I swear, if normal glass was made of whatever the hell it's made of in these games we'd probably have a pretty significant drop of window-related issues
I dunno. In games it's either invincible adamantium glass or complete rice paper. Depends on if you are watching someone dying or throwing them through it
Polycarbonate is remarkably resilient & nearly impossible to shatter, even when paper thin, & is relatively cheap (I did my floor-to-ceiling family room windows for around $300 inc shipping & custom framing). When 3/4" thick, it's bulletproof, but still has the light transmission of glass (granted, we're talking pistols & resistance to single rifle shots rather than full automatic rifle/machine gun fire, but still)...and the very high cost would be nothing for a high security area. Just because something looks like glass doesn't mean it's glass.
Even worse when you're carrying around 99 phoenix feathers or whatever that can literally bring people back to life after they were chewed up by a machine and then exploded, so it's literally impossible to not save someone; but the writers want them dead so they're just dead. 😡
This trope has been used so many times, that now I want to see a game make the setup, but it is later in the game, when your character can break glass. Then there are two ways you can go: think that the glass cannot be broken because of the trope, don't try and watch the person die; or, realize your character is in fact strong enough to break the glass, do so, and save the person.
It would be even better if they play it straight the first time, but by the second time you've explicitly gotten strong enough to break the "reinforced" glass. Then the smirking bad guy gets up close, to taunt you. Then the QTE button appears. You can ignore it, but that just means your character grabs the bad guy after they turn away, to make it even more brutal.
I want one with a whole cut scene with in game graphics and perspective but that at the end of the cutscene before the death of the character you can shoot one more time to break the glass resulting in a 4th wall breaking cutscene.
I don't know if I would call Sophia Lamb's death a "tragedy", considering [SPOILER ALERT] she is the big baddie of Bioshock 2, mind-controlled you into shooting yourself in front of your daughter at the start of the game, tried to brainwash Eleanor for years, AND tried to smother her with a pillow when she refused to obey her ... oh, and the whole "trying to take over the world and end Human existence as we know it through some kind of assimiliation plot" thing, too. Sure, she IS some kind of mother figure to Eleanor, however twisted, but ... *suddenly remembers that her death is the prelude to Eleanor going full-throttle evil and being unleashed upon the surface world with superpowers and technology far ahead of the rest of the world* Oh, nevermind. I see it now.
Good point about that, but I think the ACTUAL moment the commenter in the first one was referring to was, in fact, Eleanor nearly being smothered because THAT happens behind glass too if I remember correctly, and I think the commenter just mixed up the names. It would make a LOT more sense because Eleanor is who Delta has been chasing this entire time, and you come SO CLOSE to reuniting -- and then Sophia pulls that, and the endgame starts with you learning you're inevitably going to die. Oof.
For casual Star Wars fans, probably Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II - Mysteries of the Sith, where *SPOILERS* To finally beat the otherwise unstoppable and Dark Side-corrupted Kyle "Forcedamned" Katarn in the endgame, you (as Mara Jade, future wife to Luke Skywalker in the Legends continuity) have to accept being one with the Force (in short, death) all while hoping that her corrupted Master snaps out of his Dark Side reverie and spare her... suffice to say, she succeeds. To lore veterans, such acceptance was already done by other characters such as Ulic Qel-Droma from the Tales of the Jedi comics, Obi-Wan Kenobi from Ep. IV, and even Cal Kestis during his final confrontation with the Jaro Tapal apparition in Dathomir from Jedi: Fallen Order, so it wasn't hard for them to figure it out.
I got to the end of a few games and had this the bioshock games (especially infinite) do big info dumps at the end of their games which made me go “wait what?!” And do a google to get a full explanation.
Ellen: “The opening of Transformers: Fall of Cybertron can be summed up in one word…” Me: “Loud? Because holy crap that was louder than the rest of the video.”
Yeah, that audio may have needed a rebalance there. I was playing something while listening so I couldn't turn it down, but it was like game audio went silent for that explosions and screaming montage XD
When he said that I literally LOL'd. I also absolutely appreciated Elena completely invalidating that entire "impotently palm slapping the glass" scene with a single small toolbox.
I would argue that Doomguy would rather try to save the lives of the humans, but in Eternal's DLC he literally resurrected Satan just so he could fight him, so I dunno.
Hey, remember in Control when you saw that guy with the Fridge? How he couldn't leave because if nobody looked at it the darn thing would do something horrible? If we were able to just break that pane of glass with our magic gun or psychic powers, we could've saved him from getting murdered by the thing inside the fridge.
Actually that's a great point, why was it necessary to walk around the corner, the place was already in chaos and the guy in charge of watching/containing the fridge never mentioned that a sealed room was an essential part of it's containment
There aren't many channels I hit like video unseen, but you guys deserve it. These theme lists are always great, puns, fun game memories, and a visit with the 5 of you. Thank you for all the hard work (and John and anyone else)
Ok, but in Bioshock they establish that some “glass” in the makeup of rapture is actually Rydanium - a clear steel-hard alloy used to withstand deep sea pressures.
@@peachesplums There’s only two times Rydanium is broken. Once by a Bouncer in 1960 on a random pane and again by a Big Sister near the beginning of 2. Delta never breaks it. Also, Sofia would probably have the highest quality in front of Eleanor’s room.
I’m sorry I just read that as Big Fucking Guy 9000 and now I must share that cause if I have to look like a giggling idiot in front of my family you have to as well.
@@Renge43 to be fair to you, it works that way too. The person wielding the BFG is fucking big and so much of a guy that it is in the name. The glass withstands him as well
I'm surpised no one has mentioned Julie Langford's death in Bioshock. You spend all that time helping her save Arcadia, only to watch her die on the other side of glass.
When (Bioshock Infinite spoilers) the rebel leader held a child hostage behind glass, I went ahead and resigned myself to how this was gonna go. Glad it didn’t happen that way.
I kinda want to see a scene where you look on helpless as something bad happens but then as the bad guys are leaving they lightly slam the door and the glass just falls out on it’s own. Or maybe the protagonist leans and bangs on the glass repeatedly and then as the baddie leaves the glass falls towards him revealing that him leaning on it was all that was holding it in place the whole time.
