A00A that is true but they're talking about implementing it into games that wouldn't even make sense for the mode. Like for ex. A mainly story driven game
Aldo Frakulla in Red Dead Redemption it would be a good option but if we're talking about a game like PUBG it's in it because it's the concept of the game and the only thing you can do in the game.. it doesn't have a story mode so that's the main reason why it works. Now if it was different and had a decent story and battle Royale this conversation probably wouldn't exist and same with the fad. Also, theres more than 2 battle Royale games just check Steam there's PUBG, Fortnite battle Royale, Last man standing, H1Z1, and probably many more I don't have to get into but you get the point.
You nailed it mate, I'm from the future in 2020 and every game you can think of has a battle royale mode. And we all still hate it. P.S. Ninja is a fkboy.
ha, I actually know a guy who worked on the Iron Man game, the company he worked for was bought buy Sega where they laid off or split the staff to other projects, then forced the smaller demoralized crew to work on Iron Man with a ridiculously short development cycle to get it out in time for the movie. He told me that the fact it functioned at all was a miracle
As a fan of SEGA and Sonic games, I can confidently say I've unfortunately heard this story on way too many SEGA titles. It practically doesn't even count as an excuse anymore... Why do they keep doing this??? Isn't it clear enough that splitting the dev team just doesn't work?
One of my teachers worked on Iron Man 2. They had to start production super late in the game because Marvel insisted they use one of their writers, instead of an in-house team of them, but the guy didn't start writing until 3 months had passed, so large parts of the game had t be rushed and the code (that the player never sees) is held together with duct tape and chewing gum.
I do think there should be a line between "fad" and "that silly thing bigwigs tried to turn into a fad but failed" - a lot of entries in the list didn't even caught on in the first place, really
Also a line between "fad" and "generally awful idea" considering how movie tie-in games have been released for around/over 40 years now. Seeing as a fad is something which is short lived then a period of time literally longer than a generation can hardly fall under that definition.
''You can flip the skateboard, push the skateboard, grab the skateboard, turn the skateboard, fry the skateboard, roast the skateboard, sauté the shrim...erm
Mike's joke about the MK Devs reminded me of something Ed Boon said in a interview once: when brainstorming about fatalities he would sometimes be concearned about the mental state of some people on the team, that we would not believe the moves they keep off the games and that sometimes you would start seeing someone in a total different light after those meetings. It was so funny.
I agree man those were awesome but then they became a problem with mass production and then that one game with the spice girl song happened..............sad days and I miss them so much but they need to go back into the good old days
I used the Tony Hawk skater board controller as an actual snow board near my house with my friends, we learned that day that A. The board is not indestructible and B. That neither are we.
To be fair FMV brought us Tim Curry in a Russian officer uniform, doing a fake Russian accent, spouting about the glory of communism and the ignorance of capitalism, as escapes to the moon with those magnificent and beautiful last words: "SPACE!"
When I was younger I had the Tony Hawk: Ride controller. It didn't work and I took it back and they gave me a new one and when I hooked it up it didn't work. I wasted $100 that day...
I actually got the controller and game for like 45 USD at Walmart when I was younger and the board worked perfectly (up until my cousin did an actual kick flip on it and broke it like the fat ass he was) ((hes lost alot of weight, he's not dead))
I worked at Toys R Us when those things came out; the returns bin was always full of them by the end of the week. It was so bad that we eventually had stacks of unsold board controllers because no one wanted to buy them anymore. Still not as big of a failure as DJ Hero though... I still remember laughing my butt off the first time I saw a shelf full of those stupid things at Grocery Outlet for $10, and still no one was buying them.
the best movie tie-in video game I ever played was the one for the third Lord of the Rings movie. It came out before the movie released, and it actually came with an advent-calendar counting down to the movie release. Every door contained a fact about the movie. Oh, and it actually contained scenes from the movie, which was really neat.
"She's talkin' smack about Gex, get her!" I got a good laugh out of that because I literally have a copy of Gex 64: Enter the Gecko on my desktop next to my computer screen. XP
Juan Isasi I remember the New Coke debacle, they were basically saying "we want our product to taste more like Pepsi, but we can't say that, so let's just call it new"
Vr could work it is just getting to a point where technology could handle it properly now it is just down to developers figuring out how to use it Edit: and of course technology will get even better to where it is not so bulky and complicated to set up if we support it
Well, as an Indie Developer (who works on projects for Rift and Vive), I feel VR won't become more mainstream until 1. The headsets become as powerful or more than the current high end headsets for PC, BUT become cheaper (having to own a pretty decent computer doesn't help much...). And 2. Until so many developers out there stop being so obsessed about making every game a First Person game, where usually, you do everything with your own hands... I mean, when I entered the VR development scene there were (and still are I think) so many devs who practically think it's a sin to use the controller buttons, other than the grip and trigger, for gameplay... I mean, like "everything" has to be done manually with your hands. ie: using a button to reload a gun in VR = "sin"... (really, I felt if the video game trope of flushing the toilet would appear in VR they'd have you wipe your butt realistically and all...). Anyway, experiencing the game world in VR is amazing, but I agree with the video, most people just want to sit and play at their leisure, but so many VR games right now tend to leave you pretty beat after just one hour of play, and that's not all that good...
Yep, that's pretty much how I feel about the current VR trend of incorporating motion controls with the headsets too - not everyone has 100 square feet of open space for motion simulated games, and even fewer people actually want to run around and tumble about while playing games. I'm sure VR headsets offer a wonderfully immersive gaming experience, but I don't want to learn gymnastics to experience it either. If I want a workout, I'll turn off the game and go outside to exercise.
@@Dargonhuman gross exaggerations aside, there are plenty of VR games that can be played sitting with a normal gamepad, a HOTAS, or at least sitting using the motion controls, and from there standing in place, and finally you have the option of the "large" play space and "tumbling around" (although this is where VR really shines, side stepping and turning around and crouching hardly counts as tumbling). in addition very soon the PC will no longer be necessary with the launch of the all-in-one, wireless, computer free Oculus Quest in 2 weeks (yes its a bit expensive at $400, but it does away with the 2 biggest hurdles most people inflate against VR)
“The vast majority of FMV games could be described as not-very-good movies, with which you occasionally, superficially interacted.” So David Cage is the spiritual successor to FMV?
I personally played Jazz Jackrabbit before even hearing about Sonic... I would have though Sonic was some weird homage, had I known what the word "homage" meant.
One thing is for sure, Jazz Jackrabbit is one of the few mascot characters I can respect for using a gun. At least he didn't try to be "serious" like Shadow the Edgehog.
So glad I rewatched this. I totally forgot I lost my “Andy owes me a coke” notification when I got a new phone. You aren’t off the hook yet Farrant! Only five more months!
Cargo pants may never look good but try finding female pants with real pockets. Whoever decide on fake pockets should never have real pockets ever again.
