my god thats the perfect description

This game feels so much like the stream of consciousness Total-Recall fanfiction of a 19 year old...

On the one hand, that sounds like an interesting game concept. On the other, you nailed exactly what this game seems like.

John Chaser is like the protagonist of some malformed die-hard parody film.

That intro felt like it was just a couple of smart design choices away from being a twist that you were in fact in some weird simulator and you had break out of it as it all started to fall apart. Sort of like the intro to new Prey but this time it was obvious things were fake. But that would be giving this game waaaay too much credit.

Yep, in a way, you definitely called it

@@jamesduncan6729 Incorrect. You were supposed to say something like "Someone did in fact pick up that phone, because you called it bro" in response to that brilliant piece written by Player 10. I'm going to somehow utilize that into a joke in my AI Dungeon Adventure I have going. Fucking amazing, sir. Kudos to you #10.

@@BlackMoonHowls sorry, I will seppuku to regain honor to my famiry 🥷🏻🗡️☠️

ian brandon anderson wishes he was this unlucky

​@@jamesduncan6729is that Lo Wang

I wish more games did tutorials like blood dragon. Funny and even though it was pointless the game just had fun screwing with you

Kojima does the exact same thing lmao

The closet thing I have seen to this is in Serious Sam and Far Cry 1 when it says “press the USE key”. And like couldn’t you have made the text display the key I am supposed to press instead of USE???

@@ItsRawdraft2 jesus i just had flashbacks to playing MGS2 for the first time and seeing that then just having a moment of "FUCKING WHAT???"

HMM YES THE FLOOR HERE IS MADE OUT OF FLOOR.

Unless you are playing Far Cry Blood Dragon

Nah, he should be chasing a guy named John.

Now, that is a game that *delivers*

remember when Chaser said "It's chasin' time" and chased all over the bad guys?

he should've been named John Chasee since he's being chased all the time

Lmfao

Not very familiar with the Eastern Bloc, are you?

Chaser made enemies with the Russians, the Mafia, the Yakuza, the city (if they found out he'd let their water get poisoned,) and still remained enemies with Longwood while the rebels seemed indifferent to his contribution. I think the writer(s) realized they wrote themselves into a corner with Chaser. I imagine they wanted something more heroic -- a last stand, which could redeem itself -- but the deadline loomed, so they just cut it off with him walking into a room of armed men. Y'know, after getting away with being stupid so many times before.

Its a good ending because its a good fucking riddance to the idea of there ever being a Chaser 2

I imagine the devs just made a fuckton of levels in random environments and had absolutely no idea how to stitch them all together, so they had to contrive a reason for Chaser being where he is... and usually that reason is he's a fucking idiot and just stumbles in there.

"Telling the player to go fuck themselves and showing them that their efforts and money were wasted on this game was a stunning and brave design choice." - IGN, 9/10

It kills me that the VA does actually say "you're loser", like everyone involved on that recording day just stopped giving a shit (if they ever did). If only he read it as "you're looser" like it was probably written.

@@LonelySpaceDetective game over screens should read "You're Looser" or "You're Failures"

8/10 GameSpot btw

@@james-ch 8.8/10

@@LonelySpaceDetective wasn't joking btw they actually gave this game an 8/10 lmao

That moment is when we all knew it was chasin' time.

"The John needed to be gone to on multiple occasions, and the going needed be like chased."

“Every Chaser has its John” -John Johnchaser

"No John" - said the radio - "you *are* the Chaser." And then John was in pursuit.

"Those chasers mixed together is definitely like a John."

It harmed me spiritually.

This guy is clearly a more qualified handler than John Chaser: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/i9WEiJCJldfGnoU.html Chaser seems like the type to over-anticipate recoil and just jerk the muzzle upwards every time he fires, like an actor using a static prop very poorly.

Yeah well it was made with kraut space magic, so it is fitting that it is in actual space.

