I may Austin I may

Ronda Rousey in that ho?! shiiiiiiiit

For me, Vampire Hunter D on the PS1 predates Devil May Cry.

I would rather remove my testicles with a rusty ice cream scooper than play raid.

You got the wrong Robotnik! The pingas one is Long John Baldry

Marlow Briggs rules, it's extremely enjoyable.

Heavenly sword definitely has that jank. It's a shame we never not got the sequel which basically sounded like a version of Dante's inferno where you're fighting through the "underworld" afterlife whatever. That sounded so awesome.

I got X-Men origins wolverine as soon as I realized it was the same people who developed X-Men Legends 1 + 2 and Marvel Ultimate Alliance 1

I got X-Men origins wolverine as soon as I realized it was the same people who developed X-Men Legends 1 + 2 and Marvel Ultimate Alliance 1

@@MrLachapell The gore and damage not only to enemies but especially to Logan and his ability to regenerate is so cool and well represented in this game. It's not long but it is short and sweet. The only sadness comes knowing will never get another one nor likely a re-release of this one of any kind. (although fingers crossed the wolverine game coming up could be the new king.)

agreed.

Years ago I'd have said there's no chance but with dead space getting a remake I guess anything's possible.

omg me too, I played it on XSX via BC, it still looks decent and plays so well

@@JohnDoe-wq5eu the thing is, Dead Space still get hyped after all this years. Something that Dante's Inferno probably didn't have. There's more potential for it to sell well. Hell, that's why they still remastered older GoW games EXCEPT for GoW Ascension, the only GoW that some might considered as 'failed' Edit: changed remake to remastered

"sniff again"

Exactly

@terminally-online Midnight Suns is surprisingly fun. I enjoyed it.

The problem is you need to specify what sub genre or else people will think you said “soulsborne” when you said “character action”

They’re called Hack N Slash Adventure games.

@@SPFLDAnglerhe literally described 4 different schools of hack n slash and GoW clones being one of the four, less than 2 mins into the video.

Character action games

I feel the same about zelda clones.

" middle budget games" LOL Darksiders 2 had a budget of 50 million dollars thats around 65m dollars in todays value and in spite all that money the game flopped :D Darksiders 1 remains the better one

@@PacificNight888 1 had a much tighter gameplay design and no cluttered gear system to slow it down.

Same here. It might have featured on the DmC clones video, but i'm not sure.

I was thinking the same thing. Also, Ninja Gaiden, but I guess that fits more into a "Devil May Cry" clone.

Darksiders is a Zelda clone. At least the first one

@@rob4222 In terms of the dungeon and world structure, yeah. Bosses too. The combat system is kind of DMC-like on the other hand.

@Rob Amen, I was sitting here on a rebuttal, but it is essentially a LoZ style game, the later interactions were fantastic as well, until it became an isometric shooter.

Also love The Cabin Theme from Friday The 13th NES in this video! Such a good song

Sounds like he was a great and fun Father

Except he mentioned it in the wrong way. GOW is a Rygar clone

Reading your comment gave me chills. I loved playing Rygar on ps2 late into the night with my dad back in the day, as he grew up with Rygar on the NES and was a big fan himself. I’ll always remember those days fondly. May your dad rest in peace.

Sounds like an excellent use of father-son time. Here's hoping you have your own son you can share experiences like this one day!

FACTS.

Then the sequel came along and yikes. Wowee did that game fall off the rails.

I don’t know about incredible game…

I had a lot of fun with it personally -good enemy variety and great environments- as well as LoS 2 in spite of the issues. Went as far as exploring past areas to find all health, Void Sword and Chaos Claws upgrades. The Toymaker still stands out strongly to me thanks to the preceding puzzle, the concept of the boss fight in his area, and the fact he is allowed to walk away alive. The Riders of the Storm were a tough but cool battle as well. Riot Police with their shields and long-distance attacks, as well as the skull head demons that roamed the streets were among the more annoying enemies, however.

