I'm glad you enjoyed Rogue Agent! I still remember the way it was pitched to me before I joined- a James Bond game with the art director/story creator of Silent Hill 2. I had just finished SH2 not so long ago and I was super excited about it! It was a fun team to be part of.
Programming and testing that is crazy. All of these parts of the game had to be almost made 100% by hand. No procedural generators or high end mapping tools. Every sprite hand drawn, every tree placed by hand.. and it was tested.. sooooo thoroughly tested.
The only other time I've heard about this game was in an issue of Game Informer that mentioned the naked title screen code in their issue about BMX XXX and DoA Extreme Beach Volleyball.
This looks great, what the heck. Games just focus on graphics today... But the graphics look amazing for the time on this. I hope there are rom hack scene for Genesis because it's always so good when someone 'romhack' these old games to add new stuff !!
@@williammiller3277As a diversity club member... He's not entirely wrong. Graphics have fallen by the wayside lately in terms of development time, even in AAA games. They do seem to focus on diversity inclusion more than pretty much anything else. I'm willing to bet he still has some major issues, though, judging from that reply.
I wish I could like this video a thousand times over. Thank you for covering this, and the way you covered it, more than anything - it's becoming so rare to find this kind of delightful content on UA-cam! ^ ^
I got mine for around 40$ complete on eBay, which is not as expensive as some other retro titles, but not cheap either. It'd be great if they one day did a digital re-release with some updates on the UI and controls!
4:15 -- the opening sequence of Kojima's "Death Stranding" is about carrying your mother's corpse on your back to the remote place where she can be cremated
I mentioned this game in a comment to you a few weeks ago. Cool! I really liked this game even though the interface is terrible and the difficulty is ridiculous. Its the only game Ive ever seen where different places have different economies, so you can make trade routes to farm money instead of endless battles. And having a party of purely specialist mages is so cool.
@@TieryasXu Its games like this and Ultima IV that should be totally overhauled and remastered. They are so freaking awesome but so damned by the hardware. There is a SNES Shadowrun mod for the PC Shadowrun Dragonfall game. They did a great job! Kind of glitchy and no animations for some things, but its no biggie. I started playing Phantasy Star Generations, and boy, are the graphics, interface, and ease of controls welcome. Its not choppy moving through the mazes so I can navigate easily without maps. PStar1 and Shining in the Darkness, oh man, its hard to remember the turns going block by block on the Genesis...
Well, that's not actually true. Just for the sake of fact and truth, I did write about Rings of Power along with other SMD masterpieces, which are not having enough fame and popularity. You said that you liked it after. I expected something like this would happen, since it's a unique game and very few fans it have can literally kill for it. It's the purest game ever made literally.
Uncharted Waters: New Horizons is a game that simulates a world economy with advantageous trade routes. You can even do one sided trading to cause economic bubbles, then reverse the trade route to reap the windfall of the market crash. Very cool.
@@Joker22593 Ohhhh, its a KOEI game. Huh, I never heard of this one. First time even seeing the cover! Im going to try it. I really liked Aerobiz Supersonic. KOEI is good at this stuff. Thanks man!
I somehow had this game as a kid and couldn't get anywhere on it. I didn't know what I was doing and there was no internet. Maybe I'll revisit it on my steam deck.
@@TieryasXu Yes. Well, it's not really a retrospective, more like a short review. But it is legit review, has criticism in it. But lacks info about development, which is incredibly important. Lacks details, lacks understanding of time frame and cultural significeance and imprtance, the map and huge immense open world, which made all our jaws on the floor when we played it in the 90s, even PC games like Fallout are not that huge in the map. Jason was literally making it tile by tile for 2+ years. Andy was programming. Basically 2 guys from school made this brilliant game. Also you made 2 error remarks: about connection with "Last of Us", which is a very foolish to say, far worse game than "Rings of Power"; Would be wiser to connect it to "Keef the Thief" or "Crash Bandicoot", while the company was not that huge, then after Andy and Jason were not the geniuses behind the newer bad games like "Last of Us", basically after Crash Naughty Dog died, Naugty Dog were and are only Andy and Jason, 2 geniuses, after that company went to trash and died as game development team, later company only created trash games for normies like "Last of bs". Don't get me wrong, I like your review overall, it's just that "Rings of Power" is literally my all time favourite game and I know almost everything about, I made a huge site about it with all info about it in the past, so I'm very protective about all about it. Every mistake or error I see - I get very dissapointed and want to blow up the Earth and annihilate billions. Basically you made an assumption about Naughty Dog, without knowing the story of development and developers. You know, I met Andy Gavin and Jason Rubin and crossed continent, the reason is this game, "Rings of Power". That's the only one of two reasons I crossed the continent and ocen to meet ingenious developers of "Rings of Power" and "System Shock" more than a decade ago. And you made horrific remark about EA. EA does not give a s. Actually EA is the reason why "Rings of Power" will never happen again, will never be rereleased or remade, I was discussing it with Jason years ago again. So yeah.. Wrote this very hasty, but that's what it is. First didn't want to write, that's why I wrote '42' and 'Ignorance is bliss', but then, as I expected, thewe were some liers and ego maniacs to say bs, to which I have zero tolerance... Well, I'm a complicated man, what can I say. Nevermind. I wish you undeestand, but it will be hard, I guess. I'll stop the rant. All the best.
