Black & White: Playing God With a Giant Cow
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- Опубликовано: 31 окт 2019
- In the early-2000s PC gaming world, few titles were more hyped up than Black & White! It was the first game from Lionhead Studios, headed by Peter Molyneux of Populous fame. And it featured a whole lotta cow slapping.
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Fun story: I bought this the day it came out, and was stupid hyped for it. Probably one of the games that I have put the most time into in my entire life.
That being said, the release batch had a problem during manufacturing that led to an imbalance in weight from the paint on the disc (it was one of those full-disc prints). At the time, CD-ROMS were just starting to go into increasing speeds.
After about 2 months of playing, the disc exploded in my drive, which destroyed the drive as well. Needless to say, I was upset.
Called their support line, and they explained what it was. Not only did they send me an entirely new copy, they also bought me a new CD-ROM. Some of the best customer service I have ever had.
That's really cool, thanks for sharing!
That's so cool, good on them!
That's very cool
this same exact thing happened to me as a kid when Diablo 2 : Lord of Destruction came out.
one day a few months down the line i was playing and i heard my cd rom drive rev up really fast then boom, disc exploded and drive long gone. i was so shocked i wasnt even upset until 20 mins later haha
I’m sure I had this happen one time too it was weird, I could hear the disk speeding up then smashed into bits lol I was like wtf that sucked and moved on 😂 maybe I should have spoke to support too. Quite hilarious tbh if I must say
We can't do anything until we get some more wood, they're singing.
Next to a tree.
yeah. the villagers where a bunch of lazy morons
In front of a campfire...
I fed them to my avatar immediately, and stomped their boat to splinters.
thats how religion works, right?
that is really cool puzzle if you complete it I think on the next land that same boat is a wreck on the beach and you have bonus influence already on that island, I really miss how the sequel moved away from fun little story based puzzles and more towards combat
I actually really loved this game as a kid. I dug the whole concept and stuff.
...but I literally had no idea of any of these shortcuts and stuff, and now I'm retroactively angry about it lol
@@AstroKitty16 when i first got the game i bought it legally (new, not used). and it didn't have that manual either.
maybe they only included the case, shown in the video, only when it was initially released and for people who bought it a little later, they just sold it in a normal CD case.
don't assume he torrented it..
@@AstroKitty16 yeah bros don't assume he torrented it, he could of just rented it, cracked it and then burnt the cds so he can play it anytime.
Torrenting is poor form, the studios never get the money.
Played this as a kid too, pretty sure its the first game i remember playing, and I had no idea about the shortcuts either! I still remember the shock of getting to island 3, and getting ruined, that was as far as i ever got.
Yea I bought the bloody game from my very own chore earned money for 98 DM, equivalent to 100 Euros with inflation, and it didn't come in the box, it came in a regular DVD case with reverse able cover, but NO keyboard shortcut manual.
And that was just a couple of months after release. Never made it past the second island but still had great fun.
@Zwenk Wiel Haha damn.. a twilight CD, i remember that's where i got it from! I was too young to afford buying all those games..
True story: every time a villager dies, a child-like voice whispers "death" in the creepiest manner possible. I did not know this and spent about an hour not knowing my village was dying off and wondering what creepy stuff my roommates were up to. Good times...
That's not even the creepy part. If you had a common user name like "Andrew", the game actually would whisper your name every now and then.
If I remember correctly, in Black and White 2 vanilla/disc version the "death" was instead a creepy and quite loud voice, which meant that if you had a decently sized village, meaning people were dying all the time of old age, you'd drown in a cacophony of "death, death, deeeaaaathhhh!!!" Afaik those shenanigans were patched out the first chance they got. Admittedly I might be mixing up old memories and that *was* in fact B&W1, just a different voice than you recall due to playing in a different language dub. I feel like it was in number 2 though.
"deaaaaaaaathhh"
Yea was creepy as well, especially when you are thinking its going well also being busy being attacked.
I remember that...
