Ice fucking cold. I love it. Especially after all the ledge guarding and ladder trolling Pine did. 'I could use some healing.' I missed the part where that's my problem.
Fun fact about the Monorail: If you die to the overcharge while solo (or when nobody else is alive to revive you) it has its own unique death animation where you accidentally create a black hole that swallows you.
They've thought of everything it seems!... Except a manual device save option (instead of cloud) that could keep you from losing all of your progress. 😢
57:19 So as we can plainly see, while Pineapple may have dealt marginally more damage than the others: he also received the most damage, needed the most healing, needed to be revived the most, and caused the most friendly fire: so yeah: Raz and Yak carried like always! Also, the E3 presentation this time had me in stitches.
Holy shit I cant even describe how amazing that is, I was seriously hoping elden ring will have an actual coop, there is not enough good coop games and I would like to introduce tons of people to souls games but I know they will never be able to finish them on their own and cooping through dark souls just fucking sucks ... even that new lords of the fallen, hey we have seamless coop, fuckall you have, its just dark souls coop without being sent home after boss kill ..
@@eglewether5523 Fromsoft has publicly mentioned the elden ring seamless coop mod, so hopefully their next title will be seamless from the get go. Even though its a great game overall, I was definitely disappointed that a mod was needed for coop Elden Ring
the E3 roleplay bits are my favorite, especially the part where one of y'all is going through their partner leaving them and then PLOT TWIST their partner just went to the store and everything is fine, actually.
Sweat builds are for those who don't have enough skill to keep dodging I need to play R1 again... I don't know where I left off, but I remember struggling.
Legit, I have played Remnant 2 so much, I started using not just superoptimised builds, but also made a bunch of joke builds. And the worst part is ? The joke builds work as well. And this is what I appreciate about Remnant 2 : play the way you like. There are no bad ways to build. Only your way. And while my super armoured and fast litteral tank build works well... I just love my "Little Mac spent time with Goku in the Time Chamber training". You can dodge in the middle of every single attack animation, including the Black Hole Gauntlets laser beam, and you have great amounts of s. Just dodge and weave, and punch them KO.
@@StratOFerus Agreed. There's a ton of fun to be had with a lot of the weapons that aren't even remotely meta, (I even did a full overview video of the Polygun and love using it, despite most people thinking it's too much work for too little reward), and even without going all in on optimization you can easily have a lot of fun just playing around with different mechanics and setups. All of them might not work spectacularly on the hardest difficulty, but they can still be a lot of fun. It's part of what makes build crafting in Remnant 2 so great.
Lol, the idea of a husband who is basically a toddler with object permanence "Guys, I don't know what I did wrong, but she left me. She didn't say a word, she was just gone when I got home and- OH SHIT, SHE'S BACK! Hey, honey, I missed you!" "Babe, I was getting the mail, wtf"
I was actively playing the Remnant 2 DLC with the sand pit and arrows section when you revealed that there was a secret for waiting in that room for FIVE MINUTES. Genuinely how does anyone find this out at all. Like, who the hell was the poor bloke who couldn't get past the arrow trap for five straight minutes and ended up getting sucked down below. Genuinely crazy. Love this game btw. Edit: Poor grammar
More likely someone who notices that you sink, and tries to see if there's something below. It's a fairly common mechanic in platformers that have sinking sand.
The game has a few breadcrumbs, but ou need to really think in a roundabout way to figure it out. The first sort of hint is that that one particular arrow trap is broken and cannot fire, creating a safe pocket in that room, and if you look in that corner there is a softly glowing ring around those piles of sand if you get close enough to them. If you just stand in there and wonder if there is anything that's supposed to happen there, you might even notice your character is very very slowly sinking into the sand. It takes a pretty wide leapin logic of 'let's just sit here for a few minutes and see what happens', but it at least makes a lot more sense than the pipe drain room that takes a literal hour to fill up soyou can get one of the most fun secondaries in the entire game.
For myself, Gunfire has turned me into the picture of a paranoid conspiracy theorist with the way they do secrets, so i noticed the oddity of the broken blow dart spots and decided to go afk and get me food to see if something happened. It's def not something you would think normally to do tho.
I remember hearing that some of the secrets in the game were only discovered because people actually dug into the code to find the unlock conditions. Getting into the Backrooms, or the dreaming Dran questline or the ones, I think. The Dran one requires you to visit specific locations in all 6 worlds in a particular order without dying once or you have to start over.
@@SeanARooney The dreaming dran event is downright cruel, but backrooms definitelytake second place. Both would have been virtually impossible to discover without a herculean community effort and data mining.
So the journal of that soldier basically goes as follows; He joined the army sometime after WWII (presumably shortly after the Root started coming to Earth, canonically in the 1960's), mostly because of his father, a strict military man. He was excited to be chosen for a "special mission", finally earned the coveted "I'm proud of you son" from pops, and had a girlfriend Dawn whom he adored and was going to ask to marry him. The "special mission" turned out to be deployment to Yaesha. Something about the crystal/worldstone in that early time was flawed and didn't allow them to return to Earth, but also granted them pseudo-immortality. They could still be killed, but they'd only age when that happened and the crystal resurrected them. Ford (a fairly important part of Remnant 1) their commander went missing almost immediately, and then the rest of his unit died off one by one by just growing too old from repeatedly being killed and revived. Jack was the last one. He wrote, as per the game, 17 entries that were more or less letters to Dawn. At some point he started to realize how much time had passed, and he figured she had moved on but wished her happiness. The last of his squad, Dash, died a couple weeks prior to the players finding him in the DLC. His last letter, number 17, is both excited at the prospect of someone having shown up and finally being able to go home, but also sad because he knows Dawn is absolutely already dead just due to the sheer amount of time that has gone by since it all began. For context, the Root invaded in (I think) like 1968. I'd imagine the military expedition took place very shortly after that, while Remnant 2 is set sometime in the 2080's. Our boy Jack, chronologically, would be easily upwards of 120 years old. Still, for that 100+ years trapped on some alien hellhole, watching his brothers in arms fight and suffer and die one by one, his love for Dawn and absolute drive to get back to her again somehow kept him mostly sane and functional....All in all, those 17 journal pages are sad as fuck, and it's Souls-level bullshit that they just fucking 86 him off-screen after giving him that hope of finally being able to go back home after all that time....
