No way to link this one, game is delisted everywhere for some reason. HAPPY HALLOWEEN Caption tool is unfortunately near unresponsive on my end right now, but this'll hopefully get remedied today.
Ayo, I like the switch-up between calm and composed cold hard steel Mandalore and hot headed LESS EFFIN GO badass panicking Mandalore. 10 out of 10 voice work.
Yeah. Anytime "nature conservationists" talk about hunting endangered species to save endangered species, you know they're just sadists looking for something to stroke their d@$%s over.
To be real, some hunting is required or at least permitted in the event a certain species starts to overpopulate a given area (which is ironically what Cecil the Lion technically was killed for) but I don't think that's what's happening here.
@@warbossgegguz679 Hunters will look for ANY excuse to hunt, though, and it really is incredibly hypocritical that hunters seem to have a "punish every animal except humans for human-made issues" mentality.
I think a park ranger is like a elite animal fighting shock trooper, a conservationist refers to conserving human life, and Alaska is just another warfront in the animal war.
“Liam Neeson says wolves will kill all life within 30 miles of their den.” I love the idea that Liam Neeson believes there are these 30 mile radius dead zones around wolf dens. Like wolves are some kind of devouring swarm stripping all biomass from their surroundings.
Mandalore, you must understand when Jacob says he's a conservationist, they mean he conserves the human species from the never ending asymmetric animal assault.
Imagine if the game started breaking the 4th wall and questioned the player like Spec Ops: The Line did. "How many endangered animals have you killed today?" "Do you feel like a conservationist yet?"
There might be something to Jacob's failing grasp on reality. Driver Ed is clearly voiced by a black African male, but his character model is a white dude with ginger hair.
i have a feeling that Cabela's required the developers to include certain things to make it appealing to their core demographic, deer hunters. hunting deer keeps the population at a sustainable level so there is a real conservation angle to it. i don't think the developers understood the assignment but god damn they made art.
@@LieseFury I’ve known a few, shall I say, “enthusiastic” environmental studies majors advocating for doing precisely this to white-tailed deer in the Eastern Woodlands.
Protagonist: *mows down enough animals in 5 minutes to last 100 hunting lifetimes* Guide: "Alright, let's get started then!" Good lord, it's like Detective Halligan got turned loose on Africa.
In Aztec Myth, it's said that the world ended multiple times. One of those ends was caused by Jaguars flooding the world. I like to think Jacob lives in that world. Explains this game.
The world ended multiple times in Aztec mythology? I guess that's what Mandus from Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs meant when he said "This isn't the first great civilization that he has wept for."
7:35 "He died before they opened it again" I like to think that the entirety of Uganda was shut down for years because Jacob's dad just hunted down its entire ecosystem. The surviving wildlife recognizes Jacob is his son and tries to stop him before he can follow in his father's footsteps, only to accidentally give him a reason to create another mass extinction event.
I will remind you all that Australia deployed an entire infantry division armed with machine guns against an emu infestation and lost. Humanity has only gotten the upper hand on nature recently in the grand scheme of things.
Jacob being shown as an inexperienced young hunter only for it to be revealed he was Cabela-verse’s Doomguy is top tier story telling. Truly one of the hunting games of all time.
Worked on some of these games. I remember one day we were demoing the current build to a cabela's rep and things were going great until they saw a message that said "You've unlocked new weapons!" The rep was AGHAST. "WE DON'T SELL W E A P O N S, WE SELL FIREARMS" we had to spend the next day reviewing text in the code and sweeping the game for any instance of the word weapon and removing it.
A game like this, set in the insane Catachan jungle with the horrifying wildlife of the planet could go insanely hard tho. The ending being a bunch of rambos laughing while roasting a Catachan Devil on a giant grill made of flamers
I'm slightly disappointed that killing the Alpha Black Lion didn't cause the mountain, the whole mountain, to collapse and force you into a timed escape sequence.
In this universe, a conservationist is probably like being the Warden of Nature, but warden in the sense of being in charge of a jail where every single inmate is a serial killer who has knives for fingers
In some bizarro alternate timeline or parallel universe, the Warhammer 40K universe has no Orks or other aliens, instead the Imperium of Conservationists is beset on all sides by enemies like chaos leopards, Geesanids and the dreaded Bison WAAAAGH. In the Grimdark future, there is only hunting.
There's literally a custom guard Regiment in 8th edition Codex that's, and I'm not joking, composed by hunters because their native planet is a jungle full of eldritch horror animals due that Governor's Pets one day escaped from his zoo, moved to the jungles and breeded each other and became a threat for all life in the planet. That's the fucking plot story for another Calabela's game.
I feel light-headed watching this. If you told me this video did not exist and there was a chemical leak in my house I would believe you without question
If you look at just the cutscenes, it's a touching story about two brothers overcoming their shared trauma of losing their father to a maneater. If you look at just the gameplay, it's DOOM 2016 if you pissed off a druid instead of satan. Combined, it's just batshit crazy
@@rrjt1011 It was made to be a hunting pistol but I've seen it in enough videogames and action movies it's just ridiculous seeing it in the hunting context.
And they're owned by Bass Pro Shop. It's the same thing but a bit more fishing oriented, though they also sell guns and hunting stuff. Come to think of it Cabela's sells fishing stuff as well...
"Relax Jacob, it's a war on hunting. We aren't out to kill civilians. Game hunters, Poachers, Mad-Men. Of course that would have to include you. Wouldn't want scope witness reports complicating the message!"
24:16 _"Is the game implying that the baboons are jamming me?"_ That line actually unlocked a memory of a nightmare I had as a kid of yetis cutting my house's power and phone lines before breaking in through nearly every window simultaneously.
@@kungfuskullsadly, a realistic Sasquatch or Yeti horror game would have some serious design issues: the creatures as described in most encounter stories are either alone, or in small family groups, so you'd quickly kill off the threat... but if it was an Amnesia style run and hide horror game, well, just think long and hard about all the ways an 7 to 9 foot tall bipedal ape can be dangerous: they're stronger, tougher, likely faster, and probably pretty damn smart, and have hands... how do you even start to deal with that if it wants you dead?
They said they wanted the CoD audience but they overshoot so hard they ended up making a game targeting the Doom 2016 audience 3 years ahead of time. What a mindbogglingly insane beast this game is!
It's really weird to think that these games are only 3 years apart. Cabela's games feel so... intrinsically 2007-2009 ish, it is truly a strange reality to swallow that DH2013 was still on store shelves when the next generation consoles dropped lmao
I can only presume that the constant falling down from ledges is a homage/steal/echo of Spec Ops, with the constant descending into Dubai. That would mean Luke was already dead, explaining the lack of answer over the radio, and the whole thing wasn't flashbacks to the bear, but Jacob's fantasies of vengeance as he sits freezing in the snow by his family's cooling bodies. Gentleman, welcome to Alaska.
@@TheTber123 Such a good game. It shot into my top ten as soon as I had played it. "You're here because you wanted to feel like something you're not..."
@@MandaloreGaming This isn't a Japanese game! Although now I am trying to imagine how much more deranged it would be if it were. Him fusing with the black lion to become a new god of hunting fits. Jacob would actually be 13 in the story but look the exact same.
The previous two Dangerous Hunts games were bonkers, too. One ended with a showdown against a yeti, and another was all about hunting a cryptid that was mind-controlling the local wildlife. There was even a Farcry: Instincts laboratory where there was an ill-fated scientific effort to understand and replicate the creature’s powers.
The key part of the story that Mandalore missed out on, was that Jacob was actually the physical manifestation of Death itself, and that all animals instinctively attacked him as his mere presence caused them all to act in self defense and try to save the rest of the animal kingdom from the Harvest of the Grim Reaper. The Sandstorm was a divine act, but it was caused by Jacob to trap the animals with him.
@RepentandbelieveinJesusChrist5 Matthew 6:5 "“And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward."
I love how Mando calmly navigates through Ring and Limbo of the Lost with clinical detachment, but it's the stampede scene of Dangerous Hunts that allows us to hear his descent into madness in real-time.
Limbo is like a crazy madman's project, you have at least some expectations going in. But a licensed Bass Pro Shops game that plays like DOOM for some reason would just hit different.
"Is there lore I'm missing from a previous Cabela's game" - Apparently one of the Dangerous Hunts games had a demonic, paranormal animal monster as a villain that made other animals go insane.
