All ima say is lost planet 2 was one of the best coop games to play on 360 that wasnt gears of war or halo. Fighting giant kaiju’s with 3 others was so fun @Andy - Insp. Magnum should make a video covering lost planet 2 clearly alot of people loved it and would most certainly love a video retrospective
The missions were insane as well. Running around to reload the giant train gun... to shoot another giant train, while fighting a giant bug monster. Glorious.
I literally just bought Lost Planet 2, since it's my favorite game I played when I was a kid, playing it again, I see why I completely adored it. God I wish they would bring it back.
@kampfer91 It's on steam, but you can't buy it because Games For Windows Live was shut down. I doubt they'll actually ever get around to fixing it. It's been gone for over a year.
I’ve never played a Monster Hunter game, but the movement in Lost Planet made me realize why people loved those games so much. The rolling, the weight/momentum of the movement, the pushback from explosions… Everything felt so crisp! I must’ve played both LP 1 and 2 for over 1000 hours!
I don't know if I'd say crisp for Monster Hunter stuff. There's good design intent there, but a lot of it ends up feeling like bad clunk due to unbelievably jank hitboxes and your character sometimes orienting themselves entirely wrong
Monster hunter is one of my Favorite franchise wirh +1k hours in it. The animations are really similar. Also the overall feel for the charakter is comparable to the old gen monster hunter titles.
@@skullnumb1532 thats another good series, its crazy that us ravens are getting another game this year! But yeah, the designs from that series are awesome as well
Hi. Very often I'm disappointed by "retrospective" or "analysis" type videos where 30 to 50 minutes go wasted on shallow descriptions of whatever it's on screen or superficial takes on the game overall, sprinkled with "humor" to make the video digestible. This video is super refreshing in the sense that it's informative while not completely diving in on systems, game philosophy or design, while also providing surface level remarks about gameplay, story and development history. Your takes on T-eng, VS controls and design, details like mech fights and such are just enough, and help to highlight aspects of the game that deserve the attention. Your "this rocks/sucks" views are all backed and feel fair. Overall great video about a great video game.
well for the one that want this game you can't have the colony edition (the online) and the second game on steam, capcom say they do something but it will be almost 2 year with no respond
@@Ytnzy250 Never played 'em. LP2 looks interesting, way more arcadey. LP3 my brother got for the PS3 but he told me it sucked so I've never played it, it did look pretty boring, and nothing like the original
Going back and playing Lost Planet 2 fairly recently I get some crazy Monster Hunter vibes from it and I love it. Wish they would bring Lost Planet back with a reboot of the franchise.
The off center cross hairs is 100% a balancing mechanic and I think it works perfectly. It prevents you from unloading both weapons on a small target, while larger targets are big enough to be hit by both guns. It also encourages you to bring two different weapons to cover situations/enemy types. Lastly if you are dead set on wielding double machine guns the technique here is to fire one until it's empty and the shift to the other for continuous fire. It's a nuanced system, not a bad one.
I didn't mind it but the one downside is that they had to dedicate the 2 shoulder buttons of the XBOX360 controller to quick turning left and right 90 degrees. Otherwise, turning around would be too slow unless you upped the view sensitivity. It felt a little off for a 3d person shooter.
I also like it's presentation, when your firing your character doesn't rotate their whole body for minor aim adjustments, in addition to that, It gave me an old arcade vibe, like a free controlling time crisis or somethin
There is also a weak spots on the VS's - mainly unarmored joints, which allow you to kill mechs much faster. For example - the VS miniboss at the end of the bridge on the third level can be quickly dealt with by the standard machine gun if you will shoot at the leg joints, it even have a special effect and sound to let you know that you dealing more damage. Oh and headshot-kills will make enemies drop their weapons.
I can't believe someone is talking about this game. This was my shit when it came out, and I recently replayed it like a week ago. I remember spending so much time in the pvp multiplayer.
i’ve noticed capcom does this the best. Resident Evil and Lost Planet have real genuine movement for the characters instead of tracks with an animation.
I played this game when i was a 10 yrs old kid and i loved the design of the akrid and the eerie feeling of being in knee deep snow, with my thermal energy constantly depleting and with the thought that a giant animal could come out from below the snow at any given moment. I also remember thinking “wow this game is so awesome I wonder how games like this will be in the future”. Well now i’m 24 and games like this are no longer around, they are more focused in skins, lootboxes, multyplayer and mobile gaming 💀
I was 13 when I got this game and would wake up at 4 AM to play online before school... once I got stuck in a 3v11 match when people switched teams right before the game started. I made top 3 in kills and got invited to one of the top tier clans in the game.
Its crazy how I was just looking to repurchase LP1 and LP2 the other day and questioned why is no one speaking about this game and why is there little talk for a remaster? This was a core memory in my childhood and I had so many replays, definitely a fav. Thank you for making this video, hope this video and your channel gets the attention it deserves!
I actually got an invite to the Lost Planet 2 press release event in London. It was heald in some werid old venue under some arches. Was super fun. Got to chat to a lot of the developers some of which came over from Japan. Was a huge amount of fun
i was obsessed with Lost Planet for a time and sadly i couldn't play Lost Planet 2 on its heyday when it had a really cool and active multiplayer community but i still love it since it really feels like playing a sci-fi Monster Hunter
Rushed to get this one out and just missed the deadline by a hair. Anyway, I played around with this video, went back to a more traditional review structure, and kinda played it a little more goofy. Just experimenting with my editing style to see if you guys like it. But happy New Years everyone! Happy 2023! I'm excited to see what this coming year has in store for this channel!
I think I figured out who rick looks like. it's carl from jimmy neutron. we now both must live with this cursed knowledge. also, lost planet 2 is like my favorite third person shooter ever, I look forwards to if you ever make that.
