Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire - ProJared
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Dash Rendar, Jetpacks and POO WATER.
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I used to point at the ugly characters in the cutscenes and say to my brother "That's you."
Me and you had the same childhood.
Barbie commercial comes on "you want that toy" "NO! YOU DO!"
Same.
So did I! Except in reality, it actually turned out to be me. :(
Older or younger brother?
So I was watching this video late at night in a dark room, when the comic sans poo water popped up, the light from the text was burned into my retinas. I blinked a few times and all I saw was poo water in all caps. Most hilarious and terrifying experience of my life
Terrifying.
Also, it's not Comic Sans. Dunno what the actual font is, but it ain't Comic Sans.
@@Chad_Eldridge bet
@@Chad_Eldridge I guess so
Have to admit. Reading this comment before rewatching the video (I've seen it several times over the years) somehow made that part even funnier.
@@Turtle_violenceI am waiting for your video
"Remember how everyone said that the IG-88 was cool, even though it never did anything cool, but everyone said it so much that we just came to accept it?" That sounds awfully familliar... But why though?
Oh yeah, Boba Fett.
I think he had like 5 lines in the original trilogy. Might not be 5 but something along the lines of that.
The Bacon Baker Oh yeah, he had fie lines in the trillogy, and one them was "AAAAAHH!"
+The Bacon Baker yes yes I've seen your precious comment
to be honest having a jetpack and a cool looking helmet makes you pretty cool in general
jindo5 Nice ERB reference.
this shit from 1996 got more content than star wars game from 2016.
There wasnt any game in 2016
Overwatch has pretty much the same amount of content if not less, let's not forget that :D
We don't talk about Overwatch here. xD
Brunette Bird And why do we talk about another Star Wars game that has nothing to do with this?
Overwatch is an incomplete game sold by full price aaaand it has micro transactions. Do I need to say more?
You know the funny thing about Storm Trooper aim? They aim perfectly fine. The official explanation is that the Standard Imperial Rifle (The E-11) is complete crap with excessive recoil and a rapid fire mode that only makes it worse. So legit, the only reason Troops can't hit a thing is because they're subject to the greatest evil of all. Tight budgets, meaning all of the money was probably going into the Death Star and they couldn't afford to restock the higher quality blasters that supposedly made their aim so legendarily accurate. I can't help but find it hilarious that Vader's poor budgeting skills was ultimately the downfall of The Empire.
I remember in the movie when Luke and Obi-wan found the Sandcrawler's remains, and the later explain it couldn't had been the Sand People because only the Imperial Troopers could shoot such "precise" shots.
+TheBlackKnightGamer Is it really Vader's fault though? I mean, at the beginning of the first movie, he seems to disregard the Death Star as nothing more than a cheap toy, he did not really hit me as the kind off guy who'd put all of his money on that one spherical horse.
CaitSeith Probably should have conserved that ammunition.
Black INK.I.M If it wasn't his budgeting skills then it had to be the emperors. Either way, somewhere along the line someone wasn't supplying the better weapons.
Except there is the whole point that the troopers were missing on purpose to let the main characters get away. Also referenced the fact that they destroyed the whole rebel base at Hoth.
I picked that up at Portland Retro last year. I knew it was bad... but my star wars games collection grows STRONGER.
+SpaceHamster Oh, look. PBG's clone is here.
+Wooden Films well that was douchey
you should release a new video
+Wooden Films Yeah, it's not like he's friends with PBG or anything...
+Wooden Films Dick.
This was one of the first games I ever played, back at the bright age of 4 years old. I could never beat the first stage, but I kept on trying. So for years I thought the game was just about beating your personal high score before the AT-ATs killed you. 24 years later, this video is my first experience seeing any of the game beyond that first level.
That's got to hurt
HAH! I feel you man. It was WAY too hard for me, but some of my friends were crazy enough to get to later levels so I could chow down on that great Empire soundtrack (check 8:40 in this video)
This is why I always played in first person rather than third person. It felt a lot better to control and aim. Also kept the brightness up full which helped with the darkness of things.
Seeker Missiles *never* worked on bosses. Even Nintendo Power magazine's walkthrough mentions that immediately, most likely to keep bosses from becoming too easy by just spamming them with Seekers.
And also...the Debug code...who didn't love just messing with virtually EVERYTHING in the game? XD
Have the _WAMPA_STOMPA name on Medium difficulty or higher, pause the game and then hold...
