Meanwhile the only way I know you've uploaded anything since Men in Black was a notification I got this morning. On the plus side I now have a bit of binging to do.
''At this point the only thing that could shake things up is another set piece mission- WAIT NO''. That gave me an absolute laughing fit, thank you for these fun videos!
loving that this is out, found your channel through the first one. 5 hours of tightly scripted content is no small feat (i dont have to take your word for it, i know) and it's hella impressive to see you producing these so quickly without cutting corners on quality. will be working my way through this video over the next couple of days. may the algorithm be ever in your favour.
Your videos are so good, found you thanks to the men in black one, I don't really care about Jurassic park or men in black, but there's something really entertaining about the way you tackle the games, so thank you.
@@arandomexplosion It will be out in the next few months* * _months is by no means a in indication of a 30 day cycle, months may construe up-to and in excess of multiple years._
It's coming, I just severely underestimated how big a project it would be. At the time of this comment there's about three hours of script written and a bunch more still to go, but I'm confident it'll be out in 2024.
It's humbling to watch a 5 fucking hour, Mandalore-caliber retrospective before it even reached 4 digits on views. The quality of your videos, insight and most of all sheer goddamn commitment is absolutely top notch and it is just a matter until they blow up, and I'll be there to feel some weird unwarranted entitlement like I knew you from before or smth. Anyway, thanks to you I gave Evolution 2 a go after I didn't really like evo1 and after forcing myself through the "campaign" I actually liked it quite a lot. Wonder what you'll have to say about the Evo games.
The gamecom version would have been even less playable in person. Its awful passive matrix lcd ghosted pixels so badly those jungle levels would have been a big grey smear. Never actually owned it but a demo system at a local toys r us was wild, definitely convinced people not to bother
Every time I think “maybe I’ll be productive today”, suddenly a new 4+ hour video comes out. I am medically reliant on it, stick it in my veiiiinsssssssss (thank you for the video :))
I spent many, many hours at the lost world arcade machine at my local Walmart. It's such an incredible arcade shooter and I really hope to own an original cabinet one day
I am having endless fun watching this video in small chunks. It's like a Netflix series that just dumped an entire season all at once - very bingeworthy. Also, I love how you're leaning into more profanity-laced commentary without it being gratuitous. That combination of highly intelligent essay-style narration with sprinklings of foul language is very appealing. You'll probably get a few comments saying you should mind your language (I speak from experience) but pay them no mind. You're doing great work!
Let's GOOOOOO 5 hours I'm so stoked. I'm also so glad Trespasser is going to be in a separate section, it's a game that's genuinely extremely important to me and I'd hate to have it get lost in the background. It was the only FPS I had growing up and I beat it many times without ever being able to watch the beginning or end cutscene, because our computer was incapable of playing it at the normal speed so it'd be over in seconds.
As (I think) the first person to talk about Trespasser on youtube (18 years ago, damn) I'll always find it one of the most interesting games ever made, jank and all.
As someone who's very experienced in fighting games, I completely get why you don't like Warpath. Something about this game feels very off. I can't quite explain it, but just moving and attacking in general doesn't look as smooth as games like dead or alive. I'd say there's some enjoyment to be found when playing with a friend, but that can be said about many fighting games. I have played worse, but I couldn't recommend this one to someone else (outside of maybe trying it). Fighting games in general are difficult to get into due to their nature. Rarely can a fighting game make the CPU enjoyable to fight against as the best strategy tends to be using one move over and over in some cases. If this game had more time in development, I think it could have been something special.
Man, what a great video. I especially appreciate that you drew attention to Warpath's menus! That was always one of my favorite aspects of the game, the menus were so atmospheric and moody! It always made child me want to explore and see the world that the game was setting up! There was something so... eerie about that ambiance! I put so many hours into Warpath as a kid! Honestly, that period in between Jurassic Park and during The Lost World was such a magical part of the 90's to be a child in- the Playstation 1 Game, the Arcade game, the commercials and Trespasser- Man. Great toys, atmospheric game settings and just a wonderful time to let your imagination run wild! I appreciate your videos for bringing that period to light with the games!
About 42:10 regarding the hunter character being Dieter Stark; As a kid I had a toy figure of Dieter Stark, and it has the very same outfit and colours as the hunter character in this game. (incidentally this figure also came packaged with a compy you could attack to his chest via magnet. A grim nod to his fate in the movie) That might be corroborating evidence? Also, THANK you for not cutting the psone lost world game any slack. Damn that game made me want to tear my hair out as a kid. Like you, i never got past the compy levels. Dark souls got nothing on that game in terms of difficulty.
