Divinity 2. That game is glitchy, has lots of issues, but it doesn't take itself super-serious, yet still shows cosmic level ambitions. Yes, Larian managed to get better and make truly great games like Divinity Original Sin and Baldur's Gate 3, but Divinity 2 was the place where their ambition was over the top while their capabilities were still lacking.
Came here from the reddit post. Nice overview of the game. While I enjoy it, I will say one of it's biggest problems is that it's connected too closely to Reloaded. If you're not familiar with the movie, the story can seem really random at times. Not a huge issue for fans of the series, but I can definitely see how it would affect someones enjoyment of the game.
@@ESKATEUK same here man. Path of Neo was on a whole other level at the time. The burly brawl and all the extra stuff like that ant level or the black & white samurai training? Get outta here
Never played it, but a friend and I watched all the cutscenes as part of a Matrix marathon. That was worth it just for the line, "The link is as vestal as my bunghole."
Way back when my family only had 1 tv, 2 movies that would work with the PS2, and 2 two eventually one PS2 game. The latter one is Enter the Matrix. This game is a core memory for me
I remember my friend and I loving this game. I remember us playing it all night that summer while drinking Matrix themed powerade. Good times. Haven't played it in 20 years though.
@@thegamewiz64 That was 20 years ago so I don't remember. It might have just been regular powerade in a themed bottle. It comes up if you google Matrix Powerade.
I don't mind seeing this game get a overhaul remaster, improve the gameplay controls, gameplay AI, graphics and a better engine. something like by Nightdive or someone else.
It's like, get rid of the whole driving sections, refine the animations and combat and you'll get a 100times better game! I really had fun with this back in the days as a kid before the whole matrix became a redpill meme, when it was just cool action mixed with eastern philosophy. But the driving sections were just really bad not matter if you're the driver and god forbid you are at the guns cause the AI doesn't know how to drive. I kinda liked the combat and some finishing moves we're great to watch. Sometimes it was a little bit clunky and not super refined but I really enjoyed the whole experience but once you get to the driving part, it falls apart...
Couldn’t stand Niobe’s driving sections. I kinda like the combat too, there was real martial arts mocap in there and like you said they just needed to refine everything. It is really tragic how the matrix became a little bastardized on social media with the redpill memes. Never gonna forget when Lily Wachowski cursed at Elon and Ivanka on twitter for claiming to have “taken the red pill” - good times.
It's kinda odd that as a kid, I actually waited for this game's release. My biggest complaint about it were square wheels in PC version and the fact that game was too friggin' short.
Square wheels? Lmao that’s amazing I didn’t know that. It is way too short especially to fully make sense of the story - roughly 4 hours per character. I needed to replay it and rewatch reloaded to get what we were really doing in the game timeline wise. They could’ve even replaced some sections with more film cutscenes and that’d be fine lol
Just beat the game for the first time ever today (had it back in the day, but got stuck on one of the Airport sublevels) so finding this video is kinda' fortuitous. EtM is awful, even by 2003 standards. I never felt like I knew what I was doing with the kung-fu, and the gunplay always ended up being "hold focus, lock-on and fire buttons at the same time," but I love the added lore to the trilogy. As for other janky games, I gotta shout out Drakengard 1. It's a mediocre Musou clone, and its translation neutered a lot of the original content, but I loved it at release, and I love it now, and more importantly, without Drakengard, there is no Nier.
While this game does TECHNICALLY suck, enabling infinite health, ammo, and focus and endlessly fighting the Agent in that room on the rooftop level and the secret vs. mode made up a larger portion than my childhood than most actual good games. It's really too bad that couch co-op isn't really a thing any more, because now that I think about it, the ghetto ass multiplayer for Tenchu: Wrath of Heaven, the Return of The King game, and War of The Monsters, none of which are really THAT spectacular compared to the rest of the PS2 lineup, probably account for a solid 50% of my weekends from 2000-2005.
@@MeatSnax cheat codes were the best in this era. Game shark, action replay or even those scholastic book fair cheat code encyclopedias 😍 I agree with couch co-op. Tried out Serious Sam 4 on ps5 and was absolutely baffled that it’s not couch co-op anymore. It’s like devs forgot we enjoy sharing experiences in person lol
If I remember correctly, I had to use invincibility and infinite ammo codes just to get through it, but it was enjoyable playing in and around The Matrix Reloaded, nonetheless.
Back when the game came out same here! It was downright unbeatable as a kid. Who am I kidding, most games were better with cheats. How did they expect any of us to really get through them?
@@thegamewiz64 Well, I was raised on Nintendo tough games, so that wasn't the problem. More so respawing enemies and falling to my death. And sometimes jumping to the next level wouldn't happen. I'd just be stuck there. I guess that would be a soft lock. Happened pretty often in my copy. Luckily, the game did encourage cheating.
