I agree, reminds me of Gothic 3.

Does this analysis sum up Skyrim or what?

@@jak1165 A lot of open world games :)

Or, put another way: my strange addiction to Cyberpunk 2077.

Honestly that's nearly any game that's widely lauded. I was going to snarkily respond with Dead Souls, but you could say this about Dwarf Fortress or Call of Duty

I'm a fool and stoner who's beat all souls games and sekiro. The souls games are masterpieces... I hope one day Noah will play them and fall in love as I did. I hope the same for you if you haven't gotten around to 'em yet!

think i'm getting that tattooed on my forehead :)

or maybe my linkedin bio

If only more people would say this - preferably in the presence of a lead designer who thinks the original steam release of Dark Souls was the height of game design.

@@GB-sh9st I'm waiting for Noah's thoughts on Dark Souls series too. Did he play them?

That's exactly how I first played Jedi Outcast as well. It was quite surprising to hear that on the video, lol

Back in the day, my CD key was in a ReadMe on the actual disk.

Pretty sure Outcast doesn't have a CD-Key, it just has the Disk in the drive check.

During Dark Forces era was the time that some were worried that video games might be bad for kids.(It was the time that there were complains about the Mortal Kombat and Doom type games for being "violent")

@@DaraG-sn2nj you mean like was still being presented in the media at the time of TFU? People only really stopped taking that seriously ~2017

@@llamaczech If 92 = 1992 = the year you were born, I don't think you fully grasp just how massive the moral panic bullshit over video games was in the 1990s. The US Congress had very serious hearings over the matter, legislation ACTUALLY PASSED and wasn't just impotently gestured towards. It's literally the only reason the ESRB and PAL rating systems exist at all. It was something that society hadn't really dealt with since the attempts to kill comic books in the 1950s for THEIR alleged corruption of the youth. Like, think about it. If my first sentence IS true, then you ARE old enough to remember Jack Thompson and his crusades against video games - especially the _Grand Theft Auto_ franchise. But if you REALLY think back, the guy was perpetually the butt of an embarrassingly bad joke and was never TRULY taken seriously. All throughout the 2000s and the 2010s and now into the 2020s, the notion of video games corrupting the wayward youth has been either a joke or an incredibly transparent attempt by politicians to score cheap political points and simultaneously make it look like they're actually addressing a big societal problem without the presky burden of having to actually, y'know, DO that. Which they continue to do despite the fact that for 20 years now basically anyone with half a brain is able to tell immediately that is what they're doing and most likely will call them out on it. Not quite the same in the 1990s. It was taken much more seriously. The most popular narrative about the Columbine School Shooting of 4/20/1999 (worst 4/20 EVER btw) was that those two kids did it because they got bullied...and because they allegedly played _Doom_ one time. And that wasn't JUST what the usual group of pearl-clutching moralists were pushing, that was what literally EVERYONE ON EARTH believed. So strong was it that even though most everyone knows that the worn-out old bullshit excuse of "kid did horrific thing cuz they played a video game once" is both worn-out AND a load of shit, a LOT of them STILL & TO THIS DAY just uncritically accept the narrative that 2 kids allegedly having played _DOOM_ to some extent at some point was somehow one of the key, primary factors as to why and how Columbine happened.

Eh... First: Lucas had decades to adjust to videogames since then, and second he was refering to the gratuitous merciless fusillade of gunfire. Swordplay is broadly acknowledged as a more noble and moderate form of violence, which is ironically illustrated in the star wars movies by how the more 'civilised' jedi resort to sabres rather than the contemporary firearms.

@@dildonius I don't know that the concern at the level of violence in video games was entirely unwarranted. Certainly the moralist Jihad was way over the top, but the wanton violence in video games was something that had never been seen before. Obviously any effect that they do have we now know to be so minimal that they cannot be detected, but the idea that media can have an effect on the viewer, especially a young impressionable one is emphatically reasonable. 'was that those two kids did it because they got bullied...and because they allegedly played Doom one time.' It was way more than that. He was a hobbyist who retreated into his love of videogames... probably because he was bullied, again.

Funny to see you you here

You are fucking everywhere man

As a former student of history, I am really liking this crossover.

Stop following me 😨

A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.

that was my reaction too when I first found out, before immediately downloading and playing it XD

Same here! I loved the original Zahn trilogy and wish I'd known about this game at the time, when I was youthful and un-jaded and might have had the patience for it.

@@susan_beaver un-Jaded :P

@@susan_beaver Susan, you have the patience.

Mara Jade is also a character in the surprisingly fun PSX fighting game Star Wars : Masters of Teras Kasi . 💜

Imagine if Luke Skywalker, Jedi Grand Master, retreated to his own farm on a lush, green world (maybe even Naboo). And his successor visits one last time only to witness him becoming one with the Force, coming full circle and rhyming with Yoda's death but on a more positive note.

