ARCANUM: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura Review | Cotton Mill Certified™
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- The best 18th century child labor RPG ever written.
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It wasn't until Mandalore's video on Arcanum, that I realized Sseth's unbridled bigotry towards gnomes in Arcanum... _is absolutely justified_
Like there's any other way to treat them ANYWHERE
Oh hell yeah me too
this game deserve to be played, not just watched on youtube
Why? The elves are the villains.
All of you fr admit you still haven't played this game
I always assumed the whole "product of rape" thing was just ssseth being ssseth, but then I played the game and read the race descriptions and soon realised he wasn't fucking lying.
the rumored location of the systematic rape laboratory
ohhhh nooooooo
the best bluffs, arent bluffs
Kill.
Every.
Gnome.
In fantasy it happens a lot.
Let's assume you have a village and it falls on hard times. But the near by ork village has lots of food so you and few lads get your guns kill the men take the women and food.
Or
Orks show up kill you and tell the women we will come back and kill you unless you give in to are advances.
Ogres... Well gnomes in Arcanum breed willing members and get servants out of it. You see a lot of half ogre body guards. They are litteraly a product.
Congenital Brain Damage: INT -2
Stunningly Gorgeous Woman: INT -4
Accurate
Woman moment
Hey...! XD
@@ddd-op5wy Based
@@fiddlesticks7245 based on your mom!
Before playing Arcanum: Sseeth is just memeing against the Gnomes, very funny but kinda extreme
After playing Arcanum: The most tragic part of this game is that there is a canonical peaceful afterlife and the knowledge that dead Gnomes are not suffering in the darkest pit of hell
One word "Half ogres""
@@hellfiredoughnut1434 Systemicrape
chances are most of em are not there though LUL.
Same but IRL
That is why I conjure their spirits, AND LEAVE THEM THERE
The Critical failure mechanic gave me one of the funniest moments I've ever played. (spoilers for a minor side quest). A farmer asked me to find out what has been killing his rabbits and it becomes quite obvious that his daughter is a werewolf. Naturally I waited til night and what do you know, I was right. She changed and started attacking a rabbit. Unfortunately for her, she made a critical failure which used up all of her fatigue and she fainted. The rabbit was still fighting back though and I realised what was going to happen. I literally had to kill a bunny to save the life of werewolf.
nice
Haha that was awesome 😂
Try it while ur drunk
well you never tried to backstab-kill an npc only to miss him, swing too far and cut off your leg (with a small dagger)... D:
@@madscialex9030 lmao
"in no particular order" proceeds to list the races in a very particular order
That's why I love him
Nope, that was an unordered list.
@@SyndicateOperativeNo, it's quite particular.
Minus 4 points for explaining the joke
necromancer Kerghan: "Life is an anomaly that ushers nothing but suffering. I plan to end it all, end all life, so that noone needs suffer anymore"
charisma protagonist: "Yeah, well, that's, like, your opinion, man."
Necromancer Kerghan: "Fair point. Kill me please."
And that's why the only charisma kill of a last boss ever to be justified is The Master from FO1.
@@nowheredan27 Disproven, FEV mutant sterility was only temporary.
@@seank.9213 Sauce?
mighty '90s. ok it's funny, anyway the core message of those dialogues it's simple (oversimplified lol) but effective. one of best thing of arcanum is that lore/dialogues/philosophy are meaningful and deep. a game really well made and interesting
@@seank.9213 The answer of Marcus has been stated has a joke in the Fallout bible Q&A.
me before playing arcanum: why does sseth hate gnomes so much? Surely they can't all be bad
me after playing arcanum: genociding all gnomes would be completely justifiable
Yeah, if Arcanum 2 was ever released, I would forgive it no matter how bad it would be, if only it allowed us to finally solve the Gnomish question...
@@alexmelik4030
with a final solution, no less
What about Vollinger?
What do gnomes actually do ? ^^
@@thibs2837 a lot of them are in the rich upper class and some do some rather horrible stuff like breeding a army of half oger bodyguards. Also the only gnome companion tries to kill you.
My friend's favorite part of the game was mind controlling bears or wolves, moving them into an NPC's house, mage locking the doors closed, and then restoring the animal's free will. This is neither murder or otherwise illegal.
