I wonder if you could just turn around and go the opposite way?

But on the other hand, it's utterly deceptive.

Many video games have a lot of tricks to make the player feel skilled, despite cards being stacked heavily in their favour. Take Uncharted: enemies in those games can't shoot you for a second after you poke out of cover, so you can take a few shots without being immediately gunned down. The player is never informed of this. Or in the new Doom games, the lower end of the health bar is worth more than the upper end, so you'll feel like you're barely holding on even though you've still got some buffer room.

Doesn't mean taking things to this level of absurdity is great or anything, but being "utterly deceptive" is what makes a lot of games fun.

People will play this like “Fucking hey! I aced that bike segment first time!” all proud of their gaming skills when the reality is you did absolutely nothing, my brother.

I remember a little indie game predicated on this once. You were shown upcoming game state the player was in, and had to make choices so they'd get the maximum score without doing anything. I was a like Columns or Tetris like game, so you'd have to arrange the board so if they just dropped the pieces they'd get a combo.

Weirdly fun, interesting commentary.

Probably for real considering you literally cannot fail those QTEs. Much like the motorcycle scene you can just put the controller down and the QTE completes on its own.

That was legit.

Did this start because of the Cuphead gaming journalist memes, where the person literally couldn't even finish the tutorial because their hand-eye-coordination was just absolute shit and they couldn't jump over literally the first obstacle?

execs and shareholders only care about growing the player

If this was true, the base version of the 6 year old console wouldn't cost 650 and the pro 900 USD.

I don't understand why anyone would be scarred by that. All we had to do was follow the damn train.

DarkSydePhil and the game is literally just "Wolverine". DSP is notorious for being kind of a miserable person who, in the nearly 20 years he's been making gaming content, has never learned how to play a video game.

Converted to Invidious links, plus added title and so on. No I'm not a bot, lol:

Flats tests if you can die in the motorcycle scene in Wolverine (3:53 mins) by Flats Clips on 17 Sep, 2026

These about DSP are recommend:

• The Eternal Downfall of DarksydePhil (Full Documentary) (3:41:59 hours) by Joon The King on 21 Sep, 2024
• DarkSydePhil: A Decade of Failure (2:10:11 hours) by Turkey Tom on 11 Nov, 2023
• DarksydePhil | Down the Rabbit Hole (30:52 mins) by Fredrik Knudsen on 5 June, 2017

• Failure states are written for this mission. You can die if you hit an incoming car in all difficulties I think but the issue is if the uaet never touches the input wolverine is just pushed to the bartier and goes on.
• Probably
• This is a very short length game for a big studio with a massive budget. I doubt it's crunch or it released too early.

With a popular IP like Wolverine I expect it to be appealing to the broadest player base which leads to lazy game design. Ultimately I think it's a game that would rather be a movie.

Something I realized pertains to the first car crash.

It’s likely a LOT easier to animate if the devs don’t need to account for exactly how fast the player is slashing up tires. Plus, they don’t need magic tricks to account for a 1…N long stretch of road that accounts for however long the player needs to chase them down (eg, Uncharted 2’s fantastic train level)

So you can definitely see that laziness and a rushed development timeline would just shove out something that looks okay but has no actual gameplay because it’s a cinematic moment playing itself.

He's kind of a pile, so I'd never support him by watching him, but he's one of those where every few years I check in on the drama. The man has: Masturbated on stream Gotten a girl in a relationship to travel across the country to fuck him, without abandoning that relationship Got that girl to move in with him, at which point she dropped her old guy Declared bankruptcy, due to spending 5 figures a month on a pay to win mobile game Steadily alienated his viewers to the point that he does more begging for money than playing games. Last I heard, he was down to one whale of a paypig keeping him afloat.

Digital Signal Processing of course.

A self-absorbed streamer who sucks at every game he plays. Nearly all of the "This is how you don't play" compilations are about him. The TIHYDP videos of his MGS playthroughs are particularly famous.