Honestly, a Lich that uses a city as their phylactery is pretty genius. A character who built the city, deciding to watch over it for all eternity by binding their soul to it. Nothing less than the razing of the burg down to its foundations will have a hope of destroying the Lich. Meanwhile, would-be adventurers keep trying to track down small trinkets hidden in fortified and trapped caches, not realizing they are elaborate decoys.
Lol if this were in a dnd campaign, I could definitely foresee a thirty minute long argument over what constitutes a city. If it’s based off population primarily, PCs would have to decide if it’s worth culling a significant portion of the citizens in order to save everyone, or maybe imposing strict population control to slowly decrease the citizenry over generations. If only the creators had the passion to build on the idea, instead of just throwing it out of an oven that just finished preheating, not even half baked
@@jaccobbailey8247 I was thinking more the city itself, as a physical location, rather than its inhabitants. Like, the arrangement of buildings in magically significant designs, so the roads form arcane geometric glyphs or whatever.
@@jaccobbailey8247 Nah, if this was a DnD campaign you'd just have to run for mayor, gentrify the city beyond recognition, and wait for rising costs and general disgust to force the lich out.
It's about time. Now I can relax, knowing that someone else was able to appreciate the moment when Lydia died and Porter, in a moment of grief, slaps his ass with an AK.
Now you see, the reason people can take so many bullets because this takes place in the US. As Americans, when we declared independence, we invoked the spirit of the Eagle to become bullet resitant Little known fact, in the Civil War most people had to fire 5-10 shots to kill one soldier, it was a tedious war.
@@silkychan6099 Exactly, although the game tones it down a bit. I mean, most sparrows take more shots than that to bring down. You don't know true fear until you unload a full mag into the face of a sparrow, and it just keeps chirping.
‘Twas a long fight. When Lincoln said four score and seven years, he was literally Addressing Geddysburg and how long it took to wipe out the first few lines. Unfortunately, because of our +2 to bullet resistance and +1 to Oil Sniffing, our Infection Resistance is at a -4. Bullets didn’t kill those boys, it was the gangrene, and damn did it work fast
I love these ending dances at every level Angel: Tries to look sexy but looks like a blow up doll Boris: The fat kid who got an extra slice of pizza Porter: Edgy twelve year old who got a 3-kill streak
I know Lydia bearing her heart to Porter so he could kill her is supposed to be tragic, but on the gameplay side, she's straight up just T-posing while all the surrounding units shoot her down, and it just looks hilarious.
And I thought Payday 2's overarching story got really stupid with elder gods, ancient kings, and the gang finding an illuminati pyramid under the White House defended by actual demons. To anyone who's never played; I'm not kidding.
I don't remember when I started to think the lore became stupid: Hotline Miami, the earthquake one or the Hardcore Henry heists. I know when I became stupid: when I bought Payday 2 for the THIRD TIME for the consoles, and believing that they would consistently update the game
@@neves6867 To be fair the only things consoles are missing as of now are the last couple of heists and the new safe house. That said, it's still stupid they won't just go ahead with the update and compromise what they can to make the content work.
I love the wildly varying quality of everything in this game. The concept art? Actually very impressive and makes me wish the characters were part of a better game because the art is just that good at making the characters seem cool and expressive. The rest of the game just ends up letting that part of the presentation down - especially the amateur nature of the cutscenes. I hope those concept artists are working on better things now.
@@Calvin_Coolage no no no, that was TRAIL of Cthulu, which is a lot less crunchy than Call of Cthulu (though Old Man Henderson breaking the game in half is no less impressive)
56:10: Fun fact-a lot of zombie tropes have their origins in stories about "vampires" that just _act_ like zombies, because the word "zombie" hadn't entered the American filmmaker's vocabulary yet. So that's not as absurd as it seems! Aside from all the other ways it's absurd, of course.
@@fuzzydunlop7928 This is true. I know people who think the mansion is the best part and others who think the art gallery was so it really is about the stuff that happens inbetween.
How did VTMB suddenly reappear on my system and started to launch? I read this then I felt a strange compulsion and now I am about to play VTMB, I swear this game is cursed in the best way.
Oh my god there is a banner of Tarr Chronicles on the wall on 2:28 that's Russian space sim and basically one of the last space sims ever to be released on this planet. Its of course janky as hell but IMO it has one of the most interesting space opera lores (because its Russian it tells the story of an ongoing galaxy wide apocalypse which has lasted for centuries and will last centuries more), nice art design of ships and probably the most beautiful sky boxes space sims ever had.
Looking up this game gave me some minor PTSD. I remember only briefly playing it because it ran worse than Crysis. I still don't get how they could make a game set in space perform that badly.
Oh fuck, I just realized. Angel uses blades. Her ending involves her making a living carving wooden statues. She’s the only one who gained something productive from her skillset.
