I feel too many people miss the point that this is about two people getting caught up in the isolation and condemn the mystery for not being an actual huge conspiracy. It's two people who're lost in the moment, in their own heads, caught up in the IDEA of a huge conspiracy. But then it's just a grieving man who can't let go of his son, and some people researching bears. People were PISSED there wasn't a government conspiracy.
Honestly, it's a breath of fresh air seeing that the government had nothing to do with what happens (aside from abandoning a whole lot of equipment...which is accurate). Coincidences and happenstance, happens. It's almost like conspiracy theorists in real life who blame everything on the government or aliens (easy targets, sometimes they're actually right. Sometimes, it's nonsense)
i honestly had the same "i remember this being big but don't remember anything about it" feeling before watching a streamer replay it a few months ago. i have no idea how i could ever forget any of that again. i lost my grandmother to alzheimer's when she was in her early 50s, i was 8. this story hit harder the second time through
I remember liking this game for the visuals, the interractive "make your own story experience" elememts, as well as how not only your character being unreliable but also the person who you would expect to be the knowledgeable mentor is revealed to not really know what they are doing either. This combined with the somber story and plot reveals and isolation made for a very introspective game. I didnt really understand why so many people didnt like the game (except perhaps those who didnt like the simplistic gameplay experience, which fair enough i guess), until i watched some modern streamers recently and realized that you can just, miss certain parts that I consider "essential" to the story, if you just refuse to explore or talk to Deliah and rush to the end of the game. I was suddenly like "oh, if this is the experience many people get no wonder they dont like this game."
It's been 8 years since this game came out. I'm thinking it was 2015 but it was 2016, when my life went down the drain. Honestly I still have a lot of nostalgia for this game
In my playthrough, I roleplayed as Henry trying to start a fling with Delilah to escape his problems. The end is heartbreaking, as Delilah tells you your summer meant nothing and you need to go back to your wife. The whole mystery is two people trying to live an exciting fantasy but eventually... they have to go back to reality.
I had always heard about this game a whole lot but was like "what even is going on??" because I never watched any sort of gameplay of it. This honestly cleared up a lot and all I had to say was like "Damn. That was actually pretty wild." Goodluck on your final semester btw man
The fact that you cover a lot of nostalgic games in the 2010s makes me miss that era of short but sweet indie classics that have a really heartfelt story to tell. I recently stumbled upon "Until Then" and it really scratched that itch for me and I hope you'd play it someday because more people really need to know about it
man. i haven't watched a proper full playthrough of this game nor have i played it myself, but i know it's a beautiful game. this video's the first i've seen of certain points and angles of the game, both narratively in perspectives and specific parts of the gameplay (somehow this is the first time i've seen henry tossing the backpack into the pickup truck at the start, which is something that seems so simple), and i think i'd like to add my own thoughts and ideas based off of the things i do know. this game has grief and escapism written all over it. ned grieving brian, yes, but also henry grieving over his wife due to her crumbling condition and delilah grieving her relationship after she didn't come home and left. and then you have all of them escaping their realities (burying his son, seeing his wife forget more and more, going back to a home filled only with her own mistakes) by staying in shoshone national forest. and while they're there, they have a great time! delilah and henry have a person they can open up to, there's a beautiful forest awaiting them all, and there's no time to think about the life they've left behind because there's a mystery afoot! except... at the end of the day, there isn't truly escaping their reality they came here to hide from. the forest burns. the summer ends. they have to go home. ...i dunno, i think i've run out of words now. thank you for making this video, and good luck with finals!
Rip discord. I didnt write anything since i joined, except when i got the news it ends, but the few moments were a delight. It closed right as i was about to send "Goodbye ya'll". Ok now i should actually watch the video.
Gonna say at the start, you're not the main character in this. You can make choices, but they make sense to that character. Henry has issues, so of couse he makes bad choices. also "get it on sale, its 20 dollars for only 4 hours" like bruh, that's a damn good price for a good story imo
You got these finals man, don't overhype them! Teachers and Professors nowadays usually hate stuff like that so it shouldn't be too rough, sending you brain power o7
I vibe with the ability to just wander. I think more games should let us wander. And I love the mystery too. Sometimes things just happen and that's all there is to it.
amazing video! i love this game a lot becaue of its aesthetics and like, very real character writing so I screamed when I saw you covered it. you always have a unique take on games and i hope your finals go over well so you can keep creating without worry!
