Ellen: "Either Kazuya is a deeply unhappy man who buries himself in his work in order to avoid dealing with his feelings or he's run out of things to chuck off a cliff." Kazuya: "yes."
Jin should consider himself lucky his father didn't raise him. Erm...not that Heihachi was any better 😂 Also, didn't Tekken 7 (*snort* I originally wrote FF7...been playing too much of that series lately) pretty much retcon the reason Kazuya was thrown off a cliff to being that Heihachi knew he was part devil and was trying to kill him specifically for that reason? There's a piece of me that sort of appreciated the more human side of Heihachi being shown, but also...I like his whole M.O. just being that he's a cold businessman and a lousy father and all weaklings are worth less than the dirt on the bottom of his shoes 😂. He doesn't need to be deep or tragic. Especially since his demonic wife was the ABSOLUTE worst thing to fight against in 7 😣. I swear she was so damn unfair, lol.
Plus his speech announcing the tournament was kinda douchey. What’s that guy with obvious supernatural powers? YOU don’t need to use guns and weapons to fight? Well whoopdee flipping doo for you. Forgive us mere mortals for not being anime protagonists.😂
If you actually do the milk thing, it unlocks the secret boss fight with Andy. Winning that unlocks the ending where Ellen is actually revealed to be several cats in a human suit.
In G-Man's defense, we have no idea what his ultimate goal is. Maybe he's the host of an interdimensional prank show, in which he warps around totally messing with this one random nerd. It may be a bit of an out-there concept, but interdimensional prank show enthusiasts eat that kind of thing up.
@@khamjaninja. Half Life Alyx has him talk more about what he does. If you believe him, he's all about nudging things along for the desired outcome of his employers. Whatever they are. So he probably wasn't expecting anyone specific to survive the Black Mesa incident. But he made sure to pay attention to the few who looked promising, then grabbed them once he was sure they would be useful.
I remain convinced that the mainline Mario games are a series of in-universe productions, and the golf and tennis and go-karting and all that are the cast enjoying some simple downtime between seasons of the show.
My in-universe explanation is that they are love rivals trying to win over Peach, and are able to get along outside of that. Also, they know everyone is there to have a fun time during the party/athletic/go-kart spinoffs and that bringing in that rivalry beyond some mild competition would spoil the mood (and Toadsworth/Lakitu might have booted them from more than a few games when they've gotten too heated).
@@marhawkman303 I mean, he would have at least needed to make sure nothing else was built there right? Considering the Riddler is likely launching attacks on Gotham every few months or so, every time I encounter his challenges in an Arkham game, I find myself screaming "Where did he find the TIME?! How did he import all this steel with no one seeing ANYTHING?!
@@devinkerr5474 Gotham's design is weird... it's shown having entire BLOCKS of dilapidated buildings that have criminals working out of them because they're abandoned by their owners. Yeah.... it's just.... lol wut design.
"Did this guy cheat on the Rapture entrance exam?" Almost certainly, for the hell of it. Fontaine wouldn't just sell you his mom, he would lie about her age and mileage, just to feel something.
Assuming you trust the novelization (which covers Rapture's founding and early years), he didn't even take the entrance exam. He basically worked his way in from outside by being a dealer in contraband - and fish at a time when nothing had gone really bad yet but a lot of the basic social and economic flaws in Rapture had become clear. (Along with the mechanical; most of the residents were a labour force who shouldn't have still been there except because nobody had tried it before the manpower required to keep a massive underwater habitat habitable had been drastically underestimated.) What happened was that people were having second thoughts about totally and permanently cutting off a connection to the rest of the world. Ryan didn't like what Fontaine represented, he didn't like that Fontaine was proving more successful at playing a game Ryan had created with the assumption he was after all its supreme player, and by the time he consciously figured out that Fontaine actually wanted Rapture to be destroyed before he left to find new suckers it was too late.
My own hunch is the Riddler's behaviour had less to do with criminal forensic psychological behavioural issues and more with the developers urge to shoehorn that bloody bat car into every corner of an otherwise decent game.
@@Merlewhitefire And the worst part is, the car itself is actually fairly good. If it had been something you needed once or twice where it made sense but otherwise could leave or take as you wanted it would have been great.
@@DanStaal Maybe use it for car-chase scenes perhaps? Like the comics... and animated series.... Let's face it... a car chase to catch a guy armed with a rocket launcher sounds like a task worthy of the Batman. As for Riddler... it's apparently that he made an army of construction robots do all the building... and did it without most people even noticing... somehow. that's the real thing.. NO ONE knows they're here????
Bowser stole the Star Rod because his wishes were being ignored while other people were getting theirs granted. He wanted to grant his own wishes with it, like marrying Peach and ruling the Mushroom Kingdom... So that one's not evil for the sake of evil. It's the previous categories combined. The power went to his head though and sorta took over making him more evil. Power corrupts, even if you're already evil.
To be fair, he doesn't put that much effort into his trolling, or even his killing, until later in the game. He mostly just sits in a chair, eating pretzels, buying stuff, and talking **** at you.
Fontaine's plan in BioShock always reminds me of the Robot Devil from the first series finale of Futurama. "AH, MY RIDICULOUSLY CIRCUITOUS PLAN IS NOW ONE QUARTER COMPLETE!"
This list needed Kingdom Hearts Xehanort on the list. That man time travels, creates a whole organization, plays weird chess with Mark Hamill, gets Disney villains to do his job, and a bunch of other stuff to fight a teenager in Sora.
“Novelist” is probably the kindest descriptor I’ve ever heard for wretched misanthropic demagogue Ayn Rand, but I’ll concede that it scans better than “wretched misanthropic demagogue”
I feel like Orin from Baldur's Gate 3 is a good example of this. She continually just shows up along your journey to pretend to be other people like the blacksmith, a child (if you pick certain options),she sets up a booth at the circus just for you, she pretends to be one of your camp members for who knows how long and then kidnaps them to lure you in...
So much of the villains' plans in BG3 would have succeeded if Orin had literally done nothing. If she hadn't backstabbed Durge to take his place, if she hadn't pissed off Gortash, if she hadn't played 20 different mind games on the party to lure them to exactly where they need to be to fight her and take her stone. If she had just shut up and stayed in her throne the Absolute's plan would have pulled off with nobody capable of stopping them.
Especially when you aren't playing Durge! She doesn't seem to know (or at least care) that you have the prism. Why are you so obsessed with me I don't even know you
Let's not forget Fontaine had several other key phases he can use to command Jack to basically terminate Jack when he's no longer of use. The only thing he underestimated wasn't just Andrew Ryan catching on but letting Fontaine have the city anyway, but Tennabam turning against him and helping Jack out.
ALso the entire reason for the convoluted plan was that he was quite aware that if he just went for Ryan directly Ryan would set the self destruct and blow the whole thing up. he needed someone with Ryan's DNA in them to turn it off after Ryan was dead.
Regarding Bowser's erratic motivations: Shigeru Miyamoto's official stance is that the Mario characters are like a troupe of actors, doing what they do because the game calls for it rather than because they want to.
Riddler went down the path of retroactive planning permission and taking care not to demolish any historic pubs in the process probably helped keep things quiet.
The Bioshock one is...wow. When you put it like that the Riddler challenge does sound more like something Mike would create if he decided to go super villain 😂
Father from fallout 4. He has a child synth made in his own former image, makes kellogg live with that child in diamond city for a little bit, frees his own parent from vault 101, does nothing to indicate to them that they've been freed by his power, doesnt even send anyone to check on them, assumes that theyll be able to 1. survive in the wasteland, and 2. pick up on the breadcrumb trail of clues that will lead them to kellogg, 3. defeat kellogg, 4. go through kelloggs memories somehow, and 5. find a way to teleport into the institute. All while they find out about how horrible the institute is for the commonwealth. Then, when they finally do reach the institute, he makes sure the first thing they see is the child synth panic and then get shut down, before dramatically introducing himself. Its no surprise that they want nothing to do with the institute. Especially when he could've just sent someone to vault 101 to get to his parent and take them directly to the institute, where he could've brainwashed them without them ever meeting any normal person from the commonwealth.