I paused the video so many times to read through the journal. So sad he almost got to go back but died, and also so sad that he aged while his wife died. It reminds me of Interstellar. Made me go hug my wife.
@@Lliamhd The way the game presents him is just like he's some random soldier who got teleported to Ayesha, then next thing you know he's dead, off screen, and from those interactions you wouldn't give a damn about him. But then reading the journal to find he's been trapped there fighting over a century, watching his whole unit die one by one, and that entire time the only thing keeping him sane was thinking about Dawn.....it's some obnoxiously deep shit for a game like this 😩
@@Astraeus.. yeah, and to see him being resigned with his wife moving on and probably marrying someone else, and then being aware later she is probably long dead, and all he wanted was to visit her grave 😭
Remnant 2 is seriously one of the best non-From Soulslikes out there. Absolutely amazing in every regard. Also wanna add that the lore is actually fucking amazing too and *catastrophically* under-appreciated
Man as much as i really want to love the Remnant games i just cant get into them. I've still put 40ish hours into both games but never finished either. Maybe just not for me. Some really cool character and boss designs in these games though.
This game deserves much more attention imho. It's actually amazing how good this is. The improvements from the first game are INSANE. There is still some jank, especially in the platforming and movement in general, but overall, absolutely GOATED game.
Honestly lovable jank, I've gotta say. I very rarely ever get mad at this game. It's a great time in co-op and whenever stuff breaks it's basically just funny. Usually it's just graphical stuff anyway, like whoops, the game forgot to put someone's head back on after they swapped helmets. Or breaking a pot and the shards just go careening across the floor.
The one thing I hope Gunfire can develop more in their next games is enemy variety. Most shards have like 6-8 main enemies types and 4 sub-bosses/elites. Like, the whole of Yaeshas main map has the rolly-polly guys and the 6 legged snakes as the only common enemies. And these maps you will always see. I love both Remnant 1 and 2 a lot. Gotten literally every single piece of equipment you can get. Including all the challenge gear, and the obtuse "you can literally only find this with guides because it's intentionally hidden to be data mined" stuff. But more enemy variety would help it a lot I feel.
I went back and played the first one again recently. I absolutely underappreciated all the improvements they made. Don't get me wrong, the first one is still very enjoyable, but wow, the second is so much more refined. Absolutely what a sequel should be.
I'm gonna be honest: I didn't expect anything from this game, and only got it from a friend's recommendation. Not only I ended up loving it, it became one of my favorites games to play this year. The level design, build crafting and game feel are worth the price of admission alone. The quasi-roguelite level reset also makes revisiting worlds so much more engaging. EDIT: Gramma.
@@manashieldworld Glad you loved it. I would recommend trying co-op someday. Even with random people, exploring was always satisfying; the latest expansion, in particular, has become one of my favorite areas in Soulslike and even Soulsborne. I'll go back whenever I take a break from Sparking Zero, lol.
Nice to see Remnant channels multiple highly beloved games in their DLC. Not only did they improve upon the gimmick boss Bed of Chaos with the door boss, that actually had enemies, but they also had their own Path of Pain/White Palace saw trap. There's some fucking awesome enemy designs and despite the jank the game looks solid.
Honestly, quite a few of Remnant 2's bosses are very inventive for the genera. A benefit of letting players fight at range instead of melee I suppose, since they can be more cinematic and have more mechanics that don't have to be in close range.
the rolling cubes boss (not shown) is still my favorite one of all. you 'get' it almost right away, but you work through it like a puzzle, with more and more layers added as it goes along. fantastic and i wish i could do it again for the first time
The bosses that really stand out in this game do so because of the actual game mechanics they utilize, and it does create some really cool moments when you encounter them. Unfortunately I find the designs for a lot of them to be somewhat lacking, to the point where I don’t remember anything about most of them, and can probably only recall the actual names of maybe 2-3. That’s not to say that these bosses are bad, they are just forgettable. Compare this to any Fromsoft game, where I can recall many of the bosses even years later after doing only a single play through. Maybe it has something to do with the random modifiers applied to the bosses in Remnant, but I hope this is something that the devs can improve on in their future games, while still retaining creative and fun mechanics.
@@chaoswraith Sadly, I find it has the usual problem of most puzzle bosses. Doing the puzzle is fun - the first time around. It still is a bit of a check the second time around, but when you fight it every, single, cycle ... it just gets oh so boring oh so fast. It is static. Like, fully. Sadly. I know it would be asking way to much for the scope of the team and studio, but having the arena and placement of the cubes in it having some controlled randomization would have made it so much better. Imo.
46:00 - this bit was SOUL-CRUSHING, since I'd never heard you do that, and it was SUCH A GOOD PARODY, MAN. Just listening to it for the short time it lasted madE MY TEETH HURT
Absolutely. Secrets out the ass, everywhere and they're all rewarding. Some of them are convoluted beyond reason but I love it! Like the "Dranception" quest... Who tf was the first psycho who managed to find it AND complete it. Or rather I should ask HOW TF?! Edit: The guys in the video did reach the start of that quest lol.
