LGR - The Movies - PC Game Review
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- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024
- Tired of simply watching movies? Why not try making them! Explore the history of Hollywood cinema from the 1920's onward in Lionhead's classic simulation.
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Music used is from the game's soundtrack.
Given how Animation/Graphical/Physics technology has progressed in the last 15 years, its a shame no one has had a decent stab at making a spiritual successor
I pray one day we get a sequel. I have never played a game that deserves one as much as this
@@Thegamingdino133 Lionhead Studios unfortunately closed down, but I'm hoping a studio will try to make something similar-- without making it too child friendly.
@@Smulenify I meant to say spiritual successor but must have put sequel
While looking to see if there is a newer version of this game I saw a game called Blockbuster Inc which seems to be similar to this game but sadly it’s in early demos 😢
Update: there’s a free prologue on steam haven’t tried it yet idk if it’s any good
I loved this game. I spent ages making my own sci-fi adventures in it, but I was always disappointed that the game always hated my movies and preferred the ones I let the AI make for me. Damn game doesn't get my art!
So basically the film industry in a nutshell 😂
Promoting a janitor to an actor. I don't really know if it should end badly. That's actually how Harrison Ford got into film industry lol.
In this game it would. As when going from janitor into an actor, their actor experience is immediately zero for all the movie genres. You have to make him practice first before the outcome of his acting is fine. At least four times per each genre.
I feel like that was a nod to that situation though! The same thing happened with Tom Jones, he was working on the railroad and his singing voice caught people's attention so he started singing professionally after that !
Yeah man
Actually, Harrison Ford was a carpenter... a little bit different than a janitor.
@@cyberpleb2472 Explains why he could recognize the cup of a carpenter so fast.
This kind of games are not that popular nowadays and it wouldn't sell well, probably. But I would really love a new The Movies style game. I think current technology plus online capabilities could make wonders for a game like this.
Frontier should develop one maybe called it planet movie just taking ispiration from the movies plus a cabability of having your own streaming and film on locations and a cgi department
Oh boy i have so much ideas for this game
Not sure if any current age studio able to pull it.
@@Rin8Kin the ppl behind Planet Coaster and Planet Zoo could pull it off
I so, SO want a reboot of this game. I never got to play it, but it looks soooo gooood. Which is saying something considering how old it is. Kind of reminds me of the whole... "They don't make them like they used to." :D
@@niakitten2937 Two Point Movies could work. Maybe after Campus?
this game is great and it actually shows how Lionhead games could have been a competitor to maxis if they had got their sh** together. I honestly do not understand what happened to Peter Molyneux and his gang, they made such good games
The game was released a year too early, IMO. If they had integrated the movie sharing system to RUclips, the game might have sold more copies.
@@ethroptur5266 Damn. Sims 2 machinimas were all the rage in early RUclips.
I really appreciate your brief mention of the state of the gaming industry and online portions of games ending. This is something a lot of gamers today don't consider well enough, in my opinion.
In fact, the temporary nature of online service and digital copies of games with no boxed release is a subject in itself, and as you are a collector of hard boxed copies of games, I would love to hear your thoughts on it all sometime.
I've always loved opening a brand new game, going through a (sometimes beautiful) manual, etc. And, of course, the wonderful smell of it. :p It's been so sad to see this disappear for so very many games.
As always, thanks for the great videos!
Check out this video I did on Darkspore, I talked about the topic more in-depth!
ruclips.net/video/R78jAdckz8Q/видео.html
It would be nice for more games to care about physical releases, but it is worth noting that going more digital saves on material and money.
The idea of games that are purely online should die, and I reckon games should release limited physical copies of a quality akin to that of the 80s and 90s, but overall I personally think that focusing on digital is good for the minimal footprint.
Well you can't expect the online support to last FOREVER, I mean server maintenance and upkeep does cost. And for what it was worth, The Movies had a very, very long online support.
Most games bought on Steam can be played offline, since the game is downloaded to your computer. I've done this numerous times. The only worst case sceneario is if your computer got wiped and the online content disappeared. Which can happen, but is rare.
You can play The Movies offline too, just the online extras and addons are no longer avaivable. You can still share your movie too, by just exporting it to your computer and uploading the result on RUclips. It's a shame as LGRG pointed out, the online stuff were legit cool and fun but the game had a really long online support.
