I didn't know your channel but the algorithm did the thing. I have watched both movies a couple of times and I enjoy them, although I never read any of the magazines. I do remember watching the trailer for this game from the CD-ROM included in a videogame magazine though, and I always wanted to play it. I had almost forgotten it.A couple of years ago I started to use mods and sourceports for old 3D games like Quake, Jedi Knight, OG Tomb Raider and such, so I think this one will be next. Like you said, a GOG version would be very well received. Cheers from Spain!
Source ports are such a blessing. So many old FPS games I'm able to play these days thanks to better mouse and keyboard controls getting added. Whoever decided that "mouse move" should be the standard back in the day rather than mouse look was an evil, evil person.
I’m so sad there aren’t any heavy metal games besides this and geometrix. I love the pulp, sci-fi, fantasy, and metal album cover aesthetic a lot. More games should lean into it
Agreed! More pulp is never a bad thing! In a weird sort of way, Panzer Dragoon can be considered a Heavy Metal-adjacent property. It's heavily inspired by Arzach by Moebius which was both printed in Heavy Metal AND the general setting was used as the basis for the Taarna segment in the 81 movie.
I’d always heard the name Panzer Dragoon get mentioned but never knew anything about it, but with those inspirations it’s definitely getting added to the backlog!
@@clearwater4470 Most of the series are shoot 'em ups similar to Star Fox or, to go even further back, Space Harrier. They're fun, if short, experiences with an awesome aesthetic. However, the real main event is Panzer Dragoon Saga for the SEGA Saturn, a JRPG with one of the most unique battle systems in the genre. It wasn't quite the killer app that SEGA were hoping for, but it's still damn good!
I was gifted this as 'Tomb Raider but aesthetically cooler'.I always to hide this from my mother because scanty clad lady is not appropriate for a 11 yo, while gore and dismemberment were totally fine. Time to dig up that disc and relive some childhood. Thanks for the reminder!
My parents were similar. Sexual content was a no-no, bloody violence though was perfectly fine though so long as it didn't get "too realistic". Though they eased up on it by my early teens.
I still have my copy of this game. I tried to play it again a few years back but I couldn't get it to work in a playable state. I'm gonna yoink those patches! It was quite a unique game when it came out and I still have a soft spot for it.
1. There is an official, semi-finished, unreleased, DLC map pack with extra hard challenges from one of the official map designers that can still be downloaded. 2. HD texture packs are available. 3. Yes, I like to flex that I still have a framed original poster of the box cover that I found in an old gaming magazine hanging on my wall, to the eye-rolling of my wife.
Having not played this in 20 years, it's amazing to know fans have given this a texture update, and that there is ANY more additional content for this underrated gem from the last great OG era of pc gaming imho.
If you can believe it, you can thank the Funhaus crew for doing a full playthrough. Even if they spent most of the time mocking the game, it really helped bring the game back to people's attention and IIRC the texture pack creator directly cited Funhaus as being the reason he got curious about updating the game's visuals.
I never finished this game so thanks for the vid. I've a few of the remaining big boxes decorating my hallway. I've this one, of course, but other boxes too. Arcanum, Freedom Force, Stonekeep, Future Cop LAPD (of all things), Tribes 2, Fallout, NOLF... and then some lesser titles like Crime Cities lol. Nice vid. I hope this channel one day hits it.
Yeah, that box is really beautifull. I had it in my hands when I was A kid but didn't buy it. When finally got it, it was a pirated copy in 2008 😅@@SwannyTheMike
Whenever someone mentions early 2000s pc gaming, first things that pop into my mind are Heavy Metal FAKK, Drakan Order of the flame and Blade of darkness. Even with all the jank, those games have some weird charm to them, that i always remember fondly. Can't explain what it really is, but it stayed for just those 2-3 years and disappeared, but every time i see these games, or Clive Barker's Undying, Kingpin, or heck, even Postal 2, it brings the same sort of feeling. Thanks for the video (and the cool channel overall, just discovered it). I might try it with the texture pack, haven't touched the game for like 23 years now lol
Blade of Darkness is absolutely fantastic! I did a video on it a few months back, in fact. Just ignore the part where I stupidly assumed that only the knight kept his combos when wielding the final sword because the amazon didn't have hers. I'm also planning on doing Undying as well as both Drakan games (I still don't get why the sequel was a PS2 exclusive) some time in the future. That whole point in PC gaming is pretty special to me.
@@SwannyTheMike Haha yeah i saw Blade of Darkness video after posting the comment, as i went on to check out rest of your videos! And one thing that was freaky from the get go is that i had very similar experience as you - for years i remembered playing a game as a big Conan type character, i could remember the decapitations, the environment, the char select screen, but never the game. Bugged everyone thinking someone will know what i'm talking about, then one day at work a random YT short about nostalgia i stumbled upon had snippets of bunch of games flashing on screen, and i recognized it. Took a screenshot and one of the google image searches recognized it as Severance. I was finally at peace lol Keep up the good work, man, i hope you'll get loads of subs soon, your content is very high quality. And looking forward to those reviews you've mentioned, especially Undying.
I played this when it came out. I was a kid and my dad was enough of a nerd to like computer games, but not enough of one to know anything about the ones he didn't play. So... I got to play it on his computer.
The dude pretty much won the nerd lottery in the 90s. And the two of them actually had a couple cute moments in the behind the scenes for Heavy Metal 2000. Hard to fault a guy for running around screaming to the heavens, "My wife is so fucking gorgeous!".
That rant about the ragebait content plaguing everything gaming is what got me to subscribe. I am a little tired of youtube recommending 1-2 hour video essays trying to convince me that the games I have been enjoying actually suck. Like, how am I supposed to react to those? "Oh I know that I had fun playing Starfield for 400+ hours now.. but damn.. this 3 hour video essay convinced me that my fun is not valid and I should hate the game now..." Btw, good to see some people still remember PC games from the early late 90's to mid 2000's. Those were weird times. Oni, the Myth series, Midtown Madness, Arabian Nights, that Dune adventure game.. so much weirdness that's mostly forgotten by time.
Good to know I'm not the only one getting constant ragebait recommendations no matter how many times I click "not interested" or "don't show this channel". And that era of PC gaming was what I grew up on and what gave me my love of retro games, so expect to see plenty more covered in the future!
@@SwannyTheMike Sweet! I am a bit older. My early PC games were stuff like the first Prince of Persia and maybe the OG Rogue. I actually had to upgrade my first PC to run Doom back in the day lol.
Anyone who played 80s and early 90s PC games has my total respect. I've been working for years to get over my mental blocks when it comes to computer games from then. So many of them are overwhelming and make me so worried I'm doing something wrong that I wind up doing the wrong thing I'm worrying about. Prince of Persia is probably the only one I've ever managed to beat and even then, I can't remember if I had to cheat in some way.
My brain had really subsumed this game into the vague memories of there being a Heavy Metal - licensed third person arena shooter on the Dreamcast in the vein of Outtrigger and Spawn: In The Demon's Hand (which, despite the title, was not a game where Satan makes playthings of idle hands) The Dreamcast was a bit of a weird platform for online arena combat games because if you had a keyboard and mouse setup it was a pretty reasonable experience, but I don't think I'd have an easy time going back to the controller setup for those games (left stick to aim and face buttons to move, if you're lucky) Anyway, I ended up getting on a tangent, but the point is that I always assumed that this game was an upgraded port or sequel to that Dreamcast game, so learning that it's actually a third person platform game was a bit of a trip. Being fair to it, one of the best examples of a third person shooter from the time was Max Payne, which despite running on a proprietary engine that's supposedly optimised for that type of game, really does feel like an FPS running a mod to place the camera behind the player model and features a concerning amount of time walking on things that are obviously too narrow for Max to actually stand on (meaning that if you stop he just floats with his feet either side) in order to progress. I wouldn't hold it against this game for being similar, especially since the only other obvious comparisons from that time period (barring similar PC releases) would be Tomb Raider (which is a slow paced game built on similar principles to games like Prince of Persia and Oddworld) or something like Ratchet and Clank (which is probably the most direct translation of that style of shooter/platformer into something that looks more natural but has the advantage of not having to maintain any degree of realism to the animation and models, so it looks a lot less strange in motion). Possibly the Soul Reaver games, or Shadow Man, but they were more focused on the exploration than the action side of things.
