The Lost Art of Licensed Video Games
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- Опубликовано: 30 окт 2021
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Happy Halloween 🎃 👻
Love you beech thanks for the heat on this chilly chilly Hallow's Eve
Bread, I like your content, but finding out what you look like in real life is the real horrorshow.
Also, toys on the bed, dude? Are you 12 or do you cam on the side? :(
@@AB0BA_69 relax with that bro wtf
Seeing your cat jump around and you not break narration then whole time absolutely made this vid.
Hey I know you
LMFAOO Lumiere likes to sabotage my takes so now I just accept it
When I was a kid I remember there was a PS2 game for every kids movie, and some were pretty decent. Remember Over The Hedge had an incredibly funny mini-game involving ramming golf carts ramming into each other on a golf course
YESSS THE OVER THE HEDGE GAME WAS A BANGER
I will annihilate anyone in that minigame, THAT WAS MY SHIT
The PS2 game of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is my second favorite version of the story (the film is number 1 of course)
YEESSSS
I liked the Series of Unfortunate Events game. Over the Hedge was a really fun game too
One of the shortest vids you've done outside of your 3 minute love letters, I won't complain! Glad to see you post. Happy Halloween Bread-dad
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!
Why mention it if you aren’t complaining… kinda cringe
@@SimonVanliew26 I was mentioning the length because I was alluding to being a fan for a while. Also it shows I'll be supporting throughout all his content rather than only his longform stuff
@@SimonVanliew26 calm down dude…it’s not that deep
Honestly, your thoughts on modern licensed video games reflect my feelings on 97% of big AAA titles that usually end up getting nominated for the annual “Game of the Year” awards. I try to play these games, but after an hour I just feel bored and unsatisfied. They all play the same, and even though they take place in different locations and inhabit different genres, they just feel like the same game again. I’m glad indie and mid-sized game devs are out there making their weird, experimental works full of love and passion, because those are the titles that refuel my love for the medium. Maybe the future of the good licensed game can be found there too.
yeah I definitely feel like AAA landscape is incredibly same-y and I’m grateful for indie devs and smaller more unique projects
My favorite vaporwave themed RUclips channel is back! Keep fighting the good fight!
AYOOO THANK YOU!
Man, your ability to cover such a breadth of content tonally with such a sick flow is absolutely astounding. Got me crying in the club last month with Tintin to smiling like a dork here - all with the same genuine delivery.
GOAT
ayoooo thank you so much!!!!
Ah the star trek episode where Picard defends whether or not Data is sentient. One of my favs
Definitely one of the best episodes.
Pinocchio is broken. Its strings have been cut.
yesss!!!! The Measure of a Man as an episode is unquestionably one of the best pieces of TV writing ever
Was looking for this comment. Probably my second favourite scene in star trek!! Of course broadsword picked it to show! 🥰
@@dasa2711 what's your favorite?
"If you could take any anime with you to a desert island what would it be?"
If it's the complete version of whatever you choose then One Piece, easily.
Not only would I get to see the ending early but I'd have plenty to watch while waiting for rescue.
the truest galaxy brain take fr
But on the other hand, you still have to deal with anime Dressrosa
my first thought as well. Followed closely by the entirety of the Pokemon franchise, if that all counts as one anime, which I have decided it does for the purposes of this argument.
My mans be dripped up and the video was fire. The old lord of the rings licensed games were sick. I have a lot of good memories with the Two Towers one specifically cause my aunt and uncle had that shit for their ps2. Also side note just the two second clip of the Thing game gave me vivid and visceral flashbacks to the hellscape that was the Jerma's streams of that game.
The Disney's Hercules game is installed in every elementary school's computer in Vietnam.That game still haunts me to this day because it sucks all of my little free time i have in that class
The first Harry Potter Games were pure art. They had a lot of HP lore to offer and a beautiful game design. Of course the games were also very crappy, had hilariously bad dubs and even more hilariously bad character graphics. Nevertheless they gave me more the feeling of being in a magical world than the movies did.