I was late to the party on Castlevania LOS.. I played the demo and kind of forgot about it.. However last year I finally remembered and sprung for the whole duology.. I can’t say it was free of GOW influence but Castlevania in essence while the majority are in 2d basically is the same idea.. Hack n slash level up and traverse.. LOS really isn’t all that much different than OG Castlevania imo.. Funny I also revisited Mark of Kri as of fairly recently.. It basically is very much like GOW tho a little less polished.. I just love that style whatever it’s called.. We also gotta give Sands of Time some credit too.. I mean any legit GOW fan would love this essential classic.. So happy it’s being remade albeit delayed..

It's even better the second playthrough once you know about the twist. LoS1 on PS3 was also one of the first few games that had built in screenshots in the art gallery before that feature became ubiquitous.

Its a pretty easy game to clone, thats not a bad thing btw

they arent clones, theyre just hack and slash games what is wrong with yall

@@Easy420skate ik they are hack n slash games but the ones I listed were very clearly gow clones. Devil may cry, lollipop chainsaw, and Bayonetta are also hack n slash but they don't play anything like GOW. The games I said were clones literally take so much from the series. To the weapons, the puzzles, level designs etc. Just look at the gameplay of the ones I listed and compare it to gow and its clear as day what they're trying to emulate.

@@chunky_mustard5312 you're right but some of these games play more like the ones you mentioned than GOW. -And how does DMC play nothing like GOW???? They're both stages with puzzles, collecting orbs, like just visualizing the two side by side they play very similarly but with different aesthetics.

@@Easy420skate Did you see there was a new Street Fighter clone coming out soon? 'Tekken' something or other.

Just like Brutal Legend.

Although...their stories are extremely similar...both were played by gods,both have climbed out hell,both have divine anger issues...and even the goal to get revenge on the gods are the same...Asura is just Kratos in Hindu

@@THED4RKPHARA0H I mean, if you do a reductive description of both characters and plots, then yeah, but looking beyond that, it is far from the truth. For starters Asura was betrayed by the other gods that wanted to use his daughter to harness power, and killed him because they knew Asura wouldn't allow them to kill people as sacrifice for power. Of all the devas he is the most noble, which is shown in character design and lore. Asura never attacks civilians, and his halo is the biggest and more intricate of all of them. His anger is not only born from him, but is the anger of everyone that is suffering, the humans, the world, making him an avatar of their suffering. His feats are never played as triumphs, since they always happen on his moments of most anguish, hence why they always play In Your Belief as his theme. His most powerful forms are form that cause equal or greater damage to him than his opponent (Wrath and Vajira iirc) It is why when he gets the manthra reactor from the fortress that atunes for all manthras that he becomes both more powerful but more stable (Also when Mithra channeled all the manthra from the karma fortress) His tale is meant to be like a myth of creation where a god goes against all odds to liberate humankind and the devas of the cycle, making the ultimate sacrifice. I love both characters, but Asura is on a different ballpark in terms of what is presenting

@@Tetsuito brutal legend is so fucking good. Some of those tower defense type segments got annoying but man I would love a remaster ,sequel, or remake.

What did win ? Elden Ring ?

@@Gatorade69 yup

@@proto6948 Thought so. I don't really care to watch the game awards but figured it would be Ragnarok or Elden Ring. Was hoping for some stupid game like Sonic Frontiers to win, lol.

@@Gatorade69 bro it was obvious that sonic wouldn't win,it doesn't even deserve it

@@typicalfella It's like you didn't read what I said or you are unable to infer tone. "I figured it would be Ragarok or Elden Ring." "I was hoping for some STUPID game like Sonic Frontiers." "I Dont really care about watching the game awards." I think the game awards are stupid. Hence why I said I wish something STUPID would win and just threw out Frontiers because I know it isn't GOTY material. Maybe take some reading lessons or just chill out and don't take everything so seriously.

Definitely, went out of my way to get my hands on the ultimate ed. Of force unleashed just bc i missed it so mucj

I already dont like the voice for hellboy, it just doesn't fit him at all and is very jarring with the dark horse art style

I really do worry, as the animations seemed REALLY jank

It certainly looks good. I'm sure I probably won't like the voice work though as anything that isn't Ron Perlman usually sounds awful.