Genius.
unfortunately mind control doesnt work anymore on animals in the latest version (i remember doing that as well in the past). But it was extremely unpractical to maintain the spell while travelling anyway (since you generally find animals in random encounters and using the fast travel breaks all your spells)
Lmao i have to redownload the game to do this now
O
You make me laugh.
One of my favourite things in Arcanum was this: it's an early game spoiler so if you want to play the game maybe don't read it, althought it's unlikely that you will see it on your playthrough anyway.
I chose an orc as my character, but gave him a little bit of intelligence. My friend also chose an orc, but the background he chose was something like "circus orc", giving him a big int malus. One of the first characters you encounter is your friend Virgil, so I talked with my friend about the game a bit and our progress and it was something like: what did you do after Virgil said this and that? He said: Who is Virgil? The main characters friend of course. Oh, you must mean Wiggel, I was like wtf. I thought my friend was a bit retarded, but it turns out if you have a character with very low int, he can not even pronounce the names of the people he encounters correctly. Small things like this really help the storytelling and they are what a "role playing" game should be about.
Reminds me of the first 2 fallouts where you could miss entire sections of the game due to crippleing stupidity if you put your INT under 3
The Ride Never ends Pretty sure that was in New Vegas too.
@@midshipman8654 extremely reduced, there are like 5 dialogue options opened if you have small int scores and none affect the storyline or any sections of the game
@@everythingeverything6505 Couldn't you also not form actual sentences or something? like all of your options were "Ugh Ugh" or something like that? IDK I havent played it in a while.
That is awesome.
Honestly if healing magic was real I'd also kinda consider medicine barbaric
Mood. Like, can medicine just resurrect people with basically no effort? I don't think so.
@@toolatetothestory may be, but medicine doesn't require mana and you need consent to perform it.
@@chukyuniqul No, medicine needs medical tools, medicine, consent (for plebians), usually a sterile environment
Meanwhile magic ONLY needs mana. Just resurrect some bitch on the spot and boom, work done. Chill for a few hours or chug a potion at most and you can keep doing this all day. You don't exactly need to hurry resurrection either.
I mean, what would you rather have? 18 painful surgeries from some barber with a hacksaw in THE 1800s or would you rather a nice old elven gramma tap you with a stick and your leg grows back.
@@sethleoric2598 Exactly! Sseth was on point by calling medicine barbaric
>Half-Ogres: Products of systemic rape
>Shows a gnome
Fuck, it took me too long to realize that one
This game had one of the most broken abilities I've ever encountered.
Turn Based, spec in Backstabs and Time Magic, and use the Dagger Of Speed which only costs 1 action point per attack. Once at full Dex you have 70 to 75 action points available.
You can run into a room, stab 30 people in the spine, and run out again before anyone else gets a single turn. From their perspective, nothing was happening then suddenly everyone in the room spontaneously exploded.
turn based is for noobs. In real time speed actually has a cap even if your character editor doesnt say so. I always make characters that can aggro every barbarian in kree and win the fight in real time
TOKI WO TOMARE
Want something broken? Use the spell Disintegrate on another player in multiplayer. Their character is gone forever.
@@mayaaaluna ZA WARUDO!
so basically evil quicksilver
The crazy thing is Arcanum is only partly finished. They had so much more ambition than they were actually able to execute. The early 2000s were such a sad time - so many WRPG devs who would have created good games for their own sake, for just a living wage, being utterly fucked over by publishers. Only recently have all these devs begun working together again, with the era of crowdfunding.
And Arcanum is actually the best of the their 3 games, because it came out early enough that they were able to give it a decent amount of post-release support.
The fan-patch is still nice to have, but not required like it is VtM:Bloodlines or ToEE.
@@ZanathKariashi ToEE?
@@Srksius2802 Temple of Elemental Evil, I think.
@@faramir...get_the_palantir thank you
Too bad they've produced sweet fuck all. I wonder if we'll ever get a game we can look back on in 10 years and say "now that's a fucken' classic" like I can do with Half-Life, System Shock and Deus Ex among many other 90's - early 2000's games.
Isolated incidents are part and parcel of living in a big city
Gnomes > Orcs. There, I said it.
The Zephyr merely received a healthy dose of cultural enrichment.
@@MachineMan-mj4gj Humans >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Orcs >>>>>>> Gnomes
@@ideclaredwaronyourfrenchas4123 Where do elves and us halfbreeds fit on the list ?
