NOOOOO WAYYYYYYYY Dude I've been trying to figure out what this game was called since I was like 10 years old. We rented it the day after Christmas cause blockbuster was one block away and we got an Xbox for Christmas. It was so much fun and for some reason I randomly remembered it today. I need to play this again
There's a few I'm certain i will never be able to do, but yeah it's a great little game. It's a shame Lucasart just sent it out to die I love the Gladiator setting. It's funny cause I was looking for footage of Domina to put in this vid and your stream of it was one of the first that came up and made me think "I bet MDB would love this game".
@@sharpdressedgoblin I would love this game! And Domina is so good, it's a shame the dev kinda...went crazy? I don't know how else to put it. Dude went totally nuts at some point, got upset that his political ramblings were being taken off Steam, and ended up taking his game off the platform after an outburst. It's wild. Absolutely awesome game, but the dev seems kind of unwell
Would make for some legendary MDB let's plays for sure 👌. Oh really I didn't know about that, it's sad cause the guy could make a mean indie game. Love my management style games like that don't get many these days... need my nerdy stats and strategizing
If there was a game that I wanted a remake ever since Shadow of the Colossus got it's reshining.. This is it. Could be such a cool concept with modern graphics and a new leveling/progression system.
This game but modernized a bit would be bloody awesome. I'm still holding out hope a indie studio takes the concept and runs with it. Kinda like what the stardew valley guy did for harvest moon inspired games.
Hit hard when one of my members died outside of the arena after they grew on me. Lampolo and Amphritritis some real ones! RIP loved ones! Liked , subscribed
We need more dynamic tactical RPGs. Additional inputs from the player after selecting commands make combat more engaging. I have never heard of this game but it reminds me of my experience with Valkyria Chronicles because of the not so straightforward combat.
There's a lot more player inputs BEFROE battle in this one because aside from the story characters ur given, most of ur gladiator school is made up of recruits u choose.
Not to forget you could also re-colour all armor I made a colour coded team😊😊 loved that. Had this on gamecube but secondhand with a line so it would break down past into the desert somewhere (never got to finish it😢) Somebody please make a remake for pc❤ Loved this game!
I played Gladius this year in 2023 and was quite surprised by how charming this game is. Falls well beneath the radar, and not completely lost to history thanks to perfect emulation. Gladius was cute, addictive, weird and well worth my time.
This was my 13th birthday present from my parents on the GameCube and you're right about it being a hidden gem and needing more attention to it and such. ❤😊
I know I'm late to your video, but this was one of my top 3 games on the PS2. I played through the full story with both characters, remember the clock showed 100+ hours by the time I was completely finished. Like turn based tactical combat? check Like building a gladiator school with excellent character variety? check Like decent weapon/armor systems to upgrade your different gladiators? check Like the idea of commanding a bear to eat people? check Like good money making system and useful way ways to spend it? check (well, up until you a point. You'll retire a rich person, lol) Like digging in the sand for rusty swords centuries before penicillin was discovered? check Like games that cost less than 10 bucks? check Excellent video, keep up the great work!
Omg I always felt like a maniac no one i know has ever played this game. I got this on my gamecube when I was around 10 and I had never played a tactical rpg before and it blew my mind I would play in 2 player mode with my little brother that was 7 and we would go crazy. He couldnt do the harder combos so he would hand me the controller and run around yelling it was amazing. Im not sure exactly because it was so long ago, but I think near the end of the game you need to do one of the fights with the main characters and ours were dreadfully underleveled so we got perma stuck in one of the fights we didnt save before going in LOL so I never beat the game. Thanks for the video im def going to give it a runback now!
Me and my brothers grew up playing this on gamecube. It was a big part of our childhood and I even recently bought it again through Xbox backwards compat. I agree it seems like no one has ever heard of this game but it’s fans are out here bro! 👍🏻 I’ve yet to play a turn based game that feels like this one.
It's not just yourself and a couple miscreants. Me and a few buds of mine still look back fondly on this gem. Favorite attack in the whole game is still the Yeti bitch smack. Should have had a sequel, or at least a triple A remake.
I got grounded when I was younger, and was a big gamer, so as punishment my dad rented a game from block buster and played it in front of me for a whole weekend, and it so happens it was this game lol, brings back memories, never did get to play it
"Don't be racist, I am a building" Holy shit a memory of my drunk ass friends singing this in college just came rushing back. The 00s were a strange time. I also regret Gladius never getting a sequel, although I feel it was overshadowed by mechanically similar offerings like "Tales" or even .hack// back in the day.