@@ChickenKingTW He's genuinely funny, he's a clever guy. It's always seemed a minor injustice that his channel has been around so long but it's not grown at the same rate as other channels. I think part of it is that he reviews the games that tickle his fancy - he's not releasing content on whatever title is in vogue that month. I'm sure a lot of it is his schedule, too which is slower in releasing videos but that seems to be for good reason - he works best at a slower pace, makes meatier videos, and when his new videos do come out they're a genuine treat.
I've watched a number of your reviews before this one, but this is the first time any review from anyone has made me totally understand the points being made and how they relate to the subject
Focus is an interesting company. They seem to throw decent sums of money at several middle-range indy projects at once in order to basically skim the top off multiple ones at once, dominating the AA industry way better than pretenders like Deep Silver do. They’ve published Greedfall, Insurgency: Sandstorm, I _think_ Divinity: Original Sin II... they’re an interesting publisher, that’s for sure. Would like to know how their business model _really_ works
Focus Home also published the Surge games, which are pretty tight and well-built Souls-likes where you wear an exoskeleton and fight cyber-zombies and haywire industrial robots. Publishers tend not to have much of a direct influence on what the developers come out with unless they either offer huge amounts of resources or meddle with the development at every stage.
(Some people like Shammy have panned them for not being "original enough" with the story but the developer [Deck 13] obviously put a lot of heart into them and they're well worth the mid-range asking price imo)
Wait. You have a mysterious driver, who the game doesn't let you look at. And this game springs vampires on you in an otherwise grounded setting. My god. This is just VTM: Bloodlines Gaiden!
-skip a few chapters ahead -talking about vampires Okay, okay, I'll never ever skip ahead. edit: I've finished it now. Man, it is sad if they played up super natural stuff it could have been more... eh, more than what it ended up being.
he, feel you, While I'm not suffering from insomnia, I've often a hard time to fall asleep. Mars Series, Xenus Series and Brigand is the most listen to videos .. on youtube .. for 10+ years
@@Superschokokeks I actually got into Tehsnakerer when I was taking lots of Prednisone after a hospital stay. So with a 5AM bedtime, I had plenty of time to watch em all many many times. Also Ross's Game Dungeon.
Snakerer, you are seriously one of my favorite youtubers out there, up there with Joseph Anderson and Shammy, and this really feels like an awesome sequel to your gangland video. Almost as good as the Deep Shadows trilogy haha!
I don't think I ever had the experience with any other RUclips channel, but I have to say I enjoy your content immensely (that's why I just became a patron :) it has an almost therapeutically thing to it watching your vids. Pls keep up the good work and don't stop!
1:02:06; 1:13:49; these tiny snippets. i love the precision of the things you say. you really drill into the game, and in good faith, not wanting to simply bash at it. you're great.
you know a game is not good when even watching it makes you take a break a few times due to boredom. And here I was excited for more gangland. Congrats on getting through this masterpiece, because I am definitely looking forward to whatever's coming soon after this borefest (not your commentary, of course, that was the best part).
Funny, I actually managed to watch this all the way through because the completely batshit story kept me entertained, but after several tries I still haven't been able to sit through all of Gangland's video without falling asleep or spacing out.
@@CassandraFortuna the story in this one IS very batshit, but it's delivered in a very boring way. Gangland at least had weird quirks that made the basic story somewhat entertaining.
The original gangland was popular when it first came out. The problem was they used a fairly insane copy protection on it at the time that involved having to unplug your CD drive in order to defeat. I think that's one of the reasons it didn't actually stick around. It's not sold anywhere, and it wasn't easy to pirate. I remember a lot of people wanting to play it but being unable either because of copy protection or bugs, or both.
I never had a chance to play the sequel, I recall hearing about it like 8 years after gangland and not being able to find anywhere to buy it. Thanks for that, and over an hour of it and thanks to that Skeletom dude. Also, I would like to say how happy I am to see this is published by Focus Home. Even back then they apparently were releasing the best, most sour tasting jank.
I glanced at my notifications and thought Escape From Paradise City sounded familiar but couldn't place it. THEN IT CLICKED. AND I STILL DON'T BELIEVE THIS GAME EXISTS.
Something I just noticed; in the shop menu for boris, ALL of the guns have their actual manufacturer names, something that would mean licensing. How did THIS game get licensing from so many manufacturers. It's not even like most of these are strictly military, and the ones that are are listed by their non military designations. Where did this studio get the money for this?
You do some pretty kick ass videos dude. I have no idea how you make 1 plus long videos interesting and as fun as you do but I am continually entertained by your work. I look forward to further content man.
even the supernatural doesnt save this game. they bring in vampires, make seem all "masquerade"y and then its just nothing. damn, hope whatever you get to next does better.