You know, Bethesda really kind of dropped the ball with the plot of Fallout 4 because they didn’t make Shaun’s intentions clear enough for most players to fully grasp. You see, what Shaun actually expected to happen was a bit different than things actually turned out. He created the Synth child version of himself and sent him to live with Kellogg in Diamond City then released the parent from cryostasis in hopes that the parent would start looking for her (I’m just going to say say “her” because I played as Nora) baby despite the wasteland dangers. Shaun deliberately placed Kellog and child Shaun in Diamond City because it was almost guaranteed that his mother would go to the biggest settlement in the Commonwealth in the search for her son, who she would find with Kellogg. That was the intended plan. He wanted to trick Nora into thinking only ten years had passed and Kellog was the actual kidnapper. If things had gone to plan she would have eliminated Kellogg, believing that she had just rescued her son, not knowing that he was just a child Synth. Shaun wanted to see if she would love a Synth child and get to see a glimpse of the kind of life he might have had if the Institute hadn’t taken him. The rest of the game wasn’t meant to happen. But then Virgil enacted his own sabotage of the FEV lab and escape, and this unexpected event forced Shaun to cancel or delay his plan. He had to recall the child synth and redeploy Kellogg to hunt and eliminate Virgil. Unfortunately Nora was already free from cryostasis and roaming the Commonwealth. No doubt Shaun would have preferred to just keep her waiting in her search until Kellogg eliminated Virgil and then the plot could be reset. Of course he didn’t account for her using Dogmeat and Nick to track Kellogg down and end him in Fort Hagen. Nor could Shaun have predicted that they would use Nick and Kellogg’s implant to get information from Kellogg’s cybernetic implant or actually find Virgil out in the Glowing Sea. Ultimately though, eventually it must’ve become clear that Nora was actually going to succeed in actually getting into the Institute. I’m not sure how and when he realised this as it’s never made clear but I suspect that it probably happened around the time she got the Courser chip and decoded it thanks to the Railroad. It’s mentioned later on that the Institute knew that she had been in contact with the Railroad. Regardless of the how, Shaun had a choice to either block her progress (perhaps by preventing the hihacking of the teleporter) or allow her to build and use it. Obviously he chose the latter and began preparing everyone for her imminent arrival. Evidently the strength and skill she used to get to the Institute was enough for him to consider her worthy of recruiting. But yeah, that wasn’t the first plan. She was never meant to find the Institute although I wonder what he expected to happen in a few years when it became obvious that the child Synth wasn’t growing and maturing into a teenager. It’s still a dick move to still insist on experimenting on her by initially tricking her into believing that the child Synth was real before deactivating him and introducing himself. I can’t help but wonder what would have happened if the child Synth had accepted her instead of panicking. Admittedly it was a combination of factors that led to my decision to side with the Minutemen but the sheer cruelty of that trick with the child Synth was definitely among them. And don’t feel bad that you didn’t work this out yourself. I played through Fallout 4 fully four times before I finally managed to put the pieces together to figure it out.
@@mikoto7693 While I will admit I simplified/summarised what happened for ease of reading and also bc i couldnt be bothered writing half an essay worth, you do realise that pretty much all of what you just wrote affirms my comment that shaun should be included if they ever do a commenter edition of this video?
@@dummy_vicc2976 Oh of course he does and I hope he’s mentioned in a follow up video. Even with his *intended* plan, Shaun went out of his way to mess with his parent. Releasing her instead of just leaving her in stasis until Vault 101 failed just so he could enact a fancy set of related experiments definitely counts. The insane amount of time and resources to create a useless Synth child vanity project alone is kinda nuts, especially considering the staff who created him strongly disagreed about the creation of a child Synth that will never grow up. I had to headcanon that after a few years, Claire (my sole survivor) repeated the Curie trick to transfer his mind to an adult Synth body so he could finally develop and achieve adult consciousness and capability.
No Eggman? He is managing to build very large and impressive machines seemingly in very short time. Alone from the end of Sonic Unleashed to SOnic Colors he managed to build a Space Elevator to planets that he turned into a deadly theme park.
Yeah... where is Eggman getting all this money and resources from? The sheer scale of some of the things he's doing is amazing and downright impossible, even for the crazy stuff that happens in the sonic universe.
What about Mother Miranda from Resident Evil Village? She loses her daughter, then tries to make a host to bring her daughter back through a massive plan of experimenting on people, pretending to be Mia, kidnapping Rose & cutting her into pieces to be stored in jars until Ethan could come along & unintentionally help her complete the ceremony
3:00 I was under the impression that all of the Bioshock main characters pre Rapture memories - including the plane crash - were implanted. They actually wake up in the diving pod, none the wiser, and proceed from there. I could be wrong though. It's been a while.
Yes and no. Everything prior to the crash was implanted, the crash itself was very real and caused by Jack. No idea how he got to the surface/on the plane,though. All we know is that Fontaine somehow managed to smuggle Jack out to the surface right before/at the beginning of the civil war and then back to the city right after the fighting died down a bit .
So I'm a fan of peach is a shinto goddess. And mario and bowser are performing their whole song and dance to applease her like her priests. I mean peach has shown that she can literally just backhand bowser if she wants to. Lets add to this when mario is kidnapped instead peach starts rampaging across the lands to get him back. Sure most westerns dont like that game because "omg they made the woman attack with emotions" which trust me i get, but those emotions she uses also line up perfectly with the four emotions line up pretty well with the mitama, or four sub spirits of a soul. So basically the four subspirits are not in proper harmony and as she tantrums across the lands looking for her priest so she can contiune to be appleased by their song and dance.
... that makes so much sense. Even more when you remember the whole "Koopa" is derived from Kappa thing. So it is basically a Youkai and Human vying for the blessings of the local goddess.
@@Zinlain Less vying for her blessing and more keeping her calm so she stays a benevolent goddess. In japanese myth, the difference between 'god' and 'demon' is simply how you act and are honored. There is a few examples of what would be considered a evil Yokai becoming a god simply because people started worshiping them and showing them respect.
exactly! if we get the wrong milk, we'll open a portal to hell! if we get the right milk, we'll open a different portal to hell! we need to know what kind of portal to hell we'll be opening! details oxtra, details!
I mean, Fontaine did actually cheat somewhat on the Rapture entrance exam by not actually being Fontaine. He killed the original Fontaine, took his identity and also his place in Rapture.
I feel like I have to mention Florent La'belle from Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies. Even the protagonists called him out on an overly complicated murder/theft scheme. Then again, it wouldn't be an Ace Attorney game without some characters doing overly complicated murder and coverup schemes
In defense of the Riddler, he does have legitimate mental illnesses driving him to his insane efforts. He tries to tone it down in the comics, only to start creating absurd riddle traps in his sleep.
Sure, that's all well and good, except for the part where said MO has nothing to do with shoehorned racing games, which are about as akin to riddles as the directions on a packet of instant hot cocoa.
Maybe he's just terrible at driving so he thinks for everyone else it's the ultimate challenge. If he's driven around where I live he probably had is suspicions confirmed.
I dunno, I honestly find it impressive that the Riddler planned and built multiple enormous complicated clockwork underground racetracks, and yet was never caught. That requires a huge amount of planning and coordination - even if you're not a notorious wanted criminal who's being actively sought by the police and the World's Greatest Detective/Richest Man. That's the Riddler's true genius: Organizational logistics. This man should be helping repair America's aging infrastructure, not asking dumb riddles to a bat fetishist.
@@stuartmorley6894 Riddler just loves to annoy Batman. The best Riddler story in comics was when Riddler decided to PROVE he was a better detective than Batman by solving cases Batman had failed to solve. Yeah, he HELPED the police solve crimes to prove he was smarter than Batman.
The problem with Bowser is that he doesn't know that he's desperately in love with Mario and keeps coming up with these weird attempts to get his attention. I'm surprised Peach hasn't twigged, given how many times Bowser's never quite got round to marrying her because he's waiting for Mario to turn up; at this point she's been kidnapped so often she probably keeps a spare toothbrush at Bowser's castle. Next time Mario rescues her she really needs to get him and Bowser to sit down and explain things to them. It'd do them both good.
I've seen comics about that, they're . . . almost shockingly wholesome. Though the best was one where the whole idea was that he was just lonely and kidnapped Peach because it meant that he'd finally have a visitor swing by his castle.
@@persephoneunderground845Or Bowser is actually protecting Peach from a mad renegade mustached man and this whole time you lot have been playing the game in reverse. Instead of chasing Peach to save her, she's been running away from Mario. Let that thought sink in! Sink in! Like sliding down a pipe...
I have a contestant for this. Zinyak from Saints Row 4. Could have just killed you, but nah. Chuck that Saint in a VR simulation to be messed with until their mind shatters. Except, no, because we have Kinzie and she gets us the upper hand until we’re shattering, well not Zinyak’s mind, but his spine.
I think one of the Nintendo devs have said that Bowser, Marrio, Peach, et al are friends and the games' plots are basically all shows they put on for an audience.
In defense of the G-Man, going by HL:Alyx he cheats - he has some form of time travel as his main thing, which means he can check if something works by simply traveling forward or backward to find out.
In Fontaine's defense, he needed someone with Ryan's genetic code to get around Rapture unimpeded in order to get to Ryan. Because the only person with access to every area of Rapture was Andrew Ryan or someone with his DNA. You're basically a walking, sentient skeleton key.
I like the theory that the first Mario/Bowser game was a genuine conflict, but that everything since then has been a historical re-enactment of that same event. That explains how Bowser can keep getting away with the same tried and tested formula while acting with the air of an exasperated drama school teacher, and why they keep being invited to all the golf opens
"It was easy because of my special car" 😹 Feel like Broken Age by Double Fine would fit this list, I remember that being convoluted something about tricking boys in fake spaceships dressed as monsters into eating (kidnapping) girls that they think are aliens trying to flee a galactic war. Can't remember why they were doing it though. 😅
5:27 my morning brain thought that the OXBOX people added a little caption saying "lol" that underlines Andy's sarcasm at Fontaine's silly convoluted scheme, before I realised that the lol is actually the lights on the back of the submachine gun...