I've done a crap job of showing it so far on my channel, but I absolutely adore the Dreamcast. In fact, I almost included that Heavy Metal Dreamcast game in this video, but aside from the soundtrack it's pretty mid. You'd think "Heavy Metal licensed game that plays like Power Stone with guns" would be awesome, but no. A rare miss from Capcom. And I definitely can't hold it against F.A.K.K.² that it took a lot from Tomb Raider. Pretty much every third person game at the time did, especially if it starred a female character.
WTF... I'm 20 minutes into the video, and just realised the view count and your subscriber count. I'd say you're criminally underrated for the quality of your work (well, this is the first video of yours I'm watching, but if the others are similar, I'm so glad to have found your channel). Great work, man! Subscribed.
Good to know that they actually bothered with the port. I know Linux users tend to get the short end of the stick when it comes to ports and even more so back then.
oh wow, I haven't thought about that game since I had the demo as a 16 year-old. I never got the full version as my parents wouldn't have been enthusiastic haha. If it ever gets a digital release I'll check it out, looks like it's actually pretty decent. Great video too!
Cool video. Had mo idea that HM2000 had a video game tie-in. Your review was well done. A lot of reviewers of retro titles forget to adjust their expectations when looking at older games, especially early 2D titles. I don't feel like you did that here. Again, well done.
Thank you! I do the best I can to place my mind in the era the game I'm discussing is from. Not doing that is like reviewing an old silent film and complaining about the video quality.
A awesome video well done! F.A.K.K.² was one of the classic games I enjoyed back then (even through I sucked at beating it lol). I wonder, will you cover Unreal and Drakan as well? Unreal 1 is a pretty solid shooter that's underrated in my opinion. I loved this game back then. Drakan is also a hidden gem, unfortunately almost forgotten.
I don't know for sure when I'll get to it, but I definitely plan to cover Drakan in the future. Unreal is a maybe because I have a *lot* of shooters that I'd like to cover and I like to have a variety of genres on my channel, so I have to space out the FPS videos.
Well I just discovered you and immediately subscribed and can't wait! Also I never understood the game journo roller skates thing in older fps. I mean bunny hop in painkiller and then come talk about I've skates
23:46 Just wanna point out this is one of like 3 times in the entirety of Excel Saga that "Fuck" is ever said. The anime, on the whole, hardly swears at all but is quite unhinged.
Thank you for reminding me to watch Heavy Metal 2000. There’s something to these edgy, yet forgotten American toons that get me, like Spawn back in the 90’s or the SiN movie or that forgotten War of the Worlds: Goliath cartoon in 2012. Or even Legend of Orin lol
Don't forget about Ralph Bakshi's films! Thinking back on it, watching Wizards before the '81 Heavy Metal may have been another reason I wasn't as impressed with Heavy Metal as others.
I mean Americans had Star Reach, that pushed the envelope right here on our own shores. Heck Jim Starlin penned an issue where he inserts himself doing LSD before being the next contestant in some bizarre fantasy battle against Death.
For me, half of the impressive part with Halo was just "Holy shit! They finally figured out how to make an FPS not control like total ass on console!". Then I found out about Alien: Resurrection and realized that Bungie just copied that game's control scheme.
@@SwannyTheMike Never heard of that but cool trivia. I actually bought the Playstation mouse to use with Alien Resurrection, which made it feel like a PC fps game. Which in reality is the only good way to play it without getting your butt kicked.
I remember this game by name back then without knowing what the game actually was, and from how the name sounds I thought it was a mech combat game lol
With all the mech games I've played over the years (any S.L.A.I. fans out there?) I'm shocked that didn't occur to me at all. And also, now I want a sequel to this where Julie pilots a mech.
You're carefully trending the line between "rad, this retro guy knows what's up" and "oh boy, here comes the soy" - which is in itself quite impressive.
I'll go ahead and spoil it for you that I hold many progressive views. I understand if that's a deal breaker for you. I just wanted to be upfront about it.
I remember this, bought it from electronic boutique back in the day but for some reason it would never run 😢 I didn't have the tech know how back then to fix it so returned it. Will check it out again though, thank you.
@@SwannyTheMike I love those 90s games cause of their corny soundtrack choices. Kiss Psycho Circus is the craziest one for me. Edit: Requiem: Avenging Angel or Messiah are good examples too.
@@SwannyTheMike Man, the 90s and early 00s have some forgotten gems burried under all those Call of Dutys and Fortnites... Another great one was Gunman Chronicles. Wanna say, that I really enjoy your videos. Found them today and I experienced some hard nostalgia while watching them. Have to finish the EliteForce one now. I wish you best Greetings from Germany!
That'd be great to see one day! I'm holding out hope that the Heavy Metal license will get sold to someone who actually respects the magazine's history and bring it back properly. If that happens, we might even see future game adaptations.
1. Quality of production- very good 2. Jokes- yes 3. Informative value- high 4. Sub count- ... need significant improvement My brother in games, you should be +100k subs/views. Great job! Im subbing out of priority
It'll be a bit before the video's ready. I've still got to do Beyond Oasis, the first part of Tomb Raider Remastered, and probably some sort of one year anniversary video first, but there's no world in which I don't wind up making a video on a game about suplexing aliens to save the Earth.
I boomer shoot move in real life. I have knocked so many products off the shelf at the grocery store by running into them that they no longer let me in there.
It's from F.A.K.K.²'s main menu. I believe it's called Heavy Metal Fire. EDIT: Forgot to say that it's by Zak Belica like the rest of the soundtrack. No clue who the vocalist is though.
Preach, and rage against the machine. To friggin hell with those trash series of vids on what's the latest "hot" game, bloated to 1 hour+ unedited footage for extra ad revenue, with unimaginative thumbnails where a grubtuber is making 1of3 soyjak faces with click bait titles like "I BROKE THE GAME, CHINA HATES ME! FORTNITE STREAM #2614" It's your channel, you make it your own, by your values, with the games YOU want to play. The subs you gain will last til the your final upload. Keep trucking, man. Love your nostalgic content (holy damn, Hybrid Theory, that takes me back...)
@SwannyTheMike "YOU WONT BELIEVE HOW EXCITED OR SHOCKED I AM UNLESS I UNHINGE MY JAW, AND YOU SEE HOW MEDIOCRE I AM AT BRUSHING MY TONGUE DAILY!" "Alright, perfect, my "Don't Call Mickey at 3am Social Experiment" video is complete! Time to prank my click bait partner and time the frame pause just right for the thumbnail!" "Oh, and I'm gonna take a 1-minute to explain Easter egg, and bloat it up to 40+ minutes" Ugh, at this point I'm just reveling in the cringe, to see how far that rabbit hole goes. Your channel though, is a breath of fresh air, shine on you crazy diamond
It mostly got 7s back when that didn't mean "teh w0rst gam3 ev@r!!!1!!11!!!" which I think is fair. The worst it got from any major outlet was a 6.7 from Gamespot, and they were extremely hard to please before ownership started kowtowing to publishers in the mid 2000s.
