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What is this? Until Dawn is a PS4 exclusive game made by Supermassive Games (best known for being one of the companies outsourced for developing Little Big Planet DLC and making the HD port of Killzone.) It's basically one of those “interactive movie”games Quantic Dream likes to make, except this one is good and mostly makes sense. What's it about? A bunch of dumb kids from LA lost some friends during a party up in the Canadian Rockies. One year later, they go back to party again except this time, there's a serial killer lurking about and other stuff. It's a horror movie put into a game, through and through. Aside from the usual kind of mechanics you see in this sort of game (picking up items, looking at them, QTEs etc), there's a Butterfly Effect game mechanic, which is a fancy way of making your choices matter. But the biggest thing that all of the characters can die in really neat horror movie-style way and the game will just move on without them. It also has Peter Stormare, which was the biggest reason I bought the game. How's this LP being done? Post-audio commentary because that's what the hip young SA dorks like these days. Joining me on this thing is Skippy Granola and Xumtosis. Also, this game's save system works differently than most games: If you start a new game, everything gets wiped. There IS an episode select feature but it's only unlocked after you beat the game. So there will be at least two playthoughs: The first run will be for the best ending. The second will be the worst ending. If there's enough worthwhile content missed in both of those, I'll try to whip up something to fix that. PLUS I'm uploading a version of each video where it's just the game audio. Because I figured some people don't want to hear a bunch of nerds talk over everything like idiots. I know I don't sometimes. The only rule right now is don't spoil anything. Not even that "Oh, I bet you guys will love what happens to Sam next" stuff Episode List Episode 1: “Disaster At Makeout Peak” Commentary/No Commentary Episode 2: "And then they fight, like in nature" Commentary/No commentary Episode 3: "Goddammit Xumtosis" Commentary / No Commentary Episode 4: "Hustle, Loyalty, Booty" Commentary / No commentary countzio fucked around with this message at 23:05 on Feb 16, 2016 |
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Reserved.
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Oct 14, 2015 10:12
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Teens being horrible to each other: the video game. But this game goes places. Strange, wonderful, and sometimes gory places. Especially if you miss a QTE.
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Oct 14, 2015 12:32
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I'm only in it to see how far the ShatMemz parallels go.
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Oct 14, 2015 15:17
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Cast of douchebags, check. Peter Stormare looking highly disturbing, check. "Your choices matter" (but not so far), check. Skippy evoking the horrific spectre of cat-suicide, check. So far, so good!
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Oct 14, 2015 15:20
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I was hoping someone would LP this, it seems interesting but I don't want to pay 60$ for what is essentially an interactive movie. Looking forward to the rest.
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Oct 14, 2015 15:47
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Pretty sure that Skippy's pronunciation was correct, perhaps with a bit more of an accent to it. edit: That's the Stormare one, not Hayden Panteneprov
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Oct 14, 2015 20:20
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I'd be careful if you plan to use the episode system for the second run by the way, it's buggy as hell and will sometimes just randomly change what happened. I suspect it forgets the changes you made in a previous episode and maybe reverts to the original save.. but, to be honest, I'm not sure what it does. I went from a perfect run at the end of chapter 8, to a couple of characters suddenly being dead, ruining a best run Starting from a new game again presumably would stop that happening
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Oct 15, 2015 10:10
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You can't 'jump around' episodes when you replay the game. For example, you can pick episode 3, and replay the game from that point. But you can't pick episode 3, complete it, then jump to episode 5 and expect your episode 3 changes to carry over. It'll revert back to whatever your original runthrough was. Picking an episode is really saying "start a new game, but start it from this point, with all previous choices intact".
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Oct 15, 2015 12:34
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Hannah was fool. She should have expect betrayal from Mike. He is, after all, a HYDRA Agent.
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Oct 15, 2015 14:02
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Ah yes, Unlikeable Teenager Simulator 2015. This is a pretty good game.
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Oct 15, 2015 14:04
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Blackwood Pines: the most polite murder spot this side of the border!Demicol posted:I was hoping someone would LP this, it seems interesting but I don't want to pay 60$ for what is essentially an interactive movie. Looking forward to the rest. Nah, you do. You really do want to buy this and play it for yourself.
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Oct 15, 2015 14:08
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FluffySquirrel posted:I'd be careful if you plan to use the episode system for the second run by the way, it's buggy as hell and will sometimes just randomly change what happened. bewilderment posted:You can't 'jump around' episodes when you replay the game. Oh yeah, I know all about how the chapter select works since I tried doing it when I first beat the game to fix a choice I made. It's not going to be an issue since the second playthough is going to be a massive fuckup festival, it'd be best to just start fresh.
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Oct 15, 2015 15:00
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I heard about this game but Friday The 13th-style slasher horror isn't usually my bag. Interested to see what happens, though. I'm a little sad the "get all the douchebag teenagers murdered" run is gonna be second, though. They have it coming after that prologue.
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Oct 15, 2015 16:15
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bewilderment posted:You can't 'jump around' episodes when you replay the game. Oh no, I was aware of that, totally not what happened. I was just going through from the start again, just doing it chapter by chapter in order. Then I missed a QTE and a character died, ruining the perfect run. So I restarted that same chapter again. Bam, 2 chapters progress erased completely.. a few people were having similar issues at the time, it just seems to get confused sometimes
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Oct 15, 2015 23:56
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Uh hi. You guys probably want an update. The commentary for Chapter 1's going to be recorded this weekend. Maybe earlier but don't count on that. Also, the commentary for the first video wasn't our first take because there was a mistake along the way. I kept the audio commentary for it though if you are into that. It also has some irreverent conversations about the deep lore of Smurfs before we played the video. I forgot how we went down that road. 
