Playing Evil Genius: Dawdling to Doomsday
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- Опубліковано 30 чер 2024
- Patreon: / tehsnakerer
This time, we're playing the waiting game, we're playing Evil Genius, there's some great visuals and base management along the way. Honestly, I think Evil Genius hasn't aged terribly well, I think it's charms are diluted by its gameplay and I hope this video explains well why I feel this way.
Evil Laugh provided by Tex of the Blackpants Legion: / blackpantslegion
Extra Evil Genius footage:
ARavingLoon: • Evil Genius - 1
Deadrocks: • Let's Play - Evil Geni...
Gaming Shenanigans: • Let's Play Evil Genius...
1: Introduction 00:00
2: Gameplay Introduction 05:11
3: First Exploit 07:22
4: Base Building Basics: 08:11
5: Heat on base 10:17
6: World Domination & Heat 13:55
7: Minion Types 17:45
8: Controlling the Base 19:49
9: Henchmen 26:08
10: Traps 28:41 (Yes, it took that long)
11: Enemies 30:53
12: Combat 34:13
13: Research 40:37
14: Gameplay Conclusion 43:27
15: Saving Money for the Move 46:42
16: 2nd Island 48:58
17: Road to Doomsday (story finale) 51:47
18: Conclusion 59:17 - Ігри
god I fucking love Evil Genius
Fair on the problems though, great video!
M-m-m-m-mandalore-chan, you are here too!
I feel like he is literally everywhere
Stalking other youtubers instead of making more funny reviews,get back to work no-wage slave! >_<
Always weirds me out seeing contributors I watch turn up in the comment section of another...like they broke the infinite vastness of the internet or something.
Hey Mandalore. I just wanted to say, good work on that Dark Messiah of M&M video. That made me finally install and play it, after it was collectig dust in my Steam Library for months. Thank you.
Hi Mandy.
Ironically it's very appropriate that you find your minion's AI to be completely stupid, because that really puts you in the role of said evil genius. Just constantly sitting back while calling all of his minions imbeciles for getting themselves killed.
'You have to kill the guy who isn't dimwitted'
That's probably a really clever call back to one of the most surreal scenes in James Bond. Blofeld draws a pistol and points it at Connery muttering 'This is the price of failure Mr. Bond!'
Then he shoots a RANDOM OTHER GUY DEAD
oh, that was you only live twice. pretty goofy but to be fair, he was gonna shoot bond next but someone came in and rescued him.
I'm remembering a much earlier example, when Blofeld had Kronsberg killed, sure Klebb definitely failed him but she was actually willing to own up to that mistake and tried to rectify that very same mistake, Kronsberg did not and in fact gave him a bunk answer ("Bond is no Match for Kronsberg")
Actually, I found out while playing that you can tag minions for termination, as in you can order another minion to kill their friend!
@@grandpathong If he shot Bond the first time, he would have had enough time.
Probably ricocheted off Bond's sequel armor.
"Most of their acts can be described as petty."
Me: Oh that sounds great.
"Dumping a bunch of tea in India to ruin some S.A.B.E.R. agents' days"
Me: Haha that's funny.
"Setting fire to Australia"
Me: Oh... oh no...
Game Missions that did not age well.
@@TheAdarkerglow eh we burn ever year
this year was bad though
Isn't Australia always on fire? With bush fires and the like ?
Hindsight is 2020.
Blowing up Nashville
...
"It's all light-hearted fun"
There's a really big thing about traps that I don't believe the game ever says: Hitting agents with trap combos (ie. a wind trap that blows someone into a gas trap) will actually earn you money and is a very good secondary income source if you can ensure the agents getting caught don't escape to give you more heat.
Even with all the problems you mentioned I'm convinced, I actually wanna pick this game up. After playing Rimworld and Dwarf Fortress I'm so used to my workers not listening to me that it won't even be a problem for me.
once you've experienced a dorf tantrum spiral, everything else is child's play
A little late, but it's an amazing game and I think it's well worth a play. I hope you ended up checking it out.