@@manamongmen3381 lmao I will never be able to unsee Carl idk about Lost Planet 2. It was a bastard to get up and running just to record the footage, and even then it had bugs preventing me from saving my progress
I didn't get that high but same.. I think it was the first multiplayer game I got into. On Ps3 there was this South Korean guy I would always run into and he would just dominate every game. It was sick how every player had their country's flag next to their name
proably a good bit of capcoms fucking heads aka thoes above dev teams, maybe even a few dev team managers that are shit. may the day be this name rings with power be the day i rise from death is it NEED BE! if there is a god i will fucking fight and if needbe find a way to KILL god inorder to do this deed
The combat in Lost Planet was solid. I never had any issues with the controls nor did I have to worry much about the cold. New players might have an issue with it but it becomes trivial as you progress.
Lost Planet 2 was the shit, actually my favorite game of all time. Literally got all the factions to level 99 just from replaying the campaign so many times with randoms and friends. I'd give my left foot for even just a rerelease on modern consoles, not even asking for an uprez or anything.
22:41 I think you need to recheck your definition of what a nitpick is because this really doesn't sound like one. I remember this visual effects from explosions drove me up a wall because it actively hinders the moment to moment gameplay. That doesn't sound like a nitpick. A nitpick is something like: "I'm playing a game set in a forest and every once in a while I see a tree pop in while loading the map."
Not to mention you can hit a human enemy multiple times with the hook and it would knock them on their back. It’s not super helpful in most cases aside from messing around with it in multiplayer.
@@OriginalT2APoptart i forgot you could do that, i usually only used it to kill the small flying akrid since if i remember the grappling hook kills them. I could be wrong tho its been awhile
I have been trying to remember the name of this game for about 5 years. Raked through every game drawer in my house and even old hard drives couldn’t find it. This randomly popped up on my feed. You my friend are a legend !
Lost planet 2 is one of my favourite games of all time so this series has a special place in my heart for just how simple and fun it was. Fighting Kaiju in a Battlemech is incredibly satisfying.
I remember really liking the game back then due to the weighty animations and movement. In a way reminds me of why I also liked Demon’s Souls and Minster Hunter, it was more “realistic” (veeeery loosely) and made you think before you jumped into combat like a madman
48:44 oh my god, this has aged like fine milk. Dark Souls? FromSoft is incredibly successful. CDPR? I mean, I liked Cyberpunk personally, but it did them no favours, let's be real. Zelda vs Skyrim? Yeah, please. "It just works" Howard vs "I bought a switch just for BOTW" Aonuma. And then Vanquish, which turned into a cult classic vs... bulletstorm. Which I don't think many people even remember. Gravity bone's pretty dope, though, I'll give 'em that.
I think I can chime in on the whole western games vs Japanese games at the time. I remember it pretty well. There is some truth to the claim that Japanese games were lagging behind, although it largely depends on the metrics used. Like just looking at profit, yeah nothing Japan made at the time came close to Call of Duty money. They weren't even in the same ball park. Big Japanese companies also had a sort of identity crisis at the time that definitely impacted the quality of their games. It felt a lot like how some games struggled to transition from 2D to 3D. Felt like many Japanese companies struggled to transition to bigger budget HD games. Of course the moment those companies realized they just need to keep on making the same games they had always been making did things change. It's ridiculous some devs laughed at Japanese games though, no excuses there, that guy is just asshole. I've always been playing mostly just Japanese games and that era really was dark times. Maybe because of the state of things, games like Lost Planet shine even more brightly in my memories. I loved Lost Planet, the sequel too. Almost imported the weird Japanese spin-off too. The demo of it was pretty cool. Thanks for highlighting this series. I surprised there isn't more love for these games especially since many of Capcom legacy series' are regardless pretty highly after a certain period of time has gone by.
I find it interesting that many of the criticisms leveled against Japanese games at the time are till very visible in contemporary titles. Terrible UI, sparse world design etc. But they still power through on the fundamentals really well, and we can see the influence of Japanese game design spreading because of it.
It's actually unbelievable to see someone make a video about this game, I remember everyday I came back from school to play this for hours when I was a kid and the only games I played was ratchet and clank and this and lost planet 2 (and 2 is by far my favourite game of all time) but it's just nice to see that it hasn't been completely forgotten!
Lost Planet Colonies was one of the most fun online gaming experiences I have ever had. Like, the variety of game modes; including a massive version of Manhunt & the Cryptid vs Human modes were up there, for me, with Custom Games on Halo 3. One of the funniest moments I have in gaming, to this day, is when me and a buddy were Fugitives; and he fired a random rocket toward where the hunters spawned. Friendly Fire existed in that mood, they had thought we spawned close and killed eachother in a panic. It was golden.
You made a video about this lovely game, it hammered my brain with bright nostalgia-filtered memories of clunky robots, the weird-feeling aiming system, and my powerful obsession with unlocking all the playable characters for multiplayer. I will never tire of the snow/mountain pirate aesthetic. Andy, you're a fiend. Please continue.
Lost Planet 2 was the best. I still have fond memories of being on the sandship and fighting that giant ass sand creature and the other big creature fights in other areas. God I miss this game. And did Capcom predict the future? Eisenberg looks like the pineapple pen guy lol
Halo is an FPS. The two guns aim at the same target because the projectiles come from your visor. In third person this does not work. You would clearly be able to see the tracers leading back to the same point, destroying the immersion of the perspective. Even if you zero both guns to aim at the same point at the maximum available engagement distance, about 100m in Lost Planet, they would still hit two different points at any distance closer than that, which makes it even more confusing to figure out where you're aiming as you could point directly at center mass of your target at 10m and light up the snow to their left and right. So they just had both guns point straight ahead and made the dual reticle so you can see what's going on with a complicated CCRP line or something to visualize your zero
Man I loved playing lost planet 2. Even still play it sometimes with playstation plus premium. The game is just so fun and the bosses were all amazing. The railway gun and nevec canon *chefs kiss*. Probably one of the best things is that the game did the in game cutscenes in real time so you and your friends would see your custom characters in the cutscenes. It was so good, I don't know why your throwing shade at the second game, its become an underrated classic
I started to write a piece on lost planet in 2018 & never finished it but ever since then I've been seeing more and more people talk about it and I love it im glad to know more people enjoyed the series great video.
