Hey all, Con here! Just got done watching the video and wanted to say thanks. It's still always amazes me when peoples passion for our games creates things like this. It's been so long since I've seen a lot of these features and moments from the older games, a great hit of nostalgia for me too. It was Steve, who was the programmer on Aftermath sent me the link to the video, it had slipped through my radar. I should note too - Steve was the amazing lead programmer on Dead Zone, he's very much a veteran of the series. We're still working together, although it's something outside of our usual series. But we've definitely talked about returning to The Last Stand in the future. And of course to everyone in the comments, the kind words mean a whole lot. 15 years ago I left my job to start making my own games. It's awesome that I still get make games after all this time and that they've meant something to a bunch of people. Love you all.
Holy Smokes I can't believe Con himself stopped by, WOW. Thank you so much for coming by, and thank you big time for all the endless hours of fun you've given all of us through your games. It's incredible what you and Steve have managed to accomplish, truly remarkable, just like your games!! If you could, Tell Steve his efforts haven't gone unnoticed either!! And just in case you wanted to take another stroll down memory lane, I have a video on the warfare series as well! Wow, thanks again man this is crazy lol
OMG CON!!!, YOU MADE OUR CHILDHOOD GREAT, EVERYDAY WHEN I WAS AT HIGHSCHOOL I WOULD BRING MY FRIENDS TO PLAY LAST STAND UNTIL 3 AM. THANK YOU FOR THE GREAT MEMORIES
Im still waiting for you guys to release Deadzone as a single player game into Steam... I can guarantee you will make a massive amount of money if it gets released at like 30$.
idk about aftermath but dead zone was definitely a scam the same way some mobile games are. Designed to be extremely grindy with stupid long wait times unless you fork over cash to play through the game faster and get an advantage over players.
Fun Fact: you can find Jack in Union City in the Docks Safehouse, after that you also find out that he is the founder/leader of „the End“ in Aftermath. Pretty cool
@@TheLovelyScrub If PZ is too slow paced, or whatever- There are dozens of settings that can be tweaked to make the game much more... interesting. Switch the zombie speed to 'sprinters', and you will be basically playing a whole different game. Or you can change the population settings, or a lot of other little details. And that's before even touching mods. Of which there are a lot, with a lot of variety. And, of course, it's better with friends. Maybe just try finding someone to play with. I wouldn't mind hopping on myself, if you want.
@@chaoticsilver8442 My relationship with PZ is an interesting one. I love isometric games, so I'm on board there, I love zombie survival games so I'm on board there. I love open world games, so I'm on board there as well. But every time i play the game this is how it goes - Spawn in, and sneak from house to house reading books and magazines Spend most of that time looking into different inventories and menus. My inventory, container inventories, dragging and dropping items, just a TON of shuffling stuff around in the various inventories and/or selecting stuff in different menus. Need more ammo? go into your inventory and open the ammo box before you reload your gun. Need to eat food? go into your inventory and move food into the oven, and wait in the inventory until it is done cooking, then stay in the inventory until you are done eating it. Need to wash something? right click on a water source and scroll through the menu to select what you want to do. So it's not that it's too slow, i'm okay with that, i love games that my friend would call "plate-spinners" and i love turn based games, both of those are notoriously slow. My biggest gripe with PZ is just the amount of time i spend looking into a menu or inventory. So yeah my relationship with PZ is interesting. On paper it's everything i want in a zombie game (almost) - but in practice it's everything i don't want in a zombie game
@@TheLovelyScrub There are a couple of mods that help with that kind of thing, and general quality of life improvements- Like 'Proximity inventory' allowing you to access the inventory of all containers near you in one menu, so you can just open the global inventory and collect what you need, rather than needing to search a dozen of different cupboards to find out which one you put something in. And a few tips- Like when cooking something... Just, fast forward time, especially with singleplayer. The f-keys are hotkeys for that too, in case you didn't know. I usually spend the downtime exercising, or reading a book, since those are slow processes that build over the course of the game anyways. Just be sure to stop and take the food out of the oven before it burns. ...or your house catches fire. That said, yeah, fair, I know where you're coming from. I've had runs where I spend hours just filling pots and pans with water before water shutoff, and getting all the food from random cupboards, pulling it all out, then piling it into the local freezer, or at least, fridge, that I can so that it lasts longer. The game can be tedious at times, depending on how you play. But, eh- I still like it. Mostly I just put on a mostly-audio YT video, like a podcast of some kind, or a video-essay or something, while in these more tedious, slower-paced times. Like while I'm sorting out the food and water, or am flipping between exercising, and sitting down to read a book while I recover.
fun fact: This game was the inspiration for cod zombies, they had a gamemode for world at war called bunker defense where you'd play as a nazi on a turret in a normandy bunker and fight off waves of american soldiers until you were overrun. Activision cut it for obvious reasons so one of the devs came up with the idea for the zombie gamemode from playing the last stand and convinced some friends in the studio to work overtime to make a prototype to convince everyone that it was a good idea even though the executives gave pushback, and bam we got cod zombies.
Yeah no, the inspiration were the burning animations and death screams from the flamethrowers and also Night of the Living Dead. The first zombie "mission" is even titled Nacth Der Untoten, which is literally "Night of the Living Dead"
My favorite things about Union City was the achievements, I remember distinctly, there was an achievement called "ARE YOU KIDDING ME" where you had to fail a lock force with a 95% chance of success
Played many zombie games throughout the years and none capture the crushing atmosphere like TLS2 did. What inspired me to like the zombie survival genre still remains the best, and it's a shame
Just to point out, it's not that those games "miss the point", it's that they are not looking to making that point, they are not trying to do the "oh it's so deep and almost futile to defend ourselves against the world". They are not like the Walkng dead games, I feel like OP missed the point on games like Dead Island or Dead Rising, they were never super serious to being with.