I really love this game, but those glitches... Those never happened to me, not even when I was playing on XBOX Gamepass, on cloud, on a pirated app(on an Android TV) with the game constantly stopping between scenes due to my poor internet. What a weird glitch
There's actually a RUclipsr named Captainsauce who basically did a theroy video on this game. If you like Fire Watch, i would highly recommend checking it out
There is definitely a difference in feeling between watching someone play a game and playing it yourself. The act of involving yourself directly already creates this sense of investment that you cant really get away from, and what you experience becomes wholly your own. It would be *you* hiding from the killer, *you* saving the world, *you* making all of those close friends, and so on. It is one of those human things that helps make each experience fresh, and why people who come into a fandom tangentially can still get a "true experience" even after knowing roughly what goes down.
I both love and hate that the protagonist never figures out what sort of person Delilah really is. Or perhaps, he does realize it, but never lets it slip. That's what stuck with me the most.
lol we're both graduating at the same time. also what I could remember from this game when it was popular, there was a theory video about how Delilah never existed or something cause you dont see other people other than their silhouettes, which is an interesting artistic choice. Other that that, this is a really bittersweet game ^^
I don't think I'll ever forget about Firewatch. Even many years after finishing it, I still think about it from time to time. It still has my 2 favourite characters out of any game I've played, the only thing that comes close is the main cast of Kentucky Route Zero. Henry and Delilah just feel so real as characters, plus the chemistry between them just makes it so fucking endearing, all the while always having a lingering feeling of melancholy in the air. I know there's many people who have a lot of issues with the game, mainly with the ending and the mystery aspect, but I personally think both were executed perfectly, in general I think Firewatch is the closest thing to a "perfect" game, that I personally have experienced.
I remember watching Markiplier play this back in the day. At the time, I was upset Henry never got with Delilah. But now I'm glad he didn't. I was young and stupid and didn't think about the consequences and what it would have meant for Henry to effectively abandon his sick wife to get together with this other woman. I still wish they met at least once, but Henry needed to go back to his wife. He needed to confront his feelings and his memories. Who knows, that's what headcanons are for. Maybe he did get in touch with Delilah later and they started a (healthy) friendship.
The only thing that rubbed me the wrong way with the story was, not the fact the conspiracy was false, but the fact the game frames Henry going back to Julia as a good thing, or at least the right thing. The common consensus on this game's themes seem to be about the futility of escapism, and how Henry is a coward for just abandoning Julia and he has to face his mistakes, but to that I say, face them how? What the heck is he supposed to do? His wife literally doesn't recognize him and doesn't know who he is anymore, and if my memory serves correct, her parents hate him and don't trust him to take care of her (if, of course, you picked that option), taking her into their care instead. There is NOTHING left for him in regards to Julia, there is nothing he can do to improve the situation, just as Henry is unrecognizable to Julia, Julia is now unrecognizable to Henry. What else can he do besides move on? That's likely a part of why many players jump to the conclusion that they can romance Delilah, as a form of Henry moving on from Julia, so to me being told that my only option, Henry's only option, was to go back to the place that holds nothing but misery for him, just felt like I was being flipped off. Like yeah, I get it, it's a story about life, you don't get a happy fairytale ending, I just fail to understand what Henry has to "confront" with Julia. Besides that, yes the game is fantastic, the ending just rubs me the wrong way, but given the fact it was made to be purposefully unsatisfying, I am fairly sure the devs expected people to not be happy with the ending anyway, it's meant to be the point.
There was always one thing that bothered me about the ending. Why was all the equipment still there? It was just left out in the woods, unattended? I know it needed to be there to keep the narrative the way they wanted it, but what was the in-universe reason for the government just abandoning hundreds, maybe even thousands, of dollars in equipment in a park? Still attached to power, at that. And it can't be a case of "they still used it" because then Ned's notes wouldn't have been left there. If they only used it seasonally, some of the larger equipment might have been left. However, there was plenty of portable equipment left too. For me, that's why the "It was just one guy!" ending felt so bad. I get wanting to have a twist in your story, and I don't even think the "It's a conspiracy!" ending would have been good, but ffs don't leave open a massive plot hole. (Henry's comments about notes related to Julia also fit into this category. We as the player see no notes about Julia that weren't already discussed, but somehow Henry does? And how would Ned even have found that information out? It doesn't make sense unless Henry was, quite literally, experiencing delusions.)