Its also on sale right now
@@MisterYura i dunno man have you tried Randy Random
Two years later, I shall speak in defense of Rimworld. Having played it, I can say it a lot less frustrating to get your units to do what you want. You can make units prioritize work, they do set tasks with a sense of urgency, and you can draft them for combat, giving you direct control of the units.
You should’ve had captured John Steele in a holding cell when you pressed the button. You could’ve had him launched with the rocket 🚀
I'm trying to decide if that's self-loathing advice...
That I.D. Eliminator would be a superweapon even if it disintegrated everyone on Earth's driver's license.
"I kinda don't know what Dirk Masters does - he turned up once, I kicked the shit out of him and he left. And I kind of respect him for it?"
The dude shoots everything in sight, and tries to blow up the power plant and other stuff with bombs. While not harmless, a good camera setup will dramatically decrease his threat level.
@@Chris5685 And his design is based on Rambo and other action heroes who have bare chests and big machine guns. Shoot everything on sight.
I remember playing this game and being able to kill off all the hero characters except that one fucking James Bond Cosplayer that kept coming back and escaping whenever I captured him. I ended up making a huge corridor full of traps with a cage at the end where every time he escaped he'd go down before he reached the end. He eventually ended up escaping faster than I could rebuild the traps and found the room where I kept all the Russian Rocket Launcher henchmen locked away so they wouldn't destroy the entire base trying to kill an escaping maid. Needless to say, the 20+(?) super soldiers unleashed a nuke on him and pretty much fucked up huge parts of the base. Good times.
Yo "the Real-Time Strategy equivalent of owning a cat" what a statement sick game though
I used a relatively normal and I do mean completely REASONABLE laugh and maybe hammed it up just a LITTLE BIT and its perfect for evil genius work. Who'd have thought. Also I'm not a real evil genius.
I mean with that laugh, I'd be convinced otherwise. How do we know you're *not* an evil genius?
because I'm not wealthy , and I don't own a fluffy white cat
First on mandalore gaming now here, now i have to check your channel out
The one week I haven't been watching you and Dep create a "theme park" or you running cargo and you still end up in a video I'm watching. Can't wait for the next vid man. Hail Cargonia
The only thing i wanted when i played this game was SHARKS WITH FRICKING LASER BEAMS
*ahem* "Dr Frammistovu, sharks are on a endangered species list, we tried to get some, but it would have taken months to clear up the red tape."
There are sharks and lasers in evil geius 2
Best we can do is ill-tempered, mutated sea bass
"That's a start, you know."
14:36 you son-of-a... I've been binge watching your videos non-stop for weeks now (I love to have them as background while I work), and everytime I am starting to realize more and more the lil puns you have filled your videos with. They are so good and smooth many elude me the first time around.
"setting fire to australia"
Visionary.
37:17 As someone that got Red Ivan I felt this deep in my liver.
Your presentation reminds me of Ross Scott's Game Dungeon series and I live for it.
Same but Ross is more funny, this guy goes into it deeper usually tho
@@siralexander3359 I agree, but its mostly because of their voices. Ross' voice can easily humor people, but Snake has the classic British wit
That's exactly it, I could never put my finger on it
This channel feels like the midpoint between Ross and Mandalore
YESSS ACCURSED FARMS!!
My problem with this game is that its too easily solved. It quickly becomes obvious what you should be doing next, but it takes a long tome to actually getting it accomplished. Makes it feel like a chore rather than a challange.
Pulling an all-nighter and think this'll give me good slacking material. Thanks, chief.
Cool, take it easy
Wait, minions have a tendency to run out into the open to retrieve the possessions of their comrades during active combat scenarios? Turns out this game predated the Dwarven obsession with socks by a good few years.
Also how much do I need to pay you to do a review of Dwarf Fortress?
Even as someone who regularly reinstalls Evil Genius I feel that the criticism is valid.
It can get really REALLY tedious to wait out some of the objectives and the randomization of certain gameplay elements(like whether science minions actually decide to tag something for research or not)can slow down the game to something that feels like a fullstop.
Something I do wonder is whether adding an RTS element to the acts of infamy(similar to what Dungeons 2 did)could break that up a bit or would that go too far in the other direction?