I’m commenting before finishing the video but I’ve got to say this. The grappling hook was honestly one of the funnest parts of the game, you could use it on every mission and it added a lot of verticality to some fights. Getting smacked on by the rolley boys? No worries, just grapple onto the beam above you and hang mid air and take them out. Definitely gave you options when dealing with the Akrid, that’s for sure!
God the sound effects for this game still holds up. Can't express how much love i have for this silly game, I remember just playing the multiplayer demo over and over again when I was a kid
played it for the first time a couple years ago- LOVED it! nobody told me it was so dang mech-heavy! 2 owns as well- i was originally put off by the multiplayer focus, but it's fully beatable (with some... train luck) solo. hope Exo-Primal ends up even half as good as Lost Planet 1/2!
I LOVE this video! I got the xbox 360 for my 9th birthday back in 2010, Lost Planet was the 1st game along with Viva Piñata that i had. The game was difficult, beautiful and now it’s so nostalgic. Last year I remembered it and had to search it on the xbox game store, and it’s there! I bought it and have completed the campaign 3 more times already. A true childhood memory
This game was so good, and LP2's campaign making you feel like you were always online with a group of friends, even better if you actually had friends to mess around with, were so memorable for me. I loved the campaign of LP1 and the gameplay was always fun and unique. LP2 just built on that and it was even better
I absolutely loved the multiplayer in this game(s). I miss the feel of playing this series, swinging on a grappling hook around a corner, taking out the other team, and returning to safety on the backswing and disconnecting.
We need to have our voices heard so we can get a remastered or remake of this game. Sign petitions and do anything so that Capcom can see and hear to motivate them to make a remastered. I loved this game and miss this game a lot! 😢
I mean Capcom's pretty much on a roll in the last 5 years or so, DMC got a sequel, Dragons Dogma got a sequel, RE1-4 getting remakes and possibly more in the future.. just wait after they release DD2 and RE4 remake maybe then they'll remake Lost Planet too
lost planet 2 is one of my favorite games of all time. i STILL distinctly remember staying up til 2 am with my brother playing it and getting in trouble over and over again. And nothing has ever scratched the itch like this game has for me.
GOD I LOVED THIS GAME. My childhood friend had a mom and step-dad that were SUPER into world of warcraft, like not to be rude but like that one dude from south park leaning back in his chair. So my friend got one of their old pc builds and I got to play lost planet on it. Dude that shit was amazing and such a fun environment snow and cool guns, crazy to think I was 7 years old then, now im 23
Man. I remember I could afford the game. But I had the demo. It was the first thing I downloaded when my family got dsl in like 2006 or something. Memories.
I just grabbed colonies edition for xbox, in their store. Multiplayer features are so dope including playing as an acrid! God I gotta find a community still multi playering this game on the regular! This or LP2! These continue to be my all time fav games of all time.
I'd argue that the giant worm encounter is the best part of the game. You start out in a VS all comfy and confident. And all of the sudden you're thrown out instantly and see this towering monster come crashing out of the ground. You're told you have to run away and fighting it is hopeless. So you gotta run to this shelter which is a MILE away as this thing is literally tormenting you. Such a rush.
2 is still a very strong game however they missed the ball with its overall story and animations gameplay etc. Overall the first and second game hold a very special place in my heart.
Pleasantly surprised with this video. I thought it was going to be mostly about just the game but your talk about the state of the industry and Capcom at the time was very interesting and shed a lot of light on plenty of Capcom's later decisions. The 7th console generation was so brutal, I'd say even some big companies like Konami never truly recovered from it. I personally don't think Japanese games were outclassed by the western ones but IJapan was struggling with adapting to new technologies at the time but their craftsmanship and nuanced mechanics were still king. It is a real shame that the lesson so many devs took was just to streamline everything and appeal to everyone.
The Lost planet series as a special place in my hearth. Lost planet 2 was one of my favorite games as a kid. I hope you'll make a video about that one too
I remember playing lost planet one and two and loving the Vidal suits, the atmosphere and really inspired me to draw, not only that but lost planet 2 multiplayer is still the must fun you can have with 4 people
Lost Planet was the first seventh-gen game I ever played. It was only at a mall kiosk, but I remember being stunned by the scenic snow levels and blend of on-foot/mech gameplay. It’s what I think of when someone mentions the Xbox 360- not Halo or Gears. While LP3’s gameplay was bland and unrecognizable, I still think it had terrific voice, acting, cinematography, and atmosphere. Worth looking up a cutscene compilation on RUclips, at least.
Yeah despite playing like a knockoff Dead Space 3 (oh no), Lost Planet 3 imo had the most likable characters, the best story and it really nailed the atmosphere at points. To bad it wasn't all that fun and the mech combat was kinda just a glorified quick time event.
I loved Lost Planet 2 as a kid. I had no context or understanding of the gaming industry, or sales, or journalist reviews, etc. I hadn't even played the first game in the series. I just played it for myself and had a blast. The grappling hook, the mechs, the Akrid, the huge boss set-pieces I still remember to this day? So awesome, I had never played anything like it. And oh my god, the weapon variety! I remember clearly how they had this jackpot system where you'd spend these orange box currency items you picked up in-game to receive random new weapons and there were so many to choose from. I spent so much time trying out the new guns, jut replaying levels. Half of them were these joke weapons that either did no damage, had totally unique effects, or were like a pistol with one bullet in a magazine but fired like a rocket launcher that knocked you off your feet. I miss that variety and creativity.
I remember playing this when I was younger and being horrible at it. I gave up at the big work fight. I finally beat it last year finally and I’m glad I did.