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Oct 20, 2015 07:25
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dscruffy1 posted:Ah yes, Unlikeable Teenager Simulator 2015. This is a pretty good game. They grow on you as things progress. I hated them all at first too.
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Oct 20, 2015 07:31
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Stormare has three syllables. But you both pronounce it quite wrong. In Swedish almost all words put the emphasis on the first syllable so it's more like "Storr- marreh", if that makes sense. Also, drat, he's getting old. He'll probably always be the age he was when playing "Hamilton" since that was who I first saw him as. Oh, and the game looks interesting too! Thesaya fucked around with this message at 11:49 on Oct 20, 2015 |
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Oct 20, 2015 11:38
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I hope you guys like updates. Episode 2: "And then they fight, like in nature"": Commentary/No commentary B-Roll:  The next episode might take a little longer since there will be more editing involved before it's ready for commentary. But later in the week, I'll put up a character list with pictures, links to actor imdb pages and notes from the companion app they made. Speaking of which, that app doesn't have a lot of neat/useful things outside of those notes, and a personality test but it did have a little time line of the region. Which is this: quote:A History of Blackwood Pines
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Oct 26, 2015 05:10
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"Dr. Hill, why did you get me to come here at night? And why do our sessions only last like ten minutes? How much am I paying you? Is it more than zero?"
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Oct 26, 2015 06:06
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frozentreasure posted:"Dr. Hill, why did you get me to come here at night? And why do our sessions only last like ten minutes? How much am I paying you? Is it more than zero?" "Look at this creepy clown does it creep you out our time is up THIS WILL AFFECT YOUR MEMORIES"
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Oct 26, 2015 16:03
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Well if it is Canada in the winter it could just be afternoon. I live in the south of Sweden and it gets dark around 15.30 here in winter.
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Oct 26, 2015 16:48
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If it's not too much trouble and you aren't running for your life at the time, I'd like to request that you pull up the menu and check whenever a butterfly change happens, just so the people who've never played might have an idea what exactly was just affected. Some of them look pretty obvious, like "Hey Sam didn't get caught looking in someone's bag", but the whole "Nature remains in balance" is hilariously vague and allows for hilarious wild guessing about what it did.
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Oct 27, 2015 04:26
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Derek Barona posted:If it's not too much trouble and you aren't running for your life at the time, I'd like to request that you pull up the menu and check whenever a butterfly change happens, just so the people who've never played might have an idea what exactly was just affected. Some of them look pretty obvious, like "Hey Sam didn't get caught looking in someone's bag", but the whole "Nature remains in balance" is hilariously vague and allows for hilarious wild guessing about what it did. Yeah, sure. That's fair. Some of it got updated already so I'll make sure to pause it and show what changed at the start of the next video.
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Oct 27, 2015 04:32
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frozentreasure posted:"Dr. Hill, why did you get me to come here at night? And why do our sessions only last like ten minutes? How much am I paying you? Is it more than zero?" [Cycling of facial expressions intensifies]
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Nov 2, 2015 18:56
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Those Stormare faces. 
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Nov 15, 2015 22:30
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Any news on the next update?
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GyverMac posted:Any news on the next update? I'll be recording tonight, see if I can wrangle Skips and Xum the day after or the weekend (what with the Thanksgiving and all) and we'll go from there. Sorry for the lack of updates but a bunch of stuff happened including midterms and having to do a clean install on Windows on the computer I do most of the editing on.
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Nov 24, 2015 20:56
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Great game so far, dudes! I'm always positive to giving gainful employment to character actors, and these Peter Stormare pieces are pretty great. The various "teenagers" are just supposed to be cannon fodder for the serial killer, right? So Dr Hill is our stable point, jowls and all.
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Nov 26, 2015 16:49
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This is actually p cool so far
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Nov 26, 2015 21:17
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This died kinda abruptly.
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Uh hi, it's been a while but I got you guys this update filled with awkward/rusty commentary and inside jokes. Episode 3: "Goddammit Xumtosis": Commentary / No Commentary (The video without us talking is still processing as of this post.) Mistakes were made, mostly of being lazy and playing Yakuza 5 even after having to fix computer problems twice. But this weekend, I plan to record the next chapter and if I'm lucky, I can get the audio done on Sunday.
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Jan 28, 2016 08:41
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Mistah Stormare - he dead. e: Well I'll be dead and rained on, look at that
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Jan 28, 2016 08:41
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That video is the most Canadian thing ever, thanks LP dads
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Jan 28, 2016 10:05
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It has become a bit of an obsession for me to listen for the faint traces of a Swedish accent in Stormare's voice. It is more distinct in this than in most of his work, probably because he isn't trying to hide it very much. However, you guys for some reason seem to think he has a Russian accent instead of a Swedish one. 
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Jan 28, 2016 11:24
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countzio posted:Uh hi, it's been a while but I got you guys this update filled with awkward/rusty commentary and inside jokes. Thanks for picking this back up, the only alternatives were lovely celebrity YouTube LPers
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Jan 28, 2016 22:30
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JT Jag posted:This died kinda abruptly. It was only playing dead! it was just a prank, bro!
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Jan 28, 2016 22:50
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You know that part in all the Friday the 13th movies where they hit Jason with a truck and they're like "Is he dead?" Then someone goes over to pull off his mask and then BAM Machete in the eye This thread... is that truck.
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Jan 29, 2016 01:44
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JT Jag posted:I didn't expect that to work My sentiments exactly. Also oh my loving god would someone turn on some lights already.
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malkav11 posted:My sentiments exactly. Yeah, pretty much the same here.
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