Oh my god, FINALLY a longform video on Nehrim that actually covers the game's entire story! I'll be watching this in chunks but I am hype. Thanks so much for this.
This brings me great joy. Is there a chance this means you might cover some of the other big oblivion mods? I'd love to see some deep dives into knights of the nine revelations, or some of the other big lore mods out there.
Well obviously. Knowing Vicn he's probably going to say "fuck it" halfway through DaC0da and go add some side content to Vigilant, scheduling DaC0da to be finished soon+2 weeks.
THANK MALPHAS YOU MADE A NEHRIM VIDEO... I finished playing Nehrim (with German VA) this past May, and was incredibly disappointed to find that there were basically no videos on RUclips that really analyzed the game. This video is a godsend, it's incredible, you caught most of the fun stuff that foreshadowed Enderal (my favorite being the Soulsmith book which totally blindsided me when I discovered it in-game, having played Enderal first)!! I've been theorizing about Arkt being the previous Cycle's Shadowgod recently, and I think he was the intended recipient of the letter you find in the Aged Man's manor. I'm still a little confused about Arkt's role amidst all this... He says he was helped by a previous Shadowgod, but where are they, what did they do, how were they the Shadowgod? What makes Arkt a Shadowgod? Or is he just misinterpreting his role in the Cycle? The timelines don't really match up for him to be from the previous Cycle, but there are already lore inconsistencies between Nehrim and Enderal that are blatantly worse (Narathzul's imprisonment time being shortened from 1,000 years to 30 years...). If Arkt isn't the Shadowgod from the previous Cycle, is he a Shadowgod from a different reality, like the world you and Yuslan go to in Enderal during the "A Drop in the Ocean" quest? Arkt is the single most logic-defying piece of Vyn lore. Anyways, those're just my scattered thoughts, awesome video!! (PS: Gabor Gaboff, the Southrealm fireworks guy, is IN ENDERAL! He's a shopkeep in Ark's Nobles Quarter :) He's also voiced by the original German VA, it's awesome)
Wow i am eating well today. Yeah nerhim is peak when the story is not filled with confusing plotholes and its level design is at its strongest. Anyway if sureAI ever makes an AA-game set in vyn, i believe it should be a remake/reinterpretation of nehrim.
Okay I'm back because I just finished watching the whole video last night, and I have to say THANK YOU AGAIN for being so thorough in telling the entire main questline of Nehrim. I'm not sure if I'll ever get it to work on my laptop, but really wanted to know the story and literally no one was actually covering it (at least not in English?), and the wiki isn't very helpful. So I appreciate you for suffering what sounds like a nightmare of a game to get working in 2024 to provide both an entertaining but thoughtful video. I laughed at quite a few parts while still finding it to be respectful. Also that whole ending sequence was REALLY trippy and I was not expecting it, lol. It's interesting to try to figure out which parts were retconned in Enderal and which parts actually connect the two games.
this was great, probably my favorite video of yours i can't speak for everyone's setups because i don't know them, but if somebody's interested in trying the mod out i really can't recommend the steam port less, i've played through nehrim (no other mods) 3 times on my computer using the version on sureai's website and although there are dips in framerate around the prettier locations, none of my playthroughs were crashfests or had consistent stuttering (i use windows 10) the last time i tried to play nehrim was the day it got a steam release, no idea how long ago that was but at the time it failed miserably at being a convenient way to install the mod, which i think was supposed to be the main draw of the steam port i respect the effort though, even if it sucked, but the mod is really genuinely fun to go through and it'd be a shame to be put off by a scuffed installation experience, the website version provides its own installer that does the job perfectly at the cost of being slightly more intimidating if you've never downloaded and installed a mod outside of steam or the nexus's comparatively safer environments before (last i checked the installer was in german so you might need google translate to get through it assuming you can't read) but yeah, it was a genuine blast to finally watch a long, detailed english analysis of nehrim after being into it for almost 10 years, i honestly didn't believe something like this would ever come, thanks cotho
I loved Nehrim. The low magic was cool and the opening part where everyone yells at you in Dutch is cool. I didn't get very far due to a PC crash but maybe I ought to give it another run through.
Narathzul? Yea he's a baddie, a baddie that I will fully support, I would be souly in support of him and be the main villain of enderal. Man this is weird hearing AI, I just used the german and pictured it like Nehrim was speaking a different language then Enderal. Ye the oblivion battle scenes would look very janky in cinematic scenes. Ive not gotten to the end of Nehrim though I stopped in the desert because I don't remember the main story quest and they didn't give me a map marker rip.
Yeah, I can safely say the AI voice mod is just not very good. 😅 It'd be one thing if the dub was actually _good_ and listenable, but this is an unambiguous case of the sub being better than the dub.
