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Samovar posted:OK, has anything been revealed through those torn letters? Nothing yet but you don't actually find out what they say until you find all the pieces. I'll put them out when I get around to the last video. Mostly they bring up more burning questions and implications!
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Oct 20, 2015 11:40
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Keep on truckin' Leslie. Nothing wrong going on here! 50: Leslie's Bizarre Adventure/Polsy
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Oct 20, 2015 17:12
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I love that by this point the world has pretty much given up on what little semblance of connectivity there once was, and now it's like ahh gently caress it just plop her down anywhere. 
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Oct 20, 2015 18:25
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I just want to note, as someone who does not own a single pair of flat shoes (except for a pair of slippers I wear when smoking on the balcony,) running like Kidman does in a pair of stilettes is close to impossible. You see, running in "normal" heals is quite plausible, but even walking in stilettos you have to learn to put your toe down first and only use the heel for balance because it can't support your weight. So if Kidman had worn a pair of heels that was at least a bit more substantial running in them would be doable but running the way she is in a pair of stilettos is honestly not possible.
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Oct 20, 2015 18:53
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She evidently went to the Raiden school of running with heels.
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Oct 20, 2015 19:12
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Yeah, the rest of her attire is really sensible but I'm pretty sure any cop who expects to see even a little action should have flats, if not running sneakers.
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Oct 20, 2015 19:39
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Having had recent experience with running in heels it's doable but you definitely have to be focusing on landing on the balls of your feet over your heels/mid-foot. Then again I've also got chunky heels so I imagine stilettos are still a very different story. Why I'm in heels will wait until later.
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Oct 20, 2015 22:00
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Perfecting your Kidman cosplay before they hook you up to STEM, I assume.
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Oct 20, 2015 22:15
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The thing that throws me off is the amazing strength of everyone's calf muscles when they move while crouching.
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Mraagvpeine posted:The thing that throws me off is the amazing strength of everyone's calf muscles when they move while crouching.
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Oct 21, 2015 12:01
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Today I am foiled both by a less than ideal weapon and my own lousy close-quarters battle skills. 51: Quickdraw Kidman/Polsy
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Oct 22, 2015 17:45
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Was I miss seeing things or were there 2 shells popping out of the single shot shotgun?
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Oct 22, 2015 19:03
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No, it was clearly a double-barrel. That's why he was only getting one shot, it was firing both shells. So, that file you picked up was titled Indoctrination. Judging from how she went from defiant and WTF from the start to monotone, I'm guessing there was probably some serious mind-altering stuff in that cocktail she was shot up with. Hell, that file alone made me start rethinking this whole "Kidman chose to join Mobius" angle. Might just be that they grabbed her off the street and drugged her into being a lackey agent.
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Derek Barona posted:No, it was clearly a double-barrel. That's why he was only getting one shot, it was firing both shells. Also: the question the agent asks Kidman at the end. It's the question that Shadow Man started asking Kidman. Which implies that her entire memory of the administrator guy asking her those questions and the meeting in his office was a warped fabrication. We're not just dealing with memories, we're dealing with false memories.
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Oct 22, 2015 21:35
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The final episode, in which answers are given and yet I am left with pretty much the same number of questions. Possibly more questions. 52: Shady Business/Polsy Also, for those interested, the put-together torn letters are here. Torn Letter 1: The Assignment Torn letter 2: The Consequence
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Oct 24, 2015 15:20
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Thanks for the LP. It was quite the experience watching it unfold as you did.
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Oct 24, 2015 16:36
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That fast walk is creepy as hell.
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Oct 24, 2015 16:40
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That was awesome. Thanks, Scruffy. Is "Myra" some sort of Resi reference?
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Ghostwoods posted:That was awesome. Thanks, Scruffy. Is "Myra" some sort of Resi reference? Myra is Sebastian's missing wife. She didn't go missing. She's working for Mobius, apparently. At a high-level position, even! Also complicating everything is Julie now has the weird scar on her hand.
