Wow this is some of your best work. Would definitely love to see some of the alternate paths too since there's still so much that can shift around that I doubt I'll see it all playing myself.
The design on this game, is just sickening perfect. I never played it back in 1997. I saw the review in Zone, but I was all about the FPS back then. Truth be told, I was too young to have understood the genius of Blade Runner back then too. Wasn't till I was in my 20's and reading PKD novels that I revisted the film and realized how insane it was. I have to play this some day.
This game has aged better than most. I played it for the first time last month and was floored by the breathtaking atmosphere and the exceptionally on point dialogues and voice acting. Also the fact the replicants are randomized each time you start a new game and there's many different endings make it worth replaying it more than a couple times.
Man, who would have thought giving artificial humans self awareness, the ability to think and feel, and then using them as slave labor would ever have any negative repercussions?
Just got this on GOG, after wanting it for years. I played it on my PC back in 97, and I never forgot the magic. Always wondered why no one re-mastered it or re-released it up through the years. After seeing the film again a few weeks ago, I started to google the game, and found it had been re-released on GOG. I immediately bought it, and I have played it again and again since. You are really spot on with your comments - This game is truly one of the best games of it's genre ever to be released on PC. Cool video!
I'm so happy this game is getting attention again. I remember being a young teenager when I played this, and how amazing it was and how faithful it was to the movie (Which I'm a huge fan of because I'm a dork) My best memories are from getting lost in that world, it was so immersive. This was the first game to completely blow my mind. Truly a masterpiece!
Your content is on par with mandalore and ross scott. I really hope I see more, although I understand how impossible the workload is on projects like this. I'm sharing this everywhere.
Dude, welcome back. I actually found your channel in the middle of your 'break' and was sad you stopped uploading. This video must've taken forever to make dude, props to you. I would love a video with all of the alternate endings with clips of what was done differently.
Glad to see you back again! The last time I looked at your vids, you were worrying about your job interviews. Hope you have a great job now, and more vids please!
My mom got me this one year after I bought a Gateway computer back in the day after winning a football pool. I had never played a point and click game until then and I have never played one better.
Thank you for posting! I love your videos and was afraid I would never get a new one. And over an hour of content. This is why I love your channel. Keep it up if you can :)
You know, I really like what I see of this game.... right up until the end. The whole business with you getting called in and questions of whether or not you're really a human just feels so completely rushed and baseless. Like, let's assume you're not a replicant. So you're being Burn Notice'd, but they try to make _you_ question if you're a replicant or not? Why grab your dog and send a person to your apartment with a gun to pretend that it's not your apartment? Why make such a big production of it? These aren't rhetorical questions, I'm serious. Think about it. Who is upset with us to the point of wanting us rubbed out, and why is _this_ the way they're doing it instead of just blaming us for killing a gun runner and having us die "resisting arrest"? Who's even responsible for this? Our boss, Guzo or however you spell his name? What did we do to him? The replicants? When you've been helping them? To say nothing of how it would require more resources than I can stretch my suspension of belief to accept. And then consider the alternative, assume we are a replicant. Why? Why make a replicant and assign them to the replicant hunter job? Are there not enough humans willing to do it? Isn't the whole point of replicants to do jobs no one else wants like cleaning up the massive ruins around the city and working on inhospitable planets? And it's not just that they made a replicant to be a rep detective. If the memories of previous visits to "our" apartment are fake, if we never actually did that, then most of the game never happened, is just implanted memories. So why make a replicant, let him loose, only to immediately put him in a situation where he questions if he's a replicant? Why, for what purpose? Wouldn't our former coworkers notice something? It just doesn't add up. So yeah. No matter which way you look at it, it doesn't make any sense. The only thing it actually could accomplish is to confuse the player, make the player question if the character is a replicant. And to me that's really frustrating, because it's being done in a manner that just doesn't work, it's sacrificing the believably of the world and other characters to do so. I'm not saying the story can't have the protagonist turn out to be a replicant or make it ambiguous, but the way this game does it is not done well.
The planned sequel for this game was going to be an adpatation of Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita set in the Bladerunner Universe, but the rising costs of licensing as well as limited market for adventure games ensured that it never got made. Lucy Devlin as a replicant is far more interesting than her being a human, I really like the idea of a company making products which conflict with local morals, ethics and laws, but don't in regions ouside of the one they are manufactured in. Sure that's what Reps are, but reps are more like synthetic manpower, Lucy seems more like a luxury. I hope you finally get some views off of this video.
@@RKIC Bladerunner's companies are making products for external markets while illegal in their market, in the book too. You are 100% right. I mean, the book makes obvious it's a stigma to have sex with a replicant, but they are built also with that purpose. It's something probably inspired from the american slave period...
@@1r0zz It's been a while since I read the book, but I think the stigma has for a Blade Runner to have sex with a replicant, which... yeah it's definitely not a good look. I am however interested about your source for this sequel based on Lolita. Is there an interview about it that you can point at? Thanks in advance!