Glad to see someone give Chaos Island it’s due. Likewise, glad you were able to get some enjoyment out of TLW arcade even without the light guns and sit-in cabinet experience that made it so magical. I probably would’ve been easier in my review on TLW PS1, even though I agree with most of it’s faults I wouldn’t call it a “bad game” outright, just a frustrating one. I also disagree strongly about Warpath, although I grew up with fighting games of this era so, different strokes for different folks and all.
Fantastic video! I hope you still plan to cover some more modern games as well, loving the vibe of this series. Nnow on to checking how the heck a single game was turned into an even longer essay!
The boss fights for that Megadrive game are real demo scene stuff. It's really trippy seeing all of these crazy graphical techniques overlaid on top of each other for a game that never uses the same assets again due to using a completely different perspective.
Chaos island with Peter and Roland becoming good guys against biosyn is genius Also I know jp3 arcade is hard to find but I have played it here in bum ass Nebraska so it shouldn’t be too impossible
Loving your channel! Keep doing what you're doing because you are doing great work. No gimmicks, no annoying persona, no over the top skits, no ugly cartoon mascot popping up making poses. Just honest, insightful reviews. 11/10 content.
The SegaCD game was one of two games (along with Sonic CD) that I kept it around for and even went back to play as of 2011 before losing all my systems in a move. I even played it in 2020, along with my favorite classic JP game: Trespasser (The new park sim games are my absolute favorites)
I’ve been rewatching both of these videos on a semi-regular basis, take ur time on the trespasser vid idc how long it takes i’ll end up watching it a dozen times anyway
The hunter character is indeed supposed to be Dieter Stark or whatever his name is. His look is based on his action figure design from the Kenner line. I totally had that figure.
I've played the Lost World Arcade though in person, and I feel like we really melted through the bosses with the light gun. Never got to the spots where the character movement stops.
I know the Jurassic Park series aren't known for their accuracy, but damn do all the dinosaurs in Warpath look awful. Never before have they looked so anorexic and like skeletons with skin on them.
The Lost World is my favorite arcade game of all time. The "cabinet" being a small, curtained-off cabin really helped maintain the atmosphere even in a crowded arcade. I'd probably dump 20 dollars into beating it again if I ever ran across one. Also, appreciate the rant about movie Sarah Harding. From best character in the book to worst character in the movie. Huge fumble by Spielberg.
I loved The Lost World on the Genesis. Me, my brother and my cousin spent a long time with that one. As for "Nameless Hat Man", as a kid, I always assumed it was Eddie Carr, since it resembled his Kenner action figure :D
I have a soft spot for Lost World on PS1. I played the heck out of it, and actually got pretty good, although for some reason, I always ended up quitting after the raptor stage, so I never played the T-Rex levels. I do have a strategy guide, which just recommends constantly chomping your way through the levels, so I guess they recognized it was a bit crap as well. Seeing the Genesis game in-depth was interesting. I've never played it, and most UA-camrs just focus on the impressive animation sequences, so I never even knew it was a top-down collect-a-thon. The Lost World arcade with an 80-inch screen and full seat setup would have been epic. Also, Warpath seems like Primal Rage: The Bad Version, which is saying something, since Primal Rage wasn't that great to begin with. Anyways, thanks for another fantastic video!
Love this series! Looking forward to the Trespasser video, I hope there'll be a section on the custom levels community. Been watching Shadefyre slowly play his way through a lot of them over the last 10 years and as a result have become quite a fan of Trespasser despite never actually playing it.
Thanks! I'll definitely talk about the Trespasser community but I probably won't play any of the custom levels, that's one rabbit hole I really don't have time to go down if I want the video out this year.
I love your work. I was expecting you to skip the MS dos game, and although you hated it that game was my childhood. Poor Trespasser was ahead of its time. I like it, I got as far as a mounted gun segment but it's just too complex for it's own good
As a big fighting game guy, I'm sorry, you're just wrong. Spamming the same move over and over isn't "poor form" or "a bad idea." It's a great idea, right up until your opponent figures out how to answer it. If they don't like it, they should find a good move to spam instead.
Oh you can bet the QA testers have noted eeevery single thing wrong with the games too /=D QA testers sadly have like the lowest amount of authority in game production though. You can bet the guy who delivers the takeout on late Friay evenings probably has a better chance of being heard by decision makers 😄
These vids need to be even longer and more detailled. Other than that, this is further proof for my theory that people who enjoy the story framing in games over the play don't like fighting games, as they're fundamentally the play over the framing.
i don't know, what's a lagoosh with you? also i had a game com with re2, and i had a terrible time with it. whether that's because it was a clonky portable adaption or because i had a better variety of video game entertainment to try out at the same time, don't know. it was definitely a game that felt weird and off-putting even to my tiny child mind.
