I worked as a trucker back when I was married. I picked up a hitchhiker and let her ride along with me in my sleeper (I wasn't an independent owner-operator so I would have gotten into deep trouble for that) and we would sleep together until we parted ways in San Antonio. When I got home: I had sex with my wife but I got some symptoms so I got tested and it turned out that I picked up the clap from that hitchhiker and I infected her with it, too. The thing is, she thought she got it from her own AP so she confessed that she was sleeping around and wanted a divorce. So we got one and I kept on trucking until I got caught sleeping with a floozy I picked up at a bar by her husband and he reported me. I got fired for that.
"I have a certain respect for software that's really inefficient and finicky, but is also performing small miracles nothing else can" 100% agree. Janky Genies, I call em.
"He should just get out of here and go back to space-trucking. He has everything he needs to write his own country song: Girl of his dreams left him for an android; he gets arrested trying to save her, busts out of jail, tames a dragon, and she doesn't even care." Now that's a kind of heartache I can relate to.
My girl left me one morning for an android, And flew away into space with him one day. So I hopped into my truck And tried to find her trail But where she disappeared to I couldn't say I found a distant planet in the far reaches of space Wondering if she had come here to this place I found the mandroid Sitting alone in his ship But of her there was not a trace I dove into the caves beneath the surface of the world And down below the earth my destiny unfurled I got thrown in and escaped prison And tamed myself a dragon But even after this she just don't care Ooooooooooh, I tame myself a dragon And still she do not care Only that drug-fueled robot android Can even catch her stare Ooooooooooh.
Mad props to Barry's ZTranslate software, even if it needs a little more work. Without it, we probably wouldn't even have SEEN our trucker boy get screwed over by Sierra-level antagonism.
@Rusty Nütz Installing a patch usually involves copying some files into a specific directory or clicking an EXE/BAT file. Learing German involves learning all kinds of weird rules and exceptions. At least I commented on something.
@Bernard Gliff Nah, I wouldn't say pronunciation(I'm still convinced that this word alone is the result of someone forgetting to write "o" in "pronounciation" in a dictionary) is a bitch, it's actually pretty easy(...to a russian, anyway) compared to the confused germanic spinoff with french influences that is english. I mean come on, this language can't even manage to say H where it originally is, so Haron becomes Charon that's for some reason basically pronounced like Caren. Who the hell does that?
@@thundersoul6795 it's because the Romans screwed english. They forced a language designed for english runes to use the Latin script. It just doesn't work
it's actually okay to just say "halt mein bier." in this case, "halt" is an alternative, more colloquialised way to say "halte", the imperative of "halten", i.e. "to hold". it is also the form you would rather use in a situation that makes you say "hold my beer."
Seems like the ideal way to win was to go grab a couple beers, head back to your ship, fly over the town while dumping your septic, then move on to the next world.
So apparently this game was a sort of stepping stone for the guy who wrote the story on his way to becoming a published author - which actually happened with the novels set in this world in the early 2000s. Harald Evers seem to have written at quite a pace, because "the cave world" actually got about 8 books (2 sets of 4) published in half a decade. He had intended for "the caveworld saga" to conclude in the third cycle of four novels for a total of 12, but he died of a heart attack at the (young) age of 49 in the mid-2000s, leaving the ending unknown; just like in the game that started it all for him (and I suppose some fans who know his work).
I freaking hate it when that happens. Check out Roger Zelaney's two-part "WIzard World" trilogy. The two books he wrote, are "Changeling" and "Madwand". My soul bleeds, not knowing where that story ends.
Well if nothing else the game teaches a lesson; sometimes there are people in your life that actually aren't worth it and will never change, and the best thing for you is to get the hell out of there as soon as possible.
The threading issue described at 4:57 is due to how the Windows kernel operates. Due to legacy restrictions, there is little to no non-blocking IO in Windows. That means that if something is reading from a device like the hard drive, the other processes on the system all stop until the data is read. Excessive HD usage? Single-threaded OS, more or less. Do multiple cores improve performance on Windows? Depends. Usually not. If you ran the program in Wine on another OS, that wouldn't happen, but then the program might not work at all, or might have odd bugs. Welcome to computer hell. We hope you don't enjoy your stay. This is one of the reasons why Microsoft has looked at changing out the kernel multiple times over the years. If they do that, though, then they're basically running Wine on Linux (or MacOS, or BSD, etc), and we get a nightmare scenario even worse than the WNT/W2K/WXP mess that on its own already lasted half a decade or longer, depending on who you ask. Bottom line, the core speed matters more than core count on Windows, as Windows spends half or more of its time being incapable of running two or more CPUs at once, and high HD throughput (especially on drives with damaged HDs - oh god that hurts so much) will absolutely hamstring the computer, especially on seek time delays. If you want the technicial details, it basically boils down to design choices in the old DOS and OS/2 kernels. Those kernels mostly ran on a single processor system, and CPU time was precious. DOS's IO.SYS barely counts as a kernel, but we'll avoid that argument here and just say it is. It assumed only one program was resident at a time, and swapped programs out only when an interrupt call happened - TSRs being the typical offender here. OS/2 maintained DOS compatibility, and rather than using mutexes and semaphores or process separation or memory pools as modern OS design usually does, they just blocked every thread when anything accessed any data storage location that could be shared between processes. That includes shared RAM addresses, hard drives, network devices, sound devices, or any other hardware that more than one program might be connected to. This made DOS compatibility easy, as they could essentially run the whole OS core as a sort of TSR when running DOS, using interrupt requests to switch back to enable pseudo-multithreading. Windows NT improved that design somewhat over the years through replacing older IO API calls with new multithreading-capable calls, but some of that legacy code couldn't be replaced without breaking most of the existing software, and not all programs (and system API calls themselves) stopped using those old crappy API calls. So Windows 10 in 2019 still can't run a background task when reading from the HD, and excessive HD reads (or network traffic, etc) will cause an all-stop situation as it processes. A possible solution if you have a good network card: use a NAS. Good network card drivers offload IO queuing to the hardware, and storage IO blocking is handled by the destination device, and not by your OS. That frees up the CPU on your computer to do CPU things, and lets a separate (hopefully not OS/2-based) device worry about preventing multiple programs from writing to the same place at the same time. Of course, the protocol used there matters too, so you might need to use FTP instead of CIFS to make it work well. That gets complicated, but cheaper than a new CPU.
You just managed to explain to me why, when I installed a giant multi-terabyte HDD, my computer randomly froze for a second every now and then. After replacing it with a slightly smaller HDD it now only goes "thunk" at random intervals instead, without the freezing. I still don't know where that noise is coming from though...
Ross did you really expect the developers of Nyet 3 to make an adventure game with currency to spend on multiple things from dragon parking fees to beer, and not allow you to screw yourself over if you spend it carelessly? I'm suprised the Nyet 3 mascot did not make a cameo in the game, or was secretly the lizard overlord.
You know ... in the 80ties or something we had a "quiz show" in which the only real goal was to remove "fruit" of the body of a woman. Some might have "strawberries, apples" and so on. It also was produced in Italy so ... those are the lengths germans go to see some boobs on pre-internet television. So ... you have to see "weird" thing in relation to general "german weirdness". The show was called "tuttifrutti" btw
The Neverhood has a longer unskippable walk. The infamous Hall of Records. It definitely takes over 5 minutes. And it's absolutely required to finish the game.
There's also Granny/Dementia/Armed & Delirious when Granny walks down the stairs before the fan puzzle. She doesn't comically fall down the rest if you return to this room either, usually from failing the puzzle.
Possibly the only unskippable but fun sequence in video games is the ladder sequence in Metal Gear Solid 3. It really is a metaphor or it's purpose to convey a certain message after everything you have been through. Actually the only fun event l have ever seen and with fitting music at that.
I'm from Germany, and I actually had this game - it was included as a full game on the Cover discs of one of the PC magazines I bought. This one actually got quite good reviews from most of the german-language mags... I suppose they actually gifted it with a HUGE "local developers" bonus, because the game was mediocre at best (good graphics though). Ross' complaints were spot on, the dialogues were quite inane and most of the puzzles frustratingly illogical at times... There IS an explenation where the light is coming from, though! It just was found in the manual, which was pretty vast and full of intriguing backstory bits. So where DOES the light come from? Yeah... it basically IS magic! :p (Of, and the games' story actually was continued in a way... when the game publisher folded due to bankruptcy the main author of the story, Harald Evers, turned his creation into a series of science fantasy novels. There were 7 or 8 of them if I'm not mistaken)...
@@meapickle it's been years since I've last held one of the novels in my hand, but I think they were prequels, taking place several generations before the setting of the video game, and starring a female magic user as a protagonist. They were severely downplaying the scifi aspects and feel more like traditional fantasy novels in that regard. I believe the author (who also authored the plot of the video games) eventually planned to make the plot come full circle, but we'll never know as he unfortunately passed away before completing the story (as, unfortunately, is often the case with these kind of fantasy cycles).
9:39 "So it's kind of like talking to people on the moon. I'm used to this sort of thing." I LOVE how Ross is still going with the "stranded on the moon" thing. His videos have better continuity and attention to detail than alot of movies / TV shows.
@@radzdzij Moongaming was a short lived experimental series Ross did where he was stuck in a moonbase and was kept there by forces that were never elaborated on. It was an unscripted thing he did where he played obscure games with other people. Since the (presumed) death of the series Ross has put little refrences to it in a few of his videos, and it's been kind of a running gag/theme for the channel that Ross is stranded on the moon. Here's a link to it: ua-cam.com/video/kybGu9_8acU/v-deo.html
Task Manager --> Details Tab --> Find the process name --> Right click menu --> Set Affinity --> Choose non-primary core you want the process to run on. Voila, you've freed up your primary core!
I read the Höhlenwelt-Saga books when i was kid. And here is where the sun comes from: The people of this Planet once lived on its surface, but then had an world war with superweapons. These Superweapons made the oceans and all other ponds go solid. Solid but transparent. The same Superweapons created huge Caves in the planet and the survivng People fled into these. And the former Waterbodies become thier sunroofs. The next time I visit my Parents I'm going to pick up the books for a reread. Because I can't remember the dragons. Just Magic, a Lizardpope and lots of Lesbiancoitus.