This game was mindblowing as a child, I still get the feels when I see my box.
you kidding on 2002 i thought it was the best game ever created in history ! and i just burned my self for weeks playing it over and over (( i had no internet yet))
@@venix20 same here. It was my first "real game" on PC, coming from consoles, this really blew my mind.
I loved it
I feel the same about my settlers 2 gold box. My first serious game.
Not the same feels I get when I see your mom’s box...
Even to this day, nearly 20 years later, I still find my self humming the song by the sailors who want help building and supplying their ship. One of my favorite games of all time.
Me tooo I joke about it all the time with my cousin
I hate them with a burning passion!
Ooooh, we've got this notion
That we'd quite like to sail the ocean
So we're building a big boat to leave here for good.
We're not keen on sinking
So we're all sitting here a thinking
'Cause we built it too big and we've run out of wood.
eidle eidle eee
eidle eidle eee
We simply can't leave 'til we get some more wood.
Oooh, we're not keen on sinking
so that's why we're sitting thinking
cause we simply can't leave 'til we get some more wood.
Glad Im not alone
Eiiidee eiidee ee.
It's why I always love using the polar bear they give me.
This series needs to return, it’s absolutely perfect for VR.
woah, never thought of that. Black&White VR would be epic
With or without VR, i still yearn for a proper follow up on the series.
@@Matracokura Same here, been waiting a long time for a reboot or sequel. So many possibilities on modern hardware.
Whoa. Was not expecting so see somebody I knew here. How is Canada these days? O.O
Lol, oh hey dude. It's cold!
This game was the one thing that helped me through childhood depression and I love it seeing get attention to this day. No matter how clunky and broken the game was, it'll always have a special place in my heart.
No such thing as depression. Its evil spirits.
"Everytime someone prays, a god is born"
20 minutes later
"Good job steve, now we're enslaved to a god of chaos"
"Well, our kid's alive, ain't he?!"
"Nope. Sacrificed 4 minutes ago for prayer power."
"What did you do, Ray?"
"I couldn't help it! It just popped in there!"
"What? What just popped in there?"
If there's the option in this game, I would totally role play as Slaneesh.
Ahh, good old LGR busted out the spookiest possible thing to end Halloween: Peter Molyneux.
larry bundy jr intensifies
I can make it spookier still: Curiosity - What's Inside the Cube?
The man that never delivered. One of the biggest dumbasses of gaming history.
@@Bembel81 Only played Populus and Syndicate and those two was quite solid. Gave B&W a go, but frustrating was not the word I'd use for my experience, but rather infuriating. Oh and so was Syndicate 2. Never got past the first mission in that one...
@@Iruparazzo Why do I hear colonization?
"And here's a manual, presented relevantly enough IN BLACK AND WHITE"
Never change LGR guy, never change
This was the first PC game I ever bought, needless to say I play it a ton. Hearing the voice of the good conscience teaching you how to navigate is giving me severe flashbacks
ANY INFORMATION YOU READ ON ONE OF THESE IS ADDED.
TO THE LIBRARY.
IN THE TEMPLE.
The learning AI for the creature is still impressive to these days, even if it just juggles weighted values, there's a whole lot of them which allows for some complex behaviour.
You can even teach your creature to manage all the resources for you.
@Cole Park Wow didn't know that. I always thought that the creature system was one of the coolest thing B&W.
I remember just how quirky (in a good way) the AI could become with a little time with your creature, and I loved it so much I often started saves just to see what sort of weird behaviors I could make them do routinely. One time, I made a creature that refused to poop until it found a pig and threw it - every single time. One I praised when it would fart (usually a subtle sign of constipation), so it eventually got to the point it was always constipated so that it would fart all the time.
Absolutely and you can teach them to do wonders, like to grow trees and stuff like that. It was the better tamagotschi... Felt like a real ped partner.
@@chekhovsgun7729 I taught mine to horde its poop next to my farms for easy fertilization. Another one I taught it to light its poop on fire and throw it at enemy villages.
