The Engineer's speech at the end of the game is one of the most powerful pieces of voice acting. The gentleman who recorded this put every ounce of his character into that delivery and it resonates with you. The imagery alone is hauntingly poetic and the music is excellent. Truly the best part of the game.
I have stood knee-deep in mud and bone and filled my lungs with mustard gas! I have seen two brothers fall. I have lain with holy wars and copulated with the autumnal fallout! I have dug trenches for the refugees. I have murdered dissidents where the ground never thaws and starved the masses into faith! A child's shadow burnt into the brickwork! A house of skulls in the jungle. The innocent! The innocent Madnus, have trod and bled and gassed and starved and beaten and murdered and enslaved! This is your coming century! They will eat them Madnus! They will make pigs of you all and they will bury their snouts into your ribs and they will eat your hearts!
Moloch whose mind is pure machinery! Moloch whose blood is running money! Moloch whose fingers are ten armies! Moloch whose breast is a cannibal dynamo! Moloch whose ear is a smoking tomb! Moloch whose eyes are a thousand blind windows! Moloch whose skyscrapers stand in the long streets like endless Jehovahs! Moloch whose factories dream and croak in the fog! Moloch whose smoke-stacks and antennae crown the cities! Moloch whose love is endless oil and stone! Moloch whose soul is electricity and banks! Moloch whose poverty is the specter of genius! Moloch whose fate is a cloud of sexless hydrogen! Moloch whose name is the Mind!
"and I personally find it to be one of the most powerful speeches in the game" Sir... I personally find it to be one of the most powerful speeches in gaming history!
Loved this part at the end. You spend the whole game wondering what the hell happened to make Mandus so irredeemably insane and I was sure it would never get explained. And then you get this perfect speech and suddenly you can begin to comprehend just the sheer horror of what he witnessed when he touched that orb. He became a genocidal maniac and yet I almost felt sorry for him! Not to mention it sounds like he actually EXPERIENCED all these horrors from the first person, from every possible view point. Terrifying.
@@coolcat6103 Mostly words that have nothing to do with one another. Cement comes from a Latin word meaning "quarry stone" while cemetery is related to an ancient Greek word for a place where people sleep. Mortar comes from the Latin word mortarium, a container, while mortuary is from the Latin mortuus, "dead." Gravel and grave do share a word in the Old English word "grafen" which is "to dig." Morning and mourning have nothing to do with each other at all (two different German roots, respectively moegen and murnan), alarm comes from a French phrase meaning "to arms" and if anything the "frighten" meaning came later, and undertake started out as a word meaning to do any job, with the "funeral-undertaker" being the the carpenter or furniture-maker who undertook the task of making the coffin.
+Squalington Constantine If one expected another Amnesia, he might be disappointed; but this is an amazing story-focused game in my opinion. :) very deep, makes you think.
My applause to Mark Ruper (A Machine voice actor) He just perfectly played this scene. But without music ... this scene would not be so strong. But without the scriptwriters ... in general, everyone tried to make this scene perfect.
It isnt just that the music is good, its that it's mixed PERFECTLY. The chord progression at "and they will bury" lines up so perfectly with the delivery of the words that when he finishes the monologue with the end of that sentence it makes it feel like the strings that continue are continuing his thought. It's such an elevated piece
@@tabula_rosa exactly! Jessica Curry is a master of such things. She did something similar with everybody's gone to the rapture, what a splendid score it is.
It's nothing without the music...but I agree. This game wasn't scary...but the most POWERFUL STORY I have encountered! There will never bee another better game than this!
***** Well, I haven't really played the game (more rather than the games you've listed), all I did was watch PewDiePie play it, but once I get the game(s), I'll see what I can do...
TheAllSeeingEye Not really but I’ve always found it really effective. Like how Mandus killed his own 2 children, now he’s killing a third. Even though the machine was designed for evil, he still created it and it’s his child, the third that he’s murdered
@@gavinj1456 very late reply, but didnt he specifically sacrafice his two children to make the machine? he gave up his own kids to give life to this "god", which he is now killing- in turn destroying *all* of his children- both his sons' hearts and the machine
@@mellowmelly9258 mandus sacrificed his children to prevent them from dying in the battle of the somme after seeing the future from the orb in mexico he made the engineer later by splitting a part of his soul with the orb and then put it in the machine also the quote "I am begging you. You made me. You are my Creator, my Father. You cannot destroy me!" was cut/scrapped
I remember when this game came out, I wondered why it didn't strike me like the first did. It wasn't overtly terrifying. The speech always rooted itself in my mind because it carried such a mourning I didn't understand. Now I do, after so long. And the premonition for what is to come chills me
"stood knee deep in mud and bone", "filled my lungs with mustard gas" - World War I "I have seen two brothers fall" - referring to himself and the player, as well as the Kennedy family "murdered dissidents where the ground never thaws and starved the masses into faith" - Siberian gulags and the Bolshevik revolution "a child's shadow burnt into the brickwork" - the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki "a house of skulls in the jungle" - the Khmer Rouge and the Cambodian Genocide "trapped and bled and gassed and starved and beaten and murdered and enslaved" - The Holocaust
He’s referring to his sons who died in WW1 why would he point out some specific political assasination. Also the whole starving masses into faith thing is more likely tsarist Russia than soviet Russia since they actually did that under the tsar. The Soviets were the ones that stopped the starvation.
Human history is a litany of anguish and cruelty We proclaim ourselves to be masters of empathy and altruism while happily condemning each other to death We find loopholes for our morality and integrity while wishing for nothing but pain to others
I have stood knee deep in mud and bone and filled my lungs with mustard gas! I have seen two brothers fall, I have lain with holy wars and copulated with the autumnal fallout! I have dug trenches for the refugees. I have murdered dissidents where the ground never thaws and starved the masses into faith! A child's shadow burnt into the brick work, a house of skulls in the jungle. The Innocent, the innocent Mandus! Trapped and bled and gassed and starved and beaten and murdered and enslaved!
The 'machine' you see that runs on steam is actually the equipment of the factory, the less sophisticated parts of a grander structure. You see, it's not the machine that sounds like a human - it's the Orb, which is far beyond what we know a simple machine to be. It was the Orb, one just like from Dark Descent, that used its strange powers to split and capture a part of Mandus's soul. That's why it sounds like him, and acts so human. In a strange way, it sort of is.