Pro tip : watch movies at flixzone. Me and my gf have been using them for watching a lot of movies lately.

@Angelo Hank Definitely, I've been using flixzone for since december myself :D

@Angelo Hank Definitely, have been using flixzone for months myself :D

@@PurpleLightsaberAlex Pro tip: those three comment about "flixzone" above my comment are probably dumb bots. This comment thread wasn't even talking about movies to begin with. Like wtf?

I don't know why, but I'd really like to hear him talk about Jade Empire out of the whole BioWare catalogue. Maybe because it's less talked about and is a more ambitious but flawed game.

Oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please

I was about to say, now that he's touched on Star Wars, and he's already made a Thorough Look on Mass Effect, it's only a matter of time.

@@Davidesrajohn Sounds right up his alley then.

One day we will wake up and see kotor 1, 2, and Swtor. I may go create a character just to look for him possibly getting footage

The modding community for that game was one of greatest ever. It impacted my life in the same way as you, crazy how influential these games were. Hosting a dedicated server and making friends from around the world was some of the most fun I've had in multiplayer games.

That source code leak did wonders for the game's longevity.

@@remembertotakeshowerspleas355 I thought nobody was using that. Thank god they are

JK2 and 3 were such chill multiplayer games. Our clan would often jokingly say that they were the best interactive chat rooms. Honestly though, they were right. And to this day, there is no other online game that mimics that awesome duel-and-talk atmosphere that JK2/3 lended themselves so well to.

@@arnox4554 That's a good way of putting it... I was pretty heavily involved in the Academy's multiplayer for a while... As you say, the "proper" servers were mostly just the local clan standing around chatting and dueling. It was so cool, you'd have all these clan with their own structure of advancement and ranks... Going onto another clan's server truly felt like a diplomatic mission where you'd try to make friends and make friendly relationships between the different groups by beating their best fighters in duels and complimenting their skill.. It was almost like a tiny mmo community. The larger clans I joined even had their own clan map and skins.. good times.

My thoughts exactly when the Winemaking hit.

"It ain't much, but it's honest work."

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I cannot hit "ME TOO" hard enough.

I didn't get the joke :/

@@eternalreturnal There's an older Cap'n Crunch cereal, "Oops! All Berries", which is a box of just the berry-flavored bits from a Capn Crunch + Berry mix. It's easily memeable.

@@DarkThespian gonna look that up. I'm not American, so some of this stuff goes over my head. Thanks!

Please.

"A Thorough Look at God of War and chill?"

"Understandable."

'Really?! I'll be right over!'

Find yourself a girl/guy who watch it with you

...somebody has certainly made love with Noah's voice in the background and I don't know how I feel about that

Brings back memories! Like the first time someone FLEW A TIE FIGHTER into the canyon and smoked us all in multiplayer.

Jedi Knight Academy Lugormod... fuck bro

@@JZjzred I've been trying my hardest to remember what the clans were back in the day. I remember the multiplayer community being absolutely vivid in 2005-2010 era.

man those were the days!

I tried to find clan tags or something from my old hard drive but came short. I'm pretty sure my first player name was Brendan or something like that but later I changed it to the classic "The" with red font. There were evenings when the clans got together outside the Nar Shaddaa map, you know where you could somehow levitate on top of the buildings, outside the actual map design. Also, wasn't there a custom map that someone designed with a Yavin exterior, a mansion of sorts with a hamster dance song constantly playing? This had to be pretty late in the "boom".

Hahahaha that's awesome

You got the good ending just by using saber throw? How tho?

@@geoffreyparker2786 I think the good ending is to throw the lightsaber away and stop fighting.

Hey, good luck with your long day. Hope you get a real break today.

As someone with chronic migraines I can relate.

I can relate. The worst part about migraines is that nobody seems to really know what they are or why they even happen. Migraines don't make any sense...

@@jakobrenner2230 Yeah, it‘s a bit disheartening when you go to a specialised clinic and they tell you that migraine is still poorly understood.

Wasn't "Dark Troopers" what they called the jetpack troopers in Star Wars: Battlefront 2? Were they supposed to be related to these other "Dark Troopers" or is this just a coincidence?

@@kenjen9861 they had to invent a "Phase Zero" to justify those Dark Troopers in-name-only

Also he punches and kicks you like a savage. Modders always let you do his melee movies in multiplayer servers as well. You could just stunlock a guy and repeatedly punch them in the stomach. It also allowed for Movie Battles 2's hilarious melee combat

galactic sam neil lmao

The actor who played Kyle in the 1997 game did take up wine making methinks

Didn't rouge one ensure he was written out.