Those games were pretty decent for what they were - some of them, anyway. I have especially fond memories of the Chamber of Secrets one. You're right, somehow running around in that probably fairly low-effort game felt more magical and immersive to 10-year-old me than the movies ever could. There's a RUclipsr called Phil of Glimmer who made some nice retrospective reviews of those older HP games, if you're interested in a little nostalgic trip I recommend checking them out :)
a lot of love for the Chamber of Secrets gba game specifically. also, the Sorceror's Stone Gameboy Color version was the first turn-based RPG I had ever played.
Yep, which is why I'm happy to play them. Even over 20 years later, even with the fear of suits of armour they gave me.
I Finished 1-4 on GBC, GBA, PC and PS2. Can't play PS1 games for some stupid reasons, even with emulation. They do not get past that book opening prologue bit.They don't even crash. They just... Sit there. Candle still flickers.
4 on PS3 was just difficult and I never understood where to get more medals after the Second Task. Never progressed.
5 on DS was broken AF so got half an hour in and kept failing due to lack of coherent instruction, despite experimentation. PSP? I swear I tried it but I don't remember it.
6 and 7? Did they even HAVE games??
Look at how few they became. 4 consoles to maybe 1 and pfffft quality.
I'm going to pirate Hogwarts Legacy when PS4/5/28 can be emulated, I'm not giving that lady any more money, but I will keep the world she gave us.
I agree. The first 3 were amazing. Chamber of secrets perfected it. Amazing soundtrack.
I think the PS2 games were genuinely good. Especially Prisoner of Azkaban. You could fly around the grounds on Buckbeak, there were tons of collectibles to get metroidvania-style as you unlocked new spells, the combat was actually pretty decent, even the PS2 eyetoy camera minigames were really fun
Disney's Hercules game haunts my memories.
Edit: Coming back to say a Parasite RTS sounds Ligotti levels of inhumane.
FR WHY WAS IT SO HARD! Also happy halloween!!!
@@BREADSWORD Happy Halloween homie!
I’m haunted by The Kion King Nintendo game
Yo I remember that game, and for whatever reason my Dad also played it and he actually wound up calling the developers to ask how to beat the second to last level haha
happy halloween!! have you ever thought abt making a podcast? i could listen to you talk abt absolutely anything. don’t really know how to explain it but your voice just makes me feel safe
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!! I have! Fingers crossed I'll get one goin in the next year or so!
@@BREADSWORD good luck! i’ll look forward to it!
That would be amazing. They way you talk about things that bring you joy brings me joy. It would be cool to get more of that
So stoked to see you back in front of the camera like this again!!!
AYOOO THANK YOU SO MUCH!! HAPPY HALLOWEEN
@@BREADSWORD AYY YOU TOO BRO!
Definitely an era from my childhood I deeply cherished .
I watched the utter breakdown Jerma had playing Two Towers for the PS2 last night, so seeing the LotR games get praised feels surreal
Jerma truly is goated
Monster House, Incredibles, and the Spongebob SquarePants movie game were my life for 10 literal years
the music in the incredibles game made me love old jazzy/detective music
good picks
When the cat jumps over their shoulder and they don’t even skip a beat: ladies and gentleman were dealing with a pro here
The Adam Sandler Dracula cutout just sitting in the background with a hole in the head keeps killing me every time it cuts back to the facecam.
HE GOT WHAT HE DESERVED
I think it goes without saying that (as you feel like it) you should make more short vids. As someone who listens to your Gurren Lagann, Jak and Daxter, Robin Hood, and Tintin videos literally weekly and have spent more time listening to them than my favorite albums, you packed just as much soul into this 18 minute video as any of those. I'm sure it feels less scummy to get them sponsored too (not that I mind when it's on your longer videos, I think you've just mentioned it doesn't feel right). They seem like a much less massive undertaking than the long ones and would probably leave you more time to stream, which I enjoy chilling to in an era where I no longer really like watching Twitch streams.
I digress. Another banger video Breadsword to enjoy on this spooky night. Keep killing dude.
yo thank you so much!!! I’m definitely hoping to do more short form stuff like this soon!
You're literally the first person I've ever heard who's also played War in the North. I adore that game
COMRADE
I played it too. I actually played it with a friend because we were looking for something to play together, and none of our go-tos were particularly tempting that day and Steam had it on a pretty hefty sale. We ended up finishing the whole thing in about a week, and we both agreed it was a terrible video game but we enjoyed it immensely despite that.