@Cole Park Ha, that's hilarious! I love comments like these, thanks! 👏🏼
I started this video thinking "finally" and ended it thinking "oh yeah, thats why I stopped playing".
Yeah, me too
Yep, I remember really wanting to enjoy it, but it was such a drag that took way too much effort to figure out how to play properly. Wish I'd opened the manual enough to know the keyboard commands!
we all stopped playing because of the massive serious flaws. HUGE flaws.
@Sursurk that's just the first level, it's the tutorial island... then again, sounds like the (very few) other missions are extremely similar. Constant barrage from the enemy
Me too! I hated the fact I was not the only power and I needed people to worship me for power. That's lame. lol
Also, the sailor song has been stuck in my head for the last 18 years.
I used to torture my roommate with that song XD
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.. we have got this notion that we would like to sail the ocean......... :)
EIDLE EIDLE EE...
WE SIMPLY CAN'T LEAVE TIL WE GET SOME MORE WOOOOOOD, OHHHHHH
Give them a woman at the end and they'll remake the scene from Titanic where they spread the arms at the front of the ship
This game was everything and nothing it promised.
That is the way of the Molyneux.
The old Molyneux Family Recipe for Success.
Absolutely hated the game for this reason I remember this was the very first game that sent me down the path of cynicism of the modern times
I was never angry at a game before this hell I didn't even know it was possible
@@michaelmccray8026 Fable did that to me
I’ve enjoyed most Molyneux games, probably because I never read any of the hype beforehands. Fable 1 and 2, b&w, dungeon keeper … they’re all good games on their own merit, just not when conpared to what was promised. And that’s a shame. These games never needed any hype or lies. They really speak for themselves.
That intro still gives me goosebumps. Man I wish this game got a remaster.
They used the exact same into in b&w 2, so it must been good.
Shame 2nd one was just a really boring strategy game. And 1st one just broken and short. Still remember how my creature bugged at the last land..... And become small. Funny thing is - so is nemesis one heh. I suppose they always same size
I'm surprised it looks really fun to play
a remasterd edition would so great it would probably put 99% of all newly developed games into its shadow. Same could be said about dungeon keeper 2 remasterd, TES III: The Elder Scrolls and some other jewels of the past.
The todays gaming industry is a pain to follow since they are focused on graphics and new game engines to much. Sure neat graphics and a better game engine assist in making a game better. They are not the keys aspects though and the companies should realise that.
This can be easily seen when comparing Tekken 3 with tekken 7. The difference in graphics, game speed and hitboxes is huge yet the change does not feel that big for me.
@@Azugon War for the Overworld is a reasonably close "remaster" of Dungeon Keeper 2.
I have fond memories of this game : slowly creating and expanding your first villages, seeing your creature finally being helpful with miracles after all the training, the soothing music in the background. A comfy experience.
Then after hours and hours of play, you realize that managing all your villages is a real chore because your villagers are really stupid, your creature isn’t better and will always be unreliable, converting villages is increasingly painful so it’s just better to kill everyone... and as the video mentioned the difficulty ramping of the campaign isn’t making it any less stressful.
Basically I mostly enjoyed the second mission of the campaign and a bit of the skirmish mode.
Also thanks to you that sailor song is stuck in my head again.
You spend all your energy and time into being good, to the point where it's so exhausting and frustrating you turn to evil.
@@dra6o0n Trust Molyneux to have a message.
I remember laying this game to rest when it whispered my name into my headphones. That was a bad joke. Forget modern horror games, child's play.
happened to me too.
@@AstroKitty16 Mmmm, Fresh Meat
Yeah I stopped after that aswell thought my game was haunted 🤣
Why were 2000s games so creepy lol
Yo I forgot about that part, just gave me goosebumps thinking of it
This was easily one of my favourite games out of anything I've ever played, and it certainly was unique. I still remember how villagers praying to an Artifact would let you build a max size Wonder independently of your belief if you placed 7 scaffolds directly next to it (as well as the online player who taught me that). As well as the various 'sandbox' maps that were out there online aimed at enhancing your Creature's growth and teaching it every miracle in the game from a simple rain or heal to... whatever the multi-blast armageddon nuke is called. (That took forever, even if you had a chimp)
Most people online seemed to have full on evil temples, and in fact 'evil' was 'easy', but I could never abide it so my lands and creatures were usually blindingly bright :) Flawed or not, I loved this game back in its day... and that song is STILL stuck in my head after a little reminder of it.