I'm honestly kind of surprised that Mandy was so confused by the story of this game, considering he's done games with far more complicated lore like Marathon. It might seem insane and nonsensical on the surface, but if we think about a few key lines and look at the story holistically, it all begins to make a lot more sense. Allow me to explain as best I can. There’s a very important line early on (7:36 in the video) that Mandy acknowledges, but kind of glosses over: Uganda used to be Jacob and Luke’s father Ben’s favorite place to hunt when he was younger, but he died before they opened it back up for hunting. This seems like a throwaway line at first, but it’s actually the key to everything. Think about it, Jacob has followed in his father’s footsteps as a park ranger and “conservationist”, even saying it’s in their blood. But we know what that *really* means, having seen Jacob in action. Jacob is a killing machine, a mass slaughterer of the animal kingdom, just like his father before him. And when I say “kingdom”, I mean it almost literally in this case; an *empire* of animals, with an emperor to rule them. A *Lion* Emperor, whose royal lineage is denoted by their all-black fur. This means that when Ben was younger, he journeyed to Uganda and slaughtered his way through the local wildlife, just like we later see Jacob do. Ben is *the reason* Uganda was closed for hunting. The Black Lion Emperor (BLE for short) *knew who Ben was,* and knew how much of a threat he was to its empire should he return, and further must have known how dangerous any of Ben’s potential off-spring of the Conservationist Bloodline would be should they reach maturity. Once we understand this, the rest of the plot becomes clear: The grizzly bear and its army of wolves weren’t simply a random group of psychotically enraged animals, they were *assassins,* dispatched directly by their ruler to kill not only Ben but his children, Jacob and Luke, who the BLE had learned were being trained by their father to follow in his footsteps. This was a threat that the BLE could not ignore, and so he sent forces to attempt to kill Jacob and Luke *before* they could finish their training, but was thwarted when Ben sacrificed his own life to save his children from the assassination plot. Ten years later, Jacob and Luke come to Uganda together, and seeing them together the BLE makes the logical conclusion that they have come to avenge their father. So he stages a new assassination attempt before they can meet, this time using a dust storm as a cover for the operation. This is why the water buffalo seem so intent on killing Jacob, because they *are.* The leopards waiting in the trees? An actual ambush, set up well in advance, knowing that their water buffalo co-conspirators (and Ed, more on that later) would drive their target directly into it. This is why every single animal is trying to kill Jacob during the stampede, they’re all in on it. Note that the rhino even makes its first play when they're near a cliff, an attempt to maximize its ambush. The Canadian geese even return to avenge their previous commander, the grizzly bear, having followed Jacob all the way across the ocean from North America, possibly even acting as the BLE's messengers between the two continents and being the ones to warn the BLE of Jacob's arrival. After that the game is pretty straight-forward, with the BLE’s various lieutenants (the rhino, the hippo, the Baboon King, etc) each making their own attempts on Jacob and Luke’s lives. The empty ranger station infested with hyenas? Cleared in advance as an ambush. The jammed signal from Ed? A deliberate play to isolate the brothers. The snake was a bit of a lone gunman as it were, and nearly succeeded, foiled only because Luke was closer than anticipated. It’s also never made explicit, but I would posit that the Baboon King brought Jacob to its arena in order to establish itself as a real political power by killing him publicly, possibly even as a long-term scheme for the BLE’s throne, one that the leopards attempted to thwart by killing Jacob before he could reach the arena. Later on we even see lions killing baboons as punishment for their king's hubris. By the time the rest of the BLE’s lieutenants are dead and it is forced to take matters into its own hands, it has already identified Jacob as the far greater threat, and so abducts Luke in order to force a confrontation on what it feels is the best terrain. That’s why it repeatedly dangles Luke in front of Jacob to lure him further into the trap. With so many of its lieutenants dead, it knows that it needs to kill them *personally* in order to not look weak in front of its remaining forces. Its plan fails and Jacob slays it, putting an end to a dynasty and avenging Ben’s murder. Unfortunately, the Black Lion Emperor's worst fears are proven true when the brothers decide to continue their slaughter after its defeat, now with no cohesive forces left to oppose their genocide of what remains of its people. Oh, and to answer Mandy’s question about what happened to the man the BLE dragged off? There never was a man, Ed was a turn-coat the entire time and made up the story to bait Luke (and by extension Jacob) into a trap. That’s why Ed drives Jacob directly into the first “stampede” ambush, gloating that he feels it will be a “very special hunt” for Jacob and his brother, and then sends Jacob off alone afterward. He even tries to trick Jacob into assassinating the leader of the elephants, a neutral party in the conflict, for their refusal to acknowledge the Black Lion Emperor (they have maintained their independence by being the only animals not to fear the black lions) and kill the Conservationists when they had the opportunity. After that fails he directs Jacob into the ambush that the hyenas have set up at the abandoned ranger station, and later is the one who tricks him into the jaguar ambush with the impala herd as bait, and then tells him to continue on through the baboon kingdom knowing what they have planned. It’s also why the signal gets jammed when Jacob is in the baboon kingdom; obviously the baboons didn’t do it, so clearly it was Ed trying to get him killed after telling him to keep moving forward into their ambush. Honestly, it all makes sense if you think about it, there’s just some subtleties to the story-telling you might not catch on the first play. I actually really appreciate the writers for refusing to hold the audience's hand on a lot of this stuff, it's always nice when writers trust their audiences to be smart and understand the intricacies of their plots and characters without needing everything spelled out.
Jesus Christ the more I look the more it makes sense. The Bear commander was even literally Big Boss. There was a polar bear in a previous Dangerous Hunts game that was a final boss named Big Grimm, second to final because a fucking Sasquatch appears.
@@imperator_88mm92 does this also mean the resident evil baboons in the other other Cabela's Dangerous Hunts were not just failed cybernetic supersoldiers,but specifically made by the BLE's Patriots edit: no wait the baboon supersoldiers are the baboon king (from the arena's) new generation of warriors
Today I learned that there are actually at least two insane Cabela's Dangerous Hunt games. I thought this video was going to be for the 2011 release, which is somehow even more ballistic. It basically has the same plot as well - hunters in Alaska, family tragedy, mass animal slaughter in Africa - except it also involves shadow wolves with glowing red eyes, brush fires, betrayal, possible werehyenas, and THE NIGHTFALL PROGRAM. If you enjoyed (?) this game, you'll probably like that one too.
@@atomichobbit7358 Someone seriously needs to do a dark comedy with a 47 style character... it's awesome how he can answer any question with a murder innuendo...
See, some animal conservation actually does rely on hunting and hunting licenses. Parks will let some people hunt a single animal, and then use the money made to protect even more animals. This is, from every conservationist and park ranger I’ve talked to, seen as either a necessary evil or ineffectual. But a conservationist who likes hunting? I don’t doubt they exist, and I wonder how they rationalize it to themselves because every conservationist I’ve met has loved animals and nature more than anything, and would only consider killing an animal as self defense
The way he pulls out the freaking deagle at 10:10 with such smooth finesse in such a chaotic situation can only be explained by his background as a conservationist.
The fact that all three of the main voice actors in this game went on to act in Vinland Saga just goes to show how powerful and far reaching Cabela’s truly is
@higgsbonbon We know why plushies of extinct animals exist in Dead Space and why life was so crappy...the Late Jakeocene Mass Extinction Event really did a lot of damage on Earth's biodiversity!
I don't know if it's connected lorewise at all, but Cabela's Survival: Shadows of Katmai has you stranded in the Alaskan wilderness while fighting a hyper intelligent genetically engineered super bear that pursues you like Nemesis.
Just rewatching this after the Dangerous Hunts 2011 vid. EVERYTHING Mandy says is true and lines up with 2011's lore. EVERYTHING. Every quip, every incredulous conjecture, every stupefied reaction. It all makes sense. It all comes full circle. First was the Kaftar, then the Black Lion Emperor. An eternal struggle between man and beast, catalyzed by a fateful encounter with a bear that would not die. It has happened a thousand times before and will happen a thousand times more. When we go beyond this lonely rock and into the stars, the cycle will perpetuate on a thousand worlds forevermore. When the last stars go dark and mankind huddles about the final glowing ashes of a frozen cosmos, then, and only then, will man and beast have their final dance among the abyss of creation.
The hyenas coming through the walls in the haunted basement is where I really lost it, but the leopard sprouting trees is where I completely lost my mind.
This game is basically what goes through my head when I see dinosaurs treated like a horde enemy in video games. The idea that seeing swarms of raptors attacking us alongside triceratops and ankylosaurus while being backed up by a flock of pterosaurs is the same kind of madness as the Jeep chance/everything must die sequence
"He's hunting you" This is it, that's the line that broke me. The stampede shootout, the bamboo bamboozle, all precursors to the most outrageous line coming from the protagonists brother being taken hostage by a mythical black lion to the top of an unknown civilisations ancient arena. I just can't.
@@eagercadet4059No amount of marijuana could produce this level of insanity though. This is more in the DMT mixed with crack-cocaine end of the spectrum.
I love the idea of a game about a conservationist losing himself to bloodlust when a long lost Ancient Ugandan civilization's curse interrupts his deceased father's birthday celebration. This game was screaming for a Condemned Criminal Origins type of twist where the constant animal attacks in massive numbers have a supernatural cause.
Considering the Dangerous Hunts universe also has cryptids (final boss of Dangerous Hunts 2 is a literal yeti), animals attacking from a supernatural cause wouldn't be that far fetched.
As mentioned in the previous game the animal attacks are explained by a generational curse ala Wendigoism, passed when a Hunter kills a previous infected Hunter who has by then, become a beast who can control animals to attack. So in every game your protagonist is simply inheriting the curse, becoming the boss beasts you fight in the next game.
Guys I figured it out. When it's initially revealed that Jacob is a conservationist, he says "Yes, in Alaska." This is a reference to the fact that he conserves nature only in Alaska. So Africa is completely free game. The Alaska segments are in the past, before he became a conservationist.
30:46 Mandy states you kill about 80 Wolves in this section. 37:08 Mandy estimates that you kill "about a hundred" more wolves. Mandalore says that you kill about 180 Wolves over the course of the flashback missions. The wolf population in Alaska is estimated to be between 7,000 to 11,000. If we call it in the middle at 9000, Jacob single-handedly killed about 2% of the total wolf population of Alaska over the course a single day back when he was a teenager. Jacob: "I'm A CoSeRvAtIoNsT"
@@kingstarscream320That’s a huge number. Although 2% can be a small number in other contexts, in this context, we’re talking 2% of ALL wolves in the population of the largest state of the U.S. slaughtered in a single day. In Alaska, there’s an estimated 1300 wolves harvested every YEAR by all hunters and trappers, which is 14.5% of the population. If we assume they only harvest within the fall months and only on weekends, we can make a conservative estimate that the entire industry harvests these 1300 wolves in only 24 days, which means they would have a dayly yield of 0.6% or about 54 wolves. This means this ‘Jacob’ outperforms the ENTIRE industry by about 3.3 TIMES, all by his lonesome. Let’s take this another direction. The Alaskan wilderness covers 57.5 million acres of land, or about 90 thousand square miles. Let’s assume that 80 percent of wolves live in 20 percent of this land, and that Jacob only searches that area. This would still mean he’d have to search 2.5 square miles of land per wolf, for a total of 450 square miles of land to kill every wolf he encountered. In a dense forest, you can see only about 20-30 yards in front of you before something obscures your vision, but let’s assume this absolute unit of a man can perfectly scan, sight in, and kill any creature within a quarter of a mile radius without stopping or slowing down. If this takes place within 24 hours, this ‘Jacob’ would need to run 37.5 miles per hour in order to cover the amount of area it would require to kill that many wolves. Keep in mind he’d need to carry all the necessary weapons and ammunition, not to mention that the fastest a human has ever gone on foot is about 27.8 mph. Edit: Grammar and wording
He is conserving humanities dominance over the animals. There is no way the dev team was not laughing their asses off at how ridiculous this game was the whole time. They had to have known it was the last one.
