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IT'S JUST A GAME
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- Published on Oct 1, 2023 veröffentlicht
- *VIDEO CONTAINS SPOILERS*
Is it really just a video game? This is a video dedicated to some of the most amazing moments in games that I have had the opportunity to play. Video games have been a big part of my life and have become my favorite method of storytelling that exists today. People can write off video games as a lower form of storytelling but I hope this video can show that video games can have just as much emotional poignancy as film. Here's to the amazing moments created by some pretty incredible game developers. Hope you enjoy!
TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Ghost of Tsushima
0:14 Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
0:28 The Last of Us Part 1
0:39 Destiny 2: Forsaken
0:57 Spider-Man
1:15 Halo 2
1:28 Modern Warfare 2019
1:45 Titanfall 2
1:55 Red Dead Redemption 2
2:09 Battlefield 1
2:23 Uncharted 4: A Thief's End (again)
2:45 Destiny 2: Forsaken (again)
3:10 Spider-Man (again)
3:26 Ghost of Tsushima (again)
3:43 The Last of Us Part 1 (again)
3:55 Modern Warfare Remastered
4:03 Titanfall 2 (again)
4:14 Montage
4:32 Ghost of Tsushima (ending)
Here's where my inspiration came from, thank you Palentro and the countless TikToks that came before:
• "It's Just A Video Gam...
Song: “In This Shirt By The Irrepressibles" • In This Shirt
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"You have no honor."
"And you are a slave to it..."
Fucking hell the writing in Ghost of Tsushima is great
Nope
@The Fox damn bro that's crazy
nice opinion
but im inside your house
@Cryzera have a seat
@The Fox it is tho
@wksu no
"we both ain't gonna make it"
this line shakes my heart everytime
i've never played a Red Dead game but I can still get the pure emotion behind that scene. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems like that was the moment when Arthur realized he was going to die, so he may as well let John get to safety
@ComicTitan Yes, that's basically it.
@ComicTitan you need to play it
@ComicTitan you should definitely play rdr2 it’s probably one of the best games I’ve ever played. The story is fantastic.
@Jackson Avery well not all people have a good device
It's not just a videogame.
It's a story.
It's an experience.
It's art.
@Feather of a Jaythe best art i might add
its an incredible journey through old american history
-jack black
a tale of mind and world
It's a story that your in
“Your a true Aussie now” hits so hard when your an Aussie playing the game, first game that I’ve played where an Aussie has a story and a bloody beautiful one at that
I cried… Aussies and the Kiwis did so much for the war, alot of people don’t know that… we were the runs that stormed those beaches and never gave up even tho we lost 39,000 Aussies died on D-Day (Normandy).
Also a friend of decided to play battlefield 1 and battlefield V and I told him you are going to cry… it is so sad, every story in the game is horrific and sad…
Just like infinite warfare I full on cried at the end two people (one robot) commit suicide to save their friends and hearing the stories (messages for family and friends) by the people who dies during the campaign… it broke me, same with RDR2 and The Walking Dead season 1 (game)
@Lucraceous Actually it was 39,00 during the entire duration of the war. 18 Australian soldiers were known to have died on the June 6th hostilities.
@Caleb Allen oh yea I worded it wrong, I was very tired when I wrote that is what like 1:00-3:00AM in the morning.
What game was this?
@Tom Oakley Battlefield 1
"We get dirty"
"The world gets clean"
And Cayde 6's death hit me the hardest
how they literally showed it in the trailer...
Just because they showed it in the trailer doesn’t mean anything. The build up of Last Call mission was enough to lead you into a false sense of security. The beginning was actually fun… being able to run around with Cayde and fight alongside him because we’d never been able to do that before. You’d almost forgotten about the trailer entirely until the Riffleman’s shot rips you from your precious dream world and slams you so hard back into reality your soul is a crushed, mangled mess. Least that’s what it did to me.