The Abstergo Entertainment thing is almost an interesting commentary about where influence and power resides in the modern day. Having a large corporation with some media control is treated as significantly useful as political power was in previous eras. Then you walk slowly around an office doing hacking minigames before being allowed to play the genetic memories of a pirate. In a game made by Ubisoft...
It's almost as if the developers were trying to tell us something while coming across as entertainment. Rothschild 25 Point Plan, 1773 1. Use violence and terrorism rather than academic discussions. 2. Preach “Liberalism” to usurp political power. 3. Initiate class warfare. 4. Politicians must be cunning and deceptive - any moral code leaves a politician vulnerable. 5. Dismantle “existing forces of order and regulation.” Reconstruct all existing institutions.” 6. *Remain invisible until the very moment when it has gained such strength that no cunning or force can undermine it.* 7. *Use Mob Psychology to control the masses.* “Without absolute despotism one cannot rule efficiently.” 8. *Advocate the use of alcoholic liquors, drugs, moral corruption and all forms of vice, used systematically by “agenteurs” to corrupt the youth.* 9. *Seize properties by any means to secure submission and sovereignty.* 10. *Foment wars and control the peace conferences so that neither of the combatants gains territory placing them further in debt and therefore into our power.* 11. *Choose candidates for public office who will be “servile and obedient to our commands, so they may be readily used as pawns in our game.”* 12. *Use the Press for propaganda to control all outlets of public information, while remaining in the shadows, clear of blame.* 13. *Make the masses believe they had been the prey of criminals. Then restore order to appear as the saviors.* 14. Create financial panics. Use hunger to control to subjugate the masses. 15. Infiltrate Freemasonry to take advantage of the Grand Orient Lodges to cloak the true nature of their work in philanthropy. *Spread their atheistic-materialistic ideology amongst the "Goyim" (gentiles).* 16. When the hour strikes for our sovereign lord of the entire World to be crowned, their influence will banish everything that might stand in his way. 17. *Use systematic deception, high-sounding phrases and popular slogans. “The opposite of what has been promised can always be done afterwards... That is of no consequence.”* 18. A Reign of Terror is the most economical way to bring about speedy subjection. 19. *Masquerade as political, financial and economic advisers to carry out our mandates with Diplomacy and without fear of exposing “the secret power behind national and international affairs.”* 20. *Ultimate world government is the goal. It will be necessary to establish huge monopolies, so even the largest fortunes of the Goyim will depend on us to such an extent that they will go to the bottom together with the credit of their governments on the day after the great political smash.”* 21. Use economic warfare. Rob the "Goyim" of their landed properties and industries with a combination of high taxes and unfair competition. 22. “Make the 'Goyim' destroy each other so there will only be the proletariat left in the world, with a few millionaires devoted to our cause, and sufficient police and soldiers to protect our interest.” 23. Call it The New Order. Appoint a Dictator. 24. Fool, bemuse and corrupt the younger members of society by teaching them theories and principles we know to be false. 25 Twist national and international laws into a contradiction which first masks the law and afterwards hides it altogether. Substitute arbitration for law."
I'm pretty sure in Bioshock the plane didn't just "crash", I think the implication was that the protagonist was made to hijack the plane and crash it, which is what happens after you black out.
Yup,it was actually confirmed in Bioshock Infinite:Burial At Sea pt 2 that Jack hijacked the plane after being activated by the note he was reading during the opening.
The G Man is an eldritch abomination in human form playing 4D chess with Gordon Freeman and the various alien threats to Earth. Him shadowing Gordon throughout the first game is the least strange thing about him
yeah he isnt "running down hallways just to look at Gordon ominously" he is literally just trotting across space-time to be where he can observe Gordon. His goals are so long term, temporal Rube-Goldberg-esque that no one can figure it out. Even the Combine were scared shitless of him to the point they made a cage the size of a city-block just to hold him... and I am not entirely convinced he wasnt in that cage of his own volition...
Not to take issue with anything Andy says, but in regards to the Bioshock entry, what if Andrew Ryan, who we know loves to play mind games both figuratively and literally, secretly conditioned residents of Rapture he saw as possible threats, like Mr. Fontaine, with a mental block preventing them from acting against him so no matter how powerful they were, they couldn't attack him directly so Fontaine in this case had to enlist a third party, no matter the expense. And in the case of Wesker in Resident Evil, what if each time you meet Wesker, it's a new clone and we're fooled to think that it's the same one? That one I'm not so sure of because I paused from the RE series after the fifth go. Maybe there's some lore I missed. Just some theories.
Video idea: "7 video game hospitals we were DYING to leave". Hospital locations and levels in games where not a lot of life saving was happening. Examples would be like Mercy Hospital in L4D, Lakehill Seattle Hospital in TLOU Part 2, Brookhaven Hospital in Silent Hill series, and Beacon Mental Hospital in The Evil Within
I don't think Handsome Jack counts since he doesn't really see the previous cast as a threat. Yeah, he wants them dead and does try to kill them, but they're a secondary objective to him after the Warrior
To be fair, going out of their way to mess with Batman is the whole deal of several Batman villains, not every idea all of them have is gonna be a killer.
I'm surprised I didn't see Lucas Baker from Resident Evil 7: Biohazard. He can't just stab or bludgeon his victims like his parents do. He has to put them through convoluted tests and games including the most complicated yet easiest game of Blackjack ever
Aren't an unspecified number of Mario games canonically staged? Because the mythological turtle dragon and the Japanese nature spirit are bored, mostly?
Vergil spent two whole games working just to fight Dante, to the point of basically cutting his soul in half and causing an apocalypse. All for a petty sibling rivalry.
I always like how Peach doesn't immediately deny she's Bowser Jr's mother, because you'd think she'd immediately know whether or not and likely deny she ever: A. Did with a giant dragon turtle, B. Popped out a dragon turtle baby
Probably cause she didn't want to hurt the kid by denying it. She saw how earnest he believed it and didn't have the heart to tell him otherwise. Not a good idea, but pretty much how she wanted to handle it.
I gotta nominate Lucas from Resident Evil 7 for this list. He creates a SAW style birthday themed death trap. And it's only through Clancy that you find a way to avoid the intended result. Then he drops an actual bomb inside the room. All after making you empty your inventory in the first place just so you had plenty of room for everything.
That's kind of a fluke though, if you never watch the tape, or miss it, you would've died the same way. The trap itself is very well designed, it's just Lucas is sadistic psychopath, so he couldn't help but film his torture of Clancy.
@@themightycongueror8383 The point is that he used an extremely elaborate trap that took WAY more effort than simply dropping a bomb into the room. Then he did exactly that trying to kill you.
I had a idea for a list video. Seven optional bosses who aren't required to beat the game but are too incredible not to fight. My suggestion would be the Nameless King from Dark Souls 3.
I may be the only person who didn’t mind the Riddler challenges from Arkham Knight. My only issue was the 100% completion achievement not triggering which made me go back to 75% completion back up save.
Here's one for you, hell even just a name. XEHANORT. the entire Kingdom Hearts series ***ASTERISK*** was perpetrated by a single man who, to paraphrase, "sent his heart across time" to tell his past selves everything that was going to happen ever and to plan accordingly. and he STILL loses.
Always found it weird in HL1 that they had the technology to do all the crazy stuff they were doing, but needed a man in a hazmat suit to push a cart with a crystal into a. Inch of mechanical moving stuff that's making a weird arcing energy field.
Ardyn in FF XV. and Sephiroth. First man has literally plotted against your family long enough for them to fade out of the family history. Cloud literally can't get away from Sephiroth. Be it in his own game, Kingdom Hearts or even super smash bros. No one likes a stalker Sephiroth.
Well it's not really that long for Ardyn. He was trapped for the majority of his hundreds of years of immortal existence inside a prison until Verstael freed him.
@@riningan I mean.. He still setup the entire events that would eventually lead up to Noctis meeting up against him. The empire attacking them, and eventually being killed off by him just for his ploy of revenge to come. It's still a lot of effort coming from those that aren't immortal
@@TheArrowofLight I guess you got a point. Though you could probably also argue that it's really Bahamut that's making a needlessly long and complicated plot. In Episode Ardyn it's revealed that he basically set up Ardyn and his brother to play roles just so it can culminate in Ardyn's plot that would make Noctis the prophesized hero. Also depending on how canonical you consider the Dawn of the Future novel that chronicles the plots of the planned remaining DLC that didn't get made it reveals that Bahamut could always control the Starscourge so he probably could've wiped it out himself whenever he wanted. He just decided to craft a story out of it for his own entertainment since apparently it turned out that Ardyn's brother Somnus and Noctis looked a lot like Bahamut under his mask. Basically they're self-insert stand-ins for him in a story of his own creation.
the thing that doesn't really make sense to me about abstergo, is why do they keep making video games where assassins are really cool protagonists fighting against the evil templars? seems like you're running anti-propaganda. also i hope ellen actually has met bill nye that sounds like a hilarious interaction
Isn't what we're playing in Assassin's Creed the unfiltered, non-biased stuff? Before Abstergo takes it and "Templarizes" it for the masses? As a side note, the latest Assassin's Creed game I've played was Black Flag, so this might not be true anymore.