Remnant 2 has soooo much replayability, man. My hardest challenge was doing Sha'Hala in Nerud on Apocalypse difficulty, but I had to get real sweaty with weapons, mods and skills. Watching you guys play so straight just raised my respect for all of you, well done!
Honestly, watching you play with Yakko and Raz, and also Vaati for those steam dumpster diving videoss, is such a fun experience. Hope you guys do more play through together
I too do not like this joke, the pineapple in which has been constructed of various minerals and metalic material has truly begun a negative Z axis descent for their respective career And/Or humor.
Awesome game for coop! There are so many cool weapon and builds to try. Also I think Remnant 2 is unrivaled in regards to secrets and little puzzles that really reward being observant and curious
That mansion (Sunken Haunt) at the start. I DID NOT KNOW you could do that. I just finished that section by finding the talisman. My god this game is awesome.
"- Wait, Guys, Prism Enhancements Are Available! - Jen left. Jen left last night, man. I don't know what to do - I'm Thinking Critical Damage +8 - She took the car too..." I DIED THIS IS THE FUNNIEST THING I EXPERIENCED THIS WEEK
You make the best gaming vids on YT bro. I can't get enough. Thank you for all of your time and effort, along with your goofy friends. You guys are THE top of the tier. Now, edge away, Pine. Edge away.
I think they would be more popular if they started stepping away from randomness. It is incredibly frustrating to realize that pieces of a build are gated behind rerolling until the stars align.
@@alteraphim Yeah, I was reroling yeasha for that fucking archery ring for few hours didn t roll the damned tile set, than never turned on the game again.
@@eldenarmortem975 That and the small amount of biomes is ultimately what turned a potentially great experience into a very average one for me. It broke my heart that the expansions didn't introduce new places when they have so much potential for the world.
I have been waiting for this for so long, I’m so excited. I’ve watched the original video at least 30 times, love y’all together. Thanks for making my day guys, you rock!
It was a very right call to get you sponsored. I liked the first one but I was full in the end and wasn't going to try the second. After seeing your coop session I decided to play it on Game Pass and then bought the DLCs. This video is fun also, well done.
I'll take you 4 lifetimes to find the random world drop rings. I hate that someone will make a build, I try to copy but I can't because I have to get a ring that may or may not spawn in my instance of the world.
Glorious content, please don't ever stop making vids Pine! Ever since the V-rising video, I truly love watching Pine play with Yakko and Raz. Peak entertainment! Same counts for Pine and Vaati though ❤
This is one of the best games I've played last year and this, I love the amount of secrets, builds, content in general it has. I didn't appreciate when the nerf some of the hardest weapons to get... but in the end I still love this game, great video man
The game is super fun to watch. But I'd argue you would have fun in any game with those 2 and your own personality. Such a joy to watch, such a great time that I am able to laugh out loud at online videos sometimes but mostly always with yours.
Remnant 2 is one of the most criminally underrated games of all time. How did it not get the buzz it deserved?? To anyone who hasn't picked it up yet, PLEASE, give it a go. It's incredible.
This was genuinely entertaining as hell to watch, even if it was a sponsored game. I was genuinely laughing through a few sections as these guys had their fun.
Having put hundreds of hours into the game, it's really refreshing to watch some fresh takes on it. But also, the spot in the sand room is the only place where the sand isn't sitting flat, plus there's sand falling from the ceiling of the room, I did find that on my own
It's nice to see how confident Gunfiregames are in Remnant 2 and for a good reason. I love the Apocalypse difficulty description being just "Good Luck" :D
Hey man, Ash Lake was, alright. Ya know? It had, like, it was like supposed to be... I mean, there was a hydra. It had other shit too. Like, Onion daughter... that 1 random skull that seemingly matched nothing in-game. Fuckin TREES man! Ash Lake was, amazing! ..... so there! Edit: Lydusa might be one of the coolest bosses fucking EVER! What a dope fight! That looked like soooo much fun!
Walking into Ash Lake from the Hollow is amazing - because the music slowly swells as you go around the corner into this even-more dead forgotten land at the bottom of the world. ...The first time. The times after that, if you haven't gotten the LordVessel, it's just trudging across a sandbar dreaming of fasttravel.
Great video, I've played the first 2 dlcs and loved them - hopefully your videos on remnant 2 have encouraged people to check out this amazing game. I did the alternate end for DLC2 where lydusa becomes a pal instead of fighting you. It was neat but I definitely need to go back and fight her now.
The lengths you need to go through to find some of the new build choices are pretty bonkers, I'm glad the first and third DLCs just put the new class engrams in regular hidden rooms that you can reasonably stumble over. One thing I never would've figured out without a guide is that the metal things you can kick to trigger a car alarm on can be properly activated if you do the Dark Conduit dungeon, the game does not convey interacting with the thing at the end of the dungeon does something. (And then to get the Cool Thing at the end you need to find and activate all of the doohickeys which takes forever. It's one of the space guns, too.)
Fun fact about the WAKE UP guy: Each randomly generated event in a dungeon usually only has 1 solution but for this one there are is more than 1. The goal is to basically avoid him when opening the doors throughout the manor to pick up the quest item. If you were to pick his door at anytime, you would have to reset the progress you made. I think it’s funny because ever since my friends and I discovered him, the only memorable thing we have cherished throughout all our runs was “WAKE UP”. Edit: You can also get different solutions or endings for boss fights. The One true king for example if you were to kill him while he had his hammer, you would have gotten the “Monarch” gun instead of the staff. Another solution is basically betraying him and talking to the goddess Nimue to claim a different reward for them and so forth. This game is by far my top 3 in all time games just because of how much time they put into details. Simply talking to someone before or after an encounter can easily change the ending or item one receives when completing the objective. It is truly a phenomenal game and I’m thankful you finally got to their DLC after a year 🫡.