Cayde's "Tell them that the vanguard that it was the best bet I ever lost" gets me every time, Hunter lore talks about how they usually ALL hate the position of vangaurd because it limits freedom, something all hunters intensely desire, but Cayde loved them, he loved his fire team, his friends, his family, he didn't care what he lost, he gained so much more. Hes the only hunter Vanguard I can think of to love the position.
For sure
I sometimes wonder if he says "I lost" because he got in the position or if because he knows we're doomed to die at the hands of the Witness
Certainly the former
@LeBrachiXD he joined the vanguard as a result of a lost bet with his friend
@spectacularly spectacular Oh yeah know, I just still wonder if he was trying to say something
What a great video! I was crying my eyes out at the end of Arthur Morgan’s story and my girlfriend literally says “it’s just a game why do you care so much”
men and video games are like women and makeup.... they allow us to escape reality and be someone else
@The Don I got one thing to say to you.
Break up with that woman
Break up with her
I wouldn't hold it against her, people tend to say weird things about what they don't understand. I've had so much family think that I was just lazy and sucked up by video games, I've even been punched in the mouth over it. Video games are an astonishingly effective means of telling stories. Maybe one day tell her these stories over a cup of coffee, maybe she'll really appreciate the stories. She doesn't have to be a great gamer, but just have an ear for good writing. Hope you do well man.
Aha and cry after watching titanic for over 20 times
Out of all of these, titanfall two probably hit hardest for me honestly. It’s one of the few games I went into completely blind and played all the way through, even playing the multiplayer after.
honestly, it hits hard
I started tearing up after seeing BT again, shit hurt man
Ive never been one to cry but seeing BT made me shiver
same bro
fax fr 💔💔
4:10 no matter how many time i watch this or play it it always hurts. The way BT sacrifices himself for Jack twice..
may his soul rest in peace
these lines we will never forget
BT: Protocol 3 protect the pilot.
Jack: BT WHAT ARE YOU DOING!!?
BT: Trust Me .
Man that one always gets me so hard
@GD William BT Survived though, when you get the secret ending, he's trying to communicate with Jack through the helmet, blinking a morse code
@Pancake he survived the campaign, but not the greed of EA, unfortunately...they were too scared of how much everyone loved Titanfall 2, so they ruined the franchise.
It's crazy that I've played all of the games in this video and I never really realized how many amazing storytelling moments I've experienced with games until watching this. Videogames are more than just hobbies. They're artistic journeys.
I have two little sisters about 10 years of age.
When I went to my bud's house to play The Last of Us, that opening scene gave me a gut punch so hard I had to put the controller down and go outside for air. Destroys me every time still. Amazing game.
same with me and my little sister.
she is 16, not so little anymore. Yet I still feel strongly to the idea of what I wouldn't do to protect her.
Sarah’s death hurt before I was a father. Now that I have a daughter? It is gut wrenching.
I feel the same way for my adopted daughter.
When I heard BT say: “Protocol 3, protect the pilot”
I knew what was about to happen and my heart dropped 😢
"It's just a game."
It's not just a game.
It's never just a game.
It is always, an experience.
Like a man once said,
You can watch a movie, you can read a book, but a video game? That is something you experience
@Bryson Kuervers you watch the movie read the book hear the music but you live the game
Roblos be like
your use of commas is disgusting lol
I'll say those words after I go through RDR2 and my parents see me crying at the end credits.
BT will forever have a place to stay in my heart😢
yes
BT is alive, at the end of Titanfall 2 jacks helmet glows in a weird pattern which is Morse code and it tells us that his still alive.
@Gregeri14 wait seriously? titanfall 3 plot fr
@OrangeAnchovieunfortunately Titanfall 3 won’t come to fruition. The devs dropped the idea due to how well Apex was doing and decided to continue monetizing it. They said in an article that TF3 was to similar to the last entry so they decided to stop development. Total BS if you ask me…
No game tore me apart as much as Spiderman did. I'm tearing up just watching it again.
The. Best. Game. Hands. Down.
