I lost my mind when this game was announced; the idea of exploring and solving puzzles with folks online seemed irresistible at the time. I know it ended up on the burn pile, but I always loved the concept. Great content, subscribed!

ModNation racers was SOOO good

Crazy that this only has 1.4k views rn. This is a multi thousand if not more, type of video

Also saw the mention in the folding ideas video and it made me smile :) Well deserved! Absolutely checking out exile's beyond, I'm really glad to find that there's still people out there making episodic web content with some actual effort put in to it

Modnation was so much fun. Little big planet racing wasn’t bad but 1 and 2 were the best

I saw the folding ideas video and thought it was super cool he referenced your channel. It was low key mind blowing lol. Hope it brings some more attention to this great channel. Looking forward to watching this new series!

Good timing I'm posting this considering the remake of Riven came out yesterday.

11:35 Almost none of those things require MIDI, you could implement those features easily with audio files. Have different versions of the songs in audio files and crossfade between the two for the 1sty one, the piano puzzle is pretty much the same, just assign the correct note audiofile to a timecode in the background music. They didn't do it in the remaster because they're lazy and suck. Timecode tracking is just a very primitive way to do it but it'd still work fine. Mother you just need the bpm of the track, like what. The ocarina song/animal crossing thing is really the only one where you need to implement a rudimentary sequencer (still not "MIDI" though) within the game to play back the player created melody, but it would be much simpler to limit it to that and have recorded audio for the music.

How come their ice cream cones don't melt ?, it cant be that cold because one guy is wearing a sleeveless shirt.

solid video, great research. keep up the good work dude

I remember buying this game used at GameStop and it having an online pass. I didn't play much.

These are the natural consequences of not having publicly-funded digital creative sharing areas/tools. So long as profit-extraction is the primary goal of a platform you'll see them undergo increased financialization and its downstream predatory monetization until the thing collapses under its own weight or achieves monopoly status. The reason I have such strong nostalgia for the PS3 era is that many games were still creatively exploring the new capabilities of online connectivity (at least from a console perspective) and hadn't yet hit the hyper-monetization stage of capital development that's a result of increased investor return demands as the rate of profit begins falling in the existing model (aka the "you make a game and sell the game" model). While there were games and services that began exploring microtransactions and other increased monetization vehicles during that era, it was still largely a less-creatively-restricted and less-infinite-profit-centric business model as people hadn't "proved" the predatory mobile markets as the primary investment-return growth strategy across both mobile and traditional gaming mediums. There can still be incredible works created under the now-existing model, but the quantity of creative exploration of the medium of gaming is increasingly relegated to indie's gambling on their personal financial destruction in the face of failure.

Anyone remember the sound effects of Croc's attacks? My dad found them so funny. Thanks for taking me back to those better, simpler times.

7:44 To be fair, it was also partly because _Pulp Fiction_ was the next film from the director of _Reservoir Dogs_ (and one of its producers). Bruce Willis wasn't the only person who was crazy about Tarantino and believed in his box-office potential in 1993: _Reservoir Dogs_ was a sensation at the time.

In one of the old AVGN making offs, James says he considers his facial acting his best acting asset, which i find interesting. In terms of writing, even tho part of the charm was the super vulgar swearing, i find the best AVGN episodes to be kind of laid back and chilled out (which seems closer to how james is IRL? Super chill, very clever but not really fast with jokes, etc).

I always felt like I was the only one who noticed these two games were the same. I lost my copy of LBP Karting like less than a year ago. I was in the middle of remaking levels from the phone app game called wreckless racing and it just disappeared one day.

Here from Folding Ideas' latest video :)

This was legitimately an insightful & great analysis on James' filmmaking, thank you Dan Olson for bringing me here

What a brilliant channel. I'm so happy I stumbled upon this.

What's even sadder about the part around 29:00 is that Roblox itself went through this phase. I used to play the game back in 2008 and there were no irl monetization systems for creators or anything like that. People just created worlds (called "places" at the time) for the sake of it. You'd get "tickets" or "tix" each time someone visited your place, which you could then use to buy cosmetics, but there was no real money involved in that entire process. Roblox itself had an optional subscription called Builders' Club, which gave you more slots to create more places, but that was it. Eventually that game succumbed to greed, it began around the time they had a "DisneyXD" crossover which brought in a lot of impressionable kids to the game. Great video.

I remember watching a video of some person recreating the bunnies from JMKit in Mod Nation. I couldn't figure out the name of the game for years, until I think 2 years ago where I came across the video again and found the game I think in the title.