Yo, did you unlock the explosive crossbow perk for the dwarf? So busted. Good times
Madagascar the video game was fun. Especially the golf. I loved that. "The player with the lower number wins! Uh, just like politics." Hell I still say ONION like the enemies in that game.
i was waiting for someone to mention the madagascar game 😭😭 that shit was my absolute favourite and the only thing i remember about it is the mini golf mini game lmaooo
And the second one that released later I played that one random dancing minigame and melman playing doctor so many times it was insane
I played a ton of A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2, Return of the King, Spider-Man 1, the first two Harry Potter games, and a ton of others. They've def got a charm to them and it's interesting to see how they've changed and a little sad how they've died off
the Harry Potter games were such bangers!!
a bug's life for the ps1 has such a fucking bizarrely good ost and set of sound effects
Damn, every time I watch a video this guy posts I am reminded that he Does. Not. Miss. Every take, every opinion, every song choice, every detail of every word is on point, precise, emotional and fucking ENTERTAINING (which is a rarity for RUclips content). Every time I see an upload, the entirety of my life pauses for the duration of the video so I can watch it. If all content was THIS good, nobody on the planet would ever get anything done.
The dude's the RUclips Stanley Kubrick, not a large catalog but what he has is amazing.
I will genuinely never forget playing that return of the king game on my gamecube with my dad. We love those movies, but the isengard level is truly the only reason that we proclaim “release the river” unprompted in ent voices to this day
Another BREADSWORD video? This will keep me entertained while i wait up for trick or treaters. Hell yeah.
LET'S GOOOO THANK YOU!!! HAPPY HALLOWEEEN
To this day I'm convinced that the LotR diablo clone on the GBA was a fever dream only I experienced. It was incredibly punishing so I only ever beat the campaign as legolas but I must have completed that one campain over 20 times. I can't even remember the name of the last big release I've played though. There is something to be said about playing them in your formative years but that stark of a contrast can't really go ignored.
Me and my friends in elementary school loved that game, but I still remember that part where you start a level on a narrow pier and had to fight a tough enemy immediately
Do you know if it was Two Towers? Return of the King? Third Age?
@@empatheticrambo4890 It was Return of the King. I remember being able to play as Frodo, Legolas, Eowyn or Aragorn. It's been more than a decade though so there might have been more that I've forgotten.
I feel like the Potential of the Nemesis system is what carries Shadow of Mordor and Shadow of War. I keep going back to those games for the Orcs, but I couldn't care less about The Protagonist.
Maybe what you want is something you can't see anywhere else. And yeah, a Dune Cart Racer that implements Presience somehow would truly be something unique
truuueee I definitely agree!!! and yeah LMFAO Dune cart racer would be so hype
Nope, for me it's the awesome fluid combat, and the cool story, even if it's simple.
Unfortunately we'll never see the Nemesis system ever again because Warner Bros patented it and will probably never make another game using it
The Shrek 2 game is actually amazing. That final boss slapped, and every time it was HERO TIME I ascended for a brief moment.
Please don’t stop making videos. Even when the viewer counts arnt always high. You create masterpieces . Please don’t stop.
This channel is going to explode eventually and I’m looking forward to it
It hasn't? The quality is top knotch...
Ok I had to literally pause and just say how unbelievably impressive it was that you kept a fantastic flow and pace while your precious cat decided to parkour all over you. Another fabulous video! Thank you!
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King multiplayer slapped, spent easily dozens of hours with my little brother and our friends trying to beat that fuckin Pelennor Fields level. Legolas' purple arrows were Busted Good.
Great vid, dude, happy hollowed ween
yooo yes!! Legolas is cracked in that game and I always main him
I wouldv play Gimli, because my friend who had the game obviously had first pick of Legolas. He was objectively worse, but in a way, I think a reflection of the thesis is the video. He is rendered fondly in my memory because of his flaws.
Battle For Middle-Earth was also an incredible couple of LotR tie-in games. Extremely unbalanced, but so, so much fun.