Mandalores comedic instincts are always on point but this one had me falling out of my chair. "Howls Moving Castle Doctrine" "They're trying to steal our decals" "I saw the impala reaching" simply masterful
I also liked the "I took a moment to shoot a wildebeest in self-defense" while attacking a herd from half a mile away that doesn't even know he's there. XD
The scariest/best thing is this isn't even the only Cabela's game like this, there's at least one other that also opens with a father and sons hunting trip and ends with a Resident Evil-esque segment through a facility that was trying to train baboons to be soldiers. The only reason I realized this wasn't that game was because Mandalore didn't mention the player character vacuuming up the skulls of his enemies for health.
@@MangasColoradas941At this point, he's ended all of the wolves. That have ever existed. He's ripping holes in reality to satisfy his bloodlust and kill more wolves.
It's so much fun to come back to this video after 2011, cuz I can feel your comments about this being "demonic" and the animals "setting up roadblocks" and all that was more shitposting than anything and... no... it was actually prophetic.
9:07 I actually burst out laughing when Mandy started to gun down the animals so prolifically, even the ones that weren't a threat, while he nervously narrates the genocide.
The part where you pull out the rifle and just start mowing down the buffalo is genuinely one of the funniest things I've ever seen in a game. Like after the buildup, the more careful hunting in the beginning, and the character being a conservationist, you just turn into doomguy for african wildlife.
@@SIGNOR-G You could say that about any hunting weapon. They're almost all overkill to hunt people, unless you're hunting rabbits or small birds. When you get to hunting deer-sized game and above, they have a third purpose as vehicle stoppers.
I love the idea of the lions attempting to set traps but they have no thumbs so they have to work together to do it "damnit frank, get your paw out of the way, he's gonna be here in like a minute"
"Howls moving Castle Doctrine." is an incredible line. Honestly a game where literally all animals reproduce at a tremendous rate and are all 100% hostile to humans at all times could be an interesting world to live in. Hunters wouldn't merely be something necessary in tribal times or just sportsmen in modern times, they would be necessary heroes to stem the tide of evil. Every hunter is basically Doomguy.
I got this for my dad, thinking it was a normal hunting game. He played it once. He had a stroke a few months later and I got schizophrenia, I blame the game for both. Oh yeah, and the protagonist is clearly psychotic. The animal corpses disappear after he "kills" them, they are in his head.
That would be perfect for the aspects the game was shooting for. Kid traumatized by the death of his dad lives with mental illness and ptsd. That would make more sense
I officially want more of "Mandalore's uncensored, honest and emotional response" moments Because I've been choking on laughter these past 12 minutes. Looking back over 24 hours later at this little post...I am sure as hell glad you lot liked this idea. I am happy that I am not alone.
If you befriend the baboon king you unlock a secret ending where Jacob takes antipsychotics and realizes he’s been in a mental asylum for years trapped in a cycle of guilt after killing his father in a hunting accident
I feel like if you toned down the goofiness and focused more on the violence, a series of endless, violent hunts where every animal wants the hunter dead ending with him finally giving up the fight and realizing that could be a pretty fantastic horror thriller plot.
one of the guys who was head developer on this game teaches a course at my university. we asked him about it, and he told us that the production was only seven months, and that they had literal stacks upon stacks of design documents. he apparently still has them somewhere.
I'm convinced this was made by people who didn't give two shits about hunting and just wanted to make a good-ass action FPS, and somehow got Cabela to pay for it absolute legends
@@SadeN_0 Nah, this is Cauldron we're talking about. They don't give two shits about making good games in general. Just look at Soldier of Fortune: Payback.
Dude you can't leave us with that cliffhanger, you gotta get your professor to make a video about the making of this game, cause holy hell is it hilarious.
@@krisnadanuaji1444Castle Doctrine is a legal defense that allows you to use force (up to and including deadly force) to protect your home from an intruder. Howl's Moving Castle is a book (and Studio Ghibli adaptation) about a wizard who has a walking castle. So the joke is the jeep is protected under the castle doctrine but it is also a vehicle that is moving.
To be fair, he is legitimately acting as a conservationist in the context of the world he finds himself in: when you find yourself in a region with 20-30 ravenous leopards per each acre of woodland, you're gonna need to cull that predator population for the good of the ecosystem.😅
The Krogan evolved in a hostile and vicious environment. Until the invention of gunpowder weapons, "eaten by predators" was still the number one cause of krogan fatalities. Afterwards, it was "death by gunshot"
I'm sad he missed the chimpanzee sound effects for baboons. Also as someone who lives in Africa, the American game about Africa commentated by another American was practically cringe porn.
@@ChristmasLoreEven people as intelligent as Mandy (at least he seen intelligent in his videos) can be completely oblivious in a subject that don't have much interest in.
You have perfectly expressed my own feeling. Edit: Ooook, after that African hell on earth shooting scene I understand why this is a spooky time video.
Part of what makes the ending so bizarre is that adult Luke looks like a James Bond villain. It feels like you should be stopping him from his mad crusade to kill all animals, and instead, you shake his hand and go, "I was conserving them so we could kill them all together."
@@darkpixel1128if we don't interpret the flashbacks as schizophrenic nonsense, then the resident evil bear brought the fury of jacob's dad on himself by killing people in the area, and in uganda during the sandstorm turret section the predators ignore other animals and try to kill you specifically
The Cabela's game were some of my favorites as a kid. The morality never dawned on me, I thought the animals were cool enemies. I even had their more simulator focused games as well. This unlocked a core memory.
Treating both Uganda and Alaska like your average sci fi video game planets, full of insanely hostile and possibly vaguely sentient fauna, and littered with the ruins of ancient civilizations, is the kind of genius most people are not ready for.
You’ve clearly never played Cabela's Original Sins, where Jacob accidentally destroys a totem of nature, forever marking him as an enemy to all life in Uganda.
Well funny story. There were black animals in a previous game. They were under the command of some demonic cryptid. That lion and the others may have been leftover from that.
We were all so wrong. We thought Jacob was a budding serial killer, when Cabela's 2011 proves that he is in fact he is the tip of the spear against the demonic animal nations rising up against man, up to and including literal blood curses perpetrated by werehyenas.
part of it was just that those generations lasted so godforsaken long that people started getting creative, or went creatively bankrupt in a way that amounted to the same thing, which was great.
I love how the games Mandalore covers for Halloween aren't necessarily horror games, just ones that make you question your grip on sanity. Truly terrifying.
I love that MandaloreGaming's actual Halloween episodes are almost never anything traditionally spooky or intended to be horror. It's always a deep dive into a complete insanity that your brain has trouble accepting.
Honestly as someone who grew up always seeing cabellas around and in an area where hunting/fishing culture is very common and not knowing this existed. This was a wild ride. I immediately texted a close friend and he’s like “oh yeah that was my favorite one” 😂. Of course it was.
It's interesting how Jacob is the blatant aggressor. He intentionally aggravates the lions and other animals who show no interest in him which later results in them attacking people, he intentionally blunders into various dens when he could easily avoid them, and even with the bear at the beginning once he and his brother get out of its way leaves them alone and only attacks when they choose to pursue it.
Man, I remember being in a focus group back in 2011 or so asking what they want in a hunting game. I decided to tell them "hey, maybe you need a story with some intensity. Nature's pretty dangerous, so maybe you can put the hunter in dangerous situatuons and stuff." I'm guessing what resulted was Cabela's Survival: Shadows of Katmai. Which, in turn probably resulted in this game.
Like most companies, it sounds to me like they took that and said "right cod rail shooter it is" When all you meant was, "maybe give me some story and have a buck rush me once in a while"
@@CollinMcLean His references to movies, other games, historical events, etc are all top tier and hilarious. You can tell he's pretty knowledgeable about a pretty wide array of topics.
@@01100101011100100111 It's a reference to the Battle of Teutoburg forest during the reign of Augustus when the Germanics destroyed the 17th, 18th, and 19th legions. The Germanics, lead by the Romano-Germanic leader Arminius, ambushed them at Teutoburg forest and absolutely slaughtered them killing as many as 16,000 to 20,000 Roman soldiers and auxiliary including the General Varus who was beheaded. According the historian Suetonius (who wrote this about 60 years after the fact mind you) after the defeat Augustus was so shell shocked that he broke down and started hitting his head against marble wall repeatedly demanding the deceased Varus "To give me back my legions!". It was Rome's worst defeat since Cannae and the 17th, 18th, and 19th legions had their numbers permanently retired, never to be used to again
@@01100101011100100111 The line "give me back my legions" is attributed to Emperor Augustus of the Roman Empire, who spoke the line while lamenting the loss of three roman legions to germanic tribes at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest in 9 AD.
No way to link this one, game is delisted everywhere for some reason.
HAPPY HALLOWEEN
Caption tool is unfortunately near unresponsive on my end right now, but this'll hopefully get remedied today.
Bass Pro Shops bought Cabelas a while ago so my guess is they dont give a fuck about the games licensing.
Happy Halloween 😊
happy halloween fam
Ayo, I like the switch-up between calm and composed cold hard steel Mandalore and hot headed LESS EFFIN GO badass panicking Mandalore. 10 out of 10 voice work.
Conservationist of the species that he likes
As a ranger, Jacob does a lot for rare species. For one thing, he keeps them rare.
Yeah. Anytime "nature conservationists" talk about hunting endangered species to save endangered species, you know they're just sadists looking for something to stroke their d@$%s over.
Is that a discworld reference
That's called ensuring job security
To be real, some hunting is required or at least permitted in the event a certain species starts to overpopulate a given area (which is ironically what Cecil the Lion technically was killed for) but I don't think that's what's happening here.
@@warbossgegguz679 Hunters will look for ANY excuse to hunt, though, and it really is incredibly hypocritical that hunters seem to have a "punish every animal except humans for human-made issues" mentality.
I think a park ranger is like a elite animal fighting shock trooper, a conservationist refers to conserving human life, and Alaska is just another warfront in the animal war.
Big game hunters are men out on a mission, killing animals for revenge rather than for protecting humanity.
@@Irishcrossing They're the James Graysons of the Cabela's world.
This is true. Public awareness of The Emu War is because of a leak in the intelligence community’s animal information controls.