Shit apparently this game just gives you dementia because i dont remember ANYTHING that's going on like wtf??? And i used to watch almost everyone play it but i dont remember it like this at all
If you want a horror game how about mouthwashing game although I’ll understand if you don’t because well let’s just say be prepared if you do play it okay
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Did Ben just casually do a face reveal, in such a nonchalant manner as to baffle me enough to not realize for a good 5 minutes
WHERE???
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IT WAS SO NONCHALANT I BARELY NOTICED 💀
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I feel too many people miss the point that this is about two people getting caught up in the isolation and condemn the mystery for not being an actual huge conspiracy. It's two people who're lost in the moment, in their own heads, caught up in the IDEA of a huge conspiracy. But then it's just a grieving man who can't let go of his son, and some people researching bears. People were PISSED there wasn't a government conspiracy.
Honestly, it's a breath of fresh air seeing that the government had nothing to do with what happens (aside from abandoning a whole lot of equipment...which is accurate). Coincidences and happenstance, happens. It's almost like conspiracy theorists in real life who blame everything on the government or aliens (easy targets, sometimes they're actually right. Sometimes, it's nonsense)
It's written all over everything, too. Ned's plot is literally also about getting lost in the isolation.
i honestly had the same "i remember this being big but don't remember anything about it" feeling before watching a streamer replay it a few months ago. i have no idea how i could ever forget any of that again. i lost my grandmother to alzheimer's when she was in her early 50s, i was 8. this story hit harder the second time through
I remember liking this game for the visuals, the interractive "make your own story experience" elememts, as well as how not only your character being unreliable but also the person who you would expect to be the knowledgeable mentor is revealed to not really know what they are doing either. This combined with the somber story and plot reveals and isolation made for a very introspective game.
I didnt really understand why so many people didnt like the game (except perhaps those who didnt like the simplistic gameplay experience, which fair enough i guess), until i watched some modern streamers recently and realized that you can just, miss certain parts that I consider "essential" to the story, if you just refuse to explore or talk to Deliah and rush to the end of the game. I was suddenly like "oh, if this is the experience many people get no wonder they dont like this game."
Fly high Bento Box it was wonderful watching people reply to every Mizu5 mention
MIZU5 MENTIONED?!
Good luck with finals, funny horror guy, I'll definitely be keeping an eye out for the new stuff and watching this video
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I absolutely love the cardboard cutout in the background of the thumbnail making people think this may be a horror game
34:46 Do what you gotta do man, we'll be here supporting you from the sidelines. o7
It's been 8 years since this game came out. I'm thinking it was 2015 but it was 2016, when my life went down the drain. Honestly I still have a lot of nostalgia for this game
In my playthrough, I roleplayed as Henry trying to start a fling with Delilah to escape his problems. The end is heartbreaking, as Delilah tells you your summer meant nothing and you need to go back to your wife. The whole mystery is two people trying to live an exciting fantasy but eventually... they have to go back to reality.
I had always heard about this game a whole lot but was like "what even is going on??" because I never watched any sort of gameplay of it. This honestly cleared up a lot and all I had to say was like "Damn. That was actually pretty wild."
Goodluck on your final semester btw man
The fact that you cover a lot of nostalgic games in the 2010s makes me miss that era of short but sweet indie classics that have a really heartfelt story to tell. I recently stumbled upon "Until Then" and it really scratched that itch for me and I hope you'd play it someday because more people really need to know about it
Personally there’s two things I remember about this game, the wife having Dimentia, and Marks insane cardboard mascot
sincerely good luck with your final semester. Remember to take breaks and take care of yourself while working hard. I believe in you.
Rip bento box 🫡🕊️
We love you ben, stay strong youre almost done there! We will support you from here buddy. good luck and we will miss you lots!
theres been so many firewatch vids lately and im so happy for it
New Ben Again video? Hell yeah.
I saw someone play the game in passing, but I really wanted to focus on what the story was about. So, thanks for the video!
man. i haven't watched a proper full playthrough of this game nor have i played it myself, but i know it's a beautiful game. this video's the first i've seen of certain points and angles of the game, both narratively in perspectives and specific parts of the gameplay (somehow this is the first time i've seen henry tossing the backpack into the pickup truck at the start, which is something that seems so simple), and i think i'd like to add my own thoughts and ideas based off of the things i do know.
this game has grief and escapism written all over it. ned grieving brian, yes, but also henry grieving over his wife due to her crumbling condition and delilah grieving her relationship after she didn't come home and left. and then you have all of them escaping their realities (burying his son, seeing his wife forget more and more, going back to a home filled only with her own mistakes) by staying in shoshone national forest. and while they're there, they have a great time! delilah and henry have a person they can open up to, there's a beautiful forest awaiting them all, and there's no time to think about the life they've left behind because there's a mystery afoot! except... at the end of the day, there isn't truly escaping their reality they came here to hide from. the forest burns. the summer ends. they have to go home.