So proud of you for how "watchable" you've made your show in just a few years. A lot of little things you can't teach and you've really learned how to do those things well. Way to go. (The little on-camera bit you do at the beginning made me think of it.)
JazGalaxy Thanks very much, glad you think so!
I have to say, I wish they'd come out with a sequel with a more advanced version of the movie editor. I loved playing around with that thing.
Oh yes, this is what I'm talking about. I was heavily obsessed with The Movies back in the day. I made quite a few contributions to the online service and even uploaded a couple of them on RUclips (though I've set them on private). This game really opened up a lot of new horizons for me, and I basically got it just on a whim from my parents after my love of The Sims 2 started to die down.
Like LGR said, the actual depth of this game is very deceptive. It locks you in and gets you toying with stuff, but it becomes repetitive due to its management aspects. Were it a game just about making movies and trying to compete with a system than either made logical sense or made satirical sense, then it would have been far stronger. Imagine having to put in scenes of gratuitous violence or make a gritty reboot to appease the audiences so you could stay in business. That would have made it far more interesting.
It tickles that creative bone though. It's got just enough charm and flair to make you want to see how things are filmed. For me though, the most important aspect was always the community, and I really miss the days of sharing my crappy little movies and seeing what others were able to do.
You should set those videos to public. It'll be interesting to see some old school The Movies RUclips videos.
1:25 "Morning log snap".
God, Clint that sounded disturbing.
This always seemed like a Maxis-type Sims-ish game to me. Despite not being that, of course.
And just like no matter how hard I tried, my creature kept eating villagers.
Here, no matter how hard I tried, my actors got addicted to food and alcohol before too long.
Sort of imagined my movie studio doubled as a clinic on the side. :P
2020? Wow, what an auspicious year for a game about the movie industry to end...
the game had a horrible lack of possible employees. I remember always being low on janitors. Multibillion dollar movie studio and I can't find someone to pick up trash. There are a lot of negative things like in the game.
***** Did you or anyone else find a mod to help the employment problem?
***** same problem here.. and builders too, and my script writer is still in d game, even he is already 70 years on my studio, i only have 2 script writer btw. employees are rarely spawn to hire ..
***** Yup... that was annoying. but theres a mod for that
***** there's a mod for that ;)
Yeah, I like the game a lot but there are a lot of little things. It is, like a lot of Lionhead games, trying to do a lot and succeeding at part of it.
I want an LGR plays The Movies !!
I remember this game. I WANTED this game SO BAD when it came out but we didn't have a decent computer back then.
JackieGoOutside the game has always been extremely pc friendly. I bought it when it came out for my basic dell desktop. Literally, my desktop was a basic best buy front floor model with no hardware that would resemble any sort of gaming rig and it worked perfectly.
Zinthaniel Our computer then was from 2001 with Windows 98 so...
Don't worry, it was pretty shit actually... :(
@@planescaped maybe to you, but not to most of these commenters.
Same here, my first computer had 32MB onboard graphics. Sadly I was disappointed with the game after I finally got to play it.
The Movies and the Sims 2 are the two only games that basically formed my childhood. Oh the hundreds of hours I spent replaying The Movies over and over again, good memories. Really is one rare gem of a game, I wish more people would know about it. It's so fun, intuitive, immersive and the art direction for that time of the 2000s was really good.
"Morning Log Snap"
Your creativity for these things never ceases to amaze and humor me.
DevilsEpicurean I actually sit around and think of unique ways to refer to pooping. It's a hobby.
Lazy Game Reviews sounds like a crappy hobby.
The movies is a great game even tho its 10 years old now its pretty great for its time. Im kind of sad they never really made anymore games like this or added more to this game. It wouldve been great to see how much better this game would be with todays technology. I remember spending hours trying to make a legit movie and it would end up being like 10 minutes lol
+2short99 i totally agree with you! :)
Make that 20 :)
You should do review of Evil Genius.
^This.
Aleksandr Gorov To the top!
Despite lacking a proper sandbox mode (or rather a base-building mode) and having a lot of bugs, Evil Genius remains one of my all time favorite games!
+Aleksandr Gorov great game
spent way to much building and killing the tourists that come near my base
Super stoked you reviewed this! The Sims franchise and this game were basically all I played as a child. Ah, the nostalgia.