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Oct 24, 2015 22:19
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Speedball posted:Myra is Sebastian's missing wife. She didn't go missing. She's working for Mobius, apparently. At a high-level position, even! DOH! Of course she is. Ooo. Ta.
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Oct 24, 2015 22:23
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So it looks like T.E.W. is, alas, one of those games with an ending that just adds questions, as opposed to actually make you think about it all. Bummer.
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Samovar posted:So it looks like T.E.W. is, alas, one of those games with an ending that just adds questions, as opposed to actually make you think about it all. Bummer. Basically. Seb's ending was definitely supposed to be a "But is it REALLY over...?" horror story type ending with Ruvik walking free, but Kidman's ending is clearly meant to have sequel implications to it. What is "Mobius" and why is Sebastian's wife an administrative level member? Did Joseph really die? Does Kidman have scary shadowlord powers now? Find out in The Evil Within 2: Shinji Mikami's Disco Nightmare!
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If I had to make assumptions based on what we're given, I'd say Sebastian's wife is part of Mobius because they caught wind of her digging into their history, killed the Castellanos' child and burned down their home to ward her away, and then when that only reinforced her efforts (because she knew it was no accident) they abducted her and brainwashed her under the guise that they'd leave Sebastian alone. Then they DID leave him alone, but by pure coincidence he happened to be paired up with Kidman on the same day she was due to enter STEM herself to retrieve Leslie. The reason I say this is because there's evidence that they do brainwash inductees (which we saw a couple of videos ago along with a matching audio log), and Sebastian's personal diary notes that Myra's research is on what we can safely assume to be Mobius. edit: I think the ending of both campaigns can be taken completely at face value, as they do happen in the real world. Kidman was never actually connected to the machine physically as she sees herself in this latest episode, she was inducted in via the sound wave just as Sebastian, Joseph, and Connelly are. The mechanics of how she exited STEM are a mystery, but she's somehow found her way to the main operations room in the real world. Leslie wakes up in the end sequence, so for all MOBIUS knows, she succeeded in her mission. And she is still an operative of MOBIUS, because nothing in the dlc actually happened except for the very, very, VERY beginning when she is injected with her Ruvik-deterrent. Alternatively, she was inducted at the time where we see she is in the beginning of The Assignment, but the Ruvik-deterrent kept her out of STEM's reality fuckery long enough to get her to the hospital with the rest of the main characters. This could also make sense because her eyes are already purple in the game's introduction (they're brown outside of STEM) and she doesn't react to the sound wave in the same way the rest of the cop car's occupants do. It really doesn't matter which interpretation you believe though since the result is the same. So, since the police call at the start actually was real and the murders actually did happen- who they were committed by is a mystery because what Sebastian sees in the main game's intro is after he is already inside STEM, and they exist in the real world in his ending -the MOBIUS crew has to high-tail it out of the building, which is why it's abandoned of staff when Seb wakes up. Kidman told her superiors that Sebastian was dead (along with Connelly and presumably Jimenez, who actually ARE dead), so they left him behind. But then he woke up for real and was able to make his own way out just after the real-life police arrived on the scene. We don't know what happened to Kidman, presumably she left with MOBIUS. We can also assume that Ruvik escaped through Leslie via what we learned in this DLC. If you want even more of a  , the lady being talked to by the director in the end sequence is Tatiana (the save room nurse). Same face and glasses.edit again: If THAT wasn't enough for you in the realm of mindfuckery, this guy:  seen only on a wanted poster in Sebastian's campaign, is the corpse that Kidman gets her pistol from when she's trapped under the rubble in The Assignment:  Saying all this stuff is kinda funny to me considering my own LP of the game is still at literally the very beginning of it all. 