Left on the D-Pad
All four C buttons
L, R, and Z
...then using your freaking chin (because you'll be using all your fingers to press all those buttons and to keep holding the controller), tilt and hold the C-stick left halfway until you hear a tone, then tilt and hold it right halfway until you hear a tone, then finally back and hold it halfway left again until you hear a tone.
If you did it right, you'll see a bunch of glowing purple words appear at the top of the screen and, using the D-Pad to cycle through them, you can toggle typical things like...
All Weapons (including the jet pack)
Invincibility
Level Skipping (or returning to a previous Level)
Freezing enemies (you'll hear them grunt and groan as they get shot, but they'll never move, even when they should be dead, same with Probe Droids getting destroyed, but they all instantly will as soon as you unfreeze them by toggling it again, lol)
Give the Outrider 1000 missiles for its Levels (Asteroid Field and the two parts of the last level, so you can literally just hold the Z Button to spam fire them the whole stage)
...and so on, but you can also mess around with other things like...
Turning the gravity up or down (using the C-Stick to adjust the amount)
Turning the jumping power up or down (max jump power + minimum gravity was hilarious, followed by turning jump power down and gravity up for a hilarious-looking insta-death, lol)
Toggling a Seeker Missile camera (firing a Seeker Missile puts you into the "POV" of the Seeker Missile as it travels until you turn it off or it hits something) messing with the colors, tint, fog, etc.
...just so much fun had just with the Debug stuff. And all you had to do to keep access it once you did it the first time was pause the game, hold all those buttons, and tilt the C-stick left.
....POO WATER.
It seems Jared is on a long journey to destroy our childhood.
+Veranio
Says Darth Vader
First Sonic Adventure 2, now Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire. What's next, Tony Hawk games?
+Landon Wilson don't give him ideas
After sonic adventure 2?
+Veranio
I like it.
Because purists need to realize that games sucked back in the day too.
Oh man I loved this game. As annoying as the controls got it was still so frickin awesome.
Beat it on my phone on medium/hard several times with many lives/weapons casually without knowledge of challenge points or using walk throughs. The only things that irked me were aiming at the AT-ST (because it was on phone), and the Swoop bike gang level...Oh, I hated that level. Save states for days...the bosses Boba Fett and Gladiator Droids were always tough...but beatable if you strafe well enough.
yeah this is easily one of my favorite star wars games and n64 games. mostly because of the jet pack, it was such a rush as a kid flying around on that jet pack.
It's funny and sad to think those cheat codes would be sold as dlc or microtransactions now. Scratch that, now that I've typed it out, It's just sad.
+Cody Clark Was thinking the same, "pre-order now for the AT-AT DLC"
+Jarod Helminger It still doesn't excuse how much stuff gets turned into DLC. If a game is good, it will make a shit load of money, regardless of whether or not it has DLC.
nope, they just wouldn't be included
you could buy the cheats for infinite life and that's it
back in the day they sold cheat codes as well.
ar
game genie
gamebuster
exploder
and so on..
+k4yser
Right, but that was one device to gain cheats for EVERY game you owned on that console from that point on. So while you could argue that was old school dlc, it was old school dlc for your entire library at a reasonable cost.
But back then many games didn't NEED a cheat device as many had cheats built into them. MANY Nes games had cheats built in. Snes had some, but not as many. But it was N64 and Playstation 1 that was a huge era for cheat codes and it was glorious.
Now, every game will sell you content that could have been a cheat from the beginning. The 'games are more expensive now' argument doesn't fly. Games were still expensive to make back then. Yet companies still added fun extras at no charge for the gamers. Because companies GAVE a shit back then.
IG-88 is one of the best Star Wars characters for these reasons:
1: He was the most deadly bounty hunter in the galaxy.
2: He planted his mind in the droid factories across the galaxy to start a droid uprising.
3: He kept 3 separate copies of himself with links to his brain wirelessly as a contingency backup plan incase his first body had been destroyed, keeping his AI alive by transferring it before the destruction.
4: He was the first AI to gain complete sentience.
5: He almost wiped out all biological(scum) lifeforms in the UNIVERSE. On the last scene where Luke destroyed the Death Star, IG-88 had complete control of the fore mentioned Death Star. He uploaded his mind in the main frame, disguised his robot clones as storm troopers and was planning on wiping out all of the biological life on board and using the death star to destroy every planet with sentient life because he believes they are evil. IG-88 was destroyed when the death star was destroyed, and if that didn't happen, every one would be dead.
That's why IG-88 is badass.
+Dakota Perry IG-88 was actually the 2nd best BH right behind Boba.
