PC Longplay [008] The Dig
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2008
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Played by: Ironclaw
One of the best EVER retro adventure games. I love everything about The Dig.
I didn't skip-to-destination in the game (double clicking to instantly get to a place) as I felt it would ruin the "movie experience".
This was a graphical adventure game done by LucasArts in 1995. It was the 11th game using the SCUMM engine. The story started with a giant asteroid that could cause catastrophic damage upon impact on Earth. So, a team of five was tasked to plant nuclear explosives on it. Three of them left the shuttle to do that, but after some exploration they were brought to a distant planet of unknown position.
The Dig had the longest development length of all LucasArts adventure games. They worked on it since 1989 but the game wasn't released until 1995.
The Dig was first meant to be a movie (so I've heard), but would have been too expensive, so they made it into a game instead.
Story and stuff by Steven Spielberg....
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My father gave me this when I was around 14. To me, it's the best adventure game I've ever played. No other has so much raw emotion, plus the OST is one of the best. RIP dad, and thanks for the childhood memories.
How could you beat It being 14 years old? The game is really good, but also extremely difficult.
@@brunokbelo3248 Exploring, taking notes and trying different things with the objects in my inventory. It took some time but eventually I got all the puzzles. Adventure games were my favorite genre back then.
@@brunokbelo3248 I played it as a kid and I only got really really stuck at one part. 1:52:06
You have to show it to Maggie at this spot and that took forever to figure out lol
What a lovely experience. Thank you for sharing 🥰
@@brunokbelo3248 I beat it when I was 11 (I too am extraordinarily humble) 😎
Man, this game occupied so many happy hours for me and my dad. I remember sitting and watching him play, and him letting me click on things, and later playing alone.
My exact experience. This game is the purest of adventures in my opinion. For me, the Dig will be a more precious story to me than Gurren Laggan ever was... and that's saying something for me because I ADORE that series.
ThursdayTheNext dude your lucky. I think these games can teach patience and creativity, and the bad ones frustrate you to no end heh. but then the self refection of "is it me that's messing up here or is it the game" develops further. peace.
+Cretaal i have been playing all adventures games in 2016, i finish the dig now, and i will play indiana Jones :D and after that maniac masion and the secret of the monkey island
So funny you’d mention this, I remember watching my dad play this (I was 5 at the time) as I peered through the accordion door to my bedroom when I was supposed to be sleeping. Then just watching him play at other times during the day. So nostalgic in that way. Never played it myself but always enjoyed watching it like a movie.
I remember playing this when it was newly released back in the day. Got completely emerged in it from the moment I began until the credits. Which was strange because I was never really into click-and-play adventures. But The Dig was something else entirely for me. An absolutely fantastic piece of gaming history. 10/10.
Same here.
This game, I played it when I was young. The DOS days, and now, being 24, I still haven't experienced anything like it. Call it nostalgia, maybe, but this game gives me an indescribable feeling. It's beyond brilliant. I've watched this run so many times and never get bored. They don't make games like they used to.
+Wolfatadoor i love adventure games, grim fandango, maniac masion, the secret of the monkey island. the dig and many others, i will play indiana Jones and Gabriel Knight soon
i can guarantee you that its not only nostalgia. I'm seeing this game for the first time and i'm completely amazed and involved with it. what a amazing game D:
Tiago Alves well, personally it is. I played it at a really young age. I think this game taught me how to use the internet because I had to look up
Guides.
You arent old enough to remember DOS days unless you just didn't update for donkeys years.
This game is a master piece. Remembered about this game today... And finaly find, hope to play it again. Sorry about my bad english
+Gilmar Machado You can get it on steam.
Thanks so much, both of you :D
Or emulator ScummVM
its ok, train your english and pratice, you get better eventuelly.
Nossa quantas saudades!! Ganhei o The Dig junto com meu 486dx2, foi um dos melhores games que já joguei até hoje, The Dig é um mito!
O dx2-66 também outro mito! Bela máquina
The Soundtrack by Michael Land was majestic, true ambient talent.