Im glad i got a patch that adds some fixes and optional additions
Also, on the second island, I pause, blueprint the entire island, making sure to do the entrance traps, the strongroom, and the power room first. Once I have it all blueprinted, I unpause and let the minions go to work.
Jet Chan was the perfect combination of showed up early enough (being the 2nd super agent) but being so stupidly lethal. Dirk would CHAINSAW your minions, absolutely massacring them. But by that point in the game you were usually ready to take on another murder machine having faced Jet Chan for like 80% of the game.
Jeez that "Setting fire to Australia" thing hasn't aged well.
i had the same thought
Oh so THAT'S who set fire to Australia.
That explains it...
57:38 - That evil laugh tho. xD
Was just watching a bunch of your old stuff because I was trying to find any vids that I hadn't seen yet, and here you are with a brand new video.
Love your stuff man, I love your types of videos and I just keep coming back to re-watch a lot of your videos.
Keep it up!
Thanks a ton
This content never fails to entertain me
I still love this game, despite all of its problems
Oh, this was my favourite game as a child, and pretty much solidified for me that being the bad guy is always much more fun than being a goody two shoes.
see im the type of person who get bored of movies pretty quick and cant finish them but i find watching these long videos nice, chill, and relaxing i hope to see a lot more in the future welp on to the next auto play video
Same.
One of my all-time favourite games, despite a lot of flaws. Every time i play i realize how much waiting around there is, but what relly leaves an impression are the style, the charm and those moments where stuff works just perfectly nd you trap some poor enemy agents in an endless loop of traps until they die or go completely mad. I do admit i play with mods - especially increased minion numbers - but there's also an extremely easy way to design your own mods just by editing text files in the games, and it's MAJESTIC. Wanna have a super-agent as a henchman? You cn make it happen. Wanna create a brand new henchman who looks like one of the evil geniuses, but armed with a flamethrower and powers taken from existing henchmen? Be my guest. Want an army of bodyguards hanging around your evil genius? Nothing's stopping you. And all of this can be accomplished just by editing tet files. It's a tinkerer's dream come true.
I know this video is four years old and this comment unlikely to be seen by anyone, even myself after I send it, but I don't care.
At the beginning, when talking about how you were abusing the maid to make extra cash and it was fine for a "time sink" instead of outright cheating. This reminds me of Oblivion in the tutorial cave if you wait for an hour or two the goblins will run out of their programmed pathing and just stand still. You can wiggle yourself against a wall very close to one of them and max out sneak before the Emperor is even assassinated. Good times. And great videos!
I'm glad I found your channel. Been binging your content. I love that you let us know your personal thoughts but also give an objective review as well. Its also cool that you play so many obscure games.
Don't know why I watched this sooner. A very well composed review. Good work on completing this riddle of a game.
That ending cinematic makes me wonder, are people on the opposite side of the world suddenly feeling the effects of 2+ G pulling down on them?
Actually, it would be 12G, seeing as it counteracts the gravity of the planet as well as pulling people upwards. That's a lot of G.
It would need to be more than 2 G. If the doomsday device was only generating one G of force, then people would just be floating without going "up".
They would probably shit their spines...
Had this game been something like XCOM with separate base management and RTS scenarios it might've aged a lot better.
Your evil laugh at the end made it aaaaall worthwhile.
Enjoyed the video a ton, once again! :)
Minion is such a fun word, then fucking Dispicable Me had to go and ruin it.
Pls never stop making videos, your work is well thought out and fun to watch. And nostalgic!
Thank you kindly, I hope to have a new video out in next day or so
Tehsnakerer good puns btw
A very enjoyable video, the game looks damn interesting! Will probably get and try out its sequel!
I've never been a fan of strategy games, but I'm sure I'll pick up the sequel if it retains the same goofy style.
I'm really glad to be a Patron of yours, too, Snakerer. Thanks for the entertaining as fuck review as always.
Glad you enjoyed it
The sequel comes out in 6 months
Great presentation on the game and the intro was great as well. Well now there is a sequel on the way for this year so I am excited.
my all time favorite thank you for reviewing it
Thank you for playing this through to the end because I never would have stuck it out despite liking this game.