As much as I can figure out: Mandus encountered the orb while on a hail-mary expedition to save his business. Lacking the training to use it properly, it lead to his insanity - dumping a hundred years of future history in to his mind at once. Overwhelmed with the horror of times to come, he killed his children out of a sense of mercy - having seen they would die in the trenches at the Somme otherwise. Then he embarks upon his mad quest to 'save' humanity by building the Machine. Inspired by Aztec temples and human sacrifices there, he concludes that the Aztecs had the right idea: They simply lacked capacity for sufficient sacrifices. His plan at this stage is not total genocide: He intends to kill the violent, the corrupt, the self-serving, and so set the world on a peaceful path. At first it is simply a machine - a self-powering slaughterhouse he built using future engineering. He experiments for a time with mechanical computers for control, using Babbage's designs, but quickly concludes that this is a dead end: He can build a machine, but what he needs is more than a machine. He needs a living creature, an intelligence that can make the moral judgements. So he uses the orb again: This time to fracture himself, to place a part of himself into the machine. It is still made of pipes and steam, but now it is alive - just as a man is made of bone and blood. This act pushes him deeper into insanity: Filled with disgust for all the evil man is capable of, his ambitions turn from redemption to extermination: There are only the guilty who must die, and the innocent who deserve a merciful end. Around this point he creates the man-pigs to operate within the machine - he likes them because of their honesty. They are humans as Mandus sees them, stripped of pretence. As the machine is now a creature, it is no longer dependent on human labor to expand - the machine can grow, and so form the many more exotic structures deep below the surface. Places that have never seen human gaze until Mandus passes through. For a time they work together, bent on saving or destroying humanity, and no longer seeing any distinction between the two. Until Mandus's failing sanity progresses into amnesia. Without the burden of knowledge he realises what a monster he is, and in a desperate act tries to redeem himself by sabotaging the machine's mechanisms, leading in to the events of the game.
I was watching someone review this game today, and they had literally not one good thing to say about it. A lot of the comments brought up the soundtrack, and I couldn't help coming back. God this still gives me chills.
We owe it to each and every single person who fell prey to the atrocities of the 20th century to make absolutely certain we don't turn the 21st century into a repetition of it. We owe it to each and every single one of the innocents who were devoured by the monsters of that slaughterhouse of a century.
It will always continue Greed, cruelty, oppression The machinery of war is a multifaceted tool of prosperity for the rich and powerful A steamroller that crushes the weak, crushes opposition, and leaves profitable remnants in its wake We are the pig, and our oppressors are the slaughter man
Say whatever the hell you want about this game being far inferior to The Dark Descent, and that's correct. But this speech. This speech is one of the most powerful moments in gaming
And look around you now. For the most part, we turned out to be ok. Despite all that horror, we live in a more peaceful and prosperous world than the 1800s could have dreamed of. Mandus’ faith was not misplaced.
That doesn't cancel all the senseless massacres happened in the last century. What good is prosperity, if its foundations are the millions of innocent lives that we sent to die? The machine was right on this point.
@@justthunderbolt40 " the millions of innocent lives that we sent to die?" They died in the name of empires, in the name of the greater good. We seemed to have fixed the imperialism front, but still have issues with the "If you give me all the power I could ever want I'll do good things for everyone and won't turn out like Stalin I promise double pinky swear guys."
@@Lorgar64 it's not up to us, or governments, or empires to determine what's the "greater good": most of those who died were forced to fight, and wanted no part in those wars. Yet they were forced to fight and die just for pointless shows of force between world leaders...
The pain is stronger than ever. I've seen bits of lost Paradises and I know I'll be hopelessly trying to return, even if it hurts. The deeper I swing into the regions of nothingness, the further I'm thrown back into myself, each time more and more frightening depths below me, until my very being becomes dizzy. There are brief glimpses of clear sky, like falling out of a tree, so I have some idea where I am going, but there is still too much clarity and straight order of things, I am getting always the same number somehow. So I vomit out broken bits of words and syntaxes of the countries I've passed through, broken limbs, slaughtered houses, geographies. My heart is poisoned, my brain left in shreds of horror and sadness. I've never let you down, world, but you did lousy things to me. This feeling of going nowhere, of being stuck, the feeling of Dante's first strophe, as if afraid of the next step, next stage.
for those that want subs_ I have stood knee-deep in mud and bone and filled my lungs with mustard gas! I have seen two brothers fall. I have lain with holy wars and copulated with the autumnal fallout! I have dug trenches for the refugees. I have murdered dissidents where the ground never thaws and starved the masses into faith! A child's shadow burnt into the brickwork! A house of skulls in the jungle. The innocent! The innocent Madnus, have trod and bled and gassed and starved and beaten and murdered and enslaved! This is your coming century! They will eat them Madnus! They will make pigs of you all and they will bury their snouts into your ribs and they will eat your hearts!
Just replayed this for the first time since release. It may not be a great game, but goddamn is the story excellent, and the writing is so damn good. I almost wish this had just been a novel set in the Amnesia series.
For those curious about what specific events the Engineer is referring to, here's my best guess: "I have stood knee deep in mud and bone, and filled my lungs with mustard gas" - World War I "I have seen two brothers fall" - The death of the sons of Mandus "I have lain with holy wars" - The major religious conflicts of the 20th century like the Arab-Israeli conflict, the India-Pakistan conflict and the Yugoslav Wars "Copulated with the autumnal fallout" - Nuclear weapons testing, which peaked during the 20th century "I have dug trenches for the refugees" - Forced deportation of civilian populations during World War II "I have murdered dissidents where the ground never thaws" - The crimes against humanity perpetrated by the Soviet Union in the name of communism "Starved the masses into faith" - A possible reference to the Holodomor, though more likely the Engineer is talking about the Great Leap Forward "A child's shadow burnt into the brickwork" - The Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki "A house of skulls in the jungle" - The Cambodian genocide "The innocent, the innocent, Mandus, trod and bled and gassed and starved and beaten and murdered and enslaved" - The Holocaust, though the Engineer is probably just referring to 20th century genocides in general "They will make pigs of you all and they will bury their snouts into your ribs and they will eat your hearts" - Referring to how all of these horrible events combined will cause humanity to kill its own nature and lose its soul
If anyone found the story and themes of A Machine to be enrapturing, SCP-1461 bears many similarities, and our man TheVolgun has a great video on it, check it out
Humans truly are an anomaly. Humans are capable of the most endearing acts of genuine love and kindness... Just as easily, they can commit the most heinous acts upon their own flesh and blood on a scale of individual, to mass levels.