I feel like I just watched....not a car crash, but rather two cars place themselves bumper to bumper and ease on the gas as the wheels spin in place and the slight sway threatens to result in one actually spinning off into forward movement, before both drivers get bored and leave knowing well that they just possibly just did serious internal damage to a mechanism or three and DEFINITELY wasted everyone's time. A waste of everyone's time until someone took a recording of the incident and made a documentary about why it's boring to a scientifically factual degree in a process that is paradoxically enthralling.
The most bizzare thing about this game for me is that the way I found out this game existed was through a flyer in an album by german rapper Kool Savss, who was pretty popular when this game came out. Hemade one of the songs from his then new solo album the games title song and he wasn't even a newcomer or in any position where he desperately needed the money. The song also seems to be exclusive to the german version which makes all of this even more jarring because he was also featured in all versions of the Tony Hawk's Underground 2 soundtrack around the same time.
It’s been a while since I watched this video and while I remembered the most minor of things, the concept art characters who never show up, the win animations, and weird character play order. What I completely forgot about was the VAMPIRES and LICHES. So when it went full supernatural I was just thinking “of all the things to remember, why was it not this?”
I've rewatched this video more times than Boris has taken additional government funding, and I gotta say, I have a LOT to say regarding how this game was very close to working in concept and gameplay. The idea of a sequel to a relatively grounded first game adding fantastical elements like technology and magic and vampires... the idea of the leader of a dangerous organization rising from the ashes of a formerly terminally divided crime city years prior, being figuratively and literally powered by territory control and money syphoning... this is quite literally the kind of serial escalation I'd expect from a beat 'em up series, not from an RTS-RPG hybrid. Streets of Rage is the first thing that comes to mind, as the series starts out with the mafia, then the sequels add robots, cyborgs, nuclear warfare, magical ninjas and mind controlling music, among other things. Yet it worked for that series and not Escape from Paradise City, which COULD have pulled the insane premise off if it had better writing and a bigger budget. Or if this was a beat 'em up. Beat 'em ups always have wacky plots in some form or another. I also find it hilarious that this game released in 2007, a few years after Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne, the expansion for Warcraft III, because the bonus Orc campaign, The Founding of Durotar, quite literally is built like an action RPG with sidequests in the engine of an RTS game, and basically served as a prototype for World of Warcraft. Even base Wacraft III, with its RPG elements and smaller army sizes and low population caps, alongside Hero unit skills that you could choose between, some of them being summons that you could amass a small army out of, equipment you can afford and neutral non-faction owned hostile units you can battle for extra goodies, were things that predated Escape from Paradise City. They really stood no chance even from conception alone. A lot of this really makes me wonder what your thoughts are on anachronistic stew RPGs, like the Dungeon Siege games, which have things like guns and robots and surprisingly modern technology in places amidst a mostly medieval world and setting. You can equip miniguns and grenade launchers in the first game, allowing you to recreate the goofiness of this game by unleashing a volley of flak for surprisingly low damage compared to things like crossbows and shortswords. Maybe in like 10 years you'll get around to reviewing the series.
I've been thinking about these characters and the way they work, and I fee like the best way to go would be for each one to have to play a little differently. With Boris, there's no mercy, no second chances, you kill the current neighborhood boss, put one of your own people in charge, and they take orders directly from you. He'd be the character where you have the most direct control of your organization. With Angel, it's just the opposite, bosses don't really work for you, but you can convince them to lay off you for a while as you go after your real target, that way, stealth is actually useful. And the last guy would just play the way he does now.
This is maybe my third favourite of your videos so far.... Brigand is right up there, top of the bunch.. Genuinely got me wanting to play the game. The next would be gangland. This one, hit its stride around the 50 min mark :) I would rate the trilogy series higher (boiling point and others) but I have actually played them so it was less of a discovery for me :)
Old game fail to run on older computers but runs fine on new ones? I had cases like this. Never cease to amaze me, in twisted way. Got that game from gaming magazine, back then when you used them for full legit games for cheap. A truckload of gems were released that way. Like Marauder - Man of Prey, before it hit the Steam. Speaking of which - I would love to see your review of Apeiron's games, they're the best Jagged Alliance- like games so far and they need exposure. 5:13 o hi Dopefish
It can happen. Microsoft writes something that's supposed to work a certain way, developers use it the way it's supposed to be, and usually this is fine - this is why Oregon Trail II for Windows 3.1 still works fine on Win10. But sometimes Microsoft accidentally subtly changes something, and it breaks a few programs noone cares about for ten years until they fix or accidentally un-break it.
"Angel moved to a fishing village by the Pacific ocean, earning her living my carving small wooden statues." - This is the one. This is the line that killed me. I seized on the floor in a fit of laughter. I was not expecting Shawshank Redemption. This line hit me just right. Goddamn.