Cold Australia.
@@crypticcrustacean4499same here I cracked up laughing
"Let's get on with the safari" is like if at the end of Spec Ops, Walker went "Let's keep going with our mission"
I could see this ending with "Welcome to Dubai."
I am patiently waiting for the white phosphorous DLC to really show those pesky animals who is the war crime apex predator on the steppes
@@BetweenTheBorders"Gentlemen. Welcome to Uganda."
"No Walker... YOU were the Spec Ops all along!"
"Do you feel like conservationist yet?
“Liam Neeson says wolves will kill all life within 30 miles of their den.”
I love the idea that Liam Neeson believes there are these 30 mile radius dead zones around wolf dens. Like wolves are some kind of devouring swarm stripping all biomass from their surroundings.
Wolves are just tyranid scout bioforms confirmed.
I think he's confusing wolves with Tyranids. Easy mistake to make, I know.
Yea lol. 3 miles would be a stretch
Crazy how early humans managed to domesticate them, as I assume that would involve coming within 30 miles at least.
That's ants.
Mandalore, you must understand when Jacob says he's a conservationist, they mean he conserves the human species from the never ending asymmetric animal assault.
Underrated comment lmao
Fierce fauna ferociously fighting freedom loving Americans.
@@roach9397 That thought never crossed your mind? Wow!
He's one of the Few, the Proud, the Conservationists.
He is probably a conservationist because of the damage he did to Alaska as a kid
Final Mission: Jacob and a group of heavily armed men approach the Gorilla enclosure of the Minneapolis Zoo.
JACOB: "And remember...no sign language."
Had me laughing for a solid minute.
Underrated comment
And by "zoo" you mean the city streets.
It was the Cincinnati zoo
Pleaseee 😂
Jacob is a true conservationists, he is aiming at vital points to conserve bullets
Take a shot every time he calls leopards "jaguars".
@@malte291 what KIND of shot, though?
He's conserving his spot in the leaderboards.
@@manboy4720
DING DING DING
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Imagine if the game started breaking the 4th wall and questioned the player like Spec Ops: The Line did.
"How many endangered animals have you killed today?"
"Do you feel like a conservationist yet?"
Except unlike SO:TL, here it would actually fit.
Can we get a Cabellas Spec Hunts mod pack for this game
Or maybe Predators except it's just a normal jaguar
Just like Jacob, im also conservationist, to conserve humanity from verteeg. Eternal Kagawa life!
cabela's dangerous hunt: the line be like
"why you kill animal?? animal no hurt you"
There might be something to Jacob's failing grasp on reality. Driver Ed is clearly voiced by a black African male, but his character model is a white dude with ginger hair.
Calling Jacob an "animal conservationist" is like calling the Doomslayer a "demon guardian".
Doomslayer: Biblical scholar.
He prefers Demonologist
i have a feeling that Cabela's required the developers to include certain things to make it appealing to their core demographic, deer hunters. hunting deer keeps the population at a sustainable level so there is a real conservation angle to it. i don't think the developers understood the assignment but god damn they made art.
@@LieseFury I’ve known a few, shall I say, “enthusiastic” environmental studies majors advocating for doing precisely this to white-tailed deer in the Eastern Woodlands.
@@theoneandonlymichaelmccormickI don’t like the air quotes around that enthusiastic.
It's like the main character once heard the phrase "man versus nature" and decided to end the war for good.
Protagonist: *mows down enough animals in 5 minutes to last 100 hunting lifetimes*
Guide: "Alright, let's get started then!"
Good lord, it's like Detective Halligan got turned loose on Africa.
Detective Halligan, we meet again. Haven't thought of him for far too long 😅
Halligan and this guy are the two protagonists I wanna see face off.
Halligans Happy Huntin
@@michimatsch5862Halligan is a serial killer that hunts serial killers. He's the only hunter who'd make this game's protag the hunted
@@androgenius_alisaIt isn't that cut and dried, Halligan struggled with a single pet cat. No way he'd be able to take down spec ops Jaguars
In Aztec Myth, it's said that the world ended multiple times. One of those ends was caused by Jaguars flooding the world. I like to think Jacob lives in that world. Explains this game.
The world ended multiple times in Aztec mythology? I guess that's what Mandus from Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs meant when he said "This isn't the first great civilization that he has wept for."
7:35 "He died before they opened it again"
I like to think that the entirety of Uganda was shut down for years because Jacob's dad just hunted down its entire ecosystem. The surviving wildlife recognizes Jacob is his son and tries to stop him before he can follow in his father's footsteps, only to accidentally give him a reason to create another mass extinction event.
This is lore for me
The deepest lore
And the sandstorm is Divine punishment. Proof that the sins of the father pass to the son.
ajajajjajajajajajajajaj
They had to recoup losses. His Dad comes in like those control burns they set every once in a while.
This game was one AC-130 Death From Above segment away from being the most legendary shooter of all time.
I feel like they wanted to do it, but couldn't get it past the investors.
@@svenneumann2816yeah I guess Cabelas doesnt show AC-130 gunships 😐
@@celebalert5616Bofors won't return their calls.
Maybe not AC-130 but definitely could have done a scene where you hunt a herd of boar from a helicopter
@@lawrencewu4370 A helicopter is fine, but it absolutely must have a minigun
"I'm a conservationist" immediately followed by mowing down hundreds of animals like a horde of zombies is peak 2013 gaming.
“I just want to be a good person”-Niko Bellic on his way to his 4 straight mow everything down that moves mission
Do you feel like a conservationist yet?
@@Rehteal No but I feel like Ted Nugent...
Clearly, he's conserving humanity.
Teddy Roosevelt was a conservationist too.
This game feels like it was made by people who've only ever heard about hunts from those "the fish gets bigger every retelling" types.
If only they had any sort of self awareness and thought to do something a la Call Of Juarez Gunslinger
“No shit, there I was…”
I was absolutely not prepared for the sandstorm stampede murder spree
I don't think there is anyway for anyone to prepare for that
This scene is now my head canon for what irl hunting is like. Just one person at war with a merciless, endless nature.
I will remind you all that Australia deployed an entire infantry division armed with machine guns against an emu infestation and lost. Humanity has only gotten the upper hand on nature recently in the grand scheme of things.
Remember, no buffalo
It wasn't about deffending the car, it was about causing a global mass extinction event.
Jacob being shown as an inexperienced young hunter only for it to be revealed he was Cabela-verse’s Doomguy is top tier story telling. Truly one of the hunting games of all time.
So it isn't global warming that is killing biodiversity, it's Jacob!
Can someone dub this with like...the doom OST or meshuggah or something?
The reason why he was out of ammo in the first scene is because he used it on the wolves
cool profile pic
I need to start seeing this man in those crossover SFMs that have Doomguy, Master Chief, and Gordon and stuff.
Worked on some of these games. I remember one day we were demoing the current build to a cabela's rep and things were going great until they saw a message that said "You've unlocked new weapons!" The rep was AGHAST. "WE DON'T SELL W E A P O N S, WE SELL FIREARMS" we had to spend the next day reviewing text in the code and sweeping the game for any instance of the word weapon and removing it.
This absolutely checks out for corporate.
That is absolutely hilarious 😂
Hilarious. Corpo-fuddery at its finest.
No one tells them what fire arms do 😂
It's not a comic, dad. It's a GRAPHIC NOVEL.
This is actually a stealth Warhammer game, the whole thing is just an average hunting trip on Catachan
That or Indiga, the literal super hunting ground planet
@@Palgineer This is deep lore, nice to see a fellow veteran.
A game like this, set in the insane Catachan jungle with the horrifying wildlife of the planet could go insanely hard tho.
The ending being a bunch of rambos laughing while roasting a Catachan Devil on a giant grill made of flamers
@@Palgineer Dang, I thought I was a Warhammer nerd but I guess I've still got stuff to learn lol
I'm slightly disappointed that killing the Alpha Black Lion didn't cause the mountain, the whole mountain, to collapse and force you into a timed escape sequence.
With LOTS of sliding
Why have it collapse when it can suddenly turn out to be a dormant volcano and erupt?
Shame the game didnt end with a boss rush of all the Alpha animals you fought previously
Now that you say it, I'm really disappointed that it didn't end like that.
I'm convinced someone in the studio wanted to do that.
In this universe, a conservationist is probably like being the Warden of Nature, but warden in the sense of being in charge of a jail where every single inmate is a serial killer who has knives for fingers
I'm a conservationist.
No wait, i meant preservist.
Got quite good at taxidermy.
I mean, i had a lot of stuff to practice with.....
In this universe, someone beamed the Unabomber's manifesto straight into the brains of every animal on Earth.
A conservationist in this universe is there to conserve humanity from the beast onslaught.
@@robbert-janmerk6783 You'd think after all of his killstreaking, Jake would get a Nuke to help him!
@@HelghastStalker never. The nuke would put The Vehicle at risk!
the fact that you have a desert eagle as a sidearm in a hunting game is fucking hilarious
They actually make really great guns if you are hunting with a pistol or if you just want a big iron on your hip for those charging bears
Ain't taking no glock into bear country.
With boars taking .357 and still charging, if you can handle the recoil, it has its uses
@@grimreminder5038the point is there is no modern reason to hunt a bear. We can drone them
@@livanbard you have to use the orbital laser on it. the bear is the leader of animal-qaeda.
In some bizarro alternate timeline or parallel universe, the Warhammer 40K universe has no Orks or other aliens, instead the Imperium of Conservationists is beset on all sides by enemies like chaos leopards, Geesanids and the dreaded Bison WAAAAGH. In the Grimdark future, there is only hunting.
Basically Catachan
There's literally a custom guard Regiment in 8th edition Codex that's, and I'm not joking, composed by hunters because their native planet is a jungle full of eldritch horror animals due that Governor's Pets one day escaped from his zoo, moved to the jungles and breeded each other and became a threat for all life in the planet. That's the fucking plot story for another Calabela's game.
This comment is so fucking underrated
I feel light-headed watching this. If you told me this video did not exist and there was a chemical leak in my house I would believe you without question
Oh hi noodle :)
This video doesn't exist, there is in fact a chemical leak in your house.