Didn't know that Michael Crichton never wrote a sequel aside from Lost World. That was neat to learn. I will forever be befuddled by how drastically different the movie is from the book, since The Lost World is genuinely one of the most filmable books I've ever read. The cast is a reasonable size, the number of locations and setpieces is the right amount for a movie, and all the action scenes and new dinosaur abilities ask for a step-up in the special effects department without demanding the moon. You can tell it was written with a movie adaptation in mind, but it doesn't sacrifice its quality as a book in the process. It's still a solid read in its own right (though you could tell Crichton was writing just to write at points).
I have loving memories of playing the Genisis game with my dad when I was young. I'm sure it was a pain playing it with a kid. The screen would only scroll when both people moved the same way and I always wanted to be the one to drive...into whatever the nearest enemy was till the vehicle exploded. As if the game wasnt hard enough lol Thank you for making me think back on such a beloved game.
There was this one weird one for JP3 on PC that didn’t even get sold in stores, it was just an online download. All I remember is that sometimes it would make a spinosaurus pop up on my screen I think?
One of the more interesting parts of Warpath is that even though there's no obvious plot present, the narrator seems to implicitly be a guy on a P.A. system telling somebody in universe stuff. You can an almost imagine that this is some kind of illegal dinosaur fighting ring and it works except when it's like San Diego or The Cargo Ship where you're like uuh how did you get a Mega Raptor to this Jurassic Park Specific Set Piece?
3:38:30 Personally, I'm gameplay FIRST because Computer Games are GAMES, (a game must have win conditions and loss conditions, and on their own, stories don't have win/loss conditions, they have a beginning, a middle and an end), you don't play them for their story and anyone who does is an idiot. If you like stories and narratives (Narrative Structures are the skeleton of ALL good stories, themes are just set dressing, I've read plenty of bad stories with good theming. Because without any Narrative Structure, your story is a hollow, empty shell with the composition of Tofu), READ A BOOK! There are thousands of books that are published every month. A game can have the best story in the world and if it's badly designed, has rubbish mechanics or is a broken, crash-happy, glitch-filled mess, it doesn't matter how good the story is, the game is SHIT, full-stop. John Carmack said it best "Story in a Game is like a story in a Porn Film, it's meant to be there, but it's not important." there's a reason why I refuse to play games made by people who want to be film directors (Cough The Last of Us Cough). Because often, I've played them and they're ALWAYS heavy and plodding shitfests. The best games ever made are always GAMEPLAY-FOCUSED for a reason, because again, Computer Games must prioritise gameplay for them to even be interesting in the first place.
Gaming has moved on from Carmack as an industry and an art form. Books are great, but there are some stories that can only be told to their full potential through the interactive medium of video games, whether it's simply unsuited to a passive art form like Half-Life's real time journey across the Black Mesa facility or due to integration into the mechanics like Prince of Persia: Sands of Time or because the player's choices change the plot in some way such as in a lot of CRPGs. Winning doesn't mean anything if there's no one around to lose, and in single player games it's the story that gives context to those win and loss conditions. And a lot of games have only come into their own after being rushed out the door because fans resonated with the stories being told and made an effort to keep them running on modern hardware, like Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines, and, indeed, Trespasser: Jurassic Park. Mechanics and narrative aren't mutually exclusively and it's reductive to suggest that they are. If gameplay is really all that matters to a video game why ever play anything other than Pong?
Just to explain the SEGA mega drive release. Europe (sepcially the UK) is entirely to blame. We were a bit of a bizarroworld in which the NES flopped hard due to having to compete with cheaper microcomputers and software and SEGA consoles lasted WAY longer than they should have. The Master System for example was getting releases here as late as 1994/5.
@@monotonallizard actually I kind of wanted to ask why you chose the GG version of Jurassic Park over the Master System version. It's a little thing but the screen real estate really takes the edge off some of those levels. It's a nitpick sure, but please indulge me here 😅
@@qexband9427 Just human error; I didn't realise the Game Gear and the Master System were different consoles. I thought they were different names for the same console, like Genesis and Mega Drive, and didn't catch it until after the video was finished. I might go back and check out the Master System versions in another part of the retrospective if they're different enough to play, but that's years away yet.