It took me a long time to finally come around to playing any of the Amnesia games. I recently bought the Amnesia collection due to adoring The Bunker. The Dark Descent was good for its gameplay, but I wasn't as interested in the story. A Machine For Pigs felt rough around the edges in terms of gameplay, but had some of my favourite storytelling of any game. This speech is absolutely perfect and really made the ending of the game feel significant. I just wish there had been more to the game prior to that.
Just became obsessed with this DLC just yesterday and the thought of Mandus seeing all of that horror, you gotta sympathise with him. Like just imagine being able to save everyone from the horror of what’s to come. Saving millions of lives, stoping chaos and destruction, killing ideologies routed in despite and hatred against one or a group of people and saving lost generations from being scarred in the face of history. And all you have to do to save everyone EVERYONE from that sight and nightmares yet to come… is kill everyone… would you do it?
Yeah, the real question it raises is that is the reality the machine wants to create actually worse than the one we would later create for ourselves in the many wars we would later slaughter each other with? Is the fate of a monster worse than the monsters we create of ourselves over our selfish fights? Is it better to become something else in order to save us from ourselves?
Honestly if this just had a little bit better gameplay it would rival Silent Hill 2 as one of the most powerful horror games ever made. But as it is I can't bring myself to call it that. Doesn't give you the same level of immersion through gameplay. Though this scene gave me some of the most intense chills I've felt playing something in a while.
I still get tears listening to this after years of playing this game. There is something very, very powerful and impressive about the dialogue and music, not to mention the voice actor´s incredible performace. One of the best, if not the best, moments of video gaming history was made right here.
Έχω σταθεί βαθιά μέχρι το γόνατο στη λάσπη και τα οστά, και έχω γεμίσει τα πνευμόνια μου με αέριο μουσταρδας.Εχω δει 2 αδέρφια να "πεφτουν",έχω πλαγιάσει με Ιερούς πολέμους και έχω συνευρεθεί με την φθινοπωρινή πτώση (ψυχρος πόλεμος).Έχω σκάψει χαρακώματα για τους πρόσφυγες, έχω δολοφονησει αντιφρονούντες εκεί όπου το έδαφος δεν ξεπαγώνει ποτέ, και λυσαξξα τις μάζες στην πίστη.Η σκιά ενός παιδιού καμένη στην πλινθοδομή.Ενα σπίτι από κρανία στη ζούγκλα.Ο αθώος, ο αθώος Μαντους, καταπατημένος και αφαίμακτος και δηλητηριασμένος και πεινασμένος και χτυπημένος και δολοφονημένος και υπόδουλος. Αυτός είναι ο ερχόμενος αιώνας σου! Θα τους φάνε Μαντους, θα σας κάνουν όλους γουρούνια και θα χώσουν το ρύγχος τους στα παΐδια σας και θα φάνε τις καρδιές σας!
Humanity as a whole is undoubtedly powerful. We have the power to create, but also have the power to destroy. It all depends on the paths each of us take. Will we choose to protect and create life? Or abuse and destroy it? That said, while the machine wanted to spare humanity of the horrors that came to pass, killing off everyone and turning them into pig monsters is not the way to do it. Humans need to learn to accept one another, regardless of race or religion. You can stand by your beliefs, but let others stand by theirs.
honestly the game didnt live up to what most people thought it would be but fuck. this speech is amazing. it tells us of the current world. reminds me of the speech from Charlie Chapman
It's The Machine, a gigantic complex of semi-alive, intelligent machinery that Mandus built using knowledge from the same orb that drove him insane with visions of suffering to come. Or perhaps it is only a voice in his head, as Mandus is hallucinating often by the end game and what we see cannot be relied upon.
I really love this game but I wish there was more narration (of notes specifically, it would have helped because of the shit ton of reading) and I would have loved to hear more of the VAs
Someone else had described this game as a fear of Fatherhood. Really, it's a fear of the future and what will come of it. 0:57 "The innocent, the INNOCENT Mandus...have trod, and bled, and gassed and starved and beaten and murdered, and enslaved! THIS, is your coming century! They will eat them, Mandus! They will make PIGS of you all! And they will burry their snouts, into your ribs, and they will eat. Your. Hearts!"
I have stood knee deep in mud and bone and filled my lungs with mustard gas.- I have lain with holy wars and copulated with the autumnal fallout. I have dug trenches for the refuges; I have murdered dissidents where the ground never thaws.- A child's shadow burned into the brickwork.- The innocent, the innocent, Mandus, starved and beaten and murdered and enslaved. They will eat them Mandus, they will make pigs of you all and they will bury their snouts and they will eat your hearts!
I feel like this game gets put down too much just because it’s not as good as the first but I actually like the story and characters of this one a little more. Everything with the machine/engineer is amazing and mark roper poured his heart and soul into his performance, one of the most underrated villains in a horror game ever.
my roommate had the blender on when he said "and they will eat your hearts!" and i kid you not it sounded like: and they will it your ass! i was on the floor
I have stood knee deep in the mud and bone and filled my lungs with mustard gas. I have seen two brothers fall. I have lain with holy wars and copulated with the autumnal fallout. I saw birth of the universe, and I watched as time out. Moment by moment, until nothing remained, no time, no space, just me! I walked in universes where the laws of physics were devised by the mind of a mad man!
In my case, I see references to WW 1 and WW2, since in both wars gas was used; "I've seen two brothers fall" - could be either a 9/11 or a WW1 reference, since germany and france are bordering...oh man, there is just so much to be said about this speech.