Thanks, checkmark
Well do I have good news for you! *wakes you up from chemical indused coma*
The chemicals don't exist. I'm taking a leak in your house
If you look at just the cutscenes, it's a touching story about two brothers overcoming their shared trauma of losing their father to a maneater. If you look at just the gameplay, it's DOOM 2016 if you pissed off a druid instead of satan. Combined, it's just batshit crazy
..... mystery of the druids sequel anyone?
@@ravenpentaghast8830 THROUGH THE MAGIC OF THE DRUIDS
That doom comparison is great lmao
lmao
@@danieltobin4498that voice line lives rent free in my head for all time
"I'm a park ranger in Alaska" He said, thumbing the hammer on his hunting deagle
I honestly never played any of the Dangerous Hunts games, but seeing a Desert Eagle in a Cabela’s game feels oddly out of place
@@rrjt1011 hippos have high enough AC to warrant it
not that it does any good mind you
“The cat simply disappeared. There was no blood or cry, it just vanished.”
@@rrjt1011 It was made to be a hunting pistol but I've seen it in enough videogames and action movies it's just ridiculous seeing it in the hunting context.
@@WTFisTingispingisDesert Eagles are actually decent hunting sidearms, especially against bigger animals, like bears and moose
Only halfway through the video I understood Cabella's is an actual hunting equipment store in North America. It's incredible
And they're owned by Bass Pro Shop. It's the same thing but a bit more fishing oriented, though they also sell guns and hunting stuff. Come to think of it Cabela's sells fishing stuff as well...
And the stores are absolutely massive, even having some nice aquarium displays. Sometimes I go just to look at the fishes and taxidermy.
"Like I said, nature is cruel, Jacob! And I'm very in touch with my inner monkey."
-Baboon King
He's monking invincible!
When the wind blow sand and the floor is not the waits vulture to get fucking shot
@@heakhaeklmfao
Truly sundowner moment.
"Relax Jacob, it's a war on hunting. We aren't out to kill civilians.
Game hunters, Poachers, Mad-Men.
Of course that would have to include you. Wouldn't want scope witness reports complicating the message!"
24:16 _"Is the game implying that the baboons are jamming me?"_ That line actually unlocked a memory of a nightmare I had as a kid of yetis cutting my house's power and phone lines before breaking in through nearly every window simultaneously.
Yetis are real. They're even in another cabelas dangerous game
That'd make a fun start to a weird survival horror game!
Yeti Team 6 do NOT mess about
congratulations, when you were a kid you had the funniest nightmare possible.
@@kungfuskullsadly, a realistic Sasquatch or Yeti horror game would have some serious design issues: the creatures as described in most encounter stories are either alone, or in small family groups, so you'd quickly kill off the threat... but if it was an Amnesia style run and hide horror game, well, just think long and hard about all the ways an 7 to 9 foot tall bipedal ape can be dangerous: they're stronger, tougher, likely faster, and probably pretty damn smart, and have hands... how do you even start to deal with that if it wants you dead?
They said they wanted the CoD audience but they overshoot so hard they ended up making a game targeting the Doom 2016 audience 3 years ahead of time. What a mindbogglingly insane beast this game is!
It's really weird to think that these games are only 3 years apart. Cabela's games feel so... intrinsically 2007-2009 ish, it is truly a strange reality to swallow that DH2013 was still on store shelves when the next generation consoles dropped lmao
@@alecferrell2620 It's so weird, yeah. This game has a strong early PS3/Xbox 360 look to it yet it came out around the same time as the PS4.
@@wallyhackenslacker Honestly thats really hard to believe. If you told me the game came out in 2008 I would be like "Yeah that seems right"
It’s really just a light gun arcade shooter. It’s not new or novel for its time. It would be right at home in an arcade and not seem weird at all.
Ik right? As innacurate as this game is for hunting, it makes up by having a FPS dodge roll. Looks fun as hell.
I can only presume that the constant falling down from ledges is a homage/steal/echo of Spec Ops, with the constant descending into Dubai. That would mean Luke was already dead, explaining the lack of answer over the radio, and the whole thing wasn't flashbacks to the bear, but Jacob's fantasies of vengeance as he sits freezing in the snow by his family's cooling bodies.
Gentleman, welcome to Alaska.
that makes sense honestly
glad to see someone else still remembers Spec Ops
@@TheTber123 Such a good game. It shot into my top ten as soon as I had played it. "You're here because you wanted to feel like something you're not..."
@@mikedrew604 "... a hero."
I 100% thought this was gonna end with the brother turning evil and becoming the final boss like some twisted version of The Most Dangerous Game.
Ah man if only it did become like that. That would be awesome.
I thought he might fuse with the Emperor Black Lion.
@@MandaloreGaming This isn't a Japanese game! Although now I am trying to imagine how much more deranged it would be if it were. Him fusing with the black lion to become a new god of hunting fits. Jacob would actually be 13 in the story but look the exact same.
I was hoping to god that he would be on the bull elephant.
"You forgot the lesson Jacob: ALWAYS SHOOT FIRST!" - The Ancient One, Black Lion Man Emperor
The previous two Dangerous Hunts games were bonkers, too. One ended with a showdown against a yeti, and another was all about hunting a cryptid that was mind-controlling the local wildlife. There was even a Farcry: Instincts laboratory where there was an ill-fated scientific effort to understand and replicate the creature’s powers.
WTF? The one I played was just about hunting, TF is up with Cabela?
you are lying... you have to be lying. i refuse to belive its that stupid.
please tell me you are lying
So Mandalore was right, there IS deep lore he was missing out on.
The cryptid one is incredible because at one point you get into a firefight with chimps
This is a death world in 40k I refuse to believe otherwise.
The key part of the story that Mandalore missed out on, was that Jacob was actually the physical manifestation of Death itself, and that all animals instinctively attacked him as his mere presence caused them all to act in self defense and try to save the rest of the animal kingdom from the Harvest of the Grim Reaper. The Sandstorm was a divine act, but it was caused by Jacob to trap the animals with him.
Given the fact the previous Cabela games ended with a showdown between a yeti and a were hyena I believe it.
I can't fucking tell if this is true or not for this fucking hunting game
@jaydeleon8094 Oh I have absolutely no idea if that's true, but considering Jacob basically depopulated the region, it may as well be.
The moment Jacob was born into that world, all of nature knew their days were numbered
@RepentandbelieveinJesusChrist5 Matthew 6:5 "“And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward."
"Howl's moving castle doctrine" might well be the funniest four words I've ever heard, thank you Mandalore
I love how Mando calmly navigates through Ring and Limbo of the Lost with clinical detachment, but it's the stampede scene of Dangerous Hunts that allows us to hear his descent into madness in real-time.
At least those games were clearly supposed to be nonsense, in that there's no other way they could've been made that way.
I need to rewatch the limbo of the lost video, that feels like sanity after this
He sure didn’t sound like he was retaining sanity in his stream of Ring.
Limbo is like a crazy madman's project, you have at least some expectations going in.
But a licensed Bass Pro Shops game that plays like DOOM for some reason would just hit different.
He even fell into chaos' influence on the way. ^^
"Is there lore I'm missing from a previous Cabela's game" - Apparently one of the Dangerous Hunts games had a demonic, paranormal animal monster as a villain that made other animals go insane.
So that's why this game didn't have that be the explanation.
the WHAT
I believe it’s the the second or first dangerous hunt game, has a section where your forced to hunt a yeti down in Russia
@@dabubba4603I can't believe this wasn't a joke.
@@dabubba4603It was DH2. The first had no story, and was a far more simple game. The second one...was wild.
I'm honestly kind of surprised that Mandy was so confused by the story of this game, considering he's done games with far more complicated lore like Marathon. It might seem insane and nonsensical on the surface, but if we think about a few key lines and look at the story holistically, it all begins to make a lot more sense. Allow me to explain as best I can.
There’s a very important line early on (7:36 in the video) that Mandy acknowledges, but kind of glosses over: Uganda used to be Jacob and Luke’s father Ben’s favorite place to hunt when he was younger, but he died before they opened it back up for hunting. This seems like a throwaway line at first, but it’s actually the key to everything. Think about it, Jacob has followed in his father’s footsteps as a park ranger and “conservationist”, even saying it’s in their blood. But we know what that *really* means, having seen Jacob in action. Jacob is a killing machine, a mass slaughterer of the animal kingdom, just like his father before him. And when I say “kingdom”, I mean it almost literally in this case; an *empire* of animals, with an emperor to rule them. A *Lion* Emperor, whose royal lineage is denoted by their all-black fur.
This means that when Ben was younger, he journeyed to Uganda and slaughtered his way through the local wildlife, just like we later see Jacob do. Ben is *the reason* Uganda was closed for hunting. The Black Lion Emperor (BLE for short) *knew who Ben was,* and knew how much of a threat he was to its empire should he return, and further must have known how dangerous any of Ben’s potential off-spring of the Conservationist Bloodline would be should they reach maturity.
Once we understand this, the rest of the plot becomes clear: The grizzly bear and its army of wolves weren’t simply a random group of psychotically enraged animals, they were *assassins,* dispatched directly by their ruler to kill not only Ben but his children, Jacob and Luke, who the BLE had learned were being trained by their father to follow in his footsteps. This was a threat that the BLE could not ignore, and so he sent forces to attempt to kill Jacob and Luke *before* they could finish their training, but was thwarted when Ben sacrificed his own life to save his children from the assassination plot.
Ten years later, Jacob and Luke come to Uganda together, and seeing them together the BLE makes the logical conclusion that they have come to avenge their father. So he stages a new assassination attempt before they can meet, this time using a dust storm as a cover for the operation. This is why the water buffalo seem so intent on killing Jacob, because they *are.* The leopards waiting in the trees? An actual ambush, set up well in advance, knowing that their water buffalo co-conspirators (and Ed, more on that later) would drive their target directly into it. This is why every single animal is trying to kill Jacob during the stampede, they’re all in on it. Note that the rhino even makes its first play when they're near a cliff, an attempt to maximize its ambush. The Canadian geese even return to avenge their previous commander, the grizzly bear, having followed Jacob all the way across the ocean from North America, possibly even acting as the BLE's messengers between the two continents and being the ones to warn the BLE of Jacob's arrival.