@@Moffen9T I played Gimli too because I've always liked him more than any other. But yeah, he sucked lol
Just wanted to say, I think a side effect of watching your videos for so long now is that I've mostly stopped being embarrassed about my interests. I felt this childlike enthusiasm recaptured when I saw that you felt similar ways about media that I had also loved/still love, and it has bled into just how I enjoy media in general. I feel more of a wholehearted passion for things, much like how I used to when I was a kid. Always looking forward to the next video.
One of the most memorable gaming moments of my life happened to be this one night where I ran the tower challenge of the Two Towers game on the PS2. It was just a bloody palace where I was spamming the 3-hit basic combo with Legolas over and over until I get the perfect buff, then mowed down the room with arrows. But I was playing in the lobby of my dorm, with a few guys all huddled around me hanging on every kill, every hit, every time I almost died only to come back from the brink. We had to beg and barter with the admin at the entrance who said we were dangerously close to curfew, because we just had to see the end.
There's never been another night like that. The moment, and the game, just clicked in a way that none of the polish or high design of better games of later years ever managed, with or without a captive audience.
A thought I had and couldn't put into words until this video - thanks for that, by the way, loved your Gurren Lagann and other essays:
Licensed games used to be made by young studios with maybe a handful of minor games, few employees, and the hunger to do-or-die on a small budget that appealed to the bean counters of publishers back in the day. Like a young movie director looking to make their mark by taking on a script for some adaptation of a book, game, or comic, they have something to prove, a livelihood at stake, and ambitions beyond the licensed gaming grind. So while not too polished, these games had surprising amount of desperation and even heart put into them. And their creators could usually fit into a small room, allowing them to either share a coherent vision, or have enough room to allow each coder, artist, or writer some noticeable influence into the game.
By contrast, modern licensed games like a lot of modern big-budget media seem to be helmed by corporate committee with lots of directors overseeing but ultimately detached from the hands-on work on the game. Idiosyncrasies are hammered out of the process by 'best practices' and coders and artists and writers work on snippets without context in an assembly line production. Crunch by managerial diktat where no one can afford to lose their bonus versus hungry artists sleeping in the office because they can't afford to fail.
I’ve just started playing Hollow Knight and am absolutely encapsulated by it. It feels like I was woken up out of mind control because i played these huge AAA titles for the longest time, and while some were definitely good (LOU 1 & 2) I now remember how much heart and soul it takes to make an indie game.
ALSO hollow knight was partially funded through a KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN. That’s so cool. I love when art gets made this way.
I like the way these videos go because it's like we're chatting together outside a party that just got too loud, but we're comfy in a chill room with some friends. very nice.
FINALLY someone else who talks about and loves that Bizarre Shrek 2 game!
yesss! it slaps!!!
@@BREADSWORD the fact that they made so many of the side character playable with special abilities, and even added original ones was so mind blowing to me as a kid.
Like the big bad wolf just has this wind blowing attack? Little red is a ranged fighter who uses apples?And the Puss in Boots boss fight was a HUGE wall as a kid.
@@Chook181 That Shrek 2 game has so much *content* packed into it. You wouldn't get that sort of care and effort from many a AAA title these days, let alone a throwaway licensed game. Amazing how quickly the industry changes, these days all those little extra things (if they exist at all) would be sealed off behind paywalls. Even as recently as ten years ago, when a game released you got...you know, the game. Just the complete thing, all at once. Maybe a couple of big expansion packs or DLCs after that but which actually added a ton of value and were generally worth the minor investment.
The PC version of _Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets_ is my all-time favorite video game.
Peter Jackson's King Kong is probably the best example of a licensed game done right. At the time of it's release, it didn't feel like there was much hype or investment for it, it was just another Movie tie-in game, same old same old. But once you started playing it, what expectations you might've had went right out the window. Sufficed to say I played that game to death!
It was my first fps! Such a good game, it had action, scares and even romance.
When I was a kid, all I ever played was educational computer games because that's all my parents would get me. But this one time, they got me an educational game where if you clicked on just the right spot, it launched a ripped copy of the Tarzan Action Game. Of course, the rest of this story is history. I absolutely fell in love with that game. So much so that I dug it up on the Internet when I was in college and finally finished it
Absolutely PREACH, the Return of the King PS2 game was an absolute masterpiece my brother and I co-opped for so long by just replaying the Ghost King encounter to gain all group boosts possible. So much fondness and fun.