What happened
@Hitman Assasin aunt may died 😭
I didn't play, i still cry, that scene is justso well done
I don’t agree I’ve played sadder ones but still pretty sad game and Spider-Man just always loses everything comics games movies u name it
Between BT and E3N from Infinite warfare, it's always somehow the sentient robots sacrificing themselves that hit me the hardest. That's how you know you did a story right, when you can get an audience so genuinely attached to a robotic character.
Wall-E had the same thing. There were adults sad in theaters when it looked like the little guy wasn't gonna make it.
it always hits me when Arthur says "it would mean a lot to me"
God that game is amazing
It’s not just a video game.
It is a story.
And it’s beautiful.
“The Vanguard…was the best..bet…I ever……lost..”
“Don’t make a girl a promise if you know you can’t keep it”
“Protocol 3: Protect The Pilot.”
These are the ones that hurt me physically
Oh and when bt says earlier in the campaign "I will not lose another pilot"
"This is what i get for playing nice"
BT was such a great character, he actually felt real.. So when I finished the game for the first time, it was an emocional rollercoaster for me.
SAME
'This ain't on you'
Just like a well written book, play, or movie can evoke tears from the audience, a beautifully written story in a video game can do the same.
It's more then a game, We feel them Relate them ITS NOT JUST A GAME it's a masterpiece
I am man enough to admit I was at the brink of tears for most of this video
The giraffe scene isn't just one of my favorite moments in gaming or art, but my life. That brief moment of joy and magic after all the horror of what came before. For a moment their journey meant something. So beautiful.
Not going to lie BT’s death makes me shed a tear every time I see it.
hes just a robot but it gets me every time
@pyromonkey256 frfr
He’s alive
@Adonis Winrow we know doesn’t make what seems to be his death any less sad. Pretty much ever body has seen it jacks helmet flickers in Morse code and it translates to “cooper can you hear me?”
BT is a legend
damn the feels i can't..
Oh damn you here?
I don't cry allot, but from 1:55 to 2:22 a waterfall went down my eyes. Two of the most beautiful games ever made.
It's not just a game. It's a story that we watch, a story that we love, a story that we are part of and a story that we remember.......
Ive never played any of these games (idk how) but i can feel the emotion coming from every clip. And even though i dknt know the scenes i cryed along with everyone who has played these games. Games are the truest form of story telling because people can make any story they want and can pour their emotion into their amazing creations. This is why i love the gaming comunity and why i want to become a major part of it during my life. The best part about life is the times we felt the strongest emotions wether they be good or bad, and games can do that perfectly. These are some of the reasons i love society and every creation that has broutht us to this point because we might not be here without them. And thank you for listening to me rambling on.❤
This is the most well made "It's just a game" that i've seen. All the clips fit so well where you put them. On top of that you said which games were which AND you seemed to mute the clips when they weren't talking so that the in game music didn't overpower the music you put over. Truly a masterpiece.
"A video game isn't just a game, it's a story that you will never have to live, yet the interactions that you have are more human than actual people in present times" - Me
The cayde one is what got me the most.
Just Imagine if bungie made a mission where you had to carry his body back to your ship like you did in the promotional
artwork :(
I agree but he's gone now😞
There’s a chance he could come back but your ghost says “he’ll be a blank slate.”
@Cxrey media ik
@Cxrey media he won’t come back. Bungie knows that bringing him back in any way would cheapen what Forsaken did.
when I heard the Forsaken content was getting vaulted, I cried, because in times when life was rough, and I went to video games to escape, Cayde made me laugh, and it sucks knowing new players might not know he ever existed.
The fact that I have never played any of the games in this video but still got the feeling of sadness in each games is amazing. It really show it's not just a game
The tears shed over these scenes. Proves these are not just games.
“You tell Zavala, Ikora. The Vanguard was the best bet, I ever lost.” Man.. Cayde was the most likeable character in d2 and I can't help but cry everytime I see this..
I just got hit by all the feels at once
Titan fall 2 made me so sad. Everything you go through with BT and when he said I got you made me feel like he would always be there
It’s unexpected, and it hits you so hard
"War is when the young and stupid are tricked by the old and bitter into killing each other."