...i dunno, i think i've run out of words now. thank you for making this video, and good luck with finals!
Rip discord. I didnt write anything since i joined, except when i got the news it ends, but the few moments were a delight. It closed right as i was about to send "Goodbye ya'll". Ok now i should actually watch the video.
LETS GO
Time to watch Ben Again, Firewatch special!
Good luck with finals Ben !! 💕
I honestly have to say I'm enjoying the PL vs. AA music that's playing in the background 😊
Gonna say at the start, you're not the main character in this. You can make choices, but they make sense to that character. Henry has issues, so of couse he makes bad choices. also "get it on sale, its 20 dollars for only 4 hours" like bruh, that's a damn good price for a good story imo
6:54 casual face reveal
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You got these finals man, don't overhype them! Teachers and Professors nowadays usually hate stuff like that so it shouldn't be too rough, sending you brain power o7
I vibe with the ability to just wander. I think more games should let us wander. And I love the mystery too. Sometimes things just happen and that's all there is to it.
OH MY HOLY GOD Firewatch is such an incredible experience ❤️ first nitw and now this? Ur on a roll with these, Ben
Good luck with your finals Ben!! Thanks for the amazing video as always!
amazing video! i love this game a lot becaue of its aesthetics and like, very real character writing so I screamed when I saw you covered it. you always have a unique take on games and i hope your finals go over well so you can keep creating without worry!
I really love this game, but those glitches...
Those never happened to me, not even when I was playing on XBOX Gamepass, on cloud, on a pirated app(on an Android TV) with the game constantly stopping between scenes due to my poor internet.
What a weird glitch
This game is somehow a game I never seen the ending even though I know it from release
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Its always a good day when ben uploads again
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As a representative of “The Kids” please NEVER be hip ever again please.
My fav part is the Stanley parable crossover
There's actually a RUclipsr named Captainsauce who basically did a theroy video on this game. If you like Fire Watch, i would highly recommend checking it out
the campy teen voice just sounded like Jecka from Class of '09 lmao
Boosteroid is a game-changer. My gaming has never been this smooth!
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New Ben Again video, hurray!
There is definitely a difference in feeling between watching someone play a game and playing it yourself. The act of involving yourself directly already creates this sense of investment that you cant really get away from, and what you experience becomes wholly your own. It would be *you* hiding from the killer, *you* saving the world, *you* making all of those close friends, and so on. It is one of those human things that helps make each experience fresh, and why people who come into a fandom tangentially can still get a "true experience" even after knowing roughly what goes down.
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I both love and hate that the protagonist never figures out what sort of person Delilah really is. Or perhaps, he does realize it, but never lets it slip. That's what stuck with me the most.
Excellent video, good luck with those finals!
34:46 i understand Ben. I've been in your shoes before and i gotta say it was a pretty difficult time for me too.
I hope you pass Ben. Best of luck
Good luck homie. Wishing you the best!!
oh man is this a sweet story
lol we're both graduating at the same time. also what I could remember from this game when it was popular, there was a theory video about how Delilah never existed or something cause you dont see other people other than their silhouettes, which is an interesting artistic choice. Other that that, this is a really bittersweet game ^^
I don't think I'll ever forget about Firewatch. Even many years after finishing it, I still think about it from time to time. It still has my 2 favourite characters out of any game I've played, the only thing that comes close is the main cast of Kentucky Route Zero. Henry and Delilah just feel so real as characters, plus the chemistry between them just makes it so fucking endearing, all the while always having a lingering feeling of melancholy in the air. I know there's many people who have a lot of issues with the game, mainly with the ending and the mystery aspect, but I personally think both were executed perfectly, in general I think Firewatch is the closest thing to a "perfect" game, that I personally have experienced.
Baller game so I know this video is gonna be good
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Only thing I remember about firewatch is the alt ending where the helicopter leaves you if you take too long to get on.
