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I love how the protagonist is able to play the flute, an instrument that all but requires 10 fingers to play, despite being down 2 fingers on each hand.

This wild man actually did it....

I remember at the end of the first Deadly Premonition, York tried to entice Zach into a new adventure by describing strange events in New Orleans, including people who only walked backwards. Perhap those people were simply trying to bypass clunky tank controls.

The first thing that attracted me to Bioforge was the minimalistic cover art and the great graphics. Magazines back in the day would classify it as an adventure game and it's an accurate description. For some reason Time Commando's clunky combat always reminded me of Bioforge's.

One of those 90s obscure games that deserves solid remake (Bad Mojo and Interstate 76 anyone?). Controls are ****, but the atmosphere and overall style is unmatched!

One thing that must be admitted about the alien rival is that his persistent will to live is admirable.

the backflips got me, best game 10/10

If you're looking for more obscure 90s tank control games that aren't survival horror, check out Dark Earth. The game mechanics remind me a lot of it.

Since you gave emphasis on them giving emphasis that the game was revolutionary for using mocap at the time. Seeing the cyberraptor's animation, I'm getting this hilarious suspicion that the cyberraptor was also mocapped. Using some dude wearing that inflatable dino suit.

"Bioware" is just a name EA has retained for marketing purposes. Anyone who had anything to do with Bioware during their heyday already departed, years ago now.

Ecstatica video would be interesting. Another forgotten horror from the same era.

Wasn't expecting the Giant Bomb segment but i too will link them forever with this game, the people who mattered got out relatively unscathed, but what it's become isn't something i want any part in. The Bioforge playthrough was a magical time.

Remember when giant bomb covered this and Vinny had this little back flip flute playing ritual when he killed a bad guy

So true about Giant Bomb, thanks for talking about it and explaining what happened.

welcome to the bioforge..................................retrospective.

To me these are the games that should be remade, old forgotten titles with alot of potential. Whats the point of remaking classics that more often than not hold up really well anyway? The visual style is awesome and the setup seems quite intriguing, if you adapted it to a more modern gameplay style, adventure game, fps, rpg, whatever, but kept the aesthetic and plot, I think it could turn out to be a really cool game

15:24 - I'm in my 40's, so I often get up in the middle of the night to "drain a coolant down the shaft" as well. Usually it's first thing in the morning though. -EDIT- There usually aren't any raptors.

The commentary on giant bomb is so spot on

Any chance of covering Project Firestart? It was one of the first survival horrors; you need to emulate a C64 but it's well worth the hassle IMO.

Interesting fact since someone went that far to test it, if you dont help Dane to die and instead come back to him way later to show him the photo of the Women, he will say "Who´s she?"

this reminds me of kalisto's Dark Earth somehow

Press F to pay respects (the F stands for Flute)

Visually the game looks super cool. I also miss adventure gaming mechanics, like the little details of seeing your face on the screen, commenting on the world and objects...

Hm, needs more *flute*

No wonder you died after planting the bomb, since you are supposed to run and not walk backwards since thats faster.

Conan had an episode of clueless games with Bill Hader?? I know what I’m watching next! I find both of those guys so funny and talented.

I remember my dad had a copy of this when I was released, I think it came bundled with a PC. I tried it a few times but lost interest due the controls so I never saw anything past the fork.

immediately holds the flute wrong

7:10 Nah, Voidburger's cool

I wonder if you could design a combat system that took this concept from this game of having full body control and went for a turn based approach. You and the opponent move simultaneously and it's up to the player to anticipate what kind of attacks will be coming based on the way that the opponent is posed at the end of the turn (so you'd have variations for standing and crouching and wind ups for each limb, as well as stunned states, so you would pick the action that best fits what you expect them to do. The depth would come from feinting where you or the opponent can bluff the next move to bait out a chosen response and then hit with a perfect counter, such as prepping a sweeping kick, but as they jump to avoid it you do an anti air instead for extra damage) I'd say that you could input a stance change or movement, plus one combat action per round (with feints being a full action but rewarding a successful bluff by giving you the next round unopposed for a free hit and a potential combo.)

Never heard of this one before, what an awesome discovery Cheers b

Oh, I forgot Dan Ryckert left Gameinformer for Giant Bomb to do mostly video stuff. Did he do similar stuff at Giant Bomb he did at Gameinformer? Things like the real bad game Super Replays that I miss very much? Gameinformer is a complete shell of its former self now sadly, feels like they are barely hanging on. There's just no need for game magazines that will have weeks or even months old info in them anymore. I think Kyle Hilliard is the only one left at Gameinformer that I would consider to have been part of the classic Replay crew. Kinda weird to think Dan is a streamer now.

I read the video title, I listened to your explanation and I watched your footage. After doing so I have but one question. What the hell is even that 👀?!?! Seriously you've covered some weird games before but this felt like a fever dream in the most unique way possible. I guess I'll be rewatching this one later today since I just woke up 30 minutes ago 😅

What an interesting game. Is the GOG version any good?

2:39 That blue dude totally sounds like Kingpin from the Daredevil series.