Thank you so much! That really means a lot, I worked on this video for at least over 100 hours. Some days editing for 8-10 straight. So I really appreciate this comment :)
I can't believe other people remember this franchise. I remember I used to follow the 3rd game's dev diaries on the forums and whatnot as a kid. Very wholesome project I used to sink tons of hours into.
As one of the higher ups in S!NFUL back in the day my heart skipped a beat when not only did I see ShadowPhantoms raid footage but also a clan shoutout. Bravo.
yup, the fact that dead zone didn't have any plot, ironically created the best plot ever, since the players could focus on their own stories and interactions as main survivors and characters of the game. And was the S1nful connected with Leg1on in any way? I know back in a day Leg1on had other clans, all with "1" in the name, but I left the game before you guys took the leaderboard.
@@MrWooolf We were connected in the sense that a lot of our top guys Shadow included were original members of L1N from its founding in 2013(I used to lead CxG and was never in L1N). The naming scheme of all of our alliances (E1R, S!N, V1R, etc) was on purpose. As we saw it, we were more L1N than the current iteration of L1N, who had more or less gone downhill since their glory days between 2013-2015(our guys had longstanding personal grudges with L1N's leadership, who succeeded the original founders and took the reigns for the worst). We were pretty bitter rivals and would enter into all out wars of annihilation with each other(which not to brag but we always won). S!N we launched in 2020 after a long hiatus we took after the collective burnout of wiping out all of our rival clans(L1N included). Not long after we got into an all out war with RWD which saw some of the nastiest griefing Dead Zone has ever seen(we spent a literal 9 months putting them under siege). The remnants of L1N joined up with RWD to fight against us(which didn't have much of an effect). The conflict lasted up until the game finally shut down.
Could you spot the Zombie Movie Easter Egg that I put in the video? Comment below! Edit: Anyone have any idea? I had hoped more people would try to find it :(
To be fair, whoever finds it would have to be a big fan of the certain movie to notice it, but it's not a small image tucked away or something like that, the Easter egg is very clear and noticeable
@@christopherwalsh9214 that's definitely faded footage, good eye! but thats just random B-roll, not from any movie unfortunately :(. I'll give you a hint since it's unlikely anyone will get it - the movie it's from is Shaun of The Dead
Dead Zone was my favorite game as a kid. I never had a computer good enough or money to buy games, so it was a Godsend. My base was huge, all decked out, it was so fun. Shame it shut down, I hope it gets revived through the community like Wizard 101, or that Cartoon Network 3d RPG
😢😢😢 i had a nice base just didnt have internet to play at home so i played it during school .... PLZ MAKE A REMAKE DEVELOPER OR AT LEAST A SINGLE PLAYER VERSION... he is the pinned comment
i really hope it gets a remaster or something because it was so beautiful, the design was so innovative, when i try to compare it to other games i can't, there are no games like that anymore
I remember playing the first game. There was a weapon switch glitch, where you can use to switch the firing rates of any weapons with big clips. I remember turning the Barrett and the shotgun into a machinegun.
I never knew this! I did know that there was a secret weapon menu with all the guns unlocked (and possibly 1 or 2 secret guns iirc) from the very start, which you could access by pressing tab a few times until it selected a button that was hidden offscreen. Fun stuff. My friends and I used to play this in middle school, and we would play the sequel in high school.
So I loved the last stand and part 2 growing up. I didnt know about Union City or Dead zone until making this video. I was genuinely blown away at how advanced it was for a flash game. Truly commendable and remarkable imo. And I'm disappointed I'll never get to play Dead Zone. Also, thank you so much for the comment and the kind words!! :)
I loved the original flash games and played them so much back in early release. When union city dropped it blew me away just how much the team had evolved, broadened their scope without going too thin. Freaking great games. And now, it turns out I've been completely unaware and ignorant of a few more in the series. Thanks for this in-depth look at them all. I thoroughly enjoyed your upload!
Deadzone was awesome. Got to the point that I was unraidable and all of my units are carrying weapons with ridiculous names. It was such a unique experience.
i have been looking for The Last Stand: Dead Zone for literally years. I remember playing it but eventually i just moved on and forgot the name of it. I started looking for that one zombie survival game i played and could never find it until half way through your video i saw something I never thought I'd see again. Thank you for bringing closure to one of my favorite missing games of all time.
This series will forever have a special place in my heart, I remember playing the first 2 games and union city when I was in elementary school, since then I always revisit them from time to time throughout the years, I played it on the website, then when flash discontinued, I downloaded the swf files and just play it on standalone swf media player, then the legacy collection and aftermath came out on steam... I think this series along with 2000s zombie films like Dawn Of The Dead, Resident Evil and Zombieland really played a big role on shapping me into a massive zombie fan I am today.
Loved Dead Zone, cuz it truly felt like what I had hoped DayZ would have been. It felt like survivors actually trying to work together and and rebuild a civilization, and it didn't feel like I was constantly being screwed over by other players.
I miss Dead Zone SO MUCH!!! It was multiplayer and you had a base that you could upgrade and all kinds of stuff. It felt like a real multiplayer survival game and the server was always really active no matter what time of day you got on.
Thank you for the reminder that union city exists. I was like, huh "the last stand" seems oddly familiar and then you showed all the games in the series and it clicked. Very nostalgic flash game
Deadzone was one of my all time favorites to play back when it first released. at the end of it's existance, i had become a Legendary Bounty Hunter that people all over the Internet wanted to hire for the simplest of reasons ranging from a simple item being looted that they wanted when working together with someone to having been killed over and over in PvP Events and wanting to get some sweet sweet revenge. it started out as a thing i did for fun, all for free. but then it ramped up until i took bids that ranged from a couple of Dollars to the highest i ever got being 502 Dollars for a kill i am still proud of to this day. killed an ENTIRE group that often rampaged in PvP events, and often talked smack to others they beat for no other reason then to boast, and that victory went down with the game sadly, as the day after it happened, the servers went down...