Jason Court, indeed makes wine but has acted recently & is on KZfaq. Almost all of the comments are about his Jedi Knight role & I am there for it.

@@drifter402 I think you could probably assume it was the DS2 that he got the layouts for, with the aid of many Bothans :P seeing as were already in the land of headcanon.

I'd love a "stoner mode" in games that keeps most of the challenge intact but removes bullshit environmental deaths and the like.

@@sawbonesquad4876 Oh gravity, my mortal enemy! I shall get revenge one day! Oh, a shiny object behind a ledge! Let me just...

@@sawbonesquad4876 thats called "incompetent mode"

The end of the game always stuck out in my memory, probably because of how long it took me to solve that puzzle. I spent hours trying to get good enough to beat Kyle, only to finally realize that the real path to being a Jedi was in not fighting. Replaying it as an adult, it's easy to see how flimsy the narrative was, but as a kid with a bigass imagination to fill in all the blanks, it was a powerful moment. I only beat the game once as a kid, rare for me but it's a savagely unfair game so also pretty much expected, but it always stood out in my memory.

I remember looking that up when "Rogue One" came out. I had been confused on that point. Also, this video reminded me that Kyle Katarn played role in stealing the plans. I'd played "Dark Forces" back in the 90s, but forgotten that detail.

@@JonathanRossRogers wasn't there a few ppl in legends who stole the first plans of the death star??

@@kevinvassago I expect there are multiple stories about who stole the original Death Star plans. The only two I'm currently aware of are those in Dark Forces and Rogue One.

Didn't Palpatine actually ALLOW them to steal the plans, so the Rebel Fleet would attack at Endor? Using it as bait for his trap.

@@JonathanRossRogers There were something like 6 different versions of how the death star plans got stolen in legends and they all contradicted each other. The Death Star tried to consolidate them and explain the inconsistency by saying each mission/story stole a portion of the plans. So Kyle in Dark Forces only stole part of the death star plans while the characters of other games/books stole other portions and R2/Leia put the pieces together. It's a cheesy retcon to explain away allll these different versions but it was pretty much the only solution. I'm grateful for the new canon mostly not stumbling in such obvious ways like that.

I’m in the same boat, I grew up loving Star Wars but haven’t really enjoyed it until watching The Mandalorian recently and getting back into it. I was just old enough that something about the animation style of the Clone Wars put me off but I’ve started watching it recently and it’s really better than I thought it would be.

@@colt547 The Mandalorian had a similar effect on me! I was kind of whatever about it when it was announced but I ended up enjoying it (especially seeing !SPOILERS! Ahsoka!)

Clone Wars eventually became everything I wished the prequels could have been. Fantastic show!

I feel that. Disney ruined it for me.

If we established mandatory pre school with walking lessons, within a generation people would think you need to go to school to learn how to walk

I can only hope that I live long enough to see both Noah and Mandalore making KOTOR I and II reviews.

Perhaps he's waiting for the KOTOR remake to come out first?

@Nagger All we know is that it's happening, and it's being worked on by Aspyr Media. There was an interview about a week ago that confirmed it. It'll be the same story but with a slightly different approach to the genre, akin to FF7 and its own remake, apparently. Just look up 'Kotor remake' and there's a bunch of articles about it. Of course, it might all be fake or it might all not go anywhere, but still.

@Ben Falk I kinda hope Noah doesn't go for it. If he ever covered KOTOR I think he'd feel obligated to cover SWTOR as well, and I really don't want that beast to kill him.

@Nagger It'll probably end up being more of a reimagining/reboot/whatever, but a lot of people are adamant that it does exist

I had to rewind the video to make sure I heard him right. What a time to be alive.

I know right? a real nostalgia bomb

Seriously, "For those who remember..." took me somewhere

I was thinking "This man is about to drop more knowledge than I've seen on any 5 other channels combined!"

Same here, must've seen it a few dozen times in the days before my family bought their first DVD player.

_Warning: above is a sly attempt at advertising a channel_

@@colin-campbell A man gets a few subscribers and suddenly he can't comment on a channel anymore? Pish posh.

@@H3Vtux KZfaqrs haven’t had the best luck recently with the moral high ground, wouldn’t you say?

@@colin-campbell Not really sure what you're referring to. But I was commenting on videos long before I was making them. I'm also not so sure how much being verified matters rather than just having a lot of subscribers. I think YT just pushes high sub count channels. I noticed after getting around 70k subs my comments were constantly getting traction, getting the checkmark didn't seem to change much.

@@H3Vtux Why you simply need to Google what I mean in order to understand.