"firewatch took over the internet"
Me who has never heard of it ever :D
I remember watching Markiplier play this back in the day. At the time, I was upset Henry never got with Delilah. But now I'm glad he didn't. I was young and stupid and didn't think about the consequences and what it would have meant for Henry to effectively abandon his sick wife to get together with this other woman. I still wish they met at least once, but Henry needed to go back to his wife. He needed to confront his feelings and his memories. Who knows, that's what headcanons are for. Maybe he did get in touch with Delilah later and they started a (healthy) friendship.
4:36 I literally can't take it seriously when a goofy ah cut out is staring at horizontaly.
The only thing that rubbed me the wrong way with the story was, not the fact the conspiracy was false, but the fact the game frames Henry going back to Julia as a good thing, or at least the right thing. The common consensus on this game's themes seem to be about the futility of escapism, and how Henry is a coward for just abandoning Julia and he has to face his mistakes, but to that I say, face them how? What the heck is he supposed to do? His wife literally doesn't recognize him and doesn't know who he is anymore, and if my memory serves correct, her parents hate him and don't trust him to take care of her (if, of course, you picked that option), taking her into their care instead. There is NOTHING left for him in regards to Julia, there is nothing he can do to improve the situation, just as Henry is unrecognizable to Julia, Julia is now unrecognizable to Henry. What else can he do besides move on? That's likely a part of why many players jump to the conclusion that they can romance Delilah, as a form of Henry moving on from Julia, so to me being told that my only option, Henry's only option, was to go back to the place that holds nothing but misery for him, just felt like I was being flipped off. Like yeah, I get it, it's a story about life, you don't get a happy fairytale ending, I just fail to understand what Henry has to "confront" with Julia.
Besides that, yes the game is fantastic, the ending just rubs me the wrong way, but given the fact it was made to be purposefully unsatisfying, I am fairly sure the devs expected people to not be happy with the ending anyway, it's meant to be the point.
Good luck in your finals Ben ❤
man i wish i had bens weird ability to somehow entirely forget peak ass games down to the basic plotline
:O a firewatch video
There was always one thing that bothered me about the ending.
Why was all the equipment still there? It was just left out in the woods, unattended? I know it needed to be there to keep the narrative the way they wanted it, but what was the in-universe reason for the government just abandoning hundreds, maybe even thousands, of dollars in equipment in a park? Still attached to power, at that.
And it can't be a case of "they still used it" because then Ned's notes wouldn't have been left there.
If they only used it seasonally, some of the larger equipment might have been left. However, there was plenty of portable equipment left too.
For me, that's why the "It was just one guy!" ending felt so bad. I get wanting to have a twist in your story, and I don't even think the "It's a conspiracy!" ending would have been good, but ffs don't leave open a massive plot hole. (Henry's comments about notes related to Julia also fit into this category. We as the player see no notes about Julia that weren't already discussed, but somehow Henry does? And how would Ned even have found that information out? It doesn't make sense unless Henry was, quite literally, experiencing delusions.)
You used to be able to get your photos properly printed on the Firewatch website, which I thought was a nuts choice.
Yay first upload
In a bit
29:23 that is the first refrence i have ever seen to the andy grithith show.
Video 6 of asking Ben to play OMORI
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Wishing you great success with finals and graduation!!✨
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I like firewatch its very pretty
Brain Rot Ben is my reason I have nightmares now
Yes my favourite game 😢
The only fire I'm watching is hit youtuber Ben Again
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Also day 49 of begging @ben-again to review darkwood
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Good luck on your finals and your future schooling! Hopefully the next time we hear from you you'll have a shiny diploma :]
Hey i remember this game from a long time ago!
i love your vidos keep it up buckaroo.
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liked as soon as i heard "sigma rizz" bcuz WHAT
Best of wishes for finals
somehow i remembered this game as having an entirely different plotline?? cool story tho tbh
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Shit apparently this game just gives you dementia because i dont remember ANYTHING that's going on like wtf??? And i used to watch almost everyone play it but i dont remember it like this at all
Ben, is it possible to cover OFF? I think you'll like it
May i ask the skeleton year 3 this entire time?
Is Henry voiced by John Fallout 4?
Good luck on the finals!
I would like to recommend to you a game called Valley
1:36 End your personal life
If you want a horror game how about mouthwashing game although I’ll understand if you don’t because well let’s just say be prepared if you do play it okay
i wanna watch your videos but you play games that i wanna play too :((((.
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