@@atothed84 really?? The next level just not starting is as bananas as it is hilarious. And yeah I can’t stress enough how absurd those falls are 😂. You gotta love it
@@atothed84 no kidding. I was playing on Xbox when those soldiers just started levitating after death but couldn’t replicate it. It’d be fun to see if we ever have more console exclusive glitches or just glitches in general of these magnitudes.
If you mean what type of game, just your most cherished clunky game. I used to say I played everything but there are so many games it’s impossible to play em all. Still working out how I’m going to implement suggestions officially but I’m taking note of janky games people love for future reference :)
I'm not trying to be a bellend, but why is the intro so long? 😂 Fun video, all the same. Just a little under 10% of your video is your intro, I guess is my deal. That and I'm just biased against intros in general, I guess.
Thank you for watching and I’m glad you had fun with the video. There’s no easy answer. This was a proof of concept video and I wanted to lay out the shows premise and give things time to breathe seeing as it’s our first time doing something on UA-cam requiring this much time and effort. We’re working on improving with every subsequent project - and the intro for the next video is much shorter if that means anything to you. I welcome you to stick around for the next one :)
@@thegamewiz64 That's an incredibly well thought-out answer, thank you very much. I wish you many easy epiphanies in learning, and much success in the future, I'll come back to see how you keep doing :D
What’s a janky game that you adore?
Battlefield 4
Fighting vipers
Divinity 2. That game is glitchy, has lots of issues, but it doesn't take itself super-serious, yet still shows cosmic level ambitions. Yes, Larian managed to get better and make truly great games like Divinity Original Sin and Baldur's Gate 3, but Divinity 2 was the place where their ambition was over the top while their capabilities were still lacking.
@OmegaEnvych I’ve heard a lot about Divinity 2 but actually never played it! Might have to go check it out.
@tommoore9265 Crazy to hear about sonic and tails being in fighting vipers after all this time!
Came here from the reddit post. Nice overview of the game. While I enjoy it, I will say one of it's biggest problems is that it's connected too closely to Reloaded. If you're not familiar with the movie, the story can seem really random at times. Not a huge issue for fans of the series, but I can definitely see how it would affect someones enjoyment of the game.
Thank you very much! Solid take - you are kinda just thrown in the middle of it all.
This is my childhood game. Then I played path of Neo and I was absolutely blown away by it.
@@ESKATEUK same here man. Path of Neo was on a whole other level at the time. The burly brawl and all the extra stuff like that ant level or the black & white samurai training? Get outta here
Never played it, but a friend and I watched all the cutscenes as part of a Matrix marathon. That was worth it just for the line, "The link is as vestal as my bunghole."
Nice video! Thanks for putting in the work for the captions. That, and showing current pictures of the Wachowski Sisters means a lot to me.
@@Shield-Theyden anytime :) they’re brilliant writers. Thank you very much!
Way back when my family only had 1 tv, 2 movies that would work with the PS2, and 2
two eventually one PS2 game. The latter one is Enter the Matrix. This game is a core memory for me
I remember my friend and I loving this game. I remember us playing it all night that summer while drinking Matrix themed powerade. Good times. Haven't played it in 20 years though.
Matrix Powerade 👀 what did it taste like? Citrus?
@@thegamewiz64 That was 20 years ago so I don't remember. It might have just been regular powerade in a themed bottle. It comes up if you google Matrix Powerade.
it looks like there is a glitch in the matrix
“Deja vu” “what did you just say?”
I don't mind seeing this game get a overhaul remaster, improve the gameplay controls, gameplay AI, graphics and a better engine.
something like by Nightdive or someone else.
It's like, get rid of the whole driving sections, refine the animations and combat and you'll get a 100times better game! I really had fun with this back in the days as a kid before the whole matrix became a redpill meme, when it was just cool action mixed with eastern philosophy.
But the driving sections were just really bad not matter if you're the driver and god forbid you are at the guns cause the AI doesn't know how to drive. I kinda liked the combat and some finishing moves we're great to watch. Sometimes it was a little bit clunky and not super refined but I really enjoyed the whole experience but once you get to the driving part, it falls apart...
Couldn’t stand Niobe’s driving sections. I kinda like the combat too, there was real martial arts mocap in there and like you said they just needed to refine everything.
It is really tragic how the matrix became a little bastardized on social media with the redpill memes. Never gonna forget when Lily Wachowski cursed at Elon and Ivanka on twitter for claiming to have “taken the red pill” - good times.
Ghost is literally Katsuhiro Harada
Have you seen his lunch time writings on twitter? Very fun reads
This and path of neo need remakes. Surprised there aren’t fan mods
I had the same thought! We need a modding champion lol
I think it's great
My guilty super janky game: G.A.S.P!! Fighters' NEXTream ^^
It's kinda odd that as a kid, I actually waited for this game's release. My biggest complaint about it were square wheels in PC version and the fact that game was too friggin' short.