The soundtrack to this game was perfect. I love how 1968 would roll around with the loud guitar rock that sounded like something off of Led Zeppelin II, then 1974 would come in with the song that vaguely sounds like Pink Floyd.
This game needs to be remade & remastered! It's so good!
The Movies could benefit from a remake. I sunk so many hours into it back in the day.
i loved this game, i made a whole series of "Space Nazi" films, including "Space natzi 3: a nazi at the OK corral" "Space Nazi goes vegas" and "Space Nazi vs. Ghost Gorilla"
Joshua Knode sounds like an awesome franchise
I'd watch it.
upload it to youtuve and share your greatness with us!
I'd watch those for a laugh.
lol, that was funny.
This is still the hardest game to find sometimes I wish that they would release it on steam maybe or some company would do it
It used to be on Steam but was taken off due to Lionhead being bought by Microsoft
a website called best old games has it for like $5. i just bought it myself and am playing it. one of my fav classics
It used to be incredibly easy to find in box back in the day.
Blockbuster Inc. Is planned to release this year which i guess you could call a spiritual successor to this.
The game is easy to find if you treat it like the abandonware it is :)
I actually remember hearing of this game in an old issue of Nintendo Power, because a console port of this was being made at one point for PS2, Gamecube, and Xbox, but said port was cancelled because of two reasons. First off was the acquisition of Lionhead by Microsoft, which meant they could no longer put out versions for all consoles. Second, apparently sales of the PC original just weren't that high to begin with, so they figured a console port wouldn't be that much more profitable. Shame it's not on GOG at least, I'd love to be able to just buy this and download right away.
Interesting facts! And yes, a GOG release or hell, even a Steam rerelease would be amazing! If a petition was made for either one of those, I would definitely sign it.
My experience with _The Movies_ was rather the opposite.
I was very excited by the prospect of being able to make movies using the in-game engine, but when I actually opened it up and tried it out, I found the selection of scenes, moods, and camera angles shockingly lacking.
I found no option to change the blocking of certain scenes (like going through _this_ door over here) and found myself struggling to make anything that seemed even the slightest bit cohesive. The avant-garde route was definitely the way to use this, but I just wanted to make something fairly traditional and tell a story.
The gameplay itself was understandable but simultaneously managed to be both frantic and boring. I was totally unable to keep up with all the things that I needed to do to keep my studio in the black and in very short order stopped caring altogether because getting there was utterly dull.
The sandbox mode was okay, in that it took the undue stress and tedium away, but the aforementioned issues with the movie-making tools and the limits on the options you had were astounding and discouraging.
Maybe it's the letdown from the commercial hype talking, but I simply can't recommend this game in the slightest. Way too restricted for what it was touted to be.
Same. I took a good 7-8 years to try this out and came disappointed for the reasons you've listed.
The game was garbage and I am surprised LGR was so kind to it.
That or it's garbage qualities have been patched since it released. I know when I bought this back in the day it was a very frustrating and irritating, broken game. Time passed way too fast, the logic behind what made movies successful or not was random as hell, and the management aspects were incredibly nagging.
thats because you used it wrong. you should have been piecing together scenes in game, exporting them and editing them in 3rd party software. Dont use the actual game to edit anything.
To be fair, this was a game meant to make creating animated movies be _easy_ , not feature rich. If you want more features, you _could_ use an actual animation program like SFM or MMD, but then you'd so many features that you'll have no idea how to do anything. It's the same thing as using Microsoft Movie Maker vs Adobe Premiere to edit video, Mario Paint vs an SNES dev kit to make 16-bit music, or Super Mario Maker vs Unity to make 2D platforming games.
I really feel stupid for not taking better care of my cd and dvd games. I have a lot of them but most discs are damaged and not in the proper case. I was too addicted to care about that stuff. Damn!
download them from the internet then. Even if you dont like piracy, you've technically bought the game before, so I don't see much wrong in it if its not even available in any digital store
It’s funny, I’m watching this on the official second day of fall 6 years in the future from when this video went up. I always binge watch LGR when I’m sad about things. Clint, thank you for the years of amazing content that has brought me peace and joy all of the time, but especially when I really need it. Thank you kind sir for what you do and all that you put into it.