"President Boris sounds nice!" This game would have been so much better if the ending narration was like "Porter moved to Miami and became a bestselling author. Angel lives in Baja just puttering around. Boris was elected President of the United States and ushered in an oligarchic kleptocracy. He is currently preparing to begin his fifth term in the White House. Live well, and rock on! :) "
I'll be severely disappointed if there's no Curt Russel chasing down Steve Buscemi while surfing on apocalyptic scale tsunami wave. Also, cheers to your dedication to launch this clunky junky monster from the past (and to MVP Skeletom).
RUclips: Here! A new guy for you to enjoy. Me: Neat thanks, what's his dea- RUclips: ALL HIS VIDEOS ARE AN HOUR PLUS HAVE FUN. Me: ... Good thing I rarely sleep.
Honestly, a Lich that uses a city as their phylactery is pretty genius. A character who built the city, deciding to watch over it for all eternity by binding their soul to it. Nothing less than the razing of the burg down to its foundations will have a hope of destroying the Lich. Meanwhile, would-be adventurers keep trying to track down small trinkets hidden in fortified and trapped caches, not realizing they are elaborate decoys.
or you could imprison the lich
@@kokichibestboi Imprison the centuries old arch-mage with vast resources and tons of minions? Seems easy. What could go wrong?
Lol if this were in a dnd campaign, I could definitely foresee a thirty minute long argument over what constitutes a city. If it’s based off population primarily, PCs would have to decide if it’s worth culling a significant portion of the citizens in order to save everyone, or maybe imposing strict population control to slowly decrease the citizenry over generations. If only the creators had the passion to build on the idea, instead of just throwing it out of an oven that just finished preheating, not even half baked
@@jaccobbailey8247 I was thinking more the city itself, as a physical location, rather than its inhabitants. Like, the arrangement of buildings in magically significant designs, so the roads form arcane geometric glyphs or whatever.
@@jaccobbailey8247
Nah, if this was a DnD campaign you'd just have to run for mayor, gentrify the city beyond recognition, and wait for rising costs and general disgust to force the lich out.
It's about time. Now I can relax, knowing that someone else was able to appreciate the moment when Lydia died and Porter, in a moment of grief, slaps his ass with an AK.
We all grieve in our own ways.
"A hundred bucks for an airstrike? That's a steal!"
Well, I guess you get what you pay for...
Ancap's wet dream: the game
I mean, he was right. Just not about who was getting stolen from.
"Who the hell puts an ad right on the middle of their product?"
*Ad starts*
Cheeky, brub.
This, I was looking for this!
Same
I've had adblockers for years and years. Never noticed this gimmick. Also, is the main female MC in this game the same VA from Castlevania?
*laughs in NBA 2k20*
@@Shamino1 Which Castlevania? What woman? This is so vague lol.
Now you see, the reason people can take so many bullets because this takes place in the US. As Americans, when we declared independence, we invoked the spirit of the Eagle to become bullet resitant Little known fact, in the Civil War most people had to fire 5-10 shots to kill one soldier, it was a tedious war.
I see. So thats how a random rioter in the division can take 5 shot to the head before going down
@@silkychan6099 Exactly, although the game tones it down a bit. I mean, most sparrows take more shots than that to bring down. You don't know true fear until you unload a full mag into the face of a sparrow, and it just keeps chirping.
This thread deserves a cookie.
That's why most deaths in the American civil war were from infection.
‘Twas a long fight. When Lincoln said four score and seven years, he was literally Addressing Geddysburg and how long it took to wipe out the first few lines. Unfortunately, because of our +2 to bullet resistance and +1 to Oil Sniffing, our Infection Resistance is at a -4. Bullets didn’t kill those boys, it was the gangrene, and damn did it work fast
I love these ending dances at every level
Angel: Tries to look sexy but looks like a blow up doll
Boris: The fat kid who got an extra slice of pizza
Porter: Edgy twelve year old who got a 3-kill streak
Very COOL of you to FINALLY cover the sequel to insanely stupid GANGLAND. I'm Italian this IS just how I speak.
AYYY TONY SPUMONI
BRING ME BULLETS!
Hey, its Don Parmesan.
I'm so happy we can still safely use our Italian stereotypes. They're like the one group you can shit on and nobody will care.
@@fuzzydunlop7928 Including other Italians.
I know Lydia bearing her heart to Porter so he could kill her is supposed to be tragic, but on the gameplay side, she's straight up just T-posing while all the surrounding units shoot her down, and it just looks hilarious.
Can't believe good guy Tehsnakerer is actually playing this disaster from,my childhood. Good luck, man.
And I thought Payday 2's overarching story got really stupid with elder gods, ancient kings, and the gang finding an illuminati pyramid under the White House defended by actual demons.
To anyone who's never played;
I'm not kidding.
And here I was, standing on the rubble of the old reality - the one where I didn't care about Payday 2
No shit, and I thought the mercy hospital mission was too much
I don't remember when I started to think the lore became stupid: Hotline Miami, the earthquake one or the Hardcore Henry heists.
