So this video has gotten a lot of attention and I'm so thankful to everyone who has watched and commented on it. I had been away from UA-cam for a while, but the response to this essay has told me that there's something here. I can't tell you how much that means to me. I'll try my best to show it by making even better videos in the future and will soon take time out to sit down and reply to as many of these comments as I can. In short: thank you, I can't believe that this happened, and I'm so excited to do things I hope you will enjoy in the future.
I remember I had to stop playing it because this exact dynamic generated multiple glitches and dead ends. In order to proceed in the storyline, sometimes you needed objects from previous chapters that becomes unavailable, bringing the gameplay to a sudden halt. Beside that I remember it as a great adventure game
Interesting. I remember getting stuck in this game. Checking every area over and over going crazy with what I was missing. Eventually I gave up but always assumed I screwed up somewhere.
Yep the thing is a lot of event triggers and animations are dependent on CPU clock and just bug on modern hardware, hence the GoG version being a life saver. I remember playing this game around 2004 and most events would bug until I used an external program to limit my CPU clock speed at 60% of its normal capacity. The thing is the events skip but the game doesn't crash so if you're not aware of this problem it just seems like you missed something and got stuck.
Great look at a "blink & you'll miss it" classic. It was one of the first games I bought for my Pentium II, and it felt like the very highest standard for a cinematic game at the time. A treat for any Blade Runner fan.
I never even heard about it and I had a PC back then. Then again, I mostly was just content with Sim City, Diablo, UT, Daggerfall and Command and Conquer Red Alert, etc.
Loved this game. Had it on PC. Pretty sure I still have it somewhere. I accidently triggered the infinite ammo cheat. Out of curiosity I looked into how its done years later. And I'm surprised literally everyone doesnt end up with infinite ammo lol.
Had to look this up myself and you know, I wouldn't be surprised if I had somehow accidentally stumbled into it too. It's definitely an interesting way to incorporate a cheat, though!
@@ColedOne If I remember rightly You basically kill the ammo store owner and mess about with the bin or something to that degree directly outside the shop. I can see why it happens. You've jsut killed your only source of ammo lol.
You can zoom several times in a row in Esper. You can outline the car, then the bumper, *then* the license plate to get really granular details as that part of the image becomes clearer
I kept holding out for THE NOVEL AND THE POLICE, but perhaps another time :) By the end of the video, I also kept thinking OMICRON would have been a nice conversation piece to go along with your discussion of Blade Runner. Cage is trying to get at a similar experience, feeling, etc. as the one you describe in Blade Runner, and you can see him wrestling with & against "video games" as a medium through subsequent installments in what must be called the David Cage omniverse. Anywho, I'm just rambling. Enjoyed the video!
I know this is 2 years old and you may not see all the comments here, but I just wanna say thanks for quoting the media you sourced at the reference credits at the end I feel like too many video essays & content are neglecting that side of things which either expects you to know the references already or obscures the sources & information used in the video It’s a good video essay ethic
I remember playing this game on pc…. I think at one point I had a shoot out somewhere in the sewers if I can remember, but it was a great game that kept me playing from beginning to end.
I think you're right! If I recall correctly, it is somewhere around the encounter with the homeless man I showed off while talking about the dialogue system.
Bought this when it first came out. Couldn't figure it out and nobody had put together a walkthrough to get through the glitchy parts so I shelved it. Great game, sound design was amazing for its time.
Good catch! The branching story even takes advantage of those moments with success and fail states (sometimes). Very fascinated by the idea of failure allowing a different path to open instead of having to try again (something I think Disco Elysium does really well!).
My advice is to always read the manual for any video game that was released before 2000. First of all they usually had manuals, and secondly they either didn't have tutorials, or they weren't good enough to fully explain all their systems. There are exceptions, but I feel this is one place where modern games beat old games hand down - not only are the in-game tutorials often better, but the games often nudge you towards what you should be doing.
Not realy, if there is one thing I really dislike in modern games it is all the hand holding, tutorial levels that go on for ages with minimal input talking about stuff that is either not important or we all know anyway as we have been playing games since the eighties. Give me the "let's just go explore, try stuff and figure it out" approach any day.