What we play aren't the games Abstergo makes. Abstergo nixed their in-universe versions of ACs 1 and 2, and produced an edited version of 3 called The Lone Eagle where Haytham Kenway is the hero.
My headcanon behind the whole Assassin-Templar thing is that they're actually two parts of the same organization. The Assassins do things that the Templars can't do (eagle vision, use alien devices, jump into haystacks while making a hawk noise, etc) - while the Templars do things the Assassins can't do (kidnap people, steal artifacts, build giant corporations, etc). They're two arms that are pitted against each other in creative tension to achieve mutual goals. Case in point - Desmond saving the Earth from the 2012 geomagnetic solar flare reversal fire apocalypse (or whatever). Which COULDN'T have happened if the Templars hadn't kidnapped Desmond and shoved him inside the Animus. Obviously, the Assassins couldn't have developed the Animus - they're too busy living on farms and defying the Man and basically being a cult of Banksy's. They needed the Templars, with their enormous multinational advanced technology megacorporation, to develop and build the Animus, and the flexible ethics to kill a bunch of Assassins and dissect their brains with it. If either the Assassins or the Templars hadn't existed, and if both sides hadn't chosen to do PRECISELY what they ended up doing, then the world would've been solar-geo-electro-magneto-apocalypsed to death. It was all a carefully choreographed dance by whoever's really in charge of both sides, to achieve a mutual goal. And that's why the Templars often do things that seem ludicrously stupid and against their own interests - and why despite the Templars' evident moronicity, the Assassins are still so tremendously ineffectual. By all rights, the Templars should've collapsed millenia before - if not because of their own dumb decisions, then because they all choked on packets of silica that are clearly marked Do Not Eat. But somehow, Abstergo rules the world, and the Assassins - who have magic powers, psychic futuresight, and alien technology - are barely struggling to survive. That makes no sense - unless they're both on the same team and don't know it.
@@khamjaninja. the problem is the brotherhood was founded in ancient egypt by bayek the protagonist of origins, and the templars were created by cane. yes cane from the bible asassin's creed is wierd what can i say
I've always rated The Riddler as ONE of the worst villians, but if Edward actually felt the need to apply for planning permission, he is definitely the worst.
I thought the Tekken entry was going to be for Heihachi for the fact that he has adopted or fathered multiple children specifically to be a problem for his son and grandson.
My guess is that Bowser is a card-carrying member of the Guild of Calamitous Intent, and follows the rules regarding professional arching to such a degree that Mario and his gang can't justify excluding him from the fun.
The Abstergo thing reminds me of Metal Gear Solid, in the way of the timeline vs the power of the consoles. Mtg kind of locked themselves in to going further and further in the past, but building bigger and cooler robots. Which meant that the robots actually got smaller and worse in the game world timeline. Same with AC, Abstergo' plan seemed fine on Game 4, but in future games set further in the past...
They were bigger but less efficient, less capable, and harder to use. For example sahelanthropus couldn't even be piloted by anyone bigger than a small child. Ray was built specifically to destroy Rex. And then we see Arsenal gear which was the last of the true metal gears which was a massive submersible warship powered by illuminati AI
Xehanort from kingdom hearts pulls off the most ridiculous and convoluted plan to take over a McGuffin that we don't even know what it does! He tempts his student to embrace the darkness so he can possess his body, Becomes a heartless who kidnaps the seven princesses, and a nobody who ends up forming an organization of people he knew/worked with in the past + some extra bad eggs. Have Sora defeat his heartless and nobody to restore his human form, goes back in time to tell his younger self to gather up all variations of himself to form yet another organization of just different versions of himself who then fight the keyblade wielders, all in order to summon the χ-blade and control kingdom hearts... yeah, that's beyond dedication xD
Spider-Man 2 (PS5) spoilers I've suggested this before, but a video showing times we got to play as amazing characters, but only for a little while, like MGS2 or Venom in Spider-Man 2
You must be really nuts if you beat every racetrack trial in one run in Batman: Arkham Knight. Especially the later ones and more so the final one. He gets very insulting and impudent whenever you fail the trial laps. The only way I could concentrate driving those tracks was to turn off the sound. As for BioShock there’s Atlas Would You Kindly commands. Of course once you start opposing him in the last act of the game - he tries even harder to screw Jack over. In the end - Atlas had his world break him because Frank Fontaine was Atlas. Fontaine as the conman was conned by his own con.
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Bowser is a zookeeper who is really dedicated to providing enrichment for Mario's enclosure
Nope, he just needs to keep Mario away and distracted while he gets it on with Peach.
Peach doesn't care about either of them, she's far too in love with Toad. If she could just figure out which one.
As a zoo educator, this is a correct and accurate statement
As someone with a sister who's spent many, many hours making play cubes for the primate section, I too can confirm.
I read this comment and the replies and almost snorted my beverage out through my nose laughing XD
Ellen: "Either Kazuya is a deeply unhappy man who buries himself in his work in order to avoid dealing with his feelings or he's run out of things to chuck off a cliff."
Kazuya: "yes."
Jin should consider himself lucky his father didn't raise him. Erm...not that Heihachi was any better 😂
Also, didn't Tekken 7 (*snort* I originally wrote FF7...been playing too much of that series lately) pretty much retcon the reason Kazuya was thrown off a cliff to being that Heihachi knew he was part devil and was trying to kill him specifically for that reason? There's a piece of me that sort of appreciated the more human side of Heihachi being shown, but also...I like his whole M.O. just being that he's a cold businessman and a lousy father and all weaklings are worth less than the dirt on the bottom of his shoes 😂. He doesn't need to be deep or tragic.
Especially since his demonic wife was the ABSOLUTE worst thing to fight against in 7 😣. I swear she was so damn unfair, lol.
Plus his speech announcing the tournament was kinda douchey. What’s that guy with obvious supernatural powers? YOU don’t need to use guns and weapons to fight?
Well whoopdee flipping doo for you. Forgive us mere mortals for not being anime protagonists.😂
If you actually do the milk thing, it unlocks the secret boss fight with Andy. Winning that unlocks the ending where Ellen is actually revealed to be several cats in a human suit.
Shhhh Jane has spent hours developing that suit.
I knew it!
reminds me of some game, where it's possible to find a secret room, where it looks like a DOG was controlling everything...
Hah! Shows what you know. One of those cats is three gerbils in a cat suit!
Can I do the boss fight immersive sim style? I'd rather talk with him about his favorite games
In G-Man's defence he exists outside of spacetime, and it's able to be where and when he needs to be whenever he wants.
I have a vague memory of seeing him actually use a portal at some point in HL1.
In G-Man's defense, we have no idea what his ultimate goal is. Maybe he's the host of an interdimensional prank show, in which he warps around totally messing with this one random nerd. It may be a bit of an out-there concept, but interdimensional prank show enthusiasts eat that kind of thing up.
@@Frezak276 You have to step to the side to see it, but he does indeed walk into one of the Lambda Complex's teleport balls.
@@khamjaninja. So kinda like Q from Star Trek TNG?
@@khamjaninja. Half Life Alyx has him talk more about what he does. If you believe him, he's all about nudging things along for the desired outcome of his employers. Whatever they are.
So he probably wasn't expecting anyone specific to survive the Black Mesa incident. But he made sure to pay attention to the few who looked promising, then grabbed them once he was sure they would be useful.
I remain convinced that the mainline Mario games are a series of in-universe productions, and the golf and tennis and go-karting and all that are the cast enjoying some simple downtime between seasons of the show.
My in-universe explanation is that they are love rivals trying to win over Peach, and are able to get along outside of that. Also, they know everyone is there to have a fun time during the party/athletic/go-kart spinoffs and that bringing in that rivalry beyond some mild competition would spoil the mood (and Toadsworth/Lakitu might have booted them from more than a few games when they've gotten too heated).
It’s adorable to think of the bad guys actually bothering with paperwork and red tape 🤣
So much this. Riddler explicitly did NOT do so.
How do you know?
@@marhawkman303 I mean, he would have at least needed to make sure nothing else was built there right? Considering the Riddler is likely launching attacks on Gotham every few months or so, every time I encounter his challenges in an Arkham game, I find myself screaming "Where did he find the TIME?! How did he import all this steel with no one seeing ANYTHING?!
@@devinkerr5474 Gotham's design is weird... it's shown having entire BLOCKS of dilapidated buildings that have criminals working out of them because they're abandoned by their owners.
