The RETURN of LICENSED GAMES
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- Опубликовано: 6 июл 2024
- where once was a ps1 hagrid or a battle for bikini bottom was a void in the 2010s. but with gollum kong & robocop we saw many a new licensed game release in 2023. what changed? lets talk about it!
#gollumgame #kong #robocop #licensedgames #shrek #tintin #inspectorgadget
CHAPTERS
0:00 Why Licensed Games Went Away
02:24 Gollum & Kong
15:15 Robocop
30:48 Tintin & Gadget
38:54 Shrek
41:28 Why Licensed Games Came Back 
Игры
Watching this drunk at 4am in a dingy japanese hotel somehow feels like the intended viewing experiance.
That is lifes intended viewing experience. I really hope it's a former 'love' hotel too.
@@tomalexander4327 that'd be a vibe for sure, not a safe one, but a vibe.
Cheers to you dude
Real. Enjoy brutha
Drunk from the usa 🍺
Thor your patrick star voice goes crazy
It's immaculate
Mine's better
PSWii60 has to be the best acronym for the gen I have ever heard!
I also like the Gene-drive or Mega-sis for 4th gen 😄
PlaySaturn64 counts?
PATREON: bit.ly/3LIDh9C
im gonna take a lil break after this. a wee yakuza 8 vacation!
just be in the game for however long the game takes
once ive done that ill commit to my next video whichll be a breezy lil so i been playing vid
in which i will also talk about y8/gaiden for a bit but it wont be the central focus
U forgot to pin this comment mr Thor
a jank licenced unpinned comment.... v fitting...
The seaman part at 31:09 is that an actual line of dialogue from Seaman or did you AI generate that using his voice?
im never going to be able to stop thinking about the "PSWii60" portmanteau and im never going to be able to talk to anyone about it
Nah man, tell me about it, what's got you so hooked on it?
@@styno9295 it echoes in my mind
It's so easy to say and gets across everything you need to say at once. God tier portmanteau.
god language is amazing@@amberhernandez
Its art
God I love your empathetic perspective on game development. People often forget that working in this industry is a job primarily.
Robocop also looks incredible from every angle because Teyon cut their teeth making on rails shooters which take a lot of consideration to how you SEE each area and it seems they took that same ethos forward from Rambo, to Terminator Resistance to finally Robocop.
It is a good game that looks excellent
It's crazy to me how a licensed AA FPS like Robocop Rogue City has better gore/dismemberment and environmental destruction than many AAA FPS games. Good job Teyon.
Now they need to make single player focused games for: Starship Troopers, Die Hard, Aliens/AVP, Judge Dredd, Escape From New York, and a real Rambo FPS.
@@GruntvcI think Thor nailed it; it's a matter of scale. They went all in on small, confined maps.
@@Gruntvca decent fps based off Dredd would be amazing.
Thank you for giving the Gollum and Kong devs your simpathies. You're the first person I have seen focus on the positive aspects of these games. So many internet personalities made money off of roasting them. It just made me sad because these games are in poor shape because of employee mishandling and mistreatment. Everyone loved to laugh at them but I can't find it funny when developers are stuck working crappy jobs and then get fired because of it.
Worth noting, that the reason why Teyon was chosen was because before Robocop Rogue City, they did a very well received terminator video game called "Terminator Resistance".
Funny that a lot of people who ACTUALLY played the game liked it. Funny that reviewers instantly trashed it.
Since they have both licences we might get a new Robocop vs The Terminator game which is exciting
I’m surprised he didn’t mention it. It was an important step between rambo and robocop and I heard it was fairly decent and had the same amount of appreciation for the source material
@@noaht2005It was quite good, not just decent. Both Terminator and Robocop were both faithful and fun. On top of that they had great 100% achievements/trophies. Looking forward to whatever they do nextk
I would have NEVER assumed Inspector Gadget Mad Time PARTY had an open world
Considering it’s called PARTY and all the screen shots are party games
Lol, that pho cell shaded graphics style Is called
"Trying to find a reasonable graphic standard that can accomdate all 3 major consoles when one of them is the Nintendo Switch"
Just for future videos, reference lol
faux
@@ugh_lily No, they're saying it looks like the soup.
honestly you should be judged by a court for spelling faux as pho
@@richardvlasek2445 i see it as a rebellion against the french and their stupid spelling. just say fake instead.