Fair point! If I hadn't read the manual, the dialogue system would have been completely perplexing and definitely hampered the enjoyment of the game. It's a fine line in modern games. I think something that briskly walks you through the basics can be excellent (like Alpha Protocol) while something that beats you about with systems early on turns into a miasma of button prompts (like, and I know this could upset some, the Arkham games).
I still have a GameInformer from 1997 that has an article for this game. I wanted to play it in the worst way, but I never found a copy to buy. I'm glad it's back.
Yeah me too, I was surprised he didn't mention it - the styling and the continuation of the universe was very credibly done - fine work, especially in 1997
@@simongarrettmusic I think my impression was kind of hampered by the way the modern release is displayed. The reverse engineering that allows it to run through SCUMMVM definitely doesn't do complete justice to the original's visual style. Well worth it to be able to play it today, I think, but it is something I should have noted!
Played this about 12 year ago on a XP laptop , many deaths a few crash's got stuck in the junk yard never figured out how to progress from there ........
I played Blade Runner to get every ending. It's a great game. The old version looks dated on new monitors, but they remastered it which is nice. I've wanted to play a Blade Runner open world game for so long and recently it's been popping up more in my consciousness. Perhaps it's time.
@The Command Tent there are key moments in the game you need to figure out. Sometimes it's a puzzle, sometimes it's if someone lives or dies. They did a really good job on it. I can see why it's easy to miss and you would go through the logical way but often puzzles in this game aren't straight forward.
Also, if you're wondering about the peculiar graphics, I believe this was the first ever voxel game. They tried, and ... proved voxels are no good for gaming no matter how good they looked. Computers simply can't run them, not even today. So westwood as well as everybody else abandoned them. This of course has changed as people are willling to play something as pixel-ly and boxy as minecraft.
This came out the same year as the record breaking _Final Fantasy VII_ on _PlayStation!_ I absolutely loved it but when I saw _Blade Runner_ for PC at a friend's house, something about it made me want to play that so much more than FF7...
That's as great comparison point, especially since VII dove into a kind of cyberpunk adjacent aesthetic! I can only imagine what seeing those side by side must have been like first-hand. Thanks for your insight!
True! A good amount of my footage is from the ScummVM port since I'd begun working on the video just before the GOG release. It was pretty great timing.
I played this game back when it came out! I remember a couple things... I remember that I really enjoyed it. ...And I remember this: "Give me a hard copy of that..." I heard it so many times, It's still stuck in my head! It was kinda like, "Whadya buyin'?" From RE4. Lol... I played a bunch of those pc games back then. One I relly liked was "The Ripper." A 7 cd game about a modern Jack the Ripper. It took me a long time just to get the sound to work, but once I did, it waa great! 'Frankenstein,' staring Tim Curry was good, & I loved 'Harvester' too! I miss those old games, I must've played dozens of them. I'm still looking for a game called, "Chronomaster," it was fun, funny, & really different. I haven't seen it anywhere for decades. So if you come across that game, maybe you can do a vid for it!? 🤘🤪 It would be amazing!
Thanks for the recommendation! I've had a fascination with The Ripper and Frankenstein but have never taken a plunge with either. I'll look into Chronomaster!
@Coled One Frankenstein is great! The acting is a bit over the top, but that's normal for that era, & normal for Tim Curry in any era, lol. But the puzzles are great, & it's an interesting place to explore. Thanks for reading my long comment, I get a bit long-winded when talking about older games. 🤘😁 ...Btw, if you like some math with your puzzles, the game "RAMA" was pretty good too! The puzzles had me using a pad of paper & a pencil to figure them out. But if you haven't played "HARVESTER," I'd suggest playing that one NOW! It's a mind-f#%&!!! Ok, I'm ending this before I start blabbering about more games. 🤘🤪 Keep up the great retro game videos!!!
Okay! dude okay! i just got paid, i've been wanting to play this for years, i just keep forgettting. I love these old school adventure games that was too big brained for my 7 year old brain never getting passed like 2 rooms till now lol. edit: o wow, how did i miss the photo at the start??