I know when I became stupid: when I bought Payday 2 for the THIRD TIME for the consoles, and believing that they would consistently update the game
@@neves6867 To be fair the only things consoles are missing as of now are the last couple of heists and the new safe house. That said, it's still stupid they won't just go ahead with the update and compromise what they can to make the content work.
Vahlok142 I’ll just believe you because honestly that seems like something that would happen
I love the wildly varying quality of everything in this game. The concept art? Actually very impressive and makes me wish the characters were part of a better game because the art is just that good at making the characters seem cool and expressive. The rest of the game just ends up letting that part of the presentation down - especially the amateur nature of the cutscenes.
I hope those concept artists are working on better things now.
They 100% had to eat their own child to avoid starvation
Holy Shit man, I was just binge watching your videos, and you go ahead and post a new one. That's pretty nice of you.
the story makes me think this was a call of cthuluhu campaign that just got out of hand
If only Old Man Henderson were here to save us.
@@Calvin_Coolage haven't heard that name is years
@@Calvin_Coolage no no no, that was TRAIL of Cthulu, which is a lot less crunchy than Call of Cthulu (though Old Man Henderson breaking the game in half is no less impressive)
@@Calvin_Coolage that name brings back memories.
Bless the gm with putting up with a player who systematically torches every single quest location
@@gewuerzwanze5627 Well, the GM in that game was kind of a prick, so having an Old Man Henderson at his table was somewhat deserved.
>Multiplayer
>Powered by GameSpy
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top 10 anime deaths
Rip
Just play Lan, if the game features Lan you can play it without gamespy, swat 4, saints row 2 and so on.
@@SuperKratosgamer oh I know, u can use services like evolve and ganera and etc. Just find it funny whenever I see GameSpy lol
@@DisamerdScroll Makes sense, well evolve is dead too.
I was not expecting vampires, I will be honest.
You're with me
56:10: Fun fact-a lot of zombie tropes have their origins in stories about "vampires" that just _act_ like zombies, because the word "zombie" hadn't entered the American filmmaker's vocabulary yet. So that's not as absurd as it seems! Aside from all the other ways it's absurd, of course.
You silly critic, they weren't talking because they *didn't have upper lips*. It's truly a stunning example of dynamic systems in videogames.
I might not have an upper lip, but I do have the upper hand.
Everyone should have a Robbie in their life
Always ready to come to bat for you
Obviously, the driver is Cain from Vampire: The Masquerade.
Cmon, that game has an influx of new players now.
Kinda spoliery if they don't know he's actually in the game.
Fuck now i'm reinstalling VTMB...
@@zigfaust I still gotta do a Malkavian playthrough
@@zigfaust It's okay, bud. Like a handsy uber driver, the fun is all about the journey not the destination.
@@fuzzydunlop7928 This is true. I know people who think the mansion is the best part and others who think the art gallery was so it really is about the stuff that happens inbetween.
How did VTMB suddenly reappear on my system and started to launch? I read this then I felt a strange compulsion and now I am about to play VTMB, I swear this game is cursed in the best way.
“Who the hell puts an ad in the middle of their product?” *I proceed to get two ads in a row*
Cheekier than cheeky medkit boy.
"Who the hell puts an ad right in the middle of their product?"
Ad Begins.
BRILLIANT. Slow clap here.
"Tells me he downloaded it, to no difficulty!"
I like how your reply to Skeletom downloading it with no trouble is just
"what the fuck"
A snakerer upload? Looks like i'm having a good day after all!
Nothing makes Angel look intimidating like running as if she's got spaghetti for limbs.
Oh my god there is a banner of Tarr Chronicles on the wall on 2:28 that's Russian space sim and basically one of the last space sims ever to be released on this planet. Its of course janky as hell but IMO it has one of the most interesting space opera lores (because its Russian it tells the story of an ongoing galaxy wide apocalypse which has lasted for centuries and will last centuries more), nice art design of ships and probably the most beautiful sky boxes space sims ever had.
Looking up this game gave me some minor PTSD.
I remember only briefly playing it because it ran worse than Crysis. I still don't get how they could make a game set in space perform that badly.
There is no escape
(from paradise city)
This channel is such a gem, I hope you get the recognition you deserve one day !
Cheers
Oh fuck, I just realized.
Angel uses blades. Her ending involves her making a living carving wooden statues. She’s the only one who gained something productive from her skillset.
Your dedication in getting the jank to work deserves mad respect.
Also: 7:20 #dopefishlives !
You're literally the only content-creator I follow that makes me stop whatever I'm doing to see your latest upload.
agree, god I love tehsnakerer.
Other video game reviewers just don't have the same charms to me.
@@ChickenKingTW He's genuinely funny, he's a clever guy. It's always seemed a minor injustice that his channel has been around so long but it's not grown at the same rate as other channels. I think part of it is that he reviews the games that tickle his fancy - he's not releasing content on whatever title is in vogue that month. I'm sure a lot of it is his schedule, too which is slower in releasing videos but that seems to be for good reason - he works best at a slower pace, makes meatier videos, and when his new videos do come out they're a genuine treat.