I think overall he is talking about many atrocities that will span the next century.. So most of these replys could be considered correct. Lots of things happened in the 100 years following this story
The machine was built to redeem humanity through sacrifice on an industrial scale - destroy most, leaving only the best of us to rebuild. But after seeing the atrocities of the future, Mandus and his machine judged harshly: There was no good to redeem. Any species capable of such acts against itsself could not deserve to exist.
+legionbunny It's a prose monologue falling somewhere between prophecy, history and doomsday revisionism. Includes elements of fatalist bias and values dissonance.
Hearing this from the 21st century is crazy. We know everything he says is going to happen, and can't blame him for wanting to end it all. The music is hopeful, but melancholic... Because we as the players know that our decision to stop this is based on a belief that humanity will recover from the ashes... Which we kind of have, but many are still working on. And maybe with the remaining 80 years of the 21st century, history might repeat itself. It's thought provoking because the more you listen Mandus, the more foolish it seems to have hope in the future.
Chinese Room on their way to get a horror game with an absurd and goofy storyline and make a sequel that's not only a complete shift in theme, but has a story loosely connected to the predasesor in the process making one of the best video game stories that's more onto teaching a moral lesson than a story about funny blue balls:
The Engineer's speech at the end of the game is one of the most powerful pieces of voice acting. The gentleman who recorded this put every ounce of his character into that delivery and it resonates with you. The imagery alone is hauntingly poetic and the music is excellent. Truly the best part of the game.
Absolutely agree with you
I have stood knee-deep in mud and bone and filled my lungs with mustard gas!
I have seen two brothers fall.
I have lain with holy wars and copulated with the autumnal fallout!
I have dug trenches for the refugees. I have murdered dissidents where the ground never thaws and starved the masses into faith!
A child's shadow burnt into the brickwork! A house of skulls in the jungle.
The innocent! The innocent Madnus, have trod and bled and gassed and starved and beaten and murdered and enslaved! This is your coming century!
They will eat them Madnus! They will make pigs of you all and they will bury their snouts into your ribs and they will eat your hearts!
My favourite speech in all of gaming
Madnus? :p
Madnus? This is 'NESIA!
AM
Moloch whose mind is pure machinery! Moloch whose blood is running money! Moloch whose fingers are ten armies! Moloch whose breast is a cannibal dynamo! Moloch whose ear is a smoking tomb!
Moloch whose eyes are a thousand blind windows! Moloch whose skyscrapers stand in the long streets like endless Jehovahs! Moloch whose factories dream and croak in the fog! Moloch whose smoke-stacks and antennae crown the cities!
Moloch whose love is endless oil and stone! Moloch whose soul is electricity and banks! Moloch whose poverty is the specter of genius! Moloch whose fate is a cloud of sexless hydrogen! Moloch whose name is the Mind!
You quit that howling, sir.
No monsters. No elder gods from beyond time and space. No devil. Just us.
We are our own downfall.
You know it's bad when an eldritch entity from beyond space and time is terrified of us.
Indeed.....indeed
🤓🤓🤓 Actually supernatural events were involved in the games plot according to the lore
no gods or monsters. only man
A god begs with tear choked voice, to let humanity die human, and not live forever as pigs.
Wtf dude
@@terriblehorribleawfulvarie7088 what do you mean by wtf?
@@THEOFFENSER-xd2nn stfu, wasn't talking to you
@@terriblehorribleawfulvarie7088 Wow Calm down antisocial i was just asking
@@THEOFFENSER-xd2nn wrong comment my b, I was just expressing my disbelief
"and I personally find it to be one of the most powerful speeches in the game"
Sir... I personally find it to be one of the most powerful speeches in gaming history!
Yassss
In what is this a reference to?
@@pepitojudeallen797 the description of the video
@@imdrum6881 oh didn't notice that. Thanks for the reply anyway
@@pepitojudeallen797 np!
Loved this part at the end. You spend the whole game wondering what the hell happened to make Mandus so irredeemably insane and I was sure it would never get explained.
And then you get this perfect speech and suddenly you can begin to comprehend just the sheer horror of what he witnessed when he touched that orb. He became a genocidal maniac and yet I almost felt sorry for him! Not to mention it sounds like he actually EXPERIENCED all these horrors from the first person, from every possible view point. Terrifying.
The worlds worst Acid Trip
I know Im very late, but I'm questioning my self why he didn't got chased by the shadow when he touched it.
What a shit game, it hides its story behind notes that are super poorly written to hide the fact it sucks. When you know everything it sucks
@@-Anonim0 it is mentioned Alexander is his great uncle, he may be initiated
@@Chawkes420 mhhh, ok thanks for the info
"A child's shadow burnt into the brickwork" Atomic bomb, wow...
Cement/Cemetery
Mortar/Mortuary
Gravel/Grave
Wake up Monday Mourning to “alarm” to Undertake your job
Now that’s strange
Yep exactly
its scary that the machine knows what coming, also it seems to have its own PTSD from the atrocities to come. that may have fueled its madness
@@coolcat6103
Mostly words that have nothing to do with one another. Cement comes from a Latin word meaning "quarry stone" while cemetery is related to an ancient Greek word for a place where people sleep. Mortar comes from the Latin word mortarium, a container, while mortuary is from the Latin mortuus, "dead." Gravel and grave do share a word in the Old English word "grafen" which is "to dig." Morning and mourning have nothing to do with each other at all (two different German roots, respectively moegen and murnan), alarm comes from a French phrase meaning "to arms" and if anything the "frighten" meaning came later, and undertake started out as a word meaning to do any job, with the "funeral-undertaker" being the the carpenter or furniture-maker who undertook the task of making the coffin.
Incorrect, it’s a reference to farting in front of an open flame.
This wasn't the greatest game, but it for sure had some very powerful music and dialogue.
+Squalington Constantine If one expected another Amnesia, he might be disappointed; but this is an amazing story-focused game in my opinion. :) very deep, makes you think.
Well the problem was people did expect another Amnesia because, um, that's what they said it was.
@@CruelestChris Let me introduce you to Amnesia Rebirth. Coming Winter 2020 :)
@@bass-t5998 a very disappointing game.
@@ashyoshicharizard3949what did you think of the Bunker?
Tears in my eyes, chills in my spine.