Square wheels? Lmao that’s amazing I didn’t know that.
It is way too short especially to fully make sense of the story - roughly 4 hours per character. I needed to replay it and rewatch reloaded to get what we were really doing in the game timeline wise. They could’ve even replaced some sections with more film cutscenes and that’d be fine lol
The square wheels are on all versions lol
@@ESKATEUK that’s incredible lol I never even noticed
@@thegamewiz64 right at the start of the game when the car pulls up lol
@@ESKATEUK this is some new high clearance intel man if you didn’t say anything I wouldn’t have thought anything of it lol
Just beat the game for the first time ever today (had it back in the day, but got stuck on one of the Airport sublevels) so finding this video is kinda' fortuitous. EtM is awful, even by 2003 standards. I never felt like I knew what I was doing with the kung-fu, and the gunplay always ended up being "hold focus, lock-on and fire buttons at the same time," but I love the added lore to the trilogy.
As for other janky games, I gotta shout out Drakengard 1. It's a mediocre Musou clone, and its translation neutered a lot of the original content, but I loved it at release, and I love it now, and more importantly, without Drakengard, there is no Nier.
I’ll have to look up Drakengard, I haven’t heard of that one!
And dude just straight up efffffffff the airport levels!!
While this game does TECHNICALLY suck, enabling infinite health, ammo, and focus and endlessly fighting the Agent in that room on the rooftop level and the secret vs. mode made up a larger portion than my childhood than most actual good games.
It's really too bad that couch co-op isn't really a thing any more, because now that I think about it, the ghetto ass multiplayer for Tenchu: Wrath of Heaven, the Return of The King game, and War of The Monsters, none of which are really THAT spectacular compared to the rest of the PS2 lineup, probably account for a solid 50% of my weekends from 2000-2005.
@@MeatSnax cheat codes were the best in this era. Game shark, action replay or even those scholastic book fair cheat code encyclopedias 😍
I agree with couch co-op. Tried out Serious Sam 4 on ps5 and was absolutely baffled that it’s not couch co-op anymore. It’s like devs forgot we enjoy sharing experiences in person lol
If I remember correctly, I had to use invincibility and infinite ammo codes just to get through it, but it was enjoyable playing in and around The Matrix Reloaded, nonetheless.
Back when the game came out same here! It was downright unbeatable as a kid. Who am I kidding, most games were better with cheats.
How did they expect any of us to really get through them?
@@thegamewiz64 Well, I was raised on Nintendo tough games, so that wasn't the problem. More so respawing enemies and falling to my death. And sometimes jumping to the next level wouldn't happen. I'd just be stuck there. I guess that would be a soft lock. Happened pretty often in my copy. Luckily, the game did encourage cheating.
@@atothed84 really?? The next level just not starting is as bananas as it is hilarious. And yeah I can’t stress enough how absurd those falls are 😂. You gotta love it
@@thegamewiz64 Couldn't explain why. It would just happen. I've heard the Xbox version, the one I have, was way glitchier than the others.
@@atothed84 no kidding. I was playing on Xbox when those soldiers just started levitating after death but couldn’t replicate it.
It’d be fun to see if we ever have more console exclusive glitches or just glitches in general of these magnitudes.
It's too bad this game more or less sank Shiny Entertainment, they had an original sensibility that's been lost. MDK3? Anyone??
@@maynardwayward12 never heard of this franchise before but just looked it up. Think I’m gonna give it a try :)
This is not the link you put in the Origins video.
Thanks for letting me know :) I think I fixed it
Also, can we suggest games for you to talk about on this show?
Absolutely. There are a few games in the que right now and suggestions are always welcome :)
What’s the range you’re looking for?
If you mean what type of game, just your most cherished clunky game. I used to say I played everything but there are so many games it’s impossible to play em all.
Still working out how I’m going to implement suggestions officially but I’m taking note of janky games people love for future reference :)
I'm not trying to be a bellend, but why is the intro so long? 😂 Fun video, all the same. Just a little under 10% of your video is your intro, I guess is my deal. That and I'm just biased against intros in general, I guess.
Thank you for watching and I’m glad you had fun with the video.
There’s no easy answer. This was a proof of concept video and I wanted to lay out the shows premise and give things time to breathe seeing as it’s our first time doing something on UA-cam requiring this much time and effort.
We’re working on improving with every subsequent project - and the intro for the next video is much shorter if that means anything to you. I welcome you to stick around for the next one :)
@@thegamewiz64 That's an incredibly well thought-out answer, thank you very much. I wish you many easy epiphanies in learning, and much success in the future, I'll come back to see how you keep doing :D
@@Divint12 thank you :) that means a lot