- Niko Bellic, 2008
f*cking genius N.B.
I feel like GTA 4 is the most well written games of its kind out there imo....
@Mantosh 56 it is one of the most well written games of all times
The best GTA game and character
“ War is young men dying and old men talking”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt
As a gamer these scenes hit hard ❤✊ There movie adaptations can never do the games justice.
Every game has a story, but every gamer has a library of them.
Titanfall 2 was the one that got me. After all that BT and cooper had been through, he still died. From becoming a grunt in training to the most badass pilot to ever live in a week. And the most desperate situation to the best friendship, they were there through it all.
god the pain... i cried, Cayde-6 caught me off guard, my family is wondering why im crying... my rage and sadness are insurmountable. i cannot express it
my cousin litterally went into a week long depression after the death of Cayde-6
After watching this I'm sitting here remembering all those days in school where I could only think of getting home to play my favorite video games with my friends. Now that I'm looking back at it all I am so grateful to have experienced all of those late nights and countless hours everyone thought I was wasting away. Now I work long hours and don't have as much time to enjoy these things as much but as that old saying goes, "do not be sad because it is gone, be happy because it happened."
You picked some of the best games with the greatest stories
Like titanfall2
@ironbull08x one of the Bests
Ghost of tsushima
The Witcher 3 should have been on here, Detroit Become Human, Horizon Zero Dawn, so many masterpeices that got left out. But this list still has many other masterpeices
@James the minorbender ac2 also maybe? The story of ezio?
I remember watching this video before I’d ever played Ghost of Tsushima. And I never knew what kind of impact it’d have on me (A lot) and I remember recognising him when I first played it, and waited the entirety of my time playing the game to hear Shimura say ‘You have no honour’. Play this game, y’all. You deserve it
I sadly didn’t grow up playing some these games (I didn’t have a console till like 2015), one of my biggest regrets (I don’t even call myself a “gamer” because of it). But they still hit me in my feels, a testimony to the greatness of these games.
Normal people didn't understand what we as a gamer feels. They think its video game but for us.....its different....its feeling
These games really are masterpieces, and seeing them made me shed tears
'I gave you all I had... I did.'
Man, still thinking about that scene makes shivers down my spine. Red Dead Redemption 2 isn't just an experience, it's an existence.
"Trust me." and "The vanguard is the best bet i've ever lost..." are simultaneusly the 2 phrases in all of gaming to make me shed a tear
same
"Never thought it would end like this huh? Huh, Maria?!" Kills me everytime
Holy crap I miss Forsaken. Sad as all heck, but it was among the greatest storytelling and writing Destiny has ever had.
Yeah
I cry whenever I see BT’s death,he was always happy to learn new things from jack. That is what made him human. So human he made me cry
I'm so glad they added what the song was called because I've been trying to find this song and I've finally been able to listen to it while thinking about universes people have created that you can experience yourself and experience what the characters feel and think, I think without music, this world would truly be a nightmare, that's all I have to say.
DUDE HOW DID THIS MAKE ME FEEL SO MUCH I AM CRYING NOW THANKS ALOT
The most legendary moments in our day, even our children will know these moments
Cayde-6's death hit me the hardest, and then comes BT's sacrifice and I just couldn't take it anymore, then MW2 remastered made me crack open and cry
I still can't forget that ending...
"Don't worry BT, I'm not going anywhere"
Hit me a bit too hard when BT threw cooper to safety
My opinion BT7274 is the best character I've ever got to play with
Yep, at first I thought to myself "well, at least we're going to die together. F for BT and Cooper..." But then BT came up with protocol 3 and I was like "NOOOO! WE'RE SUPPOSED TO DIE TOGETHER!"
Protocol 3: Protect the Pilot
BT7274 may be a wretched AI as well as a mecha, but it did its duty as a machine, serve organics.