The depressed E3 presenter is genuinely one of the greatest bits I've heard for a long time. "Jan left, Jan left last night. I don't know what to do." "I'm thinking critical damage +8."
Would love to see more videos of you guys going through the game. There's so much to discover still. Almost every final boss of a zone has an alternative way to kill them for a different reward. Each world has a few different possible stories that can spawn. So it's worth doing multiple campaigns or rolling adventure mode until you find something new. Or redoing stories you've already done but differently for the alternative rewards
My god the "fake E3 demo trailer but the people playing secretly hate each other and the game" bit is so good. "Hey you look like you need some health!" "I do!" "That's too bad, alright lets go" Gold
Remnant 2 has been a massive addiction of my recently. Easily one of my favorite games to come out within the last couple years. Also, in your last video (I think it was the last one) you mentioned doing videos over non-soulslikes and I think that would be great! Just keep doing the steam dumpster diving but for a wider range of genres. I just love hearing about small gems of a game.
„Obviously this video is not a review!” Its crazy that ur the first youtuber i know who has the integrity to say this in an advertisement. I always hear shit like “they paid me but it’s still my honest opinion trust me guys it’s just what I think fr” which is obvs bs. So good on you for having good journalistic practice!
In the case of the sand burial secret, you’re not expected to find things that hidden by chance there is a class which specializes in showing you where secrets are on the mini map, archaeologist or something. That’s how people find those hard secrets.
“I was edging.” Iron Pinapple-2024 9:52
Poor guy was just trying to come in the hole.
I 100% knew this would have been the first comment
I want to go home...
Mmm
@@Halberddent and then edge...
Pine: Wait.. Raz, You're the Healer Class Right??
Raz: Pine, I said "That's too bad"
I was dying, had to replay multiple times
Ice fucking cold. I love it. Especially after all the ledge guarding and ladder trolling Pine did.
'I could use some healing.'
I missed the part where that's my problem.
I save friends.
FARTBUCKLE NOOOOOO
Yooo it’s that one guy
I misread his name as 'ratzbuten' every single time I looked at it.
🗣️AND DID 😭🙌🏾🤣
Is ur name a play on Rasputin?
Fun fact about the Monorail: If you die to the overcharge while solo (or when nobody else is alive to revive you) it has its own unique death animation where you accidentally create a black hole that swallows you.
Fun fact about the monorail: Mono means one, and rail means rail
Bonus fun fact: the black hole can actually kill multiple people at once, so its also a great way to troll your friends
I thought this will happen if you activate the mod then overcharge? Because it definitely happened to me even in co-op
They've thought of everything it seems!... Except a manual device save option (instead of cloud) that could keep you from losing all of your progress. 😢
@@DerrickBarrows wait.. isn't touching the crystal the manual save?
57:19 So as we can plainly see, while Pineapple may have dealt marginally more damage than the others: he also received the most damage, needed the most healing, needed to be revived the most, and caused the most friendly fire: so yeah: Raz and Yak carried like always!
Also, the E3 presentation this time had me in stitches.
If this was Destiny 2, Pine would be a hunter.
I love how quickly it fell apart when they found the armor lmfao
I am just thankful that the entire game can be played full coop, instead of like Souls like coop with their instances. Great video
The elden ring coop mod is really good
It also provides the ability to (somewhat) seamlessly jump into another random person's game online and play together.
Holy shit I cant even describe how amazing that is, I was seriously hoping elden ring will have an actual coop, there is not enough good coop games and I would like to introduce tons of people to souls games but I know they will never be able to finish them on their own and cooping through dark souls just fucking sucks ... even that new lords of the fallen, hey we have seamless coop, fuckall you have, its just dark souls coop without being sent home after boss kill ..
@@eglewether5523 Fromsoft has publicly mentioned the elden ring seamless coop mod, so hopefully their next title will be seamless from the get go. Even though its a great game overall, I was definitely disappointed that a mod was needed for coop Elden Ring
Nightmare mansion you can also find an amulet where you find the amulet like 3 or 4 times and then it turns into the amulet you can use.
the E3 roleplay bits are my favorite, especially the part where one of y'all is going through their partner leaving them and then PLOT TWIST their partner just went to the store and everything is fine, actually.
Love someone playing the straight man in the E3 presentation lmao
... I swear this double meaning isn't on purpose! it's called that!! ... unless
Golden Retriever energy
Watching hyperoptimised sweat builds and the whole complex and then looking at you guys just goofing around with starter weapons was smart
hyperoptimised builds are boring, embrace stupidity
Sweat builds are for those who don't have enough skill to keep dodging
I need to play R1 again... I don't know where I left off, but I remember struggling.
Legit, I have played Remnant 2 so much, I started using not just superoptimised builds, but also made a bunch of joke builds. And the worst part is ? The joke builds work as well.
And this is what I appreciate about Remnant 2 : play the way you like. There are no bad ways to build. Only your way. And while my super armoured and fast litteral tank build works well... I just love my "Little Mac spent time with Goku in the Time Chamber training". You can dodge in the middle of every single attack animation, including the Black Hole Gauntlets laser beam, and you have great amounts of s. Just dodge and weave, and punch them KO.
@@StratOFerus I wanna make a build for the black greatsword lol
@@StratOFerus Agreed. There's a ton of fun to be had with a lot of the weapons that aren't even remotely meta, (I even did a full overview video of the Polygun and love using it, despite most people thinking it's too much work for too little reward), and even without going all in on optimization you can easily have a lot of fun just playing around with different mechanics and setups. All of them might not work spectacularly on the hardest difficulty, but they can still be a lot of fun. It's part of what makes build crafting in Remnant 2 so great.