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Based on the second letter I think that Ruvik is becoming much more than one man. He possibly corrupted the Shadow man in Kidman's head and now is deep in her subconscious, using the Shadow man as a disguise so she doesn't even realise that she has a little piece of psychopath in her head. Or the Shadow Man itself has a purpose other than making sure Kidman does her job, perhaps the leader of Mobius is trying to produce more people who think exactly like he does and this was a convenient time for a first test, it'd certainly explain his interest in STEM beyond being a bad guy running a nefarious organisation. I also suspect that the whole radio/wireless STEM connection is actually just people getting confused about when and how they get in and out, because everything else suggests you need a physical connection to the machine for it to do anything and for a horror game there's almost no magic going on, sharing minds through a machine is far more science fiction. So people who think there's a wireless connection are actually being tricked because they're already in the machine and once inside Ruivk can use 'wireless' to drag you further down into his own consciousness. This is also why people start transforming after a pulse, it's Ruvik making an active attempt at control over the shared consciousness instead of just passively doing so by being the strongest will in their. I actually suspect the reason Kidman wakes up already standing is because the Shadow Man (Ruvik?) takes control whilst she wakes up from STEM as Sebastian also seems to take a while to wake up and the Shadow Man as a consciousness wasn't getting whatever drug cocktail is used to keep people asleep when using STEM. He probably cut the mark in her hand whilst doing so as well, perhaps as a reminder that he's still in there or as a mark of ownership. Lord_Magmar fucked around with this message at 02:31 on Oct 25, 2015 |
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One last update to finish it off I think. Instead of a video, here's all the pictures from the model viewer. Because I'm lazy. Thanks for watching! Also if anyone was still curious about my experience in high heels I was in a Rocky Horror Picture Show last weekend. It was fun. Sebastian Castellanos Sebastian Castellanos (Trench Coat) Juli Kidman Juli Kidman (Wounded) Joseph Oda Nurse Tatiana Leslie Withers Marcelo Jimenez Laura Victoriano Ruvik (Ruben Victoriano) Ruvik (Without Robe) Ruben Victoriano (Child) Ruben Victoriano (Child, Scarred) Young Adult Ruben AlterEgo Sadist Zehn Neun The Keeper Trauma Sentinel Laura (Creature) Quell Shigyo Amalgam Alpha Heresy Amalgam Amalgam Core Haunted (Group A) Haunted (Group B) Haunted (Group C) Haunted (Group D) Haunted (Group E) Haunted (Group F) Animals Sebastian (Young) Sebastian and Joseph (Young) Sebastian (Haunted)
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Oct 29, 2015 19:37
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Great LP scruffy, thanks for doing it. Watching was a lot of fun. 
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Oct 29, 2015 20:41
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Ditto the above, and added thanks for showing me how wrong I was in my initial impressions of the game. I had little idea that there actually lay something interesting behind all the hype and gore.
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Oct 29, 2015 21:48
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Thanks for doing the LP for us! I enjoyed watching you and listening to that nervous laugh. Good stuff, man.
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Did a great job Scruffy! You know.. Looking at the game as a whole- They left a good hook to it. But the problem is you NEED to DLC to get this hook. But I wouldn't mind a sequel that explained some things or see what happens to the others.
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...so, when's the new Batman LP? (Or is the format on PC still utter poo poo?)
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Samovar posted:...so, when's the new Batman LP? I am guessing it is going to be after all the DLC drops.
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Samovar posted:...so, when's the new Batman LP? The Pc verison is currently offering full refunds. They Re-released it, and its 100% utter poo poo still.
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YOTC posted:The Pc verison is currently offering full refunds. They Re-released it, and its 100% utter poo poo still. Yeah, like you can play longer in win10 if you have at least 12GB of ram.
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Nthing the thanks for the LP! I really wanted to love this game but the bombs (combined with an early put-you-back-30-mins checkpoint) just ruined it for me. It was really cool to see the game without the frustration.
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Huh. The Kidman DLC actually feels like the game these game mechanics were supposed to create, if that makes any sense. Though it does get a little Alan Wake-y at the end.
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Thanks for the LP Scruffy it left me more confused than before I even started watching. Also I'm pretty pissed they didn't do more with the chemical lights.
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