Anyone else notice that the remaster changes the first body you find in the US base (where they introduce the fear system)? Originally it was just a random body, but now it’s clearly Nauls who vanished without explanation in the movie. Nice touch
If you read the book by John Campbell which The Thing is based off, there is no debate: The Thing knows it is The Thing. It just can mimick a human perfectly and uses it's memory to fool it's prey.
The fact that the blood test works shows that The Thing cannot control other, separate instances of itself. As such, it could be implied that each instance of The Thing might know that it is The Thing, but it might not be able to recognize other instances of The Thing.
Does Things know when other people are secretly Thing tho? Because if not, then it made sense for second thing to reveal itself only after first blood test.
"Who Goes There?" If people wanted to know the name, they have an audiobook; people should give it a go. They also made some comics called Thing from Another World, not like the 1951 film if people were wondering.
The mimick part always annoys me. They indicate that simply touching it basically transforms someone into the thing. So it's more parasitic with imitating properties. Mimicking implies more a body that morphs to imitate something.
My cousin’s boyfriend was a manager at Funcoland when this game first came out. If you preordered the game you got a free dvd of the movie. I miss that store.
My mom was a manager and ended up friends with the regional manager, or some higher position like that. She was a single mom and was allowed to bring me, so sometimes I'd spend all day playing in the store, was awesome and a great distraction from the serious stuff.
"It wasn't till Teyon made the Terminator and Robocop games that we had anything similar" How dare you forget Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay, and Assault on Dark Athena
Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie is one of the all time great movie tie ins, seems unlikely to ever be remade, but I'd buy that in a heartbeat.
So they did fix the scripted infections in the remaster. Now its not scripted at all, HOWEVER if an npc gets attacked by an enemy they have a chance to eventually turn into a monster. So for the first boss fight where your partner would turn into a monster they can now follow you and help you with the boss fight. However if they get attacked theres a chance they will turn. Blake has some sort of immunity to it as described on a computer terminal in the game
Blake's immunity was something that I always found to be weird. The Thing organism doesn't operate like a virus. It infects every single cell in your body. It seems weird that Blake has an immunity to assimilation and even somehow managed to build up said immunity throughout the course of the game. I guess they have to find some excuse to why he never gets infected considering everything he goes through.
@@tacticalochoa1310 to be fair, the sample size is pretty small all things considered, we only know what the character THINK is happening and, at the end of the day, it's still an organism and so are viruses. The Thing and Blake could be rejecting each other for all kinds of arbitrary reasons and the chances of that happening can be anywhere from simply unlikely to Dream luck. It's not a weird idea on its own.
@@tacticalochoa1310 I would have figured the usual way FPS games do it was in effect, where the main character just never gets hit in the authors canon. Which is arguably also how McCready survived the movie.
I did remembered there's this one Particular Section in the original that has NPC you can try to save from becoming the thing so i believed there exist already an Infected System from back in the day but they still use the Scripted for DIfficulty reason. And for the people who been asking why Blake don't infected down in the future comment, The Main Villian of the game did somewhat reveal but not outright confirm That Base was conducting a special project to Control The World with The Thing by Replicate them so the one you been Fighting are not Original Thing. Original Thing has already been Blown Up in the Movie. So i guess in a sense of Canon, The Thing you been fighting can and cannot infected like Original. Or perhaps just like the original Ending of The Movie, you Blake are going to be the Perfect One and you need to kill the Obvious one to hide yourself.
I replayed the same level 3 times to see how different it would be for my characters and I had three dynamic situations 1. One infected and killed my other 2 2. One went crazy and shot my medic dead. I had to put him down 3. I lost two to an explosion and the third puked and refused to move forward. Was pretty awesome tbh. Only issue is how they do prevent you from taking characters beyond certain points in the story
The original idea for the game was to have an in depth system for figuring out who was and wasn't The Thing that would have you constantly going back and forth in trusting and mistrusting, potentially even saving everyone perhaps. But the limitations of the tech/memory/time, prohibited that from happening. The Thing would be a perfect game for a grounds up remake that utilizes todays tech.
Sadly most of Monolith's titles between 1998 and 2003 were developed under a publishing contract they had with Fox Interactive (which retained the IP rights of those games), and since the contract was signed before digital storage was a common thing and was probably never digitized and was probably lost among company buyouts and moves, it's extremely likely that will never be revived, it's the exact same situation with NOLF, without the IP and trademark rights nothing can be done
"A now DEFUNCT creator" Damn. Unless you were there, you'd never know how HUGE Spoony used to be, he's a cautionary tale when it comes to internet fame. He just couldn't keep his damn mouth shut, and people slowly realized "Oh....he's actually like this ALL the time".
He said that and I immediately knew, I'd never have heard of this game without Spoony but I remember very clearly him saying it was bad because it was a movie tie in
@@itzSHISS I agree with Spoony on FF8, I HATE that game to this day. I once asked him what he thought of Earthbound (my favorite game). He went off on a multi-tweet rant, even after I responded with: "To each their own, thanks for responding!" He just kept on talking to himself like he did in the "BETRAYAL!" video.
Ahh. Thanks for clearing that up for me. I knew Spoony just from watching Channel Awesome stuff... And the other stuff... Didn't know he had a problem with the Thing? Every angry gamer always hafta have that one pet game they sh*t on at every opportunity don't they? Their own personal Jekyll and Hyde.
@@th3lonef0x4 No but what made it worse was that damn CGI also the bad part was that it was supposed to be all in Norwegian, but the studio intervened.
You clearly didn't played The bouncer lmfao 😅😅😅😂😂😂😂😂😂 Fr Urban reign and Beat down fists of vengeance were pretty neat games. Even State of emergency is consider a goat as a beat em up
Imo prequel wasn't that "awful". It was ruined by the producers who pushed it towards unnecessary shitty CGI when they already had good practical effects and used real animatronics and makeup effects. Also the ending was changed and a lot of other stuff. It definitely had some good ideas but in the end turned out to be not good.
The suits basically said that all the kids who see it will think the practical effects look cheesy and fake, so instead they forced the team to make cheesy and fake CGI instead
I used to have the opinion that it wasn't awful, but a review online made me realize the Thing (in the prequel) would often reveal itself *for no in-universe logical reason* other than the movie needed a scare. Like the part in the helicopter where the one passenger reveals itself to be a thing... why? It's literally about to *escape* the base and get away so it can cause mayhem elsewhere.
Besides the bloodtest mechanic, there was also the "coercion" mechanic where if an engineer didn't trust you, you could point a gun at their head and force them to fix a fusebox for you. This almost never came up as a spare gun + ammo was always available to give to a character to gain trust enough for them to follow you. Also there was the mechanic where, if you didn't trust a character, you could use the stungun on them and take away their gun. This also only came up once during a scripted event, even though it was technically a feature of the entire game. I was hoping the remaster would implement these as envisioned, but I guess not.
@th3lonef0x4 the scene where two engineers are pointing guns at each other and there is a stungun on the table. You are supposed to use the stungun on the one you think is infected.
Ok the fart reverb when the explosion hits and consumes your companion sitting idle and awaiting their easily avoidable death has to be one of the best fart reverbs ever.
Never played it prior, enjoying the remaster. & I'll keep saying it, Nightdive should remaster/rework The Suffering & perhaps the sequel Ties that bind for current generation systems.
The people aren’t infected in The Thing, the Alien effectively consumes them and then replicates the body so what you are seeing is an Alien that looks like the person, not the person with an Alien in them like in Alien.
@@finkamain1621 So would there be a point where the Thing enters someones body since in the movie even on a cellular level it is independent, would at some point you would just stop being you and start being it?
In Blair’s (wilford Brimley) notes in the movie he explains that it’s possible someone can be “infected” and not no. That’s why he goes crazy at first, so my impression of the thing is it slowly takes you over and when it wants to, it can explode out of you, effectively killing you in that moment.