@@monotonallizardfair enough. I wouldn't bother. The GG is pretty.much a direct port just with more screen crunch. In fact most of the GG's library is Master System games. Keep up the great work dude. Really enjoying your stuff.
when it’s finally JP3 time, DO NOT drop the ball please. Most of them are for the GBA and PC. Park builder on gba is especially interesting, since I think it’s the first JP sim/tycoon game ever made. The DNA factor for gba is also an interesting one. They pumped out a ton of weird shovelware games for JP3 on PC so do your best finding them all! The Scannerz one in particular will be a bitch.
Sorry to necro your comment but even if he can't play the OG scan command, there is a version of the game playable without the mechanic that's very easy to find. I played so much jp3 shovelware it's insane. Was all i could get for jurassic park games in the early 00s.
Yo, I got NO Notification for this. I was listening at work since this is a great vid to listen to, and checked myself. Good to hear! Helluvan experiment, that game is - and a nice community that made the game actually fun and playable.
I really don’t agree with your take that the JW trilogy made herbivores into domestic cattle, especially when the original movie literally has Grant describe Brachiasaurs as big cows. I guess I’m not saying the JW movies don’t do that, but it’s just incorrect to imply that it’s a new thing that only started happening recently
The animal rights messaging of Lost World was so brainrot. Even as a kid I wondered wtf are they talking about as they huffed and puffed over the exploitation and abuse of the dinosaurs. They're freaking dinosaurs man! First of all they shouldn't exist, second of all they're brutal monsters in this world. We're not talking about clubbing baby seals here...
15:04 wtf, it’s the first time I’m hearing of this game & seeing the environment +visuals & I can’t believe it’s a pre-2K game with those smooth AF visuals & majestic game backgrounds & design ! 🙀😍😍🫡🫡 It really puts dozens of more modern titles to utter shame! Can’t believe that such games are relegated to the past while modern “highest downloaded” titles consist of *UberPoop tier* JW 1v1 battle style games on iOS & android 🫠😑😬😭😭 Hats off to the old school devs atleast for their animations & environment design!❤🫡🫡
Hey! If you like the video please share it around because UA-cam sure won't!
I dunno, youtube's been sending me some good channels of late.
Like this one!
Meanwhile the only way I know you've uploaded anything since Men in Black was a notification I got this morning.
On the plus side I now have a bit of binging to do.
Jeff goldbloom telling me to go outside touch some grass and get some bitches is the funniest shit I have ever seen.
Yep the 90s were the best for video games. Just for the reason you mentioned.
Bro I would've seen seething and pissing and shitting myself as a 9 year old I'm ngl
Now that shit has me LAUGHING and pissing and shitting myself
''At this point the only thing that could shake things up is another set piece mission- WAIT NO''. That gave me an absolute laughing fit, thank you for these fun videos!
Thanks!
loving that this is out, found your channel through the first one. 5 hours of tightly scripted content is no small feat (i dont have to take your word for it, i know) and it's hella impressive to see you producing these so quickly without cutting corners on quality.
will be working my way through this video over the next couple of days. may the algorithm be ever in your favour.
Your videos are so good, found you thanks to the men in black one, I don't really care about Jurassic park or men in black, but there's something really entertaining about the way you tackle the games, so thank you.
"Tresspasser gets its own part in the retrospective."
Me: YES!!
Where is it
WHERE ISSSSSSSS ITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT
@@arandomexplosion It will be out in the next few months*
* _months is by no means a in indication of a 30 day cycle, months may construe up-to and in excess of multiple years._
It's coming, I just severely underestimated how big a project it would be. At the time of this comment there's about three hours of script written and a bunch more still to go, but I'm confident it'll be out in 2024.
@@monotonallizard Nice^^ cant wait~~
@@monotonallizard Understandable, take as long as you need king 💪🏻 The reassurance is all I needed. 😎
It's humbling to watch a 5 fucking hour, Mandalore-caliber retrospective before it even reached 4 digits on views.
The quality of your videos, insight and most of all sheer goddamn commitment is absolutely top notch and it is just a matter until they blow up, and I'll be there to feel some weird unwarranted entitlement like I knew you from before or smth.
Anyway, thanks to you I gave Evolution 2 a go after I didn't really like evo1 and after forcing myself through the "campaign" I actually liked it quite a lot. Wonder what you'll have to say about the Evo games.
Thanks!
The gamecom version would have been even less playable in person. Its awful passive matrix lcd ghosted pixels so badly those jungle levels would have been a big grey smear. Never actually owned it but a demo system at a local toys r us was wild, definitely convinced people not to bother
Every time I think “maybe I’ll be productive today”, suddenly a new 4+ hour video comes out.