That's something that never made sense to me. Why can't females where pants? Is there some sort of unspoken law? Must all female pants never go down to the knee? Are the reptiles secretly controlling the media to cause us to focus on problems that don't matter so that we won't notice the invasion? We may never know.
I not so much that females can't wear trousers, but if they do, they aren't allowed to store things in them. I bet it's a conspiracy with the purse industry!
Rognik That's exactly what it is. "No space for things in your 'pockets?' Look at these $50 purses available to you! It won't feel like carrying a human child on your wrist at all!"
Females clothes need to be tight to the body to show off those curves, can't have pockets getting in the way. least this is what I think must go through the heads of designers, the more it compliments the figure the better! Honestly though I don't really know, but can get annoying to find some nice pants with real pockets. I don't want to be carrying a bag with me every where when all I have to carry is a Purse and Phone --- Also by purse I mean a girls wallet no bigger than a small pencil case, not a handbag which also get called purses.
You forgot the games that tried to jump on the Thief/Deus Ex/Splinter Cell bandwagon by clumsily shoehorning a stealth mission into a game that just didn't have the setup for it. I'm looking at you Jedi Outcast.
Better than stealth games that force brute force action. Pure action game protagonists are usually are built like tanks, and the stealth sections don’t take the time to program in stuff that makes stealth more challenging such as sound and footsteps so the simple stealth mechanics in the token stealth missions are easy to do even if we mess up. Whereas stealth game protagonists are usually extremely fragile and can’t survive a beating when every enemy is on alert and knows our location.
I remember Spiderman three only because I played a demo in store and quickly discovered you could turn evil and wreck the city and proceeded to do nothing else for the next hour
John Arcane anyone who played prototype should remember spiderman 3. It wasn't just built on the same engine, it was basically just a spiderman 3 mod... that was much better than spiderman 3
You know what else was another interesting fad? The whole giving every character (including Link and Sonic the Hedgehog of all things) a wolf or werewolf form. That was huge for a while.
@@ghoulishgam3r508 BEGRUDGINGLY! ALMOST AS IF SHE WERE COERCED! 😠 😂 Man, it honestly wouldn't matter if people sincerely disliked Gex. I'd boot it up and play it anyway. His games were so much fun.
My prediction is VR won't become standard unless we can invent good omnidirectional treadmills, or _Sword Art Online_ style neurological VR (preferably with less IRL permadeath.)
Honestly though, I'm waiting for full dive tech or at least an MMO for oculus rift. I would play the shit out of a game that's just SAO minus the plot of the show. Just give me the game from the show minus permadeath and i would be all over it
2:00 The worst one is in COD 3, where you have to move the controller to row a boat. The problem is that it doesn't work well, and you can't progress without completing it.
I think the only reason Jane forgot about Mike buying all those fidget spinners is because she is trying to make people forget about her Pokemon go space station
Smash Blue Whale was Luke and Ellen's 90s platformer creation over on Outside Xtra. His signature look is wearing a normal t-shirt over a long sleeve t-shirt and his special attack is to jump out of the sea and smash down onto enemies. He got his special powers (and his t-shirt) from surfing a radioactive wave. Don't ask me about the interspecies love triangle reboot though, I think that only exists in Ellen's OxBox fan fiction.
*Paying IRL money for lootboxes. It's perfectly fine to ask players to spend in-game money on random cosmetics, if they want. Well, in my opinion, I guess.
I'm not sure how much longer lootboxes actually have. Many countries are strict about online gambling, which is what lootboxes are often considered by politicians, and I agree on that front. As far as spending real money for in game currency, we're in the middle of a big discussion regarding fiat vs decentralized currencies, (because of cryptocurrencies,) so anything could happen, and it will probably be wildly different across borders. There's certainly a precedence though. People who remember arcades will remember arcade tokens. Gift cards are similar. For the most part when you buy online currencies there's a warning that they have no explicit cash value, I expect these warnings will continue regardless of the strength of each decentralized currency to make them more legally accessible to the global population. Of course there are exceptions, in-game/in-world currencies that rely on a strong exchange rate, like Eve's PLEX and ISK, Second Life's Linden Dollars, and so on, but I think we'll see more games/platforms switching to or creating actual blockchain cryptocurrencies in the way that High Fidelity recently has, if that doesn't prove to be more difficult in regard to legality.
Was that the Wing Commander game where you had a list of other pilots you were competing against to climb the ranks to number one? I never owned it but I remember something like that at my grandmother's house as a youngling - I loved it~
VR will survive on the background if it doesn't survive in gaming. I say this because VR porn is a thing and people like porn. a lot. Japan is specifically advanced in this VR porn thing. Way more than one would think
Porn industry is surprisingly sometimes becomes the catalyst that would propel some tech innovation into mainstream consumers, VHS v Beta for instance, one of the reason VHS wins the format wars because the porn industry embraced the VHS format. So it's not farfetched to think VR could survive just because porn industry embraced the medium.
9:50 @outsidexbox So, it's 5 years later... here we are, all gathered back in this place, and... I can't decide if Andy owes us a Coke or not. VR glasses certainly aren't standard equipment yet, nor are they an expected part of any experience *other than* the "using a VR headset"experience. But they also **haven't** been chewed up and spit out to the fad-overyhype-crash cycle so typical of the entries on this list, at least not so far.Time will tell, but so far the technology seems to be doing the sort of slow-burn that _could_ just mean it'll actually catch on. (Bluetooth, for example, was originally announced in 1998. And for nearly a full decade after it was largely a niche tech. Used by relatively few people, to do relatively few things, with the relatively few devices that supported it. Meanwhile, the technology itself iterated furiously, improved by leaps and bounds, and it emerged as a ubiquitous and newly-essential component of the mobile experience.)
Just keep returning to these videos over time, rebuilding the old confidence of mine and watching you guys just be you and talk about gaming is great. Anytime remember Star Wars pod racer?
Very weird that society says mortal kombat level of violence is ok for RUclips but sexual content just as simulated isn't. Odd values there but oh well
I'm sure the Nintendo Labo ad I watched before this video was a complete coincidence... Oh who am I kidding, it's Nintendo, they could sell literally anything.
Until Dawn use of the motion controls were great. There were periods of the game where you had to stay still, any motion would result in a bad consequence.
I remember when the 3ds came out my younger cousin got one for Christmas and I remember him showing me and it being the most anticlimactic thing of all time. It’s literally a slightly blurry version of mariokart with 3D effects but only from a very specific angle
Adam G Only if your head was well lit enough to track, otherwise it had some kind of focusing seizures. For what it's worth in ideal circumstances it's not terrible and actually its quite impressive for how little power the console has
Except I have tested it, I own one myself and have used it for over a year including very dark conditions. The 3D function works fine. Care to explain that because according to my own testing what you are saying just isnt true.
“We were all pretty deluded in the 90’s thinking cargo pants looked good” *starts laughing and then looks down and realises I’m still wearing cargo pants in 2018* Oh...