I am not smart

Technically, he did also voice the silly, AoSTH Robotnik, but only in the pilot episode.

My problem with it was it should have been an action game with light puzzle elements. Instead it was a puzzle game with light action elements. Just waaaay too much time messing around with tedious puzzles and not nearly enough action.

I don't disagree. They could've done way more with LoS and 3D Castlevania as a whole but I still think it was hella rad.

I'm so glad you can still play black and the first and second game on Xbox with BC at high frame rates/ better graphics on series X. Those games are absolute classics.

Ninja Gaiden is like the janky B version of GoW lol

I wanted a Conan sequel where they fixed the issues from the first game. The original GoW wasn't perfect and the sequel fixed those minor issues.

Actually GoW is a clone of Rygar The Legendary Adventure, which was released in 2001 and GoW in 2005 so yeah GOW IS A CLONE

​@jonathanreiher5851 you prob know this but just in case(2months later) they were mentioning the rebranded current generation of god of war games not the originsl hack n slash series

Visceral really did live up to their name no doubt about that. I surely do miss them.

@@JohnDoe-wq5eu yeaaaaah. Them and raven both. Hell I even liked singularity if I'm being honest. Blizzard might be worse inwardly with sex scandles and shit. But like. EA has ground so many great studios to dust or worse. Truly miss visceral, raven, high moon. Gods high moon had their hands in dark watch and that's literally the best ps2 game ever made to me lmao

@@mondayadams8166 I mean it's not hard to find a reason to hate EA these days but the developer graveyard they have is still my absolute biggest reason why I hate their guts as a company. They've killed and destroyed so many good (and in the case of visceral and Raven great) developers and I don't think I can ever forgive them for that.

@@JohnDoe-wq5eu same with Activision if we're being honest

@@mondayadams8166 Absolutely. Activision is just as bad though I have to admit the EA ones hurt a lot more personally.

Exactly. I do wish there was some way to get fixes to that game but it looks pretty obvious that namco bandai or whoever they are these days (I usually just refer to them as bamco) has no intention of resurrecting that game or really that franchise probably. Which is sad because splatterhouse is awesome.

Splatterhouse was excellent, great world and art design,story, and combat.,replayed it a few months ago,it holds up well,from the boss fights to the banter with Rick and the mask,truly a great game

Once I discovered you could turn-off the motion controls it became one of my favorite games. Could have really shined with a sequel.

@@Yup712 it really could of. I played it years ago so I don’t remember if I did figure that out 😂

Turning off the motion controls was the first thing I did. The motion aiming stuff was terrible.

I think Sony themselves did it few favors by rushing it out right next to GoW 2, which at the time of release would have been readily playable on a first edition PS3. When Heavenly Sword ran and played as intended it was easily the most impressive and spectacular thing on the console until Uncharted 2.

@@ElTequilla I think the issue was the original PS3 at launch was so expensive for so few exclusives or must have games and the forced in motion controls and lack of rumble hurt it bad. I know I didn't play the game until well after lunch and by then a lot of it's initial wow factor had been lost to like you said uncharted 2. It was just an unfortunate casualty of the many mistakes of the PS3.

Must didn’t finish the video because they were both mentioned

@@bigismacks if u think I meant wanted to see where they’d go in context to this video I alctually meant in just general cause the splatterhouse reboot and Dante’s inferno both teased sequels at the end of there games that never got made lol.

I would love to see another go at a Splatterhouse game! Make kind of a cross between an arcade game and a survival horror game! Maybe tone down the bulky character design, lose the metal, and definitely scrap the unnecessary nudie pinups.