Did I forget to correct that mistake? Damn. I realized that Heretic 2 wasn't the same engine while I was editing, that's why I used Alice as the example later on.
Wait, there was a what? I know there was a developer level and a cancelled expansion pack (which, in hindsight I really should have mentioned), but I didn't know about any cut levels.
On the one hand, I'm relieved that I didn't totally miss any cut content. On the other hand, I'm actually a little sad that there wasn't more F.A.K.K.² to play... What the level designer released of the planned expansion is cool and all, but it's not all there, so the difficulty spikes like crazy. And expansions back then were already designed to be harder than the main game!
So long as they put as much attention into the gameplay as they do the jiggle. Horny games that can't be bothered with the gameplay are misery. It's the difference between Rumble Roses and Rumble Roses XX.
Eh, it varied from issue to issue. The 70s and early 80s have plenty of really good stories. By the 2000s, they practically gave up though. They stopped even bothering to draw backgrounds or anything else interesting around the latest "hot babe" on the covers.
They're definitely worth checking out, if you're inclined. There's some decent stories, but the art and aesthetics are always top level (at least in the earlier years of the anthology before it changed hands. Moebius had a visual style that you can recognise from a mile away that mashes up elements from typical cyberpunk iconography with African, South American and various Asian and Arab motifs to create this interesting juxtaposition of various indigenous and aboriginal cultures being integrated with a kind of brutalist sensibility that makes it simultaneously a celebration of the diversity of human culture as well as being oppressive and technocratic. It's really neat.)
Moebius was an absolute genius. I hope that movie version of The Incal stays true to his visual style (Taika Waititi did a good job recreating Jack Kirby's aesthetic in Thor Ragnarok, so I have hope) and Moebius finally gets the worldwide appreciation he always deserved.
The spiteful drama farming content is so effective since there are so many children on youtube nowadays, and they love to watch that crap on their phones and ipads. It's a sad state of affairs to be sure. The new generations + the rise of phone technology have ruined the internet for me personally. So it makes me glad when little bits of gold like your channel pop up.
I think what bugs me the most is how many older folks who grew up on the pre-social media internet and should know better by now get caught up in this crap too. Kids being angry and immature is natural (hell, I was a nihilistic edgelord as a teen), but when grown ass adults are doing it too it lowers the bar for everyone.
@@SwannyTheMike That's precisely what I'm referring to. Children are the biggest audience on youtube due to their free time and constant device usage so there's a big monetary incentive for the adult content creators to pander to them and their idea of entertainment. I wish it were different too but in our capitalist world it's the most sensible thing to pursue if you're a youtuber.
I can't help it! Futurama set the bar too high for cartoony, sci-fi Jamaicans with Hermes. Now maybe if Rasta Yoda had an upbeat musical number about how he was born to be a bureaucrat, then we'd be talking!
I wonder why Heavy Metal never intended to create a huge gaming franchise out of their brand.. Action game eroticism is something that the gaming industry seriously lacks and we need more of those. The modern day woke activists need to get harsh taste of reality of what real creativity is without restrictions
I'm pretty sure creativity in the industry is being stifled by the CEOs who don't know shit about video games and chasing the delusional concept of infinite profit growth in order to boast that every quarter was more profitable than the last to their investors, who also don't know shit about video games. It's also funny to blame "the woke" because Heavy Metal was pretty "woke" for its day. Many of its featured stories have a clear anti-conservative bend and it even had an "orange man bad" story way back in the early 90s about him turning New York into a walled dystopia (Issue #125, pg 70). I do agree though that Heavy Metal was stupid for never fully realizing the potential of branching out into gaming.
That was Heavy Metal Geomatrix. A fighting game from Capcom. They came out around the same time, so I imagine a lot of people thought they were the same game.
Hey don't worry about it you feel like you made a hell of your own making it's not that take it from an old salt like me man I was around to see people freak out for Final Fantasy VII the things Quake came out with blew people away back in the day Tomb Raider is another good example as for heavy metal game it was quite good you are not doing any Injustice
What makes it frustrating to me is how many people will dismiss these things for looking bad now and I just sit there and wonder, "Do you also complain that the original King Kong doesn't look cutting edge anymore?". I look at this stuff and marvel at how far technology has come in such a short time.
Yeah I know the feeling I review a lot of old stuff nothing like saying hey The real Ghostbusters was quite good for its time or this show was inventive back in the day compared to what exists now
@@orcwarchiefreviews The Real Ghostbusters is one I still need to watch. I've been steadily going through older cartoons I either never watched or only ever saw a few episodes. They're conveniently structured for casual viewing in the background while I work on videos. Though there have been dark times, like struggling through all of Transformers: Energon...
how the hell do you mention "as metal as you could ask a soundtrack" and not have Black fucking Sabbath at the top of the list? Mob Rules was literally written for the scene it backs!
Mostly because I couldn't resist the Simpsons clip. I do note my love of Sabbath (I enjoy both Ozzy and Dio eras) later on when talking about the soundtrack for F.A.K.K.².
I Always find it very Weird that Most Video Games are made for Guys(Because lots of guys play Games) and Still Some guys (?) complain About Scantily clad Female characters. Do guy players want to see Nearly naked Male characters? Aamof Do Females want to see Nearly naked , Muscular Male characters in Their Entertainment? Im tired of the Hypocrisy
Considering that Den has floppy wangs swinging in the breeze and it's one of the most iconic Heavy Metal stories, most grown ass men used to be able to tolerate it even in stories written for them. I don't give much of a damn either way if the story is interesting. Doesn't mean I can't still find it hilarious when a game is so horny that even the environment is getting in on it. As for making games to appeal to horny women... If I may quote Johnny Gat: why the fuck not? Last time I checked, women have made up a sizeable demographic of players since at least Centipede. There's bound to be a market for the thirsty player who want an action game starring Smoke Mannmuscle.
So you never read any Heavy Metal mags? Why are you so surprised by sexual content? Thats whats hilarious about this video , is a guy pretending to be offended over sexual content
Surprised? No. Amused? Yes. I actually quite like the Heavy Metal issues I own. My favorites are typically by Moebius, but generally the stories were quite good even when the magazine wasn't selling that well. Not to mention I own several fanservice-y games like Rumble Roses, which is a far more fun game than the oversimplified sequel made to target coomers rather than gamers. Let's see, what else..? - I'm incredibly jealous that Kevin Eastman landed a woman as gorgeous as Julie Strain and for all the fun I poked about it, the two had a very loving relationship at the time judging by the cute moments they showed in the behind the scenes for Heavy Metal 2000. - Leisure Suit Larry was an incredibly funny and clever series before they booted Al Lowe to the curb. - 2B's ass is god-tier and I have nothing but respect for Yoko Taro owning up to why he designed her that way instead of some cowardly, chickenshit excuse like Kojima's "she breathes through her skin". - I've been mildly bitter for the better part of two decades over the fact that so little quality rule 34 of Bloodrayne exists. I own the fact that I'm a pervert and have fun with it. In fact, the amount of sex jokes I wanted to make were so numerous that I turned it into a writing challenge to avoid as many easy jokes as possible. Frankly, my solution to the problem of the sexualization of women in games is to boost the sexualization of men to even things out. Why should straight women and gay men be left out in the lurch? Fuck's sake, I can't get a good single-player Conan RPG because too many of my fellow straight men are too insecure about the amount of chiseled man meat that would be on display! Now a question for you: why are you so scared of a loser Zillennial on the internet pointing out the silliness of something which he enjoys that you have to project your fear onto him?
You said "It's ok I guess" about Heavy Metal the 1981 movie. Sorry but that made me stop watching the rest of your video. You lack understanding and appreciation for true art.