Yeah.... it's just.... lol wut design.
@@marhawkman303so half of Gotham are just squatters?
"Did this guy cheat on the Rapture entrance exam?" Almost certainly, for the hell of it. Fontaine wouldn't just sell you his mom, he would lie about her age and mileage, just to feel something.
... Mileage?
@@catsnorkel Yep, tampered with the speedometer. Probably stripped out her catalytic converter, too.
Assuming you trust the novelization (which covers Rapture's founding and early years), he didn't even take the entrance exam. He basically worked his way in from outside by being a dealer in contraband - and fish at a time when nothing had gone really bad yet but a lot of the basic social and economic flaws in Rapture had become clear. (Along with the mechanical; most of the residents were a labour force who shouldn't have still been there except because nobody had tried it before the manpower required to keep a massive underwater habitat habitable had been drastically underestimated.) What happened was that people were having second thoughts about totally and permanently cutting off a connection to the rest of the world. Ryan didn't like what Fontaine represented, he didn't like that Fontaine was proving more successful at playing a game Ryan had created with the assumption he was after all its supreme player, and by the time he consciously figured out that Fontaine actually wanted Rapture to be destroyed before he left to find new suckers it was too late.
My own hunch is the Riddler's behaviour had less to do with criminal forensic psychological behavioural issues and more with the developers urge to shoehorn that bloody bat car into every corner of an otherwise decent game.
Yep. They really thought they had something with that goddamn car and by god you were NOT going to avoid it.
@@Merlewhitefire And the worst part is, the car itself is actually fairly good. If it had been something you needed once or twice where it made sense but otherwise could leave or take as you wanted it would have been great.
@@DanStaal Maybe use it for car-chase scenes perhaps? Like the comics... and animated series....
Let's face it... a car chase to catch a guy armed with a rocket launcher sounds like a task worthy of the Batman.
As for Riddler... it's apparently that he made an army of construction robots do all the building... and did it without most people even noticing... somehow. that's the real thing.. NO ONE knows they're here????
ok bu also racing fun
@@marhawkman303 There's a whole *_arcade game_* for that.
Bowser stole the Star Rod because his wishes were being ignored while other people were getting theirs granted. He wanted to grant his own wishes with it, like marrying Peach and ruling the Mushroom Kingdom...
So that one's not evil for the sake of evil. It's the previous categories combined. The power went to his head though and sorta took over making him more evil. Power corrupts, even if you're already evil.
First thing I thought of reading the title: "It was me, Barry!"
You thought it was Barry, but actually, it was I, Dio!
He did go way too far lmao
It was me Barry, I'm the one who posted the moai emoji
"I spit on your toothbrush your entire life!"
@@lakeofrot4198 If this aint a real quote from him it needs to be lol
Loved ignoring the Riddler and watch him loose it ranting
No Handsome Jack?!? It’s basically his M.O.
Buttstallion says hello.
To be fair, he doesn't put that much effort into his trolling, or even his killing, until later in the game. He mostly just sits in a chair, eating pretzels, buying stuff, and talking **** at you.
Handsome Jack was my first thought as well.
@@alexandersmit4256 And he cant even be bothered to get himself "good" pretzels lol .
@@shadowkhan422 or cant afford them.
You know how much a solid diamond horse costs?
Butt stallion used all his pretzel money
"it was easy because of my special car" 🤣
Fontaine's plan in BioShock always reminds me of the Robot Devil from the first series finale of Futurama. "AH, MY RIDICULOUSLY CIRCUITOUS PLAN IS NOW ONE QUARTER COMPLETE!"
“Did this man cheat on the Rapture Entrance exam?”
No, Andy, he raised his first genetically modified son on the moon to take the test for him.
This list needed Kingdom Hearts Xehanort on the list. That man time travels, creates a whole organization, plays weird chess with Mark Hamill, gets Disney villains to do his job, and a bunch of other stuff to fight a teenager in Sora.
Recapping Xehanort's plan would take multiple times the length of this video...and then there'd be no time for the other 6 games in their list.
“Novelist” is probably the kindest descriptor I’ve ever heard for wretched misanthropic demagogue Ayn Rand, but I’ll concede that it scans better than “wretched misanthropic demagogue”
I feel like Orin from Baldur's Gate 3 is a good example of this. She continually just shows up along your journey to pretend to be other people like the blacksmith, a child (if you pick certain options),she sets up a booth at the circus just for you, she pretends to be one of your camp members for who knows how long and then kidnaps them to lure you in...
Orin is the epitome of “trying too hard”
So much of the villains' plans in BG3 would have succeeded if Orin had literally done nothing. If she hadn't backstabbed Durge to take his place, if she hadn't pissed off Gortash, if she hadn't played 20 different mind games on the party to lure them to exactly where they need to be to fight her and take her stone. If she had just shut up and stayed in her throne the Absolute's plan would have pulled off with nobody capable of stopping them.
Strong agree
Especially when you aren't playing Durge! She doesn't seem to know (or at least care) that you have the prism. Why are you so obsessed with me I don't even know you
@@valerie3677 : Regina George voice: "Why are you so obsessed with me?"
Let's not forget Fontaine had several other key phases he can use to command Jack to basically terminate Jack when he's no longer of use. The only thing he underestimated wasn't just Andrew Ryan catching on but letting Fontaine have the city anyway, but Tennabam turning against him and helping Jack out.
❤🎉 bioshock is a great game ! I can’t believe it is 17 plus years old it came out in 2007 I am pumped for the 4th game
ALso the entire reason for the convoluted plan was that he was quite aware that if he just went for Ryan directly Ryan would set the self destruct and blow the whole thing up. he needed someone with Ryan's DNA in them to turn it off after Ryan was dead.
Regarding Bowser's erratic motivations: Shigeru Miyamoto's official stance is that the Mario characters are like a troupe of actors, doing what they do because the game calls for it rather than because they want to.
Considering all the Legend of Zelda theories out there, I have nothing but respect for his determination to not let nerds take these things too far.
Aha, «Bill Nighy» the actor, not «Bill Nye, the Science Guy»… That makes more sense in London!
Nil Blighty.
Riddler went down the path of retroactive planning permission and taking care not to demolish any historic pubs in the process probably helped keep things quiet.
The Bioshock one is...wow.
When you put it like that the Riddler challenge does sound more like something Mike would create if he decided to go super villain 😂
Father from fallout 4. He has a child synth made in his own former image, makes kellogg live with that child in diamond city for a little bit, frees his own parent from vault 101, does nothing to indicate to them that they've been freed by his power, doesnt even send anyone to check on them, assumes that theyll be able to 1. survive in the wasteland, and 2. pick up on the breadcrumb trail of clues that will lead them to kellogg, 3. defeat kellogg, 4. go through kelloggs memories somehow, and 5. find a way to teleport into the institute. All while they find out about how horrible the institute is for the commonwealth. Then, when they finally do reach the institute, he makes sure the first thing they see is the child synth panic and then get shut down, before dramatically introducing himself. Its no surprise that they want nothing to do with the institute.
Especially when he could've just sent someone to vault 101 to get to his parent and take them directly to the institute, where he could've brainwashed them without them ever meeting any normal person from the commonwealth.
You know, Bethesda really kind of dropped the ball with the plot of Fallout 4 because they didn’t make Shaun’s intentions clear enough for most players to fully grasp.
You see, what Shaun actually expected to happen was a bit different than things actually turned out. He created the Synth child version of himself and sent him to live with Kellogg in Diamond City then released the parent from cryostasis in hopes that the parent would start looking for her (I’m just going to say say “her” because I played as Nora) baby despite the wasteland dangers.
Shaun deliberately placed Kellog and child Shaun in Diamond City because it was almost guaranteed that his mother would go to the biggest settlement in the Commonwealth in the search for her son, who she would find with Kellogg. That was the intended plan. He wanted to trick Nora into thinking only ten years had passed and Kellog was the actual kidnapper. If things had gone to plan she would have eliminated Kellogg, believing that she had just rescued her son, not knowing that he was just a child Synth.
Shaun wanted to see if she would love a Synth child and get to see a glimpse of the kind of life he might have had if the Institute hadn’t taken him. The rest of the game wasn’t meant to happen. But then Virgil enacted his own sabotage of the FEV lab and escape, and this unexpected event forced Shaun to cancel or delay his plan. He had to recall the child synth and redeploy Kellogg to hunt and eliminate Virgil. Unfortunately Nora was already free from cryostasis and roaming the Commonwealth.
No doubt Shaun would have preferred to just keep her waiting in her search until Kellogg eliminated Virgil and then the plot could be reset. Of course he didn’t account for her using Dogmeat and Nick to track Kellogg down and end him in Fort Hagen. Nor could Shaun have predicted that they would use Nick and Kellogg’s implant to get information from Kellogg’s cybernetic implant or actually find Virgil out in the Glowing Sea.