@@lyca0n535 _They don't._
I thought Sseth was joking about gnomes and half-ogres
After Mandalore's video I see, he was just trying to warn us
Sseth was not fucking around.
From now on, gnomes are "on sight" when I play this game lol
ah mandalore, the sane version of sseth
@@ocal123 You got that backwards.
@@t-90m71 damm, my bad
> Fatigue Restorer
> Cocaine
11/10 accurate af
Its clearly metanphetamine though.
Until it wears off, making you want to commit suicide
@@ineednochannelyoutube5384 No dude it's cocaine. It's even made with Coca leaves
@@LehySnek cocaine is much more period accurate as well (they did a lot of cocaine at that point in history)
@F.u.c.k Go.ogl.e bn
I love how many of those default portraits are civil war generals. I see Ulysses Grant is a dwarf and Ambrose Burnside is a gnome (of course he'd be a gnome)
I love you guys' podcasts I'm a huge fan
Holy shit, I didn't catch that! 😂
Wait a second, is your profile picture of Paul von Oberstein?
There was a Civil war general called Ambrose Burnside? That is such a badass name I still believe it's real.
@@orboakin8074 It's important to know that Ambrose Burnside is also where the term 'sideburns' comes from. His own set of sideburns was held to be so impressive that people started calling them by his surname.
The scariest thing of the year 2022 is having Mandalore essentially confirm every ridiculous thing Sseth claims is in this game.
There are actual Islamist terrorist organisations utilising biplane flying Orcs jihadi suicide bombers in Arcanum?
I thought that most humans and elves involved in Islamist terrorist organisations in the world of Arcanum considered the vast majority of Orcs to be spiritually lacking since their unsanitary habits means they cannot achieve wudu and their regular consumption of pork is haraam and not halal?
Additionally I thought that asking the rich benfactors to the Islamist terrorist organisations to go into debt to purchaze the experimental biplanes would be immoral since it would be encouraging the rich benefactors bankers to engage in usury.
just play the game
@@SCARawNo people need to wait 3 years for confirmation like tards.
why would he go play the game again just to make a video for his alt persona
Double revenue
I loved this game so much as a kid that I contacted the composer and he gave me copies of the sheet music. We played it as part of our university orchestra.
Good times.
Also, I love that you can be an idiot in this game and the entire dialogue and journal are all written incorrectly.
I feel like, by watching this video and just reading the comments, I've been put on about 400 different government watchlists. thanks, Sseth.
I know right...
There aren't even that many governments in existence, how did you manage this
Raphael Kapra it seems all the eyes are on Israel maybe alien governments at this point I could believe
Raphael Kapra One government can have more than one watchlist
Welcome to the club....you owe it to yourself.!!!🤗
"A good gnome is a dead gnome."
~Gnome Slayer
The only good gnomes are the ones that don't crawl out of their stinking ovens.
@@raspberrypie1706 fuck me, I died
@@chaospacemarine8330 me too, that the fucking hilarious
@@raspberrypie1706 i wanted to say synagnomes, but yours is better
"LET'S MAKE THESE GNOMES GOOD"
“Half ogres, product of systemic rape” after watching mandalores video, that sentence makes sense
Effing gnomes man
@@Aggrofool cease your anti-semitic remarks, goyim!
Honestly I never even thought about a fantasy world undergoing a industrial revolution. I need more games like this.
Awesomeness 10/10, never repeated, period.
I don't think there's any, sadly.
yeah its a cool concept I'm surprised there aren't more games like that.. I mean theres tons of steampunk themed games and tons of fantasy games but thats diffeerent.
Really great game. Be warned though, it can be a huge undertaking. Worth it though, like great shows or a series of books.
Shadowrun is similar, but it's the other way around.
In Arcanum, they industrialised AFTER the existence of magic.
However in Shadowrun, magic is rediscovered in the future(like Cyberpunk 2077 in the future) after a couple of centuries, due to some great Calamity or whatever, where magic vanished from the world.
I demand you post the banana bread recipe.
Grandma Cookhill’s Three Bowl Bread
In a large bowl, blend one-third of a cup softened butter and two-thirds of a cup
of sugar until creamy and light. When this is done, add a fresh hen’s egg and
beat the mixture a bit more to blend.
In a second bowl, sift one and three-quarters cup of flour together with one and
one-half teaspoons baking powder, one-quarter of a teaspoon of baking-soda, and
a teaspoon of Cumbrian cinnamon.