"What if kicking?" Sounds like the perfect name for Mike Channel's autobiography.🤔 Actually Bulletstorm seems like a game Mike would really like. This reminds me of that time Ellen kicked a bear in AC Odyssey and Mike kept talking to everyone about it like a proud Dad.😂
"On the one hand - the glass has to be super tough to deal with the high water pressure at the bottom of the sea. But on the other hand - IS A BIG DRILL..." It is this kind of writing that I adore you folks for!
Dead Space: Hammond's Death. A sequence plays out where a man is brutally torn apart behind a pain of glass. The monster responsible for said murder then breaks the glass and comes after you. Fun stuff!
And even later, Dr. Mercer kills Temple and Elizabeth (the logs of whom you've been finding throughout the ship like a second protagonist) right in front of you. And despite the fact you're carrying futuristic space tools that are either energy tools or could be as simple as saw blades with DIAMOND tips, you can't break the glass.
The unnamed scientist that was killed by the baby necromorph in the first Dead Space but also the girl that committed unalive- the exploding baby scene from the 2nd Dead Space... I'm sure there's more lmao.
The Darkness when Jackie's girlfriend is executed right in front of him. Granted, he is being restrained as well, but he still couldn't, you know, kick through it or anything either.
Man, they have that scene right before where they have like a nice night in together. I was young and kinda fell for her a bit, then that happened. It truly affected me. I didn't go back to the game for months and I didn't restart I just played from after that scene.
I've an idea for a list that I don't think you've done: 7 protagonists who look identical to more famous video game protagonists.... the name needs workshopping but I can already think of like 3 or 4
Now I want an alternate ending for a game where you in fact smash the glass, the bad guy looks in baffled astonishment and the game ends about 12 hours earlier.
"Man, that's dark! I remember the innocent days..." Clearly Ellen has never seen the original animated Transformers: The Movie, which includes onscreen planetary genocide, swearing, horrifying tentacled creatures running a Kafkaesque court in which innocent and guilty alike are sentenced to death, and the murder of several of your favorite toys, including Optimus Prime.
Possible at all to have a reverse video, "times when a pane of glass saved your life?" To be honest, I mainly have in mind skipping that cutscene on the bridge of The Pillar of Autumn during "The Maw" level in Halo 1 leaving the indestructible window display up front so that the approaching sentinels are much easier to deal with (very helpful on legendary).
For Bioshock 2, I get the feeling the OP was actually referring to Sophia suffocating Eleanor with a pillow just before the last level but got the names switched. Also I think you meant to call the entry "Sophia's Death". That really confused me.
Damn right, I was thinking am I the only one here who actually played this game? And given that your choices do influence the outcome, as noted, you *can* prevent any tragedy. So it doesn't fit at all.
Yeah, I was referring to the part where you find Eleanor on a bed in Persephone and enter a very flimsy-looking quarantine chamber that closes a glass door in front of and behind you. You can then only helplessly watch as Sophia suffocates Eleanor with a pillow to break the bond between you. A lot of comments about how you were weakened by a bomb, but this was before that in a part of the game where you just solo'd two big sisters at the same time, is fully decked out with gatlings n' guns n' grenades, and likely wielding every plasmid the game has to offer in their fully upgraded form (not to mention said power drill that we've seen go pretty deep into solid metal and also used to smash through barriers of concrete rubble). But shattering a door that was never meant to stop anything other than air? That's just asking too much.
The audio for the Transformers game after Ellen's first scene between timestamp 9:49-9:59 is extremely loud compared to the rest of the video. I had to scramble to lower the volume a lot because of how loud it is and because it hurt my ears (RIP anyone watching this with headphones on).
I want a game that gives you a glass gun that is almost useless outside of the fact that breaking random lanes of glass is fun. But then a scene like this comes, and your glass gun breaks right as you try to use it, just to make you feel pain. Or should I say, PANE
Imagine if all games had realistic destruction for everything, forget just breaking the glass you'd probably take an entire building (or even space station) down by 'accident'.
About the one where Pierce slowly walks into an elevator with a cell, I timed it, if Doomguy simply started running the instant he saw Olivia he would've caught up to her before she even got into the elevator, let alone before it closed, and with how frail she is, kill her in a single punch
Dead space has a lot of death scene behind glass. The most frustrating part behind the glass scene was in the first game when the main antagonists revealed herself and explain all of her plan. I wanted to shot her but couldn't because of glass.
Funny you should mention that - Seanbaby once noted, in one of his articles about Hanna-Barbera's Super Friends, that force fields were Superman's secret alternate weakness. Because if he ran into one, he'd spend the rest of the episode bonking against it and wondering aloud why it wasn't working. Supes was quite the forerunner, in a lot of ways.
Star Wars Republic Commando. In the Prosecutor campaign you're stuck behind glass not once, not twice, BUT THREE TIMES has you watch some poor clones get killed and even watch one of your team mates get jumped. 1. Right after you enter the ship you come across a lone trooper who is hiding on a walk way on the other side of the walkway you're on. Both of which are covered in windows. The poor trooper then gets jumped by a scavenger droid and killed while you watch helplessly. 2. A little later, after being attacked by a scavenger droid, he comes across the windowed hole in the floor. There he watches two more clone troopers charge something that is attacking them and seconds later watches as one of their heads rolls back into view. 3. A little later after that you met your teammate Sev. You watch him, from behind glass, attempt to retrieve data from one of the ship's data cores, but then gets jumped by a Trandoshon. He gets taken to a prison cell.
So the Bioshockone really confused me, as I knew Elanor doesn't die in the game. Then I thought "oh, the commenter is probably gonna talk about Sophia suffocating Elanor towards the end", and lo and behold I was right. Then Ellen starts talking about Sophia dying, and I ended up seriously confused, because 1. that wasn't what the commenter said, and 2. She's the last person we would want to save, so it's not really a tragedy? I dunno, I think there was some kind of miscommunication or misunderstanding on that section.