I remember that! The Mega-Blast if I remember correctly. The Chimp learned it 0.5% at a time.
Well worth it though. Once you have creature Isle you can switch to the Chimp, teach it Mega-Blast, then go back to your animal of choice and have it retain the knowledge. Laser-Crocodile all the way!
I'd so like to get a remastered version of the game! Or at least a wide-screen optimized version that runs on modern systems. I played the hell out of this game when I was younger.. such good memories. (tortoise creature ftw!)
look up patch 1.42, its an unofficial fan patch, just grab the disk image online, install it with daemon tools, and slap patch 1.1-1.2-1.42(skip 1.3) onto the game, keep the virtual disk image in the virtual drive n you now have 4k black and white should you desire(might fuck the UI tho)
I never EVER thought anyone would cover this game...i mean i hardly knew anyone that played it back in the day...KUDOS to you Sir!...and thank you
Interesting. Everyone I knew who was a PC gamer played it at least a couple of hours. It was the most hyped up disappointment since No Man's Land I think. I liked the sand box nature of it. Never played it as a strict game really, I got bored a bit into it all the time. But training the pet and flicking villagers around was fun. A friend got really into it and played it a ton with a lot of mods as well. It's not a great game. It might not be a good game. But it is an interesting experience every PC gamer should enjoy at least once. :) Fully patched on a capable PC. I avoided most troubles by being a bit late to the party and having a decent rig for the time.
The boat song... I remembered it the second I heard eidle eidle eee.
Was a great game in it's time and it's too bad it wasn't continued on to todays games.
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.. we have got this notion that we would like to sail the ocean......... :)
I've never played a game that gave me so much missing time. I'd play this after school then boom it's 11pm and time for bed
I nerver got my pet too adult size like i just stop progressing. But i kept playing
"..with people think they shipped a beta version game than a finished one"
EA, not changing a shit since 2001 😅
The launch game was impossible to be a good god.
When you had worshippers they require food, as seen in the video. but a glitch meant that regardless of how much food you put down, a single villager would eat *all* of it instantly. So your villagers were constantly hungry if they were worshipping and frequently dying. You'd be gaining a ton of evil points due to it being literally impossible to keep them fed.
It was fixed with the first patch, but that patch took some time coming out.
EA can't catch a break.
@@DragonNexus you could be a good god? News to me.
@@lrgogo1517 EA makes the rod for their own back.
It's funny how stupid people like you keep putting the blame on EA when they had nothing to do with the development or any of the bugs moron
Wesker hunched over in a dark room on his computer: "Heh heh, you would dare stand against a god?"
"Pointlessly excessive slapping"
Caption game on point.
Ah, that game from peter "trees would grow in real time" molyneux...
Good ole' Pete. Makes outrageous claims to the press about tech his games will have when the devs know damn well that what he wants is unrealistic. Gets told by said devs that such features can't be properly added to the game. Throws a giant temper tantrum and a bunch of his staff decide to fuck off for better pastures. Never corrects the press about the lack of promised features. Gets offended when people call him out on his bullshit. He's like the actual version of Sean Murray who isn't just misunderstood but is actively stupid.
@@BigPuddin And of course, one of the most innovative game designers of all time. It's the weirdest thing. His games have almost always disappointed, due to the hype - but been massive technical achievements as well.
@@springplus300 That's more despite Peter Molyneux than a point in his favor. He's grossly incompetent, but Lionhead Studios are pretty talented people. There's an idiot at the rudder of a very fine vessel who repeatedly steers said vessel into coral reefs and large rocks, but his crew keep trying to divert course to keep from sinking.