I started with Lost Planet 2 and adore how it used setpieces, it’s goofy charm and aesthetic, and it’s general improvements to gameplay, but 1 is also a gem. Both those games and Dead Rising are some of my favorite Capcom games even despite their background in the company
Lost Planet 2 is still an amazing time even now. It has a VERY dedicated community even today on PC and the servers are still very alive and active. It's a fucking outstanding time in multiplayer and one of the most enjoyable co-op experiences
I loved this game as a kid, I ended up revisiting it and i ended up falling completely back in love because of the universe it presented. When I discovered this game I just discovered the world of Mechas, I had just bought my first Gunpla when I came across a trailer for LP2, and I immediatley got my hands on the demo, and I HAD to have more. I ended up getting Colonies, I think I got it for free or on a discount, but at the time it got way too tough for me and at first I couldn't finish it. I ended up revisiting it a couple years ago and even with its flaws I still love both games, every now and then I boot one up and I still manage to have fun.
Sensing a bit of accursed farms in that intro, really liking the video format too. It feels like somebody telling you about a game calmly instead of a 10 minute hyper-edited video.
This game was pretty popular when it was new and half of this planet played it. Good video, your descriptions about the game and it's gameplay are on point!
Lost Planet 2 is one of my most played games, I've played it on PS3 multiple times on every difficulty and never got tired of it. I loved the environments, huge set pieces of action and the new bosses. I hope one day we get a re-release of some kind
My friend and I discovered Lost Planet at the local GameStop around 2007. We would do nothing but pass the controller back and forth playing that game for days. Once Lost Planet 2 came out we would play co-op campaign. I always loved those games because they felt like a Japanese arcade shooter (especially the first one). Nothing else at the time really felt like that and it was just so awesome!
I cant remember how I was exposed to Lost Planet, but I have some awesome memories playing Lost Planet and grinding Lost Planet 2 with my brother, even today I still go back to play some of my favorite missions
I hate to admit it, but the sequel to this game is the reason I love the style of draped over the shoulder coats ever since I was a kid. I lived in Minnesota but any chance I got with a coat I would just wear my coat and not use the sleeves because I thought it was the coolest shit (and still do). I remember my parents trying to warn me/stop me from doing it because "older women do that" or nowadays its a "woman editor look". But I refuse to budge and I want to make a lost planet cosplay of it just to make people see how cool it is.
This game had me hooked its concept is so cool, gathering a bunch of thermal energy for the mechs.The storyline around the team is very dramatic and heroic.
I found that these games are perfectly palatable when you embrace what they are, a combo of Capcom style with anime pacing! Made me find the plot more endearing this way
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All ima say is lost planet 2 was one of the best coop games to play on 360 that wasnt gears of war or halo. Fighting giant kaiju’s with 3 others was so fun @Andy - Insp. Magnum should make a video covering lost planet 2 clearly alot of people loved it and would most certainly love a video retrospective
its one of my fav games of all time i love it alot
Yeah its underrated AF. Very few games incorporate coop gameplay as good as Lost Planet 2. I don't get why people hate it!
I loved the weapons system
The missions were insane as well. Running around to reload the giant train gun... to shoot another giant train, while fighting a giant bug monster. Glorious.
Yo Lost Planet 2 was my jam.
This game had AMAZING particle physics, smoke effects, snowy wind, etc.
Yeah, it was one of the first X360/PS3 era games that looked truly next-gen without resorting to a fake prerendered "gameplay" footage in trailers.
I literally just bought Lost Planet 2, since it's my favorite game I played when I was a kid, playing it again, I see why I completely adored it. God I wish they would bring it back.
LOVE IT! Probably the closest we will ever get to a starship troopers game
How the heck you get it , i don't see it anywhere on Steam .
@kampfer91 It's on steam, but you can't buy it because Games For Windows Live was shut down. I doubt they'll actually ever get around to fixing it. It's been gone for over a year.
Did the opposit for me 😅
@@tubeguy4066 you should check out earth defense force
I’ve never played a Monster Hunter game, but the movement in Lost Planet made me realize why people loved those games so much. The rolling, the weight/momentum of the movement, the pushback from explosions… Everything felt so crisp! I must’ve played both LP 1 and 2 for over 1000 hours!
it was design with MH in mind
I don't know if I'd say crisp for Monster Hunter stuff. There's good design intent there, but a lot of it ends up feeling like bad clunk due to unbelievably jank hitboxes and your character sometimes orienting themselves entirely wrong
Monster hunter is one of my Favorite franchise wirh +1k hours in it. The animations are really similar. Also the overall feel for the charakter is comparable to the old gen monster hunter titles.
Yeah wish we had a Monster Hunter with modern weapons and Mecks like Lost Planet
@@Assassin5671000 yeah that would be so dope. Huge potential.
The mech design in this game is top notch
HELL YEAH!, unfortunately I haven't found anything too close to the style it had...sadge
MechAssault meets dead space.
@@coatgoat5110 armored core
@@skullnumb1532 thats another good series, its crazy that us ravens are getting another game this year! But yeah, the designs from that series are awesome as well
Facts! Nothing was cooler than hopping into a Mech with your friends holding on to the sides.
Hi. Very often I'm disappointed by "retrospective" or "analysis" type videos where 30 to 50 minutes go wasted on shallow descriptions of whatever it's on screen or superficial takes on the game overall, sprinkled with "humor" to make the video digestible.
This video is super refreshing in the sense that it's informative while not completely diving in on systems, game philosophy or design, while also providing surface level remarks about gameplay, story and development history. Your takes on T-eng, VS controls and design, details like mech fights and such are just enough, and help to highlight aspects of the game that deserve the attention. Your "this rocks/sucks" views are all backed and feel fair.
Overall great video about a great video game.
I replayed this game a week ago after letting it sit in my steam library for 10 years. It's a 10/10 and was very ambitious for its time. love it.
I replay this game like once every 2 years and I also replayed it like a week ago. What a coincidence! It's one of my fave games, no doubt
well for the one that want this game you can't have the colony edition (the online) and the second game on steam, capcom say they do something but it will be almost 2 year with no respond
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Are the sequels as good?