Lol, the idea of a husband who is basically a toddler with object permanence
"Guys, I don't know what I did wrong, but she left me. She didn't say a word, she was just gone when I got home and- OH SHIT, SHE'S BACK! Hey, honey, I missed you!"
"Babe, I was getting the mail, wtf"
He's just a dog
I was actively playing the Remnant 2 DLC with the sand pit and arrows section when you revealed that there was a secret for waiting in that room for FIVE MINUTES. Genuinely how does anyone find this out at all. Like, who the hell was the poor bloke who couldn't get past the arrow trap for five straight minutes and ended up getting sucked down below.
Genuinely crazy.
Love this game btw.
Edit: Poor grammar
More likely someone who notices that you sink, and tries to see if there's something below. It's a fairly common mechanic in platformers that have sinking sand.
The game has a few breadcrumbs, but ou need to really think in a roundabout way to figure it out. The first sort of hint is that that one particular arrow trap is broken and cannot fire, creating a safe pocket in that room, and if you look in that corner there is a softly glowing ring around those piles of sand if you get close enough to them. If you just stand in there and wonder if there is anything that's supposed to happen there, you might even notice your character is very very slowly sinking into the sand.
It takes a pretty wide leapin logic of 'let's just sit here for a few minutes and see what happens', but it at least makes a lot more sense than the pipe drain room that takes a literal hour to fill up soyou can get one of the most fun secondaries in the entire game.
For myself, Gunfire has turned me into the picture of a paranoid conspiracy theorist with the way they do secrets, so i noticed the oddity of the broken blow dart spots and decided to go afk and get me food to see if something happened.
It's def not something you would think normally to do tho.
I remember hearing that some of the secrets in the game were only discovered because people actually dug into the code to find the unlock conditions. Getting into the Backrooms, or the dreaming Dran questline or the ones, I think. The Dran one requires you to visit specific locations in all 6 worlds in a particular order without dying once or you have to start over.
@@SeanARooney The dreaming dran event is downright cruel, but backrooms definitelytake second place. Both would have been virtually impossible to discover without a herculean community effort and data mining.
So the journal of that soldier basically goes as follows; He joined the army sometime after WWII (presumably shortly after the Root started coming to Earth, canonically in the 1960's), mostly because of his father, a strict military man. He was excited to be chosen for a "special mission", finally earned the coveted "I'm proud of you son" from pops, and had a girlfriend Dawn whom he adored and was going to ask to marry him. The "special mission" turned out to be deployment to Yaesha. Something about the crystal/worldstone in that early time was flawed and didn't allow them to return to Earth, but also granted them pseudo-immortality. They could still be killed, but they'd only age when that happened and the crystal resurrected them.
Ford (a fairly important part of Remnant 1) their commander went missing almost immediately, and then the rest of his unit died off one by one by just growing too old from repeatedly being killed and revived. Jack was the last one. He wrote, as per the game, 17 entries that were more or less letters to Dawn. At some point he started to realize how much time had passed, and he figured she had moved on but wished her happiness. The last of his squad, Dash, died a couple weeks prior to the players finding him in the DLC. His last letter, number 17, is both excited at the prospect of someone having shown up and finally being able to go home, but also sad because he knows Dawn is absolutely already dead just due to the sheer amount of time that has gone by since it all began.
For context, the Root invaded in (I think) like 1968. I'd imagine the military expedition took place very shortly after that, while Remnant 2 is set sometime in the 2080's. Our boy Jack, chronologically, would be easily upwards of 120 years old. Still, for that 100+ years trapped on some alien hellhole, watching his brothers in arms fight and suffer and die one by one, his love for Dawn and absolute drive to get back to her again somehow kept him mostly sane and functional....All in all, those 17 journal pages are sad as fuck, and it's Souls-level bullshit that they just fucking 86 him off-screen after giving him that hope of finally being able to go back home after all that time....
damn man... Thank you for writing it out here I enjoyed (not really) reading it out
I paused the video so many times to read through the journal. So sad he almost got to go back but died, and also so sad that he aged while his wife died. It reminds me of Interstellar. Made me go hug my wife.
@@Lliamhd The way the game presents him is just like he's some random soldier who got teleported to Ayesha, then next thing you know he's dead, off screen, and from those interactions you wouldn't give a damn about him. But then reading the journal to find he's been trapped there fighting over a century, watching his whole unit die one by one, and that entire time the only thing keeping him sane was thinking about Dawn.....it's some obnoxiously deep shit for a game like this 😩
@@Astraeus.. yeah, and to see him being resigned with his wife moving on and probably marrying someone else, and then being aware later she is probably long dead, and all he wanted was to visit her grave 😭
TLDR
Remnant 2 is seriously one of the best non-From Soulslikes out there. Absolutely amazing in every regard.
Also wanna add that the lore is actually fucking amazing too and *catastrophically* under-appreciated
You're right, it really isn't by From.
@Voingous idk how i didn't see that lmao corrected
Wait, is the lore good? I've been skipping all the dialogue lol
@@WHYUNODYLAN The lore is good. The voice acting though...
Man as much as i really want to love the Remnant games i just cant get into them. I've still put 40ish hours into both games but never finished either. Maybe just not for me. Some really cool character and boss designs in these games though.
44:15 They actually included the Jerma/SAW "gas will fill this room" bit unironically. The guy even sounds like Jigsaw. Absolute Cinema.
gyas G-G-GYAS gyas
That's hilarious that it sounds like Jigsaw to you because I honestly love that audio log. NGL it kind of gets me.