@@BigPuddin fun to see you write this in present tense, what year do you live in?
Used to love this game when I was younger, dread to think how many hours I stacked up. Could never get past Land 4 though, damn fireballs/lightning/gremlins.
...I...feel...your...pain...
Land 4 can kiss my shiny metal ass.
I only beat that land last year after so many tries. Took me what? A decade? Lol
The lightning gave me such a migraine though, I was worried I was gonna have a stroke.
You are not alone.
I also never came past land 4.
Land 4 isn't so bad. The fireballs will eventually stop. You just need to last a certain amount of time before they stop.
Just use a semi-large shield miracle in the direction the balls are coming from ***not covering your whole town*** (that will use waaay too much mana) But rather a smaller shield on the side of the town that the balls are coming from; they will hit the shield then bounce over the other half of town that doesn't have the shield over it. So you don't need to waste mana shielding the entire thing.
Since all of your mana is being used by the shield miracle being active, you have to kill the Gremlins with large rocks. (you wont get them all)
It's hard AF but it's certainly winnable. I loved B&W 1 & 2 and the 2nd expansion Creature Isle. I just gave them a play through a couple years ago. Still really fun.
@@ulipeterson6112 There are online strategies that can fix that. I just sent my creature to influence the fireball village, while I grabbed the fireballs. When my trained creature converted the fireball village, I saved the game. Then, i hurriedly solved the fireball puzzle, stopping the fireballs. After that, it was kind of easy. Save Keiko was easy. Defeating Son of Sledge was easy. The only problem was stopping the fireballs as fast as possible. I ignored the gremlins.
"So uhhhh killing babies is a legit strategy"
Never knew Black & White was so much like Dwarf Fortress
All migrants please meet near the Atom Smasher
Thank you for doing this game! Hands down one of my favorites ever, and no one I meet ever played it so was beginning to think I imagined it
This game was a fond memory of my childhood. My Dad would play this on his Pentium 4 equipped Compaq Presario he named "Eleanor".
@Beck2Wolf I believe it was named after the Mustang in the movie Gone in 60 seconds. I had misspelled the name, my apologies.
I loved this game when it came out, funny the way lgr described it is pretty much my exact experience with the game.. A modern port is needed badly
Black and White as we know it is unlikely to get a remake. There is an indie start up however looking to get the genre and feel of black and white up to modern standards by roosevelt games, simply called gods. Don't know if it'll go anywhere but I'm hopeful.
@@ikkyino there also some guyes trying to get funding to make black and white 3
@@ikkyino is love to get a two point hospital revival of black and white, same Consept and gameplay with some design changes so they can use a new name
Too bad this game didn't survive. Was one of my favorite when I was young :(
Not sure what that's meant to mean but there's a fan patch that gets it working on modern OS's.
I just started getting back into this game after having only played it as a kid, i'm so glad you made a vid on it. There is so little retrospective stuff for it.
Oh the nostalgy. i have some feels now that i didnt have in the past decade. Thank you for remembering me to this gem :D
I would like a remake of this game
I would like a 3...
Black & White 2 is what you're looking for if you want a "remake". Better graphics that mostly holds up. Gameplay is streamlined. It has good humor... It's in most parts, a better Black & White experience. It lacks the mystery of the first one and it's more a very simplified mix between Sim City and Age of Empires... But at least you can play it without asking yourself "what am I doing ?" every two minutes.
The remake is Starcraft, in a different world and different supplies.
@@mauricobian and different gameplay. And different genre. And different time. 3 years earlier to be exact.
@@-Zakhiel- Have you tried to play it recently? When i did, it was impossible to get it running because it relies on some online verivication crap. The servers for that have been
shut down a few years ago
Oh my lord. The video we've all been waiting for. Thank you LGR!!!!!!
Glad you chose to play the intro scene uninterrupted in its entirety. Always thought that was superbly done. One of the best intros to a game ever.
I LOVED this game!!! Thank you for playing this on your channel!!