They don't make them like this anymore. Great game-didn't want it to end.
I've recently found the Primordia game. It's the most close to TheDIG game mood in my opinion.
+Paul Weaver try with final cut a new begginging
+Lucas Barbuzzi they have a different version of this?
Back here after so may years.This one and loom is my favorites.
I loved this game in the mid 90s! I remember a lot of people were disappointed with it at the time but it was an amazing game from one of the best adventure game companies ever.
+Aaron Kalat People who didn't like The Dig, didn't certainly fully understand it! Masterpiece. Period. Steven Spielberg should make the movie!
I'm in complete agreement. A Spielberg film is definitely in order. It'll never happen but it really should!
+Paulo Teixeira Exactly! Some mixture of Armageddon and Contact. And they say that Hollywood has idea crisis.
My favorite game of all time.
Same here, it's just too EPIC. Wish a movie would be made though.
*****
This game has a book? Well, I don't read any books, and won't start now :), but nice to know it has a book.
*****
I've read the book; and yes, it was pretty awesome. More puzzles in the game, but the book explains more about the eternal state in which the aliens were trapped, and their efforts to contact you.
Vlado ti me dovede ovde extra igra stvarno!!!
remember playing this beautiful game when I was young, trying to understand english. amazing sountracks
i cannot get enough from this experience... It's a strange feeling as if its about my long-lost home planet...
Loved this game back in the days! Great to see a longplay. Thanks. Really enjoyed it.
This game is so immersive.
i remember this when i was a kid. i still remember places sounds and other stuff like i just played this. i dont think any game ever beat this one.
It seems like every year or so I watch a Let's Play of this game. I played it when I was a kid. LOVE LOVE LOVE.
They predicted the iPhone
Apple prolly stole the idea from this game haha
@Leandro Aude 13:48 etc
@Leandro Aude Welcome!
@Leandro Aude Oh, hell yeah. It probably planted a subconscious seed in my mind, which caused me to buy an Ipaq 5550 back in the early 2000s. Used to tell people it’s what their future phones would be. I had full length dvd rip movies on it, wifi and cached newspaper apps, and a GPS. People would laugh and say they would never use such features on a handheld device.
The Dig was cinematic storytelling of a kind that has sadly vanished from actual cinema.
@Leandro Aude Bill Gates should have known that a decade prior. His Windows CE came out in 96! As for my friends and associates, I would presume most of them entirely forgot I owned an Ipaq 5550, I reminded a few of them, and they couldn’t even remember.
Sometimes, when technology is too advanced, people can’t understand what they are looking at, or what they’re being shown. It’s literally like they can’t see what’s in front of them. Ie- to them, you should only watched a movie on a tv screen or in a cinema. To them, a palm sized portable device seemed ludicrous to them for such a purpose. Even if you said “what if you’re stuck on a train or a plane?” They’d argue that they’d read a or reside with their thoughts. And the GPS- well that was years beyond them. They honestly thought road maps were faster or that they’d drive into a ditch. Yup. Having to stop and see what back street you’re on, and back trace on a maps grid reference is faster than turn by turn navigation. Not.
Keep in mind, some of these people also, in recent years, scoffed at me investing a small amount in Tesla.
Most people have no foresight, and need to be told by others that something should be adopted. They can’t see for themselves, and think tomorrow is the same as today. As though there will be advances in the future, but not many. Like humanity has invented all it can today. “Why would you want to sleep in your self-driving car on the way to work? Why would you want smartglasses to translate foreign languages for you? Why would you want to print up household items with an injection-moulding multi-material 3d printer?”
They don’t understand. Then all their friends get a smartphone, or smart-lights and a voice assistant, or a Roomba. Then it’s suddenly comprehensible, and they have to have yesterday’s tech because, well, all the people at work have it. But those with a little prescience, well “that’s a tiny bit weird man!”