I think Detroit: Become Human could lend itself perfectly to the Blade Runner universe. The gameplay with Connor was nearly the exact gumshoe type you need for BR. Make a vision of the BR universe in that engine and you'd have a gorgeous game.
Quantic Dream could do a good BladeRunner game if they wanted to, or had the rights. I'm quite sure of it. Speaking of which... Where are those guys? I haven't heard so much a peep from them since before Detroit came out. And that was years ago now :/
I'm hoping that Quantic Dream's Star Wars game they're cooking will be a good time. I find their writing to be a bit too direct to the point of borderline parody. Someone else mentioned this in another comment as well, which got me thinking how great it would be if their tech/engine could be utilized by a different narrative team.
@@ColedOne Yeah also agree with that, but I'm not sure a dev team springs to mind who does nuanced writing I'd enjoy, CDPRs is pretty eyeroll at times also. Always found Valves writing to be elite, portal 2 springs to mind, but I'd take anything at this point in the BR universe
One time, I managed to shoot down the chef in the ally, even before he entered the Building. An I think the game even reacted properly. Such a masterpiece. The Heavy Rain developers should make a proper remake or own Blade Runner game. Such an underrated IP :(
I agree! I think after playing Detroit: Become Human that the Quantic Dream tech could be a great match for the Blade Runner IP. Though I'd definitely prefer someone or group outside of their studio to do the writing. I think Cage's directorial style is kind of heavy-handed even at the best of times and it'd be easy to lose sight of what makes that universe so great if he or one of his crew were at the narrative wheel. Even said, I'll still be picking up their Star Wars game day one and hoping for that unique QD insanity!
@@ColedOne Honestly, dude.. that game has me thinking very meta lately.. it does such a good job of illustrating how a person sees and feels. I'd love to learn more about the team they must have had collaborating together to make such a project.
Old games don’t suck or aren’t worse than today’s game, given the available tech. I just admit to being spoiled by modern gaming. I can’t play games older than me, unless I played them growing and have the nostalgia to keep me playing. Almost like they gotta be grandfathered in
Definitely. I think the blockiness of this release and the enhanced edition is a consequence of how it was reverse-engineered by fans who wanted it to be playable in the modern day. It's an unfortunate side effect, but well worth it to be able to play.
Personally, I think GOG if you enjoy using GOG. If Steam is an option, I believe the Enhanced edition now comes with the ScummVM version as well (which is the same version as GOG). I know Enhanced Edition had issues at launch but don't know if it ever got fixed.
Loved this game from the outset ,replayed numerous times and chose all the different endings.Not sure why people found it hard but I loved the way it took you right into the movie . The Taffy Lewis scene still one of the best. Also not preachy like Detroit becoming human. Time to retire some Skin-jobs.
It's incredibly ambitious and fascinating for its time, even to the present day I'd argue. Difficulty I encountered I think came by and large as a consequence of not being overly familiar with the design philosophy of late 90s adventure games when I started playing.
Sort of! The Enhanced Edition came out on several platforms, but was pretty borked at launch. I don't know if they ever got around to fixing it, but I know on PC at least it now bundles in the original version (played through ScummVM like the GOG release) as a consequence.
@@ColedOne I did. You're now obligated to continue having fun and making cool stuff so even more people can enjoy it. This is your fate I'm afraid, I don't make the rules.
also it wasn't that much of a stretch for Westwood to make a point of click adventure after all the made the excellent Kyrandia series before this... Blade runner was a great cinematic point and click adventure (with great visuals for the time), which I have no desire to replay... some things must remain in the past
So this video has gotten a lot of attention and I'm so thankful to everyone who has watched and commented on it. I had been away from UA-cam for a while, but the response to this essay has told me that there's something here. I can't tell you how much that means to me. I'll try my best to show it by making even better videos in the future and will soon take time out to sit down and reply to as many of these comments as I can. In short: thank you, I can't believe that this happened, and I'm so excited to do things I hope you will enjoy in the future.
What blade runner version did you use in this video?
Also worth mentioning : Who is or isn't a replicant is randomised when you start a new game, with the multiple endings it adds a lot of replayability.