The creepiest part is: the person isn't aware that it's being "assimilated", not even when they're fully one with the creature. It must be agonizing when it starts to do it's thing and mutate into other forms through wounding, breaking bones, growing tissues, etc.
One of the best stylized artistic design in a custom 3d engine before doom 3 and half life 2 changed the paradigm with the introduction of shaders.I miss these days because lot of the games used own custom 3d engines...they had different phisics, different enemy ai, different particle system and destructable part systems.Todayall the games seem the same game
Yeah I mean today it’s extremely costly to create your own engine so unless you’re an established AAA developer you’re just gonna go with unreal engine or unity with very few exceptions like Helldivers. Just look what happened with Halo Infinite when 343 industries tried to make a brand new engine mid development, it completely destroyed their development cycle.
@IbnRushd-mv3fp Not really but theres a lot of games nowadays use basically the same engine, either Unreal Engine for new games that doesn't have their own franchise or a big named company, or indie games uses Unity or well, Unreal Engine as well. Basically two or three engines for hundreds of games in the market
That game was awesome. Played the coop campaign many times with my brother and multiple friends. Tried going back to it on pc but it's a little too dated now. That and The Warriors!
HA, " A certain DEFUNCT reviewer ". The Spoony One, oh my god. As much as i actually love that video, and one of the first ones that introduced me to him, that video did damage to this game. And really, for being a tie-in sequel to one my favorite movies of all time, it's kick ass in every way. It has it all. That paranoid feeling, who can you trust, some really good acting and directing, even if it does come off as cheese, simple yet fun gameplay that makes you think on your feet, especially with managing your flamethrower fuel and flame grenades. Having your team trust you and if you can trust them. So really, it's awesome in every way.
Damage? This game came out years before Spoony. It was already a retrospective review by then. The damage may have come from G4TV's X-play/Extended Play.
@thesidneychan Not a lot of people knew about it, and when 2007 came around with RUclips growing, it was typically a new thing to review past games online. Even if it was done before a few years earlier. So a lot of people seeing his review shaped the reputation of the game.
Same here. I still go back and watch Spoony's content to this day, but even back then I thought his review of this game was overly harsh. Then again, getting overly and comedically upset over a video game was just how you got famous as a content creator at that time.
It is still mediocre licensed title even without 90% of Spoonys over exaggeration Also this game got hammered by critic's year's before Spoony got into YT
They'd have to censor it heavily for the sensitive modern gamer, and honestly I think that would take a lot of the fun out of it for me lol. SOF 2 is goated.
It won’t happen not because the violence like some morons believe But licensing being a major issue especially with the main character being an actual real guy
what happend to that guy, he was on the top of his game when he was doing these funny game reviews ... his FF8 and FF10 reviews were also a lot of fun.
@Kivancli79 he crashed out HARD due to a break up with his ex (as well as his falling out with Channel Awesome, aka Doug Walker, aka nostalgia critic) and decided to take a long term hiatus. He's been doing some Collab-ing with Conversations with Curtis (The same character/actor from his phantasmagoria 2 review turned LPer). I thoroughly enjoy his Ultima series
@@Kivancli79 He basically went off the grid around the time he was getting funds from the fans for a movie he was gonna make and his life became shambles since iirc.
It's never too late for us to get one. Maybe this will inspire some interest from someone... stranger things are happening these days (RoboCop Rogue City).
It is not a shame. We do not need sequels to everything. The ending to the Thing was great, and is still talked about and analyzed to this day. We don't need a sequel.
@@liamrooney3298 But we need a sequel, one that takes place in California and follows a girlboss main character who is so smart and quirky that she can tell who is a thing and who isn't just by being on Reddit for so long drinking her pumpkin spice lattes from Starbucks
Any sequel would be dumb because not only it would ruin the ending of the first movie but also would either meant apocalypse for humanity if action took place anywhere other than arctic setting or it would had to be set in some secured location like underground lab which would also suck
Yeah, I still like look back at that review. Even if I disagree with the review. (Many of the games he DOGGED on, I played LONG before his reviews on them. Some I agree with him, others I majorly disagree and a few I feel he was a little too ruthless on and deceptive at times for a laugh! I can like a reviewer and disagree with them, Find it annoying when I run into people who call me a "No true Scotsman" for DARING to not 100% agree! "It's not a cult son, calm the fuck down" is my usual retort to those individuals! It's good to have your own opinions, being a follower YES MAN 100% is not nor NEVER good long term! I've seen people who refused to touch certain things because those they "overly worshipped" said it was bad....only to later try it and find out it was actually good! Game Reviewers were more a "Do I buy full sale or buy it on sale" for my decision making when I didn't have the ability to rent it free from my local library that rented them out to Library Card owners! And that Library ALWAYS got the newest releases the day they come out since they were next to a Gamestop where they got their games!) I still get a good Laugh from his stuff; Happy some archived and reuploaded those videos! Man I miss the golden age of early youtube :) Not to say current RUclips (as in the good parts, not the garbage) is bad! Maybe I'm getting old (I'm 37 till next month) who knows! Still too young to be saying "The good ole days" but that's my 68 year old Uncle telling me that I guess.
I agree. But you can also have both in a game for an even potentially greater effect where the music dropping out gives rise to suspicion. And also when the music is so intense that it supplements the thrill.
You are missing out: I'd pay 30 for the game but I'd happily give a left nut, preferably someone else's, to see the greatest horror film of all time. Choose wisely my friend Watch the film NOW or you and I both will have no balls
Nightdive doesn't miss. Like their Dark Forces remaster earlier this year, the amount of work they put into this is simply crazy. They really show their passion.
I find it funny that Gman review talking about how bad Spoony review was, but the funny thing is, he brings up some of the same points of what Spoony said about the game. Spoony review of the game was hilarious at the time.
That review of the thing spoony made was the first video & the First time i've known the spoonyone back then. Sure vids he made like the thing wasn't great but they where his early reviews he did made some good ones like Highlander reb-brown movies & the Ultima series & more. Overall I know there's folks who are 50/50 on hate or like him but most of his reviews back then where Entertaining XD
Fun fact the movie was a remake off the 1951 horror movie "the thing from Another World" with each one having driffenet aliens. What I mean it the thing from the 1951 movie was a vegetable base alien that just shaped shifted into humans, and well the 80's one being a horrifying flesh base monster
Which was an adaptation of the 1938 novella "Who Goes There?" that saw a camp of researchers dealing with an alien lifeform that could infect and imitate them.
Bought this game for the PS2 and XBOX. I thought I would never play it again, so glad for NightDive studios. I almost have all my favorite games on one system. Now if Extermination for the PS2 could be remastered, I would die a even happier man, but I am Perfectly fine with having The Thing. I still can’t believe I am able to play it again.
@@kristoffer8609 Thing is....Spoony would actually attack fans who defended him, it was a weird time. Even before he spiraled out, Spoony and his bitch girlfriend were overly banhappy on their own forums.
12:10 I hate that you played this, because it made me pause the video, listen to the entire blood rave tune and then return to this video. Nostalgia trips are a hell of a drug. xD
This remaster is yet another great example of why Nightdive Studios deserve all the praise and support in the world because they are one of the only companies preserving older games and allowing them to be played on modern platforms
You could already play this on modern platforms thanks to work done for free by modders, this game had been abandonware, now you have to pay to download it. I don't know something kind of irks me about them taking all the decent abandonware titles off the free download sites when most of these titles were already fixed by the altruistic work of modders.
As someone who used to religiously watch spoony as a child as soon as you brought up "that review" I knew exactly what you were talking about! Made me laugh as a kid and maybe a little now but watching your review of this game shows the amount of respect, knowledge, nuance, and care you put into your videos. I stopped playing this as a kid once I got to the "Sub" part and never really looked back after watching walkthroughs of the game. Seeing that this is more than just a port with a new face makes me excited to come back and play the game that legit gave me nightmares as a kid!