Hope you're feeling better now, Elliot!
@@kentknightofcaelin4537 Indeed I am, thank you Kent, Knight of Caelin! That was very nice of you to say. Wouldn’t expect anything but kindness from the LGR community. ❤️
I loved this game as a kid!!! It was my addiction before I discovered sims. It's a lot like sims in some ways because you can make the actors have relationships with each other. I also liked the way you could decorate the studio lot.
The one game I always wanted to play but somehow never got around to it. Great Review, LGR!
***** I've never played it before lol
+Kellmachine You must play Movies! The best game ever! ;) I mean, especially if you like movies (films). ;)
@@pixell3d I found it a broken, horribly coded mess... At least at launch it was.
I was a game tester on The Movies! Testing took so, so long...
This game is so good. I still remember when I uploaded my movies online. "Wild Wild East" a and "Wild Wild East 2". The first one was such a smash hit on the website, I was able to promote the second one on the website freely. Both got 5 stars. I even remember the plot of the first movie and remember how wacky the second one was. I wanted to make a third one; but never got around to it. Shame really.
This game is still looking modern in 2021, for its solid gaming system and acceptable graphics
"Actor pinches one off"(after getting called to the set while in the outhouse.)
10 years later I still remember that.
I noticed that you had one of the Nancy Drew games on your shelf and I think that would be great to review! I have a ton of great memories playing the games when I was in junior high.
I believe The Movies was also going to get a release on the Nintendo GameCube, but that never saw the light of day.
***** It was set to receive console releases at one point, yup! Sadly never happened.
"It's blatantly obvious that Duke Nukem doesn't have a great deal of comedy experience" : D
man you threw me like a decade ago with this nostalgic trip. i used to have a copy of both and i lended it to a friend in middle school and i never saw it again...
I was a hardcore PC gamer from 1992 through 2007, when I swapped out for a mac for work reasons. Thank you for this awesome channel that dives into so many of my old favorites, including ones I'd totally forgotten about. It's a beautiful nostalgia bomb
We need a the movies 2
I tested this game when I was employed at Activision. I was the first one to get the life time achievement award.
Gosh I used to not only make movies in this all the time, but I'd invite my friends to come over and we would provide voice acting for all the scenes too. Looking back at it now it's pretty bad, but I won't ever forget the straight up fun we had setting up scenes and dressing up the actors.
I wholeheartedly recommend checking it out too. Heck, the modding community is still providing fresh new content to this day!
I remember that website. I was just looking for videos I remember from the website today and I did find the top ones that were around at the time, but sadly not the smaller ones I remember.
Great review Clint! It's good to see that people aren't forgetting about older games like this.
Yay! Been looking forward to this one. I LOVED this game.
Rory Cavanagh Same I spent HOURS playing it. This video made me want to play it again but I don't know where to find it :(
Rory Cavanagh I never had this game, I never even knew it existed. All I had was that Nickelodeon Movie Maker game.
Ragbolt amazon or ebay is where I got mine.
Do you ever run into compatibility issues when you run a 2005 game on a modern operating system, or do you happen to keep around an older working Windows machine? Great video, BTW!
TechZonk I keep older machines around for everything from the 80's onward, just in case, but this one worked just fine on my modern PC!
TechZonk I myself had trouble installing the game on my windows 7 PC, but bypassed them by opening the disk's files and running it's setup program both manually and as an Administrator.
TechZonk There are compatibility issues on Win7 and 8 on some machines. Around 1950's the game starts crashing on save, corrupting the save files. Fortunately, patching it with the 4GB patch by NTCore fixes that :)
Lazy Game Reviews Really hope you'll answer. What OS did you play this on? I have no problem playing it on my Win 7 32bit laptop, but it won't work on my Win 7 64bit PC (so I suppose 54bit is the cause of problems).
Gamerska Kafana
I have two computers with 64bit Win7 and it works fine on both of them. There must be a different problem with your PC. What exactly does it do? It could as well be the video card or anything else.
Yes! Finally you review The Movies, seen that box on your shelf a few times and was hoping you would review it.
I got this game for Christmas about five years ago and I was so so interested in it and I badly wanted to play only for it to not load on any of my computers.Thanks for doing a review on it so I'm finally able to see what it's all about! You never let me down with new vids, LGR!