No problem
I love this channel it calms me down whenever something important comes up like my driving test tomorrow and I like how in depth he goes into games definitely deserves more subscribers
hope u passed & enjoy driving!
@@picahudsoniaunflocked5426 I did forgot I even made this comment
@@lollmao404 Very based, how's it going buddy?
52:41 plot-twist: Option A transforms the base in 3D Realms HQ.
The laugh you gave out at the end makes it all worthwhile.
I tend to put the whole base on Yellow Alert, turn off the annoying alarm, and everyone but the social and scientist minions arm up and shoot from a distance. The workers get pistols, the guards get machine guns, the mercenaries get bigger machine guns, and the marksmen are always armed. It evens things up nicely.
You have quickly become my favorite UA-camr
Here I am awaiting for your review of the sequel.
Gonna be honest, it's very unlikely there'll ever be one as I didn't find it very interesting.
@@Tehsnakerer I guess the sequel is doomed to dawdle.
The only thing I remember as a kid from this game was wishing it were more fun. But then again, I struggled figuring out how to even play the damn game.I still have all the disks, maybe it is time I finally give it a real go. Or maybe I'll just wait for the second game and see if it is any good.
Also holy crap I loved Republic The Revolution and never put it together that they were made by the same people. Journey to Pugachev is still one of my favorite video game scores of all time.
I sometimes wonder if anyone else ever played it. Same goes for Ghost Master. :P
I am at least happy the sequel will have 4 evil geniuses, 3 islands to pick and you get to stay at one the whole playthrough, a tutorial, an actual sandbox mode, and using the doomsday weapon more than once. And not to mention a 5th evil genius and an extra island for dlc. We will have to wait and see what else they fixed, but I cant wait.
I remember this game is great fun at first, but becomes very punishing as you progress through the story missions.
Want to have some evil fun? Enjoy spec ops landing on your island 24/7 to fuck your shit up.
Nice knowing a sequel is coming
Oh yes. One of my favorites. I first heard about the game from the local PC gaming magazine (yes, printed media) in 2003, and stumbled upon a copy of it in a supermarket a bit later.
I think you'd really enjoy Mastermind World Conquer of NewGrounds. Basically this but quicker and less boredom in between. Plus you can flip off the earth at the end.
You're always too hard on yourself- built in gameplay mechanics aren't exploits/cheating if they just happen to be OP. It's extremely hard to make everything well balanced in games- but it's much better to give the players OP options than to get screwed by an OP game in unfair ways. But great video btw
his laugh toward the end is fantastic
instant like
I still love this game. Use to play it so much as a kid
I loved this game. But never finished due to game breaking glitches that pissed me off and bored me to a point where I'd uninstall it and only try again years later, just to have the same experience.
It's nice seeing a video on it. And I'm actually excited for the sequel
I am still laughing at how Ivan was described. And I am laughing more due to now him being an evil genius in the sequel. Lets hope there is less collateral damage when you bring him in.
Watched this video months ago, a really unique game. I'm sure many are hoping that you'll review the sequel too, myself included.
this game kinda reminds me of the Dungeons games, would love to see your take on these (particularly the first game, which is kinda janky but had interesting ideas the latter games kinda gave up on)
welp second ones out time to rewatch this masterpieces
Seeing a Gaming Shenanigans footage makes me feel so nostalgic of the old Greyhunter ;-; I miss him
Setting fire to Australia? Oh dear...
I still and always will love this game. I know it's niche, and an odd mix of gameplay styles, and not for everybody, but I have years of pleasant experiences with Evil Genius and fond memories therein, and I only have praise for it. I understand it's a flawed game, but I can easily ignore or look past them.
I was probably the only fan of the game in the world unaware that the rumors of a sequel had turned to confirmations, so at E3 I was EXTREMELY surprised and pleased to get a reveal.
"The gravity of the situation"
Ha! I just got that! Only took me.... 5 viewings... huh...
Still funny
The fact you got FUCKING TEX to do your evil laugh is great. Hail Cargonia!