However he was the best Assassin Droid ever made in the history of the galaxy. It was also the 2nd Death Star 88 controlled not the first.
+Dakota Perry wait, I think you mean when Lando destroyed the death star, because IG-88 was first shown in Empire Strikes back, not in the first movie, if I recall correctly.
linkeffect82 Right hence 88 controlling the 2nd Death Star, you referred to Luke destroying the DS which 88 controlled which he didn't the 1st one but controlled the 2nd. Unless that was just an error.
Wolf Scar55 Dakota stated that Luke destroyed the death start which IG-88 was controlling, killing IG-88 and his robot clones... but then who was the IG-88 in Empire strikes back?
So I thought he made an error and was referring to the second death star which Lando had destroyed.
+linkeffect82 Yeah, my mistake guys, just wanted to give IG-88 some validation
ProJared, did you ever play the Dark Forces/Jedi Knight series? For me, surely are the best series of the Star Wars games, along with the Super Star Wars games, but damn, the Super series are damn hard
Dark Forces is awesome! I played Outcast a lot, but not Jedi Knight.
Well, are 4 games in the series, and all have Kyle Katarn as a protagonist: the first Dark Forces are a good Doom clone, the sequel, who recieved the name Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight, was the first 3D Jedi game and looks much like SOTE, but are much better, the Outcast you cited was a direct sequel and was the best of the 4, and the last one, Jedi Academy, you play as a student of Jedi Academy and have Kyle as mentor.
+ProJared Outcast was the first game I'd played, and the reason I bougth an xbox back in the day. I absolutely LOVED that game as well as Jedi Academy, although I thought outcast had better acting and graphics. I don't know why, I just think Academy is slightly inferiour to outcast.
+Eric Sanic I enjoyed Force Unleashed* for the Wii.
It was very basic and a lot of fun at times.
***** i read this several times, I'm not sure if I'm really really sleepy and can't understand it, or what..
His main issue with the game, the aiming, is something I've never had trouble with. And this isn't even nostalgia talking, I played the game last week. Running and gunning is perfectly viable.
+Super Pochaco Agreed. I'd even argue that running and gunning was probably the best strategy when fighting multiple enemies at once, as they were less likely to hit you, than if you used the manual aiming. I found the manual aim to be useful against certain bosses, such as the AT-ST.
+Super Pochaco Definitely. I don't remember this game being that hard or frustrating honestly. At least no more so than other 1st wave N64 games (yes even Mario 64). Also the seekers always worked fine for me. This is actually one of the best N64 games, but in retrospect the N64 games just didn't have a lot. I mean if you wanted shooting games on the N64 you had this, Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, and like Winback or some shit. The N64 is a very difficult system to go back and play because it was such a growing phase for developers.
+megatom5 Yeah, the only level that might give people trouble the first time around is the sewer level, just because it isn't obvious where you are supposed to go at first. Definitely agree with you about the seekers. If I remember correctly, those things were so OP that you could take out pretty much all of the bosses in a matter of seconds. As far as FPS's on the N64 go, this game didn't have terrible controls. They weren't great, but there were definitely shooters that had worse controls (I'm looking at you, Turok: Dinosaur Hunter).
+Super Pochaco Dude, the fuck is up with that profile pic?
Jetto Agu It's sexy and I like the character, so here we are.
" I actually got it a few months later at Christmas, along with 3 games, Mario 64, star wars shadow of the empire, and Mortal Kombat trilogy. THAT was terrible parenting decision!" one of the best parts of the video
Am I the only one who misses the "I'm playing _____" Intros?
DeepEyeContact I do
No
Some of them were good (FFMQ, Rocky and Pocky, and all the Hydlides come to mind) but i can understand why he dropped them.
Me
Me, but I feel like he stopped doing them because he felt that they’d get repetitive
"Everybody said [something] was cool even if it didn't do anything cool and everybody just said it so much that we came to accept it" Boba Fett fans in a nutshell
Well he was way cooler in the EU
nan he did something cool
he did plenty of amazing things..just only in the books. The movies made him some glorified bodyguard
+døøm turtle Yeah but the reason WHY he does so many cool things in the books is because so many fans liked him in the movies
EkoGrande I've been saying this for so long! Boba Fett sucks, he is just greedo with a Jetpack
I LoL'd at "SWEEET JESUS, A HERD OF WAMPAS!!" XD
3:15
8:17 WHAT THE F**, ANOTHER WAMPA?!!