Now, all we need is Nightdive's remasters of both The Suffering games (heard they already work on it) and Manhunt games (this one probably won't happen, since T2 want to bury it forever and erease every memory of Manhunt).
The Thing, They Live, Escape From New York, Christine, Assault on Precinct 13, Prince of Darkness, Halloween are some of the best films ever made. I'm glad I can finally pick this up and play it again. They did an amazing job with the fantastic Shadow Man remastered. I'm sure this will be just as awesome.
I like nightdive studios and I adore Carpenter's The Thing, but I never really enjoyed the game that much, even back then. Wouldn't mind a Dino Crisis remake though...
Was too busy playing Halo in 2002 + the hundreds of amazing games from 2000-2005 to even know this existed. Playing it for the first time now and LOVING IT! Atmosphere is on point. Simple, fun gameplay. Funny, kinda spooky, no modern gaming bs.
Making anything where all the characters are men or just anything where all the main characters are men or all the heroes are men seems to be almost impossible nowadays. The Sonic movies is the only exception i can think about. All the important characters in those movies are men i think.
I love that every canon story in this timeline is called The Thing (the prequel, the 82 film, and the game). It very much keeps it in line with the nature of the beast itself. If they made a sequel film to all of it, I hope they just call it The Thing, as well.
Tbf that segment near the end where you're fighting an endless wave of crawling things, turrets, and environmental hazards both down and up that spiralling staircase is one of the most infuriating experiences I've ever had in a video game.
Agreed, their trailer kinda made me think they'll implement more changes to the game. It's fantastic that they're doing these quality remasters but I'd love to see more stuff like their System Shock remake, that was an incredible experience in the sea of modern slop.
Honestly, reviews like this are one of the many reasons I keep coming back to your channel. Companies like Nightdive studios need more attention. This is technically a form of game preservation, the same way art has been restored for centuries now. Very important that we make it commercially successful otherwise we will stop seeing such sweet games come back.
3:39 The script of the cancelled sequel, "Return of the Thing", shows both Childs and McCready frozen, confirming both were human and died staring each other down.
I'm glad I'll be able to buy this at some point now (Got too many games to play currently so it goes on the bottom of my backlog), but it's hilarious when people say "finally" like they were expecting them to do it.
I just gotta say, as a child, when I rented this from family video, I had never heard of the film. So I got to experience everything the rescue team did, learning all that they learned over the course of my playthrough. I was too little to beat it cause I remember it being very unforgiving at times, but I was enamored with the world and story, and I'm very excited to finish it with the remaster
"Nobody tell Under the Mayo" This is actually a refrence to the 2011 Thing Movie where Under the Mayo pours a jar of Mayonnaise into his PS5 while playing God of War because it was ruined
They've literally said 1000 times they're not doing No One Lives Forever because nobody knows who actually owns the rights to it to approve doing a remaster.
A No One Lives Forever Remastered bundle like Tomb Raider and Soul Reaver Remasters would be the way to do that best. Would avoid some IP issues down the line, to have it all licensed to one package. But I don't share your faith because they are in IP h3ll.
I got the original DVD somewhere. I found it in a PC game shop around 2003, and i bought it blindly, i had no clue about the game whatsoever. Didn't know anything about it, except that it was ported from PS2 (i think). I started playing, and although i hated the beginning with the Alone in the Dark cameras that constantly change angles and make things extremely disorienting, i luckily somehow forced myself through that part, and after i got to the part when you get a bit more freedom in 3rd person view, i found out that i absolutely love it. Btw, there definitely are moments when the trust/mood meter plays a big role in the original. At least during my gameplay. I've seen team members completely lose their shit, attack others, or shoot themselves in the head. It usually happened when they were hurt, their trust was already low, and i didn't have anything left to give them to improve their mood. In that situation, just seeing the little spidery Thing might cause them to lose it. There was a bit where i got stuck for days and just couldn't find out what to do to progress further, in the beginning of the underwater base. I always got killed. So i downloaded a trainer, and used it, which caused pretty funny glitch, because the trainer only froze health, not the mood meter. So, my team members could still become freaked out/lose their shit. One of my NPCs shot himself in the head, but since he was immortal because of the trainer, the game went mental, and just started playing the death animation over and over again while yeeting the NPC's model through the corridors in midair at extreme speeds back and forth. That was pretty funny. I'm thinking about getting the remaster, but i'm not really sure if it's worth 30USD. Maybe i should consider it investment into the future of the developer. Nightdive definitely do deserve it. And since i saved up by not buying the MSFS2024 dumpster fire, i prolly should support studio that actually delivers games i care about.
I'm gonna get hate for this, the 2011 movie is over hated. I love watching them back to back. There are so many small touches throughout that movie that connect it to the 1982 movie. Like when Kate and Carter chop the hand creature in half with the very axe you mention and it scurries over to a wall and gets torched. That wall, and the door with the axe in it, are in the same spots in the 1982 movie. It was really neat seeing them re-create the chaos that directly lead to the scene where Macready investigated the Norwegian outpost. Every hole in the wall in the 1982 movie was explained by the shit that happened when the thing ripped through the base in the 2011 movie. Someone clearly gave a shit and it got hindered by one bad call on effects. It's NOT as bad as you make it out to be man. At all.
I agree.The 2011 got a lot of hate and even if it’s not as good as the original,it’s still a good movie in the series and i like watching it back to back with the original.I never understood the hate.A lot of attention to details and love of the original movie went into the 2011 prequel.Even the cgi are not as bad as everyone say.
@@loyz8048 I agree. I watched it again recently and the CGI is honestly not horrible. It meshes with the physical effects well in most cases. I do wish there was a cut of the movie available with just the physical effects but what we have now has aged pretty well when compared to some CGI from the time that looked far worse. Watching them back to back is a really good experience.
I can't remember if this was a thing (hur hur) with the original, but in the level where you kill the walkers and rescue Williams, when I first entered the room with the pool table (before you even meet the walkers) I took a left turn and went down a corridor with windows and I saw a walker outside, shambling past the window. I never saw it again when I went outside.
Butcher Bay 100% deserves the Nightdive treatment. I might be wrong but I think Vin Diesel still owns the rights to all of that too, so it's probably not an impossibility.
I recommend reading the short story “Who Goes There” that the movies are based on as well! Overall, I enjoyed the game, but in the strategy guide to get past the third boss, the guide actually recommended that you utilize a glitch. When the official strategy guide tells you how to break the game, it definitely has its issues and spoony was right about a few things. I mostly enjoyed the game, but I also really liked spoony’s review.
This game was a childhood gem. I remember playing this after watching the movie and being traumatized for the rest of my preteen years. I went to school thinking that someone in my class was going to turn into one of them things for a few weeks, genuine paranoia... Dont worry, i had a can of deodorant and a lighter just incase. 😂 I will revisit this game now they've remastered it. Love it.
"Now defunct creator", yeah, you could've just said it was Spoony. And while I found the video funny at the time, I think to most people that actually played the game, it would come across as incredibly mean spirited, even if it probably wasn't meant to.
Several years ago when my girl and i first moved in together we were planning on watching one another's favorite horror movie, we both love them. She picked The Shining and i picked The Thing, the Carpenter one. Fucking love this game, had it on PS2 years back. So glad it's back, hopefully a physical release comes around. Even if it's lrg i really want a copy on top of the digital.