After that the game is pretty straight-forward, with the BLE’s various lieutenants (the rhino, the hippo, the Baboon King, etc) each making their own attempts on Jacob and Luke’s lives. The empty ranger station infested with hyenas? Cleared in advance as an ambush. The jammed signal from Ed? A deliberate play to isolate the brothers. The snake was a bit of a lone gunman as it were, and nearly succeeded, foiled only because Luke was closer than anticipated. It’s also never made explicit, but I would posit that the Baboon King brought Jacob to its arena in order to establish itself as a real political power by killing him publicly, possibly even as a long-term scheme for the BLE’s throne, one that the leopards attempted to thwart by killing Jacob before he could reach the arena. Later on we even see lions killing baboons as punishment for their king's hubris.
By the time the rest of the BLE’s lieutenants are dead and it is forced to take matters into its own hands, it has already identified Jacob as the far greater threat, and so abducts Luke in order to force a confrontation on what it feels is the best terrain. That’s why it repeatedly dangles Luke in front of Jacob to lure him further into the trap. With so many of its lieutenants dead, it knows that it needs to kill them *personally* in order to not look weak in front of its remaining forces. Its plan fails and Jacob slays it, putting an end to a dynasty and avenging Ben’s murder. Unfortunately, the Black Lion Emperor's worst fears are proven true when the brothers decide to continue their slaughter after its defeat, now with no cohesive forces left to oppose their genocide of what remains of its people.
Oh, and to answer Mandy’s question about what happened to the man the BLE dragged off? There never was a man, Ed was a turn-coat the entire time and made up the story to bait Luke (and by extension Jacob) into a trap. That’s why Ed drives Jacob directly into the first “stampede” ambush, gloating that he feels it will be a “very special hunt” for Jacob and his brother, and then sends Jacob off alone afterward. He even tries to trick Jacob into assassinating the leader of the elephants, a neutral party in the conflict, for their refusal to acknowledge the Black Lion Emperor (they have maintained their independence by being the only animals not to fear the black lions) and kill the Conservationists when they had the opportunity. After that fails he directs Jacob into the ambush that the hyenas have set up at the abandoned ranger station, and later is the one who tricks him into the jaguar ambush with the impala herd as bait, and then tells him to continue on through the baboon kingdom knowing what they have planned. It’s also why the signal gets jammed when Jacob is in the baboon kingdom; obviously the baboons didn’t do it, so clearly it was Ed trying to get him killed after telling him to keep moving forward into their ambush.
Honestly, it all makes sense if you think about it, there’s just some subtleties to the story-telling you might not catch on the first play. I actually really appreciate the writers for refusing to hold the audience's hand on a lot of this stuff, it's always nice when writers trust their audiences to be smart and understand the intricacies of their plots and characters without needing everything spelled out.
Fixes both the Canadian geese and the elephant plot holes. I approve.
Meds now
Jesus Christ the more I look the more it makes sense. The Bear commander was even literally Big Boss. There was a polar bear in a previous Dangerous Hunts game that was a final boss named Big Grimm, second to final because a fucking Sasquatch appears.
@@imperator_88mm92 does this also mean the resident evil baboons in the other other Cabela's Dangerous Hunts were not just failed cybernetic supersoldiers,but specifically made by the BLE's Patriots
edit: no wait the baboon supersoldiers are the baboon king (from the arena's) new generation of warriors
how does this not have more upvotes
Today I learned that there are actually at least two insane Cabela's Dangerous Hunt games. I thought this video was going to be for the 2011 release, which is somehow even more ballistic. It basically has the same plot as well - hunters in Alaska, family tragedy, mass animal slaughter in Africa - except it also involves shadow wolves with glowing red eyes, brush fires, betrayal, possible werehyenas, and THE NIGHTFALL PROGRAM. If you enjoyed (?) this game, you'll probably like that one too.
Also instead of the dad dying the brother dies, which makes me think these games take place in parallel timelines.
@@WTFisTingispingisIt's the father from this. Uganda was closed off due to his hunting spree after his brother died.
Jacob being a conservationist feels like a retired assassin becoming a doctor - or, more applicably, an assassin lying about being a doctor
Paging Dr. Reiper. Paging Dr. Tobias Reiper.
@@atomichobbit7358 Someone seriously needs to do a dark comedy with a 47 style character... it's awesome how he can answer any question with a murder innuendo...
Hunters generally are conservationists.
Jacob is a conservationist - he protects and preserves humanity from the onslaught of nature's hordes
See, some animal conservation actually does rely on hunting and hunting licenses. Parks will let some people hunt a single animal, and then use the money made to protect even more animals. This is, from every conservationist and park ranger I’ve talked to, seen as either a necessary evil or ineffectual. But a conservationist who likes hunting? I don’t doubt they exist, and I wonder how they rationalize it to themselves because every conservationist I’ve met has loved animals and nature more than anything, and would only consider killing an animal as self defense
It's also always worth remembering that the final boss of Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2 is a Yeti
I'm surprised they were restrained enough to not make it a dinosaur.
They arent the last boss, but theyre there.
@@Super-px6xrYes, it was the last boss, and you could kill it with a tree branch if you wanted.
@@Mgauge that to avoid the Carnivores/Turok lawsuits
I just remember the yeti falling into a hole and hitting it with a stick till it was unalived.
The way he pulls out the freaking deagle at 10:10 with such smooth finesse in such a chaotic situation can only be explained by his background as a conservationist.
genuinely lost my mind when i saw that what the fuck is going on
Not even extreme gunplay in motherkriffing anime like Puella Magi Madoka Magica felt this wild.
And later when he picks it up from the ground and it looks absolutely tiny.
Switching to your pistol is always faster than reloading.
@@phyllotaxisYES! He's CONSERVING ammo! He must be a conservationist!
A DLC where Jacob's thirst for more challenging prey pushes him to hunt Osama wouldn't have surprised me
problem with that is the dude died in the 90s
@@honeybadger6275Is that so?
@@honeybadger6275 They'll just rewrite it so he faked his death and hid his brain inside a bear.
@@honeybadger6275 let me guess "iT wAs An InSiDe jOB"
@@jeramysamarawickrama7633 nah, it was mossad
The fact that all three of the main voice actors in this game went on to act in Vinland Saga just goes to show how powerful and far reaching Cabela’s truly is
Jacob is just askeladd's descendant and you can't convince me otherwise.
Dad didn't die, he faked his death and traveled to Shibuya, Japan to open a curry and coffee shop
Who else has Luke's VA voiced?
I know Jacob and Dad's played Don Patch and Jelly Jiggler from Bobobobobobo (among other things lol)
@@chrisdaughen5257ranga the blood edge in blazblue and dio brando in jojos
@@chrisdaughen5257based bobobo enjoyer
"Jacob's vacation is turning into a scientific incident"
My favorite line by far
@higgsbonbon We know why plushies of extinct animals exist in Dead Space and why life was so crappy...the Late Jakeocene Mass Extinction Event really did a lot of damage on Earth's biodiversity!
@higgsbonbon ha.
@@HelghastStalker the carbon footprint in gunpowder alone raised global temperature by 0.5°C.
I don't know if it's connected lorewise at all, but Cabela's Survival: Shadows of Katmai has you stranded in the Alaskan wilderness while fighting a hyper intelligent genetically engineered super bear that pursues you like Nemesis.
Do you kill that bear in the end? If so, he might be the same bear. Or a bear in the same secret order.
That's actually a fun idea
...fucking what?!?!
Oh my gosh
Just rewatching this after the Dangerous Hunts 2011 vid. EVERYTHING Mandy says is true and lines up with 2011's lore. EVERYTHING. Every quip, every incredulous conjecture, every stupefied reaction. It all makes sense. It all comes full circle. First was the Kaftar, then the Black Lion Emperor. An eternal struggle between man and beast, catalyzed by a fateful encounter with a bear that would not die. It has happened a thousand times before and will happen a thousand times more. When we go beyond this lonely rock and into the stars, the cycle will perpetuate on a thousand worlds forevermore. When the last stars go dark and mankind huddles about the final glowing ashes of a frozen cosmos, then, and only then, will man and beast have their final dance among the abyss of creation.
"I saw the impala reaching" was low-key gold
Lemme see your hooves.
I guess it wasn't a Tame Impala
Imma head off now in a Chevy Impala
Gonna meet up with Vlad The Impaler
@@mohammadsyazwigeoffrey7325 I curse your name for making me read "impaler" with that inflection
The wild shooting into the trees and leopards falling out is too much. this game is insane
The hyenas coming through the walls in the haunted basement is where I really lost it, but the leopard sprouting trees is where I completely lost my mind.
Going to wonder how strong are these tree to support the weigh of so much big cat laying on their branches.
"It's hard to figure out the exact hierarchy of the bear's forces..."
man that line caught me off guard
“Give me back my legions.”
I am sure the one with the red back is the leader.
This game is basically what goes through my head when I see dinosaurs treated like a horde enemy in video games. The idea that seeing swarms of raptors attacking us alongside triceratops and ankylosaurus while being backed up by a flock of pterosaurs is the same kind of madness as the Jeep chance/everything must die sequence
I come back here every time I see that in anything
“How did we survive as a species before guns?” is the best reaction to the wildlife portrayed in this game 😂
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@karemkarabeyoglu5923 The same reason lions run away from tribal Africans armed with only wooden spears and shields in 2023 🤣🤣
How do we survive as a species before guns? It's simple spears and sweating lad
@@Downtrodden_cat Don't forget bows.
@@Downtrodden_catAnd numbers, lots of em'
"He's hunting you"
This is it, that's the line that broke me.
The stampede shootout, the bamboo bamboozle, all precursors to the most outrageous line coming from the protagonists brother being taken hostage by a mythical black lion to the top of an unknown civilisations ancient arena.
I just can't.
After reading some of the comments about the other Dangerous Hunts games, I have come to a conclusion
The people who made the games were fucking high
This is truly one of the videogames of all time
@@eagercadet4059No amount of marijuana could produce this level of insanity though. This is more in the DMT mixed with crack-cocaine end of the spectrum.
I love the idea of a game about a conservationist losing himself to bloodlust when a long lost Ancient Ugandan civilization's curse interrupts his deceased father's birthday celebration.