Man try Ecstatica. Similar vibes as this game but much MUCH more well done.

the thing i liked about silent hills tank controles were that you were not planted to the spot during combat

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I have no idea what that segment in the middle was sorry, you lost me nice first 5 minutes tho

Weird that they didn't port it to PS1 after ResidentEvil's success.

I played a shareware version of this when I was 11 and it freaked me out. A severed arm.

26:05 HAHAHAH

The game itself is interesting, but when the gameplay is to painful. I know that there were different standards in the past, but you could have made it a point and click, that would have been more pleasant for everyone involved.

He best game made by the human race.

I don’t care about giant bomb

Great video

Figured Giant Bomb would come up, surprised there was a whole detour. As someone who’s kept up with them, I’ll actually go to bat for the current line up. There was a rough transition in the early pandemic when they lost their identity of having an office/studio and became just a bunch of at-home streamers like everyone else on the internet, but they’ve got top tier chemistry with the current line-up of Dan, Jan, Jeff, and Mike. Not saying it’s the same as the old days, but it’s a different flavor of similar highs.

Giant Bomb lost me when they got insanely progressive. Get woke go broke

Yup. This game, full box, my brother kept it safe all these years. I bought it at release but it was almost impossible for 13yr old me. Because i didn't see any cool locations, the game was so ugly i almost forgot it even existed.

What does giant bomb have to do with anything?

thats a cyber t-rex, not a cyberraptor -- LIES

That Mercante rant was so frigging cringe. She's basically all that is wrong with gaming journalism. Her political agenda is more important than anything, she spends seemingly half her time insulting and aggravating male gamers and of course she's too afraid to actually back up her statements from her rant, regarding being willing to fight KZfaqrs who are on the other side of the divide. She even blocked one of the women who wanted to take her on.

Seeing Elyssa Mercante at 7:23 in the video confused the hell out of me because that monster's design looked too cheap and uninspired when compared to the rest of the game. I figured it was just an extra boss fight thrown in at the end of development but from what I've heard every time you accept the monster's challenge it just runs away and blocks you on Twitter. Oh well, I guess it's for the best since she probably smells as bad as she looks. Thanks for the great video to start my weekend with and Happy Father's Day.

Reminds me of Kotor

"But, back to ranting about BioForge." Do you have to? Can we rant about Shenmue some more instead? Fucking go find me some sailors, Boulder Punch! You can't? Why didn't you just go to the one bar in the town that _isn't on the fucking town map?_ That's where they are, it's so obvious! :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD That clip has serious only gotten better with age, with the absolute train wreck that Shenmue 3 turned out to be.

7:13 "insufferable personalities" i.e. the only woman. boooooo

Leave that like sub comment watch time to support 😅❤

the giant bomb blathering actually soured this video and gave it a manbaby screech stink. weird, sorry to see it

I'm not accusing you of anything, but when your criticisms of Giant Bomb's change of personnel is accompanied exclusively by footage that focuses on cast members who aren't men it doesn't look great. I haven't seen any of the stuff with those people and I respect that you can have a negative opinion on someone without it being rooted in prejudices, but when it's placed in juxtaposition with a period of really high quality output where all of the presenters are male it comes across in a way that resembles the kind of reactionary narratives about diversity hiring that create hostility towards certain people being visible in these sorts of roles. I feel like there may have been an opportunity to call out the corporate influence on who gets hired, encouraging the hiring of people who are 'good for the brand' over the earlier period where it was more focused on getting people who had done good work elsewhere to sign up in a more targeted fashion. The latter has its own issues, because if the industry is mostly made up of a certain demographic of people any hires within that pool are going to fit that existing mold and people outside of that dominant social group who don't already have success will be denied an opportunity to develop in a space where they generally aren't represented. I believe that there could have been a middle ground where people from outside the circle of traditional games media and revolving door of aspiring TV personalities could have been approached based on the merits of their own independent work with less focus on whether said person was going to be compliant with the owners' plan to maintain a cohesive and non controversial brand identity that would play well with the big game publishers. The issue is very clearly not diversity, it's that business interests are causing Giant Bomb to repeat the same profit driven decisions that led to its creation in the first place.

"insufferable personalities" while showing a clip of someone who isn't insufferable I might be reaching here, but if you were hurt by those changes but you honestly need to sit with the grief of no longer seeing the faces you used to for gb (of course this is also before the implosion of it altogether). Nothing lasts forever.

Warframe ver 0.000001

Big OOF when you went on your Giantbomb tangent - sure, give credit to them for making you aware of this game but dude, keep the GG-esque commentary out of these videos. It’s really weird and alienating to some of your viewers. Stick to talking about old games - please. I don’t want to be reminded of terrible stuff the internet has churned out. If this was just something you were testing out and gauging feedback on, then here is mine. Thanks for making great videos otherwise. Take care.

Do we not like women on this channel or something? What's with all this?

Never heard of giant bomb. Dont care enough to look it up. Anyway care to tell me what it was?

Vaguely remember this ancient demo from way back in the DOS days. Pretty good overview here. Also, definitely miss physical manuals 🥲🥲