+Vity viktor No matter how many times I listen to this speech, this is always the exact same reaction.
I love how the game was just running mediocrity and then all the sudden it hits you with the best speech in gaming
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It is inferior to the dark descent but holy shit they hired fucking shakespare to write the machine and mandus final speech
@@Cappuccino_Rabbitthe story is better
@@reginthehoneybadger8957 definitely, Machine and SOMA are my favorite story games when it comes to tragedy and humanity
I don't get what this speech could have meant to you if you found everything leading up to it mediocre
My applause to Mark Ruper (A Machine voice actor) He just perfectly played this scene. But without music ... this scene would not be so strong. But without the scriptwriters ... in general, everyone tried to make this scene perfect.
It isnt just that the music is good, its that it's mixed PERFECTLY. The chord progression at "and they will bury" lines up so perfectly with the delivery of the words that when he finishes the monologue with the end of that sentence it makes it feel like the strings that continue are continuing his thought. It's such an elevated piece
@@tabula_rosa exactly! Jessica Curry is a master of such things. She did something similar with everybody's gone to the rapture, what a splendid score it is.
@@ВорончукМихайло Hey, do you got any social medias to contact? I'd like to ask you something.
I love this machine's voice, so very much.
It's nothing without the music...but I agree.
This game wasn't scary...but the most POWERFUL STORY I have encountered! There will never bee another better game than this!
RealityBoy101 I agree! :D I just wish there were more games like this. On the contrary, though, I don't think that this unique game can be outmatched.
***** Well, I haven't really played the game (more rather than the games you've listed), all I did was watch PewDiePie play it, but once I get the game(s), I'll see what I can do...
***** That doesn't really matter, I didn't watch half the crap he went through, so there'll be definitely be a load of scariness in there for me! :p
RealityBoy101 he ruined the scenary with him saying "bull$%&t" at the truth.
I feel like this game could have done better as a book.
But book's don't have soundtracks
Edward Spiderfingers wouldnt it be coll to have a boook and a soundtrack for it with marks to skip titles :) I would buy it
Sanic Hegehog maybe an audio book
Steffen Reimer Something like that exists, look up Life Under EnCon
+Sanic Hegehog or anime?
I cant stop listening to this, I'd love to see the voice actor recording this too, I want to see his expressions when he told these words.
It really feels as though he is shaking in anger
@@jackreid2664 anger, desperation, disgust, fear. The range here is incredible
Its missing a part at the end "I am begging you! You made me. You are my creator... my father! You cannot destroy me!"
Did it need that?
TheAllSeeingEye Not really but I’ve always found it really effective. Like how Mandus killed his own 2 children, now he’s killing a third. Even though the machine was designed for evil, he still created it and it’s his child, the third that he’s murdered
@@gavinj1456 Wow
@@gavinj1456 very late reply, but didnt he specifically sacrafice his two children to make the machine? he gave up his own kids to give life to this "god", which he is now killing- in turn destroying *all* of his children- both his sons' hearts and the machine
@@mellowmelly9258
mandus sacrificed his children to prevent them from dying in the battle of the somme after seeing the future from the orb in mexico
he made the engineer later by splitting a part of his soul with the orb and then put it in the machine
also the quote "I am begging you. You made me. You are my Creator, my Father. You cannot destroy me!" was cut/scrapped
This gave me real chills. A concise and damning condemnation of humanity.
I remember when this game came out, I wondered why it didn't strike me like the first did. It wasn't overtly terrifying. The speech always rooted itself in my mind because it carried such a mourning I didn't understand.
Now I do, after so long.
And the premonition for what is to come chills me
The doom he foresaw wasn't some Lovecraftian nightmare, it was just the future
It is a bit on the nose that the main characters name is "Oswald Mandus"
Ozzie Mandus
Ozymandias
Look on my works ye mighty and despair.
Fuck me how did I not notice that before.
"stood knee deep in mud and bone", "filled my lungs with mustard gas" - World War I
"I have seen two brothers fall" - referring to himself and the player, as well as the Kennedy family
"murdered dissidents where the ground never thaws and starved the masses into faith" - Siberian gulags and the Bolshevik revolution
"a child's shadow burnt into the brickwork" - the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
"a house of skulls in the jungle" - the Khmer Rouge and the Cambodian Genocide
"trapped and bled and gassed and starved and beaten and murdered and enslaved" - The Holocaust
He’s referring to his sons who died in WW1 why would he point out some specific political assasination. Also the whole starving masses into faith thing is more likely tsarist Russia than soviet Russia since they actually did that under the tsar. The Soviets were the ones that stopped the starvation.
The last one can totally be applied to the Germans.
The two brothers are his two sons dying during the Battle of the Somme in WW1, which started this whole thing for him.
Human history is a litany of anguish and cruelty
We proclaim ourselves to be masters of empathy and altruism while happily condemning each other to death
We find loopholes for our morality and integrity while wishing for nothing but pain to others
Brilliant almost poetry and it almost made me weep. Very powerful writing and amazing voice work. Gaming at its best and most profound.
@@dmin5782but I still think this story is better
The most shocking part of this is the fact that we as a race lived through such times.
I confirm, it was just the most beautiful moment of the game! I don't know how to say it in English but my tears were about to fall :)
The kind of video game moments we should throw at the people who pretend video games aren't pieces of art.
I have stood knee deep in mud and bone and filled my lungs with mustard gas!
I have seen two brothers fall, I have lain with holy wars and copulated with the autumnal fallout!
I have dug trenches for the refugees.
I have murdered dissidents where the ground never thaws and starved the masses into faith!
A child's shadow burnt into the brick work, a house of skulls in the jungle.
The Innocent, the innocent Mandus!
Trapped and bled and gassed and starved and beaten and murdered and enslaved!
The Machine looked into the future, and saw only madness…
This speech is so beautiful.
Best speech in all history.
Ok maybe not all history. But it is in gaming history, and up there in normal history.
i'm suprised nobody made typography out of this.
Machine For Pigs is an Amnesia game that I wouldn't replay. But because of this finale this is the Amnesia game that is ingrained in my memory.
I still come back to this time to time. Such an unassuming piece of art hiding one of the strongest speeches I've ever heard.