@@stroggoff It's the other guy who talked about the sequel. The stigma is implied for everyone, but the discussion for the agents (the name blade runner was just something that sounded cool for the movie and a unrelated sci fi novel) is brought up by the creepy agent met in the story. But as all P.K. Dick narrative the morality is very blurred and vague... It's even hard to define if androids have empathy or not (human does not have it tho...)
Man, the more stuff I see on your channel, the more I like it! Glad I found your channel recently, haha. This was brilliant; of course, it helps that the game itself is brilliant, but I've seen reviews of it before but no one walked through it like you do - this actually felt like playing through it somehow. Real, _real,_ good stuff here!
I just posted the video to r/gaming and emailed it to Sin Vega at RockPaperShotgun, hopefully we can get some more views on this, I think you deserve it.
they took a ton of stuff from the books and put them in the movie universe, but some stuff is kinda lost in the translation. Especially the "fake police" episode. One thing I liked is that human and replicant are the "same", but in a positive note instead of the one in the book. In the book it's kinda revealed that replicants do not really have much empathy, but humans does not have it too.
I have to say, Blade Runner the PC game is very boring. Don't get me wrong, I love point and click games no matter how slow paced, but there are barely any puzzles apart from the iSpy segments. Just a lot of walking around and pixel hunting.
Wow this is some of your best work. Would definitely love to see some of the alternate paths too since there's still so much that can shift around that I doubt I'll see it all playing myself.
Funny to see you comment here as i found this video while looking for yours, just finished it, open this vid and see you in the comments.
The design on this game, is just sickening perfect. I never played it back in 1997. I saw the review in Zone, but I was all about the FPS back then. Truth be told, I was too young to have understood the genius of Blade Runner back then too. Wasn't till I was in my 20's and reading PKD novels that I revisted the film and realized how insane it was.
I have to play this some day.
This game has aged better than most. I played it for the first time last month and was floored by the breathtaking atmosphere and the exceptionally on point dialogues and voice acting. Also the fact the replicants are randomized each time you start a new game and there's many different endings make it worth replaying it more than a couple times.
Man, who would have thought giving artificial humans self awareness, the ability to think and feel, and then using them as slave labor would ever have any negative repercussions?
The marionettes are pulling their own strings
"Is Ray a replicant?"
The point of the book, the movie, and the game I think, is that the answer is "It doesn't matter."
Rick was a human in the book.
Mercer knows
The art in these older games looks so much better than just about anything made now.
Just got this on GOG, after wanting it for years. I played it on my PC back in 97, and I never forgot the magic. Always wondered why no one re-mastered it or re-released it up through the years. After seeing the film again a few weeks ago, I started to google the game, and found it had been re-released on GOG. I immediately bought it, and I have played it again and again since. You are really spot on with your comments - This game is truly one of the best games of it's genre ever to be released on PC. Cool video!
"i thought replicants were safe" -A Blade Runner
I'm so happy this game is getting attention again. I remember being a young teenager when I played this, and how amazing it was and how faithful it was to the movie (Which I'm a huge fan of because I'm a dork) My best memories are from getting lost in that world, it was so immersive. This was the first game to completely blow my mind. Truly a masterpiece!
Your content is on par with mandalore and ross scott. I really hope I see more, although I understand how impossible the workload is on projects like this. I'm sharing this everywhere.
Dude, welcome back. I actually found your channel in the middle of your 'break' and was sad you stopped uploading. This video must've taken forever to make dude, props to you. I would love a video with all of the alternate endings with clips of what was done differently.
Such a good video man, I still come back to and enjoy it. Hope you’re doing good!
Man, thank you so much for staying and making vida. I was kinda sad when you mentioned retiring but thank god you're back
Glad to see you back again! The last time I looked at your vids, you were worrying about your job interviews. Hope you have a great job now, and more vids please!
This game looks like an actual masterpiece!
Great video Human, loved every minute of it.
The king has returned.
My mom got me this one year after I bought a Gateway computer back in the day after winning a football pool. I had never played a point and click game until then and I have never played one better.
I’m glad I finally get to see another video from you. You’re content is great and I’ve binged it over and over.
As soon as those blade Runner blues started playing around a minute in, wew boy. The Blade Runner sound track is so good
so glad to see u post i love the movies but didn't even know this game existed thank u for enlightening me
I’m glad that you are back!
I really wanna play this glad they ported it to Switch (:
Loving the video, been anticipating the upload since you talked about it on Twitter!
Thank you for posting! I love your videos and was afraid I would never get a new one. And over an hour of content. This is why I love your channel. Keep it up if you can :)
You know, I really like what I see of this game.... right up until the end. The whole business with you getting called in and questions of whether or not you're really a human just feels so completely rushed and baseless. Like, let's assume you're not a replicant. So you're being Burn Notice'd, but they try to make _you_ question if you're a replicant or not? Why grab your dog and send a person to your apartment with a gun to pretend that it's not your apartment? Why make such a big production of it? These aren't rhetorical questions, I'm serious. Think about it. Who is upset with us to the point of wanting us rubbed out, and why is _this_ the way they're doing it instead of just blaming us for killing a gun runner and having us die "resisting arrest"? Who's even responsible for this? Our boss, Guzo or however you spell his name? What did we do to him? The replicants? When you've been helping them? To say nothing of how it would require more resources than I can stretch my suspension of belief to accept.