Wow! Thxs. Good info.
I remember I had to stop playing it because this exact dynamic generated multiple glitches and dead ends. In order to proceed in the storyline, sometimes you needed objects from previous chapters that becomes unavailable, bringing the gameplay to a sudden halt.
Beside that I remember it as a great adventure game
@@TeaBroski
This also happened for me, and I hated it so much! Yet I couldn’t help but also like the game and all its mysteries.
Interesting. I remember getting stuck in this game. Checking every area over and over going crazy with what I was missing. Eventually I gave up but always assumed I screwed up somewhere.
Yep the thing is a lot of event triggers and animations are dependent on CPU clock and just bug on modern hardware, hence the GoG version being a life saver. I remember playing this game around 2004 and most events would bug until I used an external program to limit my CPU clock speed at 60% of its normal capacity. The thing is the events skip but the game doesn't crash so if you're not aware of this problem it just seems like you missed something and got stuck.
Great look at a "blink & you'll miss it" classic. It was one of the first games I bought for my Pentium II, and it felt like the very highest standard for a cinematic game at the time. A treat for any Blade Runner fan.
It's all about the Pentiums, baby.
@@Zan_Jayna It certainly is, Zan!
I bought it at babbages in the early days of windows XP. Fantastic game still, five or six years later. Nobody ever did anything quite like it again.
@@nerfytheclown It's rather unique, I must agree.
Thanks for watching! I'll be defragging my hard drive for thrills.
I played the game in 1997. And it was a great experience to play through. I had a lot of fun with it.
me too !
I never even heard about it and I had a PC back then. Then again, I mostly was just content with Sim City, Diablo, UT, Daggerfall and Command and Conquer Red Alert, etc.
I hope they make a Blade Runner open world game kind of like GTA but with flying cars
Show Cyberpunk how it’s done
@@mikeb4934 and crucially released in a FINISHED STATE
Its called Cyberpunk 2077.
Too many games like that. We need more games like they had in the 90s 00s original, gritty and absolutely immersive.
If only flying cars was a true part of the game
A remaster of this would be very welcome.
Loved this game. Had it on PC. Pretty sure I still have it somewhere. I accidently triggered the infinite ammo cheat. Out of curiosity I looked into how its done years later. And I'm surprised literally everyone doesnt end up with infinite ammo lol.
Had to look this up myself and you know, I wouldn't be surprised if I had somehow accidentally stumbled into it too. It's definitely an interesting way to incorporate a cheat, though!
@@ColedOne If I remember rightly You basically kill the ammo store owner and mess about with the bin or something to that degree directly outside the shop. I can see why it happens. You've jsut killed your only source of ammo lol.
I played through this game so many times when it first came out. Amazing memories. I still say “bag it and tag it” often enough.
The fact you see the back of Deckard in the market blew my mind when i was playing it,
It kind of shook me a bit as a big fan of the movie! Really excellent touch from Westwood to make the narrative run parallel.
Tip: If you're having trouble getting into it and feeling overwhelmed, start out with Blade Jogger and see how you like it.
Lol😂
I love the smaller channels that put a bunch of effort in! Super underrated. Subbed
Thank you so much!
Loved playing this as a kid. I recall reading somewhere that the guys who made the game were massive fans of Bladerunner, and it shows!
Agreed! Attention to detail here is nothing short of incredible.
Cinematically it Looks incredible. No other film in the 80’s comes close.
Ah... westwood! The influence this studio had on me during my teenage years is ridiculously large.
Turns out Tim Westwood wasn't just a 90's BBC Radio 1 Hip-Hop DJ. He even ran a games company!
@@ncshuriken it was his wife, vivienne who did all the work tho. 😉
I fondly think back to our friends in the north and their glory days.
I love Bladerunner and Bladerunner2049 amazing films
Absolutely splendid movies to be sure. Visually striking in all the best ways!
@@ColedOne lol I had wrote that comment 8 months ago , well done anyway for finally seeing my comment
This is a fantastic video.
I played this game a lot as a teenager, as you've really done it justice.
Thank you so much!