Funny. For 10 straight years I thought this game was a Mac exclusive.
*Single tear rolls down cheek*
I could have had it if I read the label in the store!
I'd love to see another game that is similar to the Microsoft 3D Movie Maker games. How fun were those?! I love making my own movies on those games. Imagine what a more modern version of that game would be like?
Haha duuude, I remember playing the crap out of that game! I too would love a modern version of that!
Hey, I remember this one! I remember liking this game a lot when I was a teenager. I think the whole concept-from the ability to make your own content to hearing cranks of various eras of radios espouse odd views on topics that even manage to head into Red Scare territory-appealed to the historian and aspiring filmmaker in me. I remember playing it on Windows XP and 7 but was sadly was unable to get it up and running on Windows 10.
Though this video is already 2 years old: I have played the game "The Movies" too. It was really interesting and probably had a lot of influence to current games, like GTA etc. They feature integrated video editors too.. so you can do your own movies, but for example with GTA V characters ;)
Thanks MyAbandonware. You are my savior.
Neat game.
This is bittersweet for me. It reminds me of when life was simple, I had few to no worries and could sit and play for hours after school, until it was dinner time.
Me too
Lionhead... Has left such a legacy in gaming.... we seriously need "Black & White 1 and 2" and "The Movies" Remastered for starters... and perhaps a "Black & White 3" and "The Movies 2" later on (?) ... one can only hope!
"The Movies" really should be remastered/remade. A more modern version but still keeping the greatness it already has, perhaps?
I can't help but think that if The Sims 3 would have been amazing if they had these features and gameplay when they rolled out with all that fame system and the backlot and whatnot.
It might have been some great features included with Showtime. The Sims 2 could have benefited as well, since as far as I know, there is no equivalent to Superstar (Sims 1) or Showtime (Sims 3), other than the acting career.
EA sucks, but I would still buy it if they did this. It would be a good microcosm of TS2 or TS3 Showtime.
Yes! I used to make really fun sci fi films like alien but unfortunately most of my actors would end up in rehab. I called my studios, Albion Studios.
this game is still one of my favourites and probably one of the best management games ever made along with Simcity 4
Been playing this since it was new.. still amazes me how ahead of its time it was..
I love this game and have been playing it since it was released years ago, I only recently got the expansion though, found it easily on Ebay. Great game, great review.
I miss proper instruction manuals.
i know this video is a bit old now, but i was looking around for a fun sim to play and found this somewhere and someone mentioned your review of it on reddit. its so cute that pushinguproses was in there! i was watching the video on low quality and i still recognised her right away! what a likeness! i love your videos clint!
Thank you so much for reviewing this, as an extreme movie geek and a filmmaker this is probably my favorite game. Very few games have really got my attention, but The Movies surely did.
Dammit, I threw away my old copy of The Movies a few years ago.
Hopefully, now that you've reviewed it, it'll pop up on GOG eventually. Hey, it happened with Afterlife.
This game deserves a remake more than anything
It's awesome that you just reviewed one of my favorite games like five minutes after I subscribed to you. Thanks for being awesome.
Im really happy you covered this game. I got the demo in some magazine in 2005 and finally managed to get a copy. Spent quite a lot of time playing this game.
Amazing game!
I bought this game when it first came out and I *STILL* play it!
I am bound and determined to sweep the awards!
Been wanting you to review this for ages!
I've spent so many days and hours playing this game back when it came out, I think I have some of my saved movies on my old hard drive... got to dust off that thing sometime.
I also remember before you start the game and the lionhead logo shows up, if you click and move the mouse you can play around with the logo and the little squares. Physics in that are just clunky but fun, novelty of doing that usually wore out quickly but I kept doing that every time I started the game even just for a second. Great review btw!
Can someone recreate The Room in this game? :D
It's possible
@@theweirdo8622 We're waiting.
Any minute now...
I did.
You are lying, you never uploaded! You are tearing me apart Jumprope Girl!
0:00-00:28 MY GOD EMPEROR, i love that game
George Barbosa The only Impressions game NOT on GOG yet. Criminal offense!
George Barbosa Oh yes i absolutely loved there city builders.