I am medically reliant on it, stick it in my veiiiinsssssssss (thank you for the video :))
I spent many, many hours at the lost world arcade machine at my local Walmart. It's such an incredible arcade shooter and I really hope to own an original cabinet one day
I am having endless fun watching this video in small chunks. It's like a Netflix series that just dumped an entire season all at once - very bingeworthy. Also, I love how you're leaning into more profanity-laced commentary without it being gratuitous. That combination of highly intelligent essay-style narration with sprinklings of foul language is very appealing. You'll probably get a few comments saying you should mind your language (I speak from experience) but pay them no mind. You're doing great work!
Thanks! I usually find I curse more when I don't like a game so make of that what you will.
Let's GOOOOOO 5 hours I'm so stoked. I'm also so glad Trespasser is going to be in a separate section, it's a game that's genuinely extremely important to me and I'd hate to have it get lost in the background. It was the only FPS I had growing up and I beat it many times without ever being able to watch the beginning or end cutscene, because our computer was incapable of playing it at the normal speed so it'd be over in seconds.
Jeff Golbluhm telling you "Go touch grass and get laid" is an incredible reward, I think.
As (I think) the first person to talk about Trespasser on youtube (18 years ago, damn) I'll always find it one of the most interesting games ever made, jank and all.
As someone who's very experienced in fighting games, I completely get why you don't like Warpath.
Something about this game feels very off. I can't quite explain it, but just moving and attacking in general doesn't look as smooth as games like dead or alive. I'd say there's some enjoyment to be found when playing with a friend, but that can be said about many fighting games. I have played worse, but I couldn't recommend this one to someone else (outside of maybe trying it).
Fighting games in general are difficult to get into due to their nature. Rarely can a fighting game make the CPU enjoyable to fight against as the best strategy tends to be using one move over and over in some cases. If this game had more time in development, I think it could have been something special.
I love the small slip ups that you keep in for the sake of humor!
Man, what a great video.
I especially appreciate that you drew attention to Warpath's menus! That was always one of my favorite aspects of the game, the menus were so atmospheric and moody! It always made child me want to explore and see the world that the game was setting up! There was something so... eerie about that ambiance! I put so many hours into Warpath as a kid! Honestly, that period in between Jurassic Park and during The Lost World was such a magical part of the 90's to be a child in- the Playstation 1 Game, the Arcade game, the commercials and Trespasser-
Man.
Great toys, atmospheric game settings and just a wonderful time to let your imagination run wild!
I appreciate your videos for bringing that period to light with the games!
Thanks!
About 42:10 regarding the hunter character being Dieter Stark; As a kid I had a toy figure of Dieter Stark, and it has the very same outfit and colours as the hunter character in this game. (incidentally this figure also came packaged with a compy you could attack to his chest via magnet. A grim nod to his fate in the movie) That might be corroborating evidence? Also, THANK you for not cutting the psone lost world game any slack. Damn that game made me want to tear my hair out as a kid. Like you, i never got past the compy levels. Dark souls got nothing on that game in terms of difficulty.
Glad to see someone give Chaos Island it’s due. Likewise, glad you were able to get some enjoyment out of TLW arcade even without the light guns and sit-in cabinet experience that made it so magical. I probably would’ve been easier in my review on TLW PS1, even though I agree with most of it’s faults I wouldn’t call it a “bad game” outright, just a frustrating one. I also disagree strongly about Warpath, although I grew up with fighting games of this era so, different strokes for different folks and all.
Fantastic video! I hope you still plan to cover some more modern games as well, loving the vibe of this series. Nnow on to checking how the heck a single game was turned into an even longer essay!
The boss fights for that Megadrive game are real demo scene stuff. It's really trippy seeing all of these crazy graphical techniques overlaid on top of each other for a game that never uses the same assets again due to using a completely different perspective.
40:00 God I absolutely love this video.
Chaos island with Peter and Roland becoming good guys against biosyn is genius
Also I know jp3 arcade is hard to find but I have played it here in bum ass Nebraska so it shouldn’t be too impossible
Just when I was getting worried we'd never get a pt 2 ❤
Watched it in one go, its great!!!
I love your retrospective and looking foward to see more. thanks for your vid and all the work 🙂
Loving your channel! Keep doing what you're doing because you are doing great work. No gimmicks, no annoying persona, no over the top skits, no ugly cartoon mascot popping up making poses. Just honest, insightful reviews. 11/10 content.
"Let them out of their cage, and they'll be doing just fine, goring you to death." BAAAAAAHAHAHA, wonderful!