Holy shit, wow! Super grateful that this video came into my recommend it because I will absolutely be supporting this release!
Glad to hear it! Thank you for watching!
You earned my sub. You definitely deserve more!
Thank you so much for saying so, Parker! I really appreciate it.
You can zoom several times in a row in Esper. You can outline the car, then the bumper, *then* the license plate to get really granular details as that part of the image becomes clearer
I kept holding out for THE NOVEL AND THE POLICE, but perhaps another time :) By the end of the video, I also kept thinking OMICRON would have been a nice conversation piece to go along with your discussion of Blade Runner. Cage is trying to get at a similar experience, feeling, etc. as the one you describe in Blade Runner, and you can see him wrestling with & against "video games" as a medium through subsequent installments in what must be called the David Cage omniverse. Anywho, I'm just rambling. Enjoyed the video!
PC versions of Cage's other games are coming to Steam next month... If I can stand playing through one a second time, there will def be SOMETHING.
I played the heck out of Blade Runner. Got it right when it came out. I loved it! Such a great game.
Played this game 15y ago and it needed a CPU clock override already, glad to know GOG has a functional version that doesn't require tweaking around :)
It's a real life saver tbh. It was not fun before the rerelease having to tinker around just to get it to run!
One of the best pc games ever made, I love this game.
Happy to highlight it! Thanks for watching.
About time and long overdue - I think about this game often. So glad it is back!
I'm thankful to have gotten to play it!
I know this is 2 years old and you may not see all the comments here, but I just wanna say thanks for quoting the media you sourced at the reference credits at the end
I feel like too many video essays & content are neglecting that side of things which either expects you to know the references already or obscures the sources & information used in the video
It’s a good video essay ethic
Thank you! It's definitely something I want to keep going moving forward, and will hopefully do better with!
I remember playing this game on pc…. I think at one point I had a shoot out somewhere in the sewers if I can remember, but it was a great game that kept me playing from beginning to end.
I think you're right! If I recall correctly, it is somewhere around the encounter with the homeless man I showed off while talking about the dialogue system.
Bought this when it first came out. Couldn't figure it out and nobody had put together a walkthrough to get through the glitchy parts so I shelved it. Great game, sound design was amazing for its time.
Still got it.. Loved that game.. Different endings too
I remember playing the game when it was new. There were a few times you had to wait for the game to trigger something in order to advance.
Good catch! The branching story even takes advantage of those moments with success and fail states (sometimes). Very fascinated by the idea of failure allowing a different path to open instead of having to try again (something I think Disco Elysium does really well!).
Blade Runner was one my top five games of all time.
The pixelation of the game gives it an extremely high quality feel in some parts because of the lack of detail
My advice is to always read the manual for any video game that was released before 2000. First of all they usually had manuals, and secondly they either didn't have tutorials, or they weren't good enough to fully explain all their systems. There are exceptions, but I feel this is one place where modern games beat old games hand down - not only are the in-game tutorials often better, but the games often nudge you towards what you should be doing.
RTFM > tutorials. Point in evidence: the TIE Fighter manual.
Not realy, if there is one thing I really dislike in modern games it is all the hand holding, tutorial levels that go on for ages with minimal input talking about stuff that is either not important or we all know anyway as we have been playing games since the eighties. Give me the "let's just go explore, try stuff and figure it out" approach any day.
So many great moments reading Video game manuals in the car, itching to throw the game into the GameCube
Fair point! If I hadn't read the manual, the dialogue system would have been completely perplexing and definitely hampered the enjoyment of the game. It's a fine line in modern games. I think something that briskly walks you through the basics can be excellent (like Alpha Protocol) while something that beats you about with systems early on turns into a miasma of button prompts (like, and I know this could upset some, the Arkham games).
I still remember the trailer for this when I played command and conquer. I also love the little meta reference at 13:12
Agreed, it's a fun little nod. Gotta hand it to Westwood when it came to cheeky references to their own catalogue.
I still have a GameInformer from 1997 that has an article for this game. I wanted to play it in the worst way, but I never found a copy to buy. I'm glad it's back.
Classic movie, classic game... Good old days!