@JackPorter Non
Faux est une bon mot 😂😂😂
fun fact: robo cop was filmed in dallas tx, but in the story its supposed to be detroit. but that video game looks just like east adjacent dwn town dallas
I can faintly remember someplace in Cordoba where they had this mall, and on the top floor there was this room with a window view selling bootleg PS2 videogames with box arts that were clearly printed on a computer, judging by the washed out image and colors. Even so and perhaps because of my perception of the world as a child, these bootlegs were being sold in an enviroment that felt pretty cash money, despite obviously being ISO extracted into a dvd and meant to be played on jailbreaked PS2 systems. And for some reason out of all the games on display, the one I picked that day was Alvin and the Chimpunks.
That is funny.... like a meme....
...was it good?
@@yehuda8589 no.
i love when people say cordoba without specifying
cordoba in argentina?
cordoba in europe? the one in cuba? peru? the three in venezuela, mexico or the philippines? which of the 11 in colombia?!
@@FantasmaNaranja 🇦🇷
I think the semi realistic aesthetics of the Tintin game are a reference to that CG gritty Tintin adaptation by Stephen Spielberg from 2011. It was quite bizarre.
Great movie.
Oh yeah, I remember that film. Very strange visuals but I recall enjoying it
@@Shi-Long_Wang Such an underrated gem.
lol I was just thinkin "it would be nice to have a new Thor video"
me literally yesterday
indeed brother. i too have had these thoughts cross my mind in recent days
Na you were thinking "hmm I want some meat in my mouth"
This is called "manifesting." Have you perhaps read The Secret?
I love how you see the positives in licensed games. Less creative people just dismiss them.
I see the positivity too. I just think that people are a bit too spoiled these days and expect almost every game to be held to a certain standard. And more than likely these people started playing during the 8th gen and were never around for 5th or 6th gen, so to them this is unacceptable and it's trash. To them, license games don't belong in today's day and age of gaming when in reality they have no idea what they are talking about when all they do is either play some dumb live service with a $30 battle pass or spend over 100 hours in an empty, boring open world title and think its game of the year. When they have played as many games as I have (over a 1000 games) then they can come back and we can talk....
I'd be SOO pissed if I'd have paid 70$ for this
@@bobtom1495I mean, I know a lot of reveiwers that bag on things like Golum have been in the Games Journalism industry since the PS2 era, and have been gaming for a decade or so before that.
I think its totally fair for a game as rushed as Kong or unpolished as Gollum to get bad reviews. They are not "good" games, and for the asking price you have so many better options.
But there's also nothing wrong with seeing what was done well in a "bad" game. There are quite a few 5/10 games that I love, but wouldn't recommend to just anyone.
@@bobtom1495While I ultimately agree with most of what you said you do come off a bit gatekeepy at the end. Just let people enjoy what they enjoy but ultimately I do agree that modern gamers are spoiled brats. A big problem is that many people want to hate something just because, the negativity bias has been on a steady increase since 2007, and if you look close enough you can see what the problem is (It's social media). Plenty of people hate on a game without actually playing it, they just repeat what they hear and are unable to form their own opinions (even though they claim it is their own opinion).
I see many modern gamers dismiss 7/10 games as "mid" which mid to them has ultimately become crap and "unplayable." Like I have seen plenty of people hate on Robocop because "It doesn't do anything new" but a game doesn't have to do something new, it just has to be fun (or have some other enjoyable qualities about it).
We got the experience of seeing and playing all the growing pains, we got the experience of playing games at only 24fps or less, we have dealt with bad controls and awful graphics, we have realized just how much work actually goes into developing a game and we have tempered expectations because of it. Hell, I even enjoy some of those 'dumb live service games' and 'empty boring open world titles' because I can find something entertaining or fun in them.