I saw Ghostcharm's video about obscure games, and this was on the list. A few days later, I happened across an unopened ps2 copy and picked it up for ten bucks. Been playing it these past few days and man! It is so addicting! Then I earned the opportunity to get a yeti on my team. 10/10, what other game lets you have a yeti? EDIT: I too learned of how busted Gungnir are very quickly. My first new recruit was a Gungnir, and shortly after acquiring her I won a Pike in a battle. Gave her the pike, and suddenly, she's doing between 40-70 damage with every throw, while everything else was still hitting in the single digits. I'm well past the point of her being totally OP now, but she's still a very heavy hitter. Good 'ol Jeanne
Needs to be a Remaster!!! What a great addictive game the mini games inside the turn based strategy is what sets this apart. I hate picking the spots then attack and not doing anything
Me and a school friend played the hell out of this as well as champions of norrath and lord of the rings the third age man i miss the days When single player games had a Local co op mode
I love this game and no one I know jas played it! I do feel like this oversimplified the game. I used my centurion line to rally everyone (including other centurion units) and then crush the enemy when they came into attack range. You could also customize skin, amd armor color making your school more uniform. Makes me want to go out and find a GameCube!
I plugged in my OG xbox to play some Jedi Starfighter and saw a trailer for this game in the extras and found my way here... I kind of wanna try this game now xD
I think my friend had this game but never played it. I do know of it from the trailer being on either Kotor or Halo. Well thanks for the vid Jake. I do love ur content and thanks for mentioning Age of Mythology. Bro did we live the same childhood?
Why is this game not in ps store... I preordered this game back in the day, one of my all time fav. games. Still have the Mongrel figurine, collecting dust in basement heh.
My son and I have been playing this together for two decades. Glad to see this video, but how in the world did you play the game and manage to mispronounce so many names??
Yeah I played this when I was 23 im now 41 (2003 was it?) and it was great ! Loved every min of it sure but grindy at times but love the artwork too on the screens they should bring back game like these so more people can suffer them 😆😆😆just kidding
Hey man. I'm late to the party, but I just found the new channel from the old one. Anyways, I have a strangely specific question for you: I remember you mentioning that you were in a band at some point. Well, I'm gonna start playing electric guitar soon, and I'm on the autism spectrum. Any good advice on how to approach this new journey of mine? Again, I know this is random, but since you were in a band, I thought I would ask.
Hmmm... I'd say learn power chords and barre chords as quickly as you can. But it also depends on what kind of style you wanna do. Learning a bit of drop D early on is pretty handy. And learning the bare bones of theory is a good thing to do helped me a lot over the years. You'd be amazed how many guitarists dunno where notes are on a guitar ha. But I'm not really the best to ask haven't been a gigging musician in a long time ha.
Ok, just finished this while making white people tacos. I absolutely adored this game growing up. As a smooth brain child, I used cheat codes to beat it. But yeah, didnt know many kids who played it. There was a kid who took the same bus as me to school who did and the entire ride, we'd talk strategy, plot theories, tips and tricks, etc. It's definitely a game that has such a soft spot in my heart, as well as the Spyro trilogy
@@sharpdressedgoblin tbf, it seems like they put the most effort into the first area. I also share your love of heavy units. Their combos were slow enough for my child reflexes but also felt like they had weight behind them. Getting your minotaur behind an unsuspecting legionnaire and selecting combo 3 attack was so satisfying
This is a game a choose to check out because i thought was going to play like rygar lol and ending up actually enjoying it 😂 and never beat it because as a youngin never put forth the effort smh 🤦...solid game tho
Every game is a hidden gem to someone ? 😂 .. gem?.. nah, play Colosseum: Road to Freedom, Shadow Of Rome or X-Com Enemy Unknown ps1 instead this game looks dryyy..
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Great game of its time. Glad someone else remembers it. Also loved the artwork in the load screens
I remember getting this as a kid, expecting something else, but being pleasantly surprised by what it turned out to be.
NOOOOO WAYYYYYYYY
Dude I've been trying to figure out what this game was called since I was like 10 years old. We rented it the day after Christmas cause blockbuster was one block away and we got an Xbox for Christmas. It was so much fun and for some reason I randomly remembered it today. I need to play this again
I loved this game. I played the heck out of it back in the day.
Those button inputs look genuinely really hard. I feel like a lot of love was put into this game!