I was in awe of this game when it came out
I was very very impressed by the graphics in this game on its original release. I thought it was incredible and I still think so today
Yeah me too, I was surprised he didn't mention it - the styling and the continuation of the universe was very credibly done - fine work, especially in 1997
@@simongarrettmusic and the voice acting was incredible!!! Then along came Resident Evil 1, and changed all that LOL
@@TimelordUK Resident Evil was before Blade Runner
@@ouroldhouse3674 ooh I didn't realise that
@@simongarrettmusic I think my impression was kind of hampered by the way the modern release is displayed. The reverse engineering that allows it to run through SCUMMVM definitely doesn't do complete justice to the original's visual style. Well worth it to be able to play it today, I think, but it is something I should have noted!
Hope a 1st person Blade Runner game both the 1982 and 2017 movie version will be developed. Also being able to fly the Spinner cars would be great.
Nice vid man. Seems like it's worth checking out for sure.
Thanks for watching!
One of the first games I’ve ever played and still one of the best imo.
If they could make a Blade Runner game with the style and Aesthetic of alien Isolation with a cyberpunk 2077 type open world would be mind blowing
I love this game. It's not for everyone but I easily put it comfortably in my top 10 of all time.
Looks awesome! Gonna get this on my laptop for the train journeys.
I hope you have/had fun with it!
I still have my original discs played this so many times and yes i am that old
Played this about 12 year ago on a XP laptop , many deaths a few crash's got stuck in the junk yard never figured out how to progress from there ........
I hope you might try it again someday! You were right near the end! Enough things can change that it is definitely worth playing again.
Good game review, I hadn't heard of it before. I'll check it out. thanks.
Thanks for watching!
Oh man I remember playing this game back when it came out! I never finished it.
I played Blade Runner to get every ending. It's a great game. The old version looks dated on new monitors, but they remastered it which is nice. I've wanted to play a Blade Runner open world game for so long and recently it's been popping up more in my consciousness. Perhaps it's time.
@The Command Tent there are key moments in the game you need to figure out. Sometimes it's a puzzle, sometimes it's if someone lives or dies. They did a really good job on it. I can see why it's easy to miss and you would go through the logical way but often puzzles in this game aren't straight forward.
I got it on ps4 now too, and I still have my original cd rom release. 😎
Nice!
Good job with that video, Thank You!
Thank you for watching!
Also, if you're wondering about the peculiar graphics, I believe this was the first ever voxel game. They tried, and ... proved voxels are no good for gaming no matter how good they looked. Computers simply can't run them, not even today. So westwood as well as everybody else abandoned them.
This of course has changed as people are willling to play something as pixel-ly and boxy as minecraft.
They made a comeback with the new doom voxel mod.
I loved this game on my PC brings back fond memories.
I used to play it on my "pentium 200 mmx". Awesome game with a great story!
This came out the same year as the record breaking _Final Fantasy VII_ on _PlayStation!_
I absolutely loved it but when I saw _Blade Runner_ for PC at a friend's house, something about it made me want to play that so much more than FF7...
That's as great comparison point, especially since VII dove into a kind of cyberpunk adjacent aesthetic! I can only imagine what seeing those side by side must have been like first-hand. Thanks for your insight!
Just bought it after seeing this. It's been more than 20 years since I played it.
That's awesome!
Oh my. This was a great game.
_I know what I know and I know what I don't know, and I don't know her_
I've owned this game for several years but cant play it on any hardware I own. I'm glad to hear GOG has it.
The GOG version has some issues, it’s been playable through ScummVM for years if you have the original files. Which aren’t hard to find.
True! A good amount of my footage is from the ScummVM port since I'd begun working on the video just before the GOG release. It was pretty great timing.
We need a modern Blade Runner fps... someone PLEASE!
I played this game back when it came out!
I remember a couple things... I remember that I really enjoyed it.
...And I remember this:
"Give me a hard copy of that..."
I heard it so many times, It's still stuck in my head!
It was kinda like, "Whadya buyin'?"
From RE4. Lol...
I played a bunch of those pc games back then. One I relly liked was "The Ripper."