Awesome to have uploaded this! I bought the game so many years ago and somehow I failed to get to the finish. I was so close to the end, but now I've seen the end. Thank you!
wow how many memories, I love it
What a fine walkthrough. I'm glad you didn't cut off walks or movies, so one can enjoy the game full-length. It's still an amazing peace of art.
Thank you for posting this game. Very enjoyable.
Love this game its so original, unlike the crap they call games today same old violence. make more games like this!
+millicent1990 Originality and great atmosphere were the strongest points of the game! :)
truely a masterpiece. thank you for letting me experience this game without having to play it. great work
I truly hope so...It's been so long I've played this game but ever since I can't ever forget about it...it always comes back to my head, beautiful experience.
Thank You for the opportunity (if one has time) to see a truly classic PC game.
I remember only having the demo for YEARS. Never had the money to buy the real game. I don't think it was until much past my childhood that I actually played the full game.
But I loved it so much. The music alone is beautiful.
This is my all time favorite Adventure game!
It's so good.. When I first played it it just sucked me in for hours and hours, it's legendary.
The intro has a value of a ticket to Mars or beyond.
2017 and this game is still wonderful. I will forever love this game. I hope it gets an HD remaster like Full Throttle did.
This game is by far one of the most outstanding things done in science fiction, gaming and ambient history ever! Thank you for making this video!
How have I never heard of this game before? It looks fantastic! The atmosphere is just classic LucasArts
They should have made this into a movie.
It was but they thought it was going to be too expensive to make. They later made it into a game. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dig
I mean the beginning half of the basic plot is pretty similar to Armageddon
I was about to say they should have made this into a movie, but realised I already did that two years ago.
Never seen this before, this looks GREAT! FANTASTIC story!
I'll never forget the scene where he cuts of Brink's hand 😷😅
Took me hours to finally realize, to get the light bridge going you had to HOLD the button!! Arggg! But still, one of the best games ever made. Watching this brings back crazy good memories.
I played the demo to this game in 1996 and begged my mother to buy me the full version soon after. The day I first played the game my mom offered to take my siblings and I to see Jumanji in the cinema. I wanted to stay home and play The Dig and that's what I did. It. was. totally. worth it.
Love this. Loved that game back in the 90's.. !! Thanks for the upload!
the nostalgia...oh man this was nice to re-experience
This was a great video game, and after playing it all those years ago, it was a nice 3 hours watching it again. :)
marvellous! I have this on steam, but the childhood memories are where its at...
This brings back so many memories. I played this and Full Throttle with my brother and dad when we were kids. We still quote some of the dialogue to this day. :)
One of, if not the most underrated point & click Lucasarts games!
Best weekend ever spend with the Dig!
Words cannot describe my love for this game and how important it was to me. I've never played anything like it since
one of the most brilliant and the most difficult games ever made, utterly wonderful, i loved every minute of this game, apart from the minutes i spent tearing my hair out.
amazing
I played this game as a kid with my older brother. Back then, I was too fucking young to even understand the story.
Watching this, especially the end, made me cry like a baby, remembering the days of yore...
I never got a chance to play through this masterpiece!! I always wanted to know how it ended! Thank you so much for posting this!! Now I get to watch it like an awesome movie!!
I LOVE this game,had lots of fun playing it in 1995,it was my second pc game and unfortunately i didn't finished.I'll try again.
Great video.
thank you for posting this, I love The Dig!!
The best adventure ever. I spend weeks, days, hours with this awesome game...
Og god.....OH GOD....i mean,,,the memories...oh....the dayst when i adored LucasArts....its...its stuff like this that put me on the path to becomming a game programmer..
Still have this. I play it like once a year.
What a master Piece. It use to be a Movie concept but Spielberg realised it was too expensive. But today with the CGI they could make this movie!!! awesome game!
This game made my childhood
23 and ive never heard of this before, the voice acting and art style are very awesome!
Thanks for posting this vid!
Damn, it brought up so many nice memories! I wish there was a remake!
Quick piece of trivia: There is a reference (it's the T-1000 model) in the game for voice actor Robert Patrick aka T-1000.