I feel like this game is tryna earn points with obscure weapons. Like the Colt Commando which I'm going to assume is the M4 commando as the magazine was clearly 5.56 and not 9mm. I guess they did okay there with the shorter barrel, but who knows with some of the modeling in this game. Mike Gomez ends up shooting the player with what looks like a Calico carbine except the magazine is absolutely massive, like half the diameter of the character model's face. The hexagonal magazine is a giveaway but the scaling is wtf. Then in the next scene it is scaled much smaller, with very short barrel and can't tell if the stock is collapsed or missing, cuz he's using it like a pistol (maybe this is a real configuration, just not what I'm directly familiar with). I'm surprised I even caught that, it is barely even shown, but the frame and the magazine are very iconic. Weird that it briefly appears around the same time the game switches to sci-fi weapons, but then again the Calico has had some brief tenure as a go-to laser rifle prop in movies like the Ewok spinoffs (I think they also used spraypainted super-soakers, but it's been a while). It probably would've had a longer screen career as a futuristic weapon, but the P90 seems to have moved into that role.

Well it's not exactly no recoil but stack 3 shots of recoil into the last shot

Alas, also forgettable.

"I really, really want to tell a story in my video game, but I don't know how to tell it *with* the game, so I'll just stop gameplay every half hour to talk at the player for 5 minutes of unbroken amateur hour cutscenes".

Tbh HDTF is not as forgettable as this piece of garbage, and if anything the plot is a bit better. Not defending Michel here, but at least he is not as stupid as John "Walking in a bar and said he is wanted" Chaser. Same goes with the plot, it is vastly more dumb than HDTF... But yeah, at least the game is complete, even though it is unplayable asf...and unlike HDTF, there is no one fixing this mess.

@@XFGHL78E Well yeah, that's what I said. HDTF was hilarious. This game doesn't have as many cool moment, nothing like "you fucked up my face", not even "special thanks to Hideo Kojima" at the end. But Civvie will probably remember Chaser more sharply due to all the suffering he endured.

Oh, and whatever they try to fix in HDTF, one can't fix stupid.

I'm gonna wreck my escape vehicle on purpose

"Cowabunga, nerds. Laters." *spine implodes from impact*

It's John -Cena- Chaser! _doo do-do-doo!_

It's like a Tyler Perry movie. Tyler Perry is Tyler Perry starring in Tyler Perry's Tyler Perry movie with guest stars Tyler Perry, Tyler Perry, and Tyler Perry. From the person who brought you the last Tyler Perry movie, Tyler Perry.

Tom Cruise presents... a Tom Cruise film... Tom Cruise as Tom Cruise in TOM CRUISE

@@poposterous236 Tom Cruise encased himself in a cube of his own piss for Mission Impossible 12

a variation we did as students was "John Pavement is... Keith Sidewalk in... Roadside" I mean it didn't have to be that. we improvised based on the locale

Indeed, the entire mechanism was basically on a spring. It loads the rounds into a rotating cylinder with multiple chambers. When you fire, the barrel and cylinder move backwards together until all the rounds are discharged, at which point it hits the end of the spring's travel, and all the recoil is delivered to your shoulder at once. It is quite literally the point of the design. Nato countries attempted several weapons all built around the idea of a single trigger pull putting multiple shots into the same target. They tried stuffing two bullets into one case, multiple barrels, everything you can think of. The G11 was arguably the most successful design.

It’s not that it doesn’t have any recoil, the burst system is just able to fire 3 rounds before the felt recoil reaches the user. Recoil is still there, it’s not anything with recoil compensation because firing in burst still kicks, it just manages to put down three rounds before the gun jolts in the user’s hands.

It also was supposed to use subsonic case-less ammunition if I remember right. The concept for the weapon was to put a ton of lead on target, with as little recoil as possible.

@@sorrenblitz805 Caseless, yes. Subsonic, definitely not. The primary rounds traveled at approx 3 times the speed of sound.