That's cool. I figured not everyone would be happy with my opinion on Heavy Metal. I wish you would have at least stuck around long enough to hear my reasoning (it was pacing, mostly), but it's not as if I haven't noped out of a video for similar reasons myself.
Eh, if those "grift-tubers" can "grift" that means their views are popular enough to be economically viable. Which makes them as warranted, if not more so, than your opinions which you insinuate are a minority view yet claim sole authority to determine who belongs and who apparently don't. The review itself was entertaining enough but I really don't like people telling me what opinions I'm allowed to have so I wish you well and success but don't think this is the channel for me.
If economic viability is all it takes to be "correct" in any given situation, then yes, anything profitable is automatically insulated from critique and disdain. However, I don't recall saying anywhere in that part that I was the sole authority or that people couldn't have opposing opinions. Why is that always the go to in these situations, regardless of a person's politics or beliefs? I value gaming as my primary hobby. Ergo, I dislike seeing it used as a constant source of outrage and expressed my views on the subject. Whether through politicians blaming it for all societies ills, arrogant lawyers attempting to get the whole medium banned, or grifters twisting people's justified anger at corporate overreach into a perpetual cycle of rage that fixes nothing wrong with the industry because then they would have nothing to stir up anger about, I'm sick to death of it. Frankly, if I am truly in the minority, then you have nothing to worry about. I'll fade away into nothingness, never having accomplished much of anything. But I'm not going to hide my opinions on subjects for fear of offending those who don't want to hear it. What would be the point of putting myself out there on RUclips if I refuse to speak up when I feel something needs to be said?
"I really don't like people telling me what opinions I'm allowed to have" usually say the guys who get outraged when some devs don't share the same views as they do and throw a tantrum on social media about 'politics' polluting their games (and obviously it's only politics when they don't like a game's content, when it rubs their vision of the world the right way then for some reason it's not perceived as politics...). Keep enjoying clickbait trash that feeds on outrage and the delusion of persecution that some gamers love to self-indugle in if that's your thing mate.
Oh wow. Look at you get triggered by somebody's opinion. Is it that easy to get you riled up ? He's right though. Negativity sells. A RUclipsr I like but don't watch much falls into that "game bad" trope and at least two or three times he has stated "any videos I make where I talk about a thing I like don't do good" he is basically forced to make negative videos because people want to be hateful scum. Checking his view number a game he likes got 50k views but his "fARcRy 6 iS lItErAlLy ThE wOrSt" video has like 500k. You kind of people dwell in negativity and it is absolutely tiring at this point. You ever get tired mindlessly hating on stuff and mindlessly being told what to hate ?
Oh I don't mind his opinion. I might even agree with a focus on positivity over anger since being mad all the time kind of sucks. What I objected to was his claim that "grift-tubers", and by extension the people who follow that, are somehow invalid, "not real fans", ect who have coopted this hobby from him. And I made no claim that "negativity" didn't sell, indeed I argued that if the "grift-tubers" could make money it obviously was popular within the fandom rather than being out of the mainstream in contrast to Swan Mike's implication. So, to recap, you missed my entire point and think a reflexive seal clap for {Insert Content} somehow constitutes as a rejection of "mindlessly hating on stuff and mindlessly being told what to hate". Here's a tip. If you are doing what all your peers are doing, you likely aren't avoiding group think.
@@kathleendelcourt8136 Tsk, such mindless hatred. It is so easy to trigger you? You do realize your entire rebuttal consists complaining about people having opinions you don't like, right? You are basically reinforcing my point where this dumb mindset and its mindless adherents lead. Not to mention there's quite a gulf between someone, Swan Mike in this case, declaring anyone who disagrees with him is coopting the fandom versus wanting a product being sold to you actually being appealing to you. Like if you go to a restaurant and order something you'd expect it to come how you wanted it, right? And if it wasn't, if you kept ordering steak and they kept giving you salad, you'd stop eating there and take your money elsewhere. That's the beauty of capitalism. We all get to vote with our wallets. Now if you like the state of current gaming, more power to you. I couldn't be happier for you and I'm glad you are living your best life. But mindlessly seal clapping is no different than mindlessly hating.
R.I.P. Julie Strain. Nice Vid
A great game from a classic era of gaming. The texture pack mod makes a huge difference and helps the game age more gracefully. RIP Julie Strain.
If your main antagonist is named Tyler then you know he's crazy evil.
I suppose you'd have to be pretty evil to overcome a name like Tyler.
Tyler also means a guy who's sort of a bouncer at a Masonic lodge, so maybe there's some underlying message here?
I didn't know your channel but the algorithm did the thing. I have watched both movies a couple of times and I enjoy them, although I never read any of the magazines. I do remember watching the trailer for this game from the CD-ROM included in a videogame magazine though, and I always wanted to play it. I had almost forgotten it.A couple of years ago I started to use mods and sourceports for old 3D games like Quake, Jedi Knight, OG Tomb Raider and such, so I think this one will be next. Like you said, a GOG version would be very well received. Cheers from Spain!
Source ports are such a blessing. So many old FPS games I'm able to play these days thanks to better mouse and keyboard controls getting added. Whoever decided that "mouse move" should be the standard back in the day rather than mouse look was an evil, evil person.
I’m so sad there aren’t any heavy metal games besides this and geometrix. I love the pulp, sci-fi, fantasy, and metal album cover aesthetic a lot. More games should lean into it
Agreed! More pulp is never a bad thing! In a weird sort of way, Panzer Dragoon can be considered a Heavy Metal-adjacent property. It's heavily inspired by Arzach by Moebius which was both printed in Heavy Metal AND the general setting was used as the basis for the Taarna segment in the 81 movie.
I’d always heard the name Panzer Dragoon get mentioned but never knew anything about it, but with those inspirations it’s definitely getting added to the backlog!
@@clearwater4470 Most of the series are shoot 'em ups similar to Star Fox or, to go even further back, Space Harrier. They're fun, if short, experiences with an awesome aesthetic. However, the real main event is Panzer Dragoon Saga for the SEGA Saturn, a JRPG with one of the most unique battle systems in the genre. It wasn't quite the killer app that SEGA were hoping for, but it's still damn good!
I was gifted this as 'Tomb Raider but aesthetically cooler'.I always to hide this from my mother because scanty clad lady is not appropriate for a 11 yo, while gore and dismemberment were totally fine. Time to dig up that disc and relive some childhood. Thanks for the reminder!
My parents were similar. Sexual content was a no-no, bloody violence though was perfectly fine though so long as it didn't get "too realistic". Though they eased up on it by my early teens.
14:08, I am a programmer, and 2000s games were difficult as balls to even get running, let alone put in decent QoL features.
I had a feeling. That's why I wanted to emphasize my lack of programming knowledge.
From my heart. This game defined my gym shorts at an important moment in my life.
I do hope you washed them
I still have my copy of this game. I tried to play it again a few years back but I couldn't get it to work in a playable state. I'm gonna yoink those patches! It was quite a unique game when it came out and I still have a soft spot for it.
1. There is an official, semi-finished, unreleased, DLC map pack with extra hard challenges from one of the official map designers that can still be downloaded.
2. HD texture packs are available.
3. Yes, I like to flex that I still have a framed original poster of the box cover that I found in an old gaming magazine hanging on my wall, to the eye-rolling of my wife.
I wanted to include a bit about that map pack, but it kicked my ass so hard that I barely had any footage of it lol
Having not played this in 20 years, it's amazing to know fans have given this a texture update, and that there is ANY more additional content for this underrated gem from the last great OG era of pc gaming imho.