@@IzraelGraves Human condition. Ok, gaslighter, get a pasty from a shelf. If you don't understand the difference between the person and a message, than you have serious problems with formal logic and ways of thinking. Get some professional help and good luck with your struggles.
@@IzraelGraves Also English is not the only language, you know. I know many, while being a polymath and polyglot, English learned by myself. How many languages do you know? I can bet most probably one. Grow the f up, little troll.
Well, it's not really a retrospective, more like a short review. But it is legit review, has criticism in it. But lacks info about development, which is incredibly important. Lacks details, lacks understanding of time frame and cultural significeance and imprtance, the map and huge immense open world, which made all our jaws on the floor when we played it in the 90s, even PC games like Fallout are not that huge in the map. Jason was literally making it tile by tile for 2+ years. Andy was programming. Basically 2 guys from school made this brilliant game. Also you made 2 error remarks: about connection with "Last of Us", which is a very foolish to say, far worse game than "Rings of Power"; Would be wiser to connect it to "Keef the Thief" or "Crash Bandicoot", while the company was not that huge, then after Andy and Jason were not the geniuses behind the newer bad games like "Last of Us", basically after Crash Naughty Dog died, Naugty Dog were and are only Andy and Jason, 2 geniuses, after that company went to trash and died as game development team, later company only created trash games for normies like "Last of bs". Don't get me wrong, I like your review overall, it's just that "Rings of Power" is literally my all time favourite game and I know almost everything about, I made a huge site about it with all info about it in the past, so I'm very protective about all about it. Every mistake or error I see - I get very dissapointed and want to blow up the Earth and annihilate billions. Basically you made an assumption about Naughty Dog, without knowing the story of development and developers. You know, I met Andy Gavin and Jason Rubin and crossed continent, the reason is this game, "Rings of Power". That's the only one of two reasons I crossed the continent and ocen to meet ingenious developers of "Rings of Power" and "System Shock" more than a decade ago. And you made horrific remark about EA. EA does not give a s. Actually EA is the reason why "Rings of Power" will never happen again, will never be rereleased or remade, I was discussing it with Jason years ago again. So yeah.. Wrote this very hasty, but that's what it is. First didn't want to write, that's why I wrote '42' and 'Ignorance is bliss', but then, as I expected, thewe were some liers and ego maniacs to say bs, to which I have zero tolerance... Well, I'm a complicated man, what can I say. Nevermind. I wish you undeestand, but it will be hard, I guess. I'll stop the rant. All the best.
This game looks a million times better than Amazon Ring of Power 😂
I was hoping to find this comment, and I wasn't disappointed. Hahaha
I like both.
So funny and original
That was the exact first thing I though when I saw this.
@@nangld you are wrong
Hey I had no idea you worked on Rogue Agent. Imperfect but still a fun little game.
I'm glad you enjoyed Rogue Agent! I still remember the way it was pitched to me before I joined- a James Bond game with the art director/story creator of Silent Hill 2. I had just finished SH2 not so long ago and I was super excited about it! It was a fun team to be part of.
It's basically Naughty Dog's spin on Ultima 6. And a pretty good one! BTW, it also has a nude cheat in the menu, just fyi...
I have watched a lot of genesis hidden gem videos as well as lists found online and never heard of this game in my life. How is that possible??
Lots of hidden gem videos tend to go for arcadey stuff and forget rpgs, strategy and simulation games
Love the look of this, thanks for sharing! Great video!
Thank you!
Programming and testing that is crazy.
All of these parts of the game had to be almost made 100% by hand. No procedural generators or high end mapping tools. Every sprite hand drawn, every tree placed by hand.. and it was tested.. sooooo thoroughly tested.
The only other time I've heard about this game was in an issue of Game Informer that mentioned the naked title screen code in their issue about BMX XXX and DoA Extreme Beach Volleyball.