HASBRO: We'll spend 2 years giving all these characters distinct personalities so you grow to love them ALSO HASBRO: And now we're going to brutally, horrifically, kill them all to make you buy new toys. (I'm still not over what they did to Prowl)
I Metal Gear Rising Revenganc, While Raiden is in Mexico he reaches a desperado lab that has kids behind a pane of glass. But has to watch helplessly as the room is filled with gas that presumably kills them. Despite Raiden being able to cut everything.
Echoing those who have said "we're pretty sure the commenter in the first one meant the moment where SOPHIA tries to smother ELEANOR and accidentally got mother and daughter confused." You completely threw me there! That being said, it at least guarantees you have to do another one of these videos? :p
What about the opposite of this video theme: Awesome things you got to behold from behind panes of glass. Such as Jaro Topal in Jedi Fallen Order or Cayde-6's final spat of tech support in Destiny 2 Forsaken?
System Shock 2 has a number of scenes where you see NPCs die behind glass. There is even a scene where you watch two lovers run from a tumbler; while they do get away, they are in the sequel bait at the end that involves their death; if you could have saved them from the tumbler they would have lived.
We the viewer are stuck behind the glass of our computer/phone screens. ;) We cant tell you except typing on this keyboard, hoping our message will be seen.
It is physically impossible not to smile watching you guys. Hopefully oxbox will let you guys out from behind the glass. At least Luke had the christmas survival training.
In Mass Effect 2 while you're trying to get out of a space station (very beginning). It's not as gruesome as some other examples, but there are a few places where mechs kill people behind the glass.
I think the biggest tragedy of the Resistance example is that the characters in Grimsby all have inaccurate Southern-English accents instead of more accurate Northern ones XD *Shrug* Alternanate timeline, I suppose...? :P
Yay, finally a Transformers game in an OxBox list! \^^/ TBF the brand still does sell the plastic cr*p to impressionable children...And adults...*Glances at continually growing collection*
I had Ironhide back in the day. I use to think it funny he was a Transformer because he looked like a conversion van in his vehicle form. Wish I still had him.
@@coyoteartist there is a modern toy of his old design if you´re interested ( search studio series 86 ironhide ). The engineering on modern transformers is bonkers : they look like they jumped right out of the 80´ show !
Does it count if your character inexplicably doesn't act even without barriers? Like in Dragon's Dogma during the Seeking Salvation quest, where you just stand there while a cult leader summons some undead to kill his congregation and only kill the zombies once they've done eating people
Dragon's Dogma is full of that stuff to be fair, you can even accidentally wind up in a relationship with the landlord dude or the tiny dutchess(?), if they're the only ones you talked to..
My favorite is the drawn out death scenes where characters in said death scenes have healing magic. I fucking hated having to sit and watch Jessie die in cloud’s arms in FF7 remake and watch the camera zoom in on the healing materia imbedded in cloud’s buster sword as he just sits there and lets her bleed out
Will say I’m surprised that the dead space series ain’t on this, Issac in both 1 and 2 find survivors but seconds later a necromorph kills them, all because a single pane of glass stoping a plasma cutter
How about tragedies that could have been prevented but the glass that prevented you from heroing before wasn't installed here. Resulting in tragedy. Such as the glass window on on ONE section on the G.F.S. Olympus in Metroid Corruption. Were an explosion breaks the glass and sends soldiers flying out into space where as shooting the glass literally anywhere else on the ship prevents you from spacing your self. Or the glass on parts of the Sprawl in dead space 2. Most windows are super strong. Some can be broken resulting in Issac loosing a few limbs. Unlike all other glass planes that won't break even when a space ship crashes next to it.
More tragedies that happen behind glass? Oh my, I would say my Bachelor Thesis cause I'm doing my degree in Restoration and Conservation of Architectural Glass and Stained Glass windows, so all the tragedies happen in my live behind glass ^^
In TimeSplitters: Future Perfect, Sgt. Cortez and Harry Tipper are trapped behind impenetrable glass (not that they try to shoot it out in the cutscene) in a "green gas" chamber while the bad guy, Khallos, gets away and... the temporal uplink easily opens the door with the glass on it, turning off the green gas... Well... my point is that you can soon trap enemies in the same green gas glass room and actually kill them, making that level in TS3 the opposite of these impenetrable glass videos. lol Later on, history repeats itself and you can find a scientist and a zombie trapped behind separate, impenetrable glass windowed rooms and if you interact with a nearby computer, you can run different torture or death programs on these guys... and weirdly, unlike a later level where you can surgically torture helpless mutants to death, the helpful supporting character who talks to you from the future (your present), Anya, has no qualms about torturing the scientist. I mean, he did help the antagonist, Jacob Crow, carry out crazy, unethical experiments (The character bio for that version of Crow mentions him injecting stuff into cats' eyes for example.), but still. lol
Me - Glass! My only weakness! Sabrina from 'Prototype 2' - *Throws a grenade on her side of the glass.* Me - Boy, I thought I was the dumb one. Sure prove me wrong.
when i make a D&D campaign i'm gonna make glass not only unbreakable but as a rare material added to weapons to make them stronger. my party is gonna be wanting to destroy frames just so they can get their weapons stronger, its gonna be chaotic
There were several endings to Bioshock 2!? Man am I bloody predictable. I can't ever bring myself to harvest the kids so I always get the good endings. Oops.
There's a moment in Resident Evil Code Veronica X where Claire encounters a scientist trappee behind glass and he's fridged off by a Bandersnatch before she can help. I mean the guy is an Umbrella Scientist so is it really a tragedy foe him to become snackfood for a monster with the munchies. (Totally got that last line from thr Power Rangers Turbo movie.)
No mention of Sly Cooper? U somehow can't break the glass holding Carmelita in her prison nor break back out once Clockwerk has trapped u. Leaving Bentley to have to save u both by hacking
You guys forgot God of War 3, when Pandora gets stuck in a glass cube and Kratos who has killed titans and gods, has to solve a puzzle to break the glass.