@@mrfreeman1763 Incredibly transparent glass, then. Also, one-way transparent, since no one can see the underworld from the orbit. Anyway, screw the light, let's talk about gravity. The world can't be hollow, we've seen them walking not on the inside part of the sphere, but on some sort of inner planet, let's say it's cooled down core. Now we have a problem - the outer sphere will collapse without significant amount of pillars holding it up, or being specifically engineered and reinforced to hold against the pull of gravity. It might be possible to pull that off (although the caveats of shell-type Dyson sphere still apply), but definitely not with stated technology and timeline. And even if we can rationalize THAT, there's still one more thing to consider - thermodynamics. We have a sandwich planet that has atmosphere on inside, but not on the outside, and there's no direct connection to the outside because they are all sealed off. Now, I think that in this scenario it would be incredibly hard to radiate any heat into space, or to get the core heated by the sun rays, so it's basically a closed system - and second law of thermodynamics states that in any closed system, entropy always increases. So sooner or later all its inhabitants are going to get cooked alive.
Is why I love Ross and his community. They do amazing things from saving games, making translation programs, or physical memorabilia of an old rail shooter arcade game with clowns.
@@arciks11 and Maomi turns out to be a collie. Where ARE the rebels she ran off to anyway? We've seen a bunch of guys in a bar doing nothing, an old man in a cliff city, and a guardian of the supposedly unreachable and undetectable dragon city. So, who's actually been fighting for the last 1000 years? Now that I think of it, is this dragon city guardian immortal? Does he rest in some cryopod, like the one Cal had, between visits of strangers? Does he have a stockpile of non-perishable food to keep him going? Or maybe there's a sideroad leading to the city where he has family and a kid who's going to become next guardian of the secret unreachable dragon city within walking distance of the totally reachable village? I don't know! But I wouldn't put it past these developers to pull a move like that.
@@AllHailMe12431 Wait a minute. That's the entire plot of every Pokemon game. Beat an animal unconscious and then force it into a life of servitude. Neat! (BTW I'm joking. I like the Pokemon games)
its not dysfuntional if both people are happy. almost every relationship is one sided. if youre not the one checking out other people sometimes then your partner is.
@@justinw947 This is the most corrupted, modernized interpretation of relationships I've seen in quite a bit. No, having a relationship where one of the partners is monkey branching is not healthy. If anything its a sign of how weak our social fabric has become that people think that behavior is normal or okay.
@@unfa00 yeah, with the whole dead author thing and all... And the fact, that I was the only one that bought this game probably doesn't help much either.
Let's talk about why a process on a single core might impact performance of a process on another core: CPUs are typically manipulating information, but computations are typically much cheaper than data movement. You state that this program was very heavy on drive usage, meaning it probably loads and stores info very often. As such, this program is probably not very cache-friendly. The system does it's best to hide the latency through things like load predictions, and the access patterns are probably fairly regular for the program, which allows the CPU to continue working through it, but it sounds like this program puts a lot of pressure on memory. A cache access may take only 4-50 cycles, memory accesses take an additional 150-250 cycles, and traditional hard drives may take near a million. As such, we want to keep data as close to the processor as possible, so the cache is better than memory is better than hard drives. As such, what is probably occurring is a large number of writes and reads to hard drives and a lot of thrashing in memory. Thrashing is when we are loading data into memory or cache, assuming we will use it, but throw it out before we end up reusing the data. When we load something, we often assume it will be used again soon, since data access patterns suggest this to be the case. We can write a small program in C that looks like this: void main(){ while(1); } This will use 100% of a core, but since there is very little in the way of reads/writes it will not really hurt your systems performance for the other threads. It's gonna warm up the room, but it's not too bad, you just have 1 less core available. However, if I make a c program that loads a large file, performs a complex cipher on it, then stores it back to the hard drive, over and over, we'll see that the performance will really start to drop. It will also use 100% of the cpu, but performance will drop significantly if we keep loading and storing over and over. The program, probably 1 - Has a ton of memory and/or hard-drive operations. 2 - Reduces available lower-level cache space and memory for other cores and processes. 3 - Is still pretty rad. This is a bit simplified, but hope it helps you understand what's actually happening. :)
I might be slightly wrong, but it sounds like starting a car or accelerating and breaking quickly over and over again when it comes to loading and storing programs and data, because those actions the CPU is taking are the real workload that usually ease up over time, but from the way the program is, it's a massive cycle of hard work and nothing else, thus slowing it down.
I'm not too sure about this, but there's also the matter of what's called a "synchronous memory access" - essentially, every time any thread accesses memory, depending on the architecture and how the OS manages it, a thread can block every other thread trying to access the memory at the same time. What this means is no matter how many threads you have, too many disk accesses cause a performance choke point because other threads just wait to access the same memory space. The video capturing device performs a stream-like pattern of memory accesses, which is why it slows down this memory contesting game as well I believe. Research nowadays is focusing on how to detect the most accessed memory and pull it into faster memory, but unless there's a completely user transparent way to do it, these games will unfortunately continue to be slow due to dated programming and management :(
Gotta love how in a world where people ride dragons and pterodactyls, the way that Dragon Temple place cuts itself off from the world is by taking down their bridge (^-^) Man, this was amazing. I cannot believe you had a fan make a program that could translate a game no one has ever played in English before. Hot damn; as if there was any doubt before, Ross and the Accursed Farms community is officially legendary.
According to the books the ceiling of the cave world is interveined by lots of crystalline structures that basically redirect the sun light from surface to the cave world.
@@expressnumber Sure, after creating the video game the writer went on to write 8 books about the cave world before passing away in 2006. I doubt they were ever translated, though.
Dang it. While watching this episode i thought about the exact same thing and written it down as an idea for my own game world. Guess, i'm not original anymore.
@@vantuz8264 Don't be afraid to use it anyway. It's not just individual ideas that makes something original, but the unique combination of different ideas.
I'm german and I've never heard of that game before so probs for finding this. We have our own culture of point and click adventures and I claim to know alot about of those but shit from what grave did you dig this up?
Also, one of the character classes in 'Sacred' was a dark elf (who refreshingly was nothing like Drizzt Do'Urden from D&D) who fought with crossbows (long before Diablo 3), poisoned traps, grenades and what was blatantly a Klingon Bat'leth; but best of all, he was voiced by the German voice actor who supplies the German voice for Vin Diesel in German dubs of movies. Yeah. And another class, a female vampire knight, was voiced by the voice actress who dubs Gillian Anderson (Dana Scully from the X-Files). And the Gladiator had the German voice of Bruce Willis. What's not to like.
Incidentally - human skin has enough reliance to not tear in space. The moisture on your eyes would flash boil away due to low pressure - but its distinctly the lack of air in a vacuum that kills you. And for that matter - holding your breath is actually one of the worse things you could do - as then there is a pressure imbalance and gases in you blood can boil. Breath out, and you've got maybe thirty seconds of consciousness, and three min until hypoxia induced brain-death. No, I have never done this to anyone, I just write books and researched this a bit.
@@BustaNo.99 My number one recommendation would be to get a bunch of spiral notebooks and some pens and always write your first draft long hand. I have two purposes for this. First of all - it means you're not distracted by anything else on your computer - and can even do it in class or while waiting, or otherwise at odd times. Secondly - editing is always tedious, since you're wrote and read this section before - but in this manner, you're forced to make changes or think about the work as you transcribe it into a word processor. Another recommendation is to constrain your self and then follow where these limits lead. For example - if aliens evolved on a planet that is all archipelagos, they might never get WWI trench warfare due to the ability to bypass islands. In turn - they might have advanced boats and aircraft, but will never develop a vehicle like the tank. If you need other advice or an editor, you can send messages to gamejager13 (at) gmail.com
Your blood boils either way, at least in your extremities. You wanna breathe out so your alveoli don't rupture due to the pressure imbalance. Even then you can't breathe out completely, but the idea is to let the air get sucked outta ya easier.
38:24 "I don't think even Sierra games penalize you for traveling back and forth." The bridge in King's Quest 2, if you cross it too many times you fall to your death.
5:34 - Ross, you have obviously angered your computer's Machine Spirit by installing this unofficial software. You may be able to placate its circuits by the lighting of the incense and reciting verses from the holy Scriptum Manual, and consulting the section Dux Fermentum
Yeah... this game really fell off a cliff after gathering the 3 gems. Not to mention your character has zero motivation to help at all, in fact, Maomi is so antagonistic that you have more motivation to leave than to help. O_o Plus the ending comes out of nowhere, says fuck you, and punctuates it with a cliffhanger.
@Stix N' Stones Gonna be honest only just got the notifications for all these replies. Thanks YT. Yeah that's not how you write a good character. I'm no expert, only been writing for like 5 years, but even I know the only one you want to be that level of shitbag is the main villain if anyone.
Höhlenwelt also spawned a 8 volume book series in 2001. It was meant to have 3 "cycles" with 4 books each but Harald Evers died in 2006 aged 46 from cardiac arrest. Some called him the german Tolkien (most likely his publisher). There is also a sequel made in 2006 also called "Die Höhlenweltsaga". It's a Magic the Gathering like card game that includes a text-adventure campaign. I dare you to find a copy of that, lol.
I've come to the conclusion that most of the time when a program runs slowly it's because of poor optimization on the part of the software. Since certain video games take a shit ton of resources on my pc and I can experience sporadic frame rate dropping unless I dedicate my entire pc to running that game. Yet I can run other games with later release dates and much better looking graphics with certain other related programs in the background such as for streaming, and have no problems on either the stream or game quality.
@@NODnuke45 Same here, a game like Doom 3 runs worse at 1280x1024 on my rig than Crysis 3 at 1920x1080 thanks to how much of an inefficient hog the Doom 3 engine is
Thanks. Things are improving, if slowly. And maybe Ross’s advice about her doing him a favor by disappearing is something applicable here. Looking back on it, the relationship was far from ideal.
Hey Ross! I was the concept artist and one of the animators for the game. I’ve been watching your videos since Freeman’s Mind and it was a really awesome surprise watching a game I worked on pop up in my recommendations! This project was a labor of love for me and the other 3 artists and 1 programmer/sound artist. It was really fun watching you play and even though it’s a frustrating game we wanted to make a game we were proud of and holy crap are we proud of it! I hope you enjoyed our weird little game :) Stay healthy out there Ross!