Welcome back welcome back we glad you dont smoke crack
Confirmed: Jared has a black dad.
that is not his dad
Where? Oh yeah.......
That would explain his exceptional sass.
+Blackish Butler If his dad is black, how does Jared know him?
+Transform987 Do you not understand sarcasm?
"Dude. He's a jedi."
A pretty ruthless firebender, too.
Firebender?
@@DrDolan2000 Mark Hamil, who played Luke Skywalker, voiced Firelord Ozai.
+@@bluelfsuma 🤦♂️ Duh! My brain isn't working tonight
1. seeker missiles could be controlled like in perfect dark or unreal tounrmanents redeemer weapons .. press the right c button
2.use ego perspective for this game ... you can AIM quiet well
3. using both and reserving your special weapons for bosses makes the whole game a cakewalk
He just sucked at this Game and blamed it for it.
Shadows of the Empire was a surprisingly decent spin-off of JonTron's StarCade.
I think that this game is sometimes good, sometimes bad.
If I was a video game critic, I would have given this game a 5/10, due to that it feels more “meh” than good _or_ bad.
It’s honestly split _right down the middle_ for me.
Better than just being bad, right?
Damn, I mean aside from the floaty controls I thought the game was awesome. The sewer level always creeped me the fuck out
I think I remembered this gaming being more awesome then it actually is. Everyone looks like a melted barbie doll when talking lol.
hi!DreamcastGuy
stup
+DreamcastGuy I have that same feeling with pretty much every N64 game. In my memories they had beautiful graphics, but when I go and play them after several years I'm like "dafuq..."
+DreamcastGuy nostalgia makes games look much better than they actually are :p
+DreamcastGuy Sadly, that's a common problem with nostalgia. It's too easy to remember only what you want to remember. Of course, I'm not saying all old games are bad. I'm a big fan of old Sega-games, and even have a Commodore 64 in my shelf - complete with the box, a joystick and the disc-drive. But for ever truly classic retro-game, there are tons of "this wasn't as good as I remember it..."
But IG-88 did cool things :(
He just didn't do them in the movie.
Yep, and now it's ALL non-canon.
*****
Yeah the Expanded Universe after the original trilogy was pretty great. Kyle Katarn is awesome and I liked how they continued the story after the movies. Even some of the books during the prequels were quite nice. :)
Well now it's not canon anymore. I really hope they continue the original trilogy in a way that lives up to the EU. I mean not everything in the EU is great, but many things are.
+BloggingLP He gets props from me for almost killing Boba Fett (on multiple occasions, if memory serves).
Keegan Spillane
Yeah that's what my memory tells me aswell. He also had a plan to control droids through the deathstar and start a riot in the galaxy, but the plan failed when the second death star was destroyed. However he got pretty damn close to succeding.
Boba Fett never did anything cool in the movies and we almost never even saw him but people still loved him.
Sometimes, when I'm alone, I like to pretend that I'm PROJARED™Ⓒ®.
I crawl up in my PROJARED™Ⓒ® themed blankets and listen to the PROJARED™Ⓒ® theme song.
Nothing makes me feel so very PRO™Ⓒ® like PROJARED™Ⓒ® does.
I love you PROJARED™Ⓒ®.
+You're gonna have a bad time. Ok?....
1:04 didn't know you were half black
+kottadragon "
What's the matter GIRLfriend" xd
***** i don't get it
kottadragon
I tried to reference the moment in his Mortal Kombat Kartoon video, where he said "Jax, well... Jax is black" and then Jax said the line. I didn't expect anyone to get it :P
***** k
+kottadragon What do you mean "half?"
Is there a romhack of shadows of the empire that fixes the aiming and the movement?
+THE BATLORD - I don't know, but there are two other revisions on Emuparadise (the original release (v1.0), Rev A (assumingly v1.1), and Rev B (assumingly 1.2)). I don't know if the newer updates/revisions fixes the movement or what changes were made in the updated versions.
And there is a PC version of Shadows of the Empire. Maybe that's the best version for playing this game.
+THE BATLORD I might be able to do something. If not, I know a guy who definitely could.
+THE BATLORD you can literally play in 1st person the whole way through and it's a zillion times easier to aim-- also, the seekers DO heat seek, quite well.
Based King Potato if you do you'll be doing god's work
+THE BATLORD
PLAY THE 10 TIMES BETTER PC VERSION MAYBE?!