@@Ytnzy250 Never played 'em. LP2 looks interesting, way more arcadey. LP3 my brother got for the PS3 but he told me it sucked so I've never played it, it did look pretty boring, and nothing like the original
@@sergio_gyg its story game set about a different setting, its fun just dont expect the exact same as the old games because it was a new team
It's a crime that you didn't even mention the music. Hands down one of my favourite soundtracks
Jamie Christopherson poured his heart out for this series
It’s up there with Halo definitely
The deliberate movement and hefty animations are the best part of this game tbh haha
Yea, it’s that exaggerated Japanese style animation you also find in Final fantasy and other jGames
Very Earth Defense Force
Going back and playing Lost Planet 2 fairly recently I get some crazy Monster Hunter vibes from it and I love it.
Wish they would bring Lost Planet back with a reboot of the franchise.
@@Shishomuru LP2 had the Rathalos armor. I rocked nothing but that once I got it.
@@Shishomuru There's def some monster hunter dna in Lost Planet. I think thats what drew me in when it originally came out.
The off center cross hairs is 100% a balancing mechanic and I think it works perfectly. It prevents you from unloading both weapons on a small target, while larger targets are big enough to be hit by both guns. It also encourages you to bring two different weapons to cover situations/enemy types. Lastly if you are dead set on wielding double machine guns the technique here is to fire one until it's empty and the shift to the other for continuous fire. It's a nuanced system, not a bad one.
Exactly, i feel like he nit picked so much
I didn't mind it but the one downside is that they had to dedicate the 2 shoulder buttons of the XBOX360 controller to quick turning left and right 90 degrees. Otherwise, turning around would be too slow unless you upped the view sensitivity. It felt a little off for a 3d person shooter.
I also like it's presentation, when your firing your character doesn't rotate their whole body for minor aim adjustments, in addition to that, It gave me an old arcade vibe, like a free controlling time crisis or somethin
i thought it made irl sense cause the guns arent dynamic on the mech, they mounted to a fixed position and so have to fire parallel to each other
There is also a weak spots on the VS's - mainly unarmored joints, which allow you to kill mechs much faster. For example - the VS miniboss at the end of the bridge on the third level can be quickly dealt with by the standard machine gun if you will shoot at the leg joints, it even have a special effect and sound to let you know that you dealing more damage.
Oh and headshot-kills will make enemies drop their weapons.
Lost planet 2 was hands down one of the most awesome coop games ever! That game was absolutely incredible!
I agree! The bosses were tough as hell!! You needed all the coop help you could get!
Honestly the bosses were so dope to go through!
@@KC_Smooth Favourite boss? Mine was for sure the giant worm on the train 🫡🫡
That game was the fucking shit lol! 4 player coop mech game... don't make em like this anymore
I played it all the time with my brother, good times
As a kid who loved Starship Troopers, I couldn't help but to also love this game. So many memories!
I can't believe someone is talking about this game. This was my shit when it came out, and I recently replayed it like a week ago. I remember spending so much time in the pvp multiplayer.
Or the vs Nuke, that thing was brutal
bro the multiplayer popped off so fucking hard
2nd the multiplayer, loved the skyscraper level
I spent so many afternoons after school playing the multiplayer of lost planet 2, it's a shame what happened to the third game.
I was a God in multiplayer. Theres no other game like it. They need to remaster it.
The weighty feeling to the movement was something i like a lot since not many games did that at the time.
Yeah im always a fan of weighty movement. Especially when it comes to mechs.
i’ve noticed capcom does this the best.
Resident Evil and Lost Planet have real genuine movement for the characters instead of tracks with an animation.
I played this game when i was a 10 yrs old kid and i loved the design of the akrid and the eerie feeling of being in knee deep snow, with my thermal energy constantly depleting and with the thought that a giant animal could come out from below the snow at any given moment.
I also remember thinking “wow this game is so awesome I wonder how games like this will be in the future”.
Well now i’m 24 and games like this are no longer around, they are more focused in skins, lootboxes, multyplayer and mobile gaming 💀
I was 13 when I got this game and would wake up at 4 AM to play online before school... once I got stuck in a 3v11 match when people switched teams right before the game started. I made top 3 in kills and got invited to one of the top tier clans in the game.
One of the best things about the game was it's insane list of taunts/dances you could get.
*By just playing the damn game.*
@@JustAnOldStone good old days, do you also remember the call of duty emblem editor on bo1 and bo2? Back then we could express ourselves
@@lucignolo8333 fuck even old school halow has that same vibe you play the game and BING rewarded. EVEN IN SOLO! (looking at reach for my experince)
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i don't understand why its not a series anymore the depth of the game and the gameplay was amazing
Its crazy how I was just looking to repurchase LP1 and LP2 the other day and questioned why is no one speaking about this game and why is there little talk for a remaster? This was a core memory in my childhood and I had so many replays, definitely a fav. Thank you for making this video, hope this video and your channel gets the attention it deserves!
I actually got an invite to the Lost Planet 2 press release event in London. It was heald in some werid old venue under some arches. Was super fun. Got to chat to a lot of the developers some of which came over from Japan. Was a huge amount of fun
i was obsessed with Lost Planet for a time and sadly i couldn't play Lost Planet 2 on its heyday when it had a really cool and active multiplayer community but i still love it since it really feels like playing a sci-fi Monster Hunter
We absolutely need a Lost Planet 2 Retrospective
Rushed to get this one out and just missed the deadline by a hair. Anyway, I played around with this video, went back to a more traditional review structure, and kinda played it a little more goofy. Just experimenting with my editing style to see if you guys like it.
But happy New Years everyone! Happy 2023! I'm excited to see what this coming year has in store for this channel!
I think I figured out who rick looks like. it's carl from jimmy neutron. we now both must live with this cursed knowledge.
also, lost planet 2 is like my favorite third person shooter ever, I look forwards to if you ever make that.
@@manamongmen3381 lmao I will never be able to unsee Carl
idk about Lost Planet 2. It was a bastard to get up and running just to record the footage, and even then it had bugs preventing me from saving my progress
Lost planet 2 is bad sequel to this first BUT it’s a great game I think for coop.
@@BunkerDweller How did you get it running? Doesn't it need games for windows live and wasn't that destroyed?