You lucked out on the fear mechanics; I'm on my first playthrough & the section I just (barely) got through had both my squadmates completely crack. One curled up in the fetal position & eventually merked himself w/ his pistol & the other lit me on fire (all while we were under attack; of course) There have been times when I had to use the stungun to disarm them b/c they were that much of a liability & others when I got through an encounter only to have my last surviving squadmate turn into a creature. It's really selling the anxiety/paranoia
The original developer Computer artworks were interesting, they had started with CDs of Organic art that had screensavers which was based on William Latham art , then they did a pretty cool underrated game called Evolva which would i would love to see a remaster
As far as follow-ups go, we also got two issues of the Dark Horse comic book, but cool art aside, it's also mostly goofy nonsense. The simple fact of the matter is, the very premise of The Thing makes it effectively sequel-proof. Any setting other than the frozen Antarctic wasteland wouldn't work, because the second the Thing breaks out of the no-biomass containment into literally anywhere else that's hospitable enough to maintain even a native insect population, it's all ogre - the entire planet will inevitably get necromorphized like in DS3. It's a part of Carpenter's Apocalypse trilogy for a reason.
The game was surprisingly ambitious for coming out 22 years ago. The cold system, fear system, trust, squad mates, damage/fire system to fighting the larger aliens, the infection "system" was sadly very rudimentary being almost entirely scripted. Would be amazing to see what a studio today would be able to do with it. I feel like the crazy amounts of ammo you find in the remake hurts the tense atmosphere of the original. I recall renting the game multiple times with my cousin and us scrounging each level and rationing ammo during fights. One thing I don't see people doing in the remake is placing down firewalls to keep the larger things back so you can safely whittle down their health to finish them off, copious amounts of shotgun and smg ammo making it redundant.
I’m in love with how the enemies look like they’re puppets from the movie. It fits the vibe so well when they could’ve easily just made them look “realistic.”
"A now defunct creator." Ah yes, the era of angry, shouting, swearing internet reviewers who took some piece of media they didn't like and acted as if the people who made it committed a war crime. People who watched the Angry Video Game Nerd and took all the wrong lessons away from him. I've been trying to memory-hole that dark era.
The unfortunate thing about the prequel was that they shot it with awesome practical effects. Higher ups ordered rushed CGI to make it more modern and destroyed the original film. It would have been good. There are still some production shots of the final monster that you can look up. I encourage anyone to look them up and see the art that ego driven studio suits destroyed.
Buy the game here, cowards:
store.steampowered.com/app/2958970/The_Thing_Remastered/
I'm going to wait for the physical release 😅
Link to GOG, coward.
@@GameTimeWhy You will be sleeping with the Kangaroos if you carry on like this.....
It's 1982 and you're going up against not just Blade Runner, but also E. T. and there you go, cult status, underachiever whatever you want to call it.
@@georgeholliday2203as long as it isn't the Drop Bears I'm good.
Anyone else notice that the remaster changes the first body you find in the US base (where they introduce the fear system)? Originally it was just a random body, but now it’s clearly Nauls who vanished without explanation in the movie. Nice touch
It is? Wow, that's such a cool detail!
Wow after all these years they finally put those theories to bed !! I love it
That's cool. I never played the original release, so i just assumed it was always in the game.
Haven't picked it up yet but I'll look for that when I do. 👍
I’m pretty sure in the original it was childs
If you read the book by John Campbell which The Thing is based off, there is no debate: The Thing knows it is The Thing. It just can mimick a human perfectly
and uses it's memory to fool it's prey.
The fact that the blood test works shows that The Thing cannot control other, separate instances of itself. As such, it could be implied that each instance of The Thing might know that it is The Thing, but it might not be able to recognize other instances of The Thing.
You don’t need a book to tell you that. It’s pretty obvious. Otherwise it would walk around like a dumbass.
Does Things know when other people are secretly Thing tho? Because if not, then it made sense for second thing to reveal itself only after first blood test.
"Who Goes There?" If people wanted to know the name, they have an audiobook; people should give it a go.
They also made some comics called Thing from Another World, not like the 1951 film if people were wondering.
The mimick part always annoys me.
They indicate that simply touching it basically transforms someone into the thing. So it's more parasitic with imitating properties.
Mimicking implies more a body that morphs to imitate something.
"Now gentlemen, I know you’re all tired, but when you have the time, I would not like to spend the rest of this winter TIED TO THIS F**KING COUCH!!!"
Best line in the movie 😂
Classic.
This line still kills me. 😂
I was terrified through out the whole film but that line made me lol HARD
@ Same, its so relatable too.
My cousin’s boyfriend was a manager at Funcoland when this game first came out. If you preordered the game you got a free dvd of the movie. I miss that store.
Funcoland was the shit. Such great memories, dude.
Now that’s a pre-order bonus!
Dude at Funcoland gave us a free copy of the 1st Halo. Good times.
My mom was a manager and ended up friends with the regional manager, or some higher position like that. She was a single mom and was allowed to bring me, so sometimes I'd spend all day playing in the store, was awesome and a great distraction from the serious stuff.
"It wasn't till Teyon made the Terminator and Robocop games that we had anything similar"
How dare you forget Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay, and Assault on Dark Athena
Annnnd Van Helsing
@@Mike-xp8zc The Warriors as well
And peter jackson's king kong
@@Mike-xp8zc Van Helsing wasn't based off the movies.
Scarface the world is yours and the lord of the rings the two towers and the return of the king are great too
Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie is one of the all time great movie tie ins, seems unlikely to ever be remade, but I'd buy that in a heartbeat.
That game was insanely good. I'd buy that in 2 seconds if remastered or even better remade.
I grew up loving that game! I sure as shit wish they’d remake it
I just bought that used for my old 360 a year or so ago. I love it!!! One of the very few near-perfect movie-to-game translations.
@@Wolfdragon92584 Gotta love Anne and her screams haha! Super movie accurate, I’m jus kidding but I like hearing jack black
So they did fix the scripted infections in the remaster. Now its not scripted at all, HOWEVER if an npc gets attacked by an enemy they have a chance to eventually turn into a monster. So for the first boss fight where your partner would turn into a monster they can now follow you and help you with the boss fight. However if they get attacked theres a chance they will turn. Blake has some sort of immunity to it as described on a computer terminal in the game
Blake's immunity was something that I always found to be weird. The Thing organism doesn't operate like a virus. It infects every single cell in your body. It seems weird that Blake has an immunity to assimilation and even somehow managed to build up said immunity throughout the course of the game. I guess they have to find some excuse to why he never gets infected considering everything he goes through.
@@tacticalochoa1310 to be fair, the sample size is pretty small all things considered, we only know what the character THINK is happening and, at the end of the day, it's still an organism and so are viruses. The Thing and Blake could be rejecting each other for all kinds of arbitrary reasons and the chances of that happening can be anywhere from simply unlikely to Dream luck.
It's not a weird idea on its own.
@@tacticalochoa1310 I would have figured the usual way FPS games do it was in effect, where the main character just never gets hit in the authors canon. Which is arguably also how McCready survived the movie.
I did remembered there's this one Particular Section in the original that has NPC you can try to save from becoming the thing so i believed there exist already an Infected System from back in the day but they still use the Scripted for DIfficulty reason. And for the people who been asking why Blake don't infected down in the future comment, The Main Villian of the game did somewhat reveal but not outright confirm That Base was conducting a special project to Control The World with The Thing by Replicate them so the one you been Fighting are not Original Thing. Original Thing has already been Blown Up in the Movie. So i guess in a sense of Canon, The Thing you been fighting can and cannot infected like Original. Or perhaps just like the original Ending of The Movie, you Blake are going to be the Perfect One and you need to kill the Obvious one to hide yourself.
@@slyseal2091 Kinda like in Dead Rising with how after all the times you get bitten by zombies, at the end Frank is shocked to learn he got infected.
I replayed the same level 3 times to see how different it would be for my characters and I had three dynamic situations
1. One infected and killed my other 2
2. One went crazy and shot my medic dead. I had to put him down
3. I lost two to an explosion and the third puked and refused to move forward.
Was pretty awesome tbh. Only issue is how they do prevent you from taking characters beyond certain points in the story
That third one sounds Jank............