@@charlespancamo9771 ay, nice choice! also, i hope you never went after a player calling himself HummingBeard. because if you did, you'd ragequit like everyone that ever went after him had before you lol. in other words, that was me lol.
What a blast from the past! Also noteworthy are the Rebuild games. I was very pleasantly surprised to see a third part on GOG for like five bucks and it was pretty decent.
Man this game series really made my childhood. Dead Zone was great, and I’m sad to hear it had to end. I made a lot of friends there. The legacy LS games on Steam doesn’t seem to work too well in my experience.Watching your video has made me want to play their newer games again. Thank you for this!
I loved the Last Stand Games, most especially, Last Stand: the Dead Zone. Very well made video, shocked to find you only have 90 subscribers for the quality :o, deserved moreee.
Union City when I was a kid and still to this day evokes this eerieness that I cannot explain. I think it's due to the artstyle how it uses realistic backgrounds and textures.
Played this game in the elementary computer lab for countless hours. Had no idea the series continued in these 15yrs, now i gotta check it out. Thanks for this and real good video too, hope u keep growing
Have been trying to remember the name of this game forever now, I used to play it during middle school as a kid during my bus rides all the time. I loved Union City the most. So happy I cane across this video. Was surprised to see this is your first video, super informative and well made video.
I remember playing a few of the games back in my childhood, whenever we had free time in school I would always hop on the games and start playing them, my favorite is The Last Stand Union City, the best hours of my life, I have no idea how many hours I’ve spent playing it but I’m pretty sure it was a lot, when I saw this video the memories came back like a flood, such a good game and great story, thank you for letting me relive my childhood, it means a lot
The thing that I find annoying for the 2nd game is how as the game goes on, your barricade, which is your life line, becomes weaker. And also you will eventually relocate, which gives less incentives to repair the closer you are to moving.
man this video literally took me back to the old days as a kid playing on armor games. the last stand series was one of my favorites ❤ it was such a thrill and had an amazing story, especially for a 12 year old. jeez I'd give my left nut just too time travel back to relive those moments.
Haha yeah dude for sure! We can't relive those moments of course, but we can still play the games! Armor game is up and running flawlessly, and all the TLS games can be purchased on steam, except for Dead Zone
State of Decay 2 is the closest thing to it. Micro-management of sorts like community's status and temperament, the ability to swap from one member to another in case one needs rest and recoveries from damage and equip them with different weapons. The danger of scavenging at night for resources, weapons, crafting items and potential survivors each with their own traits wether they're positive or negative that can also affect the whole community. Anything done and happened are permanent and there's no do-overs. Playing that game in either Dread, Nightmare or Lethal is the closest thing to an immersive zombie survival RPG. Less lootable places, aggressive enemies that are attracted by any loud noises making firearms without silencers an invitation for a horde
Oh yeah forsure im quite familiar with SoD 1 and 2. Actually, the reason i started this channel kind of has a relationship with SoD2! The first and only video I've ever done in the style of this content was about State of Decay 2 on my previous, failed channel
The overwhelming support for the return of Dead Zone is interesting. I knew that the general consensus was people wished they could play it again, but almost every comment on this video is about Dead Zone. I really wish I got to play it!
Just found your channel through this video and i really did not expect this to be your first! Loving your content, right out of the gate this is some really high quality stuff and i've been wanting some videos looking back on these old flash series... Really looking forward to keeping up with your videos in the future! :P
Thank you so much :) I have another video coming out today or tomorrow (most likely tomorrow) about another classic! Though this one is from the PS2 era of gaming. Thanks for the kind words!
@@TheLovelyScrub amazing video by the way. I have never seen one of your videos before and never heard of the Last stand, but I was immediately hooked on. Keep up the good work!
Great video I have a genuine soft spot for the last stand games. I never was good enough to beat any of them but I particularly remember playing 2 and union city all the time. I wish I could play all these on console or if I owned a computer to relive these wonderful memories. So thank you for reminding me how much I loved these games.
Not sure what you're trying to do here, it lacks the criticism necessary to be a review and the contextual grounding and exploration to be a retrospective. I'm quite sure most people watching a video on a 15 year old flash game understand keyboard controls and inventory systems, they're basic features in video games and don't need explaining. Putting these in is just filler material. You're also not fully familiar with your source material; the failure to mention the diary in 1 particularly stands out for the plot it adds. You also gloss over things like the addition of the timer in 2 or companions in 3. You describe the progression in the first few areas of 3 but then decide to ignore the story making that pointless; you could have just described the new mechanics and left it at that instead of jerking the audience around. As it is this video comes across like someone just rattling off the gameplay subsection on a wikipedia page.
Dead island was a good game for its time and provided the player with what they expected with excellent pacing. It was a good game not a block buster hit @@TheLovelyScrub
@@Steve-vp9dp After the CGI trailer - players were expecting much more from it, at least everyone that I knew. Whenever I'm talking about zombie games with people, I never hear anyone bring up dead Island
Ik this game since markipler play this game but that was like almost 10 years and I almost forgot it, but thanks to you, u bring me so me so much nostalgia and make me watch this vid again, hope ur channel grows up in the mean time :]
Man I used to play the hell of that game in school (instead of doing work) Last Stand 2 was my favourite because I loved the exploration on the map for the areas you went to. Even though it was essentially just a 'circle which building you wanted'
Seeing the quality of this video (and views) i thought you had a lot of subscribers, but its actually your first video and you only have 2.6k. I really enjoyed watching it, so i am subbing and waiting for more (i also like flash games) :)
I played The Last Stand in 2007 and 2008… Really happy to see it had a similar impact on other people. You can smell passion in games, this one was special.