84, Luke. :) And for a switch-up, one time the glass DIDN'T stop you: In Second Sight, the final boss tries to do his dirty work behind a pane of glass that is not only bulletproof, but resistant to the PCs telekinetic powers. Pity he never thought to psychic-proof the wall the glass was attached to. :)
There was that one scene in Batman: Arkham Knight where Oracle shot herself. All Batman could do is watch helplessly behind glass. But then we find that it was the fear toxin manipulating his brain and she was alive.
Neurotransmitters are chemicals not cells, and even if you *could* bioweld them you definitely shouldn’t because they need to be able to move to receptors and reuptake when there too many of them. Dunno where Doc learned to Doctor but it certainly wasn’t at an accredited Medical School.
Uhm, the bioshock 2 one was wrong, earlier in the game, before she becomes a big sister, you reach her "tomb/cell" and her mother shows up out of nowhere to kill her inorder to kill you.
What I want to know is when id and BlueTwelve are going to get together on a game in which we play the *DoomStrayer* and go around mewing and pouncing on demons.
I'm surprised the Darkness isn't on here, it forces you to watch your character's girlfriend be murdered in front of him and you're powerless to stop it. Poor Jenny 😔
I swear, if normal glass was made of whatever the hell it's made of in these games we'd probably have a pretty significant drop of window-related issues
I dunno. In games it's either invincible adamantium glass or complete rice paper. Depends on if you are watching someone dying or throwing them through it
Polycarbonate is remarkably resilient & nearly impossible to shatter, even when paper thin, & is relatively cheap (I did my floor-to-ceiling family room windows for around $300 inc shipping & custom framing). When 3/4" thick, it's bulletproof, but still has the light transmission of glass (granted, we're talking pistols & resistance to single rifle shots rather than full automatic rifle/machine gun fire, but still)...and the very high cost would be nothing for a high security area.
Just because something looks like glass doesn't mean it's glass.
It could be used to make those glass houses everyone keeps saying is a bad idea to have.
until you need to escape a gun man or fire and just bounce back into the danger trying to jump though a window.
@@darrienjones8917 But then you invite a Jimmy Hopkins to your doorstep!
The only thing worse than a preventable death happening because it’s behind glass is a preventable death happening because you’re stuck in a cutscene!
Or when the when try to save someone from a preventable death the enemy end up taking no damage
@@_Lullaby15 Why ya slinking off on me ynneL? :(
..or metal gear rising. where it's both.
Even worse when you're carrying around 99 phoenix feathers or whatever that can literally bring people back to life after they were chewed up by a machine and then exploded, so it's literally impossible to not save someone; but the writers want them dead so they're just dead. 😡
The "preventable death happening because it's behind glass" is pretty much just a slightly interactive cutscene.
I humbly suggest "Times you were told exactly who the big bad evil is and didn't realize it"
I kinda wanna see what randoms we can come up with here... I feel like I've never seen it...
Wait, would Ratchet and Clank count with Captain Quark?
Mega Man six. Mr. X, my butt.
This trope has been used so many times, that now I want to see a game make the setup, but it is later in the game, when your character can break glass. Then there are two ways you can go: think that the glass cannot be broken because of the trope, don't try and watch the person die; or, realize your character is in fact strong enough to break the glass, do so, and save the person.
was just about to posit this
It would be even better if they play it straight the first time, but by the second time you've explicitly gotten strong enough to break the "reinforced" glass. Then the smirking bad guy gets up close, to taunt you.
Then the QTE button appears.
You can ignore it, but that just means your character grabs the bad guy after they turn away, to make it even more brutal.
I want one with a whole cut scene with in game graphics and perspective but that at the end of the cutscene before the death of the character you can shoot one more time to break the glass resulting in a 4th wall breaking cutscene.
The DOOM guy kinda does this in DOOM 2016 when he just starts breaking shit despite being told he can't
I think mass effect did that at some point
If you guys ever do another "Embarrassing Achievements" video, I found one in Prey when I accidentally recycled myself.
I think they did that one in one of their lists
@@seand7042 Oh, maybe I missed it lol. I only saw when they got "No Show" for dying by the helicopter blades.
@@2013Fangirl you've turn into a bunch of packets of items right?
@@seand7042 no. I'm playing a non mimic playthrough. I threw a recycler at a Phantom and didn't realize I was in the blast zone lmao.
there's one in Deep Rock Galactic where you throw yourself at a flaming hoop while drunk. It's called "Darwin Award". Best achievement ever.
I don't know if I would call Sophia Lamb's death a "tragedy", considering [SPOILER ALERT] she is the big baddie of Bioshock 2, mind-controlled you into shooting yourself in front of your daughter at the start of the game, tried to brainwash Eleanor for years, AND tried to smother her with a pillow when she refused to obey her ... oh, and the whole "trying to take over the world and end Human existence as we know it through some kind of assimiliation plot" thing, too. Sure, she IS some kind of mother figure to Eleanor, however twisted, but ...
*suddenly remembers that her death is the prelude to Eleanor going full-throttle evil and being unleashed upon the surface world with superpowers and technology far ahead of the rest of the world*
Oh, nevermind. I see it now.
Good point about that, but I think the ACTUAL moment the commenter in the first one was referring to was, in fact, Eleanor nearly being smothered because THAT happens behind glass too if I remember correctly, and I think the commenter just mixed up the names. It would make a LOT more sense because Eleanor is who Delta has been chasing this entire time, and you come SO CLOSE to reuniting -- and then Sophia pulls that, and the endgame starts with you learning you're inevitably going to die. Oof.
Shades of grey my man
7 game endings that made us google the ending for an explanation.
I like this idea, but it would be very subjective, opening themselves up to comments like "That ending was obvious. What are you, morons?" etc.
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Soulsborne lore nerds
Every Playdead game
For casual Star Wars fans, probably Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II - Mysteries of the Sith, where *SPOILERS*
To finally beat the otherwise unstoppable and Dark Side-corrupted Kyle "Forcedamned" Katarn in the endgame, you (as Mara Jade, future wife to Luke Skywalker in the Legends continuity) have to accept being one with the Force (in short, death) all while hoping that her corrupted Master snaps out of his Dark Side reverie and spare her... suffice to say, she succeeds.