I think part of the problem with 3D is that way to many people focus on the idea of having things pop out at them as if the screen was just a plane somewhere between the froeground and background. When 3D is used instead to add depth in the oppisite direction, acting as if the screen is a window you're looking through, the effect is much more succesful and can often really add to experiance.
perfect. For example, if you play Uncharted 3 in 3D, you will have a fantastic experience exactly because of this. the only thing that would pop out the screen would be the laser sights of the enemies aiming you, wich made total sense and it was not all the time it would happen. Fantastic 3D experience.
@@Moribax85 I mean, can't that be an argument for everything? "Yeah, stereo audio works, unless you're like me and millions of other people who are deaf in one ear." "Yeah, traffic lights work, unless you're like me and millions of other people who are colorblind." "Yeah, traditional video game controllers work, unless you're like me and millions of other people who had to have their hands amputated." I know the middle one isn't fool proof, and the bottom one is over the top, but do you see what I mean? It's impossible for ANY invention to cater to 100% of the population. It's a "you problem" not a "them problem."
Didn't Activision single handedly kill rhythm games by releasing 5-12 "Hero" games in a year? Also, the latest movie tie in game I can recall is HTTYD 2, which is surprisingly recent.
Movie tie-in games were around a bit too long to be passed off as a fad. We were getting tie-in games since like the mid 70's, the 80's being full of them. It's only a fairly recent thing that movie tie ins have disappeared, the current console gen kinda being the first where very little of them exist, myself personally not being able to name a single one on current gen. I also miss animal mascots. There's still occasionally one or two popping up on the indie market, but still. They were just fun with fun designs, at least when they were done well. In a medium where I could be literally anything, it's sad that most games have me running around as some boring middle aged white guy with a gun when I could instead be an anthropomorphic Axolotl in a top hat.
Indeed, just look at what Ocean Software released on Commodore 64, like half of them were tie-ins (TV shows as well as movies). Rambo II is considered to be a classic by many, the rest not that much, some were plain platformers and some just plain terrible.
Now the tie-ins are working in reverse, with movies made from popular games, like World of Warcraft, Tomb Raider, Assassin's Creed, etc. I think it's a bit short-sighted for them to ignore this. The tie-ins are still going strong, and it only shows an increasing partnership between game makers and the cinema. At heart, one could blame Edgar Rice Burroughs, who marketed Tarzan to every outlet he could find - against the advice of everyone at the time, who were convinced he would bore people to death with Tarzan through oversaturation.
They also keep re-making the same movies, so the games have probably already been done. Although that doesn't stop them and thankfully, we had a lot of quality Batman films and games. Where is the usual Avengers accompaniment we've been used to for decades lol
I wish I could say this was my own original thoughts, but I heard this from some You-Tuber. The reason movie tie ins have died off is because of how long and expensive game development has become. By the time the studio gives you something solid to work with, it's too late to make a big budget game. And even if they could, game studios don't want to gamble a ton of money on a game to only have it doomed when the movie tanks. So now we get tie ins to franchises rather than specific movies. Spider-Man and Star Wars games are the perfect example.
TheJaguar1983 i actually didn't know about it, and i went through 2 playthroughs. A nice way to use the controller motions was in the halo jump sections in the ratchet and clank games in my opinion.
Y'know, I never thought about VR that way before: "Let's combine two failed fads...stereoscopic 3D and motion control! Surely there is no possible way this could fail!"
9:55 so. Nobody is using them as ironic sleep masks but the good ones were too expensive for that. There were all those crap ones you put your phone into to wear as a mask that died out pretty hard though.
I feel movie tie in games are still a thing. Just add Lego and BOOM loophole for the sucky tie in games. I still know their true nature, they can't fool this guy.
Well, it's been 5 years, VR games are going steady, Gex is getting a new game, and... I don't know, I guess you could say Supermassive's horror games are kinda FMV games.
Shrek 2 is average at best. For $5 you can get some worth out of it. As for the Spider-Man games, I like none of the ones based on movies. I find them all detestable to some degree, with 3 being particularly dreadful. Has nothing to do with the movie itself, because I love that movie. The game is atrocious. The Wii version looks like it came from the N64 era. The development team was either not given enough time or just didn't care.
D'onte Graves I thoroughly enjoyed 3 on PS2, but I was like, 8 at the time. I think the 2 best spidey games are Ultimate Spider-Man and Web of Shadows, which were both based on the comics. The new game is shaping up to be great too, as it's its own thing.
Wait... you're going to say that gore isn't a selling point so much any more, you DO mention the continued existence of Mortal Combat but you DON'T mention watching body parts (primarily testicles, let's all be honest with ourselves) explode in any number of Sniper Elite installments?
Nathan Harris While it is true that these still exist, their 'gorey' features aren't marketed as much as back in the day. In those days games competed to have an unmatched "hyper-realistic violent graphics" ever, whereas they don't make much of a big deal of that anymore.
Sniper Elite is a bad example because it's a budget title aimed at a niche audience. Do Doom and Wolfensteain even market themselves on realistic gore anymore? All the ads I saw for Doom were all YEAH LOOK AT WHAT A BADASS I AM and Wolfenstein seems to be trying to hook the "punch a Nazi" crowd.
The Fallout series are still pretty gory. You can see fountains of blood Well in the first ones you could target nuts with the super sledge. In the first one at the end you could split the overseer in half and watch him drag his upper torso. Nowadays blood and gore are everywhere. Blood and guts nobody cares. One naked woman everybody loses their minds...
I watched this 5 years ago and set a bookmark, "watch in 2023", i guess you don't owe me a coke :< I was hoping i had left a comment saying, ill be back, but oh well.
I immediately recognized the gameplay from 2001 Shrek (had it on original Xbox), but I can admit my sister and I are probably the only one's that know about it to this day... I remember a lot of farting and onions.
I absolutely loved that game as a kid, I had that Colin McRae Rally Halo and Shrek Halo and Shrek got played to death Shrek was a fun little platformer, did you get stuck on that dark wizard you fought in the cave I can't remember his name or much else about the game beyond as you said "onions and farting"
The problem with the Guitar Hero series was that the devs stopped caring. Anyone remember GH Live? Neither do I. The rhythm game community is experiencing a small Renaissance though, thanks to fanmade games like Clone Hero. I kinda wanna see a full comeback like 2008, but I know it's not happening. Oh also, hey- Jazz Jackrabbit 2 was the funnest game back in the Windows 98 era.
@@Ajax_Cleanerman Apart from having to buy a whole new peripheral? Honestly I still play Rock Band 4, I bought an Xbox One specifically to move all my DLC over (as I'd gone PS4 this gen) and as my original drum kit was worn out anyway.
Hello there people of 2018, I come from the year 2022 and I come with crucial news! Andy, you owe me a coke as VR systems are already obsolete... which I'll drink after trying out this new "NerveGear" thing that's come out which surely itself shall never become obsolete.
Now that I think about it you're technically right, I guess in my mind NerveGear technology was more of an evolution of VR rather then actual VR itself...