His calm tone, and the fact that I got what he meant instantly just sends arctic chills down my spine.
Man, his speach made me cry. I was so overwhelmed at that point, and listening to the engineer talk about the war like that was my breaking point.
The 'machine' you see that runs on steam is actually the equipment of the factory, the less sophisticated parts of a grander structure.
You see, it's not the machine that sounds like a human - it's the Orb, which is far beyond what we know a simple machine to be. It was the Orb, one just like from Dark Descent, that used its strange powers to split and capture a part of Mandus's soul.
That's why it sounds like him, and acts so human. In a strange way, it sort of is.
If that is the case, then if this eldritch Orb saw what we would do in the future and went mad, what does that imply about us?
@@knightofarkronia9968 It's not the orb that went mad it's mandus, the orb contains half of his soul.
As much as I can figure out: Mandus encountered the orb while on a hail-mary expedition to save his business. Lacking the training to use it properly, it lead to his insanity - dumping a hundred years of future history in to his mind at once. Overwhelmed with the horror of times to come, he killed his children out of a sense of mercy - having seen they would die in the trenches at the Somme otherwise. Then he embarks upon his mad quest to 'save' humanity by building the Machine. Inspired by Aztec temples and human sacrifices there, he concludes that the Aztecs had the right idea: They simply lacked capacity for sufficient sacrifices. His plan at this stage is not total genocide: He intends to kill the violent, the corrupt, the self-serving, and so set the world on a peaceful path.
At first it is simply a machine - a self-powering slaughterhouse he built using future engineering. He experiments for a time with mechanical computers for control, using Babbage's designs, but quickly concludes that this is a dead end: He can build a machine, but what he needs is more than a machine. He needs a living creature, an intelligence that can make the moral judgements. So he uses the orb again: This time to fracture himself, to place a part of himself into the machine. It is still made of pipes and steam, but now it is alive - just as a man is made of bone and blood.
This act pushes him deeper into insanity: Filled with disgust for all the evil man is capable of, his ambitions turn from redemption to extermination: There are only the guilty who must die, and the innocent who deserve a merciful end. Around this point he creates the man-pigs to operate within the machine - he likes them because of their honesty. They are humans as Mandus sees them, stripped of pretence.
As the machine is now a creature, it is no longer dependent on human labor to expand - the machine can grow, and so form the many more exotic structures deep below the surface. Places that have never seen human gaze until Mandus passes through. For a time they work together, bent on saving or destroying humanity, and no longer seeing any distinction between the two. Until Mandus's failing sanity progresses into amnesia. Without the burden of knowledge he realises what a monster he is, and in a desperate act tries to redeem himself by sabotaging the machine's mechanisms, leading in to the events of the game.
@@vylbird8014What a beautifully apt description. You’ve helped me piece some things together that I was missing, thank you!
The scriptwriter, the voice actor, and the composer made this a really powerful moment.
I was watching someone review this game today, and they had literally not one good thing to say about it. A lot of the comments brought up the soundtrack, and I couldn't help coming back. God this still gives me chills.
We owe it to each and every single person who fell prey to the atrocities of the 20th century to make absolutely certain we don't turn the 21st century into a repetition of it.
We owe it to each and every single one of the innocents who were devoured by the monsters of that slaughterhouse of a century.
It will always continue
Greed, cruelty, oppression
The machinery of war is a multifaceted tool of prosperity for the rich and powerful
A steamroller that crushes the weak, crushes opposition, and leaves profitable remnants in its wake
We are the pig, and our oppressors are the slaughter man
The message of this game what ever horror we can make up in our mind will pale in comparison to what humanity can do to itself
Say whatever the hell you want about this game being far inferior to The Dark Descent, and that's correct. But this speech. This speech is one of the most powerful moments in gaming
If you compare tdd to fnaf, then machine for pigs would be security breach if you know what i mean
Nah I think it would more accurately be Pizzeria Simulator, kinda not that great all around but the ending speech is just amazingc@@jennatamayo4730
@@jennatamayo4730 I crie evrytiem
@@jennatamayo4730 I think this is the worst comparison
@@unclexbox85 Yes, i know
I like the line "ive seen two brothers fall" because it could be referring to any number of historical events
But in context, it's about Mandus's sons dying in World War I
And look around you now. For the most part, we turned out to be ok. Despite all that horror, we live in a more peaceful and prosperous world than the 1800s could have dreamed of. Mandus’ faith was not misplaced.
That doesn't cancel all the senseless massacres happened in the last century. What good is prosperity, if its foundations are the millions of innocent lives that we sent to die? The machine was right on this point.
@@justthunderbolt40 " the millions of innocent lives that we sent to die?" They died in the name of empires, in the name of the greater good. We seemed to have fixed the imperialism front, but still have issues with the "If you give me all the power I could ever want I'll do good things for everyone and won't turn out like Stalin I promise double pinky swear guys."
@@Lorgar64 it's not up to us, or governments, or empires to determine what's the "greater good": most of those who died were forced to fight, and wanted no part in those wars. Yet they were forced to fight and die just for pointless shows of force between world leaders...
@@justthunderbolt40 I don't think Hitler's invasion of Europe was a "pointless show of force".
@@Lorgar64 it was the result of the idiotic treaty of Versailles, which put Germany on her knees just because it was defeated in Ww1.
you can practically hear the tears welling up in his eyes in his fury and sorrow
The piano and cello behind are truly majestic
The pain is stronger than ever. I've seen bits of lost Paradises and I know I'll be hopelessly trying to return, even if it hurts. The deeper I swing into the regions of nothingness, the further I'm thrown back into myself, each time more and more frightening depths below me, until my very being becomes dizzy. There are brief glimpses of clear sky, like falling out of a tree, so I have some idea where I am going, but there is still too much clarity and straight order of things, I am getting always the same number somehow. So I vomit out broken bits of words and syntaxes of the countries I've passed through, broken limbs, slaughtered houses, geographies. My heart is poisoned, my brain left in shreds of horror and sadness. I've never let you down, world, but you did lousy things to me. This feeling of going nowhere, of being stuck, the feeling of Dante's first strophe, as if afraid of the next step, next stage.
for those that want subs_
I have stood knee-deep in mud and bone and filled my lungs with mustard gas!