I've watched a number of your reviews before this one, but this is the first time any review from anyone has made me totally understand the points being made and how they relate to the subject
That perfect midroll ad timing was amazing. I was so caught off guard by that joke
its funny how the same people who published this game (Focus Home Interactive) just recently published A Plague Tale: Innocence.
Is that bad too?
@@MegaDeathRay10 Nope. It's a pretty solid lower budget stealth/horror game.
Focus is an interesting company. They seem to throw decent sums of money at several middle-range indy projects at once in order to basically skim the top off multiple ones at once, dominating the AA industry way better than pretenders like Deep Silver do. They’ve published Greedfall, Insurgency: Sandstorm, I _think_ Divinity: Original Sin II... they’re an interesting publisher, that’s for sure. Would like to know how their business model _really_ works
Focus Home also published the Surge games, which are pretty tight and well-built Souls-likes where you wear an exoskeleton and fight cyber-zombies and haywire industrial robots. Publishers tend not to have much of a direct influence on what the developers come out with unless they either offer huge amounts of resources or meddle with the development at every stage.
(Some people like Shammy have panned them for not being "original enough" with the story but the developer [Deck 13] obviously put a lot of heart into them and they're well worth the mid-range asking price imo)
Wait. You have a mysterious driver, who the game doesn't let you look at. And this game springs vampires on you in an otherwise grounded setting.
My god. This is just VTM: Bloodlines Gaiden!
Every time you upload it's when I least expect it with a run time that is exactly as long as i want at the moment, so thanks for that I guess.
-skip a few chapters ahead
-talking about vampires
Okay, okay, I'll never ever skip ahead.
edit: I've finished it now. Man, it is sad if they played up super natural stuff it could have been more... eh, more than what it ended up being.
"Who puts an ad into the middle of their product?"
*immediately skips to an ad*
Best usage of RUclips ads, period.
TFW you wanna make a Dusk 'Til Dawn game but can't afford the license.
well..... lets just say the game they made that had the license..... didnt go so well.... (check out Civvie 11 if you want to see how terrible)
Gonna write From Dusk Til Dawn (Videogame) x Escape From Paradise City fanfiction when I get home from work and nobody can stop me
Much like Gangland, I'll watch this dozens of times to help with my crippling insomnia. 👏👏👏
Best of luck
he, feel you, While I'm not suffering from insomnia, I've often a hard time to fall asleep. Mars Series, Xenus Series and Brigand is the most listen to videos .. on youtube .. for 10+ years
@@Superschokokeks I actually got into Tehsnakerer when I was taking lots of Prednisone after a hospital stay. So with a 5AM bedtime, I had plenty of time to watch em all many many times. Also Ross's Game Dungeon.
@@Quamikaze saaaame
Snakerer, you are seriously one of my favorite youtubers out there, up there with Joseph Anderson and Shammy, and this really feels like an awesome sequel to your gangland video. Almost as good as the Deep Shadows trilogy haha!
The snippet of Snake Eater was unexpected but appreciated.
*IT IS BINGE TIME AGAIN LADS*
Pass the popcorn!
I don't think I ever had the experience with any other RUclips channel, but I have to say I enjoy your content immensely (that's why I just became a patron :) it has an almost therapeutically thing to it watching your vids. Pls keep up the good work and don't stop!
Thank you, I'll try!
1:02:06; 1:13:49; these tiny snippets. i love the precision of the things you say. you really drill into the game, and in good faith, not wanting to simply bash at it. you're great.
Hey another video that I will watch and then watch again and again and again and again and again
Love your content man
you know a game is not good when even watching it makes you take a break a few times due to boredom. And here I was excited for more gangland.
Congrats on getting through this masterpiece, because I am definitely looking forward to whatever's coming soon after this borefest (not your commentary, of course, that was the best part).
Funny, I actually managed to watch this all the way through because the completely batshit story kept me entertained, but after several tries I still haven't been able to sit through all of Gangland's video without falling asleep or spacing out.
@@CassandraFortuna the story in this one IS very batshit, but it's delivered in a very boring way. Gangland at least had weird quirks that made the basic story somewhat entertaining.
The original gangland was popular when it first came out. The problem was they used a fairly insane copy protection on it at the time that involved having to unplug your CD drive in order to defeat. I think that's one of the reasons it didn't actually stick around. It's not sold anywhere, and it wasn't easy to pirate. I remember a lot of people wanting to play it but being unable either because of copy protection or bugs, or both.
Dude I haven't been so excited for a video when I saw it in my feed, love this longform content!
I never had a chance to play the sequel, I recall hearing about it like 8 years after gangland and not being able to find anywhere to buy it. Thanks for that, and over an hour of it and thanks to that Skeletom dude.