3D monitors actually worked really for games, in fact I'd say they were much better for games than anything else. Unfortunately the need for expensive glasses to get the best effect really killed it.
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"8 Fads That Seemed Like a Great Idea at the Time"
8: Microtransactions
I can dream, damnit!
I hope some day.
Sadly, micro transactions work very well to make money. If anything we'll be seeing more and more of that as mainstream console games start to fade.
Hell yes
If you do not support it, that is why some of these "fads" died out. No more support/sales.
I hope you're right, brother, I really do...
We're not even going to talk about the "How every game apparently needs a Battle Royale game mode fad"?
A00A that is true but they're talking about implementing it into games that wouldn't even make sense for the mode. Like for ex. A mainly story driven game
Aldo Frakulla in Red Dead Redemption it would be a good option but if we're talking about a game like PUBG it's in it because it's the concept of the game and the only thing you can do in the game.. it doesn't have a story mode so that's the main reason why it works. Now if it was different and had a decent story and battle Royale this conversation probably wouldn't exist and same with the fad. Also, theres more than 2 battle Royale games just check Steam there's PUBG, Fortnite battle Royale, Last man standing, H1Z1, and probably many more I don't have to get into but you get the point.
R/ agedlikewine
You nailed it mate, I'm from the future in 2020 and every game you can think of has a battle royale mode. And we all still hate it. P.S. Ninja is a fkboy.
Tetris got a Battle Royale, for Pete's sake.
ha, I actually know a guy who worked on the Iron Man game, the company he worked for was bought buy Sega where they laid off or split the staff to other projects, then forced the smaller demoralized crew to work on Iron Man with a ridiculously short development cycle to get it out in time for the movie. He told me that the fact it functioned at all was a miracle
darthmarth87 doesn't suprise me
As a fan of SEGA and Sonic games, I can confidently say I've unfortunately heard this story on way too many SEGA titles. It practically doesn't even count as an excuse anymore... Why do they keep doing this??? Isn't it clear enough that splitting the dev team just doesn't work?
I still loved that movie
+Pepsia Gaming *game
One of my teachers worked on Iron Man 2. They had to start production super late in the game because Marvel insisted they use one of their writers, instead of an in-house team of them, but the guy didn't start writing until 3 months had passed, so large parts of the game had t be rushed and the code (that the player never sees) is held together with duct tape and chewing gum.
I’ve had a 3D tv for about 5 years now and forgot about the 3D feature until I saw this video
I love watching movies in 3d
You should appreciate what you've got. I've been trying to find a good one ever since I could afford one.
I love my 3D TV and use it all the time...
I'm just happy to finally have a TV that's bigger than a 12 inch CRT.
Been using it?
I do think there should be a line between "fad" and "that silly thing bigwigs tried to turn into a fad but failed" - a lot of entries in the list didn't even caught on in the first place, really
JennyTheNerdBat this is my biggest issue with Nintendo. Novelty does not equal quality
Also a line between "fad" and "generally awful idea" considering how movie tie-in games have been released for around/over 40 years now. Seeing as a fad is something which is short lived then a period of time literally longer than a generation can hardly fall under that definition.
Kojima incorporated the controller shake well in mgs4 for deactivating octocamo, but that's it haha
''You can flip the skateboard, push the skateboard, grab the skateboard, turn the skateboard, fry the skateboard, roast the skateboard, sauté the shrim...erm
Seems you have your mind on other things, Brendan. Perhaps it's time for lunch!
Life's like a box of skateboards....
@@AmaranthOriginal you never know what your gonna get 😂😂
Thelordofdarkness you’re*
Mike's joke about the MK Devs reminded me of something Ed Boon said in a interview once: when brainstorming about fatalities he would sometimes be concearned about the mental state of some people on the team, that we would not believe the moves they keep off the games and that sometimes you would start seeing someone in a total different light after those meetings. It was so funny.
Who knew Gex would be the beginning of the end for the infamous and malevolent Jane Douglas?
Rock band and guitar hero are legendary games and nothing can ever compare to them. They have a never ending legacy and I will never forget them
I agree man those were awesome but then they became a problem with mass production and then that one game with the spice girl song happened..............sad days and I miss them so much but they need to go back into the good old days
I mean rocksmith compares, plus you're actually learning an actual instrument :)
@@rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr0 the problem is, Rocksmith is not a game so much as it is a practice tool
Especially since there are still people playing Clone Hero, a fan made successor to the Guitar Hero Series
@ZMan1471 Did you ever complete through the fire and the flames 100% on any difficulty?
I used the Tony Hawk skater board controller as an actual snow board near my house with my friends, we learned that day that A. The board is not indestructible and B. That neither are we.
”...except those Mortal Kombat guys. They’re still at it.” That was really funny.😂
To be fair FMV brought us Tim Curry in a Russian officer uniform, doing a fake Russian accent, spouting about the glory of communism and the ignorance of capitalism, as escapes to the moon with those magnificent and beautiful last words:
"SPACE!"
Is that FMV? I always just thought it was Live Action cutscenes, since the gameplay was still animated
they are cutscenes, but they are also technically fmv cutscenes. so there's that.
he couldn't even keep a straight face delivering that line. it's beautiful. i want it to be my text notification tone.
*"But then, I've been busy today too?"*
first thing that came to mind when they brought this up XD
She's talking smack about Gex! Get Her!
gex honestly wasn't a bad game for the time. though the camara sucked even back then.
I was looking for this comment lmao
@@plasmaoctopus1728 Gex generally reviewed well, save for those N64 ports.
She's wearing a solo t it explains why
Not only that, she talked smack about Jazz Jackrabbit! Burn the heathen!!!!
"SHE'S TALKING SMACK ABOUT GEX! GET HER!!!"
Just what i was thinking, lads! 🤣🤣🤣
SAME. and was about to make this same comment
I never played gex but that clip had me rooting for him for the next smash dlc and yelling get her
"It's tail time!"
ta1yn At least she didn’t talk smack about Conker!
What about ty the tasmanian tiger
How did I miss Andy's little...gestures...after saying "Now we have to towel off the rest of him."
Brilliant.
I wish the fad of quicktime events during cutscenes would end.
And Sonic Unleashed is hosting the party
When I was younger I had the Tony Hawk: Ride controller. It didn't work and I took it back and they gave me a new one and when I hooked it up it didn't work. I wasted $100 that day...
When I was younger I had to try and sell those stupid things lol
i fell off it and ironicly twisted my ancle...
Wtf?? Were they non refundable?! Thats messed up
I actually got the controller and game for like 45 USD at Walmart when I was younger and the board worked perfectly (up until my cousin did an actual kick flip on it and broke it like the fat ass he was) ((hes lost alot of weight, he's not dead))
I worked at Toys R Us when those things came out; the returns bin was always full of them by the end of the week. It was so bad that we eventually had stacks of unsold board controllers because no one wanted to buy them anymore.