Ultimately though, eventually it must’ve become clear that Nora was actually going to succeed in actually getting into the Institute. I’m not sure how and when he realised this as it’s never made clear but I suspect that it probably happened around the time she got the Courser chip and decoded it thanks to the Railroad. It’s mentioned later on that the Institute knew that she had been in contact with the Railroad.
Regardless of the how, Shaun had a choice to either block her progress (perhaps by preventing the hihacking of the teleporter) or allow her to build and use it. Obviously he chose the latter and began preparing everyone for her imminent arrival. Evidently the strength and skill she used to get to the Institute was enough for him to consider her worthy of recruiting. But yeah, that wasn’t the first plan. She was never meant to find the Institute although I wonder what he expected to happen in a few years when it became obvious that the child Synth wasn’t growing and maturing into a teenager.
It’s still a dick move to still insist on experimenting on her by initially tricking her into believing that the child Synth was real before deactivating him and introducing himself. I can’t help but wonder what would have happened if the child Synth had accepted her instead of panicking. Admittedly it was a combination of factors that led to my decision to side with the Minutemen but the sheer cruelty of that trick with the child Synth was definitely among them.
And don’t feel bad that you didn’t work this out yourself. I played through Fallout 4 fully four times before I finally managed to put the pieces together to figure it out.
@@mikoto7693 While I will admit I simplified/summarised what happened for ease of reading and also bc i couldnt be bothered writing half an essay worth, you do realise that pretty much all of what you just wrote affirms my comment that shaun should be included if they ever do a commenter edition of this video?
How great the Institute is** Fixed that for you.
@@dummy_vicc2976 Oh of course he does and I hope he’s mentioned in a follow up video. Even with his *intended* plan, Shaun went out of his way to mess with his parent. Releasing her instead of just leaving her in stasis until Vault 101 failed just so he could enact a fancy set of related experiments definitely counts.
The insane amount of time and resources to create a useless Synth child vanity project alone is kinda nuts, especially considering the staff who created him strongly disagreed about the creation of a child Synth that will never grow up. I had to headcanon that after a few years, Claire (my sole survivor) repeated the Curie trick to transfer his mind to an adult Synth body so he could finally develop and achieve adult consciousness and capability.
I love how you can hear the air quotes in the way Andy says "Irish accent."
No Eggman?
He is managing to build very large and impressive machines seemingly in very short time. Alone from the end of Sonic Unleashed to SOnic Colors he managed to build a Space Elevator to planets that he turned into a deadly theme park.
Yeah... where is Eggman getting all this money and resources from? The sheer scale of some of the things he's doing is amazing and downright impossible, even for the crazy stuff that happens in the sonic universe.
What about Mother Miranda from Resident Evil Village? She loses her daughter, then tries to make a host to bring her daughter back through a massive plan of experimenting on people, pretending to be Mia, kidnapping Rose & cutting her into pieces to be stored in jars until Ethan could come along & unintentionally help her complete the ceremony
Edward Nigma isn't that bad.
He's fighting a superhero with the name Benjamin Atman
"if you want me, John battm'un to save you and throw a crime diddler into a room with bars, put a light in a cloud...no don't poke him roburn"
I always thought his first name was Theb?
@@WVLFRVNfun fact it’s actually Thebe
@@WVLFRVNThey’re identical twins, Ben and Theb Atman
3:00 I was under the impression that all of the Bioshock main characters pre Rapture memories - including the plane crash - were implanted. They actually wake up in the diving pod, none the wiser, and proceed from there.
I could be wrong though. It's been a while.
Yes and no. Everything prior to the crash was implanted, the crash itself was very real and caused by Jack. No idea how he got to the surface/on the plane,though. All we know is that Fontaine somehow managed to smuggle Jack out to the surface right before/at the beginning of the civil war and then back to the city right after the fighting died down a bit .
So I'm a fan of peach is a shinto goddess. And mario and bowser are performing their whole song and dance to applease her like her priests. I mean peach has shown that she can literally just backhand bowser if she wants to.
Lets add to this when mario is kidnapped instead peach starts rampaging across the lands to get him back. Sure most westerns dont like that game because "omg they made the woman attack with emotions" which trust me i get, but those emotions she uses also line up perfectly with the four emotions line up pretty well with the mitama, or four sub spirits of a soul. So basically the four subspirits are not in proper harmony and as she tantrums across the lands looking for her priest so she can contiune to be appleased by their song and dance.
... that makes so much sense. Even more when you remember the whole "Koopa" is derived from Kappa thing. So it is basically a Youkai and Human vying for the blessings of the local goddess.
@@Zinlain Less vying for her blessing and more keeping her calm so she stays a benevolent goddess. In japanese myth, the difference between 'god' and 'demon' is simply how you act and are honored. There is a few examples of what would be considered a evil Yokai becoming a god simply because people started worshiping them and showing them respect.
You're making a solid point actually
What kind of milk do you need me to get? Whole? Semi-skimmed? I need clear directions for this
exactly! if we get the wrong milk, we'll open a portal to hell! if we get the right milk, we'll open a different portal to hell! we need to know what kind of portal to hell we'll be opening! details oxtra, details!
FOOLS! Who said it was cow milk at all? Goat milk? Goat-skim milk? Dare I say... Almond Milk?!
@@mentalshatter considering this direct quote from Jane upon tasting almond milk “this is worse then death” i doubt its almond milk
2% reduced fat milk
Would you kindly get some whole milk?
I mean, Fontaine did actually cheat somewhat on the Rapture entrance exam by not actually being Fontaine. He killed the original Fontaine, took his identity and also his place in Rapture.
I feel like I have to mention Florent La'belle from Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies. Even the protagonists called him out on an overly complicated murder/theft scheme. Then again, it wouldn't be an Ace Attorney game without some characters doing overly complicated murder and coverup schemes
Good to see your video format hasn't changed. The reason I fell in love with this channel is the style of video.
So thoughtful of you to upload just as I opened RUclips, wow!
In defense of the Riddler, he does have legitimate mental illnesses driving him to his insane efforts. He tries to tone it down in the comics, only to start creating absurd riddle traps in his sleep.
Sure, that's all well and good, except for the part where said MO has nothing to do with shoehorned racing games, which are about as akin to riddles as the directions on a packet of instant hot cocoa.
Maybe he's just terrible at driving so he thinks for everyone else it's the ultimate challenge. If he's driven around where I live he probably had is suspicions confirmed.
@@MerlewhitefireVehicular puzzles are riddlific
I dunno, I honestly find it impressive that the Riddler planned and built multiple enormous complicated clockwork underground racetracks, and yet was never caught. That requires a huge amount of planning and coordination - even if you're not a notorious wanted criminal who's being actively sought by the police and the World's Greatest Detective/Richest Man. That's the Riddler's true genius: Organizational logistics. This man should be helping repair America's aging infrastructure, not asking dumb riddles to a bat fetishist.
@@stuartmorley6894 Riddler just loves to annoy Batman. The best Riddler story in comics was when Riddler decided to PROVE he was a better detective than Batman by solving cases Batman had failed to solve. Yeah, he HELPED the police solve crimes to prove he was smarter than Batman.
The problem with Bowser is that he doesn't know that he's desperately in love with Mario and keeps coming up with these weird attempts to get his attention. I'm surprised Peach hasn't twigged, given how many times Bowser's never quite got round to marrying her because he's waiting for Mario to turn up; at this point she's been kidnapped so often she probably keeps a spare toothbrush at Bowser's castle. Next time Mario rescues her she really needs to get him and Bowser to sit down and explain things to them. It'd do them both good.
Best answer.
I've seen comics about that, they're . . . almost shockingly wholesome. Though the best was one where the whole idea was that he was just lonely and kidnapped Peach because it meant that he'd finally have a visitor swing by his castle.
@@persephoneunderground845Or Bowser is actually protecting Peach from a mad renegade mustached man and this whole time you lot have been playing the game in reverse.
Instead of chasing Peach to save her, she's been running away from Mario.
Let that thought sink in! Sink in! Like sliding down a pipe...
I have a contestant for this. Zinyak from Saints Row 4. Could have just killed you, but nah. Chuck that Saint in a VR simulation to be messed with until their mind shatters. Except, no, because we have Kinzie and she gets us the upper hand until we’re shattering, well not Zinyak’s mind, but his spine.
Seventeen years? Bioshock didn't come out 17 years ago it came out...oh no...
*turns to dust*
Yep I know what u mean it came out in 2007 ! That seems like a life time ago lol
It honestly looks like it came out even earlier than that. Late ps1 era kind of graphics having ass game.
@@MrShukaku1991 I hear ya
@@SimuLordpretty confident Sims 4 didn’t come out in 2004, it’d be its tenth anniversary, not twentieth.
For some people, it is!
I think one of the Nintendo devs have said that Bowser, Marrio, Peach, et al are friends and the games' plots are basically all shows they put on for an audience.
In defense of the G-Man, going by HL:Alyx he cheats - he has some form of time travel as his main thing, which means he can check if something works by simply traveling forward or backward to find out.