50:43 my favourite E3 presentation
“Oh no guys a second boss!”
“FUCK”
This game deserves much more attention imho. It's actually amazing how good this is. The improvements from the first game are INSANE. There is still some jank, especially in the platforming and movement in general, but overall, absolutely GOATED game.
Honestly lovable jank, I've gotta say. I very rarely ever get mad at this game. It's a great time in co-op and whenever stuff breaks it's basically just funny. Usually it's just graphical stuff anyway, like whoops, the game forgot to put someone's head back on after they swapped helmets. Or breaking a pot and the shards just go careening across the floor.
The one thing I hope Gunfire can develop more in their next games is enemy variety. Most shards have like 6-8 main enemies types and 4 sub-bosses/elites.
Like, the whole of Yaeshas main map has the rolly-polly guys and the 6 legged snakes as the only common enemies. And these maps you will always see.
I love both Remnant 1 and 2 a lot. Gotten literally every single piece of equipment you can get. Including all the challenge gear, and the obtuse "you can literally only find this with guides because it's intentionally hidden to be data mined" stuff. But more enemy variety would help it a lot I feel.
I went back and played the first one again recently. I absolutely underappreciated all the improvements they made. Don't get me wrong, the first one is still very enjoyable, but wow, the second is so much more refined. Absolutely what a sequel should be.
The build crafting is so much fun too
I'm gonna be honest: I didn't expect anything from this game, and only got it from a friend's recommendation. Not only I ended up loving it, it became one of my favorites games to play this year. The level design, build crafting and game feel are worth the price of admission alone. The quasi-roguelite level reset also makes revisiting worlds so much more engaging.
EDIT: Gramma.
@@enman009 admission* had to sorry
@@manashieldworld Thanks bud. Fixed now.
@@enman009 haha I'm just being an ass. Agree with everything you said. I never even got to play co-op and was pleasantly surprised with both games.
@@manashieldworld Glad you loved it. I would recommend trying co-op someday. Even with random people, exploring was always satisfying; the latest expansion, in particular, has become one of my favorite areas in Soulslike and even Soulsborne.
I'll go back whenever I take a break from Sparking Zero, lol.
Nice to see Remnant channels multiple highly beloved games in their DLC. Not only did they improve upon the gimmick boss Bed of Chaos with the door boss, that actually had enemies, but they also had their own Path of Pain/White Palace saw trap. There's some fucking awesome enemy designs and despite the jank the game looks solid.
Honestly, the bosses that you guys fought seem seriously cool like maybe better and more dynamic than most games ever
Honestly, quite a few of Remnant 2's bosses are very inventive for the genera. A benefit of letting players fight at range instead of melee I suppose, since they can be more cinematic and have more mechanics that don't have to be in close range.
The last boss of the base game is *chef kiss*
the rolling cubes boss (not shown) is still my favorite one of all. you 'get' it almost right away, but you work through it like a puzzle, with more and more layers added as it goes along. fantastic and i wish i could do it again for the first time
The bosses that really stand out in this game do so because of the actual game mechanics they utilize, and it does create some really cool moments when you encounter them. Unfortunately I find the designs for a lot of them to be somewhat lacking, to the point where I don’t remember anything about most of them, and can probably only recall the actual names of maybe 2-3. That’s not to say that these bosses are bad, they are just forgettable. Compare this to any Fromsoft game, where I can recall many of the bosses even years later after doing only a single play through. Maybe it has something to do with the random modifiers applied to the bosses in Remnant, but I hope this is something that the devs can improve on in their future games, while still retaining creative and fun mechanics.
@@chaoswraith Sadly, I find it has the usual problem of most puzzle bosses. Doing the puzzle is fun - the first time around. It still is a bit of a check the second time around, but when you fight it every, single, cycle ... it just gets oh so boring oh so fast. It is static. Like, fully. Sadly. I know it would be asking way to much for the scope of the team and studio, but having the arena and placement of the cubes in it having some controlled randomization would have made it so much better. Imo.
46:00 - this bit was SOUL-CRUSHING, since I'd never heard you do that, and it was SUCH A GOOD PARODY, MAN. Just listening to it for the short time it lasted madE MY TEETH HURT
Just want to say there are so much more to this game! Secrets galoreeee
Absolutely. Secrets out the ass, everywhere and they're all rewarding. Some of them are convoluted beyond reason but I love it!
Like the "Dranception" quest... Who tf was the first psycho who managed to find it AND complete it. Or rather I should ask HOW TF?!
Edit: The guys in the video did reach the start of that quest lol.
Mad props to Linda for taking the 7 kids shopping with here. That's the kinda support a confident, wholesome E3 breadwinner needs
7 kids + 1 husband kid dog who immediately thinks he will be forever alone if she closes the door to pee
Remnant 2 has soooo much replayability, man. My hardest challenge was doing Sha'Hala in Nerud on Apocalypse difficulty, but I had to get real sweaty with weapons, mods and skills. Watching you guys play so straight just raised my respect for all of you, well done!
This game in VR would be awesome !!!
Hats off to you, I still can't survive that fight most of the time
50:15 for a moment, they were possessed by those guys who do the fake 'real-life' comms for game trailers
49:30 Poor Jen, that's a lot of hard work dealing with eight dependents... seven children & a partner who works for E3.
Honestly, watching you play with Yakko and Raz, and also Vaati for those steam dumpster diving videoss, is such a fun experience. Hope you guys do more play through together
"Prepare to be docked" got me laughing for a while
Remnant Tuah
I do not like this joke.
This made me upsetti spaghetti
Awful.
how dare you
I too do not like this joke, the pineapple in which has been constructed of various minerals and metalic material has truly begun a negative Z axis descent for their respective career And/Or humor.