BT and Cayde made me drop a tear ... again
This needs a follow up video with the endings to all the great RPGs out there, or the tragic mid game losses, or the heartbreak a good story brings.
It's not just a game, but a life lesson.
Tsushima made me cry after I replayed that scene again, I made the decision to spare him, I couldn’t kill him, it’s not who I am no scratch that it’s not what we gamers are.
Damn so many memories from all this games. I will remember them all until the end.
I'm not here for the art, for the shooting, for the skills, the leaderboard... I'm not here for fun, or to pass time, or even really to play the game.
I'm here for the story.
depends on the game but yes
That depends but I do agree with what your saying.
Unless its battlefront 2's (Whew)
Same here brotha
Man, one heck of a storytelling. Just got a sub, keep up this dope editing and storytelling. 👍
It’s not just a game it’s a story that thousands if not millions can relate to and sometimes cry to. Also great video 👍 to be honest
damn bro this made me cried a little and reminded me to some of the best games that honestly made me the way I am today.
This is the evidence that gaming is a journey and full of mixed meaningful emotions. This video shows the feelings of sacrifice only gamer's themselves can understand even if some consider it to be "Just a game"
“Trust me.”
I had took a break from video games for a few days after the first time of playing Titanfall II after hearing that line… Yet every time I reach that point again and again… It still hurts all the same.
Yes these are “just games”. That may be what they are to some people. But to us, they are stories. These are the lives of amazing characters who many of us can relate to. I feel like a lot of people think of video games as these violent fantasies, but there is so much more. There is real emotion and a real story in these games. These are characters we learn to connect with and love just like those of our favorite movies. It’s not about how a video game looks or how well its mechanics work, etc. It’s about how these “games” make us feel. If a game reaches out to you and truly makes you feel emotion than it is more than “just a game”.
Well said
true facts
My words exactly..... though my comment was worded slightly different lol.
Yes if it makes you feel something than it transcends from “just a game” to art
What you just said, is a masterpiece. A perfect description. Anyone who plays games for the stories and the life of the characters we play as, can connect and relate to everything you said. "It's just a game"... Maybe it is... For them. But not for us. For us, it's a story we can live another life through. It's a story that we can truly get involved with. And that is my reason for loving the games I do.
The score at the end of Ghost of Tsushima was the most atmospheric and emotional score ever composed for a video game.
Correct me if I’m wrong
Another game with a lot of emotional moments is Majora’s Mask, I don’t think anyone can play through that without tearing up
Also the ending to Dust: An Elysian Tail gets me every time
It's not a game, it's a journey
Shit this makes me cry, we are at an age where virtual reality makes us more human than reality ever could.
even if the two titanfall clips were not the best, for me seeing BT saving ur life because he actually see u as a friend even if he is a robot is just the most kind and nice thing of the world, it make me smile everytime, sometimes cry
When Arthur died it felt like a actually just lost a friend
At least he died the way he wanted to, he saved his friend John, made sure Dutch didn't join Micah and died facing the rising sun in the East, just like he told Hosea when he was still alive
No micah shot him in the face
Thats the low honor ending
Actually he wanted to buried facing the West "for all the times we've had" but instead he died facing the East and was buried by Charles facing the East. The theory is that it's like that because he redeemed himself and put his outlaw past behind him, he moved on to other things in the afterlife/was ready to move on to living a normal life like John and his family (at least that would be the case if not the tuberculosis)
@Carlos M. Sierra bro that was the bad ending maybe you should play the good ending and follow the story right
this gave me nonstop chills.
This needs more recognition, awesome video. Great editing. You definitely captured more then just video games.
Its not just a "video games" its a story from the creators heart and they make it for everyone to listen it
“Tell the vanguard this was the best bet I ever lost” I miss cayde
I was crying like a baby when I finished Ghosts of Tsushima.
i still miss cayde even after 2 years this exo will never be forgotten
I cried my eyes out and it broke my heart :(
@Jasmin same here I still get goosebumps on the presage mission
it's been two years and out of any videogame death that's got me, it's been cade. The dude was too legendary. Every time I loaded into the new strike on destiny one I'd be crossing my fingers, hoping he was on the coms for that mission. The end of Cayde-6 marked the end of my destiny journey. It never really was the same after the forsaken campaign...