To lore veterans, such acceptance was already done by other characters such as Ulic Qel-Droma from the Tales of the Jedi comics, Obi-Wan Kenobi from Ep. IV, and even Cal Kestis during his final confrontation with the Jaro Tapal apparition in Dathomir from Jedi: Fallen Order, so it wasn't hard for them to figure it out.
I got to the end of a few games and had this the bioshock games (especially infinite) do big info dumps at the end of their games which made me go “wait what?!” And do a google to get a full explanation.
Surprised you didn't mention Arkham Knight, when Scarecrow captures Oracle while imaginary Joker mocks your inability to break glass
Or Arkham origins when lobe is gassed
5:34 Ellen saying "In Doom ... you play Doom guy" with a straight face is one of the best deliveries ever.
I remember one quote from Jane, concerning hammers and "peening balls", I about fell off the couch laughing!!!
I mean, you do play as Doomguy though..
That is his canonical name though
@@mx2000 I believe his official title is Sir Remington L. Doomguy III, esq.
Especially when you actually play Link
Ellen: “The opening of Transformers: Fall of Cybertron can be summed up in one word…”
Me: “Loud? Because holy crap that was louder than the rest of the video.”
Yeah, that audio may have needed a rebalance there. I was playing something while listening so I couldn't turn it down, but it was like game audio went silent for that explosions and screaming montage XD
Still a great game though, alongside War for Cybertron.
Wish they get out of licensing issues hell nowadays.
yeah, she said something about "aaaahhh" and i was like "yup, 'AAAHHH' was def what i was saying as the volume stabbed me in the ears"
I expected either chaos or explosion
"Nate you have to marry this woman." I know Luke knows but that doesn't make it any less funny to me.
When he said that I literally LOL'd. I also absolutely appreciated Elena completely invalidating that entire "impotently palm slapping the glass" scene with a single small toolbox.
We all know Nate married her *because* he saw what she did to that glass.
"selling plastic crap to impressionable children" hits different just after my daughter opened all her paw patrol toys 😂😂
May we have a moment of silence for the people that died behind glass edit thanks for the 100 likes
Yes, let us raise our glasses in their honour.
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I think DoomGuy secretly kept letting her get away so he didn't run out of demons to killerize
"eh i'll need more of them to rip and tear later i'll let her go for now.........than later rip and tear!"
I would argue that Doomguy would rather try to save the lives of the humans, but in Eternal's DLC he literally resurrected Satan just so he could fight him, so I dunno.
They should just make your final armor upgrade out of that glass, clearly it's indestructible!
Elder Scrolls comes close with their Light class Glass Armor.
YES!
Hey, remember in Control when you saw that guy with the Fridge? How he couldn't leave because if nobody looked at it the darn thing would do something horrible? If we were able to just break that pane of glass with our magic gun or psychic powers, we could've saved him from getting murdered by the thing inside the fridge.
Weird Al: 🎵🎶"......livin' in the fridge!!!....."🎶🎵
the worst part being that you disable the effect of the fridge only a moment later....
rip poor Philip. he never did like fridge duty
Actually that's a great point, why was it necessary to walk around the corner, the place was already in chaos and the guy in charge of watching/containing the fridge never mentioned that a sealed room was an essential part of it's containment
you wanna release a fridge version of SCP-173...I though so
There aren't many channels I hit like video unseen, but you guys deserve it. These theme lists are always great, puns, fun game memories, and a visit with the 5 of you. Thank you for all the hard work (and John and anyone else)
Ok, but in Bioshock they establish that some “glass” in the makeup of rapture is actually Rydanium - a clear steel-hard alloy used to withstand deep sea pressures.
but as they showed, big daddies can break it, and you play as one
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Maybe only the outside glass?
@@peachesplums There’s only two times Rydanium is broken. Once by a Bouncer in 1960 on a random pane and again by a Big Sister near the beginning of 2. Delta never breaks it. Also, Sofia would probably have the highest quality in front of Eleanor’s room.
Ok but heat me out DRILL ARM
My man, whose side are you on? 😂
Nothing wrong with dying in Grimsby, it's preferable to the alternative of living there.
I'm really curious to know how a bunch of scientists managed to create glass that's able to withstand a BFG 9000
I’m sorry I just read that as Big Fucking Guy 9000 and now I must share that cause if I have to look like a giggling idiot in front of my family you have to as well.
@@Renge43 I did too! 😂
@@Renge43 to be fair to you, it works that way too. The person wielding the BFG is fucking big and so much of a guy that it is in the name. The glass withstands him as well
By making it transparent.
To be fair, both parts in the video are before you get the BFG.
I love how Metal Gear Rising subverts this trope twice over in one scene. That game has so much to say about games while still being *such* a game.
I'm surpised no one has mentioned Julie Langford's death in Bioshock. You spend all that time helping her save Arcadia, only to watch her die on the other side of glass.
The number of tragedies behind glass in the Bioshock series could fill a list video.
@@Leith_Crowther oh absolutely. Bioshock and invincible glass go hand in hand.
When (Bioshock Infinite spoilers) the rebel leader held a child hostage behind glass, I went ahead and resigned myself to how this was gonna go. Glad it didn’t happen that way.
@@Leith_Crowther Daisy.
I kinda want to see a scene where you look on helpless as something bad happens but then as the bad guys are leaving they lightly slam the door and the glass just falls out on it’s own.
Or maybe the protagonist leans and bangs on the glass repeatedly and then as the baddie leaves the glass falls towards him revealing that him leaning on it was all that was holding it in place the whole time.
"What if kicking?" Sounds like the perfect name for Mike Channel's autobiography.🤔
Actually Bulletstorm seems like a game Mike would really like.
This reminds me of that time Ellen kicked a bear in AC Odyssey and Mike kept talking to everyone about it like a proud Dad.😂
"That's my Ellen. She kicked a bear. What? That bear was your boy? Well..."
I assume Dark Messiah of Might and Magic gets its own chapter.