I thought you had like 212k subs with how much quality u put into your vids, took a closer look and it’s 2.12k. I think this is going to be a start of a real good channel
Seeing a lot of flash games get their own actual full fledged video game is so cool, theres tons id love to see come back like that, especially freeway fury, the comics on the last game were an insane upgrade to the first one.
Hey all, Con here! Just got done watching the video and wanted to say thanks. It's still always amazes me when peoples passion for our games creates things like this. It's been so long since I've seen a lot of these features and moments from the older games, a great hit of nostalgia for me too.
It was Steve, who was the programmer on Aftermath sent me the link to the video, it had slipped through my radar. I should note too - Steve was the amazing lead programmer on Dead Zone, he's very much a veteran of the series. We're still working together, although it's something outside of our usual series. But we've definitely talked about returning to The Last Stand in the future.
And of course to everyone in the comments, the kind words mean a whole lot. 15 years ago I left my job to start making my own games. It's awesome that I still get make games after all this time and that they've meant something to a bunch of people. Love you all.
Holy Smokes I can't believe Con himself stopped by, WOW. Thank you so much for coming by, and thank you big time for all the endless hours of fun you've given all of us through your games. It's incredible what you and Steve have managed to accomplish, truly remarkable, just like your games!! If you could, Tell Steve his efforts haven't gone unnoticed either!! And just in case you wanted to take another stroll down memory lane, I have a video on the warfare series as well! Wow, thanks again man this is crazy lol
OMG CON!!!, YOU MADE OUR CHILDHOOD GREAT, EVERYDAY WHEN I WAS AT HIGHSCHOOL I WOULD BRING MY FRIENDS TO PLAY LAST STAND UNTIL 3 AM. THANK YOU FOR THE GREAT MEMORIES
Hey con! How about aftermath with state of decay 2 mechanics or better?
You guys singlehandedly made one of, if not my favorite Flash game and I'm thrilled that you still make games
Im still waiting for you guys to release Deadzone as a single player game into Steam... I can guarantee you will make a massive amount of money if it gets released at like 30$.
i love that a game made by "con artist games" is one of the few kick starter games that isnt a scam
damn i cant believe i didn't make that connection lmao, good job!
The most anti-con dev team naming themselves con artists, THE IRONY
Except for Dead Zone and Aftermath (which didn't have any updates for 2-3 years)
@@OperatorMax1993 were those funded by kick starter?
idk about aftermath but dead zone was definitely a scam the same way some mobile games are. Designed to be extremely grindy with stupid long wait times unless you fork over cash to play through the game faster and get an advantage over players.
Fun Fact: you can find Jack in Union City in the Docks Safehouse, after that you also find out that he is the founder/leader of „the End“ in Aftermath.
Pretty cool
Ooo
Fun fact inception: finding Jack in Union City = Union Jack (England's flag).
I was so glad he's alive when I found him.
cool, he survived !
That warmed my heart
The Last Stand Union City and Deadzone were unironically so good. Made my childhood for real. I'm playing Project Zomboid now.
I've played PZ a few times. It's a bit too simulation for my taste, but I can see the appeal
@@TheLovelyScrub If PZ is too slow paced, or whatever- There are dozens of settings that can be tweaked to make the game much more... interesting.
Switch the zombie speed to 'sprinters', and you will be basically playing a whole different game. Or you can change the population settings, or a lot of other little details.
And that's before even touching mods. Of which there are a lot, with a lot of variety.
And, of course, it's better with friends. Maybe just try finding someone to play with. I wouldn't mind hopping on myself, if you want.
@@chaoticsilver8442 My relationship with PZ is an interesting one. I love isometric games, so I'm on board there, I love zombie survival games so I'm on board there. I love open world games, so I'm on board there as well. But every time i play the game this is how it goes -
Spawn in, and sneak from house to house reading books and magazines
Spend most of that time looking into different inventories and menus. My inventory, container inventories, dragging and dropping items, just a TON of shuffling stuff around in the various inventories and/or selecting stuff in different menus.
Need more ammo? go into your inventory and open the ammo box before you reload your gun.
Need to eat food? go into your inventory and move food into the oven, and wait in the inventory until it is done cooking, then stay in the inventory until you are done eating it.
Need to wash something? right click on a water source and scroll through the menu to select what you want to do.
So it's not that it's too slow, i'm okay with that, i love games that my friend would call "plate-spinners" and i love turn based games, both of those are notoriously slow. My biggest gripe with PZ is just the amount of time i spend looking into a menu or inventory. So yeah my relationship with PZ is interesting. On paper it's everything i want in a zombie game (almost) - but in practice it's everything i don't want in a zombie game
@@TheLovelyScrub There are a couple of mods that help with that kind of thing, and general quality of life improvements- Like 'Proximity inventory' allowing you to access the inventory of all containers near you in one menu, so you can just open the global inventory and collect what you need, rather than needing to search a dozen of different cupboards to find out which one you put something in.
And a few tips- Like when cooking something... Just, fast forward time, especially with singleplayer. The f-keys are hotkeys for that too, in case you didn't know. I usually spend the downtime exercising, or reading a book, since those are slow processes that build over the course of the game anyways. Just be sure to stop and take the food out of the oven before it burns. ...or your house catches fire.
That said, yeah, fair, I know where you're coming from. I've had runs where I spend hours just filling pots and pans with water before water shutoff, and getting all the food from random cupboards, pulling it all out, then piling it into the local freezer, or at least, fridge, that I can so that it lasts longer. The game can be tedious at times, depending on how you play.