This looks great, what the heck. Games just focus on graphics today... But the graphics look amazing for the time on this.
I hope there are rom hack scene for Genesis because it's always so good when someone 'romhack' these old games to add new stuff !!
Games don't focus on graphics today. That criticism is 15 years old! They focus on Diversity these days. Capital D.
@KopperNeoman you got issues. Capital I.
@@williammiller3277As a diversity club member... He's not entirely wrong. Graphics have fallen by the wayside lately in terms of development time, even in AAA games. They do seem to focus on diversity inclusion more than pretty much anything else.
I'm willing to bet he still has some major issues, though, judging from that reply.
I wish I could like this video a thousand times over.
Thank you for covering this, and the way you covered it, more than anything - it's becoming so rare to find this kind of delightful content on UA-cam! ^ ^
Thank you so much! Super kind of you to say!
Thanks for this review. I could sense this game was unique and worthwhile but never managed to get over its odd layout.
Thank you! It took me a bit to get used to too, but once I did, I could not put it down.
This games physical copy must be worth a few bucks.
I got mine for around 40$ complete on eBay, which is not as expensive as some other retro titles, but not cheap either. It'd be great if they one day did a digital re-release with some updates on the UI and controls!
4:15 -- the opening sequence of Kojima's "Death Stranding" is about carrying your mother's corpse on your back to the remote place where she can be cremated
OMG, how could I have forgotten! DS is one of my favorites! I guess I was just thinking more about retro RPGs. Thanks for reminding me!
@@TieryasXu No problem! Not intended as a correction, just sharing another example of an interesting topic. Thank you for the video!
I mentioned this game in a comment to you a few weeks ago. Cool! I really liked this game even though the interface is terrible and the difficulty is ridiculous. Its the only game Ive ever seen where different places have different economies, so you can make trade routes to farm money instead of endless battles. And having a party of purely specialist mages is so cool.
Yes, thank you! And agreed!
@@TieryasXu Its games like this and Ultima IV that should be totally overhauled and remastered. They are so freaking awesome but so damned by the hardware.
There is a SNES Shadowrun mod for the PC Shadowrun Dragonfall game. They did a great job! Kind of glitchy and no animations for some things, but its no biggie.
I started playing Phantasy Star Generations, and boy, are the graphics, interface, and ease of controls welcome. Its not choppy moving through the mazes so I can navigate easily without maps.
PStar1 and Shining in the Darkness, oh man, its hard to remember the turns going block by block on the Genesis...
Well, that's not actually true. Just for the sake of fact and truth, I did write about Rings of Power along with other SMD masterpieces, which are not having enough fame and popularity. You said that you liked it after. I expected something like this would happen, since it's a unique game and very few fans it have can literally kill for it. It's the purest game ever made literally.
Uncharted Waters: New Horizons is a game that simulates a world economy with advantageous trade routes. You can even do one sided trading to cause economic bubbles, then reverse the trade route to reap the windfall of the market crash. Very cool.
@@Joker22593 Ohhhh, its a KOEI game. Huh, I never heard of this one. First time even seeing the cover! Im going to try it. I really liked Aerobiz Supersonic. KOEI is good at this stuff. Thanks man!
I somehow had this game as a kid and couldn't get anywhere on it. I didn't know what I was doing and there was no internet. Maybe I'll revisit it on my steam deck.
This game is really really hard to complete! The game manual comes with the walkthrough, and even so... it is hard :)
This game took a lot of my money in the game rental era.
Ignorance is bliss.
looks amazing!
Cool review! I'd never heard of this game before, but am eager to look into it later on. Thanks for making the vid!
Thank you!
Too bad. Enjoy the most pure game in existence of GameDev.
There is a hidden joke in the fact that there are 11 rings in total. He only has ten fingers so where does he put the 11th one?
sausag
great video
Thank you!