In the third bowl, mash three very ripe banana-fruit, preferably of the sweeter
Cattanese variety.
Add one-third of the flour mixture to the butter bowl, and beat the two together;
then add one-third of the mashed bananas and beat again. Continue adding
both mixtures by thirds to the large bowl until all the flour, butter-and-eggs,
and banana-fruit are thoroughly blended. Then, if you wish, you may add a halfcup
of shelled walnuts for flavor. Spread the batter into a well-greased 4" x 8"
pan and bake for one hour at a temperature of 350 degrees.
The resulting bread is very healthful and tasty and can be served as an addition to
the mid-morning meal. It also makes a pleasant snack in a picnic basket, and is
wholly appropriate fare to offer elven visitors.
No banana bread for knife ears.
INb4 hundreds of people buy coppies of the game for the banana bread recipe
i wish WoW recipes were that delightful
@@BadlanderOutsider Only good elf is a dead elf!
Still the only channel I consistently watch every upload
Love u uber baby no homo
One of like 10 channels out of hundreds I'm subscribed to I have the notification bell on for.
Nani? Uber danger?
Seth is very entertaining, you both have that in common
dunkey still makes videos?
"HE IS WORSE THAN A GNOME, HE IS MAY GORK FORGIVE ME FOR UTTERING THIS WORD, AN ELF" -WAAAARGG tv
Brozers please,there are some expression that you cannot use
Once a party member was barely moving. I got tired of it and looked in his inv. Somewhere along the way he decided to pick up a boulder and carry it around. Idiot.
It's actually a quest item for repairing a temple, if you do pilgrimage in the right order in this game you can get OP blessing, but if you do it in the wrong order the gods will curse you to the ground.
@@admiralamel9563 no if you do it in the wrong order you just get rekt at the last altar. Spoiler ahead: in the last altar, what you offer is the PC's life, if you haven't done the other offerings properly, you just die. But if done correctly, you'll be resurrected by the All-Father Velorien (PBUH) as the inscription on his altar states :
"All gods have a father
And he watches over them
His children call
His children, all
He holds them all as gems.
But Velorien is hard and old
And his ways are set in stone
He has all
And expects all
With your life you will atone.
But beware what you give
If his children you don’t know
Velorien takes all
And Velorien returns all
And his power he’ll bestow."
The gnome cries out in pain as he strikes you.
Sseth, the install process for this game is like shoving a screwdriver up my urethra, and even with everything applied, if I tab out of the game, it refuses to open again. The forums have been inactive since 1945. The winter is harsh and the snow has long since covered all my windows and doors. All I wish is to play Arcanum. Yet, still, it fails me at every turn.
its generally a bad idea to tab out of old games that run on fullscreen
That's the reason I printed the entire 80 page guide to Gothic 2 when I played it for the first time
This might be late, but have you tried connecting the game to the steam overlay in order to access their browser?
@@supertaoman12 tabbing out of Fallout New Vegas creates an audio glitch that honestly scares me.
I know your message was 7 months ago, but whatever
Looks like an old game. Fire up the VM with Windows 98 or something and you don’t have to alt tab.
*picks up monkey paw in Arcanum*
"I wish for all gnomes to go to the void no matter what"
*finger curls*
"I wish for all gnomes in the afterlife to go to the void immediately"
*finger curls*
"I wish all gnomes live in a constant state of agony until they die"
*last finger curls*
"Alright let's get going"
The gnome is immunized against all dangers: one may call it a scoundrel, parasite, swindler, profiteer, it all runs off it like water off a raincoat. But call it a gnome and you will be astonished at how it recoils, how injured it is, how it suddenly shrinks back: "I've been found out."
quoting goebbels?
Yikes
Oy Vey! Shut it down!
@@marciamakesmusic ywnbaw 😂😭😂
Go back to /pol/.
*Arcanum, the game where you can convince the final antagonist to kill himself out of love for the world he hates.*
And that's a brilliant example of how rpgs should be made. Freedom in every aspect of the game. Arcanum is a must play for any rpg fan out there.
It's one of (not so many) games i finished and after credits, started new game immediately.
@@veluk88 Its just some good writing to, having multiple unique endings instead one generic linear ending
Fallout 1 did something similar
maybe because same gnomes created it
@@oz_jones Probably because the guys from Troika Games also worked on Fallout 1 and 2.