You can still play all the games in the series through backwards compatibility on Xbox one, they all run fine, don’t know about 3 tho
I obsessed over this game back in the day. Was #1 on the leaderboards for a few months as well. I miss this game online.
hey me to! They have active disc servers up rn where we all play you should join!
@@puffergaming9921 what is it
I didn't get that high but same.. I think it was the first multiplayer game I got into. On Ps3 there was this South Korean guy I would always run into and he would just dominate every game. It was sick how every player had their country's flag next to their name
A very deep and interesting write-up. You are sorely underrated.
I miss this game so freaking much. What blood sacrifice must be made for this to get a modern day re-release?
It will require your blood and only your blood. Will you do it for the rest of us? Or live life forever as a Gaymer?
proably a good bit of capcoms fucking heads aka thoes above dev teams, maybe even a few dev team managers that are shit. may the day be this name rings with power be the day i rise from death is it NEED BE! if there is a god i will fucking fight and if needbe find a way to KILL god inorder to do this deed
Closest you get is playing it on series x lol
@@statesmindsand pc
I remember I had the demo on my 360 for the longest time, before I finally played it.
Really a gem of a game that deserves way more love
The combat in Lost Planet was solid. I never had any issues with the controls nor did I have to worry much about the cold. New players might have an issue with it but it becomes trivial as you progress.
Lost planet 2 is one of my all time favorite co-op games. It was so much fun and was challenging.
the online multiplayer was awesome. I miss it a lot. One of their best games.
i actually made a steam group dedicated for lpc matchmaking
Lost Planet 2 was the shit, actually my favorite game of all time. Literally got all the factions to level 99 just from replaying the campaign so many times with randoms and friends. I'd give my left foot for even just a rerelease on modern consoles, not even asking for an uprez or anything.
always love to see vids being made about Lost Planet. Still waiting for the day Capcom realizes the potential of this IP and brings it back.
22:41 I think you need to recheck your definition of what a nitpick is because this really doesn't sound like one. I remember this visual effects from explosions drove me up a wall because it actively hinders the moment to moment gameplay.
That doesn't sound like a nitpick.
A nitpick is something like: "I'm playing a game set in a forest and every once in a while I see a tree pop in while loading the map."
Dont forget with the grappling hook you can hook onto some enemies and ride them while shooting the spot you have grappled.
Not to mention you can hit a human enemy multiple times with the hook and it would knock them on their back. It’s not super helpful in most cases aside from messing around with it in multiplayer.
Yup doing that felt so awesome, grappling on an enemy vs and just unloading into its engine looked so cool.
@@OriginalT2APoptart i forgot you could do that, i usually only used it to kill the small flying akrid since if i remember the grappling hook kills them. I could be wrong tho its been awhile
@@leviblackwell7997 especially tho mibile ones that jump and fly around
I have been trying to remember the name of this game for about 5 years. Raked through every game drawer in my house and even old hard drives couldn’t find it. This randomly popped up on my feed. You my friend are a legend !
Lost planet 2 is one of my favourite games of all time so this series has a special place in my heart for just how simple and fun it was. Fighting Kaiju in a Battlemech is incredibly satisfying.
51:51 I love Lost Planet 2, I didn't expect a gears clone, but I loved the campy humor
I remember really liking the game back then due to the weighty animations and movement. In a way reminds me of why I also liked Demon’s Souls and Minster Hunter, it was more “realistic” (veeeery loosely) and made you think before you jumped into combat like a madman
48:44
oh my god, this has aged like fine milk.
Dark Souls? FromSoft is incredibly successful. CDPR? I mean, I liked Cyberpunk personally, but it did them no favours, let's be real.
Zelda vs Skyrim? Yeah, please. "It just works" Howard vs "I bought a switch just for BOTW" Aonuma.
And then Vanquish, which turned into a cult classic vs... bulletstorm. Which I don't think many people even remember.
Gravity bone's pretty dope, though, I'll give 'em that.
I think I can chime in on the whole western games vs Japanese games at the time. I remember it pretty well. There is some truth to the claim that Japanese games were lagging behind, although it largely depends on the metrics used. Like just looking at profit, yeah nothing Japan made at the time came close to Call of Duty money. They weren't even in the same ball park. Big Japanese companies also had a sort of identity crisis at the time that definitely impacted the quality of their games. It felt a lot like how some games struggled to transition from 2D to 3D. Felt like many Japanese companies struggled to transition to bigger budget HD games. Of course the moment those companies realized they just need to keep on making the same games they had always been making did things change. It's ridiculous some devs laughed at Japanese games though, no excuses there, that guy is just asshole. I've always been playing mostly just Japanese games and that era really was dark times. Maybe because of the state of things, games like Lost Planet shine even more brightly in my memories. I loved Lost Planet, the sequel too. Almost imported the weird Japanese spin-off too. The demo of it was pretty cool.
Thanks for highlighting this series. I surprised there isn't more love for these games especially since many of Capcom legacy series' are regardless pretty highly after a certain period of time has gone by.
I find it interesting that many of the criticisms leveled against Japanese games at the time are till very visible in contemporary titles. Terrible UI, sparse world design etc. But they still power through on the fundamentals really well, and we can see the influence of Japanese game design spreading because of it.
"Western videogame design, number one!"
- Ubisoft
@@oompalumpus699 Ubisoft are french though
Ha was going to say the same thing. I remember it too.
It's actually unbelievable to see someone make a video about this game, I remember everyday I came back from school to play this for hours when I was a kid and the only games I played was ratchet and clank and this and lost planet 2 (and 2 is by far my favourite game of all time) but it's just nice to see that it hasn't been completely forgotten!
I still keep praying for the Lost Planet 2 remake/remaster. I will always pray for its return.
the game was a piece of art...especially the multiplayer.
Lost Planet Colonies was one of the most fun online gaming experiences I have ever had. Like, the variety of game modes; including a massive version of Manhunt & the Cryptid vs Human modes were up there, for me, with Custom Games on Halo 3. One of the funniest moments I have in gaming, to this day, is when me and a buddy were Fugitives; and he fired a random rocket toward where the hunters spawned.