There's a few I'm certain i will never be able to do, but yeah it's a great little game. It's a shame Lucasart just sent it out to die I love the Gladiator setting. It's funny cause I was looking for footage of Domina to put in this vid and your stream of it was one of the first that came up and made me think "I bet MDB would love this game".
@@sharpdressedgoblin I would love this game! And Domina is so good, it's a shame the dev kinda...went crazy? I don't know how else to put it. Dude went totally nuts at some point, got upset that his political ramblings were being taken off Steam, and ended up taking his game off the platform after an outburst.
It's wild. Absolutely awesome game, but the dev seems kind of unwell
Would make for some legendary MDB let's plays for sure 👌. Oh really I didn't know about that, it's sad cause the guy could make a mean indie game. Love my management style games like that don't get many these days... need my nerdy stats and strategizing
If there was a game that I wanted a remake ever since Shadow of the Colossus got it's reshining.. This is it. Could be such a cool concept with modern graphics and a new leveling/progression system.
This game but modernized a bit would be bloody awesome. I'm still holding out hope a indie studio takes the concept and runs with it. Kinda like what the stardew valley guy did for harvest moon inspired games.
I still play this game to this day. Btw, Those looking for a extra challenge. Disable the weapon swing meters. Its like a whole new game.
I'll have to try it next time I play it cause it did get to a point where it was too easy cause I was too good at the meters ha
Hit hard when one of my members died outside of the arena after they grew on me. Lampolo and Amphritritis some real ones! RIP loved ones!
Liked , subscribed
It's brutal pretty sure I lost my wolf when I was a kid and I didn't even know what happened RIP doggo
Yup the two you listed and dieorie
We need more dynamic tactical RPGs. Additional inputs from the player after selecting commands make combat more engaging. I have never heard of this game but it reminds me of my experience with Valkyria Chronicles because of the not so straightforward combat.
There's a lot more player inputs BEFROE battle in this one because aside from the story characters ur given, most of ur gladiator school is made up of recruits u choose.
Not to forget you could also re-colour all armor I made a colour coded team😊😊 loved that. Had this on gamecube but secondhand with a line so it would break down past into the desert somewhere (never got to finish it😢)
Somebody please make a remake for pc❤ Loved this game!
Me too
Had my centurions in diff colors
I played Gladius this year in 2023 and was quite surprised by how charming this game is. Falls well beneath the radar, and not completely lost to history thanks to perfect emulation. Gladius was cute, addictive, weird and well worth my time.
Just bought it on Xbox for $9.99 and it's actually so much fun
Me too got it with def jam fight for ny with some other games wanted to watch some gameplay here before I played
One of the GOATs for sure, sucks that its unfinished but there is a mod somebody made to unlock almost every class in the game as recruitable. 10 / 10
Where is this mod?
Damn. Somebody else remembered this game. Great video!
This was my 13th birthday present from my parents on the GameCube and you're right about it being a hidden gem and needing more attention to it and such. ❤😊
I still own this game and its strategy guide XD A real tragedy we havent seen anything like it in an age
Xcom plays similarly but rng.
I know I'm late to your video, but this was one of my top 3 games on the PS2.
I played through the full story with both characters, remember the clock showed 100+ hours by the time I was completely finished.
Like turn based tactical combat? check
Like building a gladiator school with excellent character variety? check
Like decent weapon/armor systems to upgrade your different gladiators? check
Like the idea of commanding a bear to eat people? check
Like good money making system and useful way ways to spend it? check (well, up until you a point. You'll retire a rich person, lol)
Like digging in the sand for rusty swords centuries before penicillin was discovered? check
Like games that cost less than 10 bucks? check
Excellent video, keep up the great work!
I loved this game as a kid. Wish there was a way to play it again.
I put the game in my Xbox One and it let me download a version for my system with slightly better graphics.
Nowadays it's not possible to play it on your PC or even phone with emulation! If you want I can show you how
@@santiagovasquez5967 yesssss- please 😂 Tried it a year ago but couldnt manage- Grinded the game sooo Hard as a kid
Omg I always felt like a maniac no one i know has ever played this game. I got this on my gamecube when I was around 10 and I had never played a tactical rpg before and it blew my mind I would play in 2 player mode with my little brother that was 7 and we would go crazy. He couldnt do the harder combos so he would hand me the controller and run around yelling it was amazing. Im not sure exactly because it was so long ago, but I think near the end of the game you need to do one of the fights with the main characters and ours were dreadfully underleveled so we got perma stuck in one of the fights we didnt save before going in LOL so I never beat the game. Thanks for the video im def going to give it a runback now!