4:39 he's gnot a gnelf
Not a gnoblin
Not a gnome
He's a gnostic
That's a gnnoying
Mah nigga meme. You seem to subscribe to all the same channels as me.
frick, I've been gnomed
no he's gnot.
@didierthesuperstar ur moms a ggggggay
“Somebody decided to write a ton of dialogue around a single spell”. That would be the living legend - Tim Cain 😊
" A gaping hole of an existence"
"A mentally stunted special needs child "
Sseth writes with such authenticity.
"You can have carnal relations with a sheep"
*goes onto Steam and buys game*
the gog version is more convenient
Fox Mulder Convenience is always appreciated when I'm going about my sheep sodomy.
@@foxmulder8955 gog and steam are the same version.
@@megamike15 except you don't have to deal with steam using a gog instal
Huh, didnt know we had an "Islam Simulator".
Mass flaging such a wonderful and beautiful video.
Gnomes are truly the scourge of the earth
Never played the game and I assumed the half ogre “product of rape” bit was just a Seth joke.
Now I’m down the rabbit hole and the gnome authorities are banging on my door.
"He decides to kill himself out of love for the world he hates" , that is so brutally well said. If you came up with that sentence yourself, you are amazing. Honestly it inspired me , thanks
Two years later and I'm now wondering if this guy killed himself
@@JayRLetton if he did, he sure did some necromancy to get his new video up
@@JayRLetton Fear not, they are alive and uploading shitty content.
Maybe Sseth shouldnt have inspired them....
All races are equal. Gnomes, however, are less equal than others.
Super Mega SS 88 Ultra Rightwing Purity Death Squad
Proportionally, about half as equal.
equal less
Shut up gnome.
Yep, username checks out
Nice profilbild ;)
>Buy it
>Absolutely no one who made it gets any money
The system is always rigged against honest hard working people. :( The only people that actually receive any money from people buying the game now are probably the corporate pieces of shit at the publisher. TFW you realize copyright law was actually designed to enrich lawyers and corporate bureaucrats instead of actual creators of intellectual properties. :(
and gnomes
I blame the jews
we need something new we always blame the Jews i blame the chinese
value gets all the money. but your right troica is gone, sirrea is not seeing a cent....so is this pirating with money?
Jesus Christ,Sseth. You were not kidding about the Gnomes. Even Mandalore Gaming had to somewhat agree after that ONE quest.
While gnomes only make up 2% of Arcanum's population, they make up 50% of the billionaires. Hmmm......
"Maybe they just make more money?"
25%
@@averagetaxpayer6029 They do control the printing presses.
Maybe the humans shouldn't have relied on gnomish bankers for a millennium lol
Seth is secretly shifting the blame to his brethren so he can upsurp his families gathered wealth and solely control the world. Truly a merchant guild tyrant 😔
How come Gnomes have been kicked out of 109 countries?
this is antignomism
delete your post
Pure coincidence
They know what they did.
Well, it's definitely not their fault.
Take it down.
Hey hey Sseth, People here
lies
Whose people?
"He's overexaggerating about the gnomes, hehe"
*walks into first village and is immediately threatened and almost tricked by gnome*
"This isn't a good sign..."
When discussing race in this game, I'm reminded of the "Difficulty" slider in South Park: The Fractured But Whole. Deciding your race in this game doesn't effect combat difficulty, but rather the general difficulty your character will encounter in literally every other aspect of his life.
An actual role-playing game.
@@budakbaongsiah now while that sounds harsh, there sadly may be a bit of truth there. good thing people will never all think the same way.
So stunning and so brave
same with the stick of truth. playing as a black jew is the highest difficulty available.
@@bottomlefto Playing as myself in Fractured But Whole was a god damn trip.
Black and Trans is basically nightmare difficulty in that game.
"Isolated incident" rofl
After watching Mandalores review I know why Sseth hates gnomes so much, now I hate them too.
*start describing gnomes
me: "he's correct you know"
Of course he is, Sseth is gnomish.
@@dudewheresmycar4203
He would know better than anyone.
A group of Half-orcs is a gang, a group of Gnomes is a "coincidence".
And you should never talk about it.
A good gnome, is a dead gnome.
i wasn’t too sold on this game until you told me about the banana bread recipe.