I have seen two brothers fall.
I have lain with holy wars and copulated with the autumnal fallout!
I have dug trenches for the refugees. I have murdered dissidents where the ground never thaws and starved the masses into faith!
A child's shadow burnt into the brickwork! A house of skulls in the jungle.
The innocent! The innocent Madnus, have trod and bled and gassed and starved and beaten and murdered and enslaved! This is your coming century!
They will eat them Madnus! They will make pigs of you all and they will bury their snouts into your ribs and they will eat your hearts!
there are subtitles now
Sends a shiver down my spine. I don't know how people can complain about a lack of inventory when the content is this disturbing and beautiful.
This hits different during current times.
Not really. Current times are very peaceful.
@@nirvanic3610bruh
@@nirvanic3610 Ukraine
This scene makes me want to cry, i truly feel the machine's desperation.
Just replayed this for the first time since release.
It may not be a great game, but goddamn is the story excellent, and the writing is so damn good.
I almost wish this had just been a novel set in the Amnesia series.
For those curious about what specific events the Engineer is referring to, here's my best guess:
"I have stood knee deep in mud and bone, and filled my lungs with mustard gas" - World War I
"I have seen two brothers fall" - The death of the sons of Mandus
"I have lain with holy wars" - The major religious conflicts of the 20th century like the Arab-Israeli conflict, the India-Pakistan conflict and the Yugoslav Wars
"Copulated with the autumnal fallout" - Nuclear weapons testing, which peaked during the 20th century
"I have dug trenches for the refugees" - Forced deportation of civilian populations during World War II
"I have murdered dissidents where the ground never thaws" - The crimes against humanity perpetrated by the Soviet Union in the name of communism
"Starved the masses into faith" - A possible reference to the Holodomor, though more likely the Engineer is talking about the Great Leap Forward
"A child's shadow burnt into the brickwork" - The Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
"A house of skulls in the jungle" - The Cambodian genocide
"The innocent, the innocent, Mandus, trod and bled and gassed and starved and beaten and murdered and enslaved" - The Holocaust, though the Engineer is probably just referring to 20th century genocides in general
"They will make pigs of you all and they will bury their snouts into your ribs and they will eat your hearts" - Referring to how all of these horrible events combined will cause humanity to kill its own nature and lose its soul
If anyone found the story and themes of A Machine to be enrapturing, SCP-1461 bears many similarities, and our man TheVolgun has a great video on it, check it out
I've never even played the game and it moved me to tears.
This will be remembered as one of the best monologues in gaming history.
I'm in love with this...
And I also want a parody using Dracula Flow.
a movie material right here
Humans truly are an anomaly. Humans are capable of the most endearing acts of genuine love and kindness... Just as easily, they can commit the most heinous acts upon their own flesh and blood on a scale of individual, to mass levels.
well... we are embodiment of what's constantly happening on the molecular level, if not each other our bodies are always fighting off diseases.
The last line sounds like he says "and they will eat your ass!"
It took me a long time to finally come around to playing any of the Amnesia games. I recently bought the Amnesia collection due to adoring The Bunker.
The Dark Descent was good for its gameplay, but I wasn't as interested in the story. A Machine For Pigs felt rough around the edges in terms of gameplay, but had some of my favourite storytelling of any game. This speech is absolutely perfect and really made the ending of the game feel significant. I just wish there had been more to the game prior to that.
Still can’t believe the dude who played the funny green senator from the Phantom Menace is the same person who gave this monologue
Just became obsessed with this DLC just yesterday and the thought of Mandus seeing all of that horror, you gotta sympathise with him. Like just imagine being able to save everyone from the horror of what’s to come. Saving millions of lives, stoping chaos and destruction, killing ideologies routed in despite and hatred against one or a group of people and saving lost generations from being scarred in the face of history. And all you have to do to save everyone EVERYONE from that sight and nightmares yet to come… is kill everyone… would you do it?
This moment was just so good I cried a little. (a lot)
I downloaded this on my phone and listen to it on repeat every day now.. :P
its so powerful and beautiful
This make me feel like to cry for Humanity.
Yeah, the real question it raises is that is the reality the machine wants to create actually worse than the one we would later create for ourselves in the many wars we would later slaughter each other with? Is the fate of a monster worse than the monsters we create of ourselves over our selfish fights? Is it better to become something else in order to save us from ourselves?
Honestly if this just had a little bit better gameplay it would rival Silent Hill 2 as one of the most powerful horror games ever made. But as it is I can't bring myself to call it that. Doesn't give you the same level of immersion through gameplay. Though this scene gave me some of the most intense chills I've felt playing something in a while.
I still get tears listening to this after years of playing this game. There is something very, very powerful and impressive about the dialogue and music, not to mention the voice actor´s incredible performace. One of the best, if not the best, moments of video gaming history was made right here.
Είναι πολύ γαμάτο παιχνίδι και έχει φοβερή μουσική!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Έχω σταθεί βαθιά μέχρι το γόνατο στη λάσπη και τα οστά, και έχω γεμίσει τα πνευμόνια μου με αέριο μουσταρδας.Εχω δει 2 αδέρφια να "πεφτουν",έχω πλαγιάσει με Ιερούς πολέμους και έχω συνευρεθεί με την φθινοπωρινή πτώση (ψυχρος πόλεμος).Έχω σκάψει χαρακώματα για τους πρόσφυγες, έχω δολοφονησει αντιφρονούντες εκεί όπου το έδαφος δεν ξεπαγώνει ποτέ, και λυσαξξα τις μάζες στην πίστη.Η σκιά ενός παιδιού καμένη στην πλινθοδομή.Ενα σπίτι από κρανία στη ζούγκλα.Ο αθώος, ο αθώος Μαντους, καταπατημένος και αφαίμακτος και δηλητηριασμένος και πεινασμένος και χτυπημένος και δολοφονημένος και υπόδουλος. Αυτός είναι ο ερχόμενος αιώνας σου! Θα τους φάνε Μαντους, θα σας κάνουν όλους γουρούνια και θα χώσουν το ρύγχος τους στα παΐδια σας και θα φάνε τις καρδιές σας!