Awesome game for coop! There are so many cool weapon and builds to try.
Also I think Remnant 2 is unrivaled in regards to secrets and little puzzles that really reward being observant and curious
This is most of what I asked for, just you and friends playing games. It's not a series, but I deeply enjoy these videos none the less.
57:14 Iron Pineapplle's name in Remnant is, ''Metallic Fruit'' LMAO! So good.
That mansion (Sunken Haunt) at the start. I DID NOT KNOW you could do that. I just finished that section by finding the talisman. My god this game is awesome.
Their way of doing it starts a quest to find the drank on each of the worlds. If u die the quest resets fyi
"- Wait, Guys, Prism Enhancements Are Available!
- Jen left. Jen left last night, man. I don't know what to do
- I'm Thinking Critical Damage +8
- She took the car too..."
I DIED THIS IS THE FUNNIEST THING I EXPERIENCED THIS WEEK
You make the best gaming vids on YT bro. I can't get enough. Thank you for all of your time and effort, along with your goofy friends. You guys are THE top of the tier. Now, edge away, Pine. Edge away.
10:10 "I'm not getting pulled into melee with you, you're getting pulled into melee with me."
finally i can stop rewatching your old remnant 2 video. thanks for the content!
the Remnant games are so under appreciated that its a crime. Ive sunk so many hours into both games and have loved every minute of it.
I think they would be more popular if they started stepping away from randomness. It is incredibly frustrating to realize that pieces of a build are gated behind rerolling until the stars align.
@@alteraphim Yeah, I was reroling yeasha for that fucking archery ring for few hours didn t roll the damned tile set, than never turned on the game again.
@@eldenarmortem975 That and the small amount of biomes is ultimately what turned a potentially great experience into a very average one for me. It broke my heart that the expansions didn't introduce new places when they have so much potential for the world.
@@alteraphim Yeah, I s till hope for story DLC with new biome like with the 1st game.
I have been waiting for this for so long, I’m so excited. I’ve watched the original video at least 30 times, love y’all together. Thanks for making my day guys, you rock!
Game is good and Iron Pineapple is good. I love that this isn’t shameless promotion, it’s just a sponsored video showing how much fun the game is.
0:32 but, bro, you're the review I'm "looking up" 😭🤣
Making me spit my drink out with that comment
It was a very right call to get you sponsored. I liked the first one but I was full in the end and wasn't going to try the second. After seeing your coop session I decided to play it on Game Pass and then bought the DLCs. This video is fun also, well done.
"There's more guns we just haven't found them yet" it will take you 2 lifetimes to find them
I'll take you 4 lifetimes to find the random world drop rings. I hate that someone will make a build, I try to copy but I can't because I have to get a ring that may or may not spawn in my instance of the world.
"This is a really small room..."
"It is... What if i make it smaller?"
That killed me.
Glorious content, please don't ever stop making vids Pine!
Ever since the V-rising video, I truly love watching Pine play with Yakko and Raz. Peak entertainment! Same counts for Pine and Vaati though ❤
This is one of the best games I've played last year and this, I love the amount of secrets, builds, content in general it has. I didn't appreciate when the nerf some of the hardest weapons to get... but in the end I still love this game, great video man
I am SO HAPPY you brought this game back! It is a truly wonderful experience and I’m glad I can watch my favourite RUclipsr play it!
Yes! More Remnant 2!
The lydusa fight was so fun for the first time. Gunfire makes such fun fights.
The game is super fun to watch. But I'd argue you would have fun in any game with those 2 and your own personality. Such a joy to watch, such a great time that I am able to laugh out loud at online videos sometimes but mostly always with yours.
Remnant 2 is one of the most criminally underrated games of all time. How did it not get the buzz it deserved?? To anyone who hasn't picked it up yet, PLEASE, give it a go. It's incredible.
This was genuinely entertaining as hell to watch, even if it was a sponsored game. I was genuinely laughing through a few sections as these guys had their fun.
I was pissing myself throughout the E3 part. Cool video as always.
Dude I just rewatched your first Remnant 2 vid last night. WOW!
Literally same, and I remember wishing they had played the DLC’s
This was really funny had a good time watching this ty.👏
Having put hundreds of hours into the game, it's really refreshing to watch some fresh takes on it. But also, the spot in the sand room is the only place where the sand isn't sitting flat, plus there's sand falling from the ceiling of the room, I did find that on my own
It's nice to see how confident Gunfiregames are in Remnant 2 and for a good reason.
I love the Apocalypse difficulty description being just "Good Luck" :D
Hey man, Ash Lake was, alright. Ya know? It had, like, it was like supposed to be... I mean, there was a hydra. It had other shit too. Like, Onion daughter... that 1 random skull that seemingly matched nothing in-game. Fuckin TREES man! Ash Lake was, amazing! ..... so there!
Edit: Lydusa might be one of the coolest bosses fucking EVER! What a dope fight! That looked like soooo much fun!
I actually love Ash Lake lol I was just kinda in a troll mood
@razbuten I mean, you weren't ENTIRELY wrong. Lol
Shit was like a rollercoaster. "Oooh. Aah. Woah! Look at tha- oh its over.."
Walking into Ash Lake from the Hollow is amazing - because the music slowly swells as you go around the corner into this even-more dead forgotten land at the bottom of the world.
...The first time.
The times after that, if you haven't gotten the LordVessel, it's just trudging across a sandbar dreaming of fasttravel.
Fuck Yes
edit: read the remnant tuah comment, nevermind
That kiddo, is called a "joke"
@@casperryborg4869 That kiddo, is called a "joke"
Great video, I've played the first 2 dlcs and loved them - hopefully your videos on remnant 2 have encouraged people to check out this amazing game.