This game is amazing.
@@RomaraAhallow Yea but I can't stick my dick in a game.
Some warm banana bread tho, oh yes.
"Gets shot down by orcs flying fighter planes, who are later identified as brothers Jihaad al-Noori and Husaam al-Moradi" Fucking laughed for a solid five minutes there.
"He decided to kill himself out of love for the world he hated."
Necromancer Kerghan : I-It's not like I like the world or anything, b-baka!
hahaha thats funny,
now go back down to the comment section pit
Rei > Asuka
@@eriktheshitposterm.i.a6760 uh... you know where we are rigth?
'
@@buckplug2423
Indeed.
@@eriktheshitposterm.i.a6760 Wait did I make a wrong turn I thought this was the comments section pit.
Jihad al noori and Hussam al-Moradi holy shit
hilarious line
>usually I turn off the music
You're dead to me.
agreed.
The music is great...until the sameness of a lot of the tracks becomes annoying.
Half-ogres products of systemic rape... that quest chain was probably one of the best quests in the world of gaming with the worst ending imaginable! Man i loved arcanum as a teenager and i had a playthrough just 2 years ago. Its timeless and epic!
" The Gnome *knows* "
Did you tell them about that sheep in the brothel, Sseth?
Ahh, i see you are a man of culture as well
Communist Manifesto review at 300k please
Na let him do Das Kapital instead
Brainletts
The Wealth of Nations is far superior
@Witch House I don't think the Merchant's guild would fund that.
Can we all start spamming Seth to read SIEGE by James Mason now. I'd join the merchant's guild just to finance that.
The Jester a video review of Das Kapital would take him literal years to make
Remember when RPGs had options
Yeah, when RPGs were actual RPGs
Options? RPGs don't need options! You just need to push a button that causes something awesome to happen. Remember, button = awesome!
How do I reply? Hmm...
1. Yes
2. No (But actually yes in the next line)
3. Sarcasm
4. More info
Role playing game with only one role to play. Man i recently played DoS2 and this is the fucking reason why i hated it. No matter if i was a necromancer who committed several warcrimes and a lot more law violations - everyone refers to me as a hero.
If i dared to even try playing a villain, all the options i had available were in "chaotic retard" category ranging from "kill children for no reason" to "murder a guy who just saved you". I mean come on, even if you are evil , you will not waste all you have just to do something considered evil if it's detrimental to you. I will lie to people for their money, i will murder someone who is against me , but holy shit i will not spend all my time kicking dogs and flaying cats because "muh evil".
Came here after the Mandalore video.
The bit about Half-Ogres and Gnomes hits different now
I'm so glad you managed to reference the Gnome conspiracy and the origins of half-ogres.
Cale David *ISOLATED INCIDENTS*
One of the best RPGs ever made. You forgot to mention the disintegrate spell which can instantly kill the final boss. The balance behind the spell was that it takes too much mana to cast normally until you complete a secret quest by getting various blessings of the gods at the end you're mana will double allowing you to cast the spell 4 times before you go oom.
The gnome cries out in pain as it strikes you
Coming back to watch this video after playing the game myself and watching Warlockracy and Madalore’s vids, makes u appreciate all the little details Sseth hid in here. And that Sseth and a lot of people’s justification for hating gnomes is VERY valid.
Yay!!! Do Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines next!!!
Oh my god yes
Oh boy.
that one is too normiecore for him, it'd be like if he did EYE Divine Cybermancy. I'd still love to see him review both though
Redemption > > > Bloodlines
Albert Caponi Same 😩 I guess my idea of normie is a little different than his. I’d consider something like KOTOR 2 normie. Not VTMB though 😞
Best about arcanum was that bananabread recipe out of the manual, i still do it 2-3 times a year.
Game was decent too.
With all this Gnome hate, I’m convinced that Sseth is also a Kobold
Edit: nvm. Gnomes deserve it
I don't know man, six million gnomes?
You’ve been busy this week Mandalore
Where's the proof?
@@TheLongasen Wheres the proof against?
It's 2018, the defendant brings the proof while the prosecution cries and gets praised by Democrats
We don't need proof. We have baseless conjecture; far better than proof.
@@comradecommissar1945 And he found it on SpellsofMagic.com
The only good gnomes are the ones who never come out of their stinking holes.
Damn, gnomes sound really, really familiar...