Remember in SpongeBob when Patrick and sandy were talking about kicking, that’s where my brain went when I heard this
"On the one hand - the glass has to be super tough to deal with the high water pressure at the bottom of the sea. But on the other hand - IS A BIG DRILL..."
It is this kind of writing that I adore you folks for!
“Oh no, I can’t possibly cut through glass” -Raiden, Metal Gear Rising Revengeance but Summarized Incorrectly
Dead Space: Hammond's Death. A sequence plays out where a man is brutally torn apart behind a pain of glass. The monster responsible for said murder then breaks the glass and comes after you. Fun stuff!
And even later, Dr. Mercer kills Temple and Elizabeth (the logs of whom you've been finding throughout the ship like a second protagonist) right in front of you. And despite the fact you're carrying futuristic space tools that are either energy tools or could be as simple as saw blades with DIAMOND tips, you can't break the glass.
Dead Space 2, where the exploding baby blows up its mother in the school.
@@Jakespeed207 Yea, turns out Dead Space loves the "behind the glass" mechanic. lol
The unnamed scientist that was killed by the baby necromorph in the first Dead Space but also the girl that committed unalive- the exploding baby scene from the 2nd Dead Space... I'm sure there's more lmao.
@@harmonixdraws5298 Oh good call, I totally forgot that one. Could make an entire video on Dead Space deaths behind glass. :D
2. In Bulletstorm you play a kick ass character not a kick glass one...
You've known her for 5 years Luke, of course she had to do the glass bit 😁
The foley for the glass banging was so good. A+ editing.
The Darkness when Jackie's girlfriend is executed right in front of him. Granted, he is being restrained as well, but he still couldn't, you know, kick through it or anything either.
Poor Jenny, I was thinking of this scene, too 😢 curse you, glass!
Man, they have that scene right before where they have like a nice night in together. I was young and kinda fell for her a bit, then that happened. It truly affected me. I didn't go back to the game for months and I didn't restart I just played from after that scene.
I've an idea for a list that I don't think you've done: 7 protagonists who look identical to more famous video game protagonists.... the name needs workshopping but I can already think of like 3 or 4
That list would be exclusively filled with Anime characters.
Now I want an alternate ending for a game where you in fact smash the glass, the bad guy looks in baffled astonishment and the game ends about 12 hours earlier.
"Man, that's dark! I remember the innocent days..."
Clearly Ellen has never seen the original animated Transformers: The Movie, which includes onscreen planetary genocide, swearing, horrifying tentacled creatures running a Kafkaesque court in which innocent and guilty alike are sentenced to death, and the murder of several of your favorite toys, including Optimus Prime.
Additionally, to be perfectly honest, Starscream has always been portrayed as an asshole. Sometimes moreso than Megatron.
“Megatron? Is that you?”
“Here’s a hint.” (blam!)
Kid's stuff becoming all too dark = masterpiece.
Not to mention the time the Decepticons tossed all of their wounded into the vaccum of space.
@@Lionfire42 "Wa...it! I...still...function!"
"Wanna bet?" *kicks into space*
Possible at all to have a reverse video, "times when a pane of glass saved your life?" To be honest, I mainly have in mind skipping that cutscene on the bridge of The Pillar of Autumn during "The Maw" level in Halo 1 leaving the indestructible window display up front so that the approaching sentinels are much easier to deal with (very helpful on legendary).
When Ellen talks about the innocent times of the transformers franchise I was expecting a cut the the Instruments of Destruction scene from the movie.
Or the death of Optimus Prime
Nobody tell Ellen about the first Transformers movie… we must protect her innocence
Ah yes, with Optimus 'Give Me Your Face' Prime XD
@@AdamusPrime24 no the 1986 movie where pretty much every first year autobot die in a violent fashion (like melted from the inside for exemple XD)
@@julienthijs1271 Oh yes! Forgot about that one XD I remember first watching it and thinking 'yay there's RatchetOHNEVERMIND' XD
Wow, surprised you didn't have the biggest one for me which is in The Darkness. I got so emotionally attached to Jenny and then... Noooooo....
They had that on one of their previous lists for this topic.
it wasnt so much the glass that stopped us from saving Jenny as the demon that possessed us
Excuse me, but Ellen doing the bit behind the glass at the end was the best part!
For Bioshock 2, I get the feeling the OP was actually referring to Sophia suffocating Eleanor with a pillow just before the last level but got the names switched. Also I think you meant to call the entry "Sophia's Death". That really confused me.
Damn right, I was thinking am I the only one here who actually played this game? And given that your choices do influence the outcome, as noted, you *can* prevent any tragedy. So it doesn't fit at all.
Yeah, I was referring to the part where you find Eleanor on a bed in Persephone and enter a very flimsy-looking quarantine chamber that closes a glass door in front of and behind you. You can then only helplessly watch as Sophia suffocates Eleanor with a pillow to break the bond between you.
A lot of comments about how you were weakened by a bomb, but this was before that in a part of the game where you just solo'd two big sisters at the same time, is fully decked out with gatlings n' guns n' grenades, and likely wielding every plasmid the game has to offer in their fully upgraded form (not to mention said power drill that we've seen go pretty deep into solid metal and also used to smash through barriers of concrete rubble).
But shattering a door that was never meant to stop anything other than air? That's just asking too much.
Yay, the return of Ellen! She was gone for some episodes, I missed her
Curse you inconveniently placed glass windows!!
The audio for the Transformers game after Ellen's first scene between timestamp 9:49-9:59 is extremely loud compared to the rest of the video. I had to scramble to lower the volume a lot because of how loud it is and because it hurt my ears (RIP anyone watching this with headphones on).
I guess it´s for the bit cause it´s not THAT loud in the actual levels
Whoever edited this one, amazing job with the foley at the end there!
Yeah, they frelled up during a Doomguy part, too.
I want a game that gives you a glass gun that is almost useless outside of the fact that breaking random lanes of glass is fun. But then a scene like this comes, and your glass gun breaks right as you try to use it, just to make you feel pain. Or should I say, PANE
9:29 Nate and Elena are the best video game couple of all time
Imagine if all games had realistic destruction for everything, forget just breaking the glass you'd probably take an entire building (or even space station) down by 'accident'.