So... you're 1/3 of Werner Frankowsky? Weltenschmiede (the studio behind this game) was made up of a hand full of people and the only one with any experience in animation on the team at the time was Werner Frankowsky.
I think you pissed her off at the end by answering wrong at 50:43. She says she was worried about you, I think. Then you ask how Gusmar is doing, which upsets her. My German is pretty rusty, but I think with your dialogue choices it seems like you care as little about her, as she seems to care about you, which obviously doesn't end with Speedy and Maomi together.
Maomi is the literal worst. Speedy travels across the universe, dodges oppressive reptilian police, and frees her from slavery, and also solves an ancient mystery for a rebellion he wants no part in, and she ends up leaving him for some random jerk. Wow.
Sure, in most circumstances doing favors for her doesn't mean she has to fall in love with him. But come on, Maomi took the previous affection he still had and she didn't anymore in order to have him do her dangerous dirty work and them dump him cold hearted with a guy she just met. All without her even showing a sliver of thankfulness for saving her life. That's a massive bitch move any way you look at it.
Regarding the 100% CPU usage, you're probably hitting the I/O throughput really hard too. For example, if a program has to read data continuously from the graphics output, like the translator program you're running, image data has to be transmitted from the video card to the CPU continuously, and in roughly real time. That means that if another program has to use the PCI express bus (where the video card sends that data through), it will probably have to wait even though there's CPU time to spare. Same goes for heavy RAM usage across a large piece of RAM, or heavy hard disk usage. The bottlenecks are often outside of the CPU itself. For reference, even in typical workloads the CPU spends about 30% of the time waiting for data to load in from RAM. For something processing data continuously from a graphics card I would probably put that at 70%+. You might have heard about dual channel or triple channel RAM on a motherboard. That essentially allows multiple cores to read and write to RAM at the same time, as long as they need to use different channels. If two cores need data from the same RAM channel, then one of them has to wait. If one of those two needs data all the time, then the other one will probably have to wait a lot.
"Let me know if you've seen a longer sequence of unskippable walking required in an adventure game where nothing else happens. No action, no dialogue, all you do is sit and watch him walk." I see you've never played The Neverhood. Fairly early in the game there's an area called The Hall of Records, and while I guess stopping to read the lore on the wall could count as some kind of action or dialogue, it's completely optional. What isn't optional is walking all the way to the end to collect one of the tapes required to complete the game. I haven't timed it myself, but I did find a Let's Play that took 3 and a half minutes to walk the entire thing, from collecting the beaker on one end to collecting the tape on the other, and he only stopped for a few seconds to look at one of the engravings. You also have to walk all the way out again in real time, which is technically even longer since at that point you've already collected all the items in the area and are just leaving.
Fun fact: in one (or maybe the only, I dunno) Russian translation of The Neverhood all the infodump in that hall was chaged to stupid jokes and gags by the translation team. And no, those jokes and gags have nothing to do with the actual plot.
@@DjShadFox They also took some liberties with the names. Hoborg became Tuborg, for example. It's funny because it's the name of a beer brand. Comedy gold.
"I don't think even Sierra games penalize you for traveling back and forth" oh they ABSOLUTELY do. King's Quest 2 bridge is an example of that - you get a limited amount of times you can cross it. This amount is EXACTLY how many times you need to cross it, so if you backtrack without progressing even Once - you're screwed. Worst part is - it does not show visually that it would break. They started showing that only after space quest
i've been slowly going through all Game Dungeon episodes and damn, this one is one of the best. intriguing set-up, beautiful game, uncharted territory with unforgiving mechanics and super funny commentary. 1 hour flies by too fast
Just for a little information, that ‘안’ letter you see on the big canister in cargo bay of the ship means ‘Inside’ in Korean language. In case of anybody wondering what that is.
I _was_ wondering, and actually thought it kinda looked Korean, before dismissing it as random sci-fi symbol. Thanks! That now begs the question how it made it into the game. Any cult Korean sci-fi/fantasy from before the ~80s? Is it printed on Korean products that also get exported?
This reminds me of Lost Odyssey, a JRPG, a friend pointed out to me that an antagonist's tank had words in Tamil, but that's just so strange considering it was made in Japan...
I'm torn on the idea of paying stable fees for the dragon, if it was another game like an RPG it would be funny and cute to store your dragon in the local stables, but with limited money in a point and click not so good.
As far as old school & obtuse & Polish adventure games go, there's two I can think of from the top of my head that are easily available: Teenagent & Jack Orlando. Both have English translations, both are available on GOG, the former is free, and the latter brags about having music by German composer Harold Faltermeyer (e.g., themes for Top Gun & Beverly Hills Cop) and being set in 1930s US. Basically, sounds like a good fit for your show!
There's at least 2 Swedish ones as well that I'd say are Game Dungeon worthy: Fran Bow and Little Misfortune by Killmonday Games. The puzzles are less obtuse and easy enough to figure out, but Fran Bow does have at least 1 early on and it gets pretty cryptic by the final act.
I vividly remember this game from when I was a kid, yet I had completely forgotten its name for a good 20 years! It was my first "good looking" CD game and it branded me for life. I've been trying to find out what the game was called for the past 10 years!
Yeah, Maomi reminds me of that specific kind of lass. Y'know, the that's likely to fall in with some sort of cult. And not the good, wholesome ones, like Children of the Uncaring Cold, but a really crappy petty little sects. Amateurs. Or, hell, even a New Age movement. *shudders* Also as someone who loves dragons and everything about them, I believe there's still some room for more dragon-related stuff.
Ok so I couldn't resist; I googled Children of the Uncaring Cold and the only exact match was photos of kids apparently suffering upper respiratory infections. Is there a cult where you seriously benefit in ways concrete and intangible that's only for people with head colds? Because I've had multiple sinus surgeries and moreover have the rivets to show for it, so if this can buy me something beyond the discount I currently enjoy on my bulk shipping kleenex subscription I am SO in.
@@etsilverman3937 Nah, that was a random name from the top of my head, sorry. That being said, this does sound like a possible ritual scarification, so if you are into some cult-work yourself, you may create one. Although, I would suggest waiting with the scarification rites until your followers reach certain degree of adulthood: it really helps you to avoid numerous problems.
"And although the space they occupy isn't like normal space, nevertheless they are packed in tightly. Not a cubic inch there but is filled by a claw, a talon, a scale, the tip of a tail, so the effect is like one of those trick drawings and your eyeballs eventually realise that the space between each dragon is, in fact, another dragon. They could put you in mind of a can of sardines, if you thought sardines were huge and scaly and proud and arrogant"
Doesn't Pikmin technically classify being a "Space Trucker" game? Olimar is an intergalactic freight shipper, wondering about his family back at home in his daily logs, and talking about his ship parts like a trucker would about his truck as well!
Yeah but it's not really a staple of truckerdom that you end up careening into a village of pygmies whom you control like C3PO did ewoks to repair your truck, though.
Probably the *LONGEST* (or 2nd LONGEST if he made such length of a vid before) vid Ross Scott have ever produced. Kudos for your everlasting productivity!
Ross, a lot of programs use core 0 (I.e. 1) by default, so you need to force them to use another core by changing the core affinity. I think you can do that with the task manager, but if not, get process hacker and use that. Set the offending processes to have a core affinity of core 3 or 2, then set ztranslate to another core. Leaving core 0 open keeps your computer much faster.
New Game Dungeon: Time to watch it consciously 12 times, have it on in the background while I work another 48, and then play it on my TV while I fall asleep 240 times
@@KarklesVantas We're like an ouroboros. A snake eating it's own tail. A closed loop, where our food is content from Accursed Farms. Where does the content end, and we begin? Also, I have all of Freeman's Mind as audio on my phone, and I've listened to it 12 times
@@KarklesVantas God, that's my dream. I mean it kind of already is. The audio theatre version wouldn't have to change too much, you basically need some samples of background audio and a narrator and boom you've done it
Piranha Bytes recently tried something similar with ELEX. Come to think of it, that game was a mixed bag with a cliffhanger ending too. Maybe it's cultural, was weis ich.
@@OneOfTheStorms "It's a good setting archetype." Must be a German thing. As a Russian, I don't see the appeal of this combination at all. Now, _steampunk_ mixed with fantasy is where things get interesting.
@@OneOfTheStorms It still depends on how the setting is handled: from top of my head I can remember American TV-series "SG-1", Japanese animated series "GATE", and Russian sci-fi novel "Hard to Be a God" as somewhat along the lines of "high tech in [fantasy] medieval world", and for the second entry I cannot say that it's as good as entries 1 and 3...
Barry's ZTranslate software is working wonders, is like the reverse thing EA is doing actually, instead of killing games, ZTranslate bring some old games to a broader audience, thats like living in an utopia
I can't believe you're playing a 90's sierra style adventure game in German using a shaky auto translator. You might be the bravest man who ever lived.
@@nicefloweytheoverseer7632 I'm pretty sure if I roll across the galaxy to save my girlfriend who went missing, unintentionally end up involved in some weird fantasy war, end up in prison repeatedly, almost die nonstop, Still save the girl and her first words to me are shitty, someone's getting left in the prison cell. I think Eric is allowed to be more than a little salty considering the amount of bullshit he got dragged into because of her, on top of her just being a thankless prick about it all.
Yeah, from the description given, this method should be extremely effective in that type of game. That is, assuming the translations are any good; a lot of visual novels come from Asian countries, and automated translation systems still have trouble with eastern languages to and from English. :(
I think it would be easier for someone to scrub through it with a similar tool and then layer over the translation with a mod, you wouldn't have to check the screen every frame and then run a translation, you would get way better preformance.
@@elloo98 I cant recall the name right now but there is a tool that hooks into a visual novel's process and translates text on the fly in the game. The real issue is that, while a machine translated VN can be entertaining, it's usually not quite as... compelling.
I lover your gaming dungeon episodes. I love the games you choose to review. It's so relaxing to watch and enjoy them so much when I'm stressed after work.
For the non-German speakers: when the translation breaks down at 19:13 the text Ross chose says "This dragon belongs to ME lately". Which makes it even more funny in this context.