I always found the guns better than the saber against non-jedi opponents for the first third or two thirds of JK3. You get shot at less when not running in close and the blaster deflection is just not good enough until you get either fast style or level 3 deflection.

Pistol, Bowcaster and E-11 are all trounced by the Disruptor rifle. Shotgun is redundant to saber+Force powers. Most bosses are Sith and don't take kindly to most weapons. Ion cannon, yeah, that's true. In the end though, it doesn't matter because in JK2/3, almost all the guns feel like GARBAGE. Which is really weird considering the original Jedi Knight had some damn good gunplay.

@@arnox4554 I found matters the opposite. I never played DF1, but I found that DF2/JK1's gunplay was not as good as JK2/3's. It was better compared to the saber, but with DF2/JK1's saber that's not exactly a high bar to clear. The E-11 is the E-11. It sucks because it's designed to suck because of stormtrooper accuracy memes. A game's gunplay should not be judged by a joke weapon. You should not use one except on that one level in JK3 where your pistol is taken away along with your saber. There's a reason soldier Kyle starts with the pistol in JK2 while pilot Jan chooses the Spray'n'Pray. A lot of the other weapons have more useful alternate fire than primary. I'd almost never use pistol, repeater, or bowcaster primary fire, but I do use their alternate fire. Yes, most bosses are jedi, but for most of the games the most problematic opponents outside of the bosses aren't. They're the jetpack troopers you can't reach to stab, the guys with the unblockable disruptor, and the ones that look like the elementals from Battletech, the Trandoshans that show up with repeaters when you still only have level one deflection in JK3, and guys with explosives. Non-boss jedi don't become really troublesome until near the end of the Doomgiver in JK2 or the latter part of V'jun in JK3 and I don't recall that they ever cheap shot you like the big armored guys or get as annoying as jetpack troopers.

@@nathanbrown8680 Although I could definitely argue about the practicality of each gun in JK2 as compared to saber+Force, as I said, it's just that the guns themselves don't feel right at all. In JK1 they had a lot of impact and oomph to them, but in JK2, a lot of them feel like peashooters to use. Here's something to do. Get a copy of or watch a video of Unreal Tournament in play and look at the weapons and how satisfying they are. Or, hell, even Quake 3 will work. And then look at the JK2 guns in comparison.

@@arnox4554 If you mean the first UT I played some of that way back and I can see what you mean. I just don't think DF2/JK1 has any more of that quality than JK2/3.

Describes my entire beef with Rise of Skywalker

Moooom! It's the iconic Noah! I'm going to spit my chocolate milk mommy!

Saw this in my notifications and I was legit all like 🤩

New *movie* from Noah

hell yeah!

@@hayk3000 Zack?

Fair point, also I don't hate "soulsborne" as a name, it's just as silly as "metroidvania" as made-up words go

Soulsborne is just a horrid term imo. Even "Blood Souls" would make more sense than "Soulsborne".

I think "Soulslike" has much stronger staying power and linguistic reach than souls--borne ever will.

@@z-beeblebrox Thing is that "Soulsborne" was created by fans to include Bloodborne into the fold, quality of title be damned. Even as someone who prefers Bloodborne, I find it silly. At that rate they should be renaming it "Shadowsoulsborne" since Sekiro came out.

@@fraundakelmbrilpondaprost90 and that's why I don't think the "borne" part will last. Only dedicated fans will care enough to use it

amen brother!

Most stormtroopers have no souls apparently. Even the brainwashed child soldiers ones. Weird I know, but it does make killing them easier.

@@SuperPal-tr3go "When we fight, you make them not people, so their death doesn't stick to you." "Yeah. Picked that up in Seheron. Gotta keep it separate. Out here, anything could be a threat. You kill 'em for the team, no questions asked." "I see it. A wall of wounds. Nothing on this side has a family."

The biggest problem with Luke in JO is just how easily he dies unless you save him. They should've made him invincible

What do you mean, she's featured in the stellar comics from Dark Horse and also several books I believe? (Never read any of the books post VI)

What does it mean?

A far more satisfying ending.

@@ClunytheScourge1 It's also reflective of the ending to MotS. This time you're the fallen one.

We all wanna pretend it's Dark Side drip but we all know it's crayola, bro...

@@FrankLoon you can be forgiven because most people don’t have the instruction manual with these back story details.

@@philipchurch8772 We can also just pretend it's scars he received when he wrestled an AT-ST with his bare hands. It all happened in a deleted montage, trust me on that one.

Also, Shadows of the Empire was maybe thge greatest EU novel. Zahn was the man.

There’s always meeting at Denny’s at 2 in the morning and talking about that philosophy class we took back at community college.

Yeah, but I'm happy to let it slide.

Many bothans? No, see it is commom mistake... it was a guy called Manny Bothan