Interesting piece of trivia: the team that made this game, Factor 5, went on to make the "Rogue Squadron" series after this. And it was awesome, specially "Rogue Leader"! Looks like they also realized the ship combat stages were the only good things about "Shadows of the Empire", so they decided to focus entirely on that. And boy, did it pay off!
Too bad that they had to crush and burn with "Lair"...
I remember this game being surprisingly scary as a kid because the wompas would creep up on you and suddenly give a terrifying roar before beating you into a pulp. And then there was the sewer level... OH GOD THE SEWER LEVEL.
._.
Yup
+Ben Link That sewer level, especially the boss fight underwater scared the living shit out of me as a kid.
best thing about this game. main character isnt a freakin jedi
That's every modern starwars game yet their not good
Play Star Wars Bounty Hunter.
I mean would you rather be a space wizard or dude mcdude
@@Karkatrielle I'd rather be a super space commando or a smuggler
any one else notice that Dash Rendar's ship just looked like a different version of the Millennium Falcon?
That's because it is. Both Han Solo's Millennium Falcon and Dash Rendar's Outrider are YT-Freighters, just different models. Dash's Outrider actually beat the Falcon in a race. Making the Outrider, not the Falcon, the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy.
Dash and his ship are just complete ripoffs of Han and the Millenium Falcon. It's like they didn't even try
Excuse me, despite this technically no longer being canon, IG-88 IS cool and DID do something. He became the Death Star. And started a revolution of sentient Droid that spanned the entire galaxy.
Saliem Allison Never happend in the movies, so it is non canon (and it is better this was......)
Most of the movies suck dick. The books is where it's at and fuck Disney for ignoring the old cannon and rewriting it.
@@xXSupahXFlyXx 99 percent of the EU sucks as well. It's mostly overglorified fan-fiction level writing with the Star Wars name slapped on it to make easy money.
Gosh
xXSupahXFlyXx You are ignoring a bunch of the really shitty EU stuff. That's more than half of the entire EU
So...basically it lives up to its name SHADOWS?
I bought this game the day it dropped. Saved up my cash and headed out on foot to pick it up. The controls are aggravating, but when the n64 first came out it was easier imo to pick it up than it would be now. But that being my biggest complaint I love the story. It’s fun. The Hoth level, fighting Bobba, racing on a speeder, using jet packs etc. I love it. The story was fun. It’s nostalgic. Love this game.
Jared: Being able to jetpack around
Me: at the speed of sound
anyone else here glad that projared had the balls to call out the truth to this game? I mean as a kid sure i enjoyed it, but not from a critical view.... it is rather flawed im just glad somebody finally said it. Anyone else out there agree?!
FritangaPlays
Oh hi Fritanga, didn't expect to see a year old comment from you on a Pro Jared video.
lol
This game was trash. So was Star Wars Demolition for PS1.
I mean, it's unwieldly and punishing as hell, but it's fun and everything flows better once you get used to it and know what to do, kinda like the F-Zero games. Although I'll agree there's no redeeming the IG Boss-fight or the last two on-foot levels. Fog and textures are just artificial difficulty once they realized all their bosses were just bullet (or rather, laser) sponges. But they're still very satisfying, punchy laser-sponges! They should have focussed on improving things like the earlier levels and maybe tightened up aiming enough to be more beginner-friendly, rather than just throwing bullshit at the player.
played the pc version and it was WAY better than Jared made out to be, also was a higher resolution so the ig-88 and, boba fett fights weren't shit
the best star wars game ever
+Alex Ninten Not by a very long shot.
star wars battlefront two
+Transform987 I agree.
he should of used first person mode
+Alex Ninten Did you not watch the video?
Proajared's classic content like this and the FF SerieES... its like comfort food.
Man the memories of this the day I got my n64 :-)
Awesome channel bro. When are you going to review Conkers Bad Fur Day?
+N64 Glenn Plant Love your show man
they should make a remastered version of this game for pc/xboxone and ps4
+ginga bang 2 I think it would fit the 3ds pretty well. The hoth section in 3d would look badass
+Stephen O'Brien no it wouldn't
David Wingrove I dunno, If it was cleaned up like the other N64 remakes on the console I think it would. There are plenty of 3ds games out there already so its not like it would dilute the library either. I'd love if the 3ds was home to more of the N64 library. F-Zero X would look great on it too, yes I would prefer a new one but since that doesn't seem to be Nintendo's focus at the moment a remaster would at least be something & it wouldn't be too costly either. Now imagine a track creator program with online functionality...
Shadows of the empire has that same potentiality.
not PC tho cause it will always crash
+ginga bang 2 Pay $4.99 to get X/wing.