Not a German, but I actually saw that game back in Middle/High school as my German teacher showed a bit of it and told us that if we got straight 10's he'd get us a free copy. Needless to say none of us tried very hard since it didn't look that awesome to our GBA/PSP/DS wielding gamer minds, 1 guy actually downloaded it over old-school P2P and didn't care for it since he couldn't get it to work. Needless to say I only remembered this after suddenly seeing the early-game cutscenes. Then again I am Dutch so we're German enough...
Hi Ross. Regarding the CPU issue, there are other shared resources that CPUs have that are not redundant, such as memory bandwidth. If a single core is maxing out your memory bandwidth while the other cores are idle, the scheduler won't be able to do anything or take advantage of threading. There are a bunch of things that affect performance in multicore systems though, and it gets pretty complicated. You can use core or thread affinity per process and play around with process priority. Also worth mentioning - there were some Game Dungeon fans working on a translation of this game. An actual rework of the game's file into English. I briefly helped them (in fact, I managed to decode the language files and propose a method to have translated text inserted into the games original files) Not sure how far they got, I'll check in with them again. (hopefully they will see this and comment)
"Oh damn, a Game Dungeon upload! Hell yeah, I'll watch that when I'm done doing this important work." *Video is an hour long* "OH." *Immediately stops everything and watches it*
While the Cave World Saga game itself may be largely forgotten even in Germany, head developer Harald Evers went on to write a number of fantasy novels set within this very world. The digital card game you showed at the end there also had his name on it, so I guess it was also made by him.
I believe this is the first game dungeon where you talked about the music without saying "let's talk about the music". Edit: In the Zany Golf episode he said "About the music". My bad.
Yea, I remember they explained that as well as the fact that the deeper you go, the less light gets through. It was even a major plot point because it was the reason why damaging a plant was a grave offence on the lowest world.
I always felt like each of the lands had their own sky of sorts. They are called the "Lands Below", so you can expect that they are some sort of enclosed worlds of their own.
"A secret temple in the jungle that only Germans have been to" is literally the plot of Pathways Into Darkness.
top comment, King
Ross is putting us on the Marathon timeline.
@@jcrosenkreuz5213 But WHICH Marathon timeline?
@@jcrosenkreuz5213 And for the next award: *there is no escape!*
@@lolrus5555 Instant Dagothwave flashback "No recall or intervention can work in this place!"
Your girl is cheating on you while you're out making hauls and vaguely looking for some crystal. This is a fairly accurate trucking simulator
Girl was just using you for the crystal, like any other tweaker bitch.
lmfao looking for some crystal
Relationships with meth addiction be like:
I worked as a trucker back when I was married. I picked up a hitchhiker and let her ride along with me in my sleeper (I wasn't an independent owner-operator so I would have gotten into deep trouble for that) and we would sleep together until we parted ways in San Antonio. When I got home: I had sex with my wife but I got some symptoms so I got tested and it turned out that I picked up the clap from that hitchhiker and I infected her with it, too. The thing is, she thought she got it from her own AP so she confessed that she was sleeping around and wanted a divorce. So we got one and I kept on trucking until I got caught sleeping with a floozy I picked up at a bar by her husband and he reported me. I got fired for that.
_Barry_ unlocked it? I thought Jill was the Master of Unlocking.
With her becoming a Jill sandwich, he became the master by default.
In Resident Evil Revelations 2, Barry also becomes a Master of Unlocking
"Heh. Who's the master of unlocking now?"
Yeah, yeah...
With a Gun like Barry's, there is no such thing as 'Locked'
"I have a certain respect for software that's really inefficient and finicky, but is also performing small miracles nothing else can"
100% agree. Janky Genies, I call em.
Fighting to do the job no one else can. The unlikely heroes. You could make an action movie protagonist out of them.
Like every Microsoft product, ever?
So like the build engine in the 90s?
like TempleOS
Such as?
"He should just get out of here and go back to space-trucking. He has everything he needs to write his own country song:
Girl of his dreams left him for an android; he gets arrested trying to save her, busts out of jail, tames a dragon, and she doesn't even care."
Now that's a kind of heartache I can relate to.
My girl left me one morning for an android,
And flew away into space with him one day.
So I hopped into my truck
And tried to find her trail
But where she disappeared to I couldn't say
I found a distant planet in the far reaches of space
Wondering if she had come here to this place
I found the mandroid
Sitting alone in his ship
But of her there was not a trace
I dove into the caves beneath the surface of the world
And down below the earth my destiny unfurled
I got thrown in and escaped prison
And tamed myself a dragon
But even after this she just don't care
Ooooooooooh,
I tame myself a dragon
And still she do not care
Only that drug-fueled robot android
Can even catch her stare
Ooooooooooh.
@@Morec0👏👏👏❤️🩹🚀
"Today we have a SPECIAL episode!"
Oh shush Ross, we all know that _every_ episode is special.
wholesome
cringe
Every episode involving Gordon Freeman talking about video games is special.
@@juliankiz Ross Shits out pure gold bricks, each decorated with a unique, and ornate design. and you CANNOT TELL ME OTHERWISE
"Collie" = Collaborator, in case anyone was confused.
In context: Prisoners being "Sold to a Collie" means "Being sold to someone loyal to the Regime"
thanks, I hadn't the slightest what he was talking about there
Thanks!!
I find it funny that we have to find out what Collie means from a user with a catgirl avatar.
welcome to the internet ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@TheRedKing247 She's actually a dog girl, which makes it funnier.
Mad props to Barry's ZTranslate software, even if it needs a little more work. Without it, we probably wouldn't even have SEEN our trucker boy get screwed over by Sierra-level antagonism.
@Rusty Nütz Installing a patch usually involves copying some files into a specific directory or clicking an EXE/BAT file.
Learing German involves learning all kinds of weird rules and exceptions.
At least I commented on something.
@Bernard Gliff Nah, I wouldn't say pronunciation(I'm still convinced that this word alone is the result of someone forgetting to write "o" in "pronounciation" in a dictionary) is a bitch, it's actually pretty easy(...to a russian, anyway) compared to the confused germanic spinoff with french influences that is english.
I mean come on, this language can't even manage to say H where it originally is, so Haron becomes Charon that's for some reason basically pronounced like Caren. Who the hell does that?
@@thundersoul6795 it's because the Romans screwed english. They forced a language designed for english runes to use the Latin script. It just doesn't work
Sierra: "We delight in making our puzzles, obtuse, confusing and outright hostile to the player."
Cave World Saga: "Halte meine bier."
"Halte mein Bier." There must be order after all.
it's actually okay to just say "halt mein bier." in this case, "halt" is an alternative, more colloquialised way to say "halte", the imperative of "halten", i.e. "to hold". it is also the form you would rather use in a situation that makes you say "hold my beer."
@@YourEvilHenchman That is correct.
@@YourEvilHenchman I think his correction was due to the "meine" which is grammatically wrong in that sentence. ^^
@@Eisdax i know. i just added to that correction with additional information.
Seems like the ideal way to win was to go grab a couple beers, head back to your ship, fly over the town while dumping your septic, then move on to the next world.
Don't forget to bring your new dragon friend with you!
"Way of the Space-Road boys."
Hilarious comment holy jesus
Nah, the ideal move would be to find Maomi - kill her, and then move on.
So an optional "side quest" in My Summer Car
Usually whenever someone tells me they're the ultimate weapon against the lizard people, I go to a different bar
Pretty much. Everyone knows the ultimate weapon against the lizard people must not be spoken of and is not a mere mortal man...
@@einzelfeuer_2855 Shhhhh...... seriously what part of must not be spoken do you not get!!!!
go go gadget guffaw
You met Alex Jones?!
this is the funniest thing I’ve read all year
Here’s MY personal award for this game: “Least Grateful Girlfriend”
@Stix N' Stones I don't have a PS4.
@Stix N' Stones your first ungrateful girlfriend you never knew.
she’s still ungreatful.
*tryina sass me after double pepperoni*
She doesn't even seem to be his girlfriend... just a very sad case of oneitis on Speedy's side.
Just any girlfriend, to put it plain.
So apparently this game was a sort of stepping stone for the guy who wrote the story on his way to becoming a published author - which actually happened with the novels set in this world in the early 2000s.
Harald Evers seem to have written at quite a pace, because "the cave world" actually got about 8 books (2 sets of 4) published in half a decade. He had intended for "the caveworld saga" to conclude in the third cycle of four novels for a total of 12, but he died of a heart attack at the (young) age of 49 in the mid-2000s, leaving the ending unknown; just like in the game that started it all for him (and I suppose some fans who know his work).
Dang, that's really sad...
That is really unfortunate.
I freaking hate it when that happens. Check out Roger Zelaney's two-part "WIzard World" trilogy. The two books he wrote, are "Changeling" and "Madwand". My soul bleeds, not knowing where that story ends.
Monsieurr Claw so wait, there’s more to this story after this game?
Yeah, people in the comments say they've read the books. Something about lesbian space lizards.
Well if nothing else the game teaches a lesson; sometimes there are people in your life that actually aren't worth it and will never change, and the best thing for you is to get the hell out of there as soon as possible.
Amen, wish I'd internalized that back in 2016. I'd have done so much less heroin, if any!
@@TayTayMakesBeats Heroin is better than people though.
@@Gatorade69 I just coffee and spices. Not together all the time.
The threading issue described at 4:57 is due to how the Windows kernel operates. Due to legacy restrictions, there is little to no non-blocking IO in Windows. That means that if something is reading from a device like the hard drive, the other processes on the system all stop until the data is read. Excessive HD usage? Single-threaded OS, more or less. Do multiple cores improve performance on Windows? Depends. Usually not. If you ran the program in Wine on another OS, that wouldn't happen, but then the program might not work at all, or might have odd bugs.
Welcome to computer hell. We hope you don't enjoy your stay. This is one of the reasons why Microsoft has looked at changing out the kernel multiple times over the years. If they do that, though, then they're basically running Wine on Linux (or MacOS, or BSD, etc), and we get a nightmare scenario even worse than the WNT/W2K/WXP mess that on its own already lasted half a decade or longer, depending on who you ask. Bottom line, the core speed matters more than core count on Windows, as Windows spends half or more of its time being incapable of running two or more CPUs at once, and high HD throughput (especially on drives with damaged HDs - oh god that hurts so much) will absolutely hamstring the computer, especially on seek time delays.