This is my favorite game of all time 😢
It’s so awesome. I want a new one more than anything in gaming
Really wish more ppl remembered this game & they remade it. Loved the game physics
This is my favorite gladiator game of all time. RIP my dreams of a sequel
Me and my brothers grew up playing this on gamecube. It was a big part of our childhood and I even recently bought it again through Xbox backwards compat.
I agree it seems like no one has ever heard of this game but it’s fans are out here bro! 👍🏻 I’ve yet to play a turn based game that feels like this one.
It's not just yourself and a couple miscreants. Me and a few buds of mine still look back fondly on this gem. Favorite attack in the whole game is still the Yeti bitch smack. Should have had a sequel, or at least a triple A remake.
I got grounded when I was younger, and was a big gamer, so as punishment my dad rented a game from block buster and played it in front of me for a whole weekend, and it so happens it was this game lol, brings back memories, never did get to play it
Thats such a weird punishment lol more like treat
i loved this game as a kid. Was playing We who are about to die, and just had to search this up again
"Don't be racist, I am a building"
Holy shit a memory of my drunk ass friends singing this in college just came rushing back. The 00s were a strange time.
I also regret Gladius never getting a sequel, although I feel it was overshadowed by mechanically similar offerings like "Tales" or even .hack// back in the day.
i actually just picked this game up last week in a pawn shop. never played it before but so far its been fun.
Me and my brothers just started a playthrough of this tonight. Loved this game when we were kids
Hell yeah
I cant wait to watch this after i finish your digimon video. I want to replay this so bad on my surface pro
One of my favs games ever. Would be cool to see a VR adaptation
If I had money I would pay lucas arts to make gladius 2 this game is still the best game imo that I have ever played
It's a banger, I would love an indie to take the concept and modernise it like that team did with Bomb Rush Cyberfunk for Jet Set Radio
I saw Ghostcharm's video about obscure games, and this was on the list. A few days later, I happened across an unopened ps2 copy and picked it up for ten bucks. Been playing it these past few days and man! It is so addicting! Then I earned the opportunity to get a yeti on my team. 10/10, what other game lets you have a yeti?
EDIT: I too learned of how busted Gungnir are very quickly. My first new recruit was a Gungnir, and shortly after acquiring her I won a Pike in a battle. Gave her the pike, and suddenly, she's doing between 40-70 damage with every throw, while everything else was still hitting in the single digits. I'm well past the point of her being totally OP now, but she's still a very heavy hitter. Good 'ol Jeanne
Such a cool little game nothing like it almost a sports RPG with the set up ha
I loved the weird monkey people but didn’t know how to recruit the witches as a kid… and always picked Ursula
Needs to be a Remaster!!! What a great addictive game the mini games inside the turn based strategy is what sets this apart. I hate picking the spots then attack and not doing anything
Game is an all time fave
Hitting from behind, and hitting from above is huge
Me and a school friend played the hell out of this as well as champions of norrath and lord of the rings the third age man i miss the days When single player games had a Local co op mode
Bro this game was my favorite ps2 game. I’m so glad it’s on Microsoft gamepass so I can play it as an adult and finally beat it. Haha
Do it for the Glory of Imperia!
I love this game and no one I know jas played it! I do feel like this oversimplified the game. I used my centurion line to rally everyone (including other centurion units) and then crush the enemy when they came into attack range. You could also customize skin, amd armor color making your school more uniform. Makes me want to go out and find a GameCube!
I plugged in my OG xbox to play some Jedi Starfighter and saw a trailer for this game in the extras and found my way here...
I kind of wanna try this game now xD
Ha that's so random it's definitely worth a go 👍
Utterly love this game! Wish someone took the concept and developed it further
Great video bro. I loved this game.
great game, very good to play with friends, lost of tactics but still good playability.
This game blind sided me, I didn’t know I liked tactical games. Love them to death now.
The SSB Melee -> Fire Emblem pipeline putting in the work fr
Found my copy finally started it up again, fantastic game
I think my friend had this game but never played it. I do know of it from the trailer being on either Kotor or Halo. Well thanks for the vid Jake. I do love ur content and thanks for mentioning Age of Mythology. Bro did we live the same childhood?
Why is this game not in ps store...
I preordered this game back in the day, one of my all time fav. games.
Still have the Mongrel figurine, collecting dust in basement heh.