@@coaxill4059 The Russian military also tested a design like that in the late 90ies with the AN-94, that would delay felt recoil for the first 2 rounds. The system worked but it was ultimately too expensive and complex for mass adoption.

i discover it in the last chapter and i did it better without it

On a technical level, slavs have produced some really impressive games. Game design, however, is an illusive beast seen only a few times, like in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone

@@madmanmortonyt4890 It really makes me want to see Slavs and Brazilians band together to make a game

@@arandompasserby7940 you dont. As a slav myself, you dont want us to band with Brazilians

What's wrong with brasilians

Combined they would simply be too powerful

I would still put it above Kreed. :/

You deserve a bottle cap

I miss InsideGaming too man

I knew if there was no reference to Inside Gaming in the comments, then my place in the world was truly gone. The reference is the first comment. Today was a good day.

"Laugh all you want but when we are making Chaser 6 and 7.... *laughter* idk... I will be homeless then!" - Jo Wood to himself

Aye aye Cap'n!

I thought it meant "Chico".

Chaser can't totally be translated, it's more like "the one who chases"

And to think, some people would complain about John Galt as Lo Wang...

LOL THE TRANSLATION

@@M8tallicJi8ngshi I usually don't look at the translation, but I just randomly did and was both confused and amused.

Such perfect parody of Boston accent, Civvie definitely live/lived there or somewhere not far away.

I read this comment right as civvie said it. 😂

"Never give up on your dreams! Especially if your dream is a dirty syringe!"

You're laughing now, but when we're making Chaser 6 and 7 I won't be homeless then!

Don't forget Dorkus!

@@SlamdogX RIP Dark Dorkus, atleast he was wearing his birthday suit.

I CAN FEEL EVERY BULLET TELL MY WIFE I LOVE HER GOD NO

Writer1: He chases some bad guys, so I gonna call him the chaser. Writer2: That is not a name, it is not even an occupation Writer1: Alright, how about John Chaser? Writer2: Whatever, we change that later anyways. *Morgan Freeman voice: In fact, they did not changed it later

Queet wheenin'

John Chaser literally sounds like a Vinesauce meme

​​@@KingThrillgoresounds like the name of someone one them would make in an MDickie game. Then they get their ass beat in a half a minute in

Forget the -cannoli- sushi, get the gun

@@oz_jones For dishonoring the Yakusa, you shall commit -seppuku- tiramisù

I also liked when "Yakooza" finally adapted the original title of its video game series. It probably would have helped with everyone going "But why is it called Yakooza, if Kee-Ree-Yoo isn't part of the Yakooza most of the time?"

@@deadliestvice5356 you guys talking about the kyrioo 7 game where you deck yagootsa with bicycles?

The seven wasn't even a mainline game until someone from the localization team decided for it to be. It's as main line as the Mortacci (dead souls) series.

Yahgootsa Key-whammie and it's sequel is also brilliant.

My favorite is "Yahgootsa: Ayy get outta here before you wind up dead, yer worth less then worn out soles'

It also happened at 19:38 and 20:09, each time with Shimako's arm on her model being different than the arm that gives Chaser the Spider or the TalkCard. Her model's arms are sleeved with black gloves, but that other arm is neither.

I tried like 10 times to do the frame by frame on mobile on .25x speed and i couldn't get it, thank you

Oh shit, I scrolled down the comments to see if anyone had done the work, didn't find anything, spent 10 frustrating minutes trying to get the frame, and now that I'm scrolling through the comments after finishing the video, I see that I had given up two comments above yours. Oh well

You’re a saint

Thank you I’m on mobile

?????????

Same here, I was so very excited to see Civvie do a video on this game and all I could think of were the good old videos and jokes from those guys. Those were the days....

Gonna binge watch that in September before my final semester starts

Just aint the same since literally most of the crew left

Aye aye pappin'!

Hope you got your Mars Property TShirt when you had the chance

They were good times

"You think i'm going to spend it on drugs!" "No one said that, Joe"

loved those videos

Oh man, was just thinking the same thing! I'm so glad to see others remember the good ol days of inside gaming. That crew got me to laugh during a rough time. How much time as passed now and what has happened since then. But I still laugh at the name "dorkus"

DORKUS

Lol metal gear!?