I remember the exact characters and points they turn from the original game, was kinda hoping they would change this so make it less predictable.
The original idea for the game was to have an in depth system for figuring out who was and wasn't The Thing that would have you constantly going back and forth in trusting and mistrusting, potentially even saving everyone perhaps. But the limitations of the tech/memory/time, prohibited that from happening. The Thing would be a perfect game for a grounds up remake that utilizes todays tech.
I wish Nightdive Studios could find a way to remaster AVP 2 by Monolith
THIS!
Sadly most of Monolith's titles between 1998 and 2003 were developed under a publishing contract they had with Fox Interactive (which retained the IP rights of those games), and since the contract was signed before digital storage was a common thing and was probably never digitized and was probably lost among company buyouts and moves, it's extremely likely that will never be revived, it's the exact same situation with NOLF, without the IP and trademark rights nothing can be done
Absolutely!
And AVP1, arguably the more underrated of the two.
Yes pls
"A now DEFUNCT creator"
Damn. Unless you were there, you'd never know how HUGE Spoony used to be, he's a cautionary tale when it comes to internet fame. He just couldn't keep his damn mouth shut, and people slowly realized "Oh....he's actually like this ALL the time".
He said that and I immediately knew, I'd never have heard of this game without Spoony but I remember very clearly him saying it was bad because it was a movie tie in
@@itzSHISS I agree with Spoony on FF8, I HATE that game to this day. I once asked him what he thought of Earthbound (my favorite game).
He went off on a multi-tweet rant, even after I responded with: "To each their own, thanks for responding!" He just kept on talking to himself like he did in the "BETRAYAL!" video.
@@mrmusickhimself BETRAYED ME
It's funny because a friend of mine who never even watched Spoony remembered that review of The Thing lol. That's how big that video was back then.
Ahh. Thanks for clearing that up for me. I knew Spoony just from watching Channel Awesome stuff... And the other stuff...
Didn't know he had a problem with the Thing? Every angry gamer always hafta have that one pet game they sh*t on at every opportunity don't they? Their own personal Jekyll and Hyde.
Spoony owned.. he is the only reason why a lot of ppl who never played this game think that it is awful..
game has a lot of problems but was charming.
but if not for the Thing name, I wouldn't have pushed my way through it years ago.
Spoony bard
I've zero idea why people find any of these streamer personalities interesting in the slightest.
I never liked him😊
Spoony was the shit before that chick drove him crazy or he stop taking his meds and went crazy
That prequel was assinated by the studio it had some amazing practical effects that they had all covered in cgi.
i dont even remember it being that bad of a movie either, other than the CG just looking bad.
The pratical effects wouldn't have saved the film.
@@th3lonef0x4 No but what made it worse was that damn CGI also the bad part was that it was supposed to be all in Norwegian, but the studio intervened.
@Vasher-The-Destroyer Glad to see someone else point that out. (The film not focusing on the Norwegians, but instead american characters.)
@@th3lonef0x4 Which makes no sense there shouldn't be anyone else their but Norwegians.
here's the THING...
thank you so much for this kickass review, we really appreciate it! 🔥
1:01 wrong, there was "The Warriors" on PS2 and it was the best 3D beat'em up ever created.
Legend of a game
I'll give ya that, The warriors was badass
exactly, have it emulated on pc, and unsurprisingly still holds up to this day!
You clearly didn't played The bouncer lmfao 😅😅😅😂😂😂😂😂😂
Fr Urban reign and Beat down fists of vengeance were pretty neat games. Even State of emergency is consider a goat as a beat em up
Never replayed so many parts of so many levels in my life lol
Imo prequel wasn't that "awful". It was ruined by the producers who pushed it towards unnecessary shitty CGI when they already had good practical effects and used real animatronics and makeup effects. Also the ending was changed and a lot of other stuff. It definitely had some good ideas but in the end turned out to be not good.
The suits basically said that all the kids who see it will think the practical effects look cheesy and fake, so instead they forced the team to make cheesy and fake CGI instead
B-b-but wOmAn bAd 😡
I liked it as an all right inoffensive prequel but it is not even close to the original
How as the ending changed?
I used to have the opinion that it wasn't awful, but a review online made me realize the Thing (in the prequel) would often reveal itself *for no in-universe logical reason* other than the movie needed a scare. Like the part in the helicopter where the one passenger reveals itself to be a thing... why? It's literally about to *escape* the base and get away so it can cause mayhem elsewhere.
Besides the bloodtest mechanic, there was also the "coercion" mechanic where if an engineer didn't trust you, you could point a gun at their head and force them to fix a fusebox for you. This almost never came up as a spare gun + ammo was always available to give to a character to gain trust enough for them to follow you. Also there was the mechanic where, if you didn't trust a character, you could use the stungun on them and take away their gun. This also only came up once during a scripted event, even though it was technically a feature of the entire game. I was hoping the remaster would implement these as envisioned, but I guess not.
Which part is it scripted to use the stun gun?
@th3lonef0x4 the scene where two engineers are pointing guns at each other and there is a stungun on the table. You are supposed to use the stungun on the one you think is infected.
@helmutthat8331 There's also a blood test nearby.
14:06 Hearing DSP's laugh, and seeing a hideous creature bust through the door, what a true nightmare.
Ok the fart reverb when the explosion hits and consumes your companion sitting idle and awaiting their easily avoidable death has to be one of the best fart reverbs ever.
Never played it prior, enjoying the remaster. & I'll keep saying it, Nightdive should remaster/rework The Suffering & perhaps the sequel Ties that bind for current generation systems.
The people aren’t infected in The Thing, the Alien effectively consumes them and then replicates the body so what you are seeing is an Alien that looks like the person, not the person with an Alien in them like in Alien.
Care to explain the computer sim in the movie?
@@dubuyajay9964 The computer sim still absorbs them and then moves onto the next lump of pixels
@@finkamain1621 So would there be a point where the Thing enters someones body since in the movie even on a cellular level it is independent, would at some point you would just stop being you and start being it?
In Blair’s (wilford Brimley) notes in the movie he explains that it’s possible someone can be “infected” and not no. That’s why he goes crazy at first, so my impression of the thing is it slowly takes you over and when it wants to, it can explode out of you, effectively killing you in that moment.
The creepiest part is: the person isn't aware that it's being "assimilated", not even when they're fully one with the creature. It must be agonizing when it starts to do it's thing and mutate into other forms through wounding, breaking bones, growing tissues, etc.
One of the best stylized artistic design in a custom 3d engine before doom 3 and half life 2 changed the paradigm with the introduction of shaders.I miss these days because lot of the games used own custom 3d engines...they had different phisics, different enemy ai, different particle system and destructable part systems.Todayall the games seem the same game
Yeah I mean today it’s extremely costly to create your own engine so unless you’re an established AAA developer you’re just gonna go with unreal engine or unity with very few exceptions like Helldivers. Just look what happened with Halo Infinite when 343 industries tried to make a brand new engine mid development, it completely destroyed their development cycle.
All games today are either tf2 clones or cod knock offs with some wannabe halos thrown in for good measure...
@@IbnRushd-mv3fp idk im seeing a lot of wannabe quakes and dooms where im looking
Doom 3 aged horribly compared to HL2
@IbnRushd-mv3fp Not really but theres a lot of games nowadays use basically the same engine, either Unreal Engine for new games that doesn't have their own franchise or a big named company, or indie games uses Unity or well, Unreal Engine as well. Basically two or three engines for hundreds of games in the market
Now rebellion needs to remaster judge dredd versus death witch I’m pretty sure everyone wants to play
Oh yes. throw in the 95 action platformer too.
I mean at least it's playable on modern PCs.
It's on GoG.
That game was awesome. Played the coop campaign many times with my brother and multiple friends. Tried going back to it on pc but it's a little too dated now. That and The Warriors!