Didn't even know there was a mongrel fig that's amazing... might need to track that down
I miss this game so much
Is such an amazing game. One of my favorites.
This game looks really interesting, maybe if I can wrestle the dragon quest disc out of my PS2 i'll check it out.
Definitely worth a go bloody cheap an all
My top 5 game since I played it on PS2 in 2006
My son and I have been playing this together for two decades.
Glad to see this video, but how in the world did you play the game and manage to mispronounce so many names??
There is a discord community where they have done some mods for this game.
man, there really is a community around everything now :-)
Best extra characters are the undead summoner,the yeti, and the Minotaur
Is there anything on the ps5 that is like Gladius? I have seen lost eidolon, but am not sure.
This one actually showed up :) I loved this game
It was a total banger
Myrmadon my dude. They are so cool
Shield toss would do absurd damage
Yeah I played this when I was 23 im now 41 (2003 was it?) and it was great ! Loved every min of it sure but grindy at times but love the artwork too on the screens they should bring back game like these so more people can suffer them 😆😆😆just kidding
There’s a whole discord community that mods this game, you know
Dammmn he used Spoony Betrayal footage! Low bloww!
I miss Spoony
@@sharpdressedgoblin me too, but at this point he's been not making videos longer than he has. Great video by the way man keep at it.
Hey man. I'm late to the party, but I just found the new channel from the old one. Anyways, I have a strangely specific question for you: I remember you mentioning that you were in a band at some point. Well, I'm gonna start playing electric guitar soon, and I'm on the autism spectrum. Any good advice on how to approach this new journey of mine? Again, I know this is random, but since you were in a band, I thought I would ask.
What In terms of playing guitar or making a band?
@@sharpdressedgoblin I'd say guitar since the band likely won't start for a while.
Hmmm... I'd say learn power chords and barre chords as quickly as you can. But it also depends on what kind of style you wanna do. Learning a bit of drop D early on is pretty handy. And learning the bare bones of theory is a good thing to do helped me a lot over the years. You'd be amazed how many guitarists dunno where notes are on a guitar ha. But I'm not really the best to ask haven't been a gigging musician in a long time ha.
Gladius was one of my favorite GameCube games until I ruined the disc
Ok, just finished this while making white people tacos. I absolutely adored this game growing up. As a smooth brain child, I used cheat codes to beat it. But yeah, didnt know many kids who played it. There was a kid who took the same bus as me to school who did and the entire ride, we'd talk strategy, plot theories, tips and tricks, etc. It's definitely a game that has such a soft spot in my heart, as well as the Spyro trilogy
I have a school friend who I only ever hung out with to play this game coop ha. I'm pretty sure we never got any further than the 2nd area.
@@sharpdressedgoblin tbf, it seems like they put the most effort into the first area. I also share your love of heavy units. Their combos were slow enough for my child reflexes but also felt like they had weight behind them. Getting your minotaur behind an unsuspecting legionnaire and selecting combo 3 attack was so satisfying
this is the game where my dad got my real life name from (the Green Berserker named Kael)
Ha that's amazing
3:35 oh look, it's Balki. Man, I'm old.
Edit: Balki, not Palkie.
Gladius enjoyers should try Expeditions: Rome (2022)
Good turn based tactics without fantasy elements
Are you playing this on an emulator? It looks great - I'm playing through the PSN version on the PS3, and it doesn't look half as good as this.
Yeah through retroarch with a slight 2x upscale
@@sharpdressedgoblin Thanks.
Eh, I just bout it, 😂😂 thanks to your review, you are quite convincing 😊 thanks cutey ❤
Ha I'll take that as the highest form of compliment 😉. Hope you enjoy it.
i love this game
This is a game a choose to check out because i thought was going to play like rygar lol and ending up actually enjoying it 😂 and never beat it because as a youngin never put forth the effort smh 🤦...solid game tho
Definitely worth a replay as a adult... it's a brutal game for a kid ha
@@sharpdressedgoblin you can say that again !!! Sheesh!!! Lol
I'm pretty sure I only ever made it through the first area 😂
I personally have no problem with the skimpy Ursula outfit. Games where the characters are just walking suits of armor are lame.
I don't have a problem with it just think it's the most 2000s thing ever ha.
Every game is a hidden gem to someone ? 😂 .. gem?.. nah, play
Colosseum: Road to Freedom, Shadow Of Rome or X-Com Enemy Unknown ps1 instead this game looks dryyy..
This is the game that got my non-gamer ex-GF at the time into video games. It's grossly underrated.