He never drops that poison into the water supply. That happens only because the mafia people initiate the shootout with the raiders. What is weird is why Vallero later once refers to this all as Chaser's screw-up for no reason.

"For the past few hours I've been called Chaser." **seconds later, in the same conversation:** "My memory only goes back a few minutes."

His narrative flow is kinda like Forrest Gump, except if he had terrible luck, worse reasoning skills, and actively made everyone around him *forget* what love was. *In space.*

To be fair he did start the game being brainwashed so his brains are probably scrambled.

Is it possible to learn this power?

Fucking same dude, those were the days man

Pt Dorkus reporting for duty!

@@SwanMGSYT ah, I can hear James’ voice now

I wonder how JoWood is doing, I hope he's eating good in the dumpster

Oh yes thanks Civvie for the Inside Gaming Chaser memories. Well... After this back to the Armitage channel.

Everything else is par for the course

alright mafia boys, get your berets and power armor on

The display screen was pretty neat though

Its way too budget for the mafia

It's like seeing Tony Soprano in the Situation Room at the White House.

Quit winning!

You see a lot of these areas are copy/pasted. Whole hallways, rooms, so it gets a little confusing...

Kreed broke something in Civvie

A lot of these comments are copied and pasted. Whole sentences, words, so it gets a little confusing...

Maybe someday Civie will play Kreed's addon.

The timing couldn't have been worse. I recently finished rewatching Sopranos and was struggling to stop pursing fingers and yelling "Ow" and "Eh" all the time. But just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!

Yakuzza

Not much worse than the American pronounciation.

i feel his pain i played this game for 23 hrs and i finished it today

Queet wheenin'

@@bravo075 Do you know where did Civvie got that clip? It looks like a really bad (or funny, depends on perspective) game...

@@juanandresmendezmartinez8024 That my friend is called "Kreed", a game which Civvie played a while back. I won't spoil much, look it up and you'll have a ton of fun.

@@bravo075 ah yes the cutting edge master piece with a single voice actor.

The same cannot be said about HDTF

Where's the fun bit ?

Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon did the self aware tutorial even better.

It's always cathartic to see a man always showing off what a confident pro he is suddenly get destroyed by something no sane person could willingly play

its an asmr channel

@@yosefyonin6824 Whenever i get angry thinking about HL1's Xen, which I always do, his rant on interloper is a cureall.

That can happen in Duke Nukem 3D, especially in DOS or Megaton Edition. Usually it just kills you though.

Its not just a door, its a Boss Door

Made all the sound effects himself too! Dedicated to his craft. And crack.

NEVER GIVE UP ON YOUR DREAMS! ESPECIALLY THE DREAMS OF A DIRTY SYRINGE

@@blueshit199 "hey guys, it's me. Remember; never give up on your dreams... like, even if you really want to. Just don't. Oh-kay?"

@@blueshit199 PLEASE I JUST NEED $18.76 TO FINISH THIS GAME.

@@lizard12356 He's going to spend it on crack!

Because at least he wasn't playing the Matrix level from *fuckin' TekWar.*

This comment makes me cry a little bit inside

Oh yes yes. One of my fav games from the past.

Oh damn I have fond memories of Red Faction Guerilla

I still shout "Mine scum!" like the guards in that game at my friends sometimes, pretty dang good shooter

@archaic Yes! My sister and I still yell "You're terminated, Miner!" at each other.

Before you ask what became of Joe Wood, he became slurped up by Em Brac Er and we're still trying to figure out how he makes money

Chaser should use his shurrigans on them instead of the sniper rifle.

Thank you

I had to find that out myself which was a pain, even at 0.25 speed.

@@Gougar Ah, man, thanks! that's a pro-tip for sure.

@@Gougar mobile

@@Gougar eh, can't exactly watch youtube in bed with my laptop. Tried that, thing overheared and the fan got choked with dust.