Its really sad how the whole thing was pretty much dragged down by ONE GUY's insistence. I'd need to re-read deeper on the details, but long story short, the original team was led by the guy who created the mark of kri and rise of the kasai (both very good and unique games too), and he was incredibly insistent on using those two's style of combat control which was his unique approach. Bamco on the other hand didn't want them to use it as they thought it wasn't going to fit the game's style of aggressive combat, and the guy had the brilliant idea to convince bamco to use his style.... by continuing developing the game with his style of combat without telling bamco despite the higher ups telling him to knock it off. Long story short when they found that out they fired him and the team as fast as a vulcan minigun fires bullets and really had to rush the rest of the game with less resources which caused a lot of the issues we do know about the game. Which is a damn shame

I absolutely loved that game. I even got the platinum.

Dantes Inferno was excellent, still replay it every few months,..bought on release day with Bioshock 2..,I've always loved action adventure, hack and slash,..from God of war 3,Dantes Inferno,Splatterhouse,Lord's of Shadow 1 and 2,xmen Wolverine,Heavenly Sword and the Darksiders series,loved all of them..,my favorite genre of games,..wish they still made more like these great classics...

Dante's Inferno is epic, I picked it up one day last year and have loved it ever since. Beaten the game, what was it, 14-15 times now, and I still don't understand how being a GOW clone made so many people throw Dante's Inferno into the dump. A remake that nerfs the Holy Cross and makes the Scythe feel more impactful would be really nice though.

That thing was so much fun!

I was the freak that paid full attention to this on NES even before Zelda.. I absolutely loved it finishing it multiple times.. So I had to get the sequel on ps2 and do the same thing.. In my eyes all these cinematic action adventures are actually Rygar likes👍

Não. Os problemas principais de LoS 2 foram as partes de stealth e inconsistências no level design e narrativa.

​@@dansc86 You can't just say "No" and then list 3 different problems and counting them all as the main issues I mean, I agree with you, all three are issues with the game but you can see why people are not coming to a consensus of what the main problem is, right? I could add to your list that the world absolutely sucks to get around in, thanks to forced climbing sections, respawning enemies and "loading time airlocks" which really kills the 3D exploration aspect of the game, especially when you go for 100% collectibles, and then we'd have 4 problems everyone would weigh differently.

@@GeminiTasiri the "NO" is for the "...lot of them coming directly from LoS1". LoS1 was awesome, a difenret game. And I agree with you too hehehe: the world absolutely sucks! As it turns out, it was a poorly designed game. It should have been grand.

Tales of the Heroes: Twin Brave is stupid fun, especially the parody paths..!

Yeup. I was about the say the same thing. I first heard of Splatterhouse as a TurboGrafx game. I was so jealous that it wasn't on Genesis until it finally came out.

Those sections were actually my favorite part of the game. Incidentally my favorite Unreal Tournament weapon is the Redeemer, my favorite Perfect Dark weapon is the Slayer, and I really enjoyed the sniping sections of Bulletstorm.

The worst game in the series. The PSP games are better than that crying simulator.

​@@mickeymickey9914did a single tear drop out of his eye

@@lolcat the whole game is female whining, slow walking, and re used fights. It's a 6/10

​@@mickeymickey9914 There's not enough preparation H in the world for all the butthurt that you're displaying right now.

I remember renting rygar back in the day and getting all the way to the end and being stuck on the final boss. I have a copy of it somewhere I need to finish it. Also do not get the Wii version unless you can get it dirt cheap.

@@JohnDoe-wq5eu I've been playing it on pcsx2 via steamdeck and it runs great.

@@ItsOver9000Productions Believe me I would if I could. I've really gotta start getting my rig together.

Is Spider-Man shattered dimensions considered a clone

@@mickeymouse7726 I would. Light and Heavy/ close and far range. Grab, dodge system, combos and linear.

Tactical Bacon Productions has a GOW clone video that covers Darksiders, it's got chapters so you skip straight to it since some of the same games are covered in this video too

@@GSainto I just thought that was the most well known clone. And a good game

MayorHairBear has made a pretty great series covering all of the Darksiders games thus far! Would definitely recommend him, he's quite chill and fair in his takes.

I've enjoyed exactly one ad read for RAID and it was wavywebsurf. How he was allowed to do what he did is beyond me but holy sh*t did he burn that bridge down with beautiful magnificence and sarcastic delivery.