@@GalanthosYes it is fair of them to get bad reviews but to me the problem simply comes down to people wanting to hate on something for some stupid reason. People want to point to those games (Gollum and Kong) as the reason "AAA games are bad" when those games were never AAA in the first place. Many people don't want to see the positives or look at the bigger picture (like how the Kong devs probably crunched their asses off for a year).
One of the big games that I can point to is The Last of Us 2. I see so many people simply dismiss it as "Dogshit" and harp on it for being a bad game. The game improved on everything from the first game mechanically and graphically. It has beautiful graphics, animations, tense gameplay, powerful feeling weapons and had very minimal bugs but because someone doesn't like the story they call it Dogshit and pretend that the game killed their mom. We are moving towards absolutism with people unable to give nuanced takes and they only see things in black and white.
Leave it to Thor to appreciate how a random corridor inside a building looks, best channel on youtube.
The Way Robocop's city looks was kind of the way I hoped Bloodlines 2 would perhaps look before I saw the trailer for it.
Now after watching, I am sure they will never break even on the cost.
21:15 Also, I **LOVE** that Reunion Tower is part of the "Detroit" skyline here. Such a wonderful little detail. Seriously, Robocop: Rogue City was one of the best B-games ever made. And, of course, Teyon's previous Terminator game also punched WAY above its weight class.
We need a full length version of Go Go Gadget Go
That Smeagol thumbnail was great. I never thought he'd do such a good Mr. Burns impression.
i’ve been on the edge of my seat since you leaked the thumbnail for this one!! you always deliver
The Bionicle music caught me offguard at 31:36, and I like it.
Nice video btw!
I almost kind of a appreciate the dedication the gollum game has to placing this dude in horrible poop mines for the entire run time of the game.
i kept staring at the puddles in the robocop one.. these environments are like SO pretty, in the same exact way even the most mundane places outside are to me during summer. just really makes me want summer back
With that intro I kept expecting the Sponge Bob Cosmic Shake game to make an appearance.
I don't:
1) have modern PC or PS5
2) care about graphics
3) care about Robocop
4) play shooters
but damn now I want to play Robocop
Your ability to sell games is truly frightening
Have you ever seen the original movie ? It's actually pretty good. It has good over the top action but also has some great satire and comedy. It's a classic.
@@Gatorade69
[Minor spoilers]
i watched the movie cuz of the game and it really was very good. It shocked me how badly poor robert cope was tortured. I think a big part of what makes it work is imo it wasnt man vs machine conflict per se and more man vs corporate machine so to speak, in the sense that he already was a tool for his masters and simply became even moreso. And as cool as it is for him to have robot guns its also demeaning because he has to eat baby food which is a very small moment but also an important one imo - he hates eating that fken baby food and the first signs of his returning humanity is him saying hes not hungry. Theres something in it that strikes a chord in me
It really is a staple In the genre
Will we get a complete version of Go Go Gadget Flow on the next album?
The classic shinny surfaces are back and better than ever. Now we are in the puddle era, we come far since SHINNY WOOD from Ninja Gaiden and SHINNY GRASS from Sonic Unleashed
Van Helsing / Toy Story 2 / Stuart Little 2 are my personal all time favourite license games.
Disney's 102 Dalmatians: Puppies to the Rescue
Ratatouille on the ps2 solid contender
Toy Story 2 was a great and surreal experience.
Played Miraculous Ladybug Rise of the Sphinx with my lil cousin a while back, it has this shitty issue where the camera only focuses on one character so if one character gets too far away from the other they die instantly and respawns immediately after,
This became an extra big issue when you factor in that their are platforms that only one character can interact with that causes a platform to move.
This lead to a moment in the level named ‘Gamer 3’ (wish I was joking) where Cat Noir activates a platform so that Ladybug can get a collectible by standing on a moving platform. The platform Ladybug was standing on moved off screen which killed Cat Noir and moved him closer to her to respawn with no platforms so instead he just free falls through the map and no-clips into the skybox and then Ladybug can’t see so she falls too, so now the both of us are trapped in the fuckin Paris catacombs.