I appreciate it for the sake of this video since I am usually doing other things while listening to long-form essays like this, and it's annoying having to jump back to see what the subtitles say... but I also found the AI voices to be jarring and awful. If I can get Nehrim to work someday, I am definitely going to be sticking with the original German. Would've been nice if the original project of actual English voice actors didn't fall through. I wonder what happened.
2:33:25 I'm probably gonna come across as ignorant and stupid here but....this is an Oblivion mod video made by a guy who made something called ''RUclips Poops'. I think we understand we're all not that serious. So I'm no political major or anything. No history in the study, just a guy who likes analysis, listens to a lot of political theory on RUclips and has had suffered from human's nature to ostrachize what is different and the resulting violent behavior that leaves behind. I'm also American so that's probably going to affect my views. I think Locke and Hobbes were both right, wrong only because of the absolutist view these philosophies have. I think if you plucked the average person out of the world and place them in an isolated place, they'll probably squabble and fight before setting ground rules and trying to just live. Not necessarily out of a desire to appease a higher power but because, as a cooperative species, we understand instinctively that peace and cooperation is the best path to survival. Yes, humans are selfish creatures. I mean, we literally can only view things from our own perspective. Our understanding of the world is built on how sight perceives the world as 'everything but me'. Thus the only thing we can be certain of is ourselves. But I feel like people often conflate 'selfish' with 'evil' when in reality it's a neutral thing. After all, the basic motivation we have to help other people is for our own self-satisfaction and so making most acts of kindness selfish in some way. And yet we can still make other people live better lives through our selfish acts by choosing to satisfy them in ways that satisfy and help other people. If this sounds familiar, congrats: you understand the basis of capitalism. Through providing a service to others, we obtain the means to satisfy our needs and wants. Because at the core of every civilization is cooperation and it is through cooperation that humans are both selfish and morally right. Trying to bring this back to the topic: the existence of a higher power isn't necessary. No, it's more like a convivence, born from thousands of years of humans trying to discover the best way to live with one another. Something that a species naturally inclined towards violence and purely selfish behavior wouldn't care about. These higher powers, whether they be the state or a divine power, are simply an easy justification for rules and standards that people discovered to be effective but would require immense effort from people to fully understand. Seeing as most people lived short, bitter lives- they wouldn't have the time nor energy to undergo such a process. Thus, a higher power is made to simplify the reasoning and just have people reap the benefits. A higher power is not necessary to reach where we are today- it just helped us get there this fast. To end this, I want to point out our current world. That is to say- we live in a world where fewer people than ever die from disease and starvation. We've reached a deeper understanding about existence than ever before. We have such great prosperity that someone like Cotho can spend his time talking about a modification to a 15 year old video game and not working to stave off starvation. Privilege upon privilege has been granted to us thanks to the hard work and sacrifice of those who came before us, who worked to make our lives better. Countries and empires have risen and fallen but each rise reaches higher and every fall lands higher. In the grand scheme of things, as a race of intelligent apes who have no guidance in how to navigate something as frightening as sentience- we've done a pretty damn good job. All through the continuous evolution of civilization. Yes we still fight and do dumb shit (look at nuclear bombs) but we wouldn't have hesitated to use such things a millennia ago. The first is proof Hobbes was right. And the second is proof Locke is right. After all, everything in nature lives and dies. Humanity in all respects is no different.
Very well thought opinion. When I said "Tyr was right" it was referring to a tyrant rising after the fall of the lightborn. IRL I agree that different communities during different times require different approaches to leadership. No one size fits all (though I do thing that Hobbes was the closest to reality of the 2). This did not come across as ignorant at all :)
a small video MY ARSE
The west has fallen
sarcasm has gone too far
billions must embrace post-irony
work is temporary. Cotho video is eternal
Wait so you’re going to wait to watch this until after work since it’s temporary and this video will be online for potentially an eternity?
"More on that later."
The motto theme of this whole video. 😂
Oh my god, FINALLY a longform video on Nehrim that actually covers the game's entire story! I'll be watching this in chunks but I am hype. Thanks so much for this.
That AI voic acting is Bethesda quality.....
Ivlove watching 3 hour videos about a game ill never play
This brings me great joy. Is there a chance this means you might cover some of the other big oblivion mods? I'd love to see some deep dives into knights of the nine revelations, or some of the other big lore mods out there.
Not in the immediate future, but maybe a little later down the line :)
Bro dropped before DaC0da
Well obviously. Knowing Vicn he's probably going to say "fuck it" halfway through DaC0da and go add some side content to Vigilant, scheduling DaC0da to be finished soon+2 weeks.