9:30 I just remembered about that sidequest the other day and was trying to remember the song. Thanks for the earworm for the next 3 days, LGR :P
11:05
I've played this game 3 times over a span of 17-18 years. It's one of my fondest nostalgic gaming memories.
I just found out about the existence of traders...
This was my favorite game when i was a kid, easily in my top 3.
Loved this game back when it came out. The graphics (especially animation), music, and sound effects were phenomenal. And fantastic voice acting at a time there was either none or you wished there was none. Lots of unique and interesting UI choices. Proper onboarding when most games expected you to read the manual. This game felt special.
The swedish dub of this game is an absolute gem.
That, and the Swedish dub on the Playstation version of Diablo 1.
Weirdly in Norway the main game was only released in English, but the expantion pack was only in Swedish.
Italian dub too XD ! Every person have a different dialect. I'm singing today the boat song!
the german version too! i liked it more than the english version that i got later xD
even the sailor song is darn good in german :)
@@kapa1611 THe Sailor song is an immortal classic, no matter where you are from.
@@MagicMaster667 100% true
I was a Bullfrog fanboy so when this game was finally released I was WAY too excited, and my expectations were probably unrealistic. I was never able to get into the game very much back then, but I think I'm ready to try it again. Thanks for the video as always!
Hell YES! Ive been waiting for you to do a Black & White review.
B & W is one of my all time favorite games, probably cause of nostalgia. I remember playing this every single day, having dreams about it, and craving it while I was at school. Just watching this makes me want to bust it out of my closet and play it again.
Great video!
same! i recently started playing again and it's wonderful :)
if you want you can check out a video of my giant village and the neutral creatures i put on the map :) /watch?v=bwL8xL9-lSA&t=0s
I remember getting this game the day it came out. I'll never forget it! Such a mind-blowing game!
Ah yes, I remember having to beat the shi# out of my cow because he wouldn't stop eating villagers
Lol
My vegan activist, rebellious tiger wasn't any easier to handle. It simply refused to eat babies, even when they were directly handed to it, but would happily toss them behind its back, down a steep hill.
I fed villagers to mine
you'd be a good parent ;)
There is something about these videos I find so relaxing. Its the nostalgia aspect but also how calming his voice is.
This has quickly become one of my favourite RUclips channels.
I recently rewatched most of your old videos and it's impressive how you've constantly upped your game so to speak in regards to production quality, comfort in front of the camera etc, and yet it's still distinctly your style from day one up until now.
I tip my hat to you Sir, most content creators can't pull that off.
Thank you!
@@LGR You're welcome. I have to say though, I do miss the beard sometimes :D
Oh boy, guess here we go again for my playthrough roughly every five years.
This game just has some indescribable magic - If you like it, you'll love it. I don't no a single strategy game where I remember the characters as fondly. From the sailors to the goddamn monk that didn't wanted to be followed.
The whole gameplay is just so relaxing without a focus on micromanaging every second while still being challenging in another way.
If only there were more modes like skirmishes. I really liked those 4 gods fighting over control setups
And the music just gave me goosebumps again, especially that flute.
Amen! no pun intented ;)
I remember playing this game thinking this is the peak of visual effects in video games lol
eidle eidle eeeee.. man this brings back such sweet god-mode memories.. nearing 2 decades now.. thank you for a trip down memory lane..
Wow, thanks for the nostalgia trip! Played so much of this when it came out.
That intro still gives me chills.
The inside of the temple still looks amazing. At ca. 8:00.
I remember I was astounded by this, though I never had the full game or quite a good enough PC myself (well, the latter I got later, go figure).
YES! The inside of the temple was one of the best parts of the play experience. Really anchored a feeling of a home base of operations. Also loved how as your village populations grew your villagers would start wandering around in the temple looking at stuff. Could not understand why B&W2 got rid of the temple altogether =(
Fantastic, in-depth look at one of the most memorable god games of the early 2000's! That may seem like really oddly specific praise, but what can I say? You did a wonderful job, LGR!