Humanity as a whole is undoubtedly powerful. We have the power to create, but also have the power to destroy. It all depends on the paths each of us take. Will we choose to protect and create life? Or abuse and destroy it?
That said, while the machine wanted to spare humanity of the horrors that came to pass, killing off everyone and turning them into pig monsters is not the way to do it. Humans need to learn to accept one another, regardless of race or religion. You can stand by your beliefs, but let others stand by theirs.
honestly the game didnt live up to what most people thought it would be but fuck. this speech is amazing. it tells us of the current world. reminds me of the speech from Charlie Chapman
I like the voice of "mandus#2" (sorry dont know how to call the voice in mandus head)
The voice is coming from the machine
oooo thank ya well I love the voice of the machine xD
Max Miceli-Osano It's in his head but he thinks it's the machine talking to him.
It's The Machine, a gigantic complex of semi-alive, intelligent machinery that Mandus built using knowledge from the same orb that drove him insane with visions of suffering to come. Or perhaps it is only a voice in his head, as Mandus is hallucinating often by the end game and what we see cannot be relied upon.
Now this is cinema
I really love this game but I wish there was more narration (of notes specifically, it would have helped because of the shit ton of reading) and I would have loved to hear more of the VAs
Someone else had described this game as a fear of Fatherhood. Really, it's a fear of the future and what will come of it.
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"The innocent, the INNOCENT Mandus...have trod, and bled, and gassed and starved and beaten and murdered, and enslaved!
THIS, is your coming century! They will eat them, Mandus! They will make PIGS of you all! And they will burry their snouts, into your ribs, and they will eat. Your. Hearts!"
Leadhead described it as a fear of humanity itself. Knowing what we are capable of as a species and deciding the world is better off without us.
I have stood knee deep in mud and bone and filled my lungs with mustard gas.- I have lain with holy wars and copulated with the autumnal fallout. I have dug trenches for the refuges; I have murdered dissidents where the ground never thaws.- A child's shadow burned into the brickwork.- The innocent, the innocent, Mandus, starved and beaten and murdered and enslaved. They will eat them Mandus, they will make pigs of you all and they will bury their snouts and they will eat your hearts!
VERY very underrated opinion. A Machine for Pigs > The Dark Descent.
I feel like this game gets put down too much just because it’s not as good as the first but I actually like the story and characters of this one a little more. Everything with the machine/engineer is amazing and mark roper poured his heart and soul into his performance, one of the most underrated villains in a horror game ever.
Some believe we are the pigs, others believe us to be the butcher
In truth, we are both.
"We are the pig, professor. We are all the pig"
my roommate had the blender on when he said "and they will eat your hearts!" and i kid you not it sounded like:
and they will it your ass!
i was on the floor
Daddy, Daddy... Please don't kill me.
*unplugs the machine*
And yet somehow, here we are.
I have stood knee deep in the mud and bone and filled my lungs with mustard gas.
I have seen two brothers fall. I have lain with holy wars and copulated with the autumnal fallout.
I saw birth of the universe, and I watched as time out. Moment by moment, until nothing remained, no time, no space, just me!
I walked in universes where the laws of physics were devised by the mind of a mad man!
Got the chills best words ever
In my case, I see references to WW 1 and WW2, since in both wars gas was used; "I've seen two brothers fall" - could be either a 9/11 or a WW1 reference, since germany and france are bordering...oh man, there is just so much to be said about this speech.
9/11 was the wrong century mind.
I was thinking the two brothers might have been the Kennedy brothers..
Mustard Gas was ww1
Two brothers is a reference to the Twin Towers, the 11S
I think overall he is talking about many atrocities that will span the next century.. So most of these replys could be considered correct. Lots of things happened in the 100 years following this story
Couldn't be said any better.
The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
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Machine's.
This would make a really good sample for an electronic song
Curious what a non native English speaker thinks about the sound and cadence of the language in this speech.
It is the best speech I've ever heard in a video game. Together with "would you kindly" from Bioshock. I take English as a foreign language.
I loved this part.
Victorian Ultron
Need more daddy issues.
the machine was the good guy all along
The machine was going to 'start humanity anew' by destroying everything, starting over with the pigmen. Instead of humanity redeeming themselves.
Not really he was a complete and utter zealot
The machine was built to redeem humanity through sacrifice on an industrial scale - destroy most, leaving only the best of us to rebuild. But after seeing the atrocities of the future, Mandus and his machine judged harshly: There was no good to redeem. Any species capable of such acts against itsself could not deserve to exist.
A house of skulls in the jungle
who wrote this speech and is there a name for the style that it's written in?
+legionbunny It's a prose monologue falling somewhere between prophecy, history and doomsday revisionism. Includes elements of fatalist bias and values dissonance.
What do you mean with "values dissonance"
@@Seregfaroth yes
Idk it falls into the “Ethos” and/or “Logos” category of rhetoric because it plays on your emotions by citing sources of bloodshed and atrocities
@@IsabellaAAH but the delivery! The vocabulary! The prose!
Hearing this from the 21st century is crazy. We know everything he says is going to happen, and can't blame him for wanting to end it all. The music is hopeful, but melancholic... Because we as the players know that our decision to stop this is based on a belief that humanity will recover from the ashes... Which we kind of have, but many are still working on. And maybe with the remaining 80 years of the 21st century, history might repeat itself. It's thought provoking because the more you listen Mandus, the more foolish it seems to have hope in the future.
The moment you realise...The Machine was right...humanity is hopeless, and that becomes more and more obvious as time goes on.
I believe that moment is called your thirteenth birthday. You get over it eventually.
The terrifying part it’s so truee
Chinese Room on their way to get a horror game with an absurd and goofy storyline and make a sequel that's not only a complete shift in theme, but has a story loosely connected to the predasesor in the process making one of the best video game stories that's more onto teaching a moral lesson than a story about funny blue balls:
Story about funny blue balls got me lol.
@@Chaotic_Overlord lol
All while stripping away all gameplay features that made the original such a great game and cult classic, realy ironic isnt It?
@@danielryan6604 Yes it is
More pig! More pig! Best sentence ever!
"MANDUS"