Tough conversation telling my cousin that the video games featuring her favourite Characters are more likely to suck
thank you for pointing out the FromSoft jank in this video. i think its weird that people overlook that part of the reason that souls combat feels so good & is so difficult to master is because movement & swinging your weapon is janky as hell & it forces the player to adjust to the jank rather than adjust itself to suit the player. Of course you showed gameplay from older fromsoft , but i think that sentiment holds up well for current fromsoft myself
The reason Souls combat feels so good is because it's well designed. The actually janky bits (e.g. backstab teleporting in DS1, the occasional bad hitbox) are things people tend to complain about.
@@SnakebitSTI ill admit im in the minority when i say that the reason i love the souls games so much is because i think they're actually poorly designed. i think the approach to story & lore is kinda lazy, the level design is all over the place, & the combat is janky as hell in a way that definitely doesnt feel purposeful to me... but its up to the player to find the rhythm in all of that & make something for themselves. i dont find these games engaging because of what they're presenting, but moreso i find them engaging in the same way i do a rhythm game. part of beating a boss isnt reading their patterns, but looking at it as a video game & finding the things the boss just cant physically do & taking advantage of that. certainly the games have gotten more polished over time, but the jank is still there & elden ring being so large its stretched so thin the cracks show so much more in my opinion. especially in the story department.
but i still adore these games. i think they rule for what they are, & its surprising because i dont really enjoy video games much outside games that feel this way.
Difficult to master? Bruh what. I love Souls but it's no Nioh or DMC
@@Walamonga1313 im being hyperbolic, but souls has the reputation it does for a reason & i do think its the jankiness that makes it difficult to get a hang of for most people. once you figure out all that theyre all pretty straightforward & easy games.
Been hyped for this thumb nail drop ever since the tease. An all timer.
23:38 i love how you get into a rhythm of script writing, its only emphasized by the bouncing beat of a tim follin track. really, realy good stuff here. no one is close to your level.
when the credits start rolling in a thh video i can always lean back, relax, and take comfort in the certainty that the video is 1/3 over
My favorite licensed game is that Gears of War-ass Ghostbusters game we got a while back. That game was sick.
Another banger, Thor. I love your work, my man. You've inspired me to start making videos of my very own. Thank you for your service
glad you are covering robocop rogue city it was a game i REALLY enjoyed the effort they put in despite the small scope is highly respectable
Honestly I hope the devs behind the robocop game keep making more stuff. Their terminator game, even if rough around the edges, was already a great ride made by people who clearly loved the source material, and robert cock rouge city shows that they clearly want to keep that same love up while improving on their gameplay department even further. I wonder what they'll do next after this.
I was just looking at the Tin Tin game and thought that it looked ok, and I totally forgot about the Inspector Gadget game! Robocop was very good, but so was Terminator Resistance. Great video! As important as I feel it is to see the return of licensed kids games, I do wish they were better. The recent Smurfs platformer games were pretty good.
I loved hearing you talk about making this thumbnail.
It's so neat to see it now .
Thinking of it as cover art .
I love it . I love your videos I love you man :3
I was unprepared for how atrocious those Shrek and Donkey impressions were, how did they even find a VA *this* bad at them
12:43 HOLY FUCK WAIT I PLAYED THAT GAME. It was a “Rock Band” branded PC game that was basically a manager simulator! My Mom got me this from Big Lots for $5 innocently, knowing I really loved Rock Band/Guitar Hero at the time. Oh man. I played it because I genuinely thought it was a PC Guitar Hero game, I was SO disappointed. You didn’t even get to see the band you managed PLAY. All you did was hire people, select gigs, set pieces for the show (that again, you didn’t see). It was the most boring game I’ve ever played. (I love you Mom 😭❤️)
I always appreciate and look forward to your vids, Thor. Always one of the most creative creators I shill when it comes to vidya.
Hearing your impressions on the environments in Robocop makes me think you might also appreciate The Division. Lots of dense details and variety in clutter.