Still not as big of a failure as DJ Hero though... I still remember laughing my butt off the first time I saw a shelf full of those stupid things at Grocery Outlet for $10, and still no one was buying them.
"Strap on plastic instruments to fulfill the fantasy of..." *faints*
Lmao
Mum walks into room you *AHHHHHH I CAN EXPLAIN*
Still waiting for this fad to surface
the best movie tie-in video game I ever played was the one for the third Lord of the Rings movie.
It came out before the movie released, and it actually came with an advent-calendar counting down to the movie release. Every door contained a fact about the movie.
Oh, and it actually contained scenes from the movie, which was really neat.
The joke of them chasing her over Gex kills me every time
Same, even rewatching it all these years later~ xD
"That's bulls**t, Mom."
Made my ****ing day.
I ran that part back like 10 times.
It was pretty good.
Timestamp?
Just the most _solid_ acting. 10/10
Beat me to it 😂
"She's talkin' smack about Gex, get her!" I got a good laugh out of that because I literally have a copy of Gex 64: Enter the Gecko on my desktop next to my computer screen. XP
gex is a good game so yea of coarse
Gex was fun xD
Holding you to that promise. I'll be back here in five years expecting my Coke.
I'll be with you.
VR coke
Juan Isasi I remember the New Coke debacle, they were basically saying "we want our product to taste more like Pepsi, but we can't say that, so let's just call it new"
We will ruin you with the 2,1 million cokes!
Vr could work it is just getting to a point where technology could handle it properly now it is just down to developers figuring out how to use it
Edit: and of course technology will get even better to where it is not so bulky and complicated to set up if we support it
Well, as an Indie Developer (who works on projects for Rift and Vive), I feel VR won't become more mainstream until 1. The headsets become as powerful or more than the current high end headsets for PC, BUT become cheaper (having to own a pretty decent computer doesn't help much...). And 2. Until so many developers out there stop being so obsessed about making every game a First Person game, where usually, you do everything with your own hands... I mean, when I entered the VR development scene there were (and still are I think) so many devs who practically think it's a sin to use the controller buttons, other than the grip and trigger, for gameplay... I mean, like "everything" has to be done manually with your hands. ie: using a button to reload a gun in VR = "sin"... (really, I felt if the video game trope of flushing the toilet would appear in VR they'd have you wipe your butt realistically and all...). Anyway, experiencing the game world in VR is amazing, but I agree with the video, most people just want to sit and play at their leisure, but so many VR games right now tend to leave you pretty beat after just one hour of play, and that's not all that good...
Nice analysis, bro!
pooping simulator where there's a butt wiping minigame would be *_AWESOME!_*
Yep, that's pretty much how I feel about the current VR trend of incorporating motion controls with the headsets too - not everyone has 100 square feet of open space for motion simulated games, and even fewer people actually want to run around and tumble about while playing games. I'm sure VR headsets offer a wonderfully immersive gaming experience, but I don't want to learn gymnastics to experience it either. If I want a workout, I'll turn off the game and go outside to exercise.
@@Dargonhuman gross exaggerations aside, there are plenty of VR games that can be played sitting with a normal gamepad, a HOTAS, or at least sitting using the motion controls, and from there standing in place, and finally you have the option of the "large" play space and "tumbling around" (although this is where VR really shines, side stepping and turning around and crouching hardly counts as tumbling). in addition very soon the PC will no longer be necessary with the launch of the all-in-one, wireless, computer free Oculus Quest in 2 weeks (yes its a bit expensive at $400, but it does away with the 2 biggest hurdles most people inflate against VR)
I think once we make it cheaper it will become mainstream. Also when we adopt omni-directional treadmills
“The vast majority of FMV games could be described as not-very-good movies, with which you occasionally, superficially interacted.”
So David Cage is the spiritual successor to FMV?
YES.
Bashes movie tie-in games
Forgets about Spider-Man 2; arguably one of the best superhero games of all time that happened to be a movie-tie in
That's why he mentioned Spider-Man 3 instead, lol
Honestly I thought about Lego Games
File Spider-Man 2 under "exception that proves the rule". SM2 was rad. Doesn't change the fact that most tie-in games are utter pish.
Grant Larsen Those haven't quite faded away yet...
The X-men Origins: Wolverine game was better than the movie (low bar I know but the game was satisfyingly brutal)
Jazz Jackrabbit was a damn good game for what it was, in my opinion.
I personally played Jazz Jackrabbit before even hearing about Sonic... I would have though Sonic was some weird homage, had I known what the word "homage" meant.
And it's not just like Sonic, I'd describe it as Sonic meets Metal Slug or Sonic meets Contra, since the shooting factors into it too.
True. And the soundtrack is great as well. I still play the Rock Christmas music from the special version every year.
One thing is for sure, Jazz Jackrabbit is one of the few mascot characters I can respect for using a gun. At least he didn't try to be "serious" like Shadow the Edgehog.
You forgot the fad of every damn thing being turned into some form of cart racer.
That was more an industry trend
Ahem... I think you misspelled "Kart racer"
Plasma Octopus *only slightly sarcastic* you're absolutely right, I don't know what came over me that I would make that mistake.
I think if even the Arma 3 dlc spells it as "Karts" it basically is the correct way to spell it, lmao.
Plasma Octopus it’s really not cart is spelled with a C just like combat is spelled with a C not a K
So glad I rewatched this. I totally forgot I lost my “Andy owes me a coke” notification when I got a new phone. You aren’t off the hook yet Farrant! Only five more months!
Well I assume it's official, Andy does not owe us a Coke.
Cargo pants may never look good but try finding female pants with real pockets.
Whoever decide on fake pockets should never have real pockets ever again.
It weeds out the unfashionable. "cough" practical "cough"
That's something that never made sense to me. Why can't females where pants? Is there some sort of unspoken law? Must all female pants never go down to the knee? Are the reptiles secretly controlling the media to cause us to focus on problems that don't matter so that we won't notice the invasion? We may never know.
I not so much that females can't wear trousers, but if they do, they aren't allowed to store things in them. I bet it's a conspiracy with the purse industry!
Rognik
That's exactly what it is. "No space for things in your 'pockets?' Look at these $50 purses available to you! It won't feel like carrying a human child on your wrist at all!"
Females clothes need to be tight to the body to show off those curves, can't have pockets getting in the way. least this is what I think must go through the heads of designers, the more it compliments the figure the better!
Honestly though I don't really know, but can get annoying to find some nice pants with real pockets. I don't want to be carrying a bag with me every where when all I have to carry is a Purse and Phone --- Also by purse I mean a girls wallet no bigger than a small pencil case, not a handbag which also get called purses.
You forgot the games that tried to jump on the Thief/Deus Ex/Splinter Cell bandwagon by clumsily shoehorning a stealth mission into a game that just didn't have the setup for it. I'm looking at you Jedi Outcast.
I don't remember any forced stealth missions in JKII and I've completed that game about a dozen times back in the day...