If you want the technicial details, it basically boils down to design choices in the old DOS and OS/2 kernels. Those kernels mostly ran on a single processor system, and CPU time was precious. DOS's IO.SYS barely counts as a kernel, but we'll avoid that argument here and just say it is. It assumed only one program was resident at a time, and swapped programs out only when an interrupt call happened - TSRs being the typical offender here. OS/2 maintained DOS compatibility, and rather than using mutexes and semaphores or process separation or memory pools as modern OS design usually does, they just blocked every thread when anything accessed any data storage location that could be shared between processes. That includes shared RAM addresses, hard drives, network devices, sound devices, or any other hardware that more than one program might be connected to. This made DOS compatibility easy, as they could essentially run the whole OS core as a sort of TSR when running DOS, using interrupt requests to switch back to enable pseudo-multithreading. Windows NT improved that design somewhat over the years through replacing older IO API calls with new multithreading-capable calls, but some of that legacy code couldn't be replaced without breaking most of the existing software, and not all programs (and system API calls themselves) stopped using those old crappy API calls. So Windows 10 in 2019 still can't run a background task when reading from the HD, and excessive HD reads (or network traffic, etc) will cause an all-stop situation as it processes.
A possible solution if you have a good network card: use a NAS. Good network card drivers offload IO queuing to the hardware, and storage IO blocking is handled by the destination device, and not by your OS. That frees up the CPU on your computer to do CPU things, and lets a separate (hopefully not OS/2-based) device worry about preventing multiple programs from writing to the same place at the same time. Of course, the protocol used there matters too, so you might need to use FTP instead of CIFS to make it work well. That gets complicated, but cheaper than a new CPU.
This seems to be an underrated comment. Thanks for the thorough explanation!
I love this channel because you find stuff like this. Good on you.
This might be the best youtube comment I have ever read.
You just managed to explain to me why, when I installed a giant multi-terabyte HDD, my computer randomly froze for a second every now and then.
After replacing it with a slightly smaller HDD it now only goes "thunk" at random intervals instead, without the freezing.
I still don't know where that noise is coming from though...
@@gryffinp This might be the best youtube channel I have ever read.
56 MINUTES. You spoil us, you magnificent caveman.
Cave*jesus*
@@hanloncaldwell8571 Cave Mold Jesus
Yea, notice how he said 'no time travel was necessary _this_ episode'. Secrets out Ross...
his cave has some real vintage games
@@hanloncaldwell8571 yeah ive always depicted him as jesus. a wallace and gromit loving jesus.
Ross did you really expect the developers of Nyet 3 to make an adventure game with currency to spend on multiple things from dragon parking fees to beer, and not allow you to screw yourself over if you spend it carelessly? I'm suprised the Nyet 3 mascot did not make a cameo in the game, or was secretly the lizard overlord.
I'm guessing he was masquerading as Maomi
Or he's actually all of the people that have transactions, even the woman you sell the holy grail to.
Nyet 3 mascot being the Lizard King would have been revealed if the series finished.
RarefoilB Is that from the books?
"We're riding on a military transport pterodactyl this time, not a civilian one. Here, the game gets weird."
HERE the game gets weird?!
My words exactly.
Look, after Armed and Delirious it takes a lot to move the Crazy-ometer on this show.
He is Freeman, he has saw some shit but there is a limit to it
You know ... in the 80ties or something we had a "quiz show" in which the only real goal was to remove "fruit" of the body of a woman. Some might have "strawberries, apples" and so on. It also was produced in Italy so ... those are the lengths germans go to see some boobs on pre-internet television.
So ... you have to see "weird" thing in relation to general "german weirdness".
The show was called "tuttifrutti" btw
The Neverhood has a longer unskippable walk. The infamous Hall of Records. It definitely takes over 5 minutes. And it's absolutely required to finish the game.
Don't remind us
I just FORGOT about neverhood,
Great, here come the nightmares.
Yeah but did you actually read the entire hall of records? I did, and it was an interesting take on the Bible.
There's also Granny/Dementia/Armed & Delirious when Granny walks down the stairs before the fan puzzle. She doesn't comically fall down the rest if you return to this room either, usually from failing the puzzle.
Possibly the only unskippable but fun sequence in video games is the ladder sequence in Metal Gear Solid 3. It really is a metaphor or it's purpose to convey a certain message after everything you have been through. Actually the only fun event l have ever seen and with fitting music at that.
I'm from Germany, and I actually had this game - it was included as a full game on the Cover discs of one of the PC magazines I bought. This one actually got quite good reviews from most of the german-language mags... I suppose they actually gifted it with a HUGE "local developers" bonus, because the game was mediocre at best (good graphics though). Ross' complaints were spot on, the dialogues were quite inane and most of the puzzles frustratingly illogical at times...
There IS an explenation where the light is coming from, though! It just was found in the manual, which was pretty vast and full of intriguing backstory bits. So where DOES the light come from? Yeah... it basically IS magic! :p
(Of, and the games' story actually was continued in a way... when the game publisher folded due to bankruptcy the main author of the story, Harald Evers, turned his creation into a series of science fantasy novels. There were 7 or 8 of them if I'm not mistaken)...
Where they stories in the same universe or did the star McDugan?
@@meapickle it's been years since I've last held one of the novels in my hand, but I think they were prequels, taking place several generations before the setting of the video game, and starring a female magic user as a protagonist. They were severely downplaying the scifi aspects and feel more like traditional fantasy novels in that regard. I believe the author (who also authored the plot of the video games) eventually planned to make the plot come full circle, but we'll never know as he unfortunately passed away before completing the story (as, unfortunately, is often the case with these kind of fantasy cycles).
@@sebastiangerstl466 that's a shame. Tried so hard to complete the story and universe. Only to pass away
20:19
9:39 "So it's kind of like talking to people on the moon. I'm used to this sort of thing."
I LOVE how Ross is still going with the "stranded on the moon" thing. His videos have better continuity and attention to detail than alot of movies / TV shows.
What was that reference to? I didn't get it
@@radzdzij Moongaming was a short lived experimental series Ross did where he was stuck in a moonbase and was kept there by forces that were never elaborated on. It was an unscripted thing he did where he played obscure games with other people.
Since the (presumed) death of the series Ross has put little refrences to it in a few of his videos, and it's been kind of a running gag/theme for the channel that Ross is stranded on the moon.
Here's a link to it: ua-cam.com/video/kybGu9_8acU/v-deo.html
I think people didn't like Tom but Tom was goofy and chill :(
@@JohnDoe-ne4kg Yeah, I liked him too. And not JUST beause of name-bias!
@@JohnDoe-ne4kg Tom was awkward but seemed nice
Task Manager --> Details Tab --> Find the process name --> Right click menu --> Set Affinity --> Choose non-primary core you want the process to run on. Voila, you've freed up your primary core!
"My girlfriend left me so now I drink with my dragon", would be an interesting folk-metal/country song.
The More I See Of People The More I Like My Dog, but with a dragon.
Reason 83 why dragons are better than trucks: You can _actually_ drink with your dragon.
My babys love was laggin'
This space truckers ass was draggin'
Got myself a dragon
Dragon dragon dragon
There are two possible versions:
1. medieval rock with whiny emo elements
2. crappy meme song made by 4chan users
I don't know which would be worse
@@fonesrphunny7242 I disagree. Have you ever heard Puff the Magic Dragon?
"I don't think MacDougan has any real goals, he's just doing what other people tell him to."
Confirmed: Most accurate trucker sim ever. In space.
I read the Höhlenwelt-Saga books when i was kid. And here is where the sun comes from:
The people of this Planet once lived on its surface, but then had an world war with superweapons. These Superweapons made the oceans and all other ponds go solid. Solid but transparent. The same Superweapons created huge Caves in the planet and the survivng People fled into these. And the former Waterbodies become thier sunroofs.
The next time I visit my Parents I'm going to pick up the books for a reread. Because I can't remember the dragons. Just Magic, a Lizardpope and lots of Lesbiancoitus.
Isnt the pope in futurama a lizard pope, but not that i think about it this game almost feels like it takes place in the futurama universe
...tell us more about the Lesbiancoitus.
We have solid water in northen Sweden. It is called ice, but no one lives under it. Well, i don't think so at least.
I guess technically the oceans could be boiled away and the heat could turn the sand into glass...
@@mrfreeman1763 Incredibly transparent glass, then. Also, one-way transparent, since no one can see the underworld from the orbit.
Anyway, screw the light, let's talk about gravity. The world can't be hollow, we've seen them walking not on the inside part of the sphere, but on some sort of inner planet, let's say it's cooled down core. Now we have a problem - the outer sphere will collapse without significant amount of pillars holding it up, or being specifically engineered and reinforced to hold against the pull of gravity. It might be possible to pull that off (although the caveats of shell-type Dyson sphere still apply), but definitely not with stated technology and timeline.
And even if we can rationalize THAT, there's still one more thing to consider - thermodynamics. We have a sandwich planet that has atmosphere on inside, but not on the outside, and there's no direct connection to the outside because they are all sealed off. Now, I think that in this scenario it would be incredibly hard to radiate any heat into space, or to get the core heated by the sun rays, so it's basically a closed system - and second law of thermodynamics states that in any closed system, entropy always increases. So sooner or later all its inhabitants are going to get cooked alive.
Ah, a new game dungeon. Now things are starting to make sense. More later.
I missed you, Admiral!
say goodbye to your wife and kids already you prick, Im letting this island go nuclear so I dont have to do another temple puzzle
@@KingLich451 😆🥋
Theres a meme I never thought I'd understand
iiii
Cracking and translating a whole game? That's some dedication right there.
Shonuf.
A point and click game even
No game left behind
Is why I love Ross and his community. They do amazing things from saving games, making translation programs, or physical memorabilia of an old rail shooter arcade game with clowns.
@@TakeItEasy2019 Ross did introduce me to a lot of games on his channel and I did play a few of them as well.
Speedy had a better relationship with the prisoner girl than he did Maomi, jesus.
Prisoner girl probably gave him more credit than Maomi did in their entire relationship
Hell, he had a better relationship with his pet dragon, which he knocked out by throwing a rock in it's face 5 minutes after their first meeting.