Friendly Fire existed in that mood, they had thought we spawned close and killed eachother in a panic. It was golden.
This game has fond memories for me, I was a 2nd year apprentice at the time. Great memories.
You made a video about this lovely game, it hammered my brain with bright nostalgia-filtered memories of clunky robots, the weird-feeling aiming system, and my powerful obsession with unlocking all the playable characters for multiplayer. I will never tire of the snow/mountain pirate aesthetic. Andy, you're a fiend. Please continue.
Played these games with my step-dad when I was younger pretty good memories
Lost Planet 2 was the best. I still have fond memories of being on the sandship and fighting that giant ass sand creature and the other big creature fights in other areas. God I miss this game.
And did Capcom predict the future? Eisenberg looks like the pineapple pen guy lol
This series was the most fun I've had with my siblings. Especially the 2nd game.
Halo is an FPS. The two guns aim at the same target because the projectiles come from your visor. In third person this does not work. You would clearly be able to see the tracers leading back to the same point, destroying the immersion of the perspective. Even if you zero both guns to aim at the same point at the maximum available engagement distance, about 100m in Lost Planet, they would still hit two different points at any distance closer than that, which makes it even more confusing to figure out where you're aiming as you could point directly at center mass of your target at 10m and light up the snow to their left and right. So they just had both guns point straight ahead and made the dual reticle so you can see what's going on with a complicated CCRP line or something to visualize your zero
This was the first online multi-player game I ever played and I loved it this game holds a special place in my heart
the demo
Man I loved playing lost planet 2. Even still play it sometimes with playstation plus premium. The game is just so fun and the bosses were all amazing. The railway gun and nevec canon *chefs kiss*. Probably one of the best things is that the game did the in game cutscenes in real time so you and your friends would see your custom characters in the cutscenes. It was so good, I don't know why your throwing shade at the second game, its become an underrated classic
Still my favorite game, it has a special place in my heart as my first shooter
I started to write a piece on lost planet in 2018 & never finished it but ever since then I've been seeing more and more people talk about it and I love it im glad to know more people enjoyed the series great video.
I played all 3 games and loved it. I wish Capcom make a remake of it
I’m commenting before finishing the video but I’ve got to say this.
The grappling hook was honestly one of the funnest parts of the game, you could use it on every mission and it added a lot of verticality to some fights.
Getting smacked on by the rolley boys? No worries, just grapple onto the beam above you and hang mid air and take them out.
Definitely gave you options when dealing with the Akrid, that’s for sure!
My first 360 game. I definitely got into it. Multiplayer not so much but had a lot of fun with the campaign.
God the sound effects for this game still holds up. Can't express how much love i have for this silly game, I remember just playing the multiplayer demo over and over again when I was a kid
This game was great, totally needs a reboot or a PC port!
It is on PC, I bought it on Steam and played it last month
Lost Planet came with one of the XBOX 360s I had years ago. It was the first game I ever got 100% completion on achievements.
played it for the first time a couple years ago- LOVED it! nobody told me it was so dang mech-heavy! 2 owns as well- i was originally put off by the multiplayer focus, but it's fully beatable (with some... train luck) solo. hope Exo-Primal ends up even half as good as Lost Planet 1/2!
I LOVE this video!
I got the xbox 360 for my 9th birthday back in 2010, Lost Planet was the 1st game along with Viva Piñata that i had.
The game was difficult, beautiful and now it’s so nostalgic.
Last year I remembered it and had to search it on the xbox game store, and it’s there!
I bought it and have completed the campaign 3 more times already.
A true childhood memory
Meanwhile, Chaos Legion is forgotten by even Capcom fans
Not me
Lost planet was amazing and built my love for mechs.
I’m looking forward to the new armored core game!
This game was so good, and LP2's campaign making you feel like you were always online with a group of friends, even better if you actually had friends to mess around with, were so memorable for me. I loved the campaign of LP1 and the gameplay was always fun and unique. LP2 just built on that and it was even better
The Akrid are almost majestic when they aren't trying to make a meal out of you. It's fascinating watching them idle around prior to spotting you.
Playing this coming from the ps2, I thought this was the best looking game ever made. I remember being mesmerised by the game.
I absolutely loved the multiplayer in this game(s). I miss the feel of playing this series, swinging on a grappling hook around a corner, taking out the other team, and returning to safety on the backswing and disconnecting.
One of the best games ever. Should have never died.
To this day me and my best friend continue to do the campaign for Lost Planet 2 on the Xbox and we always have a fun time
We need to have our voices heard so we can get a remastered or remake of this game. Sign petitions and do anything so that Capcom can see and hear to motivate them to make a remastered. I loved this game and miss this game a lot! 😢
I mean Capcom's pretty much on a roll in the last 5 years or so, DMC got a sequel, Dragons Dogma got a sequel, RE1-4 getting remakes and possibly more in the future.. just wait after they release DD2 and RE4 remake maybe then they'll remake Lost Planet too
@@dantefromdevilmaycry9857 yeah, I hope so..
LP2 will always be a part of me. So. Fucking. Good. Best co op of my life
lost planet 2 is one of my favorite games of all time. i STILL distinctly remember staying up til 2 am with my brother playing it and getting in trouble over and over again. And nothing has ever scratched the itch like this game has for me.
GOD I LOVED THIS GAME. My childhood friend had a mom and step-dad that were SUPER into world of warcraft, like not to be rude but like that one dude from south park leaning back in his chair. So my friend got one of their old pc builds and I got to play lost planet on it. Dude that shit was amazing and such a fun environment snow and cool guns, crazy to think I was 7 years old then, now im 23
Man. I remember I could afford the game. But I had the demo. It was the first thing I downloaded when my family got dsl in like 2006 or something. Memories.
I'll never apologize for this. I loved lost planet one and two
Too bad, that Colonies Edition isn't available on PC anymore, due to GFWL problems, which made this game very hard to even install from Steam.
I just grabbed colonies edition for xbox, in their store. Multiplayer features are so dope including playing as an acrid! God I gotta find a community still multi playering this game on the regular! This or LP2! These continue to be my all time fav games of all time.