15:26 is that a sample from cruelty squad? I'm feeling a real ceo mindset from that patreon song 👀
For me, one of the more interesting licensed games to come out last year was UFO Robo Grendizer: The Feast of the Wolves. At a glance you might think, "big deal, another anime game". But what makes this one notable is that it wasn't developed by a Japanese studio and seems to have been made more for the childhood nostalgia of European and Arabic regions where it was a big hit. Also I love me some Go Nagai, so it's def something I'm interested in checking out. After watching the anime first of course.
The Walking Dead: Destinies with it's overambitious gimmick of changing how events played out from the tv series is also some prime licensed game content.
took a break from gooning to watch this, very cool thor!
U make the best thumbnails good vid also
I am curious to see how this video performs.
I think you nailed it with the thumbnail.
Holy shit, Robo cop looks amazing. Had no idea what it looked like. Looks like a next gen big budget came, from the snippets I saw prior to typing this.
Some of it looks real.
The PS5 is home to some "interesting" games.
But... but it has no games...
@@P.Manoel Yes, I was thinking of that meme, but it is home to some interesting releases.🤔
hearing you talk about how night was handled before games had complex lighting systems, there's an experimental mod for Need For Speed Underground 2 called Remaster RTX Remix, and I feel that demonstrates the advantages of the "fake" baked in lighting of old games. Granted, it is an experiment, but something was really lost when games were able to have real lighting now.
big ups that Deaths Dynamic Shroud track you used for the yakuza ac segment XD Huge fan, seen them live with george clanton not long back!
I got covid the day they came to NC 😭😭😭😭 jealous
@@eduardohernandezlopez3550 Rough mate! i saw them london (i'm from u.k), neggy gemmy was playing too. we dropped some E and had a blast! George is much taller in person! haha
I was watching a video where they talked about the Racing Lagoon fan translation AND YOU UPLOAD NOW? What a coincidence lol
it is interesting how so many ps2 license games are rare and no longer available outside emulations.
There was always a stigma for licensed games, probably because of all the dog shit pumped out on NES and Super Nintendo, so they probably just didn’t do well back then and all the copies were thrown out.
love your videos thor, another great piece of media you just created... DAMN
Kinda grumpy the Tube didn't show this on my feed. Was thinking "wonder when the Thor drops".
Love this coverage.
You didnt mention Deadalic's lawyers sending extortion letters for hundreds of Euros to people in Germany for "pirating" the game, even though many of those people didn't even know the game existed.
Calling Daedalic's adventure "mid-tier" kinda doesn't do them justice.
need a full video review for like a dragon gaiden like the one for Stranger of Paradise, just bought it from second hand bin after a slight mention in this video lol
the thought of r o b o c o p standing motionless by a riverbank for minutes at a time, arrested by the gloomy poetry of an overcast inner city landscape, delights me
Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! has been off the air for 14 years and imitators still haven't been able to improve on the style...
The Yakuza AC ad hit me like a truck, thanks for that, lmao
I spent too much time in that world, so this spoke to me on a very deep soulful level.
oh man do I love your thumbnails
Love your videos!
wait this implies all of gadget's ancestors were also altered cyborg people??
the 2000s are back
"return"
Anime games: "are we a joke to you?"
MICROIDS VIDEO GAME MENTIONNED !!!!!!!!!!
in all seriousness Microids (they developped gadget and produced Tintin, they're also behing garfield kart i think ) dropping random games based on french/belgian licences is fascinating especially considering that some of them look strangely appealing ?? I mean they made 2 Smurfs TPS ??? and the 2nd one has decent art direction although it has absolutely nothing to do with the original material
It's so fucking strange because I have NO IDEA who's the target for those games ? like even in France not one kid gives a shit about the Smurfs
Pretty sure those guys are under some weird contract under licensed games. Like, I barely heard anything comming from them yet they still pump games smurt games like nothing. About garfield, gamemill might had take the wheel on this one. I can safely say it is based on the garfield 3D show that was being made in france back in the day so it makes sense Microids would start making weird Garfield games. Asterix & Obelix too, which are somewhat famous and they come from france too.
Weird that Ubisoft isn't involved since you know, french people.
