game inspired by Arcanum( industrial revolution and magic), it was only announced so we don't know much yet.

  • @MrThreeTake
    @MrThreeTake 5 лет назад +94

    This setting is my favorite type of setting, and completely under utilized, fantasy meets early early technology.

    • @budakbaongsiah
      @budakbaongsiah 4 года назад +12

      Still one-of-a-kind as far as I know, at least in video games.

    • @MachineMan-mj4gj
      @MachineMan-mj4gj 4 года назад +37

      @@budakbaongsiah It's so weird, you'd think the transition between medieval fantasy and 19th century steampunk would be fertile ground for writers. But no, gotta milk Tolkien one last time.

    • @budakbaongsiah
      @budakbaongsiah 4 года назад +9

      @@MachineMan-mj4gj
      Because magic=no progress on anything else

    • @MachineMan-mj4gj
      @MachineMan-mj4gj 4 года назад +18

      @@budakbaongsiah I figured magitek would have been the logical step.

    • @budakbaongsiah
      @budakbaongsiah 4 года назад +11

      @@MachineMan-mj4gj
      Industrialized magical power! Like crystal-powered airship on Final Fantasy 5 or something.