Oh boy don't even remind me about the limp mobile title, I did a stint in QA at Rebellion and there was like two dudes sitting behind me working on it and I accidentally mated a dev kit power supply to a consumer model console, probably an Xbox and the smoke came out. That and complaining about grenades producing too many particles and uncovering ugly flaws in navmeshes on stairs in Nazi zombie army 2 about a fortnight before release. I think they've moved into a way larger office and are doing some movie stuff (rogue trooper??) now, the CEO likes to trot around the country on horseback in plate armour for some reason.
That got more and more wild as it went and I like the sound of that guy
aaaa I can't wait for the sequel
That burning Australia jokes aged like fine wine
How is this the first time I've heard about a sequel?!?!!
Hey man, I don't know if you've said it elsewhere but what are some of your favorite games? Love the content as usual keep up the great work :)
I think I said in a recent update video but no mind. Some of them are Metal Gear Solid 3 (followed by 2), M&B:Warband, Earth Defense Force 4.1: Shadow of New Despair, Persona 4, Vanquish, Yakuza 0 (followed by 4), and Fistful of Frags
is that y the aus is burning
59:07 is it just me or is that UN room humongous? how many countries are in this alternative universe? over a thousand?.
Hey, I know that was ages ago, but in the Gangland review, you mentioned the studio did a "sequel" or sorts, that you could never find a proper copy that ran.
Well, I uh, found another copy myself.
imgur.com/a/5lST8
Not sure if this fucker could run, and if it did, I have this feeling it would be completely on Spanish, but... yeah not sure if its worth a shot, hence this comment. Your call.
In an unrelated note, the box's artwork is actually quite decent.
I have a disked copy I just tried on the new computer, once again no luck. I'm unsure if it would be, hell, it'd maybe have an english option in there.
Thats the problem with these old games, one change in any future OS and it goes to shit. Have you tried an emulator at least? That could do the trick.
Honestly putting it in a VM has been in the back of my mind for a while. I suggested the game to Mandalore since he seems way more knowledgeable about getting games to work, I still wanna cover it myself so I really ought to attempt it.
Get ready for a "Playing: Evil Genius 2" because there is one being made!
16:53 “And blowing up Nashville”
Man, that line aged like milk lol.
As janky as this game is, I love it to absolute death.
This game was a lot more interesting to play, than to complete.
Can't wait for an Evil Genius 2 playthrough. It has some big flaws but I still had a lot of fun with it
This looks like a really fun game.
I thought I recognized that laugh.
47:37 i was listening to this part and thought it was the bill of rights, not an actual giant dollar bill
They are making a new one.
I love this game. It's sequel is good as well, but is basically just the same thing again and it's flaws feel so much less excusable so many years later.
I remember playing a game like this called "mastermind" on miniclip or armor games
Newgrounds
Been really enjoying your videos, glad your recent HDTF video showed in my sidebar.
Huh, Marcus Lindblom was listed as Producer in the credits, I wonder if that's the same Marcus Lindblom who translated Super Nintendo games in the 90s?
Wow it is, huh.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Lindblom
16:53
Yea about that
I love this game, then again i've been wanting to do this in real life at some point... i have enough scars on my face to be a Bond Villain, after all...
Please dont become an evil genius. An evil genius taking over the world would give my life a grim dark end.
haha i still have a copy of that game.
man nostalgia hits hard here
I can’t believe three years ago he predicted Australia getting lit on fire and someone blowing up Nashville
Blowing up Nashville and setting fire to Australia? Is this the year 2020 simulator?
did you know that holding control then clicking on the tag you want makes everyone in the group (only works per spawn group per faction) have that tag? so you don't have to tag them indivualy? also I"ma do a max heat run now. just gonna spilt off from my new calm one. it is early game so i can do that
1:52 hey its that guy who rides around on horses and shit
Setting fire to Australia MonkaS
Evil genius 2 got announced
You remind me a lot of GGGmanlives. Do you take inspiration from each other or is it just happenstance?
I watch him on occasion, but no, I don't consider him an influence
His save-scumming agenda makes him quite annoying. Complains every time when a game has checkpoints or anything like it.
Agents love high security doors