But, eh- I still like it. Mostly I just put on a mostly-audio YT video, like a podcast of some kind, or a video-essay or something, while in these more tedious, slower-paced times. Like while I'm sorting out the food and water, or am flipping between exercising, and sitting down to read a book while I recover.
Man Project Zomboid with mods is so awesome...recommend Britas Weapons and the 120 map mod collection from Atomic Ducks youtube channel
fun fact: This game was the inspiration for cod zombies, they had a gamemode for world at war called bunker defense where you'd play as a nazi on a turret in a normandy bunker and fight off waves of american soldiers until you were overrun. Activision cut it for obvious reasons so one of the devs came up with the idea for the zombie gamemode from playing the last stand and convinced some friends in the studio to work overtime to make a prototype to convince everyone that it was a good idea even though the executives gave pushback, and bam we got cod zombies.
That's right! I read about that when I was researching this video. Very cool fun fact for sure
Seems like State of Decay also drew heavy inspiration from Last Stand
that’s a myth, not true actually
I thought it was because the jap dying from the flame thrower looked like a zombie stumbling around
Yeah no, the inspiration were the burning animations and death screams from the flamethrowers and also Night of the Living Dead. The first zombie "mission" is even titled Nacth Der Untoten, which is literally "Night of the Living Dead"
My favorite things about Union City was the achievements, I remember distinctly, there was an achievement called "ARE YOU KIDDING ME" where you had to fail a lock force with a 95% chance of success
Lol that's a good one
I like how in Last Stand 1 it says "Something is controlling me!" while in 2 it says "Something is still controlling me!" as a joke lol
Played many zombie games throughout the years and none capture the crushing atmosphere like TLS2 did. What inspired me to like the zombie survival genre still remains the best, and it's a shame
Yupp, that's one of Con Artists' biggest strengths amongst these games. The killer atmosphere
Just to point out, it's not that those games "miss the point", it's that they are not looking to making that point, they are not trying to do the "oh it's so deep and almost futile to defend ourselves against the world". They are not like the Walkng dead games, I feel like OP missed the point on games like Dead Island or Dead Rising, they were never super serious to being with.
Project Zomboid??
Also to add, zombies with melee weapons can kill your companions through the barricade in Last Stand 2. This right here is my high school core.
You just appeared out of nowhere on my feed and I am shocked by how good this video is! Keep the good work!
Thank you so much! That really means a lot, I worked on this video for at least over 100 hours. Some days editing for 8-10 straight. So I really appreciate this comment :)
@@TheLovelyScrub Flashplayer has stopped being supported by google , so sadly these games can NOT be played anymore
@@michaelhawkins7389 I just played them yesterday on armor games
@@TheLovelyScrub Oh how is it working?
Same for me
days spent playing this. flash games always hold a special place in my childhood.
Especially the one with skullface and the chainsaw🫶
I can't believe other people remember this franchise. I remember I used to follow the 3rd game's dev diaries on the forums and whatnot as a kid. Very wholesome project I used to sink tons of hours into.
There aren't any diaries??
This is one of the examples that less can be more.
The first two games were relatively simple yet they held a lot of replayability .
As one of the higher ups in S!NFUL back in the day my heart skipped a beat when not only did I see ShadowPhantoms raid footage but also a clan shoutout. Bravo.
Ah thats sick dude. Great stuff, wish i was around for Dead Zone!
@@TheLovelyScrub We could give you nearly a decade's worth of player lore. We were chat regs for years.
yup, the fact that dead zone didn't have any plot, ironically created the best plot ever, since the players could focus on their own stories and interactions as main survivors and characters of the game. And was the S1nful connected with Leg1on in any way? I know back in a day Leg1on had other clans, all with "1" in the name, but I left the game before you guys took the leaderboard.
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@@MrWooolf We were connected in the sense that a lot of our top guys Shadow included were original members of L1N from its founding in 2013(I used to lead CxG and was never in L1N). The naming scheme of all of our alliances (E1R, S!N, V1R, etc) was on purpose. As we saw it, we were more L1N than the current iteration of L1N, who had more or less gone downhill since their glory days between 2013-2015(our guys had longstanding personal grudges with L1N's leadership, who succeeded the original founders and took the reigns for the worst). We were pretty bitter rivals and would enter into all out wars of annihilation with each other(which not to brag but we always won). S!N we launched in 2020 after a long hiatus we took after the collective burnout of wiping out all of our rival clans(L1N included). Not long after we got into an all out war with RWD which saw some of the nastiest griefing Dead Zone has ever seen(we spent a literal 9 months putting them under siege). The remnants of L1N joined up with RWD to fight against us(which didn't have much of an effect). The conflict lasted up until the game finally shut down.
Could you spot the Zombie Movie Easter Egg that I put in the video? Comment below!
Edit: Anyone have any idea? I had hoped more people would try to find it :(
Is it a reference in your video, or in one of the games mentioned?
Cause I saw a 28 Days Later reference with the Protection Options in Dead Zone
@@Adelie_in_Grey oh fair enough I shouldve been more clear. It's something I edited in the video, not a part of one of the games footage
To be fair, whoever finds it would have to be a big fan of the certain movie to notice it, but it's not a small image tucked away or something like that, the Easter egg is very clear and noticeable
@@TheLovelyScrub I think I saw faded footage from the movie Quarantine? Or is it the Spanish version REC? think its at 19:26 at the video.