Also, I would like to say how happy I am to see this is published by Focus Home. Even back then they apparently were releasing the best, most sour tasting jank.
And nowadays they publish decent AA work like Greedfall and Insurgency Sandstorm.
I glanced at my notifications and thought Escape From Paradise City sounded familiar but couldn't place it.
THEN IT CLICKED.
AND I STILL DON'T BELIEVE THIS GAME EXISTS.
When they were keeping the final boss vague, I was kind of hoping the twist was that Mario from Gangland was the big bad.
The way the game's intro fades in makes no sense. lol
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Something I just noticed; in the shop menu for boris, ALL of the guns have their actual manufacturer names, something that would mean licensing. How did THIS game get licensing from so many manufacturers. It's not even like most of these are strictly military, and the ones that are are listed by their non military designations. Where did this studio get the money for this?
"who the hell puts advertisements in the middle of their product?"
Well played.
Well fucking played. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
YESSSS, I LOVE YOU
Be well and rock on, Tehsnakerer
You do some pretty kick ass videos dude. I have no idea how you make 1 plus long videos interesting and as fun as you do but I am continually entertained by your work. I look forward to further content man.
even the supernatural doesnt save this game.
they bring in vampires, make seem all "masquerade"y and then its just nothing.
damn, hope whatever you get to next does better.
I feel like I just watched....not a car crash, but rather two cars place themselves bumper to bumper and ease on the gas as the wheels spin in place and the slight sway threatens to result in one actually spinning off into forward movement, before both drivers get bored and leave knowing well that they just possibly just did serious internal damage to a mechanism or three and DEFINITELY wasted everyone's time.
A waste of everyone's time until someone took a recording of the incident and made a documentary about why it's boring to a scientifically factual degree in a process that is paradoxically enthralling.
The most bizzare thing about this game for me is that the way I found out this game existed was through a flyer in an album by german rapper Kool Savss, who was pretty popular when this game came out. Hemade one of the songs from his then new solo album the games title song and he wasn't even a newcomer or in any position where he desperately needed the money. The song also seems to be exclusive to the german version which makes all of this even more jarring because he was also featured in all versions of the Tony Hawk's Underground 2 soundtrack around the same time.
It’s been a while since I watched this video and while I remembered the most minor of things, the concept art characters who never show up, the win animations, and weird character play order.
What I completely forgot about was the VAMPIRES and LICHES. So when it went full supernatural I was just thinking “of all the things to remember, why was it not this?”
At 1:06:59, I got an ad for RUclips music and I thought it was a bit you put in while editing for a while.
"Walter Kovacs"
*Rorschach!?*
Glad I wasn’t the only one to notice. That takes balls.
@@smugalice6206 just glad I'm not the only one with good taste in comic books.
Mechthorian high five ✋
He’s not trapped in Paradise with us, we’re trapped in Paradise with him
I've rewatched this video more times than Boris has taken additional government funding, and I gotta say, I have a LOT to say regarding how this game was very close to working in concept and gameplay.
The idea of a sequel to a relatively grounded first game adding fantastical elements like technology and magic and vampires... the idea of the leader of a dangerous organization rising from the ashes of a formerly terminally divided crime city years prior, being figuratively and literally powered by territory control and money syphoning... this is quite literally the kind of serial escalation I'd expect from a beat 'em up series, not from an RTS-RPG hybrid. Streets of Rage is the first thing that comes to mind, as the series starts out with the mafia, then the sequels add robots, cyborgs, nuclear warfare, magical ninjas and mind controlling music, among other things. Yet it worked for that series and not Escape from Paradise City, which COULD have pulled the insane premise off if it had better writing and a bigger budget. Or if this was a beat 'em up. Beat 'em ups always have wacky plots in some form or another.
I also find it hilarious that this game released in 2007, a few years after Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne, the expansion for Warcraft III, because the bonus Orc campaign, The Founding of Durotar, quite literally is built like an action RPG with sidequests in the engine of an RTS game, and basically served as a prototype for World of Warcraft. Even base Wacraft III, with its RPG elements and smaller army sizes and low population caps, alongside Hero unit skills that you could choose between, some of them being summons that you could amass a small army out of, equipment you can afford and neutral non-faction owned hostile units you can battle for extra goodies, were things that predated Escape from Paradise City. They really stood no chance even from conception alone.
A lot of this really makes me wonder what your thoughts are on anachronistic stew RPGs, like the Dungeon Siege games, which have things like guns and robots and surprisingly modern technology in places amidst a mostly medieval world and setting. You can equip miniguns and grenade launchers in the first game, allowing you to recreate the goofiness of this game by unleashing a volley of flak for surprisingly low damage compared to things like crossbows and shortswords. Maybe in like 10 years you'll get around to reviewing the series.
Can I just say I adore the cutscene music in this? I wish it could play anytime I walked in a room.