Your videos are such a blessing! Every time I return to your channel I’m never disappointed. I relate to so many experiences in our childhoods and how essential these licensed games were to our fun. Hope you’re doing well and blessed in this new year! 🙏🎉
Thank you for the slow zoom on the pup on the bed. The acknowledgement of where my eyes don't mean to but can't help to go was *chef's kiss*
I definitely relate to the fact that games used to seem so much more accessible, because they weren’t perfect. I grew up alongside the PS2, and all of my favorite games are still those same games, and not just because of nostalgia. I’m not the greatest at games, and these days all major releases feel so intimidating, and I feel like I’ve been shut out of a medium that I grew up in love with
You should've acknowledged how a lot of focus for licensed games have gone into the mobile world, which could explain why we see less of what we loved today. However, thanks to big feedback, it seems like an interest for better licensed games is being picked up again. Aspyr Media's handling of classic Star Wars games comes to mind.
I don't remember watching a more fast-paced over-the-top edit of a sponsor section before and I'm loving it. bless your videos :praying hands:
"Dynamic" is why I always come back to your videos. Another great one and I agree a lot even outside licensed games that a lot of stuff is becoming flat.
Bro your videos are next level, you literally turned Tintin from a movie I liked a lot to a movie I now adore. And the fact that you liked War in the North brought me so much joy. It was a guilty pleasure game that I still love to play every now and then
My friend and I have been talking a ton about the Shrek 2 game lately! Always a delight when you upload, Happy Halloween Breadsword!!!
This was a fantastic retrospective. I'm blown away by your videos in general and I'm sorry this didn't get near as many views. I agree with you 100%.
Seriously the best video essay channel on RUclips. You’ve had me tearing up at work on multiple occasions. Keep it up!!! I love it!!
The boy is back at it again!! Cant wait to watch, all your content is golden, bro
AYOOOO BLESS THANK YOU!! HAPPY HALLOWEEN
The Hobbit was straight up the first video game I played and still one of my favorites. My brother and I replayed it over and over. It never got old. It's hilarious how many lines from that game my brother and I quote to each other in our day to day lives.
I actually replayed it recently and while the combat's a little weird compared to modern standards, I feel the platforming and level design hold up really really well. I would recommend a playthrough to anyone who can find a copy.
I second that. My brother and I loved that game as a kid and it's still one of the most charming games from the 2000s I can think of, and it's also probably my favorite media adaptation of the book with a healthy dose of goofy artistic license that works really well.
The music playing from the other room effect is very cool and trippy. Had me pausing the video to make sure it want actually coming from the other room.
your content is so fantastic. the sound of your voice is literally the most moving voice for me out of any film/art/game critiquer. thank YOU!!!!!! when you end a sentence with the 'uhmmsthhh' voicing of the vowel
Great Video Bread, I loved Shiny’s Enter the Matrix, a buggy janky beat’emup, but it showed minor characters and backstory I liked. Also they found a fighting mini game years later unlocked in code.
I approve of your choice of Star Trek episodes.
Amazing work, yet again. I always love seeing these love letter style videos. Spookily I was yammering about the NBC tie in games this halloween with my partner. What a brilliant PS2 game. Incidentally, there's a GBA prequel game thats worth a look if you haven't done so already!
One of my fondest memories was playing the Tintin tie-in puzzle platformer video game for the PS3 with my brother. Its single player experience is weird and quirky but largely forgetable, but the multiplayer is hilarious. It is a separate story set within Haddock's concussed brain, and entirely surreal. You could play as duplicates of various characters in bizarre monstrous odd ways and flip between their appearances on the fly. Whenever we shared the same character model we would declare "I too am X," and to this day we still have an ongoing joke where we declare "I too am Haddock!" whenever we see scenes in media where somebody meets a doppelganger of themselves. There was just a bonkers level of imperfect brilliance about the game that stuck with us.
I recently found out that Tim Burton/Shane Acker's movie, 9, was to have a tie-in video game at one point, but the publisher went bust and the whole project got canned. Its bizarre that hearing that that game never came to fruition bothers me so much, and that I'd give anything to play it, but I still don't give a rats ass about the Crash Bandicoot reboot. Movie tie-in games were just an integral part of my gaming library, no matter how poor, and it was always fascinating seeing how well or poorly the movie translated into a completely different medium. It's probably obliterated my objective sense of quality in video games, but I wouldn't have it any other way.