The Game Gear version feels like the first half of a full game or a demo they decided to make the final game. Will have to play it. Good job.
The SegaCD game was one of two games (along with Sonic CD) that I kept it around for and even went back to play as of 2011 before losing all my systems in a move. I even played it in 2020, along with my favorite classic JP game: Trespasser (The new park sim games are my absolute favorites)
I’ve been rewatching both of these videos on a semi-regular basis, take ur time on the trespasser vid idc how long it takes i’ll end up watching it a dozen times anyway
The Deja Vu running gag was too good. The Chaos Island bit had me reeling especially. 🤣
The hunter character is indeed supposed to be Dieter Stark or whatever his name is. His look is based on his action figure design from the Kenner line. I totally had that figure.
bout time :) like many, I subscribed because of your first video in this series. excited to watch this one
OMG i Forgot about The Lost World on Saturn and psX!!! TYSM!!
I've played the Lost World Arcade though in person, and I feel like we really melted through the bosses with the light gun. Never got to the spots where the character movement stops.
Maybe it's a quirk of the emulation? Who knows.
I know the Jurassic Park series aren't known for their accuracy, but damn do all the dinosaurs in Warpath look awful. Never before have they looked so anorexic and like skeletons with skin on them.
The Lost World is my favorite arcade game of all time. The "cabinet" being a small, curtained-off cabin really helped maintain the atmosphere even in a crowded arcade. I'd probably dump 20 dollars into beating it again if I ever ran across one.
Also, appreciate the rant about movie Sarah Harding. From best character in the book to worst character in the movie. Huge fumble by Spielberg.
I loved The Lost World on the Genesis. Me, my brother and my cousin spent a long time with that one. As for "Nameless Hat Man", as a kid, I always assumed it was Eddie Carr, since it resembled his Kenner action figure :D
I don't know squat about Jurassic Park, but watching this retrospective video (and the previous one) has been quite a fun rollercoaster ride.
Good-o. New Lizard content! Awesome!
Five fucking hours?!?
Yeah, might have to enjoy this in segments.
Please don't watch it in one sitting, not even I could manage that.
I was waiting for this, thank you! 🦖🦕
I have a soft spot for Lost World on PS1. I played the heck out of it, and actually got pretty good, although for some reason, I always ended up quitting after the raptor stage, so I never played the T-Rex levels. I do have a strategy guide, which just recommends constantly chomping your way through the levels, so I guess they recognized it was a bit crap as well.
Seeing the Genesis game in-depth was interesting. I've never played it, and most UA-camrs just focus on the impressive animation sequences, so I never even knew it was a top-down collect-a-thon.
The Lost World arcade with an 80-inch screen and full seat setup would have been epic. Also, Warpath seems like Primal Rage: The Bad Version, which is saying something, since Primal Rage wasn't that great to begin with. Anyways, thanks for another fantastic video!
Warpath isn’t really like Primal Rage at all aside from being a “fighting game with dinosaurs” from a gameplay perspective they’re very dissimilar.
I know. It was just a joking comment not to be taken all that seriously.@@ThePatchedVest
Love this series! Looking forward to the Trespasser video, I hope there'll be a section on the custom levels community. Been watching Shadefyre slowly play his way through a lot of them over the last 10 years and as a result have become quite a fan of Trespasser despite never actually playing it.
Thanks! I'll definitely talk about the Trespasser community but I probably won't play any of the custom levels, that's one rabbit hole I really don't have time to go down if I want the video out this year.
I love your work.
I was expecting you to skip the MS dos game, and although you hated it that game was my childhood.
Poor Trespasser was ahead of its time. I like it, I got as far as a mounted gun segment but it's just too complex for it's own good
I LOVE chaos island. I just wish it came with some sort of level editor or mode to play as the hunters.
I vaguely remember playing Chaos island as a child. It was the only Jurassic Park game I've ever played. I didnt understand the game at all
I swear this dude just appeared one day and started releasing banger after banger
“Fuck you, Dimorphodon” best line in 5e video. Also sorry if I spelt that wrong.
Yooooooo I just binged part one yesterday
Good video! Lots of fun.
That picture of the T-rex in the credits is from an issue of Zoobooks about dinosaurs.
Thanks!
As a big fighting game guy, I'm sorry, you're just wrong. Spamming the same move over and over isn't "poor form" or "a bad idea." It's a great idea, right up until your opponent figures out how to answer it. If they don't like it, they should find a good move to spam instead.
This Video is so good! Really liked it :)
Love all the “I need to use the bathroom”s.