This game was screaming for a Condemned Criminal Origins type of twist where the constant animal attacks in massive numbers have a supernatural cause.
Thats litteraly the plot of the previous game
Considering the Dangerous Hunts universe also has cryptids (final boss of Dangerous Hunts 2 is a literal yeti), animals attacking from a supernatural cause wouldn't be that far fetched.
@@NueFyr already happened in one of em, forgot which one tho
As mentioned in the previous game the animal attacks are explained by a generational curse ala Wendigoism, passed when a Hunter kills a previous infected Hunter who has by then, become a beast who can control animals to attack.
So in every game your protagonist is simply inheriting the curse, becoming the boss beasts you fight in the next game.
Guys I figured it out. When it's initially revealed that Jacob is a conservationist, he says "Yes, in Alaska." This is a reference to the fact that he conserves nature only in Alaska. So Africa is completely free game. The Alaska segments are in the past, before he became a conservationist.
That’s what I was thinking, too! XD
30:46 Mandy states you kill about 80 Wolves in this section.
37:08 Mandy estimates that you kill "about a hundred" more wolves.
Mandalore says that you kill about 180 Wolves over the course of the flashback missions.
The wolf population in Alaska is estimated to be between 7,000 to 11,000.
If we call it in the middle at 9000, Jacob single-handedly killed about 2% of the total wolf population of Alaska over the course a single day back when he was a teenager.
Jacob: "I'm A CoSeRvAtIoNsT"
Imagine if he became a hunter instead of a park ranger
2% is small
@@kingstarscream320 But all by one person? Lmao
@@kingstarscream320That’s a huge number. Although 2% can be a small number in other contexts, in this context, we’re talking 2% of ALL wolves in the population of the largest state of the U.S. slaughtered in a single day. In Alaska, there’s an estimated 1300 wolves harvested every YEAR by all hunters and trappers, which is 14.5% of the population. If we assume they only harvest within the fall months and only on weekends, we can make a conservative estimate that the entire industry harvests these 1300 wolves in only 24 days, which means they would have a dayly yield of 0.6% or about 54 wolves.
This means this ‘Jacob’ outperforms the ENTIRE industry by about 3.3 TIMES, all by his lonesome.
Let’s take this another direction. The Alaskan wilderness covers 57.5 million acres of land, or about 90 thousand square miles. Let’s assume that 80 percent of wolves live in 20 percent of this land, and that Jacob only searches that area. This would still mean he’d have to search 2.5 square miles of land per wolf, for a total of 450 square miles of land to kill every wolf he encountered. In a dense forest, you can see only about 20-30 yards in front of you before something obscures your vision, but let’s assume this absolute unit of a man can perfectly scan, sight in, and kill any creature within a quarter of a mile radius without stopping or slowing down. If this takes place within 24 hours, this ‘Jacob’ would need to run 37.5 miles per hour in order to cover the amount of area it would require to kill that many wolves. Keep in mind he’d need to carry all the necessary weapons and ammunition, not to mention that the fastest a human has ever gone on foot is about 27.8 mph.
Edit: Grammar and wording
@@Aerythraea at this point I'm sure Jacob died long ago even before the Alaska hunting trip and was replaced by some horrific eldritch doppelganger
He is conserving humanities dominance over the animals. There is no way the dev team was not laughing their asses off at how ridiculous this game was the whole time. They had to have known it was the last one.
This was the last one because after this there were no more digital animals left to kill.
humanity's*
"Don't kid yourself Jimmy, if a cow ever got the chance he'd eat you and everyone you care about"
@@adamofblastworks1517No one cares.
🤓
“I saw the impala reaching” has to be your best line yet.
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I dunno. "Howl's Moving Castle Doctrine" though.
There's so many good lines in this one.
All it's missing is an AC-130 mission and you have a full on military shooter
Mandalores comedic instincts are always on point but this one had me falling out of my chair. "Howls Moving Castle Doctrine" "They're trying to steal our decals" "I saw the impala reaching" simply masterful
I also liked the "I took a moment to shoot a wildebeest in self-defense" while attacking a herd from half a mile away that doesn't even know he's there. XD
@@andrewphilosThat’s hunting in a nutshell lol. It takes a brave man to vaporize a dumb animal with a modern rifle from a mile away.
@@z-mac664 Unless someone's suicidal.
@@z-mac664 That's... not... totally fair.
"Let's merge into the buffalo lane!"
The scariest/best thing is this isn't even the only Cabela's game like this, there's at least one other that also opens with a father and sons hunting trip and ends with a Resident Evil-esque segment through a facility that was trying to train baboons to be soldiers. The only reason I realized this wasn't that game was because Mandalore didn't mention the player character vacuuming up the skulls of his enemies for health.
We need Mando to do a video on that game too
Does the brother die instead of the dad in that one?
I remember that game. I was wondering when he would run into the poachers that chase you in a truck that you can't shoot at because "hunting"
Holy shit that sounds awesome
fucking shit lmao
“You are a conservationist, yes?” As you eliminate half the wolf population of Idaho made me lol
that's probably all of our wolf population
IDAHO MENTIONED LETS GOOOOOOOOOO
MOVE BACK TO CALIFORNIA REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!
weird how this Ugandan is white lol
@@MangasColoradas941At this point, he's ended all of the wolves. That have ever existed. He's ripping holes in reality to satisfy his bloodlust and kill more wolves.
It's so much fun to come back to this video after 2011, cuz I can feel your comments about this being "demonic" and the animals "setting up roadblocks" and all that was more shitposting than anything and... no... it was actually prophetic.
9:07 I actually burst out laughing when Mandy started to gun down the animals so prolifically, even the ones that weren't a threat, while he nervously narrates the genocide.
I just KNOW he was having the time of his life and didn’t want to show it 😂
Instincts kicked in while the mind was still questioning.
"It's Howl's Moving Castle Doctrine"
You could replace all the animals with zombies and it would look like a normal game
@@modernmusic52 which would honestly make it less insane
"They don't get it! Jacob wil glass all of Africa to defend this vehicle!" Fucking killed me
And as we see from the rest of the game, he is right to do so.
"I would've glassed the entire planet had it not been for Ed's counsel!"
- Jacob, probably
@@Mobius_118 Were it so easy...
"Sir, the rabid cheetas outnumber us 3 to 1..."
"Then it is an even fight"
The part where you pull out the rifle and just start mowing down the buffalo is genuinely one of the funniest things I've ever seen in a game. Like after the buildup, the more careful hunting in the beginning, and the character being a conservationist, you just turn into doomguy for african wildlife.
Someone please mod the music to be gentle and meditative in the beginning and then just put in straight doom music during the buffalo scene 😂
Goes straight to Oblivion combat music.
"He may have hammered deep enough into the buffalo gene pool to change their fate as a species"
This had me dying.
11:43 "maybe Cecil the Lion had AOE attacks and multiple phases" probably the greatest sentence ever uttered in gaming journalism
...Is that Canderous?
Hey don't compare Mandy to a journo that is just insulting to him.
Dude maybe Harambe was about to Potemkin Buster that kid and that zoo keeper saved his life who knows
Not since Detective Halligan have I seen a game protag with problem-solving instincts that are so wildly at odds with their chosen work.
I love it.
This seemes like a thing Detective Halligan would do.
Oh the memories are flooding back.....
Adding that video to queue for my drive home from work 😂
@@DaBlaccGhost Have you tried working?
@@DaBlaccGhosthave a good day🫡
The fact Jacob rocked up on a hunting trip with a desert eagle 50 cal action express should tell you everything about the character
Ehi Africa is a dangerous place ok? He had to take some "precautions".
That is actually a hunting pistol though. You don't need giant rounds to kill people.
@@CrizzyEyes Well i guess its a 2 in 1 situation. You got a hunting pistol and you can also use it to defend yourself.
@@SIGNOR-G You could say that about any hunting weapon. They're almost all overkill to hunt people, unless you're hunting rabbits or small birds. When you get to hunting deer-sized game and above, they have a third purpose as vehicle stoppers.
@@CrizzyEyes impressive but it has to be expected. If it can pierce the hide of an elephant it has to be a big caliber.
I love the idea of the lions attempting to set traps but they have no thumbs so they have to work together to do it "damnit frank, get your paw out of the way, he's gonna be here in like a minute"
"Howls moving Castle Doctrine." is an incredible line.
Honestly a game where literally all animals reproduce at a tremendous rate and are all 100% hostile to humans at all times could be an interesting world to live in. Hunters wouldn't merely be something necessary in tribal times or just sportsmen in modern times, they would be necessary heroes to stem the tide of evil. Every hunter is basically Doomguy.
So Monster Hunter
@@Art42209Or Dungeons and Dragons, a lot of the time.
Just another day in Monster Hunter then.
I heard in some places the locals are even reproducing with Monsters.
@@TheNapster153Just try and tell me the admiral's mother didn't get it on with a rajang.
There is a show about this called Zoo, I think, which follows an apocalypse where a virus spreads that makes all animals super hostile towards people.
I got this for my dad, thinking it was a normal hunting game. He played it once.
He had a stroke a few months later and I got schizophrenia, I blame the game for both.
Oh yeah, and the protagonist is clearly psychotic. The animal corpses disappear after he "kills" them, they are in his head.
It's like this game is some anomalous haunted object that just effects the health of all people who are around it long enough.
@@genericwhitekidthesecond4330 It was delisted by the SCP foundation
That would be perfect for the aspects the game was shooting for. Kid traumatized by the death of his dad lives with mental illness and ptsd. That would make more sense
Maybe it’s time you take up being a conservationist.
This comment thread is wild
I officially want more of "Mandalore's uncensored, honest and emotional response" moments
Because I've been choking on laughter these past 12 minutes.
Looking back over 24 hours later at this little post...I am sure as hell glad you lot liked this idea. I am happy that I am not alone.
This has to be his funniest Halloween video so far.
@@animeotaku307
Fucking amen mate.
Genuinely had me in stiches laughing like a madman
Are these responses acted out for the commentary or does he do live commentary while recording footage?
@@asimov647 I dunno.
But its the result that counts for me to be honest. Even if it were scripted, I could feel him reliving those bizarre moments.