Cough Zelda
Better than stealth games that force brute force action. Pure action game protagonists are usually are built like tanks, and the stealth sections don’t take the time to program in stuff that makes stealth more challenging such as sound and footsteps so the simple stealth mechanics in the token stealth missions are easy to do even if we mess up. Whereas stealth game protagonists are usually extremely fragile and can’t survive a beating when every enemy is on alert and knows our location.
I can only think of GTA: San Andreas lmao
@@mquigg25 far cry has stealth tho
I remember Spiderman three only because I played a demo in store and quickly discovered you could turn evil and wreck the city and proceeded to do nothing else for the next hour
John Arcane anyone who played prototype should remember spiderman 3. It wasn't just built on the same engine, it was basically just a spiderman 3 mod... that was much better than spiderman 3
You know what else was another interesting fad? The whole giving every character (including Link and Sonic the Hedgehog of all things) a wolf or werewolf form.
That was huge for a while.
Did anyone actually try to use the boat as an actual boat
My issue was the cord for my tv wasn't long enough to go to the creekside
If they did I imagined it something they did once
For me Jazz Jackrabbit will always be the mascot of my childhood!
Yuuuuup!
So you are a fan of fortnite.
@@420sakura1 wut?
Great co-op game.
I was expecting LGR in the comments defending Jazz.
YOU TAKE THAT BACK ABOUT GEX, JANE
AND JAZZ JACKRABBIT, THAT GOT ME REAL ANGRY
Umm...she said gex was good, and it was.
@@ghoulishgam3r508 BEGRUDGINGLY! ALMOST AS IF SHE WERE COERCED! 😠
😂 Man, it honestly wouldn't matter if people sincerely disliked Gex. I'd boot it up and play it anyway. His games were so much fun.
My prediction is VR won't become standard unless we can invent good omnidirectional treadmills, or _Sword Art Online_ style neurological VR (preferably with less IRL permadeath.)
Laszlok it won't become standard but I do believe it'll always have it's place in gaming as it is.
Basically matrix pods. You want The Matrix pods... actually, so do i. carry on then.
We don't even have VR yet, it's just virtual goggles which allows people to pit the computer even closer to their face
Honestly though, I'm waiting for full dive tech or at least an MMO for oculus rift. I would play the shit out of a game that's just SAO minus the plot of the show. Just give me the game from the show minus permadeath and i would be all over it
Fangsabre The game in SAO is REALLY bad tho.
2:00 The worst one is in COD 3, where you have to move the controller to row a boat. The problem is that it doesn't work well, and you can't progress without completing it.
LUL that look on Andy's face as he towels off Ethan's body. Keep up the great videos!
I think the only reason Jane forgot about Mike buying all those fidget spinners is because she is trying to make people forget about her Pokemon go space station
Remember without the 90s animal mascot platformers we would never have met Smash Blue Whale.
One question: who??? Lol
Smash Blue Whale was Luke and Ellen's 90s platformer creation over on Outside Xtra. His signature look is wearing a normal t-shirt over a long sleeve t-shirt and his special attack is to jump out of the sea and smash down onto enemies. He got his special powers (and his t-shirt) from surfing a radioactive wave. Don't ask me about the interspecies love triangle reboot though, I think that only exists in Ellen's OxBox fan fiction.
Or Ty the Tasmanian Tiger
Im amazed somebody other than me remembered ty.
god i hope lootboxes finds its way onto this list in 3-10 years time
*Paying IRL money for lootboxes. It's perfectly fine to ask players to spend in-game money on random cosmetics, if they want. Well, in my opinion, I guess.
So what about spending real money to obtain in-game currency?
I'm not sure how much longer lootboxes actually have. Many countries are strict about online gambling, which is what lootboxes are often considered by politicians, and I agree on that front. As far as spending real money for in game currency, we're in the middle of a big discussion regarding fiat vs decentralized currencies, (because of cryptocurrencies,) so anything could happen, and it will probably be wildly different across borders. There's certainly a precedence though. People who remember arcades will remember arcade tokens. Gift cards are similar. For the most part when you buy online currencies there's a warning that they have no explicit cash value, I expect these warnings will continue regardless of the strength of each decentralized currency to make them more legally accessible to the global population.
Of course there are exceptions, in-game/in-world currencies that rely on a strong exchange rate, like Eve's PLEX and ISK, Second Life's Linden Dollars, and so on, but I think we'll see more games/platforms switching to or creating actual blockchain cryptocurrencies in the way that High Fidelity recently has, if that doesn't prove to be more difficult in regard to legality.
That Shrek game was my first ever Xbox game and I remember loving it, although in retrospect it was weird af.
Hey, I loved Wing Commander 3 with Mark Hamill (FMV). And don't mess with Gex. 3DO forever!
Was that the Wing Commander game where you had a list of other pilots you were competing against to climb the ranks to number one? I never owned it but I remember something like that at my grandmother's house as a youngling - I loved it~
@@Nynzy yes! It was the best.
So...no Tim Curry screaming "SPACE!" during the FMV entry? That's so unlike you guys.
Not really an FMV.. more of a cutscene.. There was more game happening then movie.
Brendan Matthews
I thought the same, but if Quantum Break counts as a spiritual successor, then the Westwood games does too.
This is true
also they were focusing on the BAD ones. They liked Tim Curry.
Lets see for how much longer.. What with everyone telling them to scream out Space every single time they do a livestream
Hold on we talked about FMV games and didn’t talk about command and conquer red alert 3, I’m going to escape to the only place still sane SPACE!!!!
VR will survive on the background if it doesn't survive in gaming.
I say this because VR porn is a thing and people like porn. a lot. Japan is specifically advanced in this VR porn thing. Way more than one would think
I just got my new vr headset.. got any links?
Mason Meow Googleit. It is everywhere 😂
google "dlsite" - there's some VR games there...so I heard from a friend.
Hygo this is not surprising
Porn industry is surprisingly sometimes becomes the catalyst that would propel some tech innovation into mainstream consumers, VHS v Beta for instance, one of the reason VHS wins the format wars because the porn industry embraced the VHS format. So it's not farfetched to think VR could survive just because porn industry embraced the medium.
9:50 @outsidexbox So, it's 5 years later... here we are, all gathered back in this place, and... I can't decide if Andy owes us a Coke or not. VR glasses certainly aren't standard equipment yet, nor are they an expected part of any experience *other than* the "using a VR headset"experience. But they also **haven't** been chewed up and spit out to the fad-overyhype-crash cycle so typical of the entries on this list, at least not so far.Time will tell, but so far the technology seems to be doing the sort of slow-burn that _could_ just mean it'll actually catch on.
(Bluetooth, for example, was originally announced in 1998. And for nearly a full decade after it was largely a niche tech. Used by relatively few people, to do relatively few things, with the relatively few devices that supported it. Meanwhile, the technology itself iterated furiously, improved by leaps and bounds, and it emerged as a ubiquitous and newly-essential component of the mobile experience.)
the chronicles of Riddick game was dope as hell
The Shrek 2 game was actually pretty solid.