Honestly the best Halloween gift I could have received. Watching breadsword is even more fun than trick-or-treating
WTF happend to the thumbnails
Just rewatched, and seeing my name scroll by for the first time at the end of this banger vid as Jake Kauffman’s immaculate remix of the Ducktales Moon theme plays was euphoric. Thank u Bread 🙏🥖
I have been watching your videos out of order, but I have found that I love them all dearly. I hope you keep doing this, your videos re-inspire me to create at times when I've kinda lost that spark. Alternatively, if you want to stop I support that too. Keep making perfect circles, searching for Satoshi cycles of love, and gritting your teeth.
Never thought I’d look at wonky tie-in games as legit art, but here the hell we are.
More importantly, you’re a true pro for soldering on without running to the bathroom to vomit.
Lumiere tryna ruin your takes and your subtle reactions while still powering through, absolute king shit
Yoooo, it's so sick to see you again bro. Last Halloween vid is my favorite of yours and I got majorly hyped for this one just seeing the theme. I actually have a copy of the Atari E.T. framed on my wall. Had to explain it to my partner when we moved in and I've never seen anyone look so defeated by an interior decoration
YO dawg, i love your videos dude! Found your channel a while ago off the Gurren Laggan vid, that video introduced me to the anime and it got me out of a rut so thank you! Glad to see you doing well!
Hell yeah brother
Ikr
u dropped this: 👑
There's something magical about this channel. I don't know what it is. It's the antithesis of everything youtube has learned, that it's more fun to deride bad media than to praise good media. And while it's fun to have a good laugh at something that's objectively bad, it doesn't stop us from enjoying it; and you seem to realize this and embrace it as apart of what makes something memorable, and what makes it good and important on a very personal level. And to love is to accept the flaws that cannot be changed, and make something more unique as a result.
This channel is about love.
I love all your videos but I especially love that the Halloween videos are in front of the camera and completely unhinged
This bonkers, high energy, yet balls to the wall sincere video really took me by surprise by how much I loved watching it. My fav video of yours yet. Happy Halloween
Your vids are fire, dude. You always talk about disparate subjects that somehow always align in some way with my interests. And even if they didn’t, you make everything interesting.
The LotR games on PS2 were the bomb! Just what I needed to indulge my absolutely obsessed child mind back then. Must've read the books at least 4 times back to back then.. I wish I could be that crazy about anything nowadays.
I remember falling off a bridge in the Goblin Mines level in The Hobbit game and triggering the Gollum cutscene once I hit the bottom, ended up skipping the entire level.
I just found your videos and I love how you put certain things into perspective without sounding bias hopefully one day you would review a classic by the name of Trigun the story of the humanoid typhoon
The use of music in the background toward the end was wonderful
10:50 that thing about transitions to game visuals really sticks in my mind when there's one cutscene with Gimli pointing and saying "moria" and all the texture draining from his body as he turns into this barely recognisable version of himself
Cracks me up every time!
There is not a single video go yours that doesn't make me smile. Some make me cry, others make me laugh, a lot of them make me laugh. But every single one makes me smile.
your content never fails to put a smile on my face especially your closing monologues. thank your for a dopamine rush for each time you drop a video :)
Breadsword, I know I've never met you in real life and I probably never will, but that mention of you having food poisoning at the beginning got me concerned in the same way getting news of a long-time friend would. Your videos are comfortable, insightful, and inspiring in a way I don't think I've seen anything else on this platform be. I hope you're feeling better by now, I hope you never stop making such incredible videos, and I hope you had a great halloween, despite the circumstances.
That clip of scooby jumping around a shipyard at 15:04 hurtled me so violently back to my dad's basement in 2004 I now have whiplash. Love the video!
AYEEE happy halloween Breadsword!! Its amazing to see my favorite youtuber uploading during my favorite holiday 💕
Man, I remember playing the same sections of that Lord of the Rings game over and over again as a kid, I don't know if because I liked it or because I only had a demo, but I'm sure that everytime I had access to the PS2 I would put either that or the Two Towers and spend my afternoon like that.