Dredd vs death is amazing!
The suffring would be blast...
The Things by Peter Watts is a perfect sequel imo..
Is that the story from the Thing's perspective where it sees the humans as "The Things" ?
Thanks for this comment, I had no idea this existed until now
Not a sequel, not a cannon but it's pretty cool little short story.
HA, " A certain DEFUNCT reviewer ". The Spoony One, oh my god. As much as i actually love that video, and one of the first ones that introduced me to him, that video did damage to this game.
And really, for being a tie-in sequel to one my favorite movies of all time, it's kick ass in every way. It has it all. That paranoid feeling, who can you trust, some really good acting and directing, even if it does come off as cheese, simple yet fun gameplay that makes you think on your feet, especially with managing your flamethrower fuel and flame grenades. Having your team trust you and if you can trust them. So really, it's awesome in every way.
Damage? This game came out years before Spoony. It was already a retrospective review by then. The damage may have come from G4TV's X-play/Extended Play.
@thesidneychan Not a lot of people knew about it, and when 2007 came around with RUclips growing, it was typically a new thing to review past games online. Even if it was done before a few years earlier.
So a lot of people seeing his review shaped the reputation of the game.
Same here. I still go back and watch Spoony's content to this day, but even back then I thought his review of this game was overly harsh.
Then again, getting overly and comedically upset over a video game was just how you got famous as a content creator at that time.
It is still mediocre licensed title even without 90% of Spoonys over exaggeration
Also this game got hammered by critic's year's before Spoony got into YT
Still waiting for System Shock 2 - Enhanced Edition...
There are mods.
Yup. Been waiting that for a while
Same!
Im waiting for the remake...
You’re gonna keep waiting too lol
Now they need to remaster Soldier of Fortune
Dismember EM
Too violent for people nowadays 😂
They'd have to censor it heavily for the sensitive modern gamer, and honestly I think that would take a lot of the fun out of it for me lol. SOF 2 is goated.
It won’t happen not because the violence like some morons believe
But licensing being a major issue especially with the main character being an actual real guy
@@titanjakob1056 aren't you thinking about Rogue Warrior..?
SpoonyOne was the one who threw a fit when it came out
what happend to that guy, he was on the top of his game when he was doing these funny game reviews ... his FF8 and FF10 reviews were also a lot of fun.
@Kivancli79 he stopped taking his bipolar meds and destroyed his reputation
@Kivancli79 he crashed out HARD due to a break up with his ex (as well as his falling out with Channel Awesome, aka Doug Walker, aka nostalgia critic) and decided to take a long term hiatus. He's been doing some Collab-ing with Conversations with Curtis (The same character/actor from his phantasmagoria 2 review turned LPer).
I thoroughly enjoy his Ultima series
@@Kivancli79 He basically went off the grid around the time he was getting funds from the fans for a movie he was gonna make and his life became shambles since iirc.
Got diagnosed as biopolar and then kinda went off the rails@@Kivancli79
Its a shame that the Thing 2 never came out. The premise and monsters was REALLY interesting. The movie is incredible. Kurt Russell is so awesome.
I think their may have been mention of the cancelled sequel when this remake was first announced, possibly leaving the door open to reviving the idea.
It's never too late for us to get one. Maybe this will inspire some interest from someone... stranger things are happening these days (RoboCop Rogue City).
It is not a shame. We do not need sequels to everything. The ending to the Thing was great, and is still talked about and analyzed to this day. We don't need a sequel.
@@liamrooney3298 But we need a sequel, one that takes place in California and follows a girlboss main character who is so smart and quirky that she can tell who is a thing and who isn't just by being on Reddit for so long drinking her pumpkin spice lattes from Starbucks
Any sequel would be dumb because not only it would ruin the ending of the first movie but also would either meant apocalypse for humanity if action took place anywhere other than arctic setting or it would had to be set in some secured location like underground lab which would also suck
1:30 Spoony One
I remember that review.
The spoony experiment was the channel's name.
Yeah it aged like milk
ruclips.net/video/ZhUi3tbYyQ8/видео.htmlsi=t43YpjbenWVw2P2i
Yeah, I still like look back at that review. Even if I disagree with the review. (Many of the games he DOGGED on, I played LONG before his reviews on them. Some I agree with him, others I majorly disagree and a few I feel he was a little too ruthless on and deceptive at times for a laugh! I can like a reviewer and disagree with them, Find it annoying when I run into people who call me a "No true Scotsman" for DARING to not 100% agree! "It's not a cult son, calm the fuck down" is my usual retort to those individuals! It's good to have your own opinions, being a follower YES MAN 100% is not nor NEVER good long term! I've seen people who refused to touch certain things because those they "overly worshipped" said it was bad....only to later try it and find out it was actually good! Game Reviewers were more a "Do I buy full sale or buy it on sale" for my decision making when I didn't have the ability to rent it free from my local library that rented them out to Library Card owners! And that Library ALWAYS got the newest releases the day they come out since they were next to a Gamestop where they got their games!)
I still get a good Laugh from his stuff; Happy some archived and reuploaded those videos! Man I miss the golden age of early youtube :) Not to say current RUclips (as in the good parts, not the garbage) is bad! Maybe I'm getting old (I'm 37 till next month) who knows! Still too young to be saying "The good ole days" but that's my 68 year old Uncle telling me that I guess.
Glad to see Puke & Fuses: Regurgitated is out. Too bad spoony fell apart. His review of the original is incredible.
"Hey, it's free real estate!" - Nightdive Studios, probably.
2 Gman videos in a single weekend is pretty dope!
I'll give Spoony this, "Who the fuck designed this bomb? The Joker?" was really funny
NGL it was so on point, the goofy looking timer on a bomb that belongs in an acme cartoon.
Actually, the game is scarier without any music. not every video game needs music. Ambience from the environment is all I need
I agree. But you can also have both in a game for an even potentially greater effect where the music dropping out gives rise to suspicion. And also when the music is so intense that it supplements the thrill.
Agreed. I actually turn off background music in a lot of games to make them more immersive.
Exactly. Glad you noticed that 👍
Action music ruins a lot of films for me. Prefer sound just effects for most the part.
The music in the movie is more like ambience than anything. Just some quiet Carpenter-y bass notes would be good.
00:32 There was also follow up comic
it's even considered canon as far as i know
And Childs was infected.
Never seen the movie, but as soon as I saw that it was pretty much Max Payne with flamethrowers and alien horror, paid my $30 with no regrets.
Watch the movie, It is Better than almost everything that released in last 5 years
You are missing out: I'd pay 30 for the game but I'd happily give a left nut, preferably someone else's, to see the greatest horror film of all time.
Choose wisely my friend
Watch the film NOW or you and I both will have no balls
Watch the movie, it is seriously the best movie ever.
Carpenter's The Thing is one of the classic horror scifi movies- it's up there with the original Alien. I could watch it like once a year.
14:07 DSP laugh lmao.
I laughed so hard when I heard it
@@MatthewOceanXVX Yeah same XD
ACK ACK ACK DOOD
@@unclebasil3489 oh lord no I can hear it in my head!
Remember clicking on 'Credits' during my lunch, just to watch something while I ate, and being blown away by my introduction to Saliva's 'After Me'
Nightdive doesn't miss. Like their Dark Forces remaster earlier this year, the amount of work they put into this is simply crazy. They really show their passion.
Blade Runner likes to have a word.
@@pastichiorocker Yeah Blade Runner Enhanced Edition was Nigthdive Studios Warcraft 3 Reforged. But at least you can still buy the Original on GOG.
fook yeah. the Terminator and Robocop games are awesome.
I hope they make a Judge Dredd game some day
I find it funny that Gman review talking about how bad Spoony review was, but the funny thing is, he brings up some of the same points of what Spoony said about the game. Spoony review of the game was hilarious at the time.