About the one where Pierce slowly walks into an elevator with a cell, I timed it, if Doomguy simply started running the instant he saw Olivia he would've caught up to her before she even got into the elevator, let alone before it closed, and with how frail she is, kill her in a single punch
Dead space has a lot of death scene behind glass. The most frustrating part behind the glass scene was in the first game when the main antagonists revealed herself and explain all of her plan. I wanted to shot her but couldn't because of glass.
Apparently, every single video game MC's Kryptonite is glass. Who knew?
Funny you should mention that - Seanbaby once noted, in one of his articles about Hanna-Barbera's Super Friends, that force fields were Superman's secret alternate weakness. Because if he ran into one, he'd spend the rest of the episode bonking against it and wondering aloud why it wasn't working. Supes was quite the forerunner, in a lot of ways.
Star Wars Republic Commando. In the Prosecutor campaign you're stuck behind glass not once, not twice, BUT THREE TIMES has you watch some poor clones get killed and even watch one of your team mates get jumped.
1. Right after you enter the ship you come across a lone trooper who is hiding on a walk way on the other side of the walkway you're on. Both of which are covered in windows. The poor trooper then gets jumped by a scavenger droid and killed while you watch helplessly.
2. A little later, after being attacked by a scavenger droid, he comes across the windowed hole in the floor. There he watches two more clone troopers charge something that is attacking them and seconds later watches as one of their heads rolls back into view.
3. A little later after that you met your teammate Sev. You watch him, from behind glass, attempt to retrieve data from one of the ship's data cores, but then gets jumped by a Trandoshon. He gets taken to a prison cell.
So the Bioshockone really confused me, as I knew Elanor doesn't die in the game. Then I thought "oh, the commenter is probably gonna talk about Sophia suffocating Elanor towards the end", and lo and behold I was right. Then Ellen starts talking about Sophia dying, and I ended up seriously confused, because 1. that wasn't what the commenter said, and 2. She's the last person we would want to save, so it's not really a tragedy? I dunno, I think there was some kind of miscommunication or misunderstanding on that section.
Did, did Ellen ever see the 86' Transformers movie? Because that one was messy.
and was all about selling plastic
@@archonfett Yes, yes it was.
HASBRO: We'll spend 2 years giving all these characters distinct personalities so you grow to love them
ALSO HASBRO: And now we're going to brutally, horrifically, kill them all to make you buy new toys.
(I'm still not over what they did to Prowl)
@@matthewmedlyn9087 I can tell that you didn't get over what happened to Prowl. As I said, it was messy.
I Metal Gear Rising Revenganc, While Raiden is in Mexico he reaches a desperado lab that has kids behind a pane of glass. But has to watch helplessly as the room is filled with gas that presumably kills them. Despite Raiden being able to cut everything.
Echoing those who have said "we're pretty sure the commenter in the first one meant the moment where SOPHIA tries to smother ELEANOR and accidentally got mother and daughter confused." You completely threw me there! That being said, it at least guarantees you have to do another one of these videos? :p
I say this every time it comes up... "It was just one little sister... "
Glad your finally saying it too;
"Nate, you have to marry this woman."
He does! 😁
What about the opposite of this video theme:
Awesome things you got to behold from behind panes of glass.
Such as Jaro Topal in Jedi Fallen Order or Cayde-6's final spat of tech support in Destiny 2 Forsaken?
Cayde-6: **Furious button pressing**
System Shock 2 has a number of scenes where you see NPCs die behind glass. There is even a scene where you watch two lovers run from a tumbler; while they do get away, they are in the sequel bait at the end that involves their death; if you could have saved them from the tumbler they would have lived.
I don’t know why anyone would’ve expected Optimus to break through glass when the episode BOT shows Autobots can’t break down a wooden door
For an inverse of this, the only thing keeping the deadly radiation from Project Purity from killing you in Fallout 3 is a pane of glass.
Today on Outside Xtra, we answer the age old question: how many pains does it take to get in a world of hurt?
About 2 would do it, apparently.
So shouldn't the first one be labeled "Sofia's Death" and not "Eleanor's Death?"
In Modern Warfare(2019), on the level titled “The Embassy”, a man named the butcher shoots a child and his dad in front of you behind glass.
Technically the Egg Room and all list videos happens behind a glass window (of a phone, monitor etc). It’s a thinker
We the viewer are stuck behind the glass of our computer/phone screens. ;) We cant tell you except typing on this keyboard, hoping our message will be seen.
wE lIvE iN a SoCiEtY 😆
@@LacroixboiMarx There is no war in Ba Sing Se.
It is physically impossible not to smile watching you guys.
Hopefully oxbox will let you guys out from behind the glass. At least Luke had the christmas survival training.
In Mass Effect 2 while you're trying to get out of a space station (very beginning). It's not as gruesome as some other examples, but there are a few places where mechs kill people behind the glass.
Yeah but they were Cerberus agents so…..
I think the biggest tragedy of the Resistance example is that the characters in Grimsby all have inaccurate Southern-English accents instead of more accurate Northern ones XD *Shrug* Alternanate timeline, I suppose...? :P
Yay, finally a Transformers game in an OxBox list! \^^/
TBF the brand still does sell the plastic cr*p to impressionable children...And adults...*Glances at continually growing collection*
XD it´s okay ! We are doing normal adult things ! (Plus pretty certain they love pokemon so ...)
I had Ironhide back in the day. I use to think it funny he was a Transformer because he looked like a conversion van in his vehicle form. Wish I still had him.
@@coyoteartist there is a modern toy of his old design if you´re interested ( search studio series 86 ironhide ). The engineering on modern transformers is bonkers : they look like they jumped right out of the 80´ show !
@@julienthijs1271 Cool. I'll look that up.