The second one followed the movie too much I liked the first one being a platformer just set in the world.
Your not wrong.
I had the gameboy shred game. Enjoyed it.
The Solid 2 game was pretty Shrek.
Liar
“Hairier than chewbacca’s shower drain!” Put that on a tshirt please!
Admit it. We all, at one point, believed that Gex had something to do with saving 15% or more on car insurance.
nah their totally the same gecko, ive never seen both of them in the same place, im telling you its a conspiracy lol
Gex was laid off after his video gaming career failed. Thankfully Geico saved 15% or more of gex's appearance.
I think Gex needs a comeback..... ok as much as I admit I am nostalgic for the games, I can't type this without giggling.
I dunno, I actually have a hard time picturing anything but Dana Gould to be honest. The obnoxiousness of the voice just kind of works in a weird way.
Michelle Lincoln of course new sound bytes, this is 2018, so.... outdated references from 2000-2010? hehehe
I liked Gex...
I mean, I never actually owned it, but I liked what little I played of it.
Just keep returning to these videos over time, rebuilding the old confidence of mine and watching you guys just be you and talk about gaming is great.
Anytime remember Star Wars pod racer?
Outsidexbox is a fad that will never end. *NEVER*
Caitlin RC they're no a fad. they're a way of life.
Well I hope so, I want to get that coke in 5 years.
That defies the entire definition of "fad."
I'm from the future. In seven years, OxBox becomes a world-recognised religion.
+Emma Riley Danvers they aren't a way of life, they ARE life.
Very weird that society says mortal kombat level of violence is ok for RUclips but sexual content just as simulated isn't. Odd values there but oh well
James Fonda that's America!
YT has a ton of cheek clapping booty shaking. Sooo... I'll be back in a few minutes.
Didmboweling people isn’t a temptation most people face.
I'm sure the Nintendo Labo ad I watched before this video was a complete coincidence...
Oh who am I kidding, it's Nintendo, they could sell literally anything.
Even cardboard....
Until Dawn use of the motion controls were great. There were periods of the game where you had to stay still, any motion would result in a bad consequence.
It's 5 years later. VR is still a niche thing.
I remember when the 3ds came out my younger cousin got one for Christmas and I remember him showing me and it being the most anticlimactic thing of all time. It’s literally a slightly blurry version of mariokart with 3D effects but only from a very specific angle
The new 3ds has vastly improved the 3d feature, it tracks your head to make sure the 3d effect is in focus.
Adam G Only if your head was well lit enough to track, otherwise it had some kind of focusing seizures. For what it's worth in ideal circumstances it's not terrible and actually its quite impressive for how little power the console has
John Doe actually that isn't true. The new 3ds uses an infrared camera to track your face, so no light is required.
SmilingMoos3 You can say that all you like, doesn't make it not true after testing it
Except I have tested it, I own one myself and have used it for over a year including very dark conditions. The 3D function works fine. Care to explain that because according to my own testing what you are saying just isnt true.
Shake controller to pay respects.
So wait... This whole time I've been exercising whilst playing the Wii?? Damn you Zelda! I thought we were friends!!!
Mike & Andy's defense of Gex (I'm CERTAIN their loyalty extends to the sequels, also!) was completely justified imo.
Hence why the Gex games are getting a remake on modern consoles.
Its been 5 years and I still use my Quest!
“We were all pretty deluded in the 90’s thinking cargo pants looked good” *starts laughing and then looks down and realises I’m still wearing cargo pants in 2018* Oh...
Alan Jhonson Same here.
Also since when were trucker hats supposed to be worn "ironically"?
Fashion eludes me.
I think part of the problem with 3D is that way to many people focus on the idea of having things pop out at them as if the screen was just a plane somewhere between the froeground and background.
When 3D is used instead to add depth in the oppisite direction, acting as if the screen is a window you're looking through, the effect is much more succesful and can often really add to experiance.
perfect. For example, if you play Uncharted 3 in 3D, you will have a fantastic experience exactly because of this. the only thing that would pop out the screen would be the laser sights of the enemies aiming you, wich made total sense and it was not all the time it would happen. Fantastic 3D experience.
yeah, it works, unless you're like me and millions of other people who are stereoblind...
@@Moribax85 I mean, can't that be an argument for everything?
"Yeah, stereo audio works, unless you're like me and millions of other people who are deaf in one ear."
"Yeah, traffic lights work, unless you're like me and millions of other people who are colorblind."
"Yeah, traditional video game controllers work, unless you're like me and millions of other people who had to have their hands amputated."
I know the middle one isn't fool proof, and the bottom one is over the top, but do you see what I mean? It's impossible for ANY invention to cater to 100% of the population. It's a "you problem" not a "them problem."
@@Moribax85 don't be such a snowflake
Didn't Activision single handedly kill rhythm games by releasing 5-12 "Hero" games in a year?
Also, the latest movie tie in game I can recall is HTTYD 2, which is surprisingly recent.
New technology doesn't always make it better technology
Movie tie-in games were around a bit too long to be passed off as a fad. We were getting tie-in games since like the mid 70's, the 80's being full of them. It's only a fairly recent thing that movie tie ins have disappeared, the current console gen kinda being the first where very little of them exist, myself personally not being able to name a single one on current gen.
I also miss animal mascots. There's still occasionally one or two popping up on the indie market, but still. They were just fun with fun designs, at least when they were done well. In a medium where I could be literally anything, it's sad that most games have me running around as some boring middle aged white guy with a gun when I could instead be an anthropomorphic Axolotl in a top hat.
Indeed, just look at what Ocean Software released on Commodore 64, like half of them were tie-ins (TV shows as well as movies). Rambo II is considered to be a classic by many, the rest not that much, some were plain platformers and some just plain terrible.
Now the tie-ins are working in reverse, with movies made from popular games, like World of Warcraft, Tomb Raider, Assassin's Creed, etc. I think it's a bit short-sighted for them to ignore this. The tie-ins are still going strong, and it only shows an increasing partnership between game makers and the cinema. At heart, one could blame Edgar Rice Burroughs, who marketed Tarzan to every outlet he could find - against the advice of everyone at the time, who were convinced he would bore people to death with Tarzan through oversaturation.
They also keep re-making the same movies, so the games have probably already been done. Although that doesn't stop them and thankfully, we had a lot of quality Batman films and games. Where is the usual Avengers accompaniment we've been used to for decades lol
C64 Platoon, arcade Robocop etc.
I wish I could say this was my own original thoughts, but I heard this from some You-Tuber. The reason movie tie ins have died off is because of how long and expensive game development has become. By the time the studio gives you something solid to work with, it's too late to make a big budget game. And even if they could, game studios don't want to gamble a ton of money on a game to only have it doomed when the movie tanks. So now we get tie ins to franchises rather than specific movies. Spider-Man and Star Wars games are the perfect example.
To be fair, Shrek 2 on the PS2/Xbox is still a pretty solid game.