Ugh, this game has a special place in my heart. Thanks for sharing this :)
"Lethys my ally, you have failed me. I, Nemesis, arrive to take control."
OSHIIIIII-
I remember the accordion singers, which always made me smile. It makes me want to make up a dumb song every time I want a miracle to happen.
I sit and watch your videos like a marathon of my favorite tv show
Thank you for this! I never got round to trying Black and White back in the day.
This was the game that, as a kid, really made me excited for the future possibilities of gaming. I was too young to be disappointed at all.
yeah we really used to think things were going to keep developing on the lines suggested by the innovations of the time.. we had no fuckin idea those were the last gasps of new ideas.
Peter Molyneux pretty much invented the God game and tried to keep it alive. One of many interesting PC genres of yesteryear that are now a distant memory.
@@jamstonjulian6947 distant? Godus was just a few years ago, to bad he abandoned it and left it a wreck.
@@informitas0117 The only reason anyone has heard of Godus (and most haven't) is because of the usual Molyneux controversies surrounding it. I wouldn't consider that evidence that the genre is alive and well.
"God hand" *Music from the action game "Godhand" starts playing in my head* Oh god this is getting out of hand.
Now, there are two of them!
Haha
_Hand_
God power keeps my pimp hand strong so trust me oh you won't last very long ♪
@@MidnightBlueRed Dragon kick your ass into
the milkyway! (Milkyway),
Don't act like you don't like
the ball buster (Ball buster)
@@DivinityOfBLaze My arm, my arm, my arm, my arm, my arm, my arm *WILL SUMMON UP THE POWER OF THE GOD HAND !*
I return to this game every few years to replay it. It still one of my favorite games.
Just as how I remember it haha, good old memories. Awesome video.
never played it but i sure as hell remember all the Hype ADs in gaming magazines
I wanted to love Black & White so much! I thought it was such a cool idea.
I played it numerous times and the bugs made sure each time met with a furious end.
It's weird, I got the game on launch played it for hundreds of hours an I never saw a bug. So I'm probably not very perceptive when it comes to bugs.
I'm shocked this video is only 3 months old? I could've sworn you'd done a video on this series yeeears ago because it really seems like something you'd enjoy haha. Well, glad it's out now, great video! That game fascinated me back then but I couldn't figure it out lol...
Glad I found your channel. When I was a young asshole 9-14 . I remember reading about so many of these game through my PC Gamer subscription but I never had the money to get'em or had a PC that could play'em. It's cool to look back with a retrospective lens to see if they were actually any fun and how they played. I literally just did this with the game Freelancer. Was so fun though it felt like playing a stripped down 'Ship Only' version of Mass Effect. Gonna go comb through your channel now..thanks!
In LGR doing Duke Nukem voice:
*The glove is back*
Those of us with common names who entered it at the beginning were treated to a terrifying paranoia inducing whisper e.g "daaaaaviiiiiiid".
This is one of the most bizarre games I've never heard of until today. Not uncomfortably or creepily bizarre, just pure, distilled strangeness. That along with it being oldware, I can see a lot of this game fitting snug into something vaporware related.
Thanks for covering it, though, LGR. There seem to be tons of weird games that time forgot being discovered as time goes on, and I eat this stuff up.
Just found this at goodwill today...so excited the play
funny, after all these years i still remembered the boat guys song xD i played B&W alot also B&W2.
Still waiting for Good Old Games to put this on their store.
Aw man, it took me a hot minute to find my old copies of the first and second games. I was worried I had lost them for a moment there. Loved this wacky series growing up.
Slapping virtual cows, and choking the virtual chicken. This one holds a special place in my gaming history, great video
Wow, I used to love this game!!! Then B&W2 come and I was so dissapointed! The creature was totally neglected, even your powers, you could win each mission just building an amazing city and turning every person in the map to your side, or building armies and conquer them. It became a medieval Simcity...
Also, I din't know you could enter the temple lol. The tutorial was extremelly basic and there were lots of thing you had to learn by your own. The 4th mission with the fire storm was painful... I was so glad when I could beat it.