I'd argue that the giant worm encounter is the best part of the game. You start out in a VS all comfy and confident. And all of the sudden you're thrown out instantly and see this towering monster come crashing out of the ground. You're told you have to run away and fighting it is hopeless. So you gotta run to this shelter which is a MILE away as this thing is literally tormenting you. Such a rush.
2 is still a very strong game however they missed the ball with its overall story and animations gameplay etc. Overall the first and second game hold a very special place in my heart.
2 didnt feel anything like 1 unfortunately
Pleasantly surprised with this video. I thought it was going to be mostly about just the game but your talk about the state of the industry and Capcom at the time was very interesting and shed a lot of light on plenty of Capcom's later decisions.
The 7th console generation was so brutal, I'd say even some big companies like Konami never truly recovered from it.
I personally don't think Japanese games were outclassed by the western ones but IJapan was struggling with adapting to new technologies at the time but their craftsmanship and nuanced mechanics were still king. It is a real shame that the lesson so many devs took was just to streamline everything and appeal to everyone.
Sad they don’t make as many co-op games like this anymore
The Lost planet series as a special place in my hearth. Lost planet 2 was one of my favorite games as a kid. I hope you'll make a video about that one too
To be honest, I enjoyed Lost Planet 2 way more.
It had virtually no story, but the gameplay and coop made it waaaaaaaaay more fun.
I am praying to God that we get a sequel more like two.
I remember playing lost planet one and two and loving the Vidal suits, the atmosphere and really inspired me to draw, not only that but lost planet 2 multiplayer is still the must fun you can have with 4 people
Lost Planet was the first seventh-gen game I ever played. It was only at a mall kiosk, but I remember being stunned by the scenic snow levels and blend of on-foot/mech gameplay. It’s what I think of when someone mentions the Xbox 360- not Halo or Gears.
While LP3’s gameplay was bland and unrecognizable, I still think it had terrific voice, acting, cinematography, and atmosphere. Worth looking up a cutscene compilation on RUclips, at least.
Yeah despite playing like a knockoff Dead Space 3 (oh no), Lost Planet 3 imo had the most likable characters, the best story and it really nailed the atmosphere at points. To bad it wasn't all that fun and the mech combat was kinda just a glorified quick time event.
I loved Lost Planet 2 as a kid. I had no context or understanding of the gaming industry, or sales, or journalist reviews, etc. I hadn't even played the first game in the series. I just played it for myself and had a blast. The grappling hook, the mechs, the Akrid, the huge boss set-pieces I still remember to this day? So awesome, I had never played anything like it. And oh my god, the weapon variety! I remember clearly how they had this jackpot system where you'd spend these orange box currency items you picked up in-game to receive random new weapons and there were so many to choose from. I spent so much time trying out the new guns, jut replaying levels. Half of them were these joke weapons that either did no damage, had totally unique effects, or were like a pistol with one bullet in a magazine but fired like a rocket launcher that knocked you off your feet. I miss that variety and creativity.
Lsp makes me rockhard. Easily one of the best games of all time. One of the few games i say is a masterpiece.
I remember playing this when I was younger and being horrible at it. I gave up at the big work fight. I finally beat it last year finally and I’m glad I did.
I started with Lost Planet 2 and adore how it used setpieces, it’s goofy charm and aesthetic, and it’s general improvements to gameplay, but 1 is also a gem. Both those games and Dead Rising are some of my favorite Capcom games even despite their background in the company
It was a blessing to have had the chance to play this as a child.
Lost Planet 2 is still an amazing time even now. It has a VERY dedicated community even today on PC and the servers are still very alive and active. It's a fucking outstanding time in multiplayer and one of the most enjoyable co-op experiences
I loved this game as a kid, I ended up revisiting it and i ended up falling completely back in love because of the universe it presented. When I discovered this game I just discovered the world of Mechas, I had just bought my first Gunpla when I came across a trailer for LP2, and I immediatley got my hands on the demo, and I HAD to have more. I ended up getting Colonies, I think I got it for free or on a discount, but at the time it got way too tough for me and at first I couldn't finish it. I ended up revisiting it a couple years ago and even with its flaws I still love both games, every now and then I boot one up and I still manage to have fun.
Sensing a bit of accursed farms in that intro, really liking the video format too. It feels like somebody telling you about a game calmly instead of a 10 minute hyper-edited video.
This game was pretty popular when it was new and half of this planet played it.
Good video, your descriptions about the game and it's gameplay are on point!
Lost Planet 2 is one of my most played games, I've played it on PS3 multiple times on every difficulty and never got tired of it. I loved the environments, huge set pieces of action and the new bosses. I hope one day we get a re-release of some kind
Good video, my brother and I were straight up addicted to lost planet 2 co op, so many hours after school spent there, good times.
My friend and I discovered Lost Planet at the local GameStop around 2007. We would do nothing but pass the controller back and forth playing that game for days. Once Lost Planet 2 came out we would play co-op campaign. I always loved those games because they felt like a Japanese arcade shooter (especially the first one). Nothing else at the time really felt like that and it was just so awesome!
I cant remember how I was exposed to Lost Planet, but I have some awesome memories playing Lost Planet and grinding Lost Planet 2 with my brother, even today I still go back to play some of my favorite missions
I hate to admit it, but the sequel to this game is the reason I love the style of draped over the shoulder coats ever since I was a kid. I lived in Minnesota but any chance I got with a coat I would just wear my coat and not use the sleeves because I thought it was the coolest shit (and still do). I remember my parents trying to warn me/stop me from doing it because "older women do that" or nowadays its a "woman editor look". But I refuse to budge and I want to make a lost planet cosplay of it just to make people see how cool it is.
This game had me hooked its concept is so cool, gathering a bunch of thermal energy for the mechs.The storyline around the team is very dramatic and heroic.
I found that these games are perfectly palatable when you embrace what they are, a combo of Capcom style with anime pacing!
Made me find the plot more endearing this way
I absolutely loved this game when i was younger, its so sad none of my current friends have heard of it