Does it count if your character inexplicably doesn't act even without barriers? Like in Dragon's Dogma during the Seeking Salvation quest, where you just stand there while a cult leader summons some undead to kill his congregation and only kill the zombies once they've done eating people
Dragon's Dogma is full of that stuff to be fair, you can even accidentally wind up in a relationship with the landlord dude or the tiny dutchess(?), if they're the only ones you talked to..
My favorite is the drawn out death scenes where characters in said death scenes have healing magic. I fucking hated having to sit and watch Jessie die in cloud’s arms in FF7 remake and watch the camera zoom in on the healing materia imbedded in cloud’s buster sword as he just sits there and lets her bleed out
Will say I’m surprised that the dead space series ain’t on this, Issac in both 1 and 2 find survivors but seconds later a necromorph kills them, all because a single pane of glass stoping a plasma cutter
I think at least one was on one of the earlier chapters of this list
How about tragedies that could have been prevented but the glass that prevented you from heroing before wasn't installed here. Resulting in tragedy.
Such as the glass window on on ONE section on the G.F.S. Olympus in Metroid Corruption. Were an explosion breaks the glass and sends soldiers flying out into space where as shooting the glass literally anywhere else on the ship prevents you from spacing your self.
Or the glass on parts of the Sprawl in dead space 2. Most windows are super strong. Some can be broken resulting in Issac loosing a few limbs. Unlike all other glass planes that won't break even when a space ship crashes next to it.
The “death” of Barbara Gordon in Batman: Arkham Knight
More tragedies that happen behind glass? Oh my, I would say my Bachelor Thesis cause I'm doing my degree in Restoration and Conservation of Architectural Glass and Stained Glass windows, so all the tragedies happen in my live behind glass ^^
In TimeSplitters: Future Perfect, Sgt. Cortez and Harry Tipper are trapped behind impenetrable glass (not that they try to shoot it out in the cutscene) in a "green gas" chamber while the bad guy, Khallos, gets away and... the temporal uplink easily opens the door with the glass on it, turning off the green gas...
Well... my point is that you can soon trap enemies in the same green gas glass room and actually kill them, making that level in TS3 the opposite of these impenetrable glass videos. lol
Later on, history repeats itself and you can find a scientist and a zombie trapped behind separate, impenetrable glass windowed rooms and if you interact with a nearby computer, you can run different torture or death programs on these guys... and weirdly, unlike a later level where you can surgically torture helpless mutants to death, the helpful supporting character who talks to you from the future (your present), Anya, has no qualms about torturing the scientist. I mean, he did help the antagonist, Jacob Crow, carry out crazy, unethical experiments (The character bio for that version of Crow mentions him injecting stuff into cats' eyes for example.), but still. lol
Me - Glass! My only weakness!
Sabrina from 'Prototype 2' - *Throws a grenade on her side of the glass.*
Me - Boy, I thought I was the dumb one. Sure prove me wrong.
when i make a D&D campaign i'm gonna make glass not only unbreakable but as a rare material added to weapons to make them stronger. my party is gonna be wanting to destroy frames just so they can get their weapons stronger, its gonna be chaotic
There were several endings to Bioshock 2!? Man am I bloody predictable. I can't ever bring myself to harvest the kids so I always get the good endings. Oops.
There's a moment in Resident Evil Code Veronica X where Claire encounters a scientist trappee behind glass and he's fridged off by a Bandersnatch before she can help. I mean the guy is an Umbrella Scientist so is it really a tragedy foe him to become snackfood for a monster with the munchies. (Totally got that last line from thr Power Rangers Turbo movie.)
No mention of Sly Cooper? U somehow can't break the glass holding Carmelita in her prison nor break back out once Clockwerk has trapped u. Leaving Bentley to have to save u both by hacking
13:50, captured and infected, so we were put in a cage til they could infect us.
Resistance: sponsored by the Department of Redundancy Department.
How about tragedies you couldn't prevent because you forgot you had a sniper rifle (or, often, just any gun), magic, or super powers.
So close to 1M! Been here since day one and they deserve it.
12×7 is easy. Break down into (10×7)+(2×7) you already innately know those answers then combine.
Seems like Bulletstorm should have been called “Feet of Fury”! 🤣🤣🤣
You guys forgot God of War 3, when Pandora gets stuck in a glass cube and Kratos who has killed titans and gods, has to solve a puzzle to break the glass.
84, Luke. :)
And for a switch-up, one time the glass DIDN'T stop you: In Second Sight, the final boss tries to do his dirty work behind a pane of glass that is not only bulletproof, but resistant to the PCs telekinetic powers. Pity he never thought to psychic-proof the wall the glass was attached to. :)
There was that one scene in Batman: Arkham Knight where Oracle shot herself. All Batman could do is watch helplessly behind glass.
But then we find that it was the fear toxin manipulating his brain and she was alive.
Neurotransmitters are chemicals not cells, and even if you *could* bioweld them you definitely shouldn’t because they need to be able to move to receptors and reuptake when there too many of them. Dunno where Doc learned to Doctor but it certainly wasn’t at an accredited Medical School.
Uhm, the bioshock 2 one was wrong, earlier in the game, before she becomes a big sister, you reach her "tomb/cell" and her mother shows up out of nowhere to kill her inorder to kill you.
What about in the Darkness where yoy have these awesome devil super powers but are stuck behind glass and are helpless watching your girlfriend die
What I want to know is when id and BlueTwelve are going to get together on a game in which we play the *DoomStrayer* and go around mewing and pouncing on demons.
In the doom 2016 is actually doom guy letting her do it because doom guy wants to kill more demons.
What about Fallout 4? In the beginning where your spouse is killed by Kellogg?
He goes "Nate, you have to marry this woman!" have you played uncharted 4? No hate 👍
Lol the resistance clip. "We were captured and infected, so we got put into pens until they could infect us"
What?
I'm surprised the Darkness isn't on here, it forces you to watch your character's girlfriend be murdered in front of him and you're powerless to stop it. Poor Jenny 😔
I think the Doom one is a little understandable, because Doomguy wanted to get back to Hell so he could kill more demons.
Call of duty Modern Warfare 2019 - The Embassy - Were the dad and son die