I did the alternate end for DLC2 where lydusa becomes a pal instead of fighting you. It was neat but I definitely need to go back and fight her now.
The lengths you need to go through to find some of the new build choices are pretty bonkers, I'm glad the first and third DLCs just put the new class engrams in regular hidden rooms that you can reasonably stumble over. One thing I never would've figured out without a guide is that the metal things you can kick to trigger a car alarm on can be properly activated if you do the Dark Conduit dungeon, the game does not convey interacting with the thing at the end of the dungeon does something. (And then to get the Cool Thing at the end you need to find and activate all of the doohickeys which takes forever. It's one of the space guns, too.)
Fun fact about the WAKE UP guy:
Each randomly generated event in a dungeon usually only has 1 solution but for this one there are is more than 1. The goal is to basically avoid him when opening the doors throughout the manor to pick up the quest item. If you were to pick his door at anytime, you would have to reset the progress you made. I think it’s funny because ever since my friends and I discovered him, the only memorable thing we have cherished throughout all our runs was “WAKE UP”.
Edit: You can also get different solutions or endings for boss fights. The One true king for example if you were to kill him while he had his hammer, you would have gotten the “Monarch” gun instead of the staff. Another solution is basically betraying him and talking to the goddess Nimue to claim a different reward for them and so forth. This game is by far my top 3 in all time games just because of how much time they put into details. Simply talking to someone before or after an encounter can easily change the ending or item one receives when completing the objective. It is truly a phenomenal game and I’m thankful you finally got to their DLC after a year 🫡.
at 24:00 it was one of the biggest factors for me ultimately not enjoying remnant 2, that and the horrendous visual clarity in fights
The depressed E3 presenter is genuinely one of the greatest bits I've heard for a long time. "Jan left, Jan left last night. I don't know what to do." "I'm thinking critical damage +8."
Would love to see more videos of you guys going through the game.
There's so much to discover still.
Almost every final boss of a zone has an alternative way to kill them for a different reward.
Each world has a few different possible stories that can spawn.
So it's worth doing multiple campaigns or rolling adventure mode until you find something new.
Or redoing stories you've already done but differently for the alternative rewards
Seems like this is so fun to play with friends 😆 thanks for sharing the experience, I had fun watching it unfold lol
I'm surprised not more people are talking about the E3 bits. They were great
51:40 bro that bit with the "kawabonga", "you missed" was just way too good 😂
the E3 presentation was amazing
"she went to the store"
Love this game, I played through the game and all the DLCs with my friends. Glad to see you enjoyed it!
Hahahahhaha amazing video. The fake e3 presentation was absolute class. Brilliant, had me in stitches how real it was
Always glad to see content for one of my favorite games.
Remnant 2 is probably my favorite game
49:57
'Its only up from here guys!'
Elevator: *Goes down*
Please do more goofy vids like this with Raz and Yakko. Y’all are an absolute JOY to watch.
@47:42 okay, that bit of saying "that's too bad :D" got me actually laughing out loud. F***ing Raz and Yakko are hilarious
@50:01 oh shit >< ahahahahahaa this one too LOL
tbh yakko has to be my favorite guest spot for any content creator
I absolutely love this game, no other game has captivated me as much as Remnant has in a long time.
I’m happy you’re back to this, loved the co op video back in the day
My god the "fake E3 demo trailer but the people playing secretly hate each other and the game" bit is so good.
"Hey you look like you need some health!"
"I do!"
"That's too bad, alright lets go"
Gold
Remnant 2 has been a massive addiction of my recently. Easily one of my favorite games to come out within the last couple years.
Also, in your last video (I think it was the last one) you mentioned doing videos over non-soulslikes and I think that would be great! Just keep doing the steam dumpster diving but for a wider range of genres. I just love hearing about small gems of a game.
1:45 *"now that's My Kind of Woman..."*
This channel is so entertaining, im not even souls types and i still watch all these 😂
Dude this is insane, I was just rewatching your old vid like not even an hour ago wishing you did the DLC wth. Love to see it 😭
So incredible
„Obviously this video is not a review!” Its crazy that ur the first youtuber i know who has the integrity to say this in an advertisement. I always hear shit like “they paid me but it’s still my honest opinion trust me guys it’s just what I think fr” which is obvs bs. So good on you for having good journalistic practice!
This game is awesome. Ive literally put like 60 hours in and still find new stuff every time I start a new play through.
Sunken Witch is basically a Rusty Anchor wielding Wild Strikes spammer that ended in the wrong game and I refuse to be convinced otherwise.
this wa so fun to watch thank you for the quality video
God i love Remnant 2, its full of clever ideas, visually very nice, lots of challenging puzzles and bosses
6:23 Judging by that laugh, Pine knew they didn't need to jump from the beginning
I love this game, and I'm glad to see you getting paid to play it. Hope you guys had a great time!
In the case of the sand burial secret, you’re not expected to find things that hidden by chance there is a class which specializes in showing you where secrets are on the mini map, archaeologist or something. That’s how people find those hard secrets.
I was crying with laughter through that whole E3 presentation bit, truly a magnificent show.
This is one of my top ten series on you tube .... Keep em coming....
God that E3 bit KILLED me. Hilarious video
I just heard that.....Funny af.
I just got into this game recently and already have been putting in lots of hours. 10/10 game, can't even lie.
Oh no, they're doing the presentation voices again I have to take a break I'm getting a headache from laughing
If there's one podcast i would watch it's with you, yakko and vaati talking gamedesign
20:15 You hit that deer so hard it's ancestors stopped existing.
That E3 roleplay was the hardest I've laughed in a while.
This was genuinely hilarious at times. Great work!