In Fontaine's defense, he needed someone with Ryan's genetic code to get around Rapture unimpeded in order to get to Ryan. Because the only person with access to every area of Rapture was Andrew Ryan or someone with his DNA. You're basically a walking, sentient skeleton key.
Yeah, Bioshock is an example of a weirdly complex solution being required for a weirdly complex problem
Bowser is just having fun. He outright says quite a few times that he loves having Mario as his arch-enemy and having big showdowns with him.
I like the theory that the first Mario/Bowser game was a genuine conflict, but that everything since then has been a historical re-enactment of that same event. That explains how Bowser can keep getting away with the same tried and tested formula while acting with the air of an exasperated drama school teacher, and why they keep being invited to all the golf opens
"It was easy because of my special car" 😹
Feel like Broken Age by Double Fine would fit this list, I remember that being convoluted something about tricking boys in fake spaceships dressed as monsters into eating (kidnapping) girls that they think are aliens trying to flee a galactic war. Can't remember why they were doing it though. 😅
Outside Xbox team and hating on the Riddler, goes together like a fine wine 🍷
Jigsaw in Saw the videogame. He litterally made several deathtraps timed perfectly for your arrival.
5:27 my morning brain thought that the OXBOX people added a little caption saying "lol" that underlines Andy's sarcasm at Fontaine's silly convoluted scheme, before I realised that the lol is actually the lights on the back of the submachine gun...
The Abstergo Entertainment thing is almost an interesting commentary about where influence and power resides in the modern day. Having a large corporation with some media control is treated as significantly useful as political power was in previous eras.
Then you walk slowly around an office doing hacking minigames before being allowed to play the genetic memories of a pirate. In a game made by Ubisoft...
It's almost as if the developers were trying to tell us something while coming across as entertainment.
Rothschild 25 Point Plan, 1773
1. Use violence and terrorism rather than academic discussions.
2. Preach “Liberalism” to usurp political power.
3. Initiate class warfare.
4. Politicians must be cunning and deceptive - any moral code leaves a politician vulnerable.
5. Dismantle “existing forces of order and regulation.” Reconstruct all existing institutions.”
6. *Remain invisible until the very moment when it has gained such strength that no cunning or force can undermine it.*
7. *Use Mob Psychology to control the masses.* “Without absolute despotism one cannot rule efficiently.”
8. *Advocate the use of alcoholic liquors, drugs, moral corruption and all forms of vice, used systematically by “agenteurs” to corrupt the youth.*
9. *Seize properties by any means to secure submission and sovereignty.*
10. *Foment wars and control the peace conferences so that neither of the combatants gains territory placing them further in debt and therefore into our power.*
11. *Choose candidates for public office who will be “servile and obedient to our commands, so they may be readily used as pawns in our game.”*
12. *Use the Press for propaganda to control all outlets of public information, while remaining in the shadows, clear of blame.*
13. *Make the masses believe they had been the prey of criminals. Then restore order to appear as the saviors.*
14. Create financial panics. Use hunger to control to subjugate the masses.
15. Infiltrate Freemasonry to take advantage of the Grand Orient Lodges to cloak the true nature of their work in philanthropy. *Spread their atheistic-materialistic ideology amongst the "Goyim" (gentiles).*
16. When the hour strikes for our sovereign lord of the entire World to be crowned, their influence will banish everything that might stand in his way.
17. *Use systematic deception, high-sounding phrases and popular slogans. “The opposite of what has been promised can always be done afterwards... That is of no consequence.”*
18. A Reign of Terror is the most economical way to bring about speedy subjection.
19. *Masquerade as political, financial and economic advisers to carry out our mandates with Diplomacy and without fear of exposing “the secret power behind national and international affairs.”*
20. *Ultimate world government is the goal. It will be necessary to establish huge monopolies, so even the largest fortunes of the Goyim will depend on us to such an extent that they will go to the bottom together with the credit of their governments on the day after the great political smash.”*
21. Use economic warfare. Rob the "Goyim" of their landed properties and industries with a combination of high taxes and unfair competition.
22. “Make the 'Goyim' destroy each other so there will only be the proletariat left in the world, with a few millionaires devoted to our cause, and sufficient police and soldiers to protect our interest.”
23. Call it The New Order. Appoint a Dictator.
24. Fool, bemuse and corrupt the younger members of society by teaching them theories and principles we know to be false.
25 Twist national and international laws into a contradiction which first masks the law and afterwards hides it altogether. Substitute arbitration for law."
Dr Nefarious from the Ratchet and Clank games towards both the title heroes and Captain Qwark
I'm pretty sure in Bioshock the plane didn't just "crash", I think the implication was that the protagonist was made to hijack the plane and crash it, which is what happens after you black out.
Yup,it was actually confirmed in Bioshock Infinite:Burial At Sea pt 2 that Jack hijacked the plane after being activated by the note he was reading during the opening.
The G Man is an eldritch abomination in human form playing 4D chess with Gordon Freeman and the various alien threats to Earth. Him shadowing Gordon throughout the first game is the least strange thing about him
yeah he isnt "running down hallways just to look at Gordon ominously" he is literally just trotting across space-time to be where he can observe Gordon. His goals are so long term, temporal Rube-Goldberg-esque that no one can figure it out. Even the Combine were scared shitless of him to the point they made a cage the size of a city-block just to hold him... and I am not entirely convinced he wasnt in that cage of his own volition...
Not to take issue with anything Andy says, but in regards to the Bioshock entry, what if Andrew Ryan, who we know loves to play mind games both figuratively and literally, secretly conditioned residents of Rapture he saw as possible threats, like Mr. Fontaine, with a mental block preventing them from acting against him so no matter how powerful they were, they couldn't attack him directly so Fontaine in this case had to enlist a third party, no matter the expense. And in the case of Wesker in Resident Evil, what if each time you meet Wesker, it's a new clone and we're fooled to think that it's the same one? That one I'm not so sure of because I paused from the RE series after the fifth go. Maybe there's some lore I missed. Just some theories.
Video idea: "7 video game hospitals we were DYING to leave". Hospital locations and levels in games where not a lot of life saving was happening.
Examples would be like Mercy Hospital in L4D, Lakehill Seattle Hospital in TLOU Part 2, Brookhaven Hospital in Silent Hill series, and Beacon Mental Hospital in The Evil Within
I'm shocked Handsome Jack didn't make the cut.
I don't think Handsome Jack counts since he doesn't really see the previous cast as a threat. Yeah, he wants them dead and does try to kill them, but they're a secondary objective to him after the Warrior
10:29 Shop at Aldi or Trader Joe's, whichever might be near you. They're absolutely goated
Video idea: 7 villains who were never actually defeated
Probably Kazuya ran out of things to launch off cliffs, that's why he joined Smash Bros.
He even ran out of things to throw off a cliff by the end of his Smash trailer
You know if anyone bothered to read the card on the gift at the beginning of Bioshock they would probably have been a lot more dubious about 'Atlas'.
fully read it on my second play through
To be fair, going out of their way to mess with Batman is the whole deal of several Batman villains, not every idea all of them have is gonna be a killer.
I'm surprised I didn't see Lucas Baker from Resident Evil 7: Biohazard. He can't just stab or bludgeon his victims like his parents do. He has to put them through convoluted tests and games including the most complicated yet easiest game of Blackjack ever
Aren't an unspecified number of Mario games canonically staged? Because the mythological turtle dragon and the Japanese nature spirit are bored, mostly?
Vergil spent two whole games working just to fight Dante, to the point of basically cutting his soul in half and causing an apocalypse. All for a petty sibling rivalry.
Yeah. Just get some therapy Vergil. It's better and cheaper than summoning a giant devil tree.
Anyone else get a kick out of imagining the riddler trying to get the permits and engineers to build these race tracks?
I always like how Peach doesn't immediately deny she's Bowser Jr's mother, because you'd think she'd immediately know whether or not and likely deny she ever: A. Did with a giant dragon turtle, B. Popped out a dragon turtle baby
Probably cause she didn't want to hurt the kid by denying it. She saw how earnest he believed it and didn't have the heart to tell him otherwise. Not a good idea, but pretty much how she wanted to handle it.
This is smooth comedy. Look at that Villain Grace!
Instructions unclear, I accidentally summoned a milk demon. It’s not as fun as some of you are currently thinking.
I gotta nominate Lucas from Resident Evil 7 for this list. He creates a SAW style birthday themed death trap. And it's only through Clancy that you find a way to avoid the intended result. Then he drops an actual bomb inside the room. All after making you empty your inventory in the first place just so you had plenty of room for everything.
And that's just the stuff he does to Ethan. Lucas was so bad about this he ALSO messed with Chris later.
That's kind of a fluke though, if you never watch the tape, or miss it, you would've died the same way. The trap itself is very well designed, it's just Lucas is sadistic psychopath, so he couldn't help but film his torture of Clancy.
@@themightycongueror8383 The point is that he used an extremely elaborate trap that took WAY more effort than simply dropping a bomb into the room. Then he did exactly that trying to kill you.