Oh wow. Talk about a blast from the past.
i really dig into this game. I dont know why - but it influences on me since then. Im in TheDig mood constantly. As if im in loss of something. A motherworld perhaps. I replay this longrun several times in a week. And i never tired of it. Now i read theDig book.
aaaaah man I recall that game but only had a preview, never were able to play it. Old times on powermac with some lucasarts games bundle; had the ever-awesome Day of the Tentacle, Indiana Jones Atlantis, Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade and many more. I can't believe how awesome The Dig is, sure would have gave me some "stars to count" when I was younger... aaaah man.
Thanks for posting. I had this game and unfortunately wasnt very good at at and thus didnt actually get very far. its great watching it all the way through. :)
terrific job! loved every minute of it! just like watching a movie
Lo jugué hace tiempo y me encantó. Trama, sonido e imagen. Hoy día no se consigue fácil las tres a la vez..Muchas gracias por subir el video.
Thank you. You have do a good work
The music is so fantastic!
This WILL be a movie one day.
I recently played this game--the last time being when I was 8 and I am now 19--and I finally finished it for the first time. It still remains dear to me due to childhood memories of classic LucasArts point-and-click adventures. One of the underrated pieces in the genre.
Also, at the end when the alien is thanking Boston and he refers to Maggie and Boston as "a young people", I couldn't help but imagine a forever alone face on Brink, lol.
I remember seeing this on the shelves many times when I was a kid. Nice to finally be able to see what all the fuss is about. =)
Loved it bud.
Excelent job!
Awesome game.
now this would make one hell of a movie!
la migliore avventura che abbia mai giocato, sia come gioco che come musiche
This is probably the best executed adventure in all respects. Story is top notch, everything is consistent, voice acting is on par with Full Throttle (which to me is the very best acting, alongside the first Broken Sword). I don't think we will ever see a game this special these days. Maybe new kids are just dumber, or maybe the industry grown lazy because we will buy anything anyway.
How about Broken Age?
Paul Weaver Didn't play that one, and it's quite new! I will check that, thanks!
You can check it's 1st part for now. Part 2 has not been released yet.
"very best acting" holy shit you're ridiculous
MJB you mean I should have said it *had* the very best acting or you disagree with me on the acting itself?
just finished watching for my second time while I do a bunch of work. Thanks for such a great upload :)
NP, was my pleasure :)
***** You are welcome :P
omg.... my favorite game of ALL TIMES ! i played this so much , i loved it so much , and still do , the best :)
28:15 only now, several years after playing and after playing several times, I noticed how Brink just brushes Maggie off while the "ghost" is giving clues about the rods lmao so much detail
buying this off steam!!
brings back so many memories :D
I love this game so much
This was an amazing game to play. Great soundtrack and story. I still have the guide book that Jo Ashburn wrote as well.
kickass game gotta love these old ones
omg ty for posting I want to watch this!
I've never ever played such an amazingly good game in my whole life.
Interstellar reminded me of this : ) Played this back in the day. Great game.
This is a pretty cool game! Thank you Dude!
I wish they would make The Dig into a movie one day.
This should be a movie.
i remember the demo for this game, i thought it looked sucky looking back at the gameplay, damn... what an exquisite peice of gaming. pxel art at its finest.
wow, thanks for the memories. dosbox time
The music is so good, and yet so scary!
The sound of the alien "bird" at 0:24:26 is the coolest alien animal noise I've heard in any game or movie!
This is not just a game. This is art.
Gorgeous music.
This would have been the most epic film in all the ages.
It was the first game to show that games are WAY more awesome than movies!!
Aun conservo este juego, como algunos otros de aquella época. Son un tesoro!!
Masterpiece indeed.
Thanks man!
the book is marvelous. It adds so much to the game.
PLEASE make a movie out of this game!! I've been waiting for it since I first played it years ago...
The game was actually based on a Spielberg's idea to make a movie, but George Lucas believed to be too expensive for a movie... May be with the current technologies...