Also, renting that same the Hobbit game from the library and never being able to figure out how to get past the orcs in the camp fire so I just went around exploring the shire for the hundredth time.
After that my childhood was downloading roms of licensed games into my pirated DS cartridge. The Shin-chan ones were surprisingly solid, something even I at the age of 7 could notice. Later on I found that those were made by Inti Creates and everything made sense.
Hey man. I super dig your work. Your video on Treasure Planet is like a drunken sad comfort video for me. Every time i watch that movie (which is oddly often) i immediately watch that video afterwards. I just sant to heavily suggest Netflix’s Castlevania to you bc i think you would love it and im sure you could make a very fun video about it and its inspiration from the og game. Happy Hallowed Eve my friend
incredibly video! i couldn't help to notice that along videogames for movies stopped things like dvd extras or interactive flash games also stopped being released. man.
god DARK ALLIANCE WAS MY JAM, I HAVE SO SO SO SO MANY HOURS ON THAT GAME- just re-crawing through all the levels, and collecting the best armor and weapons, and selling off what i didnt want.
Not only do I support and relish the broadening scope of mediums you are addressing in your content, but I hope they spread further!
From films to shows to video games, please go on to review your favorite novel, or kotaku article, or even back of a breakfast cereal box for all I care, love your love letters in video format.
Keep it up
I could not agree more, I've also recently been playing Shrek 2 and Return of the King on the ps2 with my girlfriend. It's also had me thinking about how characterless and polished games become, and I can also partly factor in how "cheesy 90's movies" don't seem to have much of a modern equivalent. Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion will always, always, without question, be my favourite game of all time. Had it lacked the bugs, been given a greater variety of voice actors, npc dialogue that sounded good, jump physics that made sense, and no amount of space to turn your playthrough into a complete mess, I wouldn't have loved it half as much. Imperfection is only really a flaw if it doesn't evoke affection. If it does evoke affection, then imperfection is more perfect than anything else could ever be.
Your editing is phenomenal, I truly hope you keep making things ❤️
Oh my god... That Jar Jar mug at 12:01... Major flashback my dude. Great video as always!
Barbie 12 Dancing Princesses is likely the only game on the Nintendo DS that still had a password input instead of saving the game. The princesses had different abilities that would unlock new areas in the sort of overworld of the game to reach new levels. I remember glass bottles of spurious liquid falling in me so vividly. What a delight
I do love how passionately you talk about these, as someone who has a small appreciation for some level of jank,while these licensed games did have their problems, trying to adapt things especially things that dont make nessecarily sense feels like a valid attempt of a first time game designer to have a chance to get into the industry, it also represented survival as these games didnt have to be the most graphically best games and could essentially contribute to a developers survival while they work on their own little wierd games or the studios magnum opus so to speak. Hell withouth them we might have never have my favorite genre, the RTS withouth the Dune games. Also the LOTR PS2 hack and slash is still great to this day.
What a fun video! I came across your channel recently and am so glad I did! These videos are so fantastic and hit those heavy nostalgia notes. Plus: you’re a cat lover! Thanks for these fun videos. Now to go lose to Jaws via Mesen.
Please, please continue showing your face in videos! It’s so awesome to see your psyched emotions as you explain your love of janky video games! Love the content, keep up the good work
I'm going to throw out there that there was a Lord of the Rings game all the way back in the 80's that was literally all about getting the ring to the volcano and keeping it out of Sauron's hands. If Frodo dies, Sam gets the ring. If Sam dies, Pippin gets it. If the Nazgul wipe out the whole Fellowship, the game is not yet over because Faramir and his band can ambush them on their return leg and get it back.
It's called War in Middle Earth, it's genre-straddlingly bizarre (why is the player fiddling with Merry's inventory WHILE ALSO commanding Gondor's army?) and flawed in so many ways. But I think it deserves a shout-out for being memorable for it's uniqueness.
This video brought back so much nostalgia, thank you breadsword
Your videos never fail to make me feel overwhelmingly cozy - Happy Halloween! :)
Movie license games were the leftovers of the food you ate last night out, and even though you know it won’t taste as good, it’s all the sweeter when you chow down on it in the darkness at 3am. Not purely necessary but entirely a comfort food worth indulging in.