THANK MALPHAS YOU MADE A NEHRIM VIDEO... I finished playing Nehrim (with German VA) this past May, and was incredibly disappointed to find that there were basically no videos on RUclips that really analyzed the game. This video is a godsend, it's incredible, you caught most of the fun stuff that foreshadowed Enderal (my favorite being the Soulsmith book which totally blindsided me when I discovered it in-game, having played Enderal first)!!
I've been theorizing about Arkt being the previous Cycle's Shadowgod recently, and I think he was the intended recipient of the letter you find in the Aged Man's manor. I'm still a little confused about Arkt's role amidst all this... He says he was helped by a previous Shadowgod, but where are they, what did they do, how were they the Shadowgod? What makes Arkt a Shadowgod? Or is he just misinterpreting his role in the Cycle? The timelines don't really match up for him to be from the previous Cycle, but there are already lore inconsistencies between Nehrim and Enderal that are blatantly worse (Narathzul's imprisonment time being shortened from 1,000 years to 30 years...). If Arkt isn't the Shadowgod from the previous Cycle, is he a Shadowgod from a different reality, like the world you and Yuslan go to in Enderal during the "A Drop in the Ocean" quest? Arkt is the single most logic-defying piece of Vyn lore. Anyways, those're just my scattered thoughts, awesome video!!
(PS: Gabor Gaboff, the Southrealm fireworks guy, is IN ENDERAL! He's a shopkeep in Ark's Nobles Quarter :) He's also voiced by the original German VA, it's awesome)
Wow i am eating well today.
Yeah nerhim is peak when the story is not filled with confusing plotholes and its level design is at its strongest.
Anyway if sureAI ever makes an AA-game set in vyn, i believe it should be a remake/reinterpretation of nehrim.
It's a video longer than Apocalypse Now (1979) and I love it.
Okay I'm back because I just finished watching the whole video last night, and I have to say THANK YOU AGAIN for being so thorough in telling the entire main questline of Nehrim. I'm not sure if I'll ever get it to work on my laptop, but really wanted to know the story and literally no one was actually covering it (at least not in English?), and the wiki isn't very helpful. So I appreciate you for suffering what sounds like a nightmare of a game to get working in 2024 to provide both an entertaining but thoughtful video. I laughed at quite a few parts while still finding it to be respectful.
Also that whole ending sequence was REALLY trippy and I was not expecting it, lol. It's interesting to try to figure out which parts were retconned in Enderal and which parts actually connect the two games.
WE eatin good tonight!
this was great, probably my favorite video of yours
i can't speak for everyone's setups because i don't know them, but if somebody's interested in trying the mod out i really can't recommend the steam port less, i've played through nehrim (no other mods) 3 times on my computer using the version on sureai's website and although there are dips in framerate around the prettier locations, none of my playthroughs were crashfests or had consistent stuttering (i use windows 10)
the last time i tried to play nehrim was the day it got a steam release, no idea how long ago that was but at the time it failed miserably at being a convenient way to install the mod, which i think was supposed to be the main draw of the steam port
i respect the effort though, even if it sucked, but the mod is really genuinely fun to go through and it'd be a shame to be put off by a scuffed installation experience, the website version provides its own installer that does the job perfectly at the cost of being slightly more intimidating if you've never downloaded and installed a mod outside of steam or the nexus's comparatively safer environments before (last i checked the installer was in german so you might need google translate to get through it assuming you can't read)
but yeah, it was a genuine blast to finally watch a long, detailed english analysis of nehrim after being into it for almost 10 years, i honestly didn't believe something like this would ever come, thanks cotho
Didnt think I'd hear "permanent damage" this early in the Video XD
...okay fuck it, I didn't need that sleep anyway
Ah, good old Nehrim
i've been waiting for a video essay on nehrim for one milion years. thank you kind sir
how'd he make the nehrim video longer than the enderal video 😭😭
I loved Nehrim. The low magic was cool and the opening part where everyone yells at you in Dutch is cool. I didn't get very far due to a PC crash but maybe I ought to give it another run through.
Babe, new Cotho video just dropped. 🎉
Nehrim is just as great as enderal 🙌
Narathzul? Yea he's a baddie, a baddie that I will fully support, I would be souly in support of him and be the main villain of enderal. Man this is weird hearing AI, I just used the german and pictured it like Nehrim was speaking a different language then Enderal. Ye the oblivion battle scenes would look very janky in cinematic scenes. Ive not gotten to the end of Nehrim though I stopped in the desert because I don't remember the main story quest and they didn't give me a map marker rip.
Another example of Sean Bean dying, great. 😂
3 hours you madman! I love you.