@@asimov647they might be acted out, but its not far from how he actually reacts to things, just watch his garten of banban streams
This game treats wild animals like John Wick treats random thugs. Call Jacob Colonialism the way he's driving those bovine species to extinction.
If you befriend the baboon king you unlock a secret ending where Jacob takes antipsychotics and realizes he’s been in a mental asylum for years trapped in a cycle of guilt after killing his father in a hunting accident
honestly that seems like the actual plot of the game
I feel like if you toned down the goofiness and focused more on the violence, a series of endless, violent hunts where every animal wants the hunter dead ending with him finally giving up the fight and realizing that could be a pretty fantastic horror thriller plot.
@@pidgeonpatrol861 although he could solve that just by moving to the suburbs or something
@@circleinforthecube5170until the racoons smother him in his sleep.
"It is true I may have killed my father, but I am not his murderer."
one of the guys who was head developer on this game teaches a course at my university. we asked him about it, and he told us that the production was only seven months, and that they had literal stacks upon stacks of design documents. he apparently still has them somewhere.
Nice!
Would there be anyway to acquire these? I am so curious about how this game was made
I'm convinced this was made by people who didn't give two shits about hunting and just wanted to make a good-ass action FPS, and somehow got Cabela to pay for it
absolute legends
@@SadeN_0 Nah, this is Cauldron we're talking about. They don't give two shits about making good games in general. Just look at Soldier of Fortune: Payback.
Dude you can't leave us with that cliffhanger, you gotta get your professor to make a video about the making of this game, cause holy hell is it hilarious.
"Howl's Moving Castle Doctrine" actually killed me, that was too much. Just an incredible video.
I don't get this reference
@@krisnadanuaji1444Castle Doctrine is a legal defense that allows you to use force (up to and including deadly force) to protect your home from an intruder. Howl's Moving Castle is a book (and Studio Ghibli adaptation) about a wizard who has a walking castle. So the joke is the jeep is protected under the castle doctrine but it is also a vehicle that is moving.
This one got me too, unreal
@@MissPlayAndWatchlmao
oh my gosh the layers @@MissPlayAndWatch
I love how the side arm is just a Desert Eagle
To be fair, he is legitimately acting as a conservationist in the context of the world he finds himself in: when you find yourself in a region with 20-30 ravenous leopards per each acre of woodland, you're gonna need to cull that predator population for the good of the ecosystem.😅
The idea that the Cabela's-verse has conservationists being a spec op military force to deal with the hundreds of predators is absolutely amazing.
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@@randomintrovertedspider7510the Cabelas-verse 🤣
@@randomintrovertedspider7510Cabelas spec op military forces are the only reason i dont get mauled my mountain lions when i walk my dogs.
Youre such a fool
Jacob: "I'm a conservationist."
Driver: "I must ask you to help defend the vehicle!"
*The Only Thing They Fear Is You* starts playing
" I cant go to Yemen, I'm a conservationist"
"Maybe Cecil the lion had AOE attacks and multiple phases, I wasn't there" killed me. Happy Halloween!
"Jacob will glass all of Africa to defend this vehicle"
@@portalmanHUN Typical conservationist
The Krogan evolved in a hostile and vicious environment. Until the invention of gunpowder weapons, "eaten by predators" was still the number one cause of krogan fatalities. Afterwards, it was "death by gunshot"
An underrated bit is how committed Mandy is to misidentifying 90% of the animals in this video.
Some people had no books, no encyclopedia as kids (or no tv with a nature channel) as kids?
I'm sad he missed the chimpanzee sound effects for baboons. Also as someone who lives in Africa, the American game about Africa commentated by another American was practically cringe porn.
@@ChristmasLoreEven people as intelligent as Mandy (at least he seen intelligent in his videos) can be completely oblivious in a subject that don't have much interest in.
Take it easy people, he is not a conservationist like Jacob.
@@TinusPietersAmerican game licensed to a Czech developer, even
Nothing could have prepared me for this game to be this years Halloween video from mandy
Hey man. There is a Predator reference at (30:30)... And that IS the ultimate Halloween Ghost for sure!
You have perfectly expressed my own feeling.
Edit: Ooook, after that African hell on earth shooting scene I understand why this is a spooky time video.
Took the words outta my mouth.
Mandy is not the pet name I thought we'd be using. Weird.
This is impressively cursed even by Mandy's standards
Part of what makes the ending so bizarre is that adult Luke looks like a James Bond villain. It feels like you should be stopping him from his mad crusade to kill all animals, and instead, you shake his hand and go, "I was conserving them so we could kill them all together."
this is so unhinged i love it
to be fair they attacked him from moment 1 there he only hunted the ampala unprovoked
@@marley7868 have you considered that the animals are in the right and jacob is the villain here?
@@darkpixel1128 based on what? I am willing to accept his father started the war but the black lion emperor brought jacob on himself
@@darkpixel1128if we don't interpret the flashbacks as schizophrenic nonsense, then the resident evil bear brought the fury of jacob's dad on himself by killing people in the area, and in uganda during the sandstorm turret section the predators ignore other animals and try to kill you specifically
The Cabela's game were some of my favorites as a kid. The morality never dawned on me, I thought the animals were cool enemies. I even had their more simulator focused games as well. This unlocked a core memory.
_“How can they cut the power man?! They’re animals!”_ had me in stitches
As an African I can tell you animals don't need to cut the power, it's already down.
Are they cooking with transformer oil again?
@@TARMHeLLit's a multilayered joke because besides that, it's also a reference from Aliens.
@@StrikeWarlockhe also does that with Reanimator with the “Cat dead, details later?” Line and god knows what else there is I haven’t picked up on
Treating both Uganda and Alaska like your average sci fi video game planets, full of insanely hostile and possibly vaguely sentient fauna, and littered with the ruins of ancient civilizations, is the kind of genius most people are not ready for.
You’ve clearly never played Cabela's Original Sins, where Jacob accidentally destroys a totem of nature, forever marking him as an enemy to all life in Uganda.
The thing is, after this video I had to look that up to make sure it wasn’t real.
@@Ir0nFrogwas it real?
@@ErisApplebottomGoogle tells me 'no' so far
Well funny story. There were black animals in a previous game. They were under the command of some demonic cryptid. That lion and the others may have been leftover from that.
We were all so wrong. We thought Jacob was a budding serial killer, when Cabela's 2011 proves that he is in fact he is the tip of the spear against the demonic animal nations rising up against man, up to and including literal blood curses perpetrated by werehyenas.
This is why the 6th and 7th gen were so special, you just don’t get officially licensed madness like this in the post-App Store world.
and thats why gollum brought back that magic for but a moment
part of it was just that those generations lasted so godforsaken long that people started getting creative, or went creatively bankrupt in a way that amounted to the same thing, which was great.
You mean by large publishers, right? Because smaller companies never really stopped doing this tbh
@@vj7248it’s not the same, there’s a bad game because of poor design and then there’s this.
check out kingdom hearts 3
"ariel is the ultimate counter to a demon tide that killed everyone before an mf had to turn back time"
I love how the games Mandalore covers for Halloween aren't necessarily horror games, just ones that make you question your grip on sanity. Truly terrifying.
Some real cosmic horror shit we got going here.
I love that MandaloreGaming's actual Halloween episodes are almost never anything traditionally spooky or intended to be horror. It's always a deep dive into a complete insanity that your brain has trouble accepting.
The horror is the fact the game was ever made
The horror bit comes in 2 to 4 weeks in the extended haloween dead space special.
This year, dead space mobile
Nature is the true horror
Honestly as someone who grew up always seeing cabellas around and in an area where hunting/fishing culture is very common and not knowing this existed. This was a wild ride. I immediately texted a close friend and he’s like “oh yeah that was my favorite one” 😂. Of course it was.
It's like the April fool's episode of the game dungeon, always fascinating stuff
It's interesting how Jacob is the blatant aggressor. He intentionally aggravates the lions and other animals who show no interest in him which later results in them attacking people, he intentionally blunders into various dens when he could easily avoid them, and even with the bear at the beginning once he and his brother get out of its way leaves them alone and only attacks when they choose to pursue it.
Man, I remember being in a focus group back in 2011 or so asking what they want in a hunting game. I decided to tell them "hey, maybe you need a story with some intensity. Nature's pretty dangerous, so maybe you can put the hunter in dangerous situatuons and stuff."
I'm guessing what resulted was Cabela's Survival: Shadows of Katmai. Which, in turn probably resulted in this game.
Like most companies, it sounds to me like they took that and said "right cod rail shooter it is" When all you meant was, "maybe give me some story and have a buck rush me once in a while"
Lol 😂 you did not disappoint
what have you done lol
You made this happen and you're not even ashamed to admit it? Wow
So what you're saying is that you are to blame for this.
"The bear roars something that roughly translates to 'give me back my legions'"
Woke up my family laughing at this...
Ok I'm like 97% sure at this point that Mandy was a history major.
Still the jokes like that resonate with my autistic brain to an incredible degree.
@@CollinMcLean His references to movies, other games, historical events, etc are all top tier and hilarious. You can tell he's pretty knowledgeable about a pretty wide array of topics.
At the risk of once again being that guy: would someone please explain this to me? I would like to understand this joke.
@@01100101011100100111 It's a reference to the Battle of Teutoburg forest during the reign of Augustus when the Germanics destroyed the 17th, 18th, and 19th legions.
The Germanics, lead by the Romano-Germanic leader Arminius, ambushed them at Teutoburg forest and absolutely slaughtered them killing as many as 16,000 to 20,000 Roman soldiers and auxiliary including the General Varus who was beheaded.
According the historian Suetonius (who wrote this about 60 years after the fact mind you) after the defeat Augustus was so shell shocked that he broke down and started hitting his head against marble wall repeatedly demanding the deceased Varus "To give me back my legions!".
It was Rome's worst defeat since Cannae and the 17th, 18th, and 19th legions had their numbers permanently retired, never to be used to again
@@01100101011100100111 The line "give me back my legions" is attributed to Emperor Augustus of the Roman Empire, who spoke the line while lamenting the loss of three roman legions to germanic tribes at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest in 9 AD.
I half expected Jacob to start punching boulders and suplexing lions.