I suspect in non existing Sequel he would eventually hook up with Prisoner girl.
@@arciks11 and Maomi turns out to be a collie.
Where ARE the rebels she ran off to anyway? We've seen a bunch of guys in a bar doing nothing, an old man in a cliff city, and a guardian of the supposedly unreachable and undetectable dragon city. So, who's actually been fighting for the last 1000 years?
Now that I think of it, is this dragon city guardian immortal? Does he rest in some cryopod, like the one Cal had, between visits of strangers? Does he have a stockpile of non-perishable food to keep him going?
Or maybe there's a sideroad leading to the city where he has family and a kid who's going to become next guardian of the secret unreachable dragon city within walking distance of the totally reachable village? I don't know! But I wouldn't put it past these developers to pull a move like that.
@@AllHailMe12431 Wait a minute. That's the entire plot of every Pokemon game. Beat an animal unconscious and then force it into a life of servitude. Neat!
(BTW I'm joking. I like the Pokemon games)
The game is a metaphor for a dysfunctional relationship where only one of the partners put in any effort to make it work.
He should have pushed her off the cliff.
its not dysfuntional if both people are happy. almost every relationship is one sided. if youre not the one checking out other people sometimes then your partner is.
I guess that was supposed to lead up to some payoff in the saga's conclusion. But we'll never know.
@@justinw947 This is the most corrupted, modernized interpretation of relationships I've seen in quite a bit. No, having a relationship where one of the partners is monkey branching is not healthy. If anything its a sign of how weak our social fabric has become that people think that behavior is normal or okay.
@@unfa00 yeah, with the whole dead author thing and all...
And the fact, that I was the only one that bought this game probably doesn't help much either.
The auto-generated subtitles for the German voiceover at the start is hilarious. "reclining Korea in fact of pregnant 40" indeed.
"A special drug in the form of a small crystal, yeah we have those on my planet too"
It's sugar, right?
Joe Rogan interviews Ross Scott when?
Do you get them from your neighboorhood's local secret temple too?
Was just looking for something to watch, Ross in with the save.
bless you, Ross.
Bloss.
@@KairuHakubi Look Around You references are the best.
Let's talk about why a process on a single core might impact performance of a process on another core:
CPUs are typically manipulating information, but computations are typically much cheaper than data movement. You state that this program was very heavy on drive usage, meaning it probably loads and stores info very often. As such, this program is probably not very cache-friendly. The system does it's best to hide the latency through things like load predictions, and the access patterns are probably fairly regular for the program, which allows the CPU to continue working through it, but it sounds like this program puts a lot of pressure on memory. A cache access may take only 4-50 cycles, memory accesses take an additional 150-250 cycles, and traditional hard drives may take near a million. As such, we want to keep data as close to the processor as possible, so the cache is better than memory is better than hard drives.
As such, what is probably occurring is a large number of writes and reads to hard drives and a lot of thrashing in memory.
Thrashing is when we are loading data into memory or cache, assuming we will use it, but throw it out before we end up reusing the data. When we load something, we often assume it will be used again soon, since data access patterns suggest this to be the case.
We can write a small program in C that looks like this:
void main(){ while(1); }
This will use 100% of a core, but since there is very little in the way of reads/writes it will not really hurt your systems performance for the other threads. It's gonna warm up the room, but it's not too bad, you just have 1 less core available. However, if I make a c program that loads a large file, performs a complex cipher on it, then stores it back to the hard drive, over and over, we'll see that the performance will really start to drop. It will also use 100% of the cpu, but performance will drop significantly if we keep loading and storing over and over.
The program, probably
1 - Has a ton of memory and/or hard-drive operations.
2 - Reduces available lower-level cache space and memory for other cores and processes.
3 - Is still pretty rad.
This is a bit simplified, but hope it helps you understand what's actually happening. :)
Very nice.
Nice explanation!
This is the comment i was looking for. Thanks!
I might be slightly wrong, but it sounds like starting a car or accelerating and breaking quickly over and over again when it comes to loading and storing programs and data, because those actions the CPU is taking are the real workload that usually ease up over time, but from the way the program is, it's a massive cycle of hard work and nothing else, thus slowing it down.
I'm not too sure about this, but there's also the matter of what's called a "synchronous memory access" - essentially, every time any thread accesses memory, depending on the architecture and how the OS manages it, a thread can block every other thread trying to access the memory at the same time. What this means is no matter how many threads you have, too many disk accesses cause a performance choke point because other threads just wait to access the same memory space.
The video capturing device performs a stream-like pattern of memory accesses, which is why it slows down this memory contesting game as well I believe. Research nowadays is focusing on how to detect the most accessed memory and pull it into faster memory, but unless there's a completely user transparent way to do it, these games will unfortunately continue to be slow due to dated programming and management :(
Gotta love how in a world where people ride dragons and pterodactyls, the way that Dragon Temple place cuts itself off from the world is by taking down their bridge (^-^)
Man, this was amazing. I cannot believe you had a fan make a program that could translate a game no one has ever played in English before. Hot damn; as if there was any doubt before, Ross and the Accursed Farms community is officially legendary.
According to the books the ceiling of the cave world is interveined by lots of crystalline structures that basically redirect the sun light from surface to the cave world.
Malygon There’s books?
@@expressnumber Sure, after creating the video game the writer went on to write 8 books about the cave world before passing away in 2006. I doubt they were ever translated, though.
Malygon Oh, wow! That’s cool. Thanks for the information.
Dang it. While watching this episode i thought about the exact same thing and written it down as an idea for my own game world. Guess, i'm not original anymore.
@@vantuz8264 Don't be afraid to use it anyway. It's not just individual ideas that makes something original, but the unique combination of different ideas.
I'm german and I've never heard of that game before so probs for finding this.
We have our own culture of point and click adventures and I claim to know alot about of those but shit from what grave did you dig this up?
Nyet 3 promoted this as that studios upcoming game.
@@arciks11 I think Keeno is questioning the source of the copy of this game not the question of its existence :P
@Keeno K, gently, it's props, not probs. Probs is short for "problems."
@@LordSnoodles well... I already said I'm German so you can't expect me to talk perfect English!
Thanks tho I'll try to remember that
Also, one of the character classes in 'Sacred' was a dark elf (who refreshingly was nothing like Drizzt Do'Urden from D&D) who fought with crossbows (long before Diablo 3), poisoned traps, grenades and what was blatantly a Klingon Bat'leth; but best of all, he was voiced by the German voice actor who supplies the German voice for Vin Diesel in German dubs of movies. Yeah. And another class, a female vampire knight, was voiced by the voice actress who dubs Gillian Anderson (Dana Scully from the X-Files). And the Gladiator had the German voice of Bruce Willis. What's not to like.
Incidentally - human skin has enough reliance to not tear in space. The moisture on your eyes would flash boil away due to low pressure - but its distinctly the lack of air in a vacuum that kills you. And for that matter - holding your breath is actually one of the worse things you could do - as then there is a pressure imbalance and gases in you blood can boil. Breath out, and you've got maybe thirty seconds of consciousness, and three min until hypoxia induced brain-death.
No, I have never done this to anyone, I just write books and researched this a bit.
You seem like a fun person.
You got any tips for new authors?
@@BustaNo.99 My number one recommendation would be to get a bunch of spiral notebooks and some pens and always write your first draft long hand. I have two purposes for this. First of all - it means you're not distracted by anything else on your computer - and can even do it in class or while waiting, or otherwise at odd times. Secondly - editing is always tedious, since you're wrote and read this section before - but in this manner, you're forced to make changes or think about the work as you transcribe it into a word processor.
Another recommendation is to constrain your self and then follow where these limits lead. For example - if aliens evolved on a planet that is all archipelagos, they might never get WWI trench warfare due to the ability to bypass islands. In turn - they might have advanced boats and aircraft, but will never develop a vehicle like the tank.
If you need other advice or an editor, you can send messages to gamejager13 (at) gmail.com
@@MrChainsawAardvark oh man, thanks alot brother! I appreciate it!
Your blood boils either way, at least in your extremities. You wanna breathe out so your alveoli don't rupture due to the pressure imbalance. Even then you can't breathe out completely, but the idea is to let the air get sucked outta ya easier.
Hello fellow reader.
May Cal be with you on your venture into the comments
he goes to find his girlfriend and accidentally liberates the world and also doesn't even get the girl
it's star wars
That... That is spot on!
Except worse his woman run off on him with the pool guy.
Hey, Star Wars doesn't want your patriarchal notions! Maomi should be the protagonist. And *will* be, in the sequel!
@@PJKP82 it will bomb
BUT DOES THIS MEAN NOBODY HERE IS ROOTING *AGAINST* INCEST???
38:24 "I don't think even Sierra games penalize you for traveling back and forth."
The bridge in King's Quest 2, if you cross it too many times you fall to your death.
There's also a rock arch in Space Quest 1 that breaks and drops you to your death if you walk over it too many times
@@muddyboue Was going to say this but knew in my heart it had already been said.
Yeah, but the game warns you pretty clearly.
German here and I have never even remotely heard of this. The poor guy really got played for a fool though.
5:34 - Ross, you have obviously angered your computer's Machine Spirit by installing this unofficial software. You may be able to placate its circuits by the lighting of the incense and reciting verses from the holy Scriptum Manual, and consulting the section Dux Fermentum
Sounds like heresy to me. Time for a good ol’ fashioned exterminatus.
@@cpitts385
Time for some good ol' fashioned Linux.
*screeches in binary*
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-sigh- I'll get the oils....
Man this took a turn. Strong promising beginning, slowly devolving into a total shitshow. I really wasn't expecting that.
Yeah... this game really fell off a cliff after gathering the 3 gems.
Not to mention your character has zero motivation to help at all, in fact, Maomi is so antagonistic that you have more motivation to leave than to help. O_o
Plus the ending comes out of nowhere, says fuck you, and punctuates it with a cliffhanger.
@Stix N' Stones I actually found the story really compelling and motivating. But then again, im into ball and cock torture.
Writing stories is like writing jokes, it's easy to write the beginning but it's difficult to write the end.
Very David Cage, isn't it?