Tbh, it was my first fps-experience. I loved it. Mostly for the multiplayer part, whose community i was part of for 6 years since '03

That's not a joke exclusively made up by New Vegas, though.

Bro chased all over that guy. Total chaser moment.

Morbius memes are not funny.

@@haroldbalzac6336 IT WAS 2 MONTHS AGO, IT WAS STILL RELEVANT

@@CssHDmonster They were never funny.

@@haroldbalzac6336 Humour is subjective.

Dude, do you think it's Civvie who destroyed Funhaus from inside??? THat kind of make sense..........

Pretty sure it was Inside Gaming, before they were Funhaus

@@nathanrwin Oh snap you're actually right! That was such a long time ago haha those guys were hilarious at one point.

@@T1Slam I always thought Joel never forgave them for letting Elyse steal his title of The Bad Boy Of The Office so he masterminded the sabotouge. Your theory warrants further investigation though.

@@T1Slam no, uh. I think something else happened actually. I think it was something very different from that.

I know exactly what you mean. I keep coming back to this review just for that moment! ❤

Spot on, it's a clone of the hazard course for sure

Thank you for this

What he said. But lame, at least she's honest.

I spent forever trying to pause the video at the perfect moment, I slowed it down to 25% and still had trouble. I wish I had looked here. It even crossed my mind to do so. Thanks anyways!

@@nickdirienzo2849 It's okay! We've all been there!

@@nickdirienzo2849 Pro tip: on desktop, you can press "," to go back one frame and "." to go forward one. I don't even know how I discovered this either.

I've never chased a John but I have chased a Johan once.

It was the golden age of limited internet access and game magazines. Don't forget 10000000 samey WW2 polish Jank.

Reminds me of "Project Alpha Zylon". It was a mod on top of another terrible game, "Manhattan Chase", made by the same developers. It was supposed to be an experiment, a joke ... nothing serious. They still licensed it to several distributors, who just cared about quantity, not quality. Make a shitty game and somebody WILL sell it.

"$17.38 is all I need!"

"Smoke cigarettes kids"

@@armedpoop *"YOU THINK I'LL SPEND IT ON CRACK DON'T YOU?!"*

I (or, rather, my dad) had a physical copy when a was a kid. In Russian localization this game had a subtitle, which "just happened" to be the localized title for Total Recall. Crazy, right? Edit: I was just looking at the back of the box and, I kid you not, "advanced AI" is an advertised feature.

Oh, the Memories... Thank you Mr. JoWood

"Wait, did you remember to grab a couple pieces of toilet paper first? Dammit, Chaser!"

Ah, I see someone else also watches Freeman's Mind.

@@durandol I see someone else also plays Marathon (if I interpret your profile name correctly). :)

Even coming from the perspective that this game might be someone's first video game it's still overly thorough. I mean this was 2004, manuals were still a thing. Also if this was anyone's first video game I'm pretty sure that it'd be their only one too.

@@lionocyborg6030 You would be correct!

Where's my banana peel?!

Thruster man!

Careful, uh... careful of the desperation that a lonely man... I'm at Mars now.

Jo Wood or JoWooD? They actually published some good stuff.

@@houstonhelicoptertours1006 Jo Wood is a made up homeless character in a wheelchair; if you want to learn more, look up Inside Gaming playing Chaser on KZfaq, it's pretty excellent.

@@ShadeHaxor A lot of older youtube channels from back in the day are really depressing to look at now. Game Grumps comes to mind... >__>

.... my father actually lives in scottsdale...

Im not gonna lie, I dont get it

@@activevertex4475 yeah, me too

@@alexeyeliseev6322 Scottsdale is just kind of a really bougie white part of Arizona. Lots of golf courses etc.

@@silvianbruno7512 ohhh okay I get it now

It's basically Total Recall, if Total Recall ended with Coohagen winning.

I think so…🤷‍♂️

Yeah, rather anticlimactic.

@@Otakumanu Yeah. The developer probably thought that made it “darker” or something. 🙄

@@-0rbital- Possibly eastern european depression kicking in.