Astonishing
Oh you can bet the QA testers have noted eeevery single thing wrong with the games too /=D QA testers sadly have like the lowest amount of authority in game production though. You can bet the guy who delivers the takeout on late Friay evenings probably has a better chance of being heard by decision makers 😄
These vids need to be even longer and more detailled.
Other than that, this is further proof for my theory that people who enjoy the story framing in games over the play don't like fighting games, as they're fundamentally the play over the framing.
Day 437 waiting for UA-cam's dumbass algorithm to pick up your gem of a channel
The amount of times he said eggs gave me histor's eye vibes
i don't know, what's a lagoosh with you?
also i had a game com with re2, and i had a terrible time with it. whether that's because it was a clonky portable adaption or because i had a better variety of video game entertainment to try out at the same time, don't know. it was definitely a game that felt weird and off-putting even to my tiny child mind.
Didn't know that Michael Crichton never wrote a sequel aside from Lost World. That was neat to learn.
I will forever be befuddled by how drastically different the movie is from the book, since The Lost World is genuinely one of the most filmable books I've ever read. The cast is a reasonable size, the number of locations and setpieces is the right amount for a movie, and all the action scenes and new dinosaur abilities ask for a step-up in the special effects department without demanding the moon. You can tell it was written with a movie adaptation in mind, but it doesn't sacrifice its quality as a book in the process. It's still a solid read in its own right (though you could tell Crichton was writing just to write at points).
I have loving memories of playing the Genisis game with my dad when I was young. I'm sure it was a pain playing it with a kid. The screen would only scroll when both people moved the same way and I always wanted to be the one to drive...into whatever the nearest enemy was till the vehicle exploded. As if the game wasnt hard enough lol
Thank you for making me think back on such a beloved game.
dude love this video how is the trespasser video going along?
Thanks! The Trespasser video is eating me alive, but it's coming together slowly but surely.
@@monotonallizard will you talk about lego dimensions sense it has Jurassic park included
@@ringtail99 I'll definitely bring it up when I get up to the Jurassic World games in the retrospective, but I don't know if I'll play it.
Aussies never lose
Just don't remind them about the Emu War.
Clearly Mr. Stompy is a Crystal Palace Dino.
It’s here!
Great stuff. Good work!
"Vore enough of them" jfc, you make me want to drink
THE KING RETURNS TO HIS FALLEN KINGDOM
There was this one weird one for JP3 on PC that didn’t even get sold in stores, it was just an online download. All I remember is that sometimes it would make a spinosaurus pop up on my screen I think?
One of the more interesting parts of Warpath is that even though there's no obvious plot present, the narrator seems to implicitly be a guy on a P.A. system telling somebody in universe stuff. You can an almost imagine that this is some kind of illegal dinosaur fighting ring and it works except when it's like San Diego or The Cargo Ship where you're like uuh how did you get a Mega Raptor to this Jurassic Park Specific Set Piece?
The other awesome thing about Lost World on Genesis is the co-op mode! Many hours of that were played together when we were kids
5 hours.... Hell yes lol
The lost world ps1 was my childhood
Michael Giacchino even snuck some of the music from the PlayStation game into the Jurassic World movies.
Thank you for making those long essays. First one i watched was Hitman 47. Watching since.
3:38:30 Personally, I'm gameplay FIRST because Computer Games are GAMES, (a game must have win conditions and loss conditions, and on their own, stories don't have win/loss conditions, they have a beginning, a middle and an end), you don't play them for their story and anyone who does is an idiot. If you like stories and narratives (Narrative Structures are the skeleton of ALL good stories, themes are just set dressing, I've read plenty of bad stories with good theming. Because without any Narrative Structure, your story is a hollow, empty shell with the composition of Tofu), READ A BOOK! There are thousands of books that are published every month. A game can have the best story in the world and if it's badly designed, has rubbish mechanics or is a broken, crash-happy, glitch-filled mess, it doesn't matter how good the story is, the game is SHIT, full-stop.
John Carmack said it best "Story in a Game is like a story in a Porn Film, it's meant to be there, but it's not important." there's a reason why I refuse to play games made by people who want to be film directors (Cough The Last of Us Cough). Because often, I've played them and they're ALWAYS heavy and plodding shitfests. The best games ever made are always GAMEPLAY-FOCUSED for a reason, because again, Computer Games must prioritise gameplay for them to even be interesting in the first place.