And then consider the alternative, assume we are a replicant. Why? Why make a replicant and assign them to the replicant hunter job? Are there not enough humans willing to do it? Isn't the whole point of replicants to do jobs no one else wants like cleaning up the massive ruins around the city and working on inhospitable planets? And it's not just that they made a replicant to be a rep detective. If the memories of previous visits to "our" apartment are fake, if we never actually did that, then most of the game never happened, is just implanted memories. So why make a replicant, let him loose, only to immediately put him in a situation where he questions if he's a replicant? Why, for what purpose? Wouldn't our former coworkers notice something? It just doesn't add up.
So yeah. No matter which way you look at it, it doesn't make any sense. The only thing it actually could accomplish is to confuse the player, make the player question if the character is a replicant. And to me that's really frustrating, because it's being done in a manner that just doesn't work, it's sacrificing the believably of the world and other characters to do so. I'm not saying the story can't have the protagonist turn out to be a replicant or make it ambiguous, but the way this game does it is not done well.
The planned sequel for this game was going to be an adpatation of Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita set in the Bladerunner Universe, but the rising costs of licensing as well as limited market for adventure games ensured that it never got made.
Lucy Devlin as a replicant is far more interesting than her being a human, I really like the idea of a company making products which conflict with local morals, ethics and laws, but don't in regions ouside of the one they are manufactured in. Sure that's what Reps are, but reps are more like synthetic manpower, Lucy seems more like a luxury.
I hope you finally get some views off of this video.
If I am not wrong the book do define that replicants are also "used" for sex...
@@RKIC
Very much realistic... Artificially build "sexdroids" would follow any fetish out there...
And teen/adults relationships exist ...
@@RKIC
Bladerunner's companies are making products for external markets while illegal in their market, in the book too.
You are 100% right.
I mean, the book makes obvious it's a stigma to have sex with a replicant, but they are built also with that purpose.
It's something probably inspired from the american slave period...
@@1r0zz It's been a while since I read the book, but I think the stigma has for a Blade Runner to have sex with a replicant, which... yeah it's definitely not a good look.
I am however interested about your source for this sequel based on Lolita. Is there an interview about it that you can point at? Thanks in advance!
@@stroggoff
It's the other guy who talked about the sequel.
The stigma is implied for everyone, but the discussion for the agents (the name blade runner was just something that sounded cool for the movie and a unrelated sci fi novel) is brought up by the creepy agent met in the story.
But as all P.K. Dick narrative the morality is very blurred and vague... It's even hard to define if androids have empathy or not (human does not have it tho...)
thank you for making these
So glad to see a new video! Keep em coming!
Thank God this man has returned to us
Man, the more stuff I see on your channel, the more I like it! Glad I found your channel recently, haha. This was brilliant; of course, it helps that the game itself is brilliant, but I've seen reviews of it before but no one walked through it like you do - this actually felt like playing through it somehow. Real, _real,_ good stuff here!
the king has returned!
I just posted the video to r/gaming and emailed it to Sin Vega at RockPaperShotgun, hopefully we can get some more views on this, I think you deserve it.
Ah, a blade runner review...
Time to walk up the path while people throw me stones...
There's an interview of the creator and they explain how they got the game to look so good..
Great content, watched several of your videos already, keep it up!
how did this fly under my radar? glad to see new content
Wow Wow Wow he's back
Holy shit I though you were dead! Welcome back!
YEAAAAA DUDE THANK YOU
like honestly, I had watched Ross' dungeon video on this game and i was dying to see more, this was literally something I've searched for before :3
He was the real McCoy
Oh, shit! You're at it again! Found your already dead, didn't even dream of the resurrection. Don't go, please.
The cheese thief is called Gordo? What is his last name? Zilla?
Wow they were not wrong about what Los Angeles would like by 2019
Wow!!!!!!!!
It's just a kiss on the cheek, mate.
ALIVE, ALIVE
they took a ton of stuff from the books and put them in the movie universe, but some stuff is kinda lost in the translation.
Especially the "fake police" episode.
One thing I liked is that human and replicant are the "same", but in a positive note instead of the one in the book.
In the book it's kinda revealed that replicants do not really have much empathy, but humans does not have it too.
The remake for modern sensibilities when?
If Lucy is human, she is 14ish. If she is a rep, she is at least 3½
Dope game. I hated it as a kid cuse I would get lost . Just like kings quest series 😔
Early Q and Gordo are two different characters. Theyre just wearing an item with the same shade of red as eachother.
So yeh.. cmon man
I have to say, Blade Runner the PC game is very boring. Don't get me wrong, I love point and click games no matter how slow paced, but there are barely any puzzles apart from the iSpy segments. Just a lot of walking around and pixel hunting.
2049 was such a piece of shit. This game is the only true sequel to the movie imo.
I think crash bandicoot is just not that great of a game, I dont care what this reviewer says.
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