@Stix N' Stones Gonna be honest only just got the notifications for all these replies. Thanks YT. Yeah that's not how you write a good character. I'm no expert, only been writing for like 5 years, but even I know the only one you want to be that level of shitbag is the main villain if anyone.
Holy smokes the amount of editing this video must've taken. Thanks Ross, you amaze every time.
Höhlenwelt also spawned a 8 volume book series in 2001. It was meant to have 3 "cycles" with 4 books each but Harald Evers died in 2006 aged 46 from cardiac arrest. Some called him the german Tolkien (most likely his publisher).
There is also a sequel made in 2006 also called "Die Höhlenweltsaga". It's a Magic the Gathering like card game that includes a text-adventure campaign.
I dare you to find a copy of that, lol.
As someone who used AutoCAD for years, I understand your pain about the poor management of CPU cores.
AutoCAD: I see you want to hatch... everything.
I didn't expect to see people who shared my plight in these comments.
I've come to the conclusion that most of the time when a program runs slowly it's because of poor optimization on the part of the software. Since certain video games take a shit ton of resources on my pc and I can experience sporadic frame rate dropping unless I dedicate my entire pc to running that game. Yet I can run other games with later release dates and much better looking graphics with certain other related programs in the background such as for streaming, and have no problems on either the stream or game quality.
@@NODnuke45 Same here, a game like Doom 3 runs worse at 1280x1024 on my rig than Crysis 3 at 1920x1080 thanks to how much of an inefficient hog the Doom 3 engine is
@BulgaroSlav Neither was most games that run just fine on modern hardware, well after their release
Man, as someone who just got out of a relationship of a similar type, that crap with Maomi hit hard. Shittiest ending ever.
Thanks. Things are improving, if slowly. And maybe Ross’s advice about her doing him a favor by disappearing is something applicable here. Looking back on it, the relationship was far from ideal.
@@valettashepard909 At least you got out of it and are smarter now (I hope).
Don’t worry, I did both! And now I have a crew of said liberated people on my space truck.
@@valettashepard909 Be careful not to be busted for smuggling. lol
@@antipsychotic451 Sometimes you don't have to.
Just stumbled onto this guy's channel and I gotta say he sounds a ton like the guy in Freeman's Mi... WAIT A SECOND!!
Ross isn't an armed physicist who's doing game reviews using the hijacked Black Mesa servers James, you're just being paranoid.
Ross isnt stranded on a secret moon base, you're just being paranoid
So he sounds like the guy from Freeman’s mind. Now things are beginning to make sense. More later.
Now you've found the channel, all you need to do is FIND THE MAGIC!
ross scott reference hat trick
Hey Ross! I was the concept artist and one of the animators for the game.
I’ve been watching your videos since Freeman’s Mind and it was a really awesome surprise watching a game I worked on pop up in my recommendations!
This project was a labor of love for me and the other 3 artists and 1 programmer/sound artist. It was really fun watching you play and even though it’s a frustrating game we wanted to make a game we were proud of and holy crap are we proud of it! I hope you enjoyed our weird little game :)
Stay healthy out there Ross!
Is that you in those 8+ years old videos on your channel?
You look kind of young for someone who has worked on a game from 1994
@@OLee82 Got 'em!
So... you're 1/3 of Werner Frankowsky?
Weltenschmiede (the studio behind this game) was made up of a hand full of people and the only one with any experience in animation on the team at the time was Werner Frankowsky.
Something about German's unlocking an ancient Aztec temple has me on edge.
Ross, I got one for you for longest unbroken walk.
Pathalogic.
It's probably the most fan-requested game.
Pathologic worked for me because of the atmosphere, a lot of walking though. Makes me paranoid, so it's doing something right.
He said adventure game(point-and-click), not any game. 'Cause then I could just say PS Journey, or Morrowind..
hbomb made one on it now, so you got that going for you.
Eh, Mandalore already covered it well enough.
You hear that, Germany? We finally broke into your game sphere. We're doing the invading now!
If you're from the US, that's what you always did.
@@Eisdax so we invaded Poland? Damn, I never knew.
well, Ross did :D
@@GXjudge1 Slow clap for that terrible sarcasm.
It's SPHERICAL!
Great ep!
I think you pissed her off at the end by answering wrong at 50:43. She says she was worried about you, I think. Then you ask how Gusmar is doing, which upsets her.
My German is pretty rusty, but I think with your dialogue choices it seems like you care as little about her, as she seems to care about you, which obviously doesn't end with Speedy and Maomi together.
Oops
Maybe someone could try to get a different ending?
"And today we have a special episode" I know he says that for the majority of these videos, and god damn it, he's right every time!
Maomi is the literal worst. Speedy travels across the universe, dodges oppressive reptilian police, and frees her from slavery, and also solves an ancient mystery for a rebellion he wants no part in, and she ends up leaving him for some random jerk. Wow.
Sure, in most circumstances doing favors for her doesn't mean she has to fall in love with him. But come on, Maomi took the previous affection he still had and she didn't anymore in order to have him do her dangerous dirty work and them dump him cold hearted with a guy she just met. All without her even showing a sliver of thankfulness for saving her life.
That's a massive bitch move any way you look at it.
Women, am I right?
Speedys like Luke
@@MegaDeathRay10 Take what ever you tried to do here and go.
@@Eisdax Ahem. Mah-soggy-knees, amiright?
Regarding the 100% CPU usage, you're probably hitting the I/O throughput really hard too. For example, if a program has to read data continuously from the graphics output, like the translator program you're running, image data has to be transmitted from the video card to the CPU continuously, and in roughly real time. That means that if another program has to use the PCI express bus (where the video card sends that data through), it will probably have to wait even though there's CPU time to spare. Same goes for heavy RAM usage across a large piece of RAM, or heavy hard disk usage. The bottlenecks are often outside of the CPU itself.
For reference, even in typical workloads the CPU spends about 30% of the time waiting for data to load in from RAM. For something processing data continuously from a graphics card I would probably put that at 70%+.
You might have heard about dual channel or triple channel RAM on a motherboard. That essentially allows multiple cores to read and write to RAM at the same time, as long as they need to use different channels. If two cores need data from the same RAM channel, then one of them has to wait. If one of those two needs data all the time, then the other one will probably have to wait a lot.
"Let me know if you've seen a longer sequence of unskippable walking required in an adventure game where nothing else happens. No action, no dialogue, all you do is sit and watch him walk."
I see you've never played The Neverhood. Fairly early in the game there's an area called The Hall of Records, and while I guess stopping to read the lore on the wall could count as some kind of action or dialogue, it's completely optional. What isn't optional is walking all the way to the end to collect one of the tapes required to complete the game. I haven't timed it myself, but I did find a Let's Play that took 3 and a half minutes to walk the entire thing, from collecting the beaker on one end to collecting the tape on the other, and he only stopped for a few seconds to look at one of the engravings. You also have to walk all the way out again in real time, which is technically even longer since at that point you've already collected all the items in the area and are just leaving.
Fun fact: in one (or maybe the only, I dunno) Russian translation of The Neverhood all the infodump in that hall was chaged to stupid jokes and gags by the translation team. And no, those jokes and gags have nothing to do with the actual plot.
@@DjShadFox They also took some liberties with the names. Hoborg became Tuborg, for example. It's funny because it's the name of a beer brand. Comedy gold.
"I don't think even Sierra games penalize you for traveling back and forth" oh they ABSOLUTELY do. King's Quest 2 bridge is an example of that - you get a limited amount of times you can cross it. This amount is EXACTLY how many times you need to cross it, so if you backtrack without progressing even Once - you're screwed. Worst part is - it does not show visually that it would break. They started showing that only after space quest
i've been slowly going through all Game Dungeon episodes and damn, this one is one of the best. intriguing set-up, beautiful game, uncharted territory with unforgiving mechanics and super funny commentary. 1 hour flies by too fast
Just for a little information, that ‘안’ letter you see on the big canister in cargo bay of the ship means ‘Inside’ in Korean language. In case of anybody wondering what that is.
I _was_ wondering, and actually thought it kinda looked Korean, before dismissing it as random sci-fi symbol. Thanks!
That now begs the question how it made it into the game. Any cult Korean sci-fi/fantasy from before the ~80s? Is it printed on Korean products that also get exported?
Thanks Min Ho.
This reminds me of Lost Odyssey, a JRPG, a friend pointed out to me that an antagonist's tank had words in Tamil, but that's just so strange considering it was made in Japan...
Any idea what the hindi words in the background are?
@@ProfesserLuigi sorry, I don't know hindi words so no idea
I'm torn on the idea of paying stable fees for the dragon, if it was another game like an RPG it would be funny and cute to store your dragon in the local stables, but with limited money in a point and click not so good.
As far as old school & obtuse & Polish adventure games go, there's two I can think of from the top of my head that are easily available: Teenagent & Jack Orlando. Both have English translations, both are available on GOG, the former is free, and the latter brags about having music by German composer Harold Faltermeyer (e.g., themes for Top Gun & Beverly Hills Cop) and being set in 1930s US.
Basically, sounds like a good fit for your show!
The Jack Orlando Retsuprae was a swan song of the sweetest kind.
@@badger6728 Interesting! I'll check it out. I honestly didn't expect to find any playthroughs of that game.
There's at least 2 Swedish ones as well that I'd say are Game Dungeon worthy: Fran Bow and Little Misfortune by Killmonday Games. The puzzles are less obtuse and easy enough to figure out, but Fran Bow does have at least 1 early on and it gets pretty cryptic by the final act.
First week on deployment, was getting depressed, Ross dropped an hour long video, everything is gunna be aight lol
I feel like every new Game Dungeon is my new favorite Game Dungeon, and this definitely doesn't disappoint. Thanks, Ross. This is awesome.
Audible gasp when I saw this video pop up.
I vividly remember this game from when I was a kid, yet I had completely forgotten its name for a good 20 years! It was my first "good looking" CD game and it branded me for life. I've been trying to find out what the game was called for the past 10 years!
So visceral so real
Yeah, Maomi reminds me of that specific kind of lass. Y'know, the that's likely to fall in with some sort of cult. And not the good, wholesome ones, like Children of the Uncaring Cold, but a really crappy petty little sects. Amateurs. Or, hell, even a New Age movement. *shudders*
Also as someone who loves dragons and everything about them, I believe there's still some room for more dragon-related stuff.