This game is so cool. I hope we get a modern rendition
The sewers in this game terrified me. it still does :'3
I could never beat IG-88 because the clanking metal scared the absolute living shit out of me. I could barely build up enough courage to fight the AT-ST.
To be fair, the LEGO Star Wars game which I grew up with, is amazing, and has a brilliant Hoth level. Great graphics, fun gameplay, decent difficulty, fun puzzles, and something about tying an AT-AT up and seeing it fall onto its knees, only then to blow up into a giant pile of lego bricks when you fling a bomb at it. It's really satisfying.
If you press C Right once then it goes first person, makes it feel like goldeneye, and reduces the spread
NCC-1701 that's how I played. I hate 3rd person perspective shooters
Jared, you know how you said he controlled like he was on slippery ice? Well he is on slippery ice! He's on Hoth!
Just finished the video, and as always solid review. I've always held this game in the same light, but I suppose I'll have to play it again to make sure I'm not crazy. But that "DAD YOU DUMBASS" killed me.
Dash will always be canon in my heart. lmao
One thing about the Wampa Stompa code is if you fought it, you could get the AT-ST to walk THRU the mountain to the other side where it glitched out but you could shoot lasers that stayed in mid air.
SOOOOO much nostalgia, my heart started pounding when the swoop came into view
Honestly can we just go back to watching Projared’s videos like nothing ever happened? In retrospect, the situation was never anyone’s business to begin with so let’s just mind our own. I know you were fooled, we all were, but for once can we just have some goddamn fun and watch funny videos without acknowledging any of this stupid drama?
The greatest thing about this game is that it’s all canon.
I'm 17 but my first console was the 64 and I'm proud to say it. In the same way my first 2 games were Mario 64 and Shadows of the Empire. It's from there that I have become a very avid gamer and I do pretty well for myself on the Pub scene. But everything I know always stems back to those amazing hours spent with this game.
Can you try Kirby 64 and the crystal shards plz?
Awesome final boss music
Awesome game in general. It and Dreamland 3 are easily the best in the series. Sad how underrated.
All well and good. To me personally, Super Star didn't do it for me. And given that bassically every other game in the series is borrowing Super Star's style, that may be why I don't follow the series anymore. Still good games and a good series though. Just not my thing.
I would love it if they made a new ground-up remake of this game.
They can't
@@lordgaia1812 how come?
Miguel Arenas because the new myth is for Star Wars kills the timeline that this game exists in since it is based on one of the books that came before episode 7
They could make a very similar game but the character would be different
If you’re watching this in the future, Dash Rendar is confirmed canon via the Star Wars Armada tabletop war game
use first person. I've been playing this game for over a decade and never had any of the problems you've described
That's what I'm saying it's also more immersive imo
Someone should count how many times Jared said something sucks in this video.
Not me. I'm a lazy fuck.
That IG-88 bit can be easily said with Boba Fett as well
I have this game on my pc might play it someday
yes, the seeker missiles don't home in on most bosses, because they supposedly have "missile jamming tech"...
but they DO work as intended on that "giant dianoga" at the end of the Sewer level!
also, in the "Swoop Bike" level, you actually need to hit the enemies with the spikes on the front of your bike.
and once you kill them all, you can backtrack and pick up all the "challenge points" at your leisure!
7/10, too much poo water!
IG88
Back when you had to be a badass to master a game.
From what I've heard, it seems like LucasArts learned their lessons from this game. Their next game Rogue Squadron was a whole N64 Star Wars game of vehicle sections.
I still have fond memories of this game. I loved playing as a TIE Fighter on the final level. Many, many hours wasted doing that.
Wait, how old were you when you played mortal kombat trilogy?
Mike the Nintendo Master that game wasnt bad tho people just freaked out out for no reason
What the hell is the deal with everyone reviewing this game not being able to set the brightness on their TV? Or are you all playing this game in 2015 on an LCD TV without an upscaler, which is just not very smart, to put it mildly?
+nsignific It is a failing of the game if things in the distance can't be made clear about their location if it's not a stealth sequence/battle. They shouldn't HAVE to turn the brightness up.
+Dizzy Doom Nah, TV and brightness/contract used to be all over the place with CRTs and especially with these early 3D games, I remember even parts of Mario 64 being hard to see, not to mention Goldeneye with the levels like the Caverns. Throw in fog being fucking everywhere to limit draw distances and that makes it hard to see. I never remember this game being this bad except for a few segments.