@@christopherwalsh9214 that's definitely faded footage, good eye! but thats just random B-roll, not from any movie unfortunately :(. I'll give you a hint since it's unlikely anyone will get it - the movie it's from is Shaun of The Dead
Dead Zone was my favorite game as a kid. I never had a computer good enough or money to buy games, so it was a Godsend. My base was huge, all decked out, it was so fun. Shame it shut down, I hope it gets revived through the community like Wizard 101, or that Cartoon Network 3d RPG
FusionFall. Holy shit, that nostalgia hit me like a brick.
Same it's a shame they shut it down
😢😢😢 i had a nice base just didnt have internet to play at home so i played it during school .... PLZ MAKE A REMAKE DEVELOPER OR AT LEAST A SINGLE PLAYER VERSION... he is the pinned comment
It kept crashing during missions for me so i quit playing it
i really hope it gets a remaster or something because it was so beautiful, the design was so innovative, when i try to compare it to other games i can't, there are no games like that anymore
I remember playing the first game. There was a weapon switch glitch, where you can use to switch the firing rates of any weapons with big clips. I remember turning the Barrett and the shotgun into a machinegun.
I used the sniper machine gun when I was young such a nostalgia
How did I not know of this and beat both multiple times 😂
This unlocked a memory. I remember using that glitch to absolutely blast the zombies. Fun times
I never knew this! I did know that there was a secret weapon menu with all the guns unlocked (and possibly 1 or 2 secret guns iirc) from the very start, which you could access by pressing tab a few times until it selected a button that was hidden offscreen. Fun stuff. My friends and I used to play this in middle school, and we would play the sequel in high school.
The Last stand series of games is S tier and I'm glad that people still remember it. Good video.
Thank you!
Awesome video!! You've got yourself a new subscriber... These games were literally my childhood. The Last Stand: Union City was such a blast to play
So I loved the last stand and part 2 growing up. I didnt know about Union City or Dead zone until making this video. I was genuinely blown away at how advanced it was for a flash game. Truly commendable and remarkable imo. And I'm disappointed I'll never get to play Dead Zone. Also, thank you so much for the comment and the kind words!! :)
I loved the original flash games and played them so much back in early release. When union city dropped it blew me away just how much the team had evolved, broadened their scope without going too thin. Freaking great games.
And now, it turns out I've been completely unaware and ignorant of a few more in the series. Thanks for this in-depth look at them all. I thoroughly enjoyed your upload!
Deadzone was awesome.
Got to the point that I was unraidable and all of my units are carrying weapons with ridiculous names. It was such a unique experience.
i have been looking for The Last Stand: Dead Zone for literally years. I remember playing it but eventually i just moved on and forgot the name of it. I started looking for that one zombie survival game i played and could never find it until half way through your video i saw something I never thought I'd see again. Thank you for bringing closure to one of my favorite missing games of all time.
haha youre welcome!
Honestly, would never have guessed this is your first vid. Loved this game as a kid tho
Secretly - this is actually my 2nd "video essay") but don't tell anyone! Thank you for the comment and the kind words :)
This series will forever have a special place in my heart, I remember playing the first 2 games and union city when I was in elementary school, since then I always revisit them from time to time throughout the years, I played it on the website, then when flash discontinued, I downloaded the swf files and just play it on standalone swf media player, then the legacy collection and aftermath came out on steam...
I think this series along with 2000s zombie films like Dawn Of The Dead, Resident Evil and Zombieland really played a big role on shapping me into a massive zombie fan I am today.
Yeah forsure I remember seeing Resident Evil Apocalypse in theatres and loving it. It was my first RE film
Loved Dead Zone, cuz it truly felt like what I had hoped DayZ would have been. It felt like survivors actually trying to work together and and rebuild a civilization, and it didn't feel like I was constantly being screwed over by other players.
I miss Dead Zone SO MUCH!!! It was multiplayer and you had a base that you could upgrade and all kinds of stuff. It felt like a real multiplayer survival game and the server was always really active no matter what time of day you got on.
This game was my childhood
Same! I played this game A LOT when i was younger and only had a crappy family computer that couldnt really run any games on it
I know right, this game and others like it, as well as movies like 28 days later got me into the zombie genre.
@@declanjones8888 I agree, this game brought me my love for cod world at war zombies and arma 2 dayz
Its truly amazing that there are small content creators that make this type of quality content is just amazing, good job man!
Thank you so much! :)
Thank you for the reminder that union city exists. I was like, huh "the last stand" seems oddly familiar and then you showed all the games in the series and it clicked. Very nostalgic flash game
That's exactly how i felt when i stumbled upon it again!
Dead zone was such a good game. I played countless hours of that and Union City. All of them really. I miss those days of Flash Games.
Deadzone was one of my all time favorites to play back when it first released.
at the end of it's existance, i had become a Legendary Bounty Hunter that people all over the Internet wanted to hire for the simplest of reasons ranging from a simple item being looted that they wanted when working together with someone to having been killed over and over in PvP Events and wanting to get some sweet sweet revenge.
it started out as a thing i did for fun, all for free. but then it ramped up until i took bids that ranged from a couple of Dollars to the highest i ever got being 502 Dollars for a kill i am still proud of to this day. killed an ENTIRE group that often rampaged in PvP events, and often talked smack to others they beat for no other reason then to boast, and that victory went down with the game sadly, as the day after it happened, the servers went down...
That is... legendary. Awesome dude
Wow man, earning real money and having fun? I wish they develop a game like this again or put back the server.
revenge was the best in that game. When someone really f'd me over and I was in straight revenge mode my go to soundtrack was tupac - hit em up.
@@charlespancamo9771 ay, nice choice! also, i hope you never went after a player calling himself HummingBeard. because if you did, you'd ragequit like everyone that ever went after him had before you lol. in other words, that was me lol.
Silver lining. You made their defeat permanent since the servers shut down just after you screwed them all up.