I wasn't expecting a sequel to the Gangland video. This is great, thanks dude!
Ive been rewatching all your videos and im happy for the new one
I've been thinking about these characters and the way they work, and I fee like the best way to go would be for each one to have to play a little differently. With Boris, there's no mercy, no second chances, you kill the current neighborhood boss, put one of your own people in charge, and they take orders directly from you. He'd be the character where you have the most direct control of your organization. With Angel, it's just the opposite, bosses don't really work for you, but you can convince them to lay off you for a while as you go after your real target, that way, stealth is actually useful. And the last guy would just play the way he does now.
14:08
This sounds like a Silent Hill: Homecoming off-take.
This is maybe my third favourite of your videos so far.... Brigand is right up there, top of the bunch.. Genuinely got me wanting to play the game.
The next would be gangland.
This one, hit its stride around the 50 min mark :)
I would rate the trilogy series higher (boiling point and others) but I have actually played them so it was less of a discovery for me :)
7:27 Holy shit, that's the Dope Fish graffiti on the wall!
WOW! Good eye!
Nice to see you still bangin' m8
Beer cans the size of Tesco Value Lager. Almost fell off my chair laughing. Keep up the good work, Snaker-man.
1:00:48 I love how it's a gangster game with music that wouldn't be out of place in a Nirvana song.
Old game fail to run on older computers but runs fine on new ones? I had cases like this. Never cease to amaze me, in twisted way.
Got that game from gaming magazine, back then when you used them for full legit games for cheap. A truckload of gems were released that way. Like Marauder - Man of Prey, before it hit the Steam. Speaking of which - I would love to see your review of Apeiron's games, they're the best Jagged Alliance- like games so far and they need exposure.
5:13 o hi Dopefish
It can happen. Microsoft writes something that's supposed to work a certain way, developers use it the way it's supposed to be, and usually this is fine - this is why Oregon Trail II for Windows 3.1 still works fine on Win10. But sometimes Microsoft accidentally subtly changes something, and it breaks a few programs noone cares about for ten years until they fix or accidentally un-break it.
He really is everywhere.
Every time I hear the words "Paradise City", I always think of Guns N' Roses.
I think of Burnout: Paradise.
I think of paradise from postal 2
Take me down to the paradise city
Where the grass is green and the girls are pretty
me too, me too
Time for another video of yours to inevitably watch 30+ times. Cheers
Again, you are the king of jank.
Just learned about this game the other day, awesome for you to make this.
I don't know why, but the enemies dying so very slowly is both funny and amusing.
57:24 given as we can see the image on the cutout, I think Boris already knows he's charging a cardboard cutout
"$100 for an airstrike? Oh boy! What a steal! Of my money!"
"Angel moved to a fishing village by the Pacific ocean, earning her living my carving small wooden statues." - This is the one. This is the line that killed me. I seized on the floor in a fit of laughter. I was not expecting Shawshank Redemption. This line hit me just right. Goddamn.
"President Boris sounds nice!" This game would have been so much better if the ending narration was like "Porter moved to Miami and became a bestselling author. Angel lives in Baja just puttering around. Boris was elected President of the United States and ushered in an oligarchic kleptocracy. He is currently preparing to begin his fifth term in the White House. Live well, and rock on! :) "
Love your longform videos man! Cheers from Seattle USA
Congrats on all your new subscribers! :))
I'll be severely disappointed if there's no Curt Russel chasing down Steve Buscemi while surfing on apocalyptic scale tsunami wave.
Also, cheers to your dedication to launch this clunky junky monster from the past (and to MVP Skeletom).
Oh christ why is Fightbox at 2:05
RUclips: Here! A new guy for you to enjoy.
Me: Neat thanks, what's his dea-
RUclips: ALL HIS VIDEOS ARE AN HOUR PLUS HAVE FUN.
Me: ... Good thing I rarely sleep.
Uh, not that it seems to be a problem anyway, but you don't have to watch them all at once
@@Tehsnakerer eh. Sleep is highly overrated.
I rate this video Power Skills/10.
“Joseph Joestar a motherucker” is now the quote I will live my life by.
Always nice to see another long form review about a janky old game. Good stuff.
(1:21:23) "Instead, she winds up on the receiving end of a bullet bukage."
(1:16:45) Such, such imagery.
14:22 you know what's a real weird thing I picked up on? Angel's combat animations very much remind me of those of the 1h sword from The Secret world.
1:05:49 WOOLIE?!
17:42 Me and the boys working to defeat "The Organization"
FINALLY, QUALITY CONTENT
I *was* about to re-watch your entire channel, but since you insist I watch a brand new video....
Maybe Uncle Vincenzo was actually a vampire, thus explaining how he was over a hundred years old?
Walter Jeffrey Kovacs ? Here's the thing: Watchmen was published in 1986, and Rorschach is the pseodonym of costumed vigilante Walter Joseph Kovacs.