Yeah, something about their love of money is familiar.
With Humans, it's a gang
With Elves, it's a mob
But with Gnomes it's just a coincidence
"Arcanum, the game where you can convince the final antagonist to kill himself out of love for the world he hates." You are a goldmine, sseth.
Wonderful game. It's a shame the Troika Games didn't get the chance to polish it into a f*cking huge diamond. Sseth review is also wonderful and funny, as always. :)
"didn't get the chance to polish it into a f*cking huge diamond"
So.... Like everytime they published something.
They lived not long and their best products were created already on the verge of company extinction. They were bound to be defective. It wouldn't be so bad, maybe, if the studio could hope to exist longer. But shit happens. Life doesn't give a f*ck sometimes about our dreams and inspirations. You won't object, I hope, that their games were ispired. Distinctive, not conveyor material. They have "Soul". And not too many games have.
I absolutely agree with the things you said as I adore Troika for what they did, even tho I haven't spent that much time on their games. They were like Peter Molyneux, who actually delivered at least 50% of ideas they talked about.
Being a broken piece of shit is basically one of the hallmarks of a great RPG. I can't think of a single truly good RPG that isn't an unstable poorly-programmed shitshow.
Yeah, that's part of the experience. Only good old broken RPGs like these would let you access like another 3-4% of the game just cause you got some fucking spell. In these days of modern consumer shitshow where literally NOTHING is made if it's not gonna be seen by player and they damn sure make you see it if you miss it cause they invested time in making it, it's really refreshing to see some odd shit like this like Conjure spirit for interogation. No one is leading you by your hand, you can just stumble upon it by chance.
Seth, you're review style always puts a smile on my face
*your
*an erection
translation: "I don't have time for your thing, my dear friend. In the mean time, please consider trimming your toenails."
We forgot to mention the sad lore of the Gnomes from 1933-1945.
@@Gabriel-qk8ig How history repeated itself 20 times since the 19th century, according to their media and always 6 million in count. EVERY.SINGLE.TIME.
I heard it's a good fiction novel to read
It'd be sad if it actually happened
and that they were expelled from 109 countries too
You guys need to get fucking laid lmao
Me before the half-ogre island quest: I don't understand why Sseth hates the gnomes so much.
Me seeing a gnome after completing the half-ogre island quest: *BREAK THEIR BACKS, BREAK THEIR BACKS, CUT THEM IN HALF, ATTAAAAAAAAAACK*
Mandalore dropped his pills again
Nice....
@@unconscious7219 Always 2 there are... Master, and apprentice.
But which was redpilled?
О привет, а я тебя знаю
@@TheKarabanera я писал протофану -.- Давно думал над тем что большинство как и сам Ссет из снг и понимают русский но зачем-то прикрываются
My favorite Ugandan has posted again
PRAIS THE LORD
Mandaloregaming and you make CZcams feel good just like in 2007-2010
(No homo bro)
As of 9/19/19, Arcanum's GOG version does work without alteration.
Thank jesus, the debug menu on vergil with the 2.0 unofficial patch is too tempting for me
You did, you magnificent chap. One of my favorite games, reviewed by one of the most politically correct African warlords. Jolly good job, my good man.
P.S. Speaking of army of automatons, if you're not using tech: as a mage, you can use Invisibility ring/scroll/spell, make your party wait somewhere safe, and then go to the lower levels of Vendigroth Ruins. Simply walk up to one of the clunky bastards and click on it - and voila, it turns into item. Balance, ladies and gentlemen. I know it's not exactly "unlimited" army, but you can do that with any automatons in the game (place of Lost Voices, the one in the box in Ashbury and so on). So, case and point, charismatic mage can run with a "6 people/1 dog" party and have an escort of ~10 automatons.
You're kidding me. That's amazing.
Only works in original patched version. If you are using one of Drog's unofficial patches (highly / recommended) it is patched out. But you get something wonderful, a way less buggy game.
Truly? I could swear I used the same trick in Drog's version as well, since I don't even remember the last time I played without Drog's UAP. And yes, it's essential for this game. And I know for sure that some of the tricks/exploits still hasn't been fixed in it. For example - stealing trapmaker spectacles from Master of Disarming Traps by turning him into elemental of any sort. Maybe it's time for another trip to Arcanum then...
Go look for the mechromancer build, that thing is pure genius.