Ok so I couldn't resist; I googled Children of the Uncaring Cold and the only exact match was photos of kids apparently suffering upper respiratory infections. Is there a cult where you seriously benefit in ways concrete and intangible that's only for people with head colds? Because I've had multiple sinus surgeries and moreover have the rivets to show for it, so if this can buy me something beyond the discount I currently enjoy on my bulk shipping kleenex subscription I am SO in.
@@etsilverman3937 Nah, that was a random name from the top of my head, sorry.
That being said, this does sound like a possible ritual scarification, so if you are into some cult-work yourself, you may create one. Although, I would suggest waiting with the scarification rites until your followers reach certain degree of adulthood: it really helps you to avoid numerous problems.
"And although the space they occupy isn't like normal space, nevertheless they are packed in tightly. Not a cubic inch there but is filled by a claw, a talon, a scale, the tip of a tail, so the effect is like one of those trick drawings and your eyeballs eventually realise that the space between each dragon is, in fact, another dragon.
They could put you in mind of a can of sardines, if you thought sardines were huge and scaly and proud and arrogant"
@@adenowirus Guess I know which book of his I'll be re-reading.
well this is just strange. you have both my first name and the first letter of my last name. small world I guess lol
Doesn't Pikmin technically classify being a "Space Trucker" game? Olimar is an intergalactic freight shipper, wondering about his family back at home in his daily logs, and talking about his ship parts like a trucker would about his truck as well!
Yeah but it's not really a staple of truckerdom that you end up careening into a village of pygmies whom you control like C3PO did ewoks to repair your truck, though.
Cargo commander is a good one I think!
@@ExValeFor Sounds like someone's never had to drive to Ontario
@Templar Knight We don't really see Speedy do any space hauling either.
Probably the *LONGEST* (or 2nd LONGEST if he made such length of a vid before) vid Ross Scott have ever produced. Kudos for your everlasting productivity!
2nd Longest. Armed and Delirious still beats it, although it was deliberately split into two videos lest the viewer go mad.
Im actually kind of disappointed there's nothing after that cliffhanger. I was actually starting to get into the plot right before the end.
Could always try to hunt down English versions of the books. Probably not the exact same story, but same world at least.
@@julianleverton7045 the books don't have anything to do with the game.
Ross, a lot of programs use core 0 (I.e. 1) by default, so you need to force them to use another core by changing the core affinity. I think you can do that with the task manager, but if not, get process hacker and use that. Set the offending processes to have a core affinity of core 3 or 2, then set ztranslate to another core. Leaving core 0 open keeps your computer much faster.
New Game Dungeon: Time to watch it consciously 12 times, have it on in the background while I work another 48, and then play it on my TV while I fall asleep 240 times
Hey, me too! It's like you know what I'm thinking!
@@Guruc13 I do know what you're thinking, I'm you.
@@KarklesVantas We're like an ouroboros. A snake eating it's own tail. A closed loop, where our food is content from Accursed Farms. Where does the content end, and we begin?
Also, I have all of Freeman's Mind as audio on my phone, and I've listened to it 12 times
@@Guruc13 now I'm imagining a Freeman's Mind radio play where everything is done through audio
@@KarklesVantas God, that's my dream. I mean it kind of already is. The audio theatre version wouldn't have to change too much, you basically need some samples of background audio and a narrator and boom you've done it
Germans seem to like their high tech / fantasy crossovers. Albion came out 2 years after this.
Piranha Bytes recently tried something similar with ELEX. Come to think of it, that game was a mixed bag with a cliffhanger ending too.
Maybe it's cultural, was weis ich.
Not to mention that Shadowrun's big in Germany as well. It's a good setting archetype.
@@OneOfTheStorms "It's a good setting archetype."
Must be a German thing. As a Russian, I don't see the appeal of this combination at all. Now, _steampunk_ mixed with fantasy is where things get interesting.
@@OneOfTheStorms It still depends on how the setting is handled: from top of my head I can remember American TV-series "SG-1", Japanese animated series "GATE", and Russian sci-fi novel "Hard to Be a God" as somewhat along the lines of "high tech in [fantasy] medieval world", and for the second entry I cannot say that it's as good as entries 1 and 3...
@Mortis the Doctor Thank you, good to know the Grammar-SS is still doing its job.
Barry's ZTranslate software is working wonders, is like the reverse thing EA is doing actually, instead of killing games, ZTranslate bring some old games to a broader audience, thats like living in an utopia
I can't believe you're playing a 90's sierra style adventure game in German using a shaky auto translator.
You might be the bravest man who ever lived.
this deserve the award "worst girlfriend of all time"
Not a girlfriend, though.
Mary from RDR2 was pretty horrible.
Actually, it was Gordon's choices that jerkassed Maomi, due to what Eric said to her
@@nicefloweytheoverseer7632 I'm pretty sure if I roll across the galaxy to save my girlfriend who went missing, unintentionally end up involved in some weird fantasy war, end up in prison repeatedly, almost die nonstop, Still save the girl and her first words to me are shitty, someone's getting left in the prison cell.
I think Eric is allowed to be more than a little salty considering the amount of bullshit he got dragged into because of her, on top of her just being a thankless prick about it all.
Made me remember back in the day there were a buch of amazing-looking adventure games from germany that I could never finish for not speaking german.
Ztranslate would be great for visual novel games
Yeah, from the description given, this method should be extremely effective in that type of game. That is, assuming the translations are any good; a lot of visual novels come from Asian countries, and automated translation systems still have trouble with eastern languages to and from English. :(
Haha yeah visual novels haha
@@breeki9985 Do the translation features need more than one hand?
I think it would be easier for someone to scrub through it with a similar tool and then layer over the translation with a mod, you wouldn't have to check the screen every frame and then run a translation, you would get way better preformance.
@@elloo98 I cant recall the name right now but there is a tool that hooks into a visual novel's process and translates text on the fly in the game. The real issue is that, while a machine translated VN can be entertaining, it's usually not quite as... compelling.
I lover your gaming dungeon episodes. I love the games you choose to review. It's so relaxing to watch and enjoy them so much when I'm stressed after work.
For the non-German speakers: when the translation breaks down at 19:13 the text Ross chose says "This dragon belongs to ME lately". Which makes it even more funny in this context.
This is a double treat, since I AM German, but have never heard of this game - also I loved these old Adventures. Thanks for the video!
so can you tell us non-Germans; is the voice acting in this game any good? bad? hammy?
Not a German, but I actually saw that game back in Middle/High school as my German teacher showed a bit of it and told us that if we got straight 10's he'd get us a free copy. Needless to say none of us tried very hard since it didn't look that awesome to our GBA/PSP/DS wielding gamer minds, 1 guy actually downloaded it over old-school P2P and didn't care for it since he couldn't get it to work.
Needless to say I only remembered this after suddenly seeing the early-game cutscenes.
Then again I am Dutch so we're German enough...
Vekh Gaming Dutch is basically German with random elongated wovels anyway :p
At least our language can be typed on a regular keyboard.
I have to ask. Is this how the Dutch see Germans? ua-cam.com/video/jseBzcDxgR8/v-deo.html
"We had a lot of luck on Venus,
We always had a ball on Mars;
Meeting all the groovy people,
We've rocked the Milky Way so far..."
Everytime he says "sierra style"
I get ptsd 90's flashbacks😢
Fell asleep listening to this as I do with Ross' videos, had some awesome dreams 😁
That Caribbean themed music killed me
Yes YES! I'v been waiting for too long, i must have rewatched old ones like 50 times each!
Hi Ross.
Regarding the CPU issue, there are other shared resources that CPUs have that are not redundant, such as memory bandwidth. If a single core is maxing out your memory bandwidth while the other cores are idle, the scheduler won't be able to do anything or take advantage of threading. There are a bunch of things that affect performance in multicore systems though, and it gets pretty complicated.
You can use core or thread affinity per process and play around with process priority.
Also worth mentioning - there were some Game Dungeon fans working on a translation of this game. An actual rework of the game's file into English. I briefly helped them (in fact, I managed to decode the language files and propose a method to have translated text inserted into the games original files)
Not sure how far they got, I'll check in with them again. (hopefully they will see this and comment)
I don't have time to watch this right now, but when I saw it, I _had_ to pop in just to say that I'm _super_ pumped to watch it soon. *Can't. Wait.*
Not gonna lie, that Jesus in Rio di Janeiro plot would make for a decent adventure game
"Oh damn, a Game Dungeon upload! Hell yeah, I'll watch that when I'm done doing this important work."
*Video is an hour long*
"OH."
*Immediately stops everything and watches it*
Boopidee Grab some popcorn and a beer or two first. Preferably a nice, crisp German lager.
While the Cave World Saga game itself may be largely forgotten even in Germany, head developer Harald Evers went on to write a number of fantasy novels set within this very world. The digital card game you showed at the end there also had his name on it, so I guess it was also made by him.
Never knew germany had such a deep adventure game history. I appreciate you taking a look at it.
They have a pretty deep gaming history in general.
I love the way in which Ross portrays his changing feelings towards this game.
Thank you for giving your time to non-germans by editing together this video, giving such a high quality experience for this game to us non-germans.
Throw a rock at a dragon. In any other game that would net you a game over.
Clearly you haven't played many adventure games from the 1990's.
Oh, a Sierra game would've murdered you for that.
I believe this is the first game dungeon where you talked about the music without saying "let's talk about the music".
Edit: In the Zany Golf episode he said "About the music". My bad.
@Stix N' Stones Fear ye nay.
It's just a sign of the changing seasons.
I always figured Torin's Passage underground worlds were lit by sunlight coming through those massive crystals.
Yea, I remember they explained that as well as the fact that the deeper you go, the less light gets through. It was even a major plot point because it was the reason why damaging a plant was a grave offence on the lowest world.
I always felt like each of the lands had their own sky of sorts.
They are called the "Lands Below", so you can expect that they are some sort of enclosed worlds of their own.
@@threemoo I'm not sure I understand what you mean.
Longer episodes again! This is awesome!
It is better when you take your time expressing your thoughts on something. It is more thorough and enjoyable.
Oh Ross, every episode of the game dungeon is special