Shrek 2 was the best game on the original xbox
I reckon the shake to recharge the light in Last of Us was a nice touch.
TheJaguar1983 i actually didn't know about it, and i went through 2 playthroughs. A nice way to use the controller motions was in the halo jump sections in the ratchet and clank games in my opinion.
Y'know, I never thought about VR that way before: "Let's combine two failed fads...stereoscopic 3D and motion control! Surely there is no possible way this could fail!"
9:55 so. Nobody is using them as ironic sleep masks but the good ones were too expensive for that. There were all those crap ones you put your phone into to wear as a mask that died out pretty hard though.
You forgot Earthwom Jim as an animal mascott! And Jazz Jackrabbit is a classic!
and both are great on their own
Your guys are forgetting Earthworm Jim and Donkey Kong as great animal mascots. Star fox is also a good one.
I feel movie tie in games are still a thing. Just add Lego and BOOM loophole for the sucky tie in games. I still know their true nature, they can't fool this guy.
Well, it's been 5 years, VR games are going steady, Gex is getting a new game, and... I don't know, I guess you could say Supermassive's horror games are kinda FMV games.
It is now five years later and we are not using VR headsets as ironic sleepmasks.
No "space" clip in the fmv part! Good job oxbox
... I played the Iron Man, Spider-Man 1, 2 and 3, and shrek 2 video games lol
ColeRezurrected it doesnt
ColeRezurrected i played the shit out of it back in the day went back with some friends alot more frustrating or downright stupid then i remember
Shrek 2 is average at best. For $5 you can get some worth out of it. As for the Spider-Man games, I like none of the ones based on movies. I find them all detestable to some degree, with 3 being particularly dreadful. Has nothing to do with the movie itself, because I love that movie. The game is atrocious. The Wii version looks like it came from the N64 era. The development team was either not given enough time or just didn't care.
D'onte Graves I thoroughly enjoyed 3 on PS2, but I was like, 8 at the time. I think the 2 best spidey games are Ultimate Spider-Man and Web of Shadows, which were both based on the comics. The new game is shaping up to be great too, as it's its own thing.
I played iron man just a few yrs ago, such an awesome game, the only thing i hated was the reactor lvl, took me 22 tries to beat >_
Wait... you're going to say that gore isn't a selling point so much any more, you DO mention the continued existence of Mortal Combat but you DON'T mention watching body parts (primarily testicles, let's all be honest with ourselves) explode in any number of Sniper Elite installments?
Don't forget Id software, with games like doom, wolfenstein, and quake champions
Nathan Harris While it is true that these still exist, their 'gorey' features aren't marketed as much as back in the day. In those days games competed to have an unmatched "hyper-realistic violent graphics" ever, whereas they don't make much of a big deal of that anymore.
Sniper Elite is a bad example because it's a budget title aimed at a niche audience. Do Doom and Wolfensteain even market themselves on realistic gore anymore? All the ads I saw for Doom were all YEAH LOOK AT WHAT A BADASS I AM and Wolfenstein seems to be trying to hook the "punch a Nazi" crowd.
The Fallout series are still pretty gory. You can see fountains of blood Well in the first ones you could target nuts with the super sledge. In the first one at the end you could split the overseer in half and watch him drag his upper torso. Nowadays blood and gore are everywhere. Blood and guts nobody cares. One naked woman everybody loses their minds...
It's kombat with a k. Come on not that hard
4:13 - trust me, my dingy is not inflatable but instead rather small and deflated.
I watched this 5 years ago and set a bookmark, "watch in 2023", i guess you don't owe me a coke :<
I was hoping i had left a comment saying, ill be back, but oh well.
I was so focused on humming along to the Mii channel music that I didn't hear a single word Andy said
How about the one where everyone was making CoD clones because modern warfare was so successful.
andy can I get some doctor pepper instead? such is the will of the Steins:Gate
"I'm mad scientist, it's so cool!"
.. sonovabitch !
I immediately recognized the gameplay from 2001 Shrek (had it on original Xbox), but I can admit my sister and I are probably the only one's that know about it to this day... I remember a lot of farting and onions.
I absolutely loved that game as a kid, I had that Colin McRae Rally Halo and Shrek Halo and Shrek got played to death Shrek was a fun little platformer, did you get stuck on that dark wizard you fought in the cave I can't remember his name or much else about the game beyond as you said "onions and farting"
Loved me some Jazz Jackrabbit back in the day.
I'm coming back for that coke Andy!
All these video games are just a passing fad! Stick and hoop is where it began and stick and hoop is where it will return
Woah... that's deep man... real deep. *Dust in the Wind begins to play*
I hate to be the one to tell you this, but you've been grossly misinformed on how you use Stick and Hoop.
Huh... yeah, I can see how you could miss that. Here let me fix my original reply for ya.
When the Great Collapse occurs, or SHTF or whatever, we'll still have Stick and Hoop. And nobody can EVER take that from us!!!
Andy Mcp u right
In all fairness, the commercials for some of these fads made up for about 25% of the money spent on the fads.
are you sure it wasn't closer to 50%? Oh no wait its mostly 90's we are talking about, not today
*puts on sungalasses*
When the person in front of you in Rising Storm 2: Vietnam, steps on a landmine and explodes in graphic detail, it really sets the tone.
10:57 Nothing wrong with that. Seems like the best Doctor Who acting of the time
The problem with the Guitar Hero series was that the devs stopped caring. Anyone remember GH Live?
Neither do I.
The rhythm game community is experiencing a small Renaissance though, thanks to fanmade games like Clone Hero. I kinda wanna see a full comeback like 2008, but I know it's not happening.
Oh also, hey- Jazz Jackrabbit 2 was the funnest game back in the Windows 98 era.
What was wrong with guitar hero live exactly?
@@Ajax_Cleanerman Apart from having to buy a whole new peripheral?
Honestly I still play Rock Band 4, I bought an Xbox One specifically to move all my DLC over (as I'd gone PS4 this gen) and as my original drum kit was worn out anyway.
Hello there people of 2018, I come from the year 2022 and I come with crucial news! Andy, you owe me a coke as VR systems are already obsolete... which I'll drink after trying out this new "NerveGear" thing that's come out which surely itself shall never become obsolete.
You must be one of those beta-testers...
Yes, and as a tip, if you meet a guy named "kirito" don't challenge him to a duel, he wins at everything and is way too full of himself...
Ooooo... sorry. He said five years. You have to wait until 2023. VR might make a comeback.
Nervegear is VR... actually VR... So many contradictions
Now that I think about it you're technically right, I guess in my mind NerveGear technology was more of an evolution of VR rather then actual VR itself...
You’re god damn right gex was good
3D monitors actually worked really for games, in fact I'd say they were much better for games than anything else. Unfortunately the need for expensive glasses to get the best effect really killed it.
Ok I guess you don't owe us a coke, Andy
Yes. GEX was good. *Stare*
I was about to say I liked Gex, he was very memorable
@@DarkCreator98 he was a nice guy