Magestic. This wonderful game maybe as old as yesterday's meme, but till this very day, people still find some new intricacies and interactions between mechanics.
You know, I never did realize how evil the Gnomes are in this game until I watched this. Short little, beardless bastards!
This is such a poetic and fantastic description: "Arcanum, the game where you can convince the final antagonist to kill himself out of love for the world he hates" Sseeth Tzeentach 2018
The dance scene at the end was actually pretty good.
Yeah, I wouldn't mind seeing the actual video!
@@Scubadog_ czcams.com/video/UGEGpXosjWI/video.html I got you.
A coincidental appearence of a certain community, completely non-reliant to gnomes in the game. Really. Now shoosh, go watch pokemon. ;)
Say what you will about Hasidic Jews, but them boys can cut a rug like a carpet factory.
@@Fish-ub3wn Jew jokes have been a feature of the channel since he started calling his patrons "the merchants guild."
Isn't convincing a misanthropic demigod to commit suicide basically the ending of Fallout 1?
Arcanum was developed by most of the same people that made Fallout 1 and 2. I wouldn't be surprised if they recycled some ideas.
The Master isn't a misanthrope at all. He is just semi insane and on the contrary -- he wants to save the world.
Both Fallout 1 and Arcanum are directed by Tim Cain. Arcanum is basically steampunk fantasy Fallout.
Arcanum IS Fallout.It even has a fricking Brahmin in it, in that museum in Tarant.
To be fair on the Master, he thought the FEV was mankind's salvation. He loved man, even if his methods were faulty because he lacked information.
hey hey people
Arcanum: -When mega-depression spawns a super-villain.- When a dev team is dedicated enough to write a game manual _that's 180 fucking pages long._
it only gets worse with time 😞 Now you'd be lucky if the released game is half complete
This setting is my favorite type of setting, and completely under utilized, fantasy meets early early technology.
Still one-of-a-kind as far as I know, at least in video games.
@@budakbaongsiah It's so weird, you'd think the transition between medieval fantasy and 19th century steampunk would be fertile ground for writers. But no, gotta milk Tolkien one last time.
@@MachineMan-mj4gj
Because magic=no progress on anything else
@@budakbaongsiah I figured magitek would have been the logical step.
@@MachineMan-mj4gj
Industrialized magical power! Like crystal-powered airship on Final Fantasy 5 or something.
>necromancy spells
Instantly sold.
You won't be disappointed.
@@RomaraAhallow tbh the only interesting necromancy spell is harm, and it's not even optimal in every fight situation. Conjure spirit only works on very few npcs in the game, its totally dispensable.
@@foxmulder8955
was referencing the game itself, but sure.
@@foxmulder8955 You can raise hated enemies and make them fight for you or a small army of the undead.
@@Darkwizzrobe y but you can already have 5 followers, multiple robots and stuff, i dislike army type builds because i end up spending more time managing my companions, resurrecting them, reloading save files because of bugs, getting framerate lag, this kind of stuff. In fact i tend to design all my builds for lonely characters.
I just found out that Troika Games also made Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines and of course, it's a buggy mess that holds itself together with solid plot and dialogues. And that Activision disbanded the studio. What a shame.
What a rotten way to die.
And the Temple of Elemental Evil, which was *also* a complete buggy mess at launch. Both have been fan patched to brilliance, thankfully.
2:26 hitting different after Mandalore's Arcanum review dropped.
Bruh I know
The only good gnome is a dead one
Me before playing Arcanum: Why everyone hates gnomes?
Me after playing Arcanum and complete Half Ogre island mission: Fuck Gnomes!
The merchants guild is a spook
Witch House whats a virgib?
Virginity is a spook
The gnomes tell me that if Arcanum is to thrive, we need more half-orcs and diversity
hehehe
Chaos is a ladder, chaos means profit *rubs hands together
Diversity is strength. Unity is weakness. #OrangeManBad #ResistDrumpf
@@douchebagel93 He will NOT divide us! HE WILL NOT DIVIDE US! (Death to the other half of us who support him!)
So much autism in this thread
"I was pleasantly surprised that I could construct Molotov cocktail bombs from garbage. Insanely cool
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-Gamezone review
I miss Troika so much
I was fascinated with this game when I was young, I remember foolishly trying to buy it by visiting local video game retailers... and no one knew a damn thing about it.
Thank you for reviewing this game.