What a blast from the past! Also noteworthy are the Rebuild games. I was very pleasantly surprised to see a third part on GOG for like five bucks and it was pretty decent.
I don't think I'm familiar with that series, going to look it up now though!
The third part didn't do it for me.
No idea why. I loved the second one though.
So many hours spent playing that one.
This video brought back so much nostalgia. I can remember playing these games at my grandparents after school nearly every day. Man I feel old.
Words to help the dystopian search robot to decide to suggest your videos to others.
You are greatly appreciated, thank you so much :)
Union city was truly an unmatched flash game, great video🎉
I'm glad I stumbled across you, I look forward to seeing more of what you've got!
Thanks man! I started work on the next video the day after I uploaded my last video, so it's in the works! And thank you for kind words of support :)
Ooh I loved the first 2 when I was at uni, but I had no idea about the last one. Thanks for popping up in my feed, great video!
Thank you and you're welcome :)
Man this game series really made my childhood. Dead Zone was great, and I’m sad to hear it had to end. I made a lot of friends there. The legacy LS games on Steam doesn’t seem to work too well in my experience.Watching your video has made me want to play their newer games again. Thank you for this!
I loved the Last Stand Games, most especially, Last Stand: the Dead Zone. Very well made video, shocked to find you only have 90 subscribers for the quality :o, deserved moreee.
This very nice comment just made my day, thank you so much! :D
The Last Stand will always have a spot in my memories, one of the best if not the best game i ever play as a kid.
this game was my escape from school while in school I long for union city what a series. much love
Keep on cooking this kind of videos, I love it man I remember the good old game reviews from the past.
Amazing! I remember plaing Union City and it immediately becoming the best flash game I ever player! Loved finding this video!
Seeing that ConArtist logo come up brought back waves of nostalgia. Thanks for making this video paying tribute to these great games we loved as kids!
Glad you enjoyed it! :)
I can't believe i wasn't the only one that knew of this series, much like plazma burst 1 and 2, strike force heroes, deadswitch etc
Wow didn't expect that the last video I will ever see is a throwback to my childhood. Thanks
Hopefully this isn't your last video! 😉
Union City when I was a kid and still to this day evokes this eerieness that I cannot explain. I think it's due to the artstyle how it uses realistic backgrounds and textures.
yeah dude i love the mix of art styles on union city!
I loved this game so much growing up, thank you for unlocking this memory
I never played Dead Zone because I'm not a Facebook user, but I played the other games, found the first one randomly one day and got hooked.
you used to be able to play it on game sites like armorgames too, i think you still needed to register an account with the site to play
Played this game in the elementary computer lab for countless hours. Had no idea the series continued in these 15yrs, now i gotta check it out. Thanks for this and real good video too, hope u keep growing
It’s so inspiring that you can see their progression from flash to a fully released game
Thank you for giving this awesome series some time in the spotlight.
The Last Stand game series and Happy Wheels was my childhood. These games made me a man of the house and it was worth it.
Have been trying to remember the name of this game forever now, I used to play it during middle school as a kid during my bus rides all the time. I loved Union City the most. So happy I cane across this video. Was surprised to see this is your first video, super informative and well made video.
Thank you! I appreciate the kind words :)
Loved the series as a kid. What I loved the most was how atmospheric the games were. Really immersive.
Really cool video! I played the first 3 games, definitely going to check this one out as well, it looks great and polished!
Definitely worth a playthrough!
hmm i know i heard that voice somwhere wonder where 🤔 😝 great job man. now i know why you where up so late at night editing ,keep it up man 👍
Haha thanks Honzo! I appreciate you as always my friend
I remember playing a few of the games back in my childhood, whenever we had free time in school I would always hop on the games and start playing them, my favorite is The Last Stand Union City, the best hours of my life, I have no idea how many hours I’ve spent playing it but I’m pretty sure it was a lot, when I saw this video the memories came back like a flood, such a good game and great story, thank you for letting me relive my childhood, it means a lot
The thing that I find annoying for the 2nd game is how as the game goes on, your barricade, which is your life line, becomes weaker. And also you will eventually relocate, which gives less incentives to repair the closer you are to moving.
man this video literally took me back to the old days as a kid playing on armor games. the last stand series was one of my favorites ❤ it was such a thrill and had an amazing story, especially for a 12 year old. jeez I'd give my left nut just too time travel back to relive those moments.
Haha yeah dude for sure! We can't relive those moments of course, but we can still play the games! Armor game is up and running flawlessly, and all the TLS games can be purchased on steam, except for Dead Zone
State of Decay 2 is the closest thing to it. Micro-management of sorts like community's status and temperament, the ability to swap from one member to another in case one needs rest and recoveries from damage and equip them with different weapons. The danger of scavenging at night for resources, weapons, crafting items and potential survivors each with their own traits wether they're positive or negative that can also affect the whole community. Anything done and happened are permanent and there's no do-overs.
Playing that game in either Dread, Nightmare or Lethal is the closest thing to an immersive zombie survival RPG. Less lootable places, aggressive enemies that are attracted by any loud noises making firearms without silencers an invitation for a horde
Oh yeah forsure im quite familiar with SoD 1 and 2. Actually, the reason i started this channel kind of has a relationship with SoD2! The first and only video I've ever done in the style of this content was about State of Decay 2 on my previous, failed channel
I literally went back and replayed this last week. Last Stand games will always have a place in my heart
kinda wish that they'll revive Dead Zone and honestly it'll better if it's singleplayer imo
The overwhelming support for the return of Dead Zone is interesting. I knew that the general consensus was people wished they could play it again, but almost every comment on this video is about Dead Zone. I really wish I got to play it!