If you can believe it, you can thank the Funhaus crew for doing a full playthrough. Even if they spent most of the time mocking the game, it really helped bring the game back to people's attention and IIRC the texture pack creator directly cited Funhaus as being the reason he got curious about updating the game's visuals.
At the time, I was playing American McGee's Alice while my bud was playing this - didn't realize how much they had in common.
It's crazy how two different studios filled with FPS developers had the same idea around the same time.
I never finished this game so thanks for the vid. I've a few of the remaining big boxes decorating my hallway. I've this one, of course, but other boxes too. Arcanum, Freedom Force, Stonekeep, Future Cop LAPD (of all things), Tribes 2, Fallout, NOLF... and then some lesser titles like Crime Cities lol. Nice vid. I hope this channel one day hits it.
A big box of Arcanum? SO JEALOUS!
Future Cop LAPD is an underrated classic. Also NOLF. You can't even find that game to buy anymore.
Yeah, that box is really beautifull. I had it in my hands when I was A kid but didn't buy it. When finally got it, it was a pirated copy in 2008 😅@@SwannyTheMike
Whenever someone mentions early 2000s pc gaming, first things that pop into my mind are Heavy Metal FAKK, Drakan Order of the flame and Blade of darkness. Even with all the jank, those games have some weird charm to them, that i always remember fondly. Can't explain what it really is, but it stayed for just those 2-3 years and disappeared, but every time i see these games, or Clive Barker's Undying, Kingpin, or heck, even Postal 2, it brings the same sort of feeling.
Thanks for the video (and the cool channel overall, just discovered it). I might try it with the texture pack, haven't touched the game for like 23 years now lol
Blade of Darkness is absolutely fantastic! I did a video on it a few months back, in fact. Just ignore the part where I stupidly assumed that only the knight kept his combos when wielding the final sword because the amazon didn't have hers. I'm also planning on doing Undying as well as both Drakan games (I still don't get why the sequel was a PS2 exclusive) some time in the future. That whole point in PC gaming is pretty special to me.
@@SwannyTheMike Haha yeah i saw Blade of Darkness video after posting the comment, as i went on to check out rest of your videos! And one thing that was freaky from the get go is that i had very similar experience as you - for years i remembered playing a game as a big Conan type character, i could remember the decapitations, the environment, the char select screen, but never the game.
Bugged everyone thinking someone will know what i'm talking about, then one day at work a random YT short about nostalgia i stumbled upon had snippets of bunch of games flashing on screen, and i recognized it. Took a screenshot and one of the google image searches recognized it as Severance. I was finally at peace lol
Keep up the good work, man, i hope you'll get loads of subs soon, your content is very high quality. And looking forward to those reviews you've mentioned, especially Undying.
I played this when it came out. I was a kid and my dad was enough of a nerd to like computer games, but not enough of one to know anything about the ones he didn't play. So... I got to play it on his computer.
Lucky! This one definitely wouldn't have flown with my parents back then lol.
Games need more cover art by Luis Royo. Period.
I just have to name drop the game "Valfaris" here. Not the same genre, but an amazing game in an amplified Heavy Metal FAKK like universe.
I'm terrible at it, but Valfaris has those Heavy Metal vibes in spades for sure!
I mean in all fairness to Eastman, if I had a wife looking like that I would also want to flex to all the other nerds.
The dude pretty much won the nerd lottery in the 90s. And the two of them actually had a couple cute moments in the behind the scenes for Heavy Metal 2000. Hard to fault a guy for running around screaming to the heavens, "My wife is so fucking gorgeous!".
That rant about the ragebait content plaguing everything gaming is what got me to subscribe. I am a little tired of youtube recommending 1-2 hour video essays trying to convince me that the games I have been enjoying actually suck. Like, how am I supposed to react to those? "Oh I know that I had fun playing Starfield for 400+ hours now.. but damn.. this 3 hour video essay convinced me that my fun is not valid and I should hate the game now..."
Btw, good to see some people still remember PC games from the early late 90's to mid 2000's. Those were weird times. Oni, the Myth series, Midtown Madness, Arabian Nights, that Dune adventure game.. so much weirdness that's mostly forgotten by time.
Good to know I'm not the only one getting constant ragebait recommendations no matter how many times I click "not interested" or "don't show this channel".
And that era of PC gaming was what I grew up on and what gave me my love of retro games, so expect to see plenty more covered in the future!
@@SwannyTheMike Sweet! I am a bit older. My early PC games were stuff like the first Prince of Persia and maybe the OG Rogue. I actually had to upgrade my first PC to run Doom back in the day lol.
I honestly don't see enough coverage of that era@@SwannyTheMike
Starfield !?!?
But, but, Starfield killed my dad and kicked my dog.
Anyone who played 80s and early 90s PC games has my total respect. I've been working for years to get over my mental blocks when it comes to computer games from then. So many of them are overwhelming and make me so worried I'm doing something wrong that I wind up doing the wrong thing I'm worrying about. Prince of Persia is probably the only one I've ever managed to beat and even then, I can't remember if I had to cheat in some way.
Hell yeah, love finding a quality, new (to me) RUclipsr. Excellent vid. You have a new subscriber.
Thanks! This one really blew up more than I expected.
So glad I found your channel, great video, subbed 👍
My brain had really subsumed this game into the vague memories of there being a Heavy Metal - licensed third person arena shooter on the Dreamcast in the vein of Outtrigger and Spawn: In The Demon's Hand (which, despite the title, was not a game where Satan makes playthings of idle hands)
The Dreamcast was a bit of a weird platform for online arena combat games because if you had a keyboard and mouse setup it was a pretty reasonable experience, but I don't think I'd have an easy time going back to the controller setup for those games (left stick to aim and face buttons to move, if you're lucky)
Anyway, I ended up getting on a tangent, but the point is that I always assumed that this game was an upgraded port or sequel to that Dreamcast game, so learning that it's actually a third person platform game was a bit of a trip.
Being fair to it, one of the best examples of a third person shooter from the time was Max Payne, which despite running on a proprietary engine that's supposedly optimised for that type of game, really does feel like an FPS running a mod to place the camera behind the player model and features a concerning amount of time walking on things that are obviously too narrow for Max to actually stand on (meaning that if you stop he just floats with his feet either side) in order to progress. I wouldn't hold it against this game for being similar, especially since the only other obvious comparisons from that time period (barring similar PC releases) would be Tomb Raider (which is a slow paced game built on similar principles to games like Prince of Persia and Oddworld) or something like Ratchet and Clank (which is probably the most direct translation of that style of shooter/platformer into something that looks more natural but has the advantage of not having to maintain any degree of realism to the animation and models, so it looks a lot less strange in motion). Possibly the Soul Reaver games, or Shadow Man, but they were more focused on the exploration than the action side of things.
I've done a crap job of showing it so far on my channel, but I absolutely adore the Dreamcast. In fact, I almost included that Heavy Metal Dreamcast game in this video, but aside from the soundtrack it's pretty mid. You'd think "Heavy Metal licensed game that plays like Power Stone with guns" would be awesome, but no. A rare miss from Capcom.
And I definitely can't hold it against F.A.K.K.² that it took a lot from Tomb Raider. Pretty much every third person game at the time did, especially if it starred a female character.
WTF... I'm 20 minutes into the video, and just realised the view count and your subscriber count. I'd say you're criminally underrated for the quality of your work (well, this is the first video of yours I'm watching, but if the others are similar, I'm so glad to have found your channel). Great work, man! Subscribed.
Thanks for the kind words!
Excellent video and a bonus beautiful Oni gameplay!
This game had a nice native Linux version back before Steam brought a whole lot of native Linux games!