I haven’t been able to play that campaign because they vaulted it but I could tell how good it was from my friends dissatisfaction from that info
Us hunter have been lost ever since
Man, when BT throws you away to save you at the end of Titanfall 2 always makes me cry.
Just found this...I...damn dude, the feelings...the memories...thank you.
Its just not a game
Its a masterpiece
It's our happiness
Its our sadness
It's amazing how we have more and more video games with depth, a deep story and a lesson for each person. On the contrary, we also have more and more bad movies, trying to follow boring trends, movies that should be better, and now the studio wants to replace AI for actors, too bad. In stark contrast to the fact that actors are appearing in more and more games. The boundary between movies and games is closer than ever.
You do not get to say "Its just a game" after you pull me closer to the edge of crying than I have been in years
Clones: "We're just clones sir, we're meant to be expendable"
Plo Koon: "Not to me"
I know that that isn't a videogame quote but that hit me hard when I heard it.
There is actually a similar one in COD :infinite warfare.
Where Ethan tells u he is just a bot and he is willing to sacrifice for something near the end game and you(main character) refuses. And i think similar thing is said
@Recker Ethan carried that campaign
@Hobo Joey319 i loved him!
@Recker sounds goated but i never played the campaign once i saw connor was in it
hit me right in the feels
They are never *just* games they *always* has a story and meaning
Cayde 6 a man of many words ruturns but we will never be the same he was special to us all
If i'm being honest, the end of titanfall 2 made me cry so much. I first though I lost him once, but then what he said and the bond with him and cooper get broken made me cry. And the spiderman scene made me cry too
seing bt again was enough to make me cry and im a grown man you have made me play titanfall 2 again and for that i thank you from the deepest pitts of my heart because you've brought me joy again
This stuff hit hard. I’ve played games since I started remembering and to this day I still love them. Your work is beyond anything.
Same here and thank you!
give this man a grammy award
I know it's just a video game, but it can get so emotional, especially when the character you liked the most just dies and you can't do anything about it or when you have to fight them. You don't want them to go, but you have no other choice
I haven't played any of these games, but this... this is beautiful...
Never let anyone tell you it’s just game, or just an award, or just a problem or just a feeling!! It’s life!!!
“You tell Zavala and Ikora… the Vanguard… was the best bet… I ever… lost.”
- Cayde-6, the Gunslinger, Hunter Vanguard, and a loyal friend.
Bro cayde’s death made me cry he was the best R.I.P
@Countedpower I just got over it a few months ago, Still haven't played Destiny 2 since crow came back and I most likely never will. Destiny ended when I Finished forsaken.
@FeedMeChaos true
Every time I see one of these videos, it gives me a whole new perspective on gaming.
The Halo 2 clip hit me hard, played the game when it came out and took us years to fufill that promise to Cortana.
Almost the whole battlefield game rocked me tbh, it was so good
Cayde is the perfect character. He is funny, witty and he had a great last stand
Cayde dying didn’t feel like just a game, it felt personal as fuck. Like someone physically ripped my heart out. And I’m so ready for his return. I need him back so badly 😭❤️
I agree but I don't think I'm ready it hehe was so personal but it almost injustice to bring him back that crossed the line with his death but that is just my opinion I am excited to
The way he died was an injustice to his character. He died believing no one liked him which- is so far from the truth that’s what broke my heart more than actually loosing him which completely wrecked me in and of itself. It has never sat right with me. I have never believed his death to be final nor his story to be over. It’s part of Bungie’s ever evolving tale. I believe they’ve had his return planned since the beginning if you go back through all the interviews, certain lore… I’m sorry I just don’t understand when people say bringing him back is wrong. If he was never meant to stay dead in the first place…
@PITviper217 thank you for your opinion and I agree