I had a idea for a list video. Seven optional bosses who aren't required to beat the game but are too incredible not to fight. My suggestion would be the Nameless King from Dark Souls 3.
"Mario Raceway is a safe space..." Tell that to my SPINEY SHELL!!
16:06 a good leader delegates other people to do such tasks and if they do it poorly, he chucks then of a cliff
Wait... that was the plot of Bioshock? Damn
The only way to defeat Ridder is to completely ignore him. Ridder wins if you do his challenges.
Nah, that's the other way around for me.
“An interesting game. The only winning move is not to play.”
Certain video game and action movie plane crashers have a lot in common, in that they’re just used as a way to get the protagonists to the ground.
Dr Robotnik. The amount of robts that guy has built that have been 100% vulnerable to a spikey hedgehog is unbelievable.
Also that dog in the secret ending to "Silent Hill 2". Controlling an entire town and all the monsters, impressive! ^^
"Sorry, Bill Nighy" could be the OxboXtra motto
To be fair to G-Man, he has a teleporter in his briefcase and can cheese the cameos with minimal effort.
1:16 *pushes up nerd glasses* achtually his real name is Edward Nashton, the last name 'Nigma' was something he thought sounded cooler.
I may be the only person who didn’t mind the Riddler challenges from Arkham Knight.
My only issue was the 100% completion achievement not triggering which made me go back to 75% completion back up save.
Here's one for you, hell even just a name. XEHANORT.
the entire Kingdom Hearts series ***ASTERISK*** was perpetrated by a single man who, to paraphrase, "sent his heart across time" to tell his past selves everything that was going to happen ever and to plan accordingly. and he STILL loses.
No Eggman? Dr. Robotnik is a masterclass in over designed traps and schemes. So many loop-de-loops, rails, and springs.
and doesnt he power his robots with cute animals? surely there are better ways to make robots but he just HAS to be extra about it.
Always found it weird in HL1 that they had the technology to do all the crazy stuff they were doing, but needed a man in a hazmat suit to push a cart with a crystal into a. Inch of mechanical moving stuff that's making a weird arcing energy field.
15:50 The Stand User could be anyone!
Ardyn in FF XV. and Sephiroth. First man has literally plotted against your family long enough for them to fade out of the family history.
Cloud literally can't get away from Sephiroth. Be it in his own game, Kingdom Hearts or even super smash bros. No one likes a stalker Sephiroth.
Best part about Ardyn is he's like the protagonist's great great great whatever Uncle.
Well it's not really that long for Ardyn. He was trapped for the majority of his hundreds of years of immortal existence inside a prison until Verstael freed him.
@@riningan I mean.. He still setup the entire events that would eventually lead up to Noctis meeting up against him. The empire attacking them, and eventually being killed off by him just for his ploy of revenge to come. It's still a lot of effort coming from those that aren't immortal
@@TheArrowofLight I guess you got a point. Though you could probably also argue that it's really Bahamut that's making a needlessly long and complicated plot. In Episode Ardyn it's revealed that he basically set up Ardyn and his brother to play roles just so it can culminate in Ardyn's plot that would make Noctis the prophesized hero. Also depending on how canonical you consider the Dawn of the Future novel that chronicles the plots of the planned remaining DLC that didn't get made it reveals that Bahamut could always control the Starscourge so he probably could've wiped it out himself whenever he wanted. He just decided to craft a story out of it for his own entertainment since apparently it turned out that Ardyn's brother Somnus and Noctis looked a lot like Bahamut under his mask. Basically they're self-insert stand-ins for him in a story of his own creation.
I think Riddler just treats it all as a fun hobby.
What about Glados from Portal, literally has a whole facility to mess with just you
The olive oil line hit hard. 😭
The only way I can understand prices, these days, is by cutting them in half. Sadly, that means it's also the only way to understand my salary.
I loved the entire video but I feel like it has to be said that the beginning of the end part with Andy was the best part of the video.
the thing that doesn't really make sense to me about abstergo, is why do they keep making video games where assassins are really cool protagonists fighting against the evil templars? seems like you're running anti-propaganda. also i hope ellen actually has met bill nye that sounds like a hilarious interaction
Isn't what we're playing in Assassin's Creed the unfiltered, non-biased stuff? Before Abstergo takes it and "Templarizes" it for the masses?
As a side note, the latest Assassin's Creed game I've played was Black Flag, so this might not be true anymore.
What we play aren't the games Abstergo makes. Abstergo nixed their in-universe versions of ACs 1 and 2, and produced an edited version of 3 called The Lone Eagle where Haytham Kenway is the hero.
You're basically playing versions that have been modded by the assassins to show the truth
My headcanon behind the whole Assassin-Templar thing is that they're actually two parts of the same organization. The Assassins do things that the Templars can't do (eagle vision, use alien devices, jump into haystacks while making a hawk noise, etc) - while the Templars do things the Assassins can't do (kidnap people, steal artifacts, build giant corporations, etc). They're two arms that are pitted against each other in creative tension to achieve mutual goals.
Case in point - Desmond saving the Earth from the 2012 geomagnetic solar flare reversal fire apocalypse (or whatever). Which COULDN'T have happened if the Templars hadn't kidnapped Desmond and shoved him inside the Animus. Obviously, the Assassins couldn't have developed the Animus - they're too busy living on farms and defying the Man and basically being a cult of Banksy's. They needed the Templars, with their enormous multinational advanced technology megacorporation, to develop and build the Animus, and the flexible ethics to kill a bunch of Assassins and dissect their brains with it.
If either the Assassins or the Templars hadn't existed, and if both sides hadn't chosen to do PRECISELY what they ended up doing, then the world would've been solar-geo-electro-magneto-apocalypsed to death. It was all a carefully choreographed dance by whoever's really in charge of both sides, to achieve a mutual goal.
And that's why the Templars often do things that seem ludicrously stupid and against their own interests - and why despite the Templars' evident moronicity, the Assassins are still so tremendously ineffectual. By all rights, the Templars should've collapsed millenia before - if not because of their own dumb decisions, then because they all choked on packets of silica that are clearly marked Do Not Eat. But somehow, Abstergo rules the world, and the Assassins - who have magic powers, psychic futuresight, and alien technology - are barely struggling to survive.
That makes no sense - unless they're both on the same team and don't know it.
@@khamjaninja. the problem is the brotherhood was founded in ancient egypt by bayek the protagonist of origins, and the templars were created by cane. yes cane from the bible asassin's creed is wierd what can i say
I've always rated The Riddler as ONE of the worst villians, but if Edward actually felt the need to apply for planning permission, he is definitely the worst.
so we are ignoring Majima from Yakuza series, are we?
I thought the Tekken entry was going to be for Heihachi for the fact that he has adopted or fathered multiple children specifically to be a problem for his son and grandson.
Then when the other kids hate him too he adopted a bear
Chris’s exact words are “Chris, you’re alive?”?🤨😂 12:35
My guess is that Bowser is a card-carrying member of the Guild of Calamitous Intent, and follows the rules regarding professional arching to such a degree that Mario and his gang can't justify excluding him from the fun.
The Abstergo thing reminds me of Metal Gear Solid, in the way of the timeline vs the power of the consoles. Mtg kind of locked themselves in to going further and further in the past, but building bigger and cooler robots. Which meant that the robots actually got smaller and worse in the game world timeline. Same with AC, Abstergo' plan seemed fine on Game 4, but in future games set further in the past...
They were bigger but less efficient, less capable, and harder to use. For example sahelanthropus couldn't even be piloted by anyone bigger than a small child. Ray was built specifically to destroy Rex. And then we see Arsenal gear which was the last of the true metal gears which was a massive submersible warship powered by illuminati AI
Xehanort from kingdom hearts pulls off the most ridiculous and convoluted plan to take over a McGuffin that we don't even know what it does! He tempts his student to embrace the darkness so he can possess his body, Becomes a heartless who kidnaps the seven princesses, and a nobody who ends up forming an organization of people he knew/worked with in the past + some extra bad eggs. Have Sora defeat his heartless and nobody to restore his human form, goes back in time to tell his younger self to gather up all variations of himself to form yet another organization of just different versions of himself who then fight the keyblade wielders, all in order to summon the χ-blade and control kingdom hearts...
yeah, that's beyond dedication xD
Spider-Man 2 (PS5) spoilers
I've suggested this before, but a video showing times we got to play as amazing characters, but only for a little while, like MGS2 or
Venom in Spider-Man 2
You must be really nuts if you beat every racetrack trial in one run in Batman: Arkham Knight. Especially the later ones and more so the final one. He gets very insulting and impudent whenever you fail the trial laps. The only way I could concentrate driving those tracks was to turn off the sound. As for BioShock there’s Atlas Would You Kindly commands. Of course once you start opposing him in the last act of the game - he tries even harder to screw Jack over. In the end - Atlas had his world break him because Frank Fontaine was Atlas. Fontaine as the conman was conned by his own con.
Alex Mercer in Prototype 2- baffling!