@@TieryasXu your welcome all of your videos are really good and its cool you worked at ea
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Hitchhiker reference? Sorry if I'm missing the obvious 😅
@@TieryasXu Yes. Well, it's not really a retrospective, more like a short review. But it is legit review, has criticism in it. But lacks info about development, which is incredibly important. Lacks details, lacks understanding of time frame and cultural significeance and imprtance, the map and huge immense open world, which made all our jaws on the floor when we played it in the 90s, even PC games like Fallout are not that huge in the map. Jason was literally making it tile by tile for 2+ years. Andy was programming. Basically 2 guys from school made this brilliant game. Also you made 2 error remarks: about connection with "Last of Us", which is a very foolish to say, far worse game than "Rings of Power"; Would be wiser to connect it to "Keef the Thief" or "Crash Bandicoot", while the company was not that huge, then after Andy and Jason were not the geniuses behind the newer bad games like "Last of Us", basically after Crash Naughty Dog died, Naugty Dog were and are only Andy and Jason, 2 geniuses, after that company went to trash and died as game development team, later company only created trash games for normies like "Last of bs". Don't get me wrong, I like your review overall, it's just that "Rings of Power" is literally my all time favourite game and I know almost everything about, I made a huge site about it with all info about it in the past, so I'm very protective about all about it. Every mistake or error I see - I get very dissapointed and want to blow up the Earth and annihilate billions. Basically you made an assumption about Naughty Dog, without knowing the story of development and developers. You know, I met Andy Gavin and Jason Rubin and crossed continent, the reason is this game, "Rings of Power". That's the only one of two reasons I crossed the continent and ocen to meet ingenious developers of "Rings of Power" and "System Shock" more than a decade ago. And you made horrific remark about EA. EA does not give a s. Actually EA is the reason why "Rings of Power" will never happen again, will never be rereleased or remade, I was discussing it with Jason years ago again. So yeah.. Wrote this very hasty, but that's what it is. First didn't want to write, that's why I wrote '42' and 'Ignorance is bliss', but then, as I expected, thewe were some liers and ego maniacs to say bs, to which I have zero tolerance... Well, I'm a complicated man, what can I say. Nevermind. I wish you undeestand, but it will be hard, I guess. I'll stop the rant. All the best.
@@TrueNeutralEvGeniusThis wasn't complicated, it was long winded and damn near schizophrenic. Totally out of left field.
@@IzraelGraves Human condition. Ok, gaslighter, get a pasty from a shelf. If you don't understand the difference between the person and a message, than you have serious problems with formal logic and ways of thinking. Get some professional help and good luck with your struggles.
@@IzraelGraves Also English is not the only language, you know. I know many, while being a polymath and polyglot, English learned by myself. How many languages do you know? I can bet most probably one. Grow the f up, little troll.
FINALLY somebody talks about it!
Never stopped for almost 30 years.
Well THIS title name aged like milk.
Lie. It's still one of the greatest and literally the most pure game ever in existence.
@@TrueNeutralEvGenius title NAME.... Not the game itself. Take it down a few notches. Lol
@@nexusofice9135 What? Damn fkn normies, pop culture eaters... Goodbye.
Well, it's not really a retrospective, more like a short review. But it is legit review, has criticism in it. But lacks info about development, which is incredibly important. Lacks details, lacks understanding of time frame and cultural significeance and imprtance, the map and huge immense open world, which made all our jaws on the floor when we played it in the 90s, even PC games like Fallout are not that huge in the map. Jason was literally making it tile by tile for 2+ years. Andy was programming. Basically 2 guys from school made this brilliant game. Also you made 2 error remarks: about connection with "Last of Us", which is a very foolish to say, far worse game than "Rings of Power"; Would be wiser to connect it to "Keef the Thief" or "Crash Bandicoot", while the company was not that huge, then after Andy and Jason were not the geniuses behind the newer bad games like "Last of Us", basically after Crash Naughty Dog died, Naugty Dog were and are only Andy and Jason, 2 geniuses, after that company went to trash and died as game development team, later company only created trash games for normies like "Last of bs". Don't get me wrong, I like your review overall, it's just that "Rings of Power" is literally my all time favourite game and I know almost everything about, I made a huge site about it with all info about it in the past, so I'm very protective about all about it. Every mistake or error I see - I get very dissapointed and want to blow up the Earth and annihilate billions. Basically you made an assumption about Naughty Dog, without knowing the story of development and developers. You know, I met Andy Gavin and Jason Rubin and crossed continent, the reason is this game, "Rings of Power". That's the only one of two reasons I crossed the continent and ocen to meet ingenious developers of "Rings of Power" and "System Shock" more than a decade ago. And you made horrific remark about EA. EA does not give a s. Actually EA is the reason why "Rings of Power" will never happen again, will never be rereleased or remade, I was discussing it with Jason years ago again. So yeah.. Wrote this very hasty, but that's what it is. First didn't want to write, that's why I wrote '42' and 'Ignorance is bliss', but then, as I expected, thewe were some liers and ego maniacs to say bs, to which I have zero tolerance... Well, I'm a complicated man, what can I say. Nevermind. I wish you undeestand, but it will be hard, I guess. I'll stop the rant. All the best.
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You are a fool, goodbye.