I wonder if LGR will review it
*I encourage people to let Activision know you want the game (or other Activision titles) on GOG:* community.activision.com/message/415819937#415819937
*There's also this wishlist entry on GOG you can vote for if you'd buy the game:* www.gog.com/wishlist/games/emperor_rise_of_the_middle_kingdom
It's on GoG now :)
FINALLY. I've been waiting to see you review this game for a loooong ass time.
Speaking of movie games, LGR should review the children's game from Brøderbund called "Write! Camera! Action!" from 1996. I learned so much about basic movie making from that game when I was 8. Thanks for the great nostalgic content LGR!
This sounds like a celebrity version of SimCity
Ahh, I loved this game so much when it first came out.
Thanks for that Clint! I've been curious and intrigued about The Movies ever since it was released
I would love to see the movies you made with this, maybe do up a mock award show for your creations :P
This game was freaking great, I spent countless hours making movies.
seems awfully fitting your campaign ends at 2020
Lazy Game Reviews Had some great time, back in the days when the online part was big. The community was so alive, with weekly, real review radio shows, Award Fests and more. Drop by and take a look at the movies we did back then: The Horse Trilogy: ruclips.net/p/PLI4QxDMLHDx_P5bwCBRJ52y1iJDZ745mA Ahhh, those days.
OMG thank you sooo much LGR, I've been wanting a Movies Review from you so bad. I think I even commented about maybe seeing if you could do one, THANK YOU yaas
I saw that Nancy Drew game on your shelf. Have you thought about doing a review on one of them? I love the Nancy Drew games.
skilynn I plan to!
Lazy Game Reviews Awesome! Looking forward to it!
this was a great game! bring it back!!!
Fun fact: The music for this game has been used in FX's TV show "Archer" during multiple scenes. One instance I remember is during that shrinking vessel inside the scientist's body episode. I had to rewind a few times and listen intently for it, but it's there. I believe the track is called: "All Out Action". Another one I remember from the soundtrack is "A Long Time Ago", a Godfather-esque track that was used for Archer's S03E08 for the one with the Italian President. Funny how that is the legacy of this game now.
I wish for a re-review of this game because we still have not got anything like it!
This game was so good :') I need to play it again :'D
The only problem with this game is that Stunts and Effects is super expensive to find a copy of.
TollingBells A copy of the expansion just sold for 99 cents on Ebay recently.
I remember getting the character creator disc in a PC Gamer magazine subscription and loved this game when it came out. To this day sometimes I still think about the traffic outside of the studio how there would just randomly be a ton of the same vehicle lined up.
I've been waiting for you to do this forever!
I just wanna make a fucking movie 😢
janitor as the lead actor, where have i seen that befor.... oh yah, uhf
I love that you play the theme music in these reviews. Takes me back haha
Haven't played this in years (before the stunt DLC came out in fact) but I loved it. Giving it a download now to relive some fun days.
0:19 You sly fox.
The sad thing is, if this was made today, It would be a Free to Pay game.... *BIG MEH*
And it would be probably screwed up by EA or Ubisoft or (insert big game corporation here).
*****
Yup.... :/
And don't forget all the glitches with updates that often renders your game unplayable until someone releases another patch. And even if that patch works, some of your custom content then winds up being unplayable.
This game was amazing and still it gained no really worthy successor. I use to use the online portion when it was online it was so fun uploading movies and seeing peoples movies that were made honestly just that kept me entertained for quite some time. I really wish there was a website soley dedicated to The Movies game with user submitted content and mods.
I was so excited to see you had a review of this game because it's a game I adore & still play to this day. It's such a great game & I don't know why more people don't talk about it. Probably because of the limited access. When I was younger, I used to tell my friends about it & they would come over & we'd make movies together. :)
I remember purchasing this game out of the blue at Best Buy when I was a kid for $20 thinking it'll be an okay game, but wow I was impressed! I was so happy to find a copy of the expansion online, so I'm still exploring that! :)
There aren't many games out there that you can appreciate as the years go by, I mean this game is so good that I am still playing it in my adulthood. It's a shame that the online community isn't in operation now, I never got to use it. I'm surprised there hasn't been many games that "shadow" this one now. If there were, I'd probably play them.
I will probably continue to play The Movies game as the years go by like I have in years past. It's just that good. :)