A 7 cd game about a modern Jack the Ripper. It took me a long time just to get the sound to work, but once I did, it waa great!
'Frankenstein,' staring Tim Curry was good, & I loved 'Harvester' too!
I miss those old games, I must've played dozens of them. I'm still looking for a game called, "Chronomaster," it was fun, funny, & really different. I haven't seen it anywhere for decades. So if you come across that game, maybe you can do a vid for it!? 🤘🤪
It would be amazing!
Thanks for the recommendation! I've had a fascination with The Ripper and Frankenstein but have never taken a plunge with either. I'll look into Chronomaster!
@Coled One Frankenstein is great!
The acting is a bit over the top, but that's normal for that era, & normal for Tim Curry in any era, lol. But the puzzles are great, & it's an interesting place to explore.
Thanks for reading my long comment, I get a bit long-winded when talking about older games. 🤘😁
...Btw, if you like some math with your puzzles, the game "RAMA" was pretty good too! The puzzles had me using a pad of paper & a pencil to figure them out.
But if you haven't played "HARVESTER,"
I'd suggest playing that one NOW!
It's a mind-f#%&!!!
Ok, I'm ending this before I start blabbering about more games. 🤘🤪 Keep up the great retro game videos!!!
that's one of the best looking games I've ever seen. fr
"Are you staring at my ass." Funny line, because I sure was.
Dang, now I have to go get this game I never would have otherwise heard about.
My work here is done.
that would be a great title to remake
Love the whole universe (alien, predator, remake) but the original BR is my favorite.
Looks ahead of its time for 1997
I still have my copy of it. cool game for the time it came out. :)
The yt algorithm has blessed you friend. Enjoy the incoming views
I'll say! I'm overwhelmed and very happy that more people might try out the game.
I dream of a proper modern Blade Runner rpg
You need more subs
Okay! dude okay! i just got paid, i've been wanting to play this for years, i just keep forgettting. I love these old school adventure games that was too big brained for my 7 year old brain never getting passed like 2 rooms till now lol.
edit: o wow, how did i miss the photo at the start??
I need that "monkeys" poster in my life 10:00
I do too now that you've pointed it out. Does it look like there's a little ™ after MONKEYS?
@@ColedOne :( I can't tell but I want it lol. I doubt it exists outside this game, we'd have to make it
I think Detroit: Become Human could lend itself perfectly to the Blade Runner universe. The gameplay with Connor was nearly the exact gumshoe type you need for BR. Make a vision of the BR universe in that engine and you'd have a gorgeous game.
DBH is Blade Runner and the civil rights movement in one story.
@@fraternitas5117 Fully agree, I just want those blaring synths over a dystopic neon lit city to wrap it up in.
Quantic Dream could do a good BladeRunner game if they wanted to, or had the rights. I'm quite sure of it. Speaking of which... Where are those guys? I haven't heard so much a peep from them since before Detroit came out. And that was years ago now :/
I'm hoping that Quantic Dream's Star Wars game they're cooking will be a good time. I find their writing to be a bit too direct to the point of borderline parody. Someone else mentioned this in another comment as well, which got me thinking how great it would be if their tech/engine could be utilized by a different narrative team.
@@ColedOne Yeah also agree with that, but I'm not sure a dev team springs to mind who does nuanced writing I'd enjoy, CDPRs is pretty eyeroll at times also. Always found Valves writing to be elite, portal 2 springs to mind, but I'd take anything at this point in the BR universe
One of the coolest games ever, along with the likes of Beneath a steel sky and Gabriel knight...
BaSS would be a great thing to look at in the future. Never gotten into Gabriel Knight, personally. Maybe I should try again.
One time, I managed to shoot down the chef in the ally, even before he entered the Building. An I think the game even reacted properly. Such a masterpiece. The Heavy Rain developers should make a proper remake or own Blade Runner game. Such an underrated IP :(
I agree! I think after playing Detroit: Become Human that the Quantic Dream tech could be a great match for the Blade Runner IP. Though I'd definitely prefer someone or group outside of their studio to do the writing. I think Cage's directorial style is kind of heavy-handed even at the best of times and it'd be easy to lose sight of what makes that universe so great if he or one of his crew were at the narrative wheel. Even said, I'll still be picking up their Star Wars game day one and hoping for that unique QD insanity!