This was one of my favorite games when it came out.
I don't think I ever finished the campaign in this game, and your review nails the reason for that. It draws you in at the start with the unique gameplay, but wears out its welcome with frustrating controls. You feel like you're fighting the game to perform basic actions. Watching you struggle to draw the heart symbol took me right back to that frustration. It's an ambitious but very flawed game. Thanks for spotlighting it!
Great review Clint!
"You are dark, Luke."
"That's not true... That's impossible!"
I played this game on my ex boyfriend's PC back in 04, I was staying at his folk's place for Christmas and New Years and he had to work late, so he introduced me to the game and I sat there playing it from late afternoon when he left until sometime the next morning when he came home and he's like "Whoa, you're... still at it?" I hadn't even eaten dinner or anything, didn't even notice the time. Just like when I used to play the Sims.
I can't seem to get pulled into games like this anymore. I also got soul sucked by the sims and other games on the past but even games I've been excited for these days just don't hook me anymore. I wish I knew why.
@@sexycavetroll2788 Its called growing up and its something you have to accept
@@sexycavetroll2788 Same thing. Work and other hobbies have pretty much taken over. Not gonna complain though, I wasted a LOT of time on videogames when I was younger.
this was some nice nostalgia, thanks!
I implore you review Black & White 2, you've done a phenomenal job reviewing the original.
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Ooooh, I remember these. I threw stones at their boat and then threw all of them in the sea :D
Same. Serves them right for singing about something else than me
If this game was remade nowadays can you imagine the potential it would have? Even for just an indie developer?
insert credit card for miracle
Yes I can imagine angry Twitter dwellers and "news" titles be like "Outrageous game not only allows, but encourages sacrifices of children" and the whole studio would've been canceled.
@@toreadoress don't be ridiculous, much worse stuff continuously exists.
This was such an odd game! I loved it! I had totally forgot about how you had to pet or smack your avatar, HILARIOUS!!! I'd definitely play a modern version of it.
I loved this game back in the day. I actually have it installed in my current PC. haha...I always found it satisfying grabbing some fish or grain and watching them accumulate...then drag and drop...the trees turning into lumber. I always used the Tiger creature.
i agree :) it's oddy satisfying xD
if you want you can check out one of my videos, i like to build huge villages and have neutral creatures running around (like Gorillas and Ogres xD)
/watch?v=bwL8xL9-lSA&t=0s
I remember this game. Had fun with it, despite its oddities. Had more fun when I realized the skirmish map data was stored as plain text and could be edited in Notepad.
Tried to play the game not long ago, but found it would not work on my modern system; for some reason all the textures were mixed up and text displayed all wrong.
same. And the campaign map data was also in plain text and could also be edited to your heart's desire. Which I did.
That was true for all the maps. I remember changing some things in later story maps that I found were BS difficult rather than fun difficult.
My favorite part is the creepy soft voice whispering “Deeeeeaaaaaath” every time a villager dies. That’s not unsettling at all to hear as a 17 year old playing the game alone at night with headphones on. 😆
My sister and I still make jokes/references about that.
they got rid of that in a later patch unfortunetly :(
i love the game too tho. i've recently started playing it again, if you want you can check out my big village and fun Neutral creatures i have running around (including a Gorilla and an Ogre xD)
watch?v=bwL8xL9-lSA&t=0s
Wow what a nostalgic blast from the past! Loved playing God in this game haha
Man, I used to play this game all the time when I was a bit younger. I remember when it came out, and I used to run over to my friends house where there was a computer strong enough to run this game. I still love playing this game from time to time, and got a serious itch to play it again now after this review lol
cowsmacking and cowbelly rubbing. THIS IS THE CONTENT I'M HERE FOR.
You know, I was God once. I saw, you were doing so well until everyone died.
Ahhh I remember this game...😍 Thanks LGR
Oh jeeze that song from the ship guys. I played that game so much I had that memorized word for word in the early 2000's.