That review of the thing spoony made was the first video & the First time i've known the spoonyone back then. Sure vids he made like the thing wasn't great but they where his early reviews he did made some good ones like Highlander reb-brown movies & the Ultima series & more. Overall I know there's folks who are 50/50 on hate or like him but most of his reviews back then where Entertaining XD
Fun fact the movie was a remake off the 1951 horror movie "the thing from Another World" with each one having driffenet aliens.
What I mean it the thing from the 1951 movie was a vegetable base alien that just shaped shifted into humans, and well the 80's one being a horrifying flesh base monster
Which was an adaptation of the 1938 novella "Who Goes There?" that saw a camp of researchers dealing with an alien lifeform that could infect and imitate them.
@@PhilBrocklehurst which also spawned the 1972 "Horror Express" with Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing and Telly Savalas
@KristijanRisteski-zp7bx Aye, I have a soft spot for that Spanish/British gem 😊
It was about as faithful to the story as Rambo: First Blood was to its source material
Bought this game for the PS2 and XBOX. I thought I would never play it again, so glad for NightDive studios. I almost have all my favorite games on one system. Now if Extermination for the PS2 could be remastered, I would die a even happier man, but I am
Perfectly fine with having The Thing. I still can’t believe I am able to play it again.
Extermination. 🤯 Holy shit man. Been over 20 years since I heard that game. Absolutely should get a remake. Like resident evil 4
In defense of Spoony, it was trendy to hate games back then, no matter what. It was like roast humor. Everyone was riding that AVGN wave.
he couldve always grown a fucking spine lol
It’s a business model to hate games now.
"In defense of Spoony", that's not a phrase anyone should ever utter. Please refrain the next time you feel an urge for it..
Spoony was essentially the AVGN but with his own brand of humor. Unlike Rolfe he never grew up and like many TGWTG 'creators' went off the deep end.
@@kristoffer8609 Thing is....Spoony would actually attack fans who defended him, it was a weird time. Even before he spiraled out, Spoony and his bitch girlfriend were overly banhappy on their own forums.
“A now Defunct Creator”
Ah, the Spoony, Fuse Box count running gag. Good times.
12:10 I hate that you played this, because it made me pause the video, listen to the entire blood rave tune and then return to this video. Nostalgia trips are a hell of a drug. xD
This remaster is yet another great example of why Nightdive Studios deserve all the praise and support in the world because they are one of the only companies preserving older games and allowing them to be played on modern platforms
You could already play this on modern platforms thanks to work done for free by modders, this game had been abandonware, now you have to pay to download it. I don't know something kind of irks me about them taking all the decent abandonware titles off the free download sites when most of these titles were already fixed by the altruistic work of modders.
As someone who used to religiously watch spoony as a child as soon as you brought up "that review" I knew exactly what you were talking about! Made me laugh as a kid and maybe a little now but watching your review of this game shows the amount of respect, knowledge, nuance, and care you put into your videos. I stopped playing this as a kid once I got to the "Sub" part and never really looked back after watching walkthroughs of the game. Seeing that this is more than just a port with a new face makes me excited to come back and play the game that legit gave me nightmares as a kid!
I just want ND studios to do AVP2. Banger game.
Wow that'll be awesome !!
Now, all we need is Nightdive's remasters of both The Suffering games (heard they already work on it) and Manhunt games (this one probably won't happen, since T2 want to bury it forever and erease every memory of Manhunt).
Nightdive is the gift that keeps on giving
The Thing, They Live, Escape From New York, Christine, Assault on Precinct 13, Prince of Darkness, Halloween are some of the best films ever made. I'm glad I can finally pick this up and play it again. They did an amazing job with the fantastic Shadow Man remastered. I'm sure this will be just as awesome.
I like nightdive studios and I adore Carpenter's The Thing, but I never really enjoyed the game that much, even back then. Wouldn't mind a Dino Crisis remake though...
Spoony actually inspired me to make RUclips content, I always found his review to be funny, but I love this game lol
1:30 shots fired at Spoony
70% of Gman's viewers probably don't know who Spoony is/was 😂
Literally no idea who that is.
@@some-replies Don't bother me with your lack of knowledge, thanks.
@@s-zz his older fans from early 2010s era gman def do tho lol
@@GeoffreyBronson Ok then, be that way.
Was too busy playing Halo in 2002 + the hundreds of amazing games from 2000-2005 to even know this existed. Playing it for the first time now and LOVING IT! Atmosphere is on point. Simple, fun gameplay. Funny, kinda spooky, no modern gaming bs.
"Just a bunch of blokes caught out in the snow"
-Profesional reviewer 2024
Making anything where all the characters are men or just anything where all the main characters are men or all the heroes are men seems to be almost impossible nowadays.
The Sonic movies is the only exception i can think about.
All the important characters in those movies are men i think.
I love that every canon story in this timeline is called The Thing (the prequel, the 82 film, and the game). It very much keeps it in line with the nature of the beast itself. If they made a sequel film to all of it, I hope they just call it The Thing, as well.
It is glorious. I finished it in a couple of days, can't wait to replay it again on the hardest difficulty.
Tbf that segment near the end where you're fighting an endless wave of crawling things, turrets, and environmental hazards both down and up that spiralling staircase is one of the most infuriating experiences I've ever had in a video game.
This needs a full blown remake. I played this in 02 on PC (when I wasnt playing Unreal Tournament). It was great.
Agreed, their trailer kinda made me think they'll implement more changes to the game. It's fantastic that they're doing these quality remasters but I'd love to see more stuff like their System Shock remake, that was an incredible experience in the sea of modern slop.
Honestly, reviews like this are one of the many reasons I keep coming back to your channel. Companies like Nightdive studios need more attention. This is technically a form of game preservation, the same way art has been restored for centuries now. Very important that we make it commercially successful otherwise we will stop seeing such sweet games come back.
“I know you gentlemen have been through a lot. But I’d rather not spend the entire winter tied to this fucking couch!”
that couch, its not real, its imitation....
3:39
The script of the cancelled sequel, "Return of the Thing", shows both Childs and McCready frozen, confirming both were human and died staring each other down.
I'm glad I'll be able to buy this at some point now (Got too many games to play currently so it goes on the bottom of my backlog), but it's hilarious when people say "finally" like they were expecting them to do it.
Because it was announced ages ago
Hopefully, Nightdive will remaster Turok Evolution now.
My mum made it through an entire video unscathed. 10/10
Thank God, they updated the controls!
I just gotta say, as a child, when I rented this from family video, I had never heard of the film. So I got to experience everything the rescue team did, learning all that they learned over the course of my playthrough. I was too little to beat it cause I remember it being very unforgiving at times, but I was enamored with the world and story, and I'm very excited to finish it with the remaster
Nightdive should remaster Mercenaries 2 world in flames next
"Nobody tell Under the Mayo"
This is actually a refrence to the 2011 Thing Movie where Under the Mayo pours a jar of Mayonnaise into his PS5 while playing God of War because it was ruined
Not sure how many people know but there were also several comics that were an official continuation of the movie .
Dang, he brought up the Spoony reviews. I haven't seen those in forever.
Still waiting for System Shock 2, and The Operative: No One Lives Forever. (I still have faith in it coming back from the dead.)
And Sin Reloaded that was announced in 2020!
Nightdive has been desperate to get the rights to No One Lives Forever for years but they said its been very difficult to figure out who owns it
They've literally said 1000 times they're not doing No One Lives Forever because nobody knows who actually owns the rights to it to approve doing a remaster.
A No One Lives Forever Remastered bundle like Tomb Raider and Soul Reaver Remasters would be the way to do that best. Would avoid some IP issues down the line, to have it all licensed to one package. But I don't share your faith because they are in IP h3ll.