+Dizzy Doom I've played this game on a Sony Trinitron CRT back when the game came out and didn't need to set the brightness at all. So it's definitely not the games fault. Also, playing N64 games on LCD will *always* make them a lot darker, and these guys should know stuff like that.
Besides first-person view being much better for combat sections, emulation also helps even out the wonky controls, since you can just remap them to a modern gamepad and have something similar to a dual-analog setup. Plus cranking brightness and resolution a little higher to help with those hard-to-see areas. I've been playing this on my phone and having a blast lately.
That's alot of final bosses
a lot*
I really want to see a ProJared review of Sheep Raider for PS1. That game is awesome and I really want to see ProJared ruining it.
+Samir Mapelli It wasn't that bad of a game though, sure the last 2 levels where BULLSHIT HARD. But the rest was pretty easy to figure out.
+TheLastRaven6 The gozamer one?
TheLastRaven6 I use a lot of gliches to complete the game, the 2 secret ones were the best ahahaha
TheLakabanzaichrg No the one with yomesity and the lone sheep.
TheLastRaven6 The pirate level?
I'm about to get roasted for saying this but Boba Fett never did anything cool either. Yeah he helped find Han Solo in Empire Strikes Back but other that he hasn't done anything.
Jason Voorhees facts
The ending commentary sums up Star Wars in general.
I could have sworn this game could be played from a first person perspective. Am I wrong?
+JonnyLikesGames87 Yes, you can play this game from a first-person perspective.
+silverwings21 I thought so. Soooo...how come ProJared didn't use this perspective then? I think that would have helped a lot of his issues with the controls.
JonnyLikesGames87 Judging by the video, it looks like he doesn't know how to play the game.
+JonnyLikesGames87 Yes, you can. He probably never read the instruction manual or is just finding an excuse to find fault. I'm going with the latter since he touched on only a few camera angles in the vid and I am hard pressed to believe that he completely missed it.
"Wampa stompa" is still the best named cheat code of all time.
I won't lie, Shizor's palace sewer level scared me as a kid because it was so dark, didn't want to go into the water cause the boss freaked me out. Only reason I ever passed it was cause I asked my dad to beat it for me lol
I have been on a Star Wars kick for a while and I remembered this game. I adored this game growing up, playing it all the time. I do agree that it was hard as balls and frustrating though.
Hey Jared, have you ever played the Bounty Hunter game? Its controls are a bit odd and need a bit of time to get use to, but the jet pack controls so well and aiming is a hell of a lot better.
TyranusRex721 If you are talking about PS2 game - fuck that shit. It may have better controls, but everything else sucks so much that this game looks like masterpiece. At least in this game your jetpack is not running out of fuel the moment you lift your ass of the ground. Also, the lives system. In 2002. On a PS2 shooter. That totally screws you over, despite having a save system. And don't get me started on the level design. I honestly have no idea why anyone would want this game to be re-released TWICE.
DjShadFox I have to disagree with you. I find the game to be rather enjoyable. It is by no means perfect and it has flaws, but it is not a terrible game. The story is pretty good, the levels are varied and interesting, the controls, while not perfect, do their job. My only major gripes with the game are that the platforming is bad, it can be rather difficult, and dying 5 times means you have to start the whole level over again. Other than that I think the game is good.
About "the whole level". May I add to this statement? If you lose all lives (which is easy to do, since enemies have autoaim enabled and you notice them only after you get hit), you start the WHOLE level again. And it's not like it's short. On the contrary, the levels are about 30-40 minutes each, possibly longer thanks for the maze-like structure of the latter levels and unskippable cutscenes. Also, there is no way to restore health or lives. NONE. I agree, first two or three levels are enjoyable, but the late game? No way.
DjShadFox Which is why I said it was a problem for me. Does not mean that I think the game is terrible or that I hate it. I still like the game and I do play it every now and again.
Bounty Hunter is definitely my favorite Star Wars game, the reason I fell in love with Jango Fett. Very balzy game too, killing dumbass civilians and politicians, and frying ninja-zombies...freakin' badass.
Why does no one play the fucking PC version of this game? I mean fucking NO ONE. Looking at the graphics of the N64 version and gameplay just make me facepalm.
+Krono Fett Because PC gaming wasn't anywhere near as popular(by comparison) in the 90s. It was even less popular within the children demographic. Most kids in that time either had the PS1 or N64. Hence, why most people remember the N64 version of the game and not the PC version.