Great video(s)!
Oh boy, here we go!
What do you call a Dwemer computer that uses a Mantela as the basis for its an operating system?
Shor Ai
another cotho w
yep. its all over my screen.
Cotho! Hi 👋
From: a fan
what accent is yours from???
Yeah, I was wondering that, too. lol
Khajiity (Khenarthi's Roost region). ie Southern Europe.
I don't think I have the power...
Sweet baby Jesus
Arktwend video when
13:12 why does the veiled woman look so different? Im guessing thats still skyrim
I am never touching this mod again it gave me a glitch similar to the title screen one you got and it permanently altered something in my files
Your German pronunciation wasn't actually that bad
Generic comment for the algorithm.
Yeah, I can safely say the AI voice mod is just not very good. 😅 It'd be one thing if the dub was actually _good_ and listenable, but this is an unambiguous case of the sub being better than the dub.
I appreciate it for the sake of this video since I am usually doing other things while listening to long-form essays like this, and it's annoying having to jump back to see what the subtitles say... but I also found the AI voices to be jarring and awful. If I can get Nehrim to work someday, I am definitely going to be sticking with the original German.
Would've been nice if the original project of actual English voice actors didn't fall through. I wonder what happened.
1:02:14
2:33:25 I'm probably gonna come across as ignorant and stupid here but....this is an Oblivion mod video made by a guy who made something called ''RUclips Poops'. I think we understand we're all not that serious.
So I'm no political major or anything. No history in the study, just a guy who likes analysis, listens to a lot of political theory on RUclips and has had suffered from human's nature to ostrachize what is different and the resulting violent behavior that leaves behind. I'm also American so that's probably going to affect my views.
I think Locke and Hobbes were both right, wrong only because of the absolutist view these philosophies have. I think if you plucked the average person out of the world and place them in an isolated place, they'll probably squabble and fight before setting ground rules and trying to just live. Not necessarily out of a desire to appease a higher power but because, as a cooperative species, we understand instinctively that peace and cooperation is the best path to survival.
Yes, humans are selfish creatures. I mean, we literally can only view things from our own perspective. Our understanding of the world is built on how sight perceives the world as 'everything but me'. Thus the only thing we can be certain of is ourselves. But I feel like people often conflate 'selfish' with 'evil' when in reality it's a neutral thing. After all, the basic motivation we have to help other people is for our own self-satisfaction and so making most acts of kindness selfish in some way. And yet we can still make other people live better lives through our selfish acts by choosing to satisfy them in ways that satisfy and help other people. If this sounds familiar, congrats: you understand the basis of capitalism. Through providing a service to others, we obtain the means to satisfy our needs and wants. Because at the core of every civilization is cooperation and it is through cooperation that humans are both selfish and morally right.
Trying to bring this back to the topic: the existence of a higher power isn't necessary. No, it's more like a convivence, born from thousands of years of humans trying to discover the best way to live with one another. Something that a species naturally inclined towards violence and purely selfish behavior wouldn't care about. These higher powers, whether they be the state or a divine power, are simply an easy justification for rules and standards that people discovered to be effective but would require immense effort from people to fully understand. Seeing as most people lived short, bitter lives- they wouldn't have the time nor energy to undergo such a process. Thus, a higher power is made to simplify the reasoning and just have people reap the benefits. A higher power is not necessary to reach where we are today- it just helped us get there this fast.
To end this, I want to point out our current world. That is to say- we live in a world where fewer people than ever die from disease and starvation. We've reached a deeper understanding about existence than ever before. We have such great prosperity that someone like Cotho can spend his time talking about a modification to a 15 year old video game and not working to stave off starvation. Privilege upon privilege has been granted to us thanks to the hard work and sacrifice of those who came before us, who worked to make our lives better. Countries and empires have risen and fallen but each rise reaches higher and every fall lands higher. In the grand scheme of things, as a race of intelligent apes who have no guidance in how to navigate something as frightening as sentience- we've done a pretty damn good job. All through the continuous evolution of civilization. Yes we still fight and do dumb shit (look at nuclear bombs) but we wouldn't have hesitated to use such things a millennia ago. The first is proof Hobbes was right. And the second is proof Locke is right.
After all, everything in nature lives and dies. Humanity in all respects is no different.
Very well thought opinion. When I said "Tyr was right" it was referring to a tyrant rising after the fall of the lightborn. IRL I agree that different communities during different times require different approaches to leadership. No one size fits all (though I do thing that Hobbes was the closest to reality of the 2). This did not come across as ignorant at all :)
@@cotho. Well...thanks for the compliment and for the time. Bit embarrassed that I missed that.
My body is ready