I got the original DVD somewhere. I found it in a PC game shop around 2003, and i bought it blindly, i had no clue about the game whatsoever. Didn't know anything about it, except that it was ported from PS2 (i think). I started playing, and although i hated the beginning with the Alone in the Dark cameras that constantly change angles and make things extremely disorienting, i luckily somehow forced myself through that part, and after i got to the part when you get a bit more freedom in 3rd person view, i found out that i absolutely love it.
Btw, there definitely are moments when the trust/mood meter plays a big role in the original. At least during my gameplay.
I've seen team members completely lose their shit, attack others, or shoot themselves in the head. It usually happened when they were hurt, their trust was already low, and i didn't have anything left to give them to improve their mood. In that situation, just seeing the little spidery Thing might cause them to lose it.
There was a bit where i got stuck for days and just couldn't find out what to do to progress further, in the beginning of the underwater base. I always got killed. So i downloaded a trainer, and used it, which caused pretty funny glitch, because the trainer only froze health, not the mood meter.
So, my team members could still become freaked out/lose their shit. One of my NPCs shot himself in the head, but since he was immortal because of the trainer, the game went mental, and just started playing the death animation over and over again while yeeting the NPC's model through the corridors in midair at extreme speeds back and forth. That was pretty funny.
I'm thinking about getting the remaster, but i'm not really sure if it's worth 30USD. Maybe i should consider it investment into the future of the developer.
Nightdive definitely do deserve it. And since i saved up by not buying the MSFS2024 dumpster fire, i prolly should support studio that actually delivers games i care about.
I'm gonna get hate for this, the 2011 movie is over hated. I love watching them back to back. There are so many small touches throughout that movie that connect it to the 1982 movie. Like when Kate and Carter chop the hand creature in half with the very axe you mention and it scurries over to a wall and gets torched. That wall, and the door with the axe in it, are in the same spots in the 1982 movie. It was really neat seeing them re-create the chaos that directly lead to the scene where Macready investigated the Norwegian outpost. Every hole in the wall in the 1982 movie was explained by the shit that happened when the thing ripped through the base in the 2011 movie. Someone clearly gave a shit and it got hindered by one bad call on effects. It's NOT as bad as you make it out to be man. At all.
I agree.The 2011 got a lot of hate and even if it’s not as good as the original,it’s still a good movie in the series and i like watching it back to back with the original.I never understood the hate.A lot of attention to details and love of the original movie went into the 2011 prequel.Even the cgi are not as bad as everyone say.
@@loyz8048 I agree. I watched it again recently and the CGI is honestly not horrible. It meshes with the physical effects well in most cases. I do wish there was a cut of the movie available with just the physical effects but what we have now has aged pretty well when compared to some CGI from the time that looked far worse. Watching them back to back is a really good experience.
I can't remember if this was a thing (hur hur) with the original, but in the level where you kill the walkers and rescue Williams, when I first entered the room with the pool table (before you even meet the walkers) I took a left turn and went down a corridor with windows and I saw a walker outside, shambling past the window. I never saw it again when I went outside.
The idea that some enemies got away and thus lived to infect the rest of the world is scaaaaary. I hope somebody checks to see if youre right
I appreciate this one a lot but its hard to top Alien Isolation and Chronicles of Riddick when talking about games based on movie IPs
Butcher Bay 100% deserves the Nightdive treatment. I might be wrong but I think Vin Diesel still owns the rights to all of that too, so it's probably not an impossibility.
Hearing Spoony being referenced as a "now defunct creator" is both sad and absolutely deserved
The Spoony One was the GOAT when he was active. Real shame he went totally mental and lost the will to create videos.
I wish night dive would remaster/remake the original medal of Honor
I recommend reading the short story “Who Goes There” that the movies are based on as well! Overall, I enjoyed the game, but in the strategy guide to get past the third boss, the guide actually recommended that you utilize a glitch. When the official strategy guide tells you how to break the game, it definitely has its issues and spoony was right about a few things. I mostly enjoyed the game, but I also really liked spoony’s review.
This game was a childhood gem. I remember playing this after watching the movie and being traumatized for the rest of my preteen years. I went to school thinking that someone in my class was going to turn into one of them things for a few weeks, genuine paranoia... Dont worry, i had a can of deodorant and a lighter just incase. 😂 I will revisit this game now they've remastered it. Love it.
I actually liked the prequel it’s not perfect but not bad
"Now defunct creator", yeah, you could've just said it was Spoony. And while I found the video funny at the time, I think to most people that actually played the game, it would come across as incredibly mean spirited, even if it probably wasn't meant to.
He name drops spoony at the end of the video, guess he just lives in his head rent free.
Several years ago when my girl and i first moved in together we were planning on watching one another's favorite horror movie, we both love them. She picked The Shining and i picked The Thing, the Carpenter one. Fucking love this game, had it on PS2 years back. So glad it's back, hopefully a physical release comes around. Even if it's lrg i really want a copy on top of the digital.
What is that clip at 12:15? And yes, I knew before you said it what angry reviewer you took objection to.
You lucked out on the fear mechanics; I'm on my first playthrough & the section I just (barely) got through had both my squadmates completely crack. One curled up in the fetal position & eventually merked himself w/ his pistol & the other lit me on fire (all while we were under attack; of course)
There have been times when I had to use the stungun to disarm them b/c they were that much of a liability & others when I got through an encounter only to have my last surviving squadmate turn into a creature. It's really selling the anxiety/paranoia
I never played this game before but really enjoying it. It's super refreshing compared to formulaic modern games that are so samey
Fuck, Gman mentioned the 'Defunct RUclipsr' and it sent me into a flashback lol
Never remake this movie
The original developer Computer artworks were interesting, they had started with CDs of Organic art that had screensavers which was based on William Latham art , then they did a pretty cool underrated game called Evolva which would i would love to see a remaster
As far as follow-ups go, we also got two issues of the Dark Horse comic book, but cool art aside, it's also mostly goofy nonsense. The simple fact of the matter is, the very premise of The Thing makes it effectively sequel-proof. Any setting other than the frozen Antarctic wasteland wouldn't work, because the second the Thing breaks out of the no-biomass containment into literally anywhere else that's hospitable enough to maintain even a native insect population, it's all ogre - the entire planet will inevitably get necromorphized like in DS3. It's a part of Carpenter's Apocalypse trilogy for a reason.
The game was surprisingly ambitious for coming out 22 years ago. The cold system, fear system, trust, squad mates, damage/fire system to fighting the larger aliens, the infection "system" was sadly very rudimentary being almost entirely scripted. Would be amazing to see what a studio today would be able to do with it. I feel like the crazy amounts of ammo you find in the remake hurts the tense atmosphere of the original. I recall renting the game multiple times with my cousin and us scrounging each level and rationing ammo during fights. One thing I don't see people doing in the remake is placing down firewalls to keep the larger things back so you can safely whittle down their health to finish them off, copious amounts of shotgun and smg ammo making it redundant.
I’m in love with how the enemies look like they’re puppets from the movie. It fits the vibe so well when they could’ve easily just made them look “realistic.”
Spec Ops: The Snow Drift
"A now defunct creator."
Ah yes, the era of angry, shouting, swearing internet reviewers who took some piece of media they didn't like and acted as if the people who made it committed a war crime. People who watched the Angry Video Game Nerd and took all the wrong lessons away from him. I've been trying to memory-hole that dark era.
The unfortunate thing about the prequel was that they shot it with awesome practical effects. Higher ups ordered rushed CGI to make it more modern and destroyed the original film. It would have been good. There are still some production shots of the final monster that you can look up. I encourage anyone to look them up and see the art that ego driven studio suits destroyed.
0:20 Uhm askhually there is the comics.
Not canon.
Played this game with my psuedo big brudder in Bosnia when I was a kid he really introduced me to pc games and games in general thank u ivan
Among Us is basically The Thing in the modern era.