+Krono Fett I'd imagine because the N64 cart is easier to find than the PC version and I'd imagine easier to get working. I'm just guessing here since I've never played or seen said PC version. Would very much like to, though, out of curiosity.
lynx cat lover Please be joking. There is no comparison. Play it before running your mouth. The PC version is miles better.
the pc version had graphics drivers that were complicated to set up , and still are
people went to the 64 version because you could pick it up and play it
this game, Banjo Kazooie and Doom 64 were the reasons i wanted to hunt down for a N64 years after they stopped production of them. All worth it.
Screw it. If Disney can declare the EU non-canon, then we can declare DISNEY non-canon. XP
omg i remenber this game i got it when i was around 7yrs in christmas along with 007, turok, DK racing and Mario 64/kart(best gift ever), it would be amazing if this game gets reboot with better controlls and amazing graphics.
oh man,glad you tackled this one, its so nostalgic, my wife still remembers playing this game as a kid, and you pointed out all the flaws she noticed, how jumping feels too floaty, you die a lot because your aiming sucks, trying to judge distance for jumps sucked,and a lot of the boss fights felt cruel and unfair, you shoot into nothingness a lot of the time, and goddamn those wompas, scared her as a kid, they still do, something that lumbering and big coming toward you, and not just on hoth, plus dash's movements were like being on ice skates sometimes :P heck you get shot at by enemies you cant even see, which pissed her off, and a sewer level, god how she dreaded that one, oh god ig-88, that robot was a pain in the ass, she'll never forget that battle, or the annoying train parts, still a nostalgic game, but she hasnt ever beaten it, or if she has, shes forgotten by now :P think her sister did, or one of her cousins, one of the best parts is inputting codes, you could PLAY as a wompa, lol
No offense, but this game looks s**t compared to the Jedi Knight series. This is one of those "classics" that's just plain old outdated.
Half the people in the comments don't understand opinions.
+MetroidSigma They don't understand that as much as they may like a game, doesn't mean it's easy to get into for everyone else.
exactly for example i dont like prince of persia the sands of time
MetroidSigma Uh oh it's the opinion police again make sure to always say IMHO before everything you say or MetroidSigma will be confused.
That's your opinion.
12:00 That is indeed true. The book version had Bothans in that part of the story.
Man, it seems every game that I easily beat as a kid is difficult as hell for all these youtubers.
This gene taught me how to change my brightness on my tv. Without it, the sewer level is impossible
All you have to do, to make the sewer and the palace brighter, is turn up brightness to full on your screen. I used to LOVE the sewer level, but not without the light.
The aiming isn't as bad as its made out to be, neither is the controls - I was fast and precise at this game - loved it.IG88 and Boba Fett were easy - Fett was the best boss in the game - particularly when you are a better player than this guy and know how to fly.This was a good game and one of the best on the N64. It was iconic with its own original music score, re-playability was excellent too.You cant go back to the game now and look at it from a perspective of modern games, it was a top game from its own era.I was disappointed that this game was now downloadable from the WII store, same with Rogue Squadron and E1 Racer - they really missed the boat on that, but could download the OT games of Super Star Wars, Super ESB and Super ROTJ from the older Super Nintendo, which were still fun to go back to and play again.I just hope Shadows of the Empire gets remade on the modern consoles - it would be epic!
This one is the best game of star wars to me. I was studying at school. I still remember that day when parents bought it... and the box... Shit, that was so long ago
I always found that rapidly spamming the blaster while always being on the move with strafing was the best way to approach combat. It's awkward but the large amount of fire you lay on the enemy outweighs the reduced damage and accuracy and gives them a pain animation that prevents them from firing back most of the time.
I've watched this video a handful of times now just for the "sweet jesus a herd of wompas" at 3:15. I don't know why but it's the funniest shit I've ever seen probably in my whole life
This was, and still is, one of my fav N64 games of all time.
I think after games developed to incorporate dual analog controls for directional movement and strafing, with the left and right stick respectively, going back is just so counterintuitive after building the muscle memory of dual analog controls.
I love how he uses "The Man" character theme from Chrono Trigger for Dash.
the name of the theme song is Goodbye summer, hello winter by FantomenK
The controls, as you describe them, remind me of Turok: Dinosaur Hunter (im sure you remember it, for nostalgias sake it is one of my favorite shooters ever), perhaps they just didnt know how to map FPS controls for a joystick controller back in the day, but I think Goldeneye would soon set the standard after.
I don't know guys... I have fond memories of summer vacation in 9th grade, playing this non-stop. I still love it. Not a great game by any means but still fun.