Good to know that they actually bothered with the port. I know Linux users tend to get the short end of the stick when it comes to ports and even more so back then.
oh wow, I haven't thought about that game since I had the demo as a 16 year-old. I never got the full version as my parents wouldn't have been enthusiastic haha. If it ever gets a digital release I'll check it out, looks like it's actually pretty decent. Great video too!
It's definitely worth a look!
I cant believe i played this when it came out
Hey, somebody had to! Otherwise people like me would have never had a clue it existed at all.
Cool video. Had mo idea that HM2000 had a video game tie-in. Your review was well done. A lot of reviewers of retro titles forget to adjust their expectations when looking at older games, especially early 2D titles. I don't feel like you did that here. Again, well done.
Thank you! I do the best I can to place my mind in the era the game I'm discussing is from. Not doing that is like reviewing an old silent film and complaining about the video quality.
Oh wow...NEAT! subbed
Yeah i played this way back, Cooler, Sexier Tomb Raider.
Don't ask me to choose between Lara and Julie
A awesome video well done! F.A.K.K.² was one of the classic games I enjoyed back then (even through I sucked at beating it lol). I wonder, will you cover Unreal and Drakan as well? Unreal 1 is a pretty solid shooter that's underrated in my opinion. I loved this game back then. Drakan is also a hidden gem, unfortunately almost forgotten.
I don't know for sure when I'll get to it, but I definitely plan to cover Drakan in the future. Unreal is a maybe because I have a *lot* of shooters that I'd like to cover and I like to have a variety of genres on my channel, so I have to space out the FPS videos.
Well I just discovered you and immediately subscribed and can't wait! Also I never understood the game journo roller skates thing in older fps. I mean bunny hop in painkiller and then come talk about I've skates
I thought it was just me! Momentum in Painkiller feels so weird compared to the games its inspired by!
this game bring back good memories
FAKK2 just oozes that Quake3 engine look
Never even heard of fakk2 until now,just downloaded it and got it running,ooh yeah.
Hope you have a good time with it!
23:46 Just wanna point out this is one of like 3 times in the entirety of Excel Saga that "Fuck" is ever said. The anime, on the whole, hardly swears at all but is quite unhinged.
And that's what makes that line so hilarious to me.
Space Florida get's you a like. Programming with one hand get's a subscribe ;) Well played good sir. Well played.
Thank you for reminding me to watch Heavy Metal 2000. There’s something to these edgy, yet forgotten American toons that get me, like Spawn back in the 90’s or the SiN movie or that forgotten War of the Worlds: Goliath cartoon in 2012. Or even Legend of Orin lol
Don't forget about Ralph Bakshi's films! Thinking back on it, watching Wizards before the '81 Heavy Metal may have been another reason I wasn't as impressed with Heavy Metal as others.
Dude this game is fun, also iron sheik reference 10/10
Sheiky Baby forever!
Your reviews are just as good as MandaloreGaming's. I wish you luck and perseverance.
I feel like I still have plenty of growing to do before I'm on his level, but thank you for the compliment!
I mean Americans had Star Reach, that pushed the envelope right here on our own shores. Heck Jim Starlin penned an issue where he inserts himself doing LSD before being the next contestant in some bizarre fantasy battle against Death.
I'm gonna go ahead and take that L then because I legit never knew about Star Reach. That Starlin issue sounds fucking awesome!
Played and completed this game way back in 2001. Thought it was quite decent.
After playing Doom in 1992, nothing on a console ever impressed me until Halo came along.
For me, half of the impressive part with Halo was just "Holy shit! They finally figured out how to make an FPS not control like total ass on console!". Then I found out about Alien: Resurrection and realized that Bungie just copied that game's control scheme.
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Never heard of that but cool trivia. I actually bought the Playstation mouse to use with Alien Resurrection, which made it feel like a PC fps game. Which in reality is the only good way to play it without getting your butt kicked.
@@lordterra1377 No kidding, that game is downright brutal.
I bought the comic (Illustrated by legendary Simon Bisley), and the animated movie back in the day. Never played the game though.
I remember this game by name back then without knowing what the game actually was, and from how the name sounds I thought it was a mech combat game lol
With all the mech games I've played over the years (any S.L.A.I. fans out there?) I'm shocked that didn't occur to me at all. And also, now I want a sequel to this where Julie pilots a mech.
You're carefully trending the line between "rad, this retro guy knows what's up" and "oh boy, here comes the soy" - which is in itself quite impressive.
I'll go ahead and spoil it for you that I hold many progressive views. I understand if that's a deal breaker for you. I just wanted to be upfront about it.
I remember this, bought it from electronic boutique back in the day but for some reason it would never run 😢
I didn't have the tech know how back then to fix it so returned it.
Will check it out again though, thank you.
The soundtrack is pure Knorkator!
It wouldn't shock me if a Knorkator song actually popped up in a Heavy Metal adaptation at some point.
@@SwannyTheMike I love those 90s games cause of their corny soundtrack choices. Kiss Psycho Circus is the craziest one for me.
Edit: Requiem: Avenging Angel or Messiah are good examples too.
Agreed. I love all three of those games. Psycho Circus is in the same boat as F.A.K.K.² of being way better than it has any right to be.
@@SwannyTheMike Man, the 90s and early 00s have some forgotten gems burried under all those Call of Dutys and Fortnites...
Another great one was Gunman Chronicles. Wanna say, that I really enjoy your videos. Found them today and I experienced some hard nostalgia while watching them. Have to finish the EliteForce one now.
I wish you best
Greetings from Germany!
@@SwannyTheMike and gz to 1k ;)
I still have this on disk, I was messing with the idea of an unreal engine remake...
I wish they made a new Heavy Metal F.A.K.K. 2 with today engine, I think it would be way better than sh..ty NFTs.
Very underrated game.
That'd be great to see one day! I'm holding out hope that the Heavy Metal license will get sold to someone who actually respects the magazine's history and bring it back properly. If that happens, we might even see future game adaptations.
Ooookay, subscribed.
Still got the original Game in Mint condition^^
Reminds me to try to play it again. The only game i have, i actually bought in 2007 at a flea market :)
But then again, I could try to convert the maps to Killing Floor 2 maps 😈
@@dominikschutz6300 That'd be an interesting project.
1. Quality of production- very good
2. Jokes- yes
3. Informative value- high
4. Sub count- ... need significant improvement
My brother in games, you should be +100k subs/views. Great job! Im subbing out of priority
I appreciate it! Thanks to folks like you, my sub count is already exploding!
So finally looking into hybrid heaven my quest to tell people about old awesome video games no one's heard about continue on
It'll be a bit before the video's ready. I've still got to do Beyond Oasis, the first part of Tomb Raider Remastered, and probably some sort of one year anniversary video first, but there's no world in which I don't wind up making a video on a game about suplexing aliens to save the Earth.
I boomer shoot move in real life. I have knocked so many products off the shelf at the grocery store by running into them that they no longer let me in there.
Grant Morrison also did some stories for Verotica, you know
I'm probably going to have to look those up too at some point. I can't get enough of that crazy Scot's writings!
@@SwannyTheMike I wouldn't exactly recommend those, it's just not everything Morrison wrote is on par with The Invisibles or Annihilator
Oh I know. I've read Final Crisis. That doesn't mean I don't enjoy reading even the more... let's say "chaotic" side of Morrison's work.
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i love it (a cartoon) !
Funhaus, good times
I was wondering if anyone else remembered Funhaus playing this.
Music at 28:44 ?
It's from F.A.K.K.²'s main menu. I believe it's called Heavy Metal Fire.
EDIT: Forgot to say that it's by Zak Belica like the rest of the soundtrack. No clue who the vocalist is though.
Preach, and rage against the machine.