Great video! I'm glad it got recommended to me! 😊

Love me some Unreal! LBP definitely had flimsy controls. Good vid!

congrats on that small clip in the Folding Ideas James Rolfe video! Immediately thought of your video in the intro.

Modnation Racers was my favorite PS3 game lol but so was LittleBigPlanet

Given the relative recency of events mentioned in the video (LBP server shutdown, Karting being 10+ years old), I can assume that video was made sometime in the last 2 years. Given the quality of that video and of the videos on this channel, it's sad to think that there are other videos like it lost to time, at least publicly. Now at the end of the day I'm just making assumptions about that channel. This re-upload could have been the only video like it on that previous channel, but I hope this channel doesn't get lost in the ether like your previous one. Computer Lab has some of the best topical discussion videos that I've seen on this platform in a long time and I hope to be able to see them for a long time. Keep up the good work!

I''m glad you re-posted this video, because I sure didn't see your older channel's version. This was a great breakdown of multiple aspects of gaming.

Why did it launch Mark Duplass? Because he had rich parents who gave him an interest free loan of $10,000. This is the only real reason.

bro... I walked to bestbuy on a school lunch period to pick up mod nation racers... what a different time! iconic video topic choice 💪😎

Came here from the folding ideas video

Congrats on the Folding Ideas video mention kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mJmXjbKllrLTZHU.html

As a LBP and Modnations Fan, I did not like LBP Karting despite 100% the game. I felt it needed a lot more in the Modnations department when it came to track creation plus handling and the extra creation tools LBP2 had. I was very let down by that.

Never played LBP karting but I played modnation racers, and it was fun for the time. Interested to see what your thoughts are on this topic.

I had a hunch that you've had more experience on Youtuibe. Great video, hope to see the channel really grow!

Really enjoyed this retrospective over the past few weeks. The Guild has always been one of those web shows that stuck in the back of my mind even though I’ve never actually wanted to rewatch it- even though it’s how I remember that a “gross” refers to a quantity of 144 units, “yeah, guys would think they’re pretty gross”. Funny that you mention being based in Toronto and wanting to do episodes on other vintage web series because the first two that come to mind for me personally when the topic of old web shows comes up are Pure Pwnage and Nirvana the Band the Show- a weird coincidence then that both of those shows were also produced in Toronto. Thanks for all the great eps so far, has been really cool seeing the videos improve.

Love that you're the same people but outside. Be outside. It's good for you 👍🏽

This movie sucked

Thanks for putting in the hours to show off all the neat things. :)

the conductor hat is so swag

Never heard of "The Guild" in my life, but I imagine these reviews are the optimal way to experience it. Love your analysis!

Huh, a KZfaq channel that did this one video on Cinemassacre and doesn't post a video every time James brushes his teeth or something like some certain other channel associated with the color Red. Finally a breath of fresh air at last! Seriously that other channel was just straight up defamation and slander, even if they made good points.

Thanks for this video. Unfortunately, "The Adventures of MicroMan" seems to be an - almost - forgotten classic. I purchased a retail version 1.0 of Episode 1 and 2 back in the day from BHV Playware, a German publisher. Of course, version 1.5 and 2.0 were much improved, but I still cherrish this original release. It didn't even have sound!

That whole practical vs Digital talk was so hard to watch. Yea; let’s see if you can make better gore effects in digital than something like Tom Savini’s work in Day of The Dead or the prowler; lol

enjoyed hearing you guys talk about the season. the guild kinda went over my head at the time since i was only 14-15 and wasn't into the MMOs of the era when it dropped, but the one web series i absolutely followed at the time was Pure Pwnage and i would LOVE to hear a retrospective on that first season.

I've been thinking about The Online Gamer by RecklessTortuga quite a bit lately and I'm pretty shocked looking back at what people were willing to overlook in terms of comedy. There is a sort of soft reboot that happens that is most likely inspired by The Guild (called The Clan) and I remember that one being decent in terms of craft, but then again I was 12 and I don't trust the opinion of a 12 year old. In general I think this channel is super underrated. I started watching around the James Rolfe video and I'm pretty into what's been put out as of late. It's also super cool to see other creatives from Ontario.

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This channel is awesome!

never had hope for this movie and it was trash

Inspiring video, great examples of how midi was superior in many ways, that unreal plugin looks very useful! Subscribed!

This video mixes up midi with chiptunes on the nes. Chiptunes are tied to a particular sound chip and store instructions for it directly. Nes chiptunes always sound like that. Midi is instructions for generic instruments that can sound different based on the soundfont in use and aren't subject to the limitations of something like a square wave generator.