Just found your channel through this video and i really did not expect this to be your first! Loving your content, right out of the gate this is some really high quality stuff and i've been wanting some videos looking back on these old flash series... Really looking forward to keeping up with your videos in the future! :P
Thank you so much :) I have another video coming out today or tomorrow (most likely tomorrow) about another classic! Though this one is from the PS2 era of gaming. Thanks for the kind words!
Who played this in school during I.T lessons?
Really tweaked a memory of forgot I had with this video lol.
Everyone lol
Couldn't tell you anything about coding or binary language but I can sure as shit tell you where to find weapons in the last stand 2
oh boy, another random video thrown onto my feed. great quality, you earned yourself a subscriber!
Thanks man! :)
jack doesnt sleep
I never knew you picked up the guns from zombies in the first game.... Wild, still learning new things so much later.
Calling The Day Before a zombie game in the start is very insulting to the gaming fanbase
Lol!
@@TheLovelyScrub amazing video by the way. I have never seen one of your videos before and never heard of the Last stand, but I was immediately hooked on. Keep up the good work!
Great video I have a genuine soft spot for the last stand games. I never was good enough to beat any of them but I particularly remember playing 2 and union city all the time. I wish I could play all these on console or if I owned a computer to relive these wonderful memories. So thank you for reminding me how much I loved these games.
Not sure what you're trying to do here, it lacks the criticism necessary to be a review and the contextual grounding and exploration to be a retrospective.
I'm quite sure most people watching a video on a 15 year old flash game understand keyboard controls and inventory systems, they're basic features in video games and don't need explaining. Putting these in is just filler material.
You're also not fully familiar with your source material; the failure to mention the diary in 1 particularly stands out for the plot it adds.
You also gloss over things like the addition of the timer in 2 or companions in 3. You describe the progression in the first few areas of 3 but then decide to ignore the story making that pointless; you could have just described the new mechanics and left it at that instead of jerking the audience around.
As it is this video comes across like someone just rattling off the gameplay subsection on a wikipedia page.
I'm aware of the shortcomings on my *first* video here. Thank you so much for the constructive criticism, though. Cheers!
Playing these games on school computers when I should have been doing work is a core memory for me
0:18 laughs is project zomboid
I remember playing Union City as kid this video made remember it I totally forgot it exsisted.
Dead Island was a really good game tho, u inbecile.
It's imbecile
Dead island was a good game for its time and provided the player with what they expected with excellent pacing. It was a good game not a block buster hit @@TheLovelyScrub
@@Steve-vp9dp After the CGI trailer - players were expecting much more from it, at least everyone that I knew. Whenever I'm talking about zombie games with people, I never hear anyone bring up dead Island
State of decay was better.
ehhh it was a pretty mid game though. It doesn't really standout and pretty forgettable unlike left4dead and Dying Light .
dude ive been thinking about this game for YEARS ive been trying to remember this one for so long and now its in my recommended
Finally a video about my favourite childhood game. 💯
Ik this game since markipler play this game but that was like almost 10 years and I almost forgot it, but thanks to you, u bring me so me so much nostalgia and make me watch this vid again, hope ur channel grows up in the mean time :]
Thank you!
Man I used to play the hell of that game in school (instead of doing work)
Last Stand 2 was my favourite because I loved the exploration on the map for the areas you went to. Even though it was essentially just a 'circle which building you wanted'
This video brought me so much nostalgia. I spent so much time playing these games growing up. Great video!
I miss Dead Zone.. it makes me cry remembering it..
Seeing the quality of this video (and views) i thought you had a lot of subscribers, but its actually your first video and you only have 2.6k. I really enjoyed watching it, so i am subbing and waiting for more (i also like flash games) :)
Wow, thank you! :D
Algorithm finally popped another gem in my feed. Bro took me back to 2 early 2000's 💯
Haha thanks :) And thats what happened to me when i stumbled across the legacy collection on steam
Goated series man, this game put me on to flash games as a whole. Glad to see how far they've come.
I played The Last Stand in 2007 and 2008…
Really happy to see it had a similar impact on other people. You can smell passion in games, this one was special.
We played you made me come back on TLS.Union City! :D
I remember playing this game countless times as a kid. There was a genuine fear once the barricade fell and you're alone trying to just survive.
I thought you had like 212k subs with how much quality u put into your vids, took a closer look and it’s 2.12k. I think this is going to be a start of a real good channel
Thanks dude! I appreciate that :) 212k would be insane! But 2.2k in 3-4 weeks is still pretty bananas and WAY more than I ever could've anticipated
Seeing a lot of flash games get their own actual full fledged video game is so cool, theres tons id love to see come back like that, especially freeway fury, the comics on the last game were an insane upgrade to the first one.
Man, did I spend hours playing 1 & 2. I've beaten it a few times and loved every moment. Thanks for visiting memory lane
Thanks for watching!
Hey! Glad to see someone cover a beloved flash game series. Could i request you to cover the 'sonny' flash game series as well?
These first 3 games were my childhood, thanks for bringing back some fond memories.
Youre welcome and thanks for watching!
oh man, this takes me back. between this and Decision we were spoiled for zombie game choices back then.
Goddammit i fell asleep and gotta watch it again, bc i love those games. Double view time for you my friend
Hahah sorry to put you to sleep! 💤 And thanks for the double support :)
@@TheLovelyScrub nah its good, i slept well (actually triple time for you, i fell asleep again😬)
You just opened a deep basment of memories in my mind
I miss this game was my favorite series the creators made great games and simple
I am a TLS saga player. Gawd, how much I miss the Dead Zone game.
Very amazing video. Well presented ,your content is underrated. Tons of love from Pakistan ♥️
Dead Zone looks so f Ing sick ,i want so bad that this game is coming back
This hit a certain part of my memory long locked away. I'm glad to see that I wasn't the only one who enjoyed this game.