To friggin hell with those trash series of vids on what's the latest "hot" game, bloated to 1 hour+ unedited footage for extra ad revenue, with unimaginative thumbnails where a grubtuber is making 1of3 soyjak faces with click bait titles like "I BROKE THE GAME, CHINA HATES ME! FORTNITE STREAM #2614"
It's your channel, you make it your own, by your values, with the games YOU want to play. The subs you gain will last til the your final upload.
Keep trucking, man. Love your nostalgic content (holy damn, Hybrid Theory, that takes me back...)
The day people stop using soyjak faces can't come soon enough. I used to think rage comics were overdone, then the internet shit out soyjaks.
@SwannyTheMike "YOU WONT BELIEVE HOW EXCITED OR SHOCKED I AM UNLESS I UNHINGE MY JAW, AND YOU SEE HOW MEDIOCRE I AM AT BRUSHING MY TONGUE DAILY!"
"Alright, perfect, my "Don't Call Mickey at 3am Social Experiment" video is complete! Time to prank my click bait partner and time the frame pause just right for the thumbnail!"
"Oh, and I'm gonna take a 1-minute to explain Easter egg, and bloat it up to 40+ minutes"
Ugh, at this point I'm just reveling in the cringe, to see how far that rabbit hole goes.
Your channel though, is a breath of fresh air, shine on you crazy diamond
Looking forward to this one, I voted for FAAK.
Hope you enjoy!
I remember back, that the game didn't got good critics.
It mostly got 7s back when that didn't mean "teh w0rst gam3 ev@r!!!1!!11!!!" which I think is fair. The worst it got from any major outlet was a 6.7 from Gamespot, and they were extremely hard to please before ownership started kowtowing to publishers in the mid 2000s.
@@SwannyTheMike Oooh nice to know. Thanks.
Oh i am so playing this shit.
heretic 2 is based on the quake 2 engine. not 3.
Did I forget to correct that mistake? Damn. I realized that Heretic 2 wasn't the same engine while I was editing, that's why I used Alice as the example later on.
The developers made it sure so you can enjoy the view in third person 🍑
Im surprised there was no mention of the Controversial secret/cancelled level.
Wait, there was a what? I know there was a developer level and a cancelled expansion pack (which, in hindsight I really should have mentioned), but I didn't know about any cut levels.
@@SwannyTheMike I guess I was thinking of the canceled expansion because I can't find anything else about now.
On the one hand, I'm relieved that I didn't totally miss any cut content. On the other hand, I'm actually a little sad that there wasn't more F.A.K.K.² to play... What the level designer released of the planned expansion is cool and all, but it's not all there, so the difficulty spikes like crazy. And expansions back then were already designed to be harder than the main game!
this game needs a remake real bad with today's graphics and jiggle mechanics
So long as they put as much attention into the gameplay as they do the jiggle. Horny games that can't be bothered with the gameplay are misery. It's the difference between Rumble Roses and Rumble Roses XX.
dang i didnt know heavy metals magazines were actually not cool and lame. thank you 2000
Eh, it varied from issue to issue. The 70s and early 80s have plenty of really good stories. By the 2000s, they practically gave up though. They stopped even bothering to draw backgrounds or anything else interesting around the latest "hot babe" on the covers.
They're definitely worth checking out, if you're inclined.
There's some decent stories, but the art and aesthetics are always top level (at least in the earlier years of the anthology before it changed hands. Moebius had a visual style that you can recognise from a mile away that mashes up elements from typical cyberpunk iconography with African, South American and various Asian and Arab motifs to create this interesting juxtaposition of various indigenous and aboriginal cultures being integrated with a kind of brutalist sensibility that makes it simultaneously a celebration of the diversity of human culture as well as being oppressive and technocratic. It's really neat.)
Moebius was an absolute genius. I hope that movie version of The Incal stays true to his visual style (Taika Waititi did a good job recreating Jack Kirby's aesthetic in Thor Ragnarok, so I have hope) and Moebius finally gets the worldwide appreciation he always deserved.
Its only ever been Taarna for me, everyone else is at best second
I've always preferred dark hair, so Julie edges out Taarna for me.
The spiteful drama farming content is so effective since there are so many children on youtube nowadays, and they love to watch that crap on their phones and ipads. It's a sad state of affairs to be sure. The new generations + the rise of phone technology have ruined the internet for me personally. So it makes me glad when little bits of gold like your channel pop up.
I think what bugs me the most is how many older folks who grew up on the pre-social media internet and should know better by now get caught up in this crap too. Kids being angry and immature is natural (hell, I was a nihilistic edgelord as a teen), but when grown ass adults are doing it too it lowers the bar for everyone.
@@SwannyTheMike That's precisely what I'm referring to. Children are the biggest audience on youtube due to their free time and constant device usage so there's a big monetary incentive for the adult content creators to pander to them and their idea of entertainment. I wish it were different too but in our capitalist world it's the most sensible thing to pursue if you're a youtuber.
@@HyperRapid And it's things like that which make me glad that I've never been a very sensible person lol.
Don’t talk bad about Rasta Yoda
I can't help it! Futurama set the bar too high for cartoony, sci-fi Jamaicans with Hermes. Now maybe if Rasta Yoda had an upbeat musical number about how he was born to be a bureaucrat, then we'd be talking!
@@SwannyTheMike agreed, all the while he is spicing up and cannibalising other members of his species to said upbeat number (the duality of man)
I wonder why Heavy Metal never intended to create a huge gaming franchise out of their brand..
Action game eroticism is something that the gaming industry seriously lacks and we need more of those.
The modern day woke activists need to get harsh taste of reality of what real creativity is without restrictions
I'm pretty sure creativity in the industry is being stifled by the CEOs who don't know shit about video games and chasing the delusional concept of infinite profit growth in order to boast that every quarter was more profitable than the last to their investors, who also don't know shit about video games. It's also funny to blame "the woke" because Heavy Metal was pretty "woke" for its day. Many of its featured stories have a clear anti-conservative bend and it even had an "orange man bad" story way back in the early 90s about him turning New York into a walled dystopia (Issue #125, pg 70).
I do agree though that Heavy Metal was stupid for never fully realizing the potential of branching out into gaming.
It came out on Sega dreamcast
That was Heavy Metal Geomatrix. A fighting game from Capcom. They came out around the same time, so I imagine a lot of people thought they were the same game.
Hey don't worry about it you feel like you made a hell of your own making it's not that take it from an old salt like me man I was around to see people freak out for Final Fantasy VII the things Quake came out with blew people away back in the day Tomb Raider is another good example as for heavy metal game it was quite good you are not doing any Injustice
What makes it frustrating to me is how many people will dismiss these things for looking bad now and I just sit there and wonder, "Do you also complain that the original King Kong doesn't look cutting edge anymore?". I look at this stuff and marvel at how far technology has come in such a short time.
Yeah I know the feeling I review a lot of old stuff nothing like saying hey The real Ghostbusters was quite good for its time or this show was inventive back in the day compared to what exists now
@@orcwarchiefreviews The Real Ghostbusters is one I still need to watch. I've been steadily going through older cartoons I either never watched or only ever saw a few episodes. They're conveniently structured for casual viewing in the background while I work on videos. Though there have been dark times, like struggling through all of Transformers: Energon...
DEN.CORBEN.
Den started off interesting, but it lost me by Den 2.
CORVUS BELLI.
how the hell do you mention "as metal as you could ask a soundtrack" and not have Black fucking Sabbath at the top of the list? Mob Rules was literally written for the scene it backs!
Mostly because I couldn't resist the Simpsons clip. I do note my love of Sabbath (I enjoy both Ozzy and Dio eras) later on when talking about the soundtrack for F.A.K.K.².