Gaming has moved on from Carmack as an industry and an art form. Books are great, but there are some stories that can only be told to their full potential through the interactive medium of video games, whether it's simply unsuited to a passive art form like Half-Life's real time journey across the Black Mesa facility or due to integration into the mechanics like Prince of Persia: Sands of Time or because the player's choices change the plot in some way such as in a lot of CRPGs. Winning doesn't mean anything if there's no one around to lose, and in single player games it's the story that gives context to those win and loss conditions. And a lot of games have only come into their own after being rushed out the door because fans resonated with the stories being told and made an effort to keep them running on modern hardware, like Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines, and, indeed, Trespasser: Jurassic Park. Mechanics and narrative aren't mutually exclusively and it's reductive to suggest that they are. If gameplay is really all that matters to a video game why ever play anything other than Pong?
Yaaaaay new jp video!!
11 months no trespasser video:-(
Just to explain the SEGA mega drive release. Europe (sepcially the UK) is entirely to blame.
We were a bit of a bizarroworld in which the NES flopped hard due to having to compete with cheaper microcomputers and software and SEGA consoles lasted WAY longer than they should have. The Master System for example was getting releases here as late as 1994/5.
I didn't know that, that's really interesting.
@@monotonallizard actually I kind of wanted to ask why you chose the GG version of Jurassic Park over the Master System version. It's a little thing but the screen real estate really takes the edge off some of those levels.
It's a nitpick sure, but please indulge me here 😅
@@qexband9427 Just human error; I didn't realise the Game Gear and the Master System were different consoles. I thought they were different names for the same console, like Genesis and Mega Drive, and didn't catch it until after the video was finished. I might go back and check out the Master System versions in another part of the retrospective if they're different enough to play, but that's years away yet.
@@monotonallizardfair enough. I wouldn't bother. The GG is pretty.much a direct port just with more screen crunch. In fact most of the GG's library is Master System games.
Keep up the great work dude. Really enjoying your stuff.
Me: wow cool, you can play as a compy!
14:38: who wants to play as a fucking compy??
Me: ☹️
am a strategy game freak like from the age of empires and total war series and i would love to try chaos island.
LET'S GOOOOOOOOO
Nostalgia memories deez nutz
The Arcade game is still the absolute best.
The hat guy from the Sega Genesis game is based of the toy model of Eddie Carr.
This game isn't garbage I played it with my brother on 2 players and completed it, it has one of the best boss battle levels
The Hunter in the Lost World PlayStation game looks like Hasbro’s Dieter Stark :)
when it’s finally JP3 time, DO NOT drop the ball please. Most of them are for the GBA and PC. Park builder on gba is especially interesting, since I think it’s the first JP sim/tycoon game ever made. The DNA factor for gba is also an interesting one. They pumped out a ton of weird shovelware games for JP3 on PC so do your best finding them all! The Scannerz one in particular will be a bitch.
Sorry to necro your comment but even if he can't play the OG scan command, there is a version of the game playable without the mechanic that's very easy to find. I played so much jp3 shovelware it's insane. Was all i could get for jurassic park games in the early 00s.
Where is the trespasser review lol?
Eating me alive lol
At the time of this comment there's about an hour of video scripted out.
Yo, I got NO Notification for this. I was listening at work since this is a great vid to listen to, and checked myself. Good to hear! Helluvan experiment, that game is - and a nice community that made the game actually fun and playable.
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Jurassic park arcade games by Sega are fucking brilliant
Not a bad video but you let much of your inner 4channer show up during it, plus i don't like your pfp. So no like for this one.
I mean, for a Game Boy game, The Lost World wasn't that bad.
What about trespasser?
He explains in the intro.
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"...next few months." time is a cruel cruel mistress
We all make mistakes.
I really don’t agree with your take that the JW trilogy made herbivores into domestic cattle, especially when the original movie literally has Grant describe Brachiasaurs as big cows. I guess I’m not saying the JW movies don’t do that, but it’s just incorrect to imply that it’s a new thing that only started happening recently
The animal rights messaging of Lost World was so brainrot. Even as a kid I wondered wtf are they talking about as they huffed and puffed over the exploitation and abuse of the dinosaurs.
They're freaking dinosaurs man! First of all they shouldn't exist, second of all they're brutal monsters in this world. We're not talking about clubbing baby seals here...
15:04 wtf, it’s the first time I’m hearing of this game & seeing the environment +visuals & I can’t believe it’s a pre-2K game with those smooth AF visuals & majestic game backgrounds & design ! 🙀😍😍🫡🫡
It really puts dozens of more modern titles to utter shame!
Can’t believe that such games are relegated to the past while modern “highest downloaded” titles consist of *UberPoop tier* JW 1v1 battle style games on iOS & android 🫠😑😬😭😭
Hats off to the old school devs atleast for their animations & environment design!❤🫡🫡