@@moister3727Ubisoft used to be heavily involved with licensed games but seem more focused on their original IPs
They still do licensed stuff from time to time like the Avatar game and the upcoming Star Wars open world game
@@moister3727It was Microids behind Garfield Kart, or they just published it. I too could have sworn that it was also GameMill but I think I got it mixed up. GameMill has been behind a lot of Nickelodeon games like Nick Kart Racers and Nickelodeon now owns Garfield. Could be why we both thought it was GameMill. However I am never wrong so it must be the Mandela Effect.
Looking at Microids developed/published games and you're right. Like they are making a Totally Spies game and who the hell has even thought about that series since the early 2000s ?
@@Gatorade69 Gamemill is making the Nick stuff now. But like Microids they are just a publisher. Garfield got bought by Nick in 2019 or so, somewhat recently and the Garfield Kart Furious Racing was released in...2019? That's weird.
Excellent as always
6:40 i actually just beat all of the deponia games recently cause i realized i had gotten them in some humble bundle thing several years ago and forgor. I actually liked it, it's not perfect, but charming!
Thank you for creating is fun 😊👍👌
Man, a bright colorfully animated Gollum point and click adventure game might have been alright. Balance the dour atmosphere and cynical protag with some cool ‘in between’ story full of mystery puzzles and colorful characters (even if they are all evil orcs and stuff) might have been a okay in my book. We all watched Larian stick with what they knew and enjoyed and eventually release BG3. That, coupled with the opposite story of Redfall devs, should clue publishers into what’s going on. It won’t, but it should:) Let devs make the kind of games they would want to play…and good things follow
Beautiful Enemy Zero track during a one-sided discussion of Rise of Kong?
Hell yeah brother 🤙
You do a really good patrick impression
The Inspector gadget was awesome. I wish it would’ve gone a bit longer.
I feel very sorry for the ppl of Daedalic, enjoyed their adventure renaissance back then.
the goddamn clocks in robocop show the current time. there was no reason to go that hard
Lol😂😂😂, “but that’s the wrong Kong” lol 🤣 .
thank god i thought it was my pc struggling when theres a cut in the robocop cutscenes and you see the models assemble for a few frames
I'll never not burst out laughing at "Rise of Skung"
movie inspector gadget had those awful teeth because that was a robot duplicate and not the real gadget, and the plastic teeth and jittery movements were the main visual tells
I saw the most recent aquaman movie and the amount of times they fight while riding things makes me want a licensed 3d action mounted brawler game
@6:11 Unexpected Dark Hollow music making the hairs on the back of my neck stand up as I'm transported 25 years into the past.
wtf why is the detective gadget music so vibey. now i gotta play it lmfao
The team that brought us Rambo really picked up their game (cough) after that stinker. Their Terminator game has no right being half as good as it is, knowing what they had put out before.
The Gollum game looks like an even cheaper version of Styx but that game was pretty alright though.
We’re so back baby!
LETS GO WE ARE BACK!
dawg u do a great patrick impression
Really kinda needed this after a five bus day like today @_@
I was walking past an AC in Yakuza 7 right as that part started.
16:08 & 23:36, what games are these?
Watching this video made me realize that the prisoner death sound from Demons' Souls is the same sound they used in the intro of Sunbeams Streaming Through Leaves On The Hill from the Evergrace OST. Not sure what to do with that information.
i love your videos, thank you
i went to all points west festival in 2007(?) and my favorite part was going into this big dark white tent aong thousands of people listening to radiohead and playing this dirtbike game on playstation 3 (pure? idr), it feelt so advanced like something from an alien spaceship
After a video about thumbnails, that's one hell of a thumbnail to come back to
bruh i've seen this thumbnail in the last video about thumbnails, and i legit thought that i've seen this already, because youtube lately been showing me old thor videos
That Go go Gadget Music is going to keep playing in my head. 36:03
As most of Thors videos this one is also very depressing. Shows that decent video games were actually, potentially being made and then it all came crashing down.
You kind of sold me on the Robocop game. I have to be careful with you though. You have a way of making even the worst games sound like a blast.
Thank you I love video.... I will leave another comment after watching....