Wow how long does this go on about how afraid of women in revealing clothes you are?
this is NOT the heavy metal i grew up with >.>
Nope. This is what happens when one of the two guys responsible for TMNT gets total creative control over Heavy Metal.
I Always find it very Weird that Most Video Games are made for Guys(Because lots of guys play Games) and Still Some guys (?) complain About Scantily clad Female characters.
Do guy players want to see Nearly naked Male characters?
Aamof Do Females want to see Nearly naked , Muscular Male characters in Their Entertainment?
Im tired of the Hypocrisy
Considering that Den has floppy wangs swinging in the breeze and it's one of the most iconic Heavy Metal stories, most grown ass men used to be able to tolerate it even in stories written for them.
I don't give much of a damn either way if the story is interesting. Doesn't mean I can't still find it hilarious when a game is so horny that even the environment is getting in on it.
As for making games to appeal to horny women... If I may quote Johnny Gat: why the fuck not? Last time I checked, women have made up a sizeable demographic of players since at least Centipede. There's bound to be a market for the thirsty player who want an action game starring Smoke Mannmuscle.
So you never read any Heavy Metal mags? Why are you so surprised by sexual content? Thats whats hilarious about this video , is a guy pretending to be offended over sexual content
Surprised? No. Amused? Yes. I actually quite like the Heavy Metal issues I own. My favorites are typically by Moebius, but generally the stories were quite good even when the magazine wasn't selling that well. Not to mention I own several fanservice-y games like Rumble Roses, which is a far more fun game than the oversimplified sequel made to target coomers rather than gamers. Let's see, what else..?
- I'm incredibly jealous that Kevin Eastman landed a woman as gorgeous as Julie Strain and for all the fun I poked about it, the two had a very loving relationship at the time judging by the cute moments they showed in the behind the scenes for Heavy Metal 2000.
- Leisure Suit Larry was an incredibly funny and clever series before they booted Al Lowe to the curb.
- 2B's ass is god-tier and I have nothing but respect for Yoko Taro owning up to why he designed her that way instead of some cowardly, chickenshit excuse like Kojima's "she breathes through her skin".
- I've been mildly bitter for the better part of two decades over the fact that so little quality rule 34 of Bloodrayne exists.
I own the fact that I'm a pervert and have fun with it. In fact, the amount of sex jokes I wanted to make were so numerous that I turned it into a writing challenge to avoid as many easy jokes as possible. Frankly, my solution to the problem of the sexualization of women in games is to boost the sexualization of men to even things out. Why should straight women and gay men be left out in the lurch? Fuck's sake, I can't get a good single-player Conan RPG because too many of my fellow straight men are too insecure about the amount of chiseled man meat that would be on display!
Now a question for you: why are you so scared of a loser Zillennial on the internet pointing out the silliness of something which he enjoys that you have to project your fear onto him?
You said "It's ok I guess" about Heavy Metal the 1981 movie. Sorry but that made me stop watching the rest of your video.
You lack understanding and appreciation for true art.
That's cool. I figured not everyone would be happy with my opinion on Heavy Metal. I wish you would have at least stuck around long enough to hear my reasoning (it was pacing, mostly), but it's not as if I haven't noped out of a video for similar reasons myself.
Eh, if those "grift-tubers" can "grift" that means their views are popular enough to be economically viable. Which makes them as warranted, if not more so, than your opinions which you insinuate are a minority view yet claim sole authority to determine who belongs and who apparently don't.
The review itself was entertaining enough but I really don't like people telling me what opinions I'm allowed to have so I wish you well and success but don't think this is the channel for me.
If economic viability is all it takes to be "correct" in any given situation, then yes, anything profitable is automatically insulated from critique and disdain. However, I don't recall saying anywhere in that part that I was the sole authority or that people couldn't have opposing opinions. Why is that always the go to in these situations, regardless of a person's politics or beliefs? I value gaming as my primary hobby. Ergo, I dislike seeing it used as a constant source of outrage and expressed my views on the subject. Whether through politicians blaming it for all societies ills, arrogant lawyers attempting to get the whole medium banned, or grifters twisting people's justified anger at corporate overreach into a perpetual cycle of rage that fixes nothing wrong with the industry because then they would have nothing to stir up anger about, I'm sick to death of it.
Frankly, if I am truly in the minority, then you have nothing to worry about. I'll fade away into nothingness, never having accomplished much of anything. But I'm not going to hide my opinions on subjects for fear of offending those who don't want to hear it. What would be the point of putting myself out there on RUclips if I refuse to speak up when I feel something needs to be said?
"I really don't like people telling me what opinions I'm allowed to have" usually say the guys who get outraged when some devs don't share the same views as they do and throw a tantrum on social media about 'politics' polluting their games (and obviously it's only politics when they don't like a game's content, when it rubs their vision of the world the right way then for some reason it's not perceived as politics...). Keep enjoying clickbait trash that feeds on outrage and the delusion of persecution that some gamers love to self-indugle in if that's your thing mate.
Oh wow. Look at you get triggered by somebody's opinion. Is it that easy to get you riled up ?
He's right though. Negativity sells. A RUclipsr I like but don't watch much falls into that "game bad" trope and at least two or three times he has stated "any videos I make where I talk about a thing I like don't do good" he is basically forced to make negative videos because people want to be hateful scum. Checking his view number a game he likes got 50k views but his "fARcRy 6 iS lItErAlLy ThE wOrSt" video has like 500k. You kind of people dwell in negativity and it is absolutely tiring at this point. You ever get tired mindlessly hating on stuff and mindlessly being told what to hate ?
Oh I don't mind his opinion. I might even agree with a focus on positivity over anger since being mad all the time kind of sucks.
What I objected to was his claim that "grift-tubers", and by extension the people who follow that, are somehow invalid, "not real fans", ect who have coopted this hobby from him.
And I made no claim that "negativity" didn't sell, indeed I argued that if the "grift-tubers" could make money it obviously was popular within the fandom rather than being out of the mainstream in contrast to Swan Mike's implication.
So, to recap, you missed my entire point and think a reflexive seal clap for {Insert Content} somehow constitutes as a rejection of "mindlessly hating on stuff and mindlessly being told what to hate".
Here's a tip. If you are doing what all your peers are doing, you likely aren't avoiding group think.
@@kathleendelcourt8136 Tsk, such mindless hatred. It is so easy to trigger you?
You do realize your entire rebuttal consists complaining about people having opinions you don't like, right? You are basically reinforcing my point where this dumb mindset and its mindless adherents lead.
Not to mention there's quite a gulf between someone, Swan Mike in this case, declaring anyone who disagrees with him is coopting the fandom versus wanting a product being sold to you actually being appealing to you.
Like if you go to a restaurant and order something you'd expect it to come how you wanted it, right? And if it wasn't, if you kept ordering steak and they kept giving you salad, you'd stop eating there and take your money elsewhere.
That's the beauty of capitalism. We all get to vote with our wallets.
Now if you like the state of current gaming, more power to you. I couldn't be happier for you and I'm glad you are living your best life. But mindlessly seal clapping is no different than mindlessly hating.
I have the original vynl of the movie's soundtrack on my shelf. 🤟🤟🤟🤟
Ive always wondered... how Q3 engine introduced curved surfaces all over Q3A... and it was never used in this game...
Clearly, they used up all the curved surfaces on Julie.
TU ME VOLE MON VISAGE.DOPPELGANGER. 5.51 .EVER LIKE DOOM ID SOFTWARE.
Who doesn't like id Software? I couldn't call myself a real PC gamer if I didn't like Doom and Quake.
DEN.
CORBEN.