Looks like a good game. Give me a hard copy of that.
Cool video. Returned to disco elysium so this video coming to me was quite fitting
It's crazy to look back and think about just scratching the surface on DE when working on this and being obsessed with it now.
@@ColedOne Honestly, dude.. that game has me thinking very meta lately.. it does such a good job of illustrating how a person sees and feels. I'd love to learn more about the team they must have had collaborating together to make such a project.
An open world pixelart game would be soooooooooo great !!
Old games don’t suck or aren’t worse than today’s game, given the available tech. I just admit to being spoiled by modern gaming. I can’t play games older than me, unless I played them growing and have the nostalgia to keep me playing. Almost like they gotta be grandfathered in
Is it me or do you narrate just like Childish Gambino at the end of his song “That Power”. I mess w it heavy. Love from the Mill 🤟🏼
That's probably the best compliment I've ever gotten, so thank you big time!
What's the song when he keeps dying on the bridge?
Never mind, saw it at the end. Cheers.
I remember playing this game. I thought it was awesome
Looks like that game would benefit greatly from displaying it wiht a CRT.
All old games do.
Definitely. I think the blockiness of this release and the enhanced edition is a consequence of how it was reverse-engineered by fans who wanted it to be playable in the modern day. It's an unfortunate side effect, but well worth it to be able to play.
He's getting sushi from a Chinese restaurant... definitely a 90's game
Ha! Good catch.
I want a Twisted Metal MMO/RPG. Or anything new Twisted Metal.
A really cool video. Convinced me to give it a go. GOG or remastered version though?
Personally, I think GOG if you enjoy using GOG. If Steam is an option, I believe the Enhanced edition now comes with the ScummVM version as well (which is the same version as GOG). I know Enhanced Edition had issues at launch but don't know if it ever got fixed.
I totally agree that the novel and the film aren't really the same thing.
Thank you!
Yo I remember playing this as a kid!
I remember it having mediocre reviews back then, panned you might say
Loved this game from the outset ,replayed numerous times and chose all the different endings.Not sure why people found it hard but I loved the way it took you right into the movie . The Taffy Lewis scene still one of the best. Also not preachy like Detroit becoming human. Time to retire some Skin-jobs.
It's incredibly ambitious and fascinating for its time, even to the present day I'd argue. Difficulty I encountered I think came by and large as a consequence of not being overly familiar with the design philosophy of late 90s adventure games when I started playing.
Good vid. Subbed & liked. Criminally underated/undersubbed channel IMO, come on UA-cam algorithm, up your game 😊
Thank you so much! I hope I can make good videos in the future that you'll enjoy!
Didn't they release a remastered version on the Switch back in the summer?
Sort of! The Enhanced Edition came out on several platforms, but was pretty borked at launch. I don't know if they ever got around to fixing it, but I know on PC at least it now bundles in the original version (played through ScummVM like the GOG release) as a consequence.
This game should be remade in 2023 with the VASTLY better graphics available with today's technology.
What's the song at 5:45? :o
Computer Obaachan. It's listed in the credits at the end of the video.
Definitely going to get this. Thanks
Thank you for watching!
I pretend snatchers on sega cd was blade runner back in the old days
Ha, played this way back in the day when it came out. Was a lot fun but very frustrating.
I wonder what happened to my disk from like 1998.
Explain to me how you only have 372 followers. I can't believe this.
You may have cast a spell with this comment and I thank you for it!
@@ColedOne I did. You're now obligated to continue having fun and making cool stuff so even more people can enjoy it. This is your fate I'm afraid, I don't make the rules.
also it wasn't that much of a stretch for Westwood to make a point of click adventure after all the made the excellent Kyrandia series before this... Blade runner was a great cinematic point and click adventure (with great visuals for the time), which I have no desire to replay... some things must remain in the past
I'll